This has nothing to do with LMI trying to collect money on the License for "Linux", it just gives distributions the ability to sub-license the word so that for instance "Red Hat Linux" is a trademark of Red Hat Enterprises or whatever, rather than "Red Hat" being their trademark and "Linux" being a trademark of Linus Torvalds. This protects them from some asshat out there licensing the full term "Red Hat Linux" and then suing Red Hat. LMI is in no way forcing people to "chip in" to Linux.
Since the media backlash on this, they restored access to the site and GOT an injunction, so good call.... for what its worth though, there were never pictures of scabs posted on this site. Other ones yes, but this site was always clean.
Actually the situation is, the company has completely refused to negotiate with the Telecom Worker's Union for over 5 years now. They were twice ordered into binding arbitration by the government, and twice managed to appeal the decision. Now they've unilaterally implemented a new contract effective July 22nd, which is why the union members consider themselves locked out. Telus has been convicted of refusing to bargain in good faith 3 times now, but the government won't do anything about it. The TWU charged the governing board with bias, and the case was dismissed.
I am personally "locked out" due to this, and while I have no interest or intent to ever return to work for such a deplorable company, I and many others plan on walking the line for as long as it takes to make sure they don't get away with this.
Other Canadian and even American unions have pledged over 50 million dollars to our cause so far, and have been picketing with us, because this sets a very disturbing precident for labour relations everywhere.
Okay, well I was raised Catholic (in fact my Uncle is a Roman Catholic priest). I have a B.Sc. in Physical Anthropology (human evolutionary biology) with a minor in Philosophy.
And I say the grandparent is right. Also, evolution is only understood from one perspective: science. I guess you could argue that science is only understood from philosophy or something, but come on: Evolution is an observation about the world; its existance is true on face value. But that's not what we're talking about. This discussion is about intelligent design vs Natural Selection (Darwin's theory to explain evolutionary processes).
so write a driver for instance, and when it doesn't work right you hand it to someone else who has to first understand what you did in order to fix it? Seems like the original coder should be the one fixing the bugs.
Now if you mean handing it to a QA team, that sounds fine.
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Not only that, we're sustaining you guys too. How's that trade defecit treating you?
Exactly, who the hell cares if DVD-audio and/or SACD is more "precise" in its reproduction if the human ear cannot distinguish it? So the "higher fidelity" argument is crap. It is akin to arguing that digital video should encode ultra-violet light as well as visible. What a waste.
Now for 5.1 sound. Are you telling me that everything you hear at a concert is coming from in front of you? Surely there is crowd noise, reverberations etc. coming from the sides and behind. Not critical, but this is a measurable if arguable benefit to the new formats, unlike the previously mentioned B.S.
No, you mean you don't believe NATURAL SELECTION is a good theory for explaining evolution. If you don't believe in evolution at all you are clearly delusional. Evolution is an observation about the natural world; natural selection is a theory (and a very well supported one, but not without problems) to explain it.
You're making shit up. SACD isn't PCM at all, and it isn't 24-bit either.
Of course, this is irrelevant to the fact that you CAN reproduce the softness (frequency distortion) of an analog recording by recording in analog and then encoding it. Lots of artists do this. 2 channel, 16-bit, 44.1kHz recordings sound identical to DVD-audio (2-ch, 24-bit, 192kHz) when mastered identically, according to numerous listening tests on hydrogenaudio.org.
What you ARE getting with these new formats 5.1 sound (which is nice!) and unbroken DRM (which is the real reason for their existance).
True, but don't forget: The first buyers will be enthusiasts who buy more games, and have a longer console lifespan than those why buy years later. Also, the first bunch of consoles might indeed never be profitable for the company, but they need to establish a decent user base for profit later. 3 years from now the PS3 will cost around $80 to manufacture, and will sell for $100 or so (if history is any indication), so THOSE customers will be the cash cows.
