Enough already! Let this idea just die. There will never be a year of Linux desktop unless a company like Google or Microsoft decides to bring "accessible to masses" Linux desktop.
You see, the American consumers are really strange. They don't enjoy owning unlocked smartphones that are free of carrier bloat. They want a smartphone that's locked to one carrier, features carrier logo on the back and on the boot screen, and has dozens of carrier apps and services installed on the phones. Neither consumers like having phones with many radio bands. We want the phone to have the absolute minimum of radio bands to make it work with one carrier, so that the phone becomes crippled when you try to connect it to another carrier. We, Americans, unlike those Chinese consumers, have brand loyalty to those large telecoms.
Some people may consider this to be inconsequential, but we're seeing for the first time since 2015 the "LITTLE" CPU cores in the "big.LITTLE" CPU configurations updated from A53 to A55.
Putin's war is no worse than Saakashvili's war of plunder, rape, and conquest of August 2008. And Putin's war's are a small time travesty compared to USA's campaigns of death and plunder in the middle east starting with Iraq, and continuing in Syria and Libya.Those wars have set Middle East, the region the size of north America on fire and great misery, yet for some people Putin continues being the bad guy? Mookay.
That's right. I am a typical Russian bot with a Slashdot account with almost 20 years of posting history. We Putin bot started posting Putin-posts even before Putin was appointed by Yeltsin to be Russia's president.
And who is talking about Ukraine here? I don't. Just pointing out how russophobes are spearing lies about the 2008 South Ossetia war. The Georgians decided to become GWB's allies. Got armed and trained. Got very cocky. They started this war and they lost it. End of story.
Indeed, I borrowed my brother's Netflix login to check it out, and I can barely find maybe 1 out of 10 titles I was looking for. Nothing truly interesting, but I give them credit for packing 1990s Star Trek series.
Russia did not invade Georgia 2008 but reliated against Georgia invading South Ossetia. Russian peacekeepers were already legally in Georgia's separatist region of South Ossetia since 1992 as per the Sochi cease fire Agreement that was signed in 1992 by the Georgian president, parliament, and the separatists. On August 8th of 2008, Georgian military launched a surprise attack on the separatists in South Ossetia, breaking the agreement and also killing a bunch of civilians and even Russian peacekeepers in their sleep. Russia's military responded by crossing the border into South Ossetia, and kicking the Georgians out of there, and Russians were pretty much legally entitled to do this based on previous international agreements.
The newer range is really great, about as much as most cars.
Absolutely not. Your information is seriously out of date.
I'll give you two examples of pretty mainstream cars. First, is the 2016 three row Honda Pilot "gas guzzler". I am getting anywhere between 23 and 27mpg cruising on interstates, and it has 20 gallon gas tank, so the range is +400 miles. The second one is the 2017 Honda Accord. It has 17 gallon tank, and I am observing 33mpg in mixed driving, resulting again +500 mile range.
"Active hours" does not fix shit. Depending on day of week, I can be using my personal desktop any hour of the day. Moreover, MS active hours only allows 8 hours to be designated as active, which implies that the other 16 hours are inactive? Moreover MS has installed updated and rebooted my PC in the middle of running background tasks, like trans-coding or downloads. What a piece of junk. Did microsoft pay you a lot for this post? A free license?
Absolutely not. Certain OEMs have chosen to include a Windows 7 license on their new Windows 10 desktops. This was done by including some kind of a valid Windows 7 key in the BIOS or by other means. But Windows 10 by itself does not give you any downgrade rights.
If you have nothing intelligent to say, it's usually far better to stay quiet than expose yourself to be an ignorant moron who has nothing of value to say. You make your judgement of US politics based on Slashdot? Great!
The point is that spear phishing attack is basically the least common denominator in all black hat hacking. Even a high school drop out could execute this from his mom's basement, yet the media and the government present this as a highly sophisticated government operation.
Likewise, the DNC hack. To this day we haven't been presented even once piece of credible evidence that it was Russians.
If this man is allegedly intelligent enough to break into Linkedin and Dropbox, than he should have known better than travel to a country that's an enthusiastic EU and NATO member. This is not a first. Some of the Russian black hat hackers or mobsters think they can con either russian companies or individuals or western, and then retire in some nice quiet bucolic place like Greece, Spain, or Czech republic.
The problem is the standard "liberal arts" curriculum. In my alma matter you could obtain a lot of technical degrees like Applied Math, CS, or Science through either the College of Letters and Science or through the College of Engineering. I made the mistake of entering the College of Letters and Science, and oh boy. Despite my major being Applied math, I hardly ever had an extra slot in my time to add a second math or other technical course each semester. That's because of endless liberal arts requirements such American politics, American history, English, foreign language, social sciences, morals and values and so on. So by the time I graduate, I only managed to take a bunch of "basic" math courses, and hardly had any time to get into serious math courses I really wanted to take (like more advanced optimization, or numerical analysis).
Indeed, one needs to get a masters degree to learn anything in school, unless you attend a good engineering college.
A problem that Microsoft needs to work harder to resolve. I do not believe that Microsoft does not have the knowledge and the clout to resolve this issue.
