Which means the artists will become more free, dealing directly with you, instead of criminal companies. Which means better art, cheaper art, and better incomes for the artists (who now get ripped off majorly by Hollywood accounting).
The MPAA members made record profits last year. And the year before. So the motivation for this is not to prevent “losses”, but to make even more money. By selling us everything twice, thrice, as often as we don’t learn from it.
I wonder if kids that grow up now will think that this is actually normal. North Korea suggests that this is the case. I really hope for them that I won’t have to fix the minds of my future children some day. Or they (the **AA) are in for a looong life of pain, tears and nightmares.
"Consumers shouldn't have to know what's inside," he said. "They should just know it will play."
Even better. That’s the core of the epic logic fail of DRM:
If customers don’t know what’s inside, then how will they even know that something is inside at all? And that’s the thing: The only DRM that will ever work, is the one where you can’t use the content at all.
And guess what: The action of watching is the action of copying it to my brain. Which means it’s impossible to watch it and adhere to your pseudo-laws (pseudo, because to be laws, people would have to actually follow them).
I mean you have to buy new hardware, just to get more disadvantages? When everybody can already get it elsewhere, for free, with no disadvantages at all. Yeah, that’s gonna be a big seller! ^^
I mean, how twisted can one’s reality be? Reminds me of North Koreans, who are brainwashed to think that if they touch something with a American flag on it, that their hands will literally rot off. (I saw an interview with someone who gets people out of there. Wanna know where they flee to? China! Because it’s so much better.”(TM))
Or schizophrenic people whose logic and inner model stops being based on reality.
But I tend to see the good in in: They will go down even faster. Yay.:) (Oh, and they will go waaayyy down. Where it’s hot and sulfury;)
Your problem is, that you let someone else decide, which choices you have. And on top of that, which are valid. Or more general: The problem is that you completely live in some asshole’s (sense of) reality.
That may be the reason for speedup in Java scripts test?
Sorry, in this case it really is “JavaScript (scripts) test“. Java is something completely different than JavaScript. As much as C++ and Python are different, but the first one was partially inspired the second one. Java was originally called Oak. And JavaScript can be called ECMAScript. Maybe that makes it easier to keep them apart.:)
Uuum, sorry? I use 64 bit Flash on Linux right now. Yes, from Adobe. They still call it alpha, but apart from it sometimes hanging the browser for a minute at start, but then working... and a bit of memory leaking... it is no different from the r32 bin Windows release version. Also, video playback is much faster with it.
Also, no 64 plug-in is a lousy excuse. As we use Flash on 64 bit systems trough multilib/“emulation” since forever. Oh, and since my Firefox is self-compiled, I’m pretty sure it also is 64 bit.:)
That’s because you got no hardware acceleration in your graphics card. It has nothing to do with the GPU. And i can tell you that on my system, a 1080p video with 5.1 just sound barely runs at all, eating the whole CPU alive.
So 35% without hardware acceleration is actually pretty good.
Have you looked up if the card and driver actually support acceleration, and if you really have it enabled? VDPAU? Something like that?
By the way: That’s the reason you should never ever use a recent ATi card with Linux. There just is zero hardware video acceleration. And if there is, it looks so bad, that you have to disable it to get rid of huge blocking, and contrast set up so high that there is just either black or white, with, like, 3 levels in-between.;)
Well, I wonder why this is so hard for you... Just look at the release dates of the chips. Newer chips are nearly always better, when they have the name name. Usually you can even guess the release date, by looking at the frequency times the cores times perhaps one big feature.
I never had problems. And I remember AMD having Athlons with no difference except the serial number showing what core actually was inside. So I just bought those with the higher frequency (and nowadays more cores).
(Ok, I also used to turn 550 MHz CPUs into 950 MHz ones with only a pencil (to reconnect cut bridges).:)
But then I thought: And what would it change, to have all people of the country in yet another database? I mean they already have a list of their population, don’t they?
Wrong. That was the definition. The definition has changed.
