I don't have problem seeking DVD dumps and as far as I know, MPEG-TS does not have indexes -- it is a pure stream. In fact, you can seek in an MPEG-TS stream even if it is partially corrupted or incomplete.
They are NO WAY near violating the spirit of GPL *or* the law. That statement is completely ignorant.
They *bought* Sistina for $31 million and fully open sourced GFS (Global File System).
They *bought* iPlanet Directory Server from Sun and open sourced it.
They *bought* iPlanet Certificate Server from Sun and open sourced it.
They *bought* Qumranet for around $107 million and are currently working to open source the virtual machine management software.
I haven't even started to list the projects that RedHat engineers directly contribute to in major ways. RedHat has been an *extremely* good citizen of the GPL because they put their *time* and *money* into GPL software. It has also payed off for them. RedHat is a Fortune 500 company now. They *only* thing they ask is that if you take their SRPMS and redistribute them, you remove their company trademarks. That is a completely reasonable request and is consistent with trademark law.
They could invest billions of dollars to setup their own infrastructure or switch to IP by carrier pigeon.
I expect that you will find out pretty quickly that you will want special bittorrent pigeons to separate the traffic from the ones carrying email and web.:)
Take an area of Comcast's network. Let's say this particular area has a lot of heavy peer to peer users. This Comcast area has limited transit links so the peer to peer users are starting to saturate the transit routers and the result is increased latency. Comcast provides an alternate route for their VoIP services that does not use their transit routers. At any given routing point the VoIP subnet is directly peered so as to keep latency low. There is NO QoS -- just peering with a network for their VoIP services. Are they violating net neutrality? Personally, I *wish* they'd use QoS in this situation so that video and VoIP traffic can get through all the peer to peer noise. Bittorrent does use ToS bits to give hints to the routers that this is bulk traffic, but when peer to peer programs open up so very many connections to remote systems, the router has to handle all of them somehow and this still creates latency.
How about Google or Yahoo that has lots and lots of peering with ISP's so their traffic doesn't get caught up with all the other traffic at the ISP's main transit links. Is Google or Yahoo violating net neutrality?
My point is that an ISP doesn't need to create limiting rules to favor some traffic over others. They can use an inherit feature of IP routing that is absolutely important to the heath of the Internet.
I say this year we nominate Global Warming for the Nobel Peace Prize for providing a peaceful solution to this heated dispute between Bangladesh and India.
I keep pointing this out. This is how the Internet should work. We all should encourage peering. I had read a long time ago that Yahoo only payed for half of their bandwidth because they had content and the ISP's had eyeballs wanting that content.
So, how this effect net neutrality? The argument is that the big guys can prioritize packets for their own purposes while the small fry doesn't get that level service for their packets. It seems to me that badly written net neutrality laws will only make peering more common, but not necessarily make things more "fair". So, for example, instead of putting a QoS rule to make an ISP's VoIP service "better" than, say, Vonage, all they would have to do is setup an alternate network for all of their VoIP traffic and make sure that it is internally peered to all important routing points. That way, if their transit routers get congested their VoIP service will have plenty of breathing room. Is that "fair"? Of course it is. Big content providers get to be "closer" to users than a smaller independent person. At the same time, if they host their content at a large hosting company, they may also benefit from peering with ISP's.
First of all it is a lie to say that Palm didn't write iTunes software. They did write iTunes software, but the software to read the iTunes generated files was in the device so the user didn't have to install anything on their computer. The software was already "installed" on the device. Very clean and simple and all it took was a simple USB device ID setting that is *built-in* to the guestfs driver in Linux. Initially Palm didn't have to send a fake manufacturer setting. It was only until Apple decided to check that ID that Palm had to change it.
Personally, I don't see what the big deal was. I thought it was pretty ingenious of Palm. It is similar to reverse engineering the SMB protocol since they were emulating the "protocol" via the USB bus.
Thank you for pointing this out. I have heard this absurd socialization argument many times. It is very strange if you think about it. Over the history of humanity, it is only very recently that children mainly interact with social groups very close to their age. It used to be that a child would learn a trade from their parents, and although they had friends/playmates, a lot of their time was spend with their parents. Early is US history, there were many one room school houses where children of all ages would be taught by a single teacher. Why do we think that public schools with near-age peers groups is "normal"?
I heard that a Canadian study on home schooling was recently released and they found very positive results. The results showed that home schooled children were better community citizens (charities, gave time, etc). The study found nothing wrong with their social skills.
