I really can't see the point on downloading a movie, when I can easly rent a DVD... I can do it by phone, or online, and it will be delivered faster than any download.
Also, I can't immagine how movie downloads can drag people's interest without an easy way to burn them into DVDs, or even VCDs, ITMS way. And I doubt that the movie industry would allow something like this.
Worst, I don't think that there is a demmand for a portable video player. Of course its cool to be able to watch a movie during a long trip, but that's about it... You can't use it while you work, or while joggin, or studying, or driving! Watch a movie requires your attention, its an exclusive activity.
On the other hand you can listen to your iPod wherever you are, whatever you may be doing at the time.
With so many efforts to bring more usability to both KDE and GNOME, does Google really needs to release an OS? Does they need to worry about what Microsoft is doing to Windows? I don't think so, all of their web-based applications run well on Windows, and even if Microsoft does something nasty to IExplorer there will always be Firefox and Opera.
The OS itself is becomming less, and less relevant. The applications are what really drives the user needs. And Google has provided lots of web applications that are OS agnostic.
Thats whats driving Microsoft mad, Google is slowly making Windows NOT relevant.
Now, imagine a Google plugin that integrates OpenOffice with Gmail, one that allows you to perfectly preview and make simple modifications to your attached documents online. With almost 2.5GB of online storage I could keep all my documents there, and access them from whatever OS I'm using at the moment. This can cause some severe damage to Microsoft, one that wouldn't be easly recovered.
As long as you can edit, preview and print your documents... does it really matter what OS youre using?
I guess that's because the USA already has mastered the current technology for manned missions. And now most experiments can be carried on automaticaly without direct human inferference.
China still has a lot to learn from manned missions, surelly there's a lot of papers published from the past missions by USA, Russia and Europe... but to master this technology, they have to try it themselves.
Not really,
You could build a single oled screen, hidden inside the keyboard, and use optic fibers to send the images to the keys. This way we could eve use a regular LCD screen.
Also, the same functionality can be achieved using individual B&W Dotmatrix displays, witch are both cheaper and simpler to produce.
This desing is really fantastic, and I really would love to see a real one!
There are a lot of silly lawsuits these days, but sure they're a lot better than agression, murder, corruption or robbery cases.
Also it seems that the common citzen has easy access to the justice, and this is a wonderfull thing. And even better, it shows that the common people can relly on the public defensors when they're accused.
Here at Brasil justice is a thing for the elites, and the commom man, the poor one, don't really has access to it. Also, there is a lot of corruption in our judiciary system... since the judges are indicated, and not elected, and has all sorts of privileges and imunities.
So I for one, think that the amount of silly, or even stupid, lawsuits are a indication of how democracy, and the citzen rights, are respected and valued. Since even this kind of nonsense has it's place before justice... at least it means that everyone has a chance to be listen.
Windows administration is all about graphic tools, integrated with the interface. Personaly, I don't like them... but there are people who find them usefull.
I know that KDE has pretty advanced frontends to configure stuff, but they're not as "easy" as the Windows ones. For instance, there is no frontends readly avaliable for Apache, LDAP administration, DNS, DHCP and others...
While I know that tools like Webmin exists, and are very capable, an average person will expect something integrated into KDE.
Also, there are dozen of minor fauts, and rought edges on a default Linux/KDE installation that can be used by them to show Windows still has "superiority" on the desktop.
Actually I my Eclipse runs just fine on my Pentium III 700 MHz, and that's the 3.1M6 with the WebTools Pluguins and a Tomcat instance running!!
Of course I had to upgrade from mere 256MB to 768MB to achive good performance. Eclipse eats every bit of memory you may throw at it, and keeps asking for more.
I guess that 256MB is the bare minimum, 512MB is usable and 1GB+ is what I'd recommend for serious development.
I think what the poster was trying to say is: at that speed, the rotor is working against the lift, pulling you back to the ground.
