Charles Chou, San Francisco; Jessie Shen, DigiTimes.com [Thursday 25 August 2005]
According to unspecified Taiwan-based PC makers, Intel is currently working with software developers to design middleware application software for the Linux operating system (OS) for its Viiv (rhymes with five) consumer PC platform to reduce the cost and selling price of the PCs.
Viiv-based PCs will initially be based on the Microsoft Window Media Center OS, which should drive up the costs, as a special OS authorization is needed. Currently, quotes for Media Center PCs are more than US$1,200, compared to US$400-500 for average PCs, the makers explained.
Secondly, the notoriously paranoid government in Beijing has also long feared that Microsoft Windows has a "back door" that could allow for U.S. government snooping -- a fear no doubt enhanced by the January discovery of bugging devices in President Jiang Zemin's new personal Boeing 767. Microsoft, of course, denies that it would ever be involved in such matters, but many Chinese still feel safer using the open code of Linux. In China, after all, any company as big as Microsoft would be in cahoots with the government.
I remember NeXTSTEP. I'm more talking about the smooth scaling panel icons, panel length in relation to the screen, panel position and translucency. I hazard to guess the 'dock' has itself endured several iterations for over 15 years prior.
What does this window manager do that Mac OS X's doesn't?
.. cost anything.
Several years ago, when I saw the panel on OSX I immediately thought of Enlightenment. Chicken meet egg. On another front, Enlightenment is alot more (shock) fun.
What a vacuous, inane, empty load of rubbish. I use OSX alot, Linux moreso. If anything OSX is UNIX done 1 Way, and a reasonably inflexible, non-free, hardware dependent way at that. Is that "UNIX done right"? Next you'll be telling me the one button mouse is necessary because it encourages software developers to write applications with simpler interfaces.
If it didn't need this special 'paper' I would find it more interesting, that and an API/development kit for authoring my own applications for the device.
Using any flat surface (within reason) as a 'tablet'/gestural interface interests me greatly.
.. let alone any more useful than Gdesklets or Gkrellm . For one these seem far more customiseable/extensible/useful in that they converge local system state (top) with social state (email/IM) with world state (news/RSS). I guess win32 users are missing out.
Of course, any Apple Macintosh, GNU/Linux, and BSD user will have a problem with a only-MSIE policy, so I think it would be a good idea to inform them about this issue.
AFAIK MSIE does run on Apple's OSX, or is my little fox holding the wrong lightbulb.
A reasonable number to shun, a sizeable chunk being American. Regardless, I'm increasingly seeing browser/OS statistics that look more and more like this site's. On my own site Firefox useage is twice that of MSIE. Linux useage has grown a great amount in the last year and our audience is largely comprised artists, those perhaps interested in registering a copyrighted work.
Asustek and Quanta do it for them, and they will continue to do so for the x86 range. There are rumours one can buy 'unbadged' Apple machines out the back door in Taiwan. Apple however does design the machines other companies make for them. How much Asustek's own x86 offerings will differ from the MacIntel's is, however, to be debated.
If you can point me to a PC manufacturer that makes well designed and high quality products like Apple does than I'd be very much obliged.
You can find native x86 Asustek similes of the 12" iBook here. See the gallery. This may be but a badge away from the MacIntel you'll be buying next year. It's a fabulous and rugged machine by the way, albeit sold out here in the EU.
We host and or link to about 120 game-based artworks many of which are built on/for Quake3.
Over the years several artists wanting to sell work to museums and/or have work shown in museums/galleries have hit a legal 'glass ceiling' due to the issue of IP. This has resulted in game-based artworks that rely on proprietary third-party engines having less-than equal opportunity where other mediums are concerned.
This is welcomed greatly in the art world. True to form as always, thanks John.
Funny, looks like they've been running Windows2003 since the year it was made - they already had a foot in that door. Note also the conspicuous presence of Solaris.
All that aside I think this is fantastic news. There are many things worse than growing pains, like for instance that GNU/Linux is in any way associated with such a pack of utter and complete tossers. You can keep your "All American" cologne, it reeks.
He argues that developing space weapons is a surefire way to launch a new space weapon race.
I like the pun.
The space-weapon-race is the point. From the perspective of market development it's sensible, perhaps even reducing production cost for sectors of terrestrial weapons manufacture. Regardless such weapons programs are largely psychological artifices, in place purely to disseminate fear that can then be used as leverage in two directions (sanitise and control); The WhiteHouse to Americans: We must "Disarm the Armed "(Paranoia propogation). The WhiteHouse to the Rest-of-the-World: "Just try it Tough Guy" (Fear propogation).
