History VIA has no real history, as they are less then a year old.
??? or maybe this review is old?
Also, on an unrelated topic, has anyone had problems with via, amd, and the aureal sound chipset under linux? I was hoping they would mention something about it.
"If the Republicans have any sense, they'll be making an issue of this in the next elections, painting the Democrats as hypocrites who have sold out to Hollywood, and who are trying to reach, Big Brother-like, into the hearts of American televisions and computers...
But we all know that's true for both parties. No, if the Republicans have any sense, they will ask Hollywood for more money to keep them quiet. If not, Hollywood will give them more money anyway, and just tell them to shut-up-or-else.
You know, its not all about you. The government isn't there to pander to your wishes, they are there to make as much money as they can and have a good time at your expense.
what? you only just realised that our entire economy is made up of things that are mass produced extremly cheaply, and sold for a massive profit. its just like DVDs and CDs, they cost next to nothing to produce, but the industry seems to think that the crap that they call content is actually worth all that money.
I.. Just... want to be loved..:( booo hooo hooo hooooo. Can you invent anything for that? oh yeah, lovegety or whatever its called. Its kinda corny though. like dating, dating services, jocks and those cute little teddy-bears.
Maybe if they added some kind of tracking system so you could home in in your match, and then kinda bump into them because you are both staring at your screens. Just like in all the films. sigh.
Also, it could utilize the wireless network to create some kind of P2P love-network, where you can find your match on the other side of the city, and then use the other nodes to find each-other. (and download a few pirate mp3s on the way):)
Sorry i just can't help it.. mod me down if you must but MOZILLA MOZILLA ALL HAIL THE GOD THAT IS MOZILLA!!!!!!!
Nostrodamus predicted that in the year of 2 and 2, the great beast would become one with man.
I bow to you oh lord Mozilla. Hear our words as we beg your justness. Please rule us in this time. Protect us Mozilla, from IE bugs and Spyware. Render our pages and we shalt not sin. We will live by the laws of the W3C. We will use SVG above Flash. We will write and validate our code. We shalt not lower ourselves to VBScript.
How long before the US government starts bitching about these like they bitched about the Euro-GPS system because its a "national security risk" lol. 'Oh no, a terrorist strapped it to a bomb loaded on a plane and blew it up when it reached the target...' oh god, now i'm just trolling, and trying to start a flame about the US government.. mod me down please...:(
You guys have it all wrong. Pressplay, Realone and co. were not set up to sell music. They were designed purely to burn-off the extra money that the industry has. With the recent fall in crack prices, the top execs just found they had too much money, and they wanted to get rid of it and seem like they were helping society at the same time. Thus, Pressplay was created. Just think of all the programmers, designers, accountants, lawyers, and phb's that would be out of business if these companies didn't exist. Not only that, but they are also offering a 'get into heaven' system, much like the church. Everyone knows that P2P file sharers go straight to hell (yes, even if your not downloading illigal stuff). I myself have been damned to almost 6500 infinite life sentences with the devil. If you subscribe to Realone for example, they will get you first class tickets to the best after-life gig in town.
People keep saying "hey, it costs lots of money to produce a dvd." But look, no-one asked for all the Bullshit(tm) extras you get.
Lets start with the menus. These menus are mostly made by idiots, and are possibly some of the most irritating user interfaces in the world. Ok, so they sometimes look cool, the first time. But after going backwards and forwards and seeing the same stupid transport 20 times, it can get kinda f*cking annoying. I click on something, i make a mistake, no, i don't want to see that menu, so don't start loading it. Just give me a list of the stuff on the DVD, in a plain text form. if i really want pretty colours, i will by a player that renders the text in fun and annoying ways. This way, i can actually look through a list and choose what i want in seconds, and save the producer months of work. Most DVDs have the same format - film, trailers, out-takes, music, documentaries. You don't need to re-invent the wheel with every single disk.
