Very true. There are cases where food aid peaks after the drought is over, thus unintentionally depressing the market for the indigenous farmers, which end up between the proverbial rock and hard place.
Also, donations of used clothes predatorily competing against local garment industries. No matter the other faults of OLPC, at least we know for sure it's not going to disadvantage local hardware manufacturers, since in all likelihood there will be none.
My mistake. So it's more like how binaries generated by the Intel C compiler would refuse to turn on the SSE codepath when executing on AMD processors - pretend your competitor is not compatible.
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Microsoft did do something similar in the past. Windows 3.1 (AFAIR) would check if it was running on top of DR-DOS, and if so would randomly fail.
If Python is a scripting language, then so is Java
Just because something is a scripting language does not mean it's not scaleable, but just because Python is scalable (used appropriately) does not mean that, ergo, Java is also a scripting language.
Scripting language = ease of prototyping. Python, LUA, and at a stretch, Lisp and Scheme are in. Java is certainly not, though some languages that run on the Java platform, like Groovy and Rhino, are.
That may eventually change - one of the tough choices when going GPL is eventually people send you big patches that you want to be able to redistribute, and then you have to worry about obeying the GPL on what is no longer wholly your own code
Ah, but Sun requires a Contributor Agreement for any contribution, which makes them joint owners of those contributions, and can probably offer them under any license they choose.
True communism has not been, and will probably never be, practiced, but in theory the state will wither away in the end. i.e. communists aspire to be anarchists. So in that sense, equating open source with communism is not entirely wrong, though less appropriate than a connotation with anarchism.
Of course, historically communist leaders have tended to be too authoritarian and anarchist 'leaders' have tended to be too, um, disorganized.
Also remember that Ballmer's number 1 hate figure, RMS, is not even anti-business. You can sell GPL software for money, as Trolltech (Qt), Red Hat (RHEL, JBoss) and Sun (StarOffice/OpenOffice, Solaris, and now Java) are doing.
IANAL, but does this just count as additional limitation under the same license, or would the reworked license count as a new license altogether (i.e. not the same version 2.0 that OSI approved)
Microsoft's problem is that they cannot release as fast as Apple can, so someone there probably concluded that instead of selling them new versions of Windows every one or two years, they can get their money by charging several times for the same thing. The user won't even have to reinstall.. oh wait, it's a good idea to reinstall anyway.
Actually, the default GNOME theme is no longer Bluecurve, but Clearlooks. The KDE desktop that is shipped by Fedora still defaults to Bluecurve.. the funny thing, of course, is that Plastik looks closer to Clearlooks than Bluecurve does.
As a Fedora Extras contributor, my advice is, of course, to bugzilla it. Ask that the default theme be changed; the UI folks probably just forgot.
Even that is rather slow.. perhaps story submitters could be asked to select which of their links are dynamically-driven, and the rest should be automatically Coralized?
You do have a point.. particularly given the one-size-fits-all requirement that nations to buy at least one million of these laptops each. Still, though this is not for countries still at subsistence level, given the worry about the growing digital divide there is probably a niche that OLPC or a similar device will end up filling, even if it's not the one its proponents and detractors envisage.
I wrote a reply on my journal - but to summarize, the skepticism on price presupposes that governments would shoulder the entire cost of buying these machines. An obvious solution would be to either keep them the property of schools, that students take turns using, or sell them (probably subsidized) to students.
Sound-juicer really depends on GStreamer, and with FLAC at least, all the settings I could pass to the command-line flac encoder could be passed to the flacenc module..
Is the lame module for GStreamer more feature-limited? I use flac2mp3 to generate my MP3s, sorry.
It's a Gnome application, so a lot of the nice settings are tucked away and you need to fire up gconf-editor to edit them.
All of the folder/file name settings I used in Grip can be duplicated in sound-juicer. YMMV though.. and it's been quite stable since 2.14.0. The only thing it does not do is cache the result of CD look-ups, so if you want to rip a CD where there's no Internet access you're on your own.
When most other CD rippers for both KDE and GNOME support MusicBrainz (amaroK, sound-juicer, banshee, etc.), there is less of a need to use Grip.
Personally, I switched over to sound-juicer when I discovered that sound-juicer embeds the MB metadata when encoding to Ogg or FLAC. It makes it much easier to refer to the particular track again later.
This is curious. On Windows, iTunes 7 ships with Apple Software Update, but.. err, the update is not made available yet. My iTunes is still at version 7.0.0.70, and since I don't use it much (my Mac-formatted iPod syncs to my iBook) I'm not so keen on redownloading 25MB.
Funny, it does not quit immediately on my iBook (OS X 10.4.7 / PPC). On the other hand it does not seem to bog down the system either, according to top.
... center-right and has a "strong ideological commitment to a free-market economy combined with support for comprehensive social welfare programs." That sounds pretty much like the Dem's in the US...
The *centrist* Democrats. The left "liberal" wing of the Democratic party was against NAFTA and FTAA.
.. there will be more of a push by manufacturers like Dell to ship Vista x64 systems, which means incentive for peripheral makers to write 64-bit drivers. The dearth of drivers that cripple XP x64 might be avoided this time round (it helps that, starting next month or so, Intel's line-up is all 64-bit enabled (funny that they managed this before Vista comes out too, and not because Microsoft was waiting for them)
Rhapsody is really an underrated competitor. They've been offering songs at $0.89 each for quite a while. And non-Windows users can still stream music using Firefox with their plugin - which is as much as Real can do, unless Microsoft allows the porting of WMA's Janus DRM to Linux and OS X.
