I wish every developer would look past proprietary things like Flash and AIR and use web standards instead, but I know this will never happen.
MythTV can't legally use this product -- and not for lame patent reasons, but for copyright laws (it's a set-top box). We'll be stuck with Adobe's runtime until an open standard takes off. Developers can indeed "look past" proprietary things like Flash. They do it all the time when they develop for the web, and they take it for granted until things like this happen. Hopefully HTML5 will use an unencumbered standard for audio and video (such as Ogg/Vorbis). That, coupled with SVG and traditional web technologies would give us the "run time" that we need to keep the web free.
Additionally, Air and Flash have some hefty licensing restrictions. From Adobe:
For the avoidance of doubt, and by example only, Distributor shall not distribute any Adobe Runtime for use on any (a) mobile device, set top box (STB), handheld, phone, web pad, tablet or Tablet PC (other than Windows XP Tablet PC Edition and its successors), game console, TV, DVD player, media center (other than Windows XP Media Center Edition and its successors), electronic billboard or other digital signage, internet appliance or other internet-connected device, PDA, medical device, ATM, telematic device, gaming machine, home automation system, kiosk, remote control device, or any other consumer electronics device, (b) operator-based mobile, cable, satellite, or television system or (c) other closed system device. For information on licensing Adobe Runtimes for use or distribution on devices see http://www.adobe.com/licensing.
So, they can call it "free" all they want, but it isn't even free-as-in-beer free.
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From the link you provided:
"Royalty-free Flash Player distribution is limited to specific desktop and laptop operating systems. Distribution restrictions are specified in the license agreement. Distribution on devices is subject to a licensing fee and different licensing terms. Please contact an Adobe Mobile & Devices representative if you are interested in licensing Flash Player for distribution on devices."
So one cannot redistribute Flash, or use it in a whole host of applications without licensing it from Adobe. It's a closed platform.
You forgot Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal, Starcraft: Brood War, Diablo II: Lord of Destruction, WoW: The Burning Crusade, and WoW: The Wrath of the Lich King.
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Well, I will throw out there a heads up to folks about OpenLaszlo which is the "run-anywhere, no-lock-in rich Internet platform. Period."
That's not entirely true. OpenLaszlo relies on Flash to display video, and Flash is not a no-lock-in platform. You cannot redistribute Flash, or use it in a whole host of applications without licensing it from Adobe.
It's never been difficult to add Dag and Livna, but it's now even easier: http://rpmfusion.org/ I really liked the polish of Fedora 9, it was a huge step up from 8. Hopefully Fedora 10 continues in that direction.
There's another benefit to separating pages into processes. You can use standard OS tools (top, ps, Task Manager, System Monitor) to find processes that are eating up cycles and kill them. If I have 30 tabs open in Firefox, and one of them has some wonky JavaScript/Flash/Java that is munching the CPU, I have to kill the entire browser and start from scratch. With separate processes, I can shut down the specific offender and continue on (assuming it isn't the browser itself). I find this to be the most attractive feature of spreading pages into processes. It allows the OS to control *gasp* applications!
The reason Google made Chrome was that 90% of the work to create it had to be done for Android anyway. They simply went ahead and made a desktop browser from that code base. I'm glad they did for competitive reasons, but it wasn't their primary motivation.
I concur. I recently bought a desktop system from a local retailer. When he summed it all up, it seemed a bit expensive so I asked him to double-check. Turns out that he had forgotten to remove Vista Ultimate from the price. I saved about $350 when he did.
The command-line options for mencoder are a bit scary, but it can do almost anything. It has dozens of video filters, one of which is rotate ("-vf rotate=1"), and it will copy the resolution from src->dest by default. I've built a few web apps that wrap mencoder to make it easy to transcode from any container/format to any other container/format. It is also very forgiving of errors, and provides copious debug output if you like.
The default implementation should be tweaked more than a little bit, including disabling password login, changing the port and, please don't forget, disabling ssh1.
Disabling passwords is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it's more difficult to forge credentials, but on the other hand, a stolen, carelessly-maintained laptop grants full access. Either way, you trust the end-user to secure her system -- it's just that with passwords, they are more likely to re-type them every time (most ssh clients do not save the password). With a key exchange, they are much more likely to have it fire-and-forget.
