It means Taco is one of those idiots that is still running a P133 and a Trident 512k video card and expecting to run the latest games. Exactly the kind of Linux-using-wants-everything-for-free loser that causes game companies to run from the platform like the plague.
I'm now a much more mature reader, and I generally eschew the fantasy and science fiction genres for their immaturity, prefering works with more developed characters.
So true. For every Brave New World or SnowCrash, SciFi gives us thousands of novels that are literary diarrhea.
Now that special effects are both a reality and inexpensive (thanks largely to Linux and computer pricing drops),
Good special effects are NOT inexpensive. Look at Harry Potter. They poured millions into it and it had some of the shoddiest special effects ever.
While free OSes (like Linux) for rendering & workstation use are nice, the savings there is nothing compared to the time-costs of good human animators and programmers required to create custom software and scripts (if you want truly good special effects).
True, true. One of the funniest things about the 'hardcore' FPS players is that they tend to set their video options such that even newly released games look uglier than Quake1. When you use low quality textures, small bit-depths, simple vertex lighting, etc there winds up being less 'noise' to filter out making it much to both spot your enemies and aim at them.
Someone needs to clue Jobs into the fact that the Mac market is way too small for him to be pulling this kind of shit over and over. Is he trying to alienate EVERY last Mac user (hint: there's not too many left)?
What a fucking idiot.
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The commentary above is completely off. Its not that the RIAA feels smug in their victory against the file sharing companies, its that they realize that none of these victories matter in the long term. Shut down one P2P service and 3 more pop up..
This isn't about an industry that is feeling smug and self-assured...This is a LAST DITCH EFFORT to assert their right to exist. And in the long run, I don't think its going to work.
id is a private company (no pressure or threat of legal action from shareholders), and small enough by far that they can reasonably know exactly what third party depenencies might exist in their code without assigning a committee to investigate it.
The vast majority of software companies are nothing like id on both of those accounts.
While that sounds good in practice, there's a ton of issues that stand in the way of this becoming common practice.
The primary issue is that open sourcing previously closed source applications is not something the company can do for free. There's a ton of legal issues that must be considered (use of third party code, etc, etc) before a release can be made, that costs time and it costs a lot of money in most cases.
Then you hit secondary issues like shareholder reaction to the company not only giving its products away for free to whoever wants them, but also giving source code and thus some perceived competitive help (even if its not true) to the company's competitors.
All in all, there are a lot of headaches involved. Its not something most companies will do unless there's some direct market benefit for them, ala commoditizing a compliment (see here).
Not only that but, XBOXes are VERY BIG. You would need a rather lot of physical space to store them in!
I won't even mention (ok, I will) the cooling requirements. Trying to fit many XBOXes in a cramped server room would result in each one needing pretty high end cooling systems.
That's all well and good, but now recalculate the chances if this hobby becomes widespread and we're no longer just talking about one guy. Sure, this is out of the reach of your average hobbyiest now but will it be in 5 years? FAA regulations on rocket usage into commercial airspace is a GOOD THING.
The same case about reverse engineering could be made about DeCSS, and the authors of that were also not in the USA. Did either of those points help?
Nope.
Sorry but what is logical and what is legal don't always go hand in hand. And the long arm of the big media and tech companies reaches much further than the US borders.
The basic goal of the project is to find a simple and completely legal way to run Linux on the Microsoft Xbox.
This is a publicity stunt. There is *no* completely legal way to get Linux to run on the XBOX.
Looks like this is all a hoax, IMO.
Either that or the unstated part of the contest is that you not only need to handle the technical aspects of getting Linux on the XBOX but you also have to work on getting the DMCA repealed, and I'm guessing that's going to take a lot more than $200k...
I'm not trolling, and I don't think getting Linux running on the XBOX is a bad idea, but it just cannot be done without violating the DMCA.
Once yous tart moving $200k in money around, you're no longer anonymous.
Since Linux for XBOX isn't going to run without defeating Microsoft's security one way or another, you're talking about a DMCA infraction for which the $200k donor becomes an an accomplice, at the very least...
I should hope there are legal issues with his rocketry.
You might not realize it from reading Slashdot but not all government regulations are a BAD thing.
Yes the DMCA sucks, but so does having your plane crash because some "rocket man" happened to launch a small missile into the flight-path of one of its engine intakes at the wrong time.
I'm well aware of other Anime, but I'm not aware of any that is significantly better than the ones I mentioned. Yes that includes Kiki's, Mononoke, Akira, Metropolis, Ghost in the Shell, etc.
They are ALL poorly written, all poorly animated, and just all around suck.
America should consider making this change as it might help lesen the amount of litigation.
