Where can I put an MMC/SmartMedia/CompactFlash or memory stick?? That's a decisive minus in my book.
On the other hand, the fact that no other ones have a consumer IR port means all the others now have a decisive minus too:o)
Guess I'll just have to wait for a perfect one to come along. I'd like to see more standardisation in the components that they include in these things.
I think what I'd like to see is a linux distribution focussed on entertainment and ease of use. then you could buy whatever hardware you want and feel you can afford, install the distro and it would catalog your hardware and attempt to fit it all together into it's UI.
so _if_ you've bought a DVD player, it'll to rip your DVDs. _if_ you've bought a consumer IR receiver, it'll accept commands from it. _if_ you've got an internet connection, it'll get the TV schedules and do the TIVO stuff. and so on.
all this stuff is available, what would be a leap would be to make it easy to install and tie it all together. and making it a distro means that your hardware remains modular.
there is an alternative way of looking at these problems - kind of a best of both worlds approach. it's not a simple continuum.
they could order the things that they are going to change, do the most important first (eg gtk 2.0 compatibility), progressing in small steps from one stable state to another stable state. (kind of like refactoring).
then of course you can branch your source control to attack 2 goals at the same time.
gcc 3.0 (in some kind of feature freeze at the moment) implements a (promised) stable C++ ABI.
Also, that ABI is cross-vendor so I presume that this means you'll be able to link with C++ libraries compiled with other compilers.
btw, microsoft broke binary compatibility in some of their core libraries (i think it was msvcrt.dll) when they released VC++ 6. I was outraged at the time, and it made things very awkward but, for instance, the Red Hat 7 situation is incomparably worse.
I used to live in Detroit and every year would see a lot of downed power lines.
They don't explicitly explain (at least in this article) what effect the new cables will have on the prevalence of downed lines. However, they do mention that they're more brittle so unless they're much stronger, it seems as though this problem will get worse.
Am I correct?
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there doesn't seem to be mention of an rsync type approach, which is odd considering the bandwidth problems they're trying to address.
each device is required to maintain a change log for each server that it syncs with. could get expensive in terms of memory if you don't sync for a while, especially on small devices. however, does anybody have an alternative other than a complete resync every time?
one of the things it's based on is that each item to be synced will have a unique ID, which is something that can't be relied upon to exist at the moment. hopefully, this will encourage PIM writers etc to implement these as it makes things much simpler. the only alternative i can see is to compare items every time to try and find similarities which is fraught with difficulties;)
the best sync stuff i've used has been truesync by starfish, so it's encouraging to see them involved.
i'm not so sure about requiring that a real person make the decision. people can be even more irrational than these credit score systems. maybe a better solution would be to require that the scoring system be made public and therefore open to criticism.
as i understand it though, the credit reporting agencies refuse to make their calculating procedures public because they are "trade secrets"
It had a one paper deactivation energy for me. The tool I was using was so bad the word LaTeX still leaves a bad taste in my mouth (press about 5 keys in succession to get a subscript, worse than tekken:) )
This was about 7 years ago though, maybe the tools are better now?
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The new stuff in.NET may be reimplementable but it's a _relatively_ thin layer that runs on top of COM with all that implies. The vast majority of things that people compile to IL will be dependent on 3rd party & Microsft components. This implies that our hypothetical new Linux user would be running WINE.
Going this way, I don't think people would notice a difference running on top of Linux since they'd be running a gigantic raft of windows based dlls and COM dlls rather than anything native.
It's Windows software. Does Windows software _really_ run better on Linux than Windows?
i just started with a semiconductor testing company and i found out that memory usually has "bad blocks" which they can route around by blowing a link with a laser. they add redundant banks just for this purpose, it's cheaper to have that redundancy than scrap the whole chip.
so now (or soon) we will be able to do the same thing with software that they already do during the manufacturing process, presumeably for chips that go bad after they leave the fab?
suppose one person has a total worth of $10 and another person has a total worth of $1,000,000. does it sound reasonable that gains of $10 each will add equally to their happiness?
maybe i've misunderstood but this consumer surplus argument doesn't stand up for me. do they really teach this kind of stuff in college? i can barely believe it.
