Apple did indeed have USB in their home computers before anyone else did.
Consciously transitioning away was a better option than waiting for ApplePort (or whatever it was called) to die from lack of demand. Just look at PS/2. Only recently have computers been shipped without it.
I think it's the environment. Daily life is simply more difficult (dense jungle, exotic diseases, empty deserts), so they didn't have a lot of free time to organize and develop civilization (Egypt is an exception, but they were insulated from the rest of the continent by a desert)
The mind-control signals travel through several million miles of vaccuum before entering Earth's atmosphere. What's a few more millimeters? Also, tinfoil actually amplifies the signals to the point of driving the wearers mad, so nobody believes them about the aliens. Of course, it's not really aliens on Cruithne, it's actually a secret government facility tha*&(#)$@#&) ***NO CARRIER***
It can consolidate Firefox, OpenOffice, and all other open source updates into one program. Closed source may continue to push their own, but if this becomes popular enough they may make a third-party repository and add it to the list the package manager checks (much like adding Wine's repositories)
...you only really have to give the source to your customers so I could envision a shop where access to forums, source code etc. pp is only available to paying customers.
And if you are comparing against Android rather than the iPhone, then the app store is very open, you can upload almost whatever you want within some basic limitations, like, you can't upload an app that violates some other services terms-of-service. Also, an app store is always fresh, because the latency from developers finishing QA on their binary and it being available to download is seconds, at least for Android.
In contrast, Linux distro repositories have a different philosophy:
I would be surprised if Novell allowed user-uploaded content in their app store. Too easy for it to get cluttered. Hopefully, though, they will allow adding third-party repositories. (Google Updater repository in Novell's package manager, on Windows? Hmm... Google Earth without the Google Desktop cruft!)
Wow. That hadn't occured to me. Novel makes an app store for Windwows (and Mac), exposing the users to one of the best features of Linux and BSD (with more apps available than Google Updater). Get all these users hooked on the convenience of having a single auto-update program instead of several, and then let them know that all of these apps they have adapted to are availiable on another, operating system that doesn't cost any money. They won't need to pay for Windows ME 3.0, when it comes out.
As someone that's never bothered to do much more than a while loop, I am pretty sure I could belt out an "count the number of times I press 'a' and the number of times I press 'b'" in less than 10 minutes.
If "scrumping" means making a copy of a car while leaving the original untouched and fully functional, then it already is socially acceptable (it's just not possible).
Assuming the patents are expired (more likely than any recent copyright being expired)
Here, try the "hairyfeet challenge" and see for yourself. Open up three tabs in your browser. go to Walmart.com, Bestbuy.com, and Staples.com. These are the big three when it comes to retail PC peripherals sales. Now in each store you place these three things, which are the big sellers here, and NO RESAERCH!. Remember, you are an average consumer. No cheating! Ready? An all in one printer, a USB Wifi stick, and a USB TV Tuner. Now if you want this simulation to be accurate, buy the cheapest, as most consumers buy on price. Now go to...lets say Ubuntu, go to their forums and see if the nine items you just "purchased" as three average shoppers works. Go on, I'll wait.
I actually have bought a USB Wifi stick (Netgear) with no research. I bought it before I had even heard of Linux, and it worked in fine in Ubuntu 7.04. My parents have had not one, but two inkjet multifunctions that printed without complaint (a Cannon and an HP). The Cannon was also bought prior to my introduction to Linux, and the HP was a 'gift' from someone that got it with a new PC (inkjets as gifts? With friends like these...). I can't comment on how well other functions worked because we never needed/tried to scan or fax anything.
Get Wine on there ASAP and you're away for a good number of Win apps too...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I get the impression that Wine doesn't translate across architectures. Any windows apps you hope to run on Wine would need to be compiled for Wine from source. So all ARM/Wine apps will either:
Be compiled for a Windows ARM port. But switching to ARM would be a good opportunity for Microsoft to make a clean break of backwards compatibility, perhaps with an entirely new OS line. Perhaps one called 'Chairs'?
Be an open source app compiled in ARM. Seeing as most open source apps are already ported to Linux, using Wine on ARM would have novelty value only.
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geekoid said that Asus and Gigabyte have 3.0 motherboards... I would surmise that they include third-party drivers on the CD.
Apple did indeed have USB in their home computers before anyone else did.
Consciously transitioning away was a better option than waiting for ApplePort (or whatever it was called) to die from lack of demand. Just look at PS/2. Only recently have computers been shipped without it.
[Betelgeuse] might go supernova in the near future
Might blow in the near future? Or might have blown a few million years ago and we could find out soon?
I foresee a large code contribution to the WINE project in the near future...
