Nope. A guy who goes by the name Tridge (TiVoNet, ExtractStream fame) has come up with a way to feed the TiVo program guide data in a form it likes. Hasn't released it out of respect for TiVo, but if they go under there is a plan B.
Mostly, it's how all nVidia cards can run off the same basic driver. ATi hasn't managed to achieve this degree of virtulaziation, and if nVidia open-sourced their drivers, they are (rightfully) afraid that ATi would figure out exactly how nV is managing it, and the one clear-cut advantage nV has (better driver support) would go bye-bye.
Personally, I like the way things work right now. nV is pretty snappy at supplying new drivers. I don't understand why "support linux" == "release specs" and != "write GOOD linux drivers for your hardware""?
While the above comment was made in jest, I would have to agree here. If this port of OS X isn't on KaZaA or some other P2P network, it doesn't exist. Apple builds for OS X for PPC get leaked onto P2P left and right. Short of Apple Security being more ruthless than the SS in WW2 (And since we haven't heard any horror stories like there are about Intel security...), I don't believe this story for a minute.
Please. Linux, along with all operating systems (*COUGH* Microsoft *COUGH*) should consider all major changes to the core of the OS experimental until they are well tested amongst a diverse hardware base.
I am sure Alan does not think that Linux as a whole should move into an experimental role; that would completely preclude using Linux in a server environment such as a web server, SMB server, NFS server, mail server, SQL server, you get the drift.
It is important for those of us brave enough to test out these "experimental" changes so that they can be tested and revised so that they are not "experimental" anymore and are actually stable.
Hint, hint it's the same way that Linus handles it... There is a stable and unstable code fork. For Linus, the stable kernels have even minor revision codes (2.0, 2.2, 2.4) and the unstable have odd revision codes (2.1, 2.3, 2.5). Alan's is just a relatively stable but still considered unstable branch on the stable kernel tree.
TiVo and Replay will disable features customers like in half a heartbeat when it suits their revenue model, or the whims of a judge in the pocket of the MPAA
Can't really fault TiVo for the judge part. If a judge orders you to do something, you better d@mn well do it.
And, in the abstract it does. It makes software something that you don't own at all, something that does not carry with it the warranties and rights normally associated with something you purchase.
The software world has operated under this assumption for years, but the DMCA cements it into law. For example, if I "disassemble" my car's engine to add a turbo, that is my perrogative. If I reverse-engineer WinXP to replace IE with Mozilla, I'll be sharing a jail cell with "Bubba".
Now, what does this have to do with my first comment? Easy, each step Microsoft takes away from the normal service and product mentality into the murky land of IP, the easier they can get away with requiring licenses for Windows for PowerMacs.
Well, once upon a time Microsoft had a port of NT4 for PowerPC. Now granted it never actually worked on Macs (It was for RS/4000 class machines, I believe), but wouldn't a site license covering Macs obligate Microsoft to provide a PowerPC XP?
Oh yeah, never mind. The DMCA eliminated consumer rights.
A)There were CHRP machines. CHRP succedded (Well, as much as can be expected), but Apple pulled out. At any rate, it was unlikely that Apple would've ever allowed non-Apple machines to boot MacOS; it was more of a "Let's make Apple hardware CHRP compatible so it can boot AIX", not a "Let's make the MacOS CHRP-compliant so everybody can sell a MacOS box".
B)Apple did ship two CHRP machines. ANS-500 and ANS-700; gigantic machines that ran AIX from IBM.
C)Mac OS 8.0 would boot on PReP-compliant machines. AFAIK, 8.1 breaks the PReP compliance, but I dunno for sure as I've never had the opportunity to play with PReP hardware.
D)Why does everyone hate Apple hardware so much? From this company that no-one has ever seen a product from, for $450 plus shipping, you get a sub-700MHz G3 with 256k onboard L2 cache running a 133MHz bus that does not support DDR RAM, no video, no HD, nothing. Pretty expensive motherboard and processor. From Apple, a computer company that has been around for 20 years and made many super successful products (Apple IIe, Mac LC series, PowerMac 7600, B&W G3, iMac, iBook), for $1449 you get an Apple iBook with 12.1" active matrix LCD screen, 5 hour battery life, 600MHz G3, 128MB SDRAM, 15GB HD, combo DVD-ROM/CD-RW, and a Rage 128 video card. And it's a laptop... I love the iBook 12"!!! It's so petite, it reminds me of the PowerBook 2400c.
The FV16 is not, I repeat NOT, a HDTV. It is an excellent deal and has an excellent picture, but it is just a "regular" TV. It CANNOT take advantage of progressive scan.
