Commercial stuff is free to provide copies of the libs they need along with the package. Not that we won't bitch that they are provide libXYZ-2.3.4 which has known escalation to root bug FOO, but they could. They can statically link or dlload things. They could also publish something like "Ubuntu 11.10 with updates as of YYY-MM-DD date, Fedora 14 with updates as of YYYY-MM-DD" with that and a RPM and a DEB the distros should be able to make it work.
Heck the nvidia driver seems to work almost all of the time on the newest whatever (not git Xorg-server but well...). Yes I do have to rebuild it when i compile a new kernel, but i wouldn't expect ubuntu users to be doing that often. The ones that do should be able to apt-get it again and have it work. If ubuntu can't that's a failing of apt-get.
but does the binary have to run or just work if you configure; make; make install again? right the OSS world assumes that software can be recompiled, and most only needs that. Sometimes it needs a simple patch, but yes breaking ABI isn't really an issue. Breaking an API is much more of one.
But the robotic manuals don't have the slip and glide of a slush box. The VW DSG / porshe PDK is actully a very tolerable automatic as it drives just like a manual.
so get a intel based mini-itx board, slap it in a silverstone SG05 or SG06 case, and buy an OEM copy of windows 7 from newegg. There are smaller cases on the market as well, if you don't want to use your PCI-E slot, and don't need as much room for disks.
I'm running a X6 1055T and a GTS450 in that case with the 300w PSU and have had no issues. Peak load is ~250W. (ffmpeg doing a x264 encode, ripping a dvd to disk from my dvd drive and running furmark in wine all at the same time.) Anyone know of a CUDA load test for GPUs?
Was it office 2007 that brought with it the much hated ribbon?
Anyways, which ever version that was, was a huge step forward productivity wise for me. being able to pin macros to the "quickaction" toolbar and have them automaticlly get a keystroke assigned has done wonders.
And at least the ribbon never really moves things around like the personalized menus.
The PI doesn't have the IO to compete with a E350. There is no SATA, dual gigabit (or 10/100 for that mater), PCI-E, or PCI on the PI.
I keep trying to figure out what i would do with a PI, but even as a media center it doesn't have enough hardware decode codec support and I would have to re-rip all of my dvd rips that are set up for the PS3.
If i wanted a NAS I could go This route or similar in a stock case. A PI as a fun nettop type toy sure, you know maybe it could save me a bunch of power when I'm just reading/.
Nothing valve is doing will need that low level access... as long as "read this file from disk" and "do this in opengl" work i'm pretty sure everything will just work. Like how you don't need to re-compile firefox everytime you recompile the kernel.
Split the infrastructure owners from the ISPs. Then require that the infrstructure be sold at market price to anyone that wants it. Both small and large usage discounts are acceptable as long as they are published and are applied to anyone that shows up with money.
By "split" i mean no board of director sharing, no stock owning, no transffering between sides without a 5+ year interm. The books of the infrastructure owners must be 100% open to public viewing.
how do you read documents designed to be printed on dead tree rectangles if the screen is triangle shaped? and if the screen is rectangular and you are trying to minimize device size what shape do you make the device? right the same as the screen... okay, now rectangles generally have pointy corners and that is general bad in the consumer world. How do you make something pointy safer? right fillet it, now just pick a "nice" radius and apply it to all of the corners because it is easy that way.
I'd love one if it could become my android tablet/phone controled media box that would pass the wife test.
It needs DLNA, netflix, hulu plus, amazon VoD, pandora, slacker, etc etc etc and I need to be able to control them fram any android device in the house.
It would be neat to be able to play angry birds/etc on it using the tablet as a touchscreen as well. I bet my kids would get a kick out of that.
I'd pay Autodesk 10% more for inventor/autocad for linux.
I'd likely even do the unthinkable, and pay MS for Office Pro for linux as long as it came with VBA or something to automatically translate it to python and run that, and the ability to run DLLs via wine and access them via VBA.
I don't really want Cononical making new projects. They have a history of doing things in ways that are very hard for the rest of the eco-system to adopt. How many Ubuntu projects are available in Gentoo/Arch/Mandriva/Debian?
Says that man the grew up in MN, went to college in the upper penisula of MI near the lake, and is back in MN now and has always driven a front wheel drive car... (granted I did lose the rear end once while not messing around, but it was on a well plowed road with no snow coming down, just some ice.)
well the big thing for me is being able to pin things to the quick access toolbar and then hid the whole ribbon. I can even pin macros to the toolbar so that i can do all sorts of the things (copy the same bits from 3 sheets to a 4th with one button push.
does your old linux box have HDMI and enough grunt to play 1080P h264 video? Mine has HDMI, but it is an ATI X1000 and can barly display chrome at 1080P let alone moving video. The 1080P is not going to happen either as the 5 year old low end dual core won't do it.
The Pi doesn't seem to have an I/O interface that will sustain the 20-30MB/sec needed for high end video and audio. 10/100 ethernet won't, SDcards won't. Also the Pi has minimal codec support.
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Commercial stuff is free to provide copies of the libs they need along with the package. Not that we won't bitch that they are provide libXYZ-2.3.4 which has known escalation to root bug FOO, but they could. They can statically link or dlload things. They could also publish something like "Ubuntu 11.10 with updates as of YYY-MM-DD date, Fedora 14 with updates as of YYYY-MM-DD" with that and a RPM and a DEB the distros should be able to make it work.