Now it’s
1st world: Rich “western” ( including Japan, South Korea) countries that control the world. (Well, that was somehow always the definition.) 2nd world: Countries that somehow can do on their own, but don’t really control anything. (Or that we think do not control anything.) Like China, Brazil, Mexico, eastern European countries, etc. 3rd world: Everything else. So everything that in fully oppressed by the 1st world or some other wacko group, sucked dry and raped.
As for hegemony, I raise you: China owns you.;)) (Yea, so since you own us, they own us too. Yaay.) But isn’t the US better described as an union of industrial feudalistis.
I write deep, intelligent comments. Comments that stir up reality as perceived. Things that I literally researched for years and thought about more than I can count. Insights that just stun me.
And THIS gets a +5, Insightful? Of all comments?? THIS?
Uuum, just so you know. They did not hold a war against Afghanistan back then. They were at war with the USA. Yes. The cold war was hot there. It went like this: The US gave tons of weapons and money to the fighters (mujaheddin) who then fought the Russians, and died. It was a power play of the two super powers, over which countries they control. I know because my father’s life basically was what you see in Rambo 3. Where do you think the weapons that now are used to shoot at your soldiers, come from in the first place?
And I would not be surprised at all, if it now went the other way around, with Russia fueling them too. Dunno.
Same thing in the Ukraine: Remember that “orange revolution”. Well, turns out, most of those you saw on TV, were US agents and extras. It was just shown as the evil Russia-friendly guy rigging the election. Which, I guess, was true too. But then the US-friendly guy rigged the election. No different. It all came out, and turns out now it seems the people actually really wanted the Russia-friendly guy. Because now he’s in charge. But who knows... It’s just the two super-powers rigging the whole government of other nations, fighting silly games with the fate and freedom of millions.
And sometimes letting other die for them too.
There you see what propaganda can do. I also thought that that Russia-friendly guy would be an evil Russian plot. But did not even get the idea, that the opposite could be just as true. We lived in a completely rigged reality here. They lived in a just as rigged one in Russia-friendly states.
And that’s why I stopped watching any mainstream media. Because how you know they try to rig your reality? Their mouths are open. I have no doubt that every single statement is there to transport a mindset. Modern psychology.
If there would be a God, and if there were one thing I would thank anyone for, it would be the Internet. I can stay friends with Americans, Russians, Chinese, Arabs, and just tell those criminals called our governments, to go fuck themselves. Cause we don’t need them anymore, and their end is near.
They're racing in the same division as much bigger fish called Apple and Google,
I’m sorry? Apple and Google may be big companies, but in the mobile phone sector they are not able to hold a candle to Nokia. Nokia has ten times more experience and market share, than both of them combined! (I’m not exaggerating. They did car phones in 1981 and their first really portable mobile phone is from 1987. Apple’s global market share is somewhere around 4%. Google’s is negligible. Nokia’s is somewhere around 45%.)
Yes, they were a bit resting on their laurels, and got caught with the pants down by Apple. But that can only happen to someone who has laurels, if one has laurels to rest on.:) Now they accelerate again, and I have no doubt that they are working hard to get back what they lost.
Ovi is in my eyes somehow pointless. Apple had to create an app store, because that is the only way that control freaks of that level could offer any software for their phone at all. With Nokia we had the ability to download/buy software from anywhere, simply copy it on the phone and install it since forever with Symbian. Just like you would do it with your laptop. No need for any stupid app store. Which does not mean that it can’t be useful for those who don’t know where to search. Like a web portal (like Yahoo/Lycos/etc) was useful for newbies back in the days. The thing is: There will be a time, when app stores will be a thing of the past too. And Apple will have huge problems with that.
All in all, I hope nobody wins so that we all win. Interesting times ahead...:)
1. To shutdown the Amiga, you turned it off. There was no delay, no Start->Shutdown...wait possibly forever...
Well, DOS did that too. But there’s a reason this is not used anymore: Cache. Especially disk cache. So if you disable all caching, you can turn your system off at any time. Of course be sure to first close any apps that might be killed in mid-air. Or use hibernate or sleep mode. It allows you to do the same with cache enabled. Just that if you want your ram be powered off, it has to be saved on disk, which because of today’s HDD speed, takes a little while. (Or use non-volatile RAM.)
