Wow so you can change the topic too? That means almost an intelligence of a 5 year old. Congratulations.
My original comment:
Since most do not hesitate from including chips without working linux / BSD drivers
Chipset manufacturers "should be" writing drivers. Many don't. Motherboard manufacturers include the chips without working linux/*BSD drivers anyway. No effort on motherboard manufacturers' part to filter out the chips without working linux/*BSD drivers. From motherboard manufacturer's point of view, this is supposed to be a way to "throw away whole market segments". Which is impossible according to you. But it happens. So you are wrong.
Since most do not hesitate from including chips without working linux / BSD drivers, you should never have forgotten. But you forgot the begin element tag in an attempted XML, so par for the course for you.
But they do sign NDA laden contracts with the guys who do write the motherboard BIOS. Where upper hand is always Microsoft's because they are monopoly provider of the "one true operating system", whereas motherboard makers are a dime a dozen.
Or count the fact its genuinely snappier than Windows 7
Too little, too late. Now that SSDs are becoming common in mid-end computers, even windows XP periodically TRIMmed is snappy enough on an SSD. Snappiness is no longer a distinguishing factor for choosing an operating system.
Yes, no one outside electrical industry cares about colour coding one's internal hidden connectors. But they do notice that if qualified electricians have more trouble than usual to fix issues, and rightly conclude that the electric connection design is screwed up.
Similarly, no one outside the software industry cares about the boundary between the OS and the applications, they do notice that in competing smartphones, maps issues are just an update away from the idiotically named play store. Such updates also regularly bring new features. So they can rightly conclude that the phone software design is screwed up.
Interestingly, I see you are trying to out-shill other shills today. Multiple times. I'm just curious, is there so new incentive program that is encouraging you to do this?
But if it's a novel problem, maybe *not* having reference materials at hand would actually prod your brain in a direction nobody's thought of yet?
In these days of web 2.0, with the internet bursting at the seams with "user generated content", what "articles" is one likely to come across while searching on an obscure topic like the "Made in India" question quoted above ? Of course some blog, whose author thought up a question, then came up with an answer that seems logical, and spewed on the internet via his blog.
Which is worse than the guy himself thinking up a question, coming up with an answer that seems logical to himself, and spewed his own original answer even though wrong. At least requires much more use of creative faculties, even though the result is wrong in both the cases.
You were more ranting against programming languages. Most software developers do not create programming languages. So your above post is irrelevant to your original point against programming languages.
Idea is worth shit if implementing it is not practically possible. Which describes your "idea" very well. The fact that it is not widely used doesn't imply no one else had that idea before, like you are suggesting. It means that they also understood that implementing this "idea" in a widely used manner will be impossible. Exactly because of points in your above rant post against software developers.
Thinking about asynchronous constructs is hard and error prone. Large proportion of today's software is still not free of basic bugs. Your suggestions of complicating programming languages further is total shit at this point.
Oh, closed source drivers from an uncooperative company?
Actually, open source drivers with an extremely cooperative company. Ubuntu has screwed up its own kernel / xorg driver, but Intel graphics works awesomely on most distributions most of the time; with minor bugs ironed out quite quickly.
Just install Fedora's disk encryption, it's free!" doesn't work in a corporate environment
But it does. Unless you define corporate environment as one with dumb sysadmins.
If you think that TrueCrypt or the like will do the trick you are in for a nasty surprise
Fedora uses LUKS. Which lets you add a big-ass key , possibly supplied from a file, in addition to the key typed in by the user every time they boot the machine. True crypt also has the feature, BTW, so your rant about TrueCrypt is also false.
The Linux kernel isn't what makes Android what it is... it's the UI, it's Google's choice of
But why was Android and Google able to do the UI, the choice of licensing terms etc. for so cheap, so fast and yet come up with a high quality product? Because a large part of work was already done and was available to be used in the form of Linux kernel. Which was already well tested on a huge variety of hardware so there is a lot of literature on performance tuning and debugging that they needed.
1. Texans don't think there's a problem with them being a non-swing state
2. So if you live in Texas and don't like the Republican candidate
The 2 contradict each other. Either ALL Texans are guaranteed to like the Republican candidate or not.
because the vast majority of Texan voters are going to vote for Romney regardless
Since all Texans are going to vote for Romney, all Texans must vote for Romney else not vote at all. Circular logic at its best.
