The only reason to do this is to promo the music, but that is what radio is for. I guess the reason this is needed now is that nobody listens to radio anymore because it has being bought and perverted by the same people that is pushing this...
Nah. As with most open-source projects, there is this sickly fear of ones-place-rollover in the version number. That's why you have so many programs with a version number like 0.9999.9.9.9.9.9.4
Actually, that sort of version number is what you would expect if requirements don't change and you are _honest_. Basically you aproximate the perfect version (1.0 final) asimptotically, but never quite make it.
The open office group should get together with the rest of the guys (abyword, koffice and maybe wordperfect) and work out a format that can be submitted to the ISO. Possibly based on the open office format. Then goverments and corporation will adopt it for official documents so they can read their own documents in ten years.
There is a mod for Quake3 on beta stage called navy seals. It plays and feels very similar to counter strike, except the engine (Q3) is better. And they have a Linux version. I have played it and it is rock solid and good fun. You can find it here: Navy seals: covert operations
While on 3D apps, using the contributed NVIDIA binary driver for my Geforce2, the system freezes (not everytime but often enough). I hate binary drivers!!!! I use reiserfs and I have found that multiple freezes end up trashing my configurations for kde, etc. This didn't happen with 8.2.
What about -- "attention to architecture", so that all of these "details" don't turn into infinitely long task lists, so that apps are far better and more consistent at being self-documenting, so that it doesn't take a ton of new code for every little app, so that interactive extensibility is built-in to the core, so that process are managed less horribly....
You are talking about kde man... but it wasn't invented there
This is One of the excellent games that will be released for Linux. This one and whatever Carmack does are the flagships of PC first person shooters. And both run in Linux. Things are improving quick.
Go support them. I did buy my copy of Return to Castle Wolfenstein for linux. And I will buy Doom III packaged for Linux if they sell it. This way they can tell that there is a Linux market.
On the XBox, once the modchip is installed, you can run any code and I bet it is not a long strech to fool the MS online gaming server into thinking that your client is ok. You can use the keys from the MS bios (wich you can read) to do that. I don't think the concept behind palladium is far away from that, so the analogy applies, except you would be fooling the pay per view servers or whatever.
Unless there is a police state monitoring all your hardware and software, they won't be able to stop it.
Palladium has two sides. The DRM stuff, and the privacy and security stuff.
Palladium _will_ be broken. Unless they implement the whole of the operating system on hardware, palladium's software side will be hacked quite soon (remember the XBox). That means that by loading a patched version of Windows, all the checks that are done on the signatures will be disabled. So you will be able to use a patched version of Windows to extract the drm protected media from its envelope and put it into a sensible format.
When you are done with that, you enable the checks again so your signed software runs in the sandbox and you can take advantage of the possible privacy and security advantages of that protection. Or even better, you use the Linux implementation of a palladium type sandbox (surely there will be one when the hardware from intel is available), using the Intel chips infrastructure. This will allow for a more secure Linux.
That will be enough until the hardware side of it is broken:-)
From the article: "Their new optical disc will have a storage capacity four times larger than that of the DVD. It will be capable of recording up to 25 hours of television broadcasts."
They will have to confront the RIAA, MPAA and friends if they want to sell this gear. If the current legislation being drafted for HDTV and the DMCA are succesful, there will be nothing to record.
I am from Spain. We used to have the same prices as you do on DVDs (actually, they tend to be more expensive in Europe), but today I walked into fnac (a big electronics store in Madrid) and found that many DVDs cost 5 euros (roughly $5). I bought a couple of them.
At this price, I will not invest on a DVD burner.
Do you here me? RIAA? No need to create a policial state. Just price your stuff right!
"Should be interesting to see who wins the shader development race, NVIDIA's Cg, RenderMonkey or whatever 3Dlabs has on the go."
Or maybe nobody wins. Maybe three uncompatible ways to do things will hurt developers. What they should be doing is to reach an agreement and put it onto opengl.
