My God! Thank you for posting this, this kinda of news could bring down President Clinton, bringing a swift end to her control over the US Government! Why I bet by the time you read this she won't be President!
Like the Headphone jack, vowels are obsolete. It makes sense for Apple to phase them out for us in their latest phones, hopefully leading the rest of the industry to remove them from Android phones, keyboards in general, and so on, within the next couple of years.
Now, sure, some might say "Hey, I still use vowels, they're really useful when you're trying to distinguish between two words that have the same consonants, but a different sound joining them, like "cat" and "cut"", but that's old thinking, as leaving a gap is perfectly fine and should be good enough for everyone. Who cares if you were using lots of cheap old consonants? They're inefficient and completely unnecessary. So cat at out.
That article claims that concrete reabsorbs up to half the CO2 that was used to make it, I'd hardly classify it as "scrubbing CO2". (And, by comparison, when you "make wood", you grow a tree, cut it down, and grow another tree in its place, so wood really does constitute a CO2 sink.)
Making concrete is actually one of the worst carbon dioxide production systems out there. It's horrible stuff. If there are ways to make wood do what we need it to, we really need to switch back to it.
And less demand for fuel makes it cheaper still, and reduces the subsidy needed for the cheaper fuel.
That said, a better way to achieve that AND help people on ALL incomes, rich and small, would be to legalize sustainable, public transportation compatible, planning. That doesn't even require subsidies.
Hillary, Bush, and Soros are not "fascists". They don't become fascists just because you disagree with them. Fuck I hate Bush's regime with a passion, but the nearest I ever criticized it as remotely close to certain 1930s European regimes was in committing a similar war crime - namely conspiracy to wage war. Ideologically these are not fascists - they are not white supremacists, they do not promote violence against ethnic or religious minorities, they do not advocate violence against peaceful political opponents, they do not intend to use the state to punish political opposition, and so on.
The loose coalition of groups that labels itself Antifa has been pretty consistent in attacking groups that self identify with the political labels most people consider fascist: neo-nazis, white supremacists, white nationalists, etc.
Fascism is wrong. Most ordinary people "get it". Being against Fascism is not wrong, and while we can have a healthy debate about the use of violence against Fascists, we can reasonably agree that someone doesn't become a Fascist just because they disagree with you, but that people whose ideological make up is based upon violence and the racial superiority of the dominant racial group do fit most definitions of Fascist.
Since the threat of firing was already gone, the only way Twitter can punish them now is to publicly name the person who did this. That is also a good way to make it clear to other employees that if they follow in this person's footsteps, Twitter will not hesitate to nuke them in defense of its interests and users.
I agree, they should name the this terrible person, and also publish a link to his or her Patreon or GoFundMe so everyone knows what not to pay money to. If there's a bar they frequent, Twitter should publish the phone number to call if someone wants to complain and definitely not pay off this person's bar tab by credit card, debit card, or Paypal. This is the least they should do.
I would go further, and also pay the person responsible a huge sum of money so they're forced to pay higher taxes, which I understand, from what Trump and other right wingers say, is the worst thing in the world.
It's time this individual was given what they so richly deserve.
Would you buy a top of the line calculator that cannot display the number 3?
It is perfectly possible for a device to have a lot of awesome features but miss something so important it makes the other features irrelevant. The last $100 phone I bought has a removable battery, SD card slot, dedicated off-screen buttons, and headset jack. Why, exactly, is it so hard for a device that costs several times that amount to include those basic, core, features? Why do phones get shittier the more expensive they become?
But the GP didn't say that, you literally just made up that interpretation to devalue what he had to say, which was, FWIW, correct.
I too an a white man. I too have met many competent and incompetent programmers, but of the female programmers most were quiet and competent, and I only remember one who I felt was incompetent, whereas I've met a lot of incompetent male programmers with an entitled attitude.
You will, of course, be incapable of reading the above as anything other than "ALL WOMEN ARE SMART AND ALL MEN ARE DUMB", because you actually are dumb, in a fitting example of something similar to what both what I and the GP are talking about. You can't comprehend nuance or complexity, but you demand to have your opinions taken seriously anyway.
As to why I've met so many incompetent men, and so many undervalued competent women, well, we can speculate on that, but I'd suggest that part of it is that it's harder in tech at the moment for women, which means that the few that are left are generally the better of the group. If we had true equality of opportunity, we'd probably see just as many incompetent women as incompetent men. But, perhaps, not as many men with an entitled chip on their shoulder.
