You do not have the slightest clue what you are talking about. Java is licensed under GPL. Oracle keeps control of the conformance tests, the trademark, and some bogus patents and mutters from time to time about distributing new JREs under some restrictive license but so far as not done so.
Indeed, Larry Ellison wants to maintain Oracle's reputation as a tough guy. But what he's really doing is establishing Oracle's reputation as a dim witted gorilla.
I don't know about you, but this patent looks laughably peripheral to Java, never mind whether the patent is bogus or not. If I were a Google lawyer I would be looking forward to my opportunity to humilate Troll Oracle in court.
At one-tenth of a pound heavier that really doesn't sound like much, but it can start to matter if you hold your iPad in one hand for long periods or have any kind of repetitive stress injury.
I'm shocked at how physically inept modern people are becoming. The gnashing of teeth over ounces when it comes to gadgets is truly shocking to me. How does one become so incapacitated that an ounce or two is really worth mentioning?
It's about 7% heavier, that is certainly enough to notice with a form factor that is already marginal in terms of being able to hold it for a long time. I would say 7% is a big deal, especially considering why: Apple really overdid it with the screen resolution. All those pixels eat battery, partly because of the screen transistors, but mainly because of having to drive an additional GPU. Not to mention making the device run noticably hotter than the previous generation. Thirteen degrees is a lot of heat in return for what? Saving Apple the fuss and bother of engineering their software to handle a screen that isn't exactly double the old one.
On the face of it, it looks like the Apple execs panicked about how they were going to come up with something "Jobsian" for the next iteration and all they could think of was this. I do not think Steve Jobs would have made this mistake. Of course I could be wrong about that, the iphone antenna happened on his watch.
The compatibility layer for DirectX on Linux is called Wine. Personally, I don't care about it, DirectX is highly barfacious compared to OpenGL, which rules the world with the exception of Microsoft fanchises.
But only M$ astroturfers seem to get uptight about it.
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Linux - essentially - desperately needs a good compatibility interface for DirectX and the gaming-relevant APIs.
It's called OpenGL and it's better than DirectX. Linux already has all the gaming APIs it needs, what it needs is more games and I don't know about you, but I don't want to get my games from the tired old publishers any more. How many ways are there to spell "yet another tired shooter".
The moment didn't pass. Linux crossed the magic threshold years ago where it attracted enough users so that it is worth making it continuously better, pretty much every aspect. So Linux on the desktop is basically here forever, it's a done deal. And those intelligent enough to use it in the interest of their own safety and satisfaction are happy about that. If there are others who want to just keep on suffering, that is not my problem.
My kid started on Linux when she was two, is now eight, and does her art mainly Inkscape and Kolorpaint instead of Tuxpaint because she appreciates the extra features like bezier curves and gradient fills.
I'm getting ready to replace my aging laptop and am mulling over the best route to go.
Take a flyer and get something like an Asus Transformer? Indeed, Android was not conceived as a desktop-replacement UI but Google, but it is viewed that way by many others, including Asus. I might be a little bumpy at first until things like Libreoffice land, but I find I am actually able to get by without a traditional laptop on a road trip these days. The low weight and long battery life are really sweet.
They didn't have anything remotely ressembling stability either, but that did not seem to bother most Mac users. By this I understand that they are a different kind of people from me, most probably from a different planet.
opinionated rants about how "buggy" or "unsecure" or just plain "crappy" Windows is isn't going to cut it
No, but calm statements of fact that all those things are true carries considerable weight. After all, most Windows users can corroborate this from their own experience.
Libre Office has gotten almost feature-compatible with MS Office and that's great for you. Now if you want to get people to switch you should show them what it does better, what it does faster, what it does with more ease of use, or what it does that MS Office can't do at all.
You left out: how much it doesn't cost, how much it keeps compatability with old formats, how much it doesn't get viruses, how many times you don't need to buy it over and over again. Particularly how much it doesn't cost.
OO (and the much better LibreOffice, which is what they're calling the good one these days) are very solid but lacking in more than a few features compared to Office. They're not necessarily essential features, but a lot of it is useful stuff. I would strongly disagree with them being called "superior"
Libreoffice has some features Microsoft Office does not have: stability and compabilitity. I would also argue that Libreoffice has better usability, having used both of them quite a lot the couple of years. For example, I just hate the way Ctrl-C/V/X works in Excel. It actually does what you expect in Libre/Openoffice. I would not say that Libreoffice has a huge lead of Microsoft Office overall, but it has a lead, and the lead will widen. Some specific feature you're hurting for... did you try Googling to see when its scheduled to arrive in Libreoffice? I just don't run into such reatures myself.
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I stopped reading your post after that sentence.
You did yourself a disservice.
You do not have the slightest clue what you are talking about. Java is licensed under GPL. Oracle keeps control of the conformance tests, the trademark, and some bogus patents and mutters from time to time about distributing new JREs under some restrictive license but so far as not done so.
patents have a fantastic ROI.
So does organized crime.
You mean, Microsoft is investigating it.
No, what Google's mostly concerned with is defending its immense pile of cash.
-1, Clueless. Google is mostly concerned about defending its immense share of the search advertising market.
Indeed, Larry Ellison wants to maintain Oracle's reputation as a tough guy. But what he's really doing is establishing Oracle's reputation as a dim witted gorilla.
