Actually I'm pretty sure there are players (avifile, xtheater, xine?) which I know for a fact play asf (using windows DLLs and WINE loaders), but I'm not too sure about streaming, I think some of them might.
I heard LILO was starting to support Reiser, anyone know for sure?
I know for sure that there are atleast patches to LILO to get it to work with ReiserFS, however LILO I don't think is the optimal solution.
I've been running ReiserFS for some time now, and during my switch to it I also switched boot loaders to GRUB which seems like an overall better bootloader. I can tell you right now that the GRUB command shell has saved me a few times already.
Note, no free unix today has, at least to the point of people trusting their main database on it, a production-ready journaled filesystem.
Linux+ReiserFS.
I would trust ReiserFS to keep my main DB safe, I've been using ReiserFS with Linux for some time now with no data loss. (and many power failures and some crashes due to a partitcular closed source XF86 video card driver)
I second this, for unbeatable 2D performance and open driver support the Matrox G400 is the way to go.
If you want extremely fast GL support and don't mind waiting around for months before getting the latest and greatest of features (RENDER for example) because the drivers are closed, try an NVidia card.
Does anyone else think this visual effect "feature" is cheezy, cartoonish, and overall really stupid looking? Looking at it makes me think of really bad cartoons. Maybe it'd actually be better playing the game than seeing stills...
> SMP? Forget it.
Works perfectly. (using it right now at home and at work.
Spend 10 minutes in #nvidia on irc.openprojects.net, just because it works for you doesn't mean it works for *everyone*.
> Doublescan modes? No chance.
> Proper Modeline Handling? In your dreams.
> Memory Leaks? Sure, have a double helping.
I've never had a problem.
Same with these, and I personally have had problems with them. Doublescan modes just do not work at all, the modeline handling is substandard (you can't even explicitly set the sync polarities without a separate option) and my machine enjoys randomly locking up after a days worth of use in X which doesn't happen with the open nv_drv.o.
The NVIDIA drivers are more compliant, faster and have more features than *any* of the open source alternatives.
Faster because of the hardware, more compiland and more features? Not even. No RENDER support, the modeline handling is crappy, no doublescan modes, etc, etc, etc. All which the open drivers have.
I dont know what kind of problems YOU are having, but nvidia's drivers KICK ASS
They work marginally well if you have a BX board and one of a subset of nVidia cards and then it still enjoys locking up here and there for no apparent reason. Other chipsets may have AGP issues or might not work with AGP at all. Some people report PCI cards not even working anymore.
SMP? Forget it.
Doublescan modes? No chance.
Proper Modeline Handling? In your dreams.
Memory Leaks? Sure, have a double helping.
XINERAMA? Not with GL support.
Geforce 2 Twinview? Not even if you can get the card to work.
TV Out? No way jose.
XF86 RENDER Extension support? Hah, not even in the next version.
To be fair the linux driver developers are in short supply and are trying their best even though the nVidia market-droids enjoy touting their extremely useless and bloating common codebase which they have 100 developers working on. Out of those 100 developers maybe 5 work on the linux drivers.
nVidia needs to open these drivers up, if anything the nvidia_drv.o (XAA module) needs to be opened, if you wanna keep the kernel module and GL implimentation closed, great, but man, that XAA module needs help.
I'm actually a student taking a C++ class in school, and if it weren't for microsoft providing the materials, quite frankly, my school would have no computer department. period.
Too bad this isn't true. GCC works just fine as a C++ compiler, that's a lot of the cost right there. Now for information what exactly does MS provide? Visual C++ Manuals? Look up crap like that on the net, you can find all kinds of C/C++ tutorials, documentation and information teachers can use.
Yeah, actually I like alot of these bands too. However, why should a radio station HAVE to play them simply because of their nationality? Why can't you play any music you want?
[...]
Again, same argument as the music, I love outer limits, but if I was network, I wouldn't want to HAVE to play just because someone in Ottawa thinks they know what's best for me.
Without the CRTC and the Canadian Content regulation the vast majority of these artists and shows would not have been around for your enjoyment. The disturbing thing is this: American content is cheaper because you don't have to spend money to produce it as the American companies do that already, so the trend was just buy up US content and screw Canadian content, not because it was better, but because it was cheaper.
