Well, i do have some insider knowledge here. The "edit map" which is called "Map Share" is already released in the GO 520 and GO 720 products. And i think it is also be included in the just available TomTom ONE v3.
Also something to keep in mind is that this is in North America. Aren't most embedded devices being made in Asia? I'm not sure how big an event this conference is but i'm guessing that the bigger conference would be in Japan or Korea (or wherever they make all those embedded devices).
Now it would be interesting to have this same questionaire (translated) at other conferences as well and find out where all the embedded linux hackers hang out.
I've had a few minor difficulties with that; from what I can tell, the only reason chown is not generally available to normal users is the chance that someone could chown a file in his own home directory to somebody else and then be unable to touch it and need to get help from the admin to fix it.
Or they give away files to avoid their quota limitations...
Yes but those web apps have to run on an operating system and if the person who hosts this app wants to switch from windows to linux or from linux to the hurd (hey it'll be ready within the next ten years, no?) it would still be nice if it's portable.
This is probably no biggy with php but that's the scripting language bit of the book about i guess. But sometimes these web apps use some pogram which is not scripted. Google has some web apps but i don't think they can switch os easily in the backend.
Webapps are still a nice idea though. I wouldn't like it for everything though. You'll also still need a portable web browser. This book is for the mozilla people maybe.
Aha, i didn't know this. That explains the specs a bit more.
I don't see it as competition to opensource offerings, because a) it's not opensource and b) it's extremely limited. It's main use is to install it on a developer machine to make sure they don't mess with the real database.
And anyone considering this for embedded should probably go for sqlite instead.
Because if you take the root servers away from the US we won't be able to hurt your economy. The simple fact of the matter is that the United States could destroy most of the economies in the World simply by telling our citizens not to buy or sell things from/to them. You might begrudge us for having that kind of economic power but it's the reality of the situation and it isn't going to change anytime soon.
There seem to be some problems with this.
First of all, the citizens in the US like in many countries don't listen very well to this (something about freedom and stuff:-)), as an example think about Japan in the 80's. Second, how many people are there in the US and how much money (import/export) are we talking about. It's only a small percentage of the world economy (only talking citizens buying power here).
Further, i just don't think it's something that would go over well with the rest of the world. Even with all your leet military and economic powers you don't want too much enemies. You still owe the rest of the world quite some money as well. Let's just hope they don't all want it back at the same time:-).
He does know what he is doing. We hold Solaris to the same standards we hold other operating systems. We want it all, that is drivers for all sorts of old, new and exotic hardware + the scalability + reliability, etc.
That is what i expect from Linux and i have the same expectations from Solaris. Linux might (!!) not be there yet but when it gets there it has the reliability/scalability and it can still play mp3 files and drive silly old (and new) hardware that isn't supported by Solaris.
If i had to choose a government monopoly or a corportate monopoly i'd choose the government monopoly because at least they are controlled by me (the voter) where a corporate monopoly is only controlled by its shareholders which have only one goal (maximize profits).
But it would be better to not have monopolies at all. In some fields it is unavoidable (or very inefficient when avoided). The best example is probably the railway system, in the Netherlands this has been privatized and that was definitely not an improvement (it's a corporate monopoly now instead of a government monopoly). In Britain they privatized it as well and there they chose to make it not a monopoly. Unfortunately this didn't work out very well either (ask a brit).
Anyway, this is the first time I see D'66 do something that makes me actually happy with the vote I gave them:-)
If that is the first time it might be better to give your vote to the SP (Socialist Party) who gave us this motion and have been fighting against software patents all along.
I think you are right. I don't think this is a problem though. We're talking small/embeddable databases. If you need multiple transactions at a time you'd probably use a DBMS like MySQL or PostgreSQL, right?
well, Borland could possibly add their compiler "secrets" to gcc and thereby open up their compiler. Then they could get away from their own compiler and sell an IDE based on this "new" compiler. This would also allow them to sell it to all the existing gcc users.
Extra points for working nice with makefiles ofcourse:-)
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Well, i do have some insider knowledge here. The "edit map" which is called "Map Share" is already released in the GO 520 and GO 720 products. And i think it is also be included in the just available TomTom ONE v3.
You could also use the search results of some flickr search for that.
Do you have a bugzilla bug number for this? I'd like to have a look at the details. I've never had this problem (yet).