In ANY voting methodology over many voters, a single vote is unlikely to do anything. If everyone has this defeatist assumption that since all other will vote the other way, why vote my way; the way will BECOME true. Otherwise , maybe not. This is not specific for the US system, or the Texan system, or the winner-take-all system.
Rather sadly I've just found that if i run my finger up and down the right side of my Track-pad it acts as a scroll wheel
True. Though kudos to by far the cheapest "laptop" I have ever bought, original Asus EEE PC 701, which had it visually indicated in the right part of the trackpad. There should be a way for Asus to be able to financially benefit from this social service:)
why should users be forced to know file names..
3 points here : 1. Search has improved drastically in nearly all popular OSes. We have come to a point where it is less necessary to remember file names (or paths).
2. In the real world, it is far worse. People misplacing things, especially middle age* and older people, is an extremely common sight.
3. Same problem as the real world applies : when "placing" something, one strongly and falsely feels that he will never forget where it was placed. Tags do not solve this problem very well. People having the discipline it takes to manually tag will have found many other ways to remember things, including better organization in the first place.
* In middle age one starts to have too many things to keep track of, for multiple people because most middle aged people have spouses and kids, and of course the mind is not at its sharpest any more.
Ok so this gives Texas a disadvantage. The cause is Texans' own voting behaviour, fix is also in Texans' voting behaviour. But you are saying that Texans are too busy appearing helpless to themselves and others , and have no interest in SOLVING the problem that is being a non-swing state.
If the "solution" is still not clear to you, it is for Texans to stop voting for Republicans. Solution is clearly not to declare voting is useless.
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Wow so you can change the topic too? That means almost an intelligence of a 5 year old. Congratulations.
My original comment :
Since most do not hesitate from including chips without working linux / BSD drivers
Chipset manufacturers "should be" writing drivers. Many don't. Motherboard manufacturers include the chips without working linux/*BSD drivers anyway. No effort on motherboard manufacturers' part to filter out the chips without working linux/*BSD drivers. From motherboard manufacturer's point of view, this is supposed to be a way to "throw away whole market segments". Which is impossible according to you. But it happens. So you are wrong.
Plus with typing you don't have to hunt and hover like what the average user does with a sea of small icons
Ha ha ha. Wait, you were serious, let me laugh even harder.
In case you are still serious, just go and see the "average user" typing, just once. You haven't seen "hunting" until you see that, trust me.
PS : ha ha ha
Yes, through no effort on the part of motherboard manufacturers. Which is the point.
Ever heard of CVS ? No? Must have heard of GIT as that describes you well.
Since most do not hesitate from including chips without working linux / BSD drivers, you should never have forgotten. But you forgot the begin element tag in an attempted XML, so par for the course for you.
But they do sign NDA laden contracts with the guys who do write the motherboard BIOS. Where upper hand is always Microsoft's because they are monopoly provider of the "one true operating system", whereas motherboard makers are a dime a dozen.
Or count the fact its genuinely snappier than Windows 7
Too little, too late. Now that SSDs are becoming common in mid-end computers, even windows XP periodically TRIMmed is snappy enough on an SSD. Snappiness is no longer a distinguishing factor for choosing an operating system.
do the British (and others) treat country names as plural?
Yes
Yes, no one outside electrical industry cares about colour coding one's internal hidden connectors. But they do notice that if qualified electricians have more trouble than usual to fix issues, and rightly conclude that the electric connection design is screwed up.
Similarly, no one outside the software industry cares about the boundary between the OS and the applications, they do notice that in competing smartphones, maps issues are just an update away from the idiotically named play store. Such updates also regularly bring new features. So they can rightly conclude that the phone software design is screwed up.
Interestingly, I see you are trying to out-shill other shills today. Multiple times. I'm just curious, is there so new incentive program that is encouraging you to do this?
But if it's a novel problem, maybe *not* having reference materials at hand would actually prod your brain in a direction nobody's thought of yet?
In these days of web 2.0, with the internet bursting at the seams with "user generated content", what "articles" is one likely to come across while searching on an obscure topic like the "Made in India" question quoted above ? Of course some blog, whose author thought up a question, then came up with an answer that seems logical, and spewed on the internet via his blog.
Which is worse than the guy himself thinking up a question, coming up with an answer that seems logical to himself, and spewed his own original answer even though wrong. At least requires much more use of creative faculties, even though the result is wrong in both the cases.
