Only problem with that idea is that Broadcom wireless chips and ATI graphics chips suck just as hard on Windows as well (driver-wise for ATI, and both driver and hardware quality for Broadcom).
Might not be the best website to ask. Since they seem to ignore the fact that Konqueror and Safari are extremely alike (both based on the same codebase, but forked), Konqueror users need to spoof their user agent as Safari on Mac OS X, and that's the default behaviour in most Konqueror installations. Considering KDE is the most popular desktop environment, that could skew results a bit (although there are probably a lot of KDE users who use Firefox or Opera instead).
They could have made UMD a more open standard like they did (in co-operation with other companies and organisations) with CD, DVD, and Blu-ray. Maybe make a foundation/consortium for the standard. Allow other companies to manufacture UMD playback and recording devices.
Despite what the law says (and contradicts itself), I seriously doubt anyone in the government who would enforce this law would really give a shit if you broke the horribly insecure CSS "protection" on DVDs in order to watch your purchased movies on your PSP. Maybe they'd give a shit if the MPAA paid them to, but the MPAA seems to be more interested in bribing Congress for infinite and more draconian copyright laws.
Realtime support. I don't mean two incompatible patchsets, but an actual effort to make Linux work as a realtime operating system.
Also, I'd like to see more things move to userspace whenever possible. Make Linux more of a hybrid kernel and all that.
And try their damned hardest to try and support those crappy Broadcom wireless chipsets so people can stop complaining about "nonexistant wireless support" in Linux.
I think he was trying to stick to the "consoles you can buy now" category. The Wii is perpetually sold out. Therefore, it doesn't fit in his analysis of consoles you can buy now.
When they let Linux have access to the 3d capabilities of the graphics card (and the graphics RAM IIRC), then and only then will I consider them open in any way. Right now it's just a token gesture.
Besides, it's cheaper to get a small PC and run Linux on it with full 3d capabilities so you can also play newer console emulators that absolutely need hardware-accelerated OpenGL like the N64 and PS1 (as redundant as that may seem).
The price range is about $25-50 for a space range of 64-512 MB. I bought an MU just so that I can carry my Live account around to friends' houses without doing that damn account recovery bullshit all the time.
It's easier to get Creative Audigy support in Linux that it is in any version of Windows in my experience. The drivers are already there in the kernel, so there's no need to deal with Creative's godawful driver mess they have. I would go as far as to say that Creative cards "Just Work(tm)" in Linux. You can also use them for audio mixing (i.e., in a DAW) via Jack and a realtime-patched kernel (I haven't gotten it to work with the lowlatency patch, but that might be because it isn't written for that yet; just stick with some multimedia Linux distro for a good realtime kernel). Also, expect many games in the future to rely on OpenAL (fully supported by Linux) for 3d sound since DirectX 10 and Vista have basically dropped the concept of hardware-accelerated 3d sound in favour of some new Vista sound system crap (software-mixed).
And NVidia supports their cards on Linux just as well as on Windows (minus the shitty replacement for the video settings). Sure, you might not be able to get support the day of release for a new NVidia card, but the support comes within a reasonable time. Also, the Nouveau project is working on a fully 3d-supported open source NVidia driver, so someday in the near future, you won't even need to download nor depend on NVidia's blobs.
As the parent implies, there are tons of high quality cross platform libraries out there. Some more: Qt, SDL, OpenAL (especially for Windows Vista which doesn't have DirectSound anymore), SQLite (for embedded databases), Java, all of Apache's frameworks/etc., Python, Boost, and more (lots of lists, just take a gander around).
So, the basic standard one can follow:
GUI apps
Qt, Java, wxWidgets
Multimedia apps and games
SDL, OpenGL, OpenAL, FFmpeg
That is different. Apple were phasing out old technology in favour of new. The iPhone is phasing out the cash in your wallet in favour of their wallets.
... The product will be no better than if US workers were used to build it. In some cases, it may be inferior. Have you purchased anything from china? The workmanship is lacking. The product will be no better regardless if you hire underqualified underpaid workers whom have 3+ jobs and are trying to make ends meet whether it be from the US or the PRC.
