"I would imagine Nokia feels ditching their own OS would just make them hardware manufacturers"
They've been hopeless at supporting Maemo as a software platform, so this isn't something they can currently claim with any integrity anyway.
On the hardware side, what Nokia should do is try to make the best android phones possible.
On the software side, they should put a ton of resources into Qt, making it the most desirable development platform for Android, iPhone, Mac, Windows, and Linux. Few companies are in a position to offer that, and it could well be a killer product for them that even Google / Android couldn't compete with. Qt's had two decades of development in it by now.
"All DRM is inherently broken, and root access can only make that task easier."
Only if implemented with too many compromises. One day very soon (when TVs etc. have internet access), DRM will be screwing you in the ass, if you let it get that far on the assumption that you can undo it later.
But can it play fullscreen flash video smoothly yet?
The problem that prevents flash from playing fullscreen is that it's closed source crap, not that Linux is in any way incomplete.
Whether a file has changed = complex?
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What the hell is it with file notification? It never seems to be reliable or stable. There was inotify, dnotify, fsnotify, fam, gamin, incrond... and since fam/gamin always ended up using 100% CPU or causing other problems, I've just avoided the whole idea, even though I regularly think of situations that I could use incrond in.
I would have thought that setting a flag/triggering an event when a file was altered would be a matter of adding a small queue/bit system for events and about one line of code to vfs functions that modify files, but obviously not.
So... does anyone use incrond and get good, reliable results? Will fanotify help at all?
Privoxy is far inferior: it's slower, it requires more setup, it's not as aware of all the different ads out there, being without adblock-like update channels, and it's not as interactive, being separate from the GUI.
Doubt it. Facebook has the great unwashed public signed up; more IT-illiterate people than I've seen on ANY site before. Those people are as likely to switch to diaspora or something, as the pensioners with IE6 are to switch to firefox because en masse because it's more standards-compliant.
"though honestly I don't see Apple bothering w/ Facebook - it's not even near any of Apple's core competencies."
Oh no? Why did they try to setup their own social network with me.com and iChat then?
I think Apple would LOVE to own facebook. Combine that with Facetime, and they have not only caught up with (probably overtaken) msn, but are the next Skype too.
Also, this "add security to the net" thing has me worried. Don't law enforcement have the capability to shut down power to buildings etc.? Will this give them the capability to shut down internet access too -- perhaps even for an entire block where riots are taking place?
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"I would imagine Nokia feels ditching their own OS would just make them hardware manufacturers"
They've been hopeless at supporting Maemo as a software platform, so this isn't something they can currently claim with any integrity anyway.
On the hardware side, what Nokia should do is try to make the best android phones possible.
On the software side, they should put a ton of resources into Qt, making it the most desirable development platform for Android, iPhone, Mac, Windows, and Linux. Few companies are in a position to offer that, and it could well be a killer product for them that even Google / Android couldn't compete with. Qt's had two decades of development in it by now.
"Right, but Apple does ship versions of Python and Ruby that can access their Cocoa libraries."
These aren't a threat in the way that Java is.
"A rainbow could be considered art, and that is just light passing thru a prism."
No, no, no. Prisms remove the anti-colors. You know nothing, Jon Snow.
"All DRM is inherently broken, and root access can only make that task easier."
Only if implemented with too many compromises. One day very soon (when TVs etc. have internet access), DRM will be screwing you in the ass, if you let it get that far on the assumption that you can undo it later.
I like the American Beer Institute as much as the next guy, but it's hardly a reason to hold back kernel releases.
No, that's the point: Gnash is having to play catch-up, just like nouveau is having to play catch-up with nvidia drivers.
The problem that prevents flash from playing fullscreen is that it's closed source crap, not that Linux is in any way incomplete.
What the hell is it with file notification? It never seems to be reliable or stable. There was inotify, dnotify, fsnotify, fam, gamin, incrond... and since fam/gamin always ended up using 100% CPU or causing other problems, I've just avoided the whole idea, even though I regularly think of situations that I could use incrond in.
I would have thought that setting a flag/triggering an event when a file was altered would be a matter of adding a small queue/bit system for events and about one line of code to vfs functions that modify files, but obviously not.
So... does anyone use incrond and get good, reliable results? Will fanotify help at all?
"Works good for me but your milage may vary."
If by "vary" you mean "you'll get full-screen pop-unders on the very first site you try with it", then yes. Adblock Plus never has these problems.
Privoxy is far inferior: it's slower, it requires more setup, it's not as aware of all the different ads out there, being without adblock-like update channels, and it's not as interactive, being separate from the GUI.
When they're trained, they become terrorist cells.
OK... who are you people? ;)
No, never heard of them. Do enlighten me, oh Reader of Propaganda.
Yes, but not always understood.
Doubt it. Facebook has the great unwashed public signed up; more IT-illiterate people than I've seen on ANY site before. Those people are as likely to switch to diaspora or something, as the pensioners with IE6 are to switch to firefox because en masse because it's more standards-compliant.
Just "Hello, world" then, in pure ASCII?
Guess that whole HTML and CSS and Javascript standards thing must have been my imagination.
"though honestly I don't see Apple bothering w/ Facebook - it's not even near any of Apple's core competencies."
Oh no? Why did they try to setup their own social network with me.com and iChat then?
I think Apple would LOVE to own facebook. Combine that with Facetime, and they have not only caught up with (probably overtaken) msn, but are the next Skype too.
Indeed. For example, Apple likes to require credit card info for iTunes store membership, even before you agree to buy something from them.
Sure does, but I guess the magnetic drive companies have been spending a lot of effort on trying to stay in the game once we all switch to SSDs.
"they like to timeout and drop out of the RAID frequently."
If "green" means nearline, I think that's the point. Useful for backups I suppose, not for online, rapid access.
"And yes, I know, Raid isn't a backup"
No, but snapshots on RAID are, especially if that RAID is off-site. Personally I couldn't be bothered with stuff like tapes these days.
Uh, because Microsoft abused their monopoly? Where have you been these last few decades?
Oh really? Open any previous version in Word? The rest of us must be cursed then.
For God's sake man, which is it: carrying, or waving?
Also, this "add security to the net" thing has me worried. Don't law enforcement have the capability to shut down power to buildings etc.? Will this give them the capability to shut down internet access too -- perhaps even for an entire block where riots are taking place?