I like Silverlight in that it sucks and makes DRM hard to use, which helps hasten the demise of digital restrictions management by pissing off users and causing the bastards pushing it to lose revenue. Free Software based companies have to resist -- who else will? We've taken over the entire computing world, and now we should use our power for good by refusing to support DRM or anti-features of any kind. If Linux doesn't support RestrictedBoot for example, Dell couldn't sell any servers with it enabled.
If all of us good programmers refuse to participate in the DRM culture, then it will die from a lack of anyone with the skill required to work on it. If everyone on the street refused to accept DRM, market forces would have to change. It worked for music (but seems to be coming back with Spotify and the RIAA's amazing nearly billion dollar judgment against the only competitor...).
This is the last grasp for profit and power by a dying industry. They should just have the decency to go ahead and die.
I think you meant Digital Restrictions Management. It's a sad day for Mozilla, the w3c, the web as a whole, and open culture. At least there's still the iceweasel fork that doesn't come with this shit.
I have taken apart a black endura pro and... unless there's supposed to be a second steel plate to add weight, the entire keyboard is just a pair of metal plates with the membrane mechanism sandwiched between them. Don't have it handy so I can't tell if it is steel or aluminum.
It would have killed them, because (n) is a tuple of one element.
The current syntax has a few benefits. A big one is that you can write things like fun mul n m = n * m; fun double = mul 2; double 4 (* = 8 *);. Automagic currying is good.
Back at HOPE9, there was a really awesome presentation on semiconductor manufacturing. It's worth the entire 90 minutes and IMHO was the best part of the conference. I've ended up showing the video of it to a few folks now, and it never becomes less awesome.
Now look at how many people in the world have no access to reliable power, and think about what happens when they want it. It's unfair to tell them "sorry, but you and your children and their children unto the end of time get to live in a hut because you were born in an area without an established industrial base."
You know how the U.S. economy is in shambles? The cost of living is skyrocketing? Well, we have less energy available. Energy is the fundamental limiter all economic development, and cutting to 1/10th of current consumption would destroy modern technological society. And there's no reason... just build tons of nuclear, work on fourth gen reactors, and dump what is effectively a pittance (I mean, how much do we blow on securing an oil supply? Trillions and trillions.. for what?) into fusion research in the hopes that it is feasible. And then everyone can enjoy a high quality of life.
Yeah, I just got a grooveshark anywhere account a few months ago. It integrates nicely with Clementine (KDE music player) and XBMC. The nice part of the xbmc extension is that you can queue whatever in with your local music in party mode, keeping party guests from axing the playlist and throwing a keyboard around to listen to music using youtube videos (kids these days...). Unlike spotify, there's no proprietary library and DRM. Just an authenticated REST api and rate limited mp3s (+ api calls to keep it streaming). Which is how it should be (ideally with Vorbis, but that's because I'm a no good fsfnik).
You can do that already (just add some linux nerdery): grab a cheap room correction mic and a bit of Free Software. I don't think it can help with speaker placement, unfortunately. There are spatial microphones intended to be used with an ambisonic mixing system, but they are pretty pricey. I kind of wonder how hard it would be to adapt room correction to deal with speaker placement too (I hear "very difficult" and "hope you paid attention in diff eq").
The source video is better quality, but the embedded video widget defaults to a lower quality transcoding for streaming (if you click the "webm 360p" box, you can switch to the original video).
Encoding with libvpx also seems to be kind of tricky and at least I've had trouble with getting block-free VP8 files even at a high bitrate (hey Monthy, hurry up and finish Daala;) ).
I have one of those too, but, blech, the keyboard went on the fritz pretty quickly and T-Mo refused warranty service >:O. The keyboard was also not nearly as nice as the G1's, and the hinge is kind of loose... whereas my G1's weird hinge was crisp until the bitter end. At least it has a great camera (kind of amazed at the video quality) and isn't too slow I guess.
As a result, I'm kind of back to not really using my phone. I guess I'm weird, using ssh and doing a bit of remote system administration on a phone (pretty liberating -- no need to carry around a laptop bag Just in Case (tm) some minor issue that could be resolved with a few quick commands crops up).
You know, I could say the same thing about drivers. Because I've encountered drivers who do incredibly stupid things. E.g. a few months ago I was forced to take the lane for a while because there was no shoulder and a lot of oncoming traffic. The person behind me was nice about it, and began to pass when it became safe. The person behind them had been revving their engine the entire time, and passed them as they passed me, forcing the car attempting to pass me safely to jerk back over, and me to end up in a ditch. From this I can extrapolate that all drivers are awful, and I'm risking my life every time I hop down the grocery store right? No, only some impatient people who don't think the rules apply to them are awful. I have about one dangerous interaction a year, and two to three instances of "stupid college kid thinks he is impressing his friends by trying to scare me" (beep beep, or throwing something). Which reminds me that college drivers are about as bad as college cyclists...
