FC3 did the same thing taking away ability to play MP3 out of the box. The apps like XMMS and the like are there but they can not play MP3.
Of course all easily remedied, but an annoyance all the same.
Will end up being like DVD playback. Not included but you can to get it.
what it might be...
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1. They realize now they are not going to get away with it. or 2. They still think they can, but they need more time to hide code. Obviously they didn't do a good enough job. LOL or 3. Lawyers scared them.
Then again I don't know. I've refocused myself on PearPC and helping with it. I could care less anymore what these monkeys do anymore. Let the lawyers sort this one out.
EQ1 isn't dead, but it has taken a heavy hit. The mergers were going to happen... just as one day they will happen to the current round of MMORPG's. I left for WoW for a month or two but found the game just as tedious (if not to me a hair more). So I just went back to Everquest. EQ1 has become a graphical chatroom to a lot of people in a lot of ways. Those ties after all these years are hard to break. I don't expect EQ1 will die off anytime soon. Alot of the more casual gamers are holding onto it for as long as they can.
If you've followed this for a while... you'd know that only your first option if plausible with this company... They have a LONG history of stealing code that has been proven by those in the PearPC community...
You should add that they are assholes to that first option:P
They are launching a different app with the cherry executable... they are loading their UI with that executable... the comparison would only be correct if they were comparing the app their UI calls inside of it to run pearPC... err I mean cherry... uh.. pear...
Does the GPL allow me to sell copies of the program for money?
Yes, the GPL allows everyone to do this. The right to sell copies is part of the definition of free software. Except in one special situation, there is no limit on what price you can charge. (The one exception is the required written offer to provide source code that must accompany binary-only release.)
PearPC has been a very big deal to me for a long time. What Arben and MauiX are doing is wrong. Funny thing is they had a chance to step to the plate. A commercial app based off PearPC was never out of the question. They just chose to go about it the wrong way. The community backing PearPC would have (most anyway) supported someone packaging a commercial app derived from PearPC as long as they followed the GPL it was released under. Instead this company has chosen to lie and attempt to hide the facts. It's a fight they can't win, but they are for whatever reason determined to do so.
So if you are a PearPC supporter... I would suggest lending any help you can...
and if not... then as a supporter of the GPL any help you can is needed as well.
...with my HTPC/HDTV setup. I have found that I notice no difference between the Monster cables I have and the other brands I have laying around. Only really important thing I can stress is Gold->Gold Silver->Silver. Don't mix and match those for corrosion reasons. Shielded cables are good, but they don't have to be the more expensive Monster cables.
The above is just my experience... and of course YMMV.
He can just do what I did (do) ever since Ocarina came out. NOT PLAY. Personally I only liked the original Zelda and A Link to the Past. That was the style of Zelda I really liked. Four Swords was "ok". So instead of trying to jump on the "I hate fancy graphics" bandwagon... why doesn't he just.. umm I dunno.. STFU and play games he likes.
I still pull a song or two here and now from P2P to check out a band a friend may have mentioned. It opened me up to alot of things I may/may not have bought before without hearing it.
Typically if I hear about a new band I do this:
1. find that band's website and see if they offer any downloads...
2. if none.. then I'll swing over to google for a quick search...
3. if none I'll jump on a P2P network and grab a file or two... listen and decide.
Then it's either off to purchase the CD or off to iTunes (typically both..as iTunes is typically lacking in my tastes). Besides I love having the original CD/Case.
Yes I would. In fact he might be dead on with this. If each track was only 5 cents and anything I was looking for was there, I would gladly give up filesharing any music at all. Right now I've given up alot of it and have turned to the iTunes store for alot of my music downloads. The problem is when I'm looking for something a little more obscure that I can't get through iTunes. I tend to listen to alot of Industrial/EBM/Darkwave and I find alot of the times when I go to iTunes I simply can not find what I am looking for. So I turn to torrents and the like to find it. This is coming from someone who still buys alot of CD's as well. I don't have the time to sit and rip every CD I'd like to have MP3's of, so I am willing to pay a premium in some cases to have it in that format. But when you have bought so many CD's it becomes harder to justify that 99 cent price tag per track, so yes I am guilty of spending time "pirating" copies of things I own. Make it 5 cents and anything is available and I would gladly stop all my "illegal" downloading.
hmm growing pot you say? I saw my friend's power bill once.. was twice mine... I shrugged it off cuz he's got 3 times as many computers running... but maybe...
seriously... I keep saying I should conserve power... I just don't.
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Sheepshaver will boot OS9 (up to 9.0.4) and some work has went into getting it booted under PearPC as well.
On what do you base that PearPC is dead?
PearPC happens to be very much alive and alot of work is still actively being done on it...
see: PearPC.net
This one worked quite nicely for my girlfriend...
almost not in my favor in that it is now all she does...
be careful the dark side...
I think he meant... iPod doesn't support it..
ok sarcasm off...
I wasn't aware that many portable players were supporting it... good to know.
But for me the issue is needing an in-dash car stereo that supports it...
FC3 did the same thing taking away ability to play MP3 out of the box. The apps like XMMS and the like are there but they can not play MP3.
Of course all easily remedied, but an annoyance all the same.
Will end up being like DVD playback. Not included but you can to get it.
