"A calibration code is what makes that part work, and that's the part that's proprietary," Territo said. "It's like the difference between an Apple microprocessor and an IBM microprocessor.
(s)he has never heard of a G5 before eh ?
yet another striking example of people not being in the no since apple has for the most part relied on others to make it's processors (i.e. motorola)
but in terms of the article i think that independant repair shops should be given some sort of book on how to reapir modern cars, and as far as intellectual property goes i don't understand why information like that would be stored in a car since if a car had to be recalibrated or whatever would who is repairing it have to know what it is from a book or CDROM not reading from the car ? This to me seems like having a pin number embedded on the stripe of a credit just asking to be read and eventually comprimised.
Sun, has done a decent job of making Java as open as possible. I think people tend to forget that the Java language specification is posted on the web without charge. The Java language specification often goes through the Java Community process so the JLS isn't completely and inbred mess. So as far as company that has one goal to make money on something Sun is being as open as they can be.
Sun's JVM is an implementation of that JLS IBM's JVM is an implementation of that same JLS BlackDown is an implementation of that same JLS... and on and on and on with the other JRocket, and even Apple With most of the implementations not offically open source this seems to mean that java itself isn't 'open'.
I think IBM wants to take Sun's VM and expand on it and be in on the ground floor so they can reap any potential earnings from the join venture. They are being as civil as a business can be by saying they want to simply help and not take it over or back-stab them, since IBM has the size and capacity to make just about anything it needs.
But pack to the open-source debacle Java can be open sourced if someone is ambitious enough. I would imagine if they didn't spend as much time badgering Sun, they might have one by now. I think Sun's apprehension of opening Java up stems from the Microsoft mess where one JVM had significantly different behavior than the Sun JVM and caused Java appear to be a defunct technology that should be avoided in leiu of ActiveX
This is my view, right or wrong I at least have one.
HEAT any kind of extended compiling is gonna make your powerbook hot so your compiling efforts may or may not be as portable as you would like since you might want to have it somewhere other than your lap.
I do Java development with eclipse on a Ti 667 Mhz 512MB and I would say response time for compiling is adequate not terribly slow but certainly not in a blink of an eye.
but back to the orginal point I had to stop coding on my couch cause it got to hot after hour of heavy coding. So otherwise I would say any of the newer powerbooks will be adequate for Java development even running servers should be OK just get more memory and what since java IDE's tend to be just as heavy as java based servers. My *old* powerbook still fits the bill for running multiple database servers, eclipse, and a debug seesion with all the other standard apps running just as well.
I have been writing a tool to address this issue, even though most DBA's will not use GUI's more than just DBA's need to interact with the database as well.
I have written an application called iSQL-Viewer The basic premisie is to take advantage of Java and JDBC. At this point there is nothing platform specific in the application and it is mainly designed with developers in mind to easily view and load data in a given database.
I have used it against Sybase, MSSQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL and it has been known to work on various other
platforms including SQLite, and Informix
</self-promotion>
I personally do not like, the typicall laptop carrying cases, and fortunately when I bought my powerbook i was happy to see the backpack at the
Apple Store
and this has been great for me to carry my powerbook on my back and have my hands free, and the back pack is deceptive in that you can store a ton of stuff in it.
Simply beat IE at it's own such companies like Dell, HP, and the other PC vendors to have mozilla,opera or whatever pre-installed such that users feel that this is part of the operating system and won't have that typical reservations that installing other web browsers will break the operating system. Opera, Mozilla, and netscape especially could leverage something out of basic PC vendors to have their software part of the package.
The average user simply wants to open their computer and have it work, kind of like Apple's approach to computing even though Safari isn't mentioned Apple users are more inclined to use Safari simply because it is there. This is why IE won the browser war; if you do indeed consider it over ?
This whole performance argument is getting really really old in my opinion. This is about as bad as the whole GTK vs QT vs visual-c++ vs Java Swing as the best windowing toolkit.
Clearly this kind of argument continues to promote zealousness amongst ourselves as developers. C# is faster than Java, Java is faster than C#, C is faster than C++ and so forth, when you realize that speed is relative in the computer world, this whole argument becomes moot. In order to avoid a lot of rhetoric that could easily be mentioned here, I regress. I will only say that attention to detail in any programming language yields good results.
My experience with C# is mostly on an academic level, I have never done anything *practical* in C#. Java and C are my languages of choice, and I have worked with a variety of other languages. Out of all of theese experiences I learned that any language can produce very efficient code for what it is designed for, kind of like why cars don't make very good boats.
Lastly...
