I will never understand this site. People blast Microsoft all day long for forcing people to do things in proprietary ways, and then give Apple a free pass for the same tactics.
I will never understand how your post got modded down to -1 and the grandparent got modded up to +3. Must be the reality distortion field.
Oh, before I forget, I'm going to click No Karma Bonus so the zealots can only knock me down two points rather than three.
Oh, and can we make sure that the safeties can't be disengaged? Oh, unless we're being attacked by the Borg, in which case disengaging the safeties is a good thing.
Amongst the hardware not supported on my AMD64 machine... An early revision radeon card wouldnt work A DEC tulip ethernet card wouldnt work (and these cards were actually designed for 64bit machines, over 10 years ago) My soundblaster pci128 card (i think) wouldnt work...
Shortly after AMD took over ATI, I noticed that their newer driver sets no longer supported cards below the R300 chipset (9500-9800 used the R300).
Creative Labs is bad about releasing drivers for its older products for new OSes. If Microsoft doesn't do it, I doubt Creative will. (As a side note, the PCI 128 is something like 10 years old now, so it's not surprising.)
I'm surprised that the DEC card doesn't work. Windows usually has tons of network drivers for common chipsets.
The sad part is... a properly designed Windows driver should be able to be compiled for 64-bit Windows with few or no changes. Microsoft even published a checklist of things to watch out for a few years ago.
Although, since this driver is new, it might have been a better idea to use the User Mode Driver Framework, which appears to be architecture neutral (as does the Kernel Mode Driver Framework, but I can't see why an iPhone/iPod would need kernel mode access).
It's impossible to tell from the stats given. It also depends on if that 1% referring to the percentage of Linux desktops that are 64-bit, or the percentage of the market that are Linux desktops. From the context, I'm assuming the former.
If it is the former, there are no statistics as to the market-share of either Linux desktops or Vista desktops.
Technically speaking, we're referring to AT&T, as the new AT&T consists of four of the seven Bell regional holding companies, plus the main corporation.
I'm ignoring Cingular because it was created by two of the four Bell regional holding companies mentioned above.
Yes, and running modified code (obviously) is running the binary that is produced by compiling said modified code. The point is that you don't need to be a programmer to run modifications to the software a vendor ships for your device.
I never said you needed to be a programmer to run modifications to the software. I was saying that "not developers" and "modify the code" (which I was interpreting as source code) together made an oxymoron. I said nothing about running modifications.
I was under the impression that they had to compile it first, e.g. it's a binary, not code.
I guess it really depends on your definition of code. I interpret code (noun) as a synonym for source code and code (adj) to mean to write source code.
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I'm still trying to figure out how "better internationalization" applies to a software distribution license. Did GPL3 get released with some hot new i18n library, and if so, where does one get it?
Her's what you're missing: the GPL exists to benefit USERS , not developers! As it stands, the users of TiVos are being screwed because they can't actually modify the code that runs on their own devices.
The two bolded sections together make an oxymoron.
That's fine if it were just Tivos. However, what would happen if every piece of hardware you bought was Tivoised? Only properly signed binaries would run at all. I can think of several companies that would love that situation.
No, I think Microsoft would hate to have to show all their source code, because that means we could just install it on a non-tivoized machine.
And this is the argument as to why MS won't sell PCs in the US.
Oh, I thought "Antitrust lawsuits" was the argument as to why MS won't sell PCs in the US.
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From what I've heard it takes 6 clicks/pushes/whatever you want to call them to turn the device on and get to where you can actually make a phone call. On something called an "iPhone."
Remind me again how this "sexy interface allows you to actually use it?"
Furthermore, he said THE TOUR. Not THE COMMERCIALS. The commercials are indeed truncated, but the tour lays it all out on the table. The Tour is how we KNOW is doesn't have GPS in the first place.
"Anyone who had watched the apple tour video can tell you the UI is lightyears ahead of Blackberry, Treo, etc. Even the commercials make this apparent."
The last time I used IE, disabling Javascript happened automatically if you went into Internet Options, Security, and moved the security slider up to High. It's not exactly hard, particularly if you have people who dink around in the options panel.
Unfortunately, it sends data as XML instead of as a query string (which regular forms do even via POST). This is probably what's kept it from catching on.
Old: Create HTML files that were several kilobytes worth of extraneous #@$*! attributes do the most minor of things. Want the data in a table centered? Be prepared to modify hundreds (thousands?) of td tags. (Even programmatically, this is stupid.)
New: Define the attribute once in one place and have it apply to the whole file.
