Well, I have seen many hard disks die, but I have yet to have someone I know have their house burn down. However I have seen a VNC hack in progress on my brother's HTPC. So it definitely happens, and in my experience, more often than house fires. (After a brief notepad chat session, we took the computer down and reformatted and switched to NX instead of VNC)
Well, I should probably read them. I have only read the Xeelee sequence so far...oh wow, just wiki'ed it, I didn't realize he had so many other books. Hope I have time to catch up...
Baxter? What end of the world novels has he written? I admit I have only read his Xeelee stuff, but that is most of his output AFAIK..... Hmm, unless you are counting them as end of the world novels?
Spoilers! . . . I wouldn't, even that one with the folded space with the last humans was just to show that we don't count. I tend to largely discount the humans in those novels, the tech, science, Xeelee and Photino birds are where all the action is. I suppose it is kind of the end of the world for the Xeelee, but they do escape to other universes, and they have been (or part of them has been) through several phase transitions of the universe, which is about as disruptive as going to a new universe, so they are used to it.
>it will be straightforward to also port to... Android.
Uh, Android is very different from any other Linux. The kernel is the same, that is about it. Sound, input, and significantly, graphics (OGL ES+surfaceflinger+skia vs OGL+X11+Cairo).
I would guess wine is not the source of most performance issues. Bugs, yes, because the API translation is nowhere near complete, and far from bug free. But it is pretty fast, all things considered. Linux graphics driver performance, however just doesn't compare with Windows (and doubly so if you use OSS drivers)
I hope MS buys RIM and we can watch both of them fail out of the phone market, meanwhile they leave Nokia alone so they can go back to making awesome Linux phones from the n900/N9 line. Perfect!
The Transformer Prime is about the best option I have seen. With Win8 supporting ARM and the Cortex A15 coming out soon, there should be improvements in that area soon.
Also hopefully some better ARM mini servers. Right now it is all plug and stick computers (I don't need something that small) , and a few full size rack mount systems.
Presumably the GP is talking about failings in the show itself, not about failings of any races or characters depicted in the show. Everyone knows that flawed characters can work fine, even be better than a superhumanly perfect character.
SpaceX intends to replace NASA in the "Moving stuff into space" department, AFAIK. I have never heard that SpaceX has any interest in building and running science probes to Pluto, or gamma ray telescopes or climate monitoring satellites
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CDMA2000/EvDO is going away at least.
Well, I have seen many hard disks die, but I have yet to have someone I know have their house burn down. However I have seen a VNC hack in progress on my brother's HTPC. So it definitely happens, and in my experience, more often than house fires. (After a brief notepad chat session, we took the computer down and reformatted and switched to NX instead of VNC)
3.0 currently. 3.1 early 2013 hopefully.
Well, I should probably read them. I have only read the Xeelee sequence so far...oh wow, just wiki'ed it, I didn't realize he had so many other books. Hope I have time to catch up...
Baxter? What end of the world novels has he written? I admit I have only read his Xeelee stuff, but that is most of his output AFAIK. ....
Hmm, unless you are counting them as end of the world novels?
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I wouldn't, even that one with the folded space with the last humans was just to show that we don't count. I tend to largely discount the humans in those novels, the tech, science, Xeelee and Photino birds are where all the action is. I suppose it is kind of the end of the world for the Xeelee, but they do escape to other universes, and they have been (or part of them has been) through several phase transitions of the universe, which is about as disruptive as going to a new universe, so they are used to it.
I wouldn't call it better.
Those are sad, but not particularly depressing.
Wait, really? Where do you live again (I should remember from Debian-User, but I don't)?
Anyway, is looks like r8169.ko should be fine since 3.2?
It is not useful at all as an iGoogle replacement.
Don't get me wrong, I love G+, but it covers none of the uses that iGoogle did.
Wow, really? Then they shouldn't have called it "Boot to Gecko" or "Firefox OS", then.
They should be able to target OGL 3 now, which should also relate somewhat to OGL ES 3 when it comes out in a bit (it's complicated)
>it will be straightforward to also port to ... Android.
Uh, Android is very different from any other Linux. The kernel is the same, that is about it. Sound, input, and significantly, graphics (OGL ES+surfaceflinger+skia vs OGL+X11+Cairo).
I would guess wine is not the source of most performance issues. Bugs, yes, because the API translation is nowhere near complete, and far from bug free. But it is pretty fast, all things considered. Linux graphics driver performance, however just doesn't compare with Windows (and doubly so if you use OSS drivers)
I should have included the bit before that. I know about that, but how does that affect its openness?
Agree completely.
>(so basically like the true-Maemo n900 was, rather than the fake-MeeGo-broken-Maemo n9)
I haven't heard this (n900 user, haven't seen or used the n9), please elaborate.
If "It lets the ship go faster than light." is too technical, it is time for a new girlfriend.
>Nobody HAPPILY pays taxes.
Oh, hush. Just because you don't like doesn't mean everyone else feels the same.
The geek user base has not gone to iPhones, but it is very small, and I hardly think Nokia was ever making phones with just them in mind.
I hope MS buys RIM and we can watch both of them fail out of the phone market, meanwhile they leave Nokia alone so they can go back to making awesome Linux phones from the n900/N9 line. Perfect!
Rodinia did not break up into the continents we have now. Pangaea did. Rodinia was the supercontinent before Pangaea.
The Transformer Prime is about the best option I have seen.
With Win8 supporting ARM and the Cortex A15 coming out soon, there should be improvements in that area soon.
Also hopefully some better ARM mini servers. Right now it is all plug and stick computers (I don't need something that small) , and a few full size rack mount systems.
Presumably the GP is talking about failings in the show itself, not about failings of any races or characters depicted in the show. Everyone knows that flawed characters can work fine, even be better than a superhumanly perfect character.
SpaceX intends to replace NASA in the "Moving stuff into space" department, AFAIK. I have never heard that SpaceX has any interest in building and running science probes to Pluto, or gamma ray telescopes or climate monitoring satellites
My n900 does not use Webkit. It uses Gecko.