>> I am stunned that Real Networks would want to take such a viral model as the GPL and incorporate it into their own source licensing schemes. What could motivate a company to do such a thing?
Because the only thing worse than not being able to profit from a work, is seeing someone else profit from it.
They'd go absolutely bonkers if someone else wrapped it up in a nice, pretty, seamless UI and made a buck.
I still don't see how it was a problem for Microsoft to do it. Integrating web browser, media player, etc into the OS distribution seemed like a logical and welcome advance to me. And sun, netscape, real,
No different than Ford integrating a CD player into the dashboard. Or cell phone makers integrating tic-tac-toe into the phones.
Ah, but that wasn't what I was talking about, was I?
Perfectly on-topic and factual posts are modded down, if they don't fit the readers mindset. Completely infactual, outright lies and trolls are modded up if they're pro-linux.
All those "I'm an admin of over 6 zillion terminals and I converted to RedHat thursday" bullshit posts in particular bother me. It bothers me as a reader, as people are trying to shove complete horseshit down my throat, and it bothers me as someone who uses Linux, because I know broken promises and false claims have only hurt it.
*MY* appeal for that idiocy still stands. And I'll point out to others as oft as I feel appropriate, that the information and discussion they are hearing is from an overwhelmingly biased, cult-like following, who definately arent above stretching the truth to make a point.
There is no variety, there is only 1 side to every story here.
And that's fine and good for alt.microsoft, but so long as/. calls itself a news site, it's pathetic and wrong. I remember when it was an actual news site, and not Linus' personal cheering section.
>> and as such, the video card and sound card industries flail in lack of funds.
You're being sarcastic, but they have suffered.
We're down to NVidia and ATI for video, Creative Labs and Santa Cruz for audio. And both are pretty much stuck to producing 'higher end' cards geared at gamers or audiophiles, respectively.
For the average office type desktop box, what's onboard is more than adequate. 6 channel AC97 and 64 megs shared-ram agp video is pretty hefty when you're just making up excel spreadsheets all day.
Remember the cirrus logic, trident, savage, et al 2 meg workstation cards? Fire up the original dos version of Doom and look at all the different sound cards you had to choose from. All gone, all obsolete.
Also, I don't think this is just internal usage. They're after integrated 802.11 just like one has integrated ethernet on the mobo. I envision a place to screw your antenna in on the rear IO panel.
Which I'm all for. PCI cards take up too much room. We need to pave the way for smaller form factors.
The original RE: Survivor was actually pretty cool, not a House of the Dead ripoff at all. It was more of a FPS take on RE, but you used the gun (and the built in thumbpad) to play. It was still more adventure/exploring/survival than just run around and shoot everyone, though.
An updated version with modern graphics would be welcome, IMO.
Problem is, they crippled the last north american release to gamepad only - because using lightguns sends the wrong image to all the little children who buy games that are rated M. If they do the same with this, it'll be in the trash.
When they sell advertising, they sell it based on the size and demographic of the audience.
They have no way of realistically knowing how many in that audience are going to sit attentively and watch the commercials, how many are going to fast forward through them, how many are going to get up and take a leak.
Comcast in my area recently started their own VOD thingy... Why would I sign up for digital cable and pay out the nose for VOD when a PVR would give me practically the same thing (not to mention that my VCR already does)?
>> If it has a fault, it may be that it is a bit too comprehensive.
This is awful!
How can I look down my noses at the others in my office with the air of superiority that comes with understanding more of the geeky technicalities of our computer system than they do?
If they keep writing technical books that people can understand, we'll all be relegated to memorizing the stats on Pokemon playing cards!
I'm excited that Sominex is now available in paperback form.
This is the type of stuff I read on a need-to-know basis.. Ie; I need to implement it, so I get the book. Until then, just knowing what VRRP stands for is enough for most.
MAME's sister project, MESS, emulates consoles and computers, one of which being older PC-XT and AT class machines.
Works great for all that old-timey code that used the mhz rating of the machine as its timing, and emulates common old hardware where need be (gravis ultrasound, adlib, MCGA adaptors)
The less money we make each fiscal year, the more we will blame piracy. Sure we are an overvalued service, which is slowly becoming obsolete, but we won't admit it.
Thanks to headstrong pirates like you, we can take our dwindling profit margins to the Congressmen we own, and force legislation that will put you behind bars, and/or force you to buy our product.
