So, they'll actually replace a file in a copy of XP, and test it until behavior differs from Microsoft's behavior, and then change it so behavior stops differing.
ReactOS's goal is to be a cleanroom engineered OS that at the kernel level is 100% compatible with NT 5.1 or 5.2 (I forget which), and at the userland level is 100% compatible with the latest version of Windows (so NT 6.1, but not for long).
There's some overlap between ReactOS and WINE, and some stuff gets ported back and forth between the two, but WINE takes some shortcuts that ReactOS can't take.
WINE also can't really support hardware that only has Windows drivers, whereas ReactOS can.
And, one development technique that the ReactOS developers are doing is, take a copy of Windows XP, remove a file, and develop a clean-room version. Work on their version until it's stable on XP, then put it in ReactOS. See what broke. Then fix what broke.
There are a couple ways to sell a tablet for $99, at this level of hardware quality, and make a profit overall.
However, they all involve DRM, and treating the tablet as if it's rented, not owned - monthly service charges on the OS, mandatory minimum monthly app purchases, etc., etc.
Alternately, strap a 3G or 4G radio to every tablet, and subsidize the crap out of them with cell plans.
Another way to do it, I guess, would simply be credit - sell them at $99 down, $19.99 a month for 24 months.
USB printer class doesn't describe the language that the printer uses, only the way that print data is transported between the host and printer. It's designed to encapsulate any form of print data, be it PostScript, PCL, or something proprietary.
Which doesn't support any permissions other than root.
Enjoy!
Oh, you don't like that? Well, I'm sure there's an old Centro running Palm OS 5.4.9 lying around...
(Actually, on a serious note, HPalm hands out the password necessary to get the USB debug interface going, and from there you can easily get root and install whatever you want. Also, if you get a Nexus phone, you can get root without hacking the thing, using an adb, IIRC, and you get an OS that actually has software available - but some software will refuse to run on a rooted device.)
#1, if everything is a toll road in congested areas, the areas that have higher tolls between the living area and the working area will be depressed in value, making it more likely that low-income people will live there instead, meaning they're more likely to pay high tolls. #2, job availability won't be spread out to cheat the tolls, so the crappiest jobs will still most likely run you right into peak toll time. And for a lot of jobs, you can't just say, "oh, I'm going to go in later to avoid the toll". Which leads to... #3, just because there's a toll making it more expensive to get there, doesn't mean that there'll be any less traffic, meaning the problem isn't solved AT ALL.
No, the answer, IMO, is to tax the ever-loving shit out of the top 0.1%, and do this taxation on a smoothly sliding scale (tax brackets screw over individuals that get just on the wrong side of the bracket, while giving individuals on the right side of the bracket an unfair advantage, whereas a tax curve does neither). Fund all infrastructure from THAT. (That's how the interstate highway system was built in the first place, too.)
And, the reason for doing that actually isn't to build infrastructure - it's to keep that top 0.1% from having so much money that they can steer the government due to their wealth.
On a lot of this ARM hardware, though, the memory controllers aren't designed to handle DIMMs - too much power consumption for that, and too much variability in the RAM quality. Far cheaper, too, to leave all that off.
One quick question... when you're accelerating your large 200 hp car, how high do you rev the engine normally?
Most people think they want horsepower, but they actually want buckets of low-end torque, and a diesel gives that.
The example I had in mind was the 2012 Passat TDI, which has 140 hp, 236 ft-lbs of torque. Your average 200 hp American-market midsize sedan will be in the 200-230 ft-lbs of torque ballpark...
The DSG gets about the same fuel economy on a test cycle or with an average driver, but someone actually TRYING for economy will usually do better in the manual.
Actually, you can get 40 mpg in such a car - gotta change the powerplant, and allow for a fuel that has more energy in a gallon. You can push 45 or even 50 if you get rid of the torque converter, and ideally shift it yourself, too. And, due to the low-end torque, the acceleration is surprisingly good.
(Large diesel family cars can easily get 40+ mpg. And that's US gallons, not UK gallons.)
OK, for the purposes that most people use video codecs for in 2011, those are awful codecs - either filesize is absolutely huge for what's considered reasonable quality now, or image quality is downright awful for what's considered reasonable size now.
The trick to merging in a slow car is to take ramps at a run.
And if you have Buicks in front of you, that's what the breakdown lane, or your front bumper, is for. Or, if you're not a daredevil, stop at the start of the ramp, and wait for the Buick to get off the ramp before merging.
