Well, in the last week I have been seeing a lot of astroturding on behalf of apple and google being targeted on the Mozilla OS. I suppose it is because the development actually makes sense and they are afraid?
You know, you can run standalone offline applications (the hip term of which I understand is "offline apps") in a browser now. Also you know that you can run apps in a browser with OS level rights. Right? Also you know that the Mozilla based os provides apis for websites. Right?
... happened with Android, where handset manufacturers abandon the phone after one release upgrade, or...
That's the problem of doing more than one device per manufacturer. If all manufacturers just could man up and start building just one phone each that problem would be solved. And the problem that all android devices look like pigeon turds (sorry, personal and quite unpopular opinion) could be solved also since design departments could allocate their whole effort into one output. Build quality would start getting higher and all would be good.
Also: If somebody is about to suggest that this would in any way introduce a mono cultural market, don't bother you are too wrong. If somebody is about to suggest that this would in any way limit choice, wake up the choice you are thinking of is illusionary. Making a new device on a budget such that it will be on the same cost as last years device is actually making last years device only worse.
BTW, Because I am making apple look good in this post and that is not representative of me: Apple devices suck, don't buy them.
Wouldn't it just be better to allow the VMs to handle the persistent store keys themselves? Like key passing at launch etc? That way only the owner of the VM and the VM itself would have access to the persistent storage keys.
Still a no go, the thing with cloud solutions and encryption is that: You are ok with the Infrastructure owner knowing what gets into your machines (usually the http traffic) but you don't want them to know what state the machines compute/store. If the encryption is handled by the Infrastructure owner and not you it is as good as nonexistent.
This is a typical showoff move to get the idiots yeling: "Teh googl claud incrypts u d8a withaut prosissin penaltee" Shame on you Google, first actors/models for the commercials and then outright lies about infrastructure?
Well, it is an implied-command line interface call it ICLI is you will. It very much is a CLI with only the arguments being needed since the command is implied by the user having selected it's arguments input box.
Check the tags on the story, when I visited they were: xtroll xlinux xidiocracy xflamebait xcli xfool xidiot And I agree. Who is this fool to be tossing around such bold and totalitarian claims?
Sure real clis (as in terminal apps) should be tucked away behind a solid layer of usability and discoverability BUT they still are paramount for the tinkerer, the admin and the dev so no, doing away with the CLI is not a solution or even an option. Creating great usability and discoverability for the app front ends is the solution.
Story's op is a fool and an uneducated one at that.
Yep, it does work. But actually such strategies need a much more intelligent overlord (manager, CEO) than you will get in most cases. Most will simply not have the nerve or trust in their own hires to actually stay aside. Also unfortunately, there is no worse thing in a high productivity environment than a micro-managing boss.
AFAIK no. There is only one camera on the headset and that sees what you see (with a bit of parallax). The premise is sound though, with eye tracking and projection on both eyes you would be golden. The Google headset though is far away from that thing since it possesses neither eye tracking nor stereo projection.
Well, having had experience with this sort of worn hud in the past I think you are right, it won't happen. In my experience anything that needs you to actually focus on the details of the displayed images is impossible since your left eye (and brain) go crazy.
I have heard that they have consulting optics experts so I guess they could have actually cracked it but afaik to be able to do real work with computer augmented vision you need a real hud, not a small blotch on the far right top side of your right eye's vision.
Yep, exactly 17ms per frame is about the target. Still a 51ms lag is no small thing. A good turntablist has about that in accuracy. So Android 4.1 is useless as a vinyl emulator. No pro will ever use it....
The smoothness is to compete with the iDevice, which unlike the totaly wrong android OS (no offense I support it as a FOSS and more liberal project but it is wrong in all other aspects) has the huge advantages of: a) being a console type development environment ie: you actually have a very limited set of device speck to wory about and can actually optimise for every single device (and apple do that) b) being not written in java which, even though Google have done tremendous achievements in optimization still demands more number crunching. c) living in a monarchy where only the holy Lord iChoons has a say of what runs on your silicon. Seriously I have seen jailbroken i4Ss that are more sluggish than 1st gen Samsung android phones.
They do have good HW. No I don't mean those idiotic shiny glass faced screens every wanna be hipster graphic artist (aka PS monkey) wants to have. I mean things like the macbook air which is very well build with a very good screen, hard alu shell, etc. I liked the boxes they user for the power macs as well (the full aluminum ones).
I mean: A lot of people tend to cry foul about today's electronics build quality and there are some valid points there (welded memory, batteries and un strip-able display panels+backlights) but the fact of the matter is the best build quality smartphone is still the iPhone 5 and the best build quality slim laptop is the macbook air and (even though I hate it and won't ever buy one) the best high productivity notebook is still the macbook pro, yes, the one with the high resolution screen.
