Indeed. And it's more entertaining because the proponents of AGW have been shutting down monitoring in remote locations and encouraging more monitoring where there are large thermal accumulators in the form of pavement and buildings.
I'm not going to say that it's not happening or that we don't need to be vastly better about our treatment of the environment- but the AGW people have very definitely applied bad science in their arguments and theories and all we as a civilization REALLY know is that we've not the foggiest about any of it. Climate changes. We've only got a geological record and our presumptions may/may not be accurate- and we've certainly no clean data that's not bent by peoples' assumptions, or that has been collected for long enough to make statements like Global Cooling (which was the in-vogue thing back a couple of decades back...) or AGW. We really, really don't.
Actually, the bulk of patents that MPEG-LA licenses are for ALGORITHMS.
Doesn't matter if they're enshrined in silicon or not- they're still mathematical expressions being used to do transformations of the information in a video stream to reduce it to something that can be better compressed.
It's what Jobs alluded to with his threatening email about Theora.
In the end, if we'd all go back to the rules of the game proper, meaning that you can't even remotely patent aspects of nature and that Algorithms are under that category...we'd be doing quite a bit better these days.
I tried Ubuntu 9.4 awhile ago... trying to install almost anything is a pain the ass.
Really... Define "almost anything".
If it's one of the repository provided applications (thousands thereof), it's as simple as:
Clicking on "system", mousing down to "Administration", mousing over and down to "Synaptic Package Manager" and clicking to bring up Synaptic. From there, you can search for the application you're looking for by using search criteria- things like "game", "3D", or "draw". At that point you have a point-and-click list of items you can install. You'll need to supply an administrator password for the process at some point, but then Windows kind of does the same thing if you've got your security settings set up right to begin with (if you don't...someone'll eventually have a happy pwning on you...). Not really any more difficult than the Windows way of doing things.
If it's a commercial application, it's typically as simple as running the installer script or binary provided for the vendor (uh...just the same as Windows...)- and if the vendor has done their job right it should just work out of box with a wide range of Linux versions. Hell, some of the vendors have gone the extra distance and provided.deb and.rpm packagings as well as an installer binary. It's even easier to install those as it's just double-click on the package file, approve the install, and supply your admin password.
Now, if you're talking hardware...heh...difficulty's more in the eye of the beholder. There's tons of stuff out there that just won't work with Vista or Windows. Either you chance it or you do your research because unless it's very recent, it won't be labeled "for Vista" or "for Windows 7" on the packaging. Since this is the case, you'll do a bit of checking unless you're into wasting money or gambling- which is little different for Linux there.
I don't at-all accept your supposition. In truth, with all the BS you spouted in your post, I'm unsurprised you posted it anon.
That's a YMMV item. I've done numerous upgrades via online- they typically work. I've only have had one go sideways on me and it was more my own fault than the upgrade process. Having said this, I can envision more people having issues with it- I might be the lucky one after all.
The current tablet offerings are with sub-optimal SoC's. ARM9 stuff because it's CHEAP. Of course it's going to give you the impression you have and think HP has.
With an ARM11 or the right multi-core ARM9 it becomes more believable.
With something in the class of a Cortex A8/A9, it becomes very much something that's scalable to tablets, etc.
However, it really needs the JIT support to gel in Dalvik or it'll be somewhat less useful to people in that space- and that's not yet in place. Upshot is going to be the NDK and people using it to sidestep performance issues where it's merited.
I'm not sure that it was due to the "fact" that "WebOS can 'scale'" that they made this decision. It's probably a factor. Just as them owning the app framework in question was a factor.
But not by law. They used to (and still DO...) have the occasional "not rated" movies showing up from time to time. Some theaters are bold enough to show them, some are not.
As I understand it a minor may drink any legal substance if his parent consents and he is on private property where the owner also consents. It may be child abuse if consumption is found to be unsafe (but you probably wont get caught). One of the nice things about the USA is that on private property there are surprisingly few laws that actually apply, and fewer that are enforced if enforcement is against the will of the owner.
