I mean, doctors, morticians, medical students do it every day, and if the body is legally obtained - you can presumably do what you like within reason.
Can anyone point to any specific laws that forbid cutting up a human corpse?
Theyre not announcing renewed efforts around a Solaris-kernel JDS, theyre trying to dump the whole idea.
I care nothing for the Solaris vs Linux argument, its just irrelevant. The problem for Sun is they made a desktop product, which was generally poor all-round:
bad timing (they could have waited until OpenSolaris was released),
bad conception (No Java in the 'Java Desktop System'),
bad implementation (rebadging SuSE is not that hard, and the result was just plain unimpressive),
bad execution (Suns 'first, let me apologise for how sh*t this thing is' marketing), and now,
no support whatsoever (Sun 'backing away' from the product).
I mean, spare me the pointless 'But OpenSolaris is awesome' argument because I dont see what it has to do with Sun not being able to roll out a useful desktop offering.
Thats the display of weakness i'm talking about, it has nothing to do with the techical or licensing merits of Solaris at all.
We had a presentation from some Sun guys, and they basically spent the entire session apologising for the fact that JDS didnt offer the latest packages e.g. 'if youre looking for the latest and greatest, JDS won't give it to you'.
I mean, why even bother doing it if youre going to settle for half-assed - and then tell your customers upfront you want them to pay for half-assed...
Needless to say nobody present left the meeting feeling very excited about where Sun was going with JDS.
Personally, I think dumping Linux is an understandable move in the larger scheme of things - ultimately Solaris is the OS that Sun wants to see succeed, but signalling a lack of support in the JDS offering is baffling.
There is absolutely no reason why JDS shouldnt run on OpenSolaris and offer the same experience as Linux - it seems that Sun, having finally come to the realisation that an old version of GNOME (which is hardly flawless in it's latest iteration) is a tough sell, especially when compared side-by-side with highly polished offerings from Microsoft and Apple.
So, instead of doing something about the obvious flaws in their product - Or god forbid come up with something better - they publically throw in the towel, with a vague suggestion that they might decide to have another half-assed attempt at it in future.
I mean, GNOME and the rest of the Linux desktop is going to improve and will compete head-on with the best that the rest have to offer, and the day will come when Sun will have to try and re-enter the market with a revised offering and explain away this flip-flopping, which isn't going to be at all easy.
Does nobody at Sun get that this is a pathetic, embarrassing show of weakness?
The Internet was designed to survive a nuclear attack, but as implemented by the greedy idiots in control of Telecom and TelstraClear, the internet in New Zealand can't even withstand an assault by frickin rat and some clown with a power tool.
Its really embarrassing, and sad, that these corporations' policies effectively deny the public in New Zealand a robust network infrastructure - Telecom and TelstraClear purposely depeered from various internet exchanges through which they could have easily redirected traffic during this outage, rendering it a non-event, because they can't stand the idea that people might run VOIP systems, cutting into their monopoly profits.
Its just really pathetic that their action has resulted in the biggest network outage that I can remember, and instead of realising they probably should work with other network providers to ensure the internet in New Zealand is resistant to this type of 'attack' they just want to blame the power company.
That nobody cares about his crappy articles enough to even bother getting mad at the stupid allegations he makes, the bad analogies he draws, the frankly ludicrous conclusions he comes to and the unashamed shilling he does.
Maybe you should just come right out and call us all nazi nigger homo terrorists Rob?
Maybe that will give you the reaction you so desperately crave?
My (old but still good) Echo Gina works with Linux, but needs some work to get drivers functioning, and doesnt work with the standard ALSA mixer API (has separate mixer app).
It does 20bit 2-in/8-out recording/playback with a very low noise floor, and also offers stereo digital in/out with SP/DIF consumer/pro modes on Linux.
My friend gave me his since Echo no longer do Windows drivers for their old cards.
So if you plug an XBox into XBox Live, and it downloads a new version of dashboard without your consent, or even informing you it is doing it, can you get $10,000?
As far as I understand it, it is due to the inability of a compiler to optimise execution flow where pointers are involved.
