Yeah I always considered the competition to the Air to be the Lenovo X series. Typical IBM styling (ugly as fuck), but a similar size. Also you can spec that baby out to like $5k worth of all kinds of goodness, and actually have a serious machine. Internal optical drive as well.
Lesser phones? Have you read any of these extremely basic requests? This is functionality that any other smartphone user has been enjoying for years. Shit, my 5 year old XDA2 would probably beat the iPhone in a "for-business" comparison, and I'm fairly certain that my current Diamond kills it in almost every way possible (except getting high-fives and handjobs from dudes wearing turtlenecks).
Sounds like you should go and get something made by HTC then. My Touch Diamond is pretty much superior to the iPhone in every way (and its even smaller).
The only thing its missing is the multitouch - but I can't see myself using that on such a limited screen (and I own and use a TouchStream stealth - so its not like I'm a stranger to multitouch gestures).
I can add some more too: * Run applications from anywhere * Multiple programming languages/frameworks (Winmo native /.net compact / java)
I've just never bought into the iPhone hype. My Diamond was cheaper as well...
Not at all. You have to give up enough information so someone "skilled in the art" can reproduce the item. This in no way means blueprints or exact manufacturing instructions.
Perhaps. Its arguable that there is no way (slash incredibly difficult) to identify individuals who compiled and used the vfat for commercial, rather than research purposes.
That would leave this particular assault looking for major distributions who have distributed binaries - and for them to show that there would be significant harm in the patent being enforced (and I could find many many examples of people arguing how ext* is superior).
I haven't read thru the source, but I was under the impression that most of this was covered in a similar way to the sub-pixed rendering (ClearType) patents. The end user will physically have to compile / enable the infringing feature. (In the case of ClearType, this was uncommenting some code under a line warning of the patent issues).
I would suggest the Doctrine of Laches could only consider binaries being shipped by a major distributor - source code usually being recognised as a non-infringing description of the patent. Taking this into account TomTom is probably one of the few people distributing an implementation without a license commercially.
Not sure if a court would consider this as submarining anyway - MS have fairly aggressively defended this patent in the past (especially against preformatted flash drive and camera/phone vendors).
Hrmmm I was fairly certain that I read that (excluding buffers) the default is write-through. This means that a flush will actually hit metal, with all the latency you'd expect. You are right about AP on making flush useless.
Regardless - its a shitload faster when dealing with bunches of small files with it turned on. This disk tops out at like 20megs a second - to compile at any decent speed I need it on. As for reliablity - well, its battery backed and stable, been going fine for a year at least:)
And you fix it in GNOME/KDE. All these advocates of ext4 shooting itself in the foot to work around bad practice on the part of the UI developers need to fuck off. They are advocating MS-style back-compatibility kludges... for the fkn filesystem.
Even MS has managed to stop their UI people kludging up their core shit like NTFS.
High-level languages usually provide buffered stream APIs. All of these APIs contain sync/flush calls. Its bloody obvious that if you have buffers then shit is in memory, and not necessarily where you sent it. That should be the first hint to an incompetant monkey who thinks "Hey my high-level language abstracts me from knowing what the fuck I'm doing!"
Its very similar on NTFS. You have to call fflush(...) on your stream (or fflush(NULL)), or have opened the stream synchronously, or use setvbuf.
That said the low level routines (_write) are synchronous, which makes more sense.
On this laptop I just turn on the option for battery backed hard disks (Enable Advanced Perf) - which turns the write-thru cache into write-back. All the apps that think they are doing synchronous IO are hitting RAM, and compilation/SVN goes like a motherfucker even on this shitty Hitachi disk. Course if I really have a crash I'm going to be totally hosed:D
Oi, stop modding me Informative when I'm clearly fucking wrong on this one! FFS. This is worse than the Informative points I got for talking about elephant dick...
You are wrong. If your source is Engadget, then Engadget is wrong. Its also not a primary source... go read the MS site on this - its basically the same as Vista - which also had a Home Basic (no media center / aero) and Starter (developing markets) SKU.
... and GP was wrong. Starter Edition, which is only avaliable in broke-ass countries has a whole bunch more limits and is a total pile of crap.
Home Basic is the lowest edition you can get here, and has no such limitations. Its basically XP Home. Home Premium is the one with Media Center. Business is the one with domain support.
Ultimate has Media Center and Domain support.
Enterprise is only avaliable under bulk licensing.
Where is my "home" directory, which in Linux has an icon intuitively shaped as a house?
Whoa. A house? A little picture of a house? I expect to find my letter to your mom under a picture of a house?
That is what is called "A lame geek pun on a legacy naming convention". Not at all a nod to usability.
In Vista it would be called "Documents", with a little picture of a folder full of documents. Incidently you don't go and "find a file manager". You just click "Documents", "Pictures" or "Porno".
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How does it manage to not support it? Its a basic OS feature.
On my old XDA it you'd select text and tap-hold to get the context menu, pick copy.
Yeah I always considered the competition to the Air to be the Lenovo X series. Typical IBM styling (ugly as fuck), but a similar size. Also you can spec that baby out to like $5k worth of all kinds of goodness, and actually have a serious machine. Internal optical drive as well.
Then you'd have the joys of fabricating individual cases, and matching them up / flashing the ethernet card :/
Sounds like a massive pain in the ass, and probably $100 per unit for something that only 0.01% of customers would find cool.
