No problem with them limiting content to the UK (and turning it into a revenue service outside the UK, as they do with BBC North America) but WTF do they think they should be restricting content? We paid for it after all.
For example the BBC has not embraced Open Source, even for their own in house products, even under a non-commercial-use-only license. They are an organisation that could do such things free from commercial considerations, yet refuse to. It's infuriating.
They do the same thing with their programming - because of the way they are funded they could offer interesting and different programming _NOT_ reality crap that is available on the commercial channels anyway. And they even have adverts (self promotion) now - and at a louder volume in the same irritating commercial TV style.
Well, I don't care, I don't have a TV and I'll just carry on stealing the few things I want to watch anyway. Groening et al can contact the BBC for their royalties, since if they could find their ass with both hands I'd be getting the content (legally) from them instead.
Dude, they wrote the software, it's up to other people to package it and make it easy.
There's no problem with a bunch of people donating time chosing not to support a platform, and they make it easy for someone who _does_ want to support the platform by releasing the code - all that would be required is converting GTK calls into Aqua calls and reimplimenting the libraries.
In the meantime they gave you a working solution (install GTK etc - which then gives you access to ALL gtk apps, not just this one) - and you have the temerity to bitch about it?
Why show the whole desktop (complete with terminal windows and task bars) that is 66% dead space when showing off one app that isn't a task bar or a terminal window?
This would be a lot stronger arugument if they made the addons available with similar difficulties as their competitors - ie download (probably for free) from the MS website.
This way there would at least be some incentive for people to look at alternatives to MS Zip, MS media player etc.
No, not totally fair, but about as far as you can get when one company has a monopoly.
MS can extend their market share from 0% to probably >>50% of the AV market in _ONE_ release cycle by leveraging their existing market share - how can that possibly be considered good for the economy?
I know a grand total of 1 ( ONE ) female gamer. And she looks like she has been hit in the face by a vat of acid at 300km/h, has about the same weight as as the Eurasian tectonic plate, is as charming as Margaret Thatcher on a Sunday morning, about as reliable and trustworthy as an unnamed operating system which does NOT control 5% of the global market... <br><br>...but hell, it was Friday night, and you needed a date.
My mesh/alpha was about £2000 ($3000) at the time, which was comparable with a high end intel desktop system - this was long before sub £1000 computers.
It shipped with Windows NT 4, as that was the only one available for Alpha systems, but was also supplied with a couple of games. There were reviews at the time but it seems to have vanished off the internet since:o(
So after the Apple 'first 64 bit desktop' campaign we get to see an AMD 'first 64 bit desktop' _and_ an Intel 'first 64 bit desktop' campaign?
In the mean time my 1998 vintage Mesh/Alpha desktop system (no, it's not a server, it was sold via consumer magazines in the UK) is still running happily with 64 bit Linux... and that was hardly the first either, an honour that probably belongs to someone like Sun.
Then get a C750 model. It has half the memory (just throw in a $20 64mb SD card to even it out) but it's 20mm not 25mm (1 in ~= 25mm) and it's only $600.
Vastly more usable than the Sony models, with a better screen and more power.
As for battery life, I get 5 hours out of mine or ~4 hrs with Bluetooth and ~2.5 hrs with WiFi. Spare batteries are about $100 for the high capacity (8.5 hour) ones.
The combination of three factors makes this reasonably to see...
First is the £0 per unit licensing fee. A great thing for any manufacturer.
Second is that existing interfaces combine flexibility of use with a good mobile usability. Current versions of Qtopia rival Palm's interface and are miles ahead of PocketPC on ease of use, whilst they have a parity of features with PocketPC and are miles ahead of Palm. The API they have is unbeatable for pocket devices.
Thirdly is that Linux is fairly well suited to low power environments already, with a fair bit of work done in the embedded space. It already runs on PPC and ARM chips for example.
Sure, the PIM apps are at best basic (although adequate for me) - but Palm knows how PIM apps work and can afford more than a few developers.
Syncing is also a non-issue, as people seem happy enough to plug in whatever software that comes with the device (ala palm handhelds) and of course with a little effort (USB mass storage support for the device to write directly to the internal storage or cards from any modern Win, Mac or Linux box) no drivers would be needed for most tasks.
The hell you say - it has either no screen protection or at best clunky screen protection via a case. Hardly convenient to slip into a pocket at a moments notice.
No they won't put the girls off. My girlfriend stole my Zaurus SL5500 and refuses to give it back, so I had to go out and buy a C750 instead. Oh the pain.
My C750 Zaurus is one of the best looking PDAs out there (the rest all being Sharp ones too) - miles ahead of any Palm, Sony or HP offering.
As well as being so goddam sexy, it has a much easier to use (for mobile computing purposes) interface than the PocketPC as well as one that is more flexible than the Palm which I find to restrictive. (Since mine is more than a productiviy tool, I use it more like a mini laptop.)