Yes. Wow, that was simple.
Have you figured out the proof for this ?
You were more ranting against programming languages. Most software developers do not create programming languages. So your above post is irrelevant to your original point against programming languages.
Idea is worth shit if implementing it is not practically possible. Which describes your "idea" very well. The fact that it is not widely used doesn't imply no one else had that idea before, like you are suggesting. It means that they also understood that implementing this "idea" in a widely used manner will be impossible. Exactly because of points in your above rant post against software developers.
Thinking about asynchronous constructs is hard and error prone. Large proportion of today's software is still not free of basic bugs. Your suggestions of complicating programming languages further is total shit at this point.
Your fallacy is that people who can implement it and could have implemented it have not noticed "it".
Oh, closed source drivers from an uncooperative company?
Actually, open source drivers with an extremely cooperative company. Ubuntu has screwed up its own kernel / xorg driver, but Intel graphics works awesomely on most distributions most of the time; with minor bugs ironed out quite quickly.
Wow! I am sure your "solution" is so simple you can finish implementing it tonight. Congratulations, Mr trillionaire.
It seems to me that iphone length has nott changed, they have just replaced the wide bezel of iphone 4s with screen material.
Just install Fedora's disk encryption, it's free!" doesn't work in a corporate environment
But it does. Unless you define corporate environment as one with dumb sysadmins.
If you think that TrueCrypt or the like will do the trick you are in for a nasty surprise
Fedora uses LUKS. Which lets you add a big-ass key , possibly supplied from a file, in addition to the key typed in by the user every time they boot the machine. True crypt also has the feature, BTW, so your rant about TrueCrypt is also false.
The Linux kernel isn't what makes Android what it is... it's the UI, it's Google's choice of
But why was Android and Google able to do the UI, the choice of licensing terms etc. for so cheap, so fast and yet come up with a high quality product? Because a large part of work was already done and was available to be used in the form of Linux kernel. Which was already well tested on a huge variety of hardware so there is a lot of literature on performance tuning and debugging that they needed.
I have concluded that there is enough of the sentiment above throughout the Linux dev
Unless "enough" is defined as one slashdotter , the conclusion is completely erroneous.
1. Texans don't think there's a problem with them being a non-swing state
2. So if you live in Texas and don't like the Republican candidate
The 2 contradict each other. Either ALL Texans are guaranteed to like the Republican candidate or not.
because the vast majority of Texan voters are going to vote for Romney regardless
Since all Texans are going to vote for Romney, all Texans must vote for Romney else not vote at all. Circular logic at its best.
In ANY voting methodology over many voters, a single vote is unlikely to do anything. If everyone has this defeatist assumption that since all other will vote the other way, why vote my way; the way will BECOME true. Otherwise , maybe not. This is not specific for the US system, or the Texan system, or the winner-take-all system.
Rather sadly I've just found that if i run my finger up and down the right side of my Track-pad it acts as a scroll wheel
True. Though kudos to by far the cheapest "laptop" I have ever bought, original Asus EEE PC 701, which had it visually indicated in the right part of the trackpad. :)
There should be a way for Asus to be able to financially benefit from this social service
why should users be forced to know file names..
3 points here :
1. Search has improved drastically in nearly all popular OSes. We have come to a point where it is less necessary to remember file names (or paths).
2. In the real world, it is far worse. People misplacing things, especially middle age* and older people, is an extremely common sight.
3. Same problem as the real world applies : when "placing" something, one strongly and falsely feels that he will never forget where it was placed. Tags do not solve this problem very well. People having the discipline it takes to manually tag will have found many other ways to remember things, including better organization in the first place.
* In middle age one starts to have too many things to keep track of, for multiple people because most middle aged people have spouses and kids, and of course the mind is not at its sharpest any more.
Ok so this gives Texas a disadvantage. The cause is Texans' own voting behaviour, fix is also in Texans' voting behaviour. But you are saying that Texans are too busy appearing helpless to themselves and others , and have no interest in SOLVING the problem that is being a non-swing state.
If the "solution" is still not clear to you, it is for Texans to stop voting for Republicans. Solution is clearly not to declare voting is useless.
So states are non-swing states because of the way people vote. And because of being in a non-swing state, the way people vote doesn't matter? Wow.