People! Nothing takes advantage of that yet! And by the time things do, the processor will cost 1/8th of what it does today. I've been running an AMD 2400+ for a few years now, a simple 100$ processor, and I STILL haven't found a game that it can't run solidly.
See how long your end-of-turn wait is 3/4 of the way through a civ 4 game. I'm on civ 3 on my 2600+ and the wait is annoying. Not enough to make it unplayable by any means, but annoying.
Come on, PDF is a published standard you can write your own reader for reasonably easily. I have a sony atrac/mp3 cd player, and just ignore the atrac support - I think most people will do the same with the BBeB support.
Is it really so hard for you to convert your html into PDF? No, it isn't, if all else fails boot a knoppix cd, open them in konqueror, and print them to PDF. I prefer html to PDF, but really, it's undeniably the standard format for stuff like this.
(this kind of thing also applies to DRM linked music too - you might the insurance to pay out for a new music player, but will your current license let you move it to your new, possibly incompatible player?)
The license lets you use it on six devices, more than the iTMS DRM which people seem to be happy with. Then again, sony doesn't get the same kind of irrational adulation as apple.
Best indicator will be what happened when apple started using DRM. Google can do what they like and slashdot will love them. It's not as if this is the first time Google's been threatening to invoke the DMCA.
It looks great, it's ridiculously customizable, and it's relatively easy to get involved in development. I think it really shows off the advantages of OSS.
Because knoppix sucks in comparison to more modern efforts. It's just going on the name these days. dyne:bolic has better state saving, and actually focuses on and does something better than windows (multimedia), rather than giving you basically a worse equivalent to the OS you're already running.
When it's free clients and you're competing on the servers, yes. It's your obligation as a monopoly to not give yourself an unfair advantage by bunding your client but not other people's.
You'd actually like to have three different office suites, three different media players, three different browsers, and three different email clients installed from the word "go"?
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. That would be a lot more userfriendly than windows is currently - you'd be able to view streams from any site, and pick whichever player you preferred. Are you saying that having a choice of media players somehow makes it more difficult to play your music?
This is really a silly idea. Not just because of the general idea, but because of the practicalities. If you bundle (let's say) Real, QT and Winamp.. Where's the line? Every shmuck who's written a media player is going to want it bundled. So do you have to include JoeMedia also?
Make it an objective line - x million users or some such.
What about quality? What if Real delivers a buggy adware piece of shit to be bundled?
Then you take it out until they sort it. As long as you have some consistent rules about such things you're fine.
It's never 'equivalent to what Linux does' because there is no Linux corporation that is trying to have everyone use their browser, media player, etc.
Aren't novell shipping their own programs with their linux distro? They'd very much like everyone to use their stuff, but they won't ship it and nothing else.
No, every time MS tries to bundle something of their own, and not include competitors, then we have an anti-trust trial. If MS bundled IE, Netscape and Opera with their OS, equivalent to what most linux distros do, there would be no problems. If they bundled WMP, realplayer and winamp - again equivalent to your typical linux distro - there would be no problems. It's when they try and give you just their product that the problems arise.
They form a bigger black hole with the sum of their masses. We think their collision might give off gravitational waves, and there are projects to detect that, but so far IIRC none have succeeded.
The only way you can lose your data with raid5 is if another disk dies while you're rebuilding the array. The only way you can lose it with raid6 (DP) is if you have two disks die while you're rebuilding the array. That's such a rare event I don't think adding more disks is worth it. Just make sure you always have a hot spare.
Natural monopolies should be run by the government. I don't think OSes are such a monopoly though - why would gates have to price based on how many PCs people were selling without windows and other such tactics if it were a natural monopoly? Windows is a monopoly where it doesn't belong, there because of his cunning, ruthlessness and disregard for the law.
Until the day they make an infinite capacity ipod, I'll always get bored eventually with whatever I have in my player. If there's a decent radio station around (AIUI such things don't exist in the US, but there are where I live) it's a great way to hear new stuff.
The menu structure isn't compulsory, the DVD will work fine without it. You'll have to use chapter back and forth buttons to navigate, no biggie to my eyes though. Video encoding is CPU-consuming, sure, but that's the case with any codec. Mp2 doesn't seem to be any harder to edit than anything else.
