Heck, look at the variety of dog races we have! Allmost all of them were created by man using selective breed... In only a few thousand years we come from a wild wolf to a punny chiuaua!
How "inteligent design" folks can deny this evidence?
Linux will stay as GPL2, but we know Sun is going GPL3 for Solaris. What if some big player, such as RedHat or Canonical drop the Linux kernel, and instead go with solaris for a full GLP3 distro?
Good and Bad are artificial definitions created by us, so we could set some rules to be able to live on a society. We didn't born with them, we have to learn them from our parents, teachers, friends and... foes.
So to answer your question, is just a matter of Google creating their own definition for evil... Maybe this little vendetta against Microsoft doesn't look like evil to them. Take for an example the definition of "do no evil" followed by Batman and The Punnisher.
I have a Sansa e130... it has only 521MB, and shows as USB storage, so I don't really had much trouble copying my music to it using nothing but the file manager...
But, I do miss some features that both iTunes and WMP have... Such as the option to downsample the music as it syncs with the device, and the iTunes' "AutoFill" feature that just fills the iPod with a random selection from your highest rated songs.
Also, I'd like to be able to create playlists with a size limit... so I know it will always fit inside my player.
It can share, and edit, documents stored at a smartphone... Also, it has a better browser than most smartphones, and can be attached to a projector to show some powerpoint slides.
Seems like the sort of thing some executives, and sales people would find usefull...
We can only hope that he is involved in this CG version too...
Certainly Tartakovisky work had an huge influence on this new series, is just a matter of looking at the overall look and style of the characters. Some people complained that the CG didn't look impressive... well, it doesn't have to be!
Compare for example the Final Fantasy movie with the Incredibles... in which one the characters seems to be more alive, more real? Better, compare the Clone Wars animated series with the 3 latest films... Tartakovisky just knows how to bring life to his creations, he is almost the exact opposite of Lucas as a director.
How much would it cost to build a Motorola68K based computer, like the old Amigas, these days? I guess an Amiga 500 could fit inside one chip... and run on 3 AA batteries longer than anything out there.
As for the display... make it an acessory. Like the lcd displays you can buy to hook to videgames, to make them more or less portable. And make analog video out, so you can plug it into any TV set.
It might not cost U$10... but will be close enougth.
SilverLight is a multimedia framework... that means Graphics, movies, sound, animation... How good a player will be, if the development is still tied to the Microsoft platform? Worse, tied to Microsoft proprietary formats, like WMV and WMA! I really doubt that you'll be able to add multimedia playing capabilities to you implementation if they deppend on some form of Microsoft DRM implementation...
Also, sure thing, it's important for the OpenSource desktop to have an implementation of Silverlight... But, what about the server side? Will it make sense to do all my development on Windows... and deploy it on Linux? Will you be able to offer a full development environment, including animation tools and such?
I think that Mono should adopt some Microsoft tatics... forget about full.NET compatibility, and try to make Mono more appealing by offering a better development environment thant MSVStudio, better performance, and better stability. Add usefull features even if they add some compatibility issues with.NET.
Try to come ahead of the race, instead of playing catch up with Microsoft!
Why don't you anticipate Microsoft moves, and include on your implementation of Silverlight some features that could be achived only with Mono? I'm serious, make it so appealing, so fantastic that sites using YOUR version will be much easier to develop, and much easier to deploy.
Add crazy things, like bindings to SDL, with accelerated 3D graphics where avaliable... so your plugin will be able to run on Linux, MacOSX and... WinXP!
I mean... why play catch-up when you could be ahead of the game?
If Microsoft manage to fit a XP/Vista compatible OS inside the OLPC, I guess many people will be purchasing it to install on their desktops.. It would be perfect for a gaming machine!
If you double-click a.DEB package on Ubuntu, using both GNOME and KDE, a nice dialogue will appear asking for you password, and the package will be promptly installed.
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Why?
You, as a businessman, would open offices only at countries where you can ignore the laws?
What the CISCO operation was doing was a CRIME. So your point is that any businessman should expect to commit crimes and not be punnished?
Please, explain yourself... I must be missing something here.
Might as well refer to some kind of version control for messages...
#DIV/0!
This on the version shipped by Ubuntu... What's the problem with that?
Fossil record?
Heck, look at the variety of dog races we have! Allmost all of them were created by man using selective breed... In only a few thousand years we come from a wild wolf to a punny chiuaua!
How "inteligent design" folks can deny this evidence?
Just to add some more spin...
Linux will stay as GPL2, but we know Sun is going GPL3 for Solaris. What if some big player, such as RedHat or Canonical drop the Linux kernel, and instead go with solaris for a full GLP3 distro?
And we'll see in short time a W32 port of Konqueror, along with others KDE apps, thanks to QT4.
