"Hammers age slowly, once peak hammer was reached. Screwdrivers, ditto.
You're sure about that? Go into your hardware store, screwdrivers aren't what they used to be. All standardized interchangeable bits now, and ratcheting handles. Not your grandaddy's screwdriver.
If you buy a phone to last about two years $1k is not at all insane for something you will use all the time.
$1K for a phone is insane if you are trying to get together a down payment for a home or send your kids to college or any number of better ways to use that money. Adding insult to Apple's injury, nobody keeps a phone for just two years these days. My last phone was a flagship that lasted more than four years. It got replaced by a midrange $400 phone that looks and acts just like a flagship, and will also last four years or more. This phone does everything I want plus leaves $600 in my pocket.
Yup, we have officially entered the post-flagship era. Don't even think about putting your retirement savings into flagship-addicted AAPL.
So you are wrong, LibreOffice can run without modification on Android. Work would need to be done to make it look and act like an Android app, but personally I don't give a shit about that, I just want to use a proper Office suite with a proper mouse/keyboard interface on my Android devices, which are perfectly capable of it. Google doesn't want this because it would compete with Google Docs, as I said.
It's good. Obviously, Linux is getting good battery life on your phone. Intel hired a bunch of Linux kernel devs and got power management working fine on their desktop and laptop processors. Chromebook I can't vouch for... oddly enough, Google is most unhelpful about providing tech specs for hardware drivers. You need to check forums to see which Chromebooks are fully supported including power management and GPU.
Android isn't for a big monolithic slab of an application - it's broken all that up into a series of activities, so yes, you're actually going to have to spend some time rewriting things if you want to bring something like staroffice to android.
It's Libreoffice, was that some kind of slur? Yes, it was some kind of slur. See, Google doesn't want LibreOffice on Android because it wants to push GoogleDocs, nothing more or less. The problem with that is, GoogleDocs sucks. A lot. It is in no way an adequate substitute for LibreOffice, the real thing. Never mind that GoogleDocs is competely closed source. So Google is acting against the interests of its users to push its own agenda.
Let's not have bullshit about Android can't do this or that. Android can run LibreOffice just as it is, if Google wants that. After all, Android is just a Linux skin. If Google wanted that then there would be a proof of concept in a week.
Agile is some fake shit invented by useless faggots so they look busy, but actually just chirp a bunch of made-up "computer-sounding" nonsense back and forth. If they do it while holding network equipment then it's "DevOps"
I expect Microsoft to eventually crack down hard on Chromebooks, just like they stopped Linux netbooks by licensing Windows XP cheaply to OEMS on netbooks.
That is not how Microsoft stopped Linux netbooks, at least that is not the main way. Microsoft's main tactic was to contractually bind OEMs to limit the power of Linux netbooks, while offering more powerful netbooks running Windows. Yes, blatantly illegal, but the DoJ had lost, or been stripped of, the will to prosecute by that time.
Now Microsoft seems to have lost control of the OEMs, at least to the extent that they can't stop them from designing and selling Chromebooks. Usually, Microsoft threatens to raise the price of a Windows license in order to keep an OEM in line. What happened this time?
You show every sign of being intermediate level programmer who believes they have nothing left to learn. And remember, here you never know who you are talking to.
Not exactly the kind of customers Apple is interested in
But the Chinese Android manufacturers are very interested. Though it may be obvious, let me spell it out: in technology, market disruption always starts at the low end.
I pointed out that the answer was an evasion. I believe it is apparent that the real answer to my question is "no". Is there shame in that simple answer, and if so, why? Nothing stops anybody from following up with "no, but..." However, evasion... just don't do it. The message you send is "the true answer to the question would be harmful to my argument".
In this case, "no I have never used it" could be followed up with "however I have researched the question a lot, and I have these other data points I can also offer..." But that didn't happen. So now I am left with the impression that the anti-Rust argument was just rhetoric, based on nothing more than personal prejudice.
For the record, I have not written anything in Rust, however I have researched it a fair amount, I have installed it, and I do intend to try some toy programs in it. So far I mostly like what I see, especially the rather impressive performance.
I understand that some significant parts of Firefox have been re-implemented in Rust from the original C++. And I notice that Firefox has improved a lot in recent months, particularly in terms not leaking like it used to.
Here, you never know who you're really talking to, do you? (Interpret that as you wish.) And do you support the claim "they all work" in reference to mission critical systems written in C?
My take on it: past a few thousand lines you basically need to be a rocket scientist to develop mission critical code, whatever the language. C makes it harder than C++. But C makes it easier than assembly.
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What I got from your post: "I have a $1,000 phone but I'm still renting." I guess you made my point.
"Hammers age slowly, once peak hammer was reached. Screwdrivers, ditto.
You're sure about that? Go into your hardware store, screwdrivers aren't what they used to be. All standardized interchangeable bits now, and ratcheting handles. Not your grandaddy's screwdriver.
G6+ not a whole lot more. Recommended.
If you buy a phone to last about two years $1k is not at all insane for something you will use all the time.
$1K for a phone is insane if you are trying to get together a down payment for a home or send your kids to college or any number of better ways to use that money. Adding insult to Apple's injury, nobody keeps a phone for just two years these days. My last phone was a flagship that lasted more than four years. It got replaced by a midrange $400 phone that looks and acts just like a flagship, and will also last four years or more. This phone does everything I want plus leaves $600 in my pocket.
