Xfree86 is available now for OS X natively (version 4.1.0). They are working on rootless X, but I believe it's still in the testing phase. There are a lot of gimp people looking into rootless heavily over at Mac Gimp
I think this license is meaning more of a "don't copy our new 'standards' (microsoft propriatary extensions)"
I think the reason they don't want you using it with any open tools is so that no one else can copy their ideas and their API and release it open source. If you're going to use the new MS SDK, use it, don't abuse it and certainly don't give it away to open source people.
Because we all know that the only reason microsoft has such an edge is because it gets people hooked on propriatary software and tools.
We all know that the standards in this area will take a few more years to develop. This agreement ensures that they can keep their new technology to themselves. After everyone starts building stuff for the MS only API, standards will emerge and MS will once again have it's own version of the standards. Look at IE and it's anti-compliance.
Here are a few links with a bit more information about the show. It's on the official BBC drwho secion (not just the news). Aparently they already made this show for something else...
"Death Comes To Time is a half hour Doctor Who radio episode. It was made as a pilot programme for Radio Four by producer Dan Freedman."
Re:OS X is Mozilla's last chance for dominance
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I would agree that mozilla has a good chance on OS X...
But it's not too late for users to switch to mozilla if it's GOOD. People need a reason to switch. That's why everyone switched to IE from netscape in the beginning.
My question is why don't we seen an OS X version of mozilla yet! It's already ported to unix systems, and working on older mac OS... I don't think it should be that hard to port.
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After a few minutes I noticed the following:
- new modern skin rawks... It also seems to perform much faster.
- page rendering is much faster
- Java still doesn't work. Tried the plugin, failed... Manually installed from the jre, crashed mozilla when starting java. I would really like them to get this fixed.
- https SSL connections seem to go really SLOW. I don't know why but it takes forever to retrieve pages of a secure connection.
The only reason I run netscape 4 for linux anymore is that it has java and ssl works good. For most of my browsing I use konq, which is great... But not for everything. With a bit more work, mozilla could do really well. People will use it, but only if it works
Can't be... IE 2.0 (the first version of IE, yes 2 was the first version) was out at the same time as MSN. MSN used it a the browser. It seemed like at the beginning that IE was to get people into using MSN...
Now IE just makes sure people stick with windows (or mac), which is the market where MS reigns in software dominance.
This looks like it could be the most awkward keyboard I have ever seen. Yes it only takes one hand to type... But there is a reason keyboards were origionally invented for two hands. You have to 'hold' down space bar (shift they are calling it) to get it to flip. Plus u'd have to learn how to type with your left hand the right keys... They are inverted so you use the same fingers though... But that just makes it so I can't find anything by looking at it.
Now you need to learn how to do the right hand on your left hand. You need 2 keys for each position (or more for special keys). You have to push an extra key for each letter on the other side of the keyboard. This would be like trying to type in all caps while using the shift key and not caps lock... Notice the slow down.
I can see how this may be useful to people who don't have a lot of space... And maybe for a palm...
But I think that enough people complain already about laptop keyboards, so this would definately not be good for laptops and especially not good for desktops!
True $500M is about $300M US, but that doesn't mean that a $500M Canadian project will be the same as if it cost $300M US. In Canada you pay Canadian prices, Canadian materials etc. Many things are cheaper to buy now in Canada.
I'm not saying that it's as much as $500M US, I'm just trying to say you can't compare apples and oranges. Two economies can't be compared like that.
the only reason AC won was because it can be transformed (with transformers) and step up it's voltage. With high voltage and lower current, less heat is lost during transmission.
The choice was AC or a power plant at the end of every street.
If you can prove that your religion is Jedi, then they can't do anything about it. You go to the Jedi Temple and perform all the necessary Jedi religious activities...
BBC is starting production on a new Dr. Who film. Most of the details are still unknown. Also some of the DVDs are going be released in the US and Canada later this year (septemberish I think is the time)
"Microsoft is attacking open source at its weakest point: the GPL"
WTF? Open Source != GPL for the 1 gazillionth time. The BSD license is still open source. And it does make more sense in the business sense. It always has. I love the BSD license and it is great for products like apache. Some things you just don't need to sell though. Not too many businesses would need to fix up a linux kernel for a software product, therefore GPL is fine. But with apache, creating custom modifications for custom needs, BSD is great. I'm sure one of the reasons Apache is so widely used is that It can be easily used in the business world.