They're not laws. They're contracts! Some contracts cannot be enforcable, because it's illegal to deny a consumer certain rights (such as fair-use backups.) Lets hope this is the case.
This will probably come down to whether or not the case goes before a tech-savvy judge that can understand that there are legal reasons when you would use a flash memory card on a GBA. For example, there are free games written by people available on the internet. Nintendo can argue that their EULA does not permit unlicensed 3rd parties from developing games, but that probalby won't fly in court.
The problem is that while Nintendo's EULA is governed by state and federal law, there is nothing to preclude the DMCA (Which is federal law), except a decision by the Supreme Court. While it is possible for any Federal court to throw that law out, it is unlikely that it will be overturned by a lowly Federal judge...
Long story short, if this case comes down to the Constitutionality of the DMCA, you'll be waiting for a while...
Loki had a good business plan. They just screwed it up. First off, they took far too long porting games; they were still charging full price when the Win9x version was in the bargain bin. Second, the one game that they could've cleaned up on, even after their porting lag (The Sims) they chose not to follow up on.
Really, I'm not kidding. The Sims would've saved Loki. One bad move really can put you out of business.
True, however, TiVo cannot know what shows to suggest without outside information. TiVo Inc. gives the TiVo a list of shows to suggest based on viewing habits.
Look at it this way. TiVo, by itself, would not know to suggest E:FC to someone who watches Andromeda or B5. To TiVo, the only thing they have in common is their genre, SciFi. If TiVo only suggested shows in the same genre, it's suggestion program would be very useless. But instead, TiVo Inc collects our viewing data, analyzes it, and prepares a general suggestion "map" if you will, one where the TiVo knows that if you give E:FC two thumbs and B5 three thumbs, then you might like Andromeda (Same genre). But, because TiVo Inc analyzes our viewing data, TiVo can also "know" that E:FC and B5 are about personal interaction, and that a E:FC fan might also like Sports Night or Scrubs.
I totally agree with them; the iPaq doesn't have a long battery life.
Be careful which iPaq you are refering to. The 4bit B&W iPaq 3135 which has 16MB of RAM and the same processor as the color models, gets battery life measured in tens of hours unlike the color model.
Well, the TiVo does have a system variable called OptStatus that has status [OptNeutral, OptOut, OptIn], and this variable is actually transmitted back to TiVo Inc. when it retrieves program guide data. For 300,000 people, that little variable is quite a bit of bandwidth to be transmitted every day if TiVo didn't care.
Also, TiVo Inc. has to know what programs you watch, so that the TiVo can suggest similar shows that you might like. AFAIK, no one else has ever done this sort of statistical sampling/analysis before. Amazon does it on books, but this is far more ambitious. They are basically collecting every person that watches Bablyon 5, what other shows they watch, correlating that data, and then suggesting shows based on the statistical strength to other people that watch B5...
I owned a developer edition for a while. It was the most disappointing PDA I have ever owned, especially when you consider that it only had a serial port and Agenda's proprietary IO connector. Top that with limited RAM and flash space, short battery life, and the same price as a much more capable iPaq 3135...
The second you get home, you pop out the engine and stick it in a different car, or maybe you make some modifications to it. Two weeks later, the engine stops working, but you have a warranty. Do you think the mechanic that installed it would honor their standard warranty? Probably not.
Unless that mechanic can prove that your modifications directly contributed to the failure, he has broken the law... He might have grounds to void the warranty on the labor/installation, but he can't void the warranty on parts without proving you caused the damage. Food for thought.
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Battery life. Did you ever play on a Game Gear, or Lynx? People want handheld gaming systems that will run longer than 2 hours on a set of batteries.
While I would normally agree with this, I think that you will find that "normal" Mac users aren't yet running OS X. It's mostly us UNIX loving freaks running it. Most of us have at least two partitions, personally I have three (Mac OS X, Mac OS 9.1, Downloads). It really helped back in the day to be able to reformat and reinstall without losing my downloads.
Why is Linux technically called "GNU-Linux"? It's not because of the Linux kernel; it's for the GNU tools that are attached to the Linux kernel. In theory, if I built a whole toolchain and simple programs to run under the Linux kernel, and they wern't GNU tools, my distro wouldn't be "GNU-Linux", it would be something else.
It _is_ correct to refer to the package of GNU programs for Darwin/OS X as "GNU-Darwin". It has nothing to do with whether or not Darwin is GNU and everything to do with the tools being GNU. In theory, your Windows box with GNU software (If it has the full set) is now "GNU-Windows". Pretty nifty eh?
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Nonono, this ruling goes more towards saying that you can't sign away your basic rights, which in this case would be the right of free speech.
