...because Intel was being such a jerk about it all, he threatened to call the new platform 'AMD64' instead of 'x86_64'. And a few people agreed with him. The legacy of that debacle is lying around in a few places, and apparently one of them is Debian's platform naming convention.
Debian project always tries to do the right thing which is why I love them. On top of shipping arguably the best distro.
Here's a tip: say what you god damn mean; if you want a long int, declare a long int instead of just an int. If you want a short int, declare a short int instead of just an int. If you declare just an int, declare just an int everywhere where that interface is going to come into play.
No, don't do that. Where it matters (and it usually does not) use stdint.h.
I beg to differ. Sid is very current, and unlike Ubuntu (which is forked from Sid) it is continously updated.
Disclaimer: mostly running preinstalled Ubuntu these days. Server runs Debian Testing, gradually migrating laptops and workstations from Ubuntu to Debian.
Another way to seal the deal, bring along a couple of Nexus tablets and demo a video chat using Google Talk, which is based on free-and-open Jabber/XMPP. A pair of magic videochat devices for $200 each, how can you beat that?
Show iMovie running on iOS.
OK, show me the $200 ios device that runs imovie and I will retract the claim that you are an idiot.
Thanks for the reality distortion. Nobody trusts Apple to keep providing Google services. Facetime is proprietary shit. Requiring a dongle for USB is bogus, and everybody understands that. If you don't then you are lying.
But hey you don't need to listen to me, just notice that way more people buy Android these days than Apple's dumbed down, expensive, proprietary, walled garden crap. Because they have a choice.
Or, put your phone in a RF-blocking container like a Faraday mesh sleeve (not expensive) and then if you do want to use it, pull it out and use it. That's obviously superior to leaving it at home. You could just pull the battery too.
Or you could get an iPhone and just hold it by the antenna.
Apple is pushing hard, and universities are basically bending over and promoting Apple products.
The best I can say about that is, at least it's Unix. And then it's only a matter of time before they discover that Android/Linux is "better Unix", and they already know something about it.
Are you sure they really understand the issue at hand fully?
Most don't fully get it or see the importance, but that doesn't matter either because they will easily get the fact that Android devices deliver a lot more value for the dollar and have a lot more good quality free stuff.
But let's face it, say "Google" and the average person is already basically sold.
I've been responsible for converting more than a dozen people from Apple to Android now, and Apple's bad acting is all the encouragement I need to redouble my efforts. Not that it takes much convincing. Basically, demonstrate the Google connectivity, show the hardware features (standard usb is a big deal for just about everybody) compare the free and open Android app scene to Apple and it's a done deal. Oh and the price of course, especially the Nexus 7.The bottom line is, a Google logo is just a lot more sought after these days than a half eaten apple.
Another way to seal the deal, bring along a couple of Nexus tablets and demo a video chat using Google Talk, which is based on free-and-open Jabber/XMPP. A pair of magic videochat devices for $200 each, how can you beat that?
First by maginalizing the superior KDE desktop, second by screwing up Gnome development completely by being an idiot. Always thought Miguel was working for Microsoft.
News for Miguel: KDE isn't dead yet, far from it. Gnome is in a death spiral though, and good riddance.
Firefox is the most unstable program in common use. Open a lot of windows and tabs and see for yourself. Maybe you don't normally do that, but people who do research online often see Firefox instability.
At the moment it's a tie between Firefox and Chrome on that front. I normally run both Firefox and Chrome because both of them will die after some number of days of heavy tab usage (100+ tabs). Chrome has this nasty, nasty habit of forgetting your previously open tabs with no way to recover them, if for some reason it crashes again before you hit the recover button. Which is pretty common actually, for example if you reboot a couple of times. (Embarassing bug! What's up with you smart people who totally own the Chrome project?) Furthermore, if you accidentally hit the "start" button instead of "recover" it's not game over for your Firefox tabs, you can get them back just by renaming a file, or you can archive those tabs just by copying that file if you want. If there's any way to do this in Chrome, I haven't found it. For these reasons, and also Chrome's annoying insistance on forcing you to save content to disk before opening it, Firefox is my primary browser for real work and Chrome is my throwaway browser.
Why? This judge (Lucy Koh) has acted consistently with overt bias from the word go. What do expect when the trial venue was basically down the street from Apple HQ. I understand the Cupertino police work for Apple as well.
It's just the same modius operandi that Bill Gates has used, that Andrew Carnegie and other "robber barons" have used for centuries - make shitloads of money by various immoral / unethical / illegal means and then use 'philanthropy' to gain admission to heaven or at least public acceptance of their previous behaviors.
Has Apple stopped creating new products? The iPad came out in 2010, so I'd say the answer is no.
I'd say that's a long time between products for a company that stakes its life on new products. And what did we see from former iconoclast Apple in that time? Underwhelming 4s tweak, heavier thicker hotter iPad 3. Meh.
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...because Intel was being such a jerk about it all, he threatened to call the new platform 'AMD64' instead of 'x86_64'. And a few people agreed with him. The legacy of that debacle is lying around in a few places, and apparently one of them is Debian's platform naming convention.
Debian project always tries to do the right thing which is why I love them. On top of shipping arguably the best distro.
You further need to show that the device doesn't suck compared to an Android phone before your idiot status is retracted.
Here's a tip: say what you god damn mean; if you want a long int, declare a long int instead of just an int. If you want a short int, declare a short int instead of just an int. If you declare just an int, declare just an int everywhere where that interface is going to come into play.