Oh and to the previously mentioned "every wanna be hipster graphic artist" buy an EIZO you !@#$^#% cheapskate.
OS X and win7 both have a fine UI if you are of the point and click variety. Of users. Most power users and devs though know very well what's behind their DEs and WMs and only want effective access. There nothing beats custom configuring Mutter or writing extentions for xmonad.
The thing is, I really understand the fact that they (common consumers) are outnumbering devs and ubergeeks in the thousands and for those people even switching from Win7 to OS X (which pretty much are the same UI) is difficult. I gave a fairly experienced windows user a plain gnome3 netbook to do some browsing and even though he ended up liking it the first 15min he spent having steam pour out of his ears trying to open a file manager (which he needn't have to if he had just inserted the usb stick beforehand).
The Linux desktop at this point is the best desktop out there and still it is the most endangered one because of the consumer.
Hmm... I re read the branch of this conversation just to be sure. We are not talking about system stability here but about upgrade versatility. Just so I am completely clear: The above rant wasn't about server stability, that part I always had sorted from the get go. The rant is about retaining freedom. I want to be able to apply critical patches on the fly, I want to be able to do ksplice drops. What I don't want is having a lazy community dictate when I restart my equipment.
No, no, no. It is a working product already. Didn't you see IE10 crashing on in the demo video? I'm telling you man, it's there operational and finished a product as it ever will be!
I pray for the day that all people will be `actually' able to choose between Windows and Linux. But no, I'm not fantasizing it with the "progress of the OS" in mind but with the "progress of human understanding". The OS is there, really any non idiot should be able to install his own version of (at least) Ubuntu onto a PC. The knowledge is out there, freely accessible. Progeny has created all the bases why can't we as a species just move to the next level?
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Well, in the last week I have been seeing a lot of astroturding on behalf of apple and google being targeted on the Mozilla OS.
I suppose it is because the development actually makes sense and they are afraid?
Don't bother mate.
Haters gonna hate....
You know, you can run standalone offline applications (the hip term of which I understand is "offline apps") in a browser now.
Also you know that you can run apps in a browser with OS level rights. Right?
Also you know that the Mozilla based os provides apis for websites. Right?
... happened with Android, where handset manufacturers abandon the phone after one release upgrade, or ...
That's the problem of doing more than one device per manufacturer. If all manufacturers just could man up and start building just one phone each that problem would be solved. And the problem that all android devices look like pigeon turds (sorry, personal and quite unpopular opinion) could be solved also since design departments could allocate their whole effort into one output. Build quality would start getting higher and all would be good.
Also:
If somebody is about to suggest that this would in any way introduce a mono cultural market, don't bother you are too wrong.
If somebody is about to suggest that this would in any way limit choice, wake up the choice you are thinking of is illusionary. Making a new device on a budget such that it will be on the same cost as last years device is actually making last years device only worse.
BTW, Because I am making apple look good in this post and that is not representative of me: Apple devices suck, don't buy them.
Wouldn't it just be better to allow the VMs to handle the persistent store keys themselves?
Like key passing at launch etc? That way only the owner of the VM and the VM itself would have access to
the persistent storage keys.
Still a no go, the thing with cloud solutions and encryption is that: You are ok with the Infrastructure owner knowing what gets into your machines (usually the http traffic) but you don't want them to know what state the machines compute/store. If the encryption is handled by the Infrastructure owner and not you it is as good as nonexistent.
This is a typical showoff move to get the idiots yeling: "Teh googl claud incrypts u d8a withaut prosissin penaltee"
Shame on you Google, first actors/models for the commercials and then outright lies about infrastructure?
Well, it is an implied-command line interface call it ICLI is you will.
It very much is a CLI with only the arguments being needed since the command is
implied by the user having selected it's arguments input box.
Yes and it works brilliantly as long as you are looking for cat pictures with weird captions.
Check the tags on the story, when I visited they were: xtroll xlinux xidiocracy xflamebait xcli xfool xidiot
And I agree. Who is this fool to be tossing around such bold and totalitarian claims?
Sure real clis (as in terminal apps) should be tucked away behind a solid layer of usability and discoverability
BUT they still are paramount for the tinkerer, the admin and the dev so no, doing away with the CLI is not a
solution or even an option. Creating great usability and discoverability for the app front ends is the solution.
Story's op is a fool and an uneducated one at that.
Yep, it does work.
But actually such strategies need a much more intelligent overlord (manager, CEO) than you will get in most cases.