Java and C# are both 4th generation languages, which means they are generally more disconnected from the CPU's native assembly language, and are generally made from another procedural type language. It is also noteworthy that 4th generation languages are more complex and in terms of mainstream age they are still quite young. Since 4gl are in fact young they should be given a far greater window of evolution to grow and stabilize with. Java is still fairly young and volatile, JDK 1.1.8 was hardly usable by any sense of the word and JDK 1.2 was released in roughly in 1999-2000. C# having the advantage of knowing Java's mistakes will not likely suffer the same roadblocks and stumbles as Java, it could in fact encounter new roadblocks which Java can learn from and viola you have a nice competitive and reasonably fair environment where you have options and choices to do the best job to suit your needs. It is funny that/. users can't seem show this as they are constantly yearning for the much *equality* with MS Windows and possibly Mac OS X.
This among other settlements, is simple proof that the RIAA is using it's leverage unjustly.
If the RIAA is truly feels that the damages are just then they should persue them, and continue to sue people for money they feel has been 'stolen' from them. The simple fact the RIAA has settled more than once for signifcantly less says to me that they know they are gonna be loosing they shorts to the technologies like itunes and such that they want to try and make a desperate attempt to make some cash before there time is over. Fact of the matter is they can't sue everyone so they are gonna try and sue everyone they can before it becomes illegal for them to do so, because if enough people do it, it becomes legal (* again in some cases *) regardless of how destructive it is, look at prohibition enough said.
Much like a dinosaur devouring it's own cousin at sees the fire in the sky.
Strangely enough i haven't seen this mentioned yet, I would say that PNG has enough support that it is unlikely it will die. I will also say that i am not going to focus on the technical merit contest either, but rather another way people use PNG as i see it.
I say this for 2 fairly good reasons. You can still view PNGs in all major browsers, it really just depends on what kinds of images you are making that will depend on how *good* they look. So if you stick to fairly simple images, a facet for which GIF is/was good for, PNG still is equal among browsers.
Secondly, I feel that PNG has a good foothold is in software development. Programs using some form of libpng seem to use the PNG images very well regardless of how simple or complex they may be. I have seen many a program using PNG for the application e.g. KDE and its childeren. I know I use PNG icons in my applications whenever possible. The two main venues in which i code in support PNG well enough to make my icons look good on screen.
A side note Java (JDK 1.2+) and Carbon support the use of PNG even though Carbon really tries to push tiff's. I do not understand any technical merits of tiff, however i don't like using them because they always seem to be so huge.
It is all about the benjimans or money, take your pick.
Also the advent of cable does make sense such, if you have access to cartoons all the time, it wouldn't occur to you that on a paticular day you *have* to watch cartoons, like I did. This is much like the concept that if you have sex regularly and such you wont go to great and possibly illegal lengths to get it. However I feel people who where born roughly 85/86 since cable in the early 80's was 1: very limited, e.g. only 1 HBO ? 2: not nearly as widespread and having that sense of neccesity.
I do remember however getting up really early and watching the end of the color bars and then drudging through the national anthem to watch wonder dog at 5:30 because that was the only time it was on.
However I don't buy the quality time crap though, Kids probably don't watch too much TV because they are busy at the mall doing nothing, adn trying to be more adultish or something. Which is why I think kids now a days are trying to be adults faster or something because kids mimic that of adult ones, like the lizzie mcguire that was mentioned.
Finnally a slight OT rant about the advertising portion of the article.
<rant>
However when it comes to advertising and targeted marketing, it still sucks even today. For example how on earth do you get pixie pocket or other strange girl toy commericals during DBZ ? (* Not that I watch DBZ:-) *)
</rant>
last but not least if i ever ever get an anime channel, adult swim probably won't be a thing on my TODO list either.
I personally think this is silly really, and I have one piece of OSS under my belt. I do use a splash screen however it is easily turned off and all it does is show the product name, no different than Mozilla's splash screen. Credits about me or any other contributers are contained in the respectable 'About" screen of my application.
Personally I feel credit is given to me in various ways.
Downloads counts stay fairly consistent and gradually seem to be rising.
Occasional email saying that they like it or even better sometimes coupled witha request for new feature or bug.
Simply doing a google of my project shows sites all over the place.
I figure people who give me credit on their own free will, by performing their own reviews and such good or bad, that certainly helps me to make better software and that is all i really want to do anyhow. It is diifcult enough to write something unique and useful these days and on top of that stand out in the mix of commerical apps. So people who have contributed to the linux kernal have obivous unspoken credit that they know companies like RedHat are using thier work, likewise with mozilla developers one being funded by AOL to some extent as wellas being used in AOL's software, to me that is credit and prestige that is pretty rare for most of the OSS projects out there.
One day I hope to see my stuff being reused elsewhere, and as long as they just say it somewhere that i helped out, I couldn't ask for more.