It seems to me that Avatar is a pretty straightforward telling of why mercantilism never really works out like it is supposed to. It takes huge amount of resources for a nation to occupy another nation and subdue it so that it can plunder the resources.
You would think people would know this story pretty well by now, but then again, people still fall for Marxism.
Well, thanks for an actual intelligent discussion... so rare on teh intertoobz these days. Farmville and the like are just the same as those kinds of games always were, it's just more easily accessible to the average person. Games like that always existed but either needed a console or handheld (Harvest Moon, or even Animal Crossing) and as a result saw limited followings.
Animal Crossing has a decent showing: DS - 11 million units and Wii - almost 3.5 million. But I see your point considering Farmville claims over 70 million people playing. I don't see much in the way of Hollywood voice acting, amazing 3D visuals, cut screens, and detailed story in Farmville. Take note game companies, people play Farmville without all those elements! I still wonder what their revenue is like.
Nintendo could clean up by re-launching those titles in a place like Facebook... but they have always resisted that. Eventually they may be forced into this direction. Hop on with a media player vendor and create a real iPod alternative with Nintendo branded titles = insta-win over Apple.
I have no idea what Nintendo will do after Wii runs it's course. Then again, no one knew what Nintendo would do after the Gamecube. They managed to zig when everyone else zagged. Can they pull that off again?
Those $60 short games often have good production and gameplay, but they are short because of the enormous costs to make a game any longer... plus us gamers shot ourselves in the foot by glomming onto downloadable content packs and endless sequels. Make your game $60 and short with what normally be the rest of the game in multiple DLC packs for an extra $5-10 a pop and you suddenly got $100+ for the same game you normally would have sold for $50-60.
This is where gaming is truly in decline. Game companies wanted to become movie companies and look at the results! I blame the "hardcore" crowd. The result is that consoles are in decline. The way I see it is that most consoles have a "hardcore" stigma -- testosterone to the max. I don't remember the Atari 2600 having this "hardcore" stigma. On the contrary, I remember going over to a friend's house and playing Atari 2600 games with him and his mom!
It is all interesting to me to watch play out simply because I was on the other side for so long. I also only wrote fully independent articles and reviews which meant I wouldn't take the standard bribes and payments for glowing reviews. It's also why I'm not afraid to speak out in forums like this. I have no dog in the fight, so it's purely academic anymore.
It is very interesting. I have never owned a console until I bought a Wii. I am *not* a hardcore gamer, but so far I am having a blast playing New Mario Brothers and Mario Kart. It makes me wonder if I missed out when the NES was king.
I mostly agree with what you said. I see Farmville on Facebook more of a threat than iPhone and iPod games -- Farmville for iPhone anyone? It seems like everyone I know on Facebook is playing that game. The question is how much does Farmville make? I know Apple says they have tens of thousands of apps, but we don't know how much people are making off those apps and how well games are actually selling.
You mentioned solid production values. That is key. A game company is not selling technology, they are selling content. As long as Nintendo can make good content then they will be able to compete. Is Super Mario Brothers Wii fun? Can you play it over and over? What about Wii Sports? Mario Kart Wii?
I think a lot of game companies are having problems because they are making very expensive games that lack content. How do I know that? Just look at what these $60 games sell for after three months on the market. Instead of the game companies ramping up content, they spend more money on making an "interactive movie" or putting in steamy sex scenes and complain about used game sales. Game over.
I agree that the "hardcore" market is a sham. That is why Nintendo did what it did. They are trying to make gamers. Not "hardcore" gamers, but gamers none-the-less. They are trying to make games with very good reply value. People still play the Super Mario of old because it has lots of fun levels and therefore makes for fun year after year. Nintendo is hoping the New Super Mario Wii will have that same value, not only with new levels, but with the addition of local multiplayer and the minigames. The "hardcore" hates this stuff, but "gamers" love it.
The "hardcore" laughs at Wii Fit, but it sold very well. Lots of people are playing the games in Wii Fit that may never play games on the PS3.
It will be interesting to see if motions controls can "save" the PS3 and XBox. Nintendo was able to build mindshare, will they be able to keep it?
It seems to me that it should sell around the same number of units that Super Mario Galaxy sold (8 million units). It is almost half way there in three weeks. Factors in its favor:
2D Mario is cool!
Local multiplayer is FUN! No issues with latency.
There is likely a huge number of people that loved paying Super Mario Brothers on NES. Why wouldn't they like playing a new Mario with new challenges and fun?