It may be that the real bullethead of such programs is a *.WMV of an artists impression, a CNN documentary or a DoD PDF populated with ballistics stastics and networking jargon.
...is build a great OS given the vast number of micro-markets that exist purely as a result of it's shortcomings. The bulk of system adminstrators would far rather Windows remain in constant need of nursing, for instance, just to keep their jobs. Put simplistically, the harder Windows is to administer, the better.
Focussing on the internal qualities of the product itself obscures a wider business sensibility intrinsic to market monopoly through downstream dependence from symptomatic service industries.
Windows is not dissimilar to heroin, a carefully engineered sickness that presents itself as the only cure.
I teach game development and do alot of 3D modelling. Alot of what you say above is false out of the box.
The state of 3D on Linux is far from sucking. Proprietary Nvidia drivers on Linux cannot be beaten, out-doing their Win32 counterparts alot of the time, even where frame rate (Q3a, Doom3, UT2004, AA) is concerned. Nvidia on Linux is an industry standard 3D animation platform in the feature film industry, for good reason. When teaching game development, if my students are sitting at machines running Nvidia binary drivers on a Linux OS, I'm having a very good day. Naturally, I'd love it if an open alternative could compete - you seem only aware of the open-source drivers, which are essentially blind to the rich talents of the Nvidia GPU. ATI's fglrx drivers are now (finally) on par with Win32 where pixel/vertex shaders (GLSL ) are concerned and close to a performance equal generally. The installation process is slightly more annoying, that is all. Many non-free distro's handle this for the user automagically (Mepis Linux comes to mind)
Secondly, binary compatibility is no more troublesome these days than it is between versions of Windows, eg running a game made for Win95 on XP - occassionally an issue. Installation of binaries can be done easily using a system like Autopackage if one doesn't want to find and or become an *.rpm/*.deb package maintainer.
Where devices are concerned, the trouble you speak of is many years in the past - udev works in userspace, and uses hotplug calls that the kernel signals whenever a device is added or removed from the kernel. Permissions, naming and control is all done in userspace.
Finally where sales of Linux games are concerned, I tend to agree that it is perhaps a little harder to market to Linux users, though from experience I am the first to buy a game that comes out for Linux. You will find though that due to existance of compatibility layers like Wine, publishers simply don't know how many Linux users are buying their games. I can account for around 14 windows games I've bought with the pure intention of playing them on Linux (for instance). Linux desktop market share is widely considered to be above or equal to that of the Apple OS. Whatever kind of market it is, it's growing.
Lastly, for the grandfather, Ryan, of Icculus is your best bet for a Linux port.
PS. Game development, as a culture, needs free software if a) small to medium sized developers are to survive and b) if micro-markets (like that of the indie-film industry) are to burgeon. Tools are increasingly expensive and publishers offset this cost with IP tradeoffs (buy outs). If I were you I'd ship the engine as free software (binary checksum for login, cheat protection and validation) and sell the data and/or subscription time. More on why here.
Because they use copyright law to enforce a compulsary license?
No. Because people pay cash for the right to use OSX, and with that comes certain restrictions. I pay to rent a truck, and with that comes certain restrictions. I can, however, buy a book protected by copyright, but I then own that book; I can immediately resell that book, or read it and then give it to a friend. Ironically, I can also do this with music CD's and records - both being objects.
You get the idea.
Some operating systems go one step further, allowing for the right to modify and make multiple copies before redistribution. Some however, like OSX use an archaic model based on per unit product (not service) 'sales' and go to absurd lengths to protect what is otherwise an innately replicable and manipulable medium, all towards the ends of centralising revenue at the expense of the user. I couldn't give a damn about a BSD derivative 'under the hood' of OSX if the rest comes with handcuffs. Last thing I want (having used OSX extensively of late) is an OS that comes with a EULA like a museum exhibit.
This will be laughed at in years to come. "People actually paid for that?"
Of course, Linux will also power gigantic warrior class mechs fitted with microwave cannons - of course it will. Similarly Linux (if ever you can sum it's parts) will likely support all possible forms of DRM, and why shouldn't it. However at no point will it make TC or DRM mandatory. As Linus said, it is not his concern what people do with Linux, they must however have the choice.
If you don't like Devil fucking with your fun stuff, don't compile him. The choice is simple. Who own's your computer anyway?