Heck the nvidia driver seems to work almost all of the time on the newest whatever (not git Xorg-server but well...). Yes I do have to rebuild it when i compile a new kernel, but i wouldn't expect ubuntu users to be doing that often. The ones that do should be able to apt-get it again and have it work. If ubuntu can't that's a failing of apt-get.
how about these? http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:category.details?current-catalog-id=12F0696583E04D86B9B79B0FEC01C087¤t-category-id=34294F13CE4B1A2EFDCFAA6B11BB1C0D
Yes they are a bit bigger than the mac-mini, but if that is the biggest concern then yes, the mini is your only option.
does the OSX office allow VBA? Yes this is a serious question, the engineering world seems to depend on excel and VBA to make things go 'round.
but does the binary have to run or just work if you configure; make; make install again? right the OSS world assumes that software can be recompiled, and most only needs that. Sometimes it needs a simple patch, but yes breaking ABI isn't really an issue. Breaking an API is much more of one.
but i like my GPUs to draw 3D things (mostly via wine) so i got a nvidia.
But the robotic manuals don't have the slip and glide of a slush box. The VW DSG / porshe PDK is actully a very tolerable automatic as it drives just like a manual.
I find i time travel just fine right now, there are a few catches, only forwards, and only at the same speed time moves..
so get a intel based mini-itx board, slap it in a silverstone SG05 or SG06 case, and buy an OEM copy of windows 7 from newegg. There are smaller cases on the market as well, if you don't want to use your PCI-E slot, and don't need as much room for disks.
I'm running a X6 1055T and a GTS450 in that case with the 300w PSU and have had no issues. Peak load is ~250W. (ffmpeg doing a x264 encode, ripping a dvd to disk from my dvd drive and running furmark in wine all at the same time.) Anyone know of a CUDA load test for GPUs?
Was it office 2007 that brought with it the much hated ribbon?
Anyways, which ever version that was, was a huge step forward productivity wise for me. being able to pin macros to the "quickaction" toolbar and have them automaticlly get a keystroke assigned has done wonders.
And at least the ribbon never really moves things around like the personalized menus.
The PI doesn't have the IO to compete with a E350. There is no SATA, dual gigabit (or 10/100 for that mater), PCI-E, or PCI on the PI.
I keep trying to figure out what i would do with a PI, but even as a media center it doesn't have enough hardware decode codec support and I would have to re-rip all of my dvd rips that are set up for the PS3.
If i wanted a NAS I could go This route or similar in a stock case. A PI as a fun nettop type toy sure, you know maybe it could save me a bunch of power when I'm just reading /.
Nothing valve is doing will need that low level access... as long as "read this file from disk" and "do this in opengl" work i'm pretty sure everything will just work. Like how you don't need to re-compile firefox everytime you recompile the kernel.
How would kernel changes break steam but nothing else without being obvious? Why isn't that happening to nvidia and android/google?
Split the infrastructure owners from the ISPs. Then require that the infrstructure be sold at market price to anyone that wants it. Both small and large usage discounts are acceptable as long as they are published and are applied to anyone that shows up with money.
By "split" i mean no board of director sharing, no stock owning, no transffering between sides without a 5+ year interm. The books of the infrastructure owners must be 100% open to public viewing.
can't you us SDL for sound as well?
part of me even wants to say you can do OpenGL via SDL as well.
for the inet stuff root your phone and install droidwall in whitelist mode.
how do you read documents designed to be printed on dead tree rectangles if the screen is triangle shaped? and if the screen is rectangular and you are trying to minimize device size what shape do you make the device? right the same as the screen... okay, now rectangles generally have pointy corners and that is general bad in the consumer world. How do you make something pointy safer? right fillet it, now just pick a "nice" radius and apply it to all of the corners because it is easy that way.
isn't that what trademark and tradedress are for?
Lets just all ignore the rectangular tablet device with rounded corners in "A Space Odyssey: 2001"
I'd love one if it could become my android tablet/phone controled media box that would pass the wife test.
It needs DLNA, netflix, hulu plus, amazon VoD, pandora, slacker, etc etc etc and I need to be able to control them fram any android device in the house.
It would be neat to be able to play angry birds/etc on it using the tablet as a touchscreen as well. I bet my kids would get a kick out of that.
I'll just leave this youtube link here... http://youtu.be/EQTyktUuC4g?t=1m9s
I'd pay Autodesk 10% more for inventor/autocad for linux.
I'd likely even do the unthinkable, and pay MS for Office Pro for linux as long as it came with VBA or something to automatically translate it to python and run that, and the ability to run DLLs via wine and access them via VBA.
I don't really want Cononical making new projects. They have a history of doing things in ways that are very hard for the rest of the eco-system to adopt. How many Ubuntu projects are available in Gentoo/Arch/Mandriva/Debian?
a 4x4 for a little snow?!!*
Says that man the grew up in MN, went to college in the upper penisula of MI near the lake, and is back in MN now and has always driven a front wheel drive car... (granted I did lose the rear end once while not messing around, but it was on a well plowed road with no snow coming down, just some ice.)
well the big thing for me is being able to pin things to the quick access toolbar and then hid the whole ribbon. I can even pin macros to the toolbar so that i can do all sorts of the things (copy the same bits from 3 sheets to a 4th with one button push.
does your old linux box have HDMI and enough grunt to play 1080P h264 video? Mine has HDMI, but it is an ATI X1000 and can barly display chrome at 1080P let alone moving video. The 1080P is not going to happen either as the 5 year old low end dual core won't do it.
The Pi doesn't seem to have an I/O interface that will sustain the 20-30MB/sec needed for high end video and audio. 10/100 ethernet won't, SDcards won't. Also the Pi has minimal codec support.