2. Sliding screens. Why not give each application its own full screen and allow the user to pull down the top menu to slide between these screens.
That’s exactly what I do with the CompizFusion cube (and some window rules, enforcing fullscreen, etc). But you can do it with any window manager that supports multiple virtual desktops. The top menu would then be the virtual desktop chooser. There are even tools to do this in Windows. But I bet it’s more comfortable and elegant in XMonad.
3. Simple speech device. What could be easier than "LIST > speak:" to say a directory listing?
Well, in UNIX environments, everything is a file. I bet it’s easy to run a text-to-speech daemon that listens on a pipe (and socket) for a text stream. Should be up and running in a few minutes in Linux.
4. Bidirectional linked list filesystem. If you lose a sector or sector link, most of the file could be rebuilt by following links from both ends towards the bad sector. (Disk doctor)
Well, we try to prevent losing sectors in the first place. And bidirectional is not much better than unidirectional. So we try to do much more advanced solutions. There are b-trees, and really cool stuff, which definitely is better than a simple linked list. I’d recommend ZFS with scrubbing or something alike.
5. The keyboard garage. The 1985 Amiga 1000 keyboard tucked neatly under the computer where it didn't take up desk space, was hidden from children's fingers and was spill-proof.
Well, you know those drawer-like things that you can mount below the table top, so you can put the keyboard on it? I think that solves it.
6. Tight integration of hardware with O.S. O.k. this works against everything we've been taught about abstracting everything but since the PC world has boiled down to little more than an O.S. monopoly, a hardware monopoly and a graphics card monopoly, why not eliminate some of the levels of abstraction that will never be used and make my 2Ghz PC perform every day tasks at least as well as my 7Mhz Amiga did?
Well, I’m all for taking out everyone who develops a inner platform, and shooting him. But I’m also for abstraction where it makes sense. The thing is, that abstraction does not have to be mutually exclusive to extremely tight integration. My Gentoo Linux is compiled in a way that it runs only on my CPU and on my system. The abstraction is at the source code level. Not so much at the binary level. Only in Linux desktop environments (which rape and torture the whole UNIX philosophy by the way) are there loads of stupid abstractions and frameworks. (Nearly as a OS running is a browser.) But there is a project to circumvent the whole X system. (I think it’s called Wayland.) Then again, you don’t expect everyone to program straight to the metal, do you? I think things like OpenGL, which are already very tightly integrated into the graphics card and driver, and also mostly just an abstraction on the source code level, are very much making sense and not slowing things down at all. Quite the opposite.
You see, that’s why I love Linux. You can at least do it (or choos
Sorry, but that’s mutually exclusive. Either he’s a potential employer. Or he’s uptight, in which case I’d not see him as a potential employer anyway.
OK, on the other hand, in my business model, there are no employers or employees. There are business partnerships. (Nearly the same thing, but without any enforcement of exclusivity or who gets to hire someone. Also the relationships are equal. Not king & slave.)
As the wise Dr. Cox once said: “I am fairly sure that if they took porn off the Internet, there would only be one website left, and it would be called ‘Bring back the porn’.”
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You know why you should care?
Because this will take them down even faster! :)
Which means the artists will become more free, dealing directly with you, instead of criminal companies. Which means better art, cheaper art, and better incomes for the artists (who now get ripped off majorly by Hollywood accounting).
I think you want that. :)
The MPAA members made record profits last year. And the year before.
So the motivation for this is not to prevent “losses”, but to make even more money.
By selling us everything twice, thrice, as often as we don’t learn from it.
I wonder if kids that grow up now will think that this is actually normal. North Korea suggests that this is the case. I really hope for them that I won’t have to fix the minds of my future children some day. Or they (the **AA) are in for a looong life of pain, tears and nightmares.
"Consumers shouldn't have to know what's inside," he said. "They should just know it will play."
Even better. That’s the core of the epic logic fail of DRM:
If customers don’t know what’s inside, then how will they even know that something is inside at all?
And that’s the thing: The only DRM that will ever work, is the one where you can’t use the content at all.
