Coal is the lame duck. It should be easy to get rid off it. Natural Gas? No way we are giving it up. Imagine heating up all these homes in the winter with anything other than natural gas.
Natural gas emits about half the greenhouse gas as coal per thermal unit and burns considerably cleaner, but is still a problem.
Apple had a big printer business because they created Postscript - a way to scale fonts to arbitrary size.
Not quite. Adobe created Postscript, and Apple had a close working relationship with Adobe. Postscript did a lot more than just scale fonts, it provided a generic and complete framework for rendering professional quality typography, including graphics, to a printer. In addition to being Turing-complete, which wasn't essential but a stylish touch.
Apple developed a printer business mainly to drive postscript into the market, in order to maximize the early advantage Apple had in desktop publishing. When that advantage eroded away due to improvements in PC software and an influx of less expensive printers from several manufacturers capable of equivalent or better rendering of Postscript graphics, Apple sensibly got out in order to focus resources on emerging markets.
The problem for Apple now, is they have lost the ability to develop new markets. But they remember how to close things down, that's the easy part.
No, it just means that Tim Cook, pencil pusher, cancelled the product line to improve short term profitability without worrying too much about long term effects. I presume that iThings will just suck more as a result, which will only be important to an iThing victim.
Not in a dysfunctional engineering organization where everything takes more time and money and ends up more disappointing and troublesome than anyone could possibly imagine. Otherwise, peddling their own bespoke routers would be a great way to differentiate the product family with network features that competitors can't match, because the competitors are compelled to adhere to standards. But that mojo died with Jobs and Apple just can't do it any more, hence backing slowly off the field with tail tucked between its spindly corporate legs.
There mere fact you listed them makes them specific.
You're really good with that comedy shtick. So, according to you, anything listable is "specific". I don't think that word means what you think it means.
I notice you don't have general purpose PC in there anywhere.
Not in my (partial) list of areas where Linux is dominant, no. General purpose PCs goes in the list of "other areas" where Linux has achieved a foothold from which it cannot be dislodged, and is growing in spite of substantial efforts to restrain it.
Also everything embedded is just plain false and is an area where Linux has actual real competition
Not really. As soon as you get outside of platforms too small to run any form of Linux, you find that Linux is absolutely dominant in embedded. Just ask Wind River. And the cutoff between stripper RTOS and full blown Linux just keeps moving down the food chain as the little machines get more powerful with more memory. So technically you might have a point: at the low end of embedded, which is arguably the larger part of by numbers, embedded RTOS rules. Everywhere else, Linux rules. And the part that Linux rules is not only steadily encroaching on the part that RTOS rules, but it is where the money is.
unlike the desktop where it isn't even a contender...
You wish. Though Microsoft continues to throw substantial resources at illegally maintaining its market dominance in the sector, Linux continues to expand its share anyway and its users now number in the tens of millions. In the not too distant future, hundreds of millions. One word: unstoppable.
It's not a silver platter
Really because based on every slashdot story we hear no one wants windows 10, people are fleeing it in droves because hardware isn't working on it, and linux is super simple, super user friendly and will suit everyone's use case. Or maybe that last bit is false. But hey at least 2117 will be the year of the linux on desktop. Then you may have grounds to make your claim on all application domains.
The year of Linux on the desktop was long ago. You're holding your breath for "the year of Linux dominance on the desktop" maybe? It might happen. It doesn't matter much to me. But the very idea does seem to elicit quite some emotional response from Microsoft die-hards.
Linux is rising (incredibly quickly at that) in a set of VERY SPECIFIC application domains.
So "all smart phones", "all internet servers" and "everything embedded" are "VERY SPECIFIC" application domains according to you? Good one, you're a real comedian.
There are some application domains (e.g. desktop operating systems) which are being handed to them on a silver fucking platter and it's still getting absolutely nowhere.
It's not a silver platter, it's a long uphill battle against Microsoft's illegal market control practices. And 40 to 80 million desktop users is not "nowhere". Linux is not yet dominant on the desktop as it is in almost all other computer application areas, but it is rising. Only a fool would deny it.
with Linux you have that lovely benefit of never having been able to run in the first place due to lack of drivers.
The 1990's called and wants its troll back. Face it, Windows is fading, Linux is rising, in all application domains. That's the way of the world now. Time to hang you up on a hook in the Microsoft museum.
And tomorrow's $500 laptop just seems to not work with today's software, and tomorrow's $500 laptop seems to not have updated drivers or support.
You are talking about Windows. I don't care whether Windows works or not. I have never seen a single instance of Linux dropping support for or losing drivers for an old PC. Even 386 PCs still run under Linux if you build a pre-3.8 kernel, which then may be maintained if anybody cares about booting up their 1991 PC for nostalgic reasons.
In fact, running Linux on a laptop that Microsoft dropped support for is an excellent way to get a lot of laptop for very little money. Perfect for school kids, who are probably going to lose or bust the thing anyway.
I avoid Dell now. Had one too many Dell laptops bite the dust with mainboard issues (cheap caps?) or need to replace the keyboard. Never had one last very long. Better luck with Acer and Asus.
