Company adoption is past 50% in many countries, though. Consumer desktops don't make up too much of Microsoft's revenue anymore, since there's so few of them to go around due to a slowing update rate (consoles etc. competing for gaming-motivated upgrade cash) and quite a few people getting their surfing done at work or school. Also Apple, but they're minor in the device driver question since they produce their own OS and drivers anyway.
Well bother. Where the heck does Nintendo expect device sales to come from now?... well for the first couple of months the heatseekers will schlorp these up, and after that there'll be a DSi version of the R4 and the like. Oh well.
Does my existing R4DS work with this thing? If not, which warez enabler does?
Because otherwise there's no bleeding point at getting one is there. Paying 30â for a game that's barely above free Flash games is certainly not my idea of money well spent.
Graphics drivers exist in the X server tree, not the kernel. With the exception of AGP and framebuffer console support of course, the first of which is very very generic and the second is only used by console types.
Linksys USB network adapters support the USB Communication Device Class (cdc), and are thus supported out of the box provided that the distribution in question has enabled the driver.
Quit your whining and look this shit up. It's not hard.
The only driver I remember being dropped lately (i.e. in the past 2 years) is the CMD IDE driver. It got the boot due to both hardware unavailability and fundamental hardware braindeadness that could and would lead to data loss.
That's quite OK though, the last CMD IDE cards were used in Pentium-class PCs well past a decade and a half ago. And the hardware was fundamentally braindead, so no one reasonable is going to miss them.
Immersion in mineral oil. Need to remove all fans and other spinny things, and you won't be upgrading anything afterward. But it does work, and permits totally quiet computing.
It's a sad, sad kind of DRM that requires bleeding TV OUTPUT to be DRM'd. Like, MacroVision or some completely pointless shit such as that.
And H.264 decoding assists? Fuck me sideways they're stupid if they think this will stop people from decoding H.264 video on Free Software: it's not, and those people will just go patronize AMD or Intel instead.
At the same time, look what kind of replies this posting has attracted. Look. Butthurt BSD fanboys and astroturf GNU GPL bashers repeating the same old misconceptions and lies over and over again.
Writing a monolithic Unix-style kernel from scratch is no big deal. Students do that as a project in universities. Check out osdev.org -- it's literally packed with operating system development hobbyists. Similar scenes exist for compiler design, programming language design, realtime 3d graphics, non-realtime 3d graphics, and what have you, with varying levels of overlap with academia.
A conservative UNIX clone is clearly not what the FSF went for with the Hurd. The FSF has always had the goal of being "sufficiently dissimilar" to Unix tools to not attract the same kind of shitstorm that kept FreeBSD in a legal limbo for a decade. Thus, the FSF went with an unorthodox, Mach-based microkernel design and slapped on a number of fairly advanced things like user-mountable filesystems, pervasive object-based access control and so forth. This may have been too much to chew, particularly with the Free Software management protocols and procedures in use at the time (i.e. do as rms says, regardless of whether he's involved in that particular subdesign or not. use of CVS, the only game in town, leading to megachangesets that cannot be reasonably backed out of.)
Research operating systems take time. Most never get to the stage where they're runnable. Don't accuse the FSF of incompetence: they already did 1-to-1 replacements for 95% of UNIX, and that's a bloody huge job compared to an operating system kernel.
Cue whining from the BSD/Sun fanboy camp about how the GNU GPL is really communism and is eating away the FSF's credibility and how the FSF should immediately bend over and lube up or become (eek!) irrelevant.
Man, don't read HS without a keg of salt. A newspaper article is very different from "proof", even if it does follow prejudice.
But the point about geography is well-taken. A gulf does keep people from migrating far more effectively than a border, or even a bunch of bear- and wolf-packed forest.
Nah, not really. Journalists however can present matters any way they want to, including "bastard outliers who shouldn't be part of Europe, go back to the USSR damn you". I'm merely anticipating.
It also ignores the distinct ethnic groups (e.g. the different groupings of Sami) present in Norway, Sweden and Finland and apparently completely omits Iceland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine and other countries that're at least as far east as Finland.
As an amateur with no competence in this stuff whatsoever, I'd say that Finland's outlier status on this diagram follows the sample. The not so nice part is of course that now the papers are going to pronounce Finns as some kind of freaks in Europe, when (as you said) this study excluded a significant chunk of European peoples.
That doesn't really match. Canada is just as dark during the winter, yet they don't export piles of kill-your-dog-for-satan kind of music. It'd be offset by the bright summers too.
What I'd like to see explained is the amount of hip hop that comes from Sweden. Most of it's made by white people too.
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Company adoption is past 50% in many countries, though. Consumer desktops don't make up too much of Microsoft's revenue anymore, since there's so few of them to go around due to a slowing update rate (consoles etc. competing for gaming-motivated upgrade cash) and quite a few people getting their surfing done at work or school. Also Apple, but they're minor in the device driver question since they produce their own OS and drivers anyway.
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Sorry, I'd rather spend my money on weed and concert tickets.
They weren't discovered beneath the antarctic ice, were they?
