When AOL bought out Nullsoft, I was sure he would leave. When they took down the gnutella stuff, I was sure he would leave. When they stopped the aimster stuff, I was sure he would leave.
I didn't really have him pegged as a corporate kinda guy from the start. I am really suprised that he could take it this long before he left. Corps are often to stifling to creativity.
I know there is at least one Lindows person on the MythTV list, and that he is constantly trying myth on all kinds of hardware. So I wonder how much of the media code that is used in this is taken from something like myth. It seems that they had this out rather quickly after MS got theirs in the market. If some of the code is from MythTV shouldn't they have to release the code that is developed from it?
EQ isn't too good though it pioneered a genre. Make way for Star Wars galaxies!
So after reading this article it is still just that easy to think that Online RPGs are a good idea? ALL Online RPGs are like this. The plan is to just tack more crap on so that you keep playing. It is the final piece for RPGs. Before they had to make sequels to get your money, now they throw out a couple days work of new quests and call it an expansion. If people complete it too fast degrade the weapons or add in more worthless monsters for them to have to wade through. Pay for electricity for the servers and bandwidth, walk away and cash the checks. Repeat as needed. No more development spent on plots, graphics, game engines, characters, voice acting, design. It is a lot cheaper and more profitable this way. Everytime this do this and everytime people buy it thinking that this will be the time they don't follow this plan. WAKE UP!!!
However you look at it, though, it just boils down to control. These execs are pissed that the public actually has a modicum of control over how and when they view their television, and the lack of their precise control is what they're truly pissed about.
That is truely it. In a non-pvr world channels can put garbage shows between and after decent shows to get people to watch them, but in a PVR world it doesn't matter what is on around the show you like. Add in that you don't HAVE to watch the commericals that they have and that you can watch a 30 min. show in about 20 min. and they start to realize that they are lossing watchers and advertisers. Watchers because they don't have to sit and wait for a show while watching another and advertisers because they are realizing that people aren't watching the crap they are making.
If you wanted to leave a machine there all the time then I suggest MusicStorm. I have an old desktop style compaq slid in between my reciever and tape deck, which I can send mp3s to, view the queue and ssh into if need be. Everyone running linux can send whatever they want to it to play. I don't have a Windows way to send mp3s to it yet, but if anyone is interested in making one feel free to contact me.
you could make something similar, which streams over the internet to your stereo with MusicStorm . I mean it is a computer sitting there, but it does a lot of the same sort of stuff.
ESR wrote it in python and requires that you have python > 2. There has been talk on the LKML that this was done to force distros to pickup the newer version of python. Alan Cox is backing another group of people that are working to write it in C and he is also talking of keeping the CML1 code alive as well.
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When AOL bought out Nullsoft, I was sure he would leave. When they took down the gnutella stuff, I was sure he would leave. When they stopped the aimster stuff, I was sure he would leave.
I didn't really have him pegged as a corporate kinda guy from the start. I am really suprised that he could take it this long before he left. Corps are often to stifling to creativity.
I know there is at least one Lindows person on the MythTV list, and that he is constantly trying myth on all kinds of hardware. So I wonder how much of the media code that is used in this is taken from something like myth. It seems that they had this out rather quickly after MS got theirs in the market. If some of the code is from MythTV shouldn't they have to release the code that is developed from it?
Development is currently in the works for mythtv to do this. Hopefully 0.8 release will have this in it. Isaac and crew are working on it.
So after reading this article it is still just that easy to think that Online RPGs are a good idea? ALL Online RPGs are like this. The plan is to just tack more crap on so that you keep playing. It is the final piece for RPGs. Before they had to make sequels to get your money, now they throw out a couple days work of new quests and call it an expansion. If people complete it too fast degrade the weapons or add in more worthless monsters for them to have to wade through. Pay for electricity for the servers and bandwidth, walk away and cash the checks. Repeat as needed. No more development spent on plots, graphics, game engines, characters, voice acting, design. It is a lot cheaper and more profitable this way. Everytime this do this and everytime people buy it thinking that this will be the time they don't follow this plan. WAKE UP!!!
That is truely it. In a non-pvr world channels can put garbage shows between and after decent shows to get people to watch them, but in a PVR world it doesn't matter what is on around the show you like. Add in that you don't HAVE to watch the commericals that they have and that you can watch a 30 min. show in about 20 min. and they start to realize that they are lossing watchers and advertisers. Watchers because they don't have to sit and wait for a show while watching another and advertisers because they are realizing that people aren't watching the crap they are making.
If you wanted to leave a machine there all the time then I suggest MusicStorm. I have an old desktop style compaq slid in between my reciever and tape deck, which I can send mp3s to, view the queue and ssh into if need be. Everyone running linux can send whatever they want to it to play. I don't have a Windows way to send mp3s to it yet, but if anyone is interested in making one feel free to contact me.
you could make something similar, which streams over the internet to your stereo with MusicStorm . I mean it is a computer sitting there, but it does a lot of the same sort of stuff.
ESR wrote it in python and requires that you have python > 2. There has been talk on the LKML that this was done to force distros to pickup the newer version of python. Alan Cox is backing another group of people that are working to write it in C and he is also talking of keeping the CML1 code alive as well.