now they're just getting the same as everyone else gets.
So what you're saying is that men are too stupid to complain about bad working conditions and that the problem with women is that they won't play along with this bullshit.
"or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,"
That they wish to do this not merely in the town square, or at their favorite website, but in their neighborhood, makes no difference.
It may be racist, but it's not merely legal, it's protected. And our President is actively working to subvert the Constitution and make this specifically illegal.
so when your boss asks you to sign a non-disclosure, it's unconstitutional? clearly your freedom of speech is being violated
I'm getting plenty of brainwashing from Marxist, Leninist, Leftist Utopians, thank you very much. The war for public approval and oppression has two sides.
Hey Donald Trump, shouldn't you be busy collecting phone numbers to give out?
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it is a purely commercial product with no pretensions of ideological purity or political correctness.
No pretentions of political correctness? My goodness, you really know NOTHING about Microsoft.
Computers are being locked down
yeah that's funny, with about 40 operating systems and 10 different hardware platforms to choose from, computers have never been less locked down. As a consumer you've never had such an opportunity to purchase so many different kinds of computers with so many different kinds of operating systems. You can buy a locked down windows system for your kids that won't let them surf porn, or you can get hacking gear that will find vulnerabilities in your systems. You can set up a linux system by compiling every single program yourself. You can buy computers and cell phones that are virtually all free software, every byte. Face it, computers have never been so unlocked and so easy for people to work with.
in a population this size more users are taking shelter in walled gardens of more manageable size
Meanwhile, back in reality, google, youtube and facebook are more popular than ever before.
RedHat, SuSE, Oracle, IBM, O'Reilly, etc. would disagree with you.
Today's problem is that it is too hard to monetize the old fashioned way of writing software. Just ask Microsoft, giving away Windows. Imagine 10 years ago saying that Microsoft would be giving away free copies of Windows. They would have laughed at you.
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A company that owns the copyright of a GPL project can make it closed-source just as easily as if it had any other license
You can't take back a GPL release and make it closed source, once you've released it. Just ask Oracle, I'm sure they would have paid much more for Sun if OpenJDK had never happened. They could have gotten everyone to pay for java.
However, the role of the GPL in those projects' success is far from clear
Maybe it's not clear to you, but a lot of free software was written specifically as a replacement for non-free versions of the same programs. For instance, the GNU versions of all of the unix utilities, like grep, sed, tar, etc. The reason these GPL programs exist is because the authors knew up front that they part of the big GNU GPL picture. What else would motivate people to duplicate all of this work?
it certainly discounts those projects
what a twisted way of thinking you have
It would be difficult to prove either way.
How is it difficult? We have two free software kernels, one is BSD, one is GPL. Which one is in billions of devices and which one is in millions of devices?
Have you ever been annoyed by users of *nix systems that are less popular than Linux? Then have no fear; Wayland is an effort to kill off those platforms.
blah blah blah
And then all those people using *BSD or Solaris are up shit creek without a paddle.
Short memories forget that Solaris used to have its own window system, and they switched to X windows due to popular demand at the time. No doubt they could switch again.
And the vast majority of BSD systems are running the OSX window system, so a decline in X windows is not going to affect them much.
instead of developing such a system for all *nix systems?
Many linux features exist because they made their own versions of BSD features. BSD did not go out of their way to support them. Nobody is stopping the BSD people from writing their own. In fact they really should write their own, if they used the linux port they would just moan and complain about it.
Also, do you really think *anyone* that purchases a device, regardless of their technical expertise, shouldn't have administrative access to it? Who are you, the root police?
Just curious, do you have root administrative access to the computer that runs your microwave oven?
Is the Internet new to you? It's trivially easy to buy and import phones into the US.
If it doesn't have a service contract and a proper warranty, then it's a "software development device" or a "toy", not a "phone"
At this point probably 99.9% of sales are to software developers, who are buying a "software development device", not a "phone". They will continue to use their other phones.
Android is already free. Why would the cheap Chinese/Indian companies pay a licensing fee over the $0 for Android?
