Yea, cause its not like they don't have the resources to write it without any GPL code... or even better, point out how dangerous it is to deal with GPL in general and just drop support on the grounds that its not worth their time, add it to their press kit, then watch you guys scream some more that they are spreading FUD when it starts to look more and more like you're just a bunch of whiney angst ridden high school students that hate everyone/thing/where and can't be pleased regardless.
The more idiots the rant about shit like this, the smaller GPL and Linux is going to look. The only people who appreciate GPL at this point are people who go out of their way to ensure that no one can make a profit off the work put into GPL'd code.
So... brilliant programmers... when no one pays you to code, are you going to be ready to pickup the phone and do desktop support, since thats going to be whats going to pay your bills. For intelligent people, you guys do some really stupid shit.
No, they didn't, they could have simply rewritten it sans GPL, contrary to popular belief, its really not that hard, hence why they've managed to do it and... hate to burst your bubble, produce a far more set of products.
Don't get cocky with the 'they had to do it' bullshit, they could have stopped distributing the drivers until the rewrote them.
More likely, they would have put this in their media kit to point out why people who work with Linux are retarded and why you as a business don't want to have anything to do with Linux if you want someone you don't have to worry about.
You guys talk shit about how MS behaves but could you all please stop acting like a 7 year old?
So I guess the people who run Linux on MS servers aren't part of the Linux community?
I guess the poor guys that have to do this sort of thing because some manager says so, aren't cool enough to be part of your retarded little club?
Get a grip, god Linux fanboys are a pile of whiney bitches. Add another thing to the list of reasons Linux will always be the third world country of software world, no one likes a bunch of whiney bitches.
You got the source, which is generally what you whine about, you knew EXACTLY what you got, thats the advantage of the source thats touted as one of the awesome benefits of OSS.
Every OSS GPS app sucks donkey balls on a good day, it goes down hill from there. I've used every one you've named and a few more, trust me, they suck compared to almost any commercial unit.
I guess if you don't care about having useful maps, some of them are okay. And if you don't want maps at all, there are plenty of apps that will do a good job of just about anything you want for free.
If you want maps, just buy something and don't waste your time playing with the OSS variants or trying to use OpenStreetMaps, its really not worth it at this point.
You can't play the patent card, contrary to popular belief, when you release this stuff into the public under an open license unless you clearly state that you need a patent license to use it.
You can't, legally, get people using your crap under the premise that you are allowed to do so, wait a few years, then start suing everyone after you pretended to make it free. Changing the tune after you get people using it is illegal. You have to pretend, from the start, that you don't want anyone using it or you 'didnt know' people were using it if you intend to go after them. Patents must be defended or they are lost.
They could sue the shit out of people for plenty of things, but not for using the GPLd code in an app. However, if Garmin were for example to want to use the format, and wrote their own implementation, they would be on shakey ground.
GPLv3 would be effective as not licensing it to the public from a commercial perspect. Garmin isn't going to open source everything so they can use some retarded new and unneeded format.
If they actually wanted people to use the library, it'd be BSD/MIT/Apache licensed. They don't want people to use it, they want people to think they are playing the OSS game, mean while effectively preventing their competition from using it. The only apps that are going to use it are OSS apps that, lets face it, can't compete with the commercial apps to just about anyone except OSS fanboys.
The tethering works, I think texting is a rather retarded thing since I can use email so I haven't actually used MMS but I would presume it works as well.
Yea, it would, except that there is almost a 95 million hertz difference between the audio signals highest frequency and the carrier wave for FM radio...
i.e. its pretty trivial to filter out the audio with a single capacitor, and indeed would be done anyway to filter out any interference from the processor in the device itself anyway.
Don't forget that the EFF made the original EPIC FAIL here by being too retarded to find out if it was true or not before posting, incorrectly, that it had an 'authenitication chip'. Show me an iPhone/iPod that you can't plug any random pair of head phones into please... Go ahead, I'll wait.
They started the FUD too, without fact checking, while they may just be 'wrong', it counts as trolling if your intention was to excite people and get them worked up, regardless of if it just happens to be that you're a lazy fuck who read what someone else read where someone else blogged about some bullshit in a product they've never touched because a friend dated this girl in high school that didn't give Steve Jobs a blowjob because he's gay.
Users have wanted free for a long time, but they want 'doesnt' suck ass and feel like it was written to piss me off' or 'has nice people to deal with when I have a problem' a lot more than they want free in almost every case.