Never spend more than $1000 on a laptop... unless someone else is paying.
+1. My most satisfying laptop ever: $285 Gateway/Acer from Fry's, throw away the HD and put in a $100 ssd. Whamo, awesome. Still going great years later. Boots to KDE in ~10 seconds.
The point I was making was that what actually failed was a tiny portion of the whole.
But proportionately more than other products and sufficient to indicate an endemic design issue. Even a single battery explosion is enough to make the news, just like a single airplane crash. Well, maybe it even makes more news than a cessna crash these days. I don't think that Samsung's remedy was excessive at all, given that there is no doubt that these events took place and the reason is faulty engineering of the handset, not the battery (otherwise the phones would have been refurbished instead of the entire product line being pulled). Kudos to Samsung for taking the necessary action without delay.
Samsung is the only entity that knows how bad it could have gotten...
That's sad, kind of erodes one's faith in the super competent geek mythos hollywood has built up around us. I thought that, given a mere hint of what might be wrong, some genius with a multimeter out there would be able to tell us in detail exactly what went wrong. Failing that, some mole in digital city. Anyway, pulling the product is the honorable (and costly) thing to do, well beyond any remedial action we have seen Apple or Microsoft undertake. Makes me more likely to look seriously at Samsung handsets from now on.
I'm just glad that this "study" treats a crash of a YouBook app as a "failure" the same as if the phone explodes and embeds shards of glass in your eyes.
I was and am very much against Donald Trump, but I'm not sure what hacking his organization would have accomplished - every kooky thing he seems to believe was already right out there in front of us.
There is no doubt a bounty of outright illegal activities to be exposed from records of Trump's private communications. For example, concrete evidence of bribery or sexual abuse. I'm looking forward to a steady drip feed of such revelations over the next four years, actually. If he lasts that long.
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Coal is the lame duck. It should be easy to get rid off it. Natural Gas? No way we are giving it up. Imagine heating up all these homes in the winter with anything other than natural gas.
Natural gas emits about half the greenhouse gas as coal per thermal unit and burns considerably cleaner, but is still a problem.
Your own private definition of "ice age"? Suggest you try this one instead: ice age implies the presence of extensive ice sheets in both northern and southern hemispheres. By this definition, we are in an interglacial period
I don't live there, but it sounds like a good thing.
It's a good thing until it turns into drought.
Is the human eye even capable of perceiving the difference between 1080p and 4k on a desktop/laptop monitor?
My eye is, easily. In fact I find that a 1080p monitor is a recipe for eyestrain.
Apple had a big printer business because they created Postscript - a way to scale fonts to arbitrary size.
Not quite. Adobe created Postscript, and Apple had a close working relationship with Adobe. Postscript did a lot more than just scale fonts, it provided a generic and complete framework for rendering professional quality typography, including graphics, to a printer. In addition to being Turing-complete, which wasn't essential but a stylish touch.
Apple developed a printer business mainly to drive postscript into the market, in order to maximize the early advantage Apple had in desktop publishing. When that advantage eroded away due to improvements in PC software and an influx of less expensive printers from several manufacturers capable of equivalent or better rendering of Postscript graphics, Apple sensibly got out in order to focus resources on emerging markets.
The problem for Apple now, is they have lost the ability to develop new markets. But they remember how to close things down, that's the easy part.
No, it just means that Tim Cook, pencil pusher, cancelled the product line to improve short term profitability without worrying too much about long term effects. I presume that iThings will just suck more as a result, which will only be important to an iThing victim.
I had no idea they had an EXTREME version of an airport.
Why does that make me think of "Extreme Lada?"
...not worth the time and support hassles.
Not in a dysfunctional engineering organization where everything takes more time and money and ends up more disappointing and troublesome than anyone could possibly imagine. Otherwise, peddling their own bespoke routers would be a great way to differentiate the product family with network features that competitors can't match, because the competitors are compelled to adhere to standards. But that mojo died with Jobs and Apple just can't do it any more, hence backing slowly off the field with tail tucked between its spindly corporate legs.
This is a bit of a kick in the shorts to me as well.
Apple customer. Get used to it.
There mere fact you listed them makes them specific.
You're really good with that comedy shtick. So, according to you, anything listable is "specific". I don't think that word means what you think it means.
I notice you don't have general purpose PC in there anywhere.
Not in my (partial) list of areas where Linux is dominant, no. General purpose PCs goes in the list of "other areas" where Linux has achieved a foothold from which it cannot be dislodged, and is growing in spite of substantial efforts to restrain it.
Also everything embedded is just plain false and is an area where Linux has actual real competition
Not really. As soon as you get outside of platforms too small to run any form of Linux, you find that Linux is absolutely dominant in embedded. Just ask Wind River. And the cutoff between stripper RTOS and full blown Linux just keeps moving down the food chain as the little machines get more powerful with more memory. So technically you might have a point: at the low end of embedded, which is arguably the larger part of by numbers, embedded RTOS rules. Everywhere else, Linux rules. And the part that Linux rules is not only steadily encroaching on the part that RTOS rules, but it is where the money is.
unlike the desktop where it isn't even a contender...
