I believe this is probably true, but can you provide a link to a primary source? I'd like to see a FOSS developers blog post or something from a developer mailing list.
Again I don't doubt you, I'd just like to read about this in depth. My googling is coming up short.
How does a summary that reads "VIA announced that it will provide Open-Source drivers and documentation on its Web site so that its hardware will work out of the box with Linux distributions" translate, in your mind, to "Via just don't want to develop their Linux drivers anymore"?
The story sounds more like they are opening development up to the FOSS community, not "giving up". This should be applauded.
I use my iPhone to read PDFs all the time. Sure it lacks some eBook features, but the zooming and scrolling capabilities makes me think it's going to be the killer eBook reader once someone makes a third-party reader. Unlike other handheld devices I've used you can stand in direct sunlight and still read the iPhone's screen. Plus it's not an additional device I have to carry around.
What if I'm for lower taxes & smaller government & farmers? What if I want guns, even semi and fully automatic ones? What if I'm in favor of civil rights & social programs & friendly towards labor? What if I could give a fuck about xmas trees anywhere? What if I like porn and could give a fuck if someone has gay sex? What then?
That's why DVD menus in all incarnations shouldn't exist! I can imagine how frustrating that can be, I've had problems using DVD menus and I'm not color blind. I've also had to sit though a class were a professor was trying to show a clip from a DVD, but the DVD menu designer didn't make the highlight color contrast enough for a projector, needless to say a lot of time was wasted while the professor tried to guess when the correct item was selected.
I really hate DVD menus. At the very least make them optional, like a dust cover on a book. That way I can toss the uselessness away, just like I do with dust covers. The functionality of the menus should be built into the player with a nice accessible UI.
Thanks for the link. Based on those number it looks like a electric car in California produce 6 times less CO2 than a gasoline engine in that state. The national average looks like it's only about 3 times better.
So my question is: wouldn't it be better to make a gasoline engine that is 3 times more efficient than current models? Then you wouldn't have to purchase a high priced electric vehicle and your wouldn't have to replace the costly batteries.
If you assume the average car gets 20 miles to the gallon, then you only need to improve the car so that it gets 60 miles to the gallon and you'll beat most any electric car in terms of cost, CO2 emissions, and range.
Is that a guess or do you have some numbers to back that up? Is it more efficient to get the power from a plant or to get it from a combustion engine? I honestly don't know, but my gut feeling is that the gasoline combustion engine is more efficient and cleaner than burning coal.
Wake me up when we are talking about ubiquitous renewable energy not some car that will become "green" based on the assumption that renewable energy is coming.
You exactly right the Roadster isn't for the average joe. That was my point! The car is expensive, so much so that it only for rich people that want to brag about their electric car. Even if it was a "green" car its cost makes its net effect on the climate laughable.
I feel that we're finally witnessing the green car revolution
This may be a revolution, but "green" it is not. If you own an electric car you still have to charge the batteries. Using electricity isn't green! Most electricity in the US comes from burning natural gas and from burning coal. Both of which produce CO2. Even in California, which leads the nation in renewable energy sources, half the electricity still comes from natural gas.
From what I understand the Tesla is basically vaporware, that even if produced is too expensive to buy let alone own. By own I, of course, mean TOC because you're going to have to replace the batteries after about 300 charge cycles or 66,000 miles. How much is that going to cost? My laptop battery is $120. Without working any numbers, I bet the replacement cost for the Roadster is about $30,00.
Now considering there is hardly any information on the Tesla site about batteries, would you buy the car? Try to figure out from Tesla how much it will cost to replace the batteries. It's not on their site. They do claim the batteries will last 100,000 miles, but anyone that owns a laptop or an iPod knows that is an ridiculous.
If the standard is flawed the it "could" actually solve nothing. However the standard doesn't have to be flawed. If the standard is not flawed it could simply leave some details up to implementors. The later happened with the ISO JPEG standard. If you read the IJG's readme file distributed with their JPEG library you'd come across the following anecdote:
Some JPEG programs produce files that are not compatible with our library.