Both OSX and Windows are rented operating systems. One rents them as a service, from the vendor. Think of all the other things you've rented in your life (a car, TV, apartment) and the restrictions surrounding use of those. When you 'buy' a copy of OSX, you are actually signing a lease to use it for an undisclosed period of time, with restrictions, in full knowledge you will likely upgrade. When you upgrade, as so many people did with Tiger, that is simply considered to be another installment.
Non-rental operating systems, like Linux and the *BSD's, legally allow you to do as you would like to with your music, share, distribute, modify.
I would like to get involved in developing an icon set for Gnome, but sadly my commitments to improving and/or working on other projects take precedence for the time being. This crosses my mind often enough to justify making time for it at a later date, perhaps.
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Hmm, seems like you're finding it a little hard to "fight back the night" yourself.
From your livejournal:
Apparently..
From here.
From here.
I remember NeXTSTEP. I'm more talking about the smooth scaling panel icons, panel length in relation to the screen, panel position and translucency. I hazard to guess the 'dock' has itself endured several iterations for over 15 years prior.
Several years ago, when I saw the panel on OSX I immediately thought of Enlightenment. Chicken meet egg. On another front, Enlightenment is alot more (shock) fun.
What a vacuous, inane, empty load of rubbish. I use OSX alot, Linux moreso. If anything OSX is UNIX done 1 Way, and a reasonably inflexible, non-free, hardware dependent way at that. Is that "UNIX done right"? Next you'll be telling me the one button mouse is necessary because it encourages software developers to write applications with simpler interfaces.
It's not difficult. Apple just choose to do it very badly.
If it didn't need this special 'paper' I would find it more interesting, that and an API/development kit for authoring my own applications for the device.
Using any flat surface (within reason) as a 'tablet'/gestural interface interests me greatly.
.. let alone any more useful than Gdesklets or Gkrellm . For one these seem far more customiseable/extensible/useful in that they converge local system state (top) with social state (email/IM) with world state (news/RSS). I guess win32 users are missing out.
Right ok. I wasn't aware of this.
A reasonable number to shun, a sizeable chunk being American. Regardless, I'm increasingly seeing browser/OS statistics that look more and more like this site's. On my own site Firefox useage is twice that of MSIE. Linux useage has grown a great amount in the last year and our audience is largely comprised artists, those perhaps interested in registering a copyrighted work.
Asustek and Quanta do it for them, and they will continue to do so for the x86 range. There are rumours one can buy 'unbadged' Apple machines out the back door in Taiwan. Apple however does design the machines other companies make for them. How much Asustek's own x86 offerings will differ from the MacIntel's is, however, to be debated.
You can find native x86 Asustek similes of the 12" iBook here. See the gallery. This may be but a badge away from the MacIntel you'll be buying next year. It's a fabulous and rugged machine by the way, albeit sold out here in the EU.
We host and or link to about 120 game-based artworks many of which are built on/for Quake3.
Over the years several artists wanting to sell work to museums and/or have work shown in museums/galleries have hit a legal 'glass ceiling' due to the issue of IP. This has resulted in game-based artworks that rely on proprietary third-party engines having less-than equal opportunity where other mediums are concerned.
This is welcomed greatly in the art world. True to form as always, thanks John.
Funny, looks like they've been running Windows2003 since the year it was made - they already had a foot in that door. Note also the conspicuous presence of Solaris.
All that aside I think this is fantastic news. There are many things worse than growing pains, like for instance that GNU/Linux is in any way associated with such a pack of utter and complete tossers. You can keep your "All American" cologne, it reeks.
The space-weapon-race is the point. From the perspective of market development it's sensible, perhaps even reducing production cost for sectors of terrestrial weapons manufacture. Regardless such weapons programs are largely psychological artifices, in place purely to disseminate fear that can then be used as leverage in two directions (sanitise and control); The WhiteHouse to Americans: We must "Disarm the Armed "(Paranoia propogation). The WhiteHouse to the Rest-of-the-World: "Just try it Tough Guy" (Fear propogation).
It may be that the real bullethead of such programs is a *.WMV of an artists impression, a CNN documentary or a DoD PDF populated with ballistics stastics and networking jargon.
It makes perfect sense, America's primary industry is Fear after all - they make alot of it over there.
...is build a great OS given the vast number of micro-markets that exist purely as a result of it's shortcomings. The bulk of system adminstrators would far rather Windows remain in constant need of nursing, for instance, just to keep their jobs. Put simplistically, the harder Windows is to administer, the better.
Focussing on the internal qualities of the product itself obscures a wider business sensibility intrinsic to market monopoly through downstream dependence from symptomatic service industries.
Windows is not dissimilar to heroin, a carefully engineered sickness that presents itself as the only cure.
