It's infuriating. I already have a computer the size of a cell phone. It's called a "cell phone". Damn it, why can't I plug it into a TV or monitor, and plug a mouse and keyboard into it and use the damned thing like a computer?
While I believe you'd have to use a USB VGA adapter to get a TV-out, you can certainly use it with a mouse and keyboard. (Tragically, it seems most developers do, as the device's built-in UI is still lacking. The OLPC is (about a year after I got it) just approaching tolerable, I suppose it'll take the Freerunner just as long.
"I don't actually know - it's a rather old ThinkPad, and I've basically decided to switch to a One-Laptop-Per-Child, and the reason is that has a Free BIOS, and I want to get rid of the non-Free BIOS, and IBM wouldn't tell us how to do that in this machine. So, finally I have a way to get rid of it, and that is the One-Laptop-Per-Child.
"However, I'm sad to say, the usual configuration of the One-Laptop-Per-Child does use a non-Free program, it's the program that does the mesh network. So I'm just going to delete that program, which means that the internal wireless device won't work, so I'll have to have an external WiFi device, and that's what I'll use if I need to talk to a wireless network."
The microkernel on the Marvell 88W8388 wireless chip is one of 2 to 4 pieces of non-Free user-modifiable software on the XO laptop. (the others being the EC firmware, and possibly the touchpad and keyboard firmware) This is where we explain what needs to be done to create a Free replacement, who is doing it, and what progress we have made.
Since the Vrije Universiteit Comp-Sci webserver has buckled under the firepower of the fully armed and operational Slashdot Effect, those who want to RTFA can go to Archive.org's Wayback Machine...
What about the EEE 700 (2G Surf), not 701?
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It's not clear from the page whether he's working with the 700 series or the 701 series, although I'm guessing since he didn't have to solder in more RAM (yet he mentions buying a 2GB DDR2 module) he's working with a 701.
Anyone heard about upgrading a 700? (They're $300 off NewEgg)
I've shelled out $423.95 x 2 and am still waiting. And it's a shame that it's taking so long. But I'm happier that working-class kids in Mongolia (no, not "starving to death" people) have laptops, and I can wait. (I'm posting about it on THE INTERNET so clearly I'm not exactly struggling for 'net access.)
They had pro-bono donation of services from three (or more) different companies to handle ordering and distribution. Not having a logistics manager or dealing with the process openly *is* a shame. Lots of individuals unaffiliated have been volunteering their time, trying to help, but have been powerless to actually *do* anything, since the volunteers don't have access to all of the data sets.
Hopefully the next time they offer G1G1 they'll manage the order/delivery status themselves, they *should* be able to track each laptop from Quanta, to the shipping carrier, to the port, to FedEx.
One of PopCap's best-known games, Dynomite, is a direct ripoff of Taito's Puzzle Bobble, one of the best-known (and -loved) puzzle games of all time.
PopCap can stick their whining about ripoffs right up their hypocritical, untalented asses.
One of the most egregious game rip-offs I've seen in commercial gaming is the shareware game 'Snood', another direct rip off of Puzzle Bobble. And not only was Snood collecting shareware donations, they actually had a GameBoy version!
I think the amount of cash you have available to spend on lawyers is a factor, as I've never seen game clones of Monopoly and so on.
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...you have to understand, that when the algorithm was first published, Bruce Schneier roundhouse kicked it so hard it just completed its eighteen month trip around the sun, and arrived back at the frontpage.
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...no mention of the Creative Commons portion of the request letter at all.
I can understand shrinking down mention of something as relatively "obscure" as Creative Commons in an article on another subject, but since the entire article is about copyright license, wouldn't mention of the full story (both options) be better reporting?
I've not been able to find a version which contains only the Obama statement, just several pieced together articles that credit other writers for other portions of the story, so I'm not sure who to write to. (It just says "Washington" in the versions I've found)
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Ok, that's the `keep the nerds happy with something to do with copyright` box checked.
OP is on the mark with this line. It's very nice to see Obama making a reference to CC... but, what's this over here on Lessig's blog? (reads TFA) Pay closer attention! Obama's request is that they
WAIVE THE COPYRIGHT AND PLACE IT IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, or barring that,
Reading the/. summary neither mentions the public domain, nor makes it clear that Obama's letter shows an understanding of the distinction between waiving copyright and licensing.
Article summarizations that give half the story like this are why rms has to be such a pedantic language lawyer when speaking. Clarification of the article would be appreciated, scuttlemonkey.
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As linked by other folks on this thread, maximumcompression.com will show that WinRK (proprietary) and PAQ8 (GPL) take the crown in compression. The free PAQ series (wiki, homepage) kick some serious butt...