For the majority of the time I create GUI's in Java's Swing API. Despite what the purists say, my experience has shown that with a little bit of fore thought and not having Swing developers rely on GUI builder tools that create some pretty bad code, a.k.a JBuilder which is a good example of this. I personally like the SWT approach via IBM Eclipse project, yet purist will most likely say that this toolkit suffere or will suffer the same quasi-proprietary baggage that people claim Swing suffers from with Sun's involvement with Java.
However with the subject at hand, why are GUI toolkits such an issue anyways. This seems like a senseless battle that tends to reflect a typical male chauvinism of mine is bigger and better then yours so NAH !.
I have no experience with most of the *nix toolkits as they honestly gave me no reason to start since I could never figure out which one was the most sensible to use. This is something I am sure alot of *nix developers face as they decide things like "Do we want GNOME support, KDE support, both ?" Working with MFC some they are all right of course there is not the smorgasboard of choices present in the windows world as *nix worlds. I think in Win32 for native Toolkits you are limited to MFC and QT, I could be wrong.
So now the question is not really what toolkit is the best to use, but which toolkits can simply go away. Realistically how many different usable ways can you create a window and manipulate a window component. I ask this becuase i have managed to create very nice platform independant GUI's that work damn near identical on linux, mac, and windows and with the exception of win32 and linux since the Java Look and feels don't emulate the environment 100%. However disregarding certain things they pretty much look native.
So if Java API's are good enough to create an abstraction layer to the native look and feel. Whats to say that idea can't be taken a step further and take the java factor out, this is similar to SWT approach. I mean seriously lets show some innovation here, instead of trying to declare on toolkit over another based on the premise that something as silly as showing a round button with gradients versus a flat rectangular one with no gradient colors.
On a final note of this rant, a simple standard toolkit for platforms to could encourage developers to work with simpler toolkits that give them the benifit of working on multiple platforms with confidence, this way more developers more applications that are available to more people then just select few for whatever platform the choose. For those purist or XXX toolkit zealots out always remember if you have special needs that a standard toolkit doesn't provide you can always go one step further and do it yourself, i mean there is always assembly right ?
For the most part I have never been really impressed with wine-x as a whole. I had issues with warcraft III and all i got from transgaming was something along the lines of "oh that don't work, sorry your SOL" kind of response.
One thing that irks me about winex and to complete the subject of this reply is that most Linux applications that i have actually bought, winex is the worst support oriented one yet. By this you will notice that nothing is ever mentioned on thier web site about using SuSE, and it isn't like SuSE isn't some backwater distro ? So why is it that SuSE seems to be silently ignored.
I guess they have investments mostly in mandrake and only support mandrake fully, and if the word "linux" is utter in a public forum red hat comes to mind.
I guess i take the stance that if you are making a linux product then you should at least support the big 3 (Mandrake, Red Hat, SuSE) and have instructions and more info for the Gentoo crowd. To me this would make wine-x a complete product.
For what it is worth i won't be updating my subscription, since this is really just a temporary fix and don't see much long term value in thier product as games are moving more and more to the console market. I play mostly on my PS2 anyhow warcraft 3 was a small exception. But now i just play on my Mac with no goofy tricks i just play it, which is all i wanted to do in the first place.
This technology seems rather silly in my noggin, and with that notion only one word comes to mind MAME.
MAME has succesfully ressurected many a dead hardware components and environments, and has enabled 1000's of software titles to feel right at home and execute perfectly as if they where actually running in thier intedended environment.
If you need a better example even go as far as the work done by the people at CPS2 Shock who was able to break the hardware encryption along with other oditites to enable CPS2 games to live much longer than intended.
And if you still don't buy what i am trying to say look at connectix, from when they made that playstation emulator so that a playstation game would feel right at home in a mac, or even still thier virtual pc software is real proof that something like this is silly if hardware can be simulated, as it is in emulation packages.
So my 2 cents is that this is fairly silly and probably won't be long before someone circumvents this since there are alot of bases to start from, such that your base will truly belong to you.
Personally i see no real differences people are greedy; some businesses are run by these same people; So put two and two together and you get greedy businesses too.
We are probably too wrapped up with digital rights management and copyright stuff to let high bandwitdh be cheap because if it was cheaper for someone to get 100K+ a sec on gnutella to download that bootleg of some current movie, or whatever, I am sure the mpaa and riaa would be aware of this reprecussion of cheap bandwidth
Just another angle could also be good ol american greed at work
With all the linux gripes about how linux doen't suppport application x or game y. It got me to thinking linux might be having the same life as the old macintoshes,and PC's once did.
