__/ [ 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
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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