Nope the answer is your DRIVER MODEL IS ASS, your kernel is run by a douchebag, with every update TWO things break for every ONE fixed, your DEs seem to be run by Bizzaro "Quick, things am getting stable! Must break things by starting over, will cause much am joy for users!" and stability wise you are MAYBE at Win98. How many program lockups have you had? Freezes? Hangs? After I got away from Linux those things just faded away, like a fart in the wind...
You are trolling. You are spewing out a bunch of unsupported assertions in a forum where you know they will not be taken well.
Case in point, if two things broke for every thing fixed there would be less than one feature working in linux.
Case in point you characterize linux kernel devs as people in the basement. 70-80% or code work is done in the offices of major corporations. The rest is spread out amoung people who may one contribute one or two device drivers.
Case in point Torvalds has already answered why there are no plans. So linux can be whatever people want it to be. The biggest changes in 2.6.38 and 2.6.39 have been geared towards improving performance of databases (With large memory pages, and removing the Big Kernel Lock), and 3-D gaming/performance (improvements to GEM, DRM and KMS). Sure it may break a few things for 6 months or a year, but what improvement doesn't. Lets be honest how many things broke with vista, especially 64-bit vista?
The fact that OEMs are trying to roll out linux distros is a huge improvement. 5 years ago almost nobody was trying to figure out ways to sell linux on the desktop. Sure there are some problems with proprietary shit (but not as many as you say, I've install Ubuntu on a netbook, and the only extra driver required was the graphics driver, and it was provided though the hardware drivers program. And yest there are problems with breakage on the cutting edge, but there are several distros that say well away from that edge.
Their single biggest problem is that they weren't first. Even MacOS which doesn't have such technical issues has failed to do much more than to carve itself a niche as a "hip" OS. Linux might do better with a "think different" add campaign, but noone really has a linux advertising budget. (For the desktop at least) Even in the laptopmag.com article you gave, the reason for returns were mainly that it wasn't windows, not any inherent flaw or difficulty. People have spent 15 years on Windows, and they are comfortable with what they know. Those thousands of questions are normal or even expected because it's not the windows they have known and are used to.
ARM SoC, is even worse from a drivers standpoint. There basically aren't any open drivers for the graphics o videor codec portion of the chips, and just about every manufacturer seems to use a different memory management code. Why do you think there's such a problem updating android version on phones? Each version on android rests on a different kernel version, and each new version requires a rewrite of the proprietary drivers of that platform.
Linux devs write for laptops because they want to use them.
Sometimes it's a the config issue as well, such as how long to wait before flushing a cache to disk and how big the cache can get before flushing. Though you can always tweak these setting, but not many people to. If that's the problem someone will have a fix fast
But I don't that's the issue here. 2.6.38 and 2.6.39 have been doing a lot of work to get rid of the BIg Kernel Lock and improving DRM + KMS which are major architectural changes, and it will be a while before some of the side effects are ironed out.
I am no lawyer but this is only a problem once he is convicted. Or did I miss the fact that he is being deprived of a chance to defend himself in court?.
Yes, you whizzed right by probable cause. Without which police have no authority to arrest, and courts of no jurisdiction to even put you on trial.
While MS can be blamed for many things don't forget the manufactures also, is it win7 fault your machine locks or shitty drivers provided for your sound card etc?
Depends on how old the card or chipset is. If older than vista, no. They entirely hacked out a lot of hardware and driver subsystem to try to clean up the crud, so a newer driver for that card will just be trying to map from the old crud to the new. For new hardware there really ought to be proper QA from M$ to make sure any OEM sold with Windows 7 has solid drivers and a team committed to updating the drivers when needed.Ideally they would stop being to lazy and include the drivers in tree, but it's never going to happen as long as Windows is the default OS of the desktop.
That however is after the fact of the business transaction. They don't connect a legal identify to you during or before the transaction, as such it is anonymous.
You're moving the goalposts. Anonymity is not having your identity known, rather than your identity being indiscoverable.. For an identity not to be discoverable absolutely, would be not to have an identity at all.
I guess its time to inform you that high def TV uses a significant amount of DRM, as anything with an HDMI cable is required to use HDCP. DRM is just unavoidable these days.
No it's not. It's perfectly possible to use HDMI unencrypted. Anything liscenced to play BlueRay or other AACS encrypted media is required to export HDCP, but there are boxes that can strip it, and ways you can mod hardware to hook directly into the signal.
The U.S government has the "authority" (really just permission they give to themselves) to do chemical and biological weapons testing on it's own population. The only restriction is that local authorities must be notified first. E.g the Tuskegee project.
Actually regular wedding rings are partially hazardous. Quite a few people manage to rip a finger off when they snag or catch the ring on something. Especially common among this incidents is snagging them on a truck or tractor door while jumping out.
