However I wouldn't be surprised if Sony revised the PSP design into one slightly smaller and a lot more expensive, exactly like how Nintendo released the DS lite.
Do you really think that Microsoft would think twice about paying a $50M licence just to establish a precedent were thier competitors had to pay $100M?
Nice flamewar. His basic complaint is that Gentoo is biased to using the latest versions of packages, and he wanted a system the base library's don't change so often. (The installers and binary packages already address all his other points).
Whilst I accept that once you have fallen in love with Gentoo on the desktop it is easy to want to use it everywhere, you still have to have the right tool for the right job.
I run a public web server with a database server, and a workgroup file server. These need good reliability but more important very low maintenance; hence I have chosen not to use Gentoo.
I also run a public email gateway, where knowing that I am getting the best from the old hardware and ensuring that the whole system is security patched and running cutting edge spam filters makes Gentoo a valuable choice.
I also run some application servers that run custom code on top of fast developing OSS projects, these are running unstable profiles, with packages pulled from overlays. Here Gentoo is a godsend.
Well at least all that StarWars money was worth it. Wasn't the point of MAD that you were meant to be able to tell if Russian Rockets were going to hit *BEFORE* they actually did.
You are MUCH better changing one thing at a time. Fist switch to gmail (probably the big step for this class of user), then Firefox, and only once that has been accepted change to Linux (and make absolutely sure that you use the same wallpaper and the Firefox icon is in precisely the same place).
Read them in order. They will make more sense and they quality defiantly tails off in the latter ones. (and avoid all the non-Frank ones).
Opinions of the films differ, personally I think the Lynch one succeeds in both being a good film and not ruining the book. However it certainly doesn't replace the book.
How much happier would/. be it they based the security of the nation on a system that assumed you could make it imposible to copy digital data?
For once the experts got it right and realised the chips would always be copyable - and concentraited on making them unmodifiable!
The encription was only to stop people skiming your passpord whilst it is in your pocket (think Tin Foil Hat), and this has certanly not been broken. By using a unique key for each passport and not doing a centerilised lookup for each read makes this a very very secure system.
Why they used a contactless system in the first place, and what they will do when the signing is cracked are totaly diffrent matters.
We all now how hard Google wants to dominate video Ads, the way they dominate text. (to clarify I mean, adds appearing IN video content, not video format adds appearing in text content)
They are talking to the TV companies who currently control video distribution. But why tie yourself to yesterdays companies, it is iTMS (and possible YouTube) that are likely to control video content soon.
Google have already realised that keyword searching isn't a killer 'product' for video content, people just don't want to plug keyboards into their TV's. So the are looking at other ways to enter and dominate that ad market.
What surprises me is Google's (public) lack of contact with the big games companies. Obviously in-game advertising has significant potential, but it is also likely that the next gen winner will control a significant portion of the 'living room'. Why should a Blue-ray disc force you to sit though last months trailers when it is being played on a PS3 sitting on a nice fat broadband connection. Live may be for downloadable games now, but what would stop Microsoft using that network to push video (to your TV and/or Zune).
Actually this is probably just their odd way of saying 'buy me too' to AMD.
Given that their licences to SGI's IP, is one of ATI's excuses for no OSS support, this may not be a bad idea. If AMD buys all of SGI's old IP and release good OSS drivers it is going to take a big swing at nVidia and regain some ground ageist Intel's open chipsets.
It is fairly easy to argue income tax should always apply. I enjoy my job but that doesn't excuse me from paying tax. Any activity where I end up with more real world cash then when I started it is an income and should be taxed.
In fact as a programmer I could do most of my current work inside secondlife, but wouldn't expect this to save me any tax.
However when it comes to sales taxes it is much harder. When you sell an ebook or video form a website you have to pay sales tax (ignoring all the complex cross-border rules), why should you not have to pay it when you buy an ebook or video inside a 'game' like secondlife.
Any distinction between a scroll of teleportation, a map of the forest kingdom, and a tourist guide to Australia I purchase and read 'inside' secondlife seems arbitrary.
We already pay tax on 'expansion packs' that only confer in-game benefits, why should we not pay tax on in-game purchases that can confer real world benefits.
However simply accepting across the board taxation is only the start of the problem. In lots of games outright theft can be encouraged. How do you construct a tax form for a space pirate? What about cheats, do you have to start locking them up for forgery.
The example of game economies are just an extreme case of how poorly our legal and financial systems can cope with any information economy. In truth sales tax doesn't work as designed for any information assets, in-game or otherwise. Eventually governments will be forced to realise this.
If you want a tax system that makes logical sense (this doesn't appear to have ever been a criteria for any current tax system) it has to be proportional to consumption of physical resources.
c# is an open standard with a decent Linux implementation (mono). Winelib has some DirectX9 support but they would probably want to talk to TansGaming.
