For instance, getting ATAPI CDROM support would enable a dozen things I'd like to do with FreeDOS. I've tried a dozen forum posts that claim to do it, tried a bunch of proprietary abandonware drivers, and nothing reliably works across any common set of hardware.
ATAPI.SYS has been "in development" for how long? I know, the core of DOS rather predates CDROM's (and I was there in the 90's doing it anyway), but keeping FreeDOS relevant on hardware that's available today is something I wish had higher priority. Yeah, yeah, grab that old Panasonic IDE out of the bin...
I think the currently accepted theory is that the great unwashed masses can't understand threads (I disagree, but...) and the real goal of a forum is to maximize ad impressions, not to encourage good discussion, so threads are considered unwise.
But, here we are using Slashcode despite all its warts...
I don't know why more projects aren't database agnostic.
Some apps are postgresql apps, not just CRUD apps. That is, much of the work is done in the database, for speed and efficiency.
Since the two main options are postgresql and mysql, and postgresql is a much nicer programming environment and it scales much more easily, it's not surprising that the developers chose it. The consequences are merely that there are several thousand hosting companies available to choose from rather than tens of thousands.
Yes, portability is constrained, but for running any real-sized forum this won't be an issue, especially because postgresql is open source software.
Hrm, I sent my bug report to admin@ rather than feedback@ three weeks ago, but as of today, http://slashdot.org/zoo.pl?op=check&uid=42 (for any ID) is still broken. I guess we now know why zoo.pl was being hacked on though!
No proof is required on the side of the claimant, but the accused can immediately lose their stuff.
A few survivors of home invasions have reported that the killers break in and shout, "Police! This is a raid! Get on the floor with your hands behind your back!" or something similar before executing their victims.
Now there's an example of a hopelessly broken authentication system - that the same government sets up something similar for duplication of text is hardly surprising.
There's part of your answer - they use PWM controllers because they can be controlled via a serial interface and they don't require a resistor per segment. The actual PWM part is a bonus. You've seen the 'throbby' turn signals, right?
Yeah... so isn't a turn signal a bank of, I dunno, 30 LED's? You wouldn't drive that off of a single pin on a controller, and you wouldn't need to address each LED independently.
Do they actually have each LED hooked up to a separate pin and just drive them all together? It would seem more expensive, but if that's the case, there could be some fun hacks (not street legal, of course).
Don't worry, the licensing will change and cause cross-product incompatibilities so you have to upgrade. They're fairly genius about engineering their upgrade and licensing treadmill into their software.
Why would you want Android on the desktop? I love Android, but I don't want it on my desktop.
Nobody would want the CURRENT Android on their laptop. But they'd sure love a consistent and portable environment that works for all their use cases, preserves app store purchases, provides access to all their data, etc., if it could do what they need a desktop OS to do today.
Right now the ChromeOS laptops can take a SIM card. Give it a couple years, and they'll take the whole phone, and the thing will switch into "laptop mode" when it's in (or near) the KVM case.
What we need is an open laptop running the latest Android NOT a locked down Internet only OS
Yes, that's what WE need, but the vast majority of users want a secure machine that only runs signed code, because they REALLY don't want to do system administration, way more so than they care about software choice.
I don't get why they're pushing ChromeOS (I mean I do but it's fail).
We want a fucking Android Desktop flavor.
Because you don't win against Microsoft by waiting for the merge to be done to get to market. Patience, grasshopper - the OEM's who have signed on for ChromeOS know they'll be hitting the ground running with Android laptops. But now is no time to taint the Android brand with the current status.
It's hardly necessary to get municipalities involved; in many Towns there are dozens of WiFi AP's per block.
And nearly every one of those is locked down because there's a very real threat that opening the AP will lead to a S.W.A.T. Team kicking down your door, shooting your dog, and men-in-black ransacking your house "looking for the kiddie porn" (or has MAFFIA prosecution overtaken that in seriousness yet?).
Fix that, and the problem gets solved organically. Oh, but reigning in out-of-control courts and DA's is hard but building a government supermesh is easy.
and although the coverage wasn't as good, the far lower monthly cost made up for it in my reckoning.
For my use case, a cell phone that gets signal in the most places is the type I need to get. I'm on a $30/mo plan which works fine for what I need, and Verizon's network has at least triple the coverage of the next network here.
A few months ago, I made the switch to one of the GSM prepaid providers, and I'm totally blown away by how convenient it is to have my plan tied to a SIM card rather than a phone. Broken phone? No problem, stick the SIM in an old iPhone 3GS borrowed from a co-worker.
And if you're in an area with only Verizon coverage, you grab an old CDMA phone, call up your Verizon MVNO, press 2, and in 15 minutes you have the old phone connected. Yes, less convenient than a SIM swap, but if the trade-off is very poor signal, not at all unworth it.
