They probably figured they'd never get caught by anyone with the balls and money to take them to court. I'd love to see all of ESXi and vSphere get open sourced as the result of this lawsuit, but I suspect that's just a pipe dream.
The US used to have a colossal pool of engineers, scientists and skilled workers.
We still do. We have so many scientists that they can't find academic work, and industry isn't hiring. The "skills gap" you hear companies bitching about exists only because they refuse to provide training. They expect their workers to emerge from Zeus's head fully formed and armored like Athena. This works when only a few companies are doing it, but it breaks down when everybody does it.
All that went overseas to china who, incidentally, understand this transfer of expertise and it's strategic importance
We didn't get hit over the head with a gigantic rock and lose every engineer we had. China just created more. That's called progress, and I thought/. was all for better science in the world?
Split view should be part of the window manager, not the application. A tiling WM or even "aero snap" with a browser on one side and your editor on the other works just fine.
It's because it's much, MUCH easier to tell someone "type this sequence of characters and press enter" than pantomiming how to grope your way through some GUI that might be completely different after the next release in six months.
As a Canadian, you should care very much about buying American. Our countries have each other's biggest trade relationship by a significant margin, so buying American (or for me, buying Canadian) keeps money in the loop instead of it being squirreled away in China.
Seriously, I live in New Hampshire, and I emailed RMS about this bill last year. He said that if the bill called it Free Software instead of Open Source, he'd get behind it.
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She could always be a man-hating lesbian married to your female best friend. You didn't provide sufficient context for us to get that.
END STEREOTYPE REINFORCING
The people who think that climate change is a socialist plot are convinced that climate scientists are making claims about global climate change because it fits well with the people clamoring for renewable power, emissions control, and energy saving, and not the other way around. These people are what we like to call "wrong."
The anti-vaxxers won, didn't they? RISC is everywhere, from ARM chips in smartphones to Watson running on POWER to SunOracle's SPARC-powered database systems.
Well, Pixel Qi screens are a) LCDs instead of ((S)AM)OLED, so when they need backlight, they suck power, and b) they have about half the DPI of most modern smartphones. I personally think we'll see them more at the low end of the phone spectrum. IIRC, there's already a dumbphone that uses e-ink for a screen, so Pixel Qi would be a step up from that.
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Come on now, Slashdot opinions barely percolate out to the rest of the technology-aware parts of the Internet. If anything it was Reddit and their "Operation Pull Ryan" that shook up the discussion. We're Protoss with no carriers. Reddit is Zerg.
I think the problem is that, much like PC gaming, there's a few shit-laden genres that overshadow everything else in sales, marketing, etc: romantic comedies, explodorama action movies, stupid guys acting stupid and calling it comedy, tear-jerker everyone-dies-including-the-dog Oscar bait, and kids movies that are even more derivative than any of the adult categories, if not outright sequels. Sure, you get stuff like your list, but except for LoTR, none of those really got the big marketing push.
Raspberry Pi B-model: $35
NAS/Seedbox containing torrented H.264 movies: ~$100
46" 1920x1080p TV: ~$500
So, for the price of six or seven nights out, you can get a home theater setup and all the movies you want, with no recurring costs save your electricity and internet bills.
You're right, something does need to be said:
Achievement Unlocked: 130/5 kill-to-death ratio
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Is anyone actually using pure HTML5 to write applications? I thought HTML5 was just an upgrade to the markup that included a few neat tricks like video tags, and the heavy lifting was done by JS, Python, PHP, Ruby, Perl, C, C++, etc.
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1. Optimization is never over. JavaScript is ridiculously fast now compared to 2005.
2. Cry more, faggot. Nobody's entitled to a particular business model.
3. HTML5 is a standard FOR DISPLAYING WEB PAGES. What a SHOCK and OUTRAGE it is that you need a web browser for that!
4. At least there is a standard...
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They probably figured they'd never get caught by anyone with the balls and money to take them to court. I'd love to see all of ESXi and vSphere get open sourced as the result of this lawsuit, but I suspect that's just a pipe dream.
Is there any clone manufacturer out there still selling them? That sounds pretty damn awesome.
The US used to have a colossal pool of engineers, scientists and skilled workers.
