xbox linux is ILLEGAL software. The developers have broken microsofts encryption to run their own ILLEGAL unlicenced software. This is a violation of the DMCA, and you could be SUED.
Who gives a flying fuck anyway? BTW, Microsoft seems to be passive about 'hack the box' issues so far(from the net hack for Halo to Linux)...maybe they want xbox to get some more attention in the news?
If Microsoft wanted to, they would have sent the Bill Gates Swat Team and stormed their ass down already.
So that's the reason why google now redirects us to our country domain...not only is it just 'themed' but tries to be 'politically correct'(i.e. per country policy).
I guess they need some way to protect their ass from violating laws and regulations...but it could be interesting where this leads to in the future...
They'd alienate the entire Apple infrastructure just to gain a few points on hardware speed that they wouldn't even be able to sell anymore.
Another point: We are at a point where just over a year ago companies were racing to hit that magical '1.0 Ghz' mark for CPUs...and now we have CPU speeds close to 3Ghz! A question that needs to be asked, does anyone need that kind of power? I mean seriously?
We really need to look at the 'computer demograph' to see what people actually use their computer for. For example, both of my brothers regular computer users) browse the internet, chat with their friends on MSN/Yahoo/etc, listen to mp3s, transfer their pics from their digital camera and upload them to their site, and occasionaly use Office. But one of them has a P133Mhz laptop and another a plain old Celery 333Mhz. P133 isn't that capable, but my bro gets by(he doesn't use the digital camera on it though). The celery on the other hand is fully capable, but sometimes its a little sluggish with WinXP in refreshing/redrawing screen and processing the photos.
Now Intel is telling me(or my bros) that we need a Pentium IV 3.0 Ghz to 'Max out my PC'? My bro is already experiencing everything today, and a 10fold jump in Mhz isn't going to liven his experience 10 times.
Yes, there are certain people who are not part of the regular demograph: They want the last bit of FPS from quake3, do intense spread-sheet number crunching, or do gigabytes of video and audio processing. But even then you don't need the latest Ghz speed to have an 'acceptable' level of enjoyment. Lets take games, because I myself am a gamer. Its true that higher CPU Mhz make your games faster, but its to the point where even I don't give a shit anymore about having 300fps in Quake3. It's more important(for me anyways) if I can achieve a descent 60fps and have a good time. Plus games are becoming less dependant on the CPU, and increasingly dependant on the GPU/VPUs for all graphical calculations.
Point of all this discussion: This is why Apple is smart and don't need concentrate on the mythical mhz speed game, but rather focus on their add-on value(nifty looking tech) that is physically tangible by the consumer market.
I see so much of these "solutions", that man there should be a top-ten list just for all the crazy/wacky ways we can avoid getting hit by an asteroid.
But this 'inflatable' airbag is the funniest of them all; even more dumber than 'zapping asteroid with a laser'. Umm, right.
Next thing you know the stuff they use in silicon breast implants will be used to ricochet asteriods...like in pinball, get it? Personally, I think we should use a force field(like the stuff you see in star trek) to block the asteriod, then use our tractor beam to pull it away from earth and throw it somewhere else...like pluto.
Canada *had* this thing too--employer can only force you to work 45 hours with regular pay. After 45 hours , and its upto you...plus you must get 1.5 overtime pay.
But every since last year(in September), they passed legislation that upped the hours to 60. So now companies can force you to work upto 60 hours(definition of 'full-time') without having to pay you overtime. Not only does this hurt hi-tech guys in coding, but it especially hurts the people working in 'regular' jobs such as factories,mcdonalds, and other jobs-that-people-to-do-bring-bread-home as their pressured to work more but get paid less.
Personally, I think Java sucks for everything, but Java clients are good when it comes to remote administration. It allows anyone to use your custom Linux app/hardware/etc. as the backend, and use the Java GUI from an IE browser as the frontend. Point? Allows Linux penetration, with the aid of Java's "crossplatform" GUI.
