Because higher frequencies mean higher temperatures. Remember when CPUs didn't need active cooling? So, manufacturers use the extra die area they gain from the shrunk transistors in other ways.
"You pick an LTS distro for *long-term stability*, not the latest versions of software."
Windows 7 allows me to have *long-term stability* and have the latest versions of software, which means it relieves me from having to go through the "to LTS or not to LTS" dilemma. From that perspective, the price of a Windows license is a bargain. I can stay with the old version for years till I am ready to upgrade and still have new software like VLC. And without having to experiment with VMs and whatnot.
"Yep, and you have to deal with the in-OS spyware, rampant virus and malware/cryptoware infection risks along with it. "
Because as we all know, Desktop Linux is magically immune to cryptoware (despite the fact apps have access by default to the user's home directory). Also, no viruses for me for a decade. I just don't mess with the factory settings for Update (as you should on Desktop Linux too) and don't download junk executables from dubious places (as you should on Desktop Linux too). Also, take off the tinfoil hat.
Mandriva, Xandros, Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, LinuxMint, Steam OS and now this... There is always someone who looks at Desktop Linux and thinks "this is 85% percent done, all it needs is a new coat of paint and some drivers/codecs". The hard reality is that, unless Desktop Linux distros solve the "not compatible even with itself" problem (hint: The 14.04 LTS I use in work cannot even have the latest version of VLC), Desktop Linux isn't going anywhere. Unless Desktop Linux manages to drop the idiotic "one repo per version" approach (which is contrary to the industry-standard approach of picking a "base" version and launching a single binary that works from that version all the way to the latest version, with differences being worked with static libraries and shims, Desktop Linux isn't going anywhere. That's how Windows, OS X, Android and iOS do it. I can download the latest version of VLC on Windows Vista, and it is the same.exe that Windows 10 uses.
There is a solution to that: It is called "being (mostly) compatible with an established API". This brings porting to the realm of bugfixing instead of the realm of a rewrite. For example, DOS was mostly compatible with CP/M and GNU/Linux was mostly compatible with Unix. Even Windows was compatible with DOS and Mac OS X was compatible with Mac OS 9 (via emulation, but provided users with a transition path). Very rarely does an OS with a completely new set of APIs (and not compatible to anything old APIs) becomes successful. The first Mac OS, Amiga OS, Symbian S60, Symbian UIQ, iOS and Android are the only examples that come to mind, and they all happened immediately after a new UI paradigm emerged in the industry. Canonical did the same mistake Microsoft did: The expectation that all devs will retool to support an OS with totally incompatible APIs that was late to the market (years after the new UI paradigm emerged). The Xbox example is irrelevant because game console APIs are expected to not be backwards compatible in general.
Well, in a sense, the testing procedure sucks for not accounting for different modes of the devices and not mandating a worst-case-scenario or at least a middle-of-the-road mode to be used during testing. Or mandate the use of the modes the applicance will have when taken out of the box and or the ones it recommends to users. For example, most TVs have a power-saver mode with the backlight set very low, but out of the box they default to "standard" or "dynamic".
Why is this bad? If a small shop down the road is taking advantage of some "right to repair" legislation to provide repairs for devices the manufacturer doesn't care about anymore or demands exorbitant amounts of money to repair them, where is the bad thing in providing the owner a way out of this? My sister's iPod Nano had a broken power button, and the Apple shop people said they could only replace the whole device at the same cost as a new device (srsly). A third-party repair shop fixed it for pocket change.
...at the price they are selling, they should be glad they sold whatever number of units they sold. Yeah, I know, the iPhone and the Galaxy. The iPhone and the Galaxy are status symbol items. Google as a brand is associated with value for money. Not to mention that most consumers know the Pixel is a rehash of the HTC 10.
I upgraded my 32-bit Intel CoreDuo T2500 laptop to Windows 7 and it served my well for long after that as a secondary machine.
Intel was late to the x86-64 game, which means that many of the last 32-bit CPUs were serviceable still in the Windows 7 era.
The 32-bit versions Windows 8 and 10 were marketing-enforced, aka put Metro in front of as many eyes as possible.
Or California could stop trying to make prisons into luxury apartments that also provide top notch health care services. But noooo, that's not politically correct, and California can't do that.
Speed. Firefox blocks on JavaScript and runs everything under a single process. And in general it is slow and JavaScript loads make scrolling non-smooth. I knew it was time to switch when my old netbook felt faster with Chrome that my new laptop with Firefox.
Lots of patents from the 90s exploit the fact that the expiration timer counts from "date granted" not "date filed", which is the reason things like Mpeg2 still stay patented...
