That statement is proof that you don't know how to admin a repository...
Using and administration are two very different things
I'm confused as to how you got anything regarding "administration" out of my point that there was no need to lock a repository. Can you explain your point than just saying "you don't know anything" in the typically condescending attitude of a know-it-all?
This is very true. Version control and the ability to diff against previous check-ins would have made finding some bugs (and avoiding others) much easier, had I known how to do it at the time.
it would be really easy for professors to lock checking into their repo after the due date.
Not even. You could just check out the last revision checked in on the due date. Subsequent revisions wouldn't even matter.
Leave all the super fancy graphics available on the bigger graphics cards
In case you missed what was going on in the mobile space, they absolutely can't leave support for the "super fancy graphics" out of any display server.
I know, it couldn't have anything to do that nothing transmitted in the clear over unregulated frequencies is considered secret in any way, and therefore Google arguably did nothing wrong whatsoever.
It had to be political gaming by CEOs to protect them from Federal legal action for violating... what law again?
Were I Intel and Nokia, I'd be thinking very hard about offering Dalvik and.apk support for apps without native code, at least for a subset of Android API features. Get some app coverage from the start, but encourage targeting of Qt by offering Qt Jambi from Java and offering better API access via the native interfaces. Be a better Android than Android.
And completely defeat the purpose of using Qt and the entire reason for MeeGo's existence by placing a dependence on Google? Doesn't help that you'd be locked out of the Android market.
MeeGo (or in some cases Debian Lenny with MeeGo on top) will live on in some ways as a custom ROM for the Android phones.
Doubtful. Userspace graphics drivers like those used for PowerVR and Qualcomm's chipsets aren't compatible with X11, so you'll be stuck with a second rate device.
I know, just like how Linux development started moving so fast there were four version in a single year. Everyone gave up and ran away, now all we have are Windows and MacOS X!
Nokia tried porting a true GNU system to a phone with Maemo, but it looks like it wasn't much of a success.
Which was not a function of the OS, but of user experience handling and marketing. It's not the substructure that sells a phone, it's the user interaction and integration.
The point is that there's no need for a wholly custom set of APIs for mobile devices.
Are you the same guy who made this mistake over on ArsTechnica?
MeeGo is definitely targeted for the phone market. Go actually look at documents that have been published and discussions on the mailing list. If it wasn't aimed at Android as well they wouldn't have an entire reference user interface for handsets.
The first that comes to mind is how Android is all about tossing aside everything that is open source as we know it and reinventing the wheel. The catch is that the wheel has not necessarily been improved, and now it's all under the control of Google, who does development behind closed doors and only allows hardware vendors to participate in the process. The rest of the world gets Android code when Google feels like releasing it.
The open source world has TONS of excellent APIs, no sense in not using them. Makes development a lot easier when you don't have to worry about each subsystem yourself. And hey, if your hardware vendor isn't run by bean-counting, control freak assholes, you can participate too.
But the main reason Nokia won't go Android is because that makes them dependent on Google, which even Android vendors like Motorola cite as a risk. Google wants to ride other vendors to get their services out there and make money, and that's a realm Nokia wants for themselves.
Following along with this, I'm amused that people put WP7 in league with Android or MeeGo. It's more like an iOS 2.0 you can license, and well you only need to read my post history as of late to know my opinion on hyper-restrictive OSes like iOS and WP7.
Err, except that your example is exceedingly hyperbolic.
Apple is shipping systems that are locked down now. There is no reason to believe they won't try and push that up the stack if they feel users will accept it.
But people will keep defending Apple until it's too late, and they start asking $500+ for developer licenses.
Why is the paranoia of non-mac users posting in a web forum to be believed? Why should we worry when Apple is adding functionality, even if that functionality is locked down.
Because they have such systems in the field? And why should Apple release locked down functionality?
The moment they start locking down existing functionality, I'll be the first to protest and I'll immediately start to consider abandoning OS X for Ubuntu. But none of what they announced today impacts my ability to do all the non-locked-down things that I do on my Mac.
Apple won't lock down existing functionality, they can't. The issue is what Apple does in the future and how they get people to accept it.
So why should I believe any of the "they're turning the Mac into the iPad" hysteria? They've just added an iPad-like layer on top of the traditional Mac environment without removing any of the access to that environment. I'm still in control of when/whether I wish to access stuff through the new layer or whether I'd like to do things the way I'm accustomed to doing them.
