For those of us that actually experienced those times, and actually remember them, that was back when PCs didn't even come with ANY audio capacity by default. You usually needed a 3rd party enhancement. One company in particular was prominent in this area. You've probably never heard of them.
Bundling CD drives with 3rd party sound cards was also a thing.
Environmental disturbances that rearrange the deck chairs and push evolution forward are as much a part of the "circle of life" as anything else. Doesn't matter if it's a natural cause or unnatural cause.
That's just the brutal reality out there in nature.
It's nothing like your cubicle or your sub/urban cage.
Prices will rise simply due to inflation and the intentional devaluation of currency. A reprise in one decade is probably a very misleading an self serving little data point.
Threading and other means of taking advantage multiple CPUs is really very old. It's only the use of them in PCs that's relatively new and even that's not terribly new.
The Aspire One might not have the hardware to take advantage of (or rather tolerate) the level of multithreading in a more recent OS.
This is a big problem in general. Many laws are written ostensibly with the purpose of protecting individuals or consumers but individuals have no standing under the law to pursue violations.
This is the kind of crap that leads to only megacorps being able to sue other companies for blatantly false advertising or blatantly false labeling.
The government also has not rights. It has a limited number of powers that are restricted by the constitution.
Modern pop culture has this flipped where government gets to do anything they want and it's individuals that are stuck on an ever shrinking island of rights that must be explicitly stated.
It's understood by pretty much everyone including judges in New York that rights of individuals are intended to be interpreted expansively and that the role of government is to be interpreted in a restrictive manner.
There's even some explicit legal language to that effect.
Utter hogwash. Linux is a Unix. As such it can run pretty much anywhere because it's designed to be source compatible with itself. All you have to do is port it to another platform.
Linux is very much like CP/M in this respect, something you conveniently ignored.
Linux actually did run on ALL of the early competitors to the PC.
The first actual Linux user I ever met in the flesh ran it on an Atari. Atari even had it's own version of SystemV that it never quite embraced.
In truth, Linux ran on all of the 68K machines and had those machines survived it would be a "unified experience" as much as any individual Linux user would want to make it.
Even now, Linux is moving into ARM servers and hobby machines and it runs in so many embedded systems that you're probably surrounded with Linux machines and don't even know it.
Lore was the proverbial Jobs or Gates of that particular enterprise.
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Actually, frustration with a device driver was one of the first things that inspired RMS to create the whole Free Software concept.
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Hauppauge does. Their driver package contains a proprietary application that they don't own. So they have to pay for every copy they ship.
The equivalent tools in Linux are all free and can even those can be replaced with simple UNIX IO redirection.
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> The GPL forces you to put everything you code into a locked-down public domain garden
Nope. Not even close.
This is why Oracle and Electronic Arts can build their products on top of L/GPL code. The only people that can't handle this are sociopaths that have a toddlers understanding of ownership.
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So Sony has to put up an FTP server with a copy of LIRC on it.
I bet they're crying a river over that...
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...and that only applies to that shared resource you've modified.
Your own stuff is still "safe". It's as if you built your work on top of any other commercial API out there. They don't let you create derivative works and claim ownership of those either. Most people wouldn't want to. It defies the point of exploiting someone else's reusable code.
We have already had a case of a cranky California homeowner taking out a drone with a shotgun. In the worst case, shoot it with a rifle from a direction you know the shot will be harmless if you miss.
Plus, this is forest fires we're talking about. That means that this is the kind of place that hunters already discharge firearms.
Clueless liberals from the concrete jungle need to stay home and stay out of the way.
People also ignore policy because they understand it and realize that it's stupid. My personal favorite is avoiding Internet Exploder. I've seen colleagues out of action for days because of stuff injected into their systems from apparently quite legitimate websites.
Now in the bigger corps I can see reason for extra rules. They seek to reduce any task to the level where it only requires a trained monkey. So you end up with nothing but trained monkeys. You don't want those kinds of users thinking for themselves and acting out.
This reminds me of why I defected to a package based distribution back in the 90s. I was trying to install GNUstep and got bogged down in building all of the dependencies.
No. If there aren't usable Debian packages for it then no one should even be talking about it yet. All of you blithering fanboys should just keep your collective trap shut until something that's remotely of some use emerges.
Until then it's a misguided fantasy (at best) and vaporware.
"Neckbeards" aren't impressed with change because they've seen several cycles of it before. They also aren't taken in with "new shiny shiny" because they also have enough experience to realize the new isn't always better.
I don't have any problems with "proper hardware acceleration" or "multi-display support".
Perhaps you should stop the self-flaggelation and stop using total crap.
In fact, not wanting to give up on "proper hardware acceleration" is the number one reason I despise Wayland. Remote support is a bit of a distant 2nd.
Wayland won't make the drivers that currently suck suck any less. It will just lock you out of the ones that don't suck.
> (And if you haven't noticed, X remote access is already second-class to thinks like RDP and SPICE.)
X WAN access is not bad with caching and compression.
On the other hand, being second-class is far preferable to being THIRD-CLASS like crap they have in MacOS. THAT is what you get when you casually dismiss the idea of the whole "remote X" thing. You end up with something that's total garbage and is unusable even on a Gigabit LAN.
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A PC without sound is what's so... nineties.
For those of us that actually experienced those times, and actually remember them, that was back when PCs didn't even come with ANY audio capacity by default. You usually needed a 3rd party enhancement. One company in particular was prominent in this area. You've probably never heard of them.
Bundling CD drives with 3rd party sound cards was also a thing.
