I realize that, however, I don't have all day to sort through that many and try to find one that will allow me unlimited calls to the US and Canada for under $9/mo, and unlimited net calls for free. The first one I looked at is $15/mo for 500 calls max or $30/mo unlimited. That's not even close.
By the way, did you notice that site uses Skype for their tech support calls? They obviously don't find SIP to be cheaper.
I could indeed set up my own Asterisk system (I have in fact) but I don't feel like keeping a 'server' around the house any more. It probably eats up $9/mo in electricity, anyhow.
So yeah, apparently there IS good reason. I'm all for using open standards whenever it makes sense. It just doesn't always.
Assuming the phone uses the same network type, it's as simple as just sticking your sim card in. For instance, I bought a Cingular phone a while back that had been unlocked, and I just use it on my T-Mobile account with my sim card. I didn't call them or anything. They don't actually care.
In fact, in europe, locking a phone to a provider is illegal. The last phone I bought was the european version so I didn't have to bother unlocking it. It works just find in the US.
You know of some cheap service with unlimited calling via a SIP phone? Preferably one that works with clients on all major OSs including Linux, Windows, and OSX?
Or were you just saying that only open source zealots should support open source, and they would never buy a commercial product?
I only care what fulfills my needs, and I'm willing to pay to get it.
Or perhaps you actually meant that it COULD be ported, should anyone take the time and effort. That's quite a bit different from running on other phones.
So... At this point, QTopia runs on several phones while OpenMoko only runs on the one they designed. I have to say, I've been planning to buy a neo9173 for a while now, but I'm starting to seriously thinking about re-flashing it with QTopia or just buying a green phone with QTopia. In terms of how many apps will be ported to it, I think QTopia already has a huge advantage since it works on multiple phones already.
As I stated in the other news topic, I want a phone that has Skype and will let me answer with Skype or via cell tower when both ring at once. I use Grand Central to ring both numbers at the same time, and I'd rather have just a single phone to do it with. I think QTopia is likely to offer that more quickly than OpenMoko.
It does that, too, but someone recently commented that it's not art if it can't make you depressed. While that's probably the most fucked up definition of art I've ever heard, games -are- capable of it and fit even that definition.
Anyhow, just like everything else in life, something that only makes you happy gets boring pretty quickly. There needs to be some balance of other emotions to contrast the happiness, or it won't be appreciated fully. In the end, you should walk away happy, but the path to getting there needs to have a full range of emotions.
I've been watching this for a while, and I almost bought a dev phone. But the extra features on the full retail one are much more interesting to me. I thought the target for the retail phone was October, but I see things like:
"We're almost for sure going to use their AR6K chipset in our next product."
I hope that just means they haven't updated that portion of the site in a while, and not that they still have no clue what the hardware design is.
I see elsewhere that Oct and Nov are set for testing, and late December for shipping the final product.
What I truly hope to see, and I may have to do some coding myself to see it... Is Skype integrated into it well enough that if the wireless and the skype get a call at the same time, I can choose which one to answer. That sounds unlikely until you remember Grand Central, which I currently have calling both my Skype (on my n800) and my cell phone at the same time. This would truly make it the phone I want. The other features are all just icing.
Are you late jumping on this boat or what? We've known about this since long before Vista launched. In fact, everything in this article was known. The exact same thing happens on a PS3 without an HDMI/HDCP TV as well.
It's just another instance of DRM harming the consumer and NOT harming pirates. Pirates will just strip the DRM and watch it however they please. Consumers will have to buy equipment that is certified, and if something changes in the future, they may have to buy more equipment. (They -may- be able to upgrade firmware, but that's not guaranteed.)
Actually, other companies have admitted to difficulties with the engine as well. None of the others claim that Epic is trying to sabotage them, though.
In truth, any powerful engine is going to be difficult to work with, especially if it wasn't built in-house specifically for that project. There's a lot of cruft you have to learn to ignore, and there's a lot of workarounds to make the engine do things the way you think they should be done.