Because Apple has shown a history over the past couple years that they believe users should be locked in a walled garden but provide no means for the user to opt out. In the future, new system buyers may be forced to spend extra money to not be locked down. We don't know for sure, but Apple's existing behavior and current course leaves no real room to be optimistic.
When will/. readers acknowledge that they're not the entire fucking market for computing devices?
Because we're fucking pissed that corporations keep trying to pull this shit on people.
They don't need lock down for ANYTHING except to forcibly herd people through their stores. They don't need it for security, they don't need it for clean integration. It's purely for the purposes of monetization.
If there were even the inkling that the groups pushing this shit (in any company) were going to offer an easy means of disabling this for power users, I don't think there would be complaints. But they don't. And they want to push it far and wide, and make getting out from under it a pain in the ass.
Personally, I don't think there should be any threshold I should have to cross to use my property to the fullest. Even if no one else uses it, even if they aren't aware of it. The opportunity should be there no matter what.
So go ahead and defend Apple's behavior, until Intel, Microsoft, and the like go and try to push this shit industry wide and then since you are a tiny part of the market they ignore you completely.
I'm just drawing from their past trend in the mobile arena. I fully believe that they'll start moving things up the stack, and bring their lock down with them.
Go ahead, I want to hear more of your pro-DRM, pro-lockdown arguments.
And people bitch at me when I say that Apple is driving towards exactly this. The only reason they don't go the couple steps further to defeat jailbreaks is because it keeps people fucking around on their systems instead of pushing for something truly open.
Also, eventually Apple will shift to iOS. At that point, the only question of lock down is "how and to what degree" since the answer is inevitably "yes."
Until he streams lobbyists into Congress and starts burning cash on attack ads. Remember, in America men like Murdoch have more rights and influence with the government than you do. The Supreme Court said so.
Murdoch and the rest of the Media industry don't like the two-way, interactive nature of the web. They hate it, in fact, because it lets people ignore them.
Hell you can even make a competitor to BSkyB if you like.
I know, it's so easy to jump into the business of being a satellite media service company. Real easy.
The rampant Murdoch hatred is just so irrational.
Nah, Murdoch deserves all the shit he catches. I'm sure he'd not blink at killing everything you like about the internet if it served him in some way.
No one is forcing you to watch/read.
Of course not, but it's a shit deal to have only the options of "Murdoch controlled media" and "nothing," which is really how he wants it.
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Who do you think they are, Soulskill, NERV?
Also, science holds no dogma. If it does, it ceases to be science.
Accepted. Slashdot does need an edit command.
I'm confused as to how you got anything regarding "administration" out of my point that there was no need to lock a repository. Can you explain your point than just saying "you don't know anything" in the typically condescending attitude of a know-it-all?
I'm disappointed that such an arrogant and ignorant post got modded up after I gave up my downmod to post elsewhere.
This is very true. Version control and the ability to diff against previous check-ins would have made finding some bugs (and avoiding others) much easier, had I known how to do it at the time.
Not even. You could just check out the last revision checked in on the due date. Subsequent revisions wouldn't even matter.
Somehow I doubt they managed to get HTC to pay up by asking nicely.
In case you missed what was going on in the mobile space, they absolutely can't leave support for the "super fancy graphics" out of any display server.
When I get my hands on a $110K electric car I'll be sure to try it out! Might be a while, though.
We must encourage our ISPs to go out and buy Sandvine's DPI hardware and encourage them to immediately throttle and slow data streaming from Netflix!
Oh hey, my ISP is offering their own video streaming service...
I know, it couldn't have anything to do that nothing transmitted in the clear over unregulated frequencies is considered secret in any way, and therefore Google arguably did nothing wrong whatsoever.
It had to be political gaming by CEOs to protect them from Federal legal action for violating... what law again?
And completely defeat the purpose of using Qt and the entire reason for MeeGo's existence by placing a dependence on Google? Doesn't help that you'd be locked out of the Android market.
Doubtful. Userspace graphics drivers like those used for PowerVR and Qualcomm's chipsets aren't compatible with X11, so you'll be stuck with a second rate device.
I know, just like how Linux development started moving so fast there were four version in a single year. Everyone gave up and ran away, now all we have are Windows and MacOS X!
Which was not a function of the OS, but of user experience handling and marketing. It's not the substructure that sells a phone, it's the user interaction and integration.
The point is that there's no need for a wholly custom set of APIs for mobile devices.