Your understanding would be wrong. If an LEO shows up on my property at a party and the minors' parents are okay with them having a beer or two- if they find the beer in the hands of said minors you can bet your bottom dollar they'll arrest or fine the adult that handed them the beer for providing alcohol to a minor, along with my happy backside for "allowing" it to happen.
It USED to be the way you thought, but sadly, we've been at making this country more of a Police state for several decades now- ostensibly for the kids, the animals, etc.
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Read that section of the Fourteenth Amendment carefully. The bold part is very, very relevant and I can't see HOW the Supreme Court could or would grant Cert to a case arguing that the States aren't bound by the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights is an explicit enumeration of the Privileges and Immunities each and every Citizen of the Union enjoy, described as "Rights". The Fourteenth Amendment explicitly binds the States within the Union to the Bill of Rights in it's first section with little room for discussion or debate as to what that means. There is no "so far"- when the Fourteenth was put in, the States got bound and they're obligated to abide by each and every one of the items therein.
If you doubt this, go look at the decisions in Miranda or Crawford v. Washington sometime. If the Bill of Rights only applied to the Federal level government, you wouldn't have HAD those decisions because they're very much Fifth and Sixth Amendment based decisions, applied against Arizona and Washington state at the time they were decided.
Ah... The big deal there is...if there's nothing you want offered, was there anything really lost by sticking to your principles?
I'd say entirely too many compromise on their desires and principles too easily these days. It's good to be able bend like a reed or willow in the wind, but if you're too flexible, too often, you get nothing but beat all to hell- just like the rest.
Actually, you've one other option on either...probably the best one overall.
You can opt out. You're not forced to do anything you didn't sign off on there. If you pay for it, now that the cat's out of the bag it's your own fault, not theirs- and you weren't forced to do anything. If you pirate it, you're giving them ammo to do WORSE things to everyone.
Isn't it about time people quit doing the "ooh...shiny" or "but...it's shiny" stuff and stood up to them and let them know that you're not a consumer but a customer and you don't treat customers like this.
Actually, the rules stated that he could only hand it over to the Mayor- which is what he did. Violating the rules could have had him facing similar charges they're trying to level on him.
Screwed if you don't, screwed if you do, I suppose. I know I wouldn't want to work for SF's city gov't now over this stuff.
I'm no mac fan... However, I will give credit where credit is due.
Much of the Apple stuff has style, class, and ability- while overpriced it was nice all the same.
However, while this thing is cool, it's just not the same thing as the other stuff. It's a scaled up iPhone/iPod without 3G/4G support in it. For $500 for the base model? As someone described...it's the Kindle re-made without the wireless access and the ability to play video back.
For the same price as what Apple's charging for the iPad, you can have quite a bit more ability from AlwaysInnovating in the form of the TouchBook- and they beat Apple to market with their device and it supports USB, a keyboard and your choice of Ubuntu, Angstrom, Android, and more. With Android 2.1, it's pretty close to what Apple's selling right now with only slightly less battery life and vastly more ability out of box. (We won't get into any of the other stuff that might be shipping in the near future because it's not shipped yet...yet...)
The iPad's cool and all, but it's pretty vanilla compared to what's already out before them and what's to come next- and it's constrained in the same manner an iPhone is, using the "experience" excuse for reasoning for it. Sorry...it's not as worthy of that Apple logo or the hype associated with it as items in the past from them have been.
If script-kiddies can do that, then more serious attackers surely can.
...and will. Cheap shots are always preferred over the more sophisticated attacks because they often require less effort on the part of the attacker for the gain they seek- whatever it might be.
Security is as much a philosophy as it is tech. More to the point, as much as locks and the sort are meant to keep honest people that way- what Microsoft often peddles as "security" is the security of a cheap combination lock rather than the vault combination they claim it is.
And several people have gladly provided something that will do that very thing. It's tempting to ask the ARB to accept it as a RI for this sort of thing as they still kinda need it.
and before you remark... iPhone uses a similar DSP edge so my offhand remark about iPhone alongside with "anything else Linux" shouldn't nullify the argument... I added iPhone at the last moment and didn't qualify it this way.