Microsoft isn't attacking Open Source at all. Especially when they use BSD code in some of their TCP implementations on 2000. They however are attacking GPL. Yeah, it may not be the best for business, but that's my point. Choose the license that fits. There are some apps that may be better off using the BSD license. But I don't think Linux is one of them.
At least now, Microsoft sees Linux as a threat. It's good publicity to have this in the news all the time. When people really investigate it, they will find the truth. GPL has it's pitfalls. You may want to modify code, but can't cause you don't want to release the changes. But hey, that's better then not having the code at all
I would agree that the rating system is not about censorship. In fact in Canada we already have rating of video games. As far back as my Starcraft game goes, It has a big 17+ Mature rating on the front. I had no problem with when I purchased that at the age of 15 or 16.
The censorship comes in when they try and regulate which games should never hit the market because they are too violent. Or when they say this is too violent for younger people. This is what they are planning on doing from what I gather in the article. Regulate video games the same as movies according to the ratings
I still don't know how Starcraft got a Mature 17+...
"But here's to hoping that the format does not become another.GIF. Closed, unexpandable and bad. At least it's not patented (but it's hardly even legal!)"
Don't know if you are aware or not... But DivX has now been open sourced which makes this point of yours totally irrelevant. I'm not saying it's perfect, but it has the potential of becoming better.
As no DivX being "not a good format", you give no proof. I think it's a great format. It's a good MPEG-4 (like if you will) format with good compression. I have not seen any others that are any better.
There is a reason it's still in "alpha" stages. There's still a lot of work left to be done on it.
I agree. One thing I find with people who have taken tech courses in a specific language or on a limited skill is that they get very cocky. They seem to think that their language they know is the best one for all jobs.
The main difference that I have found in Computer science (refeering just to programming side of thing, not algorithms and stuff. that's another topic) is that it's not important what language you use but how you accomplish your goal. A real experienced programmer will take a look at the job, and choose a language based on the task at hand. If not you end up with emulators written in java and web interfaces in assembler (well, not that bad).
I'm only about half done my CS degree, but find myself turning to different languages based on what problems I have to solve. Languages are tools. Let's use hammers to hammer in nails and screwdrivers for screws and not resolve to arguing about how much better a hammer is.
People should all know that we are running out of IP addresses. We shouldn't be throwing them around like mad. We need to save what is left. I think this would be a great idea to do with IPV6.
No, there isn't a migration path to bring phones in line with newer technologies. But I really feel we need to do it right the first time. Just imagine if everyone started using IPV4 phones... We'd run out in no time. You can get a cheap computer for about 800$ but a cheap phone costs about 10$. Even with modifications, many people may choose to switch to the "digital phone".
I feel that all people inventing these great new technologies should really think it fully through. Make something that will last. Use IPV6. If people would start using it, more people would have support for it. But I suppose we really have to run out before people realize.
RIAA's intention of controlling the royalties of all downloadeble music on the Internet
Now how is this going to work. I don't understand how they can control ALL music on the internet. For starters, I'm in canada. How could the RIAA get juristiction over canada. Secondly, If I write a song myself, me not being a member of the RIAA have sole rights to that music and how and where I choose to sell it.
I really don't understand what they are trying to pull. Either this article is just bullshit, or they actually think they can pull this kind of a stunt off. I think the reason for all this crap from the RIAA in the first place is cause they want to make money.
The pirateing of music have been around ever since there was a method of recording music. It was all over the place when cassettes came out. The difference with digital format is that they feel they can easily regulate it, which they can't.
They know people will still pirate music, they just want a bigger cut of the action. Selling mp3s for the price of a CD would only allow them to make more profit not haveing the cost of production. (even though it is fairly low). It seems like a great plan. Get other people to create mp3s that you say they can sell, then you make money from doing absolutely nothing.
Is there nothing in our society that isn't driven by the lust for money anymore? Aparently not.
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Xfree86 is available now for OS X natively (version 4.1.0). They are working on rootless X, but I believe it's still in the testing phase. There are a lot of gimp people looking into rootless heavily over at Mac Gimp
Thou shall not useth Telnet
I think this license is meaning more of a "don't copy our new 'standards' (microsoft propriatary extensions)"
I think the reason they don't want you using it with any open tools is so that no one else can copy their ideas and their API and release it open source. If you're going to use the new MS SDK, use it, don't abuse it and certainly don't give it away to open source people.
