The move from 2.6.39 to 3.0 was not a 2.6 to 3.0 move. In effect the idea was that the leading "2" is basically meaningless in the current model, so they chose to reduce it to two numbers instead of three. Once that decision was made, they chose a simple increment from 2 to 3 as the leading digit.
I got a new Dell laptop for work last year. Everything worked fine (including the media buttons). The only problem was that the touchpad was only recognized in compatibility mode so I couldn't use the multitouch gestures or configure the scroll areas. I think that's working now, but I mostly use it with a separate mouse so I haven't bothered to upgrade distro versions.
When I was in the same boat as you I just went ahead and did it. Of course while there's no "support" as such we do actually allow linux on the desktop for our linux developers (me, among others), so I wasn't actually breaking any rules.
Care to show evidence that vehicle prices are increasing due to regulatory compliance? And if they are, then I see it as a way of "internalizing the externalities"--that is, making car owners pay for the costs of reducing their effects on everyone else.
We have one compact car in the family, I bike when I can. I think gas should be double the current cost like it is in Europe. Carbon-base fuels are currently way too cheap, there's no incentive to conserve.
In a collision you're generally better off if both parties are driving a small vehicle than if both are driving a large vehicle. The overall energy is less.
The x86_64 cpus support a mode called x32 where they use the 64-bit CPU mode but with 32-bit pointers. The hardware supports it, but there is relatively little software support. A Linux port is currently in progress.
Typical FRAND rates are 2-3.5% of the retail value of the finished product. It's just that hardly anyone ever actually pays that, instead they cross-license other patents.
Apple doesn't want to cross-license, but says the FRAND rates are too high.
If you've got a car it's no problem to carry food/water for a week.
If you're hiking, you can easily carry a week's worth of commercial dehydrated food, and water filters are common (will make most water drinkable). Use chlorine if you don't want to pump the filter, or a gravity-feed filter bag.
Supplement with fresh-caught fish, or even snared gopher/rabbit/hare if necessary.
Suppose normal people make 50K and the doctor makes 150K. If the doctor lives on the normal person salary and pays off loans with the rest then his loan is paid off inside of 3 years. After that he's got clear sailing for decades of income-earning potential.
Motorola's standard fee for FRAND patents is 2.25% of the finished device price. (This is not unusually high, Qualcomm is 3.5% for example.) What usually happens is that everyone just enters into cross-licensing agreements instead.
Apple doesn't want to cross-license, but claims that the stated fee is too high even though it's what was quoted to everyone else.
But there are very few _software_ inventions by companies.
I've worked in telecom programming for 12 years. In that time I think one person on my entire team has done something worth applying for a patent on. The vast majority of the stuff we do is adapting ideas that other people came up with and making them work in our environment, or else doing stuff so blindly obvious that anyone else would do something similar.
I agree with you as an ideal, but realistically we do need to worry about drug users. Yes, you can throw them in jail when they steal, but then you have a large portion of society in jail - which does affect me, both in taxes to keep people in jail and in lost productivity dragging down society as a whole (this is the situation now, BTW). But also there is the issue of disease, which tends to thrive in drug communities. Tuberculosis would be all but eradicated by now if not for drug use.
If the drugs were legal they would be far cheaper and people wouldn't need to steal to support their habit.
I've written ADC/DAC drivers for DOS on a 486 to do realtime control system stuff. As long as you don't have any TSRs running DOS works great for realtime stuff exactly because it's non-preemptible. This means that as long as you only need to do one thing, it's very predictable.
Ironically, the stuff I did was eventually used on a research tokamak fusion reactor.
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The move from 2.6.39 to 3.0 was not a 2.6 to 3.0 move. In effect the idea was that the leading "2" is basically meaningless in the current model, so they chose to reduce it to two numbers instead of three. Once that decision was made, they chose a simple increment from 2 to 3 as the leading digit.
That'd be the first time I've seen that happen. Or did it just slow down a lot due to thrashing the disk?
Did you try dropping to console and killing your grep? Or logging in from another device?
