First Torwards did not want to "give his private keys because of GPL v3", which was a completly mislead and misleading interpretation of the GPL v3 DRAFT.
Now Torwards thinks that anyway DRM is not so bad that it seems.
Wake up, I did not say "use this or that energy source rather than oil or uranium"!
I said : do not consume energy for crap such as nerdy 1KW supplies! Because available source of energy has an impact on the environment.
Moreover, you certainly know (at least I hope) that oil reserve are limited and will be totally consumed in less than 50years. But do you know that there are limited amount of uranium on Earth?? Just enough for 100 years if we keep burning uranium at the actual speed. But certainly much less years if US start building nukes (and US will when oil will be gone).
What does the NMCCO tell about that??
Do you sometimes where all those Watts you consume come from?
Is it from Iraki oil, or from uranium?
Do you think about the impact of over-consumation on the Earth?:o/
... for the software tips coming from Linus "you should use bitkeeper" Torvards!
If I use KDE it's because it fits my need! Not because i'm against any other desktop environment. And every user should have the same opportunity to try and choose. Because that's freedom!
In different European coutries, music industry (and thus Us majors) gains some money on every MP3 player sold. This is a tax, depending on the actual capacity of the harddisk in the MP3 player. In France this tax is called Sorecop.
This is a shame, because I already pay this "Music Tax" because of every harddisk in my PC. and every memory media I have (such as CD-R, DVD-R). So how many times should I pay the tax to please the RIAA?
:o)
I was rather refering to the archetypal 2-step technics of drug dealers :
- offer products for free, in order to create a dependence,
- ask for money for the no-more-free product,
- ($$$!)
but fails to mention that the converse is also true: the wealthiest nation in the world is similarly, under the GPL, forced to "disgorge all its IP back to the developing nations" as well. Duh!"
That's what I would call "greed under the costume of humanism".
You are so right.
BitKeeper availability could have stopped for any reason, and the kernel development would then be harmed or delayed.
And now BitKeeper availability stopped. So who should we blame? Usualy the one to blame is the one who took the bad decision... not the others, who had concern about it.
And, honestly, private companies keeps on reverse engineering products from the market (it is legit to do so for interoperability reasons, and so on).
So why should open-source programmers not do it?
When I boot on windows, it's to play Half Life 2. And last time windows was connected to the internet was in order to REGISTER Half Life 2. I don't even play to Counter Strike, because I am fed up with Windows sucking security.
I experience the same feeling with S-ATA. There is an obvious issue with the S-ATA driver, which leads to data corruption with many drives and controlers (especially the Silicon Image 3112).
But rather to stick on this problem until it's resolved, developers seems to continue in the "it's the hardware's fault" kind of statements.
Nevertheless, one of my colleague, a NetBSD expert, tells me that this data corruption with S-ATA does not appear on NetBSD. And when I look in NetBSD mailing lists, I found nothing about data corruption on NetBSD. So what's next for Linux?
It is for Valve a HUGE interest to unblock HL2 now, as it will cause more people to get the game NOW on Steam rather than LATER in store.
As a reminder, Valve get every penny from a licencee on Steam, BUT Vivendi get some money from Boxes which will be bought.
(In 4 days, how many HL2 addicts would think "I WANT IT NOW!!" and get it rather on steam? You guess it : 100000 or more!! $$$$$$$$$$)
This issue of Valve wanting all the money for themselves ALONE is the origin of Steam creation, why HL2 was delayed, and why there is currently a lawsuit between Valve and Vivendi.
So, of course Vivendi is greedy (common', that's capitalism!:), but Valve is greedy AND dishonest.
My 2 cents (to Valve;o)
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Fellow, you missed the whole story, didn't you?
HL2 synopsys : "City7 is located in North Korea, and you are supposed to find the weapons of mass destruction". Remember?
But as you finally find out the location of the nuclear sites, you state that this game is a little tooo difficult for you ("wow!! ennemies have reeaal weapons! What's the hell?!?")
In consequence, you decide to go directly to the sequel : "Half Life 3 - War for Iraki Freedom"! This game is lots easier, ennemies are weak and have no weapons (you : "and there is even a sheetcode to bypass the U.N. sequence! cool!!")!
And wait, look at that : wow, there is a GOLD edition, with free OIL PLANTS in it and BUSH stickers!
The only shortcoming in HL3's plot is that there is NO weapon of mass destruction... But I forgot : YOU DON'T MIND!!
I am rather surprised. Matrox is no more in the race to raw performance, but there are none for their openess. For example, it remind me of DirectFB development site (www.directFB.org), stating that "it [Matrox] is the best supported card because Matrox did a nice job with providing hardware documentation to developers. All drawing and blitting flags and functions are supported, it is rated 90% because it lacks 24bit support."
(cf http://www.directfb.org/modules.xml)
But I think that P650 is the latest model, right? I don't know about this one..
ATI is sloooow on supporting Linux. ATI is sloooow on releasing Linux driver updates. ATI is slooow on asking for assistance from Linux community. ATI is sloooow on releasing native Debian packages. ATI is sloooow on publishing a open-source driver with 3D support for my Radeon 9500.