A linux system at work will be generally cost effective and more productive for end users. (* no games generally:-P *) then often users will what the same setup at home because they can do some work from home with no incompatibility issues.
IBM PC's flooded businesses with thier equipment and DOS was it and it goes from there, as well as teachers wanted mac's in their home since that is what they had in school. You can even see that today that mac still realizes the important of product placement (*maybe ?*) as mac struggles or at least gives me the impression that they are struggling against Dell for school PC real estate.
Now back to the point Linux is and has proven it self worthy for it's place in the business world especially when it comes to servers, even as a desktop at work linux works great. Linux has an office clone for the clerical types, development tools out the wazoo for the technical people, and web/email etc for everyone. So with the previous notion if people start using it at work it will trickle on home since people have to work from home for whatever reason. Then once that starts happening, people will start demanding more of less work software and more entertaining software like games.
So really maybe linux should be a business desktop before becoming a home desktop ?
First off let me say that the Linux for playstation is very cool i do have one and i have had some pretty intresting fun using my ps2 as a web server, and as far as a first revision of trying something like this, I would give it a 3 out of 5 for the following reasons however good start i await the updates:)
On the note of the header i was slightly disappointed that the linux kit lacked alot of modern software that i feel should have been included.
For instance it includes KDE however it is version 1x now this seems odd that at least version 2 could have snuck in ? Same thing with gnome it does include gnome however the version of gnome is very old, i can't recall the actual version at the top of my head.
Another small detail i found odd that it was missing was a mp3 player i had to install the SDL library to have plaympeg available to me i would think they could have at least included mp3blaster or mpg123 at the most ?
And to top it off it lacked any kind of real web browser, and for some reason w3m wanted to be displayed in kanji all the time and i still haven't quite figured that out yet.
Lastly i did happen to be fortunate enough to have a compliant montior so the install was fairly easy it is obivious that sony is in deals with red hat on this. However once installed configuring it to display on my television was a major pain and it wasn't even mentioned in the manual on how to do it, it only hinted that it could be done but not exactly how.
Fortran, COBOL, and Smalltalk are still around not too mention a lot of other lesser known languages like scheme, prolog, pascal, and if i may visual basic:) Some of theese languages should be Looooong gone due to thier age and over the notion that they aren't designed wit hall the Enterprise mumbo jumbo that flats in most companies, and being a java advocate i try not to be biased in saying that java is not that bad anyways since a lot of companies have built the java platform as thier flagship for either thier products to sail on, or used for internal use services.
So i think this is guy is either. A. Just trying to get site traffic for his comany by placing an isidious article like this. B. Playing the devils' Advocate for the worse to may be spawn more proactiveness in the java community. C. Being plain stupid. my guess is here.:)
on a side note though. like many dumb postings and aritcles like this one seem to be teeming with lame biased rhetoric that personally i am tired of hearing about.
If they move to Canada how would that effect the eminent security policies of the US ?
Even if the company is US owned they reside in another country that still means the US company abides to local laws, so maybe they are getting out because they don't want to hassle with DMCA and such, and the whole its too expensive is a cover up. Because we all know if companies want to reduce cost the just pass the buck(s) on to consumer to make up for thier lack of cash.
anyways just a thought, things aren't always what they seem.
Lets hope this doesn't turn out to be like beta max of ye olde times and gets ignored by the public because sony rules this this toy with an iron fist (* i am sure someone will be able to watch pr0n with it sooner or later *).
This is a new battlefield where sony already has a good foot in and decent name recognition, and M$ does not (* well unless you count msnbc or something *) hopefully sony can keep thier head out of thier arse.
Since xBox is more or less a home computer anyways i am sure microsoft already is planning to do something like this since most of the hardware is probably already there and Linux is such a big threat to them that they must thwart it in any given sector. so it won't be long before office XP is availble with IE 6 and AOL or what not further assimilating the generally ignorant public.
However i am curious how nintendo will play in all of this since they aren't making a whole heck of alot of PR on thier side of things.
I will most likely buy one in hopes that i will be able to build MAME and such to play on my tv. As far as being able to hack i am sure there will be some of that allowed but alot has changd since the commodore days so who knows what kind of policies they have in place, and besides hacking and coding is what my other computer is for:)
I remember a long time ago like around NT 4 Sp4 or so when Microsoft inadvertnaly left debug symbols in the service pack and some discovered that there was a security back door for the NSA on all NT distros wether they liked it or not, and to my knowledge anyone who knew about it didn't like it.
however indesperate times calls for desperate measures.
Unfortunately i hope this doesn't promote this idea, but if the goverment seeks to have widespread backdoors everywhere, it really wouldn't be a matter of determining what bytes are encrypted and what bytes aren't encrypted.
