Apparently you haven't ridden on any of the buses I have. Buses have very sharp starts and stops rather regularly. Now, a regular person's car would likely be fine, but buses aren't so smooth.
Unfortunately, your wrong. The Alpha was sold as a desktop PC. It failed miserably, but a couple did sell. Hence, the G5 isn't the first desktop system with 64bit.
Not only is it compliance, it's a damn good way around it. Even if they go under, if you have a right to the source, you DO have the source. If not, it's your own damn fault.
Flash is a relatively extensive language with a decent database connector and many features specifically designed to make animation easy to do (built-in variables for frame referencing and so-such).
SVG is not just a replacement, even with SMIL. Maybe when it has matured a bit more, adding some better features, but not yet.
It will if we force it to. Ah, stubborn force combined with geekish ingenuity can overcome any hurdle, so long as it doesn't require strenuous physical activity.
Microsoft is supplying their game-developement-platform. Is there any hope of a competing OSS platform? I know there are some tools out there, but OSS is generally quite anemic when it comes to gaming blood.
Not everyone who holds both these opinions is two-faced. Consider my position:
1) Linux is a superior system to Windows and will win out in the end, regardless.
2) Microsoft is a vile corporation which has repeatedly violated anti-trust laws and destroyed companies which could have been very good.
The hatred of Microsoft is not a hatred of Windows, and the love of Linux is not a hatred of Windows or Microsoft. Microsoft never has been and never will be a threat to Linux, but I detest the corporation nonetheless.
That assumes that the actual terms are that strict. It might apply more to the media capabilities, such as streaming. That would still help in many areas, but not as many as it could.
If you had bothered to read the article, rather than falling into the fuckwad category, you would have noticed that:
"The biggest antitrust punishment until now was a 462-million-euro fine imposed against Roche Holding of Switzerland in November 2001, for its role in a series of vitamin cartels."
Is there any information on how they have to release that code? I recall them being forced to release documentation of APIs in the US for a reasonable license, which they set at around a hundred grand, fifty if you decided to not use it after a look.
Will the EU allow that crap too, or will it realize that Microsoft's largest competitors are likely to be OSS developers and a hundred-grand license would be about the same as not actually releasing it to their competitors?
No, high-end digital truely uses 128-bit color. High-end digital projectors use 64 bit color. The main reason for this is that the recording is outside of the range of the projection and they can fiddle with lighting very, very easily. Take a look at [ http://www.openexr.org/ ] for an example of how much you can fiddle with a good image.
Unfortunately, most projectors in theatres only can do 32 bit color. That's usually fine, but it would be nice if more could do 64.
They have to share the code to some of the lower level servers so that other programs can interoperate better. It's not to allow others to reimplement them.
Those applications are not created by the distributions, so they are not pushing a monopoly. If Windows shipped RealOne, there wouldn't be so much of a problem.
Also, whoever modded the parent as a troll is mentally retarded and needs to be put in a home for the unable-to-consider-other-opinions-or-debate-ration ally.
If only is were inferior quality, you might have an argument.
However:
Linux runs faster and more stable than Windows, with more features.
KDE runs faster than Windows with many more features and a better look, although only equally stable.
MPlayer plays back more video types than Windows Media Player, and also is more fault-tolerant, uses less resources, is easier to use, and is more stable.
Mozilla renders more accurately and has better features than IE, but runs slower and doesn't support a few pages (none that I have ever needed to use)
Konqueror runs faster than IE with more features but tends to render worse (sometimes on pages that matter)
The only sticking points are MS-Office and lots o stuff from Adobe and Macromedia (although I am not happy with the rate of improvement in Dreamweaver and Adobe Acrobat is pathetic compared to ghostview, except for a few really complex PDF files)
So, if I were paying an equal price, I would still go with the free software solutions most of the time. The biggest sticking point of all is games, and that is starting to change.
P.S. The economy can go fuck itself, Capitalism is almost as bad as Communism. We need a general revamp.
"The European Commission draft requires Microsoft to share proprietary information with rival server makers"
That's always my sticking point. I'm not as much bothered that they support video playback in their default system (they also support image playback and text playback, after all) as to their generally incompatible and excessively proprietary methods.
The issue is mostly that you need to physically tap the line. This will, at the least, demonstrate that you are tapping a line. Also, you need to be relatively immediately colocated to tap a phone line.
VoIP can, however, be easily tapped from a distance without and physical evidence.
I just sent an e-mail to my representative specifically requesting that he push legislation to either remove e-voting or demand a verifiable paper trail and auditable code on voting machines.
