> 'If they truly wanted to elevate the image on the site, they should allow photographers to maintain the copyright.'"
Um, they do. If he can't even understand a basic thing such as copyright, then why is he writing such an article? The whole article stinks.
The nytimes seems to be complaining that the photos of celebrities are ordinary photos, rather than 'glamour shots' (their words). I fail to see the problem.
It goes on to say that photographs are static and can't be improved, thus exposing a flaw in the wikipedia model. Wtf? You can just replace a photograph with a better. And I have even seen a given photo re-uploaded when someone else found a better version (like the NASA photos).
Wouldn't a voltage fluctuations inside simply become resistive fluctuations in the motor, causing the motor speed to fluctuate, and thus cause fluctuations on the supply power?
I think it came across slightly wrong in the wording.
The point is not that you can take a full desktop application and run it on the maemo. The point is that you can develop it on the desktop. You don't need special hardware, you don't need an emulator etc. You can use your normal environment, use Qt Creator for the IDE, and write your program. You can use your normal debugger and profiller, and so on, since it's all native code.
Then at the end of the day, you can just click and button and it recompile it for the arm for the machine.
Sounds very much like when people complain about drug companies copying a herbal drug that was already in use by some african tribe. There are a lot of different herbal drugs and someone has to put a lot of time and effort into scientifically determining effectiveness, side effects, etc of each one.
The version of Btrfs that they used was before their performance optimizations - 0.18. But they now have 0.19 which is supposedly a lot faster and will be in the next kernel release. There's about 5 months of development work between them:
# v0.19 Released (June 2009) For 2.6.31-rc # v0.18 Released (Jan 2009) For 2.6.29-rc2
> You have to show them the signal _they_ understand: a sufficient quantity of extra customers who will use their software
If there was a profit reason to implement ext2 then they would have done so by now. You have gotten mixed up between user demand and profit.
Just because there's user demand for a decent cross platform filesystem does not mean that it would be in Microsoft's best interest to implement it. They want to keep people locked in and they want to make it difficult to make windows interact with other operating systems.
So I think its perfectly valid to 'beat MS over this'.
For example they have their own vector graphics format (ODF just uses SVG), their own math mark up (ODF uses MathML), they have 4 completely different ways to mark up tables, depending on where they are (ODF I think has just 1. Maybe 2?).
Not really. In most business there is a market pressure for standardization - customers want to be able to pick and chose components between different companies. Buy a TV from one company, DVD player from another, speakers from another, and so on.
However since Microsoft is in a strong monopolistic position, they are able to ignore the weaker pressure for standardization. This is a fairly unique position - I can't immediately think of another company in a similar situation (I'm sure there are lots, but I can't think of any off hand)
I'm comparing them to Linux, which supports pretty much every filesystem to some degree, despite having to reverse engineer NTFS etc from scratch, and use hacks like using FUSE to mount ZFS to get around licensing problems etc.
Just because Apple also doesn't want to interoperate doesn't excuse Microsoft.
Uh what? The specs for all the linux filesystems are completely open. People have ported ext3 to Windows, but struggle because of the poor API that Windows provides. I can't see how you can possibly say that linux is guilty of taking-their-ball-home.
Ext3 was ported to windows - you can download it for free. Of course the problem was that the API exposed for adding new filesystems is slow and has problems. The porters have complained about it, but got nowhere.
Heh, I have this image of a man in a white coat with a mouse hanging round his neck, like a doctor with a stethoscope.
Then when people say "my mouse is acting a funny", he take the mouse from around his neck down and plug it in to the machine. "Hmm, seems fine with this mouse, take this". "Oh wow! So quick! You're my hero!"
Why, it's almost as if Microsoft don't want to inter-operate. Ext3 is fully documented with viewable code, yet MS don't implement it. NTFS on the other hand has to be reverse engineered.
Lol, what? Maybe you are thinking about just 2 or 3 cores, but what about when you have 8/9 cores like the PS3? Or a hundred cores like some of the experimental chips just coming out? I think you're seriously overestimating the ability of the average programmer if you think the programmer knows best how to maximise performance when you have dozens of cores.
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> 'If they truly wanted to elevate the image on the site, they should allow photographers to maintain the copyright.'"
Um, they do. If he can't even understand a basic thing such as copyright, then why is he writing such an article? The whole article stinks.
The nytimes seems to be complaining that the photos of celebrities are ordinary photos, rather than 'glamour shots' (their words). I fail to see the problem.
It goes on to say that photographs are static and can't be improved, thus exposing a flaw in the wikipedia model. Wtf? You can just replace a photograph with a better. And I have even seen a given photo re-uploaded when someone else found a better version (like the NASA photos).