I got a new Dell laptop for work last year. Everything worked fine (including the media buttons). The only problem was that the touchpad was only recognized in compatibility mode so I couldn't use the multitouch gestures or configure the scroll areas. I think that's working now, but I mostly use it with a separate mouse so I haven't bothered to upgrade distro versions.
How are they going to stop you?
When I was in the same boat as you I just went ahead and did it. Of course while there's no "support" as such we do actually allow linux on the desktop for our linux developers (me, among others), so I wasn't actually breaking any rules.
There's the occasional very brief stutter, but on the whole it's just fine. Certainly nothing I'd complain about.
Care to show evidence that vehicle prices are increasing due to regulatory compliance? And if they are, then I see it as a way of "internalizing the externalities"--that is, making car owners pay for the costs of reducing their effects on everyone else.
We have one compact car in the family, I bike when I can. I think gas should be double the current cost like it is in Europe. Carbon-base fuels are currently way too cheap, there's no incentive to conserve.
while driving a Fiat 500.
In a collision you're generally better off if both parties are driving a small vehicle than if both are driving a large vehicle. The overall energy is less.
Like VMware Workstation or Player.
The x86_64 cpus support a mode called x32 where they use the 64-bit CPU mode but with 32-bit pointers. The hardware supports it, but there is relatively little software support. A Linux port is currently in progress.
I would argue that the jump from machine code to assembly to C is much smaller than the jump from C to lisp/bash/perl/prolog
Why do you think it kills the germs in a cut?
Note that they only say they don't do these things *now*. They don't say they won't in the future.
Typical FRAND rates are 2-3.5% of the retail value of the finished product. It's just that hardly anyone ever actually pays that, instead they cross-license other patents.
Apple doesn't want to cross-license, but says the FRAND rates are too high.
For light usage it should be fine.
The whole point of this stuff is that they're inexpensive and low-power compared to existing designs.
If you've got a car it's no problem to carry food/water for a week.
If you're hiking, you can easily carry a week's worth of commercial dehydrated food, and water filters are common (will make most water drinkable). Use chlorine if you don't want to pump the filter, or a gravity-feed filter bag.
Supplement with fresh-caught fish, or even snared gopher/rabbit/hare if necessary.
and shut up if the driver needs to concentrate
Yes, there is lots of uranium around. But it's locked up in mines, in places such as Niger which are unstable.
I suppose you consider Saskatchewan, Canada to be "unstable"?
then they'll be liable to be sued out of existance if anything goes wrong.
Who's going to use an uncertified app if they haven't audited every line of code?
Suppose normal people make 50K and the doctor makes 150K. If the doctor lives on the normal person salary and pays off loans with the rest then his loan is paid off inside of 3 years. After that he's got clear sailing for decades of income-earning potential.
If your house is paid off you could live on the interest of a million dollars, even if you were making only 5%. $50K/yr is nothing to sneeze at.
Motorola's standard fee for FRAND patents is 2.25% of the finished device price. (This is not unusually high, Qualcomm is 3.5% for example.) What usually happens is that everyone just enters into cross-licensing agreements instead.
Apple doesn't want to cross-license, but claims that the stated fee is too high even though it's what was quoted to everyone else.
But there are very few _software_ inventions by companies.
I've worked in telecom programming for 12 years. In that time I think one person on my entire team has done something worth applying for a patent on. The vast majority of the stuff we do is adapting ideas that other people came up with and making them work in our environment, or else doing stuff so blindly obvious that anyone else would do something similar.
I agree with you as an ideal, but realistically we do need to worry about drug users. Yes, you can throw them in jail when they steal, but then you have a large portion of society in jail - which does affect me, both in taxes to keep people in jail and in lost productivity dragging down society as a whole (this is the situation now, BTW). But also there is the issue of disease, which tends to thrive in drug communities. Tuberculosis would be all but eradicated by now if not for drug use.
If the drugs were legal they would be far cheaper and people wouldn't need to steal to support their habit.
I've written ADC/DAC drivers for DOS on a 486 to do realtime control system stuff. As long as you don't have any TSRs running DOS works great for realtime stuff exactly because it's non-preemptible. This means that as long as you only need to do one thing, it's very predictable.
Ironically, the stuff I did was eventually used on a research tokamak fusion reactor.