Stallman goes to China? There will happen good amount of talk about politics and software between RMS and Chinese government officials... but can Stallman tolerate his definition of freedom is different from Chinese one?
Task bar, start menu, etc. etc. And Windows 2000 supports translucent windows. In Windows, you can use Control Panel. But in Linux, GUI OS configuration panel crashes often. When will Linux stop chasing after Windows and implement something totally new for its desktop or overall OS design which MS wants to adapt like TCP/IP in BSD? After Windows 2000, only security is what MS wanted from outside, and it's successfully taking in Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003. But how about Linux camp? Do they still have something attractive for Windows camp?
Looking Longhorn, I wonder what Linux developers are thinking. They have no uber control power like Microsoft HQ, therefore it's hard for them to make some grand design framework like WinFX/Avalon etc. at once. Though Linus predicts it as 5 - 10 years, I think until some driving force like UserLinux takes off as strong entity Linux desktop will never take off.
but hey, Kate Rose sucks too obviously, and the cityscapes look like those from 50's Sci-Fi. All designs are very old, destroying near-future images of Evangelion anime. Weta, you should replace your concept designer with one who can handle cell phone.
for soldiers to play games of guns and fire even in family talk where there supposed to be escape from tough environment, like killing each other with friends and families. Playing with families with Nitendo game made for families, that's nice, but Xbox? It's too harsh for soldiers.
not in the traditional retailing, but in reservation. Huge number of interested customers reserved it on internet well before its release, and quietly received it on the release, withtout making rows in front of shops. Apparently SONY (not SCE) learned from PS2 launch. SONY doesn't need hype, unlike SCE. PSX has very reasonable price compared to other DVD recorders, and if you are not gamer it's good shopping and you have gaming feature just as unexpected bonus. It's opposite to PS2, with which DVD playback was bonus. Moreover, easy navigation with Emotion Engine / Graphics Synthesizer gives PSX good advantage to other consumer products.
If your use of those media are storage only, it's allright with Chinese makers, but you will never see LOTR come out on such media without cooperation with copyright owners, and media player manufacturers can't sell their hardware with no software around (as you see in game consoles).
The Channel Tunnel: UK - continental Europe, built in 1994, 37.5 kilometer submarine The Seikan Tunnel: Japan, Hokkaido - Honshu, built in 1988, 23.3 kilometer submarine
Part of this story is bogus. The official spec of PSX is lowered to make it ship at scheduled date as the in-house validation to the first-announced spec takes certain amount of time, but the hardware is not changed. At least Japanese media reports so. Those dropped capabilities are offered later as free firmware upgrade via internet.
Lindows was virtually dead since it abandoned its original goal to support Windows binaries via WINE, and its current incarnation with the same name is just another average Linux distribution with stupid marketing name, minus enterprise support. This type of desktop Linux business is already doomed.
If they shoose to stick desktop market they should rather move to Lacintosh OS, something that combines powers of Linux and Darwin.
"Still in the experimental stage, it was developed as a way to help people who cannot go to a library, said Akihisa Oya, an assistant professor at the University of Tsukuba."
"Still in the experimental stage, it was developed as a way to help people who cannot go to a library, said Akihisa Oya, an assistant professor at the University of Tsukuba."
Winny was developped by the Japanese developper called "47", and it was after WinMX user was arrested here in Japan, in 2001. It was the world-first arrest of P2P users. Japanese copyright law was amended in the years before to crack down infringement over internet, protecting "right of enabling sending copyrighted material". Since then, among Japanese users and hackers, non-encrypted P2P which is still popular in the West today became things of past.
Since Freenet made of Java was very slow application then (not much improved today), he made Winny as native Windows P2P application, with encrypted storage distrubited across peers. According to the developper, Winny is good at the both anonymity and efficiency, but anonymity is slightly lower than Freenet. Because a receiver can't determine a sender is the one who originally inserted the file to the network or not, it was considered anonymous and then more secure than ordinary P2P network, say, Gnutella or eDonkey etc. Winny has other functions like forum system, and clustering by keywords combination set by its users which help users with similar interest mold cluster. Other remarkable difference from Freenet is it dosn't split files, but can do multiple-source download.
With the help of community and its own efficiency as P2P network, Winny become extremely populor in Japan unlike experimental Freenet in the West and consumed huge bandwidth.
But those who were arrested the last month was arrested because they sent files directly, without being a bridge, or put some warez onto web page and running Winny beside it. Therefore it is still not clear whether just running Winny and sending cached files without modest deliberation means guilty or not.
Don't you know those machines attacking WWW servers are not dedicated servers, but client machines? (i.e. Windows PCs) Surely attacker has the largest install base and Linux users can't open Outlook-targeted scripts.
Google may go IE-exclusive, but it's chance for other search services, considering current situation of search engine services. Google is too long on its throne, and it is not so different from MS dominant desktop market, which is unusual. It's good time for alternative to rise up, though the patent on Google may prevent it somehow.
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Stallman goes to China? There will happen good amount of talk about politics and software between RMS and Chinese government officials... but can Stallman tolerate his definition of freedom is different from Chinese one?
Task bar, start menu, etc. etc. And Windows 2000 supports translucent windows. In Windows, you can use Control Panel. But in Linux, GUI OS configuration panel crashes often. When will Linux stop chasing after Windows and implement something totally new for its desktop or overall OS design which MS wants to adapt like TCP/IP in BSD? After Windows 2000, only security is what MS wanted from outside, and it's successfully taking in Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003. But how about Linux camp? Do they still have something attractive for Windows camp?
