I still feel that the best way to go about that reboot is to start a non-practicing entity (can't get sued) that goes for the jugular of huge companies, attacking their most important products.
Most non-practicing entities just do it for the money, though. They attack the most important products, maybe get imports stopped for a week, and then get a large settlement and go away.
What I'd like to see is an NPE that does it for putting companies out of business. Attack the most important products, get imports stopped permanently, and then wait until the companies either die or patent reform occurs.
By the end of 2016, any patents covering something made in 1995, or covered under a submarine patent will have expired.
The downside is, implementations also count, an implementation might do something that's not OK according to some patent. So, we need to run the actual source code (technically, the binary just to be safe) of a codec implementation released in 1995, just to avoid all patents... and we can't do it until 2016. Oh, and, it needs to be freeware so as not to step on copyright as well.
CDD (the affected driver) is for GDI (read: pre-Vista, although quite a lot of current software still uses GDI) applications to display on a display using the Desktop Window Manager. Disable Aero, and you're using XPDM instead of DWM, and it's GDI all the way.
Although I believe the DWM disables itself for remote desktop, anyway.
In the US, it depends on the carrier, but some let you tether for as little as $30. (And on many phones, you can hack them on cheaper data plans to allow tethering.)
On the flip side, for "unlimited" data on an aircard, it's usually $60.
And, there was QNX in 1983, too - predating the Amiga by a couple years.
(Fun fact: Even Windows, all the way back to Windows/386 2.1, had a very limited form of preemptive multitasking, for DOS apps, controllable by editing a.PIF file. That was in 1988, though.)
Finder wasn't THAT slow on the IIGS, it was slow, but not that slow.
And, you didn't have to do any "sautering" or cut open the case. Push two tabs, lift case off, pop one of the port brackets out, pop a stereo card in one of the slots, and run a cable from the stereo card to a port on the motherboard. If it was a dumb stereo card that didn't also do recording, you could even put it in one of the slots that an on-board peripheral was using, it just needed power. Then, run a second cable from the stereo card to a port insert that screws into the back.
As for the noises... which model did you have? The ROM 00/01 board had crap layout, so sound quality was poor, but the ROM 3 was improved. And, a stereo card fixed that nicely, anyway.
But, yes, Apple did cripple the IIGS. The IIGS was usually used as a faster//e with more RAM, and that didn't have to be filled with cards to perform what was considered basic functionality by 1986. Unfortunately, they didn't want it competing against the Mac. (As for the CPU being so slow... that was partially Western Design Center's fault, 2.8 was as fast as Apple could get that chip without too high of a failure rate. And, it wasn't like they could stick a 68000 in there, it absolutely had to be a 6502-based design, which meant it had to be the WDC 65816.)
(A//e with similar capabilities, not even speed, ignoring graphics and sound, to a IIGS, would have the AUX slot filled with an 80-column card (and to match the IIGS's RAM, a third-party one,) a Super Serial Card (in either slot 1 or 2,) an Apple II Workstation Card (in slot 1, 2, or 7 - it does have two serial ports, but I don't think much software will understand the second serial port if it's not already compatible with AppleTalk, so you still need one Super Serial Card,) an AppleMouse II in slot 4, a 3.5" controller card in slot 5, and 5.25" controller card in slot 7. That leaves slot 7 (or 1, or 2, depending on where the Workstation Card was placed) open, and slot 3 open for things that don't need to be memory mapped - usually things that need to access video signals, or things that only use the slot for power. Then again, the IIGS is just as starved for slots, but by default, slot 7 is open, and slots 1 through 6 can be used for power. On a ROM 3, all slots can be shared with their built-in function, if the card is well-behaved, and GS/OS is running.)
On the flip side, in the last example, Encylopaedia Britannica produces a dead-tree version, and is therefore limited on space. Wikipedia, OTOH, has much less limits on space, and therefore can use longer articles about subjects deemed notable.
Flash deserves to die in a fire for being crap, and to lose out for market reasons.
Apple's going about killing Flash in the worst possible way, though. Let Flash kill itself, and promote its alternatives, don't ban apps that may have at one time been prototyped in Flash.
