Cinema is magic!! Nothing compares the mystical experience to that of TV. But Hollywood just keeps making films for 16 year-olds and the theaters have nothing to market exept how new the film is. What the industry should do is release entertaintment films for the purpose of being watched at home, while leaving cinematography for the cinephiles. Theater bussiness will shrink, but it will become healthier with dedicated audiences. Look at the "V for Vendetta" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434409/ Can it be watched at home? By all means no! The dark atmosphere of the film cannot be reroduced at home. It is like comparing masturbation to sex!!
BSD licencing would be more appropriate for government or university funded programes where the funding issue is resolved and the benefits of the developers' work go directly to the public, whether commercial or otherwise.
one of the two (usu. the newest and bestest) might not be able to install because of unsolvable dependances, the other is ten years behind in features or usability from what is available in the commercial world..
The problem whith this name (from their point of view) is not the adware, but the fact that they have been sued for changing other peoples' ads on web pages in favor of their own. They are still going to serve ads, but from a fresh (not so aggresive) approach..
Monitor is 1024x768 @85Hz. Fine with monitor (doesn't flicker), TV-out works with linux kernel (what I see on the monitor I see on TV). When X boots just an incomrehensible picture. I got the same with all Live CD distros I tried, even with a Radeon 9600 XT AGP I borrowed from a friend. Now I have to burn the movie I download every day and watch it on XP cause there arent any xp drivers for LVM ext3 also. I will gladly pay for a new card or linux software so I just dont burn and dual boot every time I want to watch tv from my computer.
Does any one know how to make TV-out (PAL) for Radeon 7500 work? I've used everything, atitvout, different distros, fglx, open radeon, all. The best performance I' ve seen so far is with Ubuntu 5.10 on the desktop, but all I can get from X on the TV is an incomprehensible image with the same colors as on the monitor.
What about bittorrenet that revolusionised entertainment and is 50% of all internet traffic? Is that an examle of open source reaching its limits and does what others have done before?
When could they make a script that updates JRE regularly and removes the old version? There are so many things that depend on that, like Azureus, Firefox, Limewire, databases, etc. The February version of Automatix installs the _05 update while the new one released from sun 3 months ago is the _06. Sure you can install the script Sun provides but the computer doesn't always know the correct version...
The requirement was to implement the EU Directive on IP protection. Now they make it illegal to share on P2P albeit with a small fine. But for the people who distribute pirate content is max fine and jail, like in the US. So no more "French like freedom" bullshit that apeared on/. a while ago. If the French gov. had approved the amendment for legal P2P download for a flat fee, they were risking being fined double the amount that was to be lost in piracy, by the European Court. So this headline should have written "Hopes of legal P2P downloading vanished" instead of some BS about iTunes
Don't compare a car to a motorbike. A more accurate comparison would be a car (xp) to a heavy track (linux). Linux is slower but takes more load, multitasking, but you have to get your hands dirty cause it doesn't work all the time off the box. Xp requires a lot of third-party software to work properly (extra money or risk of bundled spyware), a linux distro comes with (some) low quality or unstable apps. But the main reason of someone choosing open source is freedom. The notion that there is such a thing as free software that you are free to develop, use, modify, distribute or even make money out of.
Install XP on one disk, install Linux on another. Write GRUB on Linux disk and set the BIOS to boot from that. Now if GRUB boots ok, you can choose between linux and xp. If GRUB errors, then change the BIOS setting and boot from the NTFS disk. Your xp installation will boot without a problem. If your most important installation is xp, the wise thing to do is install Ubuntu in a new disk and not repartition the old one
"We" refers to the authors of GPL software, the users of GPL software, and also those that want to modify and/or reditribute it. Does not claim owneship of other peoples' work or money
Piracy is good for the software manufacturers as long as they can keep it under control, because it makes their product establish itself. But when you use sth for profesional purposes, i.e. to make money, of course you must pay for it. So it's not a clear-cut choise. As far as businesses are concerned, we would expect a more strict control over their installed software, (provided the technology can achieve this) but I don't think that you'll only use Windows or Office or Photoshop after you bought it.
