I agree on the fingerprint thing. Android OEMs did one thing better than Apple, putting the fingerprint sensor in the correct spot (at the back), now they want to copy Apple anyway by putting the fingerprint sensor at the front. I disagree when it comes to Face ID. It's nice to look at the screen and have the phone unlock itself, but the iPhone X is expensive and is an iPhone (no Kodi, emulators and sideloading).
Bought an ODROID board before, disappointed by the software support by the community. I guess I can't blame the company for it, but let's be honest, the prime reason to buy such a board is playing with community software. Also, using the recommended ROM, I was getting less performance than my Galaxy S3 despite the ODROID having the same SoC but more thermal headroom.
Being the ruthless accountants they are (because that's what the Chinese officials are first and foremost), they don't care about the externalities they create unless the costs are assigned to them. Hit them with an environmental tax on all their exports about all the space pollution they cause with this wretched space station and their antiSat tests, yesterday.
Well that class system allows me to fly from the UK to Greece and back for only £250, so I like the class system someone else built and the commies can fly AeroFlot of they want.
Who cares about that? Any sufficiently mature (read: usable) FOSS piece of software has a Windows port or Windows equivalent (OpenShot video editor is the latest example of a piece of software getting a Windows port once it got mature enough to be usable). It's Linux that has various holes in application support. Try to watch BluRay (or protected video streams) on Desktop Linux or doing content creation without Adobe's tools.
Guys, it's simple: Games with loot boxes are targeting the same demographic that slot machines and roulletes do (real and virtual), only they do it without paying a gambling tax and without any age restrictions, so the governments are considering a ban on them to protect their tax revenue, they didn't magically start to care about the predatory nature of loot boxes or anything.
LMAO that made my day. Indeed any developer who is trying to dumb down software to make it a "Universal" app is wasting time that could be spent on features.
Windows has the clearly superior MPC-HC which is free as in freedom and free as in beer, but not free as in beard (neckbeard), because it relies on the excellent DirectShow APIs which are available only to people who run Windows.
Because let's face it, what's holding back Wayland is the same reason X.org's problems aren't all architecture-related: Money. Developing a modern display server is a money-sucking process and nobody is willing to put them on a table, so everything proceeds at a glacial pace. Even the CLI of linux isn't all that great IMO. You don't get rolodex autocomplete (where you can cycle through the suggestions by pressing tab), autocomplete doesn't automatically fill in quotes for you for filenames with spaces, and "clear" just prints some blank lines instead of actually clearing the screen, apparently thinking it is outputting to an old terminal without scroll features. And then there is lack of support for line-drawing characters everywhere. And the people responsible for this mess try to make a display server lol.
A computer is a device that is user-programmable, aka you are not restricted to the apps found in the vendor's app store. The iPad is a content delivery mechanism much like a BluRay player (which has games too thanks to BD-J)
Unemployed US citizens. That's who cares where manufacturing happens. And no, US citizens don't have to compete with Chinese workers on who will work the most for less money.
You are aware that if you have to incompatible versions of a library (dependency), having both versions available is the scientifically correct way of handling the problem? In that sense, WinSxS does not contain "bloat", it contains "required dependencies that make my apps work". Desktop Linux users wish they had something like WinSxS so nicely integrated into their distros so they won't have to go through an OS upgrade just to get the latest version of VLC. Flatpak and Snappy are getting there, but they are not there yet.
Also, compile everything? Am I supposed to do this on a DEC PDP-11? And never mind this won't help if the two versions of the dependency are source-incompatible.
Ironically, I use my Windows to run mostly open source software like Chrome, Firefox, LibreOffice, VLC, MPC-HC, the GIMP, avidemux, Handbrake, DVD Flick and OpenShot. Windows allows me to have the latest versions of the best FOSS apps just by running a four-click installer. Desktop Linux doesn't.
I second that. You know Linux Desktop is a junk OS from the fact an app may require version 2.5 of a library and another one might require no more than 2.4, and Desktop Linux offers no way around the problem. I run into this problem with an app which required a higher version of glibc than what centos 6 had, but you can't upgrade glibc without breaking the rest of centos 6. Ubuntu 14.04 Software Centre still has an old version of VLC. Unless Desktop Linux stops requiring major upgrades to give you access to the latest apps, it's not going anywhere. Snappy and Flatpak hold promise but it won't happen in 2018. Then there is the issue of crap GPU drivers and crap power management and the ever-present suspend issues.
