1,211 karma · joined November 2, 2010
Standard are useless if majors providers apply a different de facto norm. That behavior has a name, it is called a cartel. And on some matters, that is punishable by law.
Yet, in practice, that is exactly what both Chrome and Firefox are trying to do.
It was known and used, just that there wasn't enough incentive for massive extraction so it wasn't searched. It's population growth and in conjonction with it urbanisation, electrification and railroads that lead to the search of more efficient energy source.
Nothing really prevented people from using coal earlier and they did but keep in mind that town where smaller and people scattered about in lots of smal villages. It was easier to collect wood.
Remember that by the end of 18h century, only a handful of cities barely reach a million inhabitant.
Point is you'll still have to review manually the result anyway for under- and/or over-cuts.
What is Gamestream ? What is Moonlight ?
I really wonder if it's true.
It. Does. Not. Matter.
Still to much code in one place. Not enough review and unrelated subproject bitrot at different rate without visibility.
If only E-Ink knew how to better handle their patent portfolio...
It then became "all about keyboard" to not loose all the devs. And now the one size fits all is back in full swing and if it can hurt the Cinnamon, Mate and al "competition" in the process all the better.
It made the desktop on Linux stagnate and did not "win" any tablet, tv or phone market share in the process. What a waste.