The biggest problem facing independent distribution is NOT global corporations; they have little to fear from independent developers. The biggest problem facing independent media is not the difficulty of production/distribution; the biggest problem is that THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE WILLING TO CREATE MEDIA!!
Steve Wozniak, the (co)founder of Apple Computers, once remarked that he thought every one would write the software he or she needed, and people would be free of the big software companies forever! While many quality open source applications are available, there are still many software niches where open source alternatives are either nonexistent or lacking compared to a commercial alternative.
When desktop publishing software became affordable, some analysts predicted that every person could have their own magazine; this is not the case. You do not have to spend much to distribut your music online, even if you want to charge money for it. You do not have to spend much to start an amateur film studio, yet there are not many independent films out there on the 'net'. Hell, there are not even that many amateur pr0n films! (at least, not at the rate I go through them)
For independent development to flourish, people just have to shut up and start producting: software, music, literature, videos, etc.
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>> All I see from reading this article is that, at some point, an Apple will be able to run Windows applications.
>> At a time when their status quo has lead them to a debacle with Windows development, all Ballmer can think of is lobbing bombs blindly at the enemy.
Though I have not used it and do not know for sure, it seems that Lphoto http://lphoto.com/ might do what you want, or maybe GImageView http://gtkmmviewer.sourceforge.net/ might work. I have gotten by with a program called PornView, an Image/Mpeg viewer, although my needs are not as complex as yours. Mostly, I just use it for its intended application.:)
So, why not find the instructions that handle the password and jump over them? Jumping over DRM features is a common practice in cracking software. Also, to be any useful, the backdoor would have to accept remote connections on a port, and you could just set-up a firewall to filter that port.
I do not think that Sun used Display Postscript on SunOS, at least it was not mentioned in the DPS Wikipedia article. Sun did have their own PostScript rendering Graphics system called NeWS (Network Windowing System) that was a competitior with X. Is that what you were thinking of?
Microsoft, in a press release today, has revealed more information about its revolutionary new operating system, Windows Vista. Microsoft has decided to drop the Aeroglass Desktop and go with the E17 window manager. The entire NT kernel has been replaced with the GNU HURD, with an NT compatibility layer. To "embrace and extend" the World Wide Web, Microsoft has included Udanax technology to provide support for 'transclusion,' a key component of Project Xanadu. As mentioned previously, Solitaire will be replaced by Duke Nukem Forever. This is shaping up to be the most exciting Windows release ever.
I believe that NT did not have true multi-user support until Citrix added it into NT 3.5.1 for their WinFrame product.
Also, *nix based OSs do support more advanced ACLs. The Single Unix Specification *requires* that an OS support ACLs in order to be labelled a UNIX operating system.
It depends on the animation. If you are going for uber1337 CG like the (horrible) Final Fantasy movies, you will probably work for several months on each episode (and you will run out of money two episodes in). If your animation is easy to do, like South Park, you can have very quick production times. For instance, the Season Six Finale of South Park parodied Saddam Hussein's capture while he was hiding in a spider hole, even though it had only been three days since he was captured.
In Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness, all you could do in outer space was become a 'space ace', so a princess would reward you with one of the gemstones necessary to activate the time machine, so you defeat Mondain when he was not invincible.
You went to Planet X in Ultima II: Revenge of the Enchantress.
While not exactly a quest, Ultima Lazarus contains a great example of an event (or set of events) that both really piss you off and really draw you into the game. The provisioner in Yew tells the Avatar (i.e. the player for those of you unfamiliar with Ultima) that Lord British commisioned a Map of Britannia with the Mantras for all the shrines and the Words of Power for all the dungeons, and she wants to finish the map as a 'tribute' to his memory, so she tells the Avatar that she will pay handsomely (200 gold coins) for every Mantra you tell her. This is a very good way to earn money early in the game. From her dialogue, she seemed slightly concerned with the Opression (i.e. she said 'everything is safer, but I have the feeling that I am living with a noose around my neck), and she even warns the Avatar about the Yew Captain of the Guard. It turns, out, though, that she is an undercover spy for the Opression, and every Mantra you tell her allows the Opression to destroy one more shrine (they can be restored, though). I only learned about her deception from a post on the Lazarus forums www.u5lazarus.org and I was both angry with myself for allowing greed to overwhelm good sense, and I was amazed that the game had so utterly fooled me. Many 'spies' are rather obvious, but this one caught me completely off guard. Which reminds me, I need to finish it.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered innovation community when IBM confirmed that the number of innovations has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all products. Coming on the heels of a recent US Patent Office survey which plainly states that Innovation has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Innovative design is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict innovation's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Innovation faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Innovation because Innovation is dying. Things are looking very bad for Innovation. As many of us are already aware, Innovative products continue to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Open Source software development is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Innovative developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Innovation is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
IBM leader Nicholas Donofrio states that there are 700 professional inventors. How many hobbyist inventors are there? Let's see. The number of professional versus hobbyist posts on the alt.inventors Usenet newsgroup is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 700/5 = 140 hobbyist inventors. Middle-School inventor posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of adult hobbyist posts. Therefore there are about 70 child inventors. A recent article put professional inventors at about 80 percent of the Innovation market. Therefore there are (700+140+70)*4 = 3640 professional inventors. This is consistent with the number of professional inventor Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of BeOS, abysmal sales and so on, the Be Corporation went out of business and was taken over by Palm who sell another troubled OS. Now Palm is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Innovation has steadily declined in market share. Innovation is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Innovation is to survive at all it will be among large, corporate dilettante dabblers. Innovation continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Innovation is dead.
