That's because they make, or at least used to make, the best phones from a hardware - form - price perspective. I think the same can be said of Samsung when you pitch their phones against iPhones. Now all they have to do is to improve Android or make WP7 their main platform, leaving Android for power users.
I agree with this. Its User Interface is a massive fail. Now, I don't use any smartphone but I have used my friends Android phones quite a bit. Apparently, once the owner of the phone is signed into google, no one else can sign in just to check his mail, or quickly chat with someone. Also, I pretty much had the same experience with receiving calls as parent poster did.
Seriously, I am all for Linux and all, but the desktop Linux DEs that I have used are usually well designed. I will probably just go and buy an iPhone, at least I can make and receive calls quite easily. Nothing else matters in a phone, really.
Yes, but apparently a lot of the time the BIOS doesn't report ASPM even if it does support. You are right in that Linux can't assume anything, but OEMs are aware of it.
It's a problem with the BIOS manufacturers, and the BIOS incorrectly reporting its ASPM capability. When an OEM installs Windows on a laptop, it can correctly tune these settings. But for a fresh install of Linux that YOU performed, a database of every motherboard + BIOS combination needs to be maintained in the open to set the force PCIE ASPM flag. If set wrongly, when the BIOS doesn't support it, it could lead to locking which is far more serious.
There are other solutions to effectively manage power in Linux, like Jupiter.
The problem is that, until now, it hasn't been possible to map the multiple higher channels / more complex light in an optical fibre.
This complex light doesn't have "simple" peaks and troughs, like waves on an ocean, and instead moves and twists like a tornado as it travels through space. The solution to this problem is a globe-shaped Higher Order Poincare Sphere (HOPS) model.
While I kinda know what mapping to a higher order Poincare sphere is, I am naively surprised that light "twists like a tornado", and I don't really understand from TFA how that relates to the poincare sphere. Does someone know more about it?
I don't know about Apple since they are more or less part of a duopoly, but Microsoft will only stand to gain from this. A common API means easier to port functionality between platforms, right?
A relatively badly designed website. It was not obvious (at least to me) but here is the link, and you have to give them your email address: Live Video Streaming link
That would be seriously cool, if it were not for the fact that those two would cozy up with each other and take over their neighbouring country. By the way, they are already doing exactly that.
How will an SSD help with compiling? Unless your program is really large, doesn't it happen in memory anyway? I thought compiling had more to do with the CPU than the hard drive.
Mod parent up. Notice the fifth link on Bing: "Can Openoffice.org rival Microsoft with Libre Office?". I am no Microsoft hater, actually quite the contrary, but that link is not there on the first page of Google, and rightfully so.
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And for one of them, it only removed 70% of the cancerous tissues. This is hardly a significant number to confirm the efficacy of the treatment. Also from TFA:
"Both the National Cancer Institute and several pharmaceutical companies declined to pay for the research. Neither applicants nor funders discuss the reasons an application is turned down. But good guesses are the general shortage of funds and the concept tried in this experiment was too novel and, thus, too risky for consideration."
Both the guesses as BS, considering the impact that this treatment could result in. I get the feeling that the article is hiding certain aspects of the treatment that may put it in a negative light.
Not exactly. For one, they accept any desktop computer or cellphone regardless of whether or not it was made by Apple. Secondly, they pay for the shipping which is generally quite expensive around here for heavier iterms. And of course, getting an Apple card if your item is worth anything is just an icing.
I am impressed. Apple is the last company I would expect to do this. Especially the part where they accept their "lesser" counterpart PCs.
I am one of the "dumb" users who don't need network transparency for their display servers, but if I remember right X Server does run as a client to Wayland. In this sense I would not call it an emulation layer, but rather an abstraction layer.
The use case you mention is very real and ubiquitous in everyday situations. The computers in my university labs just cannot work without X. I am pretty sure it will not die out.
Haha.. this. I read the article twice but I still couldn't understand what the whole point of it was. Are they going to add a new im and social messaging client to their suite? Are they going to create a Mozilla account that all the other websites and platforms can use? Or are they going to create their own platform? I wish she had been a little more clear instead of writing vague adjectives.
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That's because they make, or at least used to make, the best phones from a hardware - form - price perspective. I think the same can be said of Samsung when you pitch their phones against iPhones. Now all they have to do is to improve Android or make WP7 their main platform, leaving Android for power users.