They initially ported their engine from OpenGL to DirectX with the hope of a non-existent 360 release. Porting it back may not be too hard, it is a graphically simple 2.5d engine. With the Wii and PS3 to consider, adding a OpenGL rendering path would seem a good idea. NWN had a very long tail on Linux and they are presumably hoping to licence their engine as before.
I probably was being facetious, however you prompted me to try e17 again and it has come a long way in the last few months. I was comparing it to my main WM e16, and I am now seriously considering switching.
However as the 'Bling' module is more than capable of bringing any TwinView set-up to its knees I feel my point stands, but it is unfortunately true of anything that uses composite.
That would be the same PowerPC architecture that the PS3 uses then. The OS runs on the PowerPC derived PPE, the SPE are no use to an OS. All the OS can do is expose them is some useful way to userspace.
Sony are sinking some serious PR money into Terra Soft (the makers of Yellow Dog Linux) to develop some "PS3 based supercomputers":
- Unreleased gaming console The CELL was never going to be only for gaming consoles. YDL will be used on several of the biggest supercomputers in the world in a couple of years, not to mention a bucket load of IBM blade servers.
- which has been much-maligned for its excessively high price No one ever said hi-end computing would be cheap.
- and huge production delays Yes, but they are backed by Sony, they will already have their shipments earmarked.
- on a new processor architecture Which is a derivative of the one they are the leading Linux experts on, and is likely to be a very major market in the coming years.
- using a WM that's not even out of CVS Their core market is servers so this is totally irrelevant. I suppose they just wanted something flashy for the expos. (you don't get more flashy then a WM that can bring a 2Gb dual core gaming rig to its knees running xterm!)
So the OLPC pitch is:
"Stimulate your local economy by investing in educational technology that is complete dependent on a small group of programmers in a foreign country."
If 1% of users become programmers that is 10,000 (for OLPC's minimum shipment of 1M boxes). Is the v2 software is going to be better written by OLPC's staff or 10,000 programmers who use the software everyday?
The OLPC are trying to give countries a fast track onto the information revolution that is driving our economy. Their goal is to create producers not consumers.
Sorry to be pedantic but it won't. Even if GPLv3 meets its aims the Linux kernel is staying GPLv2 so this will always be possible.
Even if Linux moved to GLPv3 the only real value is 'waive any legal power to forbid circumvention', however they can still make it practically difficult:
The Wii is completely proprietary can could easily need a very heavily customised compiler (i.e. an encrypted instructions set any with sort of propitiatory code signing Nintendo likes). I think the GPLv3 would require the compiler to be available or you are technically withholding the users right to recompile.
IANAL but I can't see how they can require the compiler to be released under any particular license.
I should imagine 'available on equal terms' is probably the most restrictive test a court would uphold - in which case Nintendo will probably pay a couple of million to some lucky start-up for their compiler licence.
If the compiler (and hence the operating systems it runs on, ad infinitum) have to be GPLv3 then no one is going to be using the new licence for a while.
If the compiler just has to be free/open then who decides which licences are compatible (i.e. is free for non-commercial use allowed)?
Even if Nintendo decides to go for a GPLv3 compiler (?) on a GPLv3 OS (hurd?) they could still structure the signing to need a couple of hours of computation on BlueGene/L. Technically you are not prevented form exercising your rights, in fact you are on a completely equal footing with Nintendo themselves. However it may limit the number of home brewers wanting to role their own.
Even if Nintendo provided an easy to use compiler and full and comprehensible source code, most of GPLv3 restrictions (equal access to hardware and on-line services) still wouldn't apply. The system-library exception allows them to use the closed-source Opera as an interface to all functionality, even if it is sitting on a GPLv3 OS.
If the Wii is hard-wired to only access Nintendo's network (and it is coded to only support the initial Opera build), and the DVD games all boot directly, then even a GPLv3 operating system which you could easily recompile would have very limited appeal.
The significant point about 'apps as web services' will also be a loophole in the GPLv3 and any future version. It it not an EULA and so can't dictate what you do with the code once you have it.
If you are only running a web service and not distributing anything then you don't need to compliy with the GPL whatever it or any future version says.
Not to mention on most phones you have to pause after 'm', to type an 'o' (which is itself three presses). For a total of 9 key-preses and a pause. WAP was three keys, no pause!
If WAP was more thought through then this, it tells you something about how likely it is to be a success.
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The point being?
However I wouldn't be surprised if Sony revised the PSP design into one slightly smaller and a lot more expensive, exactly like how Nintendo released the DS lite.
Do you really think that Microsoft would think twice about paying a $50M licence just to establish a precedent were thier competitors had to pay $100M?
Nice flamewar. His basic complaint is that Gentoo is biased to using the latest versions of packages, and he wanted a system the base library's don't change so often. (The installers and binary packages already address all his other points).
