Not from what I can see. AACS was cracked within a year or so of the arrival of Blu-ray and HD-DVD, with BD+ falling not long after. The DRM on most ebook formats was stripped within weeks or less.
The DMCA just makes sure that the tools to strip DRM are hosted outside the US.
I already don't carry around cash much. Even the vending machines in my office take cards (most evil thing ever.) Chances are I'd end up saving more when I did have cash on me as I'd toss 'em in the bucket I have of coins at home, grabbing a handful when I need them.
Not that I can withdraw 1s and 5s at the bank as it is. Minimum of $20 and a multiple of $20 from there.
In fact, we should ditch the five dollar bill as well. One and five dollar denomination coins, possibly even adding a two dollar denomination, wouldn't be a bad thing. It'd be effectively mirroring what exists in other countries and would save a considerable amount of money printing bills that barely last 18 months as it is, replacing them with coins that last decades.
I think the only hard thing would be finding a metal that isn't worth more per weight (I'm guessing Zinc is still cheap) than the coin stamped into it. Or we could look into other alloys and materials (carbon fiber coins anyone?) Maybe do like other countries and start punching holes in them.
Fairer still would be to say "Apple Haters would self-mutilate if it put Apple in a bad light".
So not rushing out to spend $1800-$2700 on a laptop is "self-mutilation" now is it?
When they do so they would find the MacBook Pro Retina to be $1699, not your absurdly inflated figure.
Only for the 13" model, which by all reports has the Intel HD4000 struggling to keep up. And at $1699 (for the base model, mind you) you can get yourself a rather nice non-Apple machine. Not quite a retina display, but still very nice.
You are kind of like the court jester who comes in and spills grape juice on your shirt on purpose. Every. Single. Day.
And you are the knight, clad in shining armor, who comes to defend Apple's honor every time it is sullied by someone.
The point still stands. So long as the hardware is only available in a rather pricy niche it's unlikely to get attention from the greater Linux community. This is why I want these panels in something I can attach to a hefty GPU installed in my desktop. Much more likely to work acceptably and if I can get one, so can lots more people.
to many distros and linux moves a little to fast for most Enterprise user.
Not relevant. An enterprise user will be sticking with something for a number of years, so they'll end up with something that has an extended support duration like RHEL, SuSE, or (if Canonical is up to it) Ubuntu LTS.
Look at the windows site lot's of enterprises are now just moving to 7.
No surprise there. Vista was too fat and all the hardware they had for running XP on is old, slow, and dying.
No, he's pointing out that it's stupid for a $1500 laptop to use a screen no better than one in a $400 laptop.
I just bought a $1300 laptop from ASUS that came with a 1920x1080 IPS panel. Screen quality is probably more important than anything else in a computer, and most laptops come with garbage.
GOG had an opportunity to support Linux, and failed to do so even when every other store has done so.
Such as...?
I'll personally not feel any sympathy when Microsoft kill then off.
Considering what GOG does, I don't think they'll see much competition from Microsoft. Of course, if they kill off GOG they'll probably also have killed off all the other competitors (and the lawsuits will be flying...)
Because for the user space they completely reinvented the wheel instead of using what they had. So they have to do like Windows 9x and graft multiple user accounts on to it.
Had Android used existing Linux infrastructure, they would have had the capability from day one, but Google insisted on keeping it all in house.
Jolla's Sailfish OS/hardware (not sure what exactly at this early date) can run the Mer as well as Android OS. So Jolla does more than multiple user accounts on a single phone.
Err, of course it can run Mer. Sailfish OS is based on Mer. It's also using Xorg and a pretty standard software stack, so multiple user accounts is trivial.
I think you're completely missing the point of the article, unless you can clarify how it is relevant?
It's less a rewrite and more a port. I imagine they could run Windows Phone on x86, they run Windows 8 on ARM (Windows RT) after all.
The funny thing is that vulnerabilities affecting Windows 8 may also affect Windows RT and Windows Phone 8. And if it's one they can trace back like the WMF/EMF bug the GP cited...
we already see the distros starting to balk at the license terms
No we aren't. That was a poor Slashdot article, making news of something that is already handled by the non-free repos all the high profile distros have.
like it or not Steam IS DRM which I have a feeling those core devs that work on the vital subsystems and treat the GPL like the ten commandments will probably go out of their way to make sure their updates "accidently" break Steam.
Sorry, but this is bald-faced bullshit. You can't selectively break a single action in an open source project without getting caught real damn fast.
