Maybe mint users aren't needing to put up form posts, requests for support, etc. because they don't have so many issues? Not claiming that is the case, but you just have no idea whether it is or not.
Actually no, Linus is the reason Linux isn't a footnote. The GNU alone couldn't save HURD from irrelevance. And I say that as someone who finds himself disagreeing with Linus' stance more and more frequently these days.
Make no mistake though, his leadership is the sole reason Linux took off in any significant way.
Fibre to the home will be faster than that:) It already is, in some places. You can get unmetered gigabit fibre in Hong Kong for example for about 40 bucks a month.
Network bandwidth will be there soon. Fibre to the home (google already rolling out) will be plenty fast enough once it is established to make local storage and actually installing a game un-necessary.
Kill PC gaming? Nah, it might slow down the rate of hardware advancement a bit, but IMHO this will be a good thing. The current gaming hardware is FINE. Developers are currently spending way too much time optimizing new graphics engine for the hardware flavour of the month, and spending fuck all time on actually making a decent game.
If the hardware race slows down a bit they'll be forced to actually make a decent game to compete again.
To be fair, you can (and microsoft recommend this these days) install Server 2012 without a GUI at all. Administered entirely with powershell. Yeah it sucks, but its a start.
Unified search is broken in windows 8. If you haven't discovered that for yourself you clearly haven't used it to try and actually do anything beyond launching games or browsing the Internet.
The original self replicating worm was a Unix worm. So it's not just microsoft that has had the problem. They're simply the lowest common denominator and easiest to currrently get the best exploit return on effort expended.
Uh. iTunes isn't chained to apple hardware. There's a version for Windows, and between Windows and OS X it is available on over 90% of all laptop or desktop computers. I'm sure if Linux ever gets a market share worth worrying about, there will be an iTunes store for Linux also.
Move CIFS shares to my netapp, move email back to a nix box, encourage users to jump to tablets, macs, or nix workstations (all of which are easier to support than Windows).
Tablets (in a business setting, which is the only place one would realistically consider this over an iPad or Android) are most useful when you are in transit for extended periods (laptop is in luggage and you have a lot of downtime) or when you are in an environment without a desk, walking around doing stuff. Typically also without a power point in both situations. The average work day is well in excess of 4 hours.
If I'm bound to a power point i may as well just use an ultrabook, because i"ll most likely have a desk available or at least somewhere to sit, as well.
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Maybe mint users aren't needing to put up form posts, requests for support, etc. because they don't have so many issues? Not claiming that is the case, but you just have no idea whether it is or not.
Actually no, Linus is the reason Linux isn't a footnote. The GNU alone couldn't save HURD from irrelevance. And I say that as someone who finds himself disagreeing with Linus' stance more and more frequently these days.
Make no mistake though, his leadership is the sole reason Linux took off in any significant way.
That would be HURD, right?
... robots just became cheaper than chinese labour.
Fibre to the home will be faster than that :) It already is, in some places. You can get unmetered gigabit fibre in Hong Kong for example for about 40 bucks a month.
Network bandwidth will be there soon. Fibre to the home (google already rolling out) will be plenty fast enough once it is established to make local storage and actually installing a game un-necessary.
Kill PC gaming? Nah, it might slow down the rate of hardware advancement a bit, but IMHO this will be a good thing. The current gaming hardware is FINE. Developers are currently spending way too much time optimizing new graphics engine for the hardware flavour of the month, and spending fuck all time on actually making a decent game.
If the hardware race slows down a bit they'll be forced to actually make a decent game to compete again.
Posting hardware specs for that game in a discussion about future gaming hardware in 2012 is a bit late. by about 10 years...
Because valve can't afford a code signing certificate?
Is DRM good or bad for linux this week?
To be fair, you can (and microsoft recommend this these days) install Server 2012 without a GUI at all. Administered entirely with powershell. Yeah it sucks, but its a start.
So, airplay costs about 500 bucks, but you get a free tablet and movie rental device?
Stuck in the 1990s are we?
So, it's like AirPlay then?
Uh. Win95 was a bit late with the multitasking thing. Amiga had full per emptive multitasking in 1987....
No, upgrade hardware, root it, install an unsupported (by the oem) third party OS and then get back to you.
Unified search is broken in windows 8. If you haven't discovered that for yourself you clearly haven't used it to try and actually do anything beyond launching games or browsing the Internet.
If you want to hang on to everything RMS says like it is gospel, then you should know that he never believed in putting passwords on computers either.
ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#Early_years
The original self replicating worm was a Unix worm. So it's not just microsoft that has had the problem. They're simply the lowest common denominator and easiest to currrently get the best exploit return on effort expended.
Uh. iTunes isn't chained to apple hardware. There's a version for Windows, and between Windows and OS X it is available on over 90% of all laptop or desktop computers. I'm sure if Linux ever gets a market share worth worrying about, there will be an iTunes store for Linux also.
Which evidently means that the majority of Android smartphone users are stuck on an OS they don't want.
Move CIFS shares to my netapp, move email back to a nix box, encourage users to jump to tablets, macs, or nix workstations (all of which are easier to support than Windows).
2001 actually.
no... jobs was all about the tablet being a pc replacement....
Tablets (in a business setting, which is the only place one would realistically consider this over an iPad or Android) are most useful when you are in transit for extended periods (laptop is in luggage and you have a lot of downtime) or when you are in an environment without a desk, walking around doing stuff. Typically also without a power point in both situations. The average work day is well in excess of 4 hours.
If I'm bound to a power point i may as well just use an ultrabook, because i"ll most likely have a desk available or at least somewhere to sit, as well.