But where are the ready-made commands to paste into terminal? The neat perl scripts? I thought the whole point of Mac was that you could use the UNIX underneath for administration? I mean if the extent of possibilities is "click here, then click here" you might as well run server 2003.
I thought all distros used the same drivers, with maybe a few patches added by the distro maker. Could you give an example of a linux driver that is significantly different between distros? Not trying to be an ass, genuinely curious.
from TFA:
"This is a major step toward our goal of 50 percent efficiency," Barnett said. "The percentage is a record under any circumstance, but it's particularly noteworthy because it's at low concentration, approximately 20 times magnification. The low profile and lack of moving parts translates into portability, which means these devices easily could go on a laptop computer or a rooftop."
I guess this little bit of history won't be part of US public school education... ... and rightfully so since:
1) The War of 1812 was between England and the USA (Canada as a country didn't exist yet)
2) The White House was always a "white house", even before the war. Furthermore it was almost completly demolished during the fire, and took much more than a paint job to fix.
Yup, but not more:
DisplayPort 1.1 will be compatible with HDCP 1.3, allowing products using both DisplayPort and DVI or HDMI to share a common encryption key.
Not directly related, but Hungary is very much into open source. Also, according to google analytics for my open source project, I get quite a few hits from Hungary. And remember European Firefox usage from a few weeks ago? Hungary is one of the leading adopters of Firefox in the world.
I wonder if this kind of IT culture has any bearing on how hard they will go after M$.
Mozilla Thunderbird is to move to a 'new separate organizational setting' Translation:
We are killing Thunderbird and replacing it with penelope. Yes, we lied.
Has anyone actually read the licenses in question? They are relatively simple and straightforward.
The biggest worry with many here is in regards to M$ and their use of patents, but in these we have:
"each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license under its licensed patents"
and "If you bring a patent claim against any contributor over patents that you claim are infringed by the software, your patent license from such contributor to the software ends automatically."
Now, IANAL, but it looks like you can't sue contributors over patent issues. If they become approved by OSI, and M$ releases some good stuff under them, then all the better, no?
For wi-fi, yes, there are legal restrictions set forth by the FCC which prevent a device from operating at a certain frequency. This is controlled by firmware/drivers, so that the same hardware can be used in different countries with different legal requirements.
For music and video, they are not legal restrictions, only the greed of the entertainment industry forcing hardware vendors to lock down their devices to prohibit fair use (under the pretense of combating piracy).
I think we will eventually see open drivers from amd/ati, after all Intel has open-sourced theirs, so AMD will want to as well. Anything to get their hardware selling I would think. Especially for the server market, where AMD is doing (relatively) well, and the video hardware isn't bleeding edge (I know there are some open reversed-engineered drivers, but it would be nice to have some official ones).
When it comes down to it, as the underdog, AMD has the most to gain, and the least to lose, by open-sourcing their video drivers. And if/when they do, Nvidia will be under pressure to follow suit.
In any case, I would be happy with better support, open or not. With a growing install base and good, stable, 3D graphics it would also make the game companies not completely ignore Linux. Here's to hoping civilization V is cross-platform! (hey, they already started down that path by using much python for IV)
Manufacturers have seen this and responded accordingly. By making the simple phones with no extra functionality more expensive than a fully loaded device in Japan?
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But where are the ready-made commands to paste into terminal? The neat perl scripts? I thought the whole point of Mac was that you could use the UNIX underneath for administration? I mean if the extent of possibilities is "click here, then click here" you might as well run server 2003.
I thought all distros used the same drivers, with maybe a few patches added by the distro maker. Could you give an example of a linux driver that is significantly different between distros? Not trying to be an ass, genuinely curious.
They announced this exactly a year ago!
... before this study.
1) The War of 1812 was between England and the USA (Canada as a country didn't exist yet)
2) The White House was always a "white house", even before the war. Furthermore it was almost completly demolished during the fire, and took much more than a paint job to fix.
Keep in mind this bill is not passed into law (yet ??). So there is still time to try to stop it!
Ya I know, online petition is not the best way. Write to your representatives if you can.
What's next at NASA, a crazy love triangle? Oh wait ...
Not directly related, but Hungary is very much into open source. Also, according to google analytics for my open source project, I get quite a few hits from Hungary. And remember European Firefox usage from a few weeks ago? Hungary is one of the leading adopters of Firefox in the world. I wonder if this kind of IT culture has any bearing on how hard they will go after M$.
How many people will confuse 'Cisco' with 'Crisco'?
We are killing Thunderbird and replacing it with penelope. Yes, we lied.
Has anyone actually read the licenses in question? They are relatively simple and straightforward.
The biggest worry with many here is in regards to M$ and their use of patents, but in these we have:
"each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license under its licensed patents"
and
"If you bring a patent claim against any contributor over patents that you claim are infringed by the software, your patent license from such contributor to the software ends automatically."
Now, IANAL, but it looks like you can't sue contributors over patent issues. If they become approved by OSI, and M$ releases some good stuff under them, then all the better, no?
For wi-fi, yes, there are legal restrictions set forth by the FCC which prevent a device from operating at a certain frequency. This is controlled by firmware/drivers, so that the same hardware can be used in different countries with different legal requirements. For music and video, they are not legal restrictions, only the greed of the entertainment industry forcing hardware vendors to lock down their devices to prohibit fair use (under the pretense of combating piracy).
I think we will eventually see open drivers from amd/ati, after all Intel has open-sourced theirs, so AMD will want to as well. Anything to get their hardware selling I would think. Especially for the server market, where AMD is doing (relatively) well, and the video hardware isn't bleeding edge (I know there are some open reversed-engineered drivers, but it would be nice to have some official ones).
When it comes down to it, as the underdog, AMD has the most to gain, and the least to lose, by open-sourcing their video drivers. And if/when they do, Nvidia will be under pressure to follow suit.
In any case, I would be happy with better support, open or not. With a growing install base and good, stable, 3D graphics it would also make the game companies not completely ignore Linux. Here's to hoping civilization V is cross-platform! (hey, they already started down that path by using much python for IV)