No, don't do that. Where it matters (and it usually does not) use stdint.h.
You don't pick Debian for 'new hotness'.
I beg to differ. Sid is very current, and unlike Ubuntu (which is forked from Sid) it is continously updated.
Disclaimer: mostly running preinstalled Ubuntu these days. Server runs Debian Testing, gradually migrating laptops and workstations from Ubuntu to Debian.
I never found anything worth installing that wasn't in the market...
You didn't look very hard, Apple troll.
Another way to seal the deal, bring along a couple of Nexus tablets and demo a video chat using Google Talk, which is based on free-and-open Jabber/XMPP. A pair of magic videochat devices for $200 each, how can you beat that?
Show iMovie running on iOS.
OK, show me the $200 ios device that runs imovie and I will retract the claim that you are an idiot.
Thanks for the reality distortion. Nobody trusts Apple to keep providing Google services. Facetime is proprietary shit. Requiring a dongle for USB is bogus, and everybody understands that. If you don't then you are lying.
But hey you don't need to listen to me, just notice that way more people buy Android these days than Apple's dumbed down, expensive, proprietary, walled garden crap. Because they have a choice.
Or, put your phone in a RF-blocking container like a Faraday mesh sleeve (not expensive) and then if you do want to use it, pull it out and use it. That's obviously superior to leaving it at home. You could just pull the battery too.
Or you could get an iPhone and just hold it by the antenna.
wait what. My phone has a removable battery.
GP was referring to Apple.
See, that's why unlocked bootloader and open source Android are so important.
You know who's irreparably harming Apple? Apple.
Apple is pushing hard, and universities are basically bending over and promoting Apple products.
The best I can say about that is, at least it's Unix. And then it's only a matter of time before they discover that Android/Linux is "better Unix", and they already know something about it.
Are you sure they really understand the issue at hand fully?
Most don't fully get it or see the importance, but that doesn't matter either because they will easily get the fact that Android devices deliver a lot more value for the dollar and have a lot more good quality free stuff.
But let's face it, say "Google" and the average person is already basically sold.
Any organization with two or more people will be guilty of "bad corporate behavior" in someone's opinion.
Most try to steer clear of the "actively destructive" perception that Apple is building for itself.
I've been responsible for converting more than a dozen people from Apple to Android now, and Apple's bad acting is all the encouragement I need to redouble my efforts. Not that it takes much convincing. Basically, demonstrate the Google connectivity, show the hardware features (standard usb is a big deal for just about everybody) compare the free and open Android app scene to Apple and it's a done deal. Oh and the price of course, especially the Nexus 7.The bottom line is, a Google logo is just a lot more sought after these days than a half eaten apple.
Another way to seal the deal, bring along a couple of Nexus tablets and demo a video chat using Google Talk, which is based on free-and-open Jabber/XMPP. A pair of magic videochat devices for $200 each, how can you beat that?
Based on pretty extensive observations, most of the "devs" I see using Apple as a platform are actually script monkeys.
First by maginalizing the superior KDE desktop, second by screwing up Gnome development completely by being an idiot. Always thought Miguel was working for Microsoft.
News for Miguel: KDE isn't dead yet, far from it. Gnome is in a death spiral though, and good riddance.
Not to be cynical or anything, but the studies were done by a group with a vested interested in promoting this lucrative surgical procedure.
Did they fix Flash freezing all the time, or is that Adobe's fault?
Adobe fixed it by end-of-lifing Flash. Thanks Adobe.
Firefox is the most unstable program in common use. Open a lot of windows and tabs and see for yourself. Maybe you don't normally do that, but people who do research online often see Firefox instability.
At the moment it's a tie between Firefox and Chrome on that front. I normally run both Firefox and Chrome because both of them will die after some number of days of heavy tab usage (100+ tabs). Chrome has this nasty, nasty habit of forgetting your previously open tabs with no way to recover them, if for some reason it crashes again before you hit the recover button. Which is pretty common actually, for example if you reboot a couple of times. (Embarassing bug! What's up with you smart people who totally own the Chrome project?) Furthermore, if you accidentally hit the "start" button instead of "recover" it's not game over for your Firefox tabs, you can get them back just by renaming a file, or you can archive those tabs just by copying that file if you want. If there's any way to do this in Chrome, I haven't found it. For these reasons, and also Chrome's annoying insistance on forcing you to save content to disk before opening it, Firefox is my primary browser for real work and Chrome is my throwaway browser.
...but they are still emphasising facts...
Not lately. Lately it's been misquotes, misrepresentations, and opinions.
According to you, a random bozo on the internet. Care to cite some specifics?
What does google have to do with apple vs samsung?
Eh, send us an email when you wake up.
Judge will definitely invalidate this one.
Why? This judge (Lucy Koh) has acted consistently with overt bias from the word go. What do expect when the trial venue was basically down the street from Apple HQ. I understand the Cupertino police work for Apple as well.
It's just the same modius operandi that Bill Gates has used, that Andrew Carnegie and other "robber barons" have used for centuries - make shitloads of money by various immoral / unethical / illegal means and then use 'philanthropy' to gain admission to heaven or at least public acceptance of their previous behaviors.
Al Capone used it too.
Has Apple stopped creating new products? The iPad came out in 2010, so I'd say the answer is no.
I'd say that's a long time between products for a company that stakes its life on new products. And what did we see from former iconoclast Apple in that time? Underwhelming 4s tweak, heavier thicker hotter iPad 3. Meh.