What is the actual market share percentage of each of those "common Linux distros" actually? Please keep in mind that support-wise, each "distro" has to be treated as its own platform. Microsoft doesn't want to spend money to develop for and support a less-than-1% platform. Let's be honest, not even FOSS projects support Linux distros properly. Ubuntu 14.04 still has VLC 2.1.6 for download in the software store while my old Windows 7 netbook runs latest 2.2.6.
Yes. If your job involves opening docx, pptx or xlsx files created with Microsoft Office, and you need 100% compatibility with those files, you need Microsoft Office. Period. Nobody is going to risk incompatibilities when their job depends on it or whine at people to resend as ODF, because their ability to pay rent and eat depends on that job. Then there are university students who need to open MS Office templates and presentations. In addition, Powerpoint doesn't mess up your slides when saving and restoring because something was an invisible half-pixel off (like Impress does), and Word doesn't redline words just because it chose to use a dictionary from another language (like Writer does).
If all the tickets get bought in a matter of seconds by scalpers ( who are helped by bots so good luck competing with them), your only option is either scalpers or not going to any shows that require a ticket for admission. BTW there is a neat trick to solve this problem: Tie every ticket to an ID or a passport, like the airlines are doing. There will be people who will complain, but they will be neckbeards who don't go to shows anyway, so there will be no loss.
Although this is not the correct place, I feel the need to say it: Unless all those career politicians start listening to the problems of the little guy (who is worried about jobs moving abroad and illegal immigrants taking whatever jobs remain, and people been given sanctuary without being vetted properly) there will be more Trumps on the horizon. Remember, the people rejected the Clintons and the Bushes. It's not a Dem vs Rep thing.
The Chinese don't even have binding CO2 targets. The government of China are always getting special treatment because they pretend China is still a developing country. To hell with those "Climate Deals" that always leave China of the hook and always give them special treatment. As if their slave labour practices and their 25% tax on imports to mainland China doesn't give them enough unfair advantage.
Of course, Android is the only major mobile OS that doesn't force you to use the vendor's services in order to use the OS. You don't even have to use the Google Play Store service. There is F-Droid and Amazon's App Store and you can sideload those stores as apk files using Bluetooth. Instead, you have to use Apple's App Store if you want to install any app on your device. But please, don't let facts get between you and your beliefs. Google is teh ebil, I luvs you Apple!!!111
Flag. These. As. Malware. Let's see how these smarty pants website owners and advertisers react when their users start avoiding the site because they are getting anti-malware alerts and get demoted in search engine results
Even with the Windows 10 UI misadventures, compatibility with the win32 and win64 API is preserved. Which means that any investment on software made in the last 10 or even 15 years is safe (with the exception of SecuROM videogames, but it's a minor loss). Which means that software vendors have an interest in investing in a platform like Windows that isn't a quicksand pit like Desktop Linux, because it means fewer patches for old versions of the software. Did the article say something about important line-of-business software not being available on Desktop Linux?
Yet another distro whose stated goals are better icons instead of better battery life and better gpu drivers. Or even working suspend/resume. Yawn... Mandrake, Lindows, Xandros, Ubuntu, Mint, Pop!_OS.... It never ends.
Have they solved their endless power management problems, where Ubuntu gets less battery life than Windows, even if you install any proprietary drivers on Ubuntu manually? No? Then I don't care what applications it runs as default, Ubuntu is still useless for most people (and so are all Desktop Linux distros). It's a mobile world out there.
If you take into account the number of people who accidentally click on ads, the click bots, and the fact when you search for "example company" on Google, Google will show an ad leading to the company's official site just above the organic search result leading to the official site (some people click on the ad out of laziness because it's on top, I have done it in the past), plus people who use ad blockers, there aren't many useful clicks left.
I am surprised this business model still works and hasn't gone the way of the pets dot com site. When is this tulip mania going to end?
Realistically speaking, a company has better chances of "engagement" if the use good SEO and game-ify social networking ("post this message to enter the competition").
Please... please... if some deity is listening, make it so this becomes a law. It's quite sad seeing my perfectly serviceable Nexus 4 and 5 not receive basic security patching, and this has already spread to TVs, and soon vaccum cleaners and smoke detectors are to follow.
