Your trollish demeanor aside, the GPL is nothing like a standard EULA.
In fact, using GPL software is much like reading a book. The issues of copyright never come into play until you get it in your head that you wish to redistribute the work in question. Copyright says "no you can't, go talk to the copyright holder" while the GPL says "yes, under these terms. If you don't like them, Copyright says no you can't, go talk to the copyright holder."
Whereas proprietary software requires you read and accept a license before using it. Completely unlike a book.
Hopefully you will understand Stallman and the GPL better now, or I will have to apologize for feeding a troll.
They both operate in Europe as well. When you're a large, multinational corporation you generally have to accept regulatory practices of each nation you wish to operate in.
No, it is totally open. You can even rebuild and replace the kernel if you so desired. In fact, it's trivial to install an app that grants you root (it's available in the APT-based repositories.)
I'm sorry, that slot is reserved for Maemo. Until the community has real influence on the path Android takes, it's not nearly as open.
It's sad that the N900 doesn't get as much attention as all the Android based phones, what with it being considerably more open and based on existing open frameworks.
Well, aside from the obvious architectural difference separating the TI-82(83,84) and the TI-89(92) lines, there's also varying degrees of internal hardware differences between the models. Even newer revisions of the same calculator can have wildly different hardware (the 83+ for instance has internal flash that the classic 83 lacks entirely.)
My TI-89 is now 11 years old, I'm fairly sure the most recent 89 revisions are internally different to some degree from the older hardware. The only reason that TI is pissed about this is that it removes total control of the software load of the devices from their hands.
Considering these keys do not "effectively control access to a work" I'm sure that while they may try (the DMCA is the be-all and end-all of corporate beatdown sticks, used regardless of merit,) it's doubtful.
After all, these are signing keys. All they let you do is load a new OS or your own signed applications on the calculator (signed apps are something they've done since the 89 was released back in 1998) and bypass a number of community-developed workarounds to get assembly programs on the calculator, along with the special resources available to such apps.
TI has no valid DMCA claim here, but they're a GRAND OLE CORPORATION to our government and thus deserve more power and leniency than the average prole.
Not quite. There are a number (though small and growing smaller) of closed source packages for things like power management. Fortunately, there don't seem to be any closed modules for the kernel.
Also, I doubt the N900 will compete with the iPhone in terms of UI niceness, it very much seems to be a web-geek/linux-geek oriented phone and will get away with that fact by being so focused. The only thing that kept me away from the iPhone has been the lack of a physical keyboard.
The Free Software Foundation, and its' activism, both need to die if Linux is ever going to become anything more than fringe.
I know, the idea that people should have control (should they desire it) over the hardware they buy and software they use is just -ridiculous-.
if Linux is ever going to become anything more than fringe.
Then someone needs to pick it up and run with it. There's nothing stopping someone from developing a Linux-based OS on level with OS X. No amount of rhetoric from the FSF would interfere.
The current standard of eight hours on a XP-based netbook
Having owned an XP netbook (aspire one) I must say that an eight-hour standard is optimistic beyond belief, and likely only possible if you leave it sitting there. The Atom processor is power hungry and once you start actually using it the battery life plummets considerably.
ARM already has an advantage on power consumption, if they can match the Atom on performance I suspect they'll win on battery life by default.
I know, there's nothing like a lack of attention to hinder the pace of driver development. Therefore we should never adopt the alternative platform, as the drivers will obviously not improve.
On the other hand, I would like to see someone give Intel a run for their money since it seems AMD is being kneecapped. If ARM does it from the low/embedded end and moves up (leveraging their huge number of licensees) then all the more power to them.
Considering that Android is not at all intended for netbooks, and Moblin was Intel's distro aimed at Atom chips. Between Moblin and Maemo, they would be better off choosing one of them for all their devices and at least being internally consistent, instead of rolling yet another custom mobile Linux distro and wedging Android in places where Google never truly intended for it to be (which is what ChromeOS is for.)
Hey look, it's someone pissing out ancient FUD and lies! Troll articles full of raging ignorance piss the ever living fuck out of me because they're stupid and they get idiots who rage blindly to parrot them.
It's not a goddamn authentication chip. It's a goddamn control chip that Apple sells which negates the need for any 3rd party vendor to implement and validate their own chip. It's a cost savings for EVERY manufacturer.
Obviously you have never made use of a network power switch. Nothing quite like crashing a hardware development system, telnetting into the power switch, and toggling the power remotely.
It is entirely possible to manage everything but critical hardware failures remotely, and hardware failures like that are why we have redundancy.
Sure they were, they got called on it and damn near broken up. I have no doubt that if they weren't restrained by the government they'd be equally as harsh, if not moreso (see PlaysForSure.) And the day Apple is in a true monopoly position and they use it to drive a competitor out of the market (which is unlikely) then the hammer will fall on them. I don't see it happening any time soon.
Also, Apple is effectively no worse than any console manufacturer. I suggest you direct your rage there as well (oh hey look microsoft is there too.)
I was seriously considering an iPhone but the lack of a hard keyboard (and the ability to buy without a contract) put me off. But this thing has a hard keyboard and (as far as I can see) an entirely FOSS software stack, on top of giving direct access to the root account and having apt installed.
It's beaten out every Android phone I've seen with that little fact alone.
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Your trollish demeanor aside, the GPL is nothing like a standard EULA.
In fact, using GPL software is much like reading a book. The issues of copyright never come into play until you get it in your head that you wish to redistribute the work in question. Copyright says "no you can't, go talk to the copyright holder" while the GPL says "yes, under these terms. If you don't like them, Copyright says no you can't, go talk to the copyright holder."
Whereas proprietary software requires you read and accept a license before using it. Completely unlike a book.