It boils down to goverment possibly mandating how Operating systems are developed,much how there are laws when constructing a building and the like. Thus creating an orginization like FSA (Federal Software Assoc.) (*shudder*).. or something along those lines.
This could also potentially effect software development overall that is developed in the US that deals with or implements any kind of encryption.
Another potentially haneous thing that could arise out of this is making linux and such illegal since there isn't one single entity overseeing the product. This would make Microsoft happy since it can't seem to rid itself of the linux thorn, and any other company who can't afford to pay for any fees incurred with federal software compliance would be eliminated too. And to lock down the internet side amking AOL de-facto internet client and having back doors to monitor activity this way.
like i said i am not promoting these ideas i hope they never come to pass.
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"A calibration code is what makes that part work, and that's the part that's proprietary," Territo said. "It's like the difference between an Apple microprocessor and an IBM microprocessor.
(s)he has never heard of a G5 before eh ?
yet another striking example of people not being in the no since apple has for the most part relied on others to make it's processors (i.e. motorola)
but in terms of the article i think that independant repair shops should be given some sort of book on how to reapir modern cars, and as far as intellectual property goes i don't understand why information like that would be stored in a car since if a car had to be recalibrated or whatever would who is repairing it have to know what it is from a book or CDROM not reading from the car ? This to me seems like having a pin number embedded on the stripe of a credit just asking to be read and eventually comprimised.
Sun, has done a decent job of making Java as open as possible. I think people tend to forget that the Java language specification is posted on the web without charge. The Java language specification often goes through the Java Community process so the JLS isn't completely and inbred mess. So as far as company that has one goal to make money on something Sun is being as open as they can be.
... and on and on and on with the other JRocket, and even Apple
Sun's JVM is an implementation of that JLS
IBM's JVM is an implementation of that same JLS
BlackDown is an implementation of that same JLS
With most of the implementations not offically open source this seems to mean that java itself isn't 'open'.
I think IBM wants to take Sun's VM and expand on it and be in on the ground floor so they can reap any potential earnings from the join venture. They are being as civil as a business can be by saying they want to simply help and not take it over or back-stab them, since IBM has the size and capacity to make just about anything it needs.
But pack to the open-source debacle Java can be open sourced if someone is ambitious enough. I would imagine if they didn't spend as much time badgering Sun, they might have one by now. I think Sun's apprehension of opening Java up stems from the Microsoft mess where one JVM had significantly different behavior than the Sun JVM and caused Java appear to be a defunct technology that should be avoided in leiu of ActiveX
This is my view, right or wrong I at least have one.
but back to the orginal point I had to stop coding on my couch cause it got to hot after hour of heavy coding. So otherwise I would say any of the newer powerbooks will be adequate for Java development even running servers should be OK just get more memory and what since java IDE's tend to be just as heavy as java based servers. My *old* powerbook still fits the bill for running multiple database servers, eclipse, and a debug seesion with all the other standard apps running just as well.
I have been writing a tool to address this issue, even though most DBA's will not use GUI's more than just DBA's need to interact with the database as well.
I have written an application called iSQL-Viewer The basic premisie is to take advantage of Java and JDBC. At this point there is nothing platform specific in the application and it is mainly designed with developers in mind to easily view and load data in a given database.
I have used it against Sybase, MSSQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL and it has been known to work on various other platforms including SQLite, and Informix
</self-promotion>
I personally do not like, the typicall laptop carrying cases, and fortunately when I bought my powerbook i was happy to see the backpack at the Apple Store and this has been great for me to carry my powerbook on my back and have my hands free, and the back pack is deceptive in that you can store a ton of stuff in it.
The average user simply wants to open their computer and have it work, kind of like Apple's approach to computing even though Safari isn't mentioned Apple users are more inclined to use Safari simply because it is there. This is why IE won the browser war; if you do indeed consider it over ?
I am working on the ability to read the Solver files and import them into database via JDBC
:-P
so be patient
Clearly this kind of argument continues to promote zealousness amongst ourselves as developers. C# is faster than Java, Java is faster than C#, C is faster than C++ and so forth, when you realize that speed is relative in the computer world, this whole argument becomes moot. In order to avoid a lot of rhetoric that could easily be mentioned here, I regress. I will only say that attention to detail in any programming language yields good results.
My experience with C# is mostly on an academic level, I have never done anything *practical* in C#. Java and C are my languages of choice, and I have worked with a variety of other languages. Out of all of theese experiences I learned that any language can produce very efficient code for what it is designed for, kind of like why cars don't make very good boats.
Lastly... /. users can't seem show this as they are constantly yearning for the much *equality* with MS Windows and possibly Mac OS X.