Sure not all of the F/OSS community is hostile, but the majority are technology snobs who think that if you can't figure out how to use the software in 5 minutes based on the man page (if its even got one) then you are too stupid to use a computer. Since that basically specifies about 99.999% of the world, people will continue to pay for software rather than care about it being free.
Nothing is free, its just a question of how you pay.
Slashdot editors don't do that, the post incorrect stories without edits for journalistic integrity. Its more important to present the information as it was found than to possibly bias it by posting correct information.
I mean, how do they know the headline is incorrect, its not like they read the article or god forbid, read the post to slashdot even!
The mortality rate is half that of the standard seasonal strains. Its actually far less deadly than anything we've seen before, unless of course you're an idiot watching CNN all day long, in which case I hope you die.
CNN/ABC/NBC/CBS/Fox news are not valid reference sources.
Its mortality rate is lower than the standard seasonal flu. (Standard rate: %0.12, Swine Flu: %0.05)
The CDC believes ever case of 'the flu' this summer has been of the swine flu strain.
Your body becomes resistant after a single infection.
Some people are resistant to it after having dealt with infections from other flu strains, which is why it doesn't appear to affect anyone born before 1957.
Normal flu is 30 million with 36k deaths (CDC says 19k deaths, but I'll keep your numbers)
For 0.12%
CDC says 1million have had it in the US this summer, 590 or so deaths...
For 0.05%
Its not even as bad as the standard mix of flu strains seen in the typical year.
According to everyone EXCEPT the news media, this strain is of less concern than the standard seasonal strains as it appears to be non-mutating, your body becomes resistant after the first infection and it has a lower mortality rate than existing strains.
Never heard of Xgrid eh? Its pretty rare since its an extremely expensive way to go about building a cluster, but its just ignorant to say they don't make HPC systems.
I suppose you think MS doesn't either because you ignore Windows Compute Cluster or whatever its called.
As someone who supports a recently graduated NCSU vet student, I can say that there are plenty of services on the NCSU student network that don't work for shit with Linux. Those being web services that are pretty much IE centered.
I expect you'll find the exact same thing at most schools. If it works, it works, they don't go out of way to make it difficult, but they don't really go out of their way to center around it.
NCSU has developed a lot of OSS software, the biggest known to the slashdot crowd is probably OpenNMS, so they certainly don't try to avoid it. Its silly to say they support it in a big way though. Thats like saying that RoadRunner supports it in a big way because they use IP and standard DHCP servers for their network.
Of course, NCSU isn't but a few miles from Redhat, so you can assume they won't be throwing Linux under the train.
Who uses Linux firewalls? Seriously, all the firewall hardware I've seen using a free OS uses FreeBSD. People tend to use the best tool for the job, FreeBSD has the IP speed records, so it tends to get used.
I've seen people roll their own firewalls that run OpenBSD as well, still can't say I've ever come across a company that uses a Linux firewall.
Way to go guys, you're so smart and quick that you're idiots.
Interestingly enough, they sold an extra copy of it yesterday to me because, predicting this would happen, I wanted to get a copy before they took it down.
I wouldn't have bought it otherwise, while its cool from a geek perspective, playing C64 games on a touch screen sucks a predictable amount of ass.
I've had 3 WinMo phones. They suck ass. I develop WinMo apps, it really does suck ass. WinCE wasn't bad before MS bought it and started making it asstastic. I'm sorry if you think its great, really I am. You could brag about several other cell phone OSes and maybe have a point, but WinMo is ass no matter how you look at it. It has more apps, yes, and they all tend to suck ass too.
Not that the iPhone doesn't have its fair share of problems, but its 3 years old, WinMo is at least 13, and still has some of the most retarded bugs and restrictions ever.
Don't worry, no one is going to care if you don't write iPhone apps, there are just as many shitty developers writing iPhone apps now as WinMo to cover you.
I hear you though, you like your phone/OS and feel like talking shit about the one you don't have, thats cool. Do us all a favor though, if you're going to fanboy it up, at least pick something that isn't absolute shit to fanboy over, cause doing it for WinMo just makes you look stupid to anyone who actually knows anything about it.
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Yea, cause its not like they don't have the resources to write it without any GPL code ... or even better, point out how dangerous it is to deal with GPL in general and just drop support on the grounds that its not worth their time, add it to their press kit, then watch you guys scream some more that they are spreading FUD when it starts to look more and more like you're just a bunch of whiney angst ridden high school students that hate everyone/thing/where and can't be pleased regardless.
The more idiots the rant about shit like this, the smaller GPL and Linux is going to look. The only people who appreciate GPL at this point are people who go out of their way to ensure that no one can make a profit off the work put into GPL'd code.