Are you the same guy who made this mistake over on ArsTechnica?
MeeGo is definitely targeted for the phone market. Go actually look at documents that have been published and discussions on the mailing list. If it wasn't aimed at Android as well they wouldn't have an entire reference user interface for handsets.
The first that comes to mind is how Android is all about tossing aside everything that is open source as we know it and reinventing the wheel. The catch is that the wheel has not necessarily been improved, and now it's all under the control of Google, who does development behind closed doors and only allows hardware vendors to participate in the process. The rest of the world gets Android code when Google feels like releasing it.
The open source world has TONS of excellent APIs, no sense in not using them. Makes development a lot easier when you don't have to worry about each subsystem yourself. And hey, if your hardware vendor isn't run by bean-counting, control freak assholes, you can participate too.
But the main reason Nokia won't go Android is because that makes them dependent on Google, which even Android vendors like Motorola cite as a risk. Google wants to ride other vendors to get their services out there and make money, and that's a realm Nokia wants for themselves.
Following along with this, I'm amused that people put WP7 in league with Android or MeeGo. It's more like an iOS 2.0 you can license, and well you only need to read my post history as of late to know my opinion on hyper-restrictive OSes like iOS and WP7.
Err, except that your example is exceedingly hyperbolic.
Apple is shipping systems that are locked down now. There is no reason to believe they won't try and push that up the stack if they feel users will accept it.
But people will keep defending Apple until it's too late, and they start asking $500+ for developer licenses.
Because they have such systems in the field? And why should Apple release locked down functionality?
Apple won't lock down existing functionality, they can't. The issue is what Apple does in the future and how they get people to accept it.
Because Apple has shown a history over the past couple years that they believe users should be locked in a walled garden but provide no means for the user to opt out. In the future, new system buyers may be forced to spend extra money to not be locked down. We don't know for sure, but Apple's existing behavior and current course leaves no real room to be optimistic.
Nonsense, large vendors like Microsoft and Adobe will get a free pass (since they're platform-movers.) Everyone else, though, will have to pay up.
You don't seriously believe that all the major game studios are doing the 70/30 thing for their releases on the App Store, do you?
Because we're fucking pissed that corporations keep trying to pull this shit on people.
They don't need lock down for ANYTHING except to forcibly herd people through their stores. They don't need it for security, they don't need it for clean integration. It's purely for the purposes of monetization.
If there were even the inkling that the groups pushing this shit (in any company) were going to offer an easy means of disabling this for power users, I don't think there would be complaints. But they don't. And they want to push it far and wide, and make getting out from under it a pain in the ass.
Personally, I don't think there should be any threshold I should have to cross to use my property to the fullest. Even if no one else uses it, even if they aren't aware of it. The opportunity should be there no matter what.
So go ahead and defend Apple's behavior, until Intel, Microsoft, and the like go and try to push this shit industry wide and then since you are a tiny part of the market they ignore you completely.
I'm just drawing from their past trend in the mobile arena. I fully believe that they'll start moving things up the stack, and bring their lock down with them.
Go ahead, I want to hear more of your pro-DRM, pro-lockdown arguments.
And people bitch at me when I say that Apple is driving towards exactly this. The only reason they don't go the couple steps further to defeat jailbreaks is because it keeps people fucking around on their systems instead of pushing for something truly open.
Also, eventually Apple will shift to iOS. At that point, the only question of lock down is "how and to what degree" since the answer is inevitably "yes."
What, what?
Where's Abcd1234 to tell you that you're wrong and that lock down is the sole reason for its success?!
Sorry, but he got real, real pissy when I said the exact same thing on another article.
Sure as hell wasn't computers. Gene Simmons didn't have a computer growing up and look what happened to him.
Buy your kids a Banana Jr. 6000 today!
Until he streams lobbyists into Congress and starts burning cash on attack ads. Remember, in America men like Murdoch have more rights and influence with the government than you do. The Supreme Court said so.
Murdoch and the rest of the Media industry don't like the two-way, interactive nature of the web. They hate it, in fact, because it lets people ignore them.
I know, it's so easy to jump into the business of being a satellite media service company. Real easy.
Nah, Murdoch deserves all the shit he catches. I'm sure he'd not blink at killing everything you like about the internet if it served him in some way.
Of course not, but it's a shit deal to have only the options of "Murdoch controlled media" and "nothing," which is really how he wants it.