Which, of course is correct as the Constitution and therefore the Bill of Rights takes prescedent over everything else in this country.
Well... It's supposed to anyway.
Illegal, yes. But wouldn't the actual damages for said infringement be $0 because the item isn't in Nintendo's catalog, even for special orders?
Nope. A guy who goes by the name Tridge (TiVoNet, ExtractStream fame) has come up with a way to feed the TiVo program guide data in a form it likes. Hasn't released it out of respect for TiVo, but if they go under there is a plan B.
At least the NWN team is working at it. Most gaming companies don't give a damn about Linux and never even offer a port.
Mostly, it's how all nVidia cards can run off the same basic driver. ATi hasn't managed to achieve this degree of virtulaziation, and if nVidia open-sourced their drivers, they are (rightfully) afraid that ATi would figure out exactly how nV is managing it, and the one clear-cut advantage nV has (better driver support) would go bye-bye.
Personally, I like the way things work right now. nV is pretty snappy at supplying new drivers. I don't understand why "support linux" == "release specs" and != "write GOOD linux drivers for your hardware""?
Why isn't Disney all over this? :-)
While the above comment was made in jest, I would have to agree here. If this port of OS X isn't on KaZaA or some other P2P network, it doesn't exist. Apple builds for OS X for PPC get leaked onto P2P left and right. Short of Apple Security being more ruthless than the SS in WW2 (And since we haven't heard any horror stories like there are about Intel security...), I don't believe this story for a minute.
Please. Linux, along with all operating systems (*COUGH* Microsoft *COUGH*) should consider all major changes to the core of the OS experimental until they are well tested amongst a diverse hardware base.
I am sure Alan does not think that Linux as a whole should move into an experimental role; that would completely preclude using Linux in a server environment such as a web server, SMB server, NFS server, mail server, SQL server, you get the drift.
It is important for those of us brave enough to test out these "experimental" changes so that they can be tested and revised so that they are not "experimental" anymore and are actually stable.
Hint, hint it's the same way that Linus handles it... There is a stable and unstable code fork. For Linus, the stable kernels have even minor revision codes (2.0, 2.2, 2.4) and the unstable have odd revision codes (2.1, 2.3, 2.5). Alan's is just a relatively stable but still considered unstable branch on the stable kernel tree.
Can't really fault TiVo for the judge part. If a judge orders you to do something, you better d@mn well do it.
And, in the abstract it does. It makes software something that you don't own at all, something that does not carry with it the warranties and rights normally associated with something you purchase.
The software world has operated under this assumption for years, but the DMCA cements it into law. For example, if I "disassemble" my car's engine to add a turbo, that is my perrogative. If I reverse-engineer WinXP to replace IE with Mozilla, I'll be sharing a jail cell with "Bubba".
Now, what does this have to do with my first comment? Easy, each step Microsoft takes away from the normal service and product mentality into the murky land of IP, the easier they can get away with requiring licenses for Windows for PowerMacs.
I never said this was a DMCA issue, "jackass". Re-read my comment, get a fucking clue, then respond.
Well, once upon a time Microsoft had a port of NT4 for PowerPC. Now granted it never actually worked on Macs (It was for RS/4000 class machines, I believe), but wouldn't a site license covering Macs obligate Microsoft to provide a PowerPC XP?
Oh yeah, never mind. The DMCA eliminated consumer rights.
As I remember, Palm was founded by ex-Newton employees...?
A)There were CHRP machines. CHRP succedded (Well, as much as can be expected), but Apple pulled out. At any rate, it was unlikely that Apple would've ever allowed non-Apple machines to boot MacOS; it was more of a "Let's make Apple hardware CHRP compatible so it can boot AIX", not a "Let's make the MacOS CHRP-compliant so everybody can sell a MacOS box".
B)Apple did ship two CHRP machines. ANS-500 and ANS-700; gigantic machines that ran AIX from IBM.
C)Mac OS 8.0 would boot on PReP-compliant machines. AFAIK, 8.1 breaks the PReP compliance, but I dunno for sure as I've never had the opportunity to play with PReP hardware.
D)Why does everyone hate Apple hardware so much? From this company that no-one has ever seen a product from, for $450 plus shipping, you get a sub-700MHz G3 with 256k onboard L2 cache running a 133MHz bus that does not support DDR RAM, no video, no HD, nothing. Pretty expensive motherboard and processor. From Apple, a computer company that has been around for 20 years and made many super successful products (Apple IIe, Mac LC series, PowerMac 7600, B&W G3, iMac, iBook), for $1449 you get an Apple iBook with 12.1" active matrix LCD screen, 5 hour battery life, 600MHz G3, 128MB SDRAM, 15GB HD, combo DVD-ROM/CD-RW, and a Rage 128 video card. And it's a laptop... I love the iBook 12"!!! It's so petite, it reminds me of the PowerBook 2400c.