ATI people, pleeease, stop using drugs and narcoleptics... IT is just BAD for H.E.A.L.T.H.!!
First I thought that indeed it was very strange.
But then, how comes several virus authors were arrested in previous years, and none appeared to be connected to antivirus editors?
Additionaly, the pressure put on mobile phone manufacturers by the market (mainly phone companies offering the phone to the subscriber) is going higher and higher, and embedded CPUs are more numerous and complex. I would not be surprised if there were security issues somewhere in the code.
On the other hand, it seems less complex to write a virus for linux (or a specific broadly installed version - let's say Red Hat 8) or MacOS, but no virus appears. Is it because there is no market for a proprietary antivirus (a/v) tool on Linux?
Wireless is definitivly a huge market for a/v! You think you would never pay for an a/v for your mobile, right? But phone companies and manufacturers will!! AND THAT'S HUGE MONEY!! Question: why would a/v editor have specific "wireless security" director??
My 2 cents.
I prefer to use Gnome over KDE because KDE has it's own sound server, which takes control of the sound device and blocks the sound of Xine/mplayer/whatever.
You are right. There is a Doom3 video on the net, where an ID manager says Doom3 does not use all the power of its 3D engine, and the manager then states it will soon be used more efficiently in forthcoming games.
Doom3 is just a kind of technical demo for ID's engine.
Please escuse me, indeed, it was GST-Editor that I tried to compile. I gave up. I don't want to install a whole environment in order to run a simple application, and as GST-Editor was primary concern, I gave up Gstreamer.
I will read the article more deeply, but the line "It is important to know that GStreamer has always been focused on two things : keeping the core media agnostic and keeping it GUI independent" is a good appeal for me.
I tried to install GStreamer but it relies on far too many Gnome libraries.
So I kept with Xine, which is going better and better, and targeting in the good direction (GUI), componented (base library + any gui you prefer) and with little dependencies.
Really, I don't know what features Gstreamer (or Real) claims that Xine don't (or won't) already have. If someone could tell, I would be grateful.
This was already studied and performed. Such a geometric figure is called a hypercube. ...I think it is also the title of an SF movie dubious sequel:o)
Because decision makers don't use offshore resourcing because they want to make Indian people richer.
Decision makers want to make more money in a quite easy way (thanks to governments driven by economical liberalism).
Those decision makers are immoral because they would never be willing to give a decision maker position to an Indian person.
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First Torwards did not want to "give his private keys because of GPL v3", which was a completly mislead and misleading interpretation of the GPL v3 DRAFT.
:o)
Now Torwards thinks that anyway DRM is not so bad that it seems.
What's next? Will he describe free culture advocates as a "modern-day sort of communists"?!
Wake up, I did not say "use this or that energy source rather than oil or uranium"! I said : do not consume energy for crap such as nerdy 1KW supplies! Because available source of energy has an impact on the environment. Moreover, you certainly know (at least I hope) that oil reserve are limited and will be totally consumed in less than 50years. But do you know that there are limited amount of uranium on Earth?? Just enough for 100 years if we keep burning uranium at the actual speed. But certainly much less years if US start building nukes (and US will when oil will be gone). What does the NMCCO tell about that??
Do you sometimes where all those Watts you consume come from? Is it from Iraki oil, or from uranium? :o/
Do you think about the impact of over-consumation on the Earth?
... for the software tips coming from Linus "you should use bitkeeper" Torvards!
If I use KDE it's because it fits my need! Not because i'm against any other desktop environment. And every user should have the same opportunity to try and choose. Because that's freedom!
In different European coutries, music industry (and thus Us majors) gains some money on every MP3 player sold. This is a tax, depending on the actual capacity of the harddisk in the MP3 player. In France this tax is called Sorecop. This is a shame, because I already pay this "Music Tax" because of every harddisk in my PC. and every memory media I have (such as CD-R, DVD-R). So how many times should I pay the tax to please the RIAA?
:o) I was rather refering to the archetypal 2-step technics of drug dealers : - offer products for free, in order to create a dependence, - ask for money for the no-more-free product, - ($$$!)
Hey!! That is called a drug dealer! (and no, I can't locate one for you ... ;o)
You are so right. BitKeeper availability could have stopped for any reason, and the kernel development would then be harmed or delayed. And now BitKeeper availability stopped. So who should we blame? Usualy the one to blame is the one who took the bad decision... not the others, who had concern about it. And, honestly, private companies keeps on reverse engineering products from the market (it is legit to do so for interoperability reasons, and so on). So why should open-source programmers not do it?
When I boot on windows, it's to play Half Life 2. And last time windows was connected to the internet was in order to REGISTER Half Life 2. I don't even play to Counter Strike, because I am fed up with Windows sucking security.
