Frankly, seeing how Ubuntu totally gimped gdm-setup, removed the ability to use remote-x and a chooser and other such *digressions* they've implemented, I'm on Gnome's side.
Do you have some links to this info? I've always been told by many different people that it's VLIW on the other side of the CISC decoder, 'basically an itanium but not quite'
No kidding. I can't believe that in this day and age when computers are ubiquitous that Hollywood is still treating them like semi-magic boxes.
C'mon.. you're talking about the exact same people who still haven't realized the entire planet WANTS digital distribution of content and hate / can't justify paying $40 for a filthy cinema seat with dust on the projector lens and sticky floors.
This is actually the case BECAUSE they have no idea what a computer is. They do think it's just a magic box that does stuff that occasionally leads to free money or the end of the world.
if by 'pretty good' you mean 'isn't CE2, CE3, PocketPC 2002, PocketPC 2003, WM2003, WM4/5/6' then yeahh it's awesome. It still felt pretty 'flat' thought compared to iphone, maemo, and android. Probably an OK starting point but hardly up to speed yet.
Royalties and settlements are usually how it happens. The injunctions aren't to stop the device from existing.. they simply freeze transactions on it until a hearing determines what royalties if any are owed. It's only when the offending party refuses to adhere to these royalties and continues profiting from someone else's invention without permission that a cease and desist is issued and/or product is destroyed..
I doubt 3g or even 4g could keep up with streaming decent quality video. Specially in my country where coverage is sparse, cells over-committed, and networks are patchy at best
God I hate that microsoft ad.. as far as I can tell they're RDP'ing to their home pc anyway. wtf does that have to do with the cloud?! the entire marketing campaign is flawed.
If I release something as FLOSS, that doesn't mean you can just turn around and sell it. FLOSS gives you the right to modify and redistribute, it doesn't give you ownership nor does it take ownership away from me
So the guys who are in trouble for selling 'Blender' that were on slashdot just the other day are in the clear because it's FLOSS and not public domain?
I think you're contradicting yourself
And it's easy to fix without changing lib or ffmpeg versions either.. it's just a miscompile. still they won't fix it for god knows what bureaucratic reasons..
'Improved' is a matter of perspective. It's been going downhill lately. Less innovation, more breakages with every release. Serious and glaring bugs going ignored for years on end. Tried to use 2-pass encoding with libx264 and ffmpeg on 10.xx recently? Known bug since 9.10 was released and completely ignored. And it's not a minor bug either, it's actually broken the pipelines of several production studios and marketing agencies I've dealt with, who have all had to switch distros now just to be able to do what they used to be able to do in earlier ubuntu versions. It's dying, we need to let it.
That's the thing though. It's not FREEware. It's open source software. Huuuuuuuuuge difference. Making something open source does not remove your rights to administer the project how you see fit. It does however mean someone can FORK it if they wish to administer it differently. What Canonical is doing is imo bordering on the illegal. They should fork banshee if they want to countermand the original devs' wishes.
Appearances can be deceiving. Having lived and studied in both places for extensive lengths of time, I can honestly say they're not at all very different in the regards you mentioned. *South* Australia does have some pretty recent draconian laws in place regarding speech (unsurprisingly, they were instigated by the same attorney general who was blocking the r18+ rating and who is no longer in the picture so much) but this nothing when you're comparing to America's unfettered pursuit of Assange for bringing heinous acts committed by government and military into the public spotlight. Something ALL journalists used to do as a matter of course but now they're all gimped, brainwashed, or forcefully restrained from doing so. The packagings might be different but the end-product inside is the same in both countries really.
If it did, graf_chokolo's reaction is, to put it bluntly, stupid (at the very least, his database, which by its nature contains a full copy of the hypervisor, is copyright infringement if nothing else). Bad plan if you are in fact the target of legal action. He needs a lawyer ASAP.
Documentation about the hypervisor must contain the full complete hypervisor? *That* makes no sense, sorry.
Might have still been a bad plan though, throwing fuel on the fire. Or maybe it was a 'If I can't have it no one can!' last-ditch death throw kind of move.. poison the well?
Yes. Like how all those users who call their system cases 'hard drives', 'modems' and 'monitors' diluting the meaning of all the terms involved don't in any way cause confusion and misunderstanding amongst support staff and other savvy users by misusing them as such.
I'm sorry but a dynamic meaning is different to outright misuse. And as it stands, something still being usable albeit in a limited fashion is NOT bricked. Bricked can have many shades of meaning but even in the most liberal form, it is misused here plain and clear.
if we now call magic science, what do we call what we used to call science?
I'd suggest 'common sense' but senseless people keep claiming that term still applies to them too.
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Frankly, seeing how Ubuntu totally gimped gdm-setup, removed the ability to use remote-x and a chooser and other such *digressions* they've implemented, I'm on Gnome's side.
Do you have some links to this info? I've always been told by many different people that it's VLIW on the other side of the CISC decoder, 'basically an itanium but not quite'
It's VLIW (very long instruction word) architecture in case anyone wants to look it up.