With C etc. you cannot know at compile time how much space the data referred to by a pointer will consume, or what it will be. This makes optimising certain routines w/regard to data alignment and packing difficult or impossible compared to FORTRAN.
Various mathematical routines run a hell of a lot faster under FORTRAN than they do under C becauase the FORTRAN compiler knows ahead of time exactly 'what it is getting', and can thus make a decision as to how to feed that data to the CPU to take advantage of its register, cache and instruction scheduling characteristics but sacrifices the flexibility of the 'data structure languages' like C.
Implementing complex, dynamic structures of arbitary 'objects' is childs play with C but something that would drive you batsh*t crazy using FORTRAN.
Will the directors of google and MSN Search be thrown into jail for 3 years when i find copies of a program I have released but has a license stating 'NOT FOR COMMERCIAL DISTRIBUTION' in their caches?
These people are running a business and are serving up my program form their 'fileshare' when it is clearly not supposed to be for commercial distribution.
Do it for me.. I built a prepay wireless gateway that works on a simple system of assigning a unique number to authenticate a connection - extra work was required to properly meter only 'external' bandwidth, and some minor mods required to disconnect users when their paid-for time expired (though this feature is in chillispot now).
I ran this on an X-Box with a USB wireless adapter, and it would work quite happily on any IP based network setup.
Pretty much everything interesting about all these inventions is going to depend on open standards for them to gain popularity.
Interactive toys? Well, yeah i can see how this would be sort of cool as a fluffy AIBO or RoboSapien - but if they wanted to do this, why are they waiting so long? I mean, I can do this with a robosapien and a Palm PDA, its not 'innovative', and it's not rocket science.
Microsoft is just rehashing its previous attempt at interactive toys (ActiveMates) which included interactive dolls of Teddy Ruxpin and Barney the Dinosaur.
Its taken MS years to go from having an actual product in the marketplace, to killing it, to putting it forward as a 'new concept'.
Seriously, MS 'Research' is clearly just sitting round with it's figurative thumb up it's ass.
Microsofts one and only ability to 'innovate' anything revolves entirely around one concept - integration into the OS. It simply isn't capable of doing anyting genuinely innovative, it simply takes ideas, 'integrates' them into its OS and calls that 'innovation'.
Whats incredible is that 'integrate it into the OS' is the oldest, least innovative strategy in computer software, bar none.
ISTM there is no 'excuse', with a stupidly fast CPU, graphics card and a modern GUI framework for this, but if youre willing to accept sub-par desktop rendering (and i agree it's not such a big deal i would dump X over it, and there are proposed fixes in the pipeline) i guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on that.
Backing Store is disabled by Default in XFree86 and X.org because it's current implementation isn't compliant with X protocol. It also slows things down, can lead to awful performance due to backing store memory being swapped and screws up a number of applications. If you've turned on backing store, youre probably losing performance, not gaining it.
The problem I am talking about is that my X server (just like your X server, almost certainly) is not syncing to VBI, or doing any kind of useful double buffering at all. There is also no sync between window repaint and toolkit repaint, which compounds the problem immenselt.
And if you actually looked hard, and compared the repaint behaviour of XFree86/X.org to something like OS X's Aqua, you would see the problem too.
I mean, I see it, the X.org developers see it, other posters in this thread see it, the toolkit developers see it. What kind of magical X server are you running?
Yes, DRI is off, yes, xdpyinfo shows RENDER present, yes Nvidia driver RenderAccel option is on.
Its not that i cant resize and move windows *quickly*, its that it isn't smooth - i see flicker, and visible lagging redraws when moving windows across other windows, resizing windows and simply moving windows about the place quickly.
This is an X Server problem - there is no VBI synchronisation with drawing, there is no double buffering, and you are either fooling yourself or can't have experienced a truly smooth rendering environment if you think the way X currently handles it is 'silky smooth'
No offense, but using XFree86/X.org, no you can't.
Neither of these X Servers support smooth resize/move operations. Drag a smaller window across a large window and you will see trails as X struggles to repaint constantly, and resize a window and you will see flicker as X struggles to repaint constantly.
And this is the problem - no matter how fast your machine, you will see visible artifacts moving and resizing windows with the major current X implementations.