I experience the same feeling with S-ATA. There is an obvious issue with the S-ATA driver, which leads to data corruption with many drives and controlers (especially the Silicon Image 3112). But rather to stick on this problem until it's resolved, developers seems to continue in the "it's the hardware's fault" kind of statements. Nevertheless, one of my colleague, a NetBSD expert, tells me that this data corruption with S-ATA does not appear on NetBSD. And when I look in NetBSD mailing lists, I found nothing about data corruption on NetBSD. So what's next for Linux?
It is for Valve a HUGE interest to unblock HL2 now, as it will cause more people to get the game NOW on Steam rather than LATER in store. As a reminder, Valve get every penny from a licencee on Steam, BUT Vivendi get some money from Boxes which will be bought. (In 4 days, how many HL2 addicts would think "I WANT IT NOW!!" and get it rather on steam? You guess it : 100000 or more!! $$$$$$$$$$) This issue of Valve wanting all the money for themselves ALONE is the origin of Steam creation, why HL2 was delayed, and why there is currently a lawsuit between Valve and Vivendi. So, of course Vivendi is greedy (common', that's capitalism!:), but Valve is greedy AND dishonest. My 2 cents (to Valve ;o)
Fellow, you missed the whole story, didn't you?
HL2 synopsys : "City7 is located in North Korea, and you are supposed to find the weapons of mass destruction". Remember?
But as you finally find out the location of the nuclear sites, you state that this game is a little tooo difficult for you ("wow!! ennemies have reeaal weapons! What's the hell?!?")
In consequence, you decide to go directly to the sequel : "Half Life 3 - War for Iraki Freedom" ! This game is lots easier, ennemies are weak and have no weapons (you : "and there is even a sheetcode to bypass the U.N. sequence! cool!!")!
And wait, look at that : wow, there is a GOLD edition, with free OIL PLANTS in it and BUSH stickers!
The only shortcoming in HL3's plot is that there is NO weapon of mass destruction... But I forgot : YOU DON'T MIND!!
How would you know that? Do you have access to the code? Or do you just repeat the common thinkings?
Some people don't know the difference about "Troll" and "Flamebait"!!
Or is there some Ati fanboys in the place?!
I am rather surprised. Matrox is no more in the race to raw performance, but there are none for their openess. For example, it remind me of DirectFB development site (www.directFB.org), stating that "it [Matrox] is the best supported card because Matrox did a nice job with providing hardware documentation to developers. All drawing and blitting flags and functions are supported, it is rated 90% because it lacks 24bit support." (cf http://www.directfb.org/modules.xml)
But I think that P650 is the latest model, right? I don't know about this one..
ATI is sloooow on supporting Linux.
ATI is sloooow on releasing Linux driver updates.
ATI is slooow on asking for assistance from Linux community.
ATI is sloooow on releasing native Debian packages.
ATI is sloooow on publishing a open-source driver with 3D support for my Radeon 9500.
ATI people, pleeease, stop using drugs and narcoleptics... IT is just BAD for H.E.A.L.T.H.!!
First I thought that indeed it was very strange. But then, how comes several virus authors were arrested in previous years, and none appeared to be connected to antivirus editors? Additionaly, the pressure put on mobile phone manufacturers by the market (mainly phone companies offering the phone to the subscriber) is going higher and higher, and embedded CPUs are more numerous and complex. I would not be surprised if there were security issues somewhere in the code. On the other hand, it seems less complex to write a virus for linux (or a specific broadly installed version - let's say Red Hat 8) or MacOS, but no virus appears. Is it because there is no market for a proprietary antivirus (a/v) tool on Linux? Wireless is definitivly a huge market for a/v! You think you would never pay for an a/v for your mobile, right? But phone companies and manufacturers will!! AND THAT'S HUGE MONEY!! Question: why would a/v editor have specific "wireless security" director?? My 2 cents.
I prefer to use Gnome over KDE because KDE has it's own sound server, which takes control of the sound device and blocks the sound of Xine/mplayer/whatever.
You are right. There is a Doom3 video on the net, where an ID manager says Doom3 does not use all the power of its 3D engine, and the manager then states it will soon be used more efficiently in forthcoming games. Doom3 is just a kind of technical demo for ID's engine.
Please escuse me, indeed, it was GST-Editor that I tried to compile. I gave up. I don't want to install a whole environment in order to run a simple application, and as GST-Editor was primary concern, I gave up Gstreamer. I will read the article more deeply, but the line "It is important to know that GStreamer has always been focused on two things : keeping the core media agnostic and keeping it GUI independent" is a good appeal for me.
I tried to install GStreamer but it relies on far too many Gnome libraries. So I kept with Xine, which is going better and better, and targeting in the good direction (GUI), componented (base library + any gui you prefer) and with little dependencies. Really, I don't know what features Gstreamer (or Real) claims that Xine don't (or won't) already have. If someone could tell, I would be grateful.
This was already studied and performed. Such a geometric figure is called a hypercube.
...I think it is also the title of an SF movie dubious sequel:o)
Because decision makers don't use offshore resourcing because they want to make Indian people richer. Decision makers want to make more money in a quite easy way (thanks to governments driven by economical liberalism). Those decision makers are immoral because they would never be willing to give a decision maker position to an Indian person.