The only measure that is wanted is time to a usable system...Time to login screen, unusable desktop etc is pointless
But the real problem is that you are booting the system at all, if you are rebooting, it's because the driver model is poor and requires a rebbot, or your system is unstable, Windows is better than it was but still insists on reboots far too often, and many users still power cycle to solve problems
If you are turning the system on then why is it not in hibernate/suspend rather than shut down?
Most Linux systems, and Laptops simply don't care about this (although they are quite fast) since the solution it not to boot/reboot them...
We are talking about e-book readers - these are (currently) not for kids...
You are right that some Dyslexics find certain colour combinations help, but unfortunately this is a broken option on almost everything they read
Books full of photographs, high quality diagrams is not what this is doing, these are low quality coloured pictures (so far) when it is better quality you will have a point
Most web pages people *read* now are still mostly text this is not now a bandwidth restriction it is simply that people do not read pages with clutter - Note again this is pages people *read* many sites are not really for reading but for presenting large amounts of information, which is not what an e-book reader is for
I have a smartphone, and have used a tablet - they are perfect for what they do, but they are horrible to read large amounts of text on, this is what I use a Kindle for... the right tool for the right job - we already have good quality colour screens but they are not good for reading, we have e-ink displays that are easy to read, I await when I can use one screen for both, but the e-ink flash and low rez colour is not the solution...
Give me a portable hi rez full colour touchscreen that is easy on the eyes to read and you can throw away all other devices, make it kid proof or very cheap and you won't need childrens books either...
You also have not considered that the royal families paid job is to 'strut around the world stage'... which they do with far less embarrassment to us than any politician...
So comparing the same game running natively on two differently speced systems one running the slowest version of Linux, the other running a fast version of BSD one runs faster than the other...What a surprise!
Karl Marx - Was not by his own definition a Communist - He was a socialist - Born in Capitalist Germany and lived in London...
Most Communist countries actually called themselves Socialist (e.g. USSR), and aspired to be Communist but knew they were not because inequalities existed still...
Most communist countries devolved into dictatorships, and collapsed when they lacked a strong leader who was also willing to continue this
Marx would have hated most of the countries that the USA thought were communist... as well as the USA...
Your ancestors were of course saintly people who never did anything wrong...
The Monarchy now have very little power, have never put anyone to death in a very long time , almost nothing to do with government, cost us very little, and do a lot for tourism and stop us having a politician as President...
Our politicians however even though elected have gone against our will, strut more then the monarchy even when retired, taken us to war several times, and killed many people both our own, and foreign... not exactly a decent alternative
The fact that the Murdochs hate the BBC means the BBC is doing it's job...
The BBC is the reason the commercial companies have to actually produce quality programs themselves, and why they have to space adverts out, unlike the US where the Advertisers rule...(I was amazed the first time I saw American Football, the number of Ad breaks was astounding, a Football (Soccer) game over here is an unbroken 45 minutes of viewing without an ad break)
...and the current version runs on x86, and x86_64 and nothing else
They dropped the other systems because they were basically maintaining multiple systems with many differences, not one system on a HAL
Windows 8 might have a version that runs on ARM - But most software wont be portable at all...and it will basically be a different system than Windows 8 for Intel
NetBSD runs on just about anything thanks to it's HAL... which is done as a complete abstraction layer unlike Windows...
The only valid reason you came up with was Comics/Comic Books
You obviously read different books than the rest of the world - most have almost no illustrations, few in colour - Not because it is expensive (it generally is not anymore) but because it is distracting
Highlighter pens are bright colours so you can find the highlighted sections easily - not really a problem in a searchable text?
Just because 'kids like it' or 'it looks cool' is not a reason to do it...go and look at most web pages (slashdot is a good example) - they are black text on a light background, with few pictures... in the early years of the web people used many pictures many colours flashing text etc... it died down because it was annoying distracting and hard to read, the only items like this on web pages now are adverts, and are generally though to be annoying because of this
They can get a Court order - Unlike the US where it takes only a short time, (at least according to US TV Cop shows). here it takes days at least and often longer, a website could have scammed many people by then
Even with this there are safeguards, if they shut down a website, (remove DNS to it) then later cannot provide enough evidence to justify it, they can be sued...
But having said that I am always dubious of police powers if they have the potential to be mis-used...
John Logie Baird - Invented a commercial system we don't use
Philo T Farnsworth - Invented a commercial system we don't use
The modern system was invented by several people using ideas (stolen) from both the above, and applied to both free to air, and commercial stations, based upon and run by the Radio broadcasters of the time all of who used the same models of you are the product...
By the way British TV is a mixture of commercial and the BBC Corporation (Government funded, but not government run)... and you are still the product even then just not one who pays to be the product...
From the Rasberry Pi website : Can I run power Raspberry Pi from batteries as well as from a wall socket? Yes. The device should run well off 4xAA cells
It boots from an SD card... (modern update of the Cassette recorder)
The point about it is that there is no source tree to examine...
