I have a rock that prevents our armed forces being eaten by zombies. Seriously, when did you last see "TBMs carrying chemical or bio weapons" used against us?
Also, a more appropriate comparison is that the OpenOffice codebase includes a subset of the KDE functionality. This "bloat", written to be cross-platform from the outset, is why OpenOffice works on Microsoft Windows now, and KOffice does not.
No, that's coincidental. Look at audacity for something happy to use an existing library and very crossplatform. And look at say xine for something that implements its own widgets and is still linux-only.
The key will be in hardware. Which changes everything. Effective pure software DRM is impossible, but with hardware support it becomes a very real threat.
Yes, there's nothing wrong with them being attractive. Or having photos of this. But if it were really about the gaming, would they all be that beautiful? Not one ugly girl among them?
The problem is not that there are pretty girl gamers, if they are genuine. The problem is the ugly girl gamers - there aren't any.
This is one reason I love gentoo - since you download and compile everything yourself, it effectively ships with support. Getting back on topic, those are just the legal obstacles - technologically, breaking CSS is trivial. The next one will still have these problems in the best case, and IIRC they've hired some actual cryptographers this time for the code. Cracking it will not be easy, and may not even be possible.
Not only is the first sentence not the intuitive fact it's presented as, but the last one is just pure crap. We didn't bend over to have DVD protection inserted, and now Linux is a better platform for DVD than Windows.
This may hurt your philosophy, but we were lucky and they were stupid. They don't have to let it happen again. With appropriate hardware support (and it's there in the EFI spec, so the mac crowd have it already) there's no reason at all DRM can't be effective.
On a side note, when was the last time anyone used RealPlayer? I just haven't found a practical use for it since around '99, but it still seems to get on other users machines.BBC streams. It's worth it for them alone.
And, much as slashdot hates to hear this, it's actually a decent media player these days.
It makes sense if we can do it. Exploring venus is bloody hard - I'm not sure we've even made a probe that can reach the surface intact, yet alone a rover that would function there.
True, except lazy has nothing to do with it. They've quite repeatedly said they aren't going to make a stable API, because they a) want to be able to break it whenever they feel like
Laziness. Or complete lack of ability at software engineering. Can you think of any other mainstream OS that doesn't keep a stable driver API?
b) they want closed source modules, which is most modules outside the main kernel tree, to be a pain to maintain.
Really? On my system open-source non-tree modules outnumber the closed ones (usb webcam and realtime capabilities versus nvidia drivers). And there would be far more open source modules outside the tree if there was a stable API.Remember when one of the early 2.6 kernels (2.6.4 or thereabouts) broken nVidia's kernel module? Well, if closed source modules were the norm rather than the exception, you'd see that all the time. Unless the kernel devs had to keep old code around for backwards compatibility, which is roughly where Vista is at now.
Or they could design the thing properly the first time.
Not to mention they'd get a ton more problems they couldn't debug because it was some closed source module that went freakazoid.
They've already got the taint mechanism that enables them to ignore such bugs.
Not to mention that many old archs and new arch's like x64 would be crippled because the modules aren't available.
Oh yes, it's so much better to have a situation where every arch is crippled, not just the unpopular ones.
Yes, on the short-term it would be a gain. But seeing how far they've come with the current policy, I don't think there's any reason to stop now.
I have a winmodem by my desk which I have a working driver for. I even have it in source form. But I can't use it any more. That's reason enough for me.
Because I use DSL on my old Pentium laptop with 32 Megs of RAM. Austrumi requires 128 according to their web page.
They're more conservative about their system requirements. It runs like a breeze on a 60mb system I've tried. Heck, if running in small memory is the criterion, try slax on a 486.
I don't see what would make it 10x better then DSL, I mean they seem to have about the same programs,
Are you kidding? Full abiword blows chunks out of the ickle rtf editor you get with DSL. A proper copy of the gimp. Real mplayer is great for relaxation. Gnumeric has hundreds more features than the cut-down spreadsheet you get with DSL. Etc.
sure expanding stuff is fun, but it is becoming a burden, one that consumes too much of my time and too much of my network. perhaps it's time to just cut things off into an "internal and external" layer in the kernel ? meaning move optional modules and stuff into other distribution methods ? there's no reason for 99% of users to download and disable the code for amateur radios etc.
If the kernel devs would just stop being lazy and make a stable API so that modules outside the main kernel tree are not treated as second-class citizens, that would solve a lot of this.
How come does anybody, not to speak of web designers, get the stupid idea that one has to optimise ones website for search engines anyway? Isn't that totally backwards? I should optimise my website for *users* and their expierience and the general webstandards. If the search engine is to stupid to find content on my site that is relative to a search, then it certainly isn't my job to optimise for them. That's the job of search engines themselves. That's where the name comes from. Guess why Altavista missed out when Google appeared. The had the more optimised search engine.
