Chromebooks need to come in more configurations, like w/ i5s, i7s, and w/ more than just 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. Oh, and stop assuming that we have to be online all the time to get any work done
MacOS is better. It's a unix derivative. I have my programs (in python & C mostly) on a network drive and they compile and run the same on Linux and MacOS. I use Latex and gnuplot a lot. They both run the same on Linux and MacOS.
Windows is not like that. It's it's own thing and I have to jump through hoops to make programs and documents work across all three. So I don't. I use a Mac and I use Linux. Work give me a windows laptop and I use it to ssh into Linux to do work.
Other people's priorities are generally very different to mine, but I don't give a crap about the minutiae of UI elements (unless it's truly horrible like Gnome). I care about the programming environment.
I understand that technically, OS X is better. However, for me, it would have been a step down from NEXTSTEP, which I used years ago. Initial versions of OS X were similar, but in recent years, they've made the OS more like iOS. Which I like on my iPad, but not on a laptop
The main issue about the OP's post is that the only way one can get OS X is by sinking a ton of cash on a Mac. Yeah, Hackintosh is there, but you are on your own. One way around it would be to buy a Linux configuration of your choice from System 76; another would be to just get the laptop of your choice, wipe it and install a Linux or a BSD distro on it and move on
The problem w/ buying 'business editions' from Dell (dunno about others) is that when you select 'business' as the reason for buying, they ask you all sorts of intrusive questions, like the name of your business, and so on. If you are an employee working for someone and don't have your business, your choice is either to lie, and invite spam going forward, or enter your employer's name - not sure about the repercussions there, or just not do it.
Better alternative would be to check out companies that make these for Linux, like System 76, where you will be paying Microsoft squat. Another, if you have the time, patience, skill and inclination, would be to just buy all the components - motherboard, CPU, RAM, SSD, case, et al and assemble them yourself. I did this in the 90s, but since the 2000s, it's become more economical just to buy them, if you are not hung up over the OS.
Is that on an existing box you already have, or something you plan to buy? Unless you buy from one of the Linux shops - System 76 or some such, you'd pretty much get Windows on your system preloaded. Unless you plan to buy all the parts and assemble them - but that's been a more expensive proposition for at least 16 years
Fully agree w/ this. In fact, for all the bellyaching over Windows 10, one thing they did right - put in the ultimate antivirus in Windows Defender, which comes w/ it. No more paying annual subscriptions to Norton, Kaspersky, ES-ET, Malwarebytes, et al
One of the rare good things to come out of this mess
This is actually the problem when the OEMs are all Chinese. The Chinese give 100% of their business to whoever gives them the lowest price, so it does these competitors no good to remain in the business if all they are gonna be doing is being used to beat down Qualcomm's prices. And Qualcomm's salespeople ain't morons either: after the competitors have exited the market, they can easily tell the Chinese phone makers 'Take it or leave it'.
In fact, the Koreans do exactly what you describe - second source. They'll have a BOM w/ 2 sources, and while they use both sources to keep each other honest, they will never give all the business to 1 source. Usually, they'll give up to 60% of the business to one, and 40% to the other, if it's just two. That way, if one of the suppliers drops the ball on them, they can ramp up numbers at the other, and it's less painful to go from 40 to 100 than it is to go from 0 to 100, and they'll always keep looking for multiple sources.
Hopefully, one of the advantages of some manufacturing coming back to the US would be that manufacturers would use multiple sources for their products rather than just try to beat down prices
When I first saw the headline, I thought that they had transmuted Hydrogen either directly or indirectly (via Helium) to Lithium. Freezing hydrogen may make it solid, but certainly not a metal
A sailor went to csh, csh, csh,
To see what he could cshell, cshell, cshell
But all that he could cshell, cshell, cshell
Was the bottom of the deep blue csh, csh, csh
By which time, people who are forced out of XP or 7 are unlikely to want to migrate to yet another Microsoft platform, when there would be others from the likes of Google, Apple and maybe even others, like Facebook, waiting in the wings
Not all brown people living in hot places are Arab or Muslim. Even if a particular refugee is both, there are types of Arab and types of Muslim.