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Very true. There are cases where food aid peaks after the drought is over, thus unintentionally depressing the market for the indigenous farmers, which end up between the proverbial rock and hard place.
Also, donations of used clothes predatorily competing against local garment industries. No matter the other faults of OLPC, at least we know for sure it's not going to disadvantage local hardware manufacturers, since in all likelihood there will be none.
My mistake. So it's more like how binaries generated by the Intel C compiler would refuse to turn on the SSE codepath when executing on AMD processors - pretend your competitor is not compatible.
Microsoft did do something similar in the past. Windows 3.1 (AFAIR) would check if it was running on top of DR-DOS, and if so would randomly fail.
Just because something is a scripting language does not mean it's not scaleable, but just because Python is scalable (used appropriately) does not mean that, ergo, Java is also a scripting language.
Scripting language = ease of prototyping. Python, LUA, and at a stretch, Lisp and Scheme are in. Java is certainly not, though some languages that run on the Java platform, like Groovy and Rhino, are.
Ah, but Sun requires a Contributor Agreement for any contribution, which makes them joint owners of those contributions, and can probably offer them under any license they choose.
True communism has not been, and will probably never be, practiced, but in theory the state will wither away in the end. i.e. communists aspire to be anarchists. So in that sense, equating open source with communism is not entirely wrong, though less appropriate than a connotation with anarchism.
Of course, historically communist leaders have tended to be too authoritarian and anarchist 'leaders' have tended to be too, um, disorganized.
Also remember that Ballmer's number 1 hate figure, RMS, is not even anti-business. You can sell GPL software for money, as Trolltech (Qt), Red Hat (RHEL, JBoss) and Sun (StarOffice/OpenOffice, Solaris, and now Java) are doing.
IANAL, but does this just count as additional limitation under the same license, or would the reworked license count as a new license altogether (i.e. not the same version 2.0 that OSI approved)
If not, would it not need to be recertified?
Most non-Slashdot readers would probably know them more from their ownership of The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Vogue.
Microsoft's problem is that they cannot release as fast as Apple can, so someone there probably concluded that instead of selling them new versions of Windows every one or two years, they can get their money by charging several times for the same thing. The user won't even have to reinstall .. oh wait, it's a good idea to reinstall anyway.
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Actually, the default GNOME theme is no longer Bluecurve, but Clearlooks. The KDE desktop that is shipped by Fedora still defaults to Bluecurve .. the funny thing, of course, is that Plastik looks closer to Clearlooks than Bluecurve does.
As a Fedora Extras contributor, my advice is, of course, to bugzilla it. Ask that the default theme be changed; the UI folks probably just forgot.
Site is Slashdotted, use the Coral cache of it.
.. perhaps story submitters could be asked to select which of their links are dynamically-driven, and the rest should be automatically Coralized?
Even that is rather slow
You do have a point .. particularly given the one-size-fits-all requirement that nations to buy at least one million of these laptops each. Still, though this is not for countries still at subsistence level, given the worry about the growing digital divide there is probably a niche that OLPC or a similar device will end up filling, even if it's not the one its proponents and detractors envisage.
I wrote a reply on my journal - but to summarize, the skepticism on price presupposes that governments would shoulder the entire cost of buying these machines. An obvious solution would be to either keep them the property of schools, that students take turns using, or sell them (probably subsidized) to students.
Sound-juicer really depends on GStreamer, and with FLAC at least, all the settings I could pass to the command-line flac encoder could be passed to the flacenc module..
Is the lame module for GStreamer more feature-limited? I use flac2mp3 to generate my MP3s, sorry.
It's a Gnome application, so a lot of the nice settings are tucked away and you need to fire up gconf-editor to edit them.
All of the folder/file name settings I used in Grip can be duplicated in sound-juicer. YMMV though.. and it's been quite stable since 2.14.0. The only thing it does not do is cache the result of CD look-ups, so if you want to rip a CD where there's no Internet access you're on your own.
When most other CD rippers for both KDE and GNOME support MusicBrainz (amaroK, sound-juicer, banshee, etc.), there is less of a need to use Grip.
Personally, I switched over to sound-juicer when I discovered that sound-juicer embeds the MB metadata when encoding to Ogg or FLAC. It makes it much easier to refer to the particular track again later.
This is curious. On Windows, iTunes 7 ships with Apple Software Update, but .. err, the update is not made available yet. My iTunes is still at version 7.0.0.70, and since I don't use it much (my Mac-formatted iPod syncs to my iBook) I'm not so keen on redownloading 25MB.
Funny, it does not quit immediately on my iBook (OS X 10.4.7 / PPC). On the other hand it does not seem to bog down the system either, according to top.
The *centrist* Democrats. The left "liberal" wing of the Democratic party was against NAFTA and FTAA.
.. there will be more of a push by manufacturers like Dell to ship Vista x64 systems, which means incentive for peripheral makers to write 64-bit drivers. The dearth of drivers that cripple XP x64 might be avoided this time round (it helps that, starting next month or so, Intel's line-up is all 64-bit enabled (funny that they managed this before Vista comes out too, and not because Microsoft was waiting for them)
No, no, that would be two cents...
Maybe they're letting us know we need four RAM modules for optimal performance ..
You also forgot to update your signature - broken link!
Rhapsody is really an underrated competitor. They've been offering songs at $0.89 each for quite a while. And non-Windows users can still stream music using Firefox with their plugin - which is as much as Real can do, unless Microsoft allows the porting of WMA's Janus DRM to Linux and OS X.