#3 on your list is fantastical to imagine that china has the power to stop the world from using a dvd standard. even if they somehow found it in their best economical interest to tell the world "no we wont make dvd players for you that support those standards", japanese and american companies would simply go to one of many other nations who would love for a big contract making dvd players and dvds of whatever standards we tell them too. made in taiwan, anyone?
hell i'd love to see it actually.. maybe we could start seeing made in america and canada again....
if you ever want a lesson on how well a closed and enforced controled standard survives over an open, even inferior at the time, standard, just look at the whole betamax vs vhs back in the day.
i couldn't agree more, and i have a hard time even listening to people bitch like they have the right to get everything for free, or pathetically try to hide their (C) infringment behind "try before you buy" concepts, or quoting profit margins like if their copyright infringment creates profits for the companies they're infringing off of.
the reason it pisses me off so much is these types of people, while small in number, are loud, visible, and vocal with their twisted view of fair use, and thats whats helping these companies slowly destroy our real fair use along with the flawed views of these pirates. for example, I believe i have the right to modify anything and everything i buy and pay for, but somehow the big bussinesses are able bulk my fair use rights along with criminal acts to the point where the company that makes my dvd-rw has the gall to put on their firmware upgrade page a warning about "illegal upgrades". Illegal?? No way! when i buy something, i have the right to change it and upgrade it to my heart's content, whether the be changing the program on it, painting it blue, or taking it apart and pissing inside of it.. its mine and it agrivates me beyond words to be told otherwise. Theres so many other real rights i could list here, but you get the point.
I'm sorry but it just pisses me off to no end to see my REAL rights be eaten away because these companies are able to wrap real fair use together with some pirate's twisted idea of fair use, and then push the government to make it all illeal.
i have to agree with the parent here. surely it wouldn't be overly complicated for the os to have a secondary boot-from-hibernation option where it maintains a boot image on the disk for a 'clean' boot live from whatever recent changes have been made, then the os makes a comparative descision when a user says to reboot, if there have been any changes to the system that require a full reboot, or in what would be a preferable case, the pc can simply flush the active ram, reset, then reload the ram with our previous 'clean boot' image. After which if the pc were to pick a full reboot option, at the begining of the windows session, flush the ram to disk real quick to make its updated fresh boot image.
for the parent above hazee's coment, I Don't see how in any case where booting directly could end up being faster even by a second, than copying the memory to the ram in a hibernation boot up sequence where you end up with the near same data in the ram, with far less processing involved. I understand you can throw numbers at it to make it sound like long, but please if your system is so fast to boot, post for us to ccompare the exact second count from power on to the state where everything is loaded and ready to use, then at which point, go into hibernation, then again get an exact second count to boot back into windows from being hibernated.
The first thing i would be designing for a new house for myself would be a second power grid, either as a 12 volt grid running from a battery backup in the attic/basement, or simply alternate outlets in each room that run from a generator or power inverter from the car. either way my main concern would be to have a wiring scheme in place in the event of power failure where i can still run a few lights and essentials in any room without having to power the entire house and appliances off the main grid.
exactly. considering you can get unlimited text messaging with most carriers, and the nameless one i work for makes it a point to offer it to new and existing customers repeatedly.
its the ones who still say "no we just wont use it, or we'll pay whatever 30 cents it adds to the bill" who get hit. and then they call in a few months later and say "my kid used all these text messages and my bill is $400, can i get a credit?"
ok so someone wanna tell me why a post about comming up with a way to make more games available on linux is off topic when the article is about games on linux?
or was i supposed to just piss and moan like other people about games not being available, and side step the whole "how can we fix it" angle?
yeah, i know, -1 troll, but you might as well be modding "my mother just died of cancer" posts +5 funny for all the sense it makes.
well than maybe thats the problem, like all things linux, nothing is ever quick and easy, and just maybe thats one of the biggest road blocks in wide spread adoption of linux, and of software being ported to it.
but what im saying is not just a small set of libs, but an entire development suite that is easy to use and set up and automagicly links the libs it needs to recompile unedited source code for windows so it can easily port to linux. it can be done.
think about it, if this were available to developers, and with absolutely no extra work involved they can port their games and aps to linux, who *wouldn't* do it?
it comes down to if you want a large selection of games on linux, someone is going to have to put alot of hard work into making it user friendly so that either a large population mass switches to linux, or develop tools so that developers can port the software without putting in significant man hours.
but wouldn't it be the next logical step to make a source code translator to alter win32 code to something that compiles and runs on linux? i mean, doesnt a compiler take a line of code, useless in itself to the OS, and translate it to something the OS will understand? how hard would it be to make a compiler that takes win32 code and outputs it into something linux can use... offer that compiler to the developers for free, and they'd be nuts not to release a linux version of every game they make if it was as hastle free as a few clicks.
but im sure if it was as easy as i imagine, it would have already been done.
Isn't microsoft offering a bounty for this sort of thing? Seems pretty open and shut, theres no fine print about whether the 'perp' is distributing through illegal software/media or not.... who wants to claim their $5M?