Unfortunately, that fails now that the rabid google-love has arrived. People don't care about a good search engine, they just think "google", and their view is that if they don't like the sites google gives them, it's them that's at fault, not google. People care more about a high google result than a page that's actually good - so so do web designers.
No, displaying google.ca is fine, it's if it manages to change it to the "you are vulnerable" page while leaving the address bar showing google that there's a problem.
The young are a lot more "into" computers. IME as a brit anyone under about 30 thinks Europe is a great thing, while those over 50 don't want anything to do with it.
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I have a rock that prevents our armed forces being eaten by zombies. Seriously, when did you last see "TBMs carrying chemical or bio weapons" used against us?
That's one *sick* site he's sending you to!
No, that's coincidental. Look at audacity for something happy to use an existing library and very crossplatform. And look at say xine for something that implements its own widgets and is still linux-only.
It will work on windows as soon as the windows port of kdelibs is done
The key will be in hardware. Which changes everything. Effective pure software DRM is impossible, but with hardware support it becomes a very real threat.
The problem is not that there are pretty girl gamers, if they are genuine. The problem is the ugly girl gamers - there aren't any.
This is one reason I love gentoo - since you download and compile everything yourself, it effectively ships with support. Getting back on topic, those are just the legal obstacles - technologically, breaking CSS is trivial. The next one will still have these problems in the best case, and IIRC they've hired some actual cryptographers this time for the code. Cracking it will not be easy, and may not even be possible.
This may hurt your philosophy, but we were lucky and they were stupid. They don't have to let it happen again. With appropriate hardware support (and it's there in the EFI spec, so the mac crowd have it already) there's no reason at all DRM can't be effective.
And, much as slashdot hates to hear this, it's actually a decent media player these days.
Solaris seems to have managed without one. I wouldn't say it's inevitable if you design properly the first time.
Lets move all the heat over to mars!
ABI and API are not the same thing. And the link in that article is broken. But maybe Linus is the problem.
Except support for my soundcard :(
It makes sense if we can do it. Exploring venus is bloody hard - I'm not sure we've even made a probe that can reach the surface intact, yet alone a rover that would function there.
Laziness. Or complete lack of ability at software engineering. Can you think of any other mainstream OS that doesn't keep a stable driver API?
b) they want closed source modules, which is most modules outside the main kernel tree, to be a pain to maintain.
Really? On my system open-source non-tree modules outnumber the closed ones (usb webcam and realtime capabilities versus nvidia drivers). And there would be far more open source modules outside the tree if there was a stable API.Remember when one of the early 2.6 kernels (2.6.4 or thereabouts) broken nVidia's kernel module? Well, if closed source modules were the norm rather than the exception, you'd see that all the time. Unless the kernel devs had to keep old code around for backwards compatibility, which is roughly where Vista is at now.
Or they could design the thing properly the first time.
Not to mention they'd get a ton more problems they couldn't debug because it was some closed source module that went freakazoid.
They've already got the taint mechanism that enables them to ignore such bugs.
Not to mention that many old archs and new arch's like x64 would be crippled because the modules aren't available.
Oh yes, it's so much better to have a situation where every arch is crippled, not just the unpopular ones.
Yes, on the short-term it would be a gain. But seeing how far they've come with the current policy, I don't think there's any reason to stop now.
I have a winmodem by my desk which I have a working driver for. I even have it in source form. But I can't use it any more. That's reason enough for me.
They're more conservative about their system requirements. It runs like a breeze on a 60mb system I've tried. Heck, if running in small memory is the criterion, try slax on a 486.
I don't see what would make it 10x better then DSL, I mean they seem to have about the same programs,
Are you kidding? Full abiword blows chunks out of the ickle rtf editor you get with DSL. A proper copy of the gimp. Real mplayer is great for relaxation. Gnumeric has hundreds more features than the cut-down spreadsheet you get with DSL. Etc.
Just my experience.
If the kernel devs would just stop being lazy and make a stable API so that modules outside the main kernel tree are not treated as second-class citizens, that would solve a lot of this.
Why do people talk about DSL so much when austrumi does the same thing 10x better?
Can it give me back my ponies? I've lost them since /. apparently took down the images and css file.
Guess why Altavista missed out when Google appeared. The had the more optimised search engine.
Unfortunately, that fails now that the rabid google-love has arrived. People don't care about a good search engine, they just think "google", and their view is that if they don't like the sites google gives them, it's them that's at fault, not google. People care more about a high google result than a page that's actually good - so so do web designers.
Not replacing them. As far as I and anyone else not using IE is concerned, they're simply getting rid of the typosquatting.
No, displaying google.ca is fine, it's if it manages to change it to the "you are vulnerable" page while leaving the address bar showing google that there's a problem.
And people say Americans don't understand sarcasm...
The young are a lot more "into" computers. IME as a brit anyone under about 30 thinks Europe is a great thing, while those over 50 don't want anything to do with it.