I agree that you shouldn't become a dipshit. My primary reason is that you seem taken by the notion that the smart phone will replace the PC, which informed people know will never happen.
The problem is that once it is in hardware, and if it is the only one in hardware, it will be extremely difficult to overcome, even after decades.
And, if you aren't aware of it, there's a big back story about how Microsoft tried to screw Apple on the container and the formats. Apple ultimately won, but it was a hard fought battle, one that Apple knows how to wage against today's competitors.
And, you have to start somewhere. If we rely on existing implementation the impetuous will lead us to one codec and one entity controlling all content. We do not need that, just like we don't need DRM. Given that, that entity controls all things and can take over the open nature of the internet closing it for a select few's profit.
He's talking about flash player which uses acceleration only for h.264 content. HTML5 is a different story as Google's chromium browser will likely support acceleration for WebM in consideration of this announcement.
And, it is best to get off closed source products, especially those that claim to own all patents related to digital video (as those rights holders have claimed that it is impossible to create a product without infringing at least one of their patents).
I used KDE on my system since 4.2 in Linux. That is, until the last few point releases. It's a nicely done, very beautiful, very functional desktop manager. I like it much better than Win7's desktop manager (that I use on one of my PCs).
The reason I stopped using it is that when I move a file from the desktop to a folder all the icons on the desktop realign to the left side of the screen, which perturbs me greatly. It was worse. Prior to the latest correction any action on the desktop such as creating a folder, a link, etc would cause the desktop icons to align to the left. They did make it slightly less perturbing.
Prior to that it worked perfectly.
Prior to that it had the same problem.
Prior to that it worked perfectly.
My point is that they keep going back and forth. Up till now they haven't fixed the whole problem and it presents itself enough to be very annoying.
Win7 isn't perfect either, but at least my desktop isn't being re-arranged for me in such a blatant way.
Under Win7, when scrolling the list of files on a network drive, Win7's file manager will randomly prompt me asking if I want to delete one of the files I just scrolled through. If I'm not careful I could delete a valuable file.
I certainly hope the KDE guys managed to fix those bugs because if they didn't they'll turn off a lot of potential users--and getting accepted on the desktop under Windows will make it easier for people to transition to Linux in the future.
You know, if data is being sent that you didn't directly authorize, and it's ongoing, something is awry. Are people looking into profit motives behind this? Such collection of information grants the recipient unparalleled data about the consumer's habits.
It wouldn't surprise me that this is a bug that was meant to collect this information covertly that has gone awry.
My first thought at reading this was: is this PR from BP? The company that is responsible for the worst oil spill in the history of the world? I'm sure someone else responsible for a major spill and the deaths of innocent people due to negligence and incompetence would have to pay for the duration of their lives, and their families beyond.
It sure sounds like it. Two highly positive notes over a couple week period then a series of news articles all but absolving them directly of the actions.
It's sneaky in respect to the hundreds of millions of users that will have no idea what's happening or that they are going to be limited--regardless of what their buried technical pages specify.
When you monopolize a market you basically kill it except for yourself. Death of a market means no competition and higher costs. You can also use certain markets to lock out other markets. DirectX is one of them. Most programming is done to Microsoft's tune using their tools. There used to be others such as those product produced by Borland. If you can keep those areas locked down then you can keep your main monopoly alive for significantly longer periods of time.
So, if Intel implements this DRM scheme and it is used by many in Holywood, it means that content only plays on their platform. The hell with Android, or any ARM based CPU. It neutralizes competition from AMD. Any new product such as Tegra2 is a goner before it gets off the ground. It keeps Intel in its monopoly position for another few decades.
Not only that, there's no DRM that's good and none that are friendly to the legitimate end-user. What, every AMD based user is supposed to quit Netflix or Hulu? We are supposed to stop using any video disc technology? No more.MP3s?
By controlling the content you control the markets outside of yours. This is precisely why it was very important to not let Microsoft get a foothold in the DRM market because everything produced would have required that we use Microsoft's product. Bill Gates said very clearly a few years ago: computers are no longer primarily used to generate content. They are used to consume it. Hence, if you control content you control consumers.
Linux does not lack hardware support. In fact, it is, IMHO, the most superior of all the OSes (free or commercial).
Linux just works with the hardware out there. No need to seek out drivers for installation, but yes there are a few proprietary drivers better than the free, as in the case of the graphics card (nVidia & ATI) drivers.
