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To answer my own question, I guess privacy issues could play a role here. If I am subscribing to controversial feeds, I might not want some big corporation to know about that. Still, I think I'd rather run some sort of server-based system on my own box than run this application. Does anyone know if such a system exists?
Why a whole seperate program?
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Why do I need a seperate program to view this type of content? Doesn't it make more sense to implement such an implementation in a browser? Personally, I have been using Bloglines for a long time (and more recently netvibes). Google and Microsoft also seem to be going this way.
Of course, as long as an application supports the importing and exporting of OPML it doesn't matter what you use, because switching is easy. However, I can't really justify running a whole seperate application that seems to do little other than launching Firefox anyway.
What about Napster, though, that was controlled easily enough. Thanks to Bram Cohen we have Bittorrent now, however this technology was certainly postponed by a few years, and we now have wonderful things like the DMCA that certainly don't help. If the lawyers get their way with the Broadcast flag, or something like the Induce Act makes a comeback, I could certainly envision future disruptive technologies being outlawed.
Doesn't OOo have it's own libraries for rendering widgets and such? That might explain the difference given that KOffice uses QT. I could be wrong though.
This comment is simply untrue. Both Google and Yahoo have offered to host Wikipedia content without requiring advertising. Also, your claim that Jimmy Wales pays for Wikipedia hosting is untrue too. In the latest fundraising drive, over $200,000 was raised. This is how they pay for hosting.
I think that in a couple of years when phones have hardware comparable to say, the PSP, this might be a real possibility. I think the biggest barrier to this will be that manufacturers and service providers will try to control the architecture so it is not open like the pc is. Mobile carriers like Vodafone are scared to death of users using free wifi combined with something like Skype to bypass their voice services, which is where they make all their money (Image taken from Economist article). Sony has already shown they are not keen on having homebrew software.
It seems to me that if they truly wish to let the market decide pricing through supply & demand, the average price would be a lot less than $0.99. Though I'm sure that's not what he means will be "better" for the artists and consumers.
My no. 1 show, Farscape , isn't even on the list. And Futurama at no. 41? Um, ok. I'd also have included some anime, such as Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and Neon Genesis Evangelion. I guess this list if only for American programs, with Farscape being an Australian production.
I'm getting a Nokia N91 when it comes out. Has a 2MP camera, 4GB HD, Wifi, Bluetooth. The interface looks good enough, especially since I'm already used to the Series 60 platform on my 3650. I have installed mp3 software for that phone too, though I've been using it with only a 512 MMC. Definitely good enough for me, and looks much better than this apple thing.
GIMP, Inkscape, Nvu. Fine, these products are nowhere near as good as anything Adobe/Macromedia offer, but if they stagnate the competition will eventually come from Free software like this. I doubt they'll stagnate though.
So stupid, I actually tripped over my laptop power chord, sending the laptop flying through the room. My screen was totally kaput. Not quite related, I also dropped my mobile phone into a glass of water once.
What were they really up to while we were all focused on the broadcast flag? It seems like a good strategy: Spread rumours you're going to do something outrageous, so everyone goes beserk about that, and then do something else under the radar.
HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. HP has over 200 products that ship with open source software. From client to server to data center, HP is contributing to hundreds of open source projects every day. For more information about HP's open source involvement, check out http://opensource.hp.com/
HP provides R&D resources and has loaned Alpha and IA64 hardware to the Gentoo Linux project.
so yes, you're right. What does "R&D resources" involve??
HP has many people hacking the linux kernel. Of course, IBM is doing great stuff as well, but you sketched the situation in a much too black & white way.
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To answer my own question, I guess privacy issues could play a role here. If I am subscribing to controversial feeds, I might not want some big corporation to know about that. Still, I think I'd rather run some sort of server-based system on my own box than run this application. Does anyone know if such a system exists?
Why do I need a seperate program to view this type of content? Doesn't it make more sense to implement such an implementation in a browser? Personally, I have been using Bloglines for a long time (and more recently netvibes). Google and Microsoft also seem to be going this way.
