I care about multimedia systems, and I want them to work with whatever I throw at it and not tell me what I am allowed to run.
Automated freedom-restriction devices are a real nuisance because they are bound to decide wrong most likely anyways, enforcing that I should have to pay for the same song or movie twice, just because the two systems I want to play it on are not compatible in terms of their DRM, or my current dvd player was purchased in a different country than the DVD I own and want to play on it. No idea how region codes enforcement is legal. Avoiding itunes and vista may be first step - but the software patents and DMCA are making us stumble even then - try to find an officially supported Linux version that comes with all the mplayer/mp3 pieces. Not because the software does not exist, but because of the obscure legal situation only. Anybody have a transcode cluster package? ;-) Michael -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Geoff Galitz Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 1:07 PM To: Robert G. Brown Cc: beowulf@beowulf.org Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Sidebar: Vista Rant > > This is where Vista is a major screw up. Nobody cares about DRM > compliance but the DRM police. Nobody cares about multimedia systems, > and since functioning multimedia now fits in $500 telephones people > are understandably cynical about needing multicore multi GB systems to > make it work. What people DO care about, very much, is having a > system that happens NOW, click to keyboard, at their actual UI. > Microsoft is in deep trouble... > > rgb > I do have to interject on the "nobody cares about multimedia systems" front. I, for one, certainly do. In fact I just spent this year's personal system budget (as provided by my current employer) on a multmedia system. We do virtual environments and our stuff is too heavy weight to run on smaller or embedded devices. I went with a desktop system as it gives me the ability to perform detailed testing and also the flexibility in hardware and software to experiment with under-the-hood designs. Our users also mostly use multimedia systems or gaming oriented systems. The system I just picked up (a Fujistu Siemens Scaleo P system) came with Vista. It works fairly well for the most part, but when I started adding peripherals it exposed some of Vista's shortcomings. The lack of device drivers being the main issue. Oddly, I considered the system to be quite slow, but now it seems it very responsive. I assume there are still a lot mysterious under the hood processes going on... and the lack of transparency is my biggest concern. And that damn virtualization EULA clause. And... well... I have some issues, but it works well enough. -geoff _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
