Because they don't have the informed consent* of the owner of the device wich ends up running the code? * no, small print in a click-through agreement doesn't count.
Also, strictly one question per email - otherwise only the first will be answered and any others ignored!
The problem is, quite simply, insurance. When something is paid for from a big nebulous ball of money rather than straight out of people's pockets, the downward pressure on prices just isn't there in the same way. The…
I would pay what I used to pay for DVDs.
Sure, I can do that, but there's some value in being able to check quickly and easily that, for example, the xz utils binaries shipped by a major distro actually match the published source. Also useful for checking that…
Sure, but a signature doesn't prove that a particular binary came from a particular codebase - merely that a particular human (or other trusted entity, for varying degrees of "trusted") has vouched for it. Being able to…
> But online retail (and food delivery, etc) does seem to be slowly but surely eating away at local shops so I think it's within the realm of possibility. Online retail eating away at local shops is a problem with two…
Showing my age here - it took me a while to realise this has nothing to do with old Apple keyboards and mice.
> In my experience the driving-behavior part of my brain can run virtually autonomously It can, but I've heard quite plausible claims in the past [1] that you shouldn't let it - because that's one of the things that…
TMK includes firmware for an ADB to USB converter which is really easy to build using a 5 volt ProMicro. For the last one I made I just cut an S-Video cable in half and wired it directly to the board. Just needs one…
If some of the things that the C standard left undefined had instead been made implementation defined then the compiler would at least be obligated to do something that makes sense on the target architecture, rather…
> but the text color is usually set slightly off black (why!!??) This can be cause by colour management. If the black is defined in terms of RGB and then converted to CMYK as part of the pre-press workflow, you'll…
Good choice! oss-cad-suite will give you the open source toolchain for ULX3S in one convenient package. There are plenty of example projects and other resources, plus a discord server. https://ulx3s.github.io/ (Also, to…
For teaching / learning it's hard to beat Quartus Prime Lite - the virtual JTAG infrastructure (for SignalTap logic analyzer) is much better than the other options. (It's easy to create custom virtual JTAG modules to…
The notion of being expected to pay for software that was formerly free - when Windows users aren't expected to bear those same costs - does indeed piss me off. If I were actually using Xilinx FPGAs I'd be more pissed…
> In other words, they're saying hobbyists and beginners are on Windows anyway I suspect they're massively underestimating how many hobbyists and students are on Linux. We're not talking about a typical demographic…
So does Quartus Prime Pro - and for specific Agilex 5 devices it's also free. (Presumably it was too much trouble to backport support for Agilex to the Lite version.) There are also free Linux versions of Lattice…
> I see no problem with monetizing Linux users. If I am monetizing Windows and macOS users, there should be no exceptions towards Linux Here I agree with you - Linux users shouldn't expect any special privileges here.…
When did we stop spelling it "nybble"?
Inkscape is awesome - I use it regularly for extracting design elements from PDFs and vectorising bitmaps. It works surprisingly well for simple CAD tasks, too - I've used it in combination with TinkerCAD to produce…
Indeed. Trusting that it will only be processing the user's queries - as opposed to, say, becoming part of a distributed grid of AI processing nodes - isn't a bet I'd be willing to place much money on.
In the small town where I live we have a small cinema with three screens. They always start the movie at the advertised time - no adverts, just a few trailers in the preceding 10 minutes. You can book online, but I…
> But the point is that FPGAs are that accessible today. They've been accessible for a lot longer than most people think. The original Minimig project (an FPGA recreation of the Amiga chipset, coupled with a real 68000…
Those would be the Pork Futures Warehouse from Discworld.
> I've always enjoyed working in Tcl/Itcl and Tk/Itk In the near future I need to lash up a windows utility to generate a bunch of PDF files from a CSV (in concert with GhostScript), with specific filenames. I was…
Because they don't have the informed consent* of the owner of the device wich ends up running the code? * no, small print in a click-through agreement doesn't count.
Also, strictly one question per email - otherwise only the first will be answered and any others ignored!
The problem is, quite simply, insurance. When something is paid for from a big nebulous ball of money rather than straight out of people's pockets, the downward pressure on prices just isn't there in the same way. The…
I would pay what I used to pay for DVDs.
Sure, I can do that, but there's some value in being able to check quickly and easily that, for example, the xz utils binaries shipped by a major distro actually match the published source. Also useful for checking that…
Sure, but a signature doesn't prove that a particular binary came from a particular codebase - merely that a particular human (or other trusted entity, for varying degrees of "trusted") has vouched for it. Being able to…
> But online retail (and food delivery, etc) does seem to be slowly but surely eating away at local shops so I think it's within the realm of possibility. Online retail eating away at local shops is a problem with two…
Showing my age here - it took me a while to realise this has nothing to do with old Apple keyboards and mice.
> In my experience the driving-behavior part of my brain can run virtually autonomously It can, but I've heard quite plausible claims in the past [1] that you shouldn't let it - because that's one of the things that…
TMK includes firmware for an ADB to USB converter which is really easy to build using a 5 volt ProMicro. For the last one I made I just cut an S-Video cable in half and wired it directly to the board. Just needs one…
If some of the things that the C standard left undefined had instead been made implementation defined then the compiler would at least be obligated to do something that makes sense on the target architecture, rather…
> but the text color is usually set slightly off black (why!!??) This can be cause by colour management. If the black is defined in terms of RGB and then converted to CMYK as part of the pre-press workflow, you'll…
Good choice! oss-cad-suite will give you the open source toolchain for ULX3S in one convenient package. There are plenty of example projects and other resources, plus a discord server. https://ulx3s.github.io/ (Also, to…
For teaching / learning it's hard to beat Quartus Prime Lite - the virtual JTAG infrastructure (for SignalTap logic analyzer) is much better than the other options. (It's easy to create custom virtual JTAG modules to…
The notion of being expected to pay for software that was formerly free - when Windows users aren't expected to bear those same costs - does indeed piss me off. If I were actually using Xilinx FPGAs I'd be more pissed…
> In other words, they're saying hobbyists and beginners are on Windows anyway I suspect they're massively underestimating how many hobbyists and students are on Linux. We're not talking about a typical demographic…
So does Quartus Prime Pro - and for specific Agilex 5 devices it's also free. (Presumably it was too much trouble to backport support for Agilex to the Lite version.) There are also free Linux versions of Lattice…
> I see no problem with monetizing Linux users. If I am monetizing Windows and macOS users, there should be no exceptions towards Linux Here I agree with you - Linux users shouldn't expect any special privileges here.…
When did we stop spelling it "nybble"?
Inkscape is awesome - I use it regularly for extracting design elements from PDFs and vectorising bitmaps. It works surprisingly well for simple CAD tasks, too - I've used it in combination with TinkerCAD to produce…
Indeed. Trusting that it will only be processing the user's queries - as opposed to, say, becoming part of a distributed grid of AI processing nodes - isn't a bet I'd be willing to place much money on.
In the small town where I live we have a small cinema with three screens. They always start the movie at the advertised time - no adverts, just a few trailers in the preceding 10 minutes. You can book online, but I…
> But the point is that FPGAs are that accessible today. They've been accessible for a lot longer than most people think. The original Minimig project (an FPGA recreation of the Amiga chipset, coupled with a real 68000…
Those would be the Pork Futures Warehouse from Discworld.
> I've always enjoyed working in Tcl/Itcl and Tk/Itk In the near future I need to lash up a windows utility to generate a bunch of PDF files from a CSV (in concert with GhostScript), with specific filenames. I was…