If I plug it in a linux (debian) PC, its charging. If I plug in the windows PC, its not charging. If I install some appropriate driver on the windows PC, its charging. If the battery is so low that you cant even turn it on anymore, then it wont charge, no matter if its the windows or linux PC.
More: I have a Ipod charger, the plug on the block is just an USB plug. I can charge my ipod either by plugging it in my USB port on a PC, or in the charger block. Tired the same thing with my phones: didnt work.
I bought a no-name car charger, with a mini usb plug, supposed to work for blackberrys. Didnt charge my motorola phone. Bought the motorola/Cingular brand car charger: Worked fine, even though the battery was completely dead.
So the USB charging interface is far more complicated than just a 5V power supply. I bet its not going to be that simple...
[quote] ``Imagine how much more work could be done to a package manager if every distro was using the same.''
I don't think package managers are or should be so complicated that they'd greatly benefit from everyone hacking the same one. At any rate, the diversity allowed me to choose the vastly superior apt-get when most people were using rpm (I know there are working wrappers for rpm that resolve dependencies nowadays, but back in the day, there weren't). I'm glad about that. [/quote]
Actually, a good question is: Why was apt-get developed for dpkg/debian in the first place and not rpm/redhat ? Does the existence of two distinct package managers had a positive or negative impact ? Would linux popularity/market share/visibility/ have increased faster if dpkg didnt exist and apt-get was developed for rpm in the first place ?
I mean, do you expect to see a network advertising rivals shows ??
Duh... should you expect Google to advertise Yahoo maps ? I dont, but guess what... When you type an address in the Google Search, you get links to Google Maps, Yahoo Maps and Mapquest in that order. And its not even ads, I bet they do it for free...
Also, they might keep the "messenger" adword for themselves, but yet if you type messenger in Google Search, guess what the results looks like ? Google Talk is not in them. Google Talk only appears in the small ad section on the right.
Also try "online maps" in google, and look at the results and ads... I dont think anybody is being stiffled here...
Why didnt your company tried to build their own boards ? Or pair-up with a smaller board manufacturer company that did not buy from nVidia.
I mean the board's brand name is nothing, so they probably could outsource the board building and packaging to some random chinese company bypassing nVidia's radar.
Each order is custom made to a LICENSED reactor, and shipped directly form the licensed reactor to the final customer. You would need to order 15000 of there samples, and spend 1 Million dollars in order to get a toxic amount. Then you would have to somehow manipulate the isotopes to put them in a form convenient for poisoning.
But do you have any idea how many ballots voters in a US election are actually casting ?
You have to vote for dozens of elections, and propositions.
Not only you vote for your US congressman, and/or your US senator... Then you have state elections: Governor, State Senators, State congressman,
Already there you are starting to get things complicated, but thats only the tip of the iceberg...
Then you have locals: you have to vote for the school superintendant, for the sheriff, for the hospital board, for judges, and what not...
And the worst comes last: Ballot Propositions! Statewide and locals! Prop 86, 87, 88, 89, 90... Measure A, B, C... etc...
The problem here is simple: too much democracy.
As a citizen, I'm electing representants and senators to do a job: pass laws! Why do I have to do their job by voting on propositions ? Those propositions are full of legales and impossible to understand for most people, and they undermine the legislative bodies in their work...
Thats the problem in the first place. There wouldnot be a need for complex election system if we were letting the legislative bodies do their job.
1) Americanized countries (eg: England, Australia) : Same crap, different accent = Might as well live in the USA 2) Countries which hate America (eg: Middle East, France and most of Europe, Brazil, even Canada....). They dont want you, and will make your life miserable. 3) Third world countries (Africa, part of Asia,...) : Bye bye Slashdot. 4) Developed Asian countries (Japan, Taiwan, HK...) : You cant take the cultural change... 5) Sealand : Good luck getting a visa. 6) Tropical paradise: You dont have enough money to retire there...
Come on... Who ever defined the word genuine in the context of software or even worse, licenses ?
1) From the blog: "What Microsoft is concerned about is the software equivalent of buying a refrigerator that fell off the truck."
How can that be true: if a Windows CD fell of the truck, its still has a valid license with it. So I'm getting a licensed copy, which is still a genuine copy (even by MSFT definition).