The point about any hack of kernel.org, is that there is no central depository of code there that is the master copy, it uses git, so there are many copies (or partial copies) scattered around many machines, compromising all of them is very unlikely, many are behind much better firewalls, examining the source code for changes made by a hacker is trivial and automatic...
If a job has many people chasing it you pick the person of least risk, i.e. the one who will definitely be the right candidate, and you winnow out those who from previous experience are not likely to be even worth interviewing....(which Recruitment companies think includes all older coders)
In this context it can be also true that once you find the right candidate you pay them well, because there are a large number of poor to mediocre candidates and only a few good ones...finding a good replacement is expensive, and so it is better to pay well to keep the one you have
In what way is the Shuttle ".. a much more proven launch system. It has put more orbiters and a lot more people into space than Soyuz.."...or are you only counting one variant of the Soyuz, in which case which of the three variants currently used are you counting ?
This is the advantage of evolving a system rather than scrapping everything and redesigning from scratch every so often
Scheme is taught in universities, for programming language design, and is used to prototype new languages amongst many other things...
Loads of people write in Scheme/Lisp - It's just that they have been taught properly and so do not shout for help every 5 minutes on general forums...
It makes a very good scripting language, and data language, and general purpose language, etc... unlike most of the alternatives this is why it was picked as the GNU extension language (note not just scripting, a fully fledged extension language)
JavaScript is a mediocre scripting language and a bad extension language TCL is similar...
If you want a scripting environment (like.NET) where you can use any language, then why not get someone to write an extension (in Guile) that does this, it is more than capable...
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The only measure that is wanted is time to a usable system...Time to login screen, unusable desktop etc is pointless
But the real problem is that you are booting the system at all, if you are rebooting, it's because the driver model is poor and requires a rebbot, or your system is unstable, Windows is better than it was but still insists on reboots far too often, and many users still power cycle to solve problems
If you are turning the system on then why is it not in hibernate/suspend rather than shut down?
Most Linux systems, and Laptops simply don't care about this (although they are quite fast) since the solution it not to boot/reboot them ...
"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."
Sir Winston Churchill
We are talking about e-book readers - these are (currently) not for kids ...
You are right that some Dyslexics find certain colour combinations help, but unfortunately this is a broken option on almost everything they read
Books full of photographs, high quality diagrams is not what this is doing, these are low quality coloured pictures (so far) when it is better quality you will have a point
Most web pages people *read* now are still mostly text this is not now a bandwidth restriction it is simply that people do not read pages with clutter - Note again this is pages people *read* many sites are not really for reading but for presenting large amounts of information, which is not what an e-book reader is for
I have a smartphone, and have used a tablet - they are perfect for what they do, but they are horrible to read large amounts of text on, this is what I use a Kindle for ... the right tool for the right job - we already have good quality colour screens but they are not good for reading, we have e-ink displays that are easy to read, I await when I can use one screen for both, but the e-ink flash and low rez colour is not the solution ...
Give me a portable hi rez full colour touchscreen that is easy on the eyes to read and you can throw away all other devices, make it kid proof or very cheap and you won't need childrens books either ...
I have one answer George W Bush ...
You also have not considered that the royal families paid job is to 'strut around the world stage' ... which they do with far less embarrassment to us than any politician ...
So comparing the same game running natively on two differently speced systems one running the slowest version of Linux, the other running a fast version of BSD one runs faster than the other ...What a surprise!
CS in the UK is for people who seem to know nothing about computers ...
They are the people who cannot program, manage networks, or do tech support ... they are therefore the first to lose their jobs
I suspect CS in the US is a different course and includes all the useful skills the employers need
Apple appear to think that the unique things about the iPad are the on switch and rounded corners ?!
If this is all they can come up with it makes me want to buy the competitors product ...
Capitalism does too ... Pure Capitalism devolves into brutal dictatorship unless contained by the government it theoretically does not need ...
Karl Marx - Was not by his own definition a Communist - He was a socialist - Born in Capitalist Germany and lived in London ...
Most Communist countries actually called themselves Socialist (e.g. USSR), and aspired to be Communist but knew they were not because inequalities existed still...
Most communist countries devolved into dictatorships, and collapsed when they lacked a strong leader who was also willing to continue this
Marx would have hated most of the countries that the USA thought were communist ... as well as the USA ...
Your ancestors were of course saintly people who never did anything wrong ...
The Monarchy now have very little power, have never put anyone to death in a very long time , almost nothing to do with government, cost us very little, and do a lot for tourism and stop us having a politician as President ...
Our politicians however even though elected have gone against our will, strut more then the monarchy even when retired, taken us to war several times, and killed many people both our own, and foreign ... not exactly a decent alternative
The fact that the Murdochs hate the BBC means the BBC is doing it's job ...
