Look at it another way.... Perhaps Samsung gets some access to the patents of Rambus. Don't forget Rambus was a serial memory protocol. Everything in the x86 architecture is going serial, be it USB or PCIe. It's simpler to manage for interference. It might lead to better memory technology and if Samsung isn't being a bitch, it might be for the better of all of us.
The only Rambus machine I ever had was a dumpster diven P-IV 1.9GHz with 512Meg RAM. No way to upgrade the RAM because even on eBay RD-Ram was out of price. It's relegated to server duty at a proto-geek friend of mine. However, it was a rock-solid machine.
Perhaps, just perhaps, if Samsung plays this right (and has the patents), memory technology might take a significant advance....
Oh, come on.... I know of many Java coders who do exactly that. Use hardcoded backslashes and they are baffled when it doesn't work on my machine. I have to point them to System.getProperty("path.separator") so they get it right. I had many fights with both developers and pointy haired bosses because I pointed out those bugs.
Luckily now I'm not a Java coder any more.
Sure, you might say it's a problem of the Java coders, but in reality it's a problem of not knowing other systems.
I can mount stuff wherever I want, and it works just fine in XP. But at least one can keep one’s home directory, or the temp directory, on a different partition.
I did that on my previous work computer. I kept C: and "mounted" a partition on my "C:\Documents And Settings\$Username\My Documents" partition. It worked.... most of the time.... Meaning, when I wanted to delete a file, it usually didn't work anymore. When I had it "dual mounted" to a drive letter and on that path, I couldn't delete the file from my "My Documents", but it worked navigating to "D:\" and killing the file specifically.
I needed to keep the drive mapping to be able to delete files correctly. Bug? My fault? Who knows... but the using file systems transparently as on Unix machines wasn't possible.
I've got a 10 year old car.... The regular maintenance isn't more expensive that the regular maintenance for a new car. Sure, I pay money, for oil, for work hours.... I can't help that Microsoft provides "maintenance" for 0$ I'm sorry, but in this day and age a 10 year old computer can provide a good working system hardware-wise, but it's the software that breaks. I have dumpster-diven a P-IV 1.9GHz using RDRAM (According to Wikipedia, August 2001... so 8 years and a half ago or so) that runs XP just fine. It runs Debian now, as a server and frankly there is nothing lacking about it for its task.
XP is from August 2001.... Just saying....
In the day and age we reached the "good enough" computer, upgrading stopped being mandatory for many people.
I understand. My point was mainly, that the copyright needs to be there, but not even "in your face". So the about box say (c) Greedy Company 2010, but a readme, somewhere in the installation directory credits the BSD creator of the parts they use. Nowhere to be seen unless by people who go specifically hunt for it.
That said, I agree with you on the point that he should ask whether any open source license would do. If not, go code it yourself dear Greedy Company.
this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
I think that's what's bugging some vendors. They don't want to put other copyright notices but their own to binary distributions because it could be confusing to users.
You see that and/or? Just dump it at the end of the PDF manual of the product and no user will ever see it. I even think a separate text file installed with the product crediting to the original developer is most likely enough.
Never had a problem... Guess my IP changes more than ever 30 days.... (OpenBSD client, works great) If I could get more lifetime subscriptions I'd be willing to pay 100€ for them a pop. Got two domains on lifetime, and never regretted it.
My father in law is guilty of doing this (non-tech related field) for his company. I tried explaining him, but from his perspective these things do not matter. As a matter of fact, outside of our field, it really doesn't. It irritates me to, because I could set it up correctly for him. I'd even do it for free...
Mod parent up. This "Ask Slashdot" is a typical reaction of someone who is very very new to the workforce and doesn't understand (yet) it has a human component. During your studies, you don't work 8h straight either, but you don't notice. Well, most of them don't. I remember that, when I was a student, I could at most study 4h over the whole day. However, when I did that, I was concentrated. My neighbour claimed 10 to 12 hours studying per day. In reality I caught her more than once just staring out of the window, not really studying. For her that was part of "studying" but in reality it isn't.
Personally, I still adhere to the 4h/day effective work. If you have worked fully concentrated on your work for 4h during the work day, you did have a productive day. At least in my eyes.
I have a Atom 330. It can run 64-bit code, but can't address more than 32-bit. I know, my ION based Atom 330 has 4GB RAM and it reports 3.3Gig in 64-bit Linux (256Meg Framebuffer). Haven't tried PAE yet...