There's quite a bit of legacy hardware out there in the form of home alarm systems, car emergency systems (On Star, for example), that uses Qualcomm's CDMA. (That said, I have to admit to a lack of sympathy here, given that that technology was more or less a proprietary standard, and the manufacturers and various other companies that decided to build it into their devices should have known they were investing in something with a shelf life. But, hey, the people most affected by the shut down are the people who never made the decision to pick that particular technology.)
Getting rid of 2G GSM is insane, it's the most reliable and ubiquitous voice cellular system in the world and it only needs about 600kHz to provide a bare bones service. AT&T shouldn't have dropped it.
If this deal goes ahead, there will be three big cellular operators competing with one another.
If this deal doesn't, there will be two big cellular operators competing with one another, with a third also-ran, and a fourth perpetually on the verge of going bankrupt. Like right now.
Market diversity is impossible without healthy competitors.
All of which said, if Softbank/Sprint insists on playing a role in the post-merger "T-Sprint", then it probably shouldn't go ahead. They have done little to fix Sprint or address its underlying issues, and T-Mobile is doing a superb job considering their lack of resources. Let's hope sanity prevails.
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Because Keepass is a third party application that Mozilla cannot just co-opt like that, and in any case Keepass can write their own Firefox extensions to do the integration (if they haven't already.)
No, it really isn't. Since the 1990s, we've heavily moved to hotpluggable hardware thanks to USB, networking has gone from "Basic and optional" to "Ubiquitous and complex" thanks to high speed Internet, wireless mobile Internet (be it cellular or multiple WiFi hotspots), software firewalls, etc, and those are just two major differences off the top of my head that will impact an operating system's core start up and daemon management system.
And, let's be clear here, init was always shit too. I had numerous problems back in the 1990s with it if, say, a key service couldn't be started.
It's not a cop out. He's not lying, you're just yelling "Lah lah lah" because you don't want to accept the basic reality that systemd is there to solve a legitimate problem. And the bit that gets me is you don't have to live in an alternative universe where init is still viable to criticize systemd. It's legitimate to say "Yeah, but systemd has problems X, Y, and Z."
What's a cop out is you pretending that everything's fine with an init system, that virtually every serious professional Unix-like OS - from Solaris to macOS, and almost all GNU/Linuxes even before systemd came along - has thrown out, is fine, and that therefore systemd is unnecessary. Because that cop out, aside from being wrong, lets you off the hook in terms of building a case against systemd.
And the reason you need to be off that hook, is because actually it's relatively hard to build a legitimate, non-nitpicky, case against systemd. It's actually a pretty good system. There's been problems, I'm still annoyed at that security hole involving numeric usernames and its handling for example, but by and large it's a massive improvement on what we had before. Massive.
Yes... but throwing out a code base and rewriting is the exact opposite of continuous refactoring.
(Yeah, I'm aware some people have started to pretend "refactoring" is a synonym for "rewriting" - those people need to be kicked in the sensitive parts.)
I love the "Squares with cars" ones, because they inevitably end up with squares that contain motor vehicles that aren't cars, and from experience, Google's AI treats those as cars too.
I know the original captchas were actually part of a book scanning project, the idea being that one the twp words they'd show you were actually photographs of words an OCR system wasn't 100% sure about. The idea wasn't just to help with the scanning but also to teach the OCR system.
I wonder if the sign/car thing is Alphabet's Waymo subsidiary teach its self driving AI about something. If so, I wonder how much bad information is being fed into it just because of poor wording. SDCs probably don't care if something's a car or a truck, but they probably should care about whether something's a sign giving drivers warnings or instructions, rather than a billboard that everyone has identified as a "road sign" because it's literally a sign by the side of a road.
it demanded I give it a pointless Roku user/pass and credit card number.
The username/password is kinda useful, it allows you to have several boxes and sync them, and means you can use the website to browse channels, which is much more comfortable than the TV UI.
The credit card... yeah, that's ridiculous. Technically it's optional, there's a way to activate it without it using a hidden webpage, so I never gave them a card. They shouldn't be asking for one at all.
Roku has its own Roku channel which shows movies and TV shows, and has done so now for at least a few months. They've been advertising it heavily on their screensaver. Which, come to think of it, feels like a really odd sentence to write.
Adultery? How about a blow job in the Oval Office? it's ok if you're Bill Clinton (Democrat)
He was impeached, you imbecile. It evidentally wasn't OK
ex-Member of the KKK? No problem! Become the leader of the senate! If you're Robert Byrd (Democrat)
Can you name any Republicans who are ex-members of the KKK, renounced their membership, and fought to end racism, like Byrd? No? Then perhaps you can show where the double standard is?