And one where you can be the evil guy if you actually got your predictions right. (I'm thinking Marx here).
No need to go that far back, look how Schiff and Paul were vilified for making accurate predictions based on Austrian (not Australian!) economics and a general understanding of how people in power behave.
But that vilification was by the corporate media, who are generally owned by the big corporations that get/got juicy bailouts from the Federal Reserve, so it's little wonder that they'd go after their political enemies.
I've pretty much hated every blender I've owned to date and recognize that there are only two or three blenders on the market that are actually good at their job, and they each cost as much as a new refrigerator. Clearly sticking a viscous blade on the end of a beefy motor isn't all there is to it.
So, please explain to the engineers who haunt this site what the challenges are in making a good blender.
A better solution would be to modify the existing PWM code (as the parent poster mentions) to ramp the brightness up instead of blasting it full-on
Wait, if they're already blasting it full on, why are they using PWM at all?
I was going to use a TLC5940 controller for my needs, but that includes gently fading in and out LED's in a software-defined way.
Without the need for fades, the only need for any PWM controller would be to address a great number of LED's independently but cars don't do that (the whole bank turns on and off).
I've read previously that it sets up a standing wave of light on your retina. Can't find a link at the moment.
But... and I've been reading up on design circuits for something similar recently, it should be a matter of attaching a small capacitor to the LED to create a smoother fade. To be economical it probably should be integrated directly into the LED element itself rather than a discrete part. Not sure if those exist yet.
There exists technology to run an electrical trickle through a glass coating which prevents ice and snow adhesion. Would be nice for LED traffic lights.
Software project management is very much like construction project management. I even know a person with a PhD in construction project management who went into software project management for medical software.
Show a developer who's under the gun for a project deadline and is getting last-minute changes thrown at him daily how change orders work in construction, and he'll either laugh or cry at his own situation. That developer is *not* in a mature environment, but he is in a very common one.
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For instance, getting ATAPI CDROM support would enable a dozen things I'd like to do with FreeDOS. I've tried a dozen forum posts that claim to do it, tried a bunch of proprietary abandonware drivers, and nothing reliably works across any common set of hardware.
ATAPI.SYS has been "in development" for how long? I know, the core of DOS rather predates CDROM's (and I was there in the 90's doing it anyway), but keeping FreeDOS relevant on hardware that's available today is something I wish had higher priority. Yeah, yeah, grab that old Panasonic IDE out of the bin...
I think the currently accepted theory is that the great unwashed masses can't understand threads (I disagree, but...) and the real goal of a forum is to maximize ad impressions, not to encourage good discussion, so threads are considered unwise.
But, here we are using Slashcode despite all its warts...
And nearly everybody agreed that all science has always been incremental, with certain milestones always marked in hindsight by mythology.
I don't know why more projects aren't database agnostic.
Some apps are postgresql apps, not just CRUD apps. That is, much of the work is done in the database, for speed and efficiency.
Since the two main options are postgresql and mysql, and postgresql is a much nicer programming environment and it scales much more easily, it's not surprising that the developers chose it. The consequences are merely that there are several thousand hosting companies available to choose from rather than tens of thousands.
Yes, portability is constrained, but for running any real-sized forum this won't be an issue, especially because postgresql is open source software.
Hrm, I sent my bug report to admin@ rather than feedback@ three weeks ago, but as of today, http://slashdot.org/zoo.pl?op=check&uid=42 (for any ID) is still broken. I guess we now know why zoo.pl was being hacked on though!
I weep for the mountains of coal that have been burned for the millions of nepomuk indexers that nobody ever used or knew to turn off.
No proof is required on the side of the claimant, but the accused can immediately lose their stuff.
A few survivors of home invasions have reported that the killers break in and shout, "Police! This is a raid! Get on the floor with your hands behind your back!" or something similar before executing their victims.
Now there's an example of a hopelessly broken authentication system - that the same government sets up something similar for duplication of text is hardly surprising.
There's part of your answer - they use PWM controllers because they can be controlled via a serial interface and they don't require a resistor per segment. The actual PWM part is a bonus. You've seen the 'throbby' turn signals, right?
Yeah ... so isn't a turn signal a bank of, I dunno, 30 LED's? You wouldn't drive that off of a single pin on a controller, and you wouldn't need to address each LED independently.
Do they actually have each LED hooked up to a separate pin and just drive them all together? It would seem more expensive, but if that's the case, there could be some fun hacks (not street legal, of course).
leave me alone for about 5 years
Don't worry, the licensing will change and cause cross-product incompatibilities so you have to upgrade. They're fairly genius about engineering their upgrade and licensing treadmill into their software.
I have it running on my dell mini 10v and android on the laptop is amazing.
And fast. Fast, fast, really fast.