This reminds my of one of the interviews he gave when Quake III was finished.
From what I recall he said that he was surprised not many people were interested in metaverse type worlds. He said that if enough people would be interested he would think about giving it a shot.
Now this guys are using his code (quake II engine) to try and implement it.
I bet he will be interested.
By the way, there are a couple of projects along the same line using the free (LGPL) 3D engine Crystal Space ( crystal.sourceforge.net)
You get your news from TV broadcasts, or you work in a school and have to show videos to your pupils, or you like to tape your family and find that nobody sells old fashioned TVs, only digital.
In this situations you will be forced to use one of the new TVs.
But there is also social pressure: what?, you really don't watch tv? what a wierdo! Pop culture is mostly coming from TV. If you haven't watched any tv during your life, I bet you wouldn't be able to manage a casual conversation with most people. Also, in order to stand up against the pressure you have to understand the issues, and most people can't or don't want to.
" also wouldn't go as far as saying this application will give Premiere a run for its money because Premiere benefits GREATLY from its relationship with other Adobe applications. I can edit my work in Premiere then import the entire project, tracks, effects and all, into After Effects for post production work and final rendering. Not to mention the ability to import native Photoshop and Illustrator files without any special work arounds."
This is a tool in the unix tradition. A small utility that does well what it does. On time other tools will come around this one.
"I also didn't see anything in the feature list which suggested this application is capable of editing web enabled video (QT, Real and/or WMV)"
This is a _non_ propietary tool. It only needs to work with _open_ formats.
Also, we have a situation where on one hand the U.S.A. goverment is using the WTO to pressure countries like China and Peru to pay for the pirated MS licences they run and on the other hand they are trying to force countries like Peru to use MS software.
If MS gets into the habit of heavy lobbing ( like in Germany) or even bribing goverments like seems to be happening in Peru and other countries is one thing. This is usual.
But if the U.S.A goverment starts threatening other goverments about the use of Microsoft products, it will be a completely different thing, and, in my mind, self defeating.
" Your taxpayer dollars are paying good money to port from one completely propietary platform (2k/ASP) to another (ORACLE/SUN). The only difference? The latter costs more."
In my experience, the answer to this is _performance_ and _reliability_ wich you don't get winth 2k/asp.
And this is an interesting software engineering problem. It is the first internet protocol that has to be designed from the ground up for anonymity and resilience. And that will grow in a hostile enviroment.
The TCP/IP stack was designed for resiliency and they did a good job, but this has to be even better, and we don't have the goverment on our side!
There are a couple of attempts at this. One is www.freenetproject.org (that seems to be stalled) and the other one is gnunet.
GNUnet is a decentralized network with confidential and authenticated communication. A first service implemented on top of the networking layer allows anonymous distribution and retrieval of content. GNUnet supports accounting to provide contributing nodes with better service.
There are some P2P networks that already do that. One of them is edonkey, and I am sure others do it as well.
Then you go to a trusted page like www.sharereactor.com where they publish checksums (this is legal, as far as I understand) and this way you know what you are getting.
If the checksums pages where to be made illegal you can put the checksum lists on the p2p network and use digital signatures, so you learn to trust that some signatures allways carry checksums for proper files.
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The only reason to do this is to promo the music, but that is what radio is for.
I guess the reason this is needed now is that nobody listens to radio anymore because it has being bought and perverted by the same people that is pushing this...
ironic
Nah. As with most open-source projects, there is this sickly fear of ones-place-rollover in the version number. That's why you have so many programs with a version number like 0.9999.9.9.9.9.9.4
Actually, that sort of version number is what you would expect if requirements don't change and you are _honest_. Basically you aproximate the perfect version (1.0 final) asimptotically, but never quite make it.
The open office group should get together with the rest of the guys (abyword, koffice and maybe wordperfect) and work out a format that can be submitted to the ISO. Possibly based on the open office format.