The BBC is the reason the commercial companies have to actually produce quality programs themselves, and why they have to space adverts out, unlike the US where the Advertisers rule ...(I was amazed the first time I saw American Football, the number of Ad breaks was astounding, a Football (Soccer) game over here is an unbroken 45 minutes of viewing without an ad break)
...and the current version runs on x86, and x86_64 and nothing else
They dropped the other systems because they were basically maintaining multiple systems with many differences, not one system on a HAL
Windows 8 might have a version that runs on ARM - But most software wont be portable at all ...and it will basically be a different system than Windows 8 for Intel
NetBSD runs on just about anything thanks to it's HAL ... which is done as a complete abstraction layer unlike Windows ...
The only valid reason you came up with was Comics/Comic Books
You obviously read different books than the rest of the world - most have almost no illustrations, few in colour - Not because it is expensive (it generally is not anymore) but because it is distracting
Highlighter pens are bright colours so you can find the highlighted sections easily - not really a problem in a searchable text?
Just because 'kids like it' or 'it looks cool' is not a reason to do it ...go and look at most web pages (slashdot is a good example) - they are black text on a light background, with few pictures ... in the early years of the web people used many pictures many colours flashing text etc ... it died down because it was annoying distracting and hard to read, the only items like this on web pages now are adverts, and are generally though to be annoying because of this
How many books have you read with coloured text or backgrounds ...?
If I want to have a multimedia experience, I do not read a book, If I want to watch a movie I do not use a kindle ...
They can get a Court order - Unlike the US where it takes only a short time, (at least according to US TV Cop shows). here it takes days at least and often longer, a website could have scammed many people by then
Even with this there are safeguards, if they shut down a website, (remove DNS to it) then later cannot provide enough evidence to justify it, they can be sued ...
But having said that I am always dubious of police powers if they have the potential to be mis-used ...
No image is illegal as well, you do not own your passport or driving licence it belongs to a government agency
They own the copyright and all control of it (so they can remove it if they need to)
John Logie Baird - Invented a commercial system we don't use
Philo T Farnsworth - Invented a commercial system we don't use
The modern system was invented by several people using ideas (stolen) from both the above, and applied to both free to air, and commercial stations, based upon and run by the Radio broadcasters of the time all of who used the same models of you are the product ...
By the way British TV is a mixture of commercial and the BBC Corporation (Government funded, but not government run)... and you are still the product even then just not one who pays to be the product ...
From the Rasberry Pi website :
Can I run power Raspberry Pi from batteries as well as from a wall socket?
Yes. The device should run well off 4xAA cells
It boots from an SD card ... (modern update of the Cassette recorder)
A HAL theoretically makes the system portable, but Linux does not have one (normally) and is still quite portable, and Windows has one, and is not ...?
Reactos does not appear to have a HAL (unlike the Windows it is modelled on) but has been ported to other architectures anyway ?
Ken Thompson wrote a paper on how to do it http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html, but did not actually do it ...(As far as we know)
The point about it is that there is no source tree to examine ...
The point about any hack of kernel.org, is that there is no central depository of code there that is the master copy, it uses git, so there are many copies (or partial copies) scattered around many machines, compromising all of them is very unlikely, many are behind much better firewalls, examining the source code for changes made by a hacker is trivial and automatic ...
If a job has many people chasing it you pick the person of least risk, i.e. the one who will definitely be the right candidate, and you winnow out those who from previous experience are not likely to be even worth interviewing ....(which Recruitment companies think includes all older coders)
In this context it can be also true that once you find the right candidate you pay them well, because there are a large number of poor to mediocre candidates and only a few good ones ...finding a good replacement is expensive, and so it is better to pay well to keep the one you have
Laptop has all custom parts
R.Pi has no screen (use a TV or any screen you have), Keyboard, Mouse, Speakers, or Case ...so no custom parts ...
Assuming existing TV as monitor and headphones, you can pick up a USB Mouse and Keyboard for less than $10 ... what else do you need?
Stellar uplift ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_uplift
Soyuz Rocket - Launches 1700
Shuttle - Launches 135
In what way is the Shuttle ".. a much more proven launch system. It has put more orbiters and a lot more people into space than Soyuz .." ...or are you only counting one variant of the Soyuz, in which case which of the three variants currently used are you counting ?
This is the advantage of evolving a system rather than scrapping everything and redesigning from scratch every so often
Scheme is taught in universities, for programming language design, and is used to prototype new languages amongst many other things ...
Loads of people write in Scheme/Lisp - It's just that they have been taught properly and so do not shout for help every 5 minutes on general forums ...
It makes a very good scripting language, and data language, and general purpose language, etc ... unlike most of the alternatives this is why it was picked as the GNU extension language (note not just scripting, a fully fledged extension language)
JavaScript is a mediocre scripting language and a bad extension language ...
TCL is similar
If you want a scripting environment (like .NET) where you can use any language, then why not get someone to write an extension (in Guile) that does this, it is more than capable ...