2) He defines genuine using this:"In contrast, if you buy a "Rorex" watch, it is not genuine because it is not made by the Rolex company and does not have the aesthetics, functionality, and resale value of a real Rolex."
Well if I can duplicate a Rolex watch in the same way I can duplicate software, it will have the same aesthetics and functionality, is the result still genuine ?
3) People are now making artificial diamonds which cannot not be differenciated from natural ones. Off course traditional diamonds busineses are calling those artificial diamonds "fakes" and "non-genuine". Are they using the word genuine wrong ?
4) Microsoft software have a "genuine" tag, those shiny stickers, which are very hard to copy, so that most copy dont have the same shiny sticker. The shiny sticker is part of the package, as much as the 'L' in Rolex is. Copies are definitely aestethycally different. If I just download a copy from the internet, I dont even get the nice CD case.
5) Again from the article "Whatever the reasons may be, a great many people have little sympathy for a campaign based on Microsoft's legal or moral rights."
If I had been "sold" (term used in microsoft, quoted in the article), an unlicensed copy of Microsoft software, I would be very grateful to Microsoft to let me know, so I could go kick the shit out of the guy who sold it to me. If I want pirated copies of Microsoft software, I can download them for free, I dont want to pay for them.
The campaign is perfectly valid in my opinion, even though I dont really like Microsoft business practices.
6) The author goes on: "The point I am making here is that rather that Microsoft is using "genuine" in a way that deviates from the way it is commnly used and that this evidently for the purpose of putting a deceptive slant on things."
Who defined the term genuine in the context of licensed software ? Who else is using the term genuine in any different way in the context software ? And where is the deceptive slant? Who has ever been misunderstood what microsoft was talking about when they used the term genuine ?
Obviously this guy is as much "slanted" against microsoft, than microsoft is against his customers...
Yeah, I tried to cut and paste from K&R once... I got caught, but I'm sure that with sharper scissors, better glue, and more expertise with the photocopier, It could have gone through without being detected....
Si in effect, if you are an admin, you can become root without kmowing the root password, so you can edit the sudoers file and do everything the supposed hacked installer package do.
This article is great, wether accurate or misleading, biased or not. Reveling (or inventing) the human stories behind great discoveries is really interesting...
In, about 80 years, you'll probably be dead. As will many geeks of the "linux generation". Linux Developers will die, if there's no new generation to pick up the slack, Linux will die too. Same with Open Source or Free Software movements.
Thats a basic fact of life : Species need to reproduce to survive. Which is very problematic with geeks...
Open source gurus at LinuxWorld discuss solutions to make Linux more consumer-friendly.
In the meantime in Redmond and Cupertino, some people actually implement them.
"A panel discussion at LinuxWorld urged developers on Wednesday to get religion about Linux on the desktop and consider the generation of users who expect music and video at their fingertips."
Religion !!! I dont think developers need more religion...
I think ESR, Jon "Maddog" Hall, Larry and all this bunch of "panelist" should maybe hire and pay developers to develop the Linux Desktop instead of just flying around the world preaching about it and relying on starving student to catchup with Vista and MacOS...
There is enough talent among linux developers to create a viable Linux Desktop, but no one is actually harnessing this power.
They did it for Firefox, no stop bitching and do something if you want Linux Desktop to happen...
Me? I dont care about linux on the desktop for the masses...
Today, DRM is limited to crappy pop music that nobody wants any
You get the prize for most factuals errors in one sentence:
- DRM is not limited to pop music (not everything on itunes is crappy pop) it is not even limited to music. - pop music is, by definition, what most people want - wether you think its crappy or not
Slashdot Mirror
Universal, my ass...
I tried that both with a Motorola Razr and a L6.
If I plug it in a linux (debian) PC, its charging.
If I plug in the windows PC, its not charging.
If I install some appropriate driver on the windows PC, its charging.
If the battery is so low that you cant even turn it on anymore, then it wont charge, no matter if its the windows or linux PC.
More:
I have a Ipod charger, the plug on the block is just an USB plug. I can charge my ipod either by plugging it in my USB port on a PC, or in the charger block. Tired the same thing with my phones: didnt work.
I bought a no-name car charger, with a mini usb plug, supposed to work for blackberrys. Didnt charge my motorola phone.
Bought the motorola/Cingular brand car charger: Worked fine, even though the battery was completely dead.