it has other weaknesses - for instance, you can just check out the first few seconds of the song when you start downloading it to see if it's full of "cuckoos". maybe a better approach would be to spoil the song with cuckoos at some later point. it would also help with the "lack of virility" problem because people might download a whole bunch of stuff to listen to later. before they listen to it, maybe someone else has downloaded it from them and it's spread like a virus. although i disagree with his opinions on this, i think it's great that he's doing it. if enough people really do agree with him then it'll make systems like napster unworkable. whoa! democracy! cool:o)
although you use the phrase "intellectual property rights", copyrighted material isn't actually property - if it were then the copyright wouldn't run out.
it doesn't share other aspects of the normal definition of property either - eg you can "own" it as much as the original "owner", without depriving them of the "ownership" of it (by copying).
so i don't think that your arguments apply. of course what do i know? the law is full of nonsense, i wouldn't be surprised if it works as you say:(
he kept the code private long enough for his website reach a strong position, and make tons of cash. Then he released the code that was actually running the site. not that there's anything wrong with that.
I agree that they would like us to be rich and prosperous, but they don't necessarily want us to be free to think, have choices or to protect the environment.
They would like us to be controlled by advertising, have no choice but their company.
And they would like to use natural resources to make money as fast as possible, rather than conserve them.
Doesn't this make sense from a "company's point of view"? Does it make sense from our point of view?
The only method I can see for this to change is for open source projects to incorporate themselves, allowing them to become their own masters.
I don't see this as a solution for the developers - it's more like capitulation to the very corporatism that you claim most open source developers reject.
Making a corporation of some sort out of the developers means tying all of them to the corporate policy. This would, if anything, make it easier for the money-making corporations to get their way because if they can change the policy then all the developers have to go along.
I think a better idea is to trust in the current "democratic" approach - and maybe support developers who have the courage to reject unwelcome changes coming from for-profit corporations.
i think you're missing the point. he's saying that Internet Explorer is becoming the new windows and as such, giving it to the applications division is tantamount to giving them windows and they'll be able to do it all over again
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Where can I put an MMC/SmartMedia/CompactFlash or memory stick?? That's a decisive minus in my book.
:o)
On the other hand, the fact that no other ones have a consumer IR port means all the others now have a decisive minus too
Guess I'll just have to wait for a perfect one to come along. I'd like to see more standardisation in the components that they include in these things.
I think what I'd like to see is a linux distribution focussed on entertainment and ease of use. then you could buy whatever hardware you want and feel you can afford, install the distro and it would catalog your hardware and attempt to fit it all together into it's UI.
so _if_ you've bought a DVD player, it'll to rip your DVDs. _if_ you've bought a consumer IR receiver, it'll accept commands from it. _if_ you've got an internet connection, it'll get the TV schedules and do the TIVO stuff. and so on.
all this stuff is available, what would be a leap would be to make it easy to install and tie it all together. and making it a distro means that your hardware remains modular.
Are the distributed trust metrics of Advogato and sourceforge the type of thing that might provide a solution to the first problem?
But TV (and radio?) have a trusted ratings system - clickthrough is an attempt to replicate that ratings system for websites.
Maybe if the website viewing statistics were believed more...
A difference between DivX and this is that there was an alternative to DivX (standard DVDs).
If you want a certain PS2 game this will probably be the only way to get it so people may go for this scheme.
there is an alternative way of looking at these problems - kind of a best of both worlds approach. it's not a simple continuum.
they could order the things that they are going to change, do the most important first (eg gtk 2.0 compatibility), progressing in small steps from one stable state to another stable state. (kind of like refactoring).
then of course you can branch your source control to attack 2 goals at the same time.
gcc 3.0 (in some kind of feature freeze at the moment) implements a (promised) stable C++ ABI.
Also, that ABI is cross-vendor so I presume that this means you'll be able to link with C++ libraries compiled with other compilers.
btw, microsoft broke binary compatibility in some of their core libraries (i think it was msvcrt.dll) when they released VC++ 6. I was outraged at the time, and it made things very awkward but, for instance, the Red Hat 7 situation is incomparably worse.
I used to live in Detroit and every year would see a lot of downed power lines.
They don't explicitly explain (at least in this article) what effect the new cables will have on the prevalence of downed lines. However, they do mention that they're more brittle so unless they're much stronger, it seems as though this problem will get worse.
Am I correct?
