Like it or not, more time and success has been had with OS X in making it a user friendly and desktop orientated operating system, the same I fear cannot be said for SUSE or even Linspire for the most part.
The problem is that there are no chip makers who make and sell 8VSB/QAM demodulators that officially do signal measurement. Those chips that do support it (unofficially) are often used in set top boxes, but are equally good in many other applications such as those we use them for. Companies (much) larger than the one I work for will often make their own chip for the job of signal measurement, which is really not a viable option for most.
Broadcom is also a big fan of not releasing much in the way of specs, even to its customers. My company has used some of their demodulator chips for years and had to beg to get some detailed specs on how to interacts with a chip in ways that it was not explicitly advertised as capable of doing (even though they admitted it was fully capable of what we wanted it to do for us)... later, when that chip became obsolete, they released a drop in replacement for it... a drop in replacement provided you were using the advertised features, things we were using, but plenty more things too suddenly went into limbo. The documentation on the new chip is ~ 1/4th the size of that of the original, so quite often we go back and forth between them, trying things that worked in the old one, hoping they still work in the new one.
Nice theory, care to give an example of any FOSS application or package putting Microsoft out of business? Sure it gives them competition, but historically every time they come back stronger than before. Only reason I'd like to see Mac OS reach wide spread use would be to drive even more competition within the desktop market, making my beloved Windows even better.
You sir are on crack. It is very rare to see any ATSC tuner on ebay for under $100, let alone any kind of mass produced set top box tuner for the $50 you speak of.
$200 is currently the average price of such a device and will be for another year or two until more manufacturers get into it.
I'd suggest you take of your Microsoft bashing hat and come out side, Monad has been in public beta for nearly a year now, want to take a look?
1. You will need need a passport account. If you do not have one yet, you can sign-up for one at the beta website listed below. 2. Goto http://beta.microsoft.com/ 3. Log into the site using the following guest ID: mshPDC 4. Select Microsoft Command Shell 5. Select Survey in the left column 6. Register with a valid email address. 7. Wait for the information to be sent to you through email. (May take a day or two) 8. Once you receive your confirmation email, log back into http://beta.microsoft.com/ for the content
Just as soon as the 'unlimited' tech support comes into play I would expect. No matter the system, support tends to such, and with no limits, there's no limit to how much it will suck.
You are correct, while the initial author owns the original work, contributions are considered derivative works, and thus also copyrighted by their creators.
This especially gets fun if you try to change the license on a given piece of code from say... GPL to LGPL... effectively you need not only the ok from the initial owner, but also from each contributor whose code exists in the code base in question.
Saying it is a level playing field simply because both Apache and IIS are capable of hosting multiple sites is a gross misinterpretation of the facts.
Yes, they both can run multiple sites, but where else are they not equal, cost for one. If I want to start a mom and pop web hosting company, the upfront cost of Apache on Linux will be far less than IIS under Windows.
It is not a matter of efficiency, it's a matter of finances.
And next we will see the RIAA complaining about how these new broadcasters are not paying royalties for said music. One wonders if they are building in a verification system so that the powers that be know just what songs you played, how many people were listening, and how many of your children you must now give to the RIAA for the pleasure of using their music.
Partially correct, it says that you can distribute the code with the binaries, which would be 3a. You can also go with 3b and/or 3c by including a written offer simply saying "ask us for the code within the next 3 years and we'll give it to you" and attach a note saying "the source code is here" respectively.
That's not correct though, because the choice of what operating system or even web server a site uses is one that in the end a small number make.
Yes, a big company fortune 500 company, or even a mom and pop web hosting shop care about such things, but the average consumer who is setting up their own web page on someone else's servers rarely cares, they just want it to work, no matter what is under the hood, just so long as it can do those things they want/need.
Last I checked, Netcraft only checks the server that the site is running on. If 10 sites are all hosted on the same server, then they count 10 seperate servers. Anyone else think this kind of counting is flawed?
Yes... all the while the forces of Microsoft with their glasses and sweaters laugh as their two arch rivals destroy each other... leaving the minions of Gates to rule the world!!!
I know the poster was joking about the port... but such a concept is interesting, not for its laptop powering abilities... but for health and weight loss potential.
Why go to the gym to work out and burn calories from when you can plug a small cord into your mid section that would enable the device to draw energy directly from your system... and when your blood was running low... fat stores would naturally be tapped.
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You mean for once I am not a loser? I never thought I'd see the day when running Windows was... cool.
Like it or not, more time and success has been had with OS X in making it a user friendly and desktop orientated operating system, the same I fear cannot be said for SUSE or even Linspire for the most part.
The problem is that there are no chip makers who make and sell 8VSB/QAM demodulators that officially do signal measurement. Those chips that do support it (unofficially) are often used in set top boxes, but are equally good in many other applications such as those we use them for. Companies (much) larger than the one I work for will often make their own chip for the job of signal measurement, which is really not a viable option for most.
