What happens when all of those pirate systems get exploited because they can't get their security updates?
They obviously end up as virus scan/delivery systems (quality of life on legal boxes goes down), or they end up as DoS boxes that might be leveled at Microsoft.
Either way, good for Linux.
"I'm too cheap to buy it, it won't stay working, what else is out there?"
I'm not advocating open source here, I'm saying it has no real form, and I'd love to see it, and if you have enough interest in it, I'd praise you for doing it.
It'd be interesting even if you made something that made broken Vorbis streams, codec failures teach me alot.
I'd draw a little statue for you in GIMP and do a one man parade down my hallway in your honor.
I understand that development is pitifully slow or nonexistant and would enjoy seeing ANY progress on the Vorbis 1 codec, it was designed with alot of promise, I really want to see more of it realized.
Still have to run that test some ridiculous number of times, and pity whoever has to crack encrypted text with a slight sprinkling of 8-bit-ness in the beginning.:-)
It still won't handle high entropy binary formats very well either, seems.
Because the potential to try every possible key at once could exist in a sufficiently advanced Quantum Computer.
Great, so you can get quadrillions of improperly decoded versions and one good one, hidden in there somewhere. For any good encryption, I don't see how that helps much.
the OS was pretty much an irrelevance other than as a boot loader for the apps.
I disagree, AmigaOS was not like a common 8-bit "OS".
I haven't really looked interestedly at AmigaOS since AmigaOS3.5 took to routinely freezing for a whole year without fixes. But the OS really did provide alot of useful hardware coordination for programs while they ran. Never mind how well it juggled several program interfaces and facilitated interprocess communication.
I think the Sci Fi channel might pick up the series if they are smart enough to show yet another crappy Sci Fi show in their schedule.
I dunno what the heck those programming gerbils at Sci Fi are thinking. They apparently wanted to kill off the "space shows", apparently for cheaper stuff. So they methodically killed most of the shows that pulled in their ratings.
"So what do we do with that new Babylon 5 series prequel we ordered?"
"Uhh, slot it against some major sporting event, we'd have to trash it then."
Now all of a sudden they're remaking BS Galactica.
The original Amiga had native graphics capabilties that still aren't available (like multiple resolutions onscreen) in PC hardware.
I dunno about not being available nowadays. Realtime scaling used in video players and offered in 3-D functions are modern analogues to the Amiga's frugal interrupt driven display mode switching.
The OS used them, and used them well. When a more advanced Amiga came with more graphics capabilities, the OS automatically configured them and used them as well.
Sadly its capabilities were outstripped by lowend PC hardware and its own CPU after a point. And the OS needed 3rd party stuff to handle graphics cards like that, and it integrated poorly.
If Amiga development didn't stall way back when, it could very well be a different story. But nowadays making printouts, playing music, and formatting a floppy all at the same time is not the big deal it used to be for the competition.
Amiga is now immature, OS3.5 pre boing-bag 2 was a disaster for me, which my Amiga now pays for through disuse. I'm getting used to it.
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Yeah, that had me terrified for .2 seconds.
VLC practically ignores the windows video filter system, no codec installing there.
Its just as hard as installing quicktime, but then you don't get nagged at by quicktime, and the interface sucks less.
So divx or xvid is good.
Wrap that in a text file that is run in bash as root when you click on it's icon.
One-click.
Shove the script in a weekly or monthly cron job
Zero click.
Chuck your keys over your shoulder and walk into a forest to never be seen again.
Next best thing.
of $300 for XP Pro
No wonder 750 mil is nothing to them...
Perhaps you should learn about Debian...
They obviously end up as virus scan/delivery systems (quality of life on legal boxes goes down), or they end up as DoS boxes that might be leveled at Microsoft.
Either way, good for Linux.
"I'm too cheap to buy it, it won't stay working, what else is out there?"
FMV never was a big draw for me.
I further hated (and still hate for the PS2) the lack of texture filtering. Fugly.
Nintendo said that?
The fix is in the current gecko devel tree.
I heard that a few revs ago...
At least Johnny had a cool laser.
These will probably stop at having a shotgun.
I'm not advocating open source here, I'm saying it has no real form, and I'd love to see it, and if you have enough interest in it, I'd praise you for doing it.
It'd be interesting even if you made something that made broken Vorbis streams, codec failures teach me alot.
I'd draw a little statue for you in GIMP and do a one man parade down my hallway in your honor.
I understand that development is pitifully slow or nonexistant and would enjoy seeing ANY progress on the Vorbis 1 codec, it was designed with alot of promise, I really want to see more of it realized.
Develop it, you'd be cool for doing it.
And I still have yet to see texture filtering typically used on that system.
Actually, I keep hearing about SIMD units on it, but no real 3D specific hardware on it has come to my attention. As they say, WTF?
Key to cryptfile ratio, makes some sense.
:-)
Still have to run that test some ridiculous number of times, and pity whoever has to crack encrypted text with a slight sprinkling of 8-bit-ness in the beginning.
It still won't handle high entropy binary formats very well either, seems.
Public keys didn't strike me as invincible to begin with...
Because the potential to try every possible key at once could exist in a sufficiently advanced Quantum Computer.
Great, so you can get quadrillions of improperly decoded versions and one good one, hidden in there somewhere. For any good encryption, I don't see how that helps much.
Why does quantum computing threaten present encryption?
I think reasonable care can only go about as far as writing "not for killing innocent people" down the side of the gun.
I think similar measures are easy enough to take on software. Kazaa, "not for committing crimes".
the OS was pretty much an irrelevance other than as a boot loader for the apps.
I disagree,
AmigaOS was not like a common 8-bit "OS".
I haven't really looked interestedly at AmigaOS since AmigaOS3.5 took to routinely freezing for a whole year without fixes. But the OS really did provide alot of useful hardware coordination for programs while they ran. Never mind how well it juggled several program interfaces and facilitated interprocess communication.
I think the Sci Fi channel might pick up the series if they are smart enough to show yet another crappy Sci Fi show in their schedule.
I dunno what the heck those programming gerbils at Sci Fi are thinking. They apparently wanted to kill off the "space shows", apparently for cheaper stuff. So they methodically killed most of the shows that pulled in their ratings.
"So what do we do with that new Babylon 5 series prequel we ordered?"
"Uhh, slot it against some major sporting event, we'd have to trash it then."
Now all of a sudden they're remaking BS Galactica.
the video encoding quality goes WAY down when done on a PC.
If you do it badly, sure.
PCs are well capable of doing a decent or better job encoding.
Anyone care to guess how many WORKING Myth installations are out there?
n+1
All you need is portage.
The original Amiga had native graphics capabilties that still aren't available (like multiple resolutions onscreen) in PC hardware.
I dunno about not being available nowadays. Realtime scaling used in video players and offered in 3-D functions are modern analogues to the Amiga's frugal interrupt driven display mode switching.
The OS used them, and used them well. When a more advanced Amiga came with more graphics capabilities, the OS automatically configured them and used them as well.
Sadly its capabilities were outstripped by lowend PC hardware and its own CPU after a point. And the OS needed 3rd party stuff to handle graphics cards like that, and it integrated poorly.
If Amiga development didn't stall way back when, it could very well be a different story. But nowadays making printouts, playing music, and formatting a floppy all at the same time is not the big deal it used to be for the competition.
Amiga is now immature, OS3.5 pre boing-bag 2 was a disaster for me, which my Amiga now pays for through disuse. I'm getting used to it.
In 3.6 lzop decoding was borked, I worry about 3.7.