You should check out SGI's Rhino(GPL/LGPL) system admin package...it allows a java fe + c++ backend. There may be more packages that try to glue the two ends, but this is the only one I know about.
Frankly, it might be better if they just skipped that altogether, and renamed the product. Half the comments on here are people trashing the product just because it's named, "Netscape"
I say they should call it Gecko, but Netscape has enough brand recognition that it would be stupid for them to change it. I guess people still hate Netscape, because after the 4.xx series all they could come up with was Netscape 6, which sux a$$.
Besides, how many warez d00ds are actively swapping copied CDs, anyway? Isn't it all ISO images in these days of broadband?
Only those 'queer' folks who want to copy their friend's Deer Hunter CD because no "real warez d00dz" are going to put that crap on _______.(otherwise "legitimate" ISOs will be shit kicked out of the "circular 3-day buffer")
So how long will it take to come up with "unordinary prodedures".:-)
I'd like to add to your question: Isn't there supposed to be some logic within the "software" to read the keys to decrypt encrypted parts? Wouldn't this be the "unordinary procedure" used? Or am I wrong?
1. Lock the students in a large auditorium. 2. Get a big fat,bald, professor with a big beard to charge onto the stage and chant "YOUR ALL WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!" nonstop for 60 minutes, or until one of the following occurs:
- professor screams running out of the room, because students who refused to 'assimilate' were flashing laser pens at his ass
- students start throwing paper airplanes 3. Professor introduces "new paradigms"/"new technology"/"Windows is the future of computing"/"Paladium: Safe sex with software"/"UNIX is dead" 4. Use fancy laptop screen projectors with cheesy powerpoint sounds and animations to make your audience go "ooohh aaaaahhh". And finally... 5. Make sure they are all first year students, as their the most stupid and easiest to suckers to 'assimilate'. 6. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until perfect. Enjoy!
Though most people have commented on the lack of a business needs preventing the adoption of bleeding edge technology, I think it is more a matter of reliability.
Hehe, yeah right. I think the reason there is a lack of mainstream 3d video cards(i.e. geforce/radeon) at work is because project managers don't want the co-workers to play games and thereby lose (omg!) productivity! Instead they order the low-end vid cards like Matrox g200s or (ouch) ATI rage 128s(usually built in on many motherboards).
This is despite the fact most of the computers in the office will have hundreds of megabytes of ram, googles of disk space, and eye popping monitors. But they can't get a descent 3d-card...it's a conspiracy amongst "the management" and "us"....
Yes, sometimes choice is good. My brother with his Pentium 133 Mhz laptop/w 32MB ram and thought Windows Media Player was the only program that can play mp3s. WMP was slow(hiccups when you play mp3s), hogs a lot of memory, and did I tell you it was slow?
It wasn't until I told him about Winamp and how cool it was. Winamps was faster(doesn't hog memory as it doesn't use IE bloat components), and didn't cause the hiccups.
The point I want to make: Operating System Vendors should provide the end-user with different choices available in programs they like AND make them aware that other choices do exist. After all that is one of the purposes for "operating systems": capability to run any user-space program.
Now when you add another "Vendor Layer" that dictates you must use so and so or else, then the concept of an OS quickly diminishes and you essentially have a "regime" telling you what you are allowed to install and what you are not.
Here I'll give you an perplexing argument: It's funny how scientists can study life,earth,universe,etc. and then come to a grand conclusions that God doesn't exist, changes in species are due to random errors in reproduction, and therefore Darwin is right and everyone else is wrong.
It's suprising that everyone would believe what their science book says, yet many individuals have not seen electrons nor atoms, or witnissed DNA being replicated before their eyes. Yet these same people would say that religion, God, and holy books are nothing but hearsay.
It's suprising that scientists can't even understand the duality of light; yet they can make grand claims that that we humans are from apes/monkeys.