The text I sent:
In light of the recent heavy usage of electronic voting machines during the primaries, including many inconveniences, I decided to look into the matter more carefully. Due to many major security flaws in e-voting systems and many straight-forward openings for abuse, I am greatly worried about the current state of e-voting.
It is my hope that a law could be passed which would require the following of e-voting systems:
1) Code review by the NSA (or other governmental agency) to ensure that no backdoors have been added to the programs.
2) Paper trails of all votes cast, so that the ability of computers to change massive amounts of data swiftly could never be applied to the votes which are essential to our democratic system. (These need not be the primary counting method, but should be there as a safeguard in case of fraud)
3) Voter verifiable ballots. Currently, there is no proof for the voter as to how their vote was counted. If the votes were printed (see 2) and then given to the voter to place into a separate ballot box, the voter could easily look at the ballow to determine that the machine actually printed their vote correctly.
None of these requests are especially difficult to have carried out, none of these requests are unreasonable, and all of the requests are essential to the maitenance of our fair and reliable democracy.
It's not much, but it would be if everyone on Slashdot did it.
Hmmm....Slashdotting congress....that would be fun.
Can you sue someone for getting a patent they know is invalid simply so that they can sue you?
I mean, if tit ever came down to Microsoft suing RedHat over a desktop pager, I have almost no doubt RedHat could prove, at least to the standards of a civil trial, that Microsoft had KNOWN, absolutely, that their idea was not original.
Then, they had intentionally gotten a patent they knew was invalid. I don't think getting an invalid patent is illegal (possibly defrauding the patent office?) but shouldn't it be illegal to do something like that for the purpose of a lawsuit?
mencoder dvd://1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts [whatever bitrate you want] -oac lame -lameopts presets=standard -o [whatever you want to name it]
If I were at home with access to a Linux box, I'd probably even be able to give the bitrate settings (can't recall the keywords off the top of my head). I think around 800kbps is a good bitrate, that's what I encode my home-videos at for storage. And always do 2-pass encoding.
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"If the judge grants the motion then SCO effectively has no case"
Everything from 'If' to 'then' is unneeded.
Apparently you haven't ridden on any of the buses I have. Buses have very sharp starts and stops rather regularly. Now, a regular person's car would likely be fine, but buses aren't so smooth.
Unfortunately, your wrong. The Alpha was sold as a desktop PC. It failed miserably, but a couple did sell. Hence, the G5 isn't the first desktop system with 64bit.
Not only is it compliance, it's a damn good way around it. Even if they go under, if you have a right to the source, you DO have the source. If not, it's your own damn fault.
Flash is a relatively extensive language with a decent database connector and many features specifically designed to make animation easy to do (built-in variables for frame referencing and so-such).
SVG is not just a replacement, even with SMIL. Maybe when it has matured a bit more, adding some better features, but not yet.
It will if we force it to. Ah, stubborn force combined with geekish ingenuity can overcome any hurdle, so long as it doesn't require strenuous physical activity.
Microsoft is supplying their game-developement-platform. Is there any hope of a competing OSS platform? I know there are some tools out there, but OSS is generally quite anemic when it comes to gaming blood.
Not everyone who holds both these opinions is two-faced. Consider my position:
1) Linux is a superior system to Windows and will win out in the end, regardless.
2) Microsoft is a vile corporation which has repeatedly violated anti-trust laws and destroyed companies which could have been very good.
The hatred of Microsoft is not a hatred of Windows, and the love of Linux is not a hatred of Windows or Microsoft. Microsoft never has been and never will be a threat to Linux, but I detest the corporation nonetheless.
That assumes that the actual terms are that strict. It might apply more to the media capabilities, such as streaming. That would still help in many areas, but not as many as it could.
If you had bothered to read the article, rather than falling into the fuckwad category, you would have noticed that:
"The biggest antitrust punishment until now was a 462-million-euro fine imposed against Roche Holding of Switzerland in November 2001, for its role in a series of vitamin cartels."
Is there any information on how they have to release that code? I recall them being forced to release documentation of APIs in the US for a reasonable license, which they set at around a hundred grand, fifty if you decided to not use it after a look.
Will the EU allow that crap too, or will it realize that Microsoft's largest competitors are likely to be OSS developers and a hundred-grand license would be about the same as not actually releasing it to their competitors?
Oh my God, you're right!
They're terrorists!
No, high-end digital truely uses 128-bit color. High-end digital projectors use 64 bit color. The main reason for this is that the recording is outside of the range of the projection and they can fiddle with lighting very, very easily. Take a look at [ http://www.openexr.org/ ] for an example of how much you can fiddle with a good image.
Unfortunately, most projectors in theatres only can do 32 bit color. That's usually fine, but it would be nice if more could do 64.