And guess what: The action of watching is the action of copying it to my brain. Which means it’s impossible to watch it and adhere to your pseudo-laws (pseudo, because to be laws, people would have to actually follow them).
Can’t we glue some funny facial property to one of them, stick a bomb up his ass, and put him on a plane? (Make sure it only takes himself out, so that he can still be identified. Also add a admission statement by the **AA cartel. Then let Obama declare war on the **AA. ^^
Would make more sense than thinking about attacking all of Jemen, because some single idiot did some idiotic action.
I mean you have to buy new hardware, just to get more disadvantages?
When everybody can already get it elsewhere, for free, with no disadvantages at all.
Yeah, that’s gonna be a big seller! ^^
I mean, how twisted can one’s reality be? Reminds me of North Koreans, who are brainwashed to think that if they touch something with a American flag on it, that their hands will literally rot off. (I saw an interview with someone who gets people out of there. Wanna know where they flee to? China! Because it’s so much better.”(TM))
Or schizophrenic people whose logic and inner model stops being based on reality.
But I tend to see the good in in: They will go down even faster. Yay. :) ;)
(Oh, and they will go waaayyy down. Where it’s hot and sulfury
I don’t get why so many men act like the woman in the relationship.
Let her enter your reality. Lead. Say no. Have some balls, man!
No, that won’t drive her away. Quite the opposite!
Simple. Let him fuck the armpits! ^^
On a more serious note: I gotta try that the next time... ...oh, wait!
So that is why Little John did say “fuck her in the eye, fuck her in the eye, ... bliind the bitch”.
And it’s more effective to stimulate is from the inside. If you know what I mean.
No. That doesn’t make you gay. If another man would be involved, then it would be gay. ^^
BTW: TMI? Pff... You’re pussies! After seeing every shocker on the net, nothing can unsettle me anymore. ;)
It would require more like 25,000% more demand, to be even considered as a target platform by me. :)
Oh, and if you dare to lock it down, like Apple, you lost the game before it started.
— A mobile software developer.
Your problem is, that you let someone else decide, which choices you have. And on top of that, which are valid.
Or more general: The problem is that you completely live in some asshole’s (sense of) reality.
Get out there, and think for yourself. :)
Are they hiring?
Because I bet every criminal in existence will want to “work” there (read: terrorize others, rape, steal and kill).
INTERPOL: The SS of the 21st century? Now global!
That may be the reason for speedup in Java scripts test?
Sorry, in this case it really is “JavaScript (scripts) test“. :)
Java is something completely different than JavaScript. As much as C++ and Python are different, but the first one was partially inspired the second one. Java was originally called Oak. And JavaScript can be called ECMAScript. Maybe that makes it easier to keep them apart.
Uuum, sorry? I use 64 bit Flash on Linux right now. Yes, from Adobe.
They still call it alpha, but apart from it sometimes hanging the browser for a minute at start, but then working... and a bit of memory leaking... it is no different from the r32 bin Windows release version.
Also, video playback is much faster with it.
Also, no 64 plug-in is a lousy excuse. As we use Flash on 64 bit systems trough multilib/“emulation” since forever. :)
Oh, and since my Firefox is self-compiled, I’m pretty sure it also is 64 bit.
That’s because you got no hardware acceleration in your graphics card. It has nothing to do with the GPU. And i can tell you that on my system, a 1080p video with 5.1 just sound barely runs at all, eating the whole CPU alive.
So 35% without hardware acceleration is actually pretty good.
Have you looked up if the card and driver actually support acceleration, and if you really have it enabled? VDPAU? Something like that?
By the way: That’s the reason you should never ever use a recent ATi card with Linux. There just is zero hardware video acceleration. And if there is, it looks so bad, that you have to disable it to get rid of huge blocking, and contrast set up so high that there is just either black or white, with, like, 3 levels in-between. ;)
Well, I wonder why this is so hard for you... Just look at the release dates of the chips. Newer chips are nearly always better, when they have the name name. Usually you can even guess the release date, by looking at the frequency times the cores times perhaps one big feature.