Well, your choice, but i'm running a 9800 pro in my windows box and a 7000 in my Linux machine (with the X.org built-in DRI drivers), with no issues and excellent performance.
Not that i'm a fanboy or anything... My last card was a geforce3, and at this point it looks like my next one will be nvidia as well.
a) Java was DESIGNED for embedded systems, first and foremost. That's why it is hardware-agnostic; because it allows the hardware makers to throw in whatever chips are cheap in bulk at the time, change on a whim, and still push out the same upgrade to everyone. Being cross-platform in the MacOS/Linux/Windows way was just sort of a side-effect. Think about how much this will benefit set-top manufacturers!!
b) Java isn't interpreted anymore... its just-in-time compiled and then executed as native code. A bit of a start-up pause while the classes compile, that's all.
ATI has the advantage though of being supported by the open-source DRI project (although for cutting-edge features you need to use the binaries), while NVIDIA requires the use of binary drivers.
And have you used an ATI card recently? I switched when the 9800 came out, and haven't had any stability problems. They sucked at drivers circa 2001... you might want to take another look.
Glibc as well (and what runs without glibc?) is a huge undertaking by redhat. And most of the rest of the gnu toolchain. Not to mention a significant portion of the Linux kernel patches are submitted by redhat developers.
From a funding point of view alone, Linux would have trouble moving along without RedHat's support. I don't use it personally, but I am still appreciative of what they have given me.
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This has nothing to do with LMI trying to collect money on the License for "Linux", it just gives distributions the ability to sub-license the word so that for instance "Red Hat Linux" is a trademark of Red Hat Enterprises or whatever, rather than "Red Hat" being their trademark and "Linux" being a trademark of Linus Torvalds. This protects them from some asshat out there licensing the full term "Red Hat Linux" and then suing Red Hat. LMI is in no way forcing people to "chip in" to Linux.
I think it's human nature to just look for fault in other's work... ;)
since the chips would be VLIW internally, they could have software x86-VLIW AND powerPC-VLIW translators! So that makes the transition easier as well!
Since the media backlash on this, they restored access to the site and GOT an injunction, so good call. ... for what its worth though, there were never pictures of scabs posted on this site. Other ones yes, but this site was always clean.
Actually the situation is, the company has completely refused to negotiate with the Telecom Worker's Union for over 5 years now. They were twice ordered into binding arbitration by the government, and twice managed to appeal the decision. Now they've unilaterally implemented a new contract effective July 22nd, which is why the union members consider themselves locked out. Telus has been convicted of refusing to bargain in good faith 3 times now, but the government won't do anything about it. The TWU charged the governing board with bias, and the case was dismissed.
I am personally "locked out" due to this, and while I have no interest or intent to ever return to work for such a deplorable company, I and many others plan on walking the line for as long as it takes to make sure they don't get away with this.
Other Canadian and even American unions have pledged over 50 million dollars to our cause so far, and have been picketing with us, because this sets a very disturbing precident for labour relations everywhere.
Okay, well I was raised Catholic (in fact my Uncle is a Roman Catholic priest). I have a B.Sc. in Physical Anthropology (human evolutionary biology) with a minor in Philosophy.
And I say the grandparent is right. Also, evolution is only understood from one perspective: science. I guess you could argue that science is only understood from philosophy or something, but come on: Evolution is an observation about the world; its existance is true on face value. But that's not what we're talking about. This discussion is about intelligent design vs Natural Selection (Darwin's theory to explain evolutionary processes).
Konq only works in CVS as well... Hopefully KDE 3.5, but honestly i'm not sure which branch. Might have to wait for 4.0.
so write a driver for instance, and when it doesn't work right you hand it to someone else who has to first understand what you did in order to fix it? Seems like the original coder should be the one fixing the bugs.
Now if you mean handing it to a QA team, that sounds fine.
Not only that, we're sustaining you guys too. How's that trade defecit treating you?
