If it's not "nutritious", then it probably doesn't fully achieve the potential of the particular "cuisine" either....it's like the guy talking about Taco Bell vs. Tacos in general.
They don't need to have both if one device really will serve both needs.
The single smaller device just needs to be able to be treated like a real PC or like any other device it needs to.
The iPods already have a prescident for this. There's a sort of "tablet" shell that you can buy for an iPod that will give it a bigger tablet-like screen. You could do the same for a mobile terminal (laptop) or a non-mobile terminal (workstation).
The only real problem is that you might want to treat your device as a phone while using it as a workstation. Although even that could be manageable with the right peripherals.
We are already carrying around more "smarts" in our phones than we used to have on our overpowered PCs. It's just that we are not at liberty to fully exploit it because vendors and carriers don't want us to have that ability and MacPeon fanboys are more than willing to cheer their corporate overlords on.
Quite so. Even if this unit doesn't exit, the SEALs in general are a part of the US Navy. Disney shouldn't be able to exert ownership rights over something like that. They should get slapped down by the relevant authorities with a big fat "You don't own that!" sort of response.
I dunno. It still sounds fishy. How could Yahoo use Linux while not violating this patent? It's not like it would have been easy for them to go out of their way to avoid potential patent issues. They likely used a standard kernel (either stock or from a distro) that likely included the "offending feature".
If anything, it seems like Yahoo managed to luck out and slither away.
Either they are putting this mechanism in place or not. If this sort of mechanism is in place or is planned then it should be a big fat red flag and all of the FUD mongers should be out in force with their tinfoil hats to shout these jerks down.
You're buying all those guns but you're not actually planning on using them.... suuuuure.
He probably doesn't have any experience with Win95. He's probably just some wet behind the ears n00b throwing around names without having any actual clue about them.
MacOS is not nearly as trouble prone as Windows. Not by a long shot. It has it's own flaws but being an ongoing maintenance and cleanup issue is not one of them.
A great deal of the pain of running Windows in a corporate environment comes from all of the "management" that corporations do to Windows. Some of this is clearly necessary in order to deal with n00b users and their tendency to do stupid things repeatedly. However, it does bog down Windows itself and annoys power users that realize that things don't have to be that bad (even with Windows).
For a corporate user, Linux presents the same WIMP interface that Windows or MacOS does. The main sticking point will be whether or not your proprietary applications are available. Beyond that, everything else is going to be pretty much identical from the user point of view.
Windows users still need to deal with anti-virus and defrags. Talk about Windows95 era nonsense.
The whole "WIMP is WIMP" principle is what this entire silly (ChromeOS) idea is based on.
It's so funny how LIARS like to try and take the moral high ground here.
Playing fast and loose with terms is simply dishonest. Anyone claiming moral superiority or trying to smear the ethics of others should really get their own nonsense straight first. Theft and copyright infringement two entirely different things both in the law and traditional common practice. This why it's such a big "problem". It is very unintuitive to quite a lot of people that "sharing" should be illegal.
The idea that copying should be equated with stealing is really quite new.
Management at the highest level? Like any geek wants that.
That is something else entirely. Anyone with half a brain realizes that.
"starting out in the mail room" is just another form of frat style hazing. It's a rite of passage for particular sorts of work.
Fortunately, society allows for some degree of specialization. Although for some reason that's a forgotten idea in some quarters these days. If I had all the skills to do it all then there would really be no point in having some corporation gain more advantage from my labor than me. Once you are that "well rounded", the corporation is pointless.
This is why many women forget about the glass ceiling and strike out on their own. They are less socialized into the corporate culture and realize that they don't have to be corporate drone.
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Linux has a bigger marketshare and mindshare when it comes to HTPCs.
So Linux support would probably be a bit more noticable.
Miguel is not the pope. Stop trying to treat him as such.
This is Slashdot, check your Lemming mindset at the door.
Mono never really provided me any benefit as an actual end user.
An ideological objection to Mono simply isn't required.
I was speaking to the issue of using real ingredients that haven't had all of their life sucked out of them by one or more mega corporations.
I also dispute the idea that fast food is "cheap". Any restaurant has to put severe margins on what they sell. That applies to crappy fast food too.
If it's not "nutritious", then it probably doesn't fully achieve the potential of the particular "cuisine" either. ...it's like the guy talking about Taco Bell vs. Tacos in general.
Yeah... and the first PC ran at something like 4.77Mhz.
It used to be that nobody bothered to change their defaults. Those defaults for Windows used to be 640x480.
They don't need to have both if one device really will serve both needs.
The single smaller device just needs to be able to be treated like a real PC or like any other device it needs to.
The iPods already have a prescident for this. There's a sort of "tablet" shell that you can buy for an iPod that will give it a bigger tablet-like screen. You could do the same for a mobile terminal (laptop) or a non-mobile terminal (workstation).