The next thing is the restrictions: the whole DVD format is a bloated mess of stupid protocols that serve no purpose - CSS has been cracked, why continue to encode it and pay royalties to the dicks who invented it? same goes for macrovision - I have a legitimate reason for plugging my player into my VCR: My TV is so old it doesn't have scart/composite sockets, i need to send it modulated. But can i do this? no, i just get a messy picture, so i have to plug it into my TV card instead. Why restrict people from fast forwarding? what are you trying to prove? The player decides if its gonna process these restrictions (no-fast-forward flag) anyone can design a player that ignores them. But of course, no-one can design a player that ignores them - thats not allowed. DVD is a closed format. Why did the people choose such a restrictive system? because it's the only decent digital system around, and its the only one that the studios want you to use. They invented it, they control it, they put their content on it. Its a monopoly, simple as that.
Now don't tell me that putting some out-takes and behind the scenes bits costs allot of money. If you want to interview people, make documentaries or expensive music videos, fine, just make a cheap 'lite' version of the disk with out these bits.
What gets me more than anything, is that the average person loves DVD, they have no clue about the crapness of this format. Its not like they did anything special, AFAIK they didn't even design the compression codec or the disk, and making a menu system is hardly a nobel prize.
I'm just a loony shouting in the street. I can see all you people reading this "ok... just walk away, hes obviously slightly mad.. keep going" I'm just gonna get ignored or modded down. Just like when I threatened the president and got my comment removed from/... ok, um just ignore that bit.
Ahh, screw you guys, i'm going home to watch my dvd
"Microsoft has this stigma about not getting it right until version three"
This is the same for everyone in almost all areas of design, art, and technology. The problem is, Microsoft obviously didn't get it right first time, no-one does, no matter how well you test something, you always find a problem you missed. I can't wait for the PS3, it will be the first of the 3rd gen consoles - Sony, Nintendo, and MS, and its gonna rock. I think a good idea would be to create cheap modular processing units that you can just plug in to the machine. eg. "this game is designed for 3 cpu units" etc. You would need a main cpu to hand out jobs, and the games would have to take advantage of all the modules. That way, you can upgrade, but not run the risk of just turning the whole thing into a PC. (maybe that's what they were talking about in the article?)
Will the copy protection system be closed source? of course it will. So no-one that the government/studios don't like will be able to use it. In a way this is good, because sooner or later, the people will just boycott the big corporations that use these systems.
anyway, guys, its been nice knowing you, i know you gave us all your bad culture and most of the time we hate you. But i feel sorry for you because it this law happens, you wont have any rights anymore and the rest of the world will just laugh at the way capitalism destroyed itself...
not just one viewing at a time, they can charge for pausing, fastforwarding the credits, watching the 'no advertising' version, watching extras, and out-takes (yes they will charge you to watch dumb actors screw up) and anything else you can think of. And whats even better than this is that they can charge pretty much whatever they like.
for once, channel 5 did something right... What would have been funnier is if we were watching the film, as the asteroid hit in real life... i would just be laughing so hard and... um.. would die.. um.. ok. i shut up now
1) Choose device, lets call it X. 2) Search for linux drivers for X. If less than 2 found, go back to 1, choose different device 3) Google: "X sucks" "X fails" "X problems" "X conflict" "X.company sucks" "X.company uses cheap labor" If anything found. go back to 1. 4) Buy device, keep all receipts.
I bought a 60GXP. I failed within 3 months. I have a seagate drive thats over 5 years old thats even been on holiday with me and its never had a problem. I noticed on news groups that many other people had problems with this (60GXP) drive as well as others in the range. It starts by making a clicking noise. A week after that it will be dead. Ok, so its not like IBM arn't honouring their warranty, but when a drive fails within a few months of normal use then something is wrong. They should have pulled all the units from sale.
In America, anyone can become a politician, or even president, over night. They only need money, or blackmail material, and then even a mentally retarded red-neck can get in (George W. Bush)
At least in England, you actually have to fake being nice for a bit.
I've read up about GLONASS - the russian GPS system. It uses the same number of satellites, and the government never restricted the accuracy. It also seems to be better than the American version in some ways. If this is already up, why are the Americans so worried? unless ofcourse they have the ability to block this system...
So after the Pentagon removed GPS's Selective Availability, the maximum GPS accuracy is typically within 10 to 20 meters. Differential GPS can reduce this to minute levels, very useful for calling in airstrikes and pinpointing installations, and so on.