Microsoft doesn't have to deliver a great solution, just something good enough that Windows users don't look for alternatives. That's the advantage you have when your solution is included with every install of the OS and your OS is a monopoly in its market.
The question will be if Steam and other stores have enough of a following to do what Netscape could not and ride out the anti-competitive maneuvers MSFT will make.
UEFI is replacing simplicity with complexity... with no good reason.
The legacy BIOS isn't exactly simple, it's just old and well known. It also has a lot of ancient cruft not found in PCs now and has to operate in a mode (16-bit real mode) that simply makes no sense for 64-bit processors and imposes a ton of restrictions that have no real business being maintained.
It's putting an operating system (including UI, device drivers etc) into the fucking firmware.
So you're saying that BIOSes never had GUIs or device drivers (here's a hint, they're called option roms?) This is not unprecedented, as I noted they could have gone OpenFirmware and had a much more tried-and-true solution.
I'm shocked... shocked I tell you that there have been lots of problems.
This isn't a problem. It's deliberate incompetence on Lenovo's behalf.
UEFI is pretty much a case of fixing what isn't broken
Only because they decided to create something entirely new instead of switching to OpenFirmware. The 16-bit limitations on the BIOS are ridiculous in this day and age and moving to a new interface that ditches the ridiculous constraints imposed by the 8086 more than 30 years ago is a good thing.
name brand motherboards that brick when flashed, systems that don't power off correctly, systems that take minutes to post, the usual issues with incorrect ACPI table entries
Link? My experience with UEFI on desktop boards is they post extremely quickly. And the usual issues with ACPI entries isn't exactly the fault of UEFI, now is it.
The funny thing is that both Dell and Lenovo use Phoenix Technologies for their UEFI BIOSes, but Dell's platforms have never had trouble booting any OS via UEFI. Which means that Lenovo went very far out of their way to pull this shit off, and they should be attacked vocally for it.
Which will hold for only so long, corporations are going to be applying this to everything. Eventually you will be unable to buy from anywhere or use anything without being forced to give up your rights to the courts.
You end up with a suspicious competitor that runs around demanding to see your proprietary code, and you end up in court eventually defending yourself.
Cause there's nothing worse than people being concerned that you're violating their copyright and not complying with the license terms. They should just switch to a license that allows them to be taken advantage of with no recourse whatsoever.
I was excited to read about the board, but then my heart sank. Whoever did the research and selection for the Mali 400 on this board did exactly what I did, and now they and their customers are going to be very disappointed. The Mali-400 is a good chip, but lacks non-android support.
It's because all of these open source projects go gaga over the Allwinner A10 despite the fact that it's at least 2 generations behind in the CPU and no usable open source driver exists for the Mali GPU.
This is why I'm actually hopeful Intel is successful in shrinking x86 and their in-house GPU down. Then you could actually get a fully open software stack with full hardware support.
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No, he's just pointing out that they're hypocrites.
Not from what I can see. AACS was cracked within a year or so of the arrival of Blu-ray and HD-DVD, with BD+ falling not long after. The DRM on most ebook formats was stripped within weeks or less.
The DMCA just makes sure that the tools to strip DRM are hosted outside the US.
I already don't carry around cash much. Even the vending machines in my office take cards (most evil thing ever.) Chances are I'd end up saving more when I did have cash on me as I'd toss 'em in the bucket I have of coins at home, grabbing a handful when I need them.
Not that I can withdraw 1s and 5s at the bank as it is. Minimum of $20 and a multiple of $20 from there.
In fact, we should ditch the five dollar bill as well. One and five dollar denomination coins, possibly even adding a two dollar denomination, wouldn't be a bad thing. It'd be effectively mirroring what exists in other countries and would save a considerable amount of money printing bills that barely last 18 months as it is, replacing them with coins that last decades.
I think the only hard thing would be finding a metal that isn't worth more per weight (I'm guessing Zinc is still cheap) than the coin stamped into it. Or we could look into other alloys and materials (carbon fiber coins anyone?) Maybe do like other countries and start punching holes in them.
So not rushing out to spend $1800-$2700 on a laptop is "self-mutilation" now is it?
Only for the 13" model, which by all reports has the Intel HD4000 struggling to keep up. And at $1699 (for the base model, mind you) you can get yourself a rather nice non-Apple machine. Not quite a retina display, but still very nice.
And you are the knight, clad in shining armor, who comes to defend Apple's honor every time it is sullied by someone.
The point still stands. So long as the hardware is only available in a rather pricy niche it's unlikely to get attention from the greater Linux community. This is why I want these panels in something I can attach to a hefty GPU installed in my desktop. Much more likely to work acceptably and if I can get one, so can lots more people.
