You'll fill up a terabyte harddrive with 2-3 movies.. then what?
Uh..... you compress them?
Of course, double compression is pretty bad, but if it's the best way to copy a movie, people will accept it (look at how much people download CAM torrents...)
Maybe what you (and ton of others on slashdot) is that there is a difference between not supporting something (what supposely Real does to the Mac platform) and arguing/using the DMCA/etc. (what Apple did).
Who cares if Real doesn't support a platform? They just don't want to spend the money to. But I care when someone (Looks like it's more the zealots that the Apple in this case) somewhat find themselves to get modded up for spreading bullshit and zealotry.
When I mean it's not about the money, I mean that money CAN be involved, but it's not required to. "someone would be willing to code for free" isn't what free software is about, it's "someone may or may not be willing to code for free, but he is willing to release it's code in a free licence". Big difference.
"Free software is indeed anti-capitalistic, sort of. Capitalism is based on the notion that the value of all goods can be measured monetarily; the idea that someone would be willing to code for free (or for some non-monetary benefit, like prestige) causes a division-by-zero error in the system." Free software IS NOT about people coding for free, it's not even about money.
I find it funny that you call Separatists racist, while your post is obviously.
"I was lucky to have been born English" And who is racist again?
"and many are idled by unemployment" Yeah because 8-9% is way worse than 7-8%!
"when this was really yet another payola into the coffers of Quebecers." Yeah, corporate owner Quebecers. I'm sure I never saw any benefit of this whole mess.
"I truly believe that the fundamental personality trait of most separatists is the same personality trait that drives facists and extreme racists" And the American revolution was driven by extreme racists too?
"What about the English Quebecors (of which there are millions)" They can join us, or leave, it's simple no?
"What about the "ethnic vote"" They don't all vote liberal; it mostly depends if they live in an english or french neighbor. And they can also join, leave, or complain, whatever.
You seem to think that all Quebecers are thinking that the white french man is the only true man and that we should build a nation on top of it: but heh, if you think so, I guess *you* are racist, thinking with stereotypes and shit. A sorveign Quebec will not kick out all that aren't white french!
You don't understand how linux, X and window managers are working, don't you?
To port iTunes and Quicktime to linux, in binary format, they only have to depend on the kernel and X. They don't need to choose a windows manager, they all use a common interface! If they wanted to make a GNOME app (that's stupid, because GNOME is a Desktop Environment it has it own music player), then that's something else...
You know, there's flash, acrobat reader and netscape for linux... there's only a few download available, for the architechture you want, and sometimes, I said sometimes, for a glibc (there is some backward incompatibily between releases because of bugs).
About the kernel: There's a switch going on from OSS to ALSA now, so I guess they should make two versions or something. But it's nothing compared to the libraries shit you are talking about.
Like the PS2 doesn't have kiddie games. (it may have more,the psx had mary kate & ashley when the n64 didn't)
Yes Nintendo's first party games are usually targeted at kids, but the PS2 doesn't have _any_ first party games (except maybe gt3, if I remember correctly), and the XBOX only has a few.
You can have "adult" games on the GC, that's the point.
Slashdot Mirror
Hum...
The Wii had 4 (Play, Metroid, Strikers, Party) of the top 10 sellers in August, you know (In the US)
360: 2 (Madden and BioShock)
PS3: 1 (Madden)
http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT8415621500.html
:)
My guess is that part of town didn't upgrade yet, thus they use the old too-ugly-for-apple parking meters
It seems like the PS3 is the new Emacs: It's a good all-around computer, the only thing missing is good games!
I hoped people would have RTFA, arguing if the ck patch-set actually does something, kernel related stuff...
But no, what I read is people posting the old stupid not really true arguments why Linux has "failed" on the desktop. We already know them, STFU!!!
Stupid title...
Hi Mr. Microsoft Employee!
When you pay $60 a month for broadband, you *want* your OS to be supported...
"My connection is down"
"What OS are you using?"
"Linux"
"KTHXBYE."
