This is being construed as a job creator in the local news, actually, along with "making the streets safer". Brilliant. Amazing how repetitive the rhetoric of newscasters is when you actually listen instead of using it as background noise.
Basically, I don't care much about linux being popular as an operating system, I just want people to use open standards so that OS support will never be a problem again, no matter what I'm on. And this, I think, has already begun. It was hell 5, 10 years ago, when people stopped, inexplicably, making native linux applications in large measure., and little-to-no cross-platform compatibility existed inherently.
The reason why I don't think I would like linux becoming popular is well, android. From a free and open source project a few years ago, android has made an about face, and is filled with proprietary standards, software, drivers, and oh so much more. About the only thing open about it is the core source code, it's tivoization, it's a mess. It's nearly as bad as windows. As I said to hairyfeet, what is the point of using linux if, in a quest to dominate the desktop, we've rendered our OS as windows?
But I really do understand your point- I just don't agree with it as stated above.
I'll elaborate: despite your vendetta against the command line, do you use sign language instead of talking to people? The command line is far more natural and powerful than the GUI- it's like speech. Hell, even MS is implementing better command lines, does that mean microsoft is in decline? Or rather, is that the reason that microsoft is in decline? Not even, powershell is one of the most useful- or perhaps, the only useful administration tool they've introduced in years.
Ignoring your disgusting double standards and logical fallacies, your argument, or rather, conviction, is wrong as well. You hardly have to use the command line on linux if you don't want to, anyway, what- do you think this is still '95? One should never have to open the terminal in ubuntu, or mint for instance, to fix anything- it just makes it easier. What's more intuitive, "open up this program, browse to this menu, you sould see this, browse to this sub menu, click this button..." or "type this into bash and you're done"? Even if you maintain a CLI-free usage, you can still fix any problems that crop up in a... roundabout way. Your argument is both poor and totally irrelevent.
And, I know you're not likely to understand this as the biggest Microshill on slashdot, we don't want to castrate our OS for market share. Believe it or not, I, and many others, could not care less about being the most popular OS in the world- in fact, that'd take the fun out. I just want a solid OS kernel that powers distributions that I can run on stuff dating back to the 486, without issue- with good hardware support. What's the point of using linux if we've made it as unstable, crashy, bloated and locked down as windows, in a quest to emulate the biggest triumph of marketing over technology the world has yet known? Market share is irrelevant. What is relevant is making the best damn OS out there.
As for your bashing of OS market shares, even maintaining 1% is growth, as the number of computers in the world is much higher than it has ever been- however, the actual linux market share is 2%, most of that gained even in the past 3 years. Not to mention that little success that was linux on the phone, which you consistently refuse to acknowledge in your postings.
And yet, just about every other system of government that I can think of is worse, sure most start off with the best of intentions (well, not really...), but they degenerate into oligarchies or mob rule, no matter what. So I've concluded that the only good form of government is one in which I am in charge;)
Get some RAM, mount a small partition to RAM for usage during compiling. Should offer much more of a performance boost than a more powerful processor, hard drives being the main bottleneck on performance in this case.
In some countries It's legal to download roms if you already own the game- which is what I do with my huge cache of vintage games. Easier than dusting off the NES.
Nope. Growth declines, stops, then goes negative. In 200 years, assuming no (major) societal shifts, there will be around half the amount of people that there are today. Again, assuming all goes well.
No need to have fukishimas if you're using thorium or even uranium properly... but as much as I love nuclear power, it cannot produce petroleum based chemical fertilizers.
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... seriously? It's been 15 goddamn years.
Oracle controls javascript? Since when?
Really? Wow... just... wow. I- I suddenly fear for my hypothetical children.
"I know all of these examples direct the most probable course of action, but..."
If it's walled garden, they are quite likely to charge for development- if only because every other walled garden ecosystem does the same/em.
Costs money on top of a fairly expensive device.
This is being construed as a job creator in the local news, actually, along with "making the streets safer". Brilliant. Amazing how repetitive the rhetoric of newscasters is when you actually listen instead of using it as background noise.