Not relevant. An enterprise user will be sticking with something for a number of years, so they'll end up with something that has an extended support duration like RHEL, SuSE, or (if Canonical is up to it) Ubuntu LTS.
No surprise there. Vista was too fat and all the hardware they had for running XP on is old, slow, and dying.
No, he's pointing out that it's stupid for a $1500 laptop to use a screen no better than one in a $400 laptop.
I just bought a $1300 laptop from ASUS that came with a 1920x1080 IPS panel. Screen quality is probably more important than anything else in a computer, and most laptops come with garbage.
Fortunately the beta includes a handful of 3rd party games so no, not just Valve games.
Such as...?
Considering what GOG does, I don't think they'll see much competition from Microsoft. Of course, if they kill off GOG they'll probably also have killed off all the other competitors (and the lawsuits will be flying...)
Is this kind of idiocy what is to be expected from Slashdot commentary these days?
That's the philosophy behind Free Software. "Open Source" is a much weaker term.
Because for the user space they completely reinvented the wheel instead of using what they had. So they have to do like Windows 9x and graft multiple user accounts on to it.
Had Android used existing Linux infrastructure, they would have had the capability from day one, but Google insisted on keeping it all in house.
Jolla's Sailfish OS/hardware (not sure what exactly at this early date) can run the Mer as well as Android OS. So Jolla does more than multiple user accounts on a single phone.
Err, of course it can run Mer. Sailfish OS is based on Mer. It's also using Xorg and a pretty standard software stack, so multiple user accounts is trivial.
I think you're completely missing the point of the article, unless you can clarify how it is relevant?
It's less a rewrite and more a port. I imagine they could run Windows Phone on x86, they run Windows 8 on ARM (Windows RT) after all.
The funny thing is that vulnerabilities affecting Windows 8 may also affect Windows RT and Windows Phone 8. And if it's one they can trace back like the WMF/EMF bug the GP cited...
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No we aren't. That was a poor Slashdot article, making news of something that is already handled by the non-free repos all the high profile distros have.
Sorry, but this is bald-faced bullshit. You can't selectively break a single action in an open source project without getting caught real damn fast.
Hey, at least you're consistent in your posts.
Wasn't the fact that their console cost $600 in the early '90s what killed 3D0?
Microsoft doesn't have to deliver a great solution, just something good enough that Windows users don't look for alternatives. That's the advantage you have when your solution is included with every install of the OS and your OS is a monopoly in its market.
The question will be if Steam and other stores have enough of a following to do what Netscape could not and ride out the anti-competitive maneuvers MSFT will make.
The legacy BIOS isn't exactly simple, it's just old and well known. It also has a lot of ancient cruft not found in PCs now and has to operate in a mode (16-bit real mode) that simply makes no sense for 64-bit processors and imposes a ton of restrictions that have no real business being maintained.
So you're saying that BIOSes never had GUIs or device drivers (here's a hint, they're called option roms?) This is not unprecedented, as I noted they could have gone OpenFirmware and had a much more tried-and-true solution.
This isn't a problem. It's deliberate incompetence on Lenovo's behalf.
Only because they decided to create something entirely new instead of switching to OpenFirmware. The 16-bit limitations on the BIOS are ridiculous in this day and age and moving to a new interface that ditches the ridiculous constraints imposed by the 8086 more than 30 years ago is a good thing.
Link? My experience with UEFI on desktop boards is they post extremely quickly. And the usual issues with ACPI entries isn't exactly the fault of UEFI, now is it.
The funny thing is that both Dell and Lenovo use Phoenix Technologies for their UEFI BIOSes, but Dell's platforms have never had trouble booting any OS via UEFI. Which means that Lenovo went very far out of their way to pull this shit off, and they should be attacked vocally for it.
Which will hold for only so long, corporations are going to be applying this to everything. Eventually you will be unable to buy from anywhere or use anything without being forced to give up your rights to the courts.
Cause there's nothing worse than people being concerned that you're violating their copyright and not complying with the license terms. They should just switch to a license that allows them to be taken advantage of with no recourse whatsoever.
So every hypothetical violation of IP is a crime now I take it?
And you're the followup to mdsolar. Two peas in a pod.
It's because all of these open source projects go gaga over the Allwinner A10 despite the fact that it's at least 2 generations behind in the CPU and no usable open source driver exists for the Mali GPU.
This is why I'm actually hopeful Intel is successful in shrinking x86 and their in-house GPU down. Then you could actually get a fully open software stack with full hardware support.