So ... brilliant programmers ... when no one pays you to code, are you going to be ready to pickup the phone and do desktop support, since thats going to be whats going to pay your bills. For intelligent people, you guys do some really stupid shit.
No, they didn't, they could have simply rewritten it sans GPL, contrary to popular belief, its really not that hard, hence why they've managed to do it and ... hate to burst your bubble, produce a far more set of products.
Don't get cocky with the 'they had to do it' bullshit, they could have stopped distributing the drivers until the rewrote them.
More likely, they would have put this in their media kit to point out why people who work with Linux are retarded and why you as a business don't want to have anything to do with Linux if you want someone you don't have to worry about.
You guys talk shit about how MS behaves but could you all please stop acting like a 7 year old?
So I guess the people who run Linux on MS servers aren't part of the Linux community?
I guess the poor guys that have to do this sort of thing because some manager says so, aren't cool enough to be part of your retarded little club?
Get a grip, god Linux fanboys are a pile of whiney bitches. Add another thing to the list of reasons Linux will always be the third world country of software world, no one likes a bunch of whiney bitches.
You got the source, which is generally what you whine about, you knew EXACTLY what you got, thats the advantage of the source thats touted as one of the awesome benefits of OSS.
You want a Garmin handheld unit.
Every OSS GPS app sucks donkey balls on a good day, it goes down hill from there. I've used every one you've named and a few more, trust me, they suck compared to almost any commercial unit.
I guess if you don't care about having useful maps, some of them are okay. And if you don't want maps at all, there are plenty of apps that will do a good job of just about anything you want for free.
If you want maps, just buy something and don't waste your time playing with the OSS variants or trying to use OpenStreetMaps, its really not worth it at this point.
You can't play the patent card, contrary to popular belief, when you release this stuff into the public under an open license unless you clearly state that you need a patent license to use it.
You can't, legally, get people using your crap under the premise that you are allowed to do so, wait a few years, then start suing everyone after you pretended to make it free. Changing the tune after you get people using it is illegal. You have to pretend, from the start, that you don't want anyone using it or you 'didnt know' people were using it if you intend to go after them. Patents must be defended or they are lost.
They could sue the shit out of people for plenty of things, but not for using the GPLd code in an app. However, if Garmin were for example to want to use the format, and wrote their own implementation, they would be on shakey ground.
GPLv3 would be effective as not licensing it to the public from a commercial perspect. Garmin isn't going to open source everything so they can use some retarded new and unneeded format.
If they actually wanted people to use the library, it'd be BSD/MIT/Apache licensed. They don't want people to use it, they want people to think they are playing the OSS game, mean while effectively preventing their competition from using it. The only apps that are going to use it are OSS apps that, lets face it, can't compete with the commercial apps to just about anyone except OSS fanboys.
Limited yes, but on a screen the size of a postage stamp, you really can't tell the difference between ES and the full spec.
You don't need 32 bit textures when you only have about 90k pixels to display on.
Just for reference, you don't need to jail break to enable MMS and tethering.
http://www.benm.at/2009/06/13/helpbenmat/
The tethering works, I think texting is a rather retarded thing since I can use email so I haven't actually used MMS but I would presume it works as well.
Rather, the iPod touch is an iPhone minus the phone and mic, since you know ... the iPhone came before the iPod touch.
Yea, it would, except that there is almost a 95 million hertz difference between the audio signals highest frequency and the carrier wave for FM radio ...
i.e. its pretty trivial to filter out the audio with a single capacitor, and indeed would be done anyway to filter out any interference from the processor in the device itself anyway.
Don't forget that the EFF made the original EPIC FAIL here by being too retarded to find out if it was true or not before posting, incorrectly, that it had an 'authenitication chip'. Show me an iPhone/iPod that you can't plug any random pair of head phones into please ... Go ahead, I'll wait.
They started the FUD too, without fact checking, while they may just be 'wrong', it counts as trolling if your intention was to excite people and get them worked up, regardless of if it just happens to be that you're a lazy fuck who read what someone else read where someone else blogged about some bullshit in a product they've never touched because a friend dated this girl in high school that didn't give Steve Jobs a blowjob because he's gay.
Users have wanted free for a long time, but they want 'doesnt' suck ass and feel like it was written to piss me off' or 'has nice people to deal with when I have a problem' a lot more than they want free in almost every case.