Laptop/netbook + crosscable to work machine. Just saying. Wait till everyone goes for lunch or late in the evening (early in the morning, if you're an early bird)
I've got ISDN.... and yes, when the power goes down, it's over.... The line still gets power, but my handset takes power from the grid, so I'm out.... Rarely happens though....
Windows can be set as usable for Limited Users. I've done it more than once and it's just lazyness/cluelessness of the admins that ensures devs get local admin. As an administrator it is harder to give them the rights needed, but it is possible.
Hmmmm.... That explains why me and the wife disagree so often. I know I'm right because I have the numbers to show and she knows she's right because, she's right and no exceptions allowed.... A bit like fundamentalist theists.;-)
I don't think a 10-year old would ever understand "grep" or "awk", for example, no matter how patiently you explained it. I think it's way too hard to get a young child to understand the condensed code AND learn the programming concepts.
And yet, 20 years ago we did exactly that.... What has changed is what we aspired to... I was happy to be able to write a "Donkey" clone in a higher level language (not BASIC). Kids these days see GTA4 and want to code that and that's simply not going to happen.
Wow, I'm surprised that anyone still uses the Xandros shipped with the EEE. Seriously? You do? No flame, a honest question. I have an EEE 701 4G (now used by my wife who has been hospitalized for the last three months, and has a few more to do)... I used the default Xandros distro for very long, especially it was quite well configured for the small screen. Eventually the lack of Asus updating their repositories (still Firefox 2.x, no?) made me abandon the platform.
I switched to DebianEEPC, installed LXDE and the few apps needed and was happy. When my wife went to the hospital, I gave it to her as is and she has no problem using it at all. So it is userfrienldy enough as she really is computer illiterate.
You really keep using the shipped Xandros? More power to you, but I'd like to know why:-)
But yes, I remember them mounting as/media/D:... I guess it was to keep familiarity with a system that can't handle a simple tree and needs a tree for each drive...
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Look at it another way.... Perhaps Samsung gets some access to the patents of Rambus. Don't forget Rambus was a serial memory protocol. Everything in the x86 architecture is going serial, be it USB or PCIe. It's simpler to manage for interference. It might lead to better memory technology and if Samsung isn't being a bitch, it might be for the better of all of us.
The only Rambus machine I ever had was a dumpster diven P-IV 1.9GHz with 512Meg RAM. No way to upgrade the RAM because even on eBay RD-Ram was out of price. It's relegated to server duty at a proto-geek friend of mine. However, it was a rock-solid machine.
Perhaps, just perhaps, if Samsung plays this right (and has the patents), memory technology might take a significant advance....
Probably just dreaming... *sigh*
Oh, come on.... I know of many Java coders who do exactly that. Use hardcoded backslashes and they are baffled when it doesn't work on my machine. I have to point them to System.getProperty("path.separator") so they get it right. I had many fights with both developers and pointy haired bosses because I pointed out those bugs.
Luckily now I'm not a Java coder any more.
Sure, you might say it's a problem of the Java coders, but in reality it's a problem of not knowing other systems.
I did that on my previous work computer. I kept C: and "mounted" a partition on my "C:\Documents And Settings\$Username\My Documents" partition. It worked.... most of the time.... Meaning, when I wanted to delete a file, it usually didn't work anymore. When I had it "dual mounted" to a drive letter and on that path, I couldn't delete the file from my "My Documents", but it worked navigating to "D:\" and killing the file specifically.
I needed to keep the drive mapping to be able to delete files correctly. Bug? My fault? Who knows... but the using file systems transparently as on Unix machines wasn't possible.
I've got a 10 year old car.... The regular maintenance isn't more expensive that the regular maintenance for a new car. Sure, I pay money, for oil, for work hours.... I can't help that Microsoft provides "maintenance" for 0$ I'm sorry, but in this day and age a 10 year old computer can provide a good working system hardware-wise, but it's the software that breaks. I have dumpster-diven a P-IV 1.9GHz using RDRAM (According to Wikipedia, August 2001... so 8 years and a half ago or so) that runs XP just fine. It runs Debian now, as a server and frankly there is nothing lacking about it for its task.
XP is from August 2001.... Just saying....
In the day and age we reached the "good enough" computer, upgrading stopped being mandatory for many people.