Iran has always been keen to point out that it not an Arab country. They are not the same sort of Muslim as most of their neighbours to the north or west. Look up the words "Sunni" and "Shia" and think about 16th century European Catholics & Protestants but without always the same level of tolerance.
Okay, a bit about Iranian history. Iran only became Shia in the 16th century: prior to that, it was Sunni. Culturally, they may have separated themselves from Arabs, but they practiced and practice the same fanaticism as any other group of Muslims anywhere - Turks, Arabs, East Indies, Indian subcontinental Muslims, North Africans, et al. While there may be nuanced differences b/w them in terms of certain practices, one thing they all have in common is the hatred and persecution of non-Muslims among them. If Saudi Arabia is notorious for its treatment of non-Wahabis, Iran has a reputation of persecuting and bullying Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians and Bahais. Iraq - under its new 'democrat' regime, has caused its Christians to flee first to Syria, from where they fled to Lebanon when ISIS took over Eastern Syria. Egypt routinely sees Copts at the receiving end of pogroms. In Pakistan, it's common for underaged Christian and Hindu girls to disappear, and later be discovered to have been kidnapped, converted to Islam and married to Muslims. Essentially, Muslims are about religious genocide of non-Muslims.
That depends on what you mean by "everybody". If you mean the right-wing press, which we have so much of, then certainly. If however you mean all the people, or even the vast majority numerically, not so. I have talked to some Germans who were very angry about the lies published as "news" saying what was going on in their country. Basically, it wasn't. We wouldn't know though because of the garbage we hear from our papers. I saw photographs of a male only train unloading but when did we see any of the women and children train another day? I suspect that there will be some on snopes.com but not in the Sun or the Daily Wail.
What Germany did was excellent and an example to us all. They have a little more money that we do at present, but perhaps about the same amount of free space. No we are not "full up" and we weren't broke either. The UK offer to resettle perhaps 8 per week was just silly and embarrassing/shaming.
Germans or Austrians being raped by 'migrants' is not 'right wing news' - it's news. There is a reason you see parties that were previously the object of opprobrium becoming popular today. Several few years ago, the name 'Le Pen' would have repulsed everybody, but France's policy of accepting Muslims from North Africa even though they let go of their colonies in the 60s was what led to events like Charlie Hebdo, the Bataclan massacre and the Nice massacre, resulting in Marine Le Pen being projected to become the next leader. And if Germany and Austria elect the next Hitler, they can't be blamed either.
These are people running away from jihadists. We seem to be able to grow our own anyway. I am more worried about those and you should be too.
No, the bulk of Syrian refugees are Sunnis running away not from ISIS, but from a quasi-secular Alawite regime in Syria, which is not Jihadist. The rapists in Germany have been largely Sunnis, some, but not all, of who are ISIS affiliated. What underlies this trend is that Islam endorses them to wage war against infidels and these rapists take that as a license to rape the women of the host countries.
The more sensible solution for the Syrian refugee issue would be to have them move to similar countries in their neighborhood, which are more like them - Arab Muslim. Jordan has taken some, and the others can go to places lik
I don't live in Europe, so there is nothing for me to be scared about. But when all mainstream politicians out there are busy living in denial about Muslims while events like in Paris, Nice, Berlin and other places go on, you see neo-Nazis gaining ground. People can be forgiven for putting their own lives ahead of the well being of Muslims in their countries
Why not? What's there about ReactOS that makes it hostile to any of the current CPUs? Also, does wine 2 support Windows 8/10 as far as win64 goes, or is it just Windows 7?