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See how long your end-of-turn wait is 3/4 of the way through a civ 4 game. I'm on civ 3 on my 2600+ and the wait is annoying. Not enough to make it unplayable by any means, but annoying.
Come on, PDF is a published standard you can write your own reader for reasonably easily. I have a sony atrac/mp3 cd player, and just ignore the atrac support - I think most people will do the same with the BBeB support.
Is it really so hard for you to convert your html into PDF? No, it isn't, if all else fails boot a knoppix cd, open them in konqueror, and print them to PDF. I prefer html to PDF, but really, it's undeniably the standard format for stuff like this.
The license lets you use it on six devices, more than the iTMS DRM which people seem to be happy with. Then again, sony doesn't get the same kind of irrational adulation as apple.
Not until they start supporting my browser they're not.
Best indicator will be what happened when apple started using DRM. Google can do what they like and slashdot will love them. It's not as if this is the first time Google's been threatening to invoke the DMCA.
Dumb question: everyone says that, so why doesn't digg just run slashcode?
Anyone?
It looks great, it's ridiculously customizable, and it's relatively easy to get involved in development. I think it really shows off the advantages of OSS.
Because knoppix sucks in comparison to more modern efforts. It's just going on the name these days. dyne:bolic has better state saving, and actually focuses on and does something better than windows (multimedia), rather than giving you basically a worse equivalent to the OS you're already running.
When it's free clients and you're competing on the servers, yes. It's your obligation as a monopoly to not give yourself an unfair advantage by bunding your client but not other people's.
But it's red! That's all I really care about.
Well, yeah.
Do you work for Dell or something?
No, I'm a happy linux user.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. That would be a lot more userfriendly than windows is currently - you'd be able to view streams from any site, and pick whichever player you preferred. Are you saying that having a choice of media players somehow makes it more difficult to play your music?
Make it an objective line - x million users or some such.
What about quality? What if Real delivers a buggy adware piece of shit to be bundled?
Then you take it out until they sort it. As long as you have some consistent rules about such things you're fine.
It's never 'equivalent to what Linux does' because there is no Linux corporation that is trying to have everyone use their browser, media player, etc.
Aren't novell shipping their own programs with their linux distro? They'd very much like everyone to use their stuff, but they won't ship it and nothing else.
No, every time MS tries to bundle something of their own, and not include competitors, then we have an anti-trust trial. If MS bundled IE, Netscape and Opera with their OS, equivalent to what most linux distros do, there would be no problems. If they bundled WMP, realplayer and winamp - again equivalent to your typical linux distro - there would be no problems. It's when they try and give you just their product that the problems arise.
They form a bigger black hole with the sum of their masses. We think their collision might give off gravitational waves, and there are projects to detect that, but so far IIRC none have succeeded.
The only way you can lose your data with raid5 is if another disk dies while you're rebuilding the array. The only way you can lose it with raid6 (DP) is if you have two disks die while you're rebuilding the array. That's such a rare event I don't think adding more disks is worth it. Just make sure you always have a hot spare.
Why? He's making an insightful point.
We should. They're doing everything we normally decry as evil. But it seems you don't need $20B donations to buy slashdot, just 1Gb inboxes.
Natural monopolies should be run by the government. I don't think OSes are such a monopoly though - why would gates have to price based on how many PCs people were selling without windows and other such tactics if it were a natural monopoly? Windows is a monopoly where it doesn't belong, there because of his cunning, ruthlessness and disregard for the law.
Murder victims now.
people with cheating spouses,
Idiots for marrying them.
medical professionals who get needle sticks while saving lives,
Idiots for putting themself at such risk for the sake of idiots.
children sold into sexual slavery.
Carrying their parents' idiot genes.
Until the day they make an infinite capacity ipod, I'll always get bored eventually with whatever I have in my player. If there's a decent radio station around (AIUI such things don't exist in the US, but there are where I live) it's a great way to hear new stuff.
I ran slackware 3.something on my 386. It had a GUI and was faster than the windows 3.11 it replaced.
The menu structure isn't compulsory, the DVD will work fine without it. You'll have to use chapter back and forth buttons to navigate, no biggie to my eyes though. Video encoding is CPU-consuming, sure, but that's the case with any codec. Mp2 doesn't seem to be any harder to edit than anything else.