Hopefully you will understand Stallman and the GPL better now, or I will have to apologize for feeding a troll.
They both operate in Europe as well. When you're a large, multinational corporation you generally have to accept regulatory practices of each nation you wish to operate in.
Actually he said explicitly that he'd be ordering an N900. Netbooks are exceedingly inconvenient in ways phones aren't.
No, it is totally open. You can even rebuild and replace the kernel if you so desired. In fact, it's trivial to install an app that grants you root (it's available in the APT-based repositories.)
Not being used by Android because it being Linux is purely immaterial.
If you want a phone with APT, you need to look at Nokia's Maemo offering.
I'm sorry, that slot is reserved for Maemo. Until the community has real influence on the path Android takes, it's not nearly as open.
It's sad that the N900 doesn't get as much attention as all the Android based phones, what with it being considerably more open and based on existing open frameworks.
Let me guess, you voted for McCain, didn't you?
No worries, you've got about as much experience with a Mac as most rabid Apple haters do.
And screws up their taxes, or the IRS comes knocking about unpaid taxes on all those transfers of tens of thousands of dollars.
It's the unilateral opinion that anything that isn't physical, or can be easily copied, is suddenly lacking of all artistic merit and value.
AK = Alaska
AR = Arkansas
Unless there is a Little Rock, Alaska that had race riots I wasn't aware of.
Well, aside from the obvious architectural difference separating the TI-82(83,84) and the TI-89(92) lines, there's also varying degrees of internal hardware differences between the models. Even newer revisions of the same calculator can have wildly different hardware (the 83+ for instance has internal flash that the classic 83 lacks entirely.)
My TI-89 is now 11 years old, I'm fairly sure the most recent 89 revisions are internally different to some degree from the older hardware. The only reason that TI is pissed about this is that it removes total control of the software load of the devices from their hands.
Considering these keys do not "effectively control access to a work" I'm sure that while they may try (the DMCA is the be-all and end-all of corporate beatdown sticks, used regardless of merit,) it's doubtful.
After all, these are signing keys. All they let you do is load a new OS or your own signed applications on the calculator (signed apps are something they've done since the 89 was released back in 1998) and bypass a number of community-developed workarounds to get assembly programs on the calculator, along with the special resources available to such apps.
TI has no valid DMCA claim here, but they're a GRAND OLE CORPORATION to our government and thus deserve more power and leniency than the average prole.
Not quite. There are a number (though small and growing smaller) of closed source packages for things like power management. Fortunately, there don't seem to be any closed modules for the kernel.
Also, I doubt the N900 will compete with the iPhone in terms of UI niceness, it very much seems to be a web-geek/linux-geek oriented phone and will get away with that fact by being so focused. The only thing that kept me away from the iPhone has been the lack of a physical keyboard.
I know, the idea that people should have control (should they desire it) over the hardware they buy and software they use is just -ridiculous-.
Then someone needs to pick it up and run with it. There's nothing stopping someone from developing a Linux-based OS on level with OS X. No amount of rhetoric from the FSF would interfere.
Let me rephrase your questions, and condense them:
And the answer is no, not without emulation.
Having owned an XP netbook (aspire one) I must say that an eight-hour standard is optimistic beyond belief, and likely only possible if you leave it sitting there. The Atom processor is power hungry and once you start actually using it the battery life plummets considerably.
ARM already has an advantage on power consumption, if they can match the Atom on performance I suspect they'll win on battery life by default.
I know, there's nothing like a lack of attention to hinder the pace of driver development. Therefore we should never adopt the alternative platform, as the drivers will obviously not improve.
On the other hand, I would like to see someone give Intel a run for their money since it seems AMD is being kneecapped. If ARM does it from the low/embedded end and moves up (leveraging their huge number of licensees) then all the more power to them.
Interplay holds all rights.
Considering that Android is not at all intended for netbooks, and Moblin was Intel's distro aimed at Atom chips. Between Moblin and Maemo, they would be better off choosing one of them for all their devices and at least being internally consistent, instead of rolling yet another custom mobile Linux distro and wedging Android in places where Google never truly intended for it to be (which is what ChromeOS is for.)
Has a manufacturer released a chip with hardware FLAC decode support?
You might see FLAC support when that happens, until then you'll probably be waiting.
Hey look, it's someone pissing out ancient FUD and lies! Troll articles full of raging ignorance piss the ever living fuck out of me because they're stupid and they get idiots who rage blindly to parrot them.
It's not a goddamn authentication chip. It's a goddamn control chip that Apple sells which negates the need for any 3rd party vendor to implement and validate their own chip. It's a cost savings for EVERY manufacturer.
If you want to use your own headphones, get this: http://www.provantage.com/belkin-f8z452~7BELM0U4.htm
There. Now shut the fuck up.
Obviously you have never made use of a network power switch. Nothing quite like crashing a hardware development system, telnetting into the power switch, and toggling the power remotely.
It is entirely possible to manage everything but critical hardware failures remotely, and hardware failures like that are why we have redundancy.
Sure they were, they got called on it and damn near broken up. I have no doubt that if they weren't restrained by the government they'd be equally as harsh, if not moreso (see PlaysForSure.) And the day Apple is in a true monopoly position and they use it to drive a competitor out of the market (which is unlikely) then the hammer will fall on them. I don't see it happening any time soon.
Also, Apple is effectively no worse than any console manufacturer. I suggest you direct your rage there as well (oh hey look microsoft is there too.)
In a way, if you're a big enough geek he's right.
I was seriously considering an iPhone but the lack of a hard keyboard (and the ability to buy without a contract) put me off. But this thing has a hard keyboard and (as far as I can see) an entirely FOSS software stack, on top of giving direct access to the root account and having apt installed.
It's beaten out every Android phone I've seen with that little fact alone.