It seems like the author or The Verge are desperate for per-holidays ad-clicks. When they say "no longer guaranteed", we are led to think that there used to be a time when buying a new Android phone guaranteed having the latest Android release. However, as recently as last year, I believe Honor 6X was released in the late fall with Marshmallow, even though Nougat was released, when in August-September? At about the same time Lenovo and Huawei started shipping new tablets with Marshmallow.
So anyways, this is not news. Nobody ever guaranteed that you will get the latest Android release on a new phone, and I honestly can't blame the manufacturers. They need to do the development in terms of porting the ROM and testing it on the new hardware. If a device is released three months after the latest Android release, many OEMs simply do not have sufficient time to port and test the latest version.
Indeed. Android 8 pretty much ruined my Nexus 5X. This update was the reason I decided to unlock the bootloader for the first time ever to flash the final Nougat ROM.
I think it's fair to say that 99% of all phones that already run Oreo are Google's own Pixel and Nexus phones. Oneplus historically hasn't been bad about updating its phones. For example, they promised the Oneplus 3 and 3T should get Android 8 eventually. Their update cycle is actually faster because they don't sell any carrier branded phones. Marshmallow and Nougat are the most popular Android versions (each taking around 30 percent of market), so either of those is hardly obsolete.
There is no denying that Oneplus 5T is a good value considering you get top shelf hardware spec for 500-something USD. However, this is no longer a budget "flagship killer" phone the way the original 300/350USD Oneplus One (16/64GB) used to be in 2014. At this +500 price, you can find mainstream brand phones, such as LG G6. I was able to score a Galaxy S8 for under 500USD with a trade-in phone. Other things being equal, I still prefer Oneplus to LG, but a lot of brand loyal who were originally attracted by low pricing will start wondering what happened.
Fedora is fine for a home desktop or some kind of a tinkering or development box. For work, I prefer CentOS or RHEL, which normally have +5 years of support and updated drivers and install images.
I think it was financially sensible to decide to build a single fighter bomber for air force and for aircraft carriers. France, Russia, and China have developed carrier versions of their fighter jets with minimal modifications. What ruined the JSF project was the requirement that the same air-frame should be used in a VTOL aircraft. The result of the VTOL requirement was that the F-35A and F-35C ended up being significantly compromised and ended up with aerodynamics of a flying soap bar.
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Enough already! Let this idea just die. There will never be a year of Linux desktop unless a company like Google or Microsoft decides to bring "accessible to masses" Linux desktop.
You see, the American consumers are really strange. They don't enjoy owning unlocked smartphones that are free of carrier bloat. They want a smartphone that's locked to one carrier, features carrier logo on the back and on the boot screen, and has dozens of carrier apps and services installed on the phones. Neither consumers like having phones with many radio bands. We want the phone to have the absolute minimum of radio bands to make it work with one carrier, so that the phone becomes crippled when you try to connect it to another carrier. We, Americans, unlike those Chinese consumers, have brand loyalty to those large telecoms.
There is going to be more arable land in Greenland!
Some people may consider this to be inconsequential, but we're seeing for the first time since 2015 the "LITTLE" CPU cores in the "big.LITTLE" CPU configurations updated from A53 to A55.
Putin's war is no worse than Saakashvili's war of plunder, rape, and conquest of August 2008. And Putin's war's are a small time travesty compared to USA's campaigns of death and plunder in the middle east starting with Iraq, and continuing in Syria and Libya.Those wars have set Middle East, the region the size of north America on fire and great misery, yet for some people Putin continues being the bad guy? Mookay.
Oh look! _Another_ putin-bot ..
That's right. I am a typical Russian bot with a Slashdot account with almost 20 years of posting history. We Putin bot started posting Putin-posts even before Putin was appointed by Yeltsin to be Russia's president.
And who is talking about Ukraine here? I don't. Just pointing out how russophobes are spearing lies about the 2008 South Ossetia war. The Georgians decided to become GWB's allies. Got armed and trained. Got very cocky. They started this war and they lost it. End of story.
Indeed, I borrowed my brother's Netflix login to check it out, and I can barely find maybe 1 out of 10 titles I was looking for. Nothing truly interesting, but I give them credit for packing 1990s Star Trek series.
Russia did not invade Georgia 2008 but reliated against Georgia invading South Ossetia. Russian peacekeepers were already legally in Georgia's separatist region of South Ossetia since 1992 as per the Sochi cease fire Agreement that was signed in 1992 by the Georgian president, parliament, and the separatists. On August 8th of 2008, Georgian military launched a surprise attack on the separatists in South Ossetia, breaking the agreement and also killing a bunch of civilians and even Russian peacekeepers in their sleep. Russia's military responded by crossing the border into South Ossetia, and kicking the Georgians out of there, and Russians were pretty much legally entitled to do this based on previous international agreements.
The newer range is really great, about as much as most cars.
Absolutely not. Your information is seriously out of date.