You are our best friend, Mr. Pirate, and we salute you.
No, but you can make sure your compiler is okee-fine before you go compiling, and you could possibly do an md5 audit of all the source files you use.
But I thought open source was super-duper impregnal because everyone who uses it carefully examines each line of code before compiling and using it, and would instantly notice any piggybacked routines or out of place library calls.
Well, I'm being sarcastic... Truth is, noone would notice if the latest kernel patch had a few lines in it giving root access to UID: troll PWD: goatse
MD5 hashes on the source code help.
Of course, like any digital (or regular) signature, it's only as good as the signator.
Lots of people wouldn't hesitate to sign 'Bill Gates' on a million dollar cheque. Or "Linus Trovalds" on a kernel update they snuck onto one of the mirrors.
Slashdot Mirror
any easier or cheaper than tapes?
Why not automate and optimize your tape backup system, ie; incremental backups?
As far as the manual part, you have to take tapes out just like you'd have to take the HDDs out.
And I don't believe 220 gigs of IDE space is cheaper than 220 gigs on tape.
HDD mfg's are moving towards a 1 year standard warranty. If you want to put some faith in that, it's up to you.
Oh c'mon now mods.
A troll is an infactual post designed to get responses.
This is -1:Truth Hurts at best. Troll is unfair. Prove me wrong.
the Screen Savers watch you!
I like mine better.
You can show em all the really cool shockwave games and stuff online! Or my banks online page, and how to see cancelled cheques, transfer funds, and..
oh wait
Mozilla cant do any of that shit.
Well, it gots that dinosaur.
Besides, it's only like a 5 minute segment. He doesn't have time to wait for 'zilla to load.
Great Expectations ... then follow it up with ...
The Great Failure
And dont forget The Communist Manifesto
Your right.
OGG should be kept in the dark recesses of obscurity, and never used in any commercial projects.
>> I am stunned that Real Networks would want to take such a viral model as the GPL and incorporate it into their own source licensing schemes. What could motivate a company to do such a thing?
Because the only thing worse than not being able to profit from a work, is seeing someone else profit from it.
They'd go absolutely bonkers if someone else wrapped it up in a nice, pretty, seamless UI and made a buck.
I still don't see how it was a problem for Microsoft to do it. Integrating web browser, media player, etc into the OS distribution seemed like a logical and welcome advance to me. And sun, netscape, real ,
No different than Ford integrating a CD player into the dashboard. Or cell phone makers integrating tic-tac-toe into the phones.
Ah, but that wasn't what I was talking about, was I?
/. calls itself a news site, it's pathetic and wrong. I remember when it was an actual news site, and not Linus' personal cheering section.
Perfectly on-topic and factual posts are modded down, if they don't fit the readers mindset. Completely infactual, outright lies and trolls are modded up if they're pro-linux.
All those "I'm an admin of over 6 zillion terminals and I converted to RedHat thursday" bullshit posts in particular bother me. It bothers me as a reader, as people are trying to shove complete horseshit down my throat, and it bothers me as someone who uses Linux, because I know broken promises and false claims have only hurt it.
*MY* appeal for that idiocy still stands. And I'll point out to others as oft as I feel appropriate, that the information and discussion they are hearing is from an overwhelmingly biased, cult-like following, who definately arent above stretching the truth to make a point.
There is no variety, there is only 1 side to every story here.
And that's fine and good for alt.microsoft, but so long as
They didn't even claim that.
/. embellished it to 'enabling terrorism'.
Wired added the word terrorism,
They see the proliferation of completely insecure network infrastructures as a future source of problems.
So does anyone who knows how the shit works.
They're looking into what kind of minimum competence standard could be mandated to protect such systems.
>> and as such, the video card and sound card industries flail in lack of funds.
You're being sarcastic, but they have suffered.
We're down to NVidia and ATI for video, Creative Labs and Santa Cruz for audio. And both are pretty much stuck to producing 'higher end' cards geared at gamers or audiophiles, respectively.
For the average office type desktop box, what's onboard is more than adequate. 6 channel AC97 and 64 megs shared-ram agp video is pretty hefty when you're just making up excel spreadsheets all day.
Remember the cirrus logic, trident, savage, et al 2 meg workstation cards? Fire up the original dos version of Doom and look at all the different sound cards you had to choose from. All gone, all obsolete.