The only real problem is that you might want to treat your device as a phone while using it as a workstation. Although even that could be manageable with the right peripherals.
We are already carrying around more "smarts" in our phones than we used to have on our overpowered PCs. It's just that we are not at liberty to fully exploit it because vendors and carriers don't want us to have that ability and MacPeon fanboys are more than willing to cheer their corporate overlords on.
...depends on the GPU.
Although the i5 will likely overcome the problems you would have with a poorly chosen GPU.
Quite so. Even if this unit doesn't exit, the SEALs in general are a part of the US Navy. Disney shouldn't be able to exert ownership rights over something like that. They should get slapped down by the relevant authorities with a big fat "You don't own that!" sort of response.
I dunno. It still sounds fishy. How could Yahoo use Linux while not violating this patent? It's not like it would have been easy for them to go out of their way to avoid potential patent issues. They likely used a standard kernel (either stock or from a distro) that likely included the "offending feature".
If anything, it seems like Yahoo managed to luck out and slither away.
But... but... but... they said they fixed it this time.
Either they are putting this mechanism in place or not. If this sort of mechanism is in place or is planned then it should be a big fat red flag and all of the FUD mongers should be out in force with their tinfoil hats to shout these jerks down.
You're buying all those guns but you're not actually planning on using them.... suuuuure.
He probably doesn't have any experience with Win95. He's probably just some wet behind the ears n00b throwing around names without having any actual clue about them.
Nope. 1994.
I say 1994 because this was about when Apple fanboys "hung their hat" on this very same feature when dissing other systems during OS flame wars.
It's a feature only slightly less obscure now compared to then.
That might be why Lemming trolls like it so much. Not so many people to go "WTF? I use that.".
1994 called. It wants it's talking point back.
Utter nonsense.
Windows 95 isn't ahead of anything. That's just stupid Lemming trolling.
Your nonsense wasn't even applicable back in 1995. Never mind now.
You should get your cultural mythology straight. It's the Unix users that are lazy.
MacOS is not nearly as trouble prone as Windows. Not by a long shot. It has it's own flaws but being an ongoing maintenance and cleanup issue is not one of them.
All of my Linux machines have been "fire and forget". That includes Slackware 96 and goes all the way up to Ubuntu 10.04.
(something else upon which this ChromeOS idea is based on)
A great deal of the pain of running Windows in a corporate environment comes from all of the "management" that corporations do to Windows. Some of this is clearly necessary in order to deal with n00b users and their tendency to do stupid things repeatedly. However, it does bog down Windows itself and annoys power users that realize that things don't have to be that bad (even with Windows).
Silly Lemming nonsense.
For a corporate user, Linux presents the same WIMP interface that Windows or MacOS does. The main sticking point will be whether or not your proprietary applications are available. Beyond that, everything else is going to be pretty much identical from the user point of view.
Windows users still need to deal with anti-virus and defrags. Talk about Windows95 era nonsense.
The whole "WIMP is WIMP" principle is what this entire silly (ChromeOS) idea is based on.
I could see the "torture" thing specifically for Microsoft but it really doesn't fly for more robust products.
This really comes off like lame iPad propaganda. Except Google doesn't have any legacy products they're trying to trash.
> Obviously if you think it's justified to take another person's work without paying for what that person wants for it,
You mean like how the law specifically spells out? You know all that stuff is supposed to go into the public domain.
You should at least bother to learn the law before trying to lecture anyone about history.
> you've never written a line of code or had an original thought in your life.
Plenty of creative people don't follow the current content cartel mindset. If you were projecting less, you would know this for yourself.
Genuine property rights don't have an expiration date.
> Wow. People can justify anything, I guess.
You mean like your own LYING.
It's so funny how LIARS like to try and take the moral high ground here.
Playing fast and loose with terms is simply dishonest. Anyone claiming moral superiority or trying to smear the ethics of others should really get their own nonsense straight first. Theft and copyright infringement two entirely different things both in the law and traditional common practice. This why it's such a big "problem". It is very unintuitive to quite a lot of people that "sharing" should be illegal.
The idea that copying should be equated with stealing is really quite new.
Management at the highest level? Like any geek wants that.
That is something else entirely. Anyone with half a brain realizes that.
"starting out in the mail room" is just another form of frat style hazing. It's a rite of passage for particular sorts of work.
Fortunately, society allows for some degree of specialization. Although for some reason that's a forgotten idea in some quarters these days. If I had all the skills to do it all then there would really be no point in having some corporation gain more advantage from my labor than me. Once you are that "well rounded", the corporation is pointless.
This is why many women forget about the glass ceiling and strike out on their own. They are less socialized into the corporate culture and realize that they don't have to be corporate drone.