The people that are panning it are probably the same people that think the only cool games are ones with "cinematic feel" and "professional voice acting".
...and so far Nintendo is doing pretty darn well. They blew passed their previous non-bundled record for a game (Super Mario 3 for NES -- 18 million units) with Mario Kart Wii. Mario Kart Wii isn't the best selling non-bundled game Nintendo is selling. Check:
Well, if you don't need to play it when it is new, you can save yourself $10-20. If the game does not have much content or replay value the price drops pretty quickly.
...are recent games! Mario Kart for Wii and New Super Mario for DS has sold very well.
Top 20 console games of all time
1. Wii Play (Wii – 24.43 million)[68]
2. Wii Fit (Wii – 22.5 million)[68]
3. Nintendogs (DS – 22.27 million, all five versions combined)[69]
4. Pokémon Red, Blue, and Green (Game Boy – 20.08 million approximately: 10.23 million in Japan,[45] 9.85 million in US)[19]
5. New Super Mario Bros. (DS – 19.94 million)[68]
6. Mario Kart Wii (Wii – 18.36 million)[68]
7. Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES – 18 million)[108]
8. Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! (DS – 17.41 million)[69]
9. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2 - 17.33 million)[114]
10. Pokémon Diamond and Pearl (DS – 16.81 million)[70]
Except for the single PS2 game and Super Mario Brothers 3, DS and Wii games seem to be selling very well. It will be very interesting to see how well New Super Mario Wii sells. It has been out for three weeks and is currently clocking in near 2 million units.
I thought people have been questioning the modern temp data for a while due to land use and urban heat effect. Climate Audit has been tracking this aspect for a while now. We might be warming, but the warming is not universal and nothing more than what has happened in the past. In the context of 1000-1500 years, the warming that happene between 1950-2000 is nothing to be afraid of. To quote CRU:
"The principal conclusion from these studies (summarized in IPCC AR4) is that the second half of the 20th century was very likely (90% probable) warmer than any other 50-year period in the last 500 years and likely (66% probable) the warmest in the past 1300 years."
Before any of this email stuff, climateaudit caught NASA adjusting the output so that the 1940's blip was not more than the latter half of the century. I seem to recall it was a error in how the program was rounding the numbers. Climateaudit made a new graph with 1940's showing the warmest year. NASA reproduced the results and then later produced a new chart that showed the 1990's having the warming year with the 1940's the second warmest.
To quote another post of this subject (a href="http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/11531">strata-sphere.com):
"Well, the raw CRU data shows that the first half of the last century (1900-1960) was as warm or warmer than it is today. But even if it was not warmer, it was within the uncertainty of the processed data. But let’s assume this claim still holds water, so what if this was the warmest half century since the beginning of the Little Ice Age! We have only had 3 half centuries since the LIA ended! We all know the Earth has been thankfully warming since this bleak time in humanity’’s brief existence."
I have a Thinkpad T60p. The video chip is an "ATI Technologies Inc M56GL [Mobility FireGL V5250]." With Fedora 12, for the first time, I have stable 3D video on this system. This includes running the proprietary drivers. I am currently running Compiz with Fedora 12 with the "experimental" ATI 3D support. The are still some issues with games, but for basic 3D the driver is solid. No problems with power management (suspect/hibernate)!
One of Fedora's goals is to get rid of the need for distributing proprietary drivers. So far they seem to be doing a very good job.
I just started playing with Drupal. I have not ruled out trying Joomla, but Drupal seems to have pretty good support out there, so I tried it.
What I like about Drupal is what most graphic design people would hate about it. Out of the box it is not easy to drop a graphic here some text there and make a site. Drupal seems to be focused on storing and presenting lots of information in a consistent way. The admin might make a new type of node in Drupal and give the user some fields to fill out. To the user it seems very simple to post a news release, a blog, or a podcast. To the admin the nodes provides a powerful way to keep things consistent and easy to find.
I will probably check out Joomla and see what it's philosophy is. All I know is that anything is better than Sharepoint -- what a mess!
What about all the old people they introduced to gaming with the Gameboy and Tetris? Nintendo moved over 100 million Gameboys. Do you think only "hardcore" gamers bought them?
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I don't have problem seeking DVD dumps and as far as I know, MPEG-TS does not have indexes -- it is a pure stream. In fact, you can seek in an MPEG-TS stream even if it is partially corrupted or incomplete.
They are NO WAY near violating the spirit of GPL *or* the law. That statement is completely ignorant.
They *bought* Sistina for $31 million and fully open sourced GFS (Global File System).