I like to think of it like this: if a particular company can "globalise" itself and hire people from around the world in order to pay them the least, then I should be able to "globalise" myself and buy from them wherever they charge the least (e.g., the same place they're able to hire people cheapest).
However, these companies want to have their cake and eat it too by having the right to hire people at minimum wage and strong-arm the government into outlawing my right to buy their products at the minimum price available. This is supreme bullshit and cannot be accepted by any logical person.
The Linux kernel is probably going to remain GPLv2 for quite a while, but the core of the GNU/Linux operating system is mostly GNU software which is (or will be) GPLv3 or later. Good luck making a Linux distro without GNU tools or anything GPLv3 in general.
XP Pro (not Home; that was never good) didn't become a halfway decent OS until SP2, and even then, you still need to download dozens of patches (where's SP3 dammit?). Vista still has nothing going for it, and I doubt SP1 will do anything helpful because they'll just rush it in order to entice all the "I'm waiting for SP1" people who actually meant "I'm waiting until Microsoft fixes Vista to an acceptable level."
But which is more expensive: the deep-inspection boxen, or the amount of bandwidth being used by encrypted BitTorrent? I would probably guess the inspection box is, but that's just me.
If said generic binary data has a recognisable structure, it can probably be assumed to be unencrypted. However, the difference between random data and encrypted data is indistinguishable provided a good crypto algorithm and a random key.
.odt is the file extension for OpenDocument Text, an ISO standard. It is well-documented and widely available, and most modern office suites support OpenDocument. So unless ISO (and everyone else with a copy) loses all their copies of the ODF standard and any related standards, I think we should be safe.
I don't mind paying for (and thus supporting financially) Free software, but paying for proprietary, non-free software is just against my typical morals...
If you used BitTorrent to download your file, you've also uploaded it. What I do instead is with some movies I backup from DVD, I post them on The Pirate Bay and Demonoid anyhow. I prefer to be part of the civil disobedience rather than a discreet pirate.;)
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Only problem with that idea is that Broadcom wireless chips and ATI graphics chips suck just as hard on Windows as well (driver-wise for ATI, and both driver and hardware quality for Broadcom).
Might not be the best website to ask. Since they seem to ignore the fact that Konqueror and Safari are extremely alike (both based on the same codebase, but forked), Konqueror users need to spoof their user agent as Safari on Mac OS X, and that's the default behaviour in most Konqueror installations. Considering KDE is the most popular desktop environment, that could skew results a bit (although there are probably a lot of KDE users who use Firefox or Opera instead).
They could have made UMD a more open standard like they did (in co-operation with other companies and organisations) with CD, DVD, and Blu-ray. Maybe make a foundation/consortium for the standard. Allow other companies to manufacture UMD playback and recording devices.
Despite what the law says (and contradicts itself), I seriously doubt anyone in the government who would enforce this law would really give a shit if you broke the horribly insecure CSS "protection" on DVDs in order to watch your purchased movies on your PSP. Maybe they'd give a shit if the MPAA paid them to, but the MPAA seems to be more interested in bribing Congress for infinite and more draconian copyright laws.
Realtime support. I don't mean two incompatible patchsets, but an actual effort to make Linux work as a realtime operating system.
Also, I'd like to see more things move to userspace whenever possible. Make Linux more of a hybrid kernel and all that.
And try their damned hardest to try and support those crappy Broadcom wireless chipsets so people can stop complaining about "nonexistant wireless support" in Linux.
I think he was trying to stick to the "consoles you can buy now" category. The Wii is perpetually sold out. Therefore, it doesn't fit in his analysis of consoles you can buy now.
When they let Linux have access to the 3d capabilities of the graphics card (and the graphics RAM IIRC), then and only then will I consider them open in any way. Right now it's just a token gesture.
Besides, it's cheaper to get a small PC and run Linux on it with full 3d capabilities so you can also play newer console emulators that absolutely need hardware-accelerated OpenGL like the N64 and PS1 (as redundant as that may seem).
The price range is about $25-50 for a space range of 64-512 MB. I bought an MU just so that I can carry my Live account around to friends' houses without doing that damn account recovery bullshit all the time.
