This has to be the funniest SCO story I have ever heard. It honestly has reduced me to hysterics this time... I really didnt think this whole affair could get more farcical. OMG , it would make a marvelous Broadway play, someone please write it! woo hoo!
While I applaud motorolla for choosing linux and qtopia, and would love to see it succeed in the marketplace, alongside symbian. Creating a mobile phone that looks like a toilet seat/lid is not going to do anyone any favours.
Choosing linux is a step in the right direction for motorolla, I found their older phones interfaces somewhat cumbersome, although I quite liked my little clamshell one with a red backlight!. Motorolla need to produce some nice looking phones as well as putting a nice OS on them. Phones are as much fashion accessories for most people, as they are techie toys to us geeks.
N gage has 3.4mb of internal memory according to different sources , see specs on expansys for example, MMC cards are available in the same capacities.
http://www.msn.com.sg/mobile/ngage1/Default.asp? MS ID=70bfa28341314d3b9264bcf2e35d5634 http://www.n- gage-games.com/
From what you are saying, that memory is the discerning factor in wether or not these games run, my research suggests that memory is not an issue in terms of running the game, you might need a larger backing store (MMC card) but aside from that they seem pretty similar in spec.
IMHO people have already experienced the insecurites , trojans, worms and so forth.
Busnesses have already been damaged and plagued by frequent attacks, and so they start switching. The momentum of linux adoption is quickenning pace all the time. Linux is the buzzword now and there isnt a lot microsoft can do about it.
Generally when people have had a bad time with something, they dont forget, and when they find something that works and does it well, then they stay with it, and more often than not it becomes gospel.
RPMs Suck to high heaven, heavens above if we are going to do something we should at least do it well. I've never tried debian but im fairly sure that debians apt-get is a much better solution. As is Gentoo's emerge / portage tree.
I sent an email re: open source blah blah, I got this rather sexual reply, certainly I find the prospect quite exciting.
Hi Nick, a few things:
We have written our own audio/midi applications (user interfaces and engines) and will release (with full sources) most of them under the GNU GPL license because we believe in the superiority of open source development model and involvement of the community.
We are using existing opensource linux audio applications too. And to some we made improvements and fixes to accomodate them in a professional keyboard enviroment like the Mediastation.
Of course we contribute back these the source changes to the community. Open source and community involvement is what will distinguish the Mediastation from traditional Keyboards.
This does not mean that the Mediastation forces you to become a developer or to have to fiddle around with complex interfaces or cryptic key sequences.
The Mediastation is designed to be a fully portable studio with keyboard and sound unit, midi/mp3/wav/ogg players, arranger/style player, multi track audio/midi sequencer, soft sythesizer and sampler.
The usage will be as userfriendly as possible.
To the average musician it will just look like a very powerful keyboard/studio workstation, but advanced users and developers will be able to tweak every aspect of the Mediastation.
Third party developers will be able to write their own, fully integrated modules which they sell or give away.
We do not place any restrictions to people wanting to develop for the Mediastation. No nasty NDAs or developers contracts. Just download the source code and SDKs and start developing.
The software will evolve over time and users will be able to
update and add new applications in the Mediastation by simply connecting the Keyboard to the Internet and pressing the update button.
No rocketscience-engineer required.
The Mediastation is designed by musicians that are live keyboards players and studio engineers with decades of experience and exactly know what a good keyboard workstation/ portable studio needs and how the user interfaces must be designed in order of being easy to use for the average musician that has no particular computer knowledge.
The Mediastation is not on sale yet but you will be able to touch with hands a prerelease at this Winter NAMM release in January.
Feel free to post here on the forum if you have additional questions or need more infos about the Mediastation.
Watch out this space frequently for cutting edge news.
"and the fact that even electronic musicians are not highly technically savvy"
Actually not neccesarily so. You will find there is a correlation between programmers and musicians,most of the techies I know have some sort of musical ability, and vice versa.
Apparently the act of composing / creating music, uses the same part of the brain we use for coding. It has to do with pattern matching abilities and so forth.
I for one would be much less likely to desire a shiny new powerbook, if I could use linux for my music needs. So I welcome this effort wholeheartedly.
IMHO, most linux users are pro Open Source, and the GPL, This is the fundamental problem. No Linux users are genuinely going to beleive the FUD that comes from Utah.
Lets say you work in a department and you use a considerable percentage of your machines are Linux, what are you and your fellow hackers going to say when mr PHB comes down from head office and asks you about the SCO thing ?
Hopefully you'll convince him that SCO are talking out of there ass. So there inherently lies the problem, most organisations are not going to change. I havent yet heard of anyone who's actually bowed down to SCO.
These absurd threats and forays they are making must surely be reaching a climax. I dont think there can be any doubt now that Microsoft are behind this. SCO are nothing but a pawn in Redmonds little game. One way or the other the results of this court case are going to forge the future business strategy of Redmond. One thing is for sure though, SCO are going down and the world will be a better place without them.