The pentagon decided that maybe lives were worth saving, and a system that their citizens probably (i don't know) paid for with their tax dollars should not treat them as criminals. It was designed so they wouldn't keep bombing red cross shelters lol:)
So it's probably no surprise that the European Union's plans to build their own GPS system, the Galileo Project, met such stern resistance from the U.S.
i.e Bush pretends to like Euroupe, but when it comes to it, he'd nuke us in a second.
with Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz asking EU defence ministers not to go ahead
Paul Wolfowitz: "Um, err, so, um, we have this gps thing, and um we control it, but we don't want you to have one, because we are the un denied rulers of the world.. so um, could you like, um not make your own?"
saying it could complicate US satellite-assisted warfare and furthermore could be more easily used by anti-US military forces.
Complicate, meaning: "well sir, we we're going to bomb those euro asses with no fear of retaliation 'cause they can't pin-point our targets, but now they have their own system, so they can hit us back..."
anti-US military forces: What? you paint GPS targets over _other_ countries for years, but when someone paints it over your country, suddenly its not ok? There is a russian system already running, what about them?
The EU has has now rejected the latest message from the U.S., a State Department exhortation to forgo development.
They told Bush to go shove his GPS receiver up his ass so he could read it more clearly.
Interestingly, the latest rebuff was framed as an anti-monopoly stance, that competition in satellite navigation would be good for business.
And?
Apparently, Osama is responsible for this latest rebirth of the European space industry.
Oh, so if we're not with you we are against? just because we want some freedom, and independence, we are now all terrorists?
Perhaps more worryingly, in a related development a UK company was awarded the "Skynet 5" military communications system contract. Don't these people watch movies at all?"
I think the name was chosen as a joke.. maybe??
Oh, and we're not taking all this crap about it interfering with American GPS signals. If thats the best the government can come up with then...
How about some system that will actually allow American soldiers to aim? and something to stop them shooting at civilians, their own side, the red cross, and the british. LOL;)
"without copyright protection we will change our business models".
damn right you will you little pigs. Just like you would have to change it if you were an oil company and i invented a new type of engine that was far more effiecient, cheap and powerful than anything else, but didn't run on any of your products.
People are going to buy, or build PVRs and they are going to record stuff. Sure it maybe illigal but thats for the customers. People are going to build them, and you are damn well going to change your business model.
I was planning to learn blender. At the moment i use max (pirate copy) and i'm trying to convert to free/os software. Now i'm not sure what to do. Will someone else continue it? what other free 3d modelling software is there that lives up to blender?
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That means slashdot is liable for hosting your comment, so, not only do they have to remove your comment (they do this, they removed my comments for threatening Bush) and also they must remove the link to the article, as linking is also covered in the dmca. I wonder how long it will take them... maybe they could just ask salon to remove that bit from the article, but then they would still have to remove your comment. Now that brings new problems, because then your comment would just become a place holder saying "this comment has been removed" and my comment, as a child would make no sense.
- The DMCA, its unconstitutional, but hey, they paid us enough so what the heck..
a governmental subsidy for no apparent societal benefit
wrong, the recording industry are people too. They need money to buy their crack, and if they get down from their high then they might become dangerous - at the moment, a drugged up producer with lots of cash to spare is only going to bribe the government for one thing - a means to make more money for more drugs. Now look what happens when they start to sober-up they want more things, like the DMCA, and SSSCA, the government has to comply because they are being offered allot of money, and we all know how people like Bush like their money....
So now they have to number the next release as v0.9.9.1 to avoid hitting 1.0. What happens at this number? will the world end. Will it become closed source commercial software, all will it just go out of beta?
I predict that by the year 3000, it will have reached 0.9.9.9.9.9.9.9.9.6
Um, doesn't a communist system force you to work? An open-source project hardly knocks on your door and says "Hey, i want 4000 lines of code by next week!" If the United States has a problem recognising that Microsoft wants to monopolise, just because they are the capitalists and the open source community are the communists, and they feel that going against Microsoft would be 'anti-american' then they have some issues...
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VIA has no real history, as they are less then a year old.
??? or maybe this review is old?