Java and C# are both 4th generation languages, which means they are generally more disconnected from the CPU's native assembly language, and are generally made from another procedural type language. It is also noteworthy that 4th generation languages are more complex and in terms of mainstream age they are still quite young. Since 4gl are in fact young they should be given a far greater window of evolution to grow and stabilize with. Java is still fairly young and volatile, JDK 1.1.8 was hardly usable by any sense of the word and JDK 1.2 was released in roughly in 1999-2000. C# having the advantage of knowing Java's mistakes will not likely suffer the same roadblocks and stumbles as Java, it could in fact encounter new roadblocks which Java can learn from and viola you have a nice competitive and reasonably fair environment where you have options and choices to do the best job to suit your needs. It is funny that
This among other settlements, is simple proof that the RIAA is using it's leverage unjustly.
If the RIAA is truly feels that the damages are just then they should persue them, and continue to sue people for money they feel has been 'stolen' from them. The simple fact the RIAA has settled more than once for signifcantly less says to me that they know they are gonna be loosing they shorts to the technologies like itunes and such that they want to try and make a desperate attempt to make some cash before there time is over. Fact of the matter is they can't sue everyone so they are gonna try and sue everyone they can before it becomes illegal for them to do so, because if enough people do it, it becomes legal (* again in some cases *) regardless of how destructive it is, look at prohibition enough said.
Much like a dinosaur devouring it's own cousin at sees the fire in the sky.
I say this for 2 fairly good reasons. You can still view PNGs in all major browsers, it really just depends on what kinds of images you are making that will depend on how *good* they look. So if you stick to fairly simple images, a facet for which GIF is/was good for, PNG still is equal among browsers.
Secondly, I feel that PNG has a good foothold is in software development. Programs using some form of libpng seem to use the PNG images very well regardless of how simple or complex they may be. I have seen many a program using PNG for the application e.g. KDE and its childeren. I know I use PNG icons in my applications whenever possible. The two main venues in which i code in support PNG well enough to make my icons look good on screen.
A side note Java (JDK 1.2+) and Carbon support the use of PNG even though Carbon really tries to push tiff's. I do not understand any technical merits of tiff, however i don't like using them because they always seem to be so huge.
I do remember however getting up really early and watching the end of the color bars and then drudging through the national anthem to watch wonder dog at 5:30 because that was the only time it was on.
However I don't buy the quality time crap though, Kids probably don't watch too much TV because they are busy at the mall doing nothing, adn trying to be more adultish or something. Which is why I think kids now a days are trying to be adults faster or something because kids mimic that of adult ones, like the lizzie mcguire that was mentioned.
Finnally a slight OT rant about the advertising portion of the article.
<rant> However when it comes to advertising and targeted marketing, it still sucks even today. For example how on earth do you get pixie pocket or other strange girl toy commericals during DBZ ? (* Not that I watch DBZ :-) *)
</rant>
last but not least if i ever ever get an anime channel, adult swim probably won't be a thing on my TODO list either.
Personally I feel credit is given to me in various ways.
- Downloads counts stay fairly consistent and gradually seem to be rising.
- Occasional email saying that they like it or even better sometimes coupled witha request for new feature or bug.
- Simply doing a google of my project shows sites all over the place.
I figure people who give me credit on their own free will, by performing their own reviews and such good or bad, that certainly helps me to make better software and that is all i really want to do anyhow. It is diifcult enough to write something unique and useful these days and on top of that stand out in the mix of commerical apps. So people who have contributed to the linux kernal have obivous unspoken credit that they know companies like RedHat are using thier work, likewise with mozilla developers one being funded by AOL to some extent as wellas being used in AOL's software, to me that is credit and prestige that is pretty rare for most of the OSS projects out there.One day I hope to see my stuff being reused elsewhere, and as long as they just say it somewhere that i helped out, I couldn't ask for more.
For the majority of the time I create GUI's in Java's Swing API. Despite what the purists say, my experience has shown that with a little bit of fore thought and not having Swing developers rely on GUI builder tools that create some pretty bad code, a.k.a JBuilder which is a good example of this. I personally like the SWT approach via IBM Eclipse project, yet purist will most likely say that this toolkit suffere or will suffer the same quasi-proprietary baggage that people claim Swing suffers from with Sun's involvement with Java.
However with the subject at hand, why are GUI toolkits such an issue anyways. This seems like a senseless battle that tends to reflect a typical male chauvinism of mine is bigger and better then yours so NAH !.