Because we all know that the only reason microsoft has such an edge is because it gets people hooked on propriatary software and tools.
We all know that the standards in this area will take a few more years to develop. This agreement ensures that they can keep their new technology to themselves. After everyone starts building stuff for the MS only API, standards will emerge and MS will once again have it's own version of the standards. Look at IE and it's anti-compliance.
a.b.drwho
and efnet #dwarchive
It's a 'new' story...
You can't download a video of something release special for audio... On the other hand, there are places where one can find DW divx...
I shall say no more
Here are a few links with a bit more information about the show. It's on the official BBC drwho secion (not just the news). Aparently they already made this show for something else...
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"Death Comes To Time is a half hour Doctor Who radio episode. It was made as a pilot programme for Radio Four by producer Dan Freedman."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/radio/index.s
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/news/01060606
I would agree that mozilla has a good chance on OS X...
But it's not too late for users to switch to mozilla if it's GOOD. People need a reason to switch. That's why everyone switched to IE from netscape in the beginning.
My question is why don't we seen an OS X version of mozilla yet! It's already ported to unix systems, and working on older mac OS... I don't think it should be that hard to port.
After a few minutes I noticed the following:
- new modern skin rawks... It also seems to perform much faster.
- page rendering is much faster
- Java still doesn't work. Tried the plugin, failed... Manually installed from the jre, crashed mozilla when starting java. I would really like them to get this fixed.
- https SSL connections seem to go really SLOW. I don't know why but it takes forever to retrieve pages of a secure connection.
The only reason I run netscape 4 for linux anymore is that it has java and ssl works good. For most of my browsing I use konq, which is great... But not for everything. With a bit more work, mozilla could do really well. People will use it, but only if it works
MS bought/built IE because MSN was a failure.
Can't be... IE 2.0 (the first version of IE, yes 2 was the first version) was out at the same time as MSN. MSN used it a the browser. It seemed like at the beginning that IE was to get people into using MSN...
Now IE just makes sure people stick with windows (or mac), which is the market where MS reigns in software dominance.
This looks like it could be the most awkward keyboard I have ever seen. Yes it only takes one hand to type... But there is a reason keyboards were origionally invented for two hands. You have to 'hold' down space bar (shift they are calling it) to get it to flip. Plus u'd have to learn how to type with your left hand the right keys... They are inverted so you use the same fingers though... But that just makes it so I can't find anything by looking at it.
Now you need to learn how to do the right hand on your left hand. You need 2 keys for each position (or more for special keys). You have to push an extra key for each letter on the other side of the keyboard. This would be like trying to type in all caps while using the shift key and not caps lock... Notice the slow down.
I can see how this may be useful to people who don't have a lot of space... And maybe for a palm...
But I think that enough people complain already about laptop keyboards, so this would definately not be good for laptops and especially not good for desktops!
True $500M is about $300M US, but that doesn't mean that a $500M Canadian project will be the same as if it cost $300M US. In Canada you pay Canadian prices, Canadian materials etc. Many things are cheaper to buy now in Canada.
I'm not saying that it's as much as $500M US, I'm just trying to say you can't compare apples and oranges. Two economies can't be compared like that.
(Oranges are better anyways)
the only reason AC won was because it can be transformed (with transformers) and step up it's voltage. With high voltage and lower current, less heat is lost during transmission.
The choice was AC or a power plant at the end of every street.
To turn left, use this series of muscle movements...
Or I can just stick with the plain old Joystick.
What would be better if you could control it with your nerve impulses. That way you wouldn't get tired of holding that stupid control thingy.
If you can prove that your religion is Jedi, then they can't do anything about it. You go to the Jedi Temple and perform all the necessary Jedi religious activities...
yep, old news, /. before...
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It was even posted on
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/04/16/003
then was retracted
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/04/16/003
no that was really him...
yes people do age with time.
Speaking of Dr. Who...
BBC is starting production on a new Dr. Who film. Most of the details are still unknown. Also some of the DVDs are going be released in the US and Canada later this year (septemberish I think is the time)
#dwarchive on efnet
nachoman (AKA DrGNU)
He's still around...
He was the elven healer in that movie "Dungeons and Dragons" that came out last year (and on video soon.