It's not free at all to the phone makers, they have to give google all sorts of consideration. The phones must conform to google's specifications, they have to load all the google software and provide all the google services. They can't strike out on their own and make a radical new interface because they have to support all the google stuff, so it's not "free" at all.
In regards to the short battery life... could this perhaps be because it's written by developers who are used to a desktop environment, and thus, have very little experience writing mobile operating systems?
It's a prototype device for software development, not a shipping product. It could have problems in its power supply circuitry. It might have a substandard battery. Such problems would not stop its deployment as a development device. It could be any of these problems and it's pretty pointless to speculate further.
Nope and nope. You just get shitty scopes and that's about it.
From the web site:
Ubuntu supports all the different smartphone segments. At the high end, it creates an entirely new ‘superphone’ category with converged devices that act as phones on the move, but with full PC functionality when docked with a keyboard and monitor.
So YES, you CAN have your full Ubuntu desktop. You will probably have to plug in a monitor and keyboard and mouse, but yes, it does all run on your phone.
Unix/X/Linux/etc. got to where it is today by offering powerful tools that other systems did not. Seamless remote display technology is one of those tools.
Yeah, Mac OSX can run X windows very nicely as an application process, just like the wayland desktop.
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Lore was the proverbial Jobs or Gates of that particular enterprise.
Yes indeed, white people of privilege and wealth are the only heroes you need to have.
now they're just getting the same as everyone else gets.
So what you're saying is that men are too stupid to complain about bad working conditions and that the problem with women is that they won't play along with this bullshit.
It's also protected by our First Amendment.
"or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,"
That they wish to do this not merely in the town square, or at their favorite website, but in their neighborhood, makes no difference.
It may be racist, but it's not merely legal, it's protected. And our President is actively working to subvert the Constitution and make this specifically illegal.
so when your boss asks you to sign a non-disclosure, it's unconstitutional? clearly your freedom of speech is being violated
I'm getting plenty of brainwashing from Marxist, Leninist, Leftist Utopians, thank you very much. The war for public approval and oppression has two sides.
Hey Donald Trump, shouldn't you be busy collecting phone numbers to give out?
it is a purely commercial product with no pretensions of ideological purity or political correctness.
No pretentions of political correctness? My goodness, you really know NOTHING about Microsoft.
Computers are being locked down
yeah that's funny, with about 40 operating systems and 10 different hardware platforms to choose from, computers have never been less locked down. As a consumer you've never had such an opportunity to purchase so many different kinds of computers with so many different kinds of operating systems. You can buy a locked down windows system for your kids that won't let them surf porn, or you can get hacking gear that will find vulnerabilities in your systems. You can set up a linux system by compiling every single program yourself. You can buy computers and cell phones that are virtually all free software, every byte. Face it, computers have never been so unlocked and so easy for people to work with.
in a population this size more users are taking shelter in walled gardens of more manageable size
Meanwhile, back in reality, google, youtube and facebook are more popular than ever before.
I there are too few ways to monetize GPL code.
RedHat, SuSE, Oracle, IBM, O'Reilly, etc. would disagree with you.
Today's problem is that it is too hard to monetize the old fashioned way of writing software. Just ask Microsoft, giving away Windows. Imagine 10 years ago saying that Microsoft would be giving away free copies of Windows. They would have laughed at you.
A company that owns the copyright of a GPL project can make it
closed-source just as easily as if it had any other license
You can't take back a GPL release and make it closed source, once you've released it. Just ask Oracle, I'm sure they would have paid much more for Sun if OpenJDK had never happened. They could have gotten everyone to pay for java.
However, the role of the GPL in those projects'
success is far from clear
Maybe it's not clear to you, but a lot of free software was written specifically as a replacement for non-free versions of the same programs. For instance, the GNU versions of all of the unix utilities, like grep, sed, tar, etc. The reason these GPL programs exist is because the authors knew up front that they part of the big GNU GPL picture. What else would motivate people to duplicate all of this work?
it certainly discounts those projects
what a twisted way of thinking you have
It would be difficult to prove either way.