[OT:] It would appear this quality material is in support of your signature.
Cheers
I teach game development and do alot of 3D modelling. Alot of what you say above is false out of the box.
The state of 3D on Linux is far from sucking. Proprietary Nvidia drivers on Linux cannot be beaten, out-doing their Win32 counterparts alot of the time, even where frame rate (Q3a, Doom3, UT2004, AA) is concerned. Nvidia on Linux is an industry standard 3D animation platform in the feature film industry, for good reason. When teaching game development, if my students are sitting at machines running Nvidia binary drivers on a Linux OS, I'm having a very good day. Naturally, I'd love it if an open alternative could compete - you seem only aware of the open-source drivers, which are essentially blind to the rich talents of the Nvidia GPU. ATI's fglrx drivers are now (finally) on par with Win32 where pixel/vertex shaders (GLSL ) are concerned and close to a performance equal generally. The installation process is slightly more annoying, that is all. Many non-free distro's handle this for the user automagically (Mepis Linux comes to mind)
Secondly, binary compatibility is no more troublesome these days than it is between versions of Windows, eg running a game made for Win95 on XP - occassionally an issue. Installation of binaries can be done easily using a system like Autopackage if one doesn't want to find and or become an *.rpm/*.deb package maintainer.
Where devices are concerned, the trouble you speak of is many years in the past - udev works in userspace, and uses hotplug calls that the kernel signals whenever a device is added or removed from the kernel. Permissions, naming and control is all done in userspace.
Finally where sales of Linux games are concerned, I tend to agree that it is perhaps a little harder to market to Linux users, though from experience I am the first to buy a game that comes out for Linux. You will find though that due to existance of compatibility layers like Wine, publishers simply don't know how many Linux users are buying their games. I can account for around 14 windows games I've bought with the pure intention of playing them on Linux (for instance). Linux desktop market share is widely considered to be above or equal to that of the Apple OS. Whatever kind of market it is, it's growing.
Lastly, for the grandfather, Ryan, of Icculus is your best bet for a Linux port.
PS. Game development, as a culture, needs free software if a) small to medium sized developers are to survive and b) if micro-markets (like that of the indie-film industry) are to burgeon. Tools are increasingly expensive and publishers offset this cost with IP tradeoffs (buy outs). If I were you I'd ship the engine as free software (binary checksum for login, cheat protection and validation) and sell the data and/or subscription time. More on why here.
You've tried it have you?
Yours,
Tinkerbell.
No. Because people pay cash for the right to use OSX, and with that comes certain restrictions. I pay to rent a truck, and with that comes certain restrictions. I can, however, buy a book protected by copyright, but I then own that book; I can immediately resell that book, or read it and then give it to a friend. Ironically, I can also do this with music CD's and records - both being objects.
You get the idea.
Some operating systems go one step further, allowing for the right to modify and make multiple copies before redistribution. Some however, like OSX use an archaic model based on per unit product (not service) 'sales' and go to absurd lengths to protect what is otherwise an innately replicable and manipulable medium, all towards the ends of centralising revenue at the expense of the user. I couldn't give a damn about a BSD derivative 'under the hood' of OSX if the rest comes with handcuffs. Last thing I want (having used OSX extensively of late) is an OS that comes with a EULA like a museum exhibit.
This will be laughed at in years to come. "People actually paid for that?"
I think you mean 'Linux'.
Of course, Linux will also power gigantic warrior class mechs fitted with microwave cannons - of course it will. Similarly Linux (if ever you can sum it's parts) will likely support all possible forms of DRM, and why shouldn't it. However at no point will it make TC or DRM mandatory. As Linus said, it is not his concern what people do with Linux, they must however have the choice.
If you don't like Devil fucking with your fun stuff, don't compile him. The choice is simple. Who own's your computer anyway?
Both OSX and Windows are rented operating systems. One rents them as a service, from the vendor. Think of all the other things you've rented in your life (a car, TV, apartment) and the restrictions surrounding use of those. When you 'buy' a copy of OSX, you are actually signing a lease to use it for an undisclosed period of time, with restrictions, in full knowledge you will likely upgrade. When you upgrade, as so many people did with Tiger, that is simply considered to be another installment.
Non-rental operating systems, like Linux and the *BSD's, legally allow you to do as you would like to with your music, share, distribute, modify.
I would like to get involved in developing an icon set for Gnome, but sadly my commitments to improving and/or working on other projects take precedence for the time being. This crosses my mind often enough to justify making time for it at a later date, perhaps.