We all remember the bad interactions... most everyone operating a bicycle or a car is doing so reasonably and you have no reason to waste neurons on remembering mundane interactions. I do get annoyed and occasionally lecture other bicyclists who use the sidwalk, ride against traffic, etc. Because they are putting themselves in danger and I am concerned for their safety... almost all car-bike collisions occur when you are riding against traffic, when you end up getting backed up into from a driveway, when a driver right turns in front of you because you were not visible. Which is also why I don't use bike lanes (the artificial division creates inconsistencies in the uniform traffic code... there are no other situations where you must yield to traffic on your right!).
You also cannot directly compare red light / stop sign safety between bicycles and cars. I usually do a full stop, but if I have a clear line of sight and there are no other cars around (and, estimating a bad driver going ~15mph over limit would not appear), I might only slow down a bit. Or proceed through a red light on a primary road intersecting a neighborhood road a few moments early if I happen to end up at the head of the queue to avoid blocking traffic (or being passed unsafely in the intersection). You can see much better on a bicycle, you can stop in a much shorter distance (base reaction time is basically the limiting factor after you practice using your front brake), etc. So there is reason to treat bicycles slightly differently.
See Daemon Managing Daemon. It was written in the early-00s for the Hurd, languished for the better part of a decade, and has been picked up again. It has a model kind of like systemd, only without the Windows braindamage (I mean come on, ini files as a programming language?). Development on DMD is pretty active now, and it's written in Scheme instead of C so mere mortals can hack on it. The design is pretty interesting, and makes extending things easy. E.g. imagine you run an openafs cell and need a service to grab Kerberos tickets and afs tokens at start. You can just register interest in the service in another service and have it Just Work (tm). From the looks of it, you may even be able to just write a single "Kerberize all the services" service. Better than sysvinit (oh joy, forking an init script) and better than systemd (oh joy, forking an ini-file-pretending-its-not-a-program)..
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I like Silverlight in that it sucks and makes DRM hard to use, which helps hasten the demise of digital restrictions management by pissing off users and causing the bastards pushing it to lose revenue. Free Software based companies have to resist -- who else will? We've taken over the entire computing world, and now we should use our power for good by refusing to support DRM or anti-features of any kind. If Linux doesn't support RestrictedBoot for example, Dell couldn't sell any servers with it enabled.
If all of us good programmers refuse to participate in the DRM culture, then it will die from a lack of anyone with the skill required to work on it. If everyone on the street refused to accept DRM, market forces would have to change. It worked for music (but seems to be coming back with Spotify and the RIAA's amazing nearly billion dollar judgment against the only competitor...).
This is the last grasp for profit and power by a dying industry. They should just have the decency to go ahead and die.
In the mean time, the pirate bay exists.
I think you meant Digital Restrictions Management. It's a sad day for Mozilla, the w3c, the web as a whole, and open culture. At least there's still the iceweasel fork that doesn't come with this shit.
I have taken apart a black endura pro and ... unless there's supposed to be a second steel plate to add weight, the entire keyboard is just a pair of metal plates with the membrane mechanism sandwiched between them. Don't have it handy so I can't tell if it is steel or aluminum.
What I'm saying is ... fn n m, and f (n, m) being different is good. You have more flexibility since automatic currying is available when sensible.
The author has worked on SML/NJ internals, has a strong background in type theory, and has written similarish software in the past. I'd say he was able to solve those problems. Those problems are not even particularly complicated to solve once you have an expressive type system.
It would have killed them, because (n) is a tuple of one element.
The current syntax has a few benefits. A big one is that you can write things like fun mul n m = n * m; fun double = mul 2; double 4 (* = 8 *);. Automagic currying is good.
Back at HOPE9, there was a really awesome presentation on semiconductor manufacturing. It's worth the entire 90 minutes and IMHO was the best part of the conference. I've ended up showing the video of it to a few folks now, and it never becomes less awesome.
Now look at how many people in the world have no access to reliable power, and think about what happens when they want it. It's unfair to tell them "sorry, but you and your children and their children unto the end of time get to live in a hut because you were born in an area without an established industrial base."
You know how the U.S. economy is in shambles? The cost of living is skyrocketing? Well, we have less energy available. Energy is the fundamental limiter all economic development, and cutting to 1/10th of current consumption would destroy modern technological society. And there's no reason... just build tons of nuclear, work on fourth gen reactors, and dump what is effectively a pittance (I mean, how much do we blow on securing an oil supply? Trillions and trillions.. for what?) into fusion research in the hopes that it is feasible. And then everyone can enjoy a high quality of life.
Yeah, I just got a grooveshark anywhere account a few months ago. It integrates nicely with Clementine (KDE music player) and XBMC. The nice part of the xbmc extension is that you can queue whatever in with your local music in party mode, keeping party guests from axing the playlist and throwing a keyboard around to listen to music using youtube videos (kids these days...). Unlike spotify, there's no proprietary library and DRM. Just an authenticated REST api and rate limited mp3s (+ api calls to keep it streaming). Which is how it should be (ideally with Vorbis, but that's because I'm a no good fsfnik).