"Microsoft is attacking open source at its weakest point: the GPL"
WTF? Open Source != GPL for the 1 gazillionth time. The BSD license is still open source. And it does make more sense in the business sense. It always has. I love the BSD license and it is great for products like apache. Some things you just don't need to sell though. Not too many businesses would need to fix up a linux kernel for a software product, therefore GPL is fine. But with apache, creating custom modifications for custom needs, BSD is great. I'm sure one of the reasons Apache is so widely used is that It can be easily used in the business world.
Microsoft isn't attacking Open Source at all. Especially when they use BSD code in some of their TCP implementations on 2000. They however are attacking GPL. Yeah, it may not be the best for business, but that's my point. Choose the license that fits. There are some apps that may be better off using the BSD license. But I don't think Linux is one of them.
At least now, Microsoft sees Linux as a threat. It's good publicity to have this in the news all the time. When people really investigate it, they will find the truth. GPL has it's pitfalls. You may want to modify code, but can't cause you don't want to release the changes. But hey, that's better then not having the code at all
I would agree that the rating system is not about censorship. In fact in Canada we already have rating of video games. As far back as my Starcraft game goes, It has a big 17+ Mature rating on the front. I had no problem with when I purchased that at the age of 15 or 16.
The censorship comes in when they try and regulate which games should never hit the market because they are too violent. Or when they say this is too violent for younger people. This is what they are planning on doing from what I gather in the article. Regulate video games the same as movies according to the ratings
I still don't know how Starcraft got a Mature 17+...
"But here's to hoping that the format does not become another .GIF. Closed, unexpandable and bad. At least it's not patented (but it's hardly even legal!)"
Don't know if you are aware or not... But DivX has now been open sourced which makes this point of yours totally irrelevant. I'm not saying it's perfect, but it has the potential of becoming better.
As no DivX being "not a good format", you give no proof. I think it's a great format. It's a good MPEG-4 (like if you will) format with good compression. I have not seen any others that are any better.
There is a reason it's still in "alpha" stages. There's still a lot of work left to be done on it.
Oh course we should go to pluto, everyone knows that's where the aliens live...
I agree. One thing I find with people who have taken tech courses in a specific language or on a limited skill is that they get very cocky. They seem to think that their language they know is the best one for all jobs.
The main difference that I have found in Computer science (refeering just to programming side of thing, not algorithms and stuff. that's another topic) is that it's not important what language you use but how you accomplish your goal. A real experienced programmer will take a look at the job, and choose a language based on the task at hand. If not you end up with emulators written in java and web interfaces in assembler (well, not that bad).
I'm only about half done my CS degree, but find myself turning to different languages based on what problems I have to solve. Languages are tools. Let's use hammers to hammer in nails and screwdrivers for screws and not resolve to arguing about how much better a hammer is.
I do see why it's so dumb. At least for now...
People should all know that we are running out of IP addresses. We shouldn't be throwing them around like mad. We need to save what is left. I think this would be a great idea to do with IPV6.
No, there isn't a migration path to bring phones in line with newer technologies. But I really feel we need to do it right the first time. Just imagine if everyone started using IPV4 phones... We'd run out in no time. You can get a cheap computer for about 800$ but a cheap phone costs about 10$. Even with modifications, many people may choose to switch to the "digital phone".
I feel that all people inventing these great new technologies should really think it fully through. Make something that will last. Use IPV6. If people would start using it, more people would have support for it. But I suppose we really have to run out before people realize.
RIAA's intention of controlling the royalties of all downloadeble music on the Internet
Now how is this going to work. I don't understand how they can control ALL music on the internet. For starters, I'm in canada. How could the RIAA get juristiction over canada. Secondly, If I write a song myself, me not being a member of the RIAA have sole rights to that music and how and where I choose to sell it.
I really don't understand what they are trying to pull. Either this article is just bullshit, or they actually think they can pull this kind of a stunt off. I think the reason for all this crap from the RIAA in the first place is cause they want to make money.
The pirateing of music have been around ever since there was a method of recording music. It was all over the place when cassettes came out. The difference with digital format is that they feel they can easily regulate it, which they can't.
They know people will still pirate music, they just want a bigger cut of the action. Selling mp3s for the price of a CD would only allow them to make more profit not haveing the cost of production. (even though it is fairly low). It seems like a great plan. Get other people to create mp3s that you say they can sell, then you make money from doing absolutely nothing.
Is there nothing in our society that isn't driven by the lust for money anymore? Aparently not.