So the USB charging interface is far more complicated than just a 5V power supply. I bet its not going to be that simple...
[quote]
``Imagine how much more work could be done to a package manager if every distro was using the same.''
I don't think package managers are or should be so complicated that they'd greatly benefit from everyone hacking the same one. At any rate, the diversity allowed me to choose the vastly superior apt-get when most people were using rpm (I know there are working wrappers for rpm that resolve dependencies nowadays, but back in the day, there weren't). I'm glad about that.
[/quote]
Actually, a good question is: Why was apt-get developed for dpkg/debian in the first place and not rpm/redhat ? Does the existence of two distinct package managers had a positive or negative impact ? Would linux popularity/market share/visibility/ have increased faster if dpkg didnt exist and apt-get was developed for rpm in the first place ?
Hard to say...
Dont worry!
Dont you know that OpenOffice.org use Slashdot as a bug tracking system ??
I mean, do you expect to see a network advertising rivals shows ??
... When you type an address in the Google Search, you get links to Google Maps, Yahoo Maps and Mapquest in that order. And its not even ads, I bet they do it for free...
Duh... should you expect Google to advertise Yahoo maps ? I dont, but guess what
Also, they might keep the "messenger" adword for themselves, but yet if you type messenger in Google Search, guess what the results looks like ? Google Talk is not in them. Google Talk only appears in the small ad section on the right.
Also try "online maps" in google, and look at the results and ads... I dont think anybody is being stiffled here...
Why didnt your company tried to build their own boards ? Or pair-up with a smaller board manufacturer company that did not buy from nVidia.
I mean the board's brand name is nothing, so they probably could outsource the board building and packaging to some random chinese company bypassing nVidia's radar.
No!!! Go read their website before talking:
Each order is custom made to a LICENSED reactor, and shipped directly form the licensed reactor to the final customer.
You would need to order 15000 of there samples, and spend 1 Million dollars in order to get a toxic amount.
Then you would have to somehow manipulate the isotopes to put them in a form convenient for poisoning.
There's nothing wrong with a paper ballot...
But do you have any idea how many ballots voters in a US election are actually casting ?
You have to vote for dozens of elections, and propositions.
Not only you vote for your US congressman, and/or your US senator...
Then you have state elections: Governor, State Senators, State congressman,
Already there you are starting to get things complicated, but thats only the tip of the iceberg...
Then you have locals: you have to vote for the school superintendant, for the sheriff, for the hospital board, for judges, and what not...
And the worst comes last: Ballot Propositions! Statewide and locals! Prop 86, 87, 88, 89, 90... Measure A, B, C... etc...
The problem here is simple: too much democracy.
As a citizen, I'm electing representants and senators to do a job: pass laws! Why do I have to do their job by voting on propositions ? Those propositions are full of legales and impossible to understand for most people, and they undermine the legislative bodies in their work...
Thats the problem in the first place. There wouldnot be a need for complex election system if we were letting the legislative bodies do their job.
I'm sorry, but look around what your choices are:
1) Americanized countries (eg: England, Australia) : Same crap, different accent = Might as well live in the USA
2) Countries which hate America (eg: Middle East, France and most of Europe, Brazil, even Canada....). They dont want you, and will make your life miserable.
3) Third world countries (Africa, part of Asia,
4) Developed Asian countries (Japan, Taiwan, HK...) : You cant take the cultural change...
5) Sealand : Good luck getting a visa.
6) Tropical paradise: You dont have enough money to retire there...
This doesnt work as a defence for sharing.
I dont think RIAA has ever sued anybody for downloading, only sharing.
At least the BBC is worth something. BBC is the most reliable news source for me here in the US.
There is the same system in France, but the French public television company is not worth a damn...
Come on... Who ever defined the word genuine in the context of software or even worse, licenses ?
:"In contrast, if you buy a "Rorex" watch, it is not genuine because it is not made by the Rolex company and does not have the aesthetics, functionality, and resale value of a real Rolex."
1) From the blog: "What Microsoft is concerned about is the software equivalent of buying a refrigerator that fell off the truck."
How can that be true: if a Windows CD fell of the truck, its still has a valid license with it. So I'm getting a licensed copy, which is still a genuine copy (even by MSFT definition).
2) He defines genuine using this
Well if I can duplicate a Rolex watch in the same way I can duplicate software, it will have the same aesthetics and functionality, is the result still genuine ?