Environmental disturbances that rearrange the deck chairs and push evolution forward are as much a part of the "circle of life" as anything else. Doesn't matter if it's a natural cause or unnatural cause.
That's just the brutal reality out there in nature.
It's nothing like your cubicle or your sub/urban cage.
Prices will rise simply due to inflation and the intentional devaluation of currency. A reprise in one decade is probably a very misleading an self serving little data point.
Bentley and Rolls Royce would not use that excuse.
That browser is in no way modern.
That's something you can run on a VMS terminal, a relic so old that it probably predates you.
Threading and other means of taking advantage multiple CPUs is really very old. It's only the use of them in PCs that's relatively new and even that's not terribly new.
The Aspire One might not have the hardware to take advantage of (or rather tolerate) the level of multithreading in a more recent OS.
This is a big problem in general. Many laws are written ostensibly with the purpose of protecting individuals or consumers but individuals have no standing under the law to pursue violations.
This is the kind of crap that leads to only megacorps being able to sue other companies for blatantly false advertising or blatantly false labeling.
Except society has no rights.
The government also has not rights. It has a limited number of powers that are restricted by the constitution.
Modern pop culture has this flipped where government gets to do anything they want and it's individuals that are stuck on an ever shrinking island of rights that must be explicitly stated.
Given the state of forfeiture laws in this country, landlords certainly have an interest in preserving their own rights in such cases.
It's understood by pretty much everyone including judges in New York that rights of individuals are intended to be interpreted expansively and that the role of government is to be interpreted in a restrictive manner.
There's even some explicit legal language to that effect.
Utter hogwash. Linux is a Unix. As such it can run pretty much anywhere because it's designed to be source compatible with itself. All you have to do is port it to another platform.
Linux is very much like CP/M in this respect, something you conveniently ignored.
Linux actually did run on ALL of the early competitors to the PC.
The first actual Linux user I ever met in the flesh ran it on an Atari. Atari even had it's own version of SystemV that it never quite embraced.
In truth, Linux ran on all of the 68K machines and had those machines survived it would be a "unified experience" as much as any individual Linux user would want to make it.
Even now, Linux is moving into ARM servers and hobby machines and it runs in so many embedded systems that you're probably surrounded with Linux machines and don't even know it.
Lore was the proverbial Jobs or Gates of that particular enterprise.
Actually, frustration with a device driver was one of the first things that inspired RMS to create the whole Free Software concept.
Hauppauge does. Their driver package contains a proprietary application that they don't own. So they have to pay for every copy they ship.
The equivalent tools in Linux are all free and can even those can be replaced with simple UNIX IO redirection.
> The GPL forces you to put everything you code into a locked-down public domain garden
Nope. Not even close.
This is why Oracle and Electronic Arts can build their products on top of L/GPL code. The only people that can't handle this are sociopaths that have a toddlers understanding of ownership.
So Sony has to put up an FTP server with a copy of LIRC on it.
I bet they're crying a river over that...
...and that only applies to that shared resource you've modified.
Your own stuff is still "safe". It's as if you built your work on top of any other commercial API out there. They don't let you create derivative works and claim ownership of those either. Most people wouldn't want to. It defies the point of exploiting someone else's reusable code.
We have already had a case of a cranky California homeowner taking out a drone with a shotgun. In the worst case, shoot it with a rifle from a direction you know the shot will be harmless if you miss.
Plus, this is forest fires we're talking about. That means that this is the kind of place that hunters already discharge firearms.
Clueless liberals from the concrete jungle need to stay home and stay out of the way.
People also ignore policy because they understand it and realize that it's stupid. My personal favorite is avoiding Internet Exploder. I've seen colleagues out of action for days because of stuff injected into their systems from apparently quite legitimate websites.
Now in the bigger corps I can see reason for extra rules. They seek to reduce any task to the level where it only requires a trained monkey. So you end up with nothing but trained monkeys. You don't want those kinds of users thinking for themselves and acting out.
Don't be an idiot. You know that "chemicals" in the vernacular doesn't mean you or your lunch.
This reminds me of why I defected to a package based distribution back in the 90s. I was trying to install GNUstep and got bogged down in building all of the dependencies.
No. If there aren't usable Debian packages for it then no one should even be talking about it yet. All of you blithering fanboys should just keep your collective trap shut until something that's remotely of some use emerges.
Until then it's a misguided fantasy (at best) and vaporware.
The Wayland fanboys are certainly in full force today upvoting any mindless worship and downvoting anyone with a contrary opinion.
BTW, a contrary opinion is not trolling.
That's something else you know if you're an "old neckbeard".
Isn't that supposed to be what sophisticated code reuse concepts from CIS 101 are supposed to be for?
Only the X developers should be whining about the burdens of coding X.
"Neckbeards" aren't impressed with change because they've seen several cycles of it before. They also aren't taken in with "new shiny shiny" because they also have enough experience to realize the new isn't always better.
I don't have any problems with "proper hardware acceleration" or "multi-display support".
Perhaps you should stop the self-flaggelation and stop using total crap.
In fact, not wanting to give up on "proper hardware acceleration" is the number one reason I despise Wayland. Remote support is a bit of a distant 2nd.
Wayland won't make the drivers that currently suck suck any less. It will just lock you out of the ones that don't suck.
> (And if you haven't noticed, X remote access is already second-class to thinks like RDP and SPICE.)
X WAN access is not bad with caching and compression.
On the other hand, being second-class is far preferable to being THIRD-CLASS like crap they have in MacOS. THAT is what you get when you casually dismiss the idea of the whole "remote X" thing. You end up with something that's total garbage and is unusable even on a Gigabit LAN.