I'll give you two examples of pretty mainstream cars. First, is the 2016 three row Honda Pilot "gas guzzler". I am getting anywhere between 23 and 27mpg cruising on interstates, and it has 20 gallon gas tank, so the range is +400 miles. The second one is the 2017 Honda Accord. It has 17 gallon tank, and I am observing 33mpg in mixed driving, resulting again +500 mile range.
300 miles at lest five hour drive? Please. I drive 75 mph on most interstates in the southwest. Sometimes faster. It's a four hour ride.
"Active hours" does not fix shit. Depending on day of week, I can be using my personal desktop any hour of the day. Moreover, MS active hours only allows 8 hours to be designated as active, which implies that the other 16 hours are inactive? Moreover MS has installed updated and rebooted my PC in the middle of running background tasks, like trans-coding or downloads. What a piece of junk. Did microsoft pay you a lot for this post? A free license?
Windows 10 has full downgrade rights.
Absolutely not. Certain OEMs have chosen to include a Windows 7 license on their new Windows 10 desktops. This was done by including some kind of a valid Windows 7 key in the BIOS or by other means. But Windows 10 by itself does not give you any downgrade rights.
If you have nothing intelligent to say, it's usually far better to stay quiet than expose yourself to be an ignorant moron who has nothing of value to say. You make your judgement of US politics based on Slashdot? Great!
Apparently, he is a Slashdot armchair IT security specialist, for a living.
The point is that spear phishing attack is basically the least common denominator in all black hat hacking. Even a high school drop out could execute this from his mom's basement, yet the media and the government present this as a highly sophisticated government operation.
Likewise, the DNC hack. To this day we haven't been presented even once piece of credible evidence that it was Russians.
If this man is allegedly intelligent enough to break into Linkedin and Dropbox, than he should have known better than travel to a country that's an enthusiastic EU and NATO member. This is not a first. Some of the Russian black hat hackers or mobsters think they can con either russian companies or individuals or western, and then retire in some nice quiet bucolic place like Greece, Spain, or Czech republic.
The problem is the standard "liberal arts" curriculum. In my alma matter you could obtain a lot of technical degrees like Applied Math, CS, or Science through either the College of Letters and Science or through the College of Engineering. I made the mistake of entering the College of Letters and Science, and oh boy. Despite my major being Applied math, I hardly ever had an extra slot in my time to add a second math or other technical course each semester. That's because of endless liberal arts requirements such American politics, American history, English, foreign language, social sciences, morals and values and so on. So by the time I graduate, I only managed to take a bunch of "basic" math courses, and hardly had any time to get into serious math courses I really wanted to take (like more advanced optimization, or numerical analysis).
Indeed, one needs to get a masters degree to learn anything in school, unless you attend a good engineering college.
A problem that Microsoft needs to work harder to resolve. I do not believe that Microsoft does not have the knowledge and the clout to resolve this issue.
It seems like the author or The Verge are desperate for per-holidays ad-clicks. When they say "no longer guaranteed", we are led to think that there used to be a time when buying a new Android phone guaranteed having the latest Android release. However, as recently as last year, I believe Honor 6X was released in the late fall with Marshmallow, even though Nougat was released, when in August-September? At about the same time Lenovo and Huawei started shipping new tablets with Marshmallow.
So anyways, this is not news. Nobody ever guaranteed that you will get the latest Android release on a new phone, and I honestly can't blame the manufacturers. They need to do the development in terms of porting the ROM and testing it on the new hardware. If a device is released three months after the latest Android release, many OEMs simply do not have sufficient time to port and test the latest version.
Indeed. Android 8 pretty much ruined my Nexus 5X. This update was the reason I decided to unlock the bootloader for the first time ever to flash the final Nougat ROM.
I think it's fair to say that 99% of all phones that already run Oreo are Google's own Pixel and Nexus phones. Oneplus historically hasn't been bad about updating its phones. For example, they promised the Oneplus 3 and 3T should get Android 8 eventually. Their update cycle is actually faster because they don't sell any carrier branded phones. Marshmallow and Nougat are the most popular Android versions (each taking around 30 percent of market), so either of those is hardly obsolete.
There is no denying that Oneplus 5T is a good value considering you get top shelf hardware spec for 500-something USD. However, this is no longer a budget "flagship killer" phone the way the original 300/350USD Oneplus One (16/64GB) used to be in 2014. At this +500 price, you can find mainstream brand phones, such as LG G6. I was able to score a Galaxy S8 for under 500USD with a trade-in phone. Other things being equal, I still prefer Oneplus to LG, but a lot of brand loyal who were originally attracted by low pricing will start wondering what happened.
Fedora is fine for a home desktop or some kind of a tinkering or development box. For work, I prefer CentOS or RHEL, which normally have +5 years of support and updated drivers and install images.
I think it was financially sensible to decide to build a single fighter bomber for air force and for aircraft carriers. France, Russia, and China have developed carrier versions of their fighter jets with minimal modifications. What ruined the JSF project was the requirement that the same air-frame should be used in a VTOL aircraft. The result of the VTOL requirement was that the F-35A and F-35C ended up being significantly compromised and ended up with aerodynamics of a flying soap bar.