Yes, I did mean GLX :-)
> Would that use the local video card for acceleration?
It should do, yes.
However, I don't think freen compresses XGL, so there's a lot of data going over the wire, so I don't know how well it would work.
Try googling around for XGL.
> Now if only they would somehow include GL in remote X.
That's what xgl is.
Wouldn't a voltage fluctuations inside simply become resistive fluctuations in the motor, causing the motor speed to fluctuate, and thus cause fluctuations on the supply power?
I think it came across slightly wrong in the wording.
The point is not that you can take a full desktop application and run it on the maemo. The point is that you can develop it on the desktop. You don't need special hardware, you don't need an emulator etc.
You can use your normal environment, use Qt Creator for the IDE, and write your program. You can use your normal debugger and profiller, and so on, since it's all native code.
Then at the end of the day, you can just click and button and it recompile it for the arm for the machine.
Sounds very much like when people complain about drug companies copying a herbal drug that was already in use by some african tribe. There are a lot of different herbal drugs and someone has to put a lot of time and effort into scientifically determining effectiveness, side effects, etc of each one.
The version of Btrfs that they used was before their performance optimizations - 0.18. But they now have 0.19 which is supposedly a lot faster and will be in the next kernel release. There's about 5 months of development work between them:
# v0.19 Released (June 2009) For 2.6.31-rc
# v0.18 Released (Jan 2009) For 2.6.29-rc2
So.. you think Drupal, Plone and simwiddy (examples given in the summary) don't need to be architected and are not complex?
4. The target audience uses phrases like "leverage existing relationships".
Yes, I'm sure it could only power a single device *rolls eyes*
> You have to show them the signal _they_ understand: a sufficient quantity of extra customers who will use their software
If there was a profit reason to implement ext2 then they would have done so by now. You have gotten mixed up between user demand and profit.
Just because there's user demand for a decent cross platform filesystem does not mean that it would be in Microsoft's best interest to implement it. They want to keep people locked in and they want to make it difficult to make windows interact with other operating systems.
So I think its perfectly valid to 'beat MS over this'.
You can unzip it, then read it in vi or emacs.
It was also a problem that it was too long.
For example they have their own vector graphics format (ODF just uses SVG), their own math mark up (ODF uses MathML), they have 4 completely different ways to mark up tables, depending on where they are (ODF I think has just 1. Maybe 2?).
Not really. In most business there is a market pressure for standardization - customers want to be able to pick and chose components between different companies. Buy a TV from one company, DVD player from another, speakers from another, and so on.
However since Microsoft is in a strong monopolistic position, they are able to ignore the weaker pressure for standardization.
This is a fairly unique position - I can't immediately think of another company in a similar situation (I'm sure there are lots, but I can't think of any off hand)
I'm comparing them to Linux, which supports pretty much every filesystem to some degree, despite having to reverse engineer NTFS etc from scratch, and use hacks like using FUSE to mount ZFS to get around licensing problems etc.
Just because Apple also doesn't want to interoperate doesn't excuse Microsoft.
Uh what? The specs for all the linux filesystems are completely open. People have ported ext3 to Windows, but struggle because of the poor API that Windows provides.
I can't see how you can possibly say that linux is guilty of taking-their-ball-home.
Exactly how they think. They don't care about making it easy for users to have a decent cross-platform filesystem. They want lock in and control.
Ext3 was ported to windows - you can download it for free. Of course the problem was that the API exposed for adding new filesystems is slow and has problems. The porters have complained about it, but got nowhere.
Heh, I have this image of a man in a white coat with a mouse hanging round his neck, like a doctor with a stethoscope.
Then when people say "my mouse is acting a funny", he take the mouse from around his neck down and plug it in to the machine. "Hmm, seems fine with this mouse, take this". "Oh wow! So quick! You're my hero!"
Why, it's almost as if Microsoft don't want to inter-operate. Ext3 is fully documented with viewable code, yet MS don't implement it. NTFS on the other hand has to be reverse engineered.
Good grief, I'm off by a factor of a billion and people complain. So picky :P
When people talk about whether the universe is infinite or not, they are referring to the whole thing.
When people talk about the volume, they are referring to the observable universe. The observable universe is about 93 light years across
More details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_distance_ladder
Lol, what? Maybe you are thinking about just 2 or 3 cores, but what about when you have 8/9 cores like the PS3? Or a hundred cores like some of the experimental chips just coming out? I think you're seriously overestimating the ability of the average programmer if you think the programmer knows best how to maximise performance when you have dozens of cores.