>> He suggests that visionaries should focus on smaller transformations of our day-to-day lives rather than leapfrogging.
Why can't they make something radical, then add on compatibility stepping stones for a transition period? Would Wave have been so unused if you could read your normal POP3 mail in it and intercommunicate with traditional IM systems?
Do you really think Governments are going to ban Windows?
The more likely result, if we make all non-technical people aware of this particular instance: Government legislature that says *all* computers must use TPC such that they can only run programs that are created by authorized entities and signed with certs.
This is a one-way ticket to the cessation of all innovation in the field of computing.
>> If you went through all the trouble of inventing say - the google search engine algorithms - then I shouldn't have the right to nick your sourcecode and use it myself without paying you for it.
A) That would be copyright infringement. B) How would you legally get the source code?
'Bug fixes' can be just as much about missing code than it can about broken code. Considering that KDE is 6+ million lines of code and the Qt base is even bigger, I don't find this number surprisingly large.
Yeah - because they're going to come to your house and make you install this optional package.
Or maybe you could run it of your own accord so that we get a more accurate count of us Linux users, rather than being underestimated and marginalized until the end of time.
>> Loading Google takes a lot more bandwidth than something like this.
Hopefully you're talking about the tracking and not repo updates, which was the subject of the post to which you replied. There were about 115MB of repo updates for Maverick today.
I totally agree. Putting the XBox guys on the list completely invalidates it and dilutes any honor associated with the nomination.
I could see adding designers of some classic console hardware... but for the design of the original XBox? No disrespect to Mr. Blackly, but is their a single original coponent to the design? Is borrowing hardware and OS components from existing PCs a revolutionary accomplishment?
If so, why the hell aren't the Colecovision designers on there for their MSX conversion? It was arguably a much greater leap forward for the time.
The sell-outs who put this list together should be ashamed. If I was Nolan Bushnell or one of the other greats, I'd boycott the whole thing.
>> ubuntu, arguably the most advanced desktop linux, won't play DVDs
Linux won't play DVDs (until you simply install a package) for the same reason Win7 won't play Blu-rays out of the box: Licensing. It has nothing to do with how advanced the OS is.
>> if you are anything more than a flash gamer, linux is out.
No, Linux is only out if you want immediate access to the latest cutting-edge Windows-only game. It's perfectly fine for playing the dozens of games that have native ports (Urban Terror, World of Goo, Nexuiz, Warsow, Second Life, etc.), and many Windows games...
I played EverQuest and World of Warcraft from it for years.
>> the only way to play netflix on linux is by running it in a windows VM.
Just another great reason to boycott NetFlix. Seriously - who doesn't have on-demand movies assailing them from a half-dozen directions nowadays. I spend most of my time catching up on old series via Linux with XBMC or Boxee.
>> no itunes.
It used to work under Wine, but I don't think anyone cares about it anymore since there are multiple alternatives that works natively with Linux (or any OS with a web browser). I use Amarok every day and don't miss iTunes at all.
>> prepare for her to complain until Flash works again.
Don't most distros just wrap the 32-bit version in an installer because the 64-bit version NEVER WORKED (for an equal amount of content and without crashing)?
Adobe wants us to side with them in their "We want flash on the iPhone" war, but their track record for supporting us on non-Windows platforms clearly states that they are not up to the job.
The sad part is, Microsoft is laughing their head off and planning to rope everyone back into Windows with Silverlight, while Moonlight either falls behind and rots on the vine or suffers from incomplete support due to patent issues.
Other businesses have to actually price things to compete with other companies in the field, whereas HP abuses entrenched patents to immediately bankrupt anyone that tries to enter the field of ink cartridges or printing in general?
After breaking into the house, wearing a mirror covered suit of sharkproof chainmail, he used a paperclip to reset the Wifi router to factory default passwords.
Click the "Explore the New Bing Maps" link. As soon as you do, you'll be prompted to install SilverLight. The 'new' features (streetside images, etc.) won't work unless you have SilverLight installed. Anyone who's been around the block will recognize this as the standard step two of Microsoft EEE strategy.
