Because I just downloaded the lastest snapshot of X and want to build it. I only care about every specific line if something breaks (to report it). I probably won't understand most of what it's doing anyway.
It's funny, but it seems their development model isn't really open source, they just plan to release the source when they're done. Mind you, I'm not saying they're lying. They never stated their development model was open source.
What's the big difference? An open source development model means the source is open from day 0, both for contributions, testing, etc, etc, etc. This is actually a closed development (ie: behind closed doors), which later gets published. The quality of the end result of both development models varies greatly.
Interesting. Those prices are way higher than in Argentina, though free decent internet is rare. Free internet is usually is no more than 2 or 3 KB/s tops. Anyway, I expected Australia to be better of than us, communications-wise.
I don't think that's the actual goal. The goal is to maintain Ozone-* as middleware between chromium and *, so they don't need to rewrite each feature for X11, Wayland, Mir, etc. In truth, since development times SHOULD shrink, this may free up devs to work on other features that make the browser run faster - or not.
Well, what happens if I download it from a UK server while I'm in the US? In the first case, I copied something, but I copied a work of art that was in public domain in the place it was located at the time of copying.
What happens if I bring in a copy in a USB drive? I didn't copy it ilegally, and I'm just carrying my legally aquired media.
I don't think legislator have though this through yet!
The OS will be based on open source stuff, but I don't think it's enterity will be open source, since Steam includes DRM, and DRM+Open source don't go hand in hand.
RTFS. This is a hardware based solution, not two separate logical drives, so you can just create on single root partition and stuff everything into it.
I belive you're confused because you use the normal definitions of "debut" and "news", not the slashdot ones. Even though people have been using this for over a year, it's still called "debut", because it's a slow news day.
Depends on the country. I've noticed that in CA, almost every programmer had a degree (and many had a second degree - eg: a masters). Meanwhile, in Argentina, most programmers don't have a degree, but have a lot more programming experience. This is, in part, because they start working as junior programmers during first year of university, and accumulate more years of experience by the time they're 23). Experience matters a lot more than a degree for the average programmer job too. A great deal of those drop university because they realize they don't really need the degree and don't have the time for it.
Of all the places I've worked at, I think a total of 5% was married. In several jobs all of my co-workers were single (regardless of age). And the max amount of children I've seen any other developer have, is ONE.
Have I been working in extremely unusual places this last decade, or is this survey way off?
As I said, I've had no issues gaming with Intel HD 5000. Multi-monitor gaming is something I've yet to come across, so I can't vouch for that. There's no issue using Hi-DPI with Intel video at all, an HD 5000 support 3200x2000. Dunno about gaming no those resolutions though.
It's not about feature, it's about X being unmaintanable, huge, and impossible to understand. This video is extremely insightful, and quite worth watching.
Not really. Gnome was an alternative, and could run software designed for KDE just fine. No extra effort was necesary to port each application (as happens with Wayland/Mir).
Because Ubuntu has no real reason to develop Mir, and it's a huge waste of resources. Most of the *nix world is backing up Wayland as a replacement for X, and Cannonical, with no actual justification, went it's own way to develop Mir. This means porting things like gtk, qt, etc, etc over to Mir. It also means that porting software to/from Ubuntu is now a bit more complicated.
While there are thing where you benefit from variety (ie: music player, paint app), some things just add overhead, with no actual benefit for those who pick either X or Y.
That's been the excuse for YEARS now! If they haven't addressed this issue in all this time, it's because they don't WANT to release documentation, not because they can't.
Times are changing fast. Intel's GPUs are catching up with nvidia's. Last-gen games run great on an Intel HD 5000, and the gap between Intel and nvidia/amd is shinking fast!
DRM is not a bad thing when used properly, and Steam is an example of it being used properly. Developers need a way to advertise their products, and also make sure they get paid for them. To this end, Steam has been wonderfully supportive of the indy communities and large game studios alike.
DRM is not necesary for steam to achieve these goals in any way.