The speed of air is so hight that it passes trought the blades backwards, neutralizing the lift efect for the blades that are aligned with the helicopter, and producing an inverted lift for the blades that are at 90 degrees.
We're behind the main corporate server, so our department depends on it to send or receive email. They use a NortonAV server, but more than once an infected email passed trough, and it were stoped by our Server.
So I now wonder how ClamAV would perform against the proprietary alternatives...
I really want to try it, but our "corporate policy" states that every email traffic must pass trough the "homologated" AV solution. We're actally the only department that is really using Linux for real, and the rest of the company still has this strong Microsoft culture and don't quite trust Open Source...
There are those things called VIDEOGAMES... there are different brands, and they don't share the same sofware base...
People understand that a PS2 game only runs on a PS2, and not on a PSOne, PSP or GameCube.
Hell, even my 73 yeas old grandma knows that she can only give me GameCube games, because I own a GameCube and not PS2 or a Xbox.
As soon as you state clearly that you got to by MacOSX software to run on you MacOSX based computer, and that you need to buy Windows software to run on your Windows computer the confusion you talk about will disapear...
If not, just tell people computers are just like videogames.
Actually, all the problems come from MotherBoard chipset drivers, and from Video drivers...
If Intel is working together with Apple, one may think that they'll offer support to their full range of chipsets... including video, as the develloper x86 hardware that Apple is selling has onboard Intel Video.
So Apple could licence OSX for low-end systems... like Celeron based computers, and still mantain their quality control over the product.
I can picture a future where Dell sells cheap, underpowered Systems... For those that want to use MacOSX but don't want to pay the premium price for a Mac, not even a MacMini! And this woudn't hurt Apple's sells, but would help to broadens MacOSX marketshare.
Once the port gets done you'll be able to use Opie or GPE with it.
Opie is the OpenSource fork of Qtopia, the same interface that powers the Sharp Zaurus. It's quite usable, and I installed it on my iPaq 3970 without any problems. As a matter of fact, handwriting recgnition is better than WindowsCE one.
GPE is a GTK+2 based enviroment for handhelds, is a little bit cruder than Opie, but it uses a X server instead of the frame buffer, so it's easier to port software to it. There's already stuff like SNES9x, Quake and Doom running on it!
But, if I recall correctly, FireWire cameras use Video4Linux2... and the Java Media Framework only works with the old V4L interface.
Also, firewire cams tend to be more expensive than USB cams, at least here at Brasil. And we're on a short budget... We were hoping to use cheap USB cams.
As we don't want to use Windows, there's already plans to acess the V4L2 interface directly using JNI. But this will delay the entire project...
It started as a paper manufacturer, the original long distance communication media, moved to telegraph cabling and finnaly to electronics and telecommunications!
I just spent the entire afternoon looking for a webcam that we could use with linux for a project.
I tested just about every model avaliable... and none met the requirements, wich are work with linux and be recognized by Java Media Framework.
I know that there is a standart for USB MassStorage devices, so is just a matter of implementing ONE driver that will be compatible with every hardware that implements this standart.
Standarts make easy for developers to create drivers, and for vendors to make compatible devices. There are lot's of success cases out there, so why keep on creating non-standatized devices!?!?!
Now we can actualy use those extra frames to render slight different angled scenes, so you can look around at you monitor searching for targets without actually using the mouse to turn around!
And I guess this will create some degree of stereoscopic effect on the image, leading to "real" 3D without the need of special glasses!
I don't think that Apple is worried about geeks that will hack OSX into some off-the-shelf hardware. These would never buy Apple hardware in the first place.
And as I said, Apple has a lot to gain from these hackers... if they figure out how to put OSX working on AMD boxes it means free research made for Apple.
Building MacOSX atop of a OpenSource kernel was a incredible smart move... now every driver created, every bug squached, every software ported will mean less research costs. In a matter of months Apple will have more researchers and devellopers than Microsoft ever dreamed of.