The FV16 is not, I repeat NOT, a HDTV. It is an excellent deal and has an excellent picture, but it is just a "regular" TV. It CANNOT take advantage of progressive scan.
This will probably come down to whether or not the case goes before a tech-savvy judge that can understand that there are legal reasons when you would use a flash memory card on a GBA. For example, there are free games written by people available on the internet. Nintendo can argue that their EULA does not permit unlicensed 3rd parties from developing games, but that probalby won't fly in court.
The problem is that while Nintendo's EULA is governed by state and federal law, there is nothing to preclude the DMCA (Which is federal law), except a decision by the Supreme Court. While it is possible for any Federal court to throw that law out, it is unlikely that it will be overturned by a lowly Federal judge...
Long story short, if this case comes down to the Constitutionality of the DMCA, you'll be waiting for a while...
Loki had a good business plan. They just screwed it up. First off, they took far too long porting games; they were still charging full price when the Win9x version was in the bargain bin. Second, the one game that they could've cleaned up on, even after their porting lag (The Sims) they chose not to follow up on.
Really, I'm not kidding. The Sims would've saved Loki. One bad move really can put you out of business.
True, however, TiVo cannot know what shows to suggest without outside information. TiVo Inc. gives the TiVo a list of shows to suggest based on viewing habits.
Look at it this way. TiVo, by itself, would not know to suggest E:FC to someone who watches Andromeda or B5. To TiVo, the only thing they have in common is their genre, SciFi. If TiVo only suggested shows in the same genre, it's suggestion program would be very useless. But instead, TiVo Inc collects our viewing data, analyzes it, and prepares a general suggestion "map" if you will, one where the TiVo knows that if you give E:FC two thumbs and B5 three thumbs, then you might like Andromeda (Same genre). But, because TiVo Inc analyzes our viewing data, TiVo can also "know" that E:FC and B5 are about personal interaction, and that a E:FC fan might also like Sports Night or Scrubs.
It's all about the statistics, baby.
Be careful which iPaq you are refering to. The 4bit B&W iPaq 3135 which has 16MB of RAM and the same processor as the color models, gets battery life measured in tens of hours unlike the color model.
Well, the TiVo does have a system variable called OptStatus that has status [OptNeutral, OptOut, OptIn], and this variable is actually transmitted back to TiVo Inc. when it retrieves program guide data. For 300,000 people, that little variable is quite a bit of bandwidth to be transmitted every day if TiVo didn't care.
Also, TiVo Inc. has to know what programs you watch, so that the TiVo can suggest similar shows that you might like. AFAIK, no one else has ever done this sort of statistical sampling/analysis before. Amazon does it on books, but this is far more ambitious. They are basically collecting every person that watches Bablyon 5, what other shows they watch, correlating that data, and then suggesting shows based on the statistical strength to other people that watch B5...
I owned a developer edition for a while. It was the most disappointing PDA I have ever owned, especially when you consider that it only had a serial port and Agenda's proprietary IO connector. Top that with limited RAM and flash space, short battery life, and the same price as a much more capable iPaq 3135...
Unless that mechanic can prove that your modifications directly contributed to the failure, he has broken the law... He might have grounds to void the warranty on the labor/installation, but he can't void the warranty on parts without proving you caused the damage. Food for thought.
Battery life. Did you ever play on a Game Gear, or Lynx? People want handheld gaming systems that will run longer than 2 hours on a set of batteries.
While I would normally agree with this, I think that you will find that "normal" Mac users aren't yet running OS X. It's mostly us UNIX loving freaks running it. Most of us have at least two partitions, personally I have three (Mac OS X, Mac OS 9.1, Downloads). It really helped back in the day to be able to reformat and reinstall without losing my downloads.
Why is Linux technically called "GNU-Linux"? It's not because of the Linux kernel; it's for the GNU tools that are attached to the Linux kernel. In theory, if I built a whole toolchain and simple programs to run under the Linux kernel, and they wern't GNU tools, my distro wouldn't be "GNU-Linux", it would be something else.
It _is_ correct to refer to the package of GNU programs for Darwin/OS X as "GNU-Darwin". It has nothing to do with whether or not Darwin is GNU and everything to do with the tools being GNU. In theory, your Windows box with GNU software (If it has the full set) is now "GNU-Windows". Pretty nifty eh?