Throw in Bluetooth and WiFi (which you can use at the same time _as well_ as a SD memory card - try that with another device) for less than $600, all in a box that fits in a pocket and is reasonably robust, with 5 hours battery life... it's hard to say no.
The best advantage of OSS software is that you can afford to run all of them. Who could afford to have MS Office and $COMPETITOR at $450 each? On the other hand OOo, KO and GnomeOffice have just cost me a little time and some donations that were my choice to make.
(IMO the best mix is AbiWord for editing, OO.o for conversion, Sodipodi for graphics... but hell, pick whatever you like.)
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Not so.
A heuristic is an estimate of the distance to your goal that you can use to evaluate which node in the seach space to expand next.
Your truths about the world are sentences that exist in the knowlage base.
There are some really good notes on search on the MIT Open Course Ware website here.
When they cancell it they won't replace it with new FireFly or new Farscape or even Futurama reruns.
They will replace it with EXXXXTREME Survivor Pop Idol Challenge Get Me Out Of Here!!! Now with MORE Celebrities!!!! Some of whom you might even have heard of!!!!!!!
The kind of programming so bad that the 15-20 mins of advertising per hour are actually the highlight.
As soon as games are unrealisticly restricted, more people will feel the need to write GPL ones.
We are seeing the groundwork already, in good GPL game engines, and the free content community already has proved their worth on proprietary engines (NWN modules and Quake 3 mods etc). All it needs now is someone to tie it all together.
DRM is the ultimate free software motivator.
(Anyone remember Total Anihilation that had a multiplayer spawn install and let you play 3 computers with each valid set of disks over the LAN/Internet?)
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The BBC is funded esentially by general taxation.
No problem with them limiting content to the UK (and turning it into a revenue service outside the UK, as they do with BBC North America) but WTF do they think they should be restricting content? We paid for it after all.
For example the BBC has not embraced Open Source, even for their own in house products, even under a non-commercial-use-only license. They are an organisation that could do such things free from commercial considerations, yet refuse to. It's infuriating.
They do the same thing with their programming - because of the way they are funded they could offer interesting and different programming _NOT_ reality crap that is available on the commercial channels anyway. And they even have adverts (self promotion) now - and at a louder volume in the same irritating commercial TV style.
Well, I don't care, I don't have a TV and I'll just carry on stealing the few things I want to watch anyway. Groening et al can contact the BBC for their royalties, since if they could find their ass with both hands I'd be getting the content (legally) from them instead.
Dude, they wrote the software, it's up to other people to package it and make it easy.
There's no problem with a bunch of people donating time chosing not to support a platform, and they make it easy for someone who _does_ want to support the platform by releasing the code - all that would be required is converting GTK calls into Aqua calls and reimplimenting the libraries.
In the meantime they gave you a working solution (install GTK etc - which then gives you access to ALL gtk apps, not just this one) - and you have the temerity to bitch about it?
Why not save yourself a gazillion bucks and export it into the excellent (and Free) Sodipodi.
It's a fantastic vector graphics editor, one that reminds me slightly of Draw on the old Acorn, but more powerful.
Why show the whole desktop (complete with terminal windows and task bars) that is 66% dead space when showing off one app that isn't a task bar or a terminal window?
Bad advocacy and then some.
a) There is no "Freedom of expression online" - anything online is governed by regular laws in the "Real World"
The closest you can get is Speakers Corner in London, where one is permitted to say anything one wishes as long as it is not an incitement to treason.
This would be a lot stronger arugument if they made the addons available with similar difficulties as their competitors - ie download (probably for free) from the MS website.
This way there would at least be some incentive for people to look at alternatives to MS Zip, MS media player etc.
No, not totally fair, but about as far as you can get when one company has a monopoly.
MS can extend their market share from 0% to probably >>50% of the AV market in _ONE_ release cycle by leveraging their existing market share - how can that possibly be considered good for the economy?
Microsoft working with a Free Software group to produce a standard that will be freely available?
Sounds more like the end of the world than the end of spam to me!
I know a grand total of 1 ( ONE ) female gamer. And she looks like she has been hit in the face by a vat of acid at 300km/h, has about the same weight as as the Eurasian tectonic plate, is as charming as Margaret Thatcher on a Sunday morning, about as reliable and trustworthy as an unnamed operating system which does NOT control 5% of the global market... ...but hell, it was Friday night, and you needed a date.
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My mesh/alpha was about £2000 ($3000) at the time, which was comparable with a high end intel desktop system - this was long before sub £1000 computers.
:o(
It shipped with Windows NT 4, as that was the only one available for Alpha systems, but was also supplied with a couple of games. There were reviews at the time but it seems to have vanished off the internet since
So after the Apple 'first 64 bit desktop' campaign we get to see an AMD 'first 64 bit desktop' _and_ an Intel 'first 64 bit desktop' campaign?
