Maybe I am missing something here but if you compile all that python script into native code (and yes, you can do that) then doesn't the whole "unacceptable runtime interpretor overhead" argument go out the window?
It's more likely to expect computing in general to move further towards ARM. x86 is on the way out, the only thing keeping x86 around was market inertia and perceived lack of processing power on ARM chips. That's all changing though, people love their smartphone apps and current ARM offerings are 64 bit capable, multicore, and running at ~1.5 GHz. My Galaxy Nexus phone has more processing power than my old desktop tower from 2002 but fits in my pocket. Almost every major Linux distro has some sort of plan or roadmap regarding ARM. For better or worse, ARM is likely going to be the wave of the future.
That tidbit is specific to ARM devices only and it is a load of bull. I've been waiting years to see what a Linux-powered (not Android) ARM laptop would look like
Short version: Jim Crow was all about keeping newly freed slaves from getting uppity and putting on airs of being equal to their white counterparts and mainly consisted of discriminatory laws or social customs ("separate but equal") and threats/demonstrations of violence (lynch mobs)
You can still release closed-source programs on Linux, there is no barrier to stop that (examples include games from Introversion Studios and Cisco Packet Tracer). The real issue, as I understand, is supporting multiple distributions. Each distro use its own naming and packaging conventions to install the same library which turns application support into an unholy nightmare.
My armchair solution is as follows: Someone (likely Canonical and Red Hat) actually gets the Linux Standard Base package to be worth a damn across different distributions and build Steam against that. That is the entire point of the LSB project, to allow 3rd party developers a single release path for multiple distros without lots of re-factoring/tuning/naming/packaging for each and every one of them. In an ideal world if you can install your distro's LSB package then you can install Steam, no further dependencies required.
I am a fanatical Linux user but I am OK with Steam's DRM (at least as it is handled on Windows) Steam's prices and policies regarding re-downloading and re-installing games is pretty reasonable and doesn't get in the way of my gaming experience. If I can get my Dungeons of Dredmore (Linux native binaries are already available) fix without the headache of installing through Wine then so much the better.
And before anyone starts, yes I know there is already a Steam-like game distribution platform for Linux called Desura. I do not have a Desura account, I do not want to go through the effort of setting up a Desura account for the sake of one game when I already have the game available on Steam.
Hell, Steam might turn out to be the killer app to force some sort of cross-distro uniformity on desktop Linux, which can only be a good thing in terms of market acceptance.
I realize that this might be a troll post but what the hell. Science admits to errors and corrects them; that's part of the scientific process, it's also part of scientific progress. Revising theories means that we are developing a more accurate understanding of the world around us, it's a good thing. There is no Holy See of science that declares one theory or one version of a theory to be dogma and another heretical. You are perfectly welcome and encouraged to submit your own theory on whatever topic you choose. All that is required by the scientific community is that your theory matches available data and is testable (aka falsifiable).
I went to KDE 4.8 after years of going with GNOME (both 2 and 3) and I am now quite happy with the result. KDE used to run like a dog on my laptop but now it's quite snappy. Granted, as with any anecdote, YMMV
Your milkshake brings all the boys to my yard, and they're like - it's now better than yours, damn right - it's better than yours, I could license content from you, but not if you want to charge (my customers for IP violations)
Hey, fun fact, there are currently ~7 billion people alive today, largely due to industrial agriculture practices such as pesticides. Without them we could not produce nearly as much food as we do as cheaply as we do. So, keeping that in mind, what do you suggest we do in the interim while waiting for pesticide-free agriculture practices to develop?
True, but the PR windfall is much more valuable than the prize money. The publicity stirred up by claiming the prize would mean lots of exposure (and thus - more importantly in an emerging market - mindshare) through news programs, magazine articles, Google search results, etc. Also, I'd wager that if you can point to your X Prize during a sales pitch to hospitals, the US Military, or FEMA your claims suddenly get a lot more credibility so you're more likely to recoup those R&D costs through big contracts. Just getting the military alone to sign on would likely guarantee a massive cash-flow, every medical corpsman in the field would be issued one of these.
You do realize that this is going into Fedora, not Red Hat proper, right? Fedora is rather infamous for introducing bleeding-edge new stuff and breaking things between updates, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is much more focused on stability and compatibility. Syslog will remain the default on RHEL for a long time yet.
