This is the same information that the kernel uses to determine what device drivers to load for you. Mandrake took advantage of this for the very first 3D card (voodoo) supported by Linux and did it all automagically.
The same goes for USB.
While LIRC is a convoluted a beast. It's also had automated configuration support since 2007.
Mandrake already did this a long time ago with tools developed by Redhat.
The main fundemental problem with the whole "but Canonical must find some way to make money" is the fact that they really don't do much besides packaging. As far as distributors go, they are the biggest moochers contributing the least amount to upstream projects that ALL distributions benefit from.
"detecting your hardware" is s function of how PCI and USB are designed. It's done by the kernel. Canonical really doesn't have a lot to do with it.
No. It's the dumbest thing heard all year because they haven't really tried anything yet. They're frustrated because "They've tried nothing and it doesn't seem to work". Little wonder.
They might try some more conventional approaches before being total scumbags.
A higher res screen doesn't make the laptop terribly high end. It's just a nice advertising bullet point for idiots that pride themselves in having no clue about what they are buying.
Apple is form over function and design that escalates price for no good reason while also reducing maintainability and useful lifespan.
I should be able to use what I was using before. The "new hotness" does not require ripping out what was there before. This is why Unity gets grief. It really has nothing to do with "being different".
Rights are only appropriately applied to liberties. You never have the right to someone else's property or labor. Goods and services are not something you can have a "right" to.
Access may be a compelling social good but it is absurd to call it a right.
This reminds me of my college days when I knew a rock bassist who's day job was being an office manager somewhere.
No one was ever promised a bed of roses here. "Hand Sandwich" is very much par for the course. You might also be expected to do all of your own initial marketing before a major label ever looks at you assuming they would even bother.
The Internet doesn't so much change rules as it makes things transparent. You can't hide ugly secrets anymore. They're out there for everyone to see and the word can spread fast.
If you decide that you are going to be a 4th chair classical violinist then you simply have to deal with the choices you made. No one should be stepping up to bail you out of your own economic decisions just because they are contrary to the market.
If you're "in it for the money" then you're simply in the wrong business.
I am still waiting for "mobile devices" to catch up to the cheapest possible new PC I can lay my hands on. ARM based devices are impressive enough as long as you cripple them well enough so that it doesn't become obvious that you are running something on par with a PC from the 90s.
Beyond that, they fall on their face very quickly and quite spectacularly.
That's why you need things like transcoding servers, special print servers, and "the cloud".
...or some component might become rediculously obsolete before the rest of the machine. That's why desktop PCs can live forever. You can just plop in a new NIC or network card.
> Anything you can do in an office with a PC, you can do with a VM with a thin client.
At which point you've got sufficient computing to just compute locally. Chances are your "terminal" isn't going to be any cheaper either. This stuff has been done and tried and abandoned once or twice already by now.
When I was in high school you could buy a non-PC home computer for $300 and it ran circles around a kludge clone. The idea that you need a Lemming driven PC mentality in order to have sufficient economy of scale for home computing is just a Lemming fantasy.
State jurisdiction? Like having the right to own another human being? You mean that kind of "state jurisdiction"? The question of whether or not rights specified by the Bill of Rights can be enforced within states by the federal government is already well established. It's not 1850 any more.
States don't get to trample your rights. We had a big war about it and everything.
I wonder if this is a concept that was before it's time much like the flying wing. Early prototypes of flying wings failed and it was thought that the entire concept was discarded until the B-2 was exposed to the world.
I can "re-invent" something trivial and violate a patent and not even be aware of it.
Patents are supposed to ease the burden rather than make it greater. That is something lost on patent boosters that have this misguided idea that society should be more open to granting 20 year long monopolies (especially on trivial things).
Apple does the last 5% or 1% of tweaking. They do it very well. While it's amazing how much a few lines of code can add to the usefulness of a large project, hat doesn't mean that the one percent-er should be able to come along and claim ownership on everything and lock every one else out.
That's Apple in a nutshell. Tweak that last %1 and claim that they invented and own the whole ball of wax.
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Why stop there.
Just do "sudo apt-get remove unity.*"
Regular expressions are a beatiful thing.
Need to know about your motherboard?
lspci
This is the same information that the kernel uses to determine what device drivers to load for you. Mandrake took advantage of this for the very first 3D card (voodoo) supported by Linux and did it all automagically.
The same goes for USB.
While LIRC is a convoluted a beast. It's also had automated configuration support since 2007.
Mandrake already did this a long time ago with tools developed by Redhat.
The main fundemental problem with the whole "but Canonical must find some way to make money" is the fact that they really don't do much besides packaging. As far as distributors go, they are the biggest moochers contributing the least amount to upstream projects that ALL distributions benefit from.