They *bought* iPlanet Directory Server from Sun and open sourced it.
They *bought* iPlanet Certificate Server from Sun and open sourced it.
They *bought* Qumranet for around $107 million and are currently working to open source the virtual machine management software.
I haven't even started to list the projects that RedHat engineers directly contribute to in major ways. RedHat has been an *extremely* good citizen of the GPL because they put their *time* and *money* into GPL software. It has also payed off for them. RedHat is a Fortune 500 company now. They *only* thing they ask is that if you take their SRPMS and redistribute them, you remove their company trademarks. That is a completely reasonable request and is consistent with trademark law.
Just use KQEMU. libvirt will launch the basic qemu with the Accelerator. This is equivalent to VMWare without hardware visualization assistance.
libvirt will launch plain qemu instead of the KVM version. You could use the QEMU Accelerator to speed up the basic qemu.
They could invest billions of dollars to setup their own infrastructure or switch to IP by carrier pigeon.
I expect that you will find out pretty quickly that you will want special bittorrent pigeons to separate the traffic from the ones carrying email and web. :)
Umm.. you know that is easy to change, right? SELinux is a *good* thing because it has actually stopped exploits in apps from getting very far.
Take an area of Comcast's network. Let's say this particular area has a lot of heavy peer to peer users. This Comcast area has limited transit links so the peer to peer users are starting to saturate the transit routers and the result is increased latency. Comcast provides an alternate route for their VoIP services that does not use their transit routers. At any given routing point the VoIP subnet is directly peered so as to keep latency low. There is NO QoS -- just peering with a network for their VoIP services. Are they violating net neutrality? Personally, I *wish* they'd use QoS in this situation so that video and VoIP traffic can get through all the peer to peer noise. Bittorrent does use ToS bits to give hints to the routers that this is bulk traffic, but when peer to peer programs open up so very many connections to remote systems, the router has to handle all of them somehow and this still creates latency. How about Google or Yahoo that has lots and lots of peering with ISP's so their traffic doesn't get caught up with all the other traffic at the ISP's main transit links. Is Google or Yahoo violating net neutrality? My point is that an ISP doesn't need to create limiting rules to favor some traffic over others. They can use an inherit feature of IP routing that is absolutely important to the heath of the Internet.
I say this year we nominate Global Warming for the Nobel Peace Prize for providing a peaceful solution to this heated dispute between Bangladesh and India.
Sarasota Herald - May 29, 1937... see page 4, top section. "Islands" have disappeared before.
The above link is from this page:
Bengal Island succumbs to global warming nonsense – AP gets nutty over the loss of a sandbar
Check out the new Palm phones. Qt was recently ported to them. Palm has not, in any way, prevented people from hacking the phone.
I keep pointing this out. This is how the Internet should work. We all should encourage peering. I had read a long time ago that Yahoo only payed for half of their bandwidth because they had content and the ISP's had eyeballs wanting that content.
So, how this effect net neutrality? The argument is that the big guys can prioritize packets for their own purposes while the small fry doesn't get that level service for their packets. It seems to me that badly written net neutrality laws will only make peering more common, but not necessarily make things more "fair". So, for example, instead of putting a QoS rule to make an ISP's VoIP service "better" than, say, Vonage, all they would have to do is setup an alternate network for all of their VoIP traffic and make sure that it is internally peered to all important routing points. That way, if their transit routers get congested their VoIP service will have plenty of breathing room. Is that "fair"? Of course it is. Big content providers get to be "closer" to users than a smaller independent person. At the same time, if they host their content at a large hosting company, they may also benefit from peering with ISP's.
First of all it is a lie to say that Palm didn't write iTunes software. They did write iTunes software, but the software to read the iTunes generated files was in the device so the user didn't have to install anything on their computer. The software was already "installed" on the device. Very clean and simple and all it took was a simple USB device ID setting that is *built-in* to the guestfs driver in Linux. Initially Palm didn't have to send a fake manufacturer setting. It was only until Apple decided to check that ID that Palm had to change it.
Personally, I don't see what the big deal was. I thought it was pretty ingenious of Palm. It is similar to reverse engineering the SMB protocol since they were emulating the "protocol" via the USB bus.
Thank you for pointing this out. I have heard this absurd socialization argument many times. It is very strange if you think about it. Over the history of humanity, it is only very recently that children mainly interact with social groups very close to their age. It used to be that a child would learn a trade from their parents, and although they had friends/playmates, a lot of their time was spend with their parents. Early is US history, there were many one room school houses where children of all ages would be taught by a single teacher. Why do we think that public schools with near-age peers groups is "normal"?