Or how about Anthony Wiener sexting the underage girl? It's fine the first time around at least. (Democrat)
No, his career was already destroyed after sexting an adult woman. He was forced to resign. He tried running again, and was soundly defeated in the primaries.
Drinking and driving, causing the death of Mary Jo Kopechne? No biggie for Ted Kennedy (Democrat).
So, we're now going back to the 1970s?
I'm not even going to bother with the rest. All you've demonstrated actually is that in the current environment, for the past 20-30 years anyway, Democrats have been held to a standard that Republicans haven't been. The nearest you've been able to come up with is an example of someone being supported by Democrats after they rejected hate, and frankly, that says more about you than it does about the Democrats.
They could have replaced Trump with a goat and they still would have won. I saw a dead squirrel on the road today that would get more votes than Hillary.
At the time he was running against other Republicans, and it wasn't clear if Clinton or Sanders would be the Democratic nominee. So your comment doesn't make much sense in context.
Which is not to say that if the Republicans had picked a saner candidate, he or she wouldn't have won. It's actually hard to think of someone who wouldn't have won both the electoral college and the popular vote against Clinton. That's what a 25 year smear campaign against Clinton combined with Clinton's horrible centrist politics brings you.
I doubt he would because while there are similar issues, one is a recreational habit and completely avoidable, while the other is, unfortunately, key infrastructure that the country has been built around, and cannot easily be "banned" overnight.
What you will find is a high degree of overlap between those who want eCigs regulated, and those who have supported the EPA's increasingly stringent emissions standards over the last few decades, not to mention support for the move to electric vehicles.
CBS stands for Columbia Broadcasting System. It's the broadcast TV arm of what was called Viacom (and is now CBS Corporation), which is a major TV/music/movies media powerhouse, and is one of the big five US TV networks, the others being NBC, ABC (Disney), Fox, and the publicly run PBS.
CBS has owned the Star Trek franchise since its creation in the 1960s.
*gasp* Physical buttons? How dare you suggest incorporating something practical and necessary into a jesusphone design! You'll be asking for a headphone jack next!
The problem is supporting cars without destroying the cities. The experience in the US is that it's just not possible, you can do one or the other. Try to shoehorn cars into cities and replan them around cars, and you end up destroying the cities by removing walkability, and significantly reducing the attractiveness of city living. Your "Roads on top of roads" solution has been part implemented by various cities, but it has limits, not least what I just said - you'd be literally blocking out the sun at street level, creating a miserable place to live.
The solution is to accept that cities aren't a car friendly place, and cars aren't city friendly, and to plan accordingly. Build parking lots on the edges of cities and create good, quality, transit for intracity transportation.
I don't have a hate-on against cars because they're cars
It's easier for car nuts to demonize people who like cities as having "hate ons" than address the very real practical issues related to creating "car friendly cities." The fact is, they just don't work. The solution isn't the American "Well ban cities then and force everyone to drive!" BS, it's to create a multitude of spaces and let people decide for themselves what tradeoffs they want. Want to live in a city? Give up the car. Want a car? Live in the suburbs.
Whenever I suggest giving people choices might be an option, I inevitably get a "UR FORCING ME TO WALK!" rant, which in all honesty, is similar to your own. But the solution isn't to transcend rationality. Yeah, suburbs in SG are out of the question, so in this one instance, cars are just not going to cut it. Maybe the markets can come up with another way to create personal vehicles that'd be compatible with Singapore's unique situation. But for now, no, I don't think anyone's going to say that your right to drive outranks the right of everyone to see sunlight.
I assume you mean pre-emptive multitasking, as opposed to, say, Windows 3.1 or MacOS's cooperative multitasking. Let's ignore the fact this is for the 80386 which, you know, was the predominant architecture until amd64 came along, and what operating systems like GNU/Linux, Windows NT (2000/XP/Vista/7/8/10), Windows 95/98/Me, etc runs on:
ALL x86s are perfectly capable of proper, AmigaOS/QDOS/etc style multitasking. Some examples (all available for the 8088 unless marked):
- Xenix
- MINIX
- Coherent
- DOS Plus (and Concurrent DOS IIRC)
- OS/2 (OS/2 was available for the 80286)
(Examples of cooperative multitasking for machines "more like" the Amiga: MacOS, MultiTOS)
I believe the operating system under discussion also supported pre-emptive multitasking, at least, that's what I read about it at the time. Hard for it not to. The only reason Windows didn't was because early versions of Windows set up a cooperative architecture, not because it was hard.