(I avoided using my 52 hp Mk2 Golf diesel's front bumper to push Buicks, but I did occasionally do some very dangerous passes in the breakdown lane, or even putting a couple wheels on the grass.)
Modern particulate filter-equipped diesels don't emit smoke, ever, unless something's broken or removed. The tailpipes are clean enough to eat off of.
Also, diesels have less horsepower, which usually means that they'll be slower (although, due to the torque curve, they can apply their lower horsepower over a longer time, so they're not as slow as the low horsepower indicates.) But, the torque means that when you step on it, it pushes you back in your seat better. And, in the 335d vs. 335i comparison, our 335d got choked badly by US emissions regulations. If you're in a state that doesn't care, find someone who can chip it for you, and get it back to Euro power levels or better, without removing emissions equipment (or more, if you do remove it, and then you'll get better fuel economy, too.)
Maybe if it's a 240D with a manual trans, or a W201 with the 2.2 and a manual.
The models that have enough power for people to want to drive, like the W123 300D Turbo, W124 300D Turbo, W210 diesels (preferably the turbos), and the various W126 diesels... no.
30 MPG is good, 20 MPG isn't awful. (But, with a gas engine, those cars would get 5-10 MPG worse.)
Slashdot Mirror
A completely legal one, though, because it doesn't use any of the code being reverse engineered to do it.
They do behavioral testing, one DLL at a time.
So, they'll actually replace a file in a copy of XP, and test it until behavior differs from Microsoft's behavior, and then change it so behavior stops differing.
ReactOS's goal is to be a cleanroom engineered OS that at the kernel level is 100% compatible with NT 5.1 or 5.2 (I forget which), and at the userland level is 100% compatible with the latest version of Windows (so NT 6.1, but not for long).
There's some overlap between ReactOS and WINE, and some stuff gets ported back and forth between the two, but WINE takes some shortcuts that ReactOS can't take.
WINE also can't really support hardware that only has Windows drivers, whereas ReactOS can.
And, one development technique that the ReactOS developers are doing is, take a copy of Windows XP, remove a file, and develop a clean-room version. Work on their version until it's stable on XP, then put it in ReactOS. See what broke. Then fix what broke.
Except the TSA has actually said that you can get fined up to $11,000 if you enter the checkpoint and turn around and leave.
What about making their employees not WANT to work for them?
Worsen work conditions, cut hours to 1 hour per week, etc., etc.
Alternately, are there any laws that prohibit them from breaking their union contract, and then hiring non-union workers?
The exception is overpopulation-related disasters.
Those, there are three solutions:
#1, prevent them with controls on reproduction
#2, genocide
#3, getting the hell off this rock
#3 is by far the most morally correct option.
There are a couple ways to sell a tablet for $99, at this level of hardware quality, and make a profit overall.
However, they all involve DRM, and treating the tablet as if it's rented, not owned - monthly service charges on the OS, mandatory minimum monthly app purchases, etc., etc.
Alternately, strap a 3G or 4G radio to every tablet, and subsidize the crap out of them with cell plans.
Another way to do it, I guess, would simply be credit - sell them at $99 down, $19.99 a month for 24 months.
No, there's such a thing as off-highway fuel meant for tractors, that no road tax is paid on. Other taxes may be paid on it, but not road tax.
USB printer class doesn't describe the language that the printer uses, only the way that print data is transported between the host and printer. It's designed to encapsulate any form of print data, be it PostScript, PCL, or something proprietary.
The alternative is Windows Mobile 6.5.
Which doesn't support any permissions other than root.
Enjoy!
Oh, you don't like that? Well, I'm sure there's an old Centro running Palm OS 5.4.9 lying around...
(Actually, on a serious note, HPalm hands out the password necessary to get the USB debug interface going, and from there you can easily get root and install whatever you want. Also, if you get a Nexus phone, you can get root without hacking the thing, using an adb, IIRC, and you get an OS that actually has software available - but some software will refuse to run on a rooted device.)
Here's the problems with that philosophy.
#1, if everything is a toll road in congested areas, the areas that have higher tolls between the living area and the working area will be depressed in value, making it more likely that low-income people will live there instead, meaning they're more likely to pay high tolls.
#2, job availability won't be spread out to cheat the tolls, so the crappiest jobs will still most likely run you right into peak toll time. And for a lot of jobs, you can't just say, "oh, I'm going to go in later to avoid the toll". Which leads to...