In the mean time my 1998 vintage Mesh/Alpha desktop system (no, it's not a server, it was sold via consumer magazines in the UK) is still running happily with 64 bit Linux... and that was hardly the first either, an honour that probably belongs to someone like Sun.
Then get a C750 model. It has half the memory (just throw in a $20 64mb SD card to even it out) but it's 20mm not 25mm (1 in ~= 25mm) and it's only $600.
Vastly more usable than the Sony models, with a better screen and more power.
As for battery life, I get 5 hours out of mine or ~4 hrs with Bluetooth and ~2.5 hrs with WiFi. Spare batteries are about $100 for the high capacity (8.5 hour) ones.
The combination of three factors makes this reasonably to see...
First is the £0 per unit licensing fee. A great thing for any manufacturer.
Second is that existing interfaces combine flexibility of use with a good mobile usability. Current versions of Qtopia rival Palm's interface and are miles ahead of PocketPC on ease of use, whilst they have a parity of features with PocketPC and are miles ahead of Palm. The API they have is unbeatable for pocket devices.
Thirdly is that Linux is fairly well suited to low power environments already, with a fair bit of work done in the embedded space. It already runs on PPC and ARM chips for example.
Sure, the PIM apps are at best basic (although adequate for me) - but Palm knows how PIM apps work and can afford more than a few developers.
Syncing is also a non-issue, as people seem happy enough to plug in whatever software that comes with the device (ala palm handhelds) and of course with a little effort (USB mass storage support for the device to write directly to the internal storage or cards from any modern Win, Mac or Linux box) no drivers would be needed for most tasks.
The hell you say - it has either no screen protection or at best clunky screen protection via a case. Hardly convenient to slip into a pocket at a moments notice.
No they won't put the girls off. My girlfriend stole my Zaurus SL5500 and refuses to give it back, so I had to go out and buy a C750 instead. Oh the pain.
They are so damn cool.
My C750 Zaurus is one of the best looking PDAs out there (the rest all being Sharp ones too) - miles ahead of any Palm, Sony or HP offering.
As well as being so goddam sexy, it has a much easier to use (for mobile computing purposes) interface than the PocketPC as well as one that is more flexible than the Palm which I find to restrictive. (Since mine is more than a productiviy tool, I use it more like a mini laptop.)
Throw in Bluetooth and WiFi (which you can use at the same time _as well_ as a SD memory card - try that with another device) for less than $600, all in a box that fits in a pocket and is reasonably robust, with 5 hours battery life... it's hard to say no.
1) Building national wireless network to transmit your data and not charging monthly fees.
2) Cost of bandwidth for slashdotting.
I keep trying the 192.168.0.47 address that this screenshot shows for the GameCube server but I just get my crappy obsolete DreamCast webserver :o(
The answer is both, duh.
The best advantage of OSS software is that you can afford to run all of them. Who could afford to have MS Office and $COMPETITOR at $450 each? On the other hand OOo, KO and GnomeOffice have just cost me a little time and some donations that were my choice to make.
(IMO the best mix is AbiWord for editing, OO.o for conversion, Sodipodi for graphics... but hell, pick whatever you like.)
Not so.
A heuristic is an estimate of the distance to your goal that you can use to evaluate which node in the seach space to expand next.
Your truths about the world are sentences that exist in the knowlage base.
There are some really good notes on search on the MIT Open Course Ware website here.
When they cancell it they won't replace it with new FireFly or new Farscape or even Futurama reruns.
They will replace it with EXXXXTREME Survivor Pop Idol Challenge Get Me Out Of Here!!! Now with MORE Celebrities!!!! Some of whom you might even have heard of!!!!!!!
The kind of programming so bad that the 15-20 mins of advertising per hour are actually the highlight.
I see it has no back seat. Obviously the guy was smart enough to realise that he wouldn't be needing one.
FuelCell cars were scrapped because they don't match the 'internal combustion technique' of existing cars.
As soon as games are unrealisticly restricted, more people will feel the need to write GPL ones.
We are seeing the groundwork already, in good GPL game engines, and the free content community already has proved their worth on proprietary engines (NWN modules and Quake 3 mods etc). All it needs now is someone to tie it all together.
DRM is the ultimate free software motivator.
(Anyone remember Total Anihilation that had a multiplayer spawn install and let you play 3 computers with each valid set of disks over the LAN/Internet?)
I don;t know about you but I really wouldn't care if they increased the price of Mozilla by as much as 400%!
Only has a Thrust To Weight of 1.5 (compared to >2 TW on a Eurofighter)
Weighed 5 million pounds fueled
Main engines burned for less than 2.5 minutes
Was travelling 6,000mph at burnout
Was slightly more fuel efficient than a Crystler SUV