And I think that Apple understand the potential of OpenSource, and they know how to capitalize it. That's why I think they'll wont be bothered by people trying to make OSX run on non-Mac hardware.
Apple probably will support a thin subset of the avaliable Intel ChipSets. They'll not going to support every chipset, and commodity hardware out there.
Actually I think this is how they'll prevent MacOSX from running on other hardware, by not providing ChipsetDrivers. Of course there is OpenDarwin, and there will be lots of hackers out there providing drivers to support their favorite Mother Board and processor... And Apple will gladly use all those contribuitions in the future if they switch to AMD, or in a possible generic version of MacOSX.
And about the peripherals, I guess what works today will work tomorrow with Intel. Take for example Linux, where almost every driver that work on x86 also work with PPC. May be some Endianess issues, but I guess Apple can handle it.
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I really can't see the point on downloading a movie, when I can easly rent a DVD... I can do it by phone, or online, and it will be delivered faster than any download.
Also, I can't immagine how movie downloads can drag people's interest without an easy way to burn them into DVDs, or even VCDs, ITMS way. And I doubt that the movie industry would allow something like this.
Worst, I don't think that there is a demmand for a portable video player. Of course its cool to be able to watch a movie during a long trip, but that's about it... You can't use it while you work, or while joggin, or studying, or driving! Watch a movie requires your attention, its an exclusive activity.
On the other hand you can listen to your iPod wherever you are, whatever you may be doing at the time.
The funny thing is...
With so many efforts to bring more usability to both KDE and GNOME, does Google really needs to release an OS? Does they need to worry about what Microsoft is doing to Windows? I don't think so, all of their web-based applications run well on Windows, and even if Microsoft does something nasty to IExplorer there will always be Firefox and Opera.
The OS itself is becomming less, and less relevant. The applications are what really drives the user needs. And Google has provided lots of web applications that are OS agnostic.
Thats whats driving Microsoft mad, Google is slowly making Windows NOT relevant.
Now, imagine a Google plugin that integrates OpenOffice with Gmail, one that allows you to perfectly preview and make simple modifications to your attached documents online. With almost 2.5GB of online storage I could keep all my documents there, and access them from whatever OS I'm using at the moment. This can cause some severe damage to Microsoft, one that wouldn't be easly recovered.
As long as you can edit, preview and print your documents... does it really matter what OS youre using?
I guess that's because the USA already has mastered the current technology for manned missions. And now most experiments can be carried on automaticaly without direct human inferference.
China still has a lot to learn from manned missions, surelly there's a lot of papers published from the past missions by USA, Russia and Europe... but to master this technology, they have to try it themselves.
Not really, You could build a single oled screen, hidden inside the keyboard, and use optic fibers to send the images to the keys. This way we could eve use a regular LCD screen. Also, the same functionality can be achieved using individual B&W Dotmatrix displays, witch are both cheaper and simpler to produce. This desing is really fantastic, and I really would love to see a real one!
There are a lot of silly lawsuits these days, but sure they're a lot better than agression, murder, corruption or robbery cases.
Also it seems that the common citzen has easy access to the justice, and this is a wonderfull thing. And even better, it shows that the common people can relly on the public defensors when they're accused.
Here at Brasil justice is a thing for the elites, and the commom man, the poor one, don't really has access to it. Also, there is a lot of corruption in our judiciary system... since the judges are indicated, and not elected, and has all sorts of privileges and imunities.
So I for one, think that the amount of silly, or even stupid, lawsuits are a indication of how democracy, and the citzen rights, are respected and valued. Since even this kind of nonsense has it's place before justice... at least it means that everyone has a chance to be listen.
How many of you read "Failing Windows Covers Discovered Damage"?
It's too early in the morning, I going after another cup of cofee...
This way, Microsoft can show their strenght.
Windows administration is all about graphic tools, integrated with the interface. Personaly, I don't like them... but there are people who find them usefull.