This is an open standard. I'll be able to install Steam OS on my gaming computer, or I can buy the valve hardware, or I can buy third party Steam-boxes. I can also upgrade my "steam-boxes" at will, and continue to use the Steam software on any platform of my choice should I not like the platform they create. I'll also be able to smartly stream my game to any display device in the house and use an open architecture style of controller that finally breaks the 10 year old original xbox/keyboard mouse paradigm. This compared to what we have now (x-box, playstation, nintendo, windows gaming) is certainly more of an open standard, and quite frankly a welcome revolution.
If it's an open standard, please, explain to me how I port this over to my PowerPC laptop, or how someone else would port it to X architecture.
Is it perfect from a pure fossie standpoint? Probably not.. but the pure Stallman view is never going to be 100% compatible with industry. Still, companies like Google and Valve are figuring out how to create real, profitable business models around open standards. Puritan ideals aside, this is what's best for the end user and should be applauded.
How is it best for me, the end user? I have three computers, and due to DRM I need to download each game on EACH computer once, and one at a time. Without DRM, I can just copy the installer over. I moved recently, and had no internet for a few days. I could not install games I had on my desktop onto my laptop, hence, I could not play games I had payed for (well, I could, because I bought them outside Steam and had the non-steam version - but that's besides the point).
Steam may be "practical" today, but it's in no way open. It deprives the end user of plenty of practical things (backup installers for no-internet scenarios, future, etc). Heck, I can't even install a game on my laptop (for a trip during the weekend), while I play another on my desktop. And just due to artificial DRM-related limitations.
You could have copied [to your clipboard] what you wanted to paste into the URL bar and pasted using rightclick->paste. There, simple. AND middle-click-to-paste would not affect you in any way.
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Because I just downloaded the lastest snapshot of X and want to build it. I only care about every specific line if something breaks (to report it). I probably won't understand most of what it's doing anyway.
I live in south america and haven't heard a word about it being out of beta. Where ARE they marketing it?
It's funny, but it seems their development model isn't really open source, they just plan to release the source when they're done.
Mind you, I'm not saying they're lying. They never stated their development model was open source.
What's the big difference?
An open source development model means the source is open from day 0, both for contributions, testing, etc, etc, etc.
This is actually a closed development (ie: behind closed doors), which later gets published.
The quality of the end result of both development models varies greatly.
Interesting. Those prices are way higher than in Argentina, though free decent internet is rare. Free internet is usually is no more than 2 or 3 KB/s tops.
Anyway, I expected Australia to be better of than us, communications-wise.
I don't think that's the actual goal. The goal is to maintain Ozone-* as middleware between chromium and *, so they don't need to rewrite each feature for X11, Wayland, Mir, etc.
In truth, since development times SHOULD shrink, this may free up devs to work on other features that make the browser run faster - or not.
Well, what happens if I download it from a UK server while I'm in the US?
In the first case, I copied something, but I copied a work of art that was in public domain in the place it was located at the time of copying.
What happens if I bring in a copy in a USB drive?
I didn't copy it ilegally, and I'm just carrying my legally aquired media.
I don't think legislator have though this through yet!
The OS will be based on open source stuff, but I don't think it's enterity will be open source, since Steam includes DRM, and DRM+Open source don't go hand in hand.
What advantages does Nvidia get by it's hardware carrying the Nvidia logo? Why do they care?
RTFS. This is a hardware based solution, not two separate logical drives, so you can just create on single root partition and stuff everything into it.
I belive you're confused because you use the normal definitions of "debut" and "news", not the slashdot ones.
Even though people have been using this for over a year, it's still called "debut", because it's a slow news day.
Depends on the country. I've noticed that in CA, almost every programmer had a degree (and many had a second degree - eg: a masters).
Meanwhile, in Argentina, most programmers don't have a degree, but have a lot more programming experience. This is, in part, because they start working as junior programmers during first year of university, and accumulate more years of experience by the time they're 23). Experience matters a lot more than a degree for the average programmer job too.
A great deal of those drop university because they realize they don't really need the degree and don't have the time for it.
Can we stop saying "females" when we mean "women". We're not Ferengi.
