Finally, I mentioned to the board that the Linux Kernel development team has the greatest amount of programmer talent on the planet... Greater than Microsoft,SCO,SUN,Apple,IBM and Silicon Graphics combined.
Do you always lie to your board?
Sure, there's a lot of very talented people working on the Linux kernel, but do you really think there's more than they have at Microsoft, Sun, or IBM? I find that idea *exceptionally* unlikely. Combined they've got many thousands of programmers working for them. How many people actually make any sizable contribution to the Linux kernel? A couple of hundred at most, I'd have thought.
Even your own statement shows it, in that International Organisation of Standardization would be IOS
True, I should have looked in to it a little further - I had assumed that the order of the letters was due to the order the words are written in French. Evidently I was wrong.
Oh, and you have a bit of a typo in Organisation up there.
Actually, I took the spelling directly from the ISO website. Normally I would spell it with an s.
This hits the nail on the head - the article just seems to be a bit of an anti-EU stir-up - and he hardly does his credibility any good by inferring that we don't have any freedom of speech over here simply because we don't have a 'First Amendment' - (Having instead the European Convention on Human Rights).
It certainly doesn't sound like reality to me. The idea that you can double your market penetration by allowing the 'hardcore' to pirate games seems ludicrous. And even if you could increase your user base by that much, do you really think that developers are going to want to make games for a system where a full 50% of the console owners are pirating rather than buying games?
No, it's a complete fantasy scenario for those trying to justify their habit of not paying for anything.
Firstly: ISO stands for the 'International Organsiation of Standardization'. Some people seem to have co-opted the term to mean an image of an ISO 9660 CD. However, the gamecube has its own propietary format which is on no way an international standard, therefore the term 'ISO' cannot possibly apply.
Secondly: An apostrophe is not required when referring to the plural of an object.
I have a T68i, and I quite like it. I connect to it via bluetooth with my Palm Tungsten T, and surfing the web with it is actually not too bad - speedwise it's like being back on a modem, but one of the browsers I've got (WebPro) goes through a compressing proxy server, so it's not too bad. Obviously some webpages don't work, but not as many as you'd think. Most that don't use Flash or Java for navigation seem to be okay. And it *is* useful. I've done my internet banking, ordered things from Amazon, settled arguments down the pub about who played who in films using IMDB, looked up phone numbers, read the news, got maps when I needed them from Streetmap.co.uk, sent email etc...
Of course, that does depend on having a fairly nice screen (320x320 in this case) on my Palm, but as a conduit to the internet, my T68i works pretty well.
A lot of recipts seem to tell you how much tax you're paying.
Actually, it always annoyed me on trips to the US that the prices in shops left out the sales tax. I'm use to walking into a shop and paying the amount of money that is printed on the label, so it felt quite odd to grab a $18 T-shirt and be charged $19.26 or whatever it was at the till.
Yes, I already have Xine, as well as mplayer. I was under the impression that both of them used Wine to run the Windows quicktime dlls.
It is fustrating that Apple refuses to support Quicktime on Linux. I work in Visual Effects, and we (like many VFX companies) have been moving our production over to Linux, and it's not been without its problems. One thing that was causing us a lot of hassle was generating Quicktimes that would work with other people's hardware quicktime decoders. Quicktime for Linux would generate apparently valid quicktimes, but there was something about the way they chose to format them that some of the decoding hardware didn't like. Eventually we moved over to OpenQuicktime instead, which fixed it, but all of this would be much less of a problem if Apple would do a Quicktime SDK for Linux. It would also be nice if they would add Quicktime output to the Linux version of Shake. Both the NT and Apple versions can output Quicktime.
I think that's pushing it a bit. Yes, you can play most quicktimes on Linux, but it has to jump through hoops to do it as (IIRC) it uses WINE to run the Windows quicktime codecs - hardly a robust solution.
Certianly, although I have managed to get quicktimes to work on Linux, I've not found it very stable.