I heard that a Canadian study on home schooling was recently released and they found very positive results. The results showed that home schooled children were better community citizens (charities, gave time, etc). The study found nothing wrong with their social skills.
It seems to me that Avatar is a pretty straightforward telling of why mercantilism never really works out like it is supposed to. It takes huge amount of resources for a nation to occupy another nation and subdue it so that it can plunder the resources.
You would think people would know this story pretty well by now, but then again, people still fall for Marxism.
Well, thanks for an actual intelligent discussion... so rare on teh intertoobz these days. Farmville and the like are just the same as those kinds of games always were, it's just more easily accessible to the average person. Games like that always existed but either needed a console or handheld (Harvest Moon, or even Animal Crossing) and as a result saw limited followings.
Animal Crossing has a decent showing: DS - 11 million units and Wii - almost 3.5 million. But I see your point considering Farmville claims over 70 million people playing. I don't see much in the way of Hollywood voice acting, amazing 3D visuals, cut screens, and detailed story in Farmville. Take note game companies, people play Farmville without all those elements! I still wonder what their revenue is like.
Nintendo could clean up by re-launching those titles in a place like Facebook... but they have always resisted that. Eventually they may be forced into this direction. Hop on with a media player vendor and create a real iPod alternative with Nintendo branded titles = insta-win over Apple.
I have no idea what Nintendo will do after Wii runs it's course. Then again, no one knew what Nintendo would do after the Gamecube. They managed to zig when everyone else zagged. Can they pull that off again?
Those $60 short games often have good production and gameplay, but they are short because of the enormous costs to make a game any longer... plus us gamers shot ourselves in the foot by glomming onto downloadable content packs and endless sequels. Make your game $60 and short with what normally be the rest of the game in multiple DLC packs for an extra $5-10 a pop and you suddenly got $100+ for the same game you normally would have sold for $50-60.
This is where gaming is truly in decline. Game companies wanted to become movie companies and look at the results! I blame the "hardcore" crowd. The result is that consoles are in decline. The way I see it is that most consoles have a "hardcore" stigma -- testosterone to the max. I don't remember the Atari 2600 having this "hardcore" stigma. On the contrary, I remember going over to a friend's house and playing Atari 2600 games with him and his mom!
It is all interesting to me to watch play out simply because I was on the other side for so long. I also only wrote fully independent articles and reviews which meant I wouldn't take the standard bribes and payments for glowing reviews. It's also why I'm not afraid to speak out in forums like this. I have no dog in the fight, so it's purely academic anymore.
It is very interesting. I have never owned a console until I bought a Wii. I am *not* a hardcore gamer, but so far I am having a blast playing New Mario Brothers and Mario Kart. It makes me wonder if I missed out when the NES was king.
I mostly agree with what you said. I see Farmville on Facebook more of a threat than iPhone and iPod games -- Farmville for iPhone anyone? It seems like everyone I know on Facebook is playing that game. The question is how much does Farmville make? I know Apple says they have tens of thousands of apps, but we don't know how much people are making off those apps and how well games are actually selling.
You mentioned solid production values. That is key. A game company is not selling technology, they are selling content. As long as Nintendo can make good content then they will be able to compete. Is Super Mario Brothers Wii fun? Can you play it over and over? What about Wii Sports? Mario Kart Wii?
I think a lot of game companies are having problems because they are making very expensive games that lack content. How do I know that? Just look at what these $60 games sell for after three months on the market. Instead of the game companies ramping up content, they spend more money on making an "interactive movie" or putting in steamy sex scenes and complain about used game sales. Game over.
I agree that the "hardcore" market is a sham. That is why Nintendo did what it did. They are trying to make gamers. Not "hardcore" gamers, but gamers none-the-less. They are trying to make games with very good reply value. People still play the Super Mario of old because it has lots of fun levels and therefore makes for fun year after year. Nintendo is hoping the New Super Mario Wii will have that same value, not only with new levels, but with the addition of local multiplayer and the minigames. The "hardcore" hates this stuff, but "gamers" love it.
The "hardcore" laughs at Wii Fit, but it sold very well. Lots of people are playing the games in Wii Fit that may never play games on the PS3.
It will be interesting to see if motions controls can "save" the PS3 and XBox. Nintendo was able to build mindshare, will they be able to keep it?
The people that are panning it are probably the same people that think the only cool games are ones with "cinematic feel" and "professional voice acting".