#3, just because there's a toll making it more expensive to get there, doesn't mean that there'll be any less traffic, meaning the problem isn't solved AT ALL.
No, the answer, IMO, is to tax the ever-loving shit out of the top 0.1%, and do this taxation on a smoothly sliding scale (tax brackets screw over individuals that get just on the wrong side of the bracket, while giving individuals on the right side of the bracket an unfair advantage, whereas a tax curve does neither). Fund all infrastructure from THAT. (That's how the interstate highway system was built in the first place, too.)
And, the reason for doing that actually isn't to build infrastructure - it's to keep that top 0.1% from having so much money that they can steer the government due to their wealth.
Humans are natural, ergo anything they make is natural.
Unless you're arguing that humans aren't evolved from any other species, or humans were planted on Earth from another planet.
On a lot of this ARM hardware, though, the memory controllers aren't designed to handle DIMMs - too much power consumption for that, and too much variability in the RAM quality. Far cheaper, too, to leave all that off.
HDMI and DVI are the same protocol, with different connector standards, and with audio support added on HDMI.
One quick question... when you're accelerating your large 200 hp car, how high do you rev the engine normally?
Most people think they want horsepower, but they actually want buckets of low-end torque, and a diesel gives that.
The example I had in mind was the 2012 Passat TDI, which has 140 hp, 236 ft-lbs of torque. Your average 200 hp American-market midsize sedan will be in the 200-230 ft-lbs of torque ballpark...
The DSG gets about the same fuel economy on a test cycle or with an average driver, but someone actually TRYING for economy will usually do better in the manual.
Actually, you can get 40 mpg in such a car - gotta change the powerplant, and allow for a fuel that has more energy in a gallon. You can push 45 or even 50 if you get rid of the torque converter, and ideally shift it yourself, too. And, due to the low-end torque, the acceleration is surprisingly good.
(Large diesel family cars can easily get 40+ mpg. And that's US gallons, not UK gallons.)
OK, for the purposes that most people use video codecs for in 2011, those are awful codecs - either filesize is absolutely huge for what's considered reasonable quality now, or image quality is downright awful for what's considered reasonable size now.
The trick to merging in a slow car is to take ramps at a run.
And if you have Buicks in front of you, that's what the breakdown lane, or your front bumper, is for. Or, if you're not a daredevil, stop at the start of the ramp, and wait for the Buick to get off the ramp before merging.
(I avoided using my 52 hp Mk2 Golf diesel's front bumper to push Buicks, but I did occasionally do some very dangerous passes in the breakdown lane, or even putting a couple wheels on the grass.)
The problem is, the only codecs that are pretty much guaranteed to be free are early versions of MPEG1, and MJPEG.
Both of which, in 2011, are downright awful codecs.
(Although, my digital camera shoots MJPEG...)
Too authoritarian isn't a left-wing problem, it's a bottom-wing problem. (Remember, there's more than one axis... top-wing is small-l libertarian.)
And both the Republicans and Democrats are bottom-wing.
The "cleaning agent" is diesel fuel. Slowly burns in a catalyst, gets extremely hot, and burns up the particulate matter.
Urea is for another system, further downstream.
Modern particulate filter-equipped diesels don't emit smoke, ever, unless something's broken or removed. The tailpipes are clean enough to eat off of.
Also, diesels have less horsepower, which usually means that they'll be slower (although, due to the torque curve, they can apply their lower horsepower over a longer time, so they're not as slow as the low horsepower indicates.) But, the torque means that when you step on it, it pushes you back in your seat better. And, in the 335d vs. 335i comparison, our 335d got choked badly by US emissions regulations. If you're in a state that doesn't care, find someone who can chip it for you, and get it back to Euro power levels or better, without removing emissions equipment (or more, if you do remove it, and then you'll get better fuel economy, too.)
Your Yaris is also a good 500 pounds lighter, and a far worse car to drive than the Golf.
Compare apples to apples, you'd need a Polo to compare fairly against the Yaris. Or, a Yaris D4-D.
Maybe if it's a 240D with a manual trans, or a W201 with the 2.2 and a manual.
The models that have enough power for people to want to drive, like the W123 300D Turbo, W124 300D Turbo, W210 diesels (preferably the turbos), and the various W126 diesels... no.
30 MPG is good, 20 MPG isn't awful. (But, with a gas engine, those cars would get 5-10 MPG worse.)