Also, on an unrelated topic, has anyone had problems with via, amd, and the aureal sound chipset under linux? I was hoping they would mention something about it.
"If the Republicans have any sense, they'll be making an issue of this in the next elections, painting the Democrats as hypocrites who have sold out to Hollywood, and who are trying to reach, Big Brother-like, into the hearts of American televisions and computers...
But we all know that's true for both parties. No, if the Republicans have any sense, they will ask Hollywood for more money to keep them quiet. If not, Hollywood will give them more money anyway, and just tell them to shut-up-or-else.
You know, its not all about you. The government isn't there to pander to your wishes, they are there to make as much money as they can and have a good time at your expense.
Can anyone say 'enron'?
what? you only just realised that our entire economy is made up of things that are mass produced extremly cheaply, and sold for a massive profit. its just like DVDs and CDs, they cost next to nothing to produce, but the industry seems to think that the crap that they call content is actually worth all that money.
I.. Just... want to be loved.. :( booo hooo hooo hooooo. Can you invent anything for that? oh yeah, lovegety or whatever its called. Its kinda corny though. like dating, dating services, jocks and those cute little teddy-bears.
:)
Maybe if they added some kind of tracking system so you could home in in your match, and then kinda bump into them because you are both staring at your screens. Just like in all the films. sigh.
Also, it could utilize the wireless network to create some kind of P2P love-network, where you can find your match on the other side of the city, and then use the other nodes to find each-other. (and download a few pirate mp3s on the way)
Sorry i just can't help it.. mod me down if you must but MOZILLA MOZILLA ALL HAIL THE GOD THAT IS MOZILLA!!!!!!!
Nostrodamus predicted that in the year of 2 and 2, the great beast would become one with man.
I bow to you oh lord Mozilla.
Hear our words as we beg your justness.
Please rule us in this time.
Protect us Mozilla, from IE bugs and Spyware.
Render our pages and we shalt not sin.
We will live by the laws of the W3C.
We will use SVG above Flash.
We will write and validate our code.
We shalt not lower ourselves to VBScript.
ALL HAIL MOZILLA
How long before the US government starts bitching about these like they bitched about the Euro-GPS system because its a "national security risk" lol. :(
'Oh no, a terrorist strapped it to a bomb loaded on a plane and blew it up when it reached the target...' oh god, now i'm just trolling, and trying to start a flame about the US government.. mod me down please...
You guys have it all wrong. Pressplay, Realone and co. were not set up to sell music. They were designed purely to burn-off the extra money that the industry has. With the recent fall in crack prices, the top execs just found they had too much money, and they wanted to get rid of it and seem like they were helping society at the same time. Thus, Pressplay was created. Just think of all the programmers, designers, accountants, lawyers, and phb's that would be out of business if these companies didn't exist. Not only that, but they are also offering a 'get into heaven' system, much like the church. Everyone knows that P2P file sharers go straight to hell (yes, even if your not downloading illigal stuff). I myself have been damned to almost 6500 infinite life sentences with the devil. If you subscribe to Realone for example, they will get you first class tickets to the best after-life gig in town.
People keep saying "hey, it costs lots of money to produce a dvd." But look, no-one asked for all the Bullshit(tm) extras you get.
/. .. ok, um just ignore that bit.
Lets start with the menus. These menus are mostly made by idiots, and are possibly some of the most irritating user interfaces in the world. Ok, so they sometimes look cool, the first time. But after going backwards and forwards and seeing the same stupid transport 20 times, it can get kinda f*cking annoying. I click on something, i make a mistake, no, i don't want to see that menu, so don't start loading it. Just give me a list of the stuff on the DVD, in a plain text form. if i really want pretty colours, i will by a player that renders the text in fun and annoying ways. This way, i can actually look through a list and choose what i want in seconds, and save the producer months of work. Most DVDs have the same format - film, trailers, out-takes, music, documentaries. You don't need to re-invent the wheel with every single disk.