(Tested on a Project Gutenberg text "The Man who was Thursday") 79105___thurs.paq8l-7 79112___thurs.paq8l 96495___thurs.bz2-9 96708___thurs.rz 107583__thurs.7z 123847__thurs.gz-9 320553__thurs.txt
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Ubuntu just had a news announcement on how they're making NetBeans (amongst others) a no-brainer install. But when I Tried to install via Synaptic on my system running Feisty (up to date, installed from pre-release) it's still demanding I go download NetBeans separately myself and go drop it in/tmp/... is that the standard experience?
My Sony-Ericsson T610 phone with the lousy R1S001 firmware runs this one... finally. Opera Mini 2.0 wouldn't function. The integrated "browser" can only handle nearly empty sites a-la 1995 -- I'm looking forward to being able to actually Google for phone numbers et cetera.
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Why would I care about the
BIOS? For all intents and purpose it just the first stage bootstrap system for
the hardware. As long as it does this quickly and simply who cares who or how
its written?
Because, like me, you might be stuck using a Dell Latitude D610 laptop.
One which locks up hard when you have a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 plugged into it during boot time.
And you might be rather disappointed in the fact that when you open up a support ticket with Dell, they ignore it completely, after giving you the runaround with six or seven incompetent first level tech support engineers, who refuse to escalate the ticket.
You might even have posted in the Dell forums about this - and seen other people confirm the same problem. (Or you might have seen the same problem manifest on the other laptops in your office when using another of the same model of keyboard).
Unless a thousand people are complaining, Dell really doesn't care. They've moved on to the new overseas laptop manufacturer of the week, and don't even have anyone on staff who really knows how the BIOS works -- apart from a corporate agreement to stuff the right logo in place, the technical side of things is all between Phoenix and the overseas laptop maker.
Hypothetically, of course. No, I'm not bitter. (Hey, look, the support forums seem to indicate the Inspiron BIOS hang on boot too. Bet they care even less.)
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...but I'm more likely to be swayed by the first company to offer me a break on a display that can even view this high-def content...
As far as I can tell in a cursory glance over the net, the cheapest "TV-sized" display that will do 1080P with HDMI is the Westinghouse for $1100 shipped, and the cheapest panel is $800 for some 24" display...
That means I'm spending around $1500 for this "experience" they're peddling, all told. Sell me the display for $400 and we can talk.:-)
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It's infuriating. I already have a computer the size of a cell phone. It's called a "cell phone". Damn it, why can't I plug it into a TV or monitor, and plug a mouse and keyboard into it and use the damned thing like a computer?
You can.
http://www.openmoko.com/
While I believe you'd have to use a USB VGA adapter to get a TV-out, you can certainly use it with a mouse and keyboard. (Tragically, it seems most developers do, as the device's built-in UI is still lacking. The OLPC is (about a year after I got it) just approaching tolerable, I suppose it'll take the Freerunner just as long.
Mod parent, grandparent, and great grandparent way up please - this is the most significant thread in the comments so far.
In that case, I'll tell my wife that the new X-Files movie is a documentary.
I think you hit the nail right on the head there - my guess is it's related. :-)
This article is referring to AMD's Charles R. "Chuck" Moore, who worked on the POWER4 and PowerPC 601, not the language and chip designer Charles H. "Chuck" Moore who invented Forth, ColorForth, et al. and was interviewed on slashdot.
Since the Vrije Universiteit Comp-Sci webserver has buckled under the firepower of the fully armed and operational Slashdot Effect, those who want to RTFA can go to Archive.org's Wayback Machine ...
'cause TFA was written in May 2006.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/reliable-os/
It's not clear from the page whether he's working with the 700 series or the 701 series, although I'm guessing since he didn't have to solder in more RAM (yet he mentions buying a 2GB DDR2 module) he's working with a 701.
Anyone heard about upgrading a 700? (They're $300 off NewEgg)
I've shelled out $423.95 x 2 and am still waiting. And it's a shame that it's taking so long. But I'm happier that working-class kids in Mongolia (no, not "starving to death" people) have laptops, and I can wait. (I'm posting about it on THE INTERNET so clearly I'm not exactly struggling for 'net access.)
They had pro-bono donation of services from three (or more) different companies to handle ordering and distribution. Not having a logistics manager or dealing with the process openly *is* a shame. Lots of individuals unaffiliated have been volunteering their time, trying to help, but have been powerless to actually *do* anything, since the volunteers don't have access to all of the data sets.
Hopefully the next time they offer G1G1 they'll manage the order/delivery status themselves, they *should* be able to track each laptop from Quanta, to the shipping carrier, to the port, to FedEx.