But tell any scientist this: Can you create a mosquito, a fly, a bird or an elephant? No. Can you create a plankton, amoeba, or some other single-celled organism. No. Or even if you can create a fly, can you control it?
How come out of the billions of organisms on earth, we are the only ones who are capable of complex thought and behavior? We have created building, bridges, flied to the moon, and even more.
And how come everything is just so perfect in this world for us: we have air to breath, water to drink, food to eat, sunlight to perform bring the bread home, darkness to sleep. When water falls and dribbles into the land, it will again rise to the clouds and fall again?
Just something to ponder...I know I'll be thrown as flamebait or a Troll, but that's what I get for 'thinking different'.
So the question remains, why will id choose a "peer-to-peer" architecture over the more tried-and-tested client/server architecture? Everyone knows that client-to-client eats too much bandwidth, and more importantly that it's a lot easier for people to cheat when there is not a central server controlling the "law of the game".
Is it because they HAVE to limit the number of players on screen at once, lest have an angry group of consumers complaining about bad framerates? So is id planning to have 4-player peer-to-peer battles so that it will be easy to implement on the Xbox(i.e. 4 xboxes connected together)? Or is it because id doesn't give a flying fuck spending another 6 months developing the network-code and multiplayer maps? Or is it because id thinks that it is only important to have a good network architecture when it licenses out the Doom3 engine commercially(and therefore can delay it for now)? Or is it because I don't understand what id's peer-to-peer system might actually be(you never know what Carmack is doing...possibly making peer-to-peer better than client/server), which therefore nullifies this whole argument?!
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I'm glad Nailer nailed the point home to mosfet and others. Personally, I'm glad Redhat is making things consistent...they are lowering the barrier to linux.
Second point:[rant on]: I absolutely hate the dozens of 'k' programs...i.e koffice,kedit,kwrite,kview,knotes,kjot,kruler,kcvs,ksdk,kdeveloper,kfuck this, kfuck that.
I know kde is trying to create a desktop environment, but that doesn't mean 100s of k programs...why the fuck is koffice even being implemented? Work on making one thing perfect, and don't spread yourselves too thin. I've used kde 3.0, and even though it tries too hard to be like windows, it's still better than gnome2 IMO. These days I use WindowMaker because I like the different and unique approach it takes.
KDE sucks anyway. Oh, and Vim is better than Emacs, Java is a dead buzzword, PHP is far too slow to use in a production environment, Python is for hippies, Perl 6 is massively outclassed by Ruby, *BSD is dying, OS X is just eyecandy, Mozilla is a buggy piece of shit and spaces are better than tabs.
KDE sucks anyway. Oh, and Vim is better than Emacs, Java is a dead buzzword, PHP is far too slow to use in a production environment, Python is for hippies, Perl 6 is massively outclassed by Ruby, *BSD is dying, OS X is just eyecandy, Mozilla is a buggy piece of shit and spaces are better than tabs.
FYI: They use Circular/Pie style menus in Neverwinter Nights.
Personally I found what you said is true: It requires less linear searching, easy to spot things, and, don't have to move the mouse as much.
In Neverwinter Nights, Clicking on a "menu item" on the circular list reveal another deeper list. Right clicking would bring you back to the parent list.
IMO, it's not perfect but a step in the right direction.
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In 1927, when TV was invented...came the dawn of pr0n. So shouldn't pr0n be celebrated too? :)
Someone could create a fractal of the "Linux Kernel"! That would be great, wouldn't it?
xbox linux is ILLEGAL software. The developers have broken microsofts encryption to run their own ILLEGAL unlicenced software. This is a violation of the DMCA, and you could be SUED.
Who gives a flying fuck anyway? BTW, Microsoft seems to be passive about 'hack the box' issues so far(from the net hack for Halo to Linux)...maybe they want xbox to get some more attention in the news?
If Microsoft wanted to, they would have sent the Bill Gates Swat Team and stormed their ass down already.