Maybe stop worrying and give the company what they deserve? Aka keep the existing mess half-functional and don't refactor or re-architect anything, while looking for a job in a company with proper procedures in place and which doesn't act like a start-up.
Gotta love all the "No Micro$hit stuff on my phone" crowd. None of them mentioned any problems with the browser itself, but let's bash Microsoft because we are in neckbeardia (Slashdot) and therefore it's the cool thing to do. IMO Edge's problem is the lack of adblocking capabilities, which means you 'll have to tolerate heavyweight javascript from ads draining your battery and ad banners clashing with poorly-made mobile CSS. Chrome has the exact same problem. I use Brave Browser in my Android phone, but it doesn't have tab sync functionality between devices. Still, I am always on the lookout for something better (with ad blocking and tab sync).
While Google Docs can't hold a candle to MS Office (it cannot do something as basic as auto page numbering in a table of contents), Microsoft wants to cover their bases, and particularly those people who need very basic Office formatting capabilites. Microsoft is afraid that Google Docs will become an acceptable "baseline". Would go as far as saying "scared shitless" though. MS Office's bread and butter, aka universities and businesses, are not threatened. The sheer number of templates available makes a big lock-in.
Which is why so many universities provide students with a license for the latest MS Office when enrolled (because that's what their professors use), and any serious professional who needs to open and edit docx, xlsx or pptx knows to have the latest version installed and so do the other professionals he/she works with. Hardware is irrelevant (when we are talking about the real MS Office here, not the little web version) and printer settings are always set to sufficient margin. That's how template and document exchange works in the real world. LibreOffice has too many gaps in OOXML support, sorry. However, LibreOffice is good for opening ODFs, hence many printing shops who need to open documents from both Libre and MS Office actually have both. So yeah, people are still using MS Office. And PhotoShop. And AutoCAD. And MATLAB. Deal with it.
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Looks like some libertarians had a taste of a true free market, unhindered by the burden of overbearing government regulation...
I agree on the fingerprint thing. Android OEMs did one thing better than Apple, putting the fingerprint sensor in the correct spot (at the back), now they want to copy Apple anyway by putting the fingerprint sensor at the front. I disagree when it comes to Face ID. It's nice to look at the screen and have the phone unlock itself, but the iPhone X is expensive and is an iPhone (no Kodi, emulators and sideloading).
An ODROID U3.
Bought an ODROID board before, disappointed by the software support by the community. I guess I can't blame the company for it, but let's be honest, the prime reason to buy such a board is playing with community software. Also, using the recommended ROM, I was getting less performance than my Galaxy S3 despite the ODROID having the same SoC but more thermal headroom.
Being the ruthless accountants they are (because that's what the Chinese officials are first and foremost), they don't care about the externalities they create unless the costs are assigned to them. Hit them with an environmental tax on all their exports about all the space pollution they cause with this wretched space station and their antiSat tests, yesterday.
Amen.
Well that class system allows me to fly from the UK to Greece and back for only £250, so I like the class system someone else built and the commies can fly AeroFlot of they want.
Who cares about that? Any sufficiently mature (read: usable) FOSS piece of software has a Windows port or Windows equivalent (OpenShot video editor is the latest example of a piece of software getting a Windows port once it got mature enough to be usable). It's Linux that has various holes in application support. Try to watch BluRay (or protected video streams) on Desktop Linux or doing content creation without Adobe's tools.
Guys, it's simple: Games with loot boxes are targeting the same demographic that slot machines and roulletes do (real and virtual), only they do it without paying a gambling tax and without any age restrictions, so the governments are considering a ban on them to protect their tax revenue, they didn't magically start to care about the predatory nature of loot boxes or anything.
This, consider this post my upvote.
LMAO that made my day. Indeed any developer who is trying to dumb down software to make it a "Universal" app is wasting time that could be spent on features.
Windows has the clearly superior MPC-HC which is free as in freedom and free as in beer, but not free as in beard (neckbeard), because it relies on the excellent DirectShow APIs which are available only to people who run Windows.
