The whole concept of Intellectual Property is abhorrent to me. The idea that because you think of something, you own it, or at least can charge people to use it.
Lets look at a what if here. What if there had been intellectual property laws and an enforcement system in place when someone, way back when invented the wheel. And he charged a licensing fee, and wouldn't allow anyone to work on advancing his original design? We could have wound up using big stone wheels even to this day!
Intellectual Property laws are, well, to be frank, stifling to innovation!
At least, that's what Circuit City says. Just like they said they're committed to maintaining customer support before they closed down their computer support division. And when they closed that down, they told everyone they're still dedicated to supporting their other products, and no, the rest of the shop (supporting tvs, stereos, microwaves, etc), will definately not be closing within a year. Less than a year later, last month as a matter of fact, they closed their consumer support division completely. The only thing they support now is DivX. And they've sunk all their cash into it, if it goes, CC is going to be hurting something aweful.
I used to work for CC doing computer tech support at answer city, and I created their first web page. When I left about a year ago, they were planning on rolling out NT 4 on EVERY SINGLE MACHINE. Apparently they got a huge corporate license from MS that requires exclusivity on the desktops, and any servers capable of running the software.
It was a crappy company to work for, they treat employees and customers like dung. I am much happier where I am now.
In two words? virtual hosting... two eth0:x interfaces, two ips, one dns server, one box, but the world sees it as 2 dns servers. Or 3 or 4 or 5 or 200.:)
The twiddler is way old news. It's also quite costly at $199.00. (Well, so are the other hardware based single handed/alternative keyboards).
The stanford article is funny, considering the fitaly on-screen keyboard for the palm as a one-fingered keyboard. Funny, wouldn't palm's builtin onscreen keyboard count too? And all the other various on screen keyboards? Heck, with caps lock a regular keyboard can be done single finger with the same functionality, albeit not as efficiently.
for a moment that this is real, and this box can run linux. Then imagine enough of them to take up the space of ibm's box, all beowulf'd together.... BWHAHAHAHAHAH!
Decoding isn't such a big deal. But the 2hours of audio it takes me under 10min to rip from cd takes me close to 9 *HOURS* to encode at 160k (using bladeenc). A dedicated, specialized board could get it done *A LOT* faster.
I mean, technically, if we have to pay royalties to frauenf*c*er, I'd rather it go towards hardware.
It's interesting to note that the empeg isn't really a hardware MP3 player. It uses the Xaudio libs from the people who make mtv.
On a side note, we were talking about this in #linuxos last night. There are MPEG1 and MPEG2 encoder/decoder cards right? Why not a pci card that actually does hardware MP3 encoding? Preferably IRQ-less and integrated into a sound card (we don't all have 12 pci slots:) ), with the ability to handle multiple simultaneous streams. That would be so sweet...
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The whole concept of Intellectual Property is abhorrent to me. The idea that because you think of something, you own it, or at least can charge people to use it.
Lets look at a what if here. What if there had been intellectual property laws and an enforcement system in place when someone, way back when invented the wheel. And he charged a licensing fee, and wouldn't allow anyone to work on advancing his original design? We could have wound up using big stone wheels even to this day!
Intellectual Property laws are, well, to be frank, stifling to innovation!
I can't wait to see this on the shelves at CompUSA,
:)
alongside the boxes of WP 8 for Linux.
Linux has come a long way from 0.99pl12.
I don't know if the changes are necessarily for the
good or the bad, but it's better than no change at all.
Here's to hoping it's all good!
Binary only drivers have the same problem as any closed source software. I.E., if it's broke, you can't fix it. You can't improve it, or enhance it.
At least, that's what Circuit City says. Just like they said they're committed to maintaining customer support before they closed down their computer support division. And when they closed that down, they told everyone they're still dedicated to supporting their other products, and no, the rest of the shop (supporting tvs, stereos, microwaves, etc), will definately not be closing within a year. Less than a year later, last month as a matter of fact, they closed their consumer support division completely. The only thing they support now is DivX. And they've sunk all their cash into it, if it goes, CC is going to be hurting something aweful.
I used to work for CC doing computer tech support at answer city, and I created their first web page. When I left about a year ago, they were planning on rolling out NT 4 on EVERY SINGLE MACHINE. Apparently they got a huge corporate license from MS that requires exclusivity on the desktops, and any servers capable of running the software.
It was a crappy company to work for, they treat employees and customers like dung. I am much happier where I am now.
3dfx did buy STB, that's old news. I think STB will continue to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary however.
It's not, and it probably won't ever be. If you have a 3dfx card I highly recommend you check out news:3dfx.glide.linux
In two words? virtual hosting... two eth0:x :)
interfaces, two ips, one dns server, one box, but
the world sees it as 2 dns servers. Or 3 or 4 or 5
or 200.
The twiddler is way old news. It's also quite costly at $199.00. (Well, so are the other hardware based single handed/alternative keyboards).
The stanford article is funny, considering the fitaly on-screen keyboard for the palm as a one-fingered keyboard. Funny, wouldn't palm's builtin onscreen keyboard count too? And all the other various on screen keyboards? Heck, with
caps lock a regular keyboard can be done single
finger with the same functionality, albeit not
as efficiently.
Isn't that a female in the picture of Bill Joy?
for a moment that this is real, and this box can
run linux. Then imagine enough of them to take
up the space of ibm's box, all beowulf'd together.... BWHAHAHAHAHAH!
It might be. The problem is, the Xing
encoder is win32 only as far as I'm aware...
Decoding isn't such a big deal. But the 2hours
of audio it takes me under 10min to rip from cd
takes me close to 9 *HOURS* to encode at 160k
(using bladeenc). A dedicated, specialized board
could get it done *A LOT* faster.
I mean, technically, if we have to pay royalties
to frauenf*c*er, I'd rather it go towards hardware.
It's interesting to note that the empeg isn't
:) ), with the ability to handle multiple
really a hardware MP3 player. It uses the
Xaudio libs from the people who make mtv.
On a side note, we were talking about this
in #linuxos last night. There are MPEG1 and
MPEG2 encoder/decoder cards right? Why not
a pci card that actually does hardware MP3
encoding? Preferably IRQ-less and integrated
into a sound card (we don't all have 12 pci
slots
simultaneous streams. That would be so sweet...