You can also just end the SSH session (don't background it with '-f') to cut the tunnel. This also works with PuTTY for Windows machines. I've setup PuTTY shortcuts for some of my coworkers and they just double-click on them, enter their passoword, and they're using VNC just fine. When they want to stop using it, they just close PuTTY. Easy as pi.
A cube is pretty much the worst shape possible when it comes to distributing the force of an impact evenly across the entire object
Not true; What about those crystalline spacecraft that the Kryptonians use to send their infants to Earth in? They have all sorts of jutting and produding suraces.
Pidgin's trac system is/.'d; does anyone know where the fork is? Can you actually download, compile and run it? Are they going to split codebases, or simply re-package pidgin with each release?
The CLUT supports 24bpp color, so they advertise millions of colors. If the display dithers down to 262k, it could be argued that the display is still being sent 24bpp info - and thee iMac does have an external video out port, so I think Apple has some wiggle room here... From this link
http://www.apple.com/imac/specs.html
Display
* Built-in 20-inch (viewable) or 24-inch (viewable) glossy widescreen TFT active-matrix liquid crystal display * Resolution o 20-inch: 1680 by 1050 pixels o 24-inch: 1920 by 1200 pixels * Millions of colors at all resolutions * Typical viewing angle o 20-inch models + 160° horizontal 20- and 24-inch + 160° vertical o 24-inch model + 178° horizontal + 178° vertical * Typical brightness: 290 cd/m2 (20-inch models); 385 cd/m2 (24-inch model) * Typical contrast ratio: 800:1 (20-inch models); 750:1 (24-inch model)
(apologies for slashdot's mangling of the unicode above)
They make the claim that the "display" supports "millions of colors". And by display, they mean something that has 290 cd/m2 brightness and a 160 degree viewing angle -- which could hardly be referring to the GPU/video card.
Of course, Verizon could very well just sit on this spectrum and do nothing with it. Why would they want the competition? They'd have to do all that engineering to come up with a protocol that's bound to be tangled with lawsuits relating to the new regulations.
And, after all, you've already signed a two-year contract for "unlimited" talk at $100/month. Why would they want to upset that gravy train? It's not like any of the other carriers can use it...
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Just raise the character level using the command interface:
setgs iMaxCharacterLevel 50
Too bad Theora sucks.
You've been to YouTube and Hulu, right? You don't need to have the best format under the sun to make people happy.
I wish every developer would look past proprietary things like Flash and AIR and use web standards instead, but I know this will never happen.
MythTV can't legally use this product -- and not for lame patent reasons, but for copyright laws (it's a set-top box). We'll be stuck with Adobe's runtime until an open standard takes off. Developers can indeed "look past" proprietary things like Flash. They do it all the time when they develop for the web, and they take it for granted until things like this happen. Hopefully HTML5 will use an unencumbered standard for audio and video (such as Ogg/Vorbis). That, coupled with SVG and traditional web technologies would give us the "run time" that we need to keep the web free.
Additionally, Air and Flash have some hefty licensing restrictions. From Adobe:
For the avoidance of doubt, and by example only, Distributor shall not distribute any Adobe Runtime for use on any (a) mobile device, set top box (STB), handheld, phone, web pad, tablet or Tablet PC (other than Windows XP Tablet PC Edition and its successors), game console, TV, DVD player, media center (other than Windows XP Media Center Edition and its successors), electronic billboard or other digital signage, internet appliance or other internet-connected device, PDA, medical device, ATM, telematic device, gaming machine, home automation system, kiosk, remote control device, or any other consumer electronics device, (b) operator-based mobile, cable, satellite, or television system or (c) other closed system device. For information on licensing Adobe Runtimes for use or distribution on devices see http://www.adobe.com/licensing.
So, they can call it "free" all they want, but it isn't even free-as-in-beer free.
From the link you provided:
"Royalty-free Flash Player distribution is limited to specific desktop and laptop operating systems. Distribution restrictions are specified in the license agreement. Distribution on devices is subject to a licensing fee and different licensing terms. Please contact an Adobe Mobile & Devices representative if you are interested in licensing Flash Player for distribution on devices."
