I wonder if anonical, SuSE and RH track each others kernels, perhaps to see what the competition is up to, ensure compatibility, and lift useful additions. If so, they would be in a good position to catch suspicious developments, and would have motivation to make it public.
For my use patterns, Windows peaked with NT 4.0, combining the Windows 95 interface with the reliability of the NT kernel.
Nah, just release it as iPhone 6, and claim the iPhone 1-5 were internal prototypes if asked.
They don't have a dominating market position. Same reason Microsoft are being punished for stuff Apple does routinely.
Different (stricter) rules apply once you achieve a dominating market position.
My guess is that most "Linux" game ports will target the Piston spec, so no need to upgrade before a new Piston is released.
If you choose to build your own box, go as close as possible to the Piston with regard to hardware and software as you can. I don't believe the ports will be tested on a wide variety of configurations. "Works on Piston" is a much easier target than "works on Linux". What does the later even mean?
Apple was for a time a major contributor to GCC, and is currently the driving force behind llvm and clang.
Also, they improved kHTML and released the result as webkit, which they are still one of the main contributors to.
The GSM Nexus S started OTA updating in December, then stopped with no explanation when the majority still haven't received an update, and finally restarted in March with the 4.0.4 update. The rumours were that the OTA update was suspended because of poor battery performance, which was only fixed in 4.0.4. Fair enough, but Google could have been more open about it.
"They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." -- Carl Sagan
its me i am the clever one
Name two significantly divergent possible interpretations of "impactful".
I'm not talking about grammar-nazism, I'm talking about staleness. Languages die when you bar them from evolving. Sure, there are certain fields where a strict, formally defined language is preferable — law, science, etc. This is not the case here, there's no doubt what is meant by impactful, no grey areas, no ambiguity.
Fuck prescriptivism. "Impactful" is entirely and fully understandable and a valid word in every sense of the latter.
Also you're the one who sounds faux-formal (oh I bet this pisses you off, a goddamn sentence fragment aaaaa). Just because English isn't currently 100% agglutinative 100% of the time doesn't mean it can't be some of the time. Sincerepostin' over here.
You have an interesting definition of "full speed". Turkey applied for membership in 1987, when EEC had 12 members. It is negotiating membership today 25 years later, when EU have 27 members, some of which didn't even exists as nations at the time Turkey first applied for membership.
Doy, there's a whole list of appropiate sources at the end of the document.
But how much is dilligent? Somehow I doubt a fre google queries will count. Large companies may be able to hire a historian to go and trawl through old newspapers of the period looking for advertisments or reading actor biographies in hope of finding a passing reference, but that effectively excludes amateurs who don't have the time or money for that level of checking.
It's actually defined int he text too.
#Article 3 Diligent search
31. For the purposes of establishing whether a work is an orphan work, the organisations referred to in Article 1(1) shall ensure that a diligent search is carried out for each work, by consulting the appropriate sources for the category of works in question.32. The sources that are appropriate for each category of works shall be determined by each Member State, in consultation with rightholders and users, and include, the sources listed in the Annex.
33. A diligent search is required to be carried out only in the Member State of first publication or broadcast.
34. Member States shall ensure that the results of diligent searches carried out in their territories are recorded in a publicly accessible database.
So it seems that each state will define some central rights repository or authority, maybe the national libraries?
Can be found here: http://pippi.euwiki.org/doc/CELEX:52011PC0289:EN
Interesting stuff, hopefully it'll eventually pass. In short, if you do a "diligent search" and are unable to locate a rightsholder, the work will be considered orphan. This is basically an area "between" copyright and public domain; you're allowed to reproduce the work "for the purposes of digitization, making available, indexing, cataloguing, preservation or restoration."
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