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My God! Thank you for posting this, this kinda of news could bring down President Clinton, bringing a swift end to her control over the US Government! Why I bet by the time you read this she won't be President!
Like the Headphone jack, vowels are obsolete. It makes sense for Apple to phase them out for us in their latest phones, hopefully leading the rest of the industry to remove them from Android phones, keyboards in general, and so on, within the next couple of years.
Now, sure, some might say "Hey, I still use vowels, they're really useful when you're trying to distinguish between two words that have the same consonants, but a different sound joining them, like "cat" and "cut"", but that's old thinking, as leaving a gap is perfectly fine and should be good enough for everyone. Who cares if you were using lots of cheap old consonants? They're inefficient and completely unnecessary. So cat at out.
That article claims that concrete reabsorbs up to half the CO2 that was used to make it, I'd hardly classify it as "scrubbing CO2". (And, by comparison, when you "make wood", you grow a tree, cut it down, and grow another tree in its place, so wood really does constitute a CO2 sink.)
Making concrete is actually one of the worst carbon dioxide production systems out there. It's horrible stuff. If there are ways to make wood do what we need it to, we really need to switch back to it.
And less demand for fuel makes it cheaper still, and reduces the subsidy needed for the cheaper fuel.
That said, a better way to achieve that AND help people on ALL incomes, rich and small, would be to legalize sustainable, public transportation compatible, planning. That doesn't even require subsidies.
Stating the obvious to the three of you:
Hillary, Bush, and Soros are not "fascists". They don't become fascists just because you disagree with them. Fuck I hate Bush's regime with a passion, but the nearest I ever criticized it as remotely close to certain 1930s European regimes was in committing a similar war crime - namely conspiracy to wage war. Ideologically these are not fascists - they are not white supremacists, they do not promote violence against ethnic or religious minorities, they do not advocate violence against peaceful political opponents, they do not intend to use the state to punish political opposition, and so on.
The loose coalition of groups that labels itself Antifa has been pretty consistent in attacking groups that self identify with the political labels most people consider fascist: neo-nazis, white supremacists, white nationalists, etc.
Fascism is wrong. Most ordinary people "get it". Being against Fascism is not wrong, and while we can have a healthy debate about the use of violence against Fascists, we can reasonably agree that someone doesn't become a Fascist just because they disagree with you, but that people whose ideological make up is based upon violence and the racial superiority of the dominant racial group do fit most definitions of Fascist.
I agree, they should name the this terrible person, and also publish a link to his or her Patreon or GoFundMe so everyone knows what not to pay money to. If there's a bar they frequent, Twitter should publish the phone number to call if someone wants to complain and definitely not pay off this person's bar tab by credit card, debit card, or Paypal. This is the least they should do.
I would go further, and also pay the person responsible a huge sum of money so they're forced to pay higher taxes, which I understand, from what Trump and other right wingers say, is the worst thing in the world.
It's time this individual was given what they so richly deserve.
Would you buy a top of the line calculator that cannot display the number 3?
It is perfectly possible for a device to have a lot of awesome features but miss something so important it makes the other features irrelevant. The last $100 phone I bought has a removable battery, SD card slot, dedicated off-screen buttons, and headset jack. Why, exactly, is it so hard for a device that costs several times that amount to include those basic, core, features? Why do phones get shittier the more expensive they become?
But the GP didn't say that, you literally just made up that interpretation to devalue what he had to say, which was, FWIW, correct.
I too an a white man. I too have met many competent and incompetent programmers, but of the female programmers most were quiet and competent, and I only remember one who I felt was incompetent, whereas I've met a lot of incompetent male programmers with an entitled attitude.
You will, of course, be incapable of reading the above as anything other than "ALL WOMEN ARE SMART AND ALL MEN ARE DUMB", because you actually are dumb, in a fitting example of something similar to what both what I and the GP are talking about. You can't comprehend nuance or complexity, but you demand to have your opinions taken seriously anyway.
As to why I've met so many incompetent men, and so many undervalued competent women, well, we can speculate on that, but I'd suggest that part of it is that it's harder in tech at the moment for women, which means that the few that are left are generally the better of the group. If we had true equality of opportunity, we'd probably see just as many incompetent women as incompetent men. But, perhaps, not as many men with an entitled chip on their shoulder.
