>> You do realize that... are mutually exclusive phrases, right? No, it's not. - The driver issues are already resolved. the 1% of PCs still having driver problems are easily avoided when purchasing HW. - the lack of support from some software vendors will resolve itself quickly. Today, even in specialised jobs you can find suitable Linux alternatives, or at least packages working fine on Wine. Some big administrations have sucessfully switched to Linux for most of their desktops (eg. the city of Munich, with 40k Desktops)
1. For no reason at all, your car will crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you will have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally, executing a manoeuver such as a left-turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, and you will have to reinstall the engine.
4. When your car will die on the freeway for no reason, you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
5. Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought 'Car95' or 'CarNT', and then added more seats.
6. Apple will make a car powered by the sun, reliable, five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but will run on only five per cent of the roads.
7. Oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights will be replaced by a single blue 'general car default' warning light.
8. New seats will force every-one to have the same size butt.
9. The airbag will say 'Are you sure?' before going off.
10. Occasionally, for no reason, your car will lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lift the door handle, turn the key, and grab the radio antenna.
11. GM will require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of road maps from Rand-McNally (a subsidiary of GM), even though they neither need them nor want them. Trying to delete this option would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50 per cent or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Department.
12. Every time GM introduced a new model, car buyers will have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
13. You will press the 'start' button to shut off the engine.
>> Hackers Have Infiltrated the US Power Grid's Control Networks That's wrong. it should read : "Power Grid's Control Networks are very weak security-wise, and everybody can go in on the front door, not only in the US."
>> No. The solution is to take backups regularly and scrap any disk that fails. Bonus points if you do burn-in tests so early failures during warranty happens before you put your data on them.
No. The solution is full disk encryption and encrypted backup. Don't board a plane or pass any border without your laptop having FDE and encrypted backups
>>The reason for wifi problems in Linux was due to there being no open source drivers for so many wireless chips. Your statistics seem to be old, or broken. On the approx 30 random laptops I installed linux in the last 3 years, all of them had working Wifi, out of the box.
In Japan, you can use the landline telephone number, and input that to the navi for going anywhere. It's awesome! It also means that every navi has a database of all numbers in the country.
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>> You do realize that ... are mutually exclusive phrases, right?
No, it's not.
- The driver issues are already resolved. the 1% of PCs still having driver problems are easily avoided when purchasing HW.
- the lack of support from some software vendors will resolve itself quickly. Today, even in specialised jobs you can find suitable Linux alternatives, or at least packages working fine on Wine. Some big administrations have sucessfully switched to Linux for most of their desktops (eg. the city of Munich, with 40k Desktops)
Your problem.
And the rest of the world outside the US.
Yep, and this will become the bitter reality :
1. For no reason at all, your car will crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you will have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally, executing a manoeuver such as a left-turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, and you will have to reinstall the engine.
4. When your car will die on the freeway for no reason, you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
5. Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought 'Car95' or 'CarNT', and then added more seats.
6. Apple will make a car powered by the sun, reliable, five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but will run on only five per cent of the roads.
7. Oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights will be replaced by a single blue 'general car default' warning light.
8. New seats will force every-one to have the same size butt.
9. The airbag will say 'Are you sure?' before going off.
10. Occasionally, for no reason, your car will lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lift the door handle, turn the key, and grab the radio antenna.
11. GM will require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of road maps from Rand-McNally (a subsidiary of GM), even though they neither need them nor want them. Trying to delete this option would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50 per cent or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Department.
12. Every time GM introduced a new model, car buyers will have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
13. You will press the 'start' button to shut off the engine.
You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube, but you can force it down the drain.
Better use the No Gun technology.
Far better one. Proven in use by 6,5 Billion people.
>> Before Google There Was the Chemical Rubber Company
And before Nokia, there was the chemical rubber company called Nokia
>> knowing damn well it'll never happen
Yeah. It just happened. And it's still not properly repaired. (RNG still broken) And that's just the tip of one of the icebergs.
"Tesla Will Have Self-driving Cars" is very very very far from "Tesla Will Have Self-driving Cars that are approved to sell to the public"
Lotus Notes? eeeekkk.....
>> What in the world makes you think that Windows 8 doesn't "phone home"? :))
Because "Windows 8" is not "Windows Phone 8".
>> Hackers Have Infiltrated the US Power Grid's Control Networks
That's wrong.
it should read : "Power Grid's Control Networks are very weak security-wise, and everybody can go in on the front door, not only in the US."
huh ? wanna ride on this obsolete spacecraft ?
No it's not.
Weight energy and volumic energy are two different things.
The article does not say which is which.
>> Is this a pissing contest or something ?
Oh Yeah. It's a code pissing contest.
Same functionality, bigger codesize? Not so good.
>> No. The solution is to take backups regularly and scrap any disk that fails. Bonus points if you do burn-in tests so early failures during warranty happens before you put your data on them.
No. The solution is full disk encryption and encrypted backup. Don't board a plane or pass any border without your laptop having FDE and encrypted backups
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Perhaps by giving you a reason to try your software on Wine.
>> Particularly Linux. They just haven't done anything you strongly disagree with yet.
Not so.
One of the most important rule in the kernel development is to never ever break user programs. Intentionally or not. It's a NoGo.
Cool, let's disable updates altogether, and just let security holes wide open.
What a nice advice....
>>The reason for wifi problems in Linux was due to there being no open source drivers for so many wireless chips.
Your statistics seem to be old, or broken.
On the approx 30 random laptops I installed linux in the last 3 years, all of them had working Wifi, out of the box.
>> have to wait 10 years (without support) while we rewrite the whole application for Linux. That'll go over well.
It should have been done properly from the start. (or portably, to be precise)
In Japan, you can use the landline telephone number, and input that to the navi for going anywhere. It's awesome! It also means that every navi has a database of all numbers in the country.
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