Then goverments and corporation will adopt it for official documents so they can read their own documents in ten years.
What happens if you use an assimetric aereal? like when you use directional aerials. Will this confuse the algorithm they use to triangulate?
There is a mod for Quake3 on beta stage called navy seals. It plays and feels very similar to counter strike, except the engine (Q3) is better.
And they have a Linux version.
I have played it and it is rock solid and good fun.
You can find it here:
Navy seals: covert operations
While on 3D apps, using the contributed NVIDIA binary driver for my Geforce2, the system freezes (not everytime but often enough). I hate binary drivers!!!!
I use reiserfs and I have found that multiple freezes end up trashing my configurations for kde, etc.
This didn't happen with 8.2.
What about -- "attention to architecture", so that all of these "details" don't turn into infinitely long task lists, so that apps are far better and more consistent at being self-documenting, so that it doesn't take a ton of new code for every little app, so that interactive extensibility is built-in to the core, so that process are managed less horribly....
You are talking about kde man... but it wasn't invented there
'So many people here are getting all upset because BitKeeper is not free'
No, I am upset because it is used to develop Linux (which is free) and because is the only non free tool used to do it.
I think Linus is wrong on this, because by using it, in a way, he is forcing it upon other people involved in kernel development.
If BK where used to develop windows I wouldn't have any problem with it.
You can grab it here:
m o- Linux.sh.bin
ftp://ftp.stenstad.net/mirrors/ut2003/UT2003-De
This is One of the excellent games that will be released for Linux. This one and whatever Carmack does are the flagships of PC first person shooters. And both run in Linux. Things are improving quick.
Go support them. I did buy my copy of Return to Castle Wolfenstein for linux. And I will buy Doom III packaged for Linux if they sell it. This way they can tell that there is a Linux market.
I see you disagree :-)
On the XBox, once the modchip is installed, you can run any code and I bet it is not a long strech to fool the MS online gaming server into thinking that your client is ok. You can use the keys from the MS bios (wich you can read) to do that.
I don't think the concept behind palladium is far away from that, so the analogy applies, except you would be fooling the pay per view servers or whatever.
Unless there is a police state monitoring all your hardware and software, they won't be able to stop it.
people will need a logic analyzer and dedicated hardware on the busses to defeat it.
Yes, and this will be needed only once.
When people finds out how it works by tapping into the hardware, all you will have to do is to patch windows so it doesn't perform the checks.
Palladium has two sides. The DRM stuff, and the privacy and security stuff.
:-)
Palladium _will_ be broken. Unless they implement the whole of the operating system on hardware, palladium's software side will be hacked quite soon (remember the XBox). That means that by loading a patched version of Windows, all the checks that are done on the signatures will be disabled.
So you will be able to use a patched version of Windows to extract the drm protected media from its envelope and put it into a sensible format.
When you are done with that, you enable the checks again so your signed software runs in the sandbox and you can take advantage of the possible privacy and security advantages of that protection. Or even better, you use the Linux implementation of a palladium type sandbox (surely there will be one when the hardware from intel is available), using the Intel chips infrastructure. This will allow for a more secure Linux.
That will be enough until the hardware side of it is broken
From the article: "Their new optical disc will have a storage capacity four times larger than that of the DVD. It will be capable of recording up to 25 hours of television broadcasts."
They will have to confront the RIAA, MPAA and friends if they want to sell this gear. If the current legislation being drafted for HDTV and the DMCA are succesful, there will be nothing to record.
I am from Spain. We used to have the same prices as you do on DVDs (actually, they tend to be more expensive in Europe), but today I walked into fnac (a big electronics store in Madrid) and found that many DVDs cost 5 euros (roughly $5). I bought a couple of them.
At this price, I will not invest on a DVD burner.
Do you here me? RIAA? No need to create a policial state. Just price your stuff right!
wrong,
Intel and AMD compete on _implementations_ of an API (x86). That is good.