Whilst I accept that once you have fallen in love with Gentoo on the desktop it is easy to want to use it everywhere, you still have to have the right tool for the right job.
I run a public web server with a database server, and a workgroup file server. These need good reliability but more important very low maintenance; hence I have chosen not to use Gentoo.
I also run a public email gateway, where knowing that I am getting the best from the old hardware and ensuring that the whole system is security patched and running cutting edge spam filters makes Gentoo a valuable choice.
I also run some application servers that run custom code on top of fast developing OSS projects, these are running unstable profiles, with packages pulled from overlays. Here Gentoo is a godsend.
Well at least all that StarWars money was worth it. Wasn't the point of MAD that you were meant to be able to tell if Russian Rockets were going to hit *BEFORE* they actually did.
Make sure you have Wake-on-lan turned off in XP.
Some of these people are CIOs, btw.
You are MUCH better changing one thing at a time. Fist switch to gmail (probably the big step for this class of user), then Firefox, and only once that has been accepted change to Linux (and make absolutely sure that you use the same wallpaper and the Firefox icon is in precisely the same place).
Actually the genius behind IEs4Linux has a working method to get the IE7 rendering running under wine (all be it in the IE6 interface).
It isn't actually too hard, but I won't try and explain it again here.
It is stable and matches IE7 in the ACID2 test so defiantly useful for some quick testing before firing up a full VM.
Read them in order. They will make more sense and they quality defiantly tails off in the latter ones. (and avoid all the non-Frank ones).
Opinions of the films differ, personally I think the Lynch one succeeds in both being a good film and not ruining the book. However it certainly doesn't replace the book.
How much happier would /. be it they based the security of the nation on a system that assumed you could make it imposible to copy digital data?
For once the experts got it right and realised the chips would always be copyable - and concentraited on making them unmodifiable!
The encription was only to stop people skiming your passpord whilst it is in your pocket (think Tin Foil Hat), and this has certanly not been broken. By using a unique key for each passport and not doing a centerilised lookup for each read makes this a very very secure system.
Why they used a contactless system in the first place, and what they will do when the signing is cracked are totaly diffrent matters.
Actually we don't get fee college (University) any more, and the health insurance is being gradually eroded (no dental etc.).
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=204989&cid=167 38765
We all now how hard Google wants to dominate video Ads, the way they dominate text. (to clarify I mean, adds appearing IN video content, not video format adds appearing in text content)
They are talking to the TV companies who currently control video distribution. But why tie yourself to yesterdays companies, it is iTMS (and possible YouTube) that are likely to control video content soon.
Google have already realised that keyword searching isn't a killer 'product' for video content, people just don't want to plug keyboards into their TV's. So the are looking at other ways to enter and dominate that ad market.
What surprises me is Google's (public) lack of contact with the big games companies. Obviously in-game advertising has significant potential, but it is also likely that the next gen winner will control a significant portion of the 'living room'. Why should a Blue-ray disc force you to sit though last months trailers when it is being played on a PS3 sitting on a nice fat broadband connection. Live may be for downloadable games now, but what would stop Microsoft using that network to push video (to your TV and/or Zune).
Actually this is probably just their odd way of saying 'buy me too' to AMD.
Given that their licences to SGI's IP, is one of ATI's excuses for no OSS support, this may not be a bad idea. If AMD buys all of SGI's old IP and release good OSS drivers it is going to take a big swing at nVidia and regain some ground ageist Intel's open chipsets.
Wow, I had looked for exactly this and not found it. Thanks for the link.
As allways much easier to solve the problem yourself then to expect pestering a large company to get you any customer service.
Makesure you get 0.9.90.3 for new versions of Firefox, the one on the site dosn't work.
It is fairly easy to argue income tax should always apply. I enjoy my job but that doesn't excuse me from paying tax. Any activity where I end up with more real world cash then when I started it is an income and should be taxed.
In fact as a programmer I could do most of my current work inside secondlife, but wouldn't expect this to save me any tax.
However when it comes to sales taxes it is much harder. When you sell an ebook or video form a website you have to pay sales tax (ignoring all the complex cross-border rules), why should you not have to pay it when you buy an ebook or video inside a 'game' like secondlife.
Any distinction between a scroll of teleportation, a map of the forest kingdom, and a tourist guide to Australia I purchase and read 'inside' secondlife seems arbitrary.
We already pay tax on 'expansion packs' that only confer in-game benefits, why should we not pay tax on in-game purchases that can confer real world benefits.
However simply accepting across the board taxation is only the start of the problem. In lots of games outright theft can be encouraged. How do you construct a tax form for a space pirate? What about cheats, do you have to start locking them up for forgery.
The example of game economies are just an extreme case of how poorly our legal and financial systems can cope with any information economy. In truth sales tax doesn't work as designed for any information assets, in-game or otherwise. Eventually governments will be forced to realise this.