I never had problems. And I remember AMD having Athlons with no difference except the serial number showing what core actually was inside. So I just bought those with the higher frequency (and nowadays more cores).
(Ok, I also used to turn 550 MHz CPUs into 950 MHz ones with only a pencil (to reconnect cut bridges). :)
...and tomorrow it’s us.
Those were my first thoughts. Pretty sad.
But then I thought: And what would it change, to have all people of the country in yet another database? I mean they already have a list of their population, don’t they?
LOL. You’re kidding, right?
Step out of the tiny tiny box first, would ya? Then we can talk. :)
Wrong. That was the definition. The definition has changed.
Now it’s
1st world: Rich “western” ( including Japan, South Korea) countries that control the world. (Well, that was somehow always the definition.)
2nd world: Countries that somehow can do on their own, but don’t really control anything. (Or that we think do not control anything.) Like China, Brazil, Mexico, eastern European countries, etc.
3rd world: Everything else. So everything that in fully oppressed by the 1st world or some other wacko group, sucked dry and raped.
As for hegemony, I raise you: China owns you. ;))
(Yea, so since you own us, they own us too. Yaay.)
But isn’t the US better described as an union of industrial feudalistis.
I write deep, intelligent comments. Comments that stir up reality as perceived. Things that I literally researched for years and thought about more than I can count. Insights that just stun me.
And THIS gets a +5, Insightful? Of all comments?? THIS?
Guys... I hate you... :(
Here, there’s something that deserves that score: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1495386&cid=30621228
Uuum, just so you know. They did not hold a war against Afghanistan back then. They were at war with the USA. Yes. The cold war was hot there. It went like this: The US gave tons of weapons and money to the fighters (mujaheddin) who then fought the Russians, and died. It was a power play of the two super powers, over which countries they control. I know because my father’s life basically was what you see in Rambo 3.
Where do you think the weapons that now are used to shoot at your soldiers, come from in the first place?
And I would not be surprised at all, if it now went the other way around, with Russia fueling them too. Dunno.
Same thing in the Ukraine: Remember that “orange revolution”. Well, turns out, most of those you saw on TV, were US agents and extras. It was just shown as the evil Russia-friendly guy rigging the election. Which, I guess, was true too. But then the US-friendly guy rigged the election. No different. It all came out, and turns out now it seems the people actually really wanted the Russia-friendly guy. Because now he’s in charge. But who knows... It’s just the two super-powers rigging the whole government of other nations, fighting silly games with the fate and freedom of millions.
And sometimes letting other die for them too.
There you see what propaganda can do. I also thought that that Russia-friendly guy would be an evil Russian plot. But did not even get the idea, that the opposite could be just as true. We lived in a completely rigged reality here. They lived in a just as rigged one in Russia-friendly states.
And that’s why I stopped watching any mainstream media. Because how you know they try to rig your reality? Their mouths are open. I have no doubt that every single statement is there to transport a mindset. Modern psychology.
If there would be a God, and if there were one thing I would thank anyone for, it would be the Internet. I can stay friends with Americans, Russians, Chinese, Arabs, and just tell those criminals called our governments, to go fuck themselves. Cause we don’t need them anymore, and their end is near.
They're racing in the same division as much bigger fish called Apple and Google,
I’m sorry? Apple and Google may be big companies, but in the mobile phone sector they are not able to hold a candle to Nokia. Nokia has ten times more experience and market share, than both of them combined!
(I’m not exaggerating. They did car phones in 1981 and their first really portable mobile phone is from 1987. Apple’s global market share is somewhere around 4%. Google’s is negligible. Nokia’s is somewhere around 45%.)
Yes, they were a bit resting on their laurels, and got caught with the pants down by Apple. But that can only happen to someone who has laurels, if one has laurels to rest on. :)
Now they accelerate again, and I have no doubt that they are working hard to get back what they lost.
Ovi is in my eyes somehow pointless. Apple had to create an app store, because that is the only way that control freaks of that level could offer any software for their phone at all.
With Nokia we had the ability to download/buy software from anywhere, simply copy it on the phone and install it since forever with Symbian. Just like you would do it with your laptop. No need for any stupid app store.