So that's the reason why google now redirects us to our country domain...not only is it just 'themed' but tries to be 'politically correct'(i.e. per country policy).
I guess they need some way to protect their ass from violating laws and regulations...but it could be interesting where this leads to in the future...
If you have to remotely flush your toilet, odds are you're doing something wrong.
Yeah its wrong--'cause its better to install a pressure-sensative toilet seat: once you raise your ass it'll flush automagically before your eyes.
They'd alienate the entire Apple infrastructure just to gain a few points on hardware speed that they wouldn't even be able to sell anymore.
Another point: We are at a point where just over a year ago companies were racing to hit that magical '1.0 Ghz' mark for CPUs...and now we have CPU speeds close to 3Ghz! A question that needs to be asked, does anyone need that kind of power? I mean seriously?
We really need to look at the 'computer demograph' to see what people actually use their computer for. For example, both of my brothers regular computer users) browse the internet, chat with their friends on MSN/Yahoo/etc, listen to mp3s, transfer their pics from their digital camera and upload them to their site, and occasionaly use Office. But one of them has a P133Mhz laptop and another a plain old Celery 333Mhz. P133 isn't that capable, but my bro gets by(he doesn't use the digital camera on it though). The celery on the other hand is fully capable, but sometimes its a little sluggish with WinXP in refreshing/redrawing screen and processing the photos.
Now Intel is telling me(or my bros) that we need a Pentium IV 3.0 Ghz to 'Max out my PC'? My bro is already experiencing everything today, and a 10fold jump in Mhz isn't going to liven his experience 10 times.
Yes, there are certain people who are not part of the regular demograph: They want the last bit of FPS from quake3, do intense spread-sheet number crunching, or do gigabytes of video and audio processing. But even then you don't need the latest Ghz speed to have an 'acceptable' level of enjoyment. Lets take games, because I myself am a gamer. Its true that higher CPU Mhz make your games faster, but its to the point where even I don't give a shit anymore about having 300fps in Quake3. It's more important(for me anyways) if I can achieve a descent 60fps and have a good time. Plus games are becoming less dependant on the CPU, and increasingly dependant on the GPU/VPUs for all graphical calculations.
Point of all this discussion: This is why Apple is smart and don't need concentrate on the mythical mhz speed game, but rather focus on their add-on value(nifty looking tech) that is physically tangible by the consumer market.
I see so much of these "solutions", that man there should be a top-ten list just for all the crazy/wacky ways we can avoid getting hit by an asteroid.
But this 'inflatable' airbag is the funniest of them all; even more dumber than 'zapping asteroid with a laser'. Umm, right.
Next thing you know the stuff they use in silicon breast implants will be used to ricochet asteriods...like in pinball, get it? Personally, I think we should use a force field(like the stuff you see in star trek) to block the asteriod, then use our tractor beam to pull it away from earth and throw it somewhere else...like pluto.
Canada *had* this thing too--employer can only force you to work 45 hours with regular pay. After 45 hours , and its upto you...plus you must get 1.5 overtime pay.
But every since last year(in September), they passed legislation that upped the hours to 60. So now companies can force you to work upto 60 hours(definition of 'full-time') without having to pay you overtime. Not only does this hurt hi-tech guys in coding, but it especially hurts the people working in 'regular' jobs such as factories,mcdonalds, and other jobs-that-people-to-do-bring-bread-home as their pressured to work more but get paid less.
As usual, companies are happy.
Java still sucks for GUI development today.
Personally, I think Java sucks for everything, but Java clients are good when it comes to remote administration. It allows anyone to use your custom Linux app/hardware/etc. as the backend, and use the Java GUI from an IE browser as the frontend. Point? Allows Linux penetration, with the aid of Java's "crossplatform" GUI.
You should check out SGI's Rhino(GPL/LGPL) system admin package...it allows a java fe + c++ backend. There may be more packages that try to glue the two ends, but this is the only one I know about.