"detecting your hardware" is s function of how PCI and USB are designed. It's done by the kernel. Canonical really doesn't have a lot to do with it.
It's long past time to deflate the Ubuntu hype.
...yes because the only alternative to Crassus Maximus is Julius Ceasar.
No. It's the dumbest thing heard all year because they haven't really tried anything yet. They're frustrated because "They've tried nothing and it doesn't seem to work". Little wonder.
They might try some more conventional approaches before being total scumbags.
A higher res screen doesn't make the laptop terribly high end. It's just a nice advertising bullet point for idiots that pride themselves in having no clue about what they are buying.
Apple is form over function and design that escalates price for no good reason while also reducing maintainability and useful lifespan.
> rather than the usual GPL zealot approach of Plagiarism-then-shouting-innovation.
In truth, that pretty much describes the entire industry and creative efforts in general.
Bitching about "innovation" generally is a smokescreen to excuse abusive, anti-competitive, and monopolistic business practices.
The question is entirely irrelevant.
I should be able to use what I was using before. The "new hotness" does not require ripping out what was there before. This is why Unity gets grief. It really has nothing to do with "being different".
Canonical pulled a Microsoft.
Rights are only appropriately applied to liberties. You never have the right to someone else's property or labor. Goods and services are not something you can have a "right" to.
Access may be a compelling social good but it is absurd to call it a right.
This reminds me of my college days when I knew a rock bassist who's day job was being an office manager somewhere.
No one was ever promised a bed of roses here. "Hand Sandwich" is very much par for the course. You might also be expected to do all of your own initial marketing before a major label ever looks at you assuming they would even bother.
The Internet doesn't so much change rules as it makes things transparent. You can't hide ugly secrets anymore. They're out there for everyone to see and the word can spread fast.
If you decide that you are going to be a 4th chair classical violinist then you simply have to deal with the choices you made. No one should be stepping up to bail you out of your own economic decisions just because they are contrary to the market.
If you're "in it for the money" then you're simply in the wrong business.
I am still waiting for "mobile devices" to catch up to the cheapest possible new PC I can lay my hands on. ARM based devices are impressive enough as long as you cripple them well enough so that it doesn't become obvious that you are running something on par with a PC from the 90s.
Beyond that, they fall on their face very quickly and quite spectacularly.
That's why you need things like transcoding servers, special print servers, and "the cloud".
Steve made a shitty analogy.
Most people like trucks. They are more useful. They have even been morphed into family cars that were a Detroit cash cow for awhile.
No. PCs aren't trucks. They're just regular cars.
Steve was just trying to denigrate PCs to distract from the fact that he's a scooter salesman.
A PC can run better software and can also run the same Debian style software management tools that are on your phone.
...or some component might become rediculously obsolete before the rest of the machine. That's why desktop PCs can live forever. You can just plop in a new NIC or network card.
> Anything you can do in an office with a PC, you can do with a VM with a thin client.
At which point you've got sufficient computing to just compute locally. Chances are your "terminal" isn't going to be any cheaper either. This stuff has been done and tried and abandoned once or twice already by now.
It's like 3D movies...
...and mainframes. Let us not forget mainframes that are supposed to be long dead by now.
Cramming a 3.5 inch drive into a monitor without making the monitor larger?
They must be using some form of Gallifreyan dimensional warping technology there.
When I was in high school you could buy a non-PC home computer for $300 and it ran circles around a kludge clone. The idea that you need a Lemming driven PC mentality in order to have sufficient economy of scale for home computing is just a Lemming fantasy.
Baen already has a DRM free digital library and has since before the whole eBook thing ever caught on.
State jurisdiction? Like having the right to own another human being? You mean that kind of "state jurisdiction"? The question of whether or not rights specified by the Bill of Rights can be enforced within states by the federal government is already well established. It's not 1850 any more.
States don't get to trample your rights. We had a big war about it and everything.
I wonder if this is a concept that was before it's time much like the flying wing. Early prototypes of flying wings failed and it was thought that the entire concept was discarded until the B-2 was exposed to the world.
That's the real problem with patents.
I can "re-invent" something trivial and violate a patent and not even be aware of it.
Patents are supposed to ease the burden rather than make it greater. That is something lost on patent boosters that have this misguided idea that society should be more open to granting 20 year long monopolies (especially on trivial things).
Patents are toxic waste treated like candy.
Apple does the last 5% or 1% of tweaking. They do it very well. While it's amazing how much a few lines of code can add to the usefulness of a large project, hat doesn't mean that the one percent-er should be able to come along and claim ownership on everything and lock every one else out.
That's Apple in a nutshell. Tweak that last %1 and claim that they invented and own the whole ball of wax.
"Redacting" a document is altering evidence.
It's pretty blatant really.
It's much like faking video evidence.