I think it's the environment. Daily life is simply more difficult (dense jungle, exotic diseases, empty deserts), so they didn't have a lot of free time to organize and develop civilization (Egypt is an exception, but they were insulated from the rest of the continent by a desert)
I can't bring myself to condemn someone who would fight against that kind of behavior.
Can you bring yourself to condemn those that weren't willing to take some time and make sure they are targeting the right person?
The mind-control signals travel through several million miles of vaccuum before entering Earth's atmosphere. What's a few more millimeters? Also, tinfoil actually amplifies the signals to the point of driving the wearers mad, so nobody believes them about the aliens. Of course, it's not really aliens on Cruithne, it's actually a secret government facility tha*&(#)$@#&) ***NO CARRIER***
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Whoops. Completely missed 11. I've been tracking 12.
(Alpha comes out July 7)
I wasn't referring to 7. But MS will inevitably have another fiasco some day. (Almost) Anything can happen given infinite time.
It can consolidate Firefox, OpenOffice, and all other open source updates into one program. Closed source may continue to push their own, but if this becomes popular enough they may make a third-party repository and add it to the list the package manager checks (much like adding Wine's repositories)
...you only really have to give the source to your customers so I could envision a shop where access to forums, source code etc. pp is only available to paying customers.
Works for Red Hat.
And if you are comparing against Android rather than the iPhone, then the app store is very open, you can upload almost whatever you want within some basic limitations, like, you can't upload an app that violates some other services terms-of-service. Also, an app store is always fresh, because the latency from developers finishing QA on their binary and it being available to download is seconds, at least for Android.
In contrast, Linux distro repositories have a different philosophy:
I would be surprised if Novell allowed user-uploaded content in their app store. Too easy for it to get cluttered. Hopefully, though, they will allow adding third-party repositories. (Google Updater repository in Novell's package manager, on Windows? Hmm... Google Earth without the Google Desktop cruft!)
Wow. That hadn't occured to me. Novel makes an app store for Windwows (and Mac), exposing the users to one of the best features of Linux and BSD (with more apps available than Google Updater). Get all these users hooked on the convenience of having a single auto-update program instead of several, and then let them know that all of these apps they have adapted to are availiable on another, operating system that doesn't cost any money. They won't need to pay for Windows ME 3.0, when it comes out.
A web frontend a la CNR?
Friendlier. Like Debian/Ubuntu's gnome-app-install.
The obvious way to do addition in gcc c would be:
totalVotes[candidate]++;
but this will totally screw up the vote count.
Why will it screw up? A bug? gcc trying to force good coding practices? Ignorant minds want to know.
As someone that's never bothered to do much more than a while loop, I am pretty sure I could belt out an "count the number of times I press 'a' and the number of times I press 'b'" in less than 10 minutes.
if it were always illegal, then everyone on Slashdot, and in fact almost everyone who uses the internet for anything, would be a criminal
Yeah. The RIAA interpretation of copyright law doesn't exactly account for browser cache, now does it?
If "scrumping" means making a copy of a car while leaving the original untouched and fully functional, then it already is socially acceptable (it's just not possible).
Assuming the patents are expired (more likely than any recent copyright being expired)
Here, try the "hairyfeet challenge" and see for yourself. Open up three tabs in your browser. go to Walmart.com, Bestbuy.com, and Staples.com. These are the big three when it comes to retail PC peripherals sales. Now in each store you place these three things, which are the big sellers here, and NO RESAERCH!. Remember, you are an average consumer. No cheating! Ready? An all in one printer, a USB Wifi stick, and a USB TV Tuner. Now if you want this simulation to be accurate, buy the cheapest, as most consumers buy on price. Now go to...lets say Ubuntu, go to their forums and see if the nine items you just "purchased" as three average shoppers works. Go on, I'll wait.
I actually have bought a USB Wifi stick (Netgear) with no research. I bought it before I had even heard of Linux, and it worked in fine in Ubuntu 7.04. My parents have had not one, but two inkjet multifunctions that printed without complaint (a Cannon and an HP). The Cannon was also bought prior to my introduction to Linux, and the HP was a 'gift' from someone that got it with a new PC (inkjets as gifts? With friends like these...). I can't comment on how well other functions worked because we never needed/tried to scan or fax anything.
Because compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe.
--Paraphrase of a quote usually attributed to Einstein.
So is the monochrome display on my watch.
Get Wine on there ASAP and you're away for a good number of Win apps too...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I get the impression that Wine doesn't translate across architectures. Any windows apps you hope to run on Wine would need to be compiled for Wine from source. So all ARM/Wine apps will either: