I think the only ones that are still used that MHL can't replace directly are analog audio line in and out, though obviously it supports digital audio out. Remember that most of those pins aren't actually available on the iPhone.
As I recall, it's Chrome-only even though Chromium (being an open source version of Chrome) does actually implement the Pepper API. The only way to get the plugin is installed alongside Google Chrome.
See, this is why Islam's apparently brutal punishments for theft aren't necessarily so bad. Without some kind of religious restrictions on the available punishments, people get it into their head that life sentences for stealing food to feed yourself are perfectly reasonable and proportionate (or even death sentences in some cases e.g. in the UK for a while).
Actually, you've got it backwards. Bitcoinica used US dollars as its main trading currency and originally you had to sell any bitcoins you held for dollars through Bitcoinica in order to get your money out. Other than that, spot on.
From what I recall, it did happen during the time when there was still a gold standard. Bear in mind that for the entire period since the end of Great Depression - which is most of that graph - the US hasn't actually been on the gold standard. There were a whole bunch of liquidity crises and other economic fiascos prior to the start of that graph resulting from the US trying to tie the dollar to precious metals...
You see that claim of delivery in 4-6 weeks on the Butterfly Labs website? They've never actually managed to ship anything that fast in all the time they've had that claim up on the website - the best they've managed is 2-3 months - and they've never updated their promised shipping times to match reality. Payment is required up front.
. For example, suppose this new finding leads to improved approaches to signal multiplexing, so that you can have billions more 8G cell phones and thousands more channels of nothing-to-watch on cable and satellite TV.
Of course, most/.ers have probably come across the ideas of channel capacity and Shannon information, which kind of put a dampener on that possibility.
Which still says exactly what the person you're replying to claims it says - the Wayland developers have no plans to add any kind of network transparency or remote desktop support to Wayland ever, not even the equivalent of VNC. They're hoping that someone else will do all the hard work of writing the hypothetical "remote rendering server" which would make it possible. (I doubt that using X as the remote rendering server would work, due to Wayland relying on DRI2 buffers which can't be sent over the network - Wayland under X is probably one of the few apps that does actually manage to break X's network transparency.)
Make no mistake, it is going to be hard work. The Wayland compositor is given buffers in GPU memory representing the windows of Wayland clients. In order to offer even just the equivalent of VNC, you'd have to read them back (possibly over a really slow AGP bus from a graphics card designed under the assumption you wouldn't want to do that, given the age of some hardware out there) and scan it for changed areas. That's going to offer really sucky performance compared to VNC on top of X. If you need anything more advanced, the official advice basically boils down to "replace Wayland with something different and totally incompatible".
Except that the comment you're replying to is right. The Wayland developers have no plans to develop any kind of support for network transparency, they're just hoping that someone else will do the hard work of bolting it on top at a later stage - and it's going to be very hard work, because the Wayland compositor gets passed images of the windows it needs to render as buffers within GPU memory that it may not even be possible to read back efficiently, let alone figuring out what parts of the window have changed...
But the important thing is running OpenGL, which works just fine in Wayland (which is built on OpenGL).
For values of "just fine" equal to whatever the available open source drivers for your graphics card can manage, which probably isn't going to be good enough for Valve. Actually, I seem to recall that Wayland uses OpenGL ES, which means that you're actually stuck with a fairly restrictive subset of what the open source drivers for your hardware can manage, and a fairly badly tested one too at that. I believe Valve's games are going to requires full-fat OpenGL 3, which means that they need a whole bunch of stuff that just plain isn't available in OpenGL ES.
Since Ubuntu's apparently planning on having a system-wide instance of Wayland that starts at boot and keeps running until shutdown, presumably the only way to change your window manager would be to do it system-wide. It doesn't look like there's going to be any way to support individual users setting their own window managers.
Of course, this means that the graphics card has to be on the same machine as the applications, and that it has to have kernel drivers that support not just KMS but also DRI2 graphics acceleration. Without DRI2 support, there's no way to pass images of windows to the compositor and therefore no way to actually display anything. Precisely none of the existing closed-source drivers support the KMS or DRI2 interfaces that Wayland needs, so they can't run on it. In fact, for licensing reasons they can't actually support KMS at all.
Anyone who actually knew something about didgital audio would think "either I've set this up wrong or the drivers/hardware are bust, because this thing is blatantly stuck at 44.1kHz".
