The software that runs in the device specifies an interface. The software that runs on the desktop makes use of the interface to interact with the device. How the device implements the interface is completely irrelevant.
I understand the business argument, but their developers are most likely using some kind of Linux desktop tool to download and test the software on actual boxes. Make that software available.
If that's not practical, do the same thing that makes it possible for my PDA to synch up with my Linux system: document enough of gadget's interface so that it's possible for an open-source version can be written. If what the developers are using is too primitive, they benefit by at least providing that amount of information.
So if we hook this up with the SETI@home program, could we look for intelligent life in the universe that's inside the speck of dust?
"Beam me up, Scotty: there's no intelligent life down here."
The rush to develop alternatiives.. faded away after gas prices came down.
True, but it's different in that proposals for using alternative fuels had a larger deployment or up-front cost which fell on the wrong side of cost-benefit equation. With hybrids, you're using the same fuel, still cutting your fuel costs by half or more (if and) when prices come back down.
It would "skew" it only if the survey were slashdotted this year but not last year. The second "here" link in the parent was the announcement of last year's survey, though, so the populations of the two surveys should be comparable.
Slashdot Mirror
I need no sympathy
And I had '1' in the pool!
eom
You can always "man man", man
All participants will also receive complimentary cavity-searches at airport checkpoints.
Second prize: two of them.
And "Time To Live"
the world's intellectual elite (slashdot)?
Man, we _are_ in trouble!
I understand the business argument, but their developers are most likely using some kind of Linux desktop tool to download and test the software on actual boxes. Make that software available.
If that's not practical, do the same thing that makes it possible for my PDA to synch up with my Linux system: document enough of gadget's interface so that it's possible for an open-source version can be written. If what the developers are using is too primitive, they benefit by at least providing that amount of information.
So if we hook this up with the SETI@home program, could we look for intelligent life in the universe that's inside the speck of dust? "Beam me up, Scotty: there's no intelligent life down here."
Actually it was 49.7 days. Which lead to a lot of people wondering: how on earth did someone manage to keep a Windows system up that long?
Interestingly enough, I can afford to buy exactly .3589793238.. shares of the offer.
I'll believe that when the Red Sox win the World Series!
Godwin
For when you're charged with assault and battery, no doubt..
Quick! Take two of these. It may not get the ring-ring-ringing out of your head but it'll at least keep it in perspective.
Thomas Friedman of the NY Times had a column yesterday suggesting putting money into NSF for alternative energy research: worth a read IMHO.
No: it's Fuzzy math!
All ya gotta remember: "uh-oh! uh-oh!.."
True, but it's different in that proposals for using alternative fuels had a larger deployment or up-front cost which fell on the wrong side of cost-benefit equation. With hybrids, you're using the same fuel, still cutting your fuel costs by half or more (if and) when prices come back down.
It would "skew" it only if the survey were slashdotted this year but not last year. The second "here" link in the parent was the announcement of last year's survey, though, so the populations of the two surveys should be comparable.
Don't get mad, get even!
Assuming, of course, that there is one..
Exactly! I have to admit that the OS going away was my first thought, but I like this spin better.
It's so fast, the blue screen shifts to red!