Leaving aside US 'responsibility' (which is another topic altogether), there is no reason any European country, other than Turkey, should have to take in any Syrian refugees. Those people are Arab Muslims, and if they have to flee Syria, they should flee to countries in the neighborhood that are not totally alien to them - Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, maybe even Turkey or Iran. They would find them more culturally compatible, and in Arab countries, there wouldn't even be a linguistic issue. Just like all Arab countries have taken in Pali people for over 50 years w/o giving them citizenship, they can do the same here for Syrian refugees - give them temporary asylum, and send them back if and when the civil war in Syria ends and final borders in that country are drawn
Instead, ONE EU member country - Germany - decides to take in everyone, and in the process, sours everybody against the open borders within the EU that are so sacrosanct. That openness was fine when it was just Europeans moving b/w places like Frankfurt to Barcelona to Birmingham, but once it also started meaning the free flow of Jihadists b/w European countries, it created a situation where the only people talking sense are the neo-Nazi parties in various member states. And one can thank the EU for enabling, if not creating, such a situation
Yeah, I do realize that - I'm not talking about Belgians here. I'm talking about the EU plutocrats who work in one of the member capitals that also doubles as the headquarters of the EU as well as NATO. Yeah, I could have mentioned Strasbourg, but on checking, I found that Brussels has the sole role.
My larger point is that bureaucrats in any city that was the headquarters would have been far removed from the disparate problems in member states, and shouldn't be designing 'one-size-fits-all' regulations for all its members. Particularly the ones about allowing in 'refugees' from the Middle East or North Africa
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Chromebooks need to come in more configurations, like w/ i5s, i7s, and w/ more than just 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. Oh, and stop assuming that we have to be online all the time to get any work done
One more thing I don't like is that none of the Mac keyboards have the numeric keypad on the right
MacOS is better. It's a unix derivative. I have my programs (in python & C mostly) on a network drive and they compile and run the same on Linux and MacOS. I use Latex and gnuplot a lot. They both run the same on Linux and MacOS.
Windows is not like that. It's it's own thing and I have to jump through hoops to make programs and documents work across all three. So I don't. I use a Mac and I use Linux. Work give me a windows laptop and I use it to ssh into Linux to do work.
Other people's priorities are generally very different to mine, but I don't give a crap about the minutiae of UI elements (unless it's truly horrible like Gnome). I care about the programming environment.
I understand that technically, OS X is better. However, for me, it would have been a step down from NEXTSTEP, which I used years ago. Initial versions of OS X were similar, but in recent years, they've made the OS more like iOS. Which I like on my iPad, but not on a laptop
The main issue about the OP's post is that the only way one can get OS X is by sinking a ton of cash on a Mac. Yeah, Hackintosh is there, but you are on your own. One way around it would be to buy a Linux configuration of your choice from System 76; another would be to just get the laptop of your choice, wipe it and install a Linux or a BSD distro on it and move on
The problem w/ buying 'business editions' from Dell (dunno about others) is that when you select 'business' as the reason for buying, they ask you all sorts of intrusive questions, like the name of your business, and so on. If you are an employee working for someone and don't have your business, your choice is either to lie, and invite spam going forward, or enter your employer's name - not sure about the repercussions there, or just not do it.
Better alternative would be to check out companies that make these for Linux, like System 76, where you will be paying Microsoft squat. Another, if you have the time, patience, skill and inclination, would be to just buy all the components - motherboard, CPU, RAM, SSD, case, et al and assemble them yourself. I did this in the 90s, but since the 2000s, it's become more economical just to buy them, if you are not hung up over the OS.
Is that on an existing box you already have, or something you plan to buy? Unless you buy from one of the Linux shops - System 76 or some such, you'd pretty much get Windows on your system preloaded. Unless you plan to buy all the parts and assemble them - but that's been a more expensive proposition for at least 16 years
Fully agree w/ this. In fact, for all the bellyaching over Windows 10, one thing they did right - put in the ultimate antivirus in Windows Defender, which comes w/ it. No more paying annual subscriptions to Norton, Kaspersky, ES-ET, Malwarebytes, et al
One of the rare good things to come out of this mess
This is actually the problem when the OEMs are all Chinese. The Chinese give 100% of their business to whoever gives them the lowest price, so it does these competitors no good to remain in the business if all they are gonna be doing is being used to beat down Qualcomm's prices. And Qualcomm's salespeople ain't morons either: after the competitors have exited the market, they can easily tell the Chinese phone makers 'Take it or leave it'.