It's not that X can't perform these operations quickly, its that the X cannot properly manage redraws to make it seem smooth.
Your definition of 'smooth' is also clearly different from mine.
I am using Nvidia 6629 drivers, RenderAccel on in xorg.conf, on an Athlon64 3200+ and i see visible tearing and repaints on X11 windows during resizes and moves.
I see them on my Athlon 2200+ with Nvidia 6111 and RenderAccel too.
I see them on Ubuntu on my Duron 800 with Nvidia 6111 and RenderAccel, I see them on Slackware on my Celeron 366 and it's crappy vesafb non-accelerated desktop.
I see them on my Xbox running Xebian with the XFree86-supplied nv driver, and I see them on all my colleagues' linux machines.
I have *never* seen a flicker/tear/visible-redraw free XFree86/X.org, ever.
Its not that I can't drag and resize windows quickly on any of these machines, or that the computers aren't able to play fullscreen video or run complex 2D and 3D apps without missing a beat - its that I can see flicker and visible tearing during resize and move operations, which makes the X server seem slow.
Well, yes my desktop is accelerated with the nvidia 6629 driver, as provided by Nvidia, and I do have NVidia Render Accel enabled.
Maybe your definition of 'smooth' is different from mine - I mean, sure i can move the windows around and they follow my mouse without lagging, but the tearing and visible redraw is the problem - it's ugly, distracting and makes the whole thing feel slow.
Well, I run an Athlon64 3200+ with accelerated NVidia drivers but I can't drag or resize an opaque window smoothly. I can't do it under WindowMaker, KDE, GNOME or even E17, and the problems are in the X Server
I haven't used Windows in years, but when i do see it, the thing that stands out is that desktop rendering is noticeably faster and smoother than any X server I have, excepting maybe my SGI O2 running IRIX.
I also have an iBook running OS X, and while it has problems resizing windows really smoothly (though i can't visibly see repaints like I can under X), everything else feels a lot faster and slicker than XFree86/Xorg etc.
Now, i'm sure it's not the X protocol that is the problem, but the difficulty in synchronising X windows to the VBI and also in the extremely poor implementation of alpha-blending and the rendering/compositing model currently used.
Otherwise it can stay on the shelf with all the other Microsoft products i'll never buy.
Seriously, the Xbox is a really useful device with the addition of a general purpose OS - It runs freevo over wireless LAN as a media front-end, streams MP3 radio, rips DVDs and even runs a MIDI sequencer for me.
I also use it to browse the web on occasion on my TV.
I don't actually own an XBox game (I have a PS2 for that) but I certainly spend more time playing movies and TV etc. on the XBox than i do playing games on the PS2.
If the XBox2 has even half the security holes and hackability of the XBox1 then i'll be happy.
i'd buy a $10 radio, not drop hundreds on an iPod.
I certainly wouldn't spend hundreds on a radio, so i could listen to someone elses playlist on someone elses timetable.
I mean really, a large collection of MP3 music and other audio content (with new content discoverable and downloadable via P2P, Mp3 streaming stations, podcast feeds etc.) has completely removed any reason i might have to listen to the radio.
If Sirius or XM makes up the bulk of the content you listen to, you don't need an iPod - just a compact Sirius/XM receiver - i'm sure its illegal to actually record Sirius/XM content, so theres a very limited amount of value a hard-drive based receiver brings to the table.
Why don't they just make an addon like the iTrip?
I mean - if the capability to play Sirius/XM on the iPod is a feature lots of people are wanting, it should sell like hotcakes, right?
I mean, if I fly to the US intending to wander round and find a hotel that looks nice to stay in, but don't know ahead of time where i will, in fact be staying, will I get detained at the airport?
I'm not sure anybody who wants the 1 big feature of the 1Ds-II (full 35mm-sized sensor) is going to get it from a 20D, no matter how much firmware hackery takes place.
The EOS 1D is the only digital SLR that I know of that has a full-sized sensor, which makes it more or less the only digital camera useful for doing professional ultra-wide photography (although that is admittedly a small market). As such it commands a price premium, its not simply a 20D with 'unlocked' features.