The Outer Limits was the product of Canadian Content regulations. The Movie Network (TMN) was trying to find a way to comply with the regulaiton and produced The Outer Limits, which turned into a huge success. If these regulations were not in place we would have no Canadian content, not just some.
Canadian content can survive in the marketplace and be successful, the problem is that buying US content is cheaper because of the lack of production costs.
I didn't like the Canadian Content regulations myself, but I have come to see the wisdom in them.
Radio stations have to play a certain percentage of "Canadian music" [...] even if it's Bryan Adams or Anne Murray
Or Alanis, Rush, I Mother Earth, The Guess Who, BTO, Stompin' Tom, Killjoys, Kittie, Barenaked Ladies or the thousands upon thousands of other Canadian artists out there, which people seem to love.
Same thing for Television - better have that Canadian stuff, even if no one wants to watch it.
Yeah wouldn't want The Outter Limits, Traders, Andromeda, Cold Squad or Sliders on the air, that's for sure.
Until the CRTC took their grimy mitts off long distance, we were still paying a fortune to use the phone.
Allowing long distance carrier competition was a Good Thing(tm). Agreed.
DSL service, not being touched yet, is commonly available nearly everywhere for $40-50.
Because of the CRTC the cost is $50 MAXIMUM, not in spite of it.
1) you have to have the actual object inside the device that projects it
No, if you read the article is says that is the SIMPLEST version, they also say they have 3D video projectors, now how are you going to show 3D holographic video with everything inside that little pedistal?
2) its inc. yet i cant seem to buy stock in them
Incorportated != publicly traded, as another commenter pointed out.
3) their site just screams "we did it! we made some awesome new technology! when its just a bunch of magician tricks with mirrors that they've been doing for some time now
3D Holographic video projectors IS an awesome new technology. Now all you have to do is make a 3D forcefeild projector and we can have holodecks...
3. No violation, program "C" does not depend on "A" or "B" to run.
4. If "X" is GPL'd then yes, it is a violation as the programs main function is to interface with "X", however, if "X" is not GPL'd but the user substitutes "X" for "A" which IS GPL'd, then no, however if you distribute "A" with "C" then yes it is a violation, however if you don't, but "C" downloads "A", then no.
5. The program is not distributing "A", the ftp or web server where the program gets "A" is, and since "A" is only a subset of the programs that "C" is intended to use then GPL'd software is not required for "C" to run and therefore it is not a violation.
6. Source Code as defined by the GPL is the "preferred form of the work for making modifications to it" and therefore no, instructions on how to make something are not considered source code under the GPL and therefore would not be a violation, however how do you give instructions on how to write a peice of software without peices of code?
Linux is a REGISTERED TRADEMARK. That is a word, now go ahead and use linux in a commercial application with out Linus Torvalds consent and see how far you get.
Sure, it isn't a problem as long as you use it in an application which isn't an operating system, such as, say, Linux Fire Extinguishers, or VA Linux Systems.
Again, having a trademark does NOT give you a monopoly over a word. The way trademarks got perverted was that people just started submitting what the USPTO calls "Typed Drawings" of words as the trademark being applied for. This was never intended to happen when the Trademark system was conceived. You can find the Linux trademark information here
In a way it does give you monopoly over a word.. It seems you really have no clue what you are talking about...
The only monopoly you get is in the scope of your product. In the case of Guinness no one else can make a beer and call it Guinness, but the Guinness Book of World Records is fine. In the case of Linux no one can make another operating system called Linux, but VA Linux Systems is fine.
Trademarks shouldn't have transversed to domain names, that is just wrong, and even if they have, this case is baseless and the domain names shouldn't have been taken away for several reasons:
1. He was not selling a product
2. There is no chance for confusion by a "reasonable person"
Either one of those is sufficient. I hope you finally understand trademarks now.
What I'd like to know is when did trademarks start becoming words? Trademarks are for logos representing a company, not words, they were designed so that one company couldn't use the same logo as another to confuse the public. If they were meant to be words they would be named "tradewords" or "tradnames" and not "trademarks"!
What I'm getting at here is that having a trademark does NOT GIVE YOU A MONOPOLY OVER A WORD. Xerithane, you obviously don't understand this, and neither do the stupid judges who think that trademarks should, somehow, by some stretch of the imagination, extend into domain names. The two just simply aren't comperable.