I tell you my experience so far..Ubuntu 5.10. Tried to watch.avi on tv, tv-out of videocard (7500 ati) doesnt work. either with open source driver or fgrlx. (I only managed to break X by playing around with settings) Nor does 5.1 sound (4 ch only). even try to play these under winxp (dual-boot) but there is no read support for LVM volumes under xp. So, wife and I keep the ubuntu with Azureus on most of the time, we then burn the stuff on cd's and watch them under windows.
.... You mean the ones with the pirated version on XP won't run a pirated version of Vista. Seriously, you expect anyone with 3 or 4 year old computer wil buy the retail version on Vista which can go up to $300? and install it in a soon-to-be-obsolete machine?
main cause of this is "bundled software" If you like getting software for free, thats what you get. The programmers, the developers, the bandwidth, have to be paid somehow, usually by making your PC an advertizing machine. Probably your ma's machine would have stayed clean from malware as long as you confined her to a LUA account and don't tell her the admin password, as you pressumably have done with Linux. Why don't you let her play with the repositories and see how quick the Linux box will get broken?
no NAT, PnP, DHT, you have to open firewall, may be you have to change ports because 6881 is blacklisted.... No thanks we don't need to spend a week to figure it out. Save link as/ open with Azureus will work just fine..
I installed winamp after I elevated my LUA as an admin, on on my profile folder instead on \Program Files\ and then demoted my account. Does this mean that winamp runs now as root? Am I vulnerable?
music score edditing software: No port to linux or open source equivelant. Some atempts have been
made, but lag the functionality of Finale edition of the first Macindosh.
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Cinema is magic!! Nothing compares the mystical experience to that of TV. But Hollywood just keeps making films for 16 year-olds and the theaters have nothing to market exept how new the film is. What the industry should do is release entertaintment films for the purpose of being watched at home, while leaving cinematography for the cinephiles. Theater bussiness will shrink, but it will become healthier with dedicated audiences. Look at the "V for Vendetta" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434409/ Can it be watched at home? By all means no! The dark atmosphere of the film cannot be reroduced at home. It is like comparing masturbation to sex!!
BSD licencing would be more appropriate for government or university funded programes where the funding issue is resolved and the benefits of the developers' work go directly to the public, whether commercial or otherwise.
one of the two (usu. the newest and bestest) might not be able to install because of unsolvable dependances, the other is ten years behind in features or usability from what is available in the commercial world..
The problem whith this name (from their point of view) is not the adware, but the fact that they have been sued for changing other peoples' ads on web pages in favor of their own. They are still going to serve ads, but from a fresh (not so aggresive) approach..
Monitor is 1024x768 @85Hz. Fine with monitor (doesn't flicker), TV-out works with linux kernel (what I see on the monitor I see on TV). When X boots just an incomrehensible picture. I got the same with all Live CD distros I tried, even with a Radeon 9600 XT AGP I borrowed from a friend. Now I have to burn the movie I download every day and watch it on XP cause there arent any xp drivers for LVM ext3 also. I will gladly pay for a new card or linux software so I just dont burn and dual boot every time I want to watch tv from my computer.
Does any one know how to make TV-out (PAL) for Radeon 7500 work? I've used everything, atitvout, different distros, fglx, open radeon, all. The best performance I' ve seen so far is with Ubuntu 5.10 on the desktop, but all I can get from X on the TV is an incomprehensible image with the same colors as on the monitor.
What about bittorrenet that revolusionised entertainment and is 50% of all internet traffic? Is that an examle of open source reaching its limits and does what others have done before?
When could they make a script that updates JRE regularly and removes the old version? There are so many things that depend on that, like Azureus, Firefox, Limewire, databases, etc. The February version of Automatix installs the _05 update while the new one released from sun 3 months ago is the _06. Sure you can install the script Sun provides but the computer doesn't always know the correct version...
