Just so you know, region locked DVD players were deemed illegal by the high court of Australia so all players sold here are able to play DVDs from any region. For once the Australian legal system got something right.
This is one thing I've never understood about American politics (in particular, the platform of a lot of Republican candidates). Why do so many people believe that government on a state level is inherently better than government on a federal level? Surely a standardised system nationwide makes life a lot simpler for everyone.
Pft, if they did that then everyone would complain about how it was spyware, and all the privacy fanatics would go on about how evil Kazaa was for trying to steal their personal information. Corporations just can't win in the eyes of some people:) (Note, these aren't my opinions, I have nothing against people making money, indeed I hope to make some myself someday)
Freebsd has better support for soundblaster live cards? Pfft, when i tried it about 6 months ago i had to go through the rather user unfriendly kernel configuration files and compile the necessary modules (the process of working this out took the better part of several hours, and i had to be guided through the process, freebsd should take a page out of linux's book and make a nice easy kernel configuration program), and then it didn't support it properly, only letting me play one sound at a time. I'm running slackware linux at the moment, and getting my sblive working was no more difficult than adding "modprobe emu10k1" to my startup files. Even windows requires more effort than that;P
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Just so you know, region locked DVD players were deemed illegal by the high court of Australia so all players sold here are able to play DVDs from any region. For once the Australian legal system got something right.
This is one thing I've never understood about American politics (in particular, the platform of a lot of Republican candidates). Why do so many people believe that government on a state level is inherently better than government on a federal level? Surely a standardised system nationwide makes life a lot simpler for everyone.
Pft, if they did that then everyone would complain about how it was spyware, and all the privacy fanatics would go on about how evil Kazaa was for trying to steal their personal information. Corporations just can't win in the eyes of some people :)
(Note, these aren't my opinions, I have nothing against people making money, indeed I hope to make some myself someday)
Interesting. I have all of these features on my Palm device. Perhaps you're looking in the wrong place?
Freebsd has better support for soundblaster live cards? Pfft, when i tried it about 6 months ago i had to go through the rather user unfriendly kernel configuration files and compile the necessary modules (the process of working this out took the better part of several hours, and i had to be guided through the process, freebsd should take a page out of linux's book and make a nice easy kernel configuration program), and then it didn't support it properly, only letting me play one sound at a time. I'm running slackware linux at the moment, and getting my sblive working was no more difficult than adding "modprobe emu10k1" to my startup files. Even windows requires more effort than that ;P