You're ignoring a little thing called 'the market' that may or may not allow them to rise prices. They can't rise prices if they can't sell enough stuff at those prices.
Hey I installed Kubuntu on my little media box last night and I have to say.. I was pleasantly surprised! You're right, it runs very smoothly and even looks pretty good. So much different than my Linux Mint experience.
That's idiotic, why would I write to a physical flash drive to load an OS to a virtual machine? It kind of defeats the purpose of being virtual in the first place. Sure img can be converted to vmdk, but I'm lazy and it's not worth it to me to go through all that effort. If they don't want lazy people to see their OS than fine, but that's probably 70% of the people any new linux distro might target, and it seems like a bad decision to me.
The distribution shouldn't be installing with effects enabled that the system can't handle. I was briefly using Linux Mint with KDE 1-2 years ago and it was very choppy no matter what I did. Installed it on a netbook and it was almost unusable. Went to elementary OS and it was smooth by comparison. I've never been able to use KDE on anything low powered and have it work smoothly, but perhaps things are drastically better now.
You reach the most people by making it work easily on a VM. iso is the way to go for that. I have to agree, stupid to go with img only. Makes them look like a bunch of rookies.
If Apple had just included a dongle that could both charge and use normal headphones at the same time, it would suck to have to carry the dongle, but most of this would be beside the point.
.. Is that, even though they had a pretty big issue, they took care of people sufficiently well enough in responding to it that they didn't feel burned (no pun intended) and feel like they would be taken care of again. As I always tell my kids, it's not the fact that you screwed up, it's what you do next that counts most.
I have large hands and I have not yet found a smartphone I can use well without a stylus. You must have small hands. You know what they say about men with small hands.
We could have trustworthy governments if we elected trustworthy people. For some reason the entire world seems to use systems that promote the most unscrupulous people to the top. I still have hope that this can change one day. Power doesn't corrupt everyone to the same degree. I don't buy that absolute power corrupts everyone absolutely, it just absolutely corrupts the people who manage to work their way through the system to get there.
I'd hazard a guess that most people who purchase an iPhone are just doing so because they heard they were good and don't have a flying clue when the new ones are announced.
To add to this, I'm sure if I got in my vehicle with a blindfold on, put it into drive, and hit the accelerator, I would be found criminally responsible for whatever damaged I caused. I don't see why it would be any different for an automaker who feels their software can drive by the array of sensors the car is outfitted with but causes an accident.
What do you mean? They're doing the best they can. Adaptive cruise control is currently the best they can do without getting sued and it has been released. Even something as simple as that, I wonder how far it can be trusted. Sometimes mine doesn't sense the car in front of me.
Well we're talking about debris falling on the road sizable enough to cause an accident, not rock chips. They should absolutely be able to detect a kid on a bridge about to drop a rock.
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It gets passed on to customers as higher prices
You're ignoring a little thing called 'the market' that may or may not allow them to rise prices. They can't rise prices if they can't sell enough stuff at those prices.
Hey I installed Kubuntu on my little media box last night and I have to say.. I was pleasantly surprised! You're right, it runs very smoothly and even looks pretty good. So much different than my Linux Mint experience.
That's idiotic, why would I write to a physical flash drive to load an OS to a virtual machine? It kind of defeats the purpose of being virtual in the first place. Sure img can be converted to vmdk, but I'm lazy and it's not worth it to me to go through all that effort. If they don't want lazy people to see their OS than fine, but that's probably 70% of the people any new linux distro might target, and it seems like a bad decision to me.
I'll make a point of setting Kubuntu against Lubuntu next time I install on my atom machine and see which is snappier.
It depends on your definition of 'work'. It will be functional, but elements will take time to draw and it will get in your way.
The US falls further behind because anyone who participates in 'cooperation' is immediately called a communist and shunned from society.
The distribution shouldn't be installing with effects enabled that the system can't handle. I was briefly using Linux Mint with KDE 1-2 years ago and it was very choppy no matter what I did. Installed it on a netbook and it was almost unusable. Went to elementary OS and it was smooth by comparison. I've never been able to use KDE on anything low powered and have it work smoothly, but perhaps things are drastically better now.
You reach the most people by making it work easily on a VM. iso is the way to go for that. I have to agree, stupid to go with img only. Makes them look like a bunch of rookies.
Yes, damn those distributions that force you to use their browser instead of installing what you like.
Since it's built on KDE, I'm going to go ahead and assume it's going to run like a turd on less powerful machines.
Everyone realizes there are significant advantages to wires headphones. They'll keep on trolling no matter what you say.
If Apple had just included a dongle that could both charge and use normal headphones at the same time, it would suck to have to carry the dongle, but most of this would be beside the point.
.. Is that, even though they had a pretty big issue, they took care of people sufficiently well enough in responding to it that they didn't feel burned (no pun intended) and feel like they would be taken care of again. As I always tell my kids, it's not the fact that you screwed up, it's what you do next that counts most.
I have large hands and I have not yet found a smartphone I can use well without a stylus. You must have small hands. You know what they say about men with small hands.
I keep saying this, but no one believes me because they feel a high salary is all they need in life.
The human race has not evolved much. In fact I'm pretty sure we are slipping backwards.
$425 a ticket for a festival with a primary purpose of discouraging use of money? That's so precious!
We could have trustworthy governments if we elected trustworthy people. For some reason the entire world seems to use systems that promote the most unscrupulous people to the top. I still have hope that this can change one day. Power doesn't corrupt everyone to the same degree. I don't buy that absolute power corrupts everyone absolutely, it just absolutely corrupts the people who manage to work their way through the system to get there.
I'd hazard a guess that most people who purchase an iPhone are just doing so because they heard they were good and don't have a flying clue when the new ones are announced.
Yes you're right, and an automated vehicle didn't get so blinded by the sun that it thought a truck was a bridge awhile back.
To add to this, I'm sure if I got in my vehicle with a blindfold on, put it into drive, and hit the accelerator, I would be found criminally responsible for whatever damaged I caused. I don't see why it would be any different for an automaker who feels their software can drive by the array of sensors the car is outfitted with but causes an accident.
There are some real freaky people supporting autonomous driving as it stands today. Difficult to have a level-headed conversation about it.
What do you mean? They're doing the best they can. Adaptive cruise control is currently the best they can do without getting sued and it has been released. Even something as simple as that, I wonder how far it can be trusted. Sometimes mine doesn't sense the car in front of me.
Well we're talking about debris falling on the road sizable enough to cause an accident, not rock chips. They should absolutely be able to detect a kid on a bridge about to drop a rock.
Too bad they don't even try to improve it so that it's reasonable before it gets put on the market,