No, this is Reddit. The monster is inevitably a "Fat Woman Stuffing Her Face With A Donut".
The victim? Waitstaff, who the Fat Woman has been rude to.
There's quite a bit of legacy hardware out there in the form of home alarm systems, car emergency systems (On Star, for example), that uses Qualcomm's CDMA. (That said, I have to admit to a lack of sympathy here, given that that technology was more or less a proprietary standard, and the manufacturers and various other companies that decided to build it into their devices should have known they were investing in something with a shelf life. But, hey, the people most affected by the shut down are the people who never made the decision to pick that particular technology.)
Getting rid of 2G GSM is insane, it's the most reliable and ubiquitous voice cellular system in the world and it only needs about 600kHz to provide a bare bones service. AT&T shouldn't have dropped it.
If this deal goes ahead, there will be three big cellular operators competing with one another.
If this deal doesn't, there will be two big cellular operators competing with one another, with a third also-ran, and a fourth perpetually on the verge of going bankrupt. Like right now.
Market diversity is impossible without healthy competitors.
All of which said, if Softbank/Sprint insists on playing a role in the post-merger "T-Sprint", then it probably shouldn't go ahead. They have done little to fix Sprint or address its underlying issues, and T-Mobile is doing a superb job considering their lack of resources. Let's hope sanity prevails.
| Because Keepass is a third party application that Mozilla cannot just co-opt like that, and in any case Keepass can write their own Firefox extensions to do the integration (if they haven't already.)
No, it really isn't. Since the 1990s, we've heavily moved to hotpluggable hardware thanks to USB, networking has gone from "Basic and optional" to "Ubiquitous and complex" thanks to high speed Internet, wireless mobile Internet (be it cellular or multiple WiFi hotspots), software firewalls, etc, and those are just two major differences off the top of my head that will impact an operating system's core start up and daemon management system.
And, let's be clear here, init was always shit too. I had numerous problems back in the 1990s with it if, say, a key service couldn't be started.
It's not a cop out. He's not lying, you're just yelling "Lah lah lah" because you don't want to accept the basic reality that systemd is there to solve a legitimate problem. And the bit that gets me is you don't have to live in an alternative universe where init is still viable to criticize systemd. It's legitimate to say "Yeah, but systemd has problems X, Y, and Z."
What's a cop out is you pretending that everything's fine with an init system, that virtually every serious professional Unix-like OS - from Solaris to macOS, and almost all GNU/Linuxes even before systemd came along - has thrown out, is fine, and that therefore systemd is unnecessary. Because that cop out, aside from being wrong, lets you off the hook in terms of building a case against systemd.
And the reason you need to be off that hook, is because actually it's relatively hard to build a legitimate, non-nitpicky, case against systemd. It's actually a pretty good system. There's been problems, I'm still annoyed at that security hole involving numeric usernames and its handling for example, but by and large it's a massive improvement on what we had before. Massive.
Yes... but throwing out a code base and rewriting is the exact opposite of continuous refactoring.
(Yeah, I'm aware some people have started to pretend "refactoring" is a synonym for "rewriting" - those people need to be kicked in the sensitive parts.)
I love the "Squares with cars" ones, because they inevitably end up with squares that contain motor vehicles that aren't cars, and from experience, Google's AI treats those as cars too.
I know the original captchas were actually part of a book scanning project, the idea being that one the twp words they'd show you were actually photographs of words an OCR system wasn't 100% sure about. The idea wasn't just to help with the scanning but also to teach the OCR system.
I wonder if the sign/car thing is Alphabet's Waymo subsidiary teach its self driving AI about something. If so, I wonder how much bad information is being fed into it just because of poor wording. SDCs probably don't care if something's a car or a truck, but they probably should care about whether something's a sign giving drivers warnings or instructions, rather than a billboard that everyone has identified as a "road sign" because it's literally a sign by the side of a road.
The username/password is kinda useful, it allows you to have several boxes and sync them, and means you can use the website to browse channels, which is much more comfortable than the TV UI.
The credit card... yeah, that's ridiculous. Technically it's optional, there's a way to activate it without it using a hidden webpage, so I never gave them a card. They shouldn't be asking for one at all.
Roku has its own Roku channel which shows movies and TV shows, and has done so now for at least a few months. They've been advertising it heavily on their screensaver. Which, come to think of it, feels like a really odd sentence to write.