Sure not all of the F/OSS community is hostile, but the majority are technology snobs who think that if you can't figure out how to use the software in 5 minutes based on the man page (if its even got one) then you are too stupid to use a computer. Since that basically specifies about 99.999% of the world, people will continue to pay for software rather than care about it being free.
Nothing is free, its just a question of how you pay.
Slashdot editors don't do that, the post incorrect stories without edits for journalistic integrity. Its more important to present the information as it was found than to possibly bias it by posting correct information.
I mean, how do they know the headline is incorrect, its not like they read the article or god forbid, read the post to slashdot even!
The mortality rate is half that of the standard seasonal strains. Its actually far less deadly than anything we've seen before, unless of course you're an idiot watching CNN all day long, in which case I hope you die.
Citation needed.
CNN/ABC/NBC/CBS/Fox news are not valid reference sources.
Its mortality rate is lower than the standard seasonal flu. (Standard rate: %0.12, Swine Flu: %0.05)
The CDC believes ever case of 'the flu' this summer has been of the swine flu strain.
Your body becomes resistant after a single infection.
Some people are resistant to it after having dealt with infections from other flu strains, which is why it doesn't appear to affect anyone born before 1957.
Citation: http://www.cdc.gov/flu/
getthefacts.slashdot.org kthx
Your math is off.
Normal flu is 30 million with 36k deaths (CDC says 19k deaths, but I'll keep your numbers)
For 0.12%
CDC says 1million have had it in the US this summer, 590 or so deaths ...
For 0.05%
Its not even as bad as the standard mix of flu strains seen in the typical year.
According to everyone EXCEPT the news media, this strain is of less concern than the standard seasonal strains as it appears to be non-mutating, your body becomes resistant after the first infection and it has a lower mortality rate than existing strains.
A carrier of a dangerous disease, i.e. not someone with the flu, swine, bird or otherwise.
Never heard of Xgrid eh? Its pretty rare since its an extremely expensive way to go about building a cluster, but its just ignorant to say they don't make HPC systems.
I suppose you think MS doesn't either because you ignore Windows Compute Cluster or whatever its called.
If by right in the center you mean 30 miles down the Interstate and closer to UNC or Duke than NCSU, sure.
As someone who supports a recently graduated NCSU vet student, I can say that there are plenty of services on the NCSU student network that don't work for shit with Linux. Those being web services that are pretty much IE centered.
I expect you'll find the exact same thing at most schools. If it works, it works, they don't go out of way to make it difficult, but they don't really go out of their way to center around it.
NCSU has developed a lot of OSS software, the biggest known to the slashdot crowd is probably OpenNMS, so they certainly don't try to avoid it. Its silly to say they support it in a big way though. Thats like saying that RoadRunner supports it in a big way because they use IP and standard DHCP servers for their network.
Of course, NCSU isn't but a few miles from Redhat, so you can assume they won't be throwing Linux under the train.
Wow, so you went to school with a bunch of disconnected douche bags eh?
Who uses Linux firewalls? Seriously, all the firewall hardware I've seen using a free OS uses FreeBSD. People tend to use the best tool for the job, FreeBSD has the IP speed records, so it tends to get used.
I've seen people roll their own firewalls that run OpenBSD as well, still can't say I've ever come across a company that uses a Linux firewall.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1360395&cid=29345727
Way to go guys, you're so smart and quick that you're idiots.
Interestingly enough, they sold an extra copy of it yesterday to me because, predicting this would happen, I wanted to get a copy before they took it down.
I wouldn't have bought it otherwise, while its cool from a geek perspective, playing C64 games on a touch screen sucks a predictable amount of ass.
I find your lack of faith disturbing ...
I am an iPhone fanboy, I won't deny it.
I've had 3 WinMo phones. They suck ass. I develop WinMo apps, it really does suck ass. WinCE wasn't bad before MS bought it and started making it asstastic. I'm sorry if you think its great, really I am. You could brag about several other cell phone OSes and maybe have a point, but WinMo is ass no matter how you look at it. It has more apps, yes, and they all tend to suck ass too.
Not that the iPhone doesn't have its fair share of problems, but its 3 years old, WinMo is at least 13, and still has some of the most retarded bugs and restrictions ever.
Don't worry, no one is going to care if you don't write iPhone apps, there are just as many shitty developers writing iPhone apps now as WinMo to cover you.
I hear you though, you like your phone/OS and feel like talking shit about the one you don't have, thats cool. Do us all a favor though, if you're going to fanboy it up, at least pick something that isn't absolute shit to fanboy over, cause doing it for WinMo just makes you look stupid to anyone who actually knows anything about it.