While I MAY agree that their current solution are not so mature, still they are very powerful, extendable and generic. Given enough (not so much) time they can compete and overtake proprietary solutions. See http://libvirt.org/
And thanks to Steamboat Willie, a poor choice of license can't be fixed (except by explicit permission from all copyright holders, likely meaning all contributors) for over a hundred years
Good point. I think you can still add an exception to your license so that N years after the publication everything goes in public domain or BSD. It would be a good policy for every open source author.
You do realize that there is software in the hardware that is lying to the software at higher layers, right?
Even spinning disks present a virtual interface to the hardware.
I understand that there IS a layer even on hard disks. The problem is that the layer for SSD is currently the wrong one (the hard disk one) In fact, the linux layer for MTD devices is completely different and more complex, and flash filesystems are very specific for that layer so you can't use them for normal block devices. I don't say you don't need a layer. I say that using the wrong layer and reversing it in hardware is excessively WRONG.
if you had a good idea on how to build the new Internet and need some minimal founding? I mean a real alternative, with excellent privacy, no way to control the actual data flowing (neutrality built in), no central points of failure (not even "servers"), very generic (not just for exchanging "files" around) and absolutely easy to build application on. Oh and in the process kill that openid nonsense (for something better of course).
Hardware CAN'T know what areas are used and what aren't. So those hw workarounds for not using a real flash filesystems can't work well. I can't understand why those people are still spending money in producing such complex brain damaged products. Give us complete access to flash chips, let the OS do the right thing. Legacy operating systems like Windows? Just give a driver and the flash file system in bundle! I'm sure performance and cost outweight the inconvenience of installing it. Maybe use a replaceable USB drive just for booting, which is compatible, cheap and convenient. Anyway those product are not for general market yet, can't understand why they are doing this mess to "semplify" things.
I've been in Germany, and they have a flashing green before the yellow, and something else I don't remember (but intuitive) when switching from red to green. I can definitively say it saves time, gas and brakes.
> If you mis-time the light and it goes green while you're still moving, you can pop the clutch in 4th or 5th to restart it so you don't wear your starter and incur the additional gas usage penalty involved with starting it. This way you probably let unburned fuel in the catalytic converter, damaging it in the long term!
Is it possible that whiskers grows because the metal has quite abundant different isotopes? That may cause an imbalance in the crystal structure of the metal and gradually push out the lighter isotopes when the metal is subjected to vibrations, stresses etc... Just a thought, I'm not qualified at all to talk about metallurgy, but...
Who uploads, pays. Packet by packet.
I can't think of an easier, more fair economy.
And that means that an 24Mbit/512Kbit ADSL like that we get in Italy should cost WAY less.
I'm not a lawyer, but that is a trick that shouldn't be valid in a sane legal system. Imagine some corporations teaming together and design an internal, non-democratic legal system whose penalties consist in revoking all your non-properties. Yes, you could buy alternative products but it's not always possible as there are markets where there is little (if any) competition.
Have you a night selector on lateral mirrors too?
Ever tried driving at night on the speedway with SUVs trying to overtake you (slowly of course because they SUCK (in every possible way) at moderate/high speed), and all your mirrors reflecting too much light at you? I often have to use the left hand to block the excessive light from the left mirror!
If you have to darken every mirror to not getting blinded they become useless.
And don't tell me to buy an higher car or we're gonna to drive our vehicles with periscopes soon:P
SUVs are wrong. Period.
The current Neo 1973 (GTA01) is good enough to run Qtopia for developers.
At this point the GreenPhone is no longer useful, as it was NEVER aimed for users.
You didn't lose anything as a consumer. You had not a consumer phone with Greenphone, and it was based on some closed hardware.
Now there is a project which is trying to launch a consumer ready phone, 99% open, where you can run either Qtopia or Openmoko.
The Greenphone died because other hardware capable of running Qtopia became available (eg FIC 1973); they didn't want to sell phones, they wanted something you can develop for Qtopia on.
Finally they can compete with Android with a decent platform. They probably have seen that Symbian is no longer good enough as a multitasking environment, and probably too difficult and expensive to add features to. And you would never ever attempt to run it on anything other than a phone thus making more difficult to build a whole platform ranging from small game consoles, PDAs, music players and the "next small thing":)
> Where's the scandal here? I don't know in US, but here in Italy it must be clearly obvious what is an advertising and what is not. For example if something is promoted during television shows you see a label somewhere on the screen which let you know you are watching some promotional content. Maybe it's not law there, but for sure it's a scandal.
Slashdot Mirror
Flash Player 10 for x86-64 Linux:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/releasenotes_64bit.html
They took AGES and it's still in beta.