I would have thought the best approach is to suggest that you submit the patches so that you won't have to go through the pain of merging your changes in every time you want to get a new version of the software. If you phrase it as something that will help your productivity, I'd have thought they'd be much more likely to agree.
Text? You mean ASCII? Sure, that might work for English, but what about other languages? You'd need it to be unicode.
Also, I'm sorry to point this out, but normal books don't just contain text. Many books contain illustrations or diagrams as well. At the very least, most books will contain italics somewhere.
I suppose this is another reason why war is exceptionally unlikely - NATO would have to disintergrate before such a thing could happen.
This had me thinking, though. I was reading recently (sorry, I forget the URL) about the US wish to have the ability to deny any country (including allies) of the ability to use their satellites. I'd like to know the ramifications would be for NATO if they ever used something like that against an allied country (As they have said they are prepared to do)...
Well, I confess I'm not that well informed on the exact sizes of our national armies, but I'd be surprised if the combined national armies of the EU were much smaller that the US army. It seems you know quite a lot about it though - I'd certainly apperciate some clarification...
The total amount of money spent on the military in the US is probably about double what is spent in the EU though...
War is not going to break out between the US and Europe - both sides have enough nuclear missiles to completely wipe the other off the face of the Earth. It's not going to happen. Even if we could resist falling back on nukes, neither side has a sufficiently powerful military to overtake the other - it's just not feasible.
The recent tiff over Iraq is nothing to worry about, and will largely blow over. There's far too much trade in both directions, and there's a lot of Europeans in America and a lot of Americans in Europe. We're just too close to go to war.
As for The UK splitting off from Europe to join with America - I really can't see that happening. The loss of sovereignty in joining Europe is small fry compared to becoming a state of the US.
Postal codes here in the UK have about 15-30 houses in them. I'd imagine that any Tivo users in the UK would be effectively completely identifiable because they'd be the only Tivo owners in their postcode...
France is a nuclear power. They've got 482 nuclear weapons. Sure, that's not as many as the US has got, but that's more than enough to toast most major cities in the US.
France also has its own armed forces, and they're a damn sight better armed than any of the guys in Afghanistan or Iraq.
Also, you have to remember that most of Europe would side with France, even the lap-dog Tony Blair would, and he also has nukes under his control. There's no way that America has the might to be able to fight Europe. It would be suicide for both sides.
To be fair, it does have a parachute as well, it's just that even with a parachute you tend to be going at a reasonable speed (say, 20mph or so) when you land. This is why all the Apollo space capsules landed down in water.
I think the crushable nose is a good idea to soften the landing, if you're going to be landing on land.
The reason some mod chips are illegal is that they effectively replace the Xbox BIOS with one of their own. The thing is, the BIOS is some of these chips is actually a hacked version of the Microsoft Xbox BIOS, or at least contains some original XBox BIOS code. That's why Microsoft was able to sue the owner of isonews for selling mod chips, - he was selling Microsoft coprighted code in the modchips, not because mod chips are inherently illegal.
Microsoft would probably have some power against some mod chips under the DMCA, as many of them allow you to copy XBox games to the hardrive and copy them over the network to a PC, where they can then be shared with other people. They also allow people to ftp game images to the Xbox hard drive and play them from there. Since these actions circumvent the XBox disc copy protection, mod chips which allow this are probably on shaky ground.
Ive noticed that some modchips don't come with any BIOS preinstalled at all now, so that you have to download the BIOS from the internet before you can use it, presumably to get around just this kind of legal restriction.
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Finally, I mentioned to the board that the Linux Kernel development team has the greatest amount of programmer talent on the planet... Greater than Microsoft,SCO,SUN,Apple,IBM and Silicon Graphics combined.
Do you always lie to your board?