Just by looking at these images you can tell it isn't a real desktop. I'm going along with another poster who said they were probably made in Macromedia Director just by taking image fragments. Here is why I think these aren't pictures of a real desktop:
- Every window uses the "Side Titlebar" style, which in enlightenment is only used for some windows where the width is too short and the height is longer.
- Every window also has a right side scrollbar which isn't needed.... why would video windows have these?
- The second from the top graphic meter displays the same in EVERY shot, there is no variance.
- The "Access Denied" window is not a dialog window, and also, even tho it is short and displays the entirety of its content, has the right scrollbar.
Just by looking at it for 30 seconds you can see that it isn't real, the directors or someone just thought it "looked cool" apparently, and took images from it.
I don't really think the FSF did violate the BSD license if indeed they took BSD licensed code.
The advertisement provision states that the line must display when the program executes, however the code was in a library and libraries, by themselves, don't execute.
This looks like complete crap. Microsoft relicenses BSD code all the time, why can't the FSF include it in an LGPL'd library if they honor the licenses advertising clause?
The first GUI was called "Ambiance", it was rather primitive, and allowed you to escape to a QNX shell prompt if you pressed the right set of keys at login.:)
The second was called "Icon Look" which was a prettier version, a little more secure and powerful.
I remember playing hours and hours of many games on those things, the cargo ship trader game, money market stock style game, and of course all our favorite was the robot game where you build a course and a robot and ran him around the course hoping to break him, but they removed that one for some reason....
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Actually I'm pretty sure there are players (avifile, xtheater, xine?) which I know for a fact play asf (using windows DLLs and WINE loaders), but I'm not too sure about streaming, I think some of them might.
-- iCEBaLM
I heard LILO was starting to support Reiser, anyone know for sure?
I know for sure that there are atleast patches to LILO to get it to work with ReiserFS, however LILO I don't think is the optimal solution.
I've been running ReiserFS for some time now, and during my switch to it I also switched boot loaders to GRUB which seems like an overall better bootloader. I can tell you right now that the GRUB command shell has saved me a few times already.
-- iCEBaLM
What would be really cool is if the DC Quake3 could play on standard Q3 servers along side its computer cousins.
-- iCEBaLM
Substantiate your claim or shut the fuck up.
-- iCEBaLM
Note, no free unix today has, at least to the point of people trusting their main database on it, a production-ready journaled filesystem.
Linux+ReiserFS.
I would trust ReiserFS to keep my main DB safe, I've been using ReiserFS with Linux for some time now with no data loss. (and many power failures and some crashes due to a partitcular closed source XF86 video card driver)
-- iCEBaLM
I second this, for unbeatable 2D performance and open driver support the Matrox G400 is the way to go.
If you want extremely fast GL support and don't mind waiting around for months before getting the latest and greatest of features (RENDER for example) because the drivers are closed, try an NVidia card.
-- iCEBaLM
Visit us at #nvidia on irc.openprojects.net and we'll try to help you out.
-- iCEBaLM
Does anyone else think this visual effect "feature" is cheezy, cartoonish, and overall really stupid looking? Looking at it makes me think of really bad cartoons. Maybe it'd actually be better playing the game than seeing stills...
-- iCEBaLM
> SMP? Forget it.
Works perfectly. (using it right now at home and at work.
Spend 10 minutes in #nvidia on irc.openprojects.net, just because it works for you doesn't mean it works for *everyone*.
> Doublescan modes? No chance.
> Proper Modeline Handling? In your dreams.
> Memory Leaks? Sure, have a double helping.
I've never had a problem.
Same with these, and I personally have had problems with them. Doublescan modes just do not work at all, the modeline handling is substandard (you can't even explicitly set the sync polarities without a separate option) and my machine enjoys randomly locking up after a days worth of use in X which doesn't happen with the open nv_drv.o.
The NVIDIA drivers are more compliant, faster and have more features than *any* of the open source alternatives.
Faster because of the hardware, more compiland and more features? Not even. No RENDER support, the modeline handling is crappy, no doublescan modes, etc, etc, etc. All which the open drivers have.
-- iCEBaLM
I dont know what kind of problems YOU are having, but nvidia's drivers KICK ASS
They work marginally well if you have a BX board and one of a subset of nVidia cards and then it still enjoys locking up here and there for no apparent reason. Other chipsets may have AGP issues or might not work with AGP at all. Some people report PCI cards not even working anymore.
SMP? Forget it.
Doublescan modes? No chance.