Also, I don't think this is just internal usage. They're after integrated 802.11 just like one has integrated ethernet on the mobo. I envision a place to screw your antenna in on the rear IO panel.
Which I'm all for. PCI cards take up too much room. We need to pave the way for smaller form factors.
The original RE: Survivor was actually pretty cool, not a House of the Dead ripoff at all. It was more of a FPS take on RE, but you used the gun (and the built in thumbpad) to play. It was still more adventure/exploring/survival than just run around and shoot everyone, though.
An updated version with modern graphics would be welcome, IMO.
Problem is, they crippled the last north american release to gamepad only - because using lightguns sends the wrong image to all the little children who buy games that are rated M. If they do the same with this, it'll be in the trash.
>> but variety is the spice of Slashdot
Yeah, sure it is..
"Hey guys linux look linux linux linux linux ms sucks linux linux OSX i love linux beowulf clusters."
Any 'variety' opinion wise is modded down into oblivion.
And so is his response!
I propose a new mod of -1:Too many words!
Well said.
When they sell advertising, they sell it based on the size and demographic of the audience.
They have no way of realistically knowing how many in that audience are going to sit attentively and watch the commercials, how many are going to fast forward through them, how many are going to get up and take a leak.
Comcast in my area recently started their own VOD thingy... Why would I sign up for digital cable and pay out the nose for VOD when a PVR would give me practically the same thing (not to mention that my VCR already does)?
When I read that I imagined him standing in a bright silver jumpsuit with neelybobbers on his head, in a booming, resonant voice with lots of echo.
With a big orchestral DA DA DUMMMMM!!! hit right after.
>> Capcom mentioned that Gun Survivor 4: Biohazard will support USB mouse, in addition to the GunCon 2 controller
BioHazard == Resident Evil == I thought this was a gamecube 'exclusive'?
I guess it's as exclusive to gamecube as Code Veronica was to Dreamcast.
>> If it has a fault, it may be that it is a bit too comprehensive.
This is awful!
How can I look down my noses at the others in my office with the air of superiority that comes with understanding more of the geeky technicalities of our computer system than they do?
If they keep writing technical books that people can understand, we'll all be relegated to memorizing the stats on Pokemon playing cards!
Burn this book. It's a witch I tells ya.
This guy sure is excited about this book.
I'm excited that Sominex is now available in paperback form.
This is the type of stuff I read on a need-to-know basis.. Ie; I need to implement it, so I get the book. Until then, just knowing what VRRP stands for is enough for most.
is that stupid-looking devil guy.
Real OS's shouldn't need cartoon character mascots.
MAME's sister project, MESS, emulates consoles and computers, one of which being older PC-XT and AT class machines.
Works great for all that old-timey code that used the mhz rating of the machine as its timing, and emulates common old hardware where need be (gravis ultrasound, adlib, MCGA adaptors)
This used to be true, but lately on KaZaa and the like, its really tricky to find anything that isn't your run-of-the-mill radio play top 40 pop.
Once in awhile I'll run across a deadhead who's got 90 gigs of crappy-sounding live shows on tape, but thats about as esoteric as it gets.
As P2P goes mainstream, so do the files it carries.
The less money we make each fiscal year, the more we will blame piracy. Sure we are an overvalued service, which is slowly becoming obsolete, but we won't admit it.
Thanks to headstrong pirates like you, we can take our dwindling profit margins to the Congressmen we own, and force legislation that will put you behind bars, and/or force you to buy our product.
You are our best friend, Mr. Pirate, and we salute you.
Thank you.
The Industry
No, but you can make sure your compiler is okee-fine before you go compiling, and you could possibly do an md5 audit of all the source files you use.
But I thought open source was super-duper impregnal because everyone who uses it carefully examines each line of code before compiling and using it, and would instantly notice any piggybacked routines or out of place library calls.
Well, I'm being sarcastic... Truth is, noone would notice if the latest kernel patch had a few lines in it giving root access to UID: troll PWD: goatse
MD5 hashes on the source code help.
Of course, like any digital (or regular) signature, it's only as good as the signator.
Lots of people wouldn't hesitate to sign 'Bill Gates' on a million dollar cheque. Or "Linus Trovalds" on a kernel update they snuck onto one of the mirrors.
no
it's marginally faster than the r300, or marginally slower, depending on which set of cooked benchmarks you run it through.