From Khronos's FAQ: When will the first OpenML compliant products be available? The SIG anticipates that the first products implementing the OpenML specification will appear in the first half of 2001. But I want it now! I have a sinking feeling I know what this really means. We are not dealing in the world of Open Source here. We have to wait for several companies to make a cross company wide consensus on what this standard will be. Coming from someone who works for a big slow company, this means that the target for reference implementation 1.0 is sometime in 2001 and it will actually come out in 2002 and soon after be decided to be inadequate, so before any one actually considers using it, the 1.1 implementation will be anounced to come out in 2003 which will actually come out in 2004, and then the reference implementation will have been written for Windoze 2005 which means we won't have a sutable hack to use for Linux until 2006. I love the idea, and I hope I'm wrong, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to stick to SDL for for the time being. It might not have all the features I want, but it is here today.
Would you want to be the hunter, or would you prefer to be the prey?
If you go with Windows you will always be nothing more than the prey. Subject to which tools, bug fixes, and utilities Microsoft deams you worthy of recieving, however inadequate for your needs they may be. If you go Linux/Unix you will at least have the tools available to you to possibly do something about it if attacked or at least have the power to make your own. That will never be true with Windows.
I prefer to speak softly and carry a big stick my self.
(Yes I know I'm mixing metaphores extensively in this message. Just in the cryptic mood I guess)
The MSNBC article reports that this is the first time a MS sight was cracked. That is not true. Several months ago on the Register they had captured a crack where someone had replaced the text: 'Please help us find bugs in Windows 2000' with 'Please help us find bugs in Bill Gates Ass 2000' on their beta page. The text was something like that. This is just the first crack that MSNBC has known about.
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From Khronos's FAQ: When will the first OpenML compliant products be available? The SIG anticipates that the first products implementing the OpenML specification will appear in the first half of 2001. But I want it now! I have a sinking feeling I know what this really means. We are not dealing in the world of Open Source here. We have to wait for several companies to make a cross company wide consensus on what this standard will be. Coming from someone who works for a big slow company, this means that the target for reference implementation 1.0 is sometime in 2001 and it will actually come out in 2002 and soon after be decided to be inadequate, so before any one actually considers using it, the 1.1 implementation will be anounced to come out in 2003 which will actually come out in 2004, and then the reference implementation will have been written for Windoze 2005 which means we won't have a sutable hack to use for Linux until 2006. I love the idea, and I hope I'm wrong, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to stick to SDL for for the time being. It might not have all the features I want, but it is here today.
Oh my God!
That is where all my beer is going. That's it. Now I have a reason to shave.
Yet another unneeded encrypted media.
Now if we write a driver to read these encrypted signals on a Linux display will we get our pants sued off again?
Which would you rather be?
Would you want to be the hunter, or would you prefer to be the prey?
If you go with Windows you will always be nothing more than the prey. Subject to which tools, bug fixes, and utilities Microsoft deams you worthy of recieving, however inadequate for your needs they may be. If you go Linux/Unix you will at least have the tools available to you to possibly do something about it if attacked or at least have the power to make your own. That will never be true with Windows.
I prefer to speak softly and carry a big stick my self.
(Yes I know I'm mixing metaphores extensively in this message. Just in the cryptic mood I guess)
We have one. It's called X.
Look at Loki's games. None of them require you to use KDE, or GNOME. They all work just fine with any windowing environment under X.
The MSNBC article reports that this is the first time a MS sight was cracked. That is not true. Several months ago on the Register they had captured a crack where someone had replaced the text: 'Please help us find bugs in Windows 2000' with 'Please help us find bugs in Bill Gates Ass 2000' on their beta page. The text was something like that. This is just the first crack that MSNBC has known about.