1) Set up a web page with the address http://netflix.com/linux/ which helps customers to watch the flicks under Linux
2) Become a sponsor of the Moonlight project
3) ???
4) Profit!
That is not completely accurate either. The main purpose of TRIM is to inform the disk which areas are not used by the file system so that they can be safely overwritten by remapped data for wear leveling purposes.
Commercial. You keep using that word. Remember that "commercial" can sometimes also be a guarantee that you do not get fucked: screw with your customers and that kind of company will soon be out of business.
It's still a bit worrying how things are arranged in open source if the lead developer of a major KDE video editing suite can just disappear on a whim and later just say "nah, I didn't feel it anymore". He didn't even write a "guys, I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed" message but made people worry if something bad had happened to him.
What would happen if the lead developer of Apple's iMovie just didn't appear at workplace after his summer break?
Would things have been better if the project was financially sponsored better? Mardelle might have been much more motivated to continue the work on the refactoring and, he might not have just disappeared because of "what's there for me in it".
As for blocking Flash, click the gear menu and tick Safety -> ActiveX Filtering. As Flash is an ActiveX plugin in IE, this blocks Flash by default. You then can whitelist individual sites by using the blue address bar icon.
I use vtwm. It's worked well for me since X11R4, and continues to work well, without the eye candy, bloat, and screen confusion of the Gnome or KDE desktops. Just turned on 3 noob Linux admins to it, because it *leaves your computer free to do work* instead of burning cycles with transparency, rounding, and useless cutesiness.
People seem to get this impression because the desktop effects stack of Linux is poorly optimized. It can be seen when trying to run a full bells'n'whistles Linux desktop on a low-end Atom/Bobcat system, and the animations turn choppy. At the same time, the same machines are butter smooth with Windows 7 and 8. (For games, Linux and Windows are already getting very close in terms of performance.)
Properly optimized, low latency, compositing desktop is a joy to use and will not "burn cycles" in a bad way.
For Linux you will have to make rules for each distro. Ubuntu can be blocked with *.archive.ubuntu.com. Get the most popular distros covered, and you should be off pretty good.
Eh. You're stretching it a bit. I think those machines will soon enough find some other time or other network to get the updates in. The update check interval for Windows is 20 hours anyway.
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1) Set up a web page with the address http://netflix.com/linux/ which helps customers to watch the flicks under Linux
2) Become a sponsor of the Moonlight project
3) ???
4) Profit!
That is not completely accurate either. The main purpose of TRIM is to inform the disk which areas are not used by the file system so that they can be safely overwritten by remapped data for wear leveling purposes.
It still makes no difference because he still do not owe anything to people who have decided they find his work important.
I certainly think he owes. Not juridically but as part of having good manners.
If you paid for it, the full SSD support would have been in place at the same time the first drives rolled out to the market.
What are "this" and "this"?
Commercial. You keep using that word. Remember that "commercial" can sometimes also be a guarantee that you do not get fucked: screw with your customers and that kind of company will soon be out of business.
There is also a 60fps 1080p version available if you want to enjoy the smoothness.
It makes it different because there was other people involved and Kdenlive has a status of being an important software.
Sounds interesting. Can you still dig up that study?
Well, technically not. I mean that it would have been ethically fair to let others know.
It's still a bit worrying how things are arranged in open source if the lead developer of a major KDE video editing suite can just disappear on a whim and later just say "nah, I didn't feel it anymore". He didn't even write a "guys, I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed" message but made people worry if something bad had happened to him.
What would happen if the lead developer of Apple's iMovie just didn't appear at workplace after his summer break?
Would things have been better if the project was financially sponsored better? Mardelle might have been much more motivated to continue the work on the refactoring and, he might not have just disappeared because of "what's there for me in it".
Excellent comment. I have been pondering the same issues every now and then.
Sure.
AdBlock Plus supports IE.
As for blocking Flash, click the gear menu and tick Safety -> ActiveX Filtering. As Flash is an ActiveX plugin in IE, this blocks Flash by default. You then can whitelist individual sites by using the blue address bar icon.
The bugginess of free software causes even more problems though.
Appendix B claims that the study was not sponsored. We don't still of course know if they are lying, but I just wanted to point that part out.
Roughly 40 percent of programmers are so-called hobbyist programmers
Well, someone has to develop Linux too.
How about "codesmith"? That sounds pretty cool.
I use vtwm. It's worked well for me since X11R4, and continues to work well, without the eye candy, bloat, and screen confusion of the Gnome or KDE desktops. Just turned on 3 noob Linux admins to it, because it *leaves your computer free to do work* instead of burning cycles with transparency, rounding, and useless cutesiness.
People seem to get this impression because the desktop effects stack of Linux is poorly optimized. It can be seen when trying to run a full bells'n'whistles Linux desktop on a low-end Atom/Bobcat system, and the animations turn choppy. At the same time, the same machines are butter smooth with Windows 7 and 8. (For games, Linux and Windows are already getting very close in terms of performance.)
Properly optimized, low latency, compositing desktop is a joy to use and will not "burn cycles" in a bad way.
For Linux you will have to make rules for each distro. Ubuntu can be blocked with *.archive.ubuntu.com. Get the most popular distros covered, and you should be off pretty good.
Eh. You're stretching it a bit. I think those machines will soon enough find some other time or other network to get the updates in. The update check interval for Windows is 20 hours anyway.
He's paying per MB downloaded
You made that up. He didn't say that.
For Windows, you could try blocking the addresses listed in the Microsoft Knowledge Base article 818018.
Same goes for me. And let's not forget that actually being able to get shit done is a form of freedom too!
They compare it to a 2006 laptop, but those specs are almost out of the 90s.
Around 2000, a typical configuration was a Pentium II 350MHz with 64MB RAM.