That's because Apple kit is designed for hipsters and hipsters don't drive. They cycle round on their fixies and care not what the road names are but where the closest place they can sip a latte is.
What makes you think the use of 3D printing will make your car repair less expensive?
metalicarap (http://reprap.org/wiki/MetalicaRap) a open source in development 3d metal printer once you cant print metal parts car part will not be a problem
monitor support is a x11/window manager/desktop environment problem not linux kernal problem, the equivalent would be to yell at the NT devs for the failings direct3d.
Ok #1 who does that? I mean that is not a very "home user" application in general.
you mean you have never heard of a home with people watching television in different rooms? at my home there are tiem when everyone is watching a different show/movie and using network resources with their portable devices such as laptops and tablets so it is not that hard to swamp a 1 gig nic.
with this size of this dragnet the spooks undoubtedly have lots of dirt on every senetor and congrassmen and would be more then willing to use it to cover their ass(ets)
agreed. this reminded me of the resent article here on slashdot about the court ording a man to decrypt his hard drive suspected to contain cp, with a good set up he could have a plausible deny-ability partition filled with encrypted brownie porn so that when the court ordered him to unlock it he could and they would have no valid reason to suspect that he had any other information to hide as what he reveled while embarrassing would not be illegal.
I never said that the Linux devs can do no wrong, I also never blamed the user and I never said that our devs are better than anyone else's. What I said is that there are more of them and the community is more active as such progress is faster resulting in a faster development cycle.
as for your quoting rms his opinon on that is a non-sequitur as the kernal isn't his and if he had his way it would be gpl3.
Why does Linux need a half a dozen kernels a year when BSD, Solaris, OSX, none of those need a half a dozen kernels a year?
Maybe because it has more active developers than any other kernel, maybe because it is used in more places, supports more features, and more hardware than other kernal.
why can my friend go through 3 Apple upgrades and ALL of HIS drivers work,
Ever consider that might be because apple has so little hardware? They have what 4 lines of computer running OSX that only some of which get changed each year, not much hardware really to support in the first palce, I would be surprised if it didn't have decent support considering.
i take take[sic] 7 year old drivers and run them in the latest Windows just fine, but Linus can't even keep his shit together long enough to allow 2 year old drivers to work, hmmm?
Maybe that is the device manufacturers fault for not supporting or updating their Linux drivers, and instead supporting the illegal monopoly abusing operating system do to install base. Also no one forces you to upgrade to a new kernel you could just stay with what works or use a distro with longterm support, I think Redhat supports OS installs up to 10 years old with there extended support cycle, or you could use Debian which focuses on stability, Ubuntu supports lts server installs for 5 years and are contemplating longer on the next lts.
I'm sorry but bullshit is bullshit, its a kernel not fucking bread, no need to rush it out for "freshness" here. if he can't keep his shit together and bring enough QC that a kernel can't even last 24 months?
No its not bread but it does need putout more quickly because there a lots of crackers out their looking for zero day exploits, and the sooner you patched the better or you could stick with XP SP1 and IE6 and see just how long it is until you are some Russian hackers botnet-bitch.
get another damned job Torvalds.
what is with your vitriol toward Torvalds in this post did he run over your cat or something?
as Torvalds is there to cockblock you can give it up, it'll remain a hobbyist OS,
Oh you mean its not used on what percent of servers, phones(smart and dumb), tablets and embedded in more random devices than you can count? Hobbyist only; ah, no.
where the only gains are when a corp bitchslaps him out of the way and just takes it like Google did.