I have no experience with most of the *nix toolkits as they honestly gave me no reason to start since I could never figure out which one was the most sensible to use. This is something I am sure alot of *nix developers face as they decide things like "Do we want GNOME support, KDE support, both ?" Working with MFC some they are all right of course there is not the smorgasboard of choices present in the windows world as *nix worlds. I think in Win32 for native Toolkits you are limited to MFC and QT, I could be wrong.
So now the question is not really what toolkit is the best to use, but which toolkits can simply go away. Realistically how many different usable ways can you create a window and manipulate a window component. I ask this becuase i have managed to create very nice platform independant GUI's that work damn near identical on linux, mac, and windows and with the exception of win32 and linux since the Java Look and feels don't emulate the environment 100%. However disregarding certain things they pretty much look native.
So if Java API's are good enough to create an abstraction layer to the native look and feel. Whats to say that idea can't be taken a step further and take the java factor out, this is similar to SWT approach. I mean seriously lets show some innovation here, instead of trying to declare on toolkit over another based on the premise that something as silly as showing a round button with gradients versus a flat rectangular one with no gradient colors.
On a final note of this rant, a simple standard toolkit for platforms to could encourage developers to work with simpler toolkits that give them the benifit of working on multiple platforms with confidence, this way more developers more applications that are available to more people then just select few for whatever platform the choose. For those purist or XXX toolkit zealots out always remember if you have special needs that a standard toolkit doesn't provide you can always go one step further and do it yourself, i mean there is always assembly right ?
For the most part I have never been really impressed with wine-x as a whole. I had issues with warcraft III and all i got from transgaming was something along the lines of "oh that don't work, sorry your SOL" kind of response.
One thing that irks me about winex and to complete the subject of this reply is that most Linux applications that i have actually bought, winex is the worst support oriented one yet. By this you will notice that nothing is ever mentioned on thier web site about using SuSE, and it isn't like SuSE isn't some backwater distro ? So why is it that SuSE seems to be silently ignored.
I guess they have investments mostly in mandrake and only support mandrake fully, and if the word "linux" is utter in a public forum red hat comes to mind.
I guess i take the stance that if you are making a linux product then you should at least support the big 3 (Mandrake, Red Hat, SuSE) and have instructions and more info for the Gentoo crowd. To me this would make wine-x a complete product.
For what it is worth i won't be updating my subscription, since this is really just a temporary fix and don't see much long term value in thier product as games are moving more and more to the console market. I play mostly on my PS2 anyhow warcraft 3 was a small exception. But now i just play on my Mac with no goofy tricks i just play it, which is all i wanted to do in the first place.
This technology seems rather silly in my noggin, and with that notion only one word comes to mind MAME.
MAME has succesfully ressurected many a dead hardware components and environments, and has enabled 1000's of software titles to feel right at home and execute perfectly as if they where actually running in thier intedended environment.
If you need a better example even go as far as the work done by the people at CPS2 Shock who was able to break the hardware encryption along with other oditites to enable CPS2 games to live much longer than intended.
And if you still don't buy what i am trying to say look at connectix, from when they made that playstation emulator so that a playstation game would feel right at home in a mac, or even still thier virtual pc software is real proof that something like this is silly if hardware can be simulated, as it is in emulation packages.
So my 2 cents is that this is fairly silly and probably won't be long before someone circumvents this since there are alot of bases to start from, such that your base will truly belong to you.
Personally i see no real differences people are greedy; some businesses are run by these same people; So put two and two together and you get greedy businesses too.
We are probably too wrapped up with digital rights management and copyright stuff to let high bandwitdh be cheap because if it was cheaper for someone to get 100K+ a sec on gnutella to download that bootleg of some current movie, or whatever, I am sure the mpaa and riaa would be aware of this reprecussion of cheap bandwidth
Just another angle could also be good ol american greed at work
dually noted but being told that games drive the high end pc game market isn't
Must be a really slow day to publish this kind of rhetoric for /. and CNN
With all the linux gripes about how linux doen't suppport application x or game y.
:-P *) then often users will what the same setup at home because they can do some work from home with no incompatibility issues.
It got me to thinking linux might be having the same life as the old macintoshes,and PC's once did.
A linux system at work will be generally cost effective and more productive for end users. (* no games generally
IBM PC's flooded businesses with thier equipment and DOS was it and it goes from there, as well as teachers wanted mac's in their home since that is what they had in school. You can even see that today that mac still realizes the important of product placement (*maybe ?*) as mac struggles or at least gives me the impression that they are struggling against Dell for school PC real estate.
Now back to the point
Linux is and has proven it self worthy for it's place in the business world especially when it comes to servers, even as a desktop at work linux works great. Linux has an office clone for the clerical types, development tools out the wazoo for the technical people, and web/email etc for everyone. So with the previous notion if people start using it at work it will trickle on home since people have to work from home for whatever reason. Then once that starts happening, people will start demanding more of less work software and more entertaining software like games.