It's VLIW (very long instruction word) architecture in case anyone wants to look it up
No kidding. I can't believe that in this day and age when computers are ubiquitous that Hollywood is still treating them like semi-magic boxes.
C'mon.. you're talking about the exact same people who still haven't realized the entire planet WANTS digital distribution of content and hate / can't justify paying $40 for a filthy cinema seat with dust on the projector lens and sticky floors. This is actually the case BECAUSE they have no idea what a computer is. They do think it's just a magic box that does stuff that occasionally leads to free money or the end of the world.
if by 'pretty good' you mean 'isn't CE2, CE3, PocketPC 2002, PocketPC 2003, WM2003, WM4/5/6' then yeahh it's awesome. It still felt pretty 'flat' thought compared to iphone, maemo, and android. Probably an OK starting point but hardly up to speed yet.
well, s/cease and desist/permanent injunction/
Royalties and settlements are usually how it happens. The injunctions aren't to stop the device from existing.. they simply freeze transactions on it until a hearing determines what royalties if any are owed. It's only when the offending party refuses to adhere to these royalties and continues profiting from someone else's invention without permission that a cease and desist is issued and/or product is destroyed..
I doubt 3g or even 4g could keep up with streaming decent quality video. Specially in my country where coverage is sparse, cells over-committed, and networks are patchy at best
God I hate that microsoft ad.. as far as I can tell they're RDP'ing to their home pc anyway. wtf does that have to do with the cloud?! the entire marketing campaign is flawed.
That's the best kind of bacon. I hate not-crispy bacon, the flavor just isn't the same.
If I release something as FLOSS, that doesn't mean you can just turn around and sell it. FLOSS gives you the right to modify and redistribute, it doesn't give you ownership nor does it take ownership away from me
So the guys who are in trouble for selling 'Blender' that were on slashdot just the other day are in the clear because it's FLOSS and not public domain? I think you're contradicting yourself
And it's easy to fix without changing lib or ffmpeg versions either.. it's just a miscompile. still they won't fix it for god knows what bureaucratic reasons..
'Improved' is a matter of perspective. It's been going downhill lately. Less innovation, more breakages with every release. Serious and glaring bugs going ignored for years on end. Tried to use 2-pass encoding with libx264 and ffmpeg on 10.xx recently? Known bug since 9.10 was released and completely ignored. And it's not a minor bug either, it's actually broken the pipelines of several production studios and marketing agencies I've dealt with, who have all had to switch distros now just to be able to do what they used to be able to do in earlier ubuntu versions. It's dying, we need to let it.
That's the thing though. It's not FREEware. It's open source software. Huuuuuuuuuge difference. Making something open source does not remove your rights to administer the project how you see fit. It does however mean someone can FORK it if they wish to administer it differently. What Canonical is doing is imo bordering on the illegal. They should fork banshee if they want to countermand the original devs' wishes.
Appearances can be deceiving. Having lived and studied in both places for extensive lengths of time, I can honestly say they're not at all very different in the regards you mentioned. *South* Australia does have some pretty recent draconian laws in place regarding speech (unsurprisingly, they were instigated by the same attorney general who was blocking the r18+ rating and who is no longer in the picture so much) but this nothing when you're comparing to America's unfettered pursuit of Assange for bringing heinous acts committed by government and military into the public spotlight. Something ALL journalists used to do as a matter of course but now they're all gimped, brainwashed, or forcefully restrained from doing so. The packagings might be different but the end-product inside is the same in both countries really.
We'd be commonwealths of England, that's what.
I'm not sure I see that anything would be different if that were the case. 'What's in a name?'
Ahh.. So it's the Reverse Vampires behind it all. I see now.
Ah right. I thought it was just docs.. That changes things a bit.
If it did, graf_chokolo's reaction is, to put it bluntly, stupid (at the very least, his database, which by its nature contains a full copy of the hypervisor, is copyright infringement if nothing else). Bad plan if you are in fact the target of legal action. He needs a lawyer ASAP.
Documentation about the hypervisor must contain the full complete hypervisor? *That* makes no sense, sorry. Might have still been a bad plan though, throwing fuel on the fire. Or maybe it was a 'If I can't have it no one can!' last-ditch death throw kind of move.. poison the well?
Why else would a trashy celebrity news site follow him around?
Slashdot?
Yes. Like how all those users who call their system cases 'hard drives', 'modems' and 'monitors' diluting the meaning of all the terms involved don't in any way cause confusion and misunderstanding amongst support staff and other savvy users by misusing them as such.
I'm sorry but a dynamic meaning is different to outright misuse. And as it stands, something still being usable albeit in a limited fashion is NOT bricked. Bricked can have many shades of meaning but even in the most liberal form, it is misused here plain and clear.
if we now call magic science, what do we call what we used to call science? I'd suggest 'common sense' but senseless people keep claiming that term still applies to them too.
and now 'time' makes everything right