Actually, that's not "LinuxPPC faster than OS X", that's "LinuxPPC apps faster than OS X apps".
Quick example, xmms playing an mp3 on a G3 400 takes ~2% cpu time; itunes playing the same mp3 takes (took, for me) ~30% cpu time.
IANAL, but there are laws in France (where ffmeg's main developer lives) that allow reverse-engineering programs to achieve interoperability, when no other ways (like documentation) can be used. RIAA and DMCA and such are non-valid in France, too. Given that and the fact that WMA is 100% undocumented, i guess Microsoft can't do much about this.
price comparison interests me:) Here in france, we could get 50 hours of 56kpbs RTC access for 15 euros (about $15 I think) ; or an unlimited DSL (512kbps up, 128 down) with a static IP, for 49 euros. Is it much more than in the US ?
I know my webstats still show majority from US
How do you know ? whois on the IPs ?.com,.net and.org aren't necessarily US sites.
It depends on your website's language, too - one of mine's in French, 34% of the visits come from.fr domain names. On my english site, only 9% come from.fr.
Someone else, we'll call him John, likes the manifesto and remails it to his large email list of people, accidently leaving the ad attached. Bam. John is a criminal. He has mass distributed a commercial advertisement without meeting the requirements of the spam law, and now is eligible for $100 per mail or 2 years in jail.
Cool, it could help people thinking twice before forwarding bullshit to their whole contact list:)
Hi, What you are talking about is okay as long as DRM features are *optional* features. But I believe a DRM OS will be mandatory to use DRM hardware, perhaps with a public/private key authentication system ; perhaps some system like DVD keys, more secure. I hope it won't happen, though.
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Actually, that's not "LinuxPPC faster than OS X", that's "LinuxPPC apps faster than OS X apps".
Quick example, xmms playing an mp3 on a G3 400 takes ~2% cpu time; itunes playing the same mp3 takes (took, for me) ~30% cpu time.
You could always use mplayer :)
Anyway an xmms plugin should come quite quickly.
FFmpeg decoder decodes wma v1 and v2.
IANAL, but there are laws in France (where ffmeg's main developer lives) that allow reverse-engineering programs to achieve interoperability, when no other ways (like documentation) can be used. RIAA and DMCA and such are non-valid in France, too. Given that and the fact that WMA is 100% undocumented, i guess Microsoft can't do much about this.
this may be all a bunch of paranoid M$ bashing. Maybe they will do the right thing
Could anyone tell me what's the last Right Thing microsoft did ? I can't remember.
To be more precise /dev/null
chroot
and realize that you have irrecoverably destroyed your project
;-)
Ever heard of CVS ?
price comparison interests me :)
Here in france, we could get 50 hours of 56kpbs RTC access for 15 euros (about $15 I think) ; or an unlimited DSL (512kbps up, 128 down) with a static IP, for 49 euros.
Is it much more than in the US ?
I know my webstats still show majority from US .com, .net and .org aren't necessarily US sites.
It depends on your website's language, too - one of mine's in French, 34% of the visits come from .fr domain names. On my english site, only 9% come from .fr.
How do you know ? whois on the IPs ?
There's a copy of the GPL in their source .zip, so I guess they put it GPL.
Because this is The Answer (see Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy) :)
Someone else, we'll call him John, likes the manifesto and remails it to his large email list of people, accidently leaving the ad attached. Bam. John is a criminal. He has mass distributed a commercial advertisement without meeting the requirements of the spam law, and now is eligible for $100 per mail or 2 years in jail. :)
Cool, it could help people thinking twice before forwarding bullshit to their whole contact list
Well, they did worse, see CIFS licence see 1.4 and 3.3 (IPR Impairing Licence)
Hi,
What you are talking about is okay as long as DRM features are *optional* features. But I believe a DRM OS will be mandatory to use DRM hardware, perhaps with a public/private key authentication system ; perhaps some system like DVD keys, more secure.
I hope it won't happen, though.