An example of competition on propietary APIs and why it's not good is the competition between opengl and DirectX.
If DirectX wins (as seems to be happening), all other operating systems are left out.
If opengl wins, all the people investing on DirectX games developement will have to rewrite their rendering code.
"Should be interesting to see who wins the shader development race, NVIDIA's Cg, RenderMonkey or whatever 3Dlabs has on the go."
Or maybe nobody wins. Maybe three uncompatible ways to do things will hurt developers.
What they should be doing is to reach an agreement and put it onto opengl.
This reminds my of one of the interviews he gave when Quake III was finished.
From what I recall he said that he was surprised not many people were interested in metaverse type worlds.
He said that if enough people would be interested he would think about giving it a shot.
Now this guys are using his code (quake II engine) to try and implement it.
I bet he will be interested.
By the way, there are a couple of projects along the same line using the free (LGPL) 3D engine Crystal Space ( crystal.sourceforge.net)
This things are forced on you.
You get your news from TV broadcasts, or you work in a school and have to show videos to your pupils, or you like to tape your family and find that nobody sells old fashioned TVs, only digital.
In this situations you will be forced to use one of the new TVs.
But there is also social pressure: what?, you really don't watch tv? what a wierdo!
Pop culture is mostly coming from TV. If you haven't watched any tv during your life, I bet you wouldn't be able to manage a casual conversation with most people.
Also, in order to stand up against the pressure you have to understand the issues, and most people can't or don't want to.
" also wouldn't go as far as saying this application will give Premiere a run for its money because Premiere benefits GREATLY from its relationship with other Adobe applications. I can edit my work in Premiere then import the entire project, tracks, effects and all, into After Effects for post production work and final rendering. Not to mention the ability to import native Photoshop and Illustrator files without any special work arounds."
This is a tool in the unix tradition. A small utility that does well what it does. On time other tools will come around this one.
"I also didn't see anything in the feature list which suggested this application is capable of editing web enabled video (QT, Real and/or WMV)"
This is a _non_ propietary tool. It only needs to work with _open_ formats.
Also, we have a situation where on one hand the U.S.A. goverment is using the WTO to pressure countries like China and Peru to pay for the pirated MS licences they run and on the other hand they are trying to force countries like Peru to use MS software.
It is almost like a mafia selling protection.
Ironic.
If MS gets into the habit of heavy lobbing ( like in Germany) or even bribing goverments like seems to be happening in Peru and other countries is one thing. This is usual.
But if the U.S.A goverment starts threatening other goverments about the use of Microsoft products, it will be a completely different thing, and, in my mind, self defeating.
" Your taxpayer dollars are paying good money to port from one completely propietary platform (2k/ASP) to another (ORACLE/SUN). The only difference? The latter costs more."
In my experience, the answer to this is _performance_ and _reliability_ wich you don't get winth 2k/asp.
I guess he would give it an 'A' after the Xbox breaks US sales records.
They are very persistent and have lots of money. Do not understimate them.
Indeed,
And this is an interesting software engineering problem. It is the first internet protocol that has to be designed from the ground up for anonymity and resilience. And that will grow in a hostile enviroment.
The TCP/IP stack was designed for resiliency and they did a good job, but this has to be even better, and we don't have the goverment on our side!
There are a couple of attempts at this. One is www.freenetproject.org (that seems to be stalled) and the other one is gnunet.
GNUnet is a decentralized network with confidential and authenticated communication. A first service implemented on top of the networking layer allows anonymous distribution and retrieval of content. GNUnet supports accounting to provide contributing nodes with better service.
There are some P2P networks that already do that. One of them is edonkey, and I am sure others do it as well.
Then you go to a trusted page like www.sharereactor.com where they publish checksums (this is legal, as far as I understand) and this way you know what you are getting.
If the checksums pages where to be made illegal you can put the checksum lists on the p2p network and use digital signatures, so you learn to trust that some signatures allways carry checksums for proper files.