My answer? They've got a track record of disrespecting privacy, and now that they've demonstrated that, I'm going to leave Facebook by July 4 if they don't fix everything, and I'm trying to get a million people to do the same.
Alternately, set up a patent troll to attack companies that we want to kill.
Patent trolls normally go for money, and when they're given money, they go away.
A patent troll that files a patent that is essential to implement something that comes out later, and then sues everyone using it, and successfully stops distribution of many products... would have devastating effects on those companies, the economy, and it would trigger massive patent reform.
However, there were some of their logos inserted, meaning their code was used to display those logos. That code would be the cracking group's property.
It is, although there have been some minor tuning changes and some general cheapening of the keyboard.
Myself, I actually prefer typing on my EnduraPro to a "real" Model M, due to the tuning changes. (BTW, at least the EnduraPro and SpaceSaver actually have "Model M" molded into the case plastic.)
(Some keyboards connect the whole matrix to the keyboard, and decode the matrix on the motherboard, but it's still usually PS/2. Why take up a port on the USB root hub when there's a perfectly good PS/2 controller not being used?)
Long story short, they couldn't figure out how to make black keycaps with white lettering that lasted as long as they liked, so they discontinued the black option.
However, for an upcharge, you can get black blank keycaps on the board. Hidden option. Best to just call them, they'll do it for you. Or you can put it in the order notes, and they'll call you to verify the upcharge.
Or, if you've already gotten a board from them, or have a Model M that you want blank keycaps for, you can call them and order a set of blank keycaps.
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Except they're both lying politicians. So you're throwing your vote away if you're voting for the lesser of two evils.
Third parties.
Throw your vote away to not throw your vote away.
Google is large enough to create a shell company, and has patents.
Google is also getting screwed by the patent system the way it is...
I still feel that the best way to go about that reboot is to start a non-practicing entity (can't get sued) that goes for the jugular of huge companies, attacking their most important products.
Most non-practicing entities just do it for the money, though. They attack the most important products, maybe get imports stopped for a week, and then get a large settlement and go away.
What I'd like to see is an NPE that does it for putting companies out of business. Attack the most important products, get imports stopped permanently, and then wait until the companies either die or patent reform occurs.
Not right now, but in 2016, there will be.
By the end of 2016, any patents covering something made in 1995, or covered under a submarine patent will have expired.
The downside is, implementations also count, an implementation might do something that's not OK according to some patent. So, we need to run the actual source code (technically, the binary just to be safe) of a codec implementation released in 1995, just to avoid all patents... and we can't do it until 2016. Oh, and, it needs to be freeware so as not to step on copyright as well.
GP also said "the option."
CDD (the affected driver) is for GDI (read: pre-Vista, although quite a lot of current software still uses GDI) applications to display on a display using the Desktop Window Manager. Disable Aero, and you're using XPDM instead of DWM, and it's GDI all the way.
Although I believe the DWM disables itself for remote desktop, anyway.
Nah, just the N4x0, D4x0, and D5x0 - the Z5xx is part of the first-gen, and has a separate northbridge.
In the US, it depends on the carrier, but some let you tether for as little as $30. (And on many phones, you can hack them on cheaper data plans to allow tethering.)
On the flip side, for "unlimited" data on an aircard, it's usually $60.
More like, NV can't get the yields up, I suspect.
Arguably, the "off-chip FPU" nowadays IS a GPU - hence all the GPGPU stuff.
Although Atoms already have the GPU on-die nowadays...
And, there was QNX in 1983, too - predating the Amiga by a couple years.
(Fun fact: Even Windows, all the way back to Windows/386 2.1, had a very limited form of preemptive multitasking, for DOS apps, controllable by editing a .PIF file. That was in 1988, though.)
Finder wasn't THAT slow on the IIGS, it was slow, but not that slow.
And, you didn't have to do any "sautering" or cut open the case. Push two tabs, lift case off, pop one of the port brackets out, pop a stereo card in one of the slots, and run a cable from the stereo card to a port on the motherboard. If it was a dumb stereo card that didn't also do recording, you could even put it in one of the slots that an on-board peripheral was using, it just needed power. Then, run a second cable from the stereo card to a port insert that screws into the back.