Sure, there's a lot of very talented people working on the Linux kernel, but do you really think there's more than they have at Microsoft, Sun, or IBM? I find that idea *exceptionally* unlikely. Combined they've got many thousands of programmers working for them. How many people actually make any sizable contribution to the Linux kernel? A couple of hundred at most, I'd have thought.
Even your own statement shows it, in that International Organisation of Standardization would be IOS
True, I should have looked in to it a little further - I had assumed that the order of the letters was due to the order the words are written in French. Evidently I was wrong.
Oh, and you have a bit of a typo in Organisation up there.
Actually, I took the spelling directly from the ISO website. Normally I would spell it with an s.
If it truly is entirely acceptable, I challenge you to put incorrectly placed apostrophes on your CV...
This hits the nail on the head - the article just seems to be a bit of an anti-EU stir-up - and he hardly does his credibility any good by inferring that we don't have any freedom of speech over here simply because we don't have a 'First Amendment' - (Having instead the European Convention on Human Rights).
It certainly doesn't sound like reality to me. The idea that you can double your market penetration by allowing the 'hardcore' to pirate games seems ludicrous. And even if you could increase your user base by that much, do you really think that developers are going to want to make games for a system where a full 50% of the console owners are pirating rather than buying games?
No, it's a complete fantasy scenario for those trying to justify their habit of not paying for anything.
Firstly: ISO stands for the 'International Organsiation of Standardization'. Some people seem to have co-opted the term to mean an image of an ISO 9660 CD. However, the gamecube has its own propietary format which is on no way an international standard, therefore the term 'ISO' cannot possibly apply.
Secondly: An apostrophe is not required when referring to the plural of an object.
Have a nice day.
Tim
You mean like C#?
;-)
Wahey!
You say you have 'celebrity status' and are a 'revolutionary computer software developer'...
Sounds to me like you're a few sandwiches short of a picnic...
... it's 2.5G (GPRS) - 3G is considerably faster.
I have a T68i, and I quite like it. I connect to it via bluetooth with my Palm Tungsten T, and surfing the web with it is actually not too bad - speedwise it's like being back on a modem, but one of the browsers I've got (WebPro) goes through a compressing proxy server, so it's not too bad. Obviously some webpages don't work, but not as many as you'd think. Most that don't use Flash or Java for navigation seem to be okay. And it *is* useful. I've done my internet banking, ordered things from Amazon, settled arguments down the pub about who played who in films using IMDB, looked up phone numbers, read the news, got maps when I needed them from Streetmap.co.uk, sent email etc...
Of course, that does depend on having a fairly nice screen (320x320 in this case) on my Palm, but as a conduit to the internet, my T68i works pretty well.
A lot of recipts seem to tell you how much tax you're paying.
Actually, it always annoyed me on trips to the US that the prices in shops left out the sales tax. I'm use to walking into a shop and paying the amount of money that is printed on the label, so it felt quite odd to grab a $18 T-shirt and be charged $19.26 or whatever it was at the till.
Yes, I already have Xine, as well as mplayer. I was under the impression that both of them used Wine to run the Windows quicktime dlls.
It is fustrating that Apple refuses to support Quicktime on Linux. I work in Visual Effects, and we (like many VFX companies) have been moving our production over to Linux, and it's not been without its problems. One thing that was causing us a lot of hassle was generating Quicktimes that would work with other people's hardware quicktime decoders. Quicktime for Linux would generate apparently valid quicktimes, but there was something about the way they chose to format them that some of the decoding hardware didn't like. Eventually we moved over to OpenQuicktime instead, which fixed it, but all of this would be much less of a problem if Apple would do a Quicktime SDK for Linux. It would also be nice if they would add Quicktime output to the Linux version of Shake. Both the NT and Apple versions can output Quicktime.
I think that's pushing it a bit. Yes, you can play most quicktimes on Linux, but it has to jump through hoops to do it as (IIRC) it uses WINE to run the Windows quicktime codecs - hardly a robust solution.
Certianly, although I have managed to get quicktimes to work on Linux, I've not found it very stable.