In fact, the Koreans do exactly what you describe - second source. They'll have a BOM w/ 2 sources, and while they use both sources to keep each other honest, they will never give all the business to 1 source. Usually, they'll give up to 60% of the business to one, and 40% to the other, if it's just two. That way, if one of the suppliers drops the ball on them, they can ramp up numbers at the other, and it's less painful to go from 40 to 100 than it is to go from 0 to 100, and they'll always keep looking for multiple sources.
Hopefully, one of the advantages of some manufacturing coming back to the US would be that manufacturers would use multiple sources for their products rather than just try to beat down prices
You will notice - I did note (via Helium) in the part about my comment on transmutation
Yeah, better than the political stories they have been doing here
When I first saw the headline, I thought that they had transmuted Hydrogen either directly or indirectly (via Helium) to Lithium. Freezing hydrogen may make it solid, but certainly not a metal
You mean their cshills?
Would phones be one of those things?
A sailor went to csh, csh, csh,
To see what he could cshell, cshell, cshell
But all that he could cshell, cshell, cshell
Was the bottom of the deep blue csh, csh, csh
By which time, people who are forced out of XP or 7 are unlikely to want to migrate to yet another Microsoft platform, when there would be others from the likes of Google, Apple and maybe even others, like Facebook, waiting in the wings
This is a meaningless metric. There is no such thing as doomsday. The World is not a clock. You are OK. Breathe out.
Thank you. Leave these ideas to religion - every one of them has different criteria on eschatological futures.
Which OS is it that is so complicated that when you ask it to delete a file, it doesn't? I wasn't aware that one even exists
So, it will be available in more areas, at greater costs and in more limited uses.
See, I "expanded access".
Now, fork over the $300 a month.
'Digital Divide' implies that everybody will be able to afford it, not just that it'll be as available in Portland, ME as it is in Portland, OR.
Is there anything in there statements that re-defines that down from what the previous administration defined it by moving the numbers up?
India should avoid measuring it, otherwise the new crown will belong to both Pakistan and China, on whose border K2 lies
Not all brown people living in hot places are Arab or Muslim. Even if a particular refugee is both, there are types of Arab and types of Muslim.
Iran has always been keen to point out that it not an Arab country. They are not the same sort of Muslim as most of their neighbours to the north or west. Look up the words "Sunni" and "Shia" and think about 16th century European Catholics & Protestants but without always the same level of tolerance.
Okay, a bit about Iranian history. Iran only became Shia in the 16th century: prior to that, it was Sunni. Culturally, they may have separated themselves from Arabs, but they practiced and practice the same fanaticism as any other group of Muslims anywhere - Turks, Arabs, East Indies, Indian subcontinental Muslims, North Africans, et al. While there may be nuanced differences b/w them in terms of certain practices, one thing they all have in common is the hatred and persecution of non-Muslims among them. If Saudi Arabia is notorious for its treatment of non-Wahabis, Iran has a reputation of persecuting and bullying Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians and Bahais. Iraq - under its new 'democrat' regime, has caused its Christians to flee first to Syria, from where they fled to Lebanon when ISIS took over Eastern Syria. Egypt routinely sees Copts at the receiving end of pogroms. In Pakistan, it's common for underaged Christian and Hindu girls to disappear, and later be discovered to have been kidnapped, converted to Islam and married to Muslims. Essentially, Muslims are about religious genocide of non-Muslims.
