Most of the time device manufactures will not say it will work for Linux. If they did it will probably not be too profitable for them.
1. Linux usage is around 2%. Spread across many distributions, hardware support is often hit or miss across them. so you need a technical support staff to solve a lot of tougher questions. A lot of money, for little gain.
2. They probably unwilling or unable to make their drivers Open Source. And if it ain't open source you could be in GPL violation. Just leave Linux out and you are legally safer.
3. Linux is not a Desktop OS, it is a server OS. For a server you don't need pens.
4. Open source project is probably working on it. I am not going to bother to Google or read further down in the posts for a link. But for the most part there is an open source project for a lot of hardware to support it in one way or an other.
5. Linux Desktop Users for the most part hate new technology.
It's the EU. They crack down hard on American Companies. They figure these will actually change behavior. They don't think about the fact that other companies can come up and bring down the top player.
A lot of the dirt we see on Earth, is made from decayed plant material, even normal beach (non-volcanic) sand on our beaches are made up of a lot of crustacean shells. Even with some water chances are Mars is lifeless, if there is live it wouldn't be as plentiful. So the soil would be mostly volcanic like.
Oh no my character got deleted. If only I could create a new character...
Bah I remember the old days when you lost the game you needed to start over from the start. Perhaps if the game was setup like that you will have a lot more interesting strategies.
We can't have cool for the sake of cool. OK I can't think of any practical use. It doesn't mean there will never be one. Just shoing it can be done, allows for imitation to start on how to use it.
Yes. Tim Cook Will say the iPad is what people want. Balmer will say the Surface is what people want. Google will be pushing Chrome...
Time will tell what people really want. Focus group are sometimes wrong. Even what the internet buzz thinks it want isn't what people really want.
We here tend to figure if people didn't make the same choice that we made, some how their decision is corrupted by marketing, or misinformation, while we are more pure... But we all see things and weight them differently. If someone says they like x for reason y. You really shouldn't discredit reason y, if reason y is important to them. Reason y may not matter to you. But that is the great thing about choice... We get to pick what we want. So trying to discredit someone elses choice is just stupid.
No I didn't have to poll everyone on the planet. However if you view the tech blogs outside of Slashdot. Where people who are going to being to be actually waiting to get windows 8. You check out those blogs, there is usually at least some passing discussion on Open Source and Linux. Going to these events, you are just going to piss off people who really wanted Windows 8.
Teacher no... The 19th century teaching methods Yes.
The problem with a lot of the current teaching methods, have focus on a lot of humdrum skills that are being replaced by computers. There needs to be more focus on creativity, and research and less on raw fact remembering.
The word has spread. The problem is people just don't care. It isn't like back in the 90's where people don't know about Linux and Open Source... They Do, they just don't care. They are willing to take the tradeoffs to get windows.
The problem when you give people a choice, they will often choose something you don't like.
3D doesn't add that much for TV's. 3d works best when the TV takes you entire field of vision. Most TV's are placed 8-12 feet away from the viewer, so they get a smaller field of vision, and 3d isn't as immersive.
Also people don't watch TV as intensely as they do a movie. When watching TV you are more often than not distracted, doing other things, talking to other people. Getting up... 3d with glasses doesn't allow normal TV viewing habits.
There is a new line of thought. If people practice something for 10,000 hours they become an expert. Now people with higher IQ, may be able to practice harder things to be an expert. But the IQ test isn't a test in how smart you are, but your possible mental potential. I do not have the highest IQ, I am well above average but not off the charts type. I have worked with people with off the charts IQ. They use the fact that they were told that they were super smart as a reason to not work hard, thus they grew up as a slacker, underperforming in many areas where people with normal IQ are exceeding them.
Now if you have a really high IQ, and you work really hard to exercise your mind, then you will be a real asset to society. Just having the Hi-IQ and sliding just because you have a High IQ means you are not practicing your skills to actually get good at anything.
