This is funny because my initial impression of CUPS was that it was a step BACKWARDS in some ways. The very features that Apple is using as an excuse to gut CUPS now were already being done with LPD before CUPS even existed.
"Driver less printing" is very old news.
Still it seems a bit gratuitous that Apple would remove anything.
CUPS can already support Apple's new tablet printing mechanism with some very minor tweaks. Perhaps that's why.
Making the code free doesn't address any sort of patent problem. So it doesn't really matter how much of a BSD troll you want to be. The BSDL and any other non-commercial license has exactly the same problems as the GPL. The GPL is hardly special here.
Patent encumbered standards are an entirely orthogonal set of problems to software freedom.
Better to be a "cargo cult follower" than to ignore the evidence that is already quite obvious if you just bother to pay any attention to the evolution of these devices.
Given what's already in these devcies, I find the suggestion that you should avoid something like SQLite of all things due to its "high overhead" simply hilarious.
Trying to pretend you're running an Atari 400 and can code in nothing but assembler has it's own problems.
The main advantages Intel has are power consumption on the low end and top speed on the high end. In the middle, AMD parts still yield a better bang for the buck because the combination of CPU and (good) motherboard ends up being cheaper with AMD.
My own experience with Intel shows them to be space heaters.They are also an epic fail when it comes to bundleware GPUs (add more money to the Intel build to fix that).
Modern systems have been a collection of multiple processes or threads for a rather long time now. If anything, it's the argument for fast cores that is weaker. There are a few things for which fast cores matter. These are typically highly compute intensive applications that are also poorly written and there are not really that many of those.
Most users simply don't need a lot of processing power. When they do, they can usually get by with more capacity spread across slower cores.
This version of the story seems to contradict the letter received by the parent.
Furthermore, school cafeterias have been providing milk to students that bring their own lunch since before any of us here were born. The idea that anyone mixed up "get some milk" with "get some different food" is somewhat absurd.
Managing expectations is a very big part of this. If kids are less bombarded by junk food propaganda and the junk food itself, they tend to have less of a taste for it (big surprise). What this "teacher" has done is sabotaged that process.
Feeding McFood to someone else's 4 year old should be a flogging offense.
>> These were the people who determined that ketchup counted as a serving of vegetables. > > Yeah! As any real scientist would tell you, it's a serving of fruit!
Depends on the quantity.
Although if you are using that much of it than it's "Time for Timer" to tell you to stop drowning your food. Although I am not sure that's really a bad thing anyways.
You are making up any excuse to justify what the government official did regardless of whether or not it makes any sense or not. You don't even care if you make the government officials look like even bigger morons in the process.
The authority of the parent was being subverted. Clearly they parent made the choice to avoid the crap that the school serves. It is likely that the parent does not consider McFood acceptable. The state is undermining a parent's attempts to teach suitably healthy eating habits.
The school should mind it's own business and get it's own house in order.
They should get rid of the McFood and give parents a reason to let their kids eat cafeteria food again.
The funny thing is that this "myth" was well established long before he published any sort of rebuttal.
This is ancient history. It happened decades ago and finding evidence now would be difficult even if you knew where to look. Chances are that any such corroboration faded away by the time that rebuttal was published.
That's funny because I just tried to install a Linux RTS game on a couple of my other machines. Neither one of them was equipped to deal with it. "Better drivers" on Windows didn't help the Win7 box. I didn't even try the Mac; it was trailing edge when it was new.
Good enough changes year by year and people find new ways to exploit hardware that some people might have thought is "tapped out".
VDPAU and VAAPI are both good examples of that.
I would still ditch pretty much any embedded GPU on the market today and replace it with something less lame.
> I can't really think of any reason I would want a Windows or Linux tablet.
Data flows freely between it and other devices on the network. I can host NFS shares and connect to SMB shares without any nonsense. I can save what I want where I want. I can run any program I want. I run CUPS directly rather than depending on another PC to do it for me. I don't need something like Plex or AirVideo to decode stuff.
Although this all boils down to "things Apple doesn't let you do" rather than the technology itself.
Slashdot Mirror
This is funny because my initial impression of CUPS was that it was a step BACKWARDS in some ways. The very features that Apple is using as an excuse to gut CUPS now were already being done with LPD before CUPS even existed.
"Driver less printing" is very old news.
Still it seems a bit gratuitous that Apple would remove anything.
CUPS can already support Apple's new tablet printing mechanism with some very minor tweaks. Perhaps that's why.
Making the code free doesn't address any sort of patent problem. So it doesn't really matter how much of a BSD troll you want to be. The BSDL and any other non-commercial license has exactly the same problems as the GPL. The GPL is hardly special here.
Patent encumbered standards are an entirely orthogonal set of problems to software freedom.