The root of the problem is that the ISO JPEG committee failed to specify a
concrete file format. Some vendors "filled in the blanks" on their own,
creating proprietary formats that no one else could read. (For example, none
of the early commercial JPEG implementations for the Macintosh were able to
exchange compressed files.)
So I'm actually not complaining about Microsoft's ubiquity at all. What concerns me is that this so-called standard was fast-tracked and that there were very public and very blatant anomalies in the standardization procedures.
I have to admit I'm a little jealous. My mom can write a tinny bit of HTML, but still has to call me for help with links and image tags. My dad doesn't even have his own email address, he was a janitor. I taught myself to program when I was 13...would have been nice to have some guidance.
If there is ever an Apple version of Windows Genuine Advantage I'll quit using OS X, it will be erased from my drive and I'll never develop software for the Mac again.
My computer, once I purchase it, should always function as long as there is not a hardware issue. I shouldn't have to prove I'm not stealing from the company, I shouldn't need an internet connection to unlock software, I _should_ be able to replace hardware components of the computer and I _should_ be able to transfer the software to another computer.
End of story. I use a Mac because I think Apple understands that these are rights and they improve usability.
Most people understand the terms "broadband" and "narrowband" to be relative to the specific medium. Sure there is technical definitions to the terms, but most people understand the casual definitions in context. Language is dynamic, don't get upset about it.
Besides it's understood that "narrowband" refers to dial-up, but it can also mean cellphone connections like Edge or ISDN lines. Thus encompassing the lower bit rate connections. Sure it's an informal use, but at least people are making a simple distinction, which will make it easier to communicate with them about technical issues.
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I believe this is probably true, but can you provide a link to a primary source? I'd like to see a FOSS developers blog post or something from a developer mailing list.
Again I don't doubt you, I'd just like to read about this in depth. My googling is coming up short.
But how does a product released in 2007 (from your link) supersede an announcement made on April 8, 2008?
I'm not going to pretend to be an expert on this, I'm just curious.
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How does a summary that reads "VIA announced that it will provide Open-Source drivers and documentation on its Web site so that its hardware will work out of the box with Linux distributions" translate, in your mind, to "Via just don't want to develop their Linux drivers anymore"?
The story sounds more like they are opening development up to the FOSS community, not "giving up". This should be applauded.
The videos are H.264, there's not reason it "has" to use QuickTime. I'm sure ".mov" was just an easy container format for the webdevs.
Score one for the "UTF-8 text forever" crowd. Thanks for the support!
I use my iPhone to read PDFs all the time. Sure it lacks some eBook features, but the zooming and scrolling capabilities makes me think it's going to be the killer eBook reader once someone makes a third-party reader. Unlike other handheld devices I've used you can stand in direct sunlight and still read the iPhone's screen. Plus it's not an additional device I have to carry around.
LMAO. Seriosly.
What if I'm for lower taxes & smaller government & farmers? What if I want guns, even semi and fully automatic ones? What if I'm in favor of civil rights & social programs & friendly towards labor? What if I could give a fuck about xmas trees anywhere? What if I like porn and could give a fuck if someone has gay sex? What then?
That's why DVD menus in all incarnations shouldn't exist! I can imagine how frustrating that can be, I've had problems using DVD menus and I'm not color blind. I've also had to sit though a class were a professor was trying to show a clip from a DVD, but the DVD menu designer didn't make the highlight color contrast enough for a projector, needless to say a lot of time was wasted while the professor tried to guess when the correct item was selected.
I really hate DVD menus. At the very least make them optional, like a dust cover on a book. That way I can toss the uselessness away, just like I do with dust covers. The functionality of the menus should be built into the player with a nice accessible UI.
Thanks for the link. Based on those number it looks like a electric car in California produce 6 times less CO2 than a gasoline engine in that state. The national average looks like it's only about 3 times better.
