Why do you not have corporate sponsors as the FreeBSD project has? Given the NSA revelations it might be not to difficult to team up with some company related to secure router/server business.
Do you never approach companies or do companies never approach you (or both)?
You can get small quantities of ASICs made for around $2-5k by taking advantage of programs that put many designs from different people on the same wafer.
Interesting, can you give me a reference for that? Who does this and where can you apply?
I would be interested in the statistics of tablet users vs. desktop users. The beta with its wasted space and large useless images seems to be optimized for tablets but I can hardly imagine the majority here has even a tablet pc.
What do you need the terrible banner images for? They mostly have minimal relation to the article and are not even included in it. It's just another way to generate more clicks.
I would like to see those images disappear and have more text instead.
They are hoping this fuck beta movement dies down before they have to acknowledge it or change.
But Slashdot users aren't the typical internet users. This won't go away.
The way I see it they could silently turn off the meta moderation for a while and mod every "anti beta" post as off-topic thereby shutting down the outcry a bit. This would give the community the illusion that the fellow slashdot veterans accept the situation and the decision that would come down to everyone is take it or leave it.
However, I sadly cannot see Dice giving in on this for now.
maybe you have been brainwashed to the point where you believe that metro ui and co. are an evolutionary usability improvement and grey text on slightly lighter grey background enhances readability
You haven't read any news in the past 3 years have you? Have a look at the SPARC T3, T4, T5, M5, M6 and the upcoming T6 and see which company developed those. They even beat IBM Power with the latter ones.
If you look at the FreeBSD donations page https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/sponsors they must be doing something right that OpenBSD does wrong. They have lots of corporate sponsors. If you develop something that (almost) no one wants, you should not be surprised if no one throws money at you.
A Raspberry PI sucks so bad at I/O, it's not even funny. But that's totally okay for a device that was made for tinkering with GPIO and stuff for educational purposes. Please go the the alternatives! There are many, a bit more costly, that are worth every penny since they deliver orders of magnitude better experience for streaming/networking/ and other HTPC stuff.
I would not be so sure Linux can handle 32TB or more in the same efficient manner as Solaris does? AFAIK the Oracle had to rewrite the memory subsystem to scale efficiently to these large amounts. Also, how well does Linux do on SMP servers?
SPARC has seen more advances in the 4 years under ORACLE then in the previous 15 years under Sun. I actually enjoy reading about their tech every now and then. But unless they open up Solaris again to attract the open source community the only thing that keeps it alive is backwards compatibility of legacy software.
As someone who currently lives in Hong Kong, the official explanation doesn't seem to be too far off. Space is very limited and *incredibly* expensive.
While we have free internet here and many people actually have a Google account, this is just not true for the mainland. China just does not depend on Google so much as the rest of the world. After having blocked access to some services every now and then in the past years, you now have most Chinese rely on domestic services instead of Google/Facebook & Co.
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I also have a couple of older Sparc V9 machines and this is about the only place I've ever used OpenBSD but it is a very pleasant experience.
Why do you not have corporate sponsors as the FreeBSD project has? Given the NSA revelations it might be not to difficult to team up with some company related to secure router/server business.
Do you never approach companies or do companies never approach you (or both)?
You can get small quantities of ASICs made for around $2-5k by taking advantage of programs that put many designs from different people on the same wafer.
Interesting, can you give me a reference for that? Who does this and where can you apply?
I would be interested in the statistics of tablet users vs. desktop users. The beta with its wasted space and large useless images seems to be optimized for tablets but I can hardly imagine the majority here has even a tablet pc.
clicking through these images gave me chills, thank you for bringing up some memories
What do you need the terrible banner images for? They mostly have minimal relation to the article and are not even included in it. It's just another way to generate more clicks.
I would like to see those images disappear and have more text instead.
They are hoping this fuck beta movement dies down before they have to acknowledge it or change.
But Slashdot users aren't the typical internet users. This won't go away.
The way I see it they could silently turn off the meta moderation for a while and mod every "anti beta" post as off-topic thereby shutting down the outcry a bit. This would give the community the illusion that the fellow slashdot veterans accept the situation and the decision that would come down to everyone is take it or leave it.
However, I sadly cannot see Dice giving in on this for now.
maybe you have been brainwashed to the point where you believe that metro ui and co. are an evolutionary usability improvement and grey text on slightly lighter grey background enhances readability
the slashdot beta sucks
FFmpeg (upstream SVN tree >= 2010/01/18 / version 0.6.x and onwards)
for reference: http://www.freedesktop.org/wik...
http://www.tagesschau.de/snowd...
Is it available outside of Germany? I currently have problems watching it from Hong Kong.
Maybe someone with access can put it on youtube? http://media.ndr.de/progressiv...
Can you name a single vendor who actually uses OpenBSD?
You haven't read any news in the past 3 years have you? Have a look at the SPARC T3, T4, T5, M5, M6 and the upcoming T6 and see which company developed those. They even beat IBM Power with the latter ones.
SPARC International Inc. was independent of Sun and is independent of Oracle. The ISA will stay royalty free, no one can/want to change that.
If you look at the FreeBSD donations page https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/sponsors they must be doing something right that OpenBSD does wrong. They have lots of corporate sponsors. If you develop something that (almost) no one wants, you should not be surprised if no one throws money at you.
Maybe that works with a single client when the Pi does nothing else at that time.
A Raspberry PI sucks so bad at I/O, it's not even funny. But that's totally okay for a device that was made for tinkering with GPIO and stuff for educational purposes. Please go the the alternatives! There are many, a bit more costly, that are worth every penny since they deliver orders of magnitude better experience for streaming/networking/ and other HTPC stuff.
You would have done better with the technologies at hand at the time how?
Can we do better with the technologies at hand right now?
I would not be so sure Linux can handle 32TB or more in the same efficient manner as Solaris does? AFAIK the Oracle had to rewrite the memory subsystem to scale efficiently to these large amounts. Also, how well does Linux do on SMP servers?
SPARC has seen more advances in the 4 years under ORACLE then in the previous 15 years under Sun. I actually enjoy reading about their tech every now and then. But unless they open up Solaris again to attract the open source community the only thing that keeps it alive is backwards compatibility of legacy software.
hardware designers back then all thought compilers could solve their problems for them--see Itanium
Can you provide a source for this claim? Who thought this can be solved by compilers and what was their take on this?
boycotting the conference is the first step and will add to their reputation, companies not doing business is the natural consequence that will follow
Have a look at their donations page https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/sponsors
Companies support this project because they are doing serious business with FreeBSD.
As someone who currently lives in Hong Kong, the official explanation doesn't seem to be too far off. Space is very limited and *incredibly* expensive.
While we have free internet here and many people actually have a Google account, this is just not true for the mainland. China just does not depend on Google so much as the rest of the world. After having blocked access to some services every now and then in the past years, you now have most Chinese rely on domestic services instead of Google/Facebook & Co.