It's not wikipedia mate. It was on an episode of Panorama about 8 years ago. Sorry if I can't give you more than that. You don't have to believe me, but you can find mountains of evidence of Bill's opinions over licensing/sale.
I once saw a conference with bill gates, where a child popped his hand up to ask a question. We never got to hear the question. He got as far as "my dad bought me a copy of windows". He interrupted to say "he didn't buy it, he/licensed/ it" before going off on a diatribe that instead of owning a tangible object (a CD with windows on it), you are licensing the 1s and 0s on it. He was about 12 years old. What a cunt.
I've answered this before, but I'll do it again - I regularly have lunch with a tools programmer at Sony, and to dispel any rumours, Sony aren't against providing an opengl implementation to linux. I can't say too much, but there is work going on on this, but with no urgency and there are technical hurdles. Firstly, the PS3 doesn't come with opengl - the 3D api is called RSX. They won't be releasing this technology, and it wouldn't allow immediate compilation of 3D linux games anyway. An opengl implementation has to be implemented from the ground up, and in a way that protects the bios and copy protection layer from hacking. It might sell one or two more ps3s, but it won't sell any ps3 games, which is where sony make their profit.
In other words, someone is doing it, more as a hobby project, but I wouldn't hold your breath.
the framework behind (among others) Safari and Safari Mobile,
It's bad enough that web developers ignore my minority browser (rather than defaulting it to the same template as safari), but ignoring the history of webkit completely must be hugely insulting to the authors of khtml. Give them some credit.
Ya, that is the one thing I would like to see. With the rate of development for Linux on the PS3, I think we won't have to wait long.
Word through the grapevine is that it will happen when they can be bothered. Sony aren't against the idea, there's just not much impetus for them to actually write an opengl (or RSX) wrapper through the hypervisor because it won't sell a huge number of consoles (or more importantly, games, where they make the profit). Long story short, rumour has it they have one person working half time on it when he's not busy. I wouldn't hold your breath.
There's actually two pasteboards. Selecting it puts it into the X11 pasteboard, ctrl+c puts it into the gnome/kde pasteboard. There are differences, eg. the gnome/kde one has metadata and can contain images, links etc. It also seems to be more limitless - pasting 50000 lines from the X11 buffer rarely works.
It's actually really useful to have two paste buffers in certain issues - ctrl-v to paste one, middle to paste the other.
Too right.. presently, the post office, a national service, is shutting down branches (and the communities surrounding them) because it's apparently "losing" 2 million a year.
As a national service, it was never supposed to earn money in the first place. it doesn't "lose" 2 million, it COSTS 2 million. There is a difference that the British government and its advisors can't comprehend.
yes, but it won't stand forever. you're a fool it you think that just by running ubuntu, you're secure. you're less vulnerable, yes. You're not secure. also, in that contest, people weren't allowed to use published vulnerabilities - they had to find a new one. Reading security update mailing lists and implementing the appropriate eggdrop code doesn't make you a 733t h@x0r, and that's part of the problem. my network is permenantly under the attack from childish idiots, who don't care what OS you're running, they just want in. Our last breach was in a vulnerability in a PHP forum. We know PHP is a minefield, which is why we put it on its own VLAN so when they did get in, they weren't able to bounce off to more important things.
Unlike windows, ubuntu actually admit to their vulnerabilities.
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn
We had 4 package updates last night. 3 hours before we were able to get in and update. that's 3 hours of being vulnerable with a published way in.
No operating system is secure. Especially one with setuid commands all over the place.
You're obviously new to unix. Ubuntu may be a darn sight more secure than windows, but if you think for a moment that a seasoned hacker with a user-level command prompt can't get root, I don't want you administering any of my linux boxes. I've been a linux admin for 15 years. you?
The evidence is in that it will take a bit more than a week. Most universities have used Unix for the college computers since about 1978, and hacking incidents have been few and far between.
You're joking, right? If you hadn't obtained the root password for the solaris boxes within 2 years at my university, people looked at you funny.
IIRC, I got in using a race hazard on the (setuid) eject command.
An additional benefit of Windows' departure from student library terminals saw the students cease 'hacking the setup to install and play games or trash the operating system.'"
Yeah, that'll last. I'll give it a week before someone finds a manual and migrates their "expertise" to their new operating system.
then he should probably look up "hypothesis", which is where most religions sit.
"I hypothesise that jesus walked on water".
All we need now is evidence to back it up, and perhaps a water-walking experiment with predictable results, and we can promote religion to "unproven conjecture".
Glad you were able to hack it. I had problems with fingerprint readers for exactly the opposite reason. I could never get into the data centre. Each time, I would have my print rescanned, and it would work for about 5 minutes, until the following week, possibly due to the fact that I was destroying my fingers with regular guitar playing at the time, it couldn't recognise me.