So, please, stop spreading this FUD. And, please, learn to use paragraph breaks where appropriate.
Jerry was incredible in his day. I loved reading his columns. It was one of the main reasons for doing so. When they went paywall that destroyed them. Jerry today has his own blog but it seems to be to extreme for my tastes now, where he talks politics often more than technology and he expects everyone to believe him--to take him at his word.
Your response is like saying "who cares who wrote the song, here's one that sounds like it." Yes, it does matter. Give credit where credit is due.
I don't use Opera and I find it still quite buggy, but it has been around for a very long time, long before FF.
Opera is so smart in so many ways but dumb in others. To this day I can't find a way to zoom on a page without having to grab the mouse. I expect ctrl++ but that doesn't work. Some simple things that would make it a better product. But alas, Opera still has problems with rendering pages. I wonder sometimes about the developers.
Something made outside the US and something bought outside the US are two different things entirely.
Most products American's buy are made outside the US. Most products American's buy are bought inside the US.
If anything made outside the US, irrespective of where it was purchased (in the US or not), under that interpretation we'd be unable to sell anything to anyone else without the distributor's permission. That would effectively end all foreign car sales, close almost all used car lots, etc., to ad nausium.
If the product was manufactured outside the US and sold outside the US and imported into the US it could only be resold with permission of the manufacturer, AS LONG AS that countries laws don't permit you to do so automatically. So, those foreign German cars that Bill Gates and Paul Allen bought outside the US in Germany (and then shipped to the US) can't be resold by them without the car manufacturer's permission, IF that country's laws have those limits.
The framer's of the constitution wanted an undivided nation (or one less so than the alternative) so they were not inclined to divorce the country from slavery.
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In the case of AMD and nVidia I doubt we'll have issues getting them to implement a hardware solution.
I didn't know until recently that they did, haha.
I agree that you shouldn't become a dipshit. My primary reason is that you seem taken by the notion that the smart phone will replace the PC, which informed people know will never happen.
The problem is that once it is in hardware, and if it is the only one in hardware, it will be extremely difficult to overcome, even after decades.
And, if you aren't aware of it, there's a big back story about how Microsoft tried to screw Apple on the container and the formats. Apple ultimately won, but it was a hard fought battle, one that Apple knows how to wage against today's competitors.
And, you have to start somewhere. If we rely on existing implementation the impetuous will lead us to one codec and one entity controlling all content. We do not need that, just like we don't need DRM. Given that, that entity controls all things and can take over the open nature of the internet closing it for a select few's profit.
Well certainly. HTML5 with WebM on Youtube alone will be a big boost.
How would that philosophy be applied differently to closed source?
Why can't they do both?
He's talking about flash player which uses acceleration only for h.264 content. HTML5 is a different story as Google's chromium browser will likely support acceleration for WebM in consideration of this announcement.
And, it is best to get off closed source products, especially those that claim to own all patents related to digital video (as those rights holders have claimed that it is impossible to create a product without infringing at least one of their patents).
I used KDE on my system since 4.2 in Linux. That is, until the last few point releases. It's a nicely done, very beautiful, very functional desktop manager. I like it much better than Win7's desktop manager (that I use on one of my PCs).
The reason I stopped using it is that when I move a file from the desktop to a folder all the icons on the desktop realign to the left side of the screen, which perturbs me greatly. It was worse. Prior to the latest correction any action on the desktop such as creating a folder, a link, etc would cause the desktop icons to align to the left. They did make it slightly less perturbing.
Prior to that it worked perfectly.
Prior to that it had the same problem.
Prior to that it worked perfectly.
My point is that they keep going back and forth. Up till now they haven't fixed the whole problem and it presents itself enough to be very annoying.
Win7 isn't perfect either, but at least my desktop isn't being re-arranged for me in such a blatant way.
Under Win7, when scrolling the list of files on a network drive, Win7's file manager will randomly prompt me asking if I want to delete one of the files I just scrolled through. If I'm not careful I could delete a valuable file.
I certainly hope the KDE guys managed to fix those bugs because if they didn't they'll turn off a lot of potential users--and getting accepted on the desktop under Windows will make it easier for people to transition to Linux in the future.
The potential bug is that it is resending the same information over and over, hence the large amount.
This doesn't negate the fact that it likely is profit motive driven, and nefarious.
Only for the younger generation as a whole, and the mature generation as an exception. So, that being a selling point is a loosing proposition.