I dunno, the was a time while working in a call center and an exhausted list of options for time off i would have volunteered to contract sars. I always wondered what convergys' policy was for power vomiting blood all over your station and the person next to you.
ah who am i kidding, they'd probly still demand a doctor's note...
"I'd be shocked if Windows XP ran (acceptably) well on a P2."
well i used to run XP on my old celeron 400, and it ran pretty ok, And of course a cel400 was basically a gimped p2 at the time. it had 512mb ram and was tweaked up a bit, but it ran smoothly... of course with today's service packs and hot fixes, it would probly take a week to log in, but at the time i had no complaints.
sure but don't tell me you wouldn't run out and buy the first chip code named Sexium, and then slap a big old sticker on your case saying "Sex inside".
How about you give me a website or something where i can watch my favorite shows when i get home from work (at 4am), even if its 3 weeks or even 3 months since the show aired. let me download the show in hi def quallity, put whatever commercials you want in it (dont go overboard), give me a source to get it from at 300+k/sec, rather than the horrid 30k/sec i get off a p2p server, and give me a way to catch that eppisode i missed 3 months ago, or even watch the whole series when *I* have the time. or does the concept of flexibility and catoring to your customers' needs a bit too far outside the box?
i am a tv subscriber, i am your customer, if you dont provide me a viable means to watch what i want to watch, when i want to watch it, i will find someone who does. the only question for you is are you going to piss and moan about it, or will you join the 21st century and continue to do bussiness with me and people like me? whether you like it or not, unless your job title is "old wooden shoe maker" you are in an industry of changes, where the survival code is adapt or die off...
"In other news, michael buys car and is shocked to discover must buy gas for it continue working."
no, your analogy is a bit off, its more like "In other news, michael buys car and is shocked to discover that Ford motors took his keys and destroyed them because he installed remote starter to save himself time when using his own legaly purchaced car."
the comparison of gas to a car would be electricity to a computer (game)
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sounds pretty good actually
how did this get modded insightful?
#3 on your list is fantastical to imagine that china has the power to stop the world from using a dvd standard. even if they somehow found it in their best economical interest to tell the world "no we wont make dvd players for you that support those standards", japanese and american companies would simply go to one of many other nations who would love for a big contract making dvd players and dvds of whatever standards we tell them too. made in taiwan, anyone?
hell i'd love to see it actually.. maybe we could start seeing made in america and canada again....
if you ever want a lesson on how well a closed and enforced controled standard survives over an open, even inferior at the time, standard, just look at the whole betamax vs vhs back in the day.
i couldn't agree more, and i have a hard time even listening to people bitch like they have the right to get everything for free, or pathetically try to hide their (C) infringment behind "try before you buy" concepts, or quoting profit margins like if their copyright infringment creates profits for the companies they're infringing off of.
the reason it pisses me off so much is these types of people, while small in number, are loud, visible, and vocal with their twisted view of fair use, and thats whats helping these companies slowly destroy our real fair use along with the flawed views of these pirates. for example, I believe i have the right to modify anything and everything i buy and pay for, but somehow the big bussinesses are able bulk my fair use rights along with criminal acts to the point where the company that makes my dvd-rw has the gall to put on their firmware upgrade page a warning about "illegal upgrades". Illegal?? No way! when i buy something, i have the right to change it and upgrade it to my heart's content, whether the be changing the program on it, painting it blue, or taking it apart and pissing inside of it.. its mine and it agrivates me beyond words to be told otherwise. Theres so many other real rights i could list here, but you get the point.
I'm sorry but it just pisses me off to no end to see my REAL rights be eaten away because these companies are able to wrap real fair use together with some pirate's twisted idea of fair use, and then push the government to make it all illeal.
Is the son of an iPod an iPea?
oh god if that happened im so glad i dont work in tech suport anymore... a whole new slew of stupid answers...
tech> ok sir i need to know your ip address, we're going...
guy> huh? my iPea lives here with me. what kind of idiot are you???
i have to agree with the parent here. surely it wouldn't be overly complicated for the os to have a secondary boot-from-hibernation option where it maintains a boot image on the disk for a 'clean' boot live from whatever recent changes have been made, then the os makes a comparative descision when a user says to reboot, if there have been any changes to the system that require a full reboot, or in what would be a preferable case, the pc can simply flush the active ram, reset, then reload the ram with our previous 'clean boot' image. After which if the pc were to pick a full reboot option, at the begining of the windows session, flush the ram to disk real quick to make its updated fresh boot image.
for the parent above hazee's coment, I Don't see how in any case where booting directly could end up being faster even by a second, than copying the memory to the ram in a hibernation boot up sequence where you end up with the near same data in the ram, with far less processing involved. I understand you can throw numbers at it to make it sound like long, but please if your system is so fast to boot, post for us to ccompare the exact second count from power on to the state where everything is loaded and ready to use, then at which point, go into hibernation, then again get an exact second count to boot back into windows from being hibernated.
