I do a mix of both. With games like Gran Turismo 5 and LittleBigPlanet 2 I know they're going to be high quality and enjoyable. Even if any bugs are found they should be patched up quickly, so I'm happy to pre-order.
I don't bother to look at gaming magazines and websites these days, so I'm generally unaware of all the new titles coming out. I hear about the really good ones through word of mouth from friends or here on Slashdot for example. Occasionally I browse the PS Store and try out some demos. I would never have bought Just Cause 2 if they didn't have a demo up there, I'd never even heard of it before.
You should definitely get Red Dead Redemption as soon as it comes down into your acceptable price range, it's among the best games I've ever played - certainly my favourite game so far this year:)
Oblivion works fine on PS3. Of course, I got the Game of the Year Edition a couple of years after it came out, so most issues would have been patched by then.
I don't remember Fallout having any major issues either, though I only played it for a couple of days after it came out before I got bored of the wasteland atmosphere.
If an ordinary person can get fined millions of dollars for minor IP violations, then a corporation the size of Telstra should be fined tens of billions for knowingly violating the GPL in a flagship product. But of course, the law is never fair.
Who are these tens of billions going to go to?
Normal people are fined millions for minor IP violations because the IP they are violating is owned by a single profit driven behemoth that doesn't allow for copying. It's a rather different scenario to some GPLed code that may have legally passed through hundreds of hands.
Any IP laywer would check the origin and license of the software.
We're talking about something that they will probably regard as purely hardware though.
Do you really think they would they do a background check on the firmware running on the routers? Would Telstra even hire an IP lawyer to vet hardware purchases?
Apache has nothing to do with Debian or any other distro/OS - it is highly cross platform. On any platform you install it to, you will find very similar organisation of config files (as long as that platform supports normal filing systems).
As long as that file can't execute then it's not such a problem. There are a few places in the registry where you can set a file to run though, like the classic Windows run/runonce (which you have to check globally and for the current user, something I only realised a couple of years ago), screensaver, and I'm assuming in the places that associate file types to executables. Scheduled tasks are probably defined in the registry too.
I'm pretty sure the point still stands - the hive is in a file/files. Your counter point that its more than 1 file makes little sense
Actually, the original point was that the guy said "it doesn't exist as a single file" (ie in English this means "one file"), and you said "yes it does!".
So your issue has nothing to do with the registry per-se. The issue is poorly written apps leaving breadcrumbs all over your system
IMO poorly written apps aren't such a big deal, it's the malicious apps in Windows that you tend to have to go into the registry to make sure you've removed all trace.
It would only be a redundant question if it was obvious that you use Ubuntu.
Even if the whole of the Linux world moves to Wayland as their primary display system in the next decade or so, it will still be very possible to use X for running remote apps. So I really think that people have no need for complaining here, at all.
I can't remember the name of the application unfortunately. I think it had what it called "candy" textures by default, which were a mixture of white and some other pastel colour. Looked very cool, though it sucked up a lot of RAM!
MP3 players may not have been failing before the iPod, but they were hardly taking off either.
All the big companies are infringing on each others' IP these days. Whether they're infringing or not is not the important thing, it's whether they decide it's worth it to sue.. it's like a giant game of chess.
There were already many MP3 players, touch phones, tablets etc out there before Apple released their iDevices. Just because things have failed in the past doesn't mean they can't take off if you design and market them well.
Mac OS was great, much better than Amiga OS until Workbench 3 anyway. Workbench 3 worked well, but Mac OS still looked better. I used to play about in Mac OS on my A1200 using Shapeshifter.
I once had a program that allowed you to texture the windows in Workbench (each new window you opened would have a random texture in its borders). It was slow as ass, but it looked great. Wish I has something similar for Ubuntu. I haven't really looked into alternative window managers or anything yet.
Okay I'll rephrase the question: if someone who has no contractual ties with them infringes on their copyright by distributing their movie in another region, how are they going to enforce the restrictions without copyright law? In a country that doesn't respect copyright, they can't do a damn thing.