I'm running the AndroVM flavor in VirtualBox, and, hey, I like my phone (a little bit) but damn, JellyBean boots in a couple seconds on my laptop.
Why would you want Android on the desktop? I love Android, but I don't want it on my desktop.
Nobody would want the CURRENT Android on their laptop. But they'd sure love a consistent and portable environment that works for all their use cases, preserves app store purchases, provides access to all their data, etc., if it could do what they need a desktop OS to do today.
Right now the ChromeOS laptops can take a SIM card. Give it a couple years, and they'll take the whole phone, and the thing will switch into "laptop mode" when it's in (or near) the KVM case.
What we need is an open laptop running the latest Android NOT a locked down Internet only OS
Yes, that's what WE need, but the vast majority of users want a secure machine that only runs signed code, because they REALLY don't want to do system administration, way more so than they care about software choice.
I don't get why they're pushing ChromeOS (I mean I do but it's fail).
We want a fucking Android Desktop flavor.
Because you don't win against Microsoft by waiting for the merge to be done to get to market. Patience, grasshopper - the OEM's who have signed on for ChromeOS know they'll be hitting the ground running with Android laptops. But now is no time to taint the Android brand with the current status.
like most people, I already don't like micropayments
Is this why the local newspapers that implement $20/mo paywalls are doing so well?
It's hardly necessary to get municipalities involved; in many Towns there are dozens of WiFi AP's per block.
And nearly every one of those is locked down because there's a very real threat that opening the AP will lead to a S.W.A.T. Team kicking down your door, shooting your dog, and men-in-black ransacking your house "looking for the kiddie porn" (or has MAFFIA prosecution overtaken that in seriousness yet?).
Fix that, and the problem gets solved organically. Oh, but reigning in out-of-control courts and DA's is hard but building a government supermesh is easy.
and although the coverage wasn't as good, the far lower monthly cost made up for it in my reckoning.
For my use case, a cell phone that gets signal in the most places is the type I need to get. I'm on a $30/mo plan which works fine for what I need, and Verizon's network has at least triple the coverage of the next network here.
A few months ago, I made the switch to one of the GSM prepaid providers, and I'm totally blown away by how convenient it is to have my plan tied to a SIM card rather than a phone. Broken phone? No problem, stick the SIM in an old iPhone 3GS borrowed from a co-worker.
And if you're in an area with only Verizon coverage, you grab an old CDMA phone, call up your Verizon MVNO, press 2, and in 15 minutes you have the old phone connected. Yes, less convenient than a SIM swap, but if the trade-off is very poor signal, not at all unworth it.
And one where you can be the evil guy if you actually got your predictions right. (I'm thinking Marx here).
No need to go that far back, look how Schiff and Paul were vilified for making accurate predictions based on Austrian (not Australian!) economics and a general understanding of how people in power behave.
But that vilification was by the corporate media, who are generally owned by the big corporations that get/got juicy bailouts from the Federal Reserve, so it's little wonder that they'd go after their political enemies.
The most recognition I ever saw for this was that Neo used them.
popular in a dystopian parallel universe. This makes sense.
Well, one thing is for sure - the exploit was written with a context-free grammar.
I've pretty much hated every blender I've owned to date and recognize that there are only two or three blenders on the market that are actually good at their job, and they each cost as much as a new refrigerator. Clearly sticking a viscous blade on the end of a beefy motor isn't all there is to it.
So, please explain to the engineers who haunt this site what the challenges are in making a good blender.
They love those. They get to use them to pad thier "sex-offender" bust stats, which are good as gold come budget time.
Oh, right. I forgot that pissing on the side of the road is a no-voting, no-guns for-life crime nowadays.
A better solution would be to modify the existing PWM code (as the parent poster mentions) to ramp the brightness up instead of blasting it full-on
Wait, if they're already blasting it full on, why are they using PWM at all?
I was going to use a TLC5940 controller for my needs, but that includes gently fading in and out LED's in a software-defined way.
Without the need for fades, the only need for any PWM controller would be to address a great number of LED's independently but cars don't do that (the whole bank turns on and off).
I've read previously that it sets up a standing wave of light on your retina. Can't find a link at the moment.
But ... and I've been reading up on design circuits for something similar recently, it should be a matter of attaching a small capacitor to the LED to create a smoother fade. To be economical it probably should be integrated directly into the LED element itself rather than a discrete part. Not sure if those exist yet.
There exists technology to run an electrical trickle through a glass coating which prevents ice and snow adhesion. Would be nice for LED traffic lights.
Software is not like a house.
Software project management is very much like construction project management. I even know a person with a PhD in construction project management who went into software project management for medical software.
Show a developer who's under the gun for a project deadline and is getting last-minute changes thrown at him daily how change orders work in construction, and he'll either laugh or cry at his own situation. That developer is *not* in a mature environment, but he is in a very common one.