this looks ugly. according to the article it almost seems as if the blackdown team is all but disbanded. i never really stopped to think about it, but it must have been tough for the blackdown team to have to deal with sun's ways for so long, just to make the product available to us. i guess i just want to say THANK YOU BLACKDOWN for all the hard work you guys have put in over the years. perhaps sun will see the reaction in the linux community and get their act together -- or does it take a DOJ investigation to make big business see the light?
i see your point about the fear of losing the local advertisement money, but if you check out the icravetv.com website, you'll see that they ask for your area code (presumably so that they can broadcast the local signal to you, not the signal from another area), so the advertisements should stay local.
what icrave is doing doesn't seem necessarily wrong to me. after all, the television signals are out in the public, right? and as icrave re-broadcasts the signals, they are *not* editing out the commercials that are paying for the radio signal distribution in the first place? icrave merely adds a banner to to the redistribution? further, if the signals are re-broadcast over the net in real-time, what do the networks care if they are viewed on a tv set or a computer monitor? in fact, it would make sense for the networks to contract icrave to make the signal available to people who would otherwise be not home to watch tv. if icrave has already invested in the infrastructure to carry the bandwidth load, it would save the networks some money, i would think...
i know exactly what you are talking about. i believe that XF86Config has an option to select mouse resolution. if your mouse is capable of higher resolutions, this is where you can adjust it. made a big difference for me. hope that helps.
i have, at one time or another, tried most of the browsers mentioned in the article, and dropped them all -- all but netscape. why? with all its quirks, netscape is still the one with the features, the one where the menus actually work, the one that i trust when i'm doing my banking or trading stocks thru. i really really wish that the mosaic people hadn't stopped development on THE original graphical browser, but oh well. i eagerly await the finished version of either Mozilla or Opera. i am willing to pay (!) for a good fast browser that won't suck up my limited resources (but not too much!!:)
i read the article, i think that it's a good thing. limiting the weapons of war, in any capacity, i believe to be a good thing.
as far as using cgi to spread propaganda is of concern to not just the military but to many in the private sector as well. for example, there is some concern in the jewish community that with the advent of better and better computer imaging, history itself is not safe, that there is a possibility of someone just "finding" a lost film reel that proves that the nazis did not, in fact, have death camps and that millions were not killed. in retrospect, maybe the laws of war should apply to such deception as well. jokes on SNL are one thing -- we all know that it's a joke. what if someone pulled the wool over our eyes with malicious intent?
i know that it's next to useless, but i still hold on to my amiga 3k if only to remind me how advanced the technology available to us/could/ have been had the marketplace not been dominated by microsoft and its predatory ways. i have no problem with bill making his billions, it's the sacrifices that we all have had to make (whether we realize it or not) along the way that upsets me. when i was in high school i had a teacher who was in love with the greeks. i remember him saying "if the greeks had computers at their disposal, where do you think we would be now?" well, i've never been able to imagine what the answer could be, whether we would be populating distant planets (possibly in other galaxies) or perhaps we would be fighting to survive after numerous apocalyptic scenarios. i do know, however, that the computing marketplace should be driven by the best technology, and not the best marketing schemes. i'm not saying that microsoft is to blame for _all_ of it. i'm only saying that they don't make it any easier for the smaller guys with the better ideas to really make it either. thank you, judge jackson, for seeing thru the double talk and half-truths that ms execs are capable of and coming the right conclusion. i feel that this is the first step towards a future in which people not only have real choices, but that they will be able to choose among products born of real innovation and free thinking rather than the mammoth marketing machines existing today.
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this looks ugly. according to the article it almost seems as if the blackdown team is all but disbanded. i never really stopped to think about it, but it must have been tough for the blackdown team to have to deal with sun's ways for so long, just to make the product available to us. i guess i just want to say THANK YOU BLACKDOWN for all the hard work you guys have put in over the years. perhaps sun will see the reaction in the linux community and get their act together -- or does it take a DOJ investigation to make big business see the light?
i see your point about the fear of losing the local advertisement money, but if you check out the icravetv.com website, you'll see that they ask for your area code (presumably so that they can broadcast the local signal to you, not the signal from another area), so the advertisements should stay local.
what icrave is doing doesn't seem necessarily wrong to me. after all, the television signals are out in the public, right? and as icrave re-broadcasts the signals, they are *not* editing out the commercials that are paying for the radio signal distribution in the first place? icrave merely adds a banner to to the redistribution? further, if the signals are re-broadcast over the net in real-time, what do the networks care if they are viewed on a tv set or a computer monitor? in fact, it would make sense for the networks to contract icrave to make the signal available to people who would otherwise be not home to watch tv. if icrave has already invested in the infrastructure to carry the bandwidth load, it would save the networks some money, i would think...
just my 2cents.
i know exactly what you are talking about. i believe that XF86Config has an option to select mouse resolution. if your mouse is capable of higher resolutions, this is where you can adjust it. made a big difference for me. hope that helps.
i have, at one time or another, tried most of the browsers mentioned in the article, and dropped them all -- all but netscape. why? with all its quirks, netscape is still the one with the features, the one where the menus actually work, the one that i trust when i'm doing my banking or trading stocks thru. i really really wish that the mosaic people hadn't stopped development on THE original graphical browser, but oh well. i eagerly await the finished version of either Mozilla or Opera. i am willing to pay (!) for a good fast browser that won't suck up my limited resources (but not too much!! :)
mildly off-topic but a very good point. i have noticed this also and just wanted to add voice to the plea that this gets attention from the /. crew.
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i read the article, i think that it's a good thing. limiting the weapons of war, in any capacity, i believe to be a good thing.
as far as using cgi to spread propaganda is of concern to not just the military but to many in the private sector as well. for example, there is some concern in the jewish community that with the advent of better and better computer imaging, history itself is not safe, that there is a possibility of someone just "finding" a lost film reel that proves that the nazis did not, in fact, have death camps and that millions were not killed. in retrospect, maybe the laws of war should apply to such deception as well. jokes on SNL are one thing -- we all know that it's a joke. what if someone pulled the wool over our eyes with malicious intent?
i know that it's next to useless, but i still hold on to my amiga 3k if only to remind me how advanced the technology available to us /could/ have been had the marketplace not been dominated by microsoft and its predatory ways. i have no problem with bill making his billions, it's the sacrifices that we all have had to make (whether we realize it or not) along the way that upsets me. when i was in high school i had a teacher who was in love with the greeks. i remember him saying "if the greeks had computers at their disposal, where do you think we would be now?" well, i've never been able to imagine what the answer could be, whether we would be populating distant planets (possibly in other galaxies) or perhaps we would be fighting to survive after numerous apocalyptic scenarios. i do know, however, that the computing marketplace should be driven by the best technology, and not the best marketing schemes. i'm not saying that microsoft is to blame for _all_ of it. i'm only saying that they don't make it any easier for the smaller guys with the better ideas to really make it either. thank you, judge jackson, for seeing thru the double talk and half-truths that ms execs are capable of and coming the right conclusion. i feel that this is the first step towards a future in which people not only have real choices, but that they will be able to choose among products born of real innovation and free thinking rather than the mammoth marketing machines existing today.