You don't compare yourself to your competition only when they have a serious advantage over you. The iPad vs Surface. They are actually very similar devices. The key difference is in different approach to the UI. Apple will happily compare themselves to the Surface because they have the First Mover Advantage, also they have a large user base, and made common many of the touch UI elements.
Yea, I will accept the authority of your biggest competitor to make your decisions. What do you expect Tim Cook to say. "It actually looks like a good product, we are now shaking in our boots."?
I have been using Windows 8 for a few months as my primary OS at home... Overall I have been quite please with it. I expect as more Windows UI aka Metro apps are made there will be less of an issue of arm vs. Intel.
I upgraded because my Laptop has a multi-touch display on it and windows 8 makes using the Laptop much easier. If I had a normal laptop or a desktop, I wouldn't want to upgrade now anyways. Down the road if there are some good Metro apps out there... Perhaps. But it is just Windows 7 with a Touch Friendly UI.
For most Nerds they had a hard time in school with the popular crowd. They may not have been good at sports, or had the best friends, or had the best style of clothing. However they knew more about a particular topic much more than anyone else. In that area of topic such as Computer Science you get recognition of being an Alpha in that area. Right now in history Computer Science is very Male heavy, so all the CS Nerds having gone through High School with their main source of being recognized as Alpha was in their computer skills, they will do so in college.
Now instead of being humbled with working with a class if rather skilled people the CS students will then specialize more in particular areas, Linux, Windows, GUI, AI, Java... Whatever they feel they can be better then someone else is and excel at it, just so they can still be Alpha in that area.
Now for non-nerds males will often be Alpha in other areas, but being that they weren't in the bottom class in the social hierarchy in school they are less sensitive to it and do not try as hard to be an Alpha, especially in their academic areas. Also other academic areas have a closer to a 50/50 gender split where the Woman are less apt to show their Alpha qualities, and creating a culture where the proverbial chest thumping is less common.
In college I minored in Music, I did some focus on Jazz. Now the Jazz Majors were predominantly male too. However, due to the nature of Jazz where the band works as a team, there is less arrogance, however their culture has them competing to be the Jazziest including a lot of Smooth Jive talk (independant of race).
But Comp-Sci in school is a lot of independent work so there is more of I am better than you. They feel the need to Prove that they are smarter. Now they may not be smarter but they will take that one area where they have more knowledge and but a lot of weight on it.
To Rectify it? I would say some things we would need to do in the class is more teamwork projects, also have them work on cross department projects with other students who have different areas of interests. A statistical grading software for the education majors so they learn how to track grades, the CS-Developer learns skills of creating analytical programs. Work with Art Majors they do the art, you do the code behind it... Work with foreign languages majors to try to come up with better translation algorithms. That way they are forced to work with people with their own skills, and if you put them in areas where they have no idea about it, they are forced to work with the other students and ask questions, and not just be the one with the answers.
While it is an OLE update/rebranding. However by adding support in IE, it was meant to derail Java Applets. Advertisments pointing out the speed, and additional features that Java didn't put in for good security reasons. It was an attempt to make a quick Java Applet replacement once they realized that at the time Java Applets were gathering attention.
It was rebranded to solve a real problem... They didn't like Java, and the fact that it ran on non MS systems, that was the problem, and ActiveX was the solution.
As for the Ajax. We couldn't have just done that via addition to javascript so we don't need to put that extra line of code if you are using IE do it this way, on every other browser on the planet we follow the standard.
The fact that we Wanted Javascript to call a page and load data, wasn't a new idea. Microsoft broke standards just so they can implement it first. But the standards would have gotten there in about the same time where good developers would actually use it.
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Most of the time device manufactures will not say it will work for Linux.
If they did it will probably not be too profitable for them.
1. Linux usage is around 2%. Spread across many distributions, hardware support is often hit or miss across them. so you need a technical support staff to solve a lot of tougher questions. A lot of money, for little gain.
2. They probably unwilling or unable to make their drivers Open Source. And if it ain't open source you could be in GPL violation. Just leave Linux out and you are legally safer.