Also, there are a significant hardware differences between the 300D and the 10D such that only a couple of firmware-added functions actually do anything useful on the 300D. The 300D has different sensors, buffer size/speed etc.
I don't think the Canon EOS range is really the target of this article, the EOS's actually run DOS, and aren't really the kind of thing a hacker tends to get frustrated with - a digital SLR (even a cheap one like the EOS-300D) is all about giving you control of the photographic process.
While I am aware there are firmware-disabled features shared between the 10D and 300D, and the others in the range, with the exception of 'lock mirror up', there aren't any 'hacked firmware enabled' features on the 300D that I would find to be functional or useful on the 300D in the real world.
What feature on the 300D unlocked by the hacked 10D firmware do you find most useful? (this is a genuine question)
Well, yes they can ignore Apple, what has anybody in the OSS world got to lose by 'ignoring Apple'?
Revenue? nope.
Respect? not from tards like you, I guess
If Apple doesn't want to support X11 properly, with a decent font server and a lack of high-performance extensions, thats their call.
So tell me again what the motivation for volunteers to port to OS X native APIs (which are mostly closed and proprietary) are?
Come on, You have a native MS Office port for your platform, a bunch of other shareware or commercial office suites and surprising as it may be for you, Linux/UNIX users are not all primarily motivated by this ridiculous 'BEAT MICROSOFT AT ALL COSTS' idea.
Just pay for an office suite if you need one that fits criteria that the open alternatives don't meet.
Thats the economic model that Apple's Carbon and Cocoa APIs encourage, so if you want to have a go at someone over it, take it up with Steve Jobs, not the people in the OSS community.
Nobody owes it to you to slave away cutting code for an essentially closed platform that few developers have on their desktops, so you can type out your word processing documents. If it means so much to you, either do it yourself or organise a bunch of people to do it for you.
Its not going to happen just because you post your whinings to Slashdot, thats for sure.
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I just typed out a big tirade and then hit back and found this post which echoes my sentiment exactly.
Pure economics, mod parent up.
I mean, doctors, morticians, medical students do it every day, and if the body is legally obtained - you can presumably do what you like within reason.
Can anyone point to any specific laws that forbid cutting up a human corpse?
Theyre not announcing renewed efforts around a Solaris-kernel JDS, theyre trying to dump the whole idea.
I care nothing for the Solaris vs Linux argument, its just irrelevant. The problem for Sun is they made a desktop product, which was generally poor all-round:
bad timing (they could have waited until OpenSolaris was released),
bad conception (No Java in the 'Java Desktop System'),
bad implementation (rebadging SuSE is not that hard, and the result was just plain unimpressive),
bad execution (Suns 'first, let me apologise for how sh*t this thing is' marketing), and now,
no support whatsoever (Sun 'backing away' from the product).
I mean, spare me the pointless 'But OpenSolaris is awesome' argument because I dont see what it has to do with Sun not being able to roll out a useful desktop offering.
Thats the display of weakness i'm talking about, it has nothing to do with the techical or licensing merits of Solaris at all.
We had a presentation from some Sun guys, and they basically spent the entire session apologising for the fact that JDS didnt offer the latest packages e.g. 'if youre looking for the latest and greatest, JDS won't give it to you'.
I mean, why even bother doing it if youre going to settle for half-assed - and then tell your customers upfront you want them to pay for half-assed...
Needless to say nobody present left the meeting feeling very excited about where Sun was going with JDS.
Personally, I think dumping Linux is an understandable move in the larger scheme of things - ultimately Solaris is the OS that Sun wants to see succeed, but signalling a lack of support in the JDS offering is baffling.
There is absolutely no reason why JDS shouldnt run on OpenSolaris and offer the same experience as Linux - it seems that Sun, having finally come to the realisation that an old version of GNOME (which is hardly flawless in it's latest iteration) is a tough sell, especially when compared side-by-side with highly polished offerings from Microsoft and Apple.
So, instead of doing something about the obvious flaws in their product - Or god forbid come up with something better - they publically throw in the towel, with a vague suggestion that they might decide to have another half-assed attempt at it in future.