The next thing is the restrictions: the whole DVD format is a bloated mess of stupid protocols that serve no purpose - CSS has been cracked, why continue to encode it and pay royalties to the dicks who invented it? same goes for macrovision - I have a legitimate reason for plugging my player into my VCR: My TV is so old it doesn't have scart/composite sockets, i need to send it modulated. But can i do this? no, i just get a messy picture, so i have to plug it into my TV card instead. Why restrict people from fast forwarding? what are you trying to prove? The player decides if its gonna process these restrictions (no-fast-forward flag) anyone can design a player that ignores them. But of course, no-one can design a player that ignores them - thats not allowed. DVD is a closed format. Why did the people choose such a restrictive system? because it's the only decent digital system around, and its the only one that the studios want you to use. They invented it, they control it, they put their content on it. Its a monopoly, simple as that.
Now don't tell me that putting some out-takes and behind the scenes bits costs allot of money. If you want to interview people, make documentaries or expensive music videos, fine, just make a cheap 'lite' version of the disk with out these bits.
What gets me more than anything, is that the average person loves DVD, they have no clue about the crapness of this format. Its not like they did anything special, AFAIK they didn't even design the compression codec or the disk, and making a menu system is hardly a nobel prize.
I'm just a loony shouting in the street. I can see all you people reading this "ok... just walk away, hes obviously slightly mad.. keep going" I'm just gonna get ignored or modded down. Just like when I threatened the president and got my comment removed from
Ahh, screw you guys, i'm going home to watch my dvd
"Microsoft has this stigma about not getting it right until version three"
This is the same for everyone in almost all areas of design, art, and technology. The problem is, Microsoft obviously didn't get it right first time, no-one does, no matter how well you test something, you always find a problem you missed. I can't wait for the PS3, it will be the first of the 3rd gen consoles - Sony, Nintendo, and MS, and its gonna rock. I think a good idea would be to create cheap modular processing units that you can just plug in to the machine. eg. "this game is designed for 3 cpu units" etc. You would need a main cpu to hand out jobs, and the games would have to take advantage of all the modules. That way, you can upgrade, but not run the risk of just turning the whole thing into a PC. (maybe that's what they were talking about in the article?)
Will the copy protection system be closed source? of course it will. So no-one that the government/studios don't like will be able to use it. In a way this is good, because sooner or later, the people will just boycott the big corporations that use these systems.
anyway, guys, its been nice knowing you, i know you gave us all your bad culture and most of the time we hate you. But i feel sorry for you because it this law happens, you wont have any rights anymore and the rest of the world will just laugh at the way capitalism destroyed itself...
not just one viewing at a time, they can charge for pausing, fastforwarding the credits, watching the 'no advertising' version, watching extras, and out-takes (yes they will charge you to watch dumb actors screw up) and anything else you can think of. And whats even better than this is that they can charge pretty much whatever they like.
Yes, but have you ever seen it crash? you know you have problems when your mouse crashes..
for once, channel 5 did something right...
What would have been funnier is if we were watching the film, as the asteroid hit in real life... i would just be laughing so hard and... um.. would die.. um.. ok. i shut up now
How to buy hardware in 4 easy steps:
1) Choose device, lets call it X.
2) Search for linux drivers for X. If less than 2 found, go back to 1, choose different device
3) Google: "X sucks" "X fails" "X problems" "X conflict" "X.company sucks" "X.company uses cheap labor" If anything found. go back to 1.
4) Buy device, keep all receipts.
I bought a 60GXP. I failed within 3 months. I have a seagate drive thats over 5 years old thats even been on holiday with me and its never had a problem. I noticed on news groups that many other people had problems with this (60GXP) drive as well as others in the range. It starts by making a clicking noise. A week after that it will be dead. Ok, so its not like IBM arn't honouring their warranty, but when a drive fails within a few months of normal use then something is wrong. They should have pulled all the units from sale.
In America, anyone can become a politician, or even president, over night. They only need money, or blackmail material, and then even a mentally retarded red-neck can get in (George W. Bush)
At least in England, you actually have to fake being nice for a bit.
I've read up about GLONASS - the russian GPS system. It uses the same number of satellites, and the government never restricted the accuracy. It also seems to be better than the American version in some ways. If this is already up, why are the Americans so worried? unless ofcourse they have the ability to block this system...