That's why you become a university/college professor instead. It'll be easier for your 'cause you can magically hire TA's to do all the grudgy work...
Lazy ass professors...
Frankly, it might be better if they just skipped that altogether, and renamed the product. Half the comments on here are people trashing the product just because it's named, "Netscape"
I say they should call it Gecko, but Netscape has enough brand recognition that it would be stupid for them to change it. I guess people still hate Netscape, because after the 4.xx series all they could come up with was Netscape 6, which sux a$$.
I'm waiting for desktop CPUs with SpeedStep which clock down to 100 MHz when you're doing vi editing
Arrgh....vi. I wish I could speedstep my processor down to 100 mhz with Emacs. Funny, with emacs I don't see any speedstepping....I wonder why...
Besides, how many warez d00ds are actively swapping copied CDs, anyway? Isn't it all ISO images in these days of broadband?
Only those 'queer' folks who want to copy their friend's Deer Hunter CD because no "real warez d00dz" are going to put that crap on _______.(otherwise "legitimate" ISOs will be shit kicked out of the "circular 3-day buffer")
So how long will it take to come up with "unordinary prodedures". :-)
I'd like to add to your question: Isn't there supposed to be some logic within the "software" to read the keys to decrypt encrypted parts? Wouldn't this be the "unordinary procedure" used? Or am I wrong?
Lesson is: Down with jealous CIO/CTO/UFO(hehe) who can't do nothing for shit(and who think they know everything)!
That's why the're in "IT" management, 'cause they're too stupid to program even in (omg!) Visual Basic.
1. Lock the students in a large auditorium.
2. Get a big fat,bald, professor with a big beard to charge onto the stage and chant "YOUR ALL WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!" nonstop for 60 minutes, or until one of the following occurs:
- professor screams running out of the room, because students who refused to 'assimilate' were flashing laser pens at his ass
- students start throwing paper airplanes
3. Professor introduces "new paradigms"/"new technology"/"Windows is the future of computing"/"Paladium: Safe sex with software"/"UNIX is dead"
4. Use fancy laptop screen projectors with cheesy powerpoint sounds and animations to make your audience go "ooohh aaaaahhh". And finally...
5. Make sure they are all first year students, as their the most stupid and easiest to suckers to 'assimilate'.
6. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until perfect. Enjoy!
Though most people have commented on the lack of a business needs preventing the adoption of bleeding edge technology, I think it is more a matter of reliability.
Hehe, yeah right. I think the reason there is a lack of mainstream 3d video cards(i.e. geforce/radeon) at work is because project managers don't want the co-workers to play games and thereby lose (omg!) productivity! Instead they order the low-end vid cards like Matrox g200s or (ouch) ATI rage 128s(usually built in on many motherboards).
This is despite the fact most of the computers in the office will have hundreds of megabytes of ram, googles of disk space, and eye popping monitors. But they can't get a descent 3d-card...it's a conspiracy amongst "the management" and "us"....
Yes, sometimes choice is good. My brother with his Pentium 133 Mhz laptop /w 32MB ram and thought Windows Media Player was the only program that can play mp3s. WMP was slow(hiccups when you play mp3s), hogs a lot of memory, and did I tell you it was slow?
It wasn't until I told him about Winamp and how cool it was. Winamps was faster(doesn't hog memory as it doesn't use IE bloat components), and didn't cause the hiccups.
The point I want to make: Operating System Vendors should provide the end-user with different choices available in programs they like AND make them aware that other choices do exist. After all that is one of the purposes for "operating systems": capability to run any user-space program.
Now when you add another "Vendor Layer" that dictates you must use so and so or else, then the concept of an OS quickly diminishes and you essentially have a "regime" telling you what you are allowed to install and what you are not.
Here I'll give you an perplexing argument: It's funny how scientists can study life,earth,universe,etc. and then come to a grand conclusions that God doesn't exist, changes in species are due to random errors in reproduction, and therefore Darwin is right and everyone else is wrong.