I mean, GNOME and the rest of the Linux desktop is going to improve and will compete head-on with the best that the rest have to offer, and the day will come when Sun will have to try and re-enter the market with a revised offering and explain away this flip-flopping, which isn't going to be at all easy.
Does nobody at Sun get that this is a pathetic, embarrassing show of weakness?
The Internet was designed to survive a nuclear attack, but as implemented by the greedy idiots in control of Telecom and TelstraClear, the internet in New Zealand can't even withstand an assault by frickin rat and some clown with a power tool.
Its really embarrassing, and sad, that these corporations' policies effectively deny the public in New Zealand a robust network infrastructure - Telecom and TelstraClear purposely depeered from various internet exchanges through which they could have easily redirected traffic during this outage, rendering it a non-event, because they can't stand the idea that people might run VOIP systems, cutting into their monopoly profits.
Its just really pathetic that their action has resulted in the biggest network outage
that I can remember, and instead of realising they probably should work with other network providers to ensure the internet in New Zealand is resistant to this type of 'attack' they just want to blame the power company.
Telecom, you suck.
That nobody cares about his crappy articles enough to even bother getting mad at the stupid allegations he makes, the bad analogies he draws, the frankly ludicrous conclusions he comes to and the unashamed shilling he does.
Maybe you should just come right out and call us all nazi nigger homo terrorists Rob?
Maybe that will give you the reaction you so desperately crave?
My (old but still good) Echo Gina works with Linux, but needs some work to get drivers functioning, and doesnt work with the standard ALSA mixer API (has separate mixer app).
It does 20bit 2-in/8-out recording/playback with a very low noise floor, and also offers stereo digital in/out with SP/DIF consumer/pro modes on Linux.
My friend gave me his since Echo no longer do Windows drivers for their old cards.
So if you plug an XBox into XBox Live, and it downloads a new version of dashboard without your consent, or even informing you it is doing it, can you get $10,000?
As far as I understand it, it is due to the inability of a compiler to optimise execution flow where pointers are involved.
With C etc. you cannot know at compile time how much space the data referred to by a pointer will consume, or what it will be. This makes optimising certain routines w/regard to data alignment and packing difficult or impossible compared to FORTRAN.
Various mathematical routines run a hell of a lot faster under FORTRAN than they do under C becauase the FORTRAN compiler knows ahead of time exactly 'what it is getting', and can thus make a decision as to how to feed that data to the CPU to take advantage of its register, cache and instruction scheduling characteristics but sacrifices the flexibility of the 'data structure languages' like C.
Implementing complex, dynamic structures of arbitary 'objects' is childs play with C but something that would drive you batsh*t crazy using FORTRAN.
Will the directors of google and MSN Search be thrown into jail for 3 years when i find copies of a program I have released but has a license stating 'NOT FOR COMMERCIAL DISTRIBUTION' in their caches?
These people are running a business and are serving up my program form their 'fileshare' when it is clearly not supposed to be for commercial distribution.
Do it for me.. I built a prepay wireless gateway that works on a simple system of assigning a unique number to authenticate a connection - extra work was required to properly meter only 'external' bandwidth, and some minor mods required to disconnect users when their paid-for time expired (though this feature is in chillispot now).
I ran this on an X-Box with a USB wireless adapter, and it would work quite happily on any IP based network setup.
Pretty much everything interesting about all these inventions is going to depend on open standards for them to gain popularity.
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Interactive toys? Well, yeah i can see how this would be sort of cool as a fluffy AIBO or RoboSapien - but if they wanted to do this, why are they waiting so long? I mean, I can do this with a robosapien and a Palm PDA, its not 'innovative', and it's not rocket science.
Microsoft is just rehashing its previous attempt at interactive toys (ActiveMates) which included interactive dolls of Teddy Ruxpin and Barney the Dinosaur.
Its taken MS years to go from having an actual product in the marketplace, to killing it, to putting it forward as a 'new concept'.
It's really f**king pathetic.
Surface computing? Like, BEEN DONE BEFORE!!
http://www.media.mit.edu/research/ResearchPubWe
Seriously, MS 'Research' is clearly just sitting round with it's figurative thumb up it's ass.