Heh... Damnshock, have you ever worked with a TI SoC?
The codec was implemented against the C64x+ on a Linux based target on OMAP3.
Each phone isn't magically different in that respect. In fact, TI provides a platform SDK to use the DSP and everybody using Linux as their base OS is using the same SDK and pathways to get the data in/out of the engine and merely specifying their own get/on get/off points, which are actually submitted to the DSP via the API TI provides to each and every customer of their hardware.
What does this mean?
It means that the DSP work done now is available, largely ready for use on:
Motorola Droid Palm Pre Palm Pixi Nokia N900 BeagleBoard and derivatives... Gumstix Overo Water & Fire Open Pandora Handheld iPhone GS......and anything else using an OMAP3 SoC and Linux.
Seriously. Done once, able to be used elsewhere as long as you provide consistent interface rules. You might need to adjust the place you get and put the data for the operation, but the algorithm and the vast bulk of the DSP code doesn't change from device to device.
More to the point, you're going to find that with a bit of tweakage, the work can probably be implemented on OMAP2 platforms such as the Nokia N800/N810 as there's more than enough headroom on the C64x+ to lead me to believe that there's a possibility of doing it on a C55x class DSP- not that someone would go to that trouble unless there was a business case for it.
Now, this doesn't mean everybody gets "hardware" Theora yet- you still need to implement for at least Blackfin and Snapdragon as well for the bulk of the mobile device space. The main big deal here is that it has now been shown that it CAN be done and done fairly easily.
Excuse me... Video in HTML5 is supposed to get rid of that plugin thinking in the first place.
It's not that you can do that- HELL, you can do that NOW.
The real problem is that while it's implemented and "legitimized", each and every use requires a payment and a sign off against a license you may/may not agree with. Even to provide the content on the Internet will eventually require royalty payments with it. You won't be able to legally implement ANYTHING with video without their permission- and they can withhold it- just witness what's happening with Nokia and Apple right at the moment.
If you've not caught all of that, perhaps you need to pay closer attention.
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Indeed. And it's more entertaining because the proponents of AGW have been shutting down monitoring in remote locations and encouraging more monitoring where there are large thermal accumulators in the form of pavement and buildings.
I'm not going to say that it's not happening or that we don't need to be vastly better about our treatment of the environment- but the AGW people have very definitely applied bad science in their arguments and theories and all we as a civilization REALLY know is that we've not the foggiest about any of it. Climate changes. We've only got a geological record and our presumptions may/may not be accurate- and we've certainly no clean data that's not bent by peoples' assumptions, or that has been collected for long enough to make statements like Global Cooling (which was the in-vogue thing back a couple of decades back...) or AGW. We really, really don't.
Actually, the bulk of patents that MPEG-LA licenses are for ALGORITHMS.
Doesn't matter if they're enshrined in silicon or not- they're still mathematical expressions being used to do transformations of the information in a video stream to reduce it to something that can be better compressed.
It's what Jobs alluded to with his threatening email about Theora.
In the end, if we'd all go back to the rules of the game proper, meaning that you can't even remotely patent aspects of nature and that Algorithms are under that category...we'd be doing quite a bit better these days.
Really... Define "almost anything".
If it's one of the repository provided applications (thousands thereof), it's as simple as:
Clicking on "system", mousing down to "Administration", mousing over and down to "Synaptic Package Manager" and clicking to bring up Synaptic. From there, you can search for the application you're looking for by using search criteria- things like "game", "3D", or "draw". At that point you have a point-and-click list of items you can install. You'll need to supply an administrator password for the process at some point, but then Windows kind of does the same thing if you've got your security settings set up right to begin with (if you don't...someone'll eventually have a happy pwning on you...). Not really any more difficult than the Windows way of doing things.
If it's a commercial application, it's typically as simple as running the installer script or binary provided for the vendor (uh...just the same as Windows...)- and if the vendor has done their job right it should just work out of box with a wide range of Linux versions. Hell, some of the vendors have gone the extra distance and provided .deb and .rpm packagings as well as an installer binary. It's even easier to install those as it's just double-click on the package file, approve the install, and supply your admin password.