So my question is: wouldn't it be better to make a gasoline engine that is 3 times more efficient than current models? Then you wouldn't have to purchase a high priced electric vehicle and your wouldn't have to replace the costly batteries.
If you assume the average car gets 20 miles to the gallon, then you only need to improve the car so that it gets 60 miles to the gallon and you'll beat most any electric car in terms of cost, CO2 emissions, and range.
Is that a guess or do you have some numbers to back that up? Is it more efficient to get the power from a plant or to get it from a combustion engine? I honestly don't know, but my gut feeling is that the gasoline combustion engine is more efficient and cleaner than burning coal.
Wake me up when we are talking about ubiquitous renewable energy not some car that will become "green" based on the assumption that renewable energy is coming.
You exactly right the Roadster isn't for the average joe. That was my point! The car is expensive, so much so that it only for rich people that want to brag about their electric car. Even if it was a "green" car its cost makes its net effect on the climate laughable.
This may be a revolution, but "green" it is not. If you own an electric car you still have to charge the batteries. Using electricity isn't green! Most electricity in the US comes from burning natural gas and from burning coal. Both of which produce CO2. Even in California, which leads the nation in renewable energy sources, half the electricity still comes from natural gas.
From what I understand the Tesla is basically vaporware, that even if produced is too expensive to buy let alone own. By own I, of course, mean TOC because you're going to have to replace the batteries after about 300 charge cycles or 66,000 miles. How much is that going to cost? My laptop battery is $120. Without working any numbers, I bet the replacement cost for the Roadster is about $30,00.
Now considering there is hardly any information on the Tesla site about batteries, would you buy the car? Try to figure out from Tesla how much it will cost to replace the batteries. It's not on their site. They do claim the batteries will last 100,000 miles, but anyone that owns a laptop or an iPod knows that is an ridiculous.
My MacBook Pro is not 64 bit!
Thank $DEITY, I'm not the only one. I thought I was going crazy or switched on some horrible ignore moderation mode.
Forgot to type 'jobs' for the first sentence. It should be:
Because those of us that have jobs and are sent Word documents in email give a shit.
Forgive the reply to self...
Because those of us that have and are sent Word documents in email give a shit.
Because those of us that go to school and are told to type our papers in Word and to turn in .doc files give a shit.
Because those of us who take online classes and have to download Word documents give a shit.
Because those of us that work in governments and want to be able to exchange information with other agencies give a shit.
Because libraries that believe in open and easily accessible information give a shit.
Because those of us that don't want to use MS Word give a shit.
Because those of us that can't afford MS Word give a shit.
Because makers of other office suites give a shit.
Because those of use that use FOSS give a shit.
Because historians don't want to rely on a MS rosetta stone give a shit.
Because I give a shit.
Hot Topic sells action figures, anime gear an a variety of other nerd friendly items. Personally I already shop there when I want to waste some money.
You're exactly right, thanks for replying to this dude.
I have to admit I'm a little jealous. My mom can write a tinny bit of HTML, but still has to call me for help with links and image tags. My dad doesn't even have his own email address, he was a janitor. I taught myself to program when I was 13...would have been nice to have some guidance.
If there is ever an Apple version of Windows Genuine Advantage I'll quit using OS X, it will be erased from my drive and I'll never develop software for the Mac again.
My computer, once I purchase it, should always function as long as there is not a hardware issue. I shouldn't have to prove I'm not stealing from the company, I shouldn't need an internet connection to unlock software, I _should_ be able to replace hardware components of the computer and I _should_ be able to transfer the software to another computer.
End of story. I use a Mac because I think Apple understands that these are rights and they improve usability.
Most people understand the terms "broadband" and "narrowband" to be relative to the specific medium. Sure there is technical definitions to the terms, but most people understand the casual definitions in context. Language is dynamic, don't get upset about it.
Besides it's understood that "narrowband" refers to dial-up, but it can also mean cellphone connections like Edge or ISDN lines. Thus encompassing the lower bit rate connections. Sure it's an informal use, but at least people are making a simple distinction, which will make it easier to communicate with them about technical issues.