While I MAY agree that their current solution are not so mature, still they are very powerful, extendable and generic. Given enough (not so much) time they can compete and overtake proprietary solutions. See http://libvirt.org/
And thanks to Steamboat Willie, a poor choice of license can't be fixed (except by explicit permission from all copyright holders, likely meaning all contributors) for over a hundred years
Good point. I think you can still add an exception to your license so that N years after the publication everything goes in public domain or BSD.
It would be a good policy for every open source author.
You do realize that there is software in the hardware that is lying to the software at higher layers, right?
Even spinning disks present a virtual interface to the hardware.
I understand that there IS a layer even on hard disks.
The problem is that the layer for SSD is currently the wrong one (the hard disk one)
In fact, the linux layer for MTD devices is completely different and more complex, and flash filesystems are very specific for that layer so you can't use them for normal block devices.
I don't say you don't need a layer. I say that using the wrong layer and reversing it in hardware is excessively WRONG.
if you had a good idea on how to build the new Internet and need some minimal founding?
I mean a real alternative, with excellent privacy, no way to control the actual data flowing (neutrality built in), no central points of failure (not even "servers"), very generic (not just for exchanging "files" around) and absolutely easy to build application on. Oh and in the process kill that openid nonsense (for something better of course).
Hardware CAN'T know what areas are used and what aren't. So those hw workarounds for not using a real flash filesystems can't work well.
I can't understand why those people are still spending money in producing such complex brain damaged products. Give us complete access to flash chips, let the OS do the right thing. Legacy operating systems like Windows? Just give a driver and the flash file system in bundle! I'm sure performance and cost outweight the inconvenience of installing it. Maybe use a replaceable USB drive just for booting, which is compatible, cheap and convenient. Anyway those product are not for general market yet, can't understand why they are doing this mess to "semplify" things.
I've been in Germany, and they have a flashing green before the yellow, and something else I don't remember (but intuitive) when switching from red to green.
I can definitively say it saves time, gas and brakes.
> If you mis-time the light and it goes green while you're still moving, you can pop the clutch in 4th or 5th to restart it so you don't wear your starter and incur the additional gas usage penalty involved with starting it.
This way you probably let unburned fuel in the catalytic converter, damaging it in the long term!
Just link a big file on AVG site in the slashdot article. They'll surely understand that bandwidth is precious.
Is it possible that whiskers grows because the metal has quite abundant different isotopes?
That may cause an imbalance in the crystal structure of the metal and gradually push out the lighter isotopes when the metal is subjected to vibrations, stresses etc...
Just a thought, I'm not qualified at all to talk about metallurgy, but...
Who uploads, pays. Packet by packet. I can't think of an easier, more fair economy. And that means that an 24Mbit/512Kbit ADSL like that we get in Italy should cost WAY less.
If I had mod points I'd mod the "redundant" moderation funny.
I'm not a lawyer, but that is a trick that shouldn't be valid in a sane legal system.
Imagine some corporations teaming together and design an internal, non-democratic legal system whose penalties consist in revoking all your non-properties.
Yes, you could buy alternative products but it's not always possible as there are markets where there is little (if any) competition.
Have you a night selector on lateral mirrors too? Ever tried driving at night on the speedway with SUVs trying to overtake you (slowly of course because they SUCK (in every possible way) at moderate/high speed), and all your mirrors reflecting too much light at you? I often have to use the left hand to block the excessive light from the left mirror! If you have to darken every mirror to not getting blinded they become useless. And don't tell me to buy an higher car or we're gonna to drive our vehicles with periscopes soon :P
SUVs are wrong. Period.
The current Neo 1973 (GTA01) is good enough to run Qtopia for developers. At this point the GreenPhone is no longer useful, as it was NEVER aimed for users. You didn't lose anything as a consumer. You had not a consumer phone with Greenphone, and it was based on some closed hardware. Now there is a project which is trying to launch a consumer ready phone, 99% open, where you can run either Qtopia or Openmoko.
The Greenphone died because other hardware capable of running Qtopia became available (eg FIC 1973); they didn't want to sell phones, they wanted something you can develop for Qtopia on.
Finally they can compete with Android with a decent platform. They probably have seen that Symbian is no longer good enough as a multitasking environment, and probably too difficult and expensive to add features to. And you would never ever attempt to run it on anything other than a phone thus making more difficult to build a whole platform ranging from small game consoles, PDAs, music players and the "next small thing" :)
> Where's the scandal here?
I don't know in US, but here in Italy it must be clearly obvious what is an advertising and what is not. For example if something is promoted during television shows you see a label somewhere on the screen which let you know you are watching some promotional content.
Maybe it's not law there, but for sure it's a scandal.