Microsofts one and only ability to 'innovate' anything revolves entirely around one concept - integration into the OS. It simply isn't capable of doing anyting genuinely innovative, it simply takes ideas, 'integrates' them into its OS and calls that 'innovation'.
Whats incredible is that 'integrate it into the OS' is the oldest, least innovative strategy in computer software, bar none.
Well, I can see it.
ISTM there is no 'excuse', with a stupidly fast CPU, graphics card and a modern GUI framework for this, but if youre willing to accept sub-par desktop rendering (and i agree it's not such a big deal i would dump X over it, and there are proposed fixes in the pipeline) i guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on that.
Backing Store is disabled by Default in XFree86 and X.org because it's current implementation isn't compliant with X protocol. It also slows things down, can lead to awful performance due to backing store memory being swapped and screws up a number of applications. If you've turned on backing store, youre probably losing performance, not gaining it.
The problem I am talking about is that my X server (just like your X server, almost certainly) is not syncing to VBI, or doing any kind of useful double buffering at all. There is also no sync between window repaint and toolkit repaint, which compounds the problem immenselt.
And if you actually looked hard, and compared the repaint behaviour of XFree86/X.org to something like OS X's Aqua, you would see the problem too.
I mean, I see it, the X.org developers see it, other posters in this thread see it, the toolkit developers see it. What kind of magical X server are you running?
Yes, DRI is off, yes, xdpyinfo shows RENDER present, yes Nvidia driver RenderAccel option is on.
Its not that i cant resize and move windows *quickly*, its that it isn't smooth - i see flicker, and visible lagging redraws when moving windows across other windows, resizing windows and simply moving windows about the place quickly.
This is an X Server problem - there is no VBI synchronisation with drawing, there is no double buffering, and you are either fooling yourself or can't have experienced a truly smooth rendering environment if you think the way X currently handles it is 'silky smooth'
No offense, but using XFree86/X.org, no you can't.
Neither of these X Servers support smooth resize/move operations. Drag a smaller window across a large window and you will see trails as X struggles to repaint constantly, and resize a window and you will see flicker as X struggles to repaint constantly.
And this is the problem - no matter how fast your machine, you will see visible artifacts moving and resizing windows with the major current X implementations.
It's not that X can't perform these operations quickly, its that the X cannot properly manage redraws to make it seem smooth.
Your definition of 'smooth' is also clearly different from mine.
I am using Nvidia 6629 drivers, RenderAccel on in xorg.conf, on an Athlon64 3200+ and i see visible tearing and repaints on X11 windows during resizes and moves.
I see them on my Athlon 2200+ with Nvidia 6111 and RenderAccel too.
I see them on Ubuntu on my Duron 800 with Nvidia 6111 and RenderAccel, I see them on Slackware on my Celeron 366 and it's crappy vesafb non-accelerated desktop.
I see them on my Xbox running Xebian with the XFree86-supplied nv driver, and I see them on all my colleagues' linux machines.
I have *never* seen a flicker/tear/visible-redraw free XFree86/X.org, ever.
Its not that I can't drag and resize windows quickly on any of these machines, or that the computers aren't able to play fullscreen video or run complex 2D and 3D apps without missing a beat - its that I can see flicker and visible tearing during resize and move operations, which makes the X server seem slow.
Well, yes my desktop is accelerated with the nvidia 6629 driver, as provided by Nvidia, and I do have NVidia Render Accel enabled.
Maybe your definition of 'smooth' is different from mine - I mean, sure i can move the windows around and they follow my mouse without lagging, but the tearing and visible redraw is the problem - it's ugly, distracting and makes the whole thing feel slow.
Well, I run an Athlon64 3200+ with accelerated NVidia drivers but I can't drag or resize an opaque window smoothly. I can't do it under WindowMaker, KDE, GNOME or even E17, and the problems are in the X Server
/compositing model currently used.
I haven't used Windows in years, but when i do see it, the thing that stands out is that desktop rendering is noticeably faster and smoother than any X server I have, excepting maybe my SGI O2 running IRIX.
I also have an iBook running OS X, and while it has problems resizing windows really smoothly (though i can't visibly see repaints like I can under X), everything else feels a lot faster and slicker than XFree86/Xorg etc.