Yeah, I am sure nobody is dying in North Korea, Venezuela and Cuba and all those other "not real communism" states. Meanwhile in Switzerland and Finland... oh yeah those libertarian countries have one of the highest standards of living, never mind.
Which means the solution lies in whitelisting (aka signed exes with the signature given out to identified devs, much like Windows does) coupled with tight sandboxing and an ask-permissions-for-anything policy for the non-whitelisted stuff (Windows doesn't do that unfortunately) plus the usual warnings.
Translation: GOT THE JOKE??? I am an FSF neckbeard and consider Windows malicious for not conforming with my personal definition of non-malicious, and for that reason I think Webroot flagging Windows files as malicious is funny!!111 Joking aside, this incident proves WebRoot doesn't run automated tests before farting out a definition update, which every AV vendor should do.
Still, Tesla is pretty much the next Comcast. There is nothing patented about the coaxial wires that Comcast owns either, it is owning essential infrastructure in many places where nobody else does that gives them their power, because it would be very difficult for a competitor to replicate all that infrastructure. Remember, Comcast was cheap during their land-grab years.
Yup, Microsoft pulled the same trick as they did to Original Xbox owners again. Aka, announce a console, then after a short period of time announce a second console, radically different and hence by definition incompatible. At least the PS4 is supposed to be compatible with the PS4 Pro, albeit with worse graphics. There is no way this "Scorpio" thing is compatible with the Xbox One, and probably not even with the Xbox One S which was launched very recently, not in any meaningful way. And we all know where AAA developer will steer towards. I almost expected the Xbox team to pull this trick again, glad I didn't fall for it again.
But after that, the gpu drivers were excellent, the battery life was as good as win 7 (compared to the worse battery life of desktop linux) and if the laptop had switchable graphics, they worked seamlessly. This is what I tell to people who say "you just need to get used to desktop linux". Desktop Linux has worse gpu drivers and worse battery life (because it can't trigger the low power modes of the gpu) and no amount of getting used to will fix that. Pah... I will take Win10 and its spying anytime. I am not hurt by Win10's spying. Having worse gpu drivers and battery life does hurt me, because it is giving me less value for the laptop I paid for.
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Because higher frequencies mean higher temperatures. Remember when CPUs didn't need active cooling? So, manufacturers use the extra die area they gain from the shrunk transistors in other ways.
"You pick an LTS distro for *long-term stability*, not the latest versions of software." Windows 7 allows me to have *long-term stability* and have the latest versions of software, which means it relieves me from having to go through the "to LTS or not to LTS" dilemma. From that perspective, the price of a Windows license is a bargain. I can stay with the old version for years till I am ready to upgrade and still have new software like VLC. And without having to experiment with VMs and whatnot. "Yep, and you have to deal with the in-OS spyware, rampant virus and malware/cryptoware infection risks along with it. " Because as we all know, Desktop Linux is magically immune to cryptoware (despite the fact apps have access by default to the user's home directory). Also, no viruses for me for a decade. I just don't mess with the factory settings for Update (as you should on Desktop Linux too) and don't download junk executables from dubious places (as you should on Desktop Linux too). Also, take off the tinfoil hat.
Mandriva, Xandros, Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, LinuxMint, Steam OS and now this... There is always someone who looks at Desktop Linux and thinks "this is 85% percent done, all it needs is a new coat of paint and some drivers/codecs". The hard reality is that, unless Desktop Linux distros solve the "not compatible even with itself" problem (hint: The 14.04 LTS I use in work cannot even have the latest version of VLC), Desktop Linux isn't going anywhere. Unless Desktop Linux manages to drop the idiotic "one repo per version" approach (which is contrary to the industry-standard approach of picking a "base" version and launching a single binary that works from that version all the way to the latest version, with differences being worked with static libraries and shims, Desktop Linux isn't going anywhere. That's how Windows, OS X, Android and iOS do it. I can download the latest version of VLC on Windows Vista, and it is the same .exe that Windows 10 uses.
There is a solution to that: It is called "being (mostly) compatible with an established API". This brings porting to the realm of bugfixing instead of the realm of a rewrite. For example, DOS was mostly compatible with CP/M and GNU/Linux was mostly compatible with Unix. Even Windows was compatible with DOS and Mac OS X was compatible with Mac OS 9 (via emulation, but provided users with a transition path). Very rarely does an OS with a completely new set of APIs (and not compatible to anything old APIs) becomes successful. The first Mac OS, Amiga OS, Symbian S60, Symbian UIQ, iOS and Android are the only examples that come to mind, and they all happened immediately after a new UI paradigm emerged in the industry. Canonical did the same mistake Microsoft did: The expectation that all devs will retool to support an OS with totally incompatible APIs that was late to the market (years after the new UI paradigm emerged). The Xbox example is irrelevant because game console APIs are expected to not be backwards compatible in general.