You do realize that all new-to-market drugs cost exorbitant amounts of money to help recoup R&D costs from development right? Several hundred candidate formulations were likely tried and failed during the development of this drug, all of those cost money to develop and test before being discarded.
Try trawling through the Ubuntu forums/wikis, granted it's all for a different distro but Ubuntu is specifically billed as being "newbie-friendly" and has a large, active user community and lots of documentation written for newbies. You can also try asking around on IRC chat, generally folks are pretty civil on the ones I've been to.
As to installing stuff, you can do that through a tool in YaST or possibly PackageKit, everything from kernel drivers to web browsers can be installed through Yast and, if anything, once you discover the beauty of package management on modern Linux systems you may very well look back at the days of *.exe installers and shudder.
in regards to mail clients, I've personally always preferred either Evolution or Thunderbird, give them both a whirl and see what happens.
Of course small-talk is easy once you know how to do it. The problem for autistic kids is that we don't know how to do it and we are painfully aware of that. When I was a kid, I got too caught up in my own head trying to think of every situation a conversation could branch off into and formulate a response for it out of fear that I might otherwise make some sort of gaffe and open myself to ridicule. Even today I still don't just quite fall into normal colloquial speech patterns (e.g. overly literal, talking over the listener's head, too much jargon, etc.) Additionally, it can be a real tightrope walk to speak about something we are passionate about without going into geek overload; usually autistic kids have a passionate, deep knowledge about a fairly narrow range of topics that most people frankly just don't give a damn about and it can be hard to tell exactly where the line is between being interesting and just coming off as a know-it-all who likes to hear themselves talk.
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Maybe I am missing something here but if you compile all that python script into native code (and yes, you can do that) then doesn't the whole "unacceptable runtime interpretor overhead" argument go out the window?
It's more likely to expect computing in general to move further towards ARM. x86 is on the way out, the only thing keeping x86 around was market inertia and perceived lack of processing power on ARM chips. That's all changing though, people love their smartphone apps and current ARM offerings are 64 bit capable, multicore, and running at ~1.5 GHz. My Galaxy Nexus phone has more processing power than my old desktop tower from 2002 but fits in my pocket. Almost every major Linux distro has some sort of plan or roadmap regarding ARM. For better or worse, ARM is likely going to be the wave of the future.
That tidbit is specific to ARM devices only and it is a load of bull. I've been waiting years to see what a Linux-powered (not Android) ARM laptop would look like
Ah but you forget, every time you make something more ingeniously idiot-proof, the universe comes up with ever more ingenious idiots.
You mean like the one about TCP/IP via avian carriers?
Short version: Jim Crow was all about keeping newly freed slaves from getting uppity and putting on airs of being equal to their white counterparts and mainly consisted of discriminatory laws or social customs ("separate but equal") and threats/demonstrations of violence (lynch mobs)
You can still release closed-source programs on Linux, there is no barrier to stop that (examples include games from Introversion Studios and Cisco Packet Tracer). The real issue, as I understand, is supporting multiple distributions. Each distro use its own naming and packaging conventions to install the same library which turns application support into an unholy nightmare.
I have probably harped on this a few times now but what the hey right?
There already is a solution to cross-distro compatibility
My armchair solution is as follows: Someone (likely Canonical and Red Hat) actually gets the Linux Standard Base package to be worth a damn across different distributions and build Steam against that. That is the entire point of the LSB project, to allow 3rd party developers a single release path for multiple distros without lots of re-factoring/tuning/naming/packaging for each and every one of them. In an ideal world if you can install your distro's LSB package then you can install Steam, no further dependencies required.
I am a fanatical Linux user but I am OK with Steam's DRM (at least as it is handled on Windows) Steam's prices and policies regarding re-downloading and re-installing games is pretty reasonable and doesn't get in the way of my gaming experience. If I can get my Dungeons of Dredmore (Linux native binaries are already available) fix without the headache of installing through Wine then so much the better.
And before anyone starts, yes I know there is already a Steam-like game distribution platform for Linux called Desura. I do not have a Desura account, I do not want to go through the effort of setting up a Desura account for the sake of one game when I already have the game available on Steam.
Hell, Steam might turn out to be the killer app to force some sort of cross-distro uniformity on desktop Linux, which can only be a good thing in terms of market acceptance.