As for the noises... which model did you have? The ROM 00/01 board had crap layout, so sound quality was poor, but the ROM 3 was improved. And, a stereo card fixed that nicely, anyway.
But, yes, Apple did cripple the IIGS. The IIGS was usually used as a faster //e with more RAM, and that didn't have to be filled with cards to perform what was considered basic functionality by 1986. Unfortunately, they didn't want it competing against the Mac. (As for the CPU being so slow... that was partially Western Design Center's fault, 2.8 was as fast as Apple could get that chip without too high of a failure rate. And, it wasn't like they could stick a 68000 in there, it absolutely had to be a 6502-based design, which meant it had to be the WDC 65816.)
(A //e with similar capabilities, not even speed, ignoring graphics and sound, to a IIGS, would have the AUX slot filled with an 80-column card (and to match the IIGS's RAM, a third-party one,) a Super Serial Card (in either slot 1 or 2,) an Apple II Workstation Card (in slot 1, 2, or 7 - it does have two serial ports, but I don't think much software will understand the second serial port if it's not already compatible with AppleTalk, so you still need one Super Serial Card,) an AppleMouse II in slot 4, a 3.5" controller card in slot 5, and 5.25" controller card in slot 7. That leaves slot 7 (or 1, or 2, depending on where the Workstation Card was placed) open, and slot 3 open for things that don't need to be memory mapped - usually things that need to access video signals, or things that only use the slot for power. Then again, the IIGS is just as starved for slots, but by default, slot 7 is open, and slots 1 through 6 can be used for power. On a ROM 3, all slots can be shared with their built-in function, if the card is well-behaved, and GS/OS is running.)
On the flip side, in the last example, Encylopaedia Britannica produces a dead-tree version, and is therefore limited on space. Wikipedia, OTOH, has much less limits on space, and therefore can use longer articles about subjects deemed notable.
I actually removed a lot of Facebook groups from my profile.
And, the idea is that Facebook themselves can see more easily if it's on their site. ;)
Flash deserves to die in a fire for being crap, and to lose out for market reasons.
Apple's going about killing Flash in the worst possible way, though. Let Flash kill itself, and promote its alternatives, don't ban apps that may have at one time been prototyped in Flash.
My answer? They've got a track record of disrespecting privacy, and now that they've demonstrated that, I'm going to leave Facebook by July 4 if they don't fix everything, and I'm trying to get a million people to do the same.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=117283144970446
Alternately, set up a patent troll to attack companies that we want to kill.
Patent trolls normally go for money, and when they're given money, they go away.
A patent troll that files a patent that is essential to implement something that comes out later, and then sues everyone using it, and successfully stops distribution of many products... would have devastating effects on those companies, the economy, and it would trigger massive patent reform.
However, there were some of their logos inserted, meaning their code was used to display those logos. That code would be the cracking group's property.
It's more that it's about standards in that it's setting up a standard.
You could cleanroom Diaspora and come up with something that could explicitly connect to Diaspora.
Or, it's aGPL, if that license is acceptable, fork it, and still connect to Diaspora networks.
It is, although there have been some minor tuning changes and some general cheapening of the keyboard.
Myself, I actually prefer typing on my EnduraPro to a "real" Model M, due to the tuning changes. (BTW, at least the EnduraPro and SpaceSaver actually have "Model M" molded into the case plastic.)
PS/2.
(Some keyboards connect the whole matrix to the keyboard, and decode the matrix on the motherboard, but it's still usually PS/2. Why take up a port on the USB root hub when there's a perfectly good PS/2 controller not being used?)
Their website is far from complete.
Long story short, they couldn't figure out how to make black keycaps with white lettering that lasted as long as they liked, so they discontinued the black option.
However, for an upcharge, you can get black blank keycaps on the board. Hidden option. Best to just call them, they'll do it for you. Or you can put it in the order notes, and they'll call you to verify the upcharge.
Or, if you've already gotten a board from them, or have a Model M that you want blank keycaps for, you can call them and order a set of blank keycaps.
You might not use something that you know is called "Diaspora," but you might use a social networking site that uses it.
I can almost guarantee you that most Google Talk users don't know that they're using Jabber, but they're using it.