Sure, if you want to have hack upon hack to get all the cool stuff that Wayland can do natively. At some point it's better to start from a nice consistent base. Sending a UI over the network is the one feature that people are bothered about losing in X, and it's pretty easy to replicate on any other windowing system - especially compared to all the other crap people have to do on top of X to try to get more friendly APIs and UI features.
Just had a look at what they're doing with Xorg. That's cool, but rewriting a current system is a lot more work than starting afresh. I'd never heard of Wayland before today, and while I've heard of Meego I haven't really looked into it.
What I'll ask though is: why do you think a windowing system first developed for use with tablets is inappropriate for more powerful machines? Just because it's efficient doesn't meant it won't scale well. In fact, it's much better to be efficient even if you are running a powerful machine. I hate the attitude of "we have powerful computers, so we don't need to write efficient software". Piling more layers on top of X to get desired results is resulting in fragmentation and inconsistencies. Using a system that's designed from the ground up to provide a suitable environment for modern UI rendering is just good sense IMO.
Surely it would be pretty easy to write a Wayland module to allow sending of app displays to other machines anyway? Don't render them on the server, and instead send the display buffer to the compositor on the client's machine?
I didn't say that Canonical were creating the project. I'm sure there have been many ideas and projects trying to replace X. I'm saying Ubuntu as a distro have the right idea. There may be many smaller distros that use a different windowing system, but the heavyweights tend to be wary of rocking the boat too much. Canonical have the right attitude of not being afraid to make the changes that are necessary, even if some people are going to be frothing at the mouth and screaming "HERETIIIIIIIIICS!!! >F ".
Having had a look at the Wayland site, I'd say you could do the same thing with the Wayland architecture if you really wanted to. These days considering even mobile phones can run full featured web browsers, I don't think it's much of a selling point though. It is nice from a security standpoint, but soon enough it will probably be feasible to run browsers in a virtual machine on your phone if you really want that level of security!:p
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I do a mix of both. With games like Gran Turismo 5 and LittleBigPlanet 2 I know they're going to be high quality and enjoyable. Even if any bugs are found they should be patched up quickly, so I'm happy to pre-order.
I don't bother to look at gaming magazines and websites these days, so I'm generally unaware of all the new titles coming out. I hear about the really good ones through word of mouth from friends or here on Slashdot for example. Occasionally I browse the PS Store and try out some demos. I would never have bought Just Cause 2 if they didn't have a demo up there, I'd never even heard of it before.
You should definitely get Red Dead Redemption as soon as it comes down into your acceptable price range, it's among the best games I've ever played - certainly my favourite game so far this year :)
Oblivion works fine on PS3. Of course, I got the Game of the Year Edition a couple of years after it came out, so most issues would have been patched by then.
I don't remember Fallout having any major issues either, though I only played it for a couple of days after it came out before I got bored of the wasteland atmosphere.
If an ordinary person can get fined millions of dollars for minor IP violations, then a corporation the size of Telstra should be fined tens of billions for knowingly violating the GPL in a flagship product. But of course, the law is never fair.
Who are these tens of billions going to go to?
Normal people are fined millions for minor IP violations because the IP they are violating is owned by a single profit driven behemoth that doesn't allow for copying. It's a rather different scenario to some GPLed code that may have legally passed through hundreds of hands.
Any IP laywer would check the origin and license of the software.
We're talking about something that they will probably regard as purely hardware though.
Do you really think they would they do a background check on the firmware running on the routers? Would Telstra even hire an IP lawyer to vet hardware purchases?
Not the best example!
Apache has nothing to do with Debian or any other distro/OS - it is highly cross platform. On any platform you install it to, you will find very similar organisation of config files (as long as that platform supports normal filing systems).
As long as that file can't execute then it's not such a problem. There are a few places in the registry where you can set a file to run though, like the classic Windows run/runonce (which you have to check globally and for the current user, something I only realised a couple of years ago), screensaver, and I'm assuming in the places that associate file types to executables. Scheduled tasks are probably defined in the registry too.
I'm pretty sure the point still stands - the hive is in a file/files. Your counter point that its more than 1 file makes little sense
Actually, the original point was that the guy said "it doesn't exist as a single file" (ie in English this means "one file"), and you said "yes it does!".
