The mainstream news media is part of the pro-copyright lobby. They will never bring public awareness to cases like this. Your best bet is public-access TV or NPR.
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And without the Office franchise there isn't much left of MS because brute forcing people into an upgrade to something as bad as Vista hasn't exactly worked out too well. Microsoft still has DirectX to lure the gaming market back to Windows.
When will MIPS-based-CPU desktops running Linux at high speeds (much faster than any x86 at the same clocked speed) take over the home PC market? x86 and even x86-64 are dying faster than we can count in my opinion the way things are going. MIPS is deader than a doornail, and considering Intel's new efforts in the ultramobile and high-end graphics markets, x86 isn't going anywhere for a very long time.
No, it's really just business as usual. Regardless of which format wins out, Microsoft will simply embrace and extend it in order to maintain its Windows and Office monopolies (separating the two would be redundant if it weren't for the fact that Office is also on Macs).
No, he's quite right. While the RSX is the primary workhorse for the PS3's graphics, the Cell is also designed to act as a coprocessor when additional resources are required.
Allowing relatively small portions of non-free software into Linux distros for a huge boost in accessibility and adoption can give the community more momentum to influence software licensers, so that they ultimately do open up.
Your free software revolution will never happen through bullish and outright rejection of anything less than free.
I'm sure this headline will send RMS into a tizzy, but it also resurfaces the question of where open-source is headed if it is to survive and flourish against staunchly proprietary competitors.
Pretty much. If you want a totally free (as in freedom) variation of Ubuntu, there's gNewSense.
Keep in mind that it does come with a price, though, since open-source GPU drivers are still lightyears behind IHV solutions, and limiting yourself to only Ogg media is also a pretty lofty prospect.
It's good to see more collaboration between major luser-oriented distros, rather than each having an isolated community with its own attempt at reinventing the wheel.
Oh sure, if I say something negative about Sony it's insightful, interesting and informative but God forbid it should ever Nintendo that gets criticized.
Nintendo is not large or diverse enough to compete on the same level as Sony or Microsoft, which is why they've bowed out of the technology race and faded into the background as a niche company for short, simplistic, arcade-style games and quaint non-games targeted at children, women and old people (plus the predictable and increasingly trite Mario/Zelda/Metroid/Pokemon/Smash Bros fare).
It's called the Cross Media Bar (XMB) interface, and it actually debuted on the ill-fated PSX (PS2+DVR combo) in 2003. It's since become Sony's standard UI for multimedia products such as the PSP, PS3 and even some higher-end TVs.
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The mainstream news media is part of the pro-copyright lobby. They will never bring public awareness to cases like this. Your best bet is public-access TV or NPR.
No, it's really just business as usual. Regardless of which format wins out, Microsoft will simply embrace and extend it in order to maintain its Windows and Office monopolies (separating the two would be redundant if it weren't for the fact that Office is also on Macs).
Flash and Java are cancer to the Web. The sooner they're gone, the better.
No, he's quite right. While the RSX is the primary workhorse for the PS3's graphics, the Cell is also designed to act as a coprocessor when additional resources are required.
Pretty much. PS3 has everything going for it other than price.
Allowing relatively small portions of non-free software into Linux distros for a huge boost in accessibility and adoption can give the community more momentum to influence software licensers, so that they ultimately do open up.
Your free software revolution will never happen through bullish and outright rejection of anything less than free.
Oh, and by the way, I hope you're very happy satisfying your OCD with GCC flags in Gentoo and being generally unproductive.
Why would you lambast something for accomplishing what it set out to do? I don't believe Ubuntu ever claimed to be a distro for power users.
I'm sure this headline will send RMS into a tizzy, but it also resurfaces the question of where open-source is headed if it is to survive and flourish against staunchly proprietary competitors.
Pretty much. If you want a totally free (as in freedom) variation of Ubuntu, there's gNewSense.
Keep in mind that it does come with a price, though, since open-source GPU drivers are still lightyears behind IHV solutions, and limiting yourself to only Ogg media is also a pretty lofty prospect.
It's good to see more collaboration between major luser-oriented distros, rather than each having an isolated community with its own attempt at reinventing the wheel.
I'm not sure exactly which Debian branch Linspire derives from, but if it's "stable," then there's a world of difference between that and Ubuntu.
...as always, for your honest and responsible reporting of videogame news from a totally objective and unbiased point of view.
Lex's skills are useless now. :(
The halo's physical and chemical composition is documented under the FDL.
The wiimote's particular application of infrared technology still makes it functionally similar to a lightgun.
The wiimote is a glorified lightgun (or rather, a glorified pointing stick).
Oh sure, if I say something negative about Sony it's insightful, interesting and informative but God forbid it should ever Nintendo that gets criticized.
Nintendo is not large or diverse enough to compete on the same level as Sony or Microsoft, which is why they've bowed out of the technology race and faded into the background as a niche company for short, simplistic, arcade-style games and quaint non-games targeted at children, women and old people (plus the predictable and increasingly trite Mario/Zelda/Metroid/Pokemon/Smash Bros fare).
It's called the Cross Media Bar (XMB) interface, and it actually debuted on the ill-fated PSX (PS2+DVR combo) in 2003. It's since become Sony's standard UI for multimedia products such as the PSP, PS3 and even some higher-end TVs.
NVIDIA and ATI are both members of the ARB as well.
Sony is also a member of the consortium, and is providing the API suite as part of the PS3 development kit.