Looking Longhorn, I wonder what Linux developers are thinking. They have no uber control power like Microsoft HQ, therefore it's hard for them to make some grand design framework like WinFX/Avalon etc. at once. Though Linus predicts it as 5 - 10 years, I think until some driving force like UserLinux takes off as strong entity Linux desktop will never take off.
but hey, Kate Rose sucks too obviously, and the cityscapes look like those from 50's Sci-Fi. All designs are very old, destroying near-future images of Evangelion anime. Weta, you should replace your concept designer with one who can handle cell phone.
for soldiers to play games of guns and fire even in family talk where there supposed to be escape from tough environment, like killing each other with friends and families. Playing with families with Nitendo game made for families, that's nice, but Xbox? It's too harsh for soldiers.
It shifted its target from lightweight users to enterprise users. It's friggin more expensive than cheapo PDA but has not enough juice in it.
not in the traditional retailing, but in reservation. Huge number of interested customers reserved it on internet well before its release, and quietly received it on the release, withtout making rows in front of shops. Apparently SONY (not SCE) learned from PS2 launch. SONY doesn't need hype, unlike SCE.
PSX has very reasonable price compared to other DVD recorders, and if you are not gamer it's good shopping and you have gaming feature just as unexpected bonus. It's opposite to PS2, with which DVD playback was bonus. Moreover, easy navigation with Emotion Engine / Graphics Synthesizer gives PSX good advantage to other consumer products.
/.er can't live without monthly /. dupe about never-takeoff desktop Linux!
If your use of those media are storage only, it's allright with Chinese makers, but you will never see LOTR come out on such media without cooperation with copyright owners, and media player manufacturers can't sell their hardware with no software around (as you see in game consoles).
>If I was a studio executive or a some manufacturer I'd support the Chinese.
Unless Chinese can offer good copyright protection scheme "studio executive" won't do that.
Japan also has such human-shaped mechanical automata called "Karakuri Ningyo" since 12th century.
karakuri.info
Karakuri Frontier
he must be laughing his ass off over this stupid flame war.
wow. what a heavy origami.
Here's the picture and report(Japanese).
The small picture posted in the article will be more real-size for most people.
The Channel Tunnel: UK - continental Europe, built in 1994, 37.5 kilometer submarine
The Seikan Tunnel: Japan, Hokkaido - Honshu, built in 1988, 23.3 kilometer submarine
Part of this story is bogus. The official spec of PSX is lowered to make it ship at scheduled date as the in-house validation to the first-announced spec takes certain amount of time, but the hardware is not changed. At least Japanese media reports so. Those dropped capabilities are offered later as free firmware upgrade via internet.
Lindows was virtually dead since it abandoned its original goal to support Windows binaries via WINE, and its current incarnation with the same name is just another average Linux distribution with stupid marketing name, minus enterprise support. This type of desktop Linux business is already doomed.
If they shoose to stick desktop market they should rather move to Lacintosh OS, something that combines powers of Linux and Darwin.
"Still in the experimental stage, it was developed as a way to help people who cannot go to a library, said Akihisa Oya, an assistant professor at the University of Tsukuba."
"Still in the experimental stage, it was developed as a way to help people who cannot go to a library, said Akihisa Oya, an assistant professor at the University of Tsukuba."
Yes, it's visible
Winny is really WinNY, with WinMX N is the next of M, and Y is the next of X.
Winny was developped by the Japanese developper called "47", and it was after WinMX user was arrested here in Japan, in 2001. It was the world-first arrest of P2P users. Japanese copyright law was amended in the years before to crack down infringement over internet, protecting "right of enabling sending copyrighted material".
Since then, among Japanese users and hackers, non-encrypted P2P which is still popular in the West today became things of past.
Since Freenet made of Java was very slow application then (not much improved today), he made Winny as native Windows P2P application, with encrypted storage distrubited across peers. According to the developper, Winny is good at the both anonymity and efficiency, but anonymity is slightly lower than Freenet. Because a receiver can't determine a sender is the one who originally inserted the file to the network or not, it was considered anonymous and then more secure than ordinary P2P network, say, Gnutella or eDonkey etc. Winny has other functions like forum system, and clustering by keywords combination set by its users which help users with similar interest mold cluster. Other remarkable difference from Freenet is it dosn't split files, but can do multiple-source download.
With the help of community and its own efficiency as P2P network, Winny become extremely populor in Japan unlike experimental Freenet in the West and consumed huge bandwidth.
But those who were arrested the last month was arrested because they sent files directly, without being a bridge, or put some warez onto web page and running Winny beside it. Therefore it is still not clear whether just running Winny and sending cached files without modest deliberation means guilty or not.
Don't you know those machines attacking WWW servers are not dedicated servers, but client machines? (i.e. Windows PCs) Surely attacker has the largest install base and Linux users can't open Outlook-targeted scripts.
Google may go IE-exclusive, but it's chance for other search services, considering current situation of search engine services. Google is too long on its throne, and it is not so different from MS dominant desktop market, which is unusual. It's good time for alternative to rise up, though the patent on Google may prevent it somehow.
God creates hurricane himself, not predicts it because he doesn't need to predict what he does by himself, even zealots will agree on it.
Another group has started using the term "open source" to mean something close (but not identical) to "free software". We prefer the term "free software" because, once you have heard it refers to freedom rather than price, it calls to mind freedom.