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by blihp 7y ago
Is his comment based on outdated information? I just checked and github appears to recognize a few dozen ( https://help.github.com/en/github/creating-cloning-and-archi... ) license types including gpl2, gpl3 and lg
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by blihp 7y ago
Setting aside legal/licensing issues, retrieving an MP2/MP4 (depending where in the world you are) stream via SDR would require massively more power both in terms of transferring the raw data to the CPU and processing to extract t
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by blihp 7y ago
There are all sorts of interesting and useful things you can do with them: monitor/troubleshoot various AM devices around the house (weather stations, garage door openers etc), tune in to a number of amateur radio bands (there's s
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by blihp 7y ago
Sure, they can spin up and shut down any service they want any time and that's their right. But the price they pay is that many no longer trust their services to be around long term and make purchasing/adoption decisions accordin
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by blihp 7y ago
The idea is that breaking up a company will reduce both their resources available to behave badly (cash, infrastructure, people etc.) as well as getting the people in the newly independent organizations to start thinking competitively with
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by blihp 7y ago
The age old usable capacity complaint. (i.e. a 1TB drive will never actually give you 1TB of usable space)
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by blihp 7y ago
In theory, you're absolutely right. In practice, that doesn't work in any sustainable way. Selling services (whether in the form of support/consulting/dev hours or hosting) can work, but selling the OSS software itself
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by blihp 7y ago
Agreed. Just goes to show what is possible when you have some combination of real competition and/or regulation. Here in the U.S. we have neither.
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by blihp 7y ago
That is pretty much the issue: to some, systemd is too many things. Realistically, one tends to take or leave an upstream package since picking and choosing pieces of it is far more work than a typical package maintainer takes on. Also,
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by blihp 7y ago
That's often more what you'd bring management consultants in for. A technology consultant is more likely just to tell you to dump whatever tech you are using in favor of whatever the flavor of the month is.
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by blihp 7y ago
The main things are CPU microcode updates, GPU drivers and wireless LAN/bluetooth drivers. But on some devices (don't think this applies to the Dell models in question) if you get into an esoteric hardware configuration you could
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by blihp 7y ago
With Dell it's mostly a marketing exercise since they don't really write any of the software or drivers, they're just packaging the products (hardware and software) that others produce. They are no different than most of the
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by blihp 7y ago
The CPU market has been interesting for a couple of years. Intel effectively already lost the edge on fab-tech in terms of what they are able to produce. Forget about TSMC Xnm vs Intel Ynm... the numbers are meaningless. Look at the perf
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by blihp 7y ago
Yes, that's the way market economies work. One of your jobs as a consumer is to recognize when your interests and a company's no longer align and be willing to walk.
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by blihp 7y ago
Notice that I said on the user side. I completely agree that when a web site uses various Google (or other) services you're stuck. However, the article is about Google removing URLs from search results... you can do something about t
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by blihp 7y ago
Yes: minimize or stop using them. There are alternate search options. The web has very little lock-in (on the user side) compared to say desktop and mobile... make use of that. While there's a chance the EU might do something about t
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by blihp 7y ago
Agreed and you give a perfect example of the type of feature that is often the first to go.
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by blihp 7y ago
If you look at how things have progressed from the GUI desktop->web->mobile you get a reasonably good flavor of the trade-offs that have been, and continue to be, made. Compare the richest, most powerful spreadsheet application you c
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by blihp 7y ago
It's a clunky front-end with a fragile back-end. While it superficially resembles Access if you squint your eyes, it can't provide more than a small fraction of its utility currently. Too many missing/broken bits. I spent a
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by blihp 7y ago
The thing that was lost quite frankly was most of the value that desktop productivity software used to provide before Microsoft consumed the market with Windows. It's not that client/server couldn't provide the same (or even
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by blihp 7y ago
Depends on what you're looking for. Often you don't want 'guaranteed uniformly distributed numbers', you want random numbers. The reason for using hardware is that some processors can now provide greater (at least th
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by blihp 7y ago
The problem is that it is very difficult for even a medium-sized business to make the economics work for a hardware business based on Free Software. As soon as someone releases a device that even remotely gets traction, just watch: there
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by blihp 7y ago
Exactly. So they had orders of magnitude fewer customers with orders of magnitude higher prices than Apple today. But by the time WebObjects became a thing NeXT was out of the workstation business so the price was purely for the software.
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by blihp 7y ago
Apple products would be considered inexpensive compared to what NeXT charged. IIRC, a WebObjects license at the time was $50,000. There were good reasons for this, but when you hear 'NeXT was expensive' you really shouldn't
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by blihp 7y ago
SDI was the actual initiative, Star Wars was the derogatory nickname. Star Wars involved a science fiction plot taking place in space which critics believed described SDI perfectly. It was also timely since Return of the Jedi would be rel
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by blihp 7y ago
The title is not a meaningful gauge of a person's knowledge or experience. It wouldn't be unheard of for a VP at a company with 50 employees to have similar responsibilities as a manager at a company with 1000 employees. They co
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by blihp 7y ago
I think the intent of the name was for the millions of new computer users at the time to think 'start here' when their computer booted up. And besides, if they didn't call it Start their Windows 95 ad blitz with Rolling Ston
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by blihp 7y ago
I believe your statement is incorrect. While it may no longer scan emails for direct ad serving purposes, I believe emails are still scanned for other purposes. For example, I remember running across a purchase history page a while back th
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by blihp 7y ago
It's far too early for most consumers... despite what the promoters claimed.[1] Most of the same issues existed with paper printers in the 80's: they could be fiddly, slow, noisy, power hungry, prone to jam and messy. If you had
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by blihp 7y ago
The difference is that the front-end code runs on 'your' computer, the back-end code runs on 'their' computer. You typically don't care what point of sale software a store you are doing business with is running on

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