My company solved the PDF problem by printing a copy (a single stapled copy that is fought over often).
Broadcom is also a big fan of not releasing much in the way of specs, even to its customers. My company has used some of their demodulator chips for years and had to beg to get some detailed specs on how to interacts with a chip in ways that it was not explicitly advertised as capable of doing (even though they admitted it was fully capable of what we wanted it to do for us)... later, when that chip became obsolete, they released a drop in replacement for it... a drop in replacement provided you were using the advertised features, things we were using, but plenty more things too suddenly went into limbo. The documentation on the new chip is ~ 1/4th the size of that of the original, so quite often we go back and forth between them, trying things that worked in the old one, hoping they still work in the new one.
Oh yes, demodulators are hella fun!
Nice theory, care to give an example of any FOSS application or package putting Microsoft out of business? Sure it gives them competition, but historically every time they come back stronger than before. Only reason I'd like to see Mac OS reach wide spread use would be to drive even more competition within the desktop market, making my beloved Windows even better.
You sir are on crack. It is very rare to see any ATSC tuner on ebay for under $100, let alone any kind of mass produced set top box tuner for the $50 you speak of.
$200 is currently the average price of such a device and will be for another year or two until more manufacturers get into it.
I'd suggest you take of your Microsoft bashing hat and come out side, Monad has been in public beta for nearly a year now, want to take a look?
1. You will need need a passport account. If you do not have one yet, you can sign-up for one at the beta website listed below.
2. Goto http://beta.microsoft.com/
3. Log into the site using the following guest ID: mshPDC
4. Select Microsoft Command Shell
5. Select Survey in the left column
6. Register with a valid email address.
7. Wait for the information to be sent to you through email. (May take a day or two)
8. Once you receive your confirmation email, log back into http://beta.microsoft.com/ for the content
They will do that too one day... but only after Longhorn and others have been released to take their places.
Just as soon as the 'unlimited' tech support comes into play I would expect. No matter the system, support tends to such, and with no limits, there's no limit to how much it will suck.
Poor Stephen Tweedie, Rik van Riel and Kanoj Sarcar, not putting a (C) near their names to denote their copyrights as well.
You are correct, while the initial author owns the original work, contributions are considered derivative works, and thus also copyrighted by their creators.
This especially gets fun if you try to change the license on a given piece of code from say... GPL to LGPL... effectively you need not only the ok from the initial owner, but also from each contributor whose code exists in the code base in question.
Saying it is a level playing field simply because both Apache and IIS are capable of hosting multiple sites is a gross misinterpretation of the facts.
Yes, they both can run multiple sites, but where else are they not equal, cost for one. If I want to start a mom and pop web hosting company, the upfront cost of Apache on Linux will be far less than IIS under Windows.
It is not a matter of efficiency, it's a matter of finances.
And next we will see the RIAA complaining about how these new broadcasters are not paying royalties for said music. One wonders if they are building in a verification system so that the powers that be know just what songs you played, how many people were listening, and how many of your children you must now give to the RIAA for the pleasure of using their music.
Yes.
Partially correct, it says that you can distribute the code with the binaries, which would be 3a. You can also go with 3b and/or 3c by including a written offer simply saying "ask us for the code within the next 3 years and we'll give it to you" and attach a note saying "the source code is here" respectively.
That's not correct though, because the choice of what operating system or even web server a site uses is one that in the end a small number make.
Yes, a big company fortune 500 company, or even a mom and pop web hosting shop care about such things, but the average consumer who is setting up their own web page on someone else's servers rarely cares, they just want it to work, no matter what is under the hood, just so long as it can do those things they want/need.
Last I checked, Netcraft only checks the server that the site is running on. If 10 sites are all hosted on the same server, then they count 10 seperate servers. Anyone else think this kind of counting is flawed?
And there are fewer forks/versions of Linux than there are of Windows?
I think you forgot another 27 "Developers."
No doubt he has, but it has gone the way of the 8-bit microprocessor and Gopher.
They all exist, but are quite rare and have been replaced by more popular and often more powerful alternatives.
How is that any different than today?
Yes... all the while the forces of Microsoft with their glasses and sweaters laugh as their two arch rivals destroy each other... leaving the minions of Gates to rule the world!!!
I know the poster was joking about the port... but such a concept is interesting, not for its laptop powering abilities... but for health and weight loss potential.
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Why go to the gym to work out and burn calories from when you can plug a small cord into your mid section that would enable the device to draw energy directly from your system... and when your blood was running low... fat stores would naturally be tapped.
Result? Losing weight while reading
That and the fact that they look to be releasing only their Linux kernel, a few basic utilities and games... not the actual high level DVR software.
From the looks of it (and not surprisingly) there is no code related to the actual DVR functionality, nor interfacing with 8VSB or QPSK demodulators.