But i'm using the linux version and the linux 'clipboard' works different from the windows clipboard so that could be the reason i haven't seen it.
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Also something to keep in mind is that this is in North America. Aren't most embedded devices being made in Asia? I'm not sure how big an event this conference is but i'm guessing that the bigger conference would be in Japan or Korea (or wherever they make all those embedded devices).
Now it would be interesting to have this same questionaire (translated) at other conferences as well and find out where all the embedded linux hackers hang out.
Or they give away files to avoid their quota limitations...
Yes but those web apps have to run on an operating system and if the person who hosts this app wants to switch from windows to linux or from linux to the hurd (hey it'll be ready within the next ten years, no?) it would still be nice if it's portable.
This is probably no biggy with php but that's the scripting language bit of the book about i guess. But sometimes these web apps use some pogram which is not scripted. Google has some web apps but i don't think they can switch os easily in the backend.
Webapps are still a nice idea though. I wouldn't like it for everything though. You'll also still need a portable web browser. This book is for the mozilla people maybe.
Aha, i didn't know this. That explains the specs a bit more.
I don't see it as competition to opensource offerings, because a) it's not opensource and b) it's extremely limited. It's main use is to install it on a developer machine to make sure they don't mess with the real database.
And anyone considering this for embedded should probably go for sqlite instead.
I saw this some time ago (august 5) on Engadget. That story also linked to a movie of a remote controlled girl.
Enjoy.
I agree. Let's take away the users. That'll teach those mean botnet people. Did you have any specific method in mind?
There seem to be some problems with this. :-)), as an example think about Japan in the 80's. Second, how many people are there in the US and how much money (import/export) are we talking about. It's only a small percentage of the world economy (only talking citizens buying power here).
First of all, the citizens in the US like in many countries don't listen very well to this (something about freedom and stuff
Further, i just don't think it's something that would go over well with the rest of the world. Even with all your leet military and economic powers you don't want too much enemies. You still owe the rest of the world quite some money as well. Let's just hope they don't all want it back at the same time :-).
Good idea, i switched my own caching nameserver to it. It still runs of US servers but we'll see what happens.
Thanks, i needed that. And judging by the comments i am not the only one.
He does know what he is doing. We hold Solaris to the same standards we hold other operating systems. We want it all, that is drivers for all sorts of old, new and exotic hardware + the scalability + reliability, etc.
That is what i expect from Linux and i have the same expectations from Solaris. Linux might (!!) not be there yet but when it gets there it has the reliability/scalability and it can still play mp3 files and drive silly old (and new) hardware that isn't supported by Solaris.
If i had to choose a government monopoly or a corportate monopoly i'd choose the government monopoly because at least they are controlled by me (the voter) where a corporate monopoly is only controlled by its shareholders which have only one goal (maximize profits).
But it would be better to not have monopolies at all. In some fields it is unavoidable (or very inefficient when avoided). The best example is probably the railway system, in the Netherlands this has been privatized and that was definitely not an improvement (it's a corporate monopoly now instead of a government monopoly). In Britain they privatized it as well and there they chose to make it not a monopoly. Unfortunately this didn't work out very well either (ask a brit).
If that is the first time it might be better to give your vote to the SP (Socialist Party) who gave us this motion and have been fighting against software patents all along.
I think you are right. I don't think this is a problem though. We're talking small/embeddable databases. If you need multiple transactions at a time you'd probably use a DBMS like MySQL or PostgreSQL, right?
How about using SQLite. It's a C library (native C++, does that mean C is ok?) which provides a self-contained database engine. No need to run a DBMS.
I see USA Today upgraded to a better site today. That would make it "Stuff that matters".
I know we don't read the articles but to stop linking to them is not making it easier.
Think about it, if you were to designe an intelligent species, wouldn't you want them to be as bad ass as possible
So far so good i think. We are prety bad ass as it is. Inteligent design is still a very backwards idea ofcourse.
So if Linus released his own Linux distro, what would it be called? Linux??
If he made his own hardware he could call it the TorVAX:-)
well, Borland could possibly add their compiler "secrets" to gcc and thereby open up their compiler. Then they could get away from their own compiler and sell an IDE based on this "new" compiler. This would also allow them to sell it to all the existing gcc users.
:-)
Extra points for working nice with makefiles ofcourse
to borland: this advice was brought to you free of charge by an ex-customer...
Spielburg => Spielberg