i dont wanna steel the show, but some of you obviously forgot to take your lithium today
The first thing i would be designing for a new house for myself would be a second power grid, either as a 12 volt grid running from a battery backup in the attic/basement, or simply alternate outlets in each room that run from a generator or power inverter from the car. either way my main concern would be to have a wiring scheme in place in the event of power failure where i can still run a few lights and essentials in any room without having to power the entire house and appliances off the main grid.
exactly. considering you can get unlimited text messaging with most carriers, and the nameless one i work for makes it a point to offer it to new and existing customers repeatedly.
its the ones who still say "no we just wont use it, or we'll pay whatever 30 cents it adds to the bill" who get hit. and then they call in a few months later and say "my kid used all these text messages and my bill is $400, can i get a credit?"
ok so someone wanna tell me why a post about comming up with a way to make more games available on linux is off topic when the article is about games on linux?
or was i supposed to just piss and moan like other people about games not being available, and side step the whole "how can we fix it" angle?
yeah, i know, -1 troll, but you might as well be modding "my mother just died of cancer" posts +5 funny for all the sense it makes.
well than maybe thats the problem, like all things linux, nothing is ever quick and easy, and just maybe thats one of the biggest road blocks in wide spread adoption of linux, and of software being ported to it.
but what im saying is not just a small set of libs, but an entire development suite that is easy to use and set up and automagicly links the libs it needs to recompile unedited source code for windows so it can easily port to linux. it can be done.
think about it, if this were available to developers, and with absolutely no extra work involved they can port their games and aps to linux, who *wouldn't* do it?
it comes down to if you want a large selection of games on linux, someone is going to have to put alot of hard work into making it user friendly so that either a large population mass switches to linux, or develop tools so that developers can port the software without putting in significant man hours.
kinda like mac gaming...
theres lots of great games for the mac... warcraft 3... zork.. break out... super breakout... photoshop...
but wouldn't it be the next logical step to make a source code translator to alter win32 code to something that compiles and runs on linux? i mean, doesnt a compiler take a line of code, useless in itself to the OS, and translate it to something the OS will understand? how hard would it be to make a compiler that takes win32 code and outputs it into something linux can use... offer that compiler to the developers for free, and they'd be nuts not to release a linux version of every game they make if it was as hastle free as a few clicks.
but im sure if it was as easy as i imagine, it would have already been done.
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you gotta respect an rpg game where the game starts even before you download it. so how do i get past this first boss?
Isn't microsoft offering a bounty for this sort of thing? Seems pretty open and shut, theres no fine print about whether the 'perp' is distributing through illegal software/media or not.... who wants to claim their $5M?
hehe i agree, i can just imagine my tombstone reading "R.I.P -1 troll"
I dunno, the was a time while working in a call center and an exhausted list of options for time off i would have volunteered to contract sars. I always wondered what convergys' policy was for power vomiting blood all over your station and the person next to you.
ah who am i kidding, they'd probly still demand a doctor's note...
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"I'd be shocked if Windows XP ran (acceptably) well on a P2."
well i used to run XP on my old celeron 400, and it ran pretty ok, And of course a cel400 was basically a gimped p2 at the time. it had 512mb ram and was tweaked up a bit, but it ran smoothly... of course with today's service packs and hot fixes, it would probly take a week to log in, but at the time i had no complaints.
sure but don't tell me you wouldn't run out and buy the first chip code named Sexium, and then slap a big old sticker on your case saying "Sex inside".
How about you give me a website or something where i can watch my favorite shows when i get home from work (at 4am), even if its 3 weeks or even 3 months since the show aired. let me download the show in hi def quallity, put whatever commercials you want in it (dont go overboard), give me a source to get it from at 300+k/sec, rather than the horrid 30k/sec i get off a p2p server, and give me a way to catch that eppisode i missed 3 months ago, or even watch the whole series when *I* have the time. or does the concept of flexibility and catoring to your customers' needs a bit too far outside the box?
i am a tv subscriber, i am your customer, if you dont provide me a viable means to watch what i want to watch, when i want to watch it, i will find someone who does. the only question for you is are you going to piss and moan about it, or will you join the 21st century and continue to do bussiness with me and people like me? whether you like it or not, unless your job title is "old wooden shoe maker" you are in an industry of changes, where the survival code is adapt or die off...
I am a couch potato, and this is my manifesto...
Didn't lexmark make this same claim about their printers if you used generic ink refills?
If you want the non exploding phone attachment from sprint, its only $5/month with a 2 year agreement, and its free for the first 2 months.
"In other news, michael buys car and is shocked to discover must buy gas for it continue working."
no, your analogy is a bit off, its more like "In other news, michael buys car and is shocked to discover that Ford motors took his keys and destroyed them because he installed remote starter to save himself time when using his own legaly purchaced car."
the comparison of gas to a car would be electricity to a computer (game)
you're right, im sorry, i dont know what i was thinking
...and the other cop could say "didn't you ever take Trig in high school?". Believable and real.
a cop making it to highschool and knowing trig? thats your version of believable and real?