It's easier to get Creative Audigy support in Linux that it is in any version of Windows in my experience. The drivers are already there in the kernel, so there's no need to deal with Creative's godawful driver mess they have. I would go as far as to say that Creative cards "Just Work(tm)" in Linux. You can also use them for audio mixing (i.e., in a DAW) via Jack and a realtime-patched kernel (I haven't gotten it to work with the lowlatency patch, but that might be because it isn't written for that yet; just stick with some multimedia Linux distro for a good realtime kernel). Also, expect many games in the future to rely on OpenAL (fully supported by Linux) for 3d sound since DirectX 10 and Vista have basically dropped the concept of hardware-accelerated 3d sound in favour of some new Vista sound system crap (software-mixed).
And NVidia supports their cards on Linux just as well as on Windows (minus the shitty replacement for the video settings). Sure, you might not be able to get support the day of release for a new NVidia card, but the support comes within a reasonable time. Also, the Nouveau project is working on a fully 3d-supported open source NVidia driver, so someday in the near future, you won't even need to download nor depend on NVidia's blobs.
As the parent implies, there are tons of high quality cross platform libraries out there. Some more: Qt, SDL, OpenAL (especially for Windows Vista which doesn't have DirectSound anymore), SQLite (for embedded databases), Java, all of Apache's frameworks/etc., Python, Boost, and more (lots of lists, just take a gander around).
So, the basic standard one can follow:
GUI apps Qt, Java, wxWidgets Multimedia apps and games SDL, OpenGL, OpenAL, FFmpeg
Pretty much, yeah. ;)
Moar liek rule 34.
That is different. Apple were phasing out old technology in favour of new. The iPhone is phasing out the cash in your wallet in favour of their wallets.
... The product will be no better than if US workers were used to build it. In some cases, it may be inferior. Have you purchased anything from china? The workmanship is lacking. The product will be no better regardless if you hire underqualified underpaid workers whom have 3+ jobs and are trying to make ends meet whether it be from the US or the PRC.I like to think of it like this: if a particular company can "globalise" itself and hire people from around the world in order to pay them the least, then I should be able to "globalise" myself and buy from them wherever they charge the least (e.g., the same place they're able to hire people cheapest).
However, these companies want to have their cake and eat it too by having the right to hire people at minimum wage and strong-arm the government into outlawing my right to buy their products at the minimum price available. This is supreme bullshit and cannot be accepted by any logical person.
Internation Business Machine is trademarked at least. As well as their IBM logo.
The Linux kernel is probably going to remain GPLv2 for quite a while, but the core of the GNU/Linux operating system is mostly GNU software which is (or will be) GPLv3 or later. Good luck making a Linux distro without GNU tools or anything GPLv3 in general.
But Slashdot is open source, so that analogy fell apart rather quickly...
XP Pro (not Home; that was never good) didn't become a halfway decent OS until SP2, and even then, you still need to download dozens of patches (where's SP3 dammit?). Vista still has nothing going for it, and I doubt SP1 will do anything helpful because they'll just rush it in order to entice all the "I'm waiting for SP1" people who actually meant "I'm waiting until Microsoft fixes Vista to an acceptable level."
But which is more expensive: the deep-inspection boxen, or the amount of bandwidth being used by encrypted BitTorrent? I would probably guess the inspection box is, but that's just me.
If said generic binary data has a recognisable structure, it can probably be assumed to be unencrypted. However, the difference between random data and encrypted data is indistinguishable provided a good crypto algorithm and a random key.
.odt is the file extension for OpenDocument Text, an ISO standard. It is well-documented and widely available, and most modern office suites support OpenDocument. So unless ISO (and everyone else with a copy) loses all their copies of the ODF standard and any related standards, I think we should be safe.
I don't mind paying for (and thus supporting financially) Free software, but paying for proprietary, non-free software is just against my typical morals...
If you used BitTorrent to download your file, you've also uploaded it. What I do instead is with some movies I backup from DVD, I post them on The Pirate Bay and Demonoid anyhow. I prefer to be part of the civil disobedience rather than a discreet pirate. ;)