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Sounds good, but if everyone started using this new system and not X, sooner or later no application would support X and there goes the remote display, no?
> The important thing is that, for the $9 I paid for my ticket
Gezz, I hope it was good, but for some reason everytime I read about movies on slashdot people always say they paid more and more for their ticket to watch a movie. I must live in the only place where the price of tickets don't get inflated 50% per month. I paid $3.75 for my ticket on a digital showing as well.
I was looking for something like this. What I'm wondering is what happens if you get the Linux only zapstation and you manage to screw it up? Is it possible to just put a cd of your favorite distro and install everything on it? Or do they give you a cd that will reset itself with their linux distro on it or what? I'd hate to spend this amount of money and loss it all when I messed up trying to boot a new kernel. Does anyone have a link to more information on this device?
I can understand why Intel would do it. Intel as well as other companies are tiered of getting bullied by Microsoft. You can read documents where Microsoft stoped entire projects that Intel was doing because they threatened to move Windows to a different architecture. If Microsoft one day had less of a market share, and people where running many different operating system, Intel would have more freedom, and so would everyone else.
I've just purchased it, but what they could have possibly done instead of charging us for it is offer it to other companies such as Apple. Goto Apple and say that we have a easy way to expand your quicktime viewer to Linux. Offer Apple a fair price and now you can download quicktime for Linux from Apples page using crossover. I guess they could still do that;) You don't have to stop at Apple, then goto macromedia...
Of course this isn't as good as native support, just my thoughts.
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Sounds good, but if everyone started using this new system and not X, sooner or later no application would support X and there goes the remote display, no?
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> The important thing is that, for the $9 I paid for my ticket
Gezz, I hope it was good, but for some reason everytime I read about movies on slashdot people always say they paid more and more for their ticket to watch a movie. I must live in the only place where the price of tickets don't get inflated 50% per month. I paid $3.75 for my ticket on a digital showing as well.
I was looking for something like this. What I'm wondering is what happens if you get the Linux only zapstation and you manage to screw it up? Is it possible to just put a cd of your favorite distro and install everything on it? Or do they give you a cd that will reset itself with their linux distro on it or what? I'd hate to spend this amount of money and loss it all when I messed up trying to boot a new kernel. Does anyone have a link to more information on this device?
I can understand why Intel would do it. Intel as well as other companies are tiered of getting bullied by Microsoft. You can read documents where Microsoft stoped entire projects that Intel was doing because they threatened to move Windows to a different architecture. If Microsoft one day had less of a market share, and people where running many different operating system, Intel would have more freedom, and so would everyone else.
I've just purchased it, but what they could have possibly done instead of charging us for it is offer it to other companies such as Apple. Goto Apple and say that we have a easy way to expand your quicktime viewer to Linux. Offer Apple a fair price and now you can download quicktime for Linux from Apples page using crossover. I guess they could still do that ;) You don't have to stop at Apple, then goto macromedia...
Of course this isn't as good as native support, just my thoughts.
Russell Valentine