Well bother. Where the heck does Nintendo expect device sales to come from now? ... well for the first couple of months the heatseekers will schlorp these up, and after that there'll be a DSi version of the R4 and the like. Oh well.
Does my existing R4DS work with this thing? If not, which warez enabler does?
Because otherwise there's no bleeding point at getting one is there. Paying 30â for a game that's barely above free Flash games is certainly not my idea of money well spent.
Graphics drivers exist in the X server tree, not the kernel. With the exception of AGP and framebuffer console support of course, the first of which is very very generic and the second is only used by console types.
Linksys USB network adapters support the USB Communication Device Class (cdc), and are thus supported out of the box provided that the distribution in question has enabled the driver.
Quit your whining and look this shit up. It's not hard.
The only driver I remember being dropped lately (i.e. in the past 2 years) is the CMD IDE driver. It got the boot due to both hardware unavailability and fundamental hardware braindeadness that could and would lead to data loss.
That's quite OK though, the last CMD IDE cards were used in Pentium-class PCs well past a decade and a half ago. And the hardware was fundamentally braindead, so no one reasonable is going to miss them.
Plz to be rating this one up, it's the best thing yet on slashdot
Immersion in mineral oil. Need to remove all fans and other spinny things, and you won't be upgrading anything afterward. But it does work, and permits totally quiet computing.
Long as you don't mind the, you know, tank.
It's a sad, sad kind of DRM that requires bleeding TV OUTPUT to be DRM'd. Like, MacroVision or some completely pointless shit such as that.
And H.264 decoding assists? Fuck me sideways they're stupid if they think this will stop people from decoding H.264 video on Free Software: it's not, and those people will just go patronize AMD or Intel instead.
So I'll just go ahead and ask it, get it over with.
Is VIA planning to release detailed register-level specs for their graphics chipsets?
I'm moderated "-1, Troll".
At the same time, look what kind of replies this posting has attracted. Look. Butthurt BSD fanboys and astroturf GNU GPL bashers repeating the same old misconceptions and lies over and over again.
Oh you people.
Writing a monolithic Unix-style kernel from scratch is no big deal. Students do that as a project in universities. Check out osdev.org -- it's literally packed with operating system development hobbyists. Similar scenes exist for compiler design, programming language design, realtime 3d graphics, non-realtime 3d graphics, and what have you, with varying levels of overlap with academia.
A conservative UNIX clone is clearly not what the FSF went for with the Hurd. The FSF has always had the goal of being "sufficiently dissimilar" to Unix tools to not attract the same kind of shitstorm that kept FreeBSD in a legal limbo for a decade. Thus, the FSF went with an unorthodox, Mach-based microkernel design and slapped on a number of fairly advanced things like user-mountable filesystems, pervasive object-based access control and so forth. This may have been too much to chew, particularly with the Free Software management protocols and procedures in use at the time (i.e. do as rms says, regardless of whether he's involved in that particular subdesign or not. use of CVS, the only game in town, leading to megachangesets that cannot be reasonably backed out of.)
Research operating systems take time. Most never get to the stage where they're runnable. Don't accuse the FSF of incompetence: they already did 1-to-1 replacements for 95% of UNIX, and that's a bloody huge job compared to an operating system kernel.
That would make all cars well past a century old. What with the steering wheels and cylinders and internal combustion and all that.
Media reading skills, motherfucker. Do you have them?
Apparently not.
Cue whining from the BSD/Sun fanboy camp about how the GNU GPL is really communism and is eating away the FSF's credibility and how the FSF should immediately bend over and lube up or become (eek!) irrelevant.
OK on second thought... stop pirating id's stuff!
No, that doesn't work either. Fuck!
Jawohl! Sieg!
How exactly do you propose that the JavaScript runtime operates, if it is written in C (or C++) and thus cannot "eval new code at run time"?
Man, don't read HS without a keg of salt. A newspaper article is very different from "proof", even if it does follow prejudice.
But the point about geography is well-taken. A gulf does keep people from migrating far more effectively than a border, or even a bunch of bear- and wolf-packed forest.
Nah, not really. Journalists however can present matters any way they want to, including "bastard outliers who shouldn't be part of Europe, go back to the USSR damn you". I'm merely anticipating.
Mea culpa.
It also ignores the distinct ethnic groups (e.g. the different groupings of Sami) present in Norway, Sweden and Finland and apparently completely omits Iceland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine and other countries that're at least as far east as Finland.
As an amateur with no competence in this stuff whatsoever, I'd say that Finland's outlier status on this diagram follows the sample. The not so nice part is of course that now the papers are going to pronounce Finns as some kind of freaks in Europe, when (as you said) this study excluded a significant chunk of European peoples.
That doesn't really match. Canada is just as dark during the winter, yet they don't export piles of kill-your-dog-for-satan kind of music. It'd be offset by the bright summers too.
What I'd like to see explained is the amount of hip hop that comes from Sweden. Most of it's made by white people too.
The metal thing is definitely cultural. Notice how Finland, Sweden and Norway are evangelic lutheran?