I'm not saying Epic has no fault in this (they at least ignored SK's pleas for help), they aren't the evil empire that SK makes them out to be, either.
This got modded funny, but I'm sure it deserves insightful instead.
GCC compiles on a LOT of different architectures. Does PCC? Does it do as good a job at compiling? Can we plop our current GCC-compiled source on PCC and have it compile without huge headaches?
And what about these bugs that are even referenced in the summary? How could it POSSIBLY supplant GCC if it's that buggy? In fact, how could it have supplanted GCC if it hasn't taken GCC's place AT ALL yet?
Try these headlines:
GCC Compiler Finally Has 'Free' Competition New Compiler To Supplant Gnu Compiler? Battle of the licenses: Does the license of your compiler MATTER AT ALL!?
Do people that have never tried, or even had a chance to try, really count? We are talking about implementing this in education. If the child grows up with the chance/choice, and still prefers books, that's one thing. But if they've never had the chance, that's another.
If you ask someone who's never had steak (but has had chicken) if they prefer chicken or steak, they have to answer 'chicken'. That doesn't mean they actually like it better, just that they have no information.
B) The atmosphere you learn something in is the atmosphere you'll recall it best in. This means that if you study in a suit and reading a physical book, that's the way you'll remember it easiest. If you study in jeans and a shirt, and using a computer, that's the way you'll remember it easiest.
A means that learning should either be tailored to the individual student, or use all methods of learning to reinforce the material.
B means that if you are working on something that you'll use wearing a suit and on a PC, that's the atmosphere you should learn it in.
BTW, I'm one of those that would rather a digital book, for pleasure reading or learning, either one. Just because you don't hear them say so, don't just assume they like physical books.
Since when does the RIAA own the copyrights to anything? How can they possibly collect money on copyrights they don't own if they aren't representing the copyright owner?
According to TFA, they won a decision not in court, but simply at the Copyright Office. I don't see any links to this decision itself, and I don't have time to search for it with the insignificant amount of information we are given, so I don't have any idea what this actually says... But I can't see how the Copyright Office is able to give distribution rights other than the information that something is or is not covered under copyright law. They cannot say it's not copyrighted and then authorize the RIAA to collect money, and they can't say it's copyrighted and give the RIAA permission to ignore it and not pay the copyright owner.
Anyone got any more -real- information, instead of just a link to site that links to a site that claims something that isn't cited at all?
Or maybe they just stared dumbfounded at him for even suggesting someone might not understand what the words meant, and he just assumed that meant he was smarter than them, instead of the reverse.
Or maybe they were sick of his examples and decided to let him explain everything, all the time, just to see how stupid it got.
While I agree, if he wants something that's fundamentally incompatible, but wants to still call it Python, that's silly.
On the other hand, they're saying 'We need more devs to work on Python' and pushing people away that -care- is exactly the opposite of that. If they want new devs, they'd better be resigned to the fact that the newcomers WILL have a different vision, just as this guy does. Finding code-slaves that will do everything you want exactly as it always has been is nearly impossible. You have to pay people to make them go through pain like that. (Coding in someone else's style is just as hard as painting in someone else's... Initially it's almost impossibly hard, and it gets easier with time... And there's always the alternative of working on something else without all that pain.)
The changelog for the just-released WINE says that it added some crypto stuff that -should- make iTunes work on Linux. If that's the case, then maybe this is all nothing? Wouldn't simply running the real iTunes make this all go away for everyone except the Rockbox and linux-on-ipod hackers?
On the other hand, I buy a LOT fewer games for the PC now than I used to. I use Linux as my main OS and I hate even going into the other room to use my gaming PC. If I'm going to go that far, I just go to the living room and play on a console instead.
At this point, I have no plans to update my gaming rig. This is the first time I've ever been able to say that, and it surprises me greatly.
As for Linux ports... It's a lot easier to plan to be cross-platform in the beginning than port it, even using Cider. There are even free libraries to help ease the transition now. There's not much excuse left for why they continue to be Windows-only when it won't cost them much more development time. (It'll cost more test-time, but cross-platform programming tends to force proper coding, and fewer bugs to start with.)