We still do. We have so many scientists that they can't find academic work, and industry isn't hiring. The "skills gap" you hear companies bitching about exists only because they refuse to provide training. They expect their workers to emerge from Zeus's head fully formed and armored like Athena. This works when only a few companies are doing it, but it breaks down when everybody does it.
All that went overseas to china who, incidentally, understand this transfer of expertise and it's strategic importance
We didn't get hit over the head with a gigantic rock and lose every engineer we had. China just created more. That's called progress, and I thought /. was all for better science in the world?
Split view should be part of the window manager, not the application. A tiling WM or even "aero snap" with a browser on one side and your editor on the other works just fine.
It's because it's much, MUCH easier to tell someone "type this sequence of characters and press enter" than pantomiming how to grope your way through some GUI that might be completely different after the next release in six months.
As a Canadian, you should care very much about buying American. Our countries have each other's biggest trade relationship by a significant margin, so buying American (or for me, buying Canadian) keeps money in the loop instead of it being squirreled away in China.
What the fuck are you smoking? Those are some pretty extraordinary claims, but I don't see any extraordinary evidence.
Seriously, I live in New Hampshire, and I emailed RMS about this bill last year. He said that if the bill called it Free Software instead of Open Source, he'd get behind it.
Oh... that's right.
Don't forget Enzo, the webOS framework that supposedly works cross-platform, since it's all HTML and JS. Oh, and it's open source now.
The wheel weaves as the wheel wills. You caught me halfway through The Great Hunt.
There's a chance, however slight, that this will lead a bigger push for keeping modules in the kernel tree.
BEGIN STEREOTYPE REINFORCING She could always be a man-hating lesbian married to your female best friend. You didn't provide sufficient context for us to get that. END STEREOTYPE REINFORCING
Maybe this is what happened with GNOME 3.0?
The people who think that climate change is a socialist plot are convinced that climate scientists are making claims about global climate change because it fits well with the people clamoring for renewable power, emissions control, and energy saving, and not the other way around. These people are what we like to call "wrong."
The anti-vaxxers won, didn't they? RISC is everywhere, from ARM chips in smartphones to Watson running on POWER to SunOracle's SPARC-powered database systems.
Well, Pixel Qi screens are a) LCDs instead of ((S)AM)OLED, so when they need backlight, they suck power, and b) they have about half the DPI of most modern smartphones. I personally think we'll see them more at the low end of the phone spectrum. IIRC, there's already a dumbphone that uses e-ink for a screen, so Pixel Qi would be a step up from that.
Come on now, Slashdot opinions barely percolate out to the rest of the technology-aware parts of the Internet. If anything it was Reddit and their "Operation Pull Ryan" that shook up the discussion. We're Protoss with no carriers. Reddit is Zerg.
I think the problem is that, much like PC gaming, there's a few shit-laden genres that overshadow everything else in sales, marketing, etc: romantic comedies, explodorama action movies, stupid guys acting stupid and calling it comedy, tear-jerker everyone-dies-including-the-dog Oscar bait, and kids movies that are even more derivative than any of the adult categories, if not outright sequels. Sure, you get stuff like your list, but except for LoTR, none of those really got the big marketing push.
Raspberry Pi B-model: $35 NAS/Seedbox containing torrented H.264 movies: ~$100 46" 1920x1080p TV: ~$500 So, for the price of six or seven nights out, you can get a home theater setup and all the movies you want, with no recurring costs save your electricity and internet bills.
Seriously. It's part of the panel, and says "Activities" in large bold font. GP is blind, stupid, or trolling.
You can get a job and earn your keep.
Not anymore, you can't! -- the GOP
You're right, something does need to be said:
Achievement Unlocked: 130/5 kill-to-death ratio
Is anyone actually using pure HTML5 to write applications? I thought HTML5 was just an upgrade to the markup that included a few neat tricks like video tags, and the heavy lifting was done by JS, Python, PHP, Ruby, Perl, C, C++, etc.
1. Optimization is never over. JavaScript is ridiculously fast now compared to 2005.
2. Cry more, faggot. Nobody's entitled to a particular business model.
3. HTML5 is a standard FOR DISPLAYING WEB PAGES. What a SHOCK and OUTRAGE it is that you need a web browser for that!
4. At least there is a standard...