Or it's just got a low-pass filter with the cutoff set at 20 kHz which can't be disabled. You need one for proper signal reconstruction at the 44.1kHz sample rate, and it's not like most people are going to notice that their onboard sound can't actually output frequencies above 20 kHz in its 96kHz sampling mode.
There's also the problem of safely running the fuel reprocessing plants. We had one at Sellafield in the UK, but it had a history of safety problems and I'm not sure if anyone wants to buy from us anymore because the management had a habit of falsifying testing reports on the nuclear fuel they sold to save cash.
Current motherboards with UEFI don't support UEFI Secure Boot. Once Windows 8 comes out, they'll basically be required to support it by Microsoft, who's forcing all OEMs to ship Windows 8 PCs with Secure Boot enabled.
No. Apple are suing Samsung over utility patents which are exactly as the comment you're replying to describes: patents on ideas which give no information on how to actually build something that carries out that idea.
There's actually a small but interesting quirk of Samsung's designs that you can see in some of those photos. Notice how the phones with a slit near the top for the speaker have silver-coloured mesh covering it? That seems to appear in a lot of Samsung phones across their range, including the supposedly iPhone-copying smartphones. I've no idea why they do it, but it's certainly not something Apple would do.
Interestingly, one of the things that this comparison talks about is how Samsung should change the icons away from the rounded-square type icons with coloured backgrounds to something better looking and more distinct.
A monopoly on smartphones is not a monopoly at all, since dumbphones still account for the majority of the market.
We're rapidly reaching the point where the only way that's going to remain true is if Apple ends up with a monopoly on smartphones. They're not actually that much more expensive than dumbphones these days at the bottom end, so long as you can buy them from manufacturers other than Apple!
"Using a browser which has DNT set by default" could itself be taken as expressing such a preference.
When it's bundled as standard with the operating system installed on 95% of all PCs? That doesn't make much sense - it's not like most people use IE because they chose it over some other browser.
Apparently, even Konqueror - which hasn't really been under active development for years and had very little funding before then - manages to score 321.
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I think the only ones that are still used that MHL can't replace directly are analog audio line in and out, though obviously it supports digital audio out. Remember that most of those pins aren't actually available on the iPhone.
As I recall, it's Chrome-only even though Chromium (being an open source version of Chrome) does actually implement the Pepper API. The only way to get the plugin is installed alongside Google Chrome.
See, this is why Islam's apparently brutal punishments for theft aren't necessarily so bad. Without some kind of religious restrictions on the available punishments, people get it into their head that life sentences for stealing food to feed yourself are perfectly reasonable and proportionate (or even death sentences in some cases e.g. in the UK for a while).
Actually, you've got it backwards. Bitcoinica used US dollars as its main trading currency and originally you had to sell any bitcoins you held for dollars through Bitcoinica in order to get your money out. Other than that, spot on.
From what I recall, it did happen during the time when there was still a gold standard. Bear in mind that for the entire period since the end of Great Depression - which is most of that graph - the US hasn't actually been on the gold standard. There were a whole bunch of liquidity crises and other economic fiascos prior to the start of that graph resulting from the US trying to tie the dollar to precious metals...
You see that claim of delivery in 4-6 weeks on the Butterfly Labs website? They've never actually managed to ship anything that fast in all the time they've had that claim up on the website - the best they've managed is 2-3 months - and they've never updated their promised shipping times to match reality. Payment is required up front.
. For example, suppose this new finding leads to improved approaches to signal multiplexing, so that you can have billions more 8G cell phones and thousands more channels of nothing-to-watch on cable and satellite TV.
Of course, most /.ers have probably come across the ideas of channel capacity and Shannon information, which kind of put a dampener on that possibility.
It may help if you know that it predates GPLv3, and so was incompatible with the GPL at the time it was created by Microsoft.
Which still says exactly what the person you're replying to claims it says - the Wayland developers have no plans to add any kind of network transparency or remote desktop support to Wayland ever, not even the equivalent of VNC. They're hoping that someone else will do all the hard work of writing the hypothetical "remote rendering server" which would make it possible. (I doubt that using X as the remote rendering server would work, due to Wayland relying on DRI2 buffers which can't be sent over the network - Wayland under X is probably one of the few apps that does actually manage to break X's network transparency.)
