Thank God for sanity, because the OP is either a gigantic troll trying to spread FUD or a very, very uninformed character. If I had mod points I would give you all.
Windows' drivers are on userspace. That doesn't make it any easier to port them to Linux. Drivers are very OS-centric; they tell the OS how to interact with the hardware and, of course, Linux and Windows have very different ways of interacting with hardware.
...other media formats, namely those of Xiph.Org (FLAC, Vorbis, Speex, Theora, etc)? I mean, they have competiting products in the form of WMV and WMA, and their Janus DRM specification explicitely required devices not to support Ogg Vorbis until recently. They aren't going to provide support for any of the free software audio/video formats any time soon, neither in Windows, Media Center, Xbox or Zune. And Apple's pretty much in the same boat with iPod and Mac OS X. I wonder, can an anti-trust case be held against those two companies in either Europe or USA? And if so, how does the average joe turns the attention of (say) DOJ to this issue?
Even if in the long run, it might be your demise, you have not sold out yourself and your users to Microsoft. For that, you have our gratitude—mine and of those who'll see in the future that in spite of all odds, you made the right choice.
I still have my Saturn hooked up to play the occasional Shining Force 3, Dragon Force and VF2 game, but then again I've always been a SEGA fanboy to this day.
Oh, and for those who don't believe Saturn was a 3D system, check this picture from the Saturn version of Shenmue. The PSX on the other hand, was so easy to code on that 3D and basic transparencies were easy to achieve.
We're beating on a dead horse, though. And that list is missing the Amiga CD32.
I've heard once that backwards compatibility on future products would use emulation. In theory, future hardware will be powerful enough to cope with such pratices. And I think whoever said that is right. Either emulation or dynamic recompilation at kernel level si the way to go. If Linux (and maybe GCC too) focuses on these right now, the change to 64bit platforms and higher without backward compatibility will be a breeze, and not a nightmare as some in the industry fear. Food for thought, I guess.
Kudos to Fiona Cherbak, who wrote the article.
I'm still reading it, but I've learned a few interesting things so far. I'll mention Sue Bohle, who has worked on PR for two decades, 3DO included.
Child porn. Apparently, the IPs of some of those servers were found on the logs of child porn web sites.
The excuse to seize the servers relies on the cops wanting to find any data of those web site users, which they won't, because of the way Tor is built.
Sad day for annonymous Internet, as more of the crap side of humanity uses services like Tor, and people who do need it, like people in China, are the ones burned.
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Thank God for sanity, because the OP is either a gigantic troll trying to spread FUD or a very, very uninformed character. If I had mod points I would give you all.
...support any of Vorbis, FLAC, or Speex. Is nobody else worried about that?
Windows' drivers are on userspace. That doesn't make it any easier to port them to Linux. Drivers are very OS-centric; they tell the OS how to interact with the hardware and, of course, Linux and Windows have very different ways of interacting with hardware.
...other media formats, namely those of Xiph.Org (FLAC, Vorbis, Speex, Theora, etc)? I mean, they have competiting products in the form of WMV and WMA, and their Janus DRM specification explicitely required devices not to support Ogg Vorbis until recently. They aren't going to provide support for any of the free software audio/video formats any time soon, neither in Windows, Media Center, Xbox or Zune. And Apple's pretty much in the same boat with iPod and Mac OS X. I wonder, can an anti-trust case be held against those two companies in either Europe or USA? And if so, how does the average joe turns the attention of (say) DOJ to this issue?
Even if in the long run, it might be your demise, you have not sold out yourself and your users to Microsoft. For that, you have our gratitude—mine and of those who'll see in the future that in spite of all odds, you made the right choice.
I still have my Saturn hooked up to play the occasional Shining Force 3, Dragon Force and VF2 game, but then again I've always been a SEGA fanboy to this day.
Oh, and for those who don't believe Saturn was a 3D system, check this picture from the Saturn version of Shenmue. The PSX on the other hand, was so easy to code on that 3D and basic transparencies were easy to achieve.
We're beating on a dead horse, though. And that list is missing the Amiga CD32.
I've heard once that backwards compatibility on future products would use emulation. In theory, future hardware will be powerful enough to cope with such pratices. And I think whoever said that is right. Either emulation or dynamic recompilation at kernel level si the way to go. If Linux (and maybe GCC too) focuses on these right now, the change to 64bit platforms and higher without backward compatibility will be a breeze, and not a nightmare as some in the industry fear. Food for thought, I guess.
They actually did. Google for "Lapedo child".
...I'm being reminded of this.
Kudos to Fiona Cherbak, who wrote the article. I'm still reading it, but I've learned a few interesting things so far. I'll mention Sue Bohle, who has worked on PR for two decades, 3DO included.
Child porn. Apparently, the IPs of some of those servers were found on the logs of child porn web sites.
The excuse to seize the servers relies on the cops wanting to find any data of those web site users, which they won't, because of the way Tor is built.
Sad day for annonymous Internet, as more of the crap side of humanity uses services like Tor, and people who do need it, like people in China, are the ones burned.