So no, not everyone that dual-boots can be bothered to reboot just for a game. Not everyone with 2 systems can be bothered to flip back and forth just for a game. Ignoring (without specific reason) 2 of the 3 major OS's is a huge mistake, and Valve is making sure they are covered. It's not a big surprise.
Average? Probably nothing. But for devs/admins that are worried about certain processes taking more time than others, it -should- be more fair and keep things running smoother.
It's possible for programs right now to exploit how the current schedule dishes out time. As far as I know, they currently only do so out of ignorance, rather than malice. The new scheduler just corrects the problem.
It's not something a user can really see unless they know exactly what they are looking for, and unless a dev/admin has a program that's behaving unfairly, it's not really going to matter to them, either.
There is another invisible effect as well... Kolivas apparently publicly announced his decision to stop working on the kernel, which would include the current scheduler. That means finding another maintainer for his code, should any problems surface. If you've got 2 pieces of code that test the same in speed (as they do according to some), and 1 has a dev that's willing to keep working on it, and the other doesn't... Which would you pick?
The new code also has the added advantage of being a really really neat idea, which encourages people to work on it as well.
You do, of course, have some sort of data that backs up your statement that "Solar panels on or orbiting the moon could send enough energy back to the Earth to power everything we do"? Because I don't believe that for a second.
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I realize that, however, I don't have all day to sort through that many and try to find one that will allow me unlimited calls to the US and Canada for under $9/mo, and unlimited net calls for free. The first one I looked at is $15/mo for 500 calls max or $30/mo unlimited. That's not even close.
By the way, did you notice that site uses Skype for their tech support calls? They obviously don't find SIP to be cheaper.
I could indeed set up my own Asterisk system (I have in fact) but I don't feel like keeping a 'server' around the house any more. It probably eats up $9/mo in electricity, anyhow.
So yeah, apparently there IS good reason. I'm all for using open standards whenever it makes sense. It just doesn't always.
Assuming the phone uses the same network type, it's as simple as just sticking your sim card in. For instance, I bought a Cingular phone a while back that had been unlocked, and I just use it on my T-Mobile account with my sim card. I didn't call them or anything. They don't actually care.
In fact, in europe, locking a phone to a provider is illegal. The last phone I bought was the european version so I didn't have to bother unlocking it. It works just find in the US.
Last I heard on the OpenMoko/neo1973, it was usable but unstable, since only the developer phones are out yet. It was not recommended for general use.
Because I have, and use, a Skype account.
You know of some cheap service with unlimited calling via a SIP phone? Preferably one that works with clients on all major OSs including Linux, Windows, and OSX?
Or were you just saying that only open source zealots should support open source, and they would never buy a commercial product?
I only care what fulfills my needs, and I'm willing to pay to get it.
Oh, name a few?
Or perhaps you actually meant that it COULD be ported, should anyone take the time and effort. That's quite a bit different from running on other phones.
So... At this point, QTopia runs on several phones while OpenMoko only runs on the one they designed. I have to say, I've been planning to buy a neo9173 for a while now, but I'm starting to seriously thinking about re-flashing it with QTopia or just buying a green phone with QTopia. In terms of how many apps will be ported to it, I think QTopia already has a huge advantage since it works on multiple phones already.
As I stated in the other news topic, I want a phone that has Skype and will let me answer with Skype or via cell tower when both ring at once. I use Grand Central to ring both numbers at the same time, and I'd rather have just a single phone to do it with. I think QTopia is likely to offer that more quickly than OpenMoko.
It does that, too, but someone recently commented that it's not art if it can't make you depressed. While that's probably the most fucked up definition of art I've ever heard, games -are- capable of it and fit even that definition.
Anyhow, just like everything else in life, something that only makes you happy gets boring pretty quickly. There needs to be some balance of other emotions to contrast the happiness, or it won't be appreciated fully. In the end, you should walk away happy, but the path to getting there needs to have a full range of emotions.