So your issue has nothing to do with the registry per-se. The issue is poorly written apps leaving breadcrumbs all over your system
IMO poorly written apps aren't such a big deal, it's the malicious apps in Windows that you tend to have to go into the registry to make sure you've removed all trace.
It would only be a redundant question if it was obvious that you use Ubuntu.
Even if the whole of the Linux world moves to Wayland as their primary display system in the next decade or so, it will still be very possible to use X for running remote apps. So I really think that people have no need for complaining here, at all.
We had a great one on Mac OS that made Oscar the Grouch pop up and sing "oh I love trash!" when you emptied the recycle bin. Those were the days :)
I can't remember the name of the application unfortunately. I think it had what it called "candy" textures by default, which were a mixture of white and some other pastel colour. Looked very cool, though it sucked up a lot of RAM!
MP3 players may not have been failing before the iPod, but they were hardly taking off either.
All the big companies are infringing on each others' IP these days. Whether they're infringing or not is not the important thing, it's whether they decide it's worth it to sue.. it's like a giant game of chess.
There were already many MP3 players, touch phones, tablets etc out there before Apple released their iDevices. Just because things have failed in the past doesn't mean they can't take off if you design and market them well.
Mac OS was great, much better than Amiga OS until Workbench 3 anyway. Workbench 3 worked well, but Mac OS still looked better. I used to play about in Mac OS on my A1200 using Shapeshifter.
I once had a program that allowed you to texture the windows in Workbench (each new window you opened would have a random texture in its borders). It was slow as ass, but it looked great. Wish I has something similar for Ubuntu. I haven't really looked into alternative window managers or anything yet.
Damn, you could view the Matrix directly with Windows 1.0?
Okay I'll rephrase the question: if someone who has no contractual ties with them infringes on their copyright by distributing their movie in another region, how are they going to enforce the restrictions without copyright law? In a country that doesn't respect copyright, they can't do a damn thing.
And how exactly can they enforce those restrictions without copyright law?
Sure, if you want to have hack upon hack to get all the cool stuff that Wayland can do natively. At some point it's better to start from a nice consistent base. Sending a UI over the network is the one feature that people are bothered about losing in X, and it's pretty easy to replicate on any other windowing system - especially compared to all the other crap people have to do on top of X to try to get more friendly APIs and UI features.
Exactly what I was thinking. Hardly "everyone"..
Just had a look at what they're doing with Xorg. That's cool, but rewriting a current system is a lot more work than starting afresh. I'd never heard of Wayland before today, and while I've heard of Meego I haven't really looked into it.
What I'll ask though is: why do you think a windowing system first developed for use with tablets is inappropriate for more powerful machines? Just because it's efficient doesn't meant it won't scale well. In fact, it's much better to be efficient even if you are running a powerful machine. I hate the attitude of "we have powerful computers, so we don't need to write efficient software". Piling more layers on top of X to get desired results is resulting in fragmentation and inconsistencies. Using a system that's designed from the ground up to provide a suitable environment for modern UI rendering is just good sense IMO.
Surely it would be pretty easy to write a Wayland module to allow sending of app displays to other machines anyway? Don't render them on the server, and instead send the display buffer to the compositor on the client's machine?
That's an awfully long way of saying "I fall into the 1% of users you mention that don't want this".
Out of interest, do you even run Ubuntu right now?
I didn't say that Canonical were creating the project. I'm sure there have been many ideas and projects trying to replace X. I'm saying Ubuntu as a distro have the right idea. There may be many smaller distros that use a different windowing system, but the heavyweights tend to be wary of rocking the boat too much. Canonical have the right attitude of not being afraid to make the changes that are necessary, even if some people are going to be frothing at the mouth and screaming "HERETIIIIIIIIICS!!! >F ".
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People hear *nix and, if they think anything at all, they think "server."
Or they think "I know this!" and then check quickly for Velociraptors.
Having had a look at the Wayland site, I'd say you could do the same thing with the Wayland architecture if you really wanted to. These days considering even mobile phones can run full featured web browsers, I don't think it's much of a selling point though. It is nice from a security standpoint, but soon enough it will probably be feasible to run browsers in a virtual machine on your phone if you really want that level of security! :p