Wow, PMS much?
Basically, I don't care much about linux being popular as an operating system, I just want people to use open standards so that OS support will never be a problem again, no matter what I'm on. And this, I think, has already begun. It was hell 5, 10 years ago, when people stopped, inexplicably, making native linux applications in large measure., and little-to-no cross-platform compatibility existed inherently.
The reason why I don't think I would like linux becoming popular is well, android. From a free and open source project a few years ago, android has made an about face, and is filled with proprietary standards, software, drivers, and oh so much more. About the only thing open about it is the core source code, it's tivoization, it's a mess. It's nearly as bad as windows. As I said to hairyfeet, what is the point of using linux if, in a quest to dominate the desktop, we've rendered our OS as windows?
But I really do understand your point- I just don't agree with it as stated above.
I'll elaborate: despite your vendetta against the command line, do you use sign language instead of talking to people? The command line is far more natural and powerful than the GUI- it's like speech. Hell, even MS is implementing better command lines, does that mean microsoft is in decline? Or rather, is that the reason that microsoft is in decline? Not even, powershell is one of the most useful- or perhaps, the only useful administration tool they've introduced in years.
Ignoring your disgusting double standards and logical fallacies, your argument, or rather, conviction, is wrong as well. You hardly have to use the command line on linux if you don't want to, anyway, what- do you think this is still '95? One should never have to open the terminal in ubuntu, or mint for instance, to fix anything- it just makes it easier. What's more intuitive, "open up this program, browse to this menu, you sould see this, browse to this sub menu, click this button..." or "type this into bash and you're done"? Even if you maintain a CLI-free usage, you can still fix any problems that crop up in a... roundabout way. Your argument is both poor and totally irrelevent.
And, I know you're not likely to understand this as the biggest Microshill on slashdot, we don't want to castrate our OS for market share. Believe it or not, I, and many others, could not care less about being the most popular OS in the world- in fact, that'd take the fun out. I just want a solid OS kernel that powers distributions that I can run on stuff dating back to the 486, without issue- with good hardware support. What's the point of using linux if we've made it as unstable, crashy, bloated and locked down as windows, in a quest to emulate the biggest triumph of marketing over technology the world has yet known? Market share is irrelevant. What is relevant is making the best damn OS out there.
As for your bashing of OS market shares, even maintaining 1% is growth, as the number of computers in the world is much higher than it has ever been- however, the actual linux market share is 2%, most of that gained even in the past 3 years. Not to mention that little success that was linux on the phone, which you consistently refuse to acknowledge in your postings.
Oh fuck off, hairyfeet.
And yet, just about every other system of government that I can think of is worse, sure most start off with the best of intentions (well, not really...), but they degenerate into oligarchies or mob rule, no matter what. So I've concluded that the only good form of government is one in which I am in charge ;)
Pfft, screw that. I just go meklar. One dude can basically run a whole planet's manufacturing. Without researching any robotic controls.
Helps very little when the masses keep voting the asshats in, against my vote.
+5 funny.
Get some RAM, mount a small partition to RAM for usage during compiling. Should offer much more of a performance boost than a more powerful processor, hard drives being the main bottleneck on performance in this case.
vertical.
At least you didn't buy into the star wars series....
In some countries It's legal to download roms if you already own the game- which is what I do with my huge cache of vintage games. Easier than dusting off the NES.
Because it's not released yet, and because it's impossible to run Dolphin on a sub 1GHz ARM.
You can't do Gen6 emulation without real hardware- real hardware is not passively cooled. Liquid cooling mitigates the problem though, I guess.
... ah yes, the flat earth theorists. The exception to my general policy on eugenic sterilization.
Nope. Growth declines, stops, then goes negative. In 200 years, assuming no (major) societal shifts, there will be around half the amount of people that there are today. Again, assuming all goes well.
In fact, it is negative in developed nations.
No need to have fukishimas if you're using thorium or even uranium properly... but as much as I love nuclear power, it cannot produce petroleum based chemical fertilizers.
Thank you. That is all.
S'truth? That much power?