Yeah, I condensed that to "I see elsewhere that Oct and Nov are set for testing, and late December for shipping the final product."
I've been watching this for a while, and I almost bought a dev phone. But the extra features on the full retail one are much more interesting to me. I thought the target for the retail phone was October, but I see things like:
"We're almost for sure going to use their AR6K
chipset in our next product."
I hope that just means they haven't updated that portion of the site in a while, and not that they still have no clue what the hardware design is.
I see elsewhere that Oct and Nov are set for testing, and late December for shipping the final product.
What I truly hope to see, and I may have to do some coding myself to see it... Is Skype integrated into it well enough that if the wireless and the skype get a call at the same time, I can choose which one to answer. That sounds unlikely until you remember Grand Central, which I currently have calling both my Skype (on my n800) and my cell phone at the same time. This would truly make it the phone I want. The other features are all just icing.
Are you late jumping on this boat or what? We've known about this since long before Vista launched. In fact, everything in this article was known. The exact same thing happens on a PS3 without an HDMI/HDCP TV as well.
It's just another instance of DRM harming the consumer and NOT harming pirates. Pirates will just strip the DRM and watch it however they please. Consumers will have to buy equipment that is certified, and if something changes in the future, they may have to buy more equipment. (They -may- be able to upgrade firmware, but that's not guaranteed.)
If you think 'has supplanted GCC' is the same as 'work is being done on it to take GCC's job' I pity you come raise time.
Actually, other companies have admitted to difficulties with the engine as well. None of the others claim that Epic is trying to sabotage them, though.
In truth, any powerful engine is going to be difficult to work with, especially if it wasn't built in-house specifically for that project. There's a lot of cruft you have to learn to ignore, and there's a lot of workarounds to make the engine do things the way you think they should be done.
I'm not saying Epic has no fault in this (they at least ignored SK's pleas for help), they aren't the evil empire that SK makes them out to be, either.
This got modded funny, but I'm sure it deserves insightful instead.
GCC compiles on a LOT of different architectures. Does PCC? Does it do as good a job at compiling? Can we plop our current GCC-compiled source on PCC and have it compile without huge headaches?
And what about these bugs that are even referenced in the summary? How could it POSSIBLY supplant GCC if it's that buggy? In fact, how could it have supplanted GCC if it hasn't taken GCC's place AT ALL yet?
Try these headlines:
GCC Compiler Finally Has 'Free' Competition
New Compiler To Supplant Gnu Compiler?
Battle of the licenses: Does the license of your compiler MATTER AT ALL!?
Do people that have never tried, or even had a chance to try, really count? We are talking about implementing this in education. If the child grows up with the chance/choice, and still prefers books, that's one thing. But if they've never had the chance, that's another.
If you ask someone who's never had steak (but has had chicken) if they prefer chicken or steak, they have to answer 'chicken'. That doesn't mean they actually like it better, just that they have no information.
There are plenty of studies that have been done to show that
A) Certain people learn better in certain ways. http://www.vark-learn.com/english/index.asp
B) The atmosphere you learn something in is the atmosphere you'll recall it best in. This means that if you study in a suit and reading a physical book, that's the way you'll remember it easiest. If you study in jeans and a shirt, and using a computer, that's the way you'll remember it easiest.
A means that learning should either be tailored to the individual student, or use all methods of learning to reinforce the material.
B means that if you are working on something that you'll use wearing a suit and on a PC, that's the atmosphere you should learn it in.
BTW, I'm one of those that would rather a digital book, for pleasure reading or learning, either one. Just because you don't hear them say so, don't just assume they like physical books.
Since when does the RIAA own the copyrights to anything? How can they possibly collect money on copyrights they don't own if they aren't representing the copyright owner?
According to TFA, they won a decision not in court, but simply at the Copyright Office. I don't see any links to this decision itself, and I don't have time to search for it with the insignificant amount of information we are given, so I don't have any idea what this actually says... But I can't see how the Copyright Office is able to give distribution rights other than the information that something is or is not covered under copyright law. They cannot say it's not copyrighted and then authorize the RIAA to collect money, and they can't say it's copyrighted and give the RIAA permission to ignore it and not pay the copyright owner.