You know, if data is being sent that you didn't directly authorize, and it's ongoing, something is awry. Are people looking into profit motives behind this? Such collection of information grants the recipient unparalleled data about the consumer's habits.
It wouldn't surprise me that this is a bug that was meant to collect this information covertly that has gone awry.
My first thought at reading this was: is this PR from BP? The company that is responsible for the worst oil spill in the history of the world? I'm sure someone else responsible for a major spill and the deaths of innocent people due to negligence and incompetence would have to pay for the duration of their lives, and their families beyond.
It sure sounds like it. Two highly positive notes over a couple week period then a series of news articles all but absolving them directly of the actions.
It's sneaky in respect to the hundreds of millions of users that will have no idea what's happening or that they are going to be limited--regardless of what their buried technical pages specify.
When you monopolize a market you basically kill it except for yourself. Death of a market means no competition and higher costs. You can also use certain markets to lock out other markets. DirectX is one of them. Most programming is done to Microsoft's tune using their tools. There used to be others such as those product produced by Borland. If you can keep those areas locked down then you can keep your main monopoly alive for significantly longer periods of time.
So, if Intel implements this DRM scheme and it is used by many in Holywood, it means that content only plays on their platform. The hell with Android, or any ARM based CPU. It neutralizes competition from AMD. Any new product such as Tegra2 is a goner before it gets off the ground. It keeps Intel in its monopoly position for another few decades.
Not only that, there's no DRM that's good and none that are friendly to the legitimate end-user. What, every AMD based user is supposed to quit Netflix or Hulu? We are supposed to stop using any video disc technology? No more .MP3s?
By controlling the content you control the markets outside of yours. This is precisely why it was very important to not let Microsoft get a foothold in the DRM market because everything produced would have required that we use Microsoft's product. Bill Gates said very clearly a few years ago: computers are no longer primarily used to generate content. They are used to consume it. Hence, if you control content you control consumers.
Very misleading and full of FUD.
Linux does not lack hardware support. In fact, it is, IMHO, the most superior of all the OSes (free or commercial).
Linux just works with the hardware out there. No need to seek out drivers for installation, but yes there are a few proprietary drivers better than the free, as in the case of the graphics card (nVidia & ATI) drivers.
So, please, stop spreading this FUD. And, please, learn to use paragraph breaks where appropriate.
I believe London has over 100,000 cameras. So, for 100,000 cameras they caught 6 pick pocket/purse snatchers a day?
I'm sorry if I sound cynical. 6 crimes a day hardly seems worth the invasiveness of such a system.
Jerry was incredible in his day. I loved reading his columns. It was one of the main reasons for doing so. When they went paywall that destroyed them. Jerry today has his own blog but it seems to be to extreme for my tastes now, where he talks politics often more than technology and he expects everyone to believe him--to take him at his word.
I used opera 11 on gmail.com the other day and it looked a mess.
Your response is like saying "who cares who wrote the song, here's one that sounds like it." Yes, it does matter. Give credit where credit is due.
I don't use Opera and I find it still quite buggy, but it has been around for a very long time, long before FF.
Opera is so smart in so many ways but dumb in others. To this day I can't find a way to zoom on a page without having to grab the mouse. I expect ctrl++ but that doesn't work. Some simple things that would make it a better product. But alas, Opera still has problems with rendering pages. I wonder sometimes about the developers.
I would agree that it hardly matters with which browser you use, except I would qualify my response by saying "except IE".
That wouldn't apply to a product sold to you inside the US that was legally imported.
Something made outside the US and something bought outside the US are two different things entirely.
Most products American's buy are made outside the US. Most products American's buy are bought inside the US.
If anything made outside the US, irrespective of where it was purchased (in the US or not), under that interpretation we'd be unable to sell anything to anyone else without the distributor's permission. That would effectively end all foreign car sales, close almost all used car lots, etc., to ad nausium.
If the product was manufactured outside the US and sold outside the US and imported into the US it could only be resold with permission of the manufacturer, AS LONG AS that countries laws don't permit you to do so automatically. So, those foreign German cars that Bill Gates and Paul Allen bought outside the US in Germany (and then shipped to the US) can't be resold by them without the car manufacturer's permission, IF that country's laws have those limits.
Because they had caveman mentality back then.
The framer's of the constitution wanted an undivided nation (or one less so than the alternative) so they were not inclined to divorce the country from slavery.