3. Linux is not a Desktop OS, it is a server OS. For a server you don't need pens.
4. Open source project is probably working on it. I am not going to bother to Google or read further down in the posts for a link. But for the most part there is an open source project for a lot of hardware to support it in one way or an other.
5. Linux Desktop Users for the most part hate new technology.
You turn Red and become very very weak.
The Gamma is the reason why Buddhist monks are always Happy. Because you DON'T want to get them angry.
It's the EU. They crack down hard on American Companies. They figure these will actually change behavior. They don't think about the fact that other companies can come up and bring down the top player.
A lot of the dirt we see on Earth, is made from decayed plant material, even normal beach (non-volcanic) sand on our beaches are made up of a lot of crustacean shells. Even with some water chances are Mars is lifeless, if there is live it wouldn't be as plentiful. So the soil would be mostly volcanic like.
Aren't games suppose to be fun to play. So replaying it shouldn't be torture?
Oh no my character got deleted. If only I could create a new character...
Bah I remember the old days when you lost the game you needed to start over from the start. Perhaps if the game was setup like that you will have a lot more interesting strategies.
We can't have cool for the sake of cool. OK I can't think of any practical use. It doesn't mean there will never be one. Just shoing it can be done, allows for imitation to start on how to use it.
Yes. Tim Cook Will say the iPad is what people want. Balmer will say the Surface is what people want. Google will be pushing Chrome...
Time will tell what people really want. Focus group are sometimes wrong. Even what the internet buzz thinks it want isn't what people really want.
We here tend to figure if people didn't make the same choice that we made, some how their decision is corrupted by marketing, or misinformation, while we are more pure... But we all see things and weight them differently. If someone says they like x for reason y. You really shouldn't discredit reason y, if reason y is important to them. Reason y may not matter to you. But that is the great thing about choice... We get to pick what we want. So trying to discredit someone elses choice is just stupid.
No I didn't have to poll everyone on the planet. However if you view the tech blogs outside of Slashdot. Where people who are going to being to be actually waiting to get windows 8. You check out those blogs, there is usually at least some passing discussion on Open Source and Linux. Going to these events, you are just going to piss off people who really wanted Windows 8.
Teacher no... The 19th century teaching methods Yes.
The problem with a lot of the current teaching methods, have focus on a lot of humdrum skills that are being replaced by computers. There needs to be more focus on creativity, and research and less on raw fact remembering.
The word has spread. The problem is people just don't care. It isn't like back in the 90's where people don't know about Linux and Open Source... They Do, they just don't care. They are willing to take the tradeoffs to get windows.
The problem when you give people a choice, they will often choose something you don't like.
We say how bad Microsoft is but they are angles compared to Siemens. The sell pure crap at a lot of money.
Face it, if you lost a court case you wouldn't be happy about it, and most likely you would do the bare minimum punishment.
3D doesn't add that much for TV's. 3d works best when the TV takes you entire field of vision. Most TV's are placed 8-12 feet away from the viewer, so they get a smaller field of vision, and 3d isn't as immersive.
Also people don't watch TV as intensely as they do a movie. When watching TV you are more often than not distracted, doing other things, talking to other people. Getting up... 3d with glasses doesn't allow normal TV viewing habits.
There is a new line of thought. If people practice something for 10,000 hours they become an expert. Now people with higher IQ, may be able to practice harder things to be an expert. But the IQ test isn't a test in how smart you are, but your possible mental potential. I do not have the highest IQ, I am well above average but not off the charts type. I have worked with people with off the charts IQ. They use the fact that they were told that they were super smart as a reason to not work hard, thus they grew up as a slacker, underperforming in many areas where people with normal IQ are exceeding them.
Now if you have a really high IQ, and you work really hard to exercise your mind, then you will be a real asset to society. Just having the Hi-IQ and sliding just because you have a High IQ means you are not practicing your skills to actually get good at anything.