Proper Modeline Handling? In your dreams.
Memory Leaks? Sure, have a double helping.
XINERAMA? Not with GL support.
Geforce 2 Twinview? Not even if you can get the card to work.
TV Out? No way jose.
XF86 RENDER Extension support? Hah, not even in the next version.
To be fair the linux driver developers are in short supply and are trying their best even though the nVidia market-droids enjoy touting their extremely useless and bloating common codebase which they have 100 developers working on. Out of those 100 developers maybe 5 work on the linux drivers.
nVidia needs to open these drivers up, if anything the nvidia_drv.o (XAA module) needs to be opened, if you wanna keep the kernel module and GL implimentation closed, great, but man, that XAA module needs help.
-- iCEBaLM
I'm actually a student taking a C++ class in school, and if it weren't for microsoft providing the materials, quite frankly, my school would have no computer department. period.
Too bad this isn't true. GCC works just fine as a C++ compiler, that's a lot of the cost right there. Now for information what exactly does MS provide? Visual C++ Manuals? Look up crap like that on the net, you can find all kinds of C/C++ tutorials, documentation and information teachers can use.
-- iCEBaLM
Yeah, actually I like alot of these bands too. However, why should a radio station HAVE to play them simply because of their nationality? Why can't you play any music you want?
[...]
Again, same argument as the music, I love outer limits, but if I was network, I wouldn't want to HAVE to play just because someone in Ottawa thinks they know what's best for me.
Without the CRTC and the Canadian Content regulation the vast majority of these artists and shows would not have been around for your enjoyment. The disturbing thing is this: American content is cheaper because you don't have to spend money to produce it as the American companies do that already, so the trend was just buy up US content and screw Canadian content, not because it was better, but because it was cheaper.
The Outer Limits was the product of Canadian Content regulations. The Movie Network (TMN) was trying to find a way to comply with the regulaiton and produced The Outer Limits, which turned into a huge success. If these regulations were not in place we would have no Canadian content, not just some.
Canadian content can survive in the marketplace and be successful, the problem is that buying US content is cheaper because of the lack of production costs.
I didn't like the Canadian Content regulations myself, but I have come to see the wisdom in them.
-- iCEBaLM
Radio stations have to play a certain percentage of "Canadian music" [...] even if it's Bryan Adams or Anne Murray
Or Alanis, Rush, I Mother Earth, The Guess Who, BTO, Stompin' Tom, Killjoys, Kittie, Barenaked Ladies or the thousands upon thousands of other Canadian artists out there, which people seem to love.
Same thing for Television - better have that Canadian stuff, even if no one wants to watch it.
Yeah wouldn't want The Outter Limits, Traders, Andromeda, Cold Squad or Sliders on the air, that's for sure.
Until the CRTC took their grimy mitts off long distance, we were still paying a fortune to use the phone.
Allowing long distance carrier competition was a Good Thing(tm). Agreed.
DSL service, not being touched yet, is commonly available nearly everywhere for $40-50.
Because of the CRTC the cost is $50 MAXIMUM, not in spite of it.
-- iCEBaLM
1) you have to have the actual object inside the device that projects it
No, if you read the article is says that is the SIMPLEST version, they also say they have 3D video projectors, now how are you going to show 3D holographic video with everything inside that little pedistal?
2) its inc. yet i cant seem to buy stock in them
Incorportated != publicly traded, as another commenter pointed out.
3) their site just screams "we did it! we made some awesome new technology! when its just a bunch of magician tricks with mirrors that they've been doing for some time now
3D Holographic video projectors IS an awesome new technology. Now all you have to do is make a 3D forcefeild projector and we can have holodecks...
-- iCEBaLM
"IE supports more standards, uses less resources"
Hrmm, lets see..
Win95 A (without IE) == 35 meg install
Win95 OSR2 (With IE) == 80 meg install
Not to mention the RAM it takes up always being resident in memory, "but consumers like it in the OS!"
"and has less anoying features than netscape"
Like ActiveX, Channels, Active Desktop....
"and crashes less."
*ahem* <IMG SRC="C:\CON\CON">
-- iCEBaLM
Answers:
3. No violation, program "C" does not depend on "A" or "B" to run.
4. If "X" is GPL'd then yes, it is a violation as the programs main function is to interface with "X", however, if "X" is not GPL'd but the user substitutes "X" for "A" which IS GPL'd, then no, however if you distribute "A" with "C" then yes it is a violation, however if you don't, but "C" downloads "A", then no.