Not content to reinvent jack and init poorly, Poettering has decided to reinvent microkernels poorly as well. We're doomed.
Because utmp totally does not exist.
Netflix imposes onerous DRM and just doesn't work on GNU/Linux. The way they backdoored DRM into HTML5 is pretty disguisting too.
You can do that already (just add some linux nerdery): grab a cheap room correction mic and a bit of Free Software. I don't think it can help with speaker placement, unfortunately. There are spatial microphones intended to be used with an ambisonic mixing system, but they are pretty pricey. I kind of wonder how hard it would be to adapt room correction to deal with speaker placement too (I hear "very difficult" and "hope you paid attention in diff eq").
The source video is better quality, but the embedded video widget defaults to a lower quality transcoding for streaming (if you click the "webm 360p" box, you can switch to the original video).
Encoding with libvpx also seems to be kind of tricky and at least I've had trouble with getting block-free VP8 files even at a high bitrate (hey Monthy, hurry up and finish Daala ;) ).
Now try and use emacs...
I have one of those too, but, blech, the keyboard went on the fritz pretty quickly and T-Mo refused warranty service >:O. The keyboard was also not nearly as nice as the G1's, and the hinge is kind of loose... whereas my G1's weird hinge was crisp until the bitter end. At least it has a great camera (kind of amazed at the video quality) and isn't too slow I guess.
As a result, I'm kind of back to not really using my phone. I guess I'm weird, using ssh and doing a bit of remote system administration on a phone (pretty liberating -- no need to carry around a laptop bag Just in Case (tm) some minor issue that could be resolved with a few quick commands crops up).
dosbox of course
You are running Play because your phone came with Play, and the Cyanogenmod installer copies it from the stock image before installation.
Play most assuredly is not part of AOSP.
SIP is a good protocol. There aren't very many great clients, but ekiga always worked fine for me.
You know, I could say the same thing about drivers. Because I've encountered drivers who do incredibly stupid things. E.g. a few months ago I was forced to take the lane for a while because there was no shoulder and a lot of oncoming traffic. The person behind me was nice about it, and began to pass when it became safe. The person behind them had been revving their engine the entire time, and passed them as they passed me, forcing the car attempting to pass me safely to jerk back over, and me to end up in a ditch. From this I can extrapolate that all drivers are awful, and I'm risking my life every time I hop down the grocery store right? No, only some impatient people who don't think the rules apply to them are awful. I have about one dangerous interaction a year, and two to three instances of "stupid college kid thinks he is impressing his friends by trying to scare me" (beep beep, or throwing something). Which reminds me that college drivers are about as bad as college cyclists...
We all remember the bad interactions... most everyone operating a bicycle or a car is doing so reasonably and you have no reason to waste neurons on remembering mundane interactions. I do get annoyed and occasionally lecture other bicyclists who use the sidwalk, ride against traffic, etc. Because they are putting themselves in danger and I am concerned for their safety... almost all car-bike collisions occur when you are riding against traffic, when you end up getting backed up into from a driveway, when a driver right turns in front of you because you were not visible. Which is also why I don't use bike lanes (the artificial division creates inconsistencies in the uniform traffic code... there are no other situations where you must yield to traffic on your right!).
You also cannot directly compare red light / stop sign safety between bicycles and cars. I usually do a full stop, but if I have a clear line of sight and there are no other cars around (and, estimating a bad driver going ~15mph over limit would not appear), I might only slow down a bit. Or proceed through a red light on a primary road intersecting a neighborhood road a few moments early if I happen to end up at the head of the queue to avoid blocking traffic (or being passed unsafely in the intersection). You can see much better on a bicycle, you can stop in a much shorter distance (base reaction time is basically the limiting factor after you practice using your front brake), etc. So there is reason to treat bicycles slightly differently.
lsb-init gained dependency support like five years ago.
Not yet, but eventually. Systemd has all of the bloat of emacs, without any of the benefits.
See Daemon Managing Daemon. It was written in the early-00s for the Hurd, languished for the better part of a decade, and has been picked up again. It has a model kind of like systemd, only without the Windows braindamage (I mean come on, ini files as a programming language?). Development on DMD is pretty active now, and it's written in Scheme instead of C so mere mortals can hack on it. The design is pretty interesting, and makes extending things easy. E.g. imagine you run an openafs cell and need a service to grab Kerberos tickets and afs tokens at start. You can just register interest in the service in another service and have it Just Work (tm). From the looks of it, you may even be able to just write a single "Kerberize all the services" service. Better than sysvinit (oh joy, forking an init script) and better than systemd (oh joy, forking an ini-file-pretending-its-not-a-program)..