I will admit that my jaw dropped the first time I saw paper-thin fold-out laptop monitors in Stellvia of the Universe. Those screens impressed me much more than the starfighters and the Mecha ('It's a space ship, damnit!') because it was such a simple (well, maybe not to implement, at least not yet) idea, but the effects of it were astounding. Imagine if you had a laptop that could seemlessly grow just by folding out the paper-thin screen. Yes, I am sure that some other series or novel has featured this same concept, but seeing a 'real' (well, animated) demonstration was really leet.
For fantasy settings, (if they can) they will probably try some product integration style thing. I once saw an advertisement about a Sony, Pizza-Hut partnership that allowed an Everquest II player to type '/pizza' into the chat window, and a Pizza-Hut online ordering menu would pop-up. I thought this was the stupidest thing I had ever seen, but Evercrack junkies probably found it uber-convenient.
The Linux kit included a 40 GB hard drive, a network adapter, a monitor cable with audio jack, a usb keyboard and mouse, and two DVDs with software. You had to buy a PS2 separately, and when you wanted to play a 'real' game, you just plugged-in the controller, put the game disc in, and powered on the PS2. The Linux kit did not make any permanent changes to your system. If they sold the Linux kit in stores, it would be sold as an 'accessory.'
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The biggest problem facing independent distribution is NOT global corporations; they have little to fear from independent developers. The biggest problem facing independent media is not the difficulty of production/distribution; the biggest problem is that THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE WILLING TO CREATE MEDIA!!
Steve Wozniak, the (co)founder of Apple Computers, once remarked that he thought every one would write the software he or she needed, and people would be free of the big software companies forever! While many quality open source applications are available, there are still many software niches where open source alternatives are either nonexistent or lacking compared to a commercial alternative.
When desktop publishing software became affordable, some analysts predicted that every person could have their own magazine; this is not the case. You do not have to spend much to distribut your music online, even if you want to charge money for it. You do not have to spend much to start an amateur film studio, yet there are not many independent films out there on the 'net'. Hell, there are not even that many amateur pr0n films! (at least, not at the rate I go through them)
For independent development to flourish, people just have to shut up and start producting: software, music, literature, videos, etc.
>> All I see from reading this article is that, at some point, an Apple will be able to run Windows applications.
It already can. http://darwine.opendarwin.org/
Your welcome. :)
It appears that XnView http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pierre.g/xnview/uk_pocket_ features.html or Gnome Photo Collector (http://gpc.sourceforge.net/guide.php3) might have keyword indexing.
There are some more image viewers that are mentioned on http://www.tucows.com/Linux/DesignTools/Image/Imag eViewers/. Maybe you will find something there.
>> At a time when their status quo has lead them to a debacle with Windows development, all Ballmer can think of is lobbing bombs blindly at the enemy.
I think you mean lobbing chairs.
Though I have not used it and do not know for sure, it seems that Lphoto http://lphoto.com/ might do what you want, or maybe GImageView http://gtkmmviewer.sourceforge.net/ might work. I have gotten by with a program called PornView, an Image/Mpeg viewer, although my needs are not as complex as yours. Mostly, I just use it for its intended application. :)
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So, why not find the instructions that handle the password and jump over them? Jumping over DRM features is a common practice in cracking software. Also, to be any useful, the backdoor would have to accept remote connections on a port, and you could just set-up a firewall to filter that port.
From Wikipedia: "In mathematics, the factorial of a natural number n is the product of all positive integers less than and equal to n."
Pi could not have a factorial, since it is not an integer.
The quota is 10 GB per account. Each CPU has 4GB of associated RAM. Is that enough space to encode a DVD?
I do not think that L0phtcrack runs on non-Windows platforms. John the Ripper does, though.
I do not think that Sun used Display Postscript on SunOS, at least it was not mentioned in the DPS Wikipedia article. Sun did have their own PostScript rendering Graphics system called NeWS (Network Windowing System) that was a competitior with X. Is that what you were thinking of?
Microsoft, in a press release today, has revealed more information about its revolutionary new operating system, Windows Vista. Microsoft has decided to drop the Aeroglass Desktop and go with the E17 window manager. The entire NT kernel has been replaced with the GNU HURD, with an NT compatibility layer. To "embrace and extend" the World Wide Web, Microsoft has included Udanax technology to provide support for 'transclusion,' a key component of Project Xanadu. As mentioned previously, Solitaire will be replaced by Duke Nukem Forever. This is shaping up to be the most exciting Windows release ever.