I don't recall Google "bitch slapping Linux" if by bitch slapped you mean used the kernel added a few hooks for there java vm and contributed code upstream some of which is still being added to mainline, and used a different user space and gui, in fact they enternally use standard linux for all of their desktops and servers. the only thing that may in anyway of been bitch slapped by Google is the gnu tool chain and user space and x11 but plenty others don't use gnu either instead using busybox or some other.
it more than that now though as more and more cars come with keyless start were you just have to have fob within a certin proximity of the vehicle to start it, now that this has been cracked all that it will take for a car theif is a little bit of crypto know how and they will be able to take off with random cars off the street and no one will be the wiser as to the car it will appear as though its the correct fob so no security alert like when someone tries to hot wire it or open the lock with a coat hanger.
from what i recall stuxnet also shared a lots of code in common with another pernicious computer virus conficker that has infected computer all over the world
frankly if Torvalds wasn't constantly shitting out new kernels it really wouldn't be hard to get your kernel signed and use it in Linux.
So let me get this straight; your against getting security patches and improvements that come with new kernels? also its not Torvalds that controls when you distro pumps out a new kernel that is entirely up to the distros kernel team all Torvald does that relates is push source code into the mainline trunk in a git.
If the studios really wanted that profit then why don't they distribute it online for free in a ad supported fashion (just like they do/did with traditional television) themselves?
the networks could make lots of money with ad supported "official legal" torrent site and set it up like any other torrent site (just less porn ads and more normal ads) with every episode available in multiple resolutions drm free and in every imaginable format, hell they could even embed ads in the episode like the do with tv. they would say "oh but people block ads with adblockers but then again so do viewers with tivo or other time delay setups. it would cost them less bandwidth than trying to stream every every episode to everyone and their dog separately, they would not have to license any drm they, they could have links to where you could buy the the physical disks and merchandise, they could quickly and accurately judge popularity of shows based on number of people torrenting it. they would argue that others would simply copy their torrent remove ads and redistribute them but they have problem as is anyway.
but they would rather prosecute other people then sell goods the way masses want them in the vain hope that they will somehow get back to the glory days of pre-internet.
Microsoft makes more money on Xbox & business licensing than in the consumer market.
Consumer MS has been declining for a while now.
Doesn't stop some dumbass author from writing an article, or an editor who can't distinguishing between Windows desktop OS and Windows Server, from "predicting"/praying for the death of Microsoft via their lynx browsers.
I don't know where you get your information but xbox has been widely known to be a giant hole into which microsoft dumps coupious amounts of money then lights it on fire. Xbox has never really made it into the black. But that was not its point in any case, xbox was made soley to keep developers using directX rather than opengl and having game sbe easily ported to other operating systems like MacOSX and Linux, thus risking the loss of the consumer gaming market.
Of course they can survive. They can decide they want to make the Xbox touch-screen only and still have cash in the bank. It will take many years, of year-on-year Windows 8 style decisions for Microsoft to fall. Even then, they will see the end coming a long way off and be able to steer away from the edge.
year upon year of windows 8 style decision?
killing zune vista ribbon ui bing (on this list becaus its a money sink not about market share) metro win32 x86 only forcing arm to use metro only "ending service packs" for windows seven killing the Courier tablet killing the dev group that created the courier tablet
correct me if i am wrong but in a episode with The Master and David Tennants Doctor wasn't it said that the time lords would occasionally bestow extra regens on time lord in time of war? Thus explaining why the master was around despite having died numerous times?
why don't they have it print to postscript. many modern printers take postscript input so it would not be hard to have it pipe the input to the printer.
there is a large difference. the expoits in code are generally used as attacks and don't effect the normal use of the code. this would be the equivalent to holding the engineering firms that design the bridge responsible for the terrorist that bombed it.
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That's because Apple kit is designed for hipsters and hipsters don't drive. They cycle round on their fixies and care not what the road names are but where the closest place they can sip a latte is.
whats that about Ad Hominem?
that's not an ad hominem its a ad populium
What makes you think the use of 3D printing will make your car repair less expensive?
metalicarap (http://reprap.org/wiki/MetalicaRap) a open source in development 3d metal printer once you cant print metal parts car part will not be a problem
monitor support is a x11/window manager/desktop environment problem not linux kernal problem, the equivalent would be to yell at the NT devs for the failings direct3d.