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It's at a similar stage to the agenda, but has the advantage of an MMC slot
it's a small point but the live backup solution is free (no money down)
there doesn't seem to be mention of an rsync type approach, which is odd considering the bandwidth problems they're trying to address.
each device is required to maintain a change log for each server that it syncs with. could get expensive in terms of memory if you don't sync for a while, especially on small devices. however, does anybody have an alternative other than a complete resync every time?
one of the things it's based on is that each item to be synced will have a unique ID, which is something that can't be relied upon to exist at the moment. hopefully, this will encourage PIM writers etc to implement these as it makes things much simpler. the only alternative i can see is to compare items every time to try and find similarities which is fraught with difficulties ;)
the best sync stuff i've used has been truesync by starfish, so it's encouraging to see them involved.
i'm not so sure about requiring that a real person make the decision. people can be even more irrational than these credit score systems. maybe a better solution would be to require that the scoring system be made public and therefore open to criticism.
as i understand it though, the credit reporting agencies refuse to make their calculating procedures public because they are "trade secrets"
It had a one paper deactivation energy for me. The tool I was using was so bad the word LaTeX still leaves a bad taste in my mouth (press about 5 keys in succession to get a subscript, worse than tekken :) )
This was about 7 years ago though, maybe the tools are better now?
The new stuff in .NET may be reimplementable but it's a _relatively_ thin layer that runs on top of COM with all that implies. The vast majority of things that people compile to IL will be dependent on 3rd party & Microsft components. This implies that our hypothetical new Linux user would be running WINE.
Going this way, I don't think people would notice a difference running on top of Linux since they'd be running a gigantic raft of windows based dlls and COM dlls rather than anything native.
It's Windows software. Does Windows software _really_ run better on Linux than Windows?
I think it's in the part saying:
"provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States"
i just started with a semiconductor testing company and i found out that memory usually has "bad blocks" which they can route around by blowing a link with a laser. they add redundant banks just for this purpose, it's cheaper to have that redundancy than scrap the whole chip.
so now (or soon) we will be able to do the same thing with software that they already do during the manufacturing process, presumeably for chips that go bad after they leave the fab?
suppose one person has a total worth of $10 and another person has a total worth of $1,000,000. does it sound reasonable that gains of $10 each will add equally to their happiness?
maybe i've misunderstood but this consumer surplus argument doesn't stand up for me. do they really teach this kind of stuff in college? i can barely believe it.
it has other weaknesses - for instance, you can just check out the first few seconds of the song when you start downloading it to see if it's full of "cuckoos". maybe a better approach would be to spoil the song with cuckoos at some later point. it would also help with the "lack of virility" problem because people might download a whole bunch of stuff to listen to later. before they listen to it, maybe someone else has downloaded it from them and it's spread like a virus. although i disagree with his opinions on this, i think it's great that he's doing it. if enough people really do agree with him then it'll make systems like napster unworkable. whoa! democracy! cool :o)
although you use the phrase "intellectual property rights", copyrighted material isn't actually property - if it were then the copyright wouldn't run out.
:(
it doesn't share other aspects of the normal definition of property either - eg you can "own" it as much as the original "owner", without depriving them of the "ownership" of it (by copying).
so i don't think that your arguments apply. of course what do i know? the law is full of nonsense, i wouldn't be surprised if it works as you say
the article says that they support CDRW, which means UDF.
he kept the code private long enough for his website reach a strong position, and make tons of cash. Then he released the code that was actually running the site. not that there's anything wrong with that.
I agree that they would like us to be rich and prosperous, but they don't necessarily want us to be free to think, have choices or to protect the environment.
They would like us to be controlled by advertising, have no choice but their company.
And they would like to use natural resources to make money as fast as possible, rather than conserve them.
Doesn't this make sense from a "company's point of view"? Does it make sense from our point of view?
how about muscle wires? they contract when you put a current through them.
The only method I can see for this to change is for open source projects to incorporate themselves, allowing them to become their own masters.
I don't see this as a solution for the developers - it's more like capitulation to the very corporatism that you claim most open source developers reject.
Making a corporation of some sort out of the developers means tying all of them to the corporate policy. This would, if anything, make it easier for the money-making corporations to get their way because if they can change the policy then all the developers have to go along.
I think a better idea is to trust in the current "democratic" approach - and maybe support developers who have the courage to reject unwelcome changes coming from for-profit corporations.
i think you're missing the point. he's saying that Internet Explorer is becoming the new windows and as such, giving it to the applications division is tantamount to giving them windows and they'll be able to do it all over again