He was impeached, you imbecile. It evidentally wasn't OK
Can you name any Republicans who are ex-members of the KKK, renounced their membership, and fought to end racism, like Byrd? No? Then perhaps you can show where the double standard is?
No, his career was already destroyed after sexting an adult woman. He was forced to resign. He tried running again, and was soundly defeated in the primaries.
So, we're now going back to the 1970s?
I'm not even going to bother with the rest. All you've demonstrated actually is that in the current environment, for the past 20-30 years anyway, Democrats have been held to a standard that Republicans haven't been. The nearest you've been able to come up with is an example of someone being supported by Democrats after they rejected hate, and frankly, that says more about you than it does about the Democrats.
If the aim is to build a Nuclear weapon capable of destroying the United States, it doesn't have to leave American soil.
*puts finger to chin* Didn't think of that did you? Did ya? *nods smugly*
At the time he was running against other Republicans, and it wasn't clear if Clinton or Sanders would be the Democratic nominee. So your comment doesn't make much sense in context.
Which is not to say that if the Republicans had picked a saner candidate, he or she wouldn't have won. It's actually hard to think of someone who wouldn't have won both the electoral college and the popular vote against Clinton. That's what a 25 year smear campaign against Clinton combined with Clinton's horrible centrist politics brings you.
I doubt he would because while there are similar issues, one is a recreational habit and completely avoidable, while the other is, unfortunately, key infrastructure that the country has been built around, and cannot easily be "banned" overnight.
What you will find is a high degree of overlap between those who want eCigs regulated, and those who have supported the EPA's increasingly stringent emissions standards over the last few decades, not to mention support for the move to electric vehicles.
CBS stands for Columbia Broadcasting System. It's the broadcast TV arm of what was called Viacom (and is now CBS Corporation), which is a major TV/music/movies media powerhouse, and is one of the big five US TV networks, the others being NBC, ABC (Disney), Fox, and the publicly run PBS.
CBS has owned the Star Trek franchise since its creation in the 1960s.
*gasp* Physical buttons? How dare you suggest incorporating something practical and necessary into a jesusphone design! You'll be asking for a headphone jack next!
Your solution is to block out the sun?
The problem is supporting cars without destroying the cities. The experience in the US is that it's just not possible, you can do one or the other. Try to shoehorn cars into cities and replan them around cars, and you end up destroying the cities by removing walkability, and significantly reducing the attractiveness of city living. Your "Roads on top of roads" solution has been part implemented by various cities, but it has limits, not least what I just said - you'd be literally blocking out the sun at street level, creating a miserable place to live.
The solution is to accept that cities aren't a car friendly place, and cars aren't city friendly, and to plan accordingly. Build parking lots on the edges of cities and create good, quality, transit for intracity transportation.
It's easier for car nuts to demonize people who like cities as having "hate ons" than address the very real practical issues related to creating "car friendly cities." The fact is, they just don't work. The solution isn't the American "Well ban cities then and force everyone to drive!" BS, it's to create a multitude of spaces and let people decide for themselves what tradeoffs they want. Want to live in a city? Give up the car. Want a car? Live in the suburbs.
Whenever I suggest giving people choices might be an option, I inevitably get a "UR FORCING ME TO WALK!" rant, which in all honesty, is similar to your own. But the solution isn't to transcend rationality. Yeah, suburbs in SG are out of the question, so in this one instance, cars are just not going to cut it. Maybe the markets can come up with another way to create personal vehicles that'd be compatible with Singapore's unique situation. But for now, no, I don't think anyone's going to say that your right to drive outranks the right of everyone to see sunlight.
I assume you mean pre-emptive multitasking, as opposed to, say, Windows 3.1 or MacOS's cooperative multitasking. Let's ignore the fact this is for the 80386 which, you know, was the predominant architecture until amd64 came along, and what operating systems like GNU/Linux, Windows NT (2000/XP/Vista/7/8/10), Windows 95/98/Me, etc runs on:
ALL x86s are perfectly capable of proper, AmigaOS/QDOS/etc style multitasking. Some examples (all available for the 8088 unless marked):
- Xenix
- MINIX
- Coherent
- DOS Plus (and Concurrent DOS IIRC)
- OS/2 (OS/2 was available for the 80286)
(Examples of cooperative multitasking for machines "more like" the Amiga: MacOS, MultiTOS)
I believe the operating system under discussion also supported pre-emptive multitasking, at least, that's what I read about it at the time. Hard for it not to. The only reason Windows didn't was because early versions of Windows set up a cooperative architecture, not because it was hard.