Redmond dont want to destroy Linux, they want it, the problem is it just doesnt fit with their proprietary business model. If only they could find a way to make Linux a proprietary system by invalidating the GPL. That is the real reason behind it.
My real fear is that when SCO finally does go down, who's going to get to pick up the peices ? i.e. the Unix rights?
Surely the moral is dont waste your money on cheap CD's, stick to a good brand!
I find verbatim to be a good one, very reliable on faster burn speeds too. I once bought a spindle of cheapo cdr's that were so crap that the foil had no laminate covering it. you could literally rub it of with your finger.
I am a lot more careful what media I buy now because it makes sense to spend a little extra than lose money burning coasters.
I havent used Windows on the desktop for any great length of time since win98... But the more Im using the latest KDE Im finding that it surpasses anything I've ever used before, i dont know what all this crap about Linux not being ready for the desktop is all about... Personally I find it quite wonderfull.
I wish I had mod points to mod you up you make some very valid points.
Although, I cant leave America because I dont live there. But the very thought of google being taken over by a big coporation such as redmond are unthinkable. I would have to quit the industry completely as I am not prepared to work in that kind of climate. Search results should never be biased as would happen if this were to occur. I dont think people in the right places realise just how important this is.
However... It does highlight the point, that should such a thing happen, do we have an alternative? If not, then the community as a whole should have a back-up plan.
The internet is the last bastion of freedom in this f**cked up world, and we should fight to keep it.
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in other words SCO are fucked
This has to be the funniest SCO story I have ever heard. It honestly has reduced me to hysterics this time... I really didnt think this whole affair could get more farcical. OMG , it would make a marvelous Broadway play, someone please write it!
woo hoo!
No way, this is such a god damn slanging match!
Their Law (feat. Microsoft)
My names Bill and you can't beat my law...
Fuck them and their laws...
"What we're dealing with here is a total lack of respect for the Microsoft."
Fuck the law, but you can't beat the law.
Fuck 'em, and their source.
Halt! Halt! Crack down on open source.
Fuck the law, but you can't beat the law
lets Fuck 'em, and their source.
Crack down on open source.
Fuck the law, but you can't beat the law
Fuck 'em, and their law.
Halt! Crack down on open source.
Halt!
Fuck the law,
but you can't beat the law (x7)
Fuck 'em, and their code.
While I applaud motorolla for choosing linux and qtopia, and would love to see it succeed in the marketplace, alongside symbian. Creating a mobile phone that looks like a toilet seat/lid is not going to do anyone any favours.
Choosing linux is a step in the right direction for motorolla, I found their older phones interfaces somewhat cumbersome, although I quite liked my little clamshell one with a red backlight!. Motorolla need to produce some nice looking phones as well as putting a nice OS on them. Phones are as much fashion accessories for most people, as they are techie toys to us geeks.
nick
N gage has 3.4mb of internal memory according to different sources , see specs on expansys for example, MMC cards are available in the same capacities.
? MS ID=70bfa28341314d3b9264bcf2e35d5634- gage-games.com/
...
http://www.msn.com.sg/mobile/ngage1/Default.asp
http://www.n
From what you are saying, that memory is the discerning factor in wether or not these games run, my research suggests that memory is not an issue in terms of running the game, you might need a larger backing store (MMC card) but aside from that they seem pretty similar in spec.
I wish i had a 3650 to try it out.
nick
Its too late now either way, the damage is done.
...
IMHO people have already experienced the insecurites , trojans, worms and so forth.
Busnesses have already been damaged and plagued by frequent attacks, and so they start switching. The momentum of linux adoption is quickenning pace all the time. Linux is the buzzword now and there isnt a lot microsoft can do about it.
Generally when people have had a bad time with something, they dont forget, and when they find something that works and does it well, then they stay with it, and more often than not it becomes gospel.
Linux is like life.... life finds a way.
nick
doesnt surprise me, the latest roms are all over ;)
suprnova.org already
nick
RPMs Suck to high heaven, heavens above if we are going to do something we should at least do it well. I've never tried debian but im fairly sure that debians apt-get is a much better solution. As is Gentoo's emerge / portage tree.
I sent an email re: open source blah blah,
I got this rather sexual reply, certainly I find the prospect quite exciting.
Hi Nick, a few things:
We have written our own audio/midi applications (user interfaces and engines) and will release (with full sources) most of them under the GNU GPL license because we believe in the superiority of open source development model and involvement of the community.
We are using existing opensource linux audio applications too. And to some we made improvements and fixes to accomodate them in a professional keyboard enviroment like the Mediastation.
Of course we contribute back these the source changes to the community. Open source and community involvement is what will distinguish the Mediastation from traditional Keyboards.
This does not mean that the Mediastation forces you to become a developer or to have to fiddle around with complex interfaces or cryptic key sequences.
The Mediastation is designed to be a fully portable studio with keyboard and sound unit, midi/mp3/wav/ogg players, arranger/style player, multi track audio/midi sequencer, soft sythesizer and sampler.
The usage will be as userfriendly as possible.
To the average musician it will just look like a very powerful keyboard/studio workstation, but advanced users and developers will be able to tweak every aspect of the Mediastation.