'Nintendo Wii has been a successful enterprise, and a very good business model, compared with ours . . . because it's cheaper'
Wow, this guy needs to win the "Captain Obvious" award of the year!
You'll fill up a terabyte harddrive with 2-3 movies.. then what?
Uh..... you compress them?
Of course, double compression is pretty bad, but if it's the best way to copy a movie, people will accept it (look at how much people download CAM torrents...)
You seem knowledgeable. Can you recommend a book? Reading a spec isn't easy. What about this one?
Difficult to fix the drivers when you don't have any or poor documentation on the cards...
If you are to compare products, why don't you compare the latest versions of both?
Maybe what you (and ton of others on slashdot) is that there is a difference between not supporting something (what supposely Real does to the Mac platform) and arguing/using the DMCA/etc. (what Apple did).
Who cares if Real doesn't support a platform? They just don't want to spend the money to. But I care when someone (Looks like it's more the zealots that the Apple in this case) somewhat find themselves to get modded up for spreading bullshit and zealotry.
... except that the IE remover the parent poster linked to DOES remove mshtml.dll... (and appwiz.cpl and the help system stops working)
:(
but unfortunately msxml.dll is still required, since the mmc console requires it
When I mean it's not about the money, I mean that money CAN be involved, but it's not required to. "someone would be willing to code for free" isn't what free software is about, it's "someone may or may not be willing to code for free, but he is willing to release it's code in a free licence". Big difference.
"Free software is indeed anti-capitalistic, sort of. Capitalism is based on the notion that the value of all goods can be measured monetarily; the idea that someone would be willing to code for free (or for some non-monetary benefit, like prestige) causes a division-by-zero error in the system."
Free software IS NOT about people coding for free, it's not even about money.
and the link with freedom is... ?
It's called a "beta".
You should file a bug report instead of whining on slashdot.
Since when CDKey checks are the ONLY way to fight piracy? And why would implementing that would prevent blizzard to sell another game?
I find it funny that you call Separatists racist, while your post is obviously.
"I was lucky to have been born English"
And who is racist again?
"and many are idled by unemployment"
Yeah because 8-9% is way worse than 7-8%!
"when this was really yet another payola into the coffers of Quebecers."
Yeah, corporate owner Quebecers. I'm sure I never saw any benefit of this whole mess.
"I truly believe that the fundamental personality trait of most separatists is the same personality trait that drives facists and extreme racists"
And the American revolution was driven by extreme racists too?
"What about the English Quebecors (of which there are millions)"
They can join us, or leave, it's simple no?
"What about the "ethnic vote""
They don't all vote liberal; it mostly depends if they live in an english or french neighbor. And they can also join, leave, or complain, whatever.
You seem to think that all Quebecers are thinking that the white french man is the only true man and that we should build a nation on top of it: but heh, if you think so, I guess *you* are racist, thinking with stereotypes and shit. A sorveign Quebec will not kick out all that aren't white french!
"What exactly it is that Quebec hopes to gain by seperating from the rest of Canada is somewhat beyond me."
It's not only about the money you know...
You don't understand how linux, X and window managers are working, don't you? To port iTunes and Quicktime to linux, in binary format, they only have to depend on the kernel and X. They don't need to choose a windows manager, they all use a common interface! If they wanted to make a GNOME app (that's stupid, because GNOME is a Desktop Environment it has it own music player), then that's something else... You know, there's flash, acrobat reader and netscape for linux... there's only a few download available, for the architechture you want, and sometimes, I said sometimes, for a glibc (there is some backward incompatibily between releases because of bugs). About the kernel: There's a switch going on from OSS to ALSA now, so I guess they should make two versions or something. But it's nothing compared to the libraries shit you are talking about.
Because linux can do it?
It's called "use your distribution's packages"
LOL
Like the PS2 doesn't have kiddie games. (it may have more,the psx had mary kate & ashley when the n64 didn't) Yes Nintendo's first party games are usually targeted at kids, but the PS2 doesn't have _any_ first party games (except maybe gt3, if I remember correctly), and the XBOX only has a few. You can have "adult" games on the GC, that's the point.