1. They realize now they are not going to get away with it.
or
2. They still think they can, but they need more time to hide code. Obviously they didn't do a good enough job. LOL
or
3. Lawyers scared them.
Then again I don't know. I've refocused myself on PearPC and helping with it. I could care less anymore what these monkeys do anymore. Let the lawyers sort this one out.
Excellent question.
;)
:P
Just tested out the "proof test" myself. Amazing some of the stuff I still had in memory here
Followed by the browser shutting itself down after about 20 furious clicks on the link!
Let me be the first person to congratulate them!
[insert random sarcasm here]
3 words...
I hate questing.
and it's not that i found it more tedious then EQ... just better the tedious you are always used to and have good friends in ya know?
EQ1 isn't dead, but it has taken a heavy hit. The mergers were going to happen... just as one day they will happen to the current round of MMORPG's. I left for WoW for a month or two but found the game just as tedious (if not to me a hair more). So I just went back to Everquest. EQ1 has become a graphical chatroom to a lot of people in a lot of ways. Those ties after all these years are hard to break. I don't expect EQ1 will die off anytime soon. Alot of the more casual gamers are holding onto it for as long as they can.
If you've followed this for a while... you'd know that only your first option if plausible with this company... They have a LONG history of stealing code that has been proven by those in the PearPC community...
:P
You should add that they are assholes to that first option
They are launching a different app with the cherry executable... they are loading their UI with that executable... the comparison would only be correct if they were comparing the app their UI calls inside of it to run pearPC... err I mean cherry... uh.. pear...
Does the GPL allow me to sell copies of the program for money?
Yes, the GPL allows everyone to do this. The right to sell copies is part of the definition of free software. Except in one special situation, there is no limit on what price you can charge. (The one exception is the required written offer to provide source code that must accompany binary-only release.)
Just to add on a few extra's: PearPC community site direct link to the discussion there on CherryOS (LONG thread) The donation page for PearPC's legal fund
PearPC has been a very big deal to me for a long time. What Arben and MauiX are doing is wrong. Funny thing is they had a chance to step to the plate. A commercial app based off PearPC was never out of the question. They just chose to go about it the wrong way. The community backing PearPC would have (most anyway) supported someone packaging a commercial app derived from PearPC as long as they followed the GPL it was released under. Instead this company has chosen to lie and attempt to hide the facts. It's a fight they can't win, but they are for whatever reason determined to do so.
So if you are a PearPC supporter... I would suggest lending any help you can...
and if not... then as a supporter of the GPL any help you can is needed as well.
...with my HTPC/HDTV setup. I have found that I notice no difference between the Monster cables I have and the other brands I have laying around. Only really important thing I can stress is Gold->Gold Silver->Silver. Don't mix and match those for corrosion reasons. Shielded cables are good, but they don't have to be the more expensive Monster cables.
The above is just my experience... and of course YMMV.
He can just do what I did (do) ever since Ocarina came out. NOT PLAY. Personally I only liked the original Zelda and A Link to the Past. That was the style of Zelda I really liked. Four Swords was "ok". So instead of trying to jump on the "I hate fancy graphics" bandwagon... why doesn't he just.. umm I dunno.. STFU and play games he likes.
And it's actually company policy that anyone accessing it from work is to be terminated.
But it's over 5 years going strong on the (mycompany)sucks.com site...
I still pull a song or two here and now from P2P to check out a band a friend may have mentioned. It opened me up to alot of things I may/may not have bought before without hearing it.
Typically if I hear about a new band I do this:
1. find that band's website and see if they offer any downloads...
2. if none.. then I'll swing over to google for a quick search...
3. if none I'll jump on a P2P network and grab a file or two... listen and decide.
Then it's either off to purchase the CD or off to iTunes (typically both..as iTunes is typically lacking in my tastes). Besides I love having the original CD/Case.
I would say that is changing very rapidly however.
Yes I would. In fact he might be dead on with this. If each track was only 5 cents and anything I was looking for was there, I would gladly give up filesharing any music at all. Right now I've given up alot of it and have turned to the iTunes store for alot of my music downloads. The problem is when I'm looking for something a little more obscure that I can't get through iTunes. I tend to listen to alot of Industrial/EBM/Darkwave and I find alot of the times when I go to iTunes I simply can not find what I am looking for. So I turn to torrents and the like to find it. This is coming from someone who still buys alot of CD's as well. I don't have the time to sit and rip every CD I'd like to have MP3's of, so I am willing to pay a premium in some cases to have it in that format. But when you have bought so many CD's it becomes harder to justify that 99 cent price tag per track, so yes I am guilty of spending time "pirating" copies of things I own. Make it 5 cents and anything is available and I would gladly stop all my "illegal" downloading.
If I had mod points right now I would mod you (Funny as All Hell, if a bit scary)
Not a troll from the power company... LOL
hmm growing pot you say? I saw my friend's power bill once.. was twice mine... I shrugged it off cuz he's got 3 times as many computers running... but maybe...
seriously... I keep saying I should conserve power... I just don't.
I've never given it a thought.
I have 4 computers that run constantly... I tend to leave the lights on all day...
My air conditioning stays at 65 (I like it cold)
and I pay my bill when it arrives.
does it make me a bad person? Not really, just lazy.
The haunted beach house FREAKED me out first time I played it...