You like to gloat don't you?
You don't compare yourself to your competition only when they have a serious advantage over you. The iPad vs Surface. They are actually very similar devices. The key difference is in different approach to the UI. Apple will happily compare themselves to the Surface because they have the First Mover Advantage, also they have a large user base, and made common many of the touch UI elements.
Yea, I will accept the authority of your biggest competitor to make your decisions. What do you expect Tim Cook to say. "It actually looks like a good product, we are now shaking in our boots."?
I have been using Windows 8 for a few months as my primary OS at home... Overall I have been quite please with it. I expect as more Windows UI aka Metro apps are made there will be less of an issue of arm vs. Intel.
Of course that means further demise of the desktop.
If you are happy with Windows 7, Stay on it.
I upgraded because my Laptop has a multi-touch display on it and windows 8 makes using the Laptop much easier. If I had a normal laptop or a desktop, I wouldn't want to upgrade now anyways.
Down the road if there are some good Metro apps out there... Perhaps. But it is just Windows 7 with a Touch Friendly UI.
Let me guess, your assessment is based on the fact you watched a Youtube video on it. And that you just hate windows.
Are you saying that the Chinese don't have Human Rights issues?
What news outlet have you been watching? The chinese news?
For most Nerds they had a hard time in school with the popular crowd. They may not have been good at sports, or had the best friends, or had the best style of clothing. However they knew more about a particular topic much more than anyone else. In that area of topic such as Computer Science you get recognition of being an Alpha in that area. Right now in history Computer Science is very Male heavy, so all the CS Nerds having gone through High School with their main source of being recognized as Alpha was in their computer skills, they will do so in college.
Now instead of being humbled with working with a class if rather skilled people the CS students will then specialize more in particular areas, Linux, Windows, GUI, AI, Java... Whatever they feel they can be better then someone else is and excel at it, just so they can still be Alpha in that area.
Now for non-nerds males will often be Alpha in other areas, but being that they weren't in the bottom class in the social hierarchy in school they are less sensitive to it and do not try as hard to be an Alpha, especially in their academic areas. Also other academic areas have a closer to a 50/50 gender split where the Woman are less apt to show their Alpha qualities, and creating a culture where the proverbial chest thumping is less common.
In college I minored in Music, I did some focus on Jazz. Now the Jazz Majors were predominantly male too. However, due to the nature of Jazz where the band works as a team, there is less arrogance, however their culture has them competing to be the Jazziest including a lot of Smooth Jive talk (independant of race).
But Comp-Sci in school is a lot of independent work so there is more of I am better than you. They feel the need to Prove that they are smarter. Now they may not be smarter but they will take that one area where they have more knowledge and but a lot of weight on it.
To Rectify it? I would say some things we would need to do in the class is more teamwork projects, also have them work on cross department projects with other students who have different areas of interests. A statistical grading software for the education majors so they learn how to track grades, the CS-Developer learns skills of creating analytical programs. Work with Art Majors they do the art, you do the code behind it... Work with foreign languages majors to try to come up with better translation algorithms. That way they are forced to work with people with their own skills, and if you put them in areas where they have no idea about it, they are forced to work with the other students and ask questions, and not just be the one with the answers.
While it is an OLE update/rebranding. However by adding support in IE, it was meant to derail Java Applets. Advertisments pointing out the speed, and additional features that Java didn't put in for good security reasons. It was an attempt to make a quick Java Applet replacement once they realized that at the time Java Applets were gathering attention.
It was rebranded to solve a real problem... They didn't like Java, and the fact that it ran on non MS systems, that was the problem, and ActiveX was the solution.
As for the Ajax. We couldn't have just done that via addition to javascript so we don't need to put that extra line of code if you are using IE do it this way, on every other browser on the planet we follow the standard.
The fact that we Wanted Javascript to call a page and load data, wasn't a new idea. Microsoft broke standards just so they can implement it first. But the standards would have gotten there in about the same time where good developers would actually use it.