Most will simply not have the nerve or trust in their own hires to actually stay aside.
Also unfortunately, there is no worse thing in a high productivity environment than a micro-managing boss.
Hmm...
AFAIK no. There is only one camera on the headset and that sees what you see (with a bit of parallax).
The premise is sound though, with eye tracking and projection on both eyes you would be golden. The
Google headset though is far away from that thing since it possesses neither eye tracking nor stereo
projection.
And your point, referring to my comment, was?
Well, having had experience with this sort of worn hud in the past I think you are right, it won't happen.
In my experience anything that needs you to actually focus on the details of the displayed images is
impossible since your left eye (and brain) go crazy.
I have heard that they have consulting optics experts so I guess they could have actually cracked it
but afaik to be able to do real work with computer augmented vision you need a real hud, not a small
blotch on the far right top side of your right eye's vision.
Yep, exactly 17ms per frame is about the target. Still a 51ms lag is no small thing. A good turntablist has about that in accuracy. ...
So Android 4.1 is useless as a vinyl emulator. No pro will ever use it.
Ohh, look! Butterflies
The smoothness is to compete with the iDevice, which unlike the totaly wrong android OS (no offense I support it as a FOSS and more liberal project but it is wrong in all other aspects) has the huge advantages of:
a) being a console type development environment ie: you actually have a very limited set of device speck to wory about and can actually optimise for every single device (and apple do that)
b) being not written in java which, even though Google have done tremendous achievements in optimization still demands more number crunching.
c) living in a monarchy where only the holy Lord iChoons has a say of what runs on your silicon. Seriously I have seen jailbroken i4Ss that are more sluggish than 1st gen Samsung android phones.
OMG!!! They stole your line breaks!
Clearly it will have to be a distributed authority.
They do have good HW. No I don't mean those idiotic shiny glass faced screens every wanna be hipster graphic artist (aka PS monkey) wants to have.
I mean things like the macbook air which is very well build with a very good screen, hard alu shell, etc. I liked the boxes they user for the power macs as well (the full aluminum ones).
I mean: A lot of people tend to cry foul about today's electronics build quality and there are some valid points there (welded memory, batteries and un strip-able display panels+backlights) but the fact of the matter is the best build quality smartphone is still the iPhone 5 and the best build quality slim laptop is the macbook air and (even though I hate it and won't ever buy one) the best high productivity notebook is still the macbook pro, yes, the one with the high resolution screen.
Oh and to the previously mentioned "every wanna be hipster graphic artist" buy an EIZO you !@#$^#% cheapskate.
Yep exactly.
OS X and win7 both have a fine UI if you are of the point and click variety. Of users. Most power users and devs though know very well what's behind their DEs and WMs and only want effective access. There nothing beats custom configuring Mutter or writing extentions for xmonad.
The thing is, I really understand the fact that they (common consumers) are outnumbering devs and ubergeeks in the thousands and for those people even switching from Win7 to OS X (which pretty much are the same UI) is difficult. I gave a fairly experienced windows user a plain gnome3 netbook to do some browsing and even though he ended up liking it the first 15min he spent having steam pour out of his ears trying to open a file manager (which he needn't have to if he had just inserted the usb stick beforehand).
The Linux desktop at this point is the best desktop out there and still it is the most endangered one because of the consumer.
The language he speaks?
The linked one can't even answer an - in context - "what is" question about the words it uses.
Hmm... I re read the branch of this conversation just to be sure. We are not talking about system stability here but about upgrade versatility.
Just so I am completely clear: The above rant wasn't about server stability, that part I always had sorted from the get go. The rant is about retaining freedom. I want to be able to apply critical patches on the fly, I want to be able to do ksplice drops. What I don't want is having a lazy community dictate when I restart my equipment.
No, no, no. It is a working product already. Didn't you see IE10 crashing on in the demo video?
I'm telling you man, it's there operational and finished a product as it ever will be!
No! The functional completeness we have enjoyed until now has been the reason there are only that many half assed sw devs out there (thanks msft)!
Honestly I'm going in tomorrow and replace the last 10 or 20 remaining Fedora servers I have with gentoo or arch! That's it!
what laptop was that? was it that one?
</trololololo>
PS: sorry, I couldn't help myself
I pray for the day that all people will be `actually' able to choose between Windows and Linux. But no, I'm not fantasizing it with the "progress of the OS" in mind but with the "progress of human understanding". The OS is there, really any non idiot should be able to install his own version of (at least) Ubuntu onto a PC. The knowledge is out there, freely accessible. Progeny has created all the bases why can't we as a species just move to the next level?