Which does not mean that it can’t be useful for those who don’t know where to search. Like a web portal (like Yahoo/Lycos/etc) was useful for newbies back in the days.
The thing is: There will be a time, when app stores will be a thing of the past too. And Apple will have huge problems with that.
All in all, I hope nobody wins so that we all win. Interesting times ahead... :)
1. To shutdown the Amiga, you turned it off. There was no delay, no Start->Shutdown...wait possibly forever...
Well, DOS did that too. But there’s a reason this is not used anymore: Cache. Especially disk cache. So if you disable all caching, you can turn your system off at any time. Of course be sure to first close any apps that might be killed in mid-air.
Or use hibernate or sleep mode. It allows you to do the same with cache enabled. Just that if you want your ram be powered off, it has to be saved on disk, which because of today’s HDD speed, takes a little while. (Or use non-volatile RAM.)
2. Sliding screens. Why not give each application its own full screen and allow the user to pull down the top menu to slide between these screens.
That’s exactly what I do with the CompizFusion cube (and some window rules, enforcing fullscreen, etc). But you can do it with any window manager that supports multiple virtual desktops. The top menu would then be the virtual desktop chooser.
There are even tools to do this in Windows. But I bet it’s more comfortable and elegant in XMonad.
3. Simple speech device. What could be easier than "LIST > speak:" to say a directory listing?
Well, in UNIX environments, everything is a file. I bet it’s easy to run a text-to-speech daemon that listens on a pipe (and socket) for a text stream. Should be up and running in a few minutes in Linux.
4. Bidirectional linked list filesystem. If you lose a sector or sector link, most of the file could be rebuilt by following links from both ends towards the bad sector. (Disk doctor)
Well, we try to prevent losing sectors in the first place. And bidirectional is not much better than unidirectional. So we try to do much more advanced solutions. There are b-trees, and really cool stuff, which definitely is better than a simple linked list. I’d recommend ZFS with scrubbing or something alike.
5. The keyboard garage. The 1985 Amiga 1000 keyboard tucked neatly under the computer where it didn't take up desk space, was hidden from children's fingers and was spill-proof.
Well, you know those drawer-like things that you can mount below the table top, so you can put the keyboard on it? I think that solves it.
6. Tight integration of hardware with O.S. O.k. this works against everything we've been taught about abstracting everything but since the PC world has boiled down to little more than an O.S. monopoly, a hardware monopoly and a graphics card monopoly, why not eliminate some of the levels of abstraction that will never be used and make my 2Ghz PC perform every day tasks at least as well as my 7Mhz Amiga did?
Well, I’m all for taking out everyone who develops a inner platform, and shooting him.
But I’m also for abstraction where it makes sense.
The thing is, that abstraction does not have to be mutually exclusive to extremely tight integration. My Gentoo Linux is compiled in a way that it runs only on my CPU and on my system. The abstraction is at the source code level. Not so much at the binary level.
Only in Linux desktop environments (which rape and torture the whole UNIX philosophy by the way) are there loads of stupid abstractions and frameworks. (Nearly as a OS running is a browser.) But there is a project to circumvent the whole X system. (I think it’s called Wayland.)
Then again, you don’t expect everyone to program straight to the metal, do you? I think things like OpenGL, which are already very tightly integrated into the graphics card and driver, and also mostly just an abstraction on the source code level, are very much making sense and not slowing things down at all. Quite the opposite.
You see, that’s why I love Linux. You can at least do it (or choos
uptight potential employer
Sorry, but that’s mutually exclusive. Either he’s a potential employer. Or he’s uptight, in which case I’d not see him as a potential employer anyway.
OK, on the other hand, in my business model, there are no employers or employees. There are business partnerships. (Nearly the same thing, but without any enforcement of exclusivity or who gets to hire someone. Also the relationships are equal. Not king & slave.)
Yes. Or does the USA have at least 3 Colognes too again? ^^
As the wise Dr. Cox once said: “I am fairly sure that if they took porn off the Internet, there would only be one website left, and it would be called ‘Bring back the porn’.”