I know that KDE has pretty advanced frontends to configure stuff, but they're not as "easy" as the Windows ones. For instance, there is no frontends readly avaliable for Apache, LDAP administration, DNS, DHCP and others...
While I know that tools like Webmin exists, and are very capable, an average person will expect something integrated into KDE.
Also, there are dozen of minor fauts, and rought edges on a default Linux/KDE installation that can be used by them to show Windows still has "superiority" on the desktop.
Actually I my Eclipse runs just fine on my Pentium III 700 MHz, and that's the 3.1M6 with the WebTools Pluguins and a Tomcat instance running!!
Of course I had to upgrade from mere 256MB to 768MB to achive good performance. Eclipse eats every bit of memory you may throw at it, and keeps asking for more.
I guess that 256MB is the bare minimum, 512MB is usable and 1GB+ is what I'd recommend for serious development.
I think what the poster was trying to say is: at that speed, the rotor is working against the lift, pulling you back to the ground.
The speed of air is so hight that it passes trought the blades backwards, neutralizing the lift efect for the blades that are aligned with the helicopter, and producing an inverted lift for the blades that are at 90 degrees.
But I'm not an engineer, so it's just a guess.
Yeah, I agree with you.
It would be a lot better to teach people what spam is, and why you shouldn't buy anything from a spammer.
There is only one reason for the existance of spammers, it does work. The minute people stop buying from them, it will stop.
No, he isn't.
I don't see anyone blocking Google's textAds. They're non-intrusive, and often even usefull.
If isn't annoying and intrusive, people won't block it.
Goodbye DoubleClick, nobody will miss you.
ClamAV
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http://www.clamav.net/
OpenAntiVirus Project
http://www.openantivirus.org/
Actualy I have an Email server setup wit Postfix + AmavisNEW + SA + ClamAV, and I'm yet to see a virus that passed undetected.
Check our virus detection statistics here:
http://integracao.saude.rio.rj.gov.br/amavis-stat
We're behind the main corporate server, so our department depends on it to send or receive email. They use a NortonAV server, but more than once an infected email passed trough, and it were stoped by our Server.
So I now wonder how ClamAV would perform against the proprietary alternatives...
I really want to try it, but our "corporate policy" states that every email traffic must pass trough the "homologated" AV solution. We're actally the only department that is really using Linux for real, and the rest of the company still has this strong Microsoft culture and don't quite trust Open Source...
Well,
There are those things called VIDEOGAMES... there are different brands, and they don't share the same sofware base...
People understand that a PS2 game only runs on a PS2, and not on a PSOne, PSP or GameCube.
Hell, even my 73 yeas old grandma knows that she can only give me GameCube games, because I own a GameCube and not PS2 or a Xbox.
As soon as you state clearly that you got to by MacOSX software to run on you MacOSX based computer, and that you need to buy Windows software to run on your Windows computer the confusion you talk about will disapear...
If not, just tell people computers are just like videogames.
For those that didn't catch the bait left by the original poster...
Transparent Aluminium is a fictional material from the Star Trek universe.
Ah, come on!
I mean.. I was trying to be funny, and look what I got! A +1 Insightfull!!
I must be the most boring person on the planet.
You mean that if I threat to kill your president, the USA SS will be sent over to investigate me?
I'LL KILL YOUR PRESIDENT, DEATH TO GEORGE BUSH!!!
Oh boy! I just can't wait till those secret agents get here, I'll be the coolest guy in the neighbourhood!!!
If one thing has any MONETARY implication, you sure can bet that sooner or later there will be a law, or a lawsuit filled, for it.
Next... let's try to figure out if an image stored at your videocard memory belongs, or not, to you.
Well,
Actually, all the problems come from MotherBoard chipset drivers, and from Video drivers...
If Intel is working together with Apple, one may think that they'll offer support to their full range of chipsets... including video, as the develloper x86 hardware that Apple is selling has onboard Intel Video.