Yup, we have officially entered the post-flagship era. Don't even think about putting your retirement savings into flagship-addicted AAPL.
libreoffice needs rewriting to work on Android, plan, simple, and not because google doesn't want it
GNURoot Debian provides a Debian Linux environment that runs within the confines of the Android application sandbox
So you are wrong, LibreOffice can run without modification on Android. Work would need to be done to make it look and act like an Android app, but personally I don't give a shit about that, I just want to use a proper Office suite with a proper mouse/keyboard interface on my Android devices, which are perfectly capable of it. Google doesn't want this because it would compete with Google Docs, as I said.
Linux on system-z uses ASCII, not EBCDIC.
How is Linux with battery capacity now?
It's good. Obviously, Linux is getting good battery life on your phone. Intel hired a bunch of Linux kernel devs and got power management working fine on their desktop and laptop processors. Chromebook I can't vouch for... oddly enough, Google is most unhelpful about providing tech specs for hardware drivers. You need to check forums to see which Chromebooks are fully supported including power management and GPU.
Android isn't for a big monolithic slab of an application - it's broken all that up into a series of activities, so yes, you're actually going to have to spend some time rewriting things if you want to bring something like staroffice to android.
It's Libreoffice, was that some kind of slur? Yes, it was some kind of slur. See, Google doesn't want LibreOffice on Android because it wants to push GoogleDocs, nothing more or less. The problem with that is, GoogleDocs sucks. A lot. It is in no way an adequate substitute for LibreOffice, the real thing. Never mind that GoogleDocs is competely closed source. So Google is acting against the interests of its users to push its own agenda.
Let's not have bullshit about Android can't do this or that. Android can run LibreOffice just as it is, if Google wants that. After all, Android is just a Linux skin. If Google wanted that then there would be a proof of concept in a week.
Agile is some fake shit invented by useless faggots so they look busy, but actually just chirp a bunch of made-up "computer-sounding" nonsense back and forth. If they do it while holding network equipment then it's "DevOps"
Save some time and read only this.
I expect Microsoft to eventually crack down hard on Chromebooks, just like they stopped Linux netbooks by licensing Windows XP cheaply to OEMS on netbooks.
That is not how Microsoft stopped Linux netbooks, at least that is not the main way. Microsoft's main tactic was to contractually bind OEMs to limit the power of Linux netbooks, while offering more powerful netbooks running Windows. Yes, blatantly illegal, but the DoJ had lost, or been stripped of, the will to prosecute by that time.
Now Microsoft seems to have lost control of the OEMs, at least to the extent that they can't stop them from designing and selling Chromebooks. Usually, Microsoft threatens to raise the price of a Windows license in order to keep an OEM in line. What happened this time?
Is Agile some kind of religion for coders?
Almost right. It's a religion for managers.
Look at what is happening in the latest versions of android - resizing support...
Where's my LibreOffice?
If Chromebook runs Windows badly when the user can see it run better elsewhere then human nature is likely to be to blame the Chromebook, not Windows.
Yah, you kinda missed the point. Linux will be running right beside it, doing the same things, but not sucking.
I thought you said don't engage.
You show every sign of being intermediate level programmer who believes they have nothing left to learn. And remember, here you never know who you are talking to.
Apple isn't doing well in China either.
Not exactly the kind of customers Apple is interested in
But the Chinese Android manufacturers are very interested. Though it may be obvious, let me spell it out: in technology, market disruption always starts at the low end.
Have you been drinking?
Wait, what? Are you an Apple employee?
So, according to you, "have you written anything in Rust?" is an illogical question. Gotcha.
The only way you get buffer overflows these days is if you turn OFF the standard warnings, and use deprecated functions, while writing C.
Hooboy is that ever wrong. You are scary.
Have you ever stuck a fork under your fingernails? I'm guessing the answer is the same as the answer to whether or not I've ever used Rust.
Your analogy further suggests that learning something new would be painful for you.
I pointed out that the answer was an evasion. I believe it is apparent that the real answer to my question is "no". Is there shame in that simple answer, and if so, why? Nothing stops anybody from following up with "no, but..." However, evasion... just don't do it. The message you send is "the true answer to the question would be harmful to my argument".
In this case, "no I have never used it" could be followed up with "however I have researched the question a lot, and I have these other data points I can also offer..." But that didn't happen. So now I am left with the impression that the anti-Rust argument was just rhetoric, based on nothing more than personal prejudice.
For the record, I have not written anything in Rust, however I have researched it a fair amount, I have installed it, and I do intend to try some toy programs in it. So far I mostly like what I see, especially the rather impressive performance.
I understand that some significant parts of Firefox have been re-implemented in Rust from the original C++. And I notice that Firefox has improved a lot in recent months, particularly in terms not leaking like it used to.
There is no "-1, disagree" moderation option.
What about Apple? Apple’s marketshare in India continues to fall as it hits 1% in Q2
Whoops, that's not good, in the soon-to-be world's most populous nation.
Disclosure: I've worked on the Linux kernel.
Here, you never know who you're really talking to, do you? (Interpret that as you wish.) And do you support the claim "they all work" in reference to mission critical systems written in C?
My take on it: past a few thousand lines you basically need to be a rocket scientist to develop mission critical code, whatever the language. C makes it harder than C++. But C makes it easier than assembly.