"In order to know that "Feisty Fawn" is Ubuntu 7.0something,"
Shock horror! A trivial Google search for:
Ubuntu 7.04
(without even using speech marks)
produces a search with the third result having the following entry:
Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) ubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso 15-Apr-2007 14:52 698M Desktop CD for PC (Intel... ubuntu-7.04-server-i386.iso 15-Apr-2007 15:59 492M Server install CD for PC... releases.ubuntu.com/feisty/ - 15k - Cached - Similar pages
A Google search for
Ubuntu Feisty
also givess similarly helpful results.
Hardly a lot of work for anyone. Even the proverbial Aunt Tilly can do that...
I still have one of the original N-Gage models (I got it cheap after the announcement of the QD), & I totally agree that it was nowhere near as horrible as some claim. Yes, the whole 'field strip it to change games' thing was clearly stupid, & the shape of it when using it as a phone was a bit awkward. However, back when I got mine (initially primarily just to use as a Bluetooth modem for my laptop), it was dirt cheap by S60 handset standards, & I was actually pretty impressed that I could surf the web fairly well on it while listening to the internal radio or music via the internal (hardware) MP3 player, & all that jazz, & still make calls & play some games on it. I even had PuTTY on it, so I could check my work email on it via ssh & a remote Pine session.
Now, I know that all of this is more common on phones now (& the DS has Opera, etc.), but for what was marketed as a kiddie toy, it was actually fairly neat. For its time, it had a fairly fast processor & decent resources, compared to similar models of the same vintage (e.g. the Nokia 3650).
And a few of the games towards the end of its shelf life were actually modestly innovative as well (Google for "Pathway to Glory", for example).
So, I'll go on record as one Slashdotter who isn't Nokia-affiliated, but who still found himself actually liking the N-Gage quite a bit more than he initially expected to. Of course, I may be the only one.
Parent post is generally true: as I understand it, the BBC is required by their partners to make at least some token gesture towards restricting the redistribution of material which doesn't totally belong to it.
To also respond to the grandparent: the big thing here is that the BBC is not a company in the same sense that (say) US cable networks are. As Douglas Adams used to observe "The BBC's not in the same business as the other TV stations" (or words to that effect): their customers are not corporate advertisers. The BBC is funded by the UK TV licencing fee, & has therefore already been paid for by every Windows, Mac, Linux, *BSD, Solaris, etc. user in the UK with a TV licence, so it clearly is unfair for the Beeb to release iPlayer access to their programmes only to Windows users. (In the interests of full disclosure, btw, I'm a British ex-pat who only uses OS X & (GNU/)Linux).
I do feel some measure of sympathy for the BBC about this, though. As has been noted elsewhere, it should be considered admirable that the BBC are trying to make as much of their programming available online as is feasible without charging. Unfortunately, the only way they can think of at the moment to reconcile that ideal with the legal realities of their programme-producing partnerships & so on is to present them with some sort of anti-duplication measure, hence the DRM. However, my sympathy for the BBC on this issue is tempered by the information that one of the senior execs in charge of making the decisions is an ex-Microsoft Windows Media Player guy, which does tend to suggest scope for conflict of interest on his part.
On balance, I think that the pressure the BBC is feeling reflects the fact that it's pushing the boundaries on making their content freely available online, which is a forward-thinking policy in general, & should be applauded. The woes listed in the summary are largely due to some short-term lack of wisdom in the means currently being used to attain those goals.
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OK, gonna feed this troll...
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"In order to know that "Feisty Fawn" is Ubuntu 7.0something,"
Shock horror! A trivial Google search for:
Ubuntu 7.04
(without even using speech marks)
produces a search with the third result having the following entry:
Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)
ubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso 15-Apr-2007 14:52 698M Desktop CD for PC (Intel
ubuntu-7.04-server-i386.iso 15-Apr-2007 15:59 492M Server install CD for PC
releases.ubuntu.com/feisty/ - 15k - Cached - Similar pages
A Google search for
Ubuntu Feisty
also givess similarly helpful results.
Hardly a lot of work for anyone. Even the proverbial Aunt Tilly can do that...
Aha! Another one! Kudos to you.
I still have one of the original N-Gage models (I got it cheap after the announcement of the QD), & I totally agree that it was nowhere near as horrible as some claim. Yes, the whole 'field strip it to change games' thing was clearly stupid, & the shape of it when using it as a phone was a bit awkward. However, back when I got mine (initially primarily just to use as a Bluetooth modem for my laptop), it was dirt cheap by S60 handset standards, & I was actually pretty impressed that I could surf the web fairly well on it while listening to the internal radio or music via the internal (hardware) MP3 player, & all that jazz, & still make calls & play some games on it. I even had PuTTY on it, so I could check my work email on it via ssh & a remote Pine session.
Now, I know that all of this is more common on phones now (& the DS has Opera, etc.), but for what was marketed as a kiddie toy, it was actually fairly neat. For its time, it had a fairly fast processor & decent resources, compared to similar models of the same vintage (e.g. the Nokia 3650).
And a few of the games towards the end of its shelf life were actually modestly innovative as well (Google for "Pathway to Glory", for example).
So, I'll go on record as one Slashdotter who isn't Nokia-affiliated, but who still found himself actually liking the N-Gage quite a bit more than he initially expected to. Of course, I may be the only one.
"Or you could just Download http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/Worldwind" - not if you're not a Windows user...
And of course, there's always the latest shiny toy from Apple...
Groovy!
PS: Amusingly, the Captcha word for this submission is "backhand"...
Parent post is generally true: as I understand it, the BBC is required by their partners to make at least some token
gesture towards restricting the redistribution of material which doesn't totally belong to it.
To also respond to the grandparent: the big thing here is that the BBC is not a company in the same sense that (say)
US cable networks are. As Douglas Adams used to observe "The BBC's not in the same business as the other TV stations" (or words to that effect): their customers are not corporate advertisers. The BBC is funded by the UK TV licencing fee, & has therefore already been paid for by every Windows, Mac, Linux, *BSD, Solaris, etc. user in the UK with a TV licence, so it clearly is unfair for the Beeb to release iPlayer access to their programmes only to Windows users. (In the interests of full disclosure, btw, I'm a British ex-pat who only uses OS X & (GNU/)Linux).
I do feel some measure of sympathy for the BBC about this, though. As has been noted elsewhere, it should be considered admirable that the BBC are trying to make as much of their programming available online as is feasible without charging. Unfortunately, the only way they can think of at the moment to reconcile that ideal with the legal realities of their programme-producing partnerships & so on is to present them with some sort of anti-duplication measure, hence the DRM. However, my sympathy for the BBC on this issue is tempered by the information that one of the senior execs in charge of making the decisions is an ex-Microsoft Windows Media Player guy, which does tend to suggest scope for conflict of interest on his part.
On balance, I think that the pressure the BBC is feeling reflects the fact that it's pushing the boundaries on making their content freely available online, which is a forward-thinking policy in general, & should be applauded. The woes listed in the summary are largely due to some short-term lack of wisdom in the means currently being used to attain those goals.
Indeed. Any chance of a port of this for the Nokia Internet Tablets? This'd work nicely on one of those with a big SD card...
K'Breel? Is that you?