IMHO Konqueror is a much better candidate for a lightweight browser than FF, it only needs a major interface overhaul.
What's "evil" anyway?
... foes.
Good and Bad are artificial definitions created by us, so we could set some rules to be able to live on a society. We didn't born with them, we have to learn them from our parents, teachers, friends and
So to answer your question, is just a matter of Google creating their own definition for evil... Maybe this little vendetta against Microsoft doesn't look like evil to them. Take for an example the definition of "do no evil" followed by Batman and The Punnisher.
AFAIK, GPL doesn't restrict use. If you're just using some piece of software, there is no need to agree to the GPL...
Restriction apply only if you're:
a) Redistributing the software, and in this case you must provide the sources.
b) Using GPL code for a derivative work, and in this case you must provide your work's sources.
Try centericq then...
Despite the name, it does MSN, Yahoo, AIM, Jabber(gTalk)... and ICQ.
I have a Sansa e130... it has only 521MB, and shows as USB storage, so I don't really had much trouble copying my music to it using nothing but the file manager...
But, I do miss some features that both iTunes and WMP have... Such as the option to downsample the music as it syncs with the device, and the iTunes' "AutoFill" feature that just fills the iPod with a random selection from your highest rated songs.
Also, I'd like to be able to create playlists with a size limit... so I know it will always fit inside my player.
It's not an alternative, is a companion.
It can share, and edit, documents stored at a smartphone... Also, it has a better browser than most smartphones, and can be attached to a projector to show some powerpoint slides.
Seems like the sort of thing some executives, and sales people would find usefull...
http://www.pitman.co.za/projects/charva/
We can only hope that he is involved in this CG version too...
Certainly Tartakovisky work had an huge influence on this new series, is just a matter of looking at the overall look and style of the characters. Some people complained that the CG didn't look impressive... well, it doesn't have to be!
Compare for example the Final Fantasy movie with the Incredibles... in which one the characters seems to be more alive, more real? Better, compare the Clone Wars animated series with the 3 latest films... Tartakovisky just knows how to bring life to his creations, he is almost the exact opposite of Lucas as a director.
Also,
Last time I checked, Firefox will gadly install the latest JavaVM for you when faced with an applet.
Java now is OpenSource... grab the source and port it.
as in GPL2...
Can Flash do that?
How much would it cost to build a Motorola68K based computer, like the old Amigas, these days? I guess an Amiga 500 could fit inside one chip... and run on 3 AA batteries longer than anything out there.
As for the display... make it an acessory. Like the lcd displays you can buy to hook to videgames, to make them more or less portable. And make analog video out, so you can plug it into any TV set.
It might not cost U$10... but will be close enougth.
I had a Psion for some time... quite capable system!
Another option is to build something like the Newton eMate:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMate
There were also some company building a greyscale PalmOS device with a full keyboard attached to it... but I can't remember the name.
What really bugs me is...
.NET compatibility, and try to make Mono more appealing by offering a better development environment thant MSVStudio, better performance, and better stability. Add usefull features even if they add some compatibility issues with .NET.
SilverLight is a multimedia framework... that means Graphics, movies, sound, animation... How good a player will be, if the development is still tied to the Microsoft platform? Worse, tied to Microsoft proprietary formats, like WMV and WMA! I really doubt that you'll be able to add multimedia playing capabilities to you implementation if they deppend on some form of Microsoft DRM implementation...
Also, sure thing, it's important for the OpenSource desktop to have an implementation of Silverlight... But, what about the server side? Will it make sense to do all my development on Windows... and deploy it on Linux? Will you be able to offer a full development environment, including animation tools and such?
I think that Mono should adopt some Microsoft tatics... forget about full
Try to come ahead of the race, instead of playing catch up with Microsoft!
Now...
... WinXP!
Why don't you anticipate Microsoft moves, and include on your implementation of Silverlight some features that could be achived only with Mono? I'm serious, make it so appealing, so fantastic that sites using YOUR version will be much easier to develop, and much easier to deploy.
Add crazy things, like bindings to SDL, with accelerated 3D graphics where avaliable... so your plugin will be able to run on Linux, MacOSX and
I mean... why play catch-up when you could be ahead of the game?
If it is XP/Vista compatible, probably it will be DirectX compatible too... It's just a matter of installing it on a full desktop computer.
Well...
If Microsoft manage to fit a XP/Vista compatible OS inside the OLPC, I guess many people will be purchasing it to install on their desktops.. It would be perfect for a gaming machine!
Use SWT.
Next question?
No, no... It can be much worse.
They may be talking about Windows Mobile...
If you double-click a .DEB package on Ubuntu, using both GNOME and KDE, a nice dialogue will appear asking for you password, and the package will be promptly installed.