That depends on what you mean by "everybody". If you mean the right-wing press, which we have so much of, then certainly. If however you mean all the people, or even the vast majority numerically, not so. I have talked to some Germans who were very angry about the lies published as "news" saying what was going on in their country. Basically, it wasn't. We wouldn't know though because of the garbage we hear from our papers. I saw photographs of a male only train unloading but when did we see any of the women and children train another day? I suspect that there will be some on snopes.com but not in the Sun or the Daily Wail.
What Germany did was excellent and an example to us all. They have a little more money that we do at present, but perhaps about the same amount of free space. No we are not "full up" and we weren't broke either. The UK offer to resettle perhaps 8 per week was just silly and embarrassing/shaming.
Germans or Austrians being raped by 'migrants' is not 'right wing news' - it's news. There is a reason you see parties that were previously the object of opprobrium becoming popular today. Several few years ago, the name 'Le Pen' would have repulsed everybody, but France's policy of accepting Muslims from North Africa even though they let go of their colonies in the 60s was what led to events like Charlie Hebdo, the Bataclan massacre and the Nice massacre, resulting in Marine Le Pen being projected to become the next leader. And if Germany and Austria elect the next Hitler, they can't be blamed either.
These are people running away from jihadists. We seem to be able to grow our own anyway. I am more worried about those and you should be too.
No, the bulk of Syrian refugees are Sunnis running away not from ISIS, but from a quasi-secular Alawite regime in Syria, which is not Jihadist. The rapists in Germany have been largely Sunnis, some, but not all, of who are ISIS affiliated. What underlies this trend is that Islam endorses them to wage war against infidels and these rapists take that as a license to rape the women of the host countries.
The more sensible solution for the Syrian refugee issue would be to have them move to similar countries in their neighborhood, which are more like them - Arab Muslim. Jordan has taken some, and the others can go to places lik
I don't live in Europe, so there is nothing for me to be scared about. But when all mainstream politicians out there are busy living in denial about Muslims while events like in Paris, Nice, Berlin and other places go on, you see neo-Nazis gaining ground. People can be forgiven for putting their own lives ahead of the well being of Muslims in their countries
Why not? What's there about ReactOS that makes it hostile to any of the current CPUs? Also, does wine 2 support Windows 8/10 as far as win64 goes, or is it just Windows 7?
Can wine be a subsystem on top of systemd? In fact, why not have a daemon called windowsd in systemd, just like you have all the other *d?
Leaving aside US 'responsibility' (which is another topic altogether), there is no reason any European country, other than Turkey, should have to take in any Syrian refugees. Those people are Arab Muslims, and if they have to flee Syria, they should flee to countries in the neighborhood that are not totally alien to them - Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, maybe even Turkey or Iran. They would find them more culturally compatible, and in Arab countries, there wouldn't even be a linguistic issue. Just like all Arab countries have taken in Pali people for over 50 years w/o giving them citizenship, they can do the same here for Syrian refugees - give them temporary asylum, and send them back if and when the civil war in Syria ends and final borders in that country are drawn
Instead, ONE EU member country - Germany - decides to take in everyone, and in the process, sours everybody against the open borders within the EU that are so sacrosanct. That openness was fine when it was just Europeans moving b/w places like Frankfurt to Barcelona to Birmingham, but once it also started meaning the free flow of Jihadists b/w European countries, it created a situation where the only people talking sense are the neo-Nazi parties in various member states. And one can thank the EU for enabling, if not creating, such a situation
Yeah, I do realize that - I'm not talking about Belgians here. I'm talking about the EU plutocrats who work in one of the member capitals that also doubles as the headquarters of the EU as well as NATO. Yeah, I could have mentioned Strasbourg, but on checking, I found that Brussels has the sole role.
My larger point is that bureaucrats in any city that was the headquarters would have been far removed from the disparate problems in member states, and shouldn't be designing 'one-size-fits-all' regulations for all its members. Particularly the ones about allowing in 'refugees' from the Middle East or North Africa