I don't know about you, but this patent looks laughably peripheral to Java, never mind whether the patent is bogus or not. If I were a Google lawyer I would be looking forward to my opportunity to humilate Troll Oracle in court.
At one-tenth of a pound heavier that really doesn't sound like much, but it can start to matter if you hold your iPad in one hand for long periods or have any kind of repetitive stress injury.
I'm shocked at how physically inept modern people are becoming. The gnashing of teeth over ounces when it comes to gadgets is truly shocking to me. How does one become so incapacitated that an ounce or two is really worth mentioning?
It's about 7% heavier, that is certainly enough to notice with a form factor that is already marginal in terms of being able to hold it for a long time. I would say 7% is a big deal, especially considering why: Apple really overdid it with the screen resolution. All those pixels eat battery, partly because of the screen transistors, but mainly because of having to drive an additional GPU. Not to mention making the device run noticably hotter than the previous generation. Thirteen degrees is a lot of heat in return for what? Saving Apple the fuss and bother of engineering their software to handle a screen that isn't exactly double the old one.
On the face of it, it looks like the Apple execs panicked about how they were going to come up with something "Jobsian" for the next iteration and all they could think of was this. I do not think Steve Jobs would have made this mistake. Of course I could be wrong about that, the iphone antenna happened on his watch.
The compatibility layer for DirectX on Linux is called Wine. Personally, I don't care about it, DirectX is highly barfacious compared to OpenGL, which rules the world with the exception of Microsoft fanchises.
Sure, much of it also works on Mac, but Linux?
Also. If hardware works on Mac it probably works on Linux. The reverse is often not true because Linux has far more drivers than FreeBSD.
Whoops, no, that was not flamebait, it is a fact. Attacked by a Machead perchance?
Excuse me, I meant cla$$ic.
But only M$ astroturfers seem to get uptight about it.
Wow, it become$ clear that the term M$ really hits M$ astroturfer$ in a $ensitive place. Thi$ i$ noteworthy, becau$e up till now it wa$ thought that the classic M$ a$troturfer$ does not have any $ensitive place.
But only M$ astroturfers seem to get uptight about it.
Linux is a great product, it's just not aimed at desktop users.
It's aimed at me, and I'm a desktop user.
Linux - essentially - desperately needs a good compatibility interface for DirectX and the gaming-relevant APIs.
It's called OpenGL and it's better than DirectX. Linux already has all the gaming APIs it needs, what it needs is more games and I don't know about you, but I don't want to get my games from the tired old publishers any more. How many ways are there to spell "yet another tired shooter".
The moment didn't pass. Linux crossed the magic threshold years ago where it attracted enough users so that it is worth making it continuously better, pretty much every aspect. So Linux on the desktop is basically here forever, it's a done deal. And those intelligent enough to use it in the interest of their own safety and satisfaction are happy about that. If there are others who want to just keep on suffering, that is not my problem.
My kid started on Linux when she was two, is now eight, and does her art mainly Inkscape and Kolorpaint instead of Tuxpaint because she appreciates the extra features like bezier curves and gradient fills.
I'm getting ready to replace my aging laptop and am mulling over the best route to go.
Take a flyer and get something like an Asus Transformer? Indeed, Android was not conceived as a desktop-replacement UI but Google, but it is viewed that way by many others, including Asus. I might be a little bumpy at first until things like Libreoffice land, but I find I am actually able to get by without a traditional laptop on a road trip these days. The low weight and long battery life are really sweet.
Sure, much of it also works on Mac, but Linux?
Also. If hardware works on Mac it probably works on Linux. The reverse is often not true because Linux has far more drivers than FreeBSD.
Haven't you heard? This is the Year of the Linux Desktop!
Actually, it's the year of the Linux phone.
They didn't have anything remotely ressembling stability either, but that did not seem to bother most Mac users. By this I understand that they are a different kind of people from me, most probably from a different planet.
You just demonstrated why almost nobody wants Linux: linux advocates are assholes like you
How can I tell the difference between you and an asshole?
opinionated rants about how "buggy" or "unsecure" or just plain "crappy" Windows is isn't going to cut it
No, but calm statements of fact that all those things are true carries considerable weight. After all, most Windows users can corroborate this from their own experience.
Libre Office has gotten almost feature-compatible with MS Office and that's great for you. Now if you want to get people to switch you should show them what it does better, what it does faster, what it does with more ease of use, or what it does that MS Office can't do at all.
You left out: how much it doesn't cost, how much it keeps compatability with old formats, how much it doesn't get viruses, how many times you don't need to buy it over and over again. Particularly how much it doesn't cost.
OO (and the much better LibreOffice, which is what they're calling the good one these days) are very solid but lacking in more than a few features compared to Office. They're not necessarily essential features, but a lot of it is useful stuff. I would strongly disagree with them being called "superior"
Libreoffice has some features Microsoft Office does not have: stability and compabilitity. I would also argue that Libreoffice has better usability, having used both of them quite a lot the couple of years. For example, I just hate the way Ctrl-C/V/X works in Excel. It actually does what you expect in Libre/Openoffice. I would not say that Libreoffice has a huge lead of Microsoft Office overall, but it has a lead, and the lead will widen. Some specific feature you're hurting for... did you try Googling to see when its scheduled to arrive in Libreoffice? I just don't run into such reatures myself.