If your objections run deep into the code or the UI layer, then indeed forking is not an option. The only real option is either finding a new software package or compromising. But if we are talking about a superficial adware addition, then fork, remove adware, push and you are done. At least open source now has a business model that doesn't involve "selling support" (which is something home users don't buy): Sell the open-source project to some greedy company, fork it, use the money to fund further development.
Oh please. Just because Obama pretended to like Net Neutrality to get the youth vote and the techie vote, it doesn't mean the next Dem will do the same. Both Reps and Dems are bought and sold by the cable cartels, and as long as people keep voting for people who put themselves up for sale (aka get bribed by the same cartels they are paid by the state to regulate), this will keep happening. Vote for neither of the two bastards, Rep of Dem.
And it always bites them in the end, because the market tends to take advantage of Moore's Law to shift to ever-smaller and cheaper computers. The fatness of X.org made it impossible to sell most variants of Unix with ordinary PCs, and the Great Fattening(tm) of Windows NT during the development of Vista made it impossible to make Windows run well in tablet and subnotebook form factors for a long time, which made it hard for Microsoft to compete with the iPad and the Macbook Air. Even Google's inefficient decisionsâ made in Android made it hard for them to achieve good performance and battery life in first-gen Android Wear. Even with Moore's Law, fatware is bad for business...
Oh yeah, the useless VM layers: Combat the problem of JIT emulation being slower than native by making everything run as slow as JIT emulation. Google is particularly nasty on this, because they refuse to ship ahead-of-time compiled binaries (for dalvik apps) even for ARM 32-bit and ARM 64-bit ISAs. ISA egalitarianisn I guess. Obscure ISAs should have the same opportunities as dominant ones.
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What is the actual market share percentage of each of those "common Linux distros" actually? Please keep in mind that support-wise, each "distro" has to be treated as its own platform. Microsoft doesn't want to spend money to develop for and support a less-than-1% platform. Let's be honest, not even FOSS projects support Linux distros properly. Ubuntu 14.04 still has VLC 2.1.6 for download in the software store while my old Windows 7 netbook runs latest 2.2.6.
Yes. If your job involves opening docx, pptx or xlsx files created with Microsoft Office, and you need 100% compatibility with those files, you need Microsoft Office. Period. Nobody is going to risk incompatibilities when their job depends on it or whine at people to resend as ODF, because their ability to pay rent and eat depends on that job. Then there are university students who need to open MS Office templates and presentations. In addition, Powerpoint doesn't mess up your slides when saving and restoring because something was an invisible half-pixel off (like Impress does), and Word doesn't redline words just because it chose to use a dictionary from another language (like Writer does).
If all the tickets get bought in a matter of seconds by scalpers ( who are helped by bots so good luck competing with them), your only option is either scalpers or not going to any shows that require a ticket for admission. BTW there is a neat trick to solve this problem: Tie every ticket to an ID or a passport, like the airlines are doing. There will be people who will complain, but they will be neckbeards who don't go to shows anyway, so there will be no loss.
Although this is not the correct place, I feel the need to say it: Unless all those career politicians start listening to the problems of the little guy (who is worried about jobs moving abroad and illegal immigrants taking whatever jobs remain, and people been given sanctuary without being vetted properly) there will be more Trumps on the horizon. Remember, the people rejected the Clintons and the Bushes. It's not a Dem vs Rep thing.
The Chinese don't even have binding CO2 targets. The government of China are always getting special treatment because they pretend China is still a developing country. To hell with those "Climate Deals" that always leave China of the hook and always give them special treatment. As if their slave labour practices and their 25% tax on imports to mainland China doesn't give them enough unfair advantage.
US citizens will get longer presidential addresses from today.
Of course, Android is the only major mobile OS that doesn't force you to use the vendor's services in order to use the OS. You don't even have to use the Google Play Store service. There is F-Droid and Amazon's App Store and you can sideload those stores as apk files using Bluetooth. Instead, you have to use Apple's App Store if you want to install any app on your device. But please, don't let facts get between you and your beliefs. Google is teh ebil, I luvs you Apple!!!111
By not forgetting to wear your tinfoil hat darlin'
Of course, nicotine causes anxiety and sleeping disorders, so it's not harmless either.