Who is going to make this change? Congress? What is the overwhelming profession of congresspeople previous to being elected? Lawyers..What group tends to make up a huge portion of their friends and business associates? Lawyers. Who gains to lose the most from decreases in litigation? Lawyers.
Guess what? Its not geek-chic to like Anime anymore. Millions of kids watch Pokemon and Dragonball Z these days, so any geek-cred one might have gotten by watching poorly written, badly animated Japanese cartoons is long gone.
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Perl, Gnome...what's next?
It means Taco is one of those idiots that is still running a P133 and a Trident 512k video card and expecting to run the latest games. Exactly the kind of Linux-using-wants-everything-for-free loser that causes game companies to run from the platform like the plague.
So true. For every Brave New World or SnowCrash, SciFi gives us thousands of novels that are literary diarrhea.
Good special effects are NOT inexpensive. Look at Harry Potter. They poured millions into it and it had some of the shoddiest special effects ever.
While free OSes (like Linux) for rendering & workstation use are nice, the savings there is nothing compared to the time-costs of good human animators and programmers required to create custom software and scripts (if you want truly good special effects).
True, true. One of the funniest things about the 'hardcore' FPS players is that they tend to set their video options such that even newly released games look uglier than Quake1. When you use low quality textures, small bit-depths, simple vertex lighting, etc there winds up being less 'noise' to filter out making it much to both spot your enemies and aim at them.
I hate blind people...Don't worry they can't read this.
Someone needs to clue Jobs into the fact that the Mac market is way too small for him to be pulling this kind of shit over and over. Is he trying to alienate EVERY last Mac user (hint: there's not too many left)?
What a fucking idiot.
This isn't about an industry that is feeling smug and self-assured...This is a LAST DITCH EFFORT to assert their right to exist. And in the long run, I don't think its going to work.
RIP RIAA -- 2006
Many prominent language designers and experts such as Bertrand Meyer and Herb Sutter disagree with you...But I guess you know more than they do, eh?
The vast majority of software companies are nothing like id on both of those accounts.
The primary issue is that open sourcing previously closed source applications is not something the company can do for free. There's a ton of legal issues that must be considered (use of third party code, etc, etc) before a release can be made, that costs time and it costs a lot of money in most cases.
Then you hit secondary issues like shareholder reaction to the company not only giving its products away for free to whoever wants them, but also giving source code and thus some perceived competitive help (even if its not true) to the company's competitors.
All in all, there are a lot of headaches involved. Its not something most companies will do unless there's some direct market benefit for them, ala commoditizing a compliment (see here).
Considering Network Associates isn't developing it further, I somewhat see his point, but I don't see how he really has a say in the matter.
I won't even mention (ok, I will) the cooling requirements. Trying to fit many XBOXes in a cramped server room would result in each one needing pretty high end cooling systems.
Any cost savings would be minimal.
That's all well and good, but now recalculate the chances if this hobby becomes widespread and we're no longer just talking about one guy. Sure, this is out of the reach of your average hobbyiest now but will it be in 5 years? FAA regulations on rocket usage into commercial airspace is a GOOD THING.
Nope.
Sorry but what is logical and what is legal don't always go hand in hand. And the long arm of the big media and tech companies reaches much further than the US borders.
I stand by all my statements.
This is a publicity stunt. There is *no* completely legal way to get Linux to run on the XBOX.
Looks like this is all a hoax, IMO.
Either that or the unstated part of the contest is that you not only need to handle the technical aspects of getting Linux on the XBOX but you also have to work on getting the DMCA repealed, and I'm guessing that's going to take a lot more than $200k...
I'm not trolling, and I don't think getting Linux running on the XBOX is a bad idea, but it just cannot be done without violating the DMCA.
Since Linux for XBOX isn't going to run without defeating Microsoft's security one way or another, you're talking about a DMCA infraction for which the $200k donor becomes an an accomplice, at the very least...
I predict some bumps in the road of this plan!
Can it still detect intrusions when its being hit by an infinite number of open source monkeys?
You might not realize it from reading Slashdot but not all government regulations are a BAD thing.
Yes the DMCA sucks, but so does having your plane crash because some "rocket man" happened to launch a small missile into the flight-path of one of its engine intakes at the wrong time.
Ok...
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Done? Ok suckers, that will be $1000 per person for infringing upon the silence copyright made payable to FU Attorneys At Law. Pay up or else!!
They are ALL poorly written, all poorly animated, and just all around suck.
Who is going to make this change? Congress? What is the overwhelming profession of congresspeople previous to being elected? Lawyers..What group tends to make up a huge portion of their friends and business associates? Lawyers. Who gains to lose the most from decreases in litigation? Lawyers.
This won't get changed.
Losers.
Because nobody wants a cellphone that only works within a single city, jackass. They want a phone that works anywhere in the US.
Why dont you make yourself useful and go bake me a cake?