The requirement was to implement the EU Directive on IP protection. Now they make it illegal to share on P2P albeit with a small fine. But for the people who distribute pirate content is max fine and jail, like in the US. So no more "French like freedom" bullshit that apeared on /. a while ago. If the French gov. had approved the amendment for legal P2P download for a flat fee, they were risking being fined double the amount that was to be lost in piracy, by the European Court. So this headline should have written "Hopes of legal P2P downloading vanished" instead of some BS about iTunes
Don't compare a car to a motorbike. A more accurate comparison would be a car (xp) to a heavy track (linux). Linux is slower but takes more load, multitasking, but you have to get your hands dirty cause it doesn't work all the time off the box. Xp requires a lot of third-party software to work properly (extra money or risk of bundled spyware), a linux distro comes with (some) low quality or unstable apps. But the main reason of someone choosing open source is freedom. The notion that there is such a thing as free software that you are free to develop, use, modify, distribute or even make money out of.
Install XP on one disk, install Linux on another. Write GRUB on Linux disk and set the BIOS to boot from that. Now if GRUB boots ok, you can choose between linux and xp. If GRUB errors, then change the BIOS setting and boot from the NTFS disk. Your xp installation will boot without a problem. If your most important installation is xp, the wise thing to do is install Ubuntu in a new disk and not repartition the old one
"We" refers to the authors of GPL software, the users of GPL software, and also those that want to modify and/or reditribute it. Does not claim owneship of other peoples' work or money
Bittorrent..
Piracy is good for the software manufacturers as long as they can keep it under control, because it makes their product establish itself. But when you use sth for profesional purposes, i.e. to make money, of course you must pay for it. So it's not a clear-cut choise. As far as businesses are concerned, we would expect a more strict control over their installed software, (provided the technology can achieve this) but I don't think that you'll only use Windows or Office or Photoshop after you bought it.
sorry, no 4-ch audio, just 2 dublicate stereo, for a card 7.1 in winXP.
I tell you my experience so far..Ubuntu 5.10. Tried to watch .avi on tv, tv-out of videocard (7500 ati) doesnt work. either with open source driver or fgrlx. (I only managed to break X by playing around with settings) Nor does 5.1 sound (4 ch only). even try to play these under winxp (dual-boot) but there is no read support for LVM volumes under xp. So, wife and I keep the ubuntu with Azureus on most of the time, we then burn the stuff on cd's and watch them under windows.
exept that tax statements are confidencial. Quaterly results though of listed companies are public..
.... You mean the ones with the pirated version on XP won't run a pirated version of Vista. Seriously, you expect anyone with 3 or 4 year old computer wil buy the retail version on Vista which can go up to $300? and install it in a soon-to-be-obsolete machine?
main cause of this is "bundled software" If you like getting software for free, thats what you get. The programmers, the developers, the bandwidth, have to be paid somehow, usually by making your PC an advertizing machine. Probably your ma's machine would have stayed clean from malware as long as you confined her to a LUA account and don't tell her the admin password, as you pressumably have done with Linux. Why don't you let her play with the repositories and see how quick the Linux box will get broken?
no NAT, PnP, DHT, you have to open firewall, may be you have to change ports because 6881 is blacklisted.... No thanks we don't need to spend a week to figure it out. Save link as/ open with Azureus will work just fine..
I installed winamp after I elevated my LUA as an admin, on on my profile folder instead on \Program Files\ and then demoted my account. Does this mean that winamp runs now as root? Am I vulnerable?
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If you download the att. while in LUA (non-administrative account) how can you be infected if it can't write to the system directory or registry?
Denemo is lagging Finale for Mac even from the 1990 version
music score edditing software: No port to linux or open source equivelant. Some atempts have been made, but lag the functionality of Finale edition of the first Macindosh.