5. The program is not distributing "A", the ftp or web server where the program gets "A" is, and since "A" is only a subset of the programs that "C" is intended to use then GPL'd software is not required for "C" to run and therefore it is not a violation.
6. Source Code as defined by the GPL is the "preferred form of the work for making modifications to it" and therefore no, instructions on how to make something are not considered source code under the GPL and therefore would not be a violation, however how do you give instructions on how to write a peice of software without peices of code?
-- iCEBaLM
Linux is a REGISTERED TRADEMARK. That is a word, now go ahead and use linux in a commercial application with out Linus Torvalds consent and see how far you get.
Sure, it isn't a problem as long as you use it in an application which isn't an operating system, such as, say, Linux Fire Extinguishers, or VA Linux Systems.
Again, having a trademark does NOT give you a monopoly over a word. The way trademarks got perverted was that people just started submitting what the USPTO calls "Typed Drawings" of words as the trademark being applied for. This was never intended to happen when the Trademark system was conceived. You can find the Linux trademark information here
In a way it does give you monopoly over a word.. It seems you really have no clue what you are talking about...
The only monopoly you get is in the scope of your product. In the case of Guinness no one else can make a beer and call it Guinness, but the Guinness Book of World Records is fine. In the case of Linux no one can make another operating system called Linux, but VA Linux Systems is fine.
Trademarks shouldn't have transversed to domain names, that is just wrong, and even if they have, this case is baseless and the domain names shouldn't have been taken away for several reasons:
1. He was not selling a product
2. There is no chance for confusion by a "reasonable person"
Either one of those is sufficient. I hope you finally understand trademarks now.
-- iCEBaLM
What I'd like to know is when did trademarks start becoming words? Trademarks are for logos representing a company, not words, they were designed so that one company couldn't use the same logo as another to confuse the public. If they were meant to be words they would be named "tradewords" or "tradnames" and not "trademarks"!
What I'm getting at here is that having a trademark does NOT GIVE YOU A MONOPOLY OVER A WORD. Xerithane, you obviously don't understand this, and neither do the stupid judges who think that trademarks should, somehow, by some stretch of the imagination, extend into domain names. The two just simply aren't comperable.
-- iCEBaLM
Just by looking at these images you can tell it isn't a real desktop. I'm going along with another poster who said they were probably made in Macromedia Director just by taking image fragments. Here is why I think these aren't pictures of a real desktop:
- Every window uses the "Side Titlebar" style, which in enlightenment is only used for some windows where the width is too short and the height is longer.
- Every window also has a right side scrollbar which isn't needed.... why would video windows have these?
- The second from the top graphic meter displays the same in EVERY shot, there is no variance.
- The "Access Denied" window is not a dialog window, and also, even tho it is short and displays the entirety of its content, has the right scrollbar.
Just by looking at it for 30 seconds you can see that it isn't real, the directors or someone just thought it "looked cool" apparently, and took images from it.
-- iCEBaLM
Without Ford making cars, who would buy car tires?
So I suppose tiremakers should pay the car companies for the right to make tires?
-- iCEBaLM
I have a C64 still, out of curiosity just where on earth would you get some of this hardware?
-- iCEBaLM
I don't really think the FSF did violate the BSD license if indeed they took BSD licensed code.
The advertisement provision states that the line must display when the program executes, however the code was in a library and libraries, by themselves, don't execute.
-- iCEBaLM
If microsoft does it, and the FSF does it, why is only the FSF instance being contested?
It would seem wrong to ignore one over the other, it would seem the hypocrisy would be on the original posters end.
-- iCEBaLM
This looks like complete crap. Microsoft relicenses BSD code all the time, why can't the FSF include it in an LGPL'd library if they honor the licenses advertising clause?
-- iCEBaLM
The first GUI was called "Ambiance", it was rather primitive, and allowed you to escape to a QNX shell prompt if you pressed the right set of keys at login. :)
The second was called "Icon Look" which was a prettier version, a little more secure and powerful.
I remember playing hours and hours of many games on those things, the cargo ship trader game, money market stock style game, and of course all our favorite was the robot game where you build a course and a robot and ran him around the course hoping to break him, but they removed that one for some reason....
-- iCEBaLM