"I think the Microsoft monopoly of both sectors of the software industry — both the system and the applications software and the potential third sector that they want to monopolize, which is the consumer set-top-box sector — is going to pose the greatest threat to Americas dominance in the software industry of anything I have ever seen and could ever think of." -- Steve Jobs
The parent was probably thinking of these bits of internal Microsoft memos:
“[W]e need to make sure Windows 3.1 only runs on top of MS DOS.”
—David Cole, Microsoft Senior Vice-President
“The approach we will take is to detect dr [DOS] 6 and refuse to load. The error message should be something like ‘Invalid device driver interface.’”
—Phillip Barrett, Microsoft Windows Development Manager
>> I don't think you get it. How many regular, normal users are going to google/torrent the hack? Then scan it for trojans?
One. And that kid's going to give the patched version to 300 non-geek's at his school and every friend in his local CUG so that he can be their hero - it's been going on like that for at least 25 years. No DRM would mean less incentive for people like that to actively spread the cracked version.
I had much the same experience with them back during the era of the original Playstation. I have no idea if their controllers have improved either, because I had such a crappy experience with them that I'll never buy their products again.
Looking at their recent designs, it looks like they still have the problem where they try to design controllers that "look cool" instead of ones that are actually comfortable and practical.
>> I guess this means the long-anticipated Gears support for 64-bit Firefox on Linux and Opera are moot.
To be clear, there have been 64-bit version available for at least a year, if not longer, from 3rd parties (I use it with Google Wave). They're just not 'officially' supported.
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>> He suggests that visionaries should focus on smaller transformations of our day-to-day lives rather than leapfrogging.
Why can't they make something radical, then add on compatibility stepping stones for a transition period? Would Wave have been so unused if you could read your normal POP3 mail in it and intercommunicate with traditional IM systems?
The graphs aren't meaningless...
But what they mean is only that the guys over at LinuxTrends watch The Linux Action Show, who did the same thing in their Aug. 8th episode.
Do you really think Governments are going to ban Windows?
The more likely result, if we make all non-technical people aware of this particular instance: Government legislature that says *all* computers must use TPC such that they can only run programs that are created by authorized entities and signed with certs.
This is a one-way ticket to the cessation of all innovation in the field of computing.
We shouldn't even give time to this here.
TLDNR
>> Patents, at face value are required.
>> If you went through all the trouble of inventing say - the google search engine algorithms - then I shouldn't have the right to nick your sourcecode and use it myself without paying you for it.
A) That would be copyright infringement.
B) How would you legally get the source code?
How does being patented do anything to help here?
Yeah... BUT CAN APPLE DO IT? Or are they waiting for me to write all the logic / engine API... then going to sue me to death?
Yes. It quit sucking at about 4.4.
Provide an unified, application agnostic, data store for all of your PIM apps without running slow as shit.
'Bug fixes' can be just as much about missing code than it can about broken code. Considering that KDE is 6+ million lines of code and the Qt base is even bigger, I don't find this number surprisingly large.
Yeah - because they're going to come to your house and make you install this optional package.
Or maybe you could run it of your own accord so that we get a more accurate count of us Linux users, rather than being underestimated and marginalized until the end of time.
>> Loading Google takes a lot more bandwidth than something like this.
Hopefully you're talking about the tracking and not repo updates, which was the subject of the post to which you replied. There were about 115MB of repo updates for Maverick today.
I totally agree. Putting the XBox guys on the list completely invalidates it and dilutes any honor associated with the nomination.
I could see adding designers of some classic console hardware... but for the design of the original XBox? No disrespect to Mr. Blackly, but is their a single original coponent to the design? Is borrowing hardware and OS components from existing PCs a revolutionary accomplishment?
If so, why the hell aren't the Colecovision designers on there for their MSX conversion? It was arguably a much greater leap forward for the time.
The sell-outs who put this list together should be ashamed. If I was Nolan Bushnell or one of the other greats, I'd boycott the whole thing.