I realize that this might be a troll post but what the hell. Science admits to errors and corrects them; that's part of the scientific process, it's also part of scientific progress. Revising theories means that we are developing a more accurate understanding of the world around us, it's a good thing. There is no Holy See of science that declares one theory or one version of a theory to be dogma and another heretical. You are perfectly welcome and encouraged to submit your own theory on whatever topic you choose. All that is required by the scientific community is that your theory matches available data and is testable (aka falsifiable).
Not to feed the troll here but actually it breaks down as thus:
Republicans:
Yea - 206
Nay - 28
Not Voting - 7
Democrats:
Yea - 42
Nay - 140
Not Voting - 8
Percentage-wise it breaks down as 28% Dems approved the bill vs 85% Repubs supporting.
I went to KDE 4.8 after years of going with GNOME (both 2 and 3) and I am now quite happy with the result. KDE used to run like a dog on my laptop but now it's quite snappy. Granted, as with any anecdote, YMMV
Your milkshake brings all the boys to my yard,
and they're like - it's now better than yours,
damn right - it's better than yours,
I could license content from you,
but not if you want to charge (my customers for IP violations)
Hey, fun fact, there are currently ~7 billion people alive today, largely due to industrial agriculture practices such as pesticides. Without them we could not produce nearly as much food as we do as cheaply as we do. So, keeping that in mind, what do you suggest we do in the interim while waiting for pesticide-free agriculture practices to develop?
True, but the PR windfall is much more valuable than the prize money. The publicity stirred up by claiming the prize would mean lots of exposure (and thus - more importantly in an emerging market - mindshare) through news programs, magazine articles, Google search results, etc. Also, I'd wager that if you can point to your X Prize during a sales pitch to hospitals, the US Military, or FEMA your claims suddenly get a lot more credibility so you're more likely to recoup those R&D costs through big contracts. Just getting the military alone to sign on would likely guarantee a massive cash-flow, every medical corpsman in the field would be issued one of these.
Marketing uncovered...
The sales and marketing departments will be third against the wall when the revolution comes...
Actually, according the Hitchhiker's Guide the mindless jerks in marketing are supposed to be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
Judging from your post and your sig, I'm gonna say you really shouldn't talk to yourself in the mirror like that, it's not healthy.
Try Arch or Slackware, both are all about the KISS philosophy and are very configurable as a result
Actually Red Hat is championing systemd, which is beginning to spread to other distros as well; OpenSuSE added systemd to their latest release.
You do realize that this is going into Fedora, not Red Hat proper, right? Fedora is rather infamous for introducing bleeding-edge new stuff and breaking things between updates, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is much more focused on stability and compatibility. Syslog will remain the default on RHEL for a long time yet.
You do realize that all new-to-market drugs cost exorbitant amounts of money to help recoup R&D costs from development right? Several hundred candidate formulations were likely tried and failed during the development of this drug, all of those cost money to develop and test before being discarded.
Try trawling through the Ubuntu forums/wikis, granted it's all for a different distro but Ubuntu is specifically billed as being "newbie-friendly" and has a large, active user community and lots of documentation written for newbies. You can also try asking around on IRC chat, generally folks are pretty civil on the ones I've been to.
As to installing stuff, you can do that through a tool in YaST or possibly PackageKit, everything from kernel drivers to web browsers can be installed through Yast and, if anything, once you discover the beauty of package management on modern Linux systems you may very well look back at the days of *.exe installers and shudder.
in regards to mail clients, I've personally always preferred either Evolution or Thunderbird, give them both a whirl and see what happens.
Of course small-talk is easy once you know how to do it. The problem for autistic kids is that we don't know how to do it and we are painfully aware of that. When I was a kid, I got too caught up in my own head trying to think of every situation a conversation could branch off into and formulate a response for it out of fear that I might otherwise make some sort of gaffe and open myself to ridicule. Even today I still don't just quite fall into normal colloquial speech patterns (e.g. overly literal, talking over the listener's head, too much jargon, etc.) Additionally, it can be a real tightrope walk to speak about something we are passionate about without going into geek overload; usually autistic kids have a passionate, deep knowledge about a fairly narrow range of topics that most people frankly just don't give a damn about and it can be hard to tell exactly where the line is between being interesting and just coming off as a know-it-all who likes to hear themselves talk.
Your solution sacrifices robustness for simplicity. That said, I do support the idea of creating sane names for system directories.