Re:Sorry, but I don't see that this is very useful
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Dynamic scaling of windows is possible if you can apply an arbitrary transform to something before displaying it - which would make it possible to zoom windows in and out fairly trivially. And it's transparency in general, not transparent windows, which is useful - this allows antialiasing, among other things, to work properly. (Not that I'm a Berlin programmer or user, just an observer...)
What exactly is the proportion of people with more-than-slight astigmatism, anyway? I've noticed that opticians seem to cater a lot less for people with astigmatism - no disposable contacts, normal contacts cost twice as much, 'ready in an hour' places take a week to make your glasses up, and now I discover if I want laser correction the surgery's more complex too...
Personally I see Berlin as a piece of bluesky development. It may work, or it may not, but even if it eventually doesn't succeed we should be prepared to learn lessons from it rather than brush it under the carpet. Annoyingly, that appears to be what people are doing already; "Why are people developing Berlin when they could be doing something productive?" / "It's not the way *I'd* do it..." / "Based on my limited understanding of what they're supposed to be achieving, it's got problems x, y and z".
People should let them write what they want to write and be prepared to learn from the results rather than pooh-poohing the idea out of hand.
I can see why people would want to stop NASA doing the same sort of bluesky work (though I don't agree with it), given that it's costly, but Berlin costs nothing; why on earth do people seem to want to knock it on the head?
For years, one of the biggest arguments from the hacker community against the harsh prosecution of people like Kevin Mitnick has been the idea that looking at source code doesn't harm a company.
*You* lose. Now, if ever you write something again, you run the risk of accidentally incorporating Sun's IP into it, which breaks the SCSL and they can sue. This is why companies go to such effort to have clean room development.
I should just note I don't believe this is Sun's intention. It's just a consequence of the licensing terms.
So basically we're left with an infrastructure that truly *is* universally available(power company goes *almost everywhere*, because private power is still expensive--this'll change), but we can't use these wires all over the place because of a failure in foresight.
Rather an expensive form of foresight, though...
Several years ago, someone in the UK found a more innovative way of using the power grid for telecoms. Instead of worrying about using the wire itself, they strung fibre optic cable round the large pylon-carried cables national grid - a cheaper way of making a national telecoms network than burying the cables...
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Dynamic scaling of windows is possible if you can apply an arbitrary transform to something before displaying it - which would make it possible to zoom windows in and out fairly trivially.
And it's transparency in general, not transparent windows, which is useful - this allows antialiasing, among other things, to work properly.
(Not that I'm a Berlin programmer or user, just an observer...)
I'm using it at the moment, with ReiserFS on top (I was playing). Very nice it is too.
http://linux.msede.com/lvm/ (from memory)
What exactly is the proportion of people with more-than-slight astigmatism, anyway? I've noticed that opticians seem to cater a lot less for people with astigmatism - no disposable contacts, normal contacts cost twice as much, 'ready in an hour' places take a week to make your glasses up, and now I discover if I want laser correction the surgery's more complex too...
Umm, but no-one in the UK transmits PAL Plus.
;-)
Get a digital box, you know you want to.
--
Froggie, who loves his widescreen telly.
Personally I see Berlin as a piece of bluesky development. It may work, or it may not, but even if it eventually doesn't succeed we should be prepared to learn lessons from it rather than brush it under the carpet. Annoyingly, that appears to be what people are doing already; "Why are people developing Berlin when they could be doing something productive?" / "It's not the way *I'd* do it..." / "Based on my limited understanding of what they're supposed to be achieving, it's got problems x, y and z".
People should let them write what they want to write and be prepared to learn from the results rather than pooh-poohing the idea out of hand.
I can see why people would want to stop NASA doing the same sort of bluesky work (though I don't agree with it), given that it's costly, but Berlin costs nothing; why on earth do people seem to want to knock it on the head?
*You* lose. Now, if ever you write something again, you run the risk of accidentally incorporating Sun's IP into it, which breaks the SCSL and they can sue. This is why companies go to such effort to have clean room development.
I should just note I don't believe this is Sun's intention. It's just a consequence of the licensing terms.
Rather an expensive form of foresight, though...
Several years ago, someone in the UK found a more innovative way of using the power grid for telecoms. Instead of worrying about using the wire itself, they strung fibre optic cable round the large pylon-carried cables national grid - a cheaper way of making a national telecoms network than burying the cables...