How is it difficult? We have two free software kernels, one is BSD, one is GPL. Which one is in billions of devices and which one is in millions of devices?
the whole rest of the world will wait patiently for you to catch up
You mean the people who allow people that you allow access to your wireless to share the password with the world?
Do you really boycott every company that you find objectionable? How do you get out of bed? How do you even have a bed?
With today's crappy browsers, the biggest factor in page loading is that the browser doesn't crash trying to render it.
Another?
Wake me up when Chrome, Firefox, or Safari comply with standards and don't shit things up in random ways every time they update.
Maybe some competition will stimulate the fixing of bugs.
have been around forever, it seems. Even today you can get server motherboards with them.
Have you ever been annoyed by users of *nix systems that are less popular than Linux? Then have no fear; Wayland is an effort to kill off those platforms.
blah blah blah
And then all those people using *BSD or Solaris are up shit creek without a paddle.
Short memories forget that Solaris used to have its own window system, and they switched to X windows due to popular demand at the time. No doubt they could switch again.
And the vast majority of BSD systems are running the OSX window system, so a decline in X windows is not going to affect them much.
instead of developing such a system for all *nix systems?
Many linux features exist because they made their own versions of BSD features. BSD did not go out of their way to support them. Nobody is stopping the BSD people from writing their own. In fact they really should write their own, if they used the linux port they would just moan and complain about it.
You say you want X windows for its ability to run applications remotely.
copy/paste was limited to text, drag and drop didn't work, keymapping didn't work properly and a whole host of other issues.
This is the present reality when you try to do this, so things are not getting any worse if you are running remote apps.
So either you use the crappy native WM
I have no problems with the OSX window manager, it works fine for me.
Also, do you really think *anyone* that purchases a device, regardless of their technical expertise, shouldn't have administrative access to it? Who are you, the root police?
Just curious, do you have root administrative access to the computer that runs your microwave oven?
Is the Internet new to you? It's trivially easy to buy and import phones into the US.
If it doesn't have a service contract and a proper warranty, then it's a "software development device" or a "toy", not a "phone"
At this point probably 99.9% of sales are to software developers, who are buying a "software development device", not a "phone". They will continue to use their other phones.
Gosh, those Model Ts get terrible mileage and they are so unreliable, Ford will surely fail in short order.
actually shipping product
Really? This stuff is ALL vaporware if you live in the USA.
Android is already free. Why would the cheap Chinese/Indian companies pay a licensing fee over the $0 for Android?
It's not free at all to the phone makers, they have to give google all sorts of consideration. The phones must conform to google's specifications, they have to load all the google software and provide all the google services. They can't strike out on their own and make a radical new interface because they have to support all the google stuff, so it's not "free" at all.
the reason Apple has stuck with one-button mice
you can't press the wrong mouse button
you don't have to explain it again for left handed people
you can use a trackpad
In regards to the short battery life... could this perhaps be because it's written by developers who are used to a desktop environment, and thus, have very little experience writing mobile operating systems?
It's a prototype device for software development, not a shipping product. It could have problems in its power supply circuitry. It might have a substandard battery. Such problems would not stop its deployment as a development device. It could be any of these problems and it's pretty pointless to speculate further.
Nope and nope. You just get shitty scopes and that's about it.
From the web site:
Ubuntu supports all the different smartphone segments. At the high end, it creates an entirely new ‘superphone’ category with converged devices that act as phones on the move, but with full PC functionality when docked with a keyboard and monitor.
So YES, you CAN have your full Ubuntu desktop. You will probably have to plug in a monitor and keyboard and mouse, but yes, it does all run on your phone.
Do I get a shell? Do I get root?
If you can't figure out how to use google, I don't think you should get root access.
For example, today I got into the Google maps directions in the "walking" mode.
I know, right? Ubuntu phone is going to fail because google maps on android is buggy.
Unix/X/Linux/etc. got to where it is today by offering powerful tools that other systems did not. Seamless remote display technology is one of those tools.
Yeah, Mac OSX can run X windows very nicely as an application process, just like the wayland desktop.