Third party developers will be able to write their own, fully integrated modules which they sell or give away.
We do not place any restrictions to people wanting to develop for the Mediastation. No nasty NDAs or developers contracts. Just download the source code and SDKs and start developing.
The software will evolve over time and users will be able to
update and add new applications in the Mediastation by simply connecting the Keyboard to the Internet and pressing the update button.
No rocketscience-engineer required.
The Mediastation is designed by musicians that are live keyboards players and studio engineers with decades of experience and exactly know what a good keyboard workstation/ portable studio needs and how the user interfaces must be designed in order of being easy to use for the average musician that has no particular computer knowledge.
The Mediastation is not on sale yet but you will be able to touch with hands a prerelease at this Winter NAMM release in January.
Feel free to post here on the forum if you have additional questions or need more infos about the Mediastation.
Watch out this space frequently for cutting edge news.
cheers,
Benno
"and the fact that even electronic musicians are not highly technically savvy"
,most of the techies I know have some sort of musical ability, and vice versa.
Actually not neccesarily so. You will find there is a correlation between programmers and musicians
Apparently the act of composing / creating music, uses the same part of the brain we use for coding. It has to do with pattern matching abilities and so forth.
I for one would be much less likely to desire a shiny new powerbook, if I could use linux for my music needs. So I welcome this effort wholeheartedly.
Their current model is called OpenSynth NEKO. The NEKO is running Microsoft Windows XP Professional.
Well it can't be very open then , can it if its running XP!
so where can i download the source code?
I think its absolutely hilarious that its taken microsoft so long to do this. It just shows what a forward thinking and innovative company they are.
I really am surprised that IE hasnt got this facility already.
Anyhow, doesnt windows have the equivalent of a hosts file ? I stick all the offending domains in there and point em to localhost.
hey ! Didnt anyone tell you ? phone size is inversely proportional to cock size. You much have a really huge dong
Is that some sort of Joke ?
I think linus should push for an Algol 58 port for the linux kernel. I mean we can't be outdone by the big boys at redmond.
I couldnt resist
An excellent point,
..
why not email them ?
developer@xgitech.com
other contact details here.
XGI Contact Details
I just popped an email off! Anyone else care to join the vigil?
nick
IMHO, most linux users are pro Open Source, and the GPL, This is the fundamental problem. No Linux users are genuinely going to beleive the FUD that comes from Utah.
...
Lets say you work in a department and you use a considerable percentage of your machines are Linux, what are you and your fellow hackers going to say when mr PHB comes down from head office and asks you about the SCO thing ?
Hopefully you'll convince him that SCO are talking out of there ass. So there inherently lies the problem, most organisations are not going to change. I havent yet heard of anyone who's actually bowed down to SCO.
These absurd threats and forays they are making must surely be reaching a climax. I dont think there can be any doubt now that Microsoft are behind this. SCO are nothing but a pawn in Redmonds little game. One way or the other the results of this court case are going to forge the future business strategy of Redmond. One thing is for sure though, SCO are going down and the world will be a better place without them.
Redmond dont want to destroy Linux, they want it, the problem is it just doesnt fit with their proprietary business model. If only they could find a way to make Linux a proprietary system by invalidating the GPL. That is the real reason behind it.
My real fear is that when SCO finally does go down, who's going to get to pick up the peices ? i.e. the Unix rights?
nick
They'd have to pay me a substantial amount of cash to stop using Linux. However If they want to pay me to stop using windows i'll do it for 1pence !
Surely the moral is dont waste your money on cheap CD's, stick to a good brand!
I find verbatim to be a good one, very reliable on faster burn speeds too. I once bought a spindle of cheapo cdr's that were so crap that the foil had no laminate covering it. you could literally rub it of with your finger.
I am a lot more careful what media I buy now because it makes sense to spend a little extra than lose money burning coasters.
No-one uses VBscript, or Activex, and no-ones going to use Microsoft's Sparkle thing... Why ?
Same reason the others failed, not cross platform. Flash, with all its good, or bad points is at least , to some extent crossplatform.
Microsoft will probably take SVG, screw with the standard and pass it off as their own, as usual.
For a moment then I thought Cougar was the next incarnation of OSX
I havent used Windows on the desktop for any great length of time since
...
win98...
But the more Im using the latest KDE Im finding that it surpasses anything
I've ever used before, i dont know what all this crap about Linux not being
ready for the desktop is all about... Personally I find it quite wonderfull.
nick
I wish I had mod points to mod you up you make some very valid points.
... It does highlight the point, that should such a thing happen, do we have an alternative? If not, then the community as a whole should have a back-up plan.
Although, I cant leave America because I dont live there. But the very thought of google being taken over by a big coporation such as redmond are unthinkable. I would have to quit the industry completely as I am not prepared to work in that kind of climate. Search results should never be biased as would happen if this were to occur. I dont think people in the right places realise just how important this is.
However
The internet is the last bastion of freedom in this f**cked up world, and we should fight to keep it.