Okay I RTFA'd but didn't quote it all. Could anyone else do the same?
They are going to be required to share the code to some low-level servers in Windows so all products have equal access to the system.
80 percent of the world couldn't install windows.
70 percent of the world could get around Linux if it were a decent distro (SuSE, Ark).
And, most importantly, I'm not part of those percentages, so why the fuck would that affect what I use?
They have to share the code to some of the lower level servers so that other programs can interoperate better. It's not to allow others to reimplement them.
Those applications are not created by the distributions, so they are not pushing a monopoly. If Windows shipped RealOne, there wouldn't be so much of a problem.
n ally.
Also, whoever modded the parent as a troll is mentally retarded and needs to be put in a home for the unable-to-consider-other-opinions-or-debate-ratio
If only is were inferior quality, you might have an argument.
However:
Linux runs faster and more stable than Windows, with more features.
KDE runs faster than Windows with many more features and a better look, although only equally stable.
MPlayer plays back more video types than Windows Media Player, and also is more fault-tolerant, uses less resources, is easier to use, and is more stable.
Mozilla renders more accurately and has better features than IE, but runs slower and doesn't support a few pages (none that I have ever needed to use)
Konqueror runs faster than IE with more features but tends to render worse (sometimes on pages that matter)
The only sticking points are MS-Office and lots o stuff from Adobe and Macromedia (although I am not happy with the rate of improvement in Dreamweaver and Adobe Acrobat is pathetic compared to ghostview, except for a few really complex PDF files)
So, if I were paying an equal price, I would still go with the free software solutions most of the time. The biggest sticking point of all is games, and that is starting to change.
P.S. The economy can go fuck itself, Capitalism is almost as bad as Communism. We need a general revamp.
"The European Commission draft requires Microsoft to share proprietary information with rival server makers"
That's always my sticking point. I'm not as much bothered that they support video playback in their default system (they also support image playback and text playback, after all) as to their generally incompatible and excessively proprietary methods.
The issue is mostly that you need to physically tap the line. This will, at the least, demonstrate that you are tapping a line. Also, you need to be relatively immediately colocated to tap a phone line.
VoIP can, however, be easily tapped from a distance without and physical evidence.
I just sent an e-mail to my representative specifically requesting that he push legislation to either remove e-voting or demand a verifiable paper trail and auditable code on voting machines.
The text I sent:
In light of the recent heavy usage of electronic voting machines during the primaries, including many inconveniences, I decided to look into the matter more carefully. Due to many major security flaws in e-voting systems and many straight-forward openings for abuse, I am greatly worried about the current state of e-voting.
It is my hope that a law could be passed which would require the following of e-voting systems:
1) Code review by the NSA (or other governmental agency) to ensure that no backdoors have been added to the programs.
2) Paper trails of all votes cast, so that the ability of computers to change massive amounts of data swiftly could never be applied to the votes which are essential to our democratic system. (These need not be the primary counting method, but should be there as a safeguard in case of fraud)
3) Voter verifiable ballots. Currently, there is no proof for the voter as to how their vote was counted. If the votes were printed (see 2) and then given to the voter to place into a separate ballot box, the voter could easily look at the ballow to determine that the machine actually printed their vote correctly.
None of these requests are especially difficult to have carried out, none of these requests are unreasonable, and all of the requests are essential to the maitenance of our fair and reliable democracy.
It's not much, but it would be if everyone on Slashdot did it.
Hmmm....Slashdotting congress....that would be fun.
Just make a package yourself and send it as a contrib. What's with the pathetic 'hoping'?
Can you sue someone for getting a patent they know is invalid simply so that they can sue you?
I mean, if tit ever came down to Microsoft suing RedHat over a desktop pager, I have almost no doubt RedHat could prove, at least to the standards of a civil trial, that Microsoft had KNOWN, absolutely, that their idea was not original.
Then, they had intentionally gotten a patent they knew was invalid. I don't think getting an invalid patent is illegal (possibly defrauding the patent office?) but shouldn't it be illegal to do something like that for the purpose of a lawsuit?
"you can't make people stop hating you at gunpoint"
I see that you believe in life after death, as corpses tend to be unemotional.
Note: I'm not recommending genocide as a means to end hatred.
For Linux just try:
mencoder dvd://1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts [whatever bitrate you want] -oac lame -lameopts presets=standard -o [whatever you want to name it]
If I were at home with access to a Linux box, I'd probably even be able to give the bitrate settings (can't recall the keywords off the top of my head). I think around 800kbps is a good bitrate, that's what I encode my home-videos at for storage. And always do 2-pass encoding.