It's just the standard android running on top of Quemu. Someone may have wrapped it all up together, but is shouldn't be that difficult to do yourself.
Efficiency of economics is ultimately about how well consumer demands are satisfied, not about any sort of objective quality of the product. Anything else really doesn't make any sense.
As it involves a question of ultimate utility (personal choices and values) it some that is incaclulable, It doesn't mean though we have to be entirely agnostic about it. It just means that any result will not be apodictic. A person could come up with a pretty decent guess by adapting standard market research techniques to relevant historical data sets (and by historical I only mean past acts rather than present actions).
As the primary basis of economic / human action is a person choosing one thing over all others. An inequality is not suited to be fitted to a system of equations and equalities. There is an ordinal structure to it, but it is impossible to actually draw cardinal relations and values out of it. At best you can try to extract cardinal relations from historic data, but this is to study economic history, rather than economics proper
The rich are BTW the people with the most incentive and best ability to avoid or evade taxes.It could just be considered differential pricing. (Though it's more likely a result of regulatory capture). Personally I favor a fair tax with a flat rater of zero parts per hundred.
A sales tax is a tax for the "privileged" of selling good or sevices in a "state". (like any reasonable adult would believe they really need permission to do business. As a sales tax it is imposed on the seller, and not upon the buyer. (It is a sales tax, not a buying tax) The seller usually find it most convenient to pass along the cost.
The laffer curve state that if you decrease rates for some portions of the curve you can decrease evasion even more to increase total revenue. It's a simple microeconomic curve of risk or evasion vs. benefit of evasion.
Your claim is likely true, but it is only true in the long term, and not the short.
Yes, One big improvement would be to make Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase oxygenase just Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase. to eliminate photo-respiration.
Doing exactly the same thing in a roundabout way isn't exactly innovation. Rube Goldberg machines are cool in all, but nobody really wants to use one every morning to fry an egg. To really innovate you should implement the best known technology in a better way. Take the example or Watt's engine and patents. The engine didn't particularly improve or gain a widespread use until after the patents had expired. R&D to get around a patent is R&D that could have been dedicated to improving the best known practice rather than trying to come up with a good-enough practice.
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Nope the answer is your DRIVER MODEL IS ASS, your kernel is run by a douchebag, with every update TWO things break for every ONE fixed, your DEs seem to be run by Bizzaro "Quick, things am getting stable! Must break things by starting over, will cause much am joy for users!" and stability wise you are MAYBE at Win98. How many program lockups have you had? Freezes? Hangs? After I got away from Linux those things just faded away, like a fart in the wind...
You are trolling. You are spewing out a bunch of unsupported assertions in a forum where you know they will not be taken well.
Case in point, if two things broke for every thing fixed there would be less than one feature working in linux.
Case in point you characterize linux kernel devs as people in the basement. 70-80% or code work is done in the offices of major corporations. The rest is spread out amoung people who may one contribute one or two device drivers.
Case in point Torvalds has already answered why there are no plans. So linux can be whatever people want it to be. The biggest changes in 2.6.38 and 2.6.39 have been geared towards improving performance of databases (With large memory pages, and removing the Big Kernel Lock), and 3-D gaming/performance (improvements to GEM, DRM and KMS). Sure it may break a few things for 6 months or a year, but what improvement doesn't. Lets be honest how many things broke with vista, especially 64-bit vista?
The fact that OEMs are trying to roll out linux distros is a huge improvement. 5 years ago almost nobody was trying to figure out ways to sell linux on the desktop. Sure there are some problems with proprietary shit (but not as many as you say, I've install Ubuntu on a netbook, and the only extra driver required was the graphics driver, and it was provided though the hardware drivers program. And yest there are problems with breakage on the cutting edge, but there are several distros that say well away from that edge.
Their single biggest problem is that they weren't first. Even MacOS which doesn't have such technical issues has failed to do much more than to carve itself a niche as a "hip" OS. Linux might do better with a "think different" add campaign, but noone really has a linux advertising budget. (For the desktop at least) Even in the laptopmag.com article you gave, the reason for returns were mainly that it wasn't windows, not any inherent flaw or difficulty. People have spent 15 years on Windows, and they are comfortable with what they know. Those thousands of questions are normal or even expected because it's not the windows they have known and are used to.
ARM SoC, is even worse from a drivers standpoint. There basically aren't any open drivers for the graphics o videor codec portion of the chips, and just about every manufacturer seems to use a different memory management code. Why do you think there's such a problem updating android version on phones? Each version on android rests on a different kernel version, and each new version requires a rewrite of the proprietary drivers of that platform. Linux devs write for laptops because they want to use them.