Lesser phones? Have you read any of these extremely basic requests? This is functionality that any other smartphone user has been enjoying for years. Shit, my 5 year old XDA2 would probably beat the iPhone in a "for-business" comparison, and I'm fairly certain that my current Diamond kills it in almost every way possible (except getting high-fives and handjobs from dudes wearing turtlenecks).
Sounds like you should go and get something made by HTC then. My Touch Diamond is pretty much superior to the iPhone in every way (and its even smaller).
The only thing its missing is the multitouch - but I can't see myself using that on such a limited screen (and I own and use a TouchStream stealth - so its not like I'm a stranger to multitouch gestures).
I can add some more too: .net compact / java)
* Run applications from anywhere
* Multiple programming languages/frameworks (Winmo native /
I've just never bought into the iPhone hype. My Diamond was cheaper as well...
You have been buttraped by a Grue.
The Grue had AIDS.
Not at all. You have to give up enough information so someone "skilled in the art" can reproduce the item. This in no way means blueprints or exact manufacturing instructions.
I hope you enjoy "open-source" pharmaceuticals...
Is that you Linus? Stop making excuses for being an abrasive motherfucker and man up :D
Perhaps. Its arguable that there is no way (slash incredibly difficult) to identify individuals who compiled and used the vfat for commercial, rather than research purposes.
That would leave this particular assault looking for major distributions who have distributed binaries - and for them to show that there would be significant harm in the patent being enforced (and I could find many many examples of people arguing how ext* is superior).
I haven't read thru the source, but I was under the impression that most of this was covered in a similar way to the sub-pixed rendering (ClearType) patents. The end user will physically have to compile / enable the infringing feature. (In the case of ClearType, this was uncommenting some code under a line warning of the patent issues).
I would suggest the Doctrine of Laches could only consider binaries being shipped by a major distributor - source code usually being recognised as a non-infringing description of the patent. Taking this into account TomTom is probably one of the few people distributing an implementation without a license commercially.
Not sure if a court would consider this as submarining anyway - MS have fairly aggressively defended this patent in the past (especially against preformatted flash drive and camera/phone vendors).
Consider MS describing the linux implementation as non-infringing - as it is distributed source-only (in the general case) for "research purposes".
No significant market infringing patents then?
Does Redhat pay a license fee for RHEL, or does it leave lfn support out altogether?
BUT I ACCIDENTLY FROM REDDIT!
*nods*, informative. I'm mostly up in .Net-land, but unlike most of my brethren I think its necessary to understand whats going on under the hood :)
I'll probably be agreeing with you after the first time everything goes to shit ;)
Hrmmm I was fairly certain that I read that (excluding buffers) the default is write-through. This means that a flush will actually hit metal, with all the latency you'd expect. You are right about AP on making flush useless.
Regardless - its a shitload faster when dealing with bunches of small files with it turned on. This disk tops out at like 20megs a second - to compile at any decent speed I need it on. As for reliablity - well, its battery backed and stable, been going fine for a year at least :)
And you fix it in GNOME/KDE. All these advocates of ext4 shooting itself in the foot to work around bad practice on the part of the UI developers need to fuck off. They are advocating MS-style back-compatibility kludges... for the fkn filesystem.
Even MS has managed to stop their UI people kludging up their core shit like NTFS.
High-level languages usually provide buffered stream APIs. All of these APIs contain sync/flush calls. Its bloody obvious that if you have buffers then shit is in memory, and not necessarily where you sent it. That should be the first hint to an incompetant monkey who thinks "Hey my high-level language abstracts me from knowing what the fuck I'm doing!"
Its very similar on NTFS. You have to call fflush(...) on your stream (or fflush(NULL)), or have opened the stream synchronously, or use setvbuf.
That said the low level routines (_write) are synchronous, which makes more sense.
On this laptop I just turn on the option for battery backed hard disks (Enable Advanced Perf) - which turns the write-thru cache into write-back. All the apps that think they are doing synchronous IO are hitting RAM, and compilation/SVN goes like a motherfucker even on this shitty Hitachi disk. Course if I really have a crash I'm going to be totally hosed :D
Oi, stop modding me Informative when I'm clearly fucking wrong on this one! FFS. This is worse than the Informative points I got for talking about elephant dick...
I ACCIDENTLY THE WHOLE 1%!
You are wrong. If your source is Engadget, then Engadget is wrong. Its also not a primary source... go read the MS site on this - its basically the same as Vista - which also had a Home Basic (no media center / aero) and Starter (developing markets) SKU.
... and GP was wrong. Starter Edition, which is only avaliable in broke-ass countries has a whole bunch more limits and is a total pile of crap.
Home Basic is the lowest edition you can get here, and has no such limitations. Its basically XP Home. Home Premium is the one with Media Center. Business is the one with domain support.
Ultimate has Media Center and Domain support.
Enterprise is only avaliable under bulk licensing.
So you are suggesting businesses ignored a bunch of standards and picked the solution that delivered the best ROI?
For shame! These bastards are going to send our GDP skyrocketing!
Yeah, its called ClickOnce. Been using it for years ;)
Whoa. A house? A little picture of a house? I expect to find my letter to your mom under a picture of a house?
That is what is called "A lame geek pun on a legacy naming convention". Not at all a nod to usability.
In Vista it would be called "Documents", with a little picture of a folder full of documents. Incidently you don't go and "find a file manager". You just click "Documents", "Pictures" or "Porno".