Ah!
Thanks - you learn a new thing every day.
I would have thought the best approach is to suggest that you submit the patches so that you won't have to go through the pain of merging your changes in every time you want to get a new version of the software. If you phrase it as something that will help your productivity, I'd have thought they'd be much more likely to agree.
That's 'knocking'.
Cheers.
Text? You mean ASCII? Sure, that might work for English, but what about other languages? You'd need it to be unicode.
Also, I'm sorry to point this out, but normal books don't just contain text. Many books contain illustrations or diagrams as well. At the very least, most books will contain italics somewhere.
I suppose this is another reason why war is exceptionally unlikely - NATO would have to disintergrate before such a thing could happen.
This had me thinking, though. I was reading recently (sorry, I forget the URL) about the US wish to have the ability to deny any country (including allies) of the ability to use their satellites. I'd like to know the ramifications would be for NATO if they ever used something like that against an allied country (As they have said they are prepared to do)...
Well, I confess I'm not that well informed on the exact sizes of our national armies, but I'd be surprised if the combined national armies of the EU were much smaller that the US army. It seems you know quite a lot about it though - I'd certainly apperciate some clarification...
The total amount of money spent on the military in the US is probably about double what is spent in the EU though...
Er... I think that was a joke...
All this from a guy whose Slashdot id is 'SkewlD00d'...
War is not going to break out between the US and Europe - both sides have enough nuclear missiles to completely wipe the other off the face of the Earth. It's not going to happen. Even if we could resist falling back on nukes, neither side has a sufficiently powerful military to overtake the other - it's just not feasible.
The recent tiff over Iraq is nothing to worry about, and will largely blow over. There's far too much trade in both directions, and there's a lot of Europeans in America and a lot of Americans in Europe. We're just too close to go to war.
As for The UK splitting off from Europe to join with America - I really can't see that happening. The loss of sovereignty in joining Europe is small fry compared to becoming a state of the US.
How big are zipcodes in the US?
Postal codes here in the UK have about 15-30 houses in them. I'd imagine that any Tivo users in the UK would be effectively completely identifiable because they'd be the only Tivo owners in their postcode...
a) There isn't anywhere in London you could get up to 170 mph...
b) The congestion charge doesn't apply between 6:30pm and 7:00am
Who the hell modded that as insightful?
France is a nuclear power. They've got 482 nuclear weapons. Sure, that's not as many as the US has got, but that's more than enough to toast most major cities in the US.
France also has its own armed forces, and they're a damn sight better armed than any of the guys in Afghanistan or Iraq.
Also, you have to remember that most of Europe would side with France, even the lap-dog Tony Blair would, and he also has nukes under his control. There's no way that America has the might to be able to fight Europe. It would be suicide for both sides.
To be fair, it does have a parachute as well, it's just that even with a parachute you tend to be going at a reasonable speed (say, 20mph or so) when you land. This is why all the Apollo space capsules landed down in water.
I think the crushable nose is a good idea to soften the landing, if you're going to be landing on land.
The reason some mod chips are illegal is that they effectively replace the Xbox BIOS with one of their own. The thing is, the BIOS is some of these chips is actually a hacked version of the Microsoft Xbox BIOS, or at least contains some original XBox BIOS code. That's why Microsoft was able to sue the owner of isonews for selling mod chips, - he was selling Microsoft coprighted code in the modchips, not because mod chips are inherently illegal.
Microsoft would probably have some power against some mod chips under the DMCA, as many of them allow you to copy XBox games to the hardrive and copy them over the network to a PC, where they can then be shared with other people. They also allow people to ftp game images to the Xbox hard drive and play them from there. Since these actions circumvent the XBox disc copy protection, mod chips which allow this are probably on shaky ground.
Ive noticed that some modchips don't come with any BIOS preinstalled at all now, so that you have to download the BIOS from the internet before you can use it, presumably to get around just this kind of legal restriction.