What do you mean "The format wars mean more sales of VC-1"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluray#Codecs
Blu-ray *supports* VC1.
The logo prior to Tux (maybe not "official" but community-driven) was Virtual Beer ...
If you're in Europe, http://www.linuxbierwanderung.org/ still has a beer-related annual event to attend (covered on slashdot earlier)
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One of the most egregious game rip-offs I've seen in commercial gaming is the shareware game 'Snood', another direct rip off of Puzzle Bobble. And not only was Snood collecting shareware donations, they actually had a GameBoy version!
I think the amount of cash you have available to spend on lawyers is a factor, as I've never seen game clones of Monopoly and so on.
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Cheat mode: Use the name 'GOO' and the password '11111111' to start with plenty of cash if you're impatient.
The opening of the game had digitized speech (!) and bouncing ball lyrics of the whole movie theme ... Really a great job.
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Not to fan the black helicopters type rumors, but take a look at the Associated Press wire story on this:
http://news.google.com/news?q=ap%20obama%20public
...no mention of the Creative Commons portion of the request letter at all.
I can understand shrinking down mention of something as relatively "obscure" as Creative Commons in an article on another subject, but since the entire article is about copyright license, wouldn't mention of the full story (both options) be better reporting?
I've not been able to find a version which contains only the Obama statement, just several pieced together articles that credit other writers for other portions of the story, so I'm not sure who to write to. (It just says "Washington" in the versions I've found)
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- WAIVE THE COPYRIGHT AND PLACE IT IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN , or barring that,
- place it under (SPECIFICALLY) the Creative Commons (Attribution) license. (Yes he specified one: http://creativecommons.org.nyud.net:8080/licenses
/ by/3.0/ , if it's down, here's Wikisource of v2.5 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_Att ribution_2.5#English )
Reading theArticle summarizations that give half the story like this are why rms has to be such a pedantic language lawyer when speaking. Clarification of the article would be appreciated, scuttlemonkey.
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As linked by other folks on this thread, maximumcompression.com will show that WinRK (proprietary) and PAQ8 (GPL) take the crown in compression. The free PAQ series (wiki, homepage) kick some serious butt...
(Tested on a Project Gutenberg text "The Man who was Thursday")
79105___thurs.paq8l-7
79112___thurs.paq8l
96495___thurs.bz2-9
96708___thurs.rz
107583__thurs.7z
123847__thurs.gz-9
320553__thurs.txt
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Ah, cool, np. Thanks for the reply! :)
Ubuntu just had a news announcement on how they're making NetBeans (amongst others) a no-brainer install. But when I Tried to install via Synaptic on my system running Feisty (up to date, installed from pre-release) it's still demanding I go download NetBeans separately myself and go drop it in /tmp/ ... is that the standard experience?
My Sony-Ericsson T610 phone with the lousy R1S001 firmware runs this one ... finally. Opera Mini 2.0 wouldn't function. The integrated "browser" can only handle nearly empty sites a-la 1995 -- I'm looking forward to being able to actually Google for phone numbers et cetera.
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One which locks up hard when you have a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 plugged into it during boot time.
And you might be rather disappointed in the fact that when you open up a support ticket with Dell, they ignore it completely, after giving you the runaround with six or seven incompetent first level tech support engineers, who refuse to escalate the ticket.
You might even have posted in the Dell forums about this - and seen other people confirm the same problem. (Or you might have seen the same problem manifest on the other laptops in your office when using another of the same model of keyboard).
Unless a thousand people are complaining, Dell really doesn't care. They've moved on to the new overseas laptop manufacturer of the week, and don't even have anyone on staff who really knows how the BIOS works -- apart from a corporate agreement to stuff the right logo in place, the technical side of things is all between Phoenix and the overseas laptop maker.
Hypothetically, of course. No, I'm not bitter. (Hey, look, the support forums seem to indicate the Inspiron BIOS hang on boot too. Bet they care even less.)
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...but I'm more likely to be swayed by the first company to offer me a break on a display that can even view this high-def content ...
...
:-)
As far as I can tell in a cursory glance over the net, the cheapest "TV-sized" display that will do 1080P with HDMI is the Westinghouse for $1100 shipped, and the cheapest panel is $800 for some 24" display
That means I'm spending around $1500 for this "experience" they're peddling, all told. Sell me the display for $400 and we can talk.
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Phil Zimmermann. ...All /. readers owe it to themselves to become familiar with US vs. Zimmermann.
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As I mentioned back when this came up in April ...
Oracle already owns their own distro... home wiki google
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