Make no mistake, it is going to be hard work. The Wayland compositor is given buffers in GPU memory representing the windows of Wayland clients. In order to offer even just the equivalent of VNC, you'd have to read them back (possibly over a really slow AGP bus from a graphics card designed under the assumption you wouldn't want to do that, given the age of some hardware out there) and scan it for changed areas. That's going to offer really sucky performance compared to VNC on top of X. If you need anything more advanced, the official advice basically boils down to "replace Wayland with something different and totally incompatible".
Except that the comment you're replying to is right. The Wayland developers have no plans to develop any kind of support for network transparency, they're just hoping that someone else will do the hard work of bolting it on top at a later stage - and it's going to be very hard work, because the Wayland compositor gets passed images of the windows it needs to render as buffers within GPU memory that it may not even be possible to read back efficiently, let alone figuring out what parts of the window have changed...
But the important thing is running OpenGL, which works just fine in Wayland (which is built on OpenGL).
For values of "just fine" equal to whatever the available open source drivers for your graphics card can manage, which probably isn't going to be good enough for Valve. Actually, I seem to recall that Wayland uses OpenGL ES, which means that you're actually stuck with a fairly restrictive subset of what the open source drivers for your hardware can manage, and a fairly badly tested one too at that. I believe Valve's games are going to requires full-fat OpenGL 3, which means that they need a whole bunch of stuff that just plain isn't available in OpenGL ES.
Since Ubuntu's apparently planning on having a system-wide instance of Wayland that starts at boot and keeps running until shutdown, presumably the only way to change your window manager would be to do it system-wide. It doesn't look like there's going to be any way to support individual users setting their own window managers.
Of course, this means that the graphics card has to be on the same machine as the applications, and that it has to have kernel drivers that support not just KMS but also DRI2 graphics acceleration. Without DRI2 support, there's no way to pass images of windows to the compositor and therefore no way to actually display anything. Precisely none of the existing closed-source drivers support the KMS or DRI2 interfaces that Wayland needs, so they can't run on it. In fact, for licensing reasons they can't actually support KMS at all.
Anyone who actually knew something about didgital audio would think "either I've set this up wrong or the drivers/hardware are bust, because this thing is blatantly stuck at 44.1kHz".
Or it's just got a low-pass filter with the cutoff set at 20 kHz which can't be disabled. You need one for proper signal reconstruction at the 44.1kHz sample rate, and it's not like most people are going to notice that their onboard sound can't actually output frequencies above 20 kHz in its 96kHz sampling mode.
There's also the problem of safely running the fuel reprocessing plants. We had one at Sellafield in the UK, but it had a history of safety problems and I'm not sure if anyone wants to buy from us anymore because the management had a habit of falsifying testing reports on the nuclear fuel they sold to save cash.
Current motherboards with UEFI don't support UEFI Secure Boot. Once Windows 8 comes out, they'll basically be required to support it by Microsoft, who's forcing all OEMs to ship Windows 8 PCs with Secure Boot enabled.
No. Apple are suing Samsung over utility patents which are exactly as the comment you're replying to describes: patents on ideas which give no information on how to actually build something that carries out that idea.
There's actually a small but interesting quirk of Samsung's designs that you can see in some of those photos. Notice how the phones with a slit near the top for the speaker have silver-coloured mesh covering it? That seems to appear in a lot of Samsung phones across their range, including the supposedly iPhone-copying smartphones. I've no idea why they do it, but it's certainly not something Apple would do.
Interestingly, one of the things that this comparison talks about is how Samsung should change the icons away from the rounded-square type icons with coloured backgrounds to something better looking and more distinct.
A monopoly on smartphones is not a monopoly at all, since dumbphones still account for the majority of the market.
We're rapidly reaching the point where the only way that's going to remain true is if Apple ends up with a monopoly on smartphones. They're not actually that much more expensive than dumbphones these days at the bottom end, so long as you can buy them from manufacturers other than Apple!
There are plenty of implementations that apple doesn't think infringe.
Perhaps you'd like to point out which of the major smartphone manufacturers haven't been sued by Apple, then.
"Using a browser which has DNT set by default" could itself be taken as expressing such a preference.
When it's bundled as standard with the operating system installed on 95% of all PCs? That doesn't make much sense - it's not like most people use IE because they chose it over some other browser.
Apparently, even Konqueror - which hasn't really been under active development for years and had very little funding before then - manages to score 321.
Hmmmmm. This is similar, but not quite what you describe.
I think it was part of one of Microsoft's freebie game packs that came bundled with PCs in a distant long-ago era.