Anyone got any more -real- information, instead of just a link to site that links to a site that claims something that isn't cited at all?
Or maybe they just stared dumbfounded at him for even suggesting someone might not understand what the words meant, and he just assumed that meant he was smarter than them, instead of the reverse.
Or maybe they were sick of his examples and decided to let him explain everything, all the time, just to see how stupid it got.
Or maybe it just doesn't matter?
There's 2 sides to that, though.
While I agree, if he wants something that's fundamentally incompatible, but wants to still call it Python, that's silly.
On the other hand, they're saying 'We need more devs to work on Python' and pushing people away that -care- is exactly the opposite of that. If they want new devs, they'd better be resigned to the fact that the newcomers WILL have a different vision, just as this guy does. Finding code-slaves that will do everything you want exactly as it always has been is nearly impossible. You have to pay people to make them go through pain like that. (Coding in someone else's style is just as hard as painting in someone else's... Initially it's almost impossibly hard, and it gets easier with time... And there's always the alternative of working on something else without all that pain.)
Liar liar, pants on fire! You don't have asbestos briefs!
Having said that... Isn't there a law against submitting DMCA notices illegally? Isn't there a counter-DMCA notice that can be sent?
So... Until something has actually happened in retaliation... This isn't really much of a story.
The changelog for the just-released WINE says that it added some crypto stuff that -should- make iTunes work on Linux. If that's the case, then maybe this is all nothing? Wouldn't simply running the real iTunes make this all go away for everyone except the Rockbox and linux-on-ipod hackers?
Because they care. What else do they need? An individual developer doesn't care what you, or anyone else wants. They work on what they think is
A) Important.
and
B) Possible for them to fix.
Why you'd want a scheduler guy to work on IO performance is completely beyond me. Might as well have a janitor cook dinner for you.
On the other hand, I buy a LOT fewer games for the PC now than I used to. I use Linux as my main OS and I hate even going into the other room to use my gaming PC. If I'm going to go that far, I just go to the living room and play on a console instead.
At this point, I have no plans to update my gaming rig. This is the first time I've ever been able to say that, and it surprises me greatly.
As for Linux ports... It's a lot easier to plan to be cross-platform in the beginning than port it, even using Cider. There are even free libraries to help ease the transition now. There's not much excuse left for why they continue to be Windows-only when it won't cost them much more development time. (It'll cost more test-time, but cross-platform programming tends to force proper coding, and fewer bugs to start with.)
So no, not everyone that dual-boots can be bothered to reboot just for a game. Not everyone with 2 systems can be bothered to flip back and forth just for a game. Ignoring (without specific reason) 2 of the 3 major OS's is a huge mistake, and Valve is making sure they are covered. It's not a big surprise.
Average? Probably nothing. But for devs/admins that are worried about certain processes taking more time than others, it -should- be more fair and keep things running smoother.
It's possible for programs right now to exploit how the current schedule dishes out time. As far as I know, they currently only do so out of ignorance, rather than malice. The new scheduler just corrects the problem.
It's not something a user can really see unless they know exactly what they are looking for, and unless a dev/admin has a program that's behaving unfairly, it's not really going to matter to them, either.
There is another invisible effect as well... Kolivas apparently publicly announced his decision to stop working on the kernel, which would include the current scheduler. That means finding another maintainer for his code, should any problems surface. If you've got 2 pieces of code that test the same in speed (as they do according to some), and 1 has a dev that's willing to keep working on it, and the other doesn't... Which would you pick?
The new code also has the added advantage of being a really really neat idea, which encourages people to work on it as well.
No. You neglected storage and conversion costs, as well as ALL the costs associated with travelling back and forth to the moon repeatedly.
You do, of course, have some sort of data that backs up your statement that "Solar panels on or orbiting the moon could send enough energy back to the Earth to power everything we do"? Because I don't believe that for a second.