Now, if you're talking hardware...heh...difficulty's more in the eye of the beholder. There's tons of stuff out there that just won't work with Vista or Windows. Either you chance it or you do your research because unless it's very recent, it won't be labeled "for Vista" or "for Windows 7" on the packaging. Since this is the case, you'll do a bit of checking unless you're into wasting money or gambling- which is little different for Linux there.
I don't at-all accept your supposition. In truth, with all the BS you spouted in your post, I'm unsurprised you posted it anon.
Well... There IS a reason they say not to use it on production machines... :-D
That's a YMMV item. I've done numerous upgrades via online- they typically work. I've only have had one go sideways on me and it was more my own fault than the upgrade process. Having said this, I can envision more people having issues with it- I might be the lucky one after all.
BeOS is owned by Access, who bought PalmSource, the previous successor in interest to the OS.
The current tablet offerings are with sub-optimal SoC's. ARM9 stuff because it's CHEAP. Of course it's going to give you the impression you have and think HP has.
With an ARM11 or the right multi-core ARM9 it becomes more believable.
With something in the class of a Cortex A8/A9, it becomes very much something that's scalable to tablets, etc.
However, it really needs the JIT support to gel in Dalvik or it'll be somewhat less useful to people in that space- and that's not yet in place. Upshot is going to be the NDK and people using it to sidestep performance issues where it's merited.
I'm not sure that it was due to the "fact" that "WebOS can 'scale'" that they made this decision. It's probably a factor. Just as them owning the app framework in question was a factor.
But not by law. They used to (and still DO...) have the occasional "not rated" movies showing up from time to time. Some theaters are bold enough to show them, some are not.
Your understanding would be wrong. If an LEO shows up on my property at a party and the minors' parents are okay with them having a beer or two- if they find the beer in the hands of said minors you can bet your bottom dollar they'll arrest or fine the adult that handed them the beer for providing alcohol to a minor, along with my happy backside for "allowing" it to happen.
It USED to be the way you thought, but sadly, we've been at making this country more of a Police state for several decades now- ostensibly for the kids, the animals, etc.
That case may not get very far...
Read that section of the Fourteenth Amendment carefully. The bold part is very, very relevant and I can't see HOW the Supreme Court could or would grant Cert to a case arguing that the States aren't bound by the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights is an explicit enumeration of the Privileges and Immunities each and every Citizen of the Union enjoy, described as "Rights". The Fourteenth Amendment explicitly binds the States within the Union to the Bill of Rights in it's first section with little room for discussion or debate as to what that means. There is no "so far"- when the Fourteenth was put in, the States got bound and they're obligated to abide by each and every one of the items therein.
If you doubt this, go look at the decisions in Miranda or Crawford v. Washington sometime. If the Bill of Rights only applied to the Federal level government, you wouldn't have HAD those decisions because they're very much Fifth and Sixth Amendment based decisions, applied against Arizona and Washington state at the time they were decided.
Because of the laws in Brazil- that's why.
Ah... The big deal there is...if there's nothing you want offered, was there anything really lost by sticking to your principles?
I'd say entirely too many compromise on their desires and principles too easily these days. It's good to be able bend like a reed or willow in the wind, but if you're too flexible, too often, you get nothing but beat all to hell- just like the rest.
Heh... There's always Good Old Games... :-D
Actually, you've one other option on either...probably the best one overall.
You can opt out. You're not forced to do anything you didn't sign off on there. If you pay for it, now that the cat's out of the bag it's your own fault, not theirs- and you weren't forced to do anything. If you pirate it, you're giving them ammo to do WORSE things to everyone.
Isn't it about time people quit doing the "ooh...shiny" or "but...it's shiny" stuff and stood up to them and let them know that you're not a consumer but a customer and you don't treat customers like this.
Which is why I'm waiting to see what ARM does with their stuff. :-D
However...it's not GPU intensive...which would be where you might need something more than an IGP.
Apparently you've not participated in Voir Dire...