Flag. These. As. Malware. Let's see how these smarty pants website owners and advertisers react when their users start avoiding the site because they are getting anti-malware alerts and get demoted in search engine results
Even with the Windows 10 UI misadventures, compatibility with the win32 and win64 API is preserved. Which means that any investment on software made in the last 10 or even 15 years is safe (with the exception of SecuROM videogames, but it's a minor loss). Which means that software vendors have an interest in investing in a platform like Windows that isn't a quicksand pit like Desktop Linux, because it means fewer patches for old versions of the software. Did the article say something about important line-of-business software not being available on Desktop Linux?
I used to visit retail shops, before I realised Amazon is cheaper and I don't have to carry stuff inside buses and underground trains.
Still not convinced. I don't need some employees opinion when I can have reviews from a multitude of sites literally at my fingertips.
Yet another distro whose stated goals are better icons instead of better battery life and better gpu drivers. Or even working suspend/resume. Yawn... Mandrake, Lindows, Xandros, Ubuntu, Mint, Pop!_OS.... It never ends.
Have they solved their endless power management problems, where Ubuntu gets less battery life than Windows, even if you install any proprietary drivers on Ubuntu manually? No? Then I don't care what applications it runs as default, Ubuntu is still useless for most people (and so are all Desktop Linux distros). It's a mobile world out there.
If you take into account the number of people who accidentally click on ads, the click bots, and the fact when you search for "example company" on Google, Google will show an ad leading to the company's official site just above the organic search result leading to the official site (some people click on the ad out of laziness because it's on top, I have done it in the past), plus people who use ad blockers, there aren't many useful clicks left. I am surprised this business model still works and hasn't gone the way of the pets dot com site. When is this tulip mania going to end? Realistically speaking, a company has better chances of "engagement" if the use good SEO and game-ify social networking ("post this message to enter the competition").
A work that took three-months to complete. It is a measure of effort.
Why did they name it "discard" instead of "delete". Usually "discard" means drop pending changes or discard a message on screen.
Please... please... if some deity is listening, make it so this becomes a law. It's quite sad seeing my perfectly serviceable Nexus 4 and 5 not receive basic security patching, and this has already spread to TVs, and soon vaccum cleaners and smoke detectors are to follow.
If your objections run deep into the code or the UI layer, then indeed forking is not an option. The only real option is either finding a new software package or compromising. But if we are talking about a superficial adware addition, then fork, remove adware, push and you are done. At least open source now has a business model that doesn't involve "selling support" (which is something home users don't buy): Sell the open-source project to some greedy company, fork it, use the money to fund further development.
Oh please. Just because Obama pretended to like Net Neutrality to get the youth vote and the techie vote, it doesn't mean the next Dem will do the same. Both Reps and Dems are bought and sold by the cable cartels, and as long as people keep voting for people who put themselves up for sale (aka get bribed by the same cartels they are paid by the state to regulate), this will keep happening. Vote for neither of the two bastards, Rep of Dem.
Pre order? Not interested. Let someone else play the "venture capitalist for free" game.
And it always bites them in the end, because the market tends to take advantage of Moore's Law to shift to ever-smaller and cheaper computers. The fatness of X.org made it impossible to sell most variants of Unix with ordinary PCs, and the Great Fattening(tm) of Windows NT during the development of Vista made it impossible to make Windows run well in tablet and subnotebook form factors for a long time, which made it hard for Microsoft to compete with the iPad and the Macbook Air. Even Google's inefficient decisionsâ made in Android made it hard for them to achieve good performance and battery life in first-gen Android Wear. Even with Moore's Law, fatware is bad for business...
Oh yeah, the useless VM layers: Combat the problem of JIT emulation being slower than native by making everything run as slow as JIT emulation. Google is particularly nasty on this, because they refuse to ship ahead-of-time compiled binaries (for dalvik apps) even for ARM 32-bit and ARM 64-bit ISAs. ISA egalitarianisn I guess. Obscure ISAs should have the same opportunities as dominant ones.
And two for being an Anonymous Coward Neckbeard.