Great, that's what Facebook needs. A neckband patrol downvoting anything it finds mildly offensive, like the one we have here in Slashdot
Because let's face it, what's holding back Wayland is the same reason X.org's problems aren't all architecture-related: Money. Developing a modern display server is a money-sucking process and nobody is willing to put them on a table, so everything proceeds at a glacial pace. Even the CLI of linux isn't all that great IMO. You don't get rolodex autocomplete (where you can cycle through the suggestions by pressing tab), autocomplete doesn't automatically fill in quotes for you for filenames with spaces, and "clear" just prints some blank lines instead of actually clearing the screen, apparently thinking it is outputting to an old terminal without scroll features. And then there is lack of support for line-drawing characters everywhere. And the people responsible for this mess try to make a display server lol.
A computer is a device that is user-programmable, aka you are not restricted to the apps found in the vendor's app store. The iPad is a content delivery mechanism much like a BluRay player (which has games too thanks to BD-J)
Unemployed US citizens. That's who cares where manufacturing happens. And no, US citizens don't have to compete with Chinese workers on who will work the most for less money.
You are aware that if you have to incompatible versions of a library (dependency), having both versions available is the scientifically correct way of handling the problem? In that sense, WinSxS does not contain "bloat", it contains "required dependencies that make my apps work". Desktop Linux users wish they had something like WinSxS so nicely integrated into their distros so they won't have to go through an OS upgrade just to get the latest version of VLC. Flatpak and Snappy are getting there, but they are not there yet. Also, compile everything? Am I supposed to do this on a DEC PDP-11? And never mind this won't help if the two versions of the dependency are source-incompatible. Ironically, I use my Windows to run mostly open source software like Chrome, Firefox, LibreOffice, VLC, MPC-HC, the GIMP, avidemux, Handbrake, DVD Flick and OpenShot. Windows allows me to have the latest versions of the best FOSS apps just by running a four-click installer. Desktop Linux doesn't.
Oh yeah, shift the blame around and the problem will stop existing (not).
I second that. You know Linux Desktop is a junk OS from the fact an app may require version 2.5 of a library and another one might require no more than 2.4, and Desktop Linux offers no way around the problem. I run into this problem with an app which required a higher version of glibc than what centos 6 had, but you can't upgrade glibc without breaking the rest of centos 6. Ubuntu 14.04 Software Centre still has an old version of VLC. Unless Desktop Linux stops requiring major upgrades to give you access to the latest apps, it's not going anywhere. Snappy and Flatpak hold promise but it won't happen in 2018. Then there is the issue of crap GPU drivers and crap power management and the ever-present suspend issues.
Maybe stop worrying and give the company what they deserve? Aka keep the existing mess half-functional and don't refactor or re-architect anything, while looking for a job in a company with proper procedures in place and which doesn't act like a start-up.
Yet I can still get latest VLC on Windows 7 and Android 5.1, which are fairly old too. Go figure.
On Chrome for Android? I meant Chrome for Android obviously.
Gotta love all the "No Micro$hit stuff on my phone" crowd. None of them mentioned any problems with the browser itself, but let's bash Microsoft because we are in neckbeardia (Slashdot) and therefore it's the cool thing to do. IMO Edge's problem is the lack of adblocking capabilities, which means you 'll have to tolerate heavyweight javascript from ads draining your battery and ad banners clashing with poorly-made mobile CSS. Chrome has the exact same problem. I use Brave Browser in my Android phone, but it doesn't have tab sync functionality between devices. Still, I am always on the lookout for something better (with ad blocking and tab sync).
While Google Docs can't hold a candle to MS Office (it cannot do something as basic as auto page numbering in a table of contents), Microsoft wants to cover their bases, and particularly those people who need very basic Office formatting capabilites. Microsoft is afraid that Google Docs will become an acceptable "baseline". Would go as far as saying "scared shitless" though. MS Office's bread and butter, aka universities and businesses, are not threatened. The sheer number of templates available makes a big lock-in.
Which is why so many universities provide students with a license for the latest MS Office when enrolled (because that's what their professors use), and any serious professional who needs to open and edit docx, xlsx or pptx knows to have the latest version installed and so do the other professionals he/she works with. Hardware is irrelevant (when we are talking about the real MS Office here, not the little web version) and printer settings are always set to sufficient margin. That's how template and document exchange works in the real world. LibreOffice has too many gaps in OOXML support, sorry. However, LibreOffice is good for opening ODFs, hence many printing shops who need to open documents from both Libre and MS Office actually have both. So yeah, people are still using MS Office. And PhotoShop. And AutoCAD. And MATLAB. Deal with it.