I agree with this. Its User Interface is a massive fail. Now, I don't use any smartphone but I have used my friends Android phones quite a bit. Apparently, once the owner of the phone is signed into google, no one else can sign in just to check his mail, or quickly chat with someone. Also, I pretty much had the same experience with receiving calls as parent poster did.
Seriously, I am all for Linux and all, but the desktop Linux DEs that I have used are usually well designed. I will probably just go and buy an iPhone, at least I can make and receive calls quite easily. Nothing else matters in a phone, really.
As do most people who have a mental disorder, unless they are directly confronted with it.
Tact is unfortunately overrated.
Uhh.. where is the video though?
They have already lost some (if not much) of the Open Source community and users support since Android 3.
Try using Jupiter (http://www.jupiterapplet.org/). It's not there in the repos, but there is a ppa available for it: https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/jupiter .
Yes, but apparently a lot of the time the BIOS doesn't report ASPM even if it does support. You are right in that Linux can't assume anything, but OEMs are aware of it.
It's a problem with the BIOS manufacturers, and the BIOS incorrectly reporting its ASPM capability. When an OEM installs Windows on a laptop, it can correctly tune these settings. But for a fresh install of Linux that YOU performed, a database of every motherboard + BIOS combination needs to be maintained in the open to set the force PCIE ASPM flag. If set wrongly, when the BIOS doesn't support it, it could lead to locking which is far more serious.
There are other solutions to effectively manage power in Linux, like Jupiter.
For more (and better) information, see the following links: About the Kernel 3.0 "Power Regression" Myth and PCIe, power management, and problematic BIOSes
Why aren't all malware creators doing this?
It has the same effect in that Mozilla will not be able to license the patents to implement H.264.
The problem is that, until now, it hasn't been possible to map the multiple higher channels / more complex light in an optical fibre.
This complex light doesn't have "simple" peaks and troughs, like waves on an ocean, and instead moves and twists like a tornado as it travels through space. The solution to this problem is a globe-shaped Higher Order Poincare Sphere (HOPS) model.
While I kinda know what mapping to a higher order Poincare sphere is, I am naively surprised that light "twists like a tornado", and I don't really understand from TFA how that relates to the poincare sphere. Does someone know more about it?
I don't know about Apple since they are more or less part of a duopoly, but Microsoft will only stand to gain from this. A common API means easier to port functionality between platforms, right?
Just curious, how so?
A relatively badly designed website. It was not obvious (at least to me) but here is the link, and you have to give them your email address: Live Video Streaming link
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That would be seriously cool, if it were not for the fact that those two would cozy up with each other and take over their neighbouring country. By the way, they are already doing exactly that.
How will an SSD help with compiling? Unless your program is really large, doesn't it happen in memory anyway? I thought compiling had more to do with the CPU than the hard drive.
Mod parent up. Notice the fifth link on Bing: "Can Openoffice.org rival Microsoft with Libre Office?". I am no Microsoft hater, actually quite the contrary, but that link is not there on the first page of Google, and rightfully so.
"Both the National Cancer Institute and several pharmaceutical companies declined to pay for the research. Neither applicants nor funders discuss the reasons an application is turned down. But good guesses are the general shortage of funds and the concept tried in this experiment was too novel and, thus, too risky for consideration."
Both the guesses as BS, considering the impact that this treatment could result in. I get the feeling that the article is hiding certain aspects of the treatment that may put it in a negative light.
Not exactly. For one, they accept any desktop computer or cellphone regardless of whether or not it was made by Apple. Secondly, they pay for the shipping which is generally quite expensive around here for heavier iterms. And of course, getting an Apple card if your item is worth anything is just an icing.
I am impressed. Apple is the last company I would expect to do this. Especially the part where they accept their "lesser" counterpart PCs.
I am one of the "dumb" users who don't need network transparency for their display servers, but if I remember right X Server does run as a client to Wayland. In this sense I would not call it an emulation layer, but rather an abstraction layer.
The use case you mention is very real and ubiquitous in everyday situations. The computers in my university labs just cannot work without X. I am pretty sure it will not die out.
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What? What about ask.com, altavista.com and yahoo.com? In fact, altavista as a search engine was the "google" of yesterday.
Also, the html source for the first www page is just 78 lines. :D
Haha.. this. I read the article twice but I still couldn't understand what the whole point of it was. Are they going to add a new im and social messaging client to their suite? Are they going to create a Mozilla account that all the other websites and platforms can use? Or are they going to create their own platform? I wish she had been a little more clear instead of writing vague adjectives.