Now, i'm sure it's not the X protocol that is the problem, but the difficulty in synchronising X windows to the VBI and also in the extremely poor implementation of alpha-blending and the rendering
If I can hack it to run Linux like my XBox 1.
Otherwise it can stay on the shelf with all the other Microsoft products i'll never buy.
Seriously, the Xbox is a really useful device with the addition of a general purpose OS - It runs freevo over wireless LAN as a media front-end, streams MP3 radio, rips DVDs and even runs a MIDI sequencer for me.
I also use it to browse the web on occasion on my TV.
I don't actually own an XBox game (I have a PS2 for that) but I certainly spend more time playing movies and TV etc. on the XBox than i do playing games on the PS2.
If the XBox2 has even half the security holes and hackability of the XBox1 then i'll be happy.
i'd buy a $10 radio, not drop hundreds on an iPod.
I certainly wouldn't spend hundreds on a radio, so i could listen to someone elses playlist on someone elses timetable.
I mean really, a large collection of MP3 music and other audio content (with new content discoverable and downloadable via P2P, Mp3 streaming stations, podcast feeds etc.) has completely removed any reason i might have to listen to the radio.
If Sirius or XM makes up the bulk of the content you listen to, you don't need an iPod - just a compact Sirius/XM receiver - i'm sure its illegal to actually record Sirius/XM content, so theres a very limited amount of value a hard-drive based receiver brings to the table.
Why don't they just make an addon like the iTrip?
I mean - if the capability to play Sirius/XM on the iPod is a feature lots of people are wanting, it should sell like hotcakes, right?
I mean, if I fly to the US intending to wander round and find a hotel that looks nice to stay in, but don't know ahead of time where i will, in fact be staying, will I get detained at the airport?
I'm not sure anybody who wants the 1 big feature of the 1Ds-II (full 35mm-sized sensor) is going to get it from a 20D, no matter how much firmware hackery takes place.
The EOS 1D is the only digital SLR that I know of that has a full-sized sensor, which makes it more or less the only digital camera useful for doing professional ultra-wide photography (although that is admittedly a small market). As such it commands a price premium, its not simply a 20D with 'unlocked' features.
Also, there are a significant hardware differences between the 300D and the 10D such that only a couple of firmware-added functions actually do anything useful on the 300D. The 300D has different sensors, buffer size/speed etc.
I don't think the Canon EOS range is really the target of this article, the EOS's actually run DOS, and aren't really the kind of thing a hacker tends to get frustrated with - a digital SLR (even a cheap one like the EOS-300D) is all about giving you control of the photographic process.
While I am aware there are firmware-disabled features shared between the 10D and 300D, and the others in the range, with the exception of 'lock mirror up', there aren't any 'hacked firmware enabled' features on the 300D that I would find to be functional or useful on the 300D in the real world.
What feature on the 300D unlocked by the hacked 10D firmware do you find most useful? (this is a genuine question)
Yeah but how fast does the 128-processor beast from Redmond compile the Linux kernel?
Well, yes they can ignore Apple, what has anybody in the OSS world got to lose by 'ignoring Apple'?
Revenue? nope.
Respect? not from tards like you, I guess
If Apple doesn't want to support X11 properly, with a decent font server and a lack of high-performance extensions, thats their call.
So tell me again what the motivation for volunteers to port to OS X native APIs (which are mostly closed and proprietary) are?
Come on, You have a native MS Office port for your platform, a bunch of other shareware or commercial office suites and surprising as it may be for you, Linux/UNIX users are not all primarily motivated by this ridiculous 'BEAT MICROSOFT AT ALL COSTS' idea.
Just pay for an office suite if you need one that fits criteria that the open alternatives don't meet.
Thats the economic model that Apple's Carbon and Cocoa APIs encourage, so if you want to have a go at someone over it, take it up with Steve Jobs, not the people in the OSS community.
Nobody owes it to you to slave away cutting code for an essentially closed platform that few developers have on their desktops, so you can type out your word processing documents. If it means so much to you, either do it yourself or organise a bunch of people to do it for you.
Its not going to happen just because you post your whinings to Slashdot, thats for sure.