Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> __/ [ Hadron Quark ] on Monday 31 July 2006 12:34 \__
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Monday 31 July 2006 12:00 \__
>>>
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>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>> Joining the PlayStation 3...
>>>>>
>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>| Obviously, you can hear that all this is very expensive to make and put
>>>>>| in the console. How could Nintendo cut the cost? It's very simple.
>>>>>| Simply Wii will have software based on a industry standard platform
>>>>>| that's open source. Linux. You read that right. Wii will have Linux as
>>>>>| operating system with proprietary GUI and applications based on
>>>>>| commonly opens ource for Linux programs.
>>>>> `----
>>>>>
>>>>> http://saruwatari-wii.blogspot.com/2006/07/software-in-wii.html
>>>>> ( this source/blog is a Nintendo employee )
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, they don't seem to have understood how this works,
>>>> observe:
>>>>
>>>> This probably make you all think of homebew and hacking and
>>>> things like that, but the final system in closed and will allow
>>>> only signed code etc and will be very secure, even though it's
>>>> technically compatible with a world of already existing software.
>>>>
>>>> Hopefully they'll realise that having an open platform will open up all
>>>> kinds of possibilities, in which case, we might even get one here.
>>>> Keeping it closed is not too smart, I think.
>>>
>>> I believe that a(t least) reviewer has claimed that the
>>> Nokia 770 -- that which you happen to own -- is also too
>>> closed. maybe you can challenge that statement. PlayStation
>>> 3, on the other hand, was said to encourage third-party
>>> development (and hacking), which can contribute to the
>>> environment as much as you saw with Palm (behold the wealth
>>> of freeware and GPL'd Palm software). To name another
>>> example, the Zaurus is fairly open for all I know... but I
>>> don't know if they necessary benefit from this openness.
>>> This can become confusing is you do not have some separation
>>> between the crowd (prospective customer base) that is
>>> IT-savvy and/or adventurous and that which fears
>>> extensibility and space for exploration (e.g. KDE,
>>> PHP-Nuke).
>>
>>
>> Roy, what setting have you used to make your posts align as they do?
>
>
> It's a Perl script which is run from the shell. I have it
> assigned to a keyboard shortcut so it extracts and outputs
> text through Klipper. I used to hyphenate, but some people
> were not happy...
>
>
>> Its
>> very hard in the eye to have variable spacing just to align on the right
>> column. English text is read from left to right and right column
>> alignment is not a mist - its really ugly.
>
> With respect, you fail to convince me that it's bad. Ugly is
> not distracting and there is a merit to having text fit a
> fized-sixed block. Many Web sites, for example (let alone
I have a 79 column set - so text will fit. Maybe you fail to understand
my point. my point is that there is NO requirement anywhere for the last
letter of the last word of a line to sit in the right most column. Go
and look at all the best news sites : BBC for example. Standard spacing
with left alignment. Still, all to their own. I just find your posts
hard to read - it doesnt flow as I need to keeo eye adjusting for the
next word which is not simply one character further along.
Note : I am not suggesting breaking words at the end of a line. Rather
stick it on the next line.
I use the emacs standard fill-paragraph.
> books), justify. Books hyphenate too, but the issues emerge
> when one wishes to quote (the line breaks in E-mail/posts
> introduce a similar problem).
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Roy
>
>
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