In theory, you're right. In practice, however, it's not quite the same thing.
Actually, the rules stated that he could only hand it over to the Mayor- which is what he did. Violating the rules could have had him facing similar charges they're trying to level on him.
Screwed if you don't, screwed if you do, I suppose. I know I wouldn't want to work for SF's city gov't now over this stuff.
Whoa...need to remember to not read /. while drinking coffee...
I'm no mac fan... However, I will give credit where credit is due.
Much of the Apple stuff has style, class, and ability- while overpriced it was nice all the same.
However, while this thing is cool, it's just not the same thing as the other stuff. It's a scaled up iPhone/iPod without 3G/4G support in it. For $500 for the base model? As someone described...it's the Kindle re-made without the wireless access and the ability to play video back.
For the same price as what Apple's charging for the iPad, you can have quite a bit more ability from AlwaysInnovating in the form of the TouchBook- and they beat Apple to market with their device and it supports USB, a keyboard and your choice of Ubuntu, Angstrom, Android, and more. With Android 2.1, it's pretty close to what Apple's selling right now with only slightly less battery life and vastly more ability out of box. (We won't get into any of the other stuff that might be shipping in the near future because it's not shipped yet...yet...)
The iPad's cool and all, but it's pretty vanilla compared to what's already out before them and what's to come next- and it's constrained in the same manner an iPhone is, using the "experience" excuse for reasoning for it. Sorry...it's not as worthy of that Apple logo or the hype associated with it as items in the past from them have been.
Security is as much a philosophy as it is tech. More to the point, as much as locks and the sort are meant to keep honest people that way- what Microsoft often peddles as "security" is the security of a cheap combination lock rather than the vault combination they claim it is.
And several people have gladly provided something that will do that very thing. It's tempting to ask the ARB to accept it as a RI for this sort of thing as they still kinda need it.
and before you remark... iPhone uses a similar DSP edge so my offhand remark about iPhone alongside with "anything else Linux" shouldn't nullify the argument... I added iPhone at the last moment and didn't qualify it this way.
Heh... Damnshock, have you ever worked with a TI SoC?
The codec was implemented against the C64x+ on a Linux based target on OMAP3.
Each phone isn't magically different in that respect. In fact, TI provides a platform SDK to use the DSP and everybody using Linux as their base OS is using the same SDK and pathways to get the data in/out of the engine and merely specifying their own get/on get/off points, which are actually submitted to the DSP via the API TI provides to each and every customer of their hardware.
What does this mean?
It means that the DSP work done now is available, largely ready for use on:
Motorola Droid ...and anything else using an OMAP3 SoC and Linux.
Palm Pre
Palm Pixi
Nokia N900
BeagleBoard and derivatives...
Gumstix Overo Water & Fire
Open Pandora Handheld
iPhone GS...
Seriously. Done once, able to be used elsewhere as long as you provide consistent interface rules. You might need to adjust the place you get and put the data for the operation, but the algorithm and the vast bulk of the DSP code doesn't change from device to device.
More to the point, you're going to find that with a bit of tweakage, the work can probably be implemented on OMAP2 platforms such as the Nokia N800/N810 as there's more than enough headroom on the C64x+ to lead me to believe that there's a possibility of doing it on a C55x class DSP- not that someone would go to that trouble unless there was a business case for it.
Now, this doesn't mean everybody gets "hardware" Theora yet- you still need to implement for at least Blackfin and Snapdragon as well for the bulk of the mobile device space. The main big deal here is that it has now been shown that it CAN be done and done fairly easily.
Excuse me... Video in HTML5 is supposed to get rid of that plugin thinking in the first place .
It's not that you can do that- HELL, you can do that NOW.
The real problem is that while it's implemented and "legitimized", each and every use requires a payment and a sign off against a license you may/may not agree with. Even to provide the content on the Internet will eventually require royalty payments with it. You won't be able to legally implement ANYTHING with video without their permission- and they can withhold it- just witness what's happening with Nokia and Apple right at the moment.
If you've not caught all of that, perhaps you need to pay closer attention.