I finished Resistance: Fall of man on my ps3 last month. Absolutely brilliant game. Ok, so the controller was a bit clumsy, but did that stop me having fun? No. It also enabled me to play the game slouched on a sofa, rather than sitting bolt upright at a PC desk with a bottle of mountain dew and a half eaten pizza for sustenance.
"The PC players absolutely curb stomped the dreamcast players until they were drowning in the blood pouring out their eyes"
Well done. Give yourself a pat on the back, and slurp some more of that mountain dew.
The PC is fundamentally flawed by inconsistent drivers, latency, incompatibility, and simply by being a moving target. How fast is a PC? What graphics chipset does a PC have? A developer has to make the game tweakable, so that it works on everyone's PC and the people with the lithium-cooled turbofan graphics card can stop moaning that it doesn't play at 15241x19841 in 64 bit colour. Alternately, they could just focus it and optimise it for the same graphics chip everywhere and get the absolute best out of it.
Last Ninja 2 on my C64 was a far better game than daikatana, running on a far more powerful machine. Go figure.
Do you have any facts about how much Dell (e.g.) gets paid to install third-party crapware?
no. none:-) although I've read that, and I can't see any other reason why my vaio turned up full of random virus checking crap, odd media players, you name it, other than advertising. It came with vista, and for the first time in my life, I ran vista for the 5 minutes it took to burn a kubuntu CD and cleanse the thing.
That said, I've googled, and not found out much data on how much crapware actually earns for the vendor, so you have a point. Alas, Dell linux laptops aren't significantly cheaper than the windows ones. It may be because we're prepared more for the feel-good factor of supporting our favorite OS, whilst not paying the microsoft tax (I'd pay £2 not to give £1 to MS), and in that case, Dell is screwing us. OR, it's because there's less crapware. Not having bought a Dell linux laptop, I can't answer that. Hell, I just threw up the hypothesis, because it was interesting:-)
If someone is reading this and has data, please contribute!
Namely, that with a closed source OS, vendors are being paid by software companies to install reams and reams of crapware on your system. When (eg) Dell installs Linux, they lose that revenue, which on a $200 unit, is a significant portion.
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It's not wikipedia mate. It was on an episode of Panorama about 8 years ago. Sorry if I can't give you more than that. You don't have to believe me, but you can find mountains of evidence of Bill's opinions over licensing/sale.
I once saw a conference with bill gates, where a child popped his hand up to ask a question. We never got to hear the question. He got as far as "my dad bought me a copy of windows". He interrupted to say "he didn't buy it, he /licensed/ it" before going off on a diatribe that instead of owning a tangible object (a CD with windows on it), you are licensing the 1s and 0s on it. He was about 12 years old. What a cunt.
Too right. Someone should adust it to include the blood splats and spade sticking out of her head.
I've answered this before, but I'll do it again - I regularly have lunch with a tools programmer at Sony, and to dispel any rumours, Sony aren't against providing an opengl implementation to linux. I can't say too much, but there is work going on on this, but with no urgency and there are technical hurdles. Firstly, the PS3 doesn't come with opengl - the 3D api is called RSX. They won't be releasing this technology, and it wouldn't allow immediate compilation of 3D linux games anyway. An opengl implementation has to be implemented from the ground up, and in a way that protects the bios and copy protection layer from hacking. It might sell one or two more ps3s, but it won't sell any ps3 games, which is where sony make their profit.
In other words, someone is doing it, more as a hobby project, but I wouldn't hold your breath.
the framework behind (among others) Safari and Safari Mobile,
It's bad enough that web developers ignore my minority browser (rather than defaulting it to the same template as safari), but ignoring the history of webkit completely must be hugely insulting to the authors of khtml. Give them some credit.
We're very clear that drivers and software that work on Windows Vista are going to work really well on Windows 7
What, all five of them?
Ya, that is the one thing I would like to see. With the rate of development for Linux on the PS3, I think we won't have to wait long.
Word through the grapevine is that it will happen when they can be bothered. Sony aren't against the idea, there's just not much impetus for them to actually write an opengl (or RSX) wrapper through the hypervisor because it won't sell a huge number of consoles (or more importantly, games, where they make the profit). Long story short, rumour has it they have one person working half time on it when he's not busy. I wouldn't hold your breath.
what.. 680,752,512 and a half?
There's actually two pasteboards. Selecting it puts it into the X11 pasteboard, ctrl+c puts it into the gnome/kde pasteboard. There are differences, eg. the gnome/kde one has metadata and can contain images, links etc. It also seems to be more limitless - pasting 50000 lines from the X11 buffer rarely works.
It's actually really useful to have two paste buffers in certain issues - ctrl-v to paste one, middle to paste the other.
Too right.. presently, the post office, a national service, is shutting down branches (and the communities surrounding them) because it's apparently "losing" 2 million a year.
As a national service, it was never supposed to earn money in the first place. it doesn't "lose" 2 million, it COSTS 2 million. There is a difference that the British government and its advisors can't comprehend.