...and so far Nintendo is doing pretty darn well. They blew passed their previous non-bundled record for a game (Super Mario 3 for NES -- 18 million units) with Mario Kart Wii. Mario Kart Wii isn't the best selling non-bundled game Nintendo is selling. Check:
Top 20 console games of all time
It seems to me that Nintendo may have had a drop in sales, but overall is doing very well considering the economic climate.
Well, if you don't need to play it when it is new, you can save yourself $10-20. If the game does not have much content or replay value the price drops pretty quickly.
...are recent games! Mario Kart for Wii and New Super Mario for DS has sold very well.
Top 20 console games of all time
1. Wii Play (Wii – 24.43 million)[68]
2. Wii Fit (Wii – 22.5 million)[68]
3. Nintendogs (DS – 22.27 million, all five versions combined)[69]
4. Pokémon Red, Blue, and Green (Game Boy – 20.08 million approximately: 10.23 million in Japan,[45] 9.85 million in US)[19]
5. New Super Mario Bros. (DS – 19.94 million)[68]
6. Mario Kart Wii (Wii – 18.36 million)[68]
7. Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES – 18 million)[108]
8. Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! (DS – 17.41 million)[69]
9. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2 - 17.33 million)[114]
10. Pokémon Diamond and Pearl (DS – 16.81 million)[70]
Except for the single PS2 game and Super Mario Brothers 3, DS and Wii games seem to be selling very well. It will be very interesting to see how well New Super Mario Wii sells. It has been out for three weeks and is currently clocking in near 2 million units.
I thought people have been questioning the modern temp data for a while due to land use and urban heat effect. Climate Audit has been tracking this aspect for a while now. We might be warming, but the warming is not universal and nothing more than what has happened in the past. In the context of 1000-1500 years, the warming that happene between 1950-2000 is nothing to be afraid of. To quote CRU:
"The principal conclusion from these studies (summarized in IPCC AR4) is that the second half of the 20th century was very likely (90% probable) warmer than any other 50-year period in the last 500 years and likely (66% probable) the warmest in the past 1300 years."
Before any of this email stuff, climateaudit caught NASA adjusting the output so that the 1940's blip was not more than the latter half of the century. I seem to recall it was a error in how the program was rounding the numbers. Climateaudit made a new graph with 1940's showing the warmest year. NASA reproduced the results and then later produced a new chart that showed the 1990's having the warming year with the 1940's the second warmest.
To quote another post of this subject (a href="http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/11531">strata-sphere.com):
"Well, the raw CRU data shows that the first half of the last century (1900-1960) was as warm or warmer than it is today. But even if it was not warmer, it was within the uncertainty of the processed data. But let’s assume this claim still holds water, so what if this was the warmest half century since the beginning of the Little Ice Age! We have only had 3 half centuries since the LIA ended! We all know the Earth has been thankfully warming since this bleak time in humanity’’s brief existence."
The Palm Pre philosophy is similar to ChromeOS. Google has stated that they love the Pre and no wonder: Palm Pre launching with Google Search, Google Maps, and YouTube
I wonder if Android's browser will start taking on some ChromeOS functions. The Pre and Android could become more and more similar over time.
I have a Thinkpad T60p. The video chip is an "ATI Technologies Inc M56GL [Mobility FireGL V5250]." With Fedora 12, for the first time, I have stable 3D video on this system. This includes running the proprietary drivers. I am currently running Compiz with Fedora 12 with the "experimental" ATI 3D support. The are still some issues with games, but for basic 3D the driver is solid. No problems with power management (suspect/hibernate)!
One of Fedora's goals is to get rid of the need for distributing proprietary drivers. So far they seem to be doing a very good job.
I just started playing with Drupal. I have not ruled out trying Joomla, but Drupal seems to have pretty good support out there, so I tried it.
What I like about Drupal is what most graphic design people would hate about it. Out of the box it is not easy to drop a graphic here some text there and make a site. Drupal seems to be focused on storing and presenting lots of information in a consistent way. The admin might make a new type of node in Drupal and give the user some fields to fill out. To the user it seems very simple to post a news release, a blog, or a podcast. To the admin the nodes provides a powerful way to keep things consistent and easy to find.
I will probably check out Joomla and see what it's philosophy is. All I know is that anything is better than Sharepoint -- what a mess!
What about all the old people they introduced to gaming with the Gameboy and Tetris? Nintendo moved over 100 million Gameboys. Do you think only "hardcore" gamers bought them?