Damn you easterners and your ethnocentrism... Bell is the regional monopoly over THERE. Telus is the same thing in Alberta and BC.
Exactly, who the hell cares if DVD-audio and/or SACD is more "precise" in its reproduction if the human ear cannot distinguish it? So the "higher fidelity" argument is crap. It is akin to arguing that digital video should encode ultra-violet light as well as visible. What a waste.
Now for 5.1 sound. Are you telling me that everything you hear at a concert is coming from in front of you? Surely there is crowd noise, reverberations etc. coming from the sides and behind. Not critical, but this is a measurable if arguable benefit to the new formats, unlike the previously mentioned B.S.
I was making a point by satirizing yours, but i wasn't necessarily disagreeing with post. Not sure what you mean by my "bias" though.
No, you mean you don't believe NATURAL SELECTION is a good theory for explaining evolution. If you don't believe in evolution at all you are clearly delusional. Evolution is an observation about the natural world; natural selection is a theory (and a very well supported one, but not without problems) to explain it.
Accidents
Pollution
Noise
Oil
All these things are wrong with cars, therefore cars are bad and wrong, and any game containing them should be banned.
EQ2 has no PVP, which i like.
You're making shit up. SACD isn't PCM at all, and it isn't 24-bit either.
Of course, this is irrelevant to the fact that you CAN reproduce the softness (frequency distortion) of an analog recording by recording in analog and then encoding it. Lots of artists do this. 2 channel, 16-bit, 44.1kHz recordings sound identical to DVD-audio (2-ch, 24-bit, 192kHz) when mastered identically, according to numerous listening tests on hydrogenaudio.org.
What you ARE getting with these new formats 5.1 sound (which is nice!) and unbroken DRM (which is the real reason for their existance).
True, but don't forget: The first buyers will be enthusiasts who buy more games, and have a longer console lifespan than those why buy years later. Also, the first bunch of consoles might indeed never be profitable for the company, but they need to establish a decent user base for profit later. 3 years from now the PS3 will cost around $80 to manufacture, and will sell for $100 or so (if history is any indication), so THOSE customers will be the cash cows.
Well, your choice, but i'm running a 9800 pro in my windows box and a 7000 in my Linux machine (with the X.org built-in DRI drivers), with no issues and excellent performance.
Not that i'm a fanboy or anything... My last card was a geforce3, and at this point it looks like my next one will be nvidia as well.
a) Java was DESIGNED for embedded systems, first and foremost. That's why it is hardware-agnostic; because it allows the hardware makers to throw in whatever chips are cheap in bulk at the time, change on a whim, and still push out the same upgrade to everyone. Being cross-platform in the MacOS/Linux/Windows way was just sort of a side-effect. Think about how much this will benefit set-top manufacturers!!
b) Java isn't interpreted anymore... its just-in-time compiled and then executed as native code. A bit of a start-up pause while the classes compile, that's all.
ATI has the advantage though of being supported by the open-source DRI project (although for cutting-edge features you need to use the binaries), while NVIDIA requires the use of binary drivers.
And have you used an ATI card recently? I switched when the 9800 came out, and haven't had any stability problems. They sucked at drivers circa 2001... you might want to take another look.
I agree. Actually i'm rather wondering what MSH is going to provide that WSH doesn't.
Glibc as well (and what runs without glibc?) is a huge undertaking by redhat. And most of the rest of the gnu toolchain. Not to mention a significant portion of the Linux kernel patches are submitted by redhat developers.
From a funding point of view alone, Linux would have trouble moving along without RedHat's support. I don't use it personally, but I am still appreciative of what they have given me.
Even if you did see said speaker get into a pimped-out outback, that doesn't make his point irrelevent. It just makes him an asshole.
For example, if I say "killing is wrong", then kill someone, you can't use that as evidence for the legitimacy of murder.
wow, that THAT I call revolutionizing outside the box!
NASA does have an on-staff poet. http://www.laurieanderson.com/