Microsoft: We finally made something that doesn't suck.. a vacuum cleaner!
yes, but it won't stand forever. you're a fool it you think that just by running ubuntu, you're secure. you're less vulnerable, yes. You're not secure. also, in that contest, people weren't allowed to use published vulnerabilities - they had to find a new one. Reading security update mailing lists and implementing the appropriate eggdrop code doesn't make you a 733t h@x0r, and that's part of the problem. my network is permenantly under the attack from childish idiots, who don't care what OS you're running, they just want in. Our last breach was in a vulnerability in a PHP forum. We know PHP is a minefield, which is why we put it on its own VLAN so when they did get in, they weren't able to bounce off to more important things.
Unlike windows, ubuntu actually admit to their vulnerabilities. http://www.ubuntu.com/usn We had 4 package updates last night. 3 hours before we were able to get in and update. that's 3 hours of being vulnerable with a published way in. No operating system is secure. Especially one with setuid commands all over the place.
You're obviously new to unix. Ubuntu may be a darn sight more secure than windows, but if you think for a moment that a seasoned hacker with a user-level command prompt can't get root, I don't want you administering any of my linux boxes. I've been a linux admin for 15 years. you?
The evidence is in that it will take a bit more than a week. Most universities have used Unix for the college computers since about 1978, and hacking incidents have been few and far between.
You're joking, right? If you hadn't obtained the root password for the solaris boxes within 2 years at my university, people looked at you funny.
IIRC, I got in using a race hazard on the (setuid) eject command.
An additional benefit of Windows' departure from student library terminals saw the students cease 'hacking the setup to install and play games or trash the operating system.'"
Yeah, that'll last. I'll give it a week before someone finds a manual and migrates their "expertise" to their new operating system.
And my straw reaches acroooooooss the room, and starts to drink your milkshake
It's called slant drilling. Kuwait once did this to iraq, and we all know what happened next.
Perhaps you should look up what a theory is
then he should probably look up "hypothesis", which is where most religions sit.
"I hypothesise that jesus walked on water".
All we need now is evidence to back it up, and perhaps a water-walking experiment with predictable results, and we can promote religion to "unproven conjecture".
And was written by a certain "Walter Bright" :-)
That said, it is a very good language, and deserves to be in the list.
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/
Glad you were able to hack it. I had problems with fingerprint readers for exactly the opposite reason. I could never get into the data centre. Each time, I would have my print rescanned, and it would work for about 5 minutes, until the following week, possibly due to the fact that I was destroying my fingers with regular guitar playing at the time, it couldn't recognise me.
"Those are fundamental flaws of Windows, not PCs."
and linux. and bsd. and mac os.
FPS can. not. be played on a controller.
I finished Resistance: Fall of man on my ps3 last month. Absolutely brilliant game. Ok, so the controller was a bit clumsy, but did that stop me having fun? No. It also enabled me to play the game slouched on a sofa, rather than sitting bolt upright at a PC desk with a bottle of mountain dew and a half eaten pizza for sustenance.
"The PC players absolutely curb stomped the dreamcast players until they were drowning in the blood pouring out their eyes"
Well done. Give yourself a pat on the back, and slurp some more of that mountain dew.
The PC is fundamentally flawed by inconsistent drivers, latency, incompatibility, and simply by being a moving target. How fast is a PC? What graphics chipset does a PC have? A developer has to make the game tweakable, so that it works on everyone's PC and the people with the lithium-cooled turbofan graphics card can stop moaning that it doesn't play at 15241x19841 in 64 bit colour. Alternately, they could just focus it and optimise it for the same graphics chip everywhere and get the absolute best out of it.
Last Ninja 2 on my C64 was a far better game than daikatana, running on a far more powerful machine. Go figure.
What's the Excel formula for getting laid?
File->Quit
Do you have any facts about how much Dell (e.g.) gets paid to install third-party crapware?
:-) although I've read that, and I can't see any other reason why my vaio turned up full of random virus checking crap, odd media players, you name it, other than advertising. It came with vista, and for the first time in my life, I ran vista for the 5 minutes it took to burn a kubuntu CD and cleanse the thing.
:-)
no. none
That said, I've googled, and not found out much data on how much crapware actually earns for the vendor, so you have a point. Alas, Dell linux laptops aren't significantly cheaper than the windows ones. It may be because we're prepared more for the feel-good factor of supporting our favorite OS, whilst not paying the microsoft tax (I'd pay £2 not to give £1 to MS), and in that case, Dell is screwing us. OR, it's because there's less crapware. Not having bought a Dell linux laptop, I can't answer that. Hell, I just threw up the hypothesis, because it was interesting
If someone is reading this and has data, please contribute!
Namely, that with a closed source OS, vendors are being paid by software companies to install reams and reams of crapware on your system. When (eg) Dell installs Linux, they lose that revenue, which on a $200 unit, is a significant portion.