Better to be a "cargo cult follower" than to ignore the evidence that is already quite obvious if you just bother to pay any attention to the evolution of these devices.
Given what's already in these devcies, I find the suggestion that you should avoid something like SQLite of all things due to its "high overhead" simply hilarious.
Trying to pretend you're running an Atari 400 and can code in nothing but assembler has it's own problems.
Time Bubble? Not really.
The main advantages Intel has are power consumption on the low end and top speed on the high end. In the middle, AMD parts still yield a better bang for the buck because the combination of CPU and (good) motherboard ends up being cheaper with AMD.
My own experience with Intel shows them to be space heaters.They are also an epic fail when it comes to bundleware GPUs (add more money to the Intel build to fix that).
Modern systems have been a collection of multiple processes or threads for a rather long time now. If anything, it's the argument for fast cores that is weaker. There are a few things for which fast cores matter. These are typically highly compute intensive applications that are also poorly written and there are not really that many of those.
Most users simply don't need a lot of processing power. When they do, they can usually get by with more capacity spread across slower cores.
It's difficult to be taken seriously for any sort of pro-anything stance when you come off like a creationist.
Youre an idiot. Proper is about the solution not destroying itself because important parts are missing
It's front page news in other places. I'm not sure it should be on Slashdot though.
However, I do think backlash triggered by this story is a good thing and serves as a useful message to the class of government employee involved.
This version of the story seems to contradict the letter received by the parent.
Furthermore, school cafeterias have been providing milk to students that bring their own lunch since before any of us here were born. The idea that anyone mixed up "get some milk" with "get some different food" is somewhat absurd.
Managing expectations is a very big part of this. If kids are less bombarded by junk food propaganda and the junk food itself, they tend to have less of a taste for it (big surprise). What this "teacher" has done is sabotaged that process.
Feeding McFood to someone else's 4 year old should be a flogging offense.
>> These were the people who determined that ketchup counted as a serving of vegetables.
>
> Yeah! As any real scientist would tell you, it's a serving of fruit!
Depends on the quantity.
Although if you are using that much of it than it's "Time for Timer" to tell you to stop drowning your food. Although I am not sure that's really a bad thing anyways.
It's vinegar and tomato paste. Drown away.
Sure you are.
You are making up any excuse to justify what the government official did regardless of whether or not it makes any sense or not. You don't even care if you make the government officials look like even bigger morons in the process.
Sometimes stupid is stupid.
Like that makes things any better?
This means that "educators" can't effectively communicate with a child in their care.
Do you really want to leave it at that?
Some people will buy into any absurd nonsense just to win a petty argument.
The authority of the parent was being subverted. Clearly they parent made the choice to avoid the crap that the school serves. It is likely that the parent does not consider McFood acceptable. The state is undermining a parent's attempts to teach suitably healthy eating habits.
The school should mind it's own business and get it's own house in order.
They should get rid of the McFood and give parents a reason to let their kids eat cafeteria food again.
If you can't be bothered, you can ignore a lot of the finer details in Oracle just as much as you would be prone to with any other RDBMS.
Are you kidding? In an Oracle discussion?
We're talking very large numbers here, and potentially more money than you will make in your entire lifetime.
Some one definitely cares. They may bite their tongue and still buy Oracle but they do care. The numbers are not trivial.
I will be happy (but not satisfied) when just a mere 1TB SSD does not cost the same as a house or a (decent) car.
The funny thing is that this "myth" was well established long before he published any sort of rebuttal.
This is ancient history. It happened decades ago and finding evidence now would be difficult even if you knew where to look. Chances are that any such corroboration faded away by the time that rebuttal was published.
That's funny because I just tried to install a Linux RTS game on a couple of my other machines. Neither one of them was equipped to deal with it. "Better drivers" on Windows didn't help the Win7 box. I didn't even try the Mac; it was trailing edge when it was new.
Good enough changes year by year and people find new ways to exploit hardware that some people might have thought is "tapped out".
VDPAU and VAAPI are both good examples of that.
I would still ditch pretty much any embedded GPU on the market today and replace it with something less lame.
....conflating what's possible with what's desired.
One of these depends on human nature and the other one depends on physics.
OK then. You've got 10 years. Get going.
A "real geek" already has a cron job that covers it.
That's the best you have to offer? Bragging that the iPad is being used as an overpriced e-book reader? That's rediculously generic and unimpressive.
> I can't really think of any reason I would want a Windows or Linux tablet.
Data flows freely between it and other devices on the network. I can host NFS shares and connect to SMB shares without any nonsense. I can save what I want where I want. I can run any program I want. I run CUPS directly rather than depending on another PC to do it for me. I don't need something like Plex or AirVideo to decode stuff.
Although this all boils down to "things Apple doesn't let you do" rather than the technology itself.
"innovation" needs freedom.
You forgot the sarcasm tag, didn't you?