I believe that NT did not have true multi-user support until Citrix added it into NT 3.5.1 for their WinFrame product.
Also, *nix based OSs do support more advanced ACLs. The Single Unix Specification *requires* that an OS support ACLs in order to be labelled a UNIX operating system.
It depends on the animation. If you are going for uber1337 CG like the (horrible) Final Fantasy movies, you will probably work for several months on each episode (and you will run out of money two episodes in). If your animation is easy to do, like South Park, you can have very quick production times. For instance, the Season Six Finale of South Park parodied Saddam Hussein's capture while he was hiding in a spider hole, even though it had only been three days since he was captured.
In Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness, all you could do in outer space was become a 'space ace', so a princess would reward you with one of the gemstones necessary to activate the time machine, so you defeat Mondain when he was not invincible. You went to Planet X in Ultima II: Revenge of the Enchantress.
While not exactly a quest, Ultima Lazarus contains a great example of an event (or set of events) that both really piss you off and really draw you into the game. The provisioner in Yew tells the Avatar (i.e. the player for those of you unfamiliar with Ultima) that Lord British commisioned a Map of Britannia with the Mantras for all the shrines and the Words of Power for all the dungeons, and she wants to finish the map as a 'tribute' to his memory, so she tells the Avatar that she will pay handsomely (200 gold coins) for every Mantra you tell her. This is a very good way to earn money early in the game. From her dialogue, she seemed slightly concerned with the Opression (i.e. she said 'everything is safer, but I have the feeling that I am living with a noose around my neck), and she even warns the Avatar about the Yew Captain of the Guard. It turns, out, though, that she is an undercover spy for the Opression, and every Mantra you tell her allows the Opression to destroy one more shrine (they can be restored, though). I only learned about her deception from a post on the Lazarus forums www.u5lazarus.org and I was both angry with myself for allowing greed to overwhelm good sense, and I was amazed that the game had so utterly fooled me. Many 'spies' are rather obvious, but this one caught me completely off guard. Which reminds me, I need to finish it.
Do not forget Fallout 1&2, and Ultimas V, VI, VII, and Serpent Isle.
The name is Mortal Kombat, n00b! Can't you get anything right. STFU!
NOTE: The preceding lines are intended as a parody of hardcore geekdom, and it is not intended as a serious criticism of the Parent.
It is official; IBM confirms: Innovation is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered innovation community when IBM confirmed that the number of innovations has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all products. Coming on the heels of a recent US Patent Office survey which plainly states that Innovation has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Innovative design is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict innovation's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Innovation faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Innovation because Innovation is dying. Things are looking very bad for Innovation. As many of us are already aware, Innovative products continue to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Open Source software development is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Innovative developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Innovation is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
IBM leader Nicholas Donofrio states that there are 700 professional inventors. How many hobbyist inventors are there? Let's see. The number of professional versus hobbyist posts on the alt.inventors Usenet newsgroup is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 700/5 = 140 hobbyist inventors. Middle-School inventor posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of adult hobbyist posts. Therefore there are about 70 child inventors. A recent article put professional inventors at about 80 percent of the Innovation market. Therefore there are (700+140+70)*4 = 3640 professional inventors. This is consistent with the number of professional inventor Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of BeOS, abysmal sales and so on, the Be Corporation went out of business and was taken over by Palm who sell another troubled OS. Now Palm is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Innovation has steadily declined in market share. Innovation is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Innovation is to survive at all it will be among large, corporate dilettante dabblers. Innovation continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Innovation is dead.
Fact: Innovation is dying
I will admit that my jaw dropped the first time I saw paper-thin fold-out laptop monitors in Stellvia of the Universe. Those screens impressed me much more than the starfighters and the Mecha ('It's a space ship, damnit!') because it was such a simple (well, maybe not to implement, at least not yet) idea, but the effects of it were astounding. Imagine if you had a laptop that could seemlessly grow just by folding out the paper-thin screen. Yes, I am sure that some other series or novel has featured this same concept, but seeing a 'real' (well, animated) demonstration was really leet.
For fantasy settings, (if they can) they will probably try some product integration style thing. I once saw an advertisement about a Sony, Pizza-Hut partnership that allowed an Everquest II player to type '/pizza' into the chat window, and a Pizza-Hut online ordering menu would pop-up. I thought this was the stupidest thing I had ever seen, but Evercrack junkies probably found it uber-convenient.
The Linux kit included a 40 GB hard drive, a network adapter, a monitor cable with audio jack, a usb keyboard and mouse, and two DVDs with software. You had to buy a PS2 separately, and when you wanted to play a 'real' game, you just plugged-in the controller, put the game disc in, and powered on the PS2. The Linux kit did not make any permanent changes to your system. If they sold the Linux kit in stores, it would be sold as an 'accessory.'