Of course, as long as an application supports the importing and exporting of OPML it doesn't matter what you use, because switching is easy. However, I can't really justify running a whole seperate application that seems to do little other than launching Firefox anyway.
What about Napster, though, that was controlled easily enough. Thanks to Bram Cohen we have Bittorrent now, however this technology was certainly postponed by a few years, and we now have wonderful things like the DMCA that certainly don't help. If the lawyers get their way with the Broadcast flag, or something like the Induce Act makes a comeback, I could certainly envision future disruptive technologies being outlawed.
They just like the fish and are suggesting people go there for lunch...
view a video review of the game here:
c olossus/media.html
http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/adventure/wandaandthe
Windows Live seems to be a clone of Netvibes
HDR, Half Life 2: Lost Coast, and the Future of Gaming -- Has a lot of good examples of what HDR exactly involves.
Doesn't OOo have it's own libraries for rendering widgets and such? That might explain the difference given that KOffice uses QT. I could be wrong though.
This comment is simply untrue. Both Google and Yahoo have offered to host Wikipedia content without requiring advertising. Also, your claim that Jimmy Wales pays for Wikipedia hosting is untrue too. In the latest fundraising drive, over $200,000 was raised. This is how they pay for hosting.
Now we have the Digital Curtain
Actually, it's usually referred to as "The Great Firewall of China".
I think that in a couple of years when phones have hardware comparable to say, the PSP, this might be a real possibility. I think the biggest barrier to this will be that manufacturers and service providers will try to control the architecture so it is not open like the pc is. Mobile carriers like Vodafone are scared to death of users using free wifi combined with something like Skype to bypass their voice services, which is where they make all their money (Image taken from Economist article). Sony has already shown they are not keen on having homebrew software.
It seems to me that if they truly wish to let the market decide pricing through supply & demand, the average price would be a lot less than $0.99. Though I'm sure that's not what he means will be "better" for the artists and consumers.
My no. 1 show, Farscape , isn't even on the list. And Futurama at no. 41? Um, ok. I'd also have included some anime, such as Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and Neon Genesis Evangelion. I guess this list if only for American programs, with Farscape being an Australian production.
Second page mirror.
nyud.net mirror, mirrordot mirror. article seems to be down for me.
Slashdot mangled the link. This is the correct link.
As this is a wiki, the more people know about it, the faster it should grow. Help spread the word on digg:
V _IV_Wiki.
http://digg.com/links/Miss_TVTome_Check_out_The_T
Archive.org cache of TV-tome:
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http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.tvtome.co
I think there's no problem in transferring most of that content to the new wiki.
I'm getting a Nokia N91 when it comes out. Has a 2MP camera, 4GB HD, Wifi, Bluetooth. The interface looks good enough, especially since I'm already used to the Series 60 platform on my 3650. I have installed mp3 software for that phone too, though I've been using it with only a 512 MMC. Definitely good enough for me, and looks much better than this apple thing.
GIMP, Inkscape, Nvu. Fine, these products are nowhere near as good as anything Adobe/Macromedia offer, but if they stagnate the competition will eventually come from Free software like this. I doubt they'll stagnate though.
So stupid, I actually tripped over my laptop power chord, sending the laptop flying through the room. My screen was totally kaput. Not quite related, I also dropped my mobile phone into a glass of water once.
What were they really up to while we were all focused on the broadcast flag? It seems like a good strategy: Spread rumours you're going to do something outrageous, so everyone goes beserk about that, and then do something else under the radar.
so yes, you're right. What does "R&D resources" involve??
I say FUD. HP is doing plenty to support linux, as well as development. They sponsor:
,GNOME,
- Gentoo
- Linux International
- Free Standards Group (the LSB is a workgroup of these guys)
- the OSS Institute
- OSDL, Kernel.org
- etc.
HP has many people hacking the linux kernel. Of course, IBM is doing great stuff as well, but you sketched the situation in a much too black & white way.
What about vietnam?