So after the Pentagon removed GPS's Selective Availability, the maximum GPS accuracy is typically within 10 to 20 meters. Differential GPS can reduce this to minute levels, very useful for calling in airstrikes and pinpointing installations, and so on.
:)
The pentagon decided that maybe lives were worth saving, and a system that their citizens probably (i don't know) paid for with their tax dollars should not treat them as criminals. It was designed so they wouldn't keep bombing red cross shelters lol
So it's probably no surprise that the European Union's plans to build their own GPS system, the Galileo Project, met such stern resistance from the U.S.
i.e Bush pretends to like Euroupe, but when it comes to it, he'd nuke us in a second.
with Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz asking EU defence ministers not to go ahead
Paul Wolfowitz: "Um, err, so, um, we have this gps thing, and um we control it, but we don't want you to have one, because we are the un denied rulers of the world.. so um, could you like, um not make your own?"
saying it could complicate US satellite-assisted warfare and furthermore could be more easily used by anti-US military forces.
Complicate, meaning: "well sir, we we're going to bomb those euro asses with no fear of retaliation 'cause they can't pin-point our targets, but now they have their own system, so they can hit us back..."
anti-US military forces: What? you paint GPS targets over _other_ countries for years, but when someone paints it over your country, suddenly its not ok? There is a russian system already running, what about them?
The EU has has now rejected the latest message from the U.S., a State Department exhortation to forgo development.
They told Bush to go shove his GPS receiver up his ass so he could read it more clearly.
Interestingly, the latest rebuff was framed as an anti-monopoly stance, that competition in satellite navigation would be good for business.
And?
Apparently, Osama is responsible for this latest rebirth of the European space industry.
Oh, so if we're not with you we are against? just because we want some freedom, and independence, we are now all terrorists?
Perhaps more worryingly, in a related development a UK company was awarded the "Skynet 5" military communications system contract. Don't these people watch movies at all?"
I think the name was chosen as a joke.. maybe??
Oh, and we're not taking all this crap about it interfering with American GPS signals. If thats the best the government can come up with then...
How about some system that will actually allow American soldiers to aim? and something to stop them shooting at civilians, their own side, the red cross, and the british. LOL ;)
"without copyright protection we will change our business models".
damn right you will you little pigs. Just like you would have to change it if you were an oil company and i invented a new type of engine that was far more effiecient, cheap and powerful than anything else, but didn't run on any of your products.
People are going to buy, or build PVRs and they are going to record stuff. Sure it maybe illigal but thats for the customers. People are going to build them, and you are damn well going to change your business model.
I was planning to learn blender. At the moment i use max (pirate copy) and i'm trying to convert to free/os software. Now i'm not sure what to do. Will someone else continue it? what other free 3d modelling software is there that lives up to blender?
That means slashdot is liable for hosting your comment, so, not only do they have to remove your comment (they do this, they removed my comments for threatening Bush) and also they must remove the link to the article, as linking is also covered in the dmca. I wonder how long it will take them... maybe they could just ask salon to remove that bit from the article, but then they would still have to remove your comment. Now that brings new problems, because then your comment would just become a place holder saying "this comment has been removed" and my comment, as a child would make no sense.
- The DMCA, its unconstitutional, but hey, they paid us enough so what the heck..
a governmental subsidy for no apparent societal benefit
wrong, the recording industry are people too. They need money to buy their crack, and if they get down from their high then they might become dangerous - at the moment, a drugged up producer with lots of cash to spare is only going to bribe the government for one thing - a means to make more money for more drugs. Now look what happens when they start to sober-up they want more things, like the DMCA, and SSSCA, the government has to comply because they are being offered allot of money, and we all know how people like Bush like their money....
So now they have to number the next release as v0.9.9.1 to avoid hitting 1.0. What happens at this number? will the world end. Will it become closed source commercial software, all will it just go out of beta?
I predict that by the year 3000, it will have reached 0.9.9.9.9.9.9.9.9.6
Um, doesn't a communist system force you to work? An open-source project hardly knocks on your door and says "Hey, i want 4000 lines of code by next week!" If the United States has a problem recognising that Microsoft wants to monopolise, just because they are the capitalists and the open source community are the communists, and they feel that going against Microsoft would be 'anti-american' then they have some issues...