So Apple could licence OSX for low-end systems... like Celeron based computers, and still mantain their quality control over the product.
I can picture a future where Dell sells cheap, underpowered Systems... For those that want to use MacOSX but don't want to pay the premium price for a Mac, not even a MacMini! And this woudn't hurt Apple's sells, but would help to broadens MacOSX marketshare.
Why not?
Once the port gets done you'll be able to use Opie or GPE with it.
Opie is the OpenSource fork of Qtopia, the same interface that powers the Sharp Zaurus. It's quite usable, and I installed it on my iPaq 3970 without any problems. As a matter of fact, handwriting recgnition is better than WindowsCE one.
Check those screenshots http://opie.handhelds.org/gallery/
GPE is a GTK+2 based enviroment for handhelds, is a little bit cruder than Opie, but it uses a X server instead of the frame buffer, so it's easier to port software to it. There's already stuff like SNES9x, Quake and Doom running on it!
Again, some screenshots http://handhelds.org/~gpe/gallery/
Also, one may guess that Nokia's Maemo could get ported to it.
So, there's lot of usefull things to do with it once the port is stable.
Thanks,
... and the Java Media Framework only works with the old V4L interface.
But, if I recall correctly, FireWire cameras use Video4Linux2
Also, firewire cams tend to be more expensive than USB cams, at least here at Brasil. And we're on a short budget... We were hoping to use cheap USB cams.
As we don't want to use Windows, there's already plans to acess the V4L2 interface directly using JNI. But this will delay the entire project...
Nokia has no fear of exploring new grounds...
It started as a paper manufacturer, the original long distance communication media, moved to telegraph cabling and finnaly to electronics and telecommunications!
The Nokia history is really amazing, check it out at http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,8764,1127,00.html
I just spent the entire afternoon looking for a webcam that we could use with linux for a project.
I tested just about every model avaliable... and none met the requirements, wich are work with linux and be recognized by Java Media Framework.
I know that there is a standart for USB MassStorage devices, so is just a matter of implementing ONE driver that will be compatible with every hardware that implements this standart.
Standarts make easy for developers to create drivers, and for vendors to make compatible devices. There are lot's of success cases out there, so why keep on creating non-standatized devices!?!?!
Wow...
Now we can actualy use those extra frames to render slight different angled scenes, so you can look around at you monitor searching for targets without actually using the mouse to turn around!
And I guess this will create some degree of stereoscopic effect on the image, leading to "real" 3D without the need of special glasses!
This can really improve the gaming experience! But wait, I guess it would be usefull with project Looking Glass too (http://www.sun.com/software/looking_glass/)!
I don't think that Apple is worried about geeks that will hack OSX into some off-the-shelf hardware. These would never buy Apple hardware in the first place.
And as I said, Apple has a lot to gain from these hackers... if they figure out how to put OSX working on AMD boxes it means free research made for Apple.
Building MacOSX atop of a OpenSource kernel was a incredible smart move... now every driver created, every bug squached, every software ported will mean less research costs. In a matter of months Apple will have more researchers and devellopers than Microsoft ever dreamed of.
And I think that Apple understand the potential of OpenSource, and they know how to capitalize it. That's why I think they'll wont be bothered by people trying to make OSX run on non-Mac hardware.
Yes, there is...
Apple probably will support a thin subset of the avaliable Intel ChipSets. They'll not going to support every chipset, and commodity hardware out there.
Actually I think this is how they'll prevent MacOSX from running on other hardware, by not providing ChipsetDrivers. Of course there is OpenDarwin, and there will be lots of hackers out there providing drivers to support their favorite Mother Board and processor... And Apple will gladly use all those contribuitions in the future if they switch to AMD, or in a possible generic version of MacOSX.
And about the peripherals, I guess what works today will work tomorrow with Intel. Take for example Linux, where almost every driver that work on x86 also work with PPC. May be some Endianess issues, but I guess Apple can handle it.