So really maybe linux should be a business desktop before becoming a home desktop ?
First off let me say that the Linux for playstation is very cool i do have one and i have had some pretty intresting fun using my ps2 as a web server, and as far as a first revision of trying something like this, I would give it a 3 out of 5 for the following reasons :)
however good start i await the updates
On the note of the header i was slightly disappointed that the linux kit lacked alot of modern software that i feel should have been included.
For instance it includes KDE however it is version 1x now this seems odd that at least version 2 could have snuck in ?
Same thing with gnome it does include gnome however the version of gnome is very old, i can't recall the actual version at the top of my head.
Another small detail i found odd that it was missing was a mp3 player i had to install the SDL library to have plaympeg available to me i would think they could have at least included mp3blaster or mpg123 at the most ?
And to top it off it lacked any kind of real web browser, and for some reason w3m wanted to be displayed in kanji all the time and i still haven't quite figured that out yet.
Lastly i did happen to be fortunate enough to have a compliant montior so the install was fairly easy it is obivious that sony is in deals with red hat on this. However once installed configuring it to display on my television was a major pain and it wasn't even mentioned in the manual on how to do it, it only hinted that it could be done but not exactly how.
Fortran, COBOL, and Smalltalk are still around not too mention a lot of other lesser known languages like scheme, prolog, pascal, and if i may visual basic :) Some of theese languages should be Looooong gone due to thier age and over the notion that they aren't designed wit hall the Enterprise mumbo jumbo that flats in most companies, and being a java advocate i try not to be biased in saying that java is not that bad anyways since a lot of companies have built the java platform as thier flagship for either thier products to sail on, or used for internal use services.
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So i think this is guy is either.
A. Just trying to get site traffic for his comany by placing an isidious article like this.
B. Playing the devils' Advocate for the worse to may be spawn more proactiveness in the java community.
C. Being plain stupid. my guess is here.
on a side note though.
like many dumb postings and aritcles like this one seem to be teeming with lame biased rhetoric that personally i am tired of hearing about.
If they move to Canada how would that effect the eminent security policies of the US ?
Even if the company is US owned they reside in another country that still means the US company abides to local laws, so maybe they are getting out because they don't want to hassle with DMCA and such, and the whole its too expensive is a cover up. Because we all know if companies want to reduce cost the just pass the buck(s) on to consumer to make up for thier lack of cash.
anyways just a thought, things aren't always what they seem.
Lets hope this doesn't turn out to be like beta max of ye olde times and gets ignored by the public because sony rules this this toy with an iron fist (* i am sure someone will be able to watch pr0n with it sooner or later *).
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This is a new battlefield where sony already has a good foot in and decent name recognition, and M$ does not (* well unless you count msnbc or something *) hopefully sony can keep thier head out of thier arse.
Since xBox is more or less a home computer anyways i am sure microsoft already is planning to do something like this since most of the hardware is probably already there and Linux is such a big threat to them that they must thwart it in any given sector. so it won't be long before office XP is availble with IE 6 and AOL or what not further assimilating the generally ignorant public.
However i am curious how nintendo will play in all of this since they aren't making a whole heck of alot of PR on thier side of things.
I will most likely buy one in hopes that i will be able to build MAME and such to play on my tv. As far as being able to hack i am sure there will be some of that allowed but alot has changd since the commodore days so who knows what kind of policies they have in place, and besides hacking and coding is what my other computer is for
I remember a long time ago like around NT 4 Sp4 or so when Microsoft inadvertnaly left debug symbols in the service pack and some discovered that there was a security back door for the NSA on all NT distros wether they liked it or not, and to my knowledge anyone who knew about it didn't like it.
however indesperate times calls for desperate measures.
Unfortunately i hope this doesn't promote this idea, but if the goverment seeks to have widespread backdoors everywhere, it really wouldn't be a matter of determining what bytes are encrypted and what bytes aren't encrypted.
It boils down to goverment possibly mandating how Operating systems are developed,much how there are laws when constructing a building and the like. Thus creating an orginization like FSA (Federal Software Assoc.) (*shudder*).. or something along those lines.
This could also potentially effect software development overall that is developed in the US that deals with or implements any kind of encryption.
Another potentially haneous thing that could arise out of this is making linux and such illegal since there isn't one single entity overseeing the product. This would make Microsoft happy since it can't seem to rid itself of the linux thorn, and any other company who can't afford to pay for any fees incurred with federal software compliance would be eliminated too. And to lock down the internet side amking AOL de-facto internet client and having back doors to monitor activity this way.
like i said i am not promoting these ideas i hope they never come to pass.