>> ubuntu, arguably the most advanced desktop linux, won't play DVDs
Linux won't play DVDs (until you simply install a package) for the same reason Win7 won't play Blu-rays out of the box: Licensing. It has nothing to do with how advanced the OS is.
>> if you are anything more than a flash gamer, linux is out.
No, Linux is only out if you want immediate access to the latest cutting-edge Windows-only game. It's perfectly fine for playing the dozens of games that have native ports (Urban Terror, World of Goo, Nexuiz, Warsow, Second Life, etc.), and many Windows games...
http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxgames
http://appdb.winehq.org/
http://www.cedega.com/
I played EverQuest and World of Warcraft from it for years.
>> the only way to play netflix on linux is by running it in a windows VM.
Just another great reason to boycott NetFlix. Seriously - who doesn't have on-demand movies assailing them from a half-dozen directions nowadays. I spend most of my time catching up on old series via Linux with XBMC or Boxee.
>> no itunes.
It used to work under Wine, but I don't think anyone cares about it anymore since there are multiple alternatives that works natively with Linux (or any OS with a web browser). I use Amarok every day and don't miss iTunes at all.
>> prepare for her to complain until Flash works again.
Don't most distros just wrap the 32-bit version in an installer because the 64-bit version NEVER WORKED (for an equal amount of content and without crashing)?
Adobe wants us to side with them in their "We want flash on the iPhone" war, but their track record for supporting us on non-Windows platforms clearly states that they are not up to the job.
The sad part is, Microsoft is laughing their head off and planning to rope everyone back into Windows with Silverlight, while Moonlight either falls behind and rots on the vine or suffers from incomplete support due to patent issues.
>> And that's different from any business how?
Other businesses have to actually price things to compete with other companies in the field, whereas HP abuses entrenched patents to immediately bankrupt anyone that tries to enter the field of ink cartridges or printing in general?
After breaking into the house, wearing a mirror covered suit of sharkproof chainmail, he used a paperclip to reset the Wifi router to factory default passwords.
Security circumvented.
Do you really expect them to announce including Silverlight too? Why?
Think about it: What day would Thursday be?
Click the "Explore the New Bing Maps" link. As soon as you do, you'll be prompted to install SilverLight. The 'new' features (streetside images, etc.) won't work unless you have SilverLight installed. Anyone who's been around the block will recognize this as the standard step two of Microsoft EEE strategy.
"I think the Microsoft monopoly of both sectors of the software industry — both the system and the applications software and the potential third sector that they want to monopolize, which is the consumer set-top-box sector — is going to pose the greatest threat to Americas dominance in the software industry of anything I have ever seen and could ever think of." -- Steve Jobs
I was just reading about that via Lynx.
The parent was probably thinking of these bits of internal Microsoft memos:
“[W]e need to make sure Windows 3.1 only runs on top of MS DOS.”
—David Cole, Microsoft Senior Vice-President
“The approach we will take is to detect dr [DOS] 6 and refuse to load. The error
message should be something like ‘Invalid device driver interface.’”
—Phillip Barrett, Microsoft Windows Development Manager
>> I don't think you get it. How many regular, normal users are going to google/torrent the hack? Then scan it for trojans?
One. And that kid's going to give the patched version to 300 non-geek's at his school and every friend in his local CUG so that he can be their hero - it's been going on like that for at least 25 years. No DRM would mean less incentive for people like that to actively spread the cracked version.
>> Obvious patent is obvious.
And wouldn't there already be prior art, considering you can use the DS to control some Wii games in this manner already?
I had much the same experience with them back during the era of the original Playstation. I have no idea if their controllers have improved either, because I had such a crappy experience with them that I'll never buy their products again.
Looking at their recent designs, it looks like they still have the problem where they try to design controllers that "look cool" instead of ones that are actually comfortable and practical.
>> I guess this means the long-anticipated Gears support for 64-bit Firefox on Linux and Opera are moot.
To be clear, there have been 64-bit version available for at least a year, if not longer, from 3rd parties (I use it with Google Wave). They're just not 'officially' supported.