Sometimes it's a the config issue as well, such as how long to wait before flushing a cache to disk and how big the cache can get before flushing. Though you can always tweak these setting, but not many people to. If that's the problem someone will have a fix fast
But I don't that's the issue here. 2.6.38 and 2.6.39 have been doing a lot of work to get rid of the BIg Kernel Lock and improving DRM + KMS which are major architectural changes, and it will be a while before some of the side effects are ironed out.
I am no lawyer but this is only a problem once he is convicted. Or did I miss the fact that he is being deprived of a chance to defend himself in court?.
Yes, you whizzed right by probable cause. Without which police have no authority to arrest, and courts of no jurisdiction to even put you on trial.
While MS can be blamed for many things don't forget the manufactures also, is it win7 fault your machine locks or shitty drivers provided for your sound card etc?
Depends on how old the card or chipset is. If older than vista, no. They entirely hacked out a lot of hardware and driver subsystem to try to clean up the crud, so a newer driver for that card will just be trying to map from the old crud to the new. For new hardware there really ought to be proper QA from M$ to make sure any OEM sold with Windows 7 has solid drivers and a team committed to updating the drivers when needed.Ideally they would stop being to lazy and include the drivers in tree, but it's never going to happen as long as Windows is the default OS of the desktop.
That however is after the fact of the business transaction. They don't connect a legal identify to you during or before the transaction, as such it is anonymous.
You're moving the goalposts. Anonymity is not having your identity known, rather than your identity being indiscoverable.. For an identity not to be discoverable absolutely, would be not to have an identity at all.
There is a humble bundle going on right now.
I guess its time to inform you that high def TV uses a significant amount of DRM, as anything with an HDMI cable is required to use HDCP. DRM is just unavoidable these days.
No it's not. It's perfectly possible to use HDMI unencrypted. Anything liscenced to play BlueRay or other AACS encrypted media is required to export HDCP, but there are boxes that can strip it, and ways you can mod hardware to hook directly into the signal.
The U.S government has the "authority" (really just permission they give to themselves) to do chemical and biological weapons testing on it's own population. The only restriction is that local authorities must be notified first. E.g the Tuskegee project.
Actually regular wedding rings are partially hazardous. Quite a few people manage to rip a finger off when they snag or catch the ring on something. Especially common among this incidents is snagging them on a truck or tractor door while jumping out.
You can also order, pay by money order, and send delivery to a drop address.
Lets' see.. ever since cash has been legal tender.
disclaimer: I am not a US citizen
Nobody is really. In fides non ficta.
It's just the standard android running on top of Quemu. Someone may have wrapped it all up together, but is shouldn't be that difficult to do yourself.
Efficiency of economics is ultimately about how well consumer demands are satisfied, not about any sort of objective quality of the product. Anything else really doesn't make any sense.
Many of the fiber-lines just follow railroads
Hardware key-logger, modified BIOS, stealing whatever scrap of paper you wrote the key down on.
As it involves a question of ultimate utility (personal choices and values) it some that is incaclulable, It doesn't mean though we have to be entirely agnostic about it. It just means that any result will not be apodictic. A person could come up with a pretty decent guess by adapting standard market research techniques to relevant historical data sets (and by historical I only mean past acts rather than present actions).
As the primary basis of economic / human action is a person choosing one thing over all others. An inequality is not suited to be fitted to a system of equations and equalities. There is an ordinal structure to it, but it is impossible to actually draw cardinal relations and values out of it. At best you can try to extract cardinal relations from historic data, but this is to study economic history, rather than economics proper
The rich are BTW the people with the most incentive and best ability to avoid or evade taxes.It could just be considered differential pricing. (Though it's more likely a result of regulatory capture). Personally I favor a fair tax with a flat rater of zero parts per hundred.
A sales tax is a tax for the "privileged" of selling good or sevices in a "state". (like any reasonable adult would believe they really need permission to do business. As a sales tax it is imposed on the seller, and not upon the buyer. (It is a sales tax, not a buying tax) The seller usually find it most convenient to pass along the cost.
The laffer curve state that if you decrease rates for some portions of the curve you can decrease evasion even more to increase total revenue. It's a simple microeconomic curve of risk or evasion vs. benefit of evasion. Your claim is likely true, but it is only true in the long term, and not the short.
Yes, One big improvement would be to make Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase oxygenase just Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase. to eliminate photo-respiration.
Sometimes, but not always, especially it it's not an immediate or credible threat.
Doing exactly the same thing in a roundabout way isn't exactly innovation. Rube Goldberg machines are cool in all, but nobody really wants to use one every morning to fry an egg. To really innovate you should implement the best known technology in a better way. Take the example or Watt's engine and patents. The engine didn't particularly improve or gain a widespread use until after the patents had expired. R&D to get around a patent is R&D that could have been dedicated to improving the best known practice rather than trying to come up with a good-enough practice.
Think different.
Yes, let's all flock to a company that thinks that having improper grammar in it's slogan is hip and cool.