This is a bad example, because there is a tag/attribute combination in HTML4 to apply attributes to an entire column in a table. Example: <col align="center">
... wait for it...
The catch is that Firefox and Safari (and possibly KHTML itself) don't support it.
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I will never understand how your post got modded down to -1 and the grandparent got modded up to +3. Must be the reality distortion field.
Oh, before I forget, I'm going to click No Karma Bonus so the zealots can only knock me down two points rather than three.
Oh, and can we make sure that the safeties can't be disengaged? Oh, unless we're being attacked by the Borg, in which case disengaging the safeties is a good thing.
Shortly after AMD took over ATI, I noticed that their newer driver sets no longer supported cards below the R300 chipset (9500-9800 used the R300).
Creative Labs is bad about releasing drivers for its older products for new OSes. If Microsoft doesn't do it, I doubt Creative will. (As a side note, the PCI 128 is something like 10 years old now, so it's not surprising.)
I'm surprised that the DEC card doesn't work. Windows usually has tons of network drivers for common chipsets.
The sad part is... a properly designed Windows driver should be able to be compiled for 64-bit Windows with few or no changes. Microsoft even published a checklist of things to watch out for a few years ago.
Although, since this driver is new, it might have been a better idea to use the User Mode Driver Framework, which appears to be architecture neutral (as does the Kernel Mode Driver Framework, but I can't see why an iPhone/iPod would need kernel mode access).
You should try looking harder.
It's impossible to tell from the stats given. It also depends on if that 1% referring to the percentage of Linux desktops that are 64-bit, or the percentage of the market that are Linux desktops. From the context, I'm assuming the former.
If it is the former, there are no statistics as to the market-share of either Linux desktops or Vista desktops.
Unfortunately, Microsoft's solution to this, as I recall, was to write programs in .NET.
I believe it was done by Epson on toner cartridges.
Technically speaking, we're referring to AT&T, as the new AT&T consists of four of the seven Bell regional holding companies, plus the main corporation.
I'm ignoring Cingular because it was created by two of the four Bell regional holding companies mentioned above.
I didn't think you dealt directly with MS for Windows Mobile devices, but rather with the company that created the device, such as Palm or Motorola.
I never said you needed to be a programmer to run modifications to the software. I was saying that "not developers" and "modify the code" (which I was interpreting as source code) together made an oxymoron. I said nothing about running modifications.
I was under the impression that they had to compile it first, e.g. it's a binary, not code.
I guess it really depends on your definition of code. I interpret code (noun) as a synonym for source code and code (adj) to mean to write source code.
Whenever I'm confused as to what I should do, I consult my music collection.
It tells me that the Internet is for Porn. Now I know what to download!
Yesterday, PJ from Groklaw inadvertantly addressed this point (emphasis mine):
So, apparently it was designed by multiple committees.
I'm still trying to figure out how "better internationalization" applies to a software distribution license. Did GPL3 get released with some hot new i18n library, and if so, where does one get it?
The two bolded sections together make an oxymoron.
No, I think Microsoft would hate to have to show all their source code, because that means we could just install it on a non-tivoized machine.
Microsoft loves Palladium, though.
Oh, I thought "Antitrust lawsuits" was the argument as to why MS won't sell PCs in the US.
From what I've heard it takes 6 clicks/pushes/whatever you want to call them to turn the device on and get to where you can actually make a phone call. On something called an "iPhone."
Remind me again how this "sexy interface allows you to actually use it?"
Yes, but I thought this was an Apple article, not a Linux one. ;)
(yes, I know you were talking about Windows, but the opportunity was just... there.)
"Anyone who had watched the apple tour video can tell you the UI is lightyears ahead of Blackberry, Treo, etc. Even the commercials make this apparent."
The part you missed/ignored is in bold.
The last time I used IE, disabling Javascript happened automatically if you went into Internet Options, Security, and moved the security slider up to High. It's not exactly hard, particularly if you have people who dink around in the options panel.
"Oh, high security? I'd better turn that on!"
Unfortunately, it sends data as XML instead of as a query string (which regular forms do even via POST). This is probably what's kept it from catching on.
This is a bad example, because there is a tag/attribute combination in HTML4 to apply attributes to an entire column in a table. Example: <col align="center">
The catch is that Firefox and Safari (and possibly KHTML itself) don't support it.
Like it or not, IE is still the majority share of the browser market.
If even 5% of IE users disable Javascript, that's still a larger market share than the number three (Safari) and four (Opera) browsers combined.