Are you sure? The article doesn't say it's based on a survey to human programmers!
Of all the places I've worked at, I think a total of 5% was married. In several jobs all of my co-workers were single (regardless of age). And the max amount of children I've seen any other developer have, is ONE.
Have I been working in extremely unusual places this last decade, or is this survey way off?
As I said, I've had no issues gaming with Intel HD 5000. Multi-monitor gaming is something I've yet to come across, so I can't vouch for that. There's no issue using Hi-DPI with Intel video at all, an HD 5000 support 3200x2000. Dunno about gaming no those resolutions though.
It's not about feature, it's about X being unmaintanable, huge, and impossible to understand.
This video is extremely insightful, and quite worth watching.
Not really. Gnome was an alternative, and could run software designed for KDE just fine. No extra effort was necesary to port each application (as happens with Wayland/Mir).
Because Ubuntu has no real reason to develop Mir, and it's a huge waste of resources.
Most of the *nix world is backing up Wayland as a replacement for X, and Cannonical, with no actual justification, went it's own way to develop Mir. This means porting things like gtk, qt, etc, etc over to Mir. It also means that porting software to/from Ubuntu is now a bit more complicated.
While there are thing where you benefit from variety (ie: music player, paint app), some things just add overhead, with no actual benefit for those who pick either X or Y.
This is just part of a cron script that send a news "Voyager I just left the solar system" once a month to the media. No human intervention required.
Funny and quite accurate as well. I was just thinking "This means that we'll see yet another new regarding Voyager I leaving the solar system"!
That's been the excuse for YEARS now! If they haven't addressed this issue in all this time, it's because they don't WANT to release documentation, not because they can't.
Times are changing fast. Intel's GPUs are catching up with nvidia's. Last-gen games run great on an Intel HD 5000, and the gap between Intel and nvidia/amd is shinking fast!
This does no apply if they're different OS/Architecture (eg: i686 vs amd64. Nor if i had a Windows or OS X PC).
DRM is not a bad thing when used properly, and Steam is an example of it being used properly. Developers need a way to advertise their products, and also make sure they get paid for them. To this end, Steam has been wonderfully supportive of the indy communities and large game studios alike.
DRM is not necesary for steam to achieve these goals in any way.
This is an open standard. I'll be able to install Steam OS on my gaming computer, or I can buy the valve hardware, or I can buy third party Steam-boxes. I can also upgrade my "steam-boxes" at will, and continue to use the Steam software on any platform of my choice should I not like the platform they create. I'll also be able to smartly stream my game to any display device in the house and use an open architecture style of controller that finally breaks the 10 year old original xbox/keyboard mouse paradigm. This compared to what we have now (x-box, playstation, nintendo, windows gaming) is certainly more of an open standard, and quite frankly a welcome revolution.
If it's an open standard, please, explain to me how I port this over to my PowerPC laptop, or how someone else would port it to X architecture.
Is it perfect from a pure fossie standpoint? Probably not.. but the pure Stallman view is never going to be 100% compatible with industry. Still, companies like Google and Valve are figuring out how to create real, profitable business models around open standards. Puritan ideals aside, this is what's best for the end user and should be applauded.
How is it best for me, the end user? I have three computers, and due to DRM I need to download each game on EACH computer once, and one at a time. Without DRM, I can just copy the installer over.
I moved recently, and had no internet for a few days. I could not install games I had on my desktop onto my laptop, hence, I could not play games I had payed for (well, I could, because I bought them outside Steam and had the non-steam version - but that's besides the point).
Steam may be "practical" today, but it's in no way open. It deprives the end user of plenty of practical things (backup installers for no-internet scenarios, future, etc). Heck, I can't even install a game on my laptop (for a trip during the weekend), while I play another on my desktop. And just due to artificial DRM-related limitations.
You can just use NSA standard when doing work for the government and something else when doing other work, what's the big deal?
You could have copied [to your clipboard] what you wanted to paste into the URL bar and pasted using rightclick->paste. There, simple. AND middle-click-to-paste would not affect you in any way.