I understand. My point was mainly, that the copyright needs to be there, but not even "in your face". So the about box say (c) Greedy Company 2010, but a readme, somewhere in the installation directory credits the BSD creator of the parts they use. Nowhere to be seen unless by people who go specifically hunt for it.
That said, I agree with you on the point that he should ask whether any open source license would do. If not, go code it yourself dear Greedy Company.
You see that and/or? Just dump it at the end of the PDF manual of the product and no user will ever see it. I even think a separate text file installed with the product crediting to the original developer is most likely enough.
What stopped you from searching for "mp3" on wikipedia? It's right there in the second paragraph.
Fraunhofer. Even if you'd try to read your version phonetically, it would be incorrect. Just saying.
As said.... never had a problem... Would pay again :-)
To clarify, I have a grandfathered "Custom" account :-) Perhaps those don't get the 30 day restriction.
Never had a problem... Guess my IP changes more than ever 30 days.... (OpenBSD client, works great) If I could get more lifetime subscriptions I'd be willing to pay 100€ for them a pop. Got two domains on lifetime, and never regretted it.
My father in law is guilty of doing this (non-tech related field) for his company. I tried explaining him, but from his perspective these things do not matter. As a matter of fact, outside of our field, it really doesn't. It irritates me to, because I could set it up correctly for him. I'd even do it for free...
Isn't this a software issue? I mean, load up a more recent operating system and you've got WPA. No? Am I missing something?
My wife posts on slashdot now? Damn!
It's a real product by Rösch Company: Linux. Micro&Soft For some reason, I would call toilet paper "Micro&Soft" :-P
Mod parent up. This "Ask Slashdot" is a typical reaction of someone who is very very new to the workforce and doesn't understand (yet) it has a human component. During your studies, you don't work 8h straight either, but you don't notice. Well, most of them don't. I remember that, when I was a student, I could at most study 4h over the whole day. However, when I did that, I was concentrated. My neighbour claimed 10 to 12 hours studying per day. In reality I caught her more than once just staring out of the window, not really studying. For her that was part of "studying" but in reality it isn't.
Personally, I still adhere to the 4h/day effective work. If you have worked fully concentrated on your work for 4h during the work day, you did have a productive day. At least in my eyes.
I have a Atom 330. It can run 64-bit code, but can't address more than 32-bit. I know, my ION based Atom 330 has 4GB RAM and it reports 3.3Gig in 64-bit Linux (256Meg Framebuffer). Haven't tried PAE yet...
Laptop/netbook + crosscable to work machine. Just saying. Wait till everyone goes for lunch or late in the evening (early in the morning, if you're an early bird)
I've got ISDN.... and yes, when the power goes down, it's over.... The line still gets power, but my handset takes power from the grid, so I'm out.... Rarely happens though....
Windows can be set as usable for Limited Users. I've done it more than once and it's just lazyness/cluelessness of the admins that ensures devs get local admin. As an administrator it is harder to give them the rights needed, but it is possible.
Hmmmm.... That explains why me and the wife disagree so often. I know I'm right because I have the numbers to show and she knows she's right because, she's right and no exceptions allowed.... A bit like fundamentalist theists. ;-)
I'd go for Hugo Boss...
If you're going to depend on alien repositories (thus the non-Asus provided ones), why not switch distribution completely?
And yet, 20 years ago we did exactly that.... What has changed is what we aspired to... I was happy to be able to write a "Donkey" clone in a higher level language (not BASIC). Kids these days see GTA4 and want to code that and that's simply not going to happen.
I guess your sig is all too true in this context.
Wow, I'm surprised that anyone still uses the Xandros shipped with the EEE. Seriously? You do? No flame, a honest question. I have an EEE 701 4G (now used by my wife who has been hospitalized for the last three months, and has a few more to do)... I used the default Xandros distro for very long, especially it was quite well configured for the small screen. Eventually the lack of Asus updating their repositories (still Firefox 2.x, no?) made me abandon the platform.
I switched to DebianEEPC, installed LXDE and the few apps needed and was happy. When my wife went to the hospital, I gave it to her as is and she has no problem using it at all. So it is userfrienldy enough as she really is computer illiterate.
You really keep using the shipped Xandros? More power to you, but I'd like to know why :-)
But yes, I remember them mounting as /media/D:... I guess it was to keep familiarity with a system that can't handle a simple tree and needs a tree for each drive...
(Nice sig... Like it.)