You wish. Though Microsoft continues to throw substantial resources at illegally maintaining its market dominance in the sector, Linux continues to expand its share anyway and its users now number in the tens of millions. In the not too distant future, hundreds of millions. One word: unstoppable.
It's not a silver platter
Really because based on every slashdot story we hear no one wants windows 10, people are fleeing it in droves because hardware isn't working on it, and linux is super simple, super user friendly and will suit everyone's use case. Or maybe that last bit is false. But hey at least 2117 will be the year of the linux on desktop. Then you may have grounds to make your claim on all application domains.
The year of Linux on the desktop was long ago. You're holding your breath for "the year of Linux dominance on the desktop" maybe? It might happen. It doesn't matter much to me. But the very idea does seem to elicit quite some emotional response from Microsoft die-hards.
Linux is rising (incredibly quickly at that) in a set of VERY SPECIFIC application domains.
So "all smart phones", "all internet servers" and "everything embedded" are "VERY SPECIFIC" application domains according to you? Good one, you're a real comedian.
There are some application domains (e.g. desktop operating systems) which are being handed to them on a silver fucking platter and it's still getting absolutely nowhere.
It's not a silver platter, it's a long uphill battle against Microsoft's illegal market control practices. And 40 to 80 million desktop users is not "nowhere". Linux is not yet dominant on the desktop as it is in almost all other computer application areas, but it is rising. Only a fool would deny it.
nobody gets fired for buying Microsoft
Not true.
with Linux you have that lovely benefit of never having been able to run in the first place due to lack of drivers.
The 1990's called and wants its troll back. Face it, Windows is fading, Linux is rising, in all application domains. That's the way of the world now. Time to hang you up on a hook in the Microsoft museum.
For low impact stuff, hell yes. $500 does the trick in style. I do a bit of CAD, and for me the $1000+ units are essential.
CAD on a laptop sounds like cruel and unusual punishment. Hey, why not go all the way! CAD on a phone.
And tomorrow's $500 laptop just seems to not work with today's software, and tomorrow's $500 laptop seems to not have updated drivers or support.
You are talking about Windows. I don't care whether Windows works or not. I have never seen a single instance of Linux dropping support for or losing drivers for an old PC. Even 386 PCs still run under Linux if you build a pre-3.8 kernel, which then may be maintained if anybody cares about booting up their 1991 PC for nostalgic reasons.
In fact, running Linux on a laptop that Microsoft dropped support for is an excellent way to get a lot of laptop for very little money. Perfect for school kids, who are probably going to lose or bust the thing anyway.
Why not spend > 1000?
Because today's $1000 laptop is tomorrow's $500 laptop.
I avoid Dell now. Had one too many Dell laptops bite the dust with mainboard issues (cheap caps?) or need to replace the keyboard. Never had one last very long. Better luck with Acer and Asus.
Never spend more than $1000 on a laptop... unless someone else is paying.
+1. My most satisfying laptop ever: $285 Gateway/Acer from Fry's, throw away the HD and put in a $100 ssd. Whamo, awesome. Still going great years later. Boots to KDE in ~10 seconds.
why do you people keep asking Slashdot, instead of investing 10 seconds on google looking for a suitable hackintosh?
I for one always appreciate some fresh perspectives on which laptop is best for my next Linux install.
Same as the old Microsoft
The amounts that they charge for these phones is outrageous. They should be selling for less than $500.
No, they should be selling for twice as much, because being separated from their cash is a liberating experience for an ifan.
The point I was making was that what actually failed was a tiny portion of the whole.
But proportionately more than other products and sufficient to indicate an endemic design issue. Even a single battery explosion is enough to make the news, just like a single airplane crash. Well, maybe it even makes more news than a cessna crash these days. I don't think that Samsung's remedy was excessive at all, given that there is no doubt that these events took place and the reason is faulty engineering of the handset, not the battery (otherwise the phones would have been refurbished instead of the entire product line being pulled). Kudos to Samsung for taking the necessary action without delay.
Samsung is the only entity that knows how bad it could have gotten...
That's sad, kind of erodes one's faith in the super competent geek mythos hollywood has built up around us. I thought that, given a mere hint of what might be wrong, some genius with a multimeter out there would be able to tell us in detail exactly what went wrong. Failing that, some mole in digital city. Anyway, pulling the product is the honorable (and costly) thing to do, well beyond any remedial action we have seen Apple or Microsoft undertake. Makes me more likely to look seriously at Samsung handsets from now on.
I'm just glad that this "study" treats a crash of a YouBook app as a "failure" the same as if the phone explodes and embeds shards of glass in your eyes.
Right, or electrocutes you while it's charging.
I was and am very much against Donald Trump, but I'm not sure what hacking his organization would have accomplished - every kooky thing he seems to believe was already right out there in front of us.
There is no doubt a bounty of outright illegal activities to be exposed from records of Trump's private communications. For example, concrete evidence of bribery or sexual abuse. I'm looking forward to a steady drip feed of such revelations over the next four years, actually. If he lasts that long.