3) People are now making artificial diamonds which cannot not be differenciated from natural ones. Off course traditional diamonds busineses are calling those artificial diamonds "fakes" and "non-genuine". Are they using the word genuine wrong ?
4) Microsoft software have a "genuine" tag, those shiny stickers, which are very hard to copy, so that most copy dont have the same shiny sticker. The shiny sticker is part of the package, as much as the 'L' in Rolex is. Copies are definitely aestethycally different. If I just download a copy from the internet, I dont even get the nice CD case.
5) Again from the article "Whatever the reasons may be, a great many people have little sympathy for a campaign based on Microsoft's legal or moral rights."
If I had been "sold" (term used in microsoft, quoted in the article), an unlicensed copy of Microsoft software, I would be very grateful to Microsoft to let me know, so I could go kick the shit out of the guy who sold it to me.
If I want pirated copies of Microsoft software, I can download them for free, I dont want to pay for them.
The campaign is perfectly valid in my opinion, even though I dont really like Microsoft business practices.
6) The author goes on: "The point I am making here is that rather that Microsoft is using "genuine" in a way that deviates from the way it is commnly used and that this evidently for the purpose of putting a deceptive slant on things."
Who defined the term genuine in the context of licensed software ? Who else is using the term genuine in any different way in the context software ? And where is the deceptive slant? Who has ever been misunderstood what microsoft was talking about when they used the term genuine ?
Obviously this guy is as much "slanted" against microsoft, than microsoft is against his customers...
Yeah, I tried to cut and paste from K&R once... I got caught, but I'm sure that with sharper scissors, better glue, and more expertise with the photocopier, It could have gone through without being detected....
Si in effect, if you are an admin, you can become root without kmowing the root password, so you can edit the sudoers file and do everything the supposed hacked installer package do.
So whats the big deal?
Huge media ruckus ? They only did a presentation at a security conference... hardly a media ruckus...
And theres probably no content either, at least not from major US studios. It might work for the chinese market.
This article is great, wether accurate or misleading, biased or not. Reveling (or inventing) the human stories behind great discoveries is really interesting...
In, about 80 years, you'll probably be dead. As will many geeks of the "linux generation". Linux Developers will die, if there's no new generation to pick up the slack, Linux will die too. Same with Open Source or Free Software movements.
Thats a basic fact of life : Species need to reproduce to survive. Which is very problematic with geeks...
Open source gurus at LinuxWorld discuss solutions to make Linux more consumer-friendly.
...
In the meantime in Redmond and Cupertino, some people actually implement them.
"A panel discussion at LinuxWorld urged developers on Wednesday to get religion about Linux on the desktop and consider the generation of users who expect music and video at their fingertips."
Religion !!! I dont think developers need more religion...
I think ESR, Jon "Maddog" Hall, Larry and all this bunch of "panelist" should maybe hire and pay developers to develop the Linux Desktop instead of just flying around the world preaching about it and relying on starving student to catchup with Vista and MacOS...
There is enough talent among linux developers to create a viable Linux Desktop, but no one is actually harnessing this power.
They did it for Firefox, no stop bitching and do something if you want Linux Desktop to happen
Me? I dont care about linux on the desktop for the masses...
Sometime, the only incentive for lawyers to pursue class action lawsuit is the insane amount of money they make from it.
No money for lawyers, no class action, no punitive damages, no responsability....
I remember Ayrton Sena.
They dont usually take a wall at 200MPH, they take the grass, the gravel, and the tires....
On the other hand, this thing is probably even less confortable than a F1
Didnt Gnome used CORBA at some point ?
I remember there was something called Bonobo...
Is that still going on, or was that just a fad ?
"The truth is that the Microkernel model probably is a better design"
Yeah right... the truth is probably something like an opinion.
"Imagine the talent of Brazil with Australia's work ethic"
Please dont try to change Brazilian footbal: its beautiful as it is, even if in the end they are not the best ever.
This will only confuse them!
Unless your spec is hundreds of pages long, I dont see a need for branching
Do not overkill
You get the prize for most factuals errors in one sentence:
- DRM is not limited to pop music (not everything on itunes is crappy pop) it is not even limited to music.
- pop music is, by definition, what most people want - wether you think its crappy or not