If you want a tax system that makes logical sense (this doesn't appear to have ever been a criteria for any current tax system) it has to be proportional to consumption of physical resources.
c# is an open standard with a decent Linux implementation (mono). Winelib has some DirectX9 support but they would probably want to talk to TansGaming.
They initially ported their engine from OpenGL to DirectX with the hope of a non-existent 360 release. Porting it back may not be too hard, it is a graphically simple 2.5d engine. With the Wii and PS3 to consider, adding a OpenGL rendering path would seem a good idea. NWN had a very long tail on Linux and they are presumably hoping to licence their engine as before.
I probably was being facetious, however you prompted me to try e17 again and it has come a long way in the last few months. I was comparing it to my main WM e16, and I am now seriously considering switching.
However as the 'Bling' module is more than capable of bringing any TwinView set-up to its knees I feel my point stands, but it is unfortunately true of anything that uses composite.
That would be the same PowerPC architecture that the PS3 uses then. The OS runs on the PowerPC derived PPE, the SPE are no use to an OS. All the OS can do is expose them is some useful way to userspace.
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Sony are sinking some serious PR money into Terra Soft (the makers of Yellow Dog Linux) to develop some "PS3 based supercomputers":
http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=77
- Unreleased gaming console
The CELL was never going to be only for gaming consoles. YDL will be used on several of the biggest supercomputers in the world in a couple of years, not to mention a bucket load of IBM blade servers.
- which has been much-maligned for its excessively high price
No one ever said hi-end computing would be cheap.
- and huge production delays
Yes, but they are backed by Sony, they will already have their shipments earmarked.
- on a new processor architecture
Which is a derivative of the one they are the leading Linux experts on, and is likely to be a very major market in the coming years.
- using a WM that's not even out of CVS
Their core market is servers so this is totally irrelevant. I suppose they just wanted something flashy for the expos. (you don't get more flashy then a WM that can bring a 2Gb dual core gaming rig to its knees running xterm!)
Given this is /. I think a plug for Virgin Radio's brilliant 160kpbs Ogg Vorbis stream is allowed:
e rvice=vrbb
http://www.smgradio.com/core/audio/ogg/live.pls?s
(Though they are a UK Ad supported pop music channel so the quality of the content is not guaranteed)
So the OLPC pitch is: "Stimulate your local economy by investing in educational technology that is complete dependent on a small group of programmers in a foreign country." If 1% of users become programmers that is 10,000 (for OLPC's minimum shipment of 1M boxes). Is the v2 software is going to be better written by OLPC's staff or 10,000 programmers who use the software everyday? The OLPC are trying to give countries a fast track onto the information revolution that is driving our economy. Their goal is to create producers not consumers.
Sorry to be pedantic but it won't. Even if GPLv3 meets its aims the Linux kernel is staying GPLv2 so this will always be possible.
Even if Linux moved to GLPv3 the only real value is 'waive any legal power to forbid circumvention', however they can still make it practically difficult:
The Wii is completely proprietary can could easily need a very heavily customised compiler (i.e. an encrypted instructions set any with sort of propitiatory code signing Nintendo likes). I think the GPLv3 would require the compiler to be available or you are technically withholding the users right to recompile.
IANAL but I can't see how they can require the compiler to be released under any particular license.
Even if Nintendo decides to go for a GPLv3 compiler (?) on a GPLv3 OS (hurd?) they could still structure the signing to need a couple of hours of computation on BlueGene/L. Technically you are not prevented form exercising your rights, in fact you are on a completely equal footing with Nintendo themselves. However it may limit the number of home brewers wanting to role their own.
Even if Nintendo provided an easy to use compiler and full and comprehensible source code, most of GPLv3 restrictions (equal access to hardware and on-line services) still wouldn't apply. The system-library exception allows them to use the closed-source Opera as an interface to all functionality, even if it is sitting on a GPLv3 OS.
If the Wii is hard-wired to only access Nintendo's network (and it is coded to only support the initial Opera build), and the DVD games all boot directly, then even a GPLv3 operating system which you could easily recompile would have very limited appeal.
The significant point about 'apps as web services' will also be a loophole in the GPLv3 and any future version. It it not an EULA and so can't dictate what you do with the code once you have it.
If you are only running a web service and not distributing anything then you don't need to compliy with the GPL whatever it or any future version says.
Not to mention on most phones you have to pause after 'm', to type an 'o' (which is itself three presses). For a total of 9 key-preses and a pause. WAP was three keys, no pause!
If WAP was more thought through then this, it tells you something about how likely it is to be a success.
If your definition of "useless to them" is non-commercial, how about:
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http://www.silicon.com/retailandleisure/0,3800011
Whist I assume Goggle earth is haemorrhaging money at the moment, it certainly has potential.