It's suprising that everyone would believe what their science book says, yet many individuals have not seen electrons nor atoms, or witnissed DNA being replicated before their eyes. Yet these same people would say that religion, God, and holy books are nothing but hearsay.
It's suprising that scientists can't even understand the duality of light; yet they can make grand claims that that we humans are from apes/monkeys.
But tell any scientist this: Can you create a mosquito, a fly, a bird or an elephant? No. Can you create a plankton, amoeba, or some other single-celled organism. No. Or even if you can create a fly, can you control it?
How come out of the billions of organisms on earth, we are the only ones who are capable of complex thought and behavior? We have created building, bridges, flied to the moon, and even more.
And how come everything is just so perfect in this world for us: we have air to breath, water to drink, food to eat, sunlight to perform bring the bread home, darkness to sleep. When water falls and dribbles into the land, it will again rise to the clouds and fall again?
Just something to ponder...I know I'll be thrown as flamebait or a Troll, but that's what I get for 'thinking different'.
So the question remains, why will id choose a "peer-to-peer" architecture over the more tried-and-tested client/server architecture? Everyone knows that client-to-client eats too much bandwidth, and more importantly that it's a lot easier for people to cheat when there is not a central server controlling the "law of the game".
Is it because they HAVE to limit the number of players on screen at once, lest have an angry group of consumers complaining about bad framerates? So is id planning to have 4-player peer-to-peer battles so that it will be easy to implement on the Xbox(i.e. 4 xboxes connected together)? Or is it because id doesn't give a flying fuck spending another 6 months developing the network-code and multiplayer maps? Or is it because id thinks that it is only important to have a good network architecture when it licenses out the Doom3 engine commercially(and therefore can delay it for now)? Or is it because I don't understand what id's peer-to-peer system might actually be(you never know what Carmack is doing...possibly making peer-to-peer better than client/server), which therefore nullifies this whole argument?!
The faster you go, the slower time moves around you
Ok Mr. Einstien, then how come when we humans are having fun time goes faster, and when we are bored, times goes slower?? Its a paradox I tell you!
The only one I know who can move so fast and move time backwards is this individual in blue spandex
I'm glad Nailer nailed the point home to mosfet and others. Personally, I'm glad Redhat is making things consistent...they are lowering the barrier to linux.
s ,ksdk,kdeveloper,kfuck this, kfuck that.
Second point:[rant on]: I absolutely hate the dozens of 'k' programs...i.e koffice,kedit,kwrite,kview,knotes,kjot,kruler,kcv
I know kde is trying to create a desktop environment, but that doesn't mean 100s of k programs...why the fuck is koffice even being implemented? Work on making one thing perfect, and don't spread yourselves too thin. I've used kde 3.0, and even though it tries too hard to be like windows, it's still better than gnome2 IMO. These days I use WindowMaker because I like the different and unique approach it takes.
[rant off]
KDE sucks anyway. Oh, and Vim is better than Emacs, Java is a dead buzzword, PHP is far too slow to use in a production environment, Python is for hippies, Perl 6 is massively outclassed by Ruby, *BSD is dying, OS X is just eyecandy, Mozilla is a buggy piece of shit and spaces are better than tabs.
And the world is coming to a end!
KDE sucks anyway. Oh, and Vim is better than Emacs, Java is a dead buzzword, PHP is far too slow to use in a production environment, Python is for hippies, Perl 6 is massively outclassed by Ruby, *BSD is dying, OS X is just eyecandy, Mozilla is a buggy piece of shit and spaces are better than tabs.
And all of the above is better than Windows:)
FYI: They use Circular/Pie style menus in Neverwinter Nights.
Personally I found what you said is true: It requires less linear searching, easy to spot things, and, don't have to move the mouse as much.
In Neverwinter Nights, Clicking on a "menu item" on the circular list reveal another deeper list. Right clicking would bring you back to the parent list.
IMO, it's not perfect but a step in the right direction.