So one cannot redistribute Flash, or use it in a whole host of applications without licensing it from Adobe. It's a closed platform.
You forgot Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal, Starcraft: Brood War, Diablo II: Lord of Destruction, WoW: The Burning Crusade, and WoW: The Wrath of the Lich King.
Well, I will throw out there a heads up to folks about OpenLaszlo which is the "run-anywhere, no-lock-in rich Internet platform. Period."
That's not entirely true. OpenLaszlo relies on Flash to display video, and Flash is not a no-lock-in platform. You cannot redistribute Flash, or use it in a whole host of applications without licensing it from Adobe.
Unless you're running rawhide, this is almost never an issue anymore.
It's never been difficult to add Dag and Livna, but it's now even easier: http://rpmfusion.org/ I really liked the polish of Fedora 9, it was a huge step up from 8. Hopefully Fedora 10 continues in that direction.
Yep, and the DMCA was a bi-partisan effort here in the States. Neither side cares much for digital rights.
What American legislation? It seems that France, China, Australia, and the UK are the ones spearheading big-brother Internet censorship.
Gnash 0.8.4 was released yesterday, but I guess that doesn't merit a slashvertisement:
http://gnashdev.org/
There's another benefit to separating pages into processes. You can use standard OS tools (top, ps, Task Manager, System Monitor) to find processes that are eating up cycles and kill them. If I have 30 tabs open in Firefox, and one of them has some wonky JavaScript/Flash/Java that is munching the CPU, I have to kill the entire browser and start from scratch. With separate processes, I can shut down the specific offender and continue on (assuming it isn't the browser itself). I find this to be the most attractive feature of spreading pages into processes. It allows the OS to control *gasp* applications!
The reason Google made Chrome was that 90% of the work to create it had to be done for Android anyway. They simply went ahead and made a desktop browser from that code base. I'm glad they did for competitive reasons, but it wasn't their primary motivation.
I concur. I recently bought a desktop system from a local retailer. When he summed it all up, it seemed a bit expensive so I asked him to double-check. Turns out that he had forgotten to remove Vista Ultimate from the price. I saved about $350 when he did.
The command-line options for mencoder are a bit scary, but it can do almost anything. It has dozens of video filters, one of which is rotate ("-vf rotate=1"), and it will copy the resolution from src->dest by default. I've built a few web apps that wrap mencoder to make it easy to transcode from any container/format to any other container/format. It is also very forgiving of errors, and provides copious debug output if you like.
Here's a youtube of it:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xSPFNq2KsFE
Smashing Pumpkins - The End Is The Beginning Is The End. Fluke does a pretty damn good remix of it, if you can track it down.
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Wow, slashdot sucks for accented characters.
The default implementation should be tweaked more than a little bit, including disabling password login, changing the port and, please don't forget, disabling ssh1.
Disabling passwords is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it's more difficult to forge credentials, but on the other hand, a stolen, carelessly-maintained laptop grants full access. Either way, you trust the end-user to secure her system -- it's just that with passwords, they are more likely to re-type them every time (most ssh clients do not save the password). With a key exchange, they are much more likely to have it fire-and-forget.
You can also just end the SSH session (don't background it with '-f') to cut the tunnel. This also works with PuTTY for Windows machines. I've setup PuTTY shortcuts for some of my coworkers and they just double-click on them, enter their passoword, and they're using VNC just fine. When they want to stop using it, they just close PuTTY. Easy as pi.
A cube is pretty much the worst shape possible when it comes to distributing the force of an impact evenly across the entire object
Not true; What about those crystalline spacecraft that the Kryptonians use to send their infants to Earth in? They have all sorts of jutting and produding suraces.
Pidgin's trac system is /.'d; does anyone know where the fork is? Can you actually download, compile and run it? Are they going to split codebases, or simply re-package pidgin with each release?
They make the claim that the "display" supports "millions of colors". And by display, they mean something that has 290 cd/m2 brightness and a 160 degree viewing angle -- which could hardly be referring to the GPU/video card.
And, after all, you've already signed a two-year contract for "unlimited" talk at $100/month. Why would they want to upset that gravy train? It's not like any of the other carriers can use it...
Looks like the original release was a free download, but it's been a paid-for-product after that.