It means the company chooses which packages make up the OS that's running on those devices, maintains its own forks where necessary, submits patches upstream and each shipment includes the sources which were used (minus the proprietary applications). Only way of avoiding something like the Gnome3/Unity clusterfuck on a deeper level.
It's tied to a lot of paperwork for proprietary hardware but I'll see if I can establish any official contact.
These systems are used in a variety of ways, airport arrival/departure displays, conventions, concerts, in-store advertising (e.g. fashion shops book advertising slots in nearby stores), events,...
Pricing depends on the size of the project/company. A supermarket in a shopping mall (1-5 displays plus license for the necessary application) is of course a different kind of project than, for example, a mid-size airport who buys/leases a ton of them and orders custom-made modules for our proprietary applications to boot.
@topic:Take a small project like a shopping center with 50 of such displays and now imagine how easy this makes the upgrade process from single-core to dual-core modules with more RAM and better graphics, followed by a flash update.
I work in a company where some of our products are basically Full-HD TFT displays with integrated ARM-based computers (glorified nettop components) running a company-internal Linux distro.
Having one of these to replace/upgrade their computer like you'd switch the optical drive in a business laptop would certainly cut down costs.
Makes me miss the old days where you'd use a modified driver for your disc drive to gain direct access to the tracks (copy them straight as WAV files).
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A bunch of idiots introduces the need for a change in the last minute? That's something I'm sure no developer would've expected.
Still plenty left in Washington, London, Paris, ...
It means the company chooses which packages make up the OS that's running on those devices, maintains its own forks where necessary, submits patches upstream and each shipment includes the sources which were used (minus the proprietary applications). Only way of avoiding something like the Gnome3/Unity clusterfuck on a deeper level.
Shouldn't they prefer parts which actually work?
Probably more like connecting a wireless display and keyboard to turn a phone into a tablet, netbook or low-power laptop, depending on the situation.
It's hardly limited to those. Even stuff like Realtek's network card drivers provide the occasional WTF moment.
It's tied to a lot of paperwork for proprietary hardware but I'll see if I can establish any official contact.
These systems are used in a variety of ways, airport arrival/departure displays, conventions, concerts, in-store advertising (e.g. fashion shops book advertising slots in nearby stores), events, ...
Pricing depends on the size of the project/company. A supermarket in a shopping mall (1-5 displays plus license for the necessary application) is of course a different kind of project than, for example, a mid-size airport who buys/leases a ton of them and orders custom-made modules for our proprietary applications to boot.
@topic:Take a small project like a shopping center with 50 of such displays and now imagine how easy this makes the upgrade process from single-core to dual-core modules with more RAM and better graphics, followed by a flash update.
I work in a company where some of our products are basically Full-HD TFT displays with integrated ARM-based computers (glorified nettop components) running a company-internal Linux distro.
Having one of these to replace/upgrade their computer like you'd switch the optical drive in a business laptop would certainly cut down costs.
Better to wait until Apple produces a car where you can't even open the hood.
The code was too sloppy to be Russian.
At least that one's actually technical, instead of the idiot move to remove the protocol substring from the address bar.
I don't think those "Christian Scientists" get the joke.
Don't act surprised. We're talking about the country where some dumb fucks managed to make creationism part of the school curriculum.
If you want to filter something, block his campaign ads when it's time for re-election.
If they want to continue to turn it into a Vista-like turd they may as well start shipping it now.
They worked hard for that title and they deserve it.
Who cares? They lose focus once you jump into a river anyway.
Saber-toothed cats!!!
That won't change much. OTOH if we were talking about the money he receives under the table ...
Just deduct the costs for that bullshit from the his ministry's budget.
Let's hope they'll invest some of that excess money into administrators who won't just leave the default passwords in place.
They'd have outlawed the phrase "get off my lawn"?
Makes me miss the old days where you'd use a modified driver for your disc drive to gain direct access to the tracks (copy them straight as WAV files).
Minutes later 1000+ domains went online.
Right, how dare they to not stick to inferior technology?!?