Well, in a sense, the testing procedure sucks for not accounting for different modes of the devices and not mandating a worst-case-scenario or at least a middle-of-the-road mode to be used during testing. Or mandate the use of the modes the applicance will have when taken out of the box and or the ones it recommends to users. For example, most TVs have a power-saver mode with the backlight set very low, but out of the box they default to "standard" or "dynamic".
A company boasting for offering less choice to customers. Less options are good for the customers, I guess, and ignorance is strength.
Why is this bad? If a small shop down the road is taking advantage of some "right to repair" legislation to provide repairs for devices the manufacturer doesn't care about anymore or demands exorbitant amounts of money to repair them, where is the bad thing in providing the owner a way out of this? My sister's iPod Nano had a broken power button, and the Apple shop people said they could only replace the whole device at the same cost as a new device (srsly). A third-party repair shop fixed it for pocket change.
Could you define AI in a way that excludes stuff like the one in article but is still a credible definition please?
...at the price they are selling, they should be glad they sold whatever number of units they sold. Yeah, I know, the iPhone and the Galaxy. The iPhone and the Galaxy are status symbol items. Google as a brand is associated with value for money. Not to mention that most consumers know the Pixel is a rehash of the HTC 10.
I upgraded my 32-bit Intel CoreDuo T2500 laptop to Windows 7 and it served my well for long after that as a secondary machine. Intel was late to the x86-64 game, which means that many of the last 32-bit CPUs were serviceable still in the Windows 7 era. The 32-bit versions Windows 8 and 10 were marketing-enforced, aka put Metro in front of as many eyes as possible.
Or California could stop trying to make prisons into luxury apartments that also provide top notch health care services. But noooo, that's not politically correct, and California can't do that.
Anyway, Firefox is the new IE. Old codebase and slow, but people use it anyways out of habit or some sense of loyalty I don't understand.
On Android I use brave which is Chrome for Android with an Adblocker.
Speed. Firefox blocks on JavaScript and runs everything under a single process. And in general it is slow and JavaScript loads make scrolling non-smooth. I knew it was time to switch when my old netbook felt faster with Chrome that my new laptop with Firefox.
I wouldn't call the OS a commodity when it enforces tight vendor lock-ins.
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Lots of patents from the 90s exploit the fact that the expiration timer counts from "date granted" not "date filed", which is the reason things like Mpeg2 still stay patented...
Yeah, I am sure nobody is dying in North Korea, Venezuela and Cuba and all those other "not real communism" states. Meanwhile in Switzerland and Finland... oh yeah those libertarian countries have one of the highest standards of living, never mind.
And the only solution is to have the government take over everything (what the OP essentially says). Those people are a joke.
Which means the solution lies in whitelisting (aka signed exes with the signature given out to identified devs, much like Windows does) coupled with tight sandboxing and an ask-permissions-for-anything policy for the non-whitelisted stuff (Windows doesn't do that unfortunately) plus the usual warnings.
Translation: GOT THE JOKE??? I am an FSF neckbeard and consider Windows malicious for not conforming with my personal definition of non-malicious, and for that reason I think Webroot flagging Windows files as malicious is funny!!111 Joking aside, this incident proves WebRoot doesn't run automated tests before farting out a definition update, which every AV vendor should do.
Still, Tesla is pretty much the next Comcast. There is nothing patented about the coaxial wires that Comcast owns either, it is owning essential infrastructure in many places where nobody else does that gives them their power, because it would be very difficult for a competitor to replicate all that infrastructure. Remember, Comcast was cheap during their land-grab years.
Can I have some sample pictures of that Facebook group, so I can gain a further insight into that delicate problem?
Yup, Microsoft pulled the same trick as they did to Original Xbox owners again. Aka, announce a console, then after a short period of time announce a second console, radically different and hence by definition incompatible. At least the PS4 is supposed to be compatible with the PS4 Pro, albeit with worse graphics. There is no way this "Scorpio" thing is compatible with the Xbox One, and probably not even with the Xbox One S which was launched very recently, not in any meaningful way. And we all know where AAA developer will steer towards. I almost expected the Xbox team to pull this trick again, glad I didn't fall for it again.
But after that, the gpu drivers were excellent, the battery life was as good as win 7 (compared to the worse battery life of desktop linux) and if the laptop had switchable graphics, they worked seamlessly. This is what I tell to people who say "you just need to get used to desktop linux". Desktop Linux has worse gpu drivers and worse battery life (because it can't trigger the low power modes of the gpu) and no amount of getting used to will fix that. Pah... I will take Win10 and its spying anytime. I am not hurt by Win10's spying. Having worse gpu drivers and battery life does hurt me, because it is giving me less value for the laptop I paid for.