Ok #1 who does that? I mean that is not a very "home user" application in general.
you mean you have never heard of a home with people watching television in different rooms? at my home there are tiem when everyone is watching a different show/movie and using network resources with their portable devices such as laptops and tablets so it is not that hard to swamp a 1 gig nic.
wasn't ssl broken a while back with a ps3 cluster
http://hackaday.com/2008/12/30/25c3-hackers-completely-break-ssl-using-200-ps3s/
I would not be supprised if they had a hack to get through it
with this size of this dragnet the spooks undoubtedly have lots of dirt on every senetor and congrassmen and would be more then willing to use it to cover their ass(ets)
stream hd video to multiple nodes frome a network file server
agreed. this reminded me of the resent article here on slashdot about the court ording a man to decrypt his hard drive suspected to contain cp, with a good set up he could have a plausible deny-ability partition filled with encrypted brownie porn so that when the court ordered him to unlock it he could and they would have no valid reason to suspect that he had any other information to hide as what he reveled while embarrassing would not be illegal.
calibre seemes to be able to convert them all fairly well to pdf though I perfer epub or .html.zip
I never said that the Linux devs can do no wrong, I also never blamed the user and I never said that our devs are better than anyone else's. What I said is that there are more of them and the community is more active as such progress is faster resulting in a faster development cycle.
as for your quoting rms his opinon on that is a non-sequitur as the kernal isn't his and if he had his way it would be gpl3.
Why does Linux need a half a dozen kernels a year when BSD, Solaris, OSX, none of those need a half a dozen kernels a year?
Maybe because it has more active developers than any other kernel, maybe because it is used in more places, supports more features, and more hardware than other kernal.
why can my friend go through 3 Apple upgrades and ALL of HIS drivers work,
Ever consider that might be because apple has so little hardware? They have what 4 lines of computer running OSX that only some of which get changed each year, not much hardware really to support in the first palce, I would be surprised if it didn't have decent support considering.
i take take[sic] 7 year old drivers and run them in the latest Windows just fine, but Linus can't even keep his shit together long enough to allow 2 year old drivers to work, hmmm?
Maybe that is the device manufacturers fault for not supporting or updating their Linux drivers, and instead supporting the illegal monopoly abusing operating system do to install base. Also no one forces you to upgrade to a new kernel you could just stay with what works or use a distro with longterm support, I think Redhat supports OS installs up to 10 years old with there extended support cycle, or you could use Debian which focuses on stability, Ubuntu supports lts server installs for 5 years and are contemplating longer on the next lts.
I'm sorry but bullshit is bullshit, its a kernel not fucking bread, no need to rush it out for "freshness" here. if he can't keep his shit together and bring enough QC that a kernel can't even last 24 months?
No its not bread but it does need putout more quickly because there a lots of crackers out their looking for zero day exploits, and the sooner you patched the better or you could stick with XP SP1 and IE6 and see just how long it is until you are some Russian hackers botnet-bitch.
get another damned job Torvalds.
what is with your vitriol toward Torvalds in this post did he run over your cat or something?
as Torvalds is there to cockblock you can give it up, it'll remain a hobbyist OS,
Oh you mean its not used on what percent of servers, phones(smart and dumb), tablets and embedded in more random devices than you can count? Hobbyist only; ah, no.
where the only gains are when a corp bitchslaps him out of the way and just takes it like Google did.
I don't recall Google "bitch slapping Linux" if by bitch slapped you mean used the kernel added a few hooks for there java vm and contributed code upstream some of which is still being added to mainline, and used a different user space and gui, in fact they enternally use standard linux for all of their desktops and servers. the only thing that may in anyway of been bitch slapped by Google is the gnu tool chain and user space and x11 but plenty others don't use gnu either instead using busybox or some other.
it more than that now though as more and more cars come with keyless start were you just have to have fob within a certin proximity of the vehicle to start it, now that this has been cracked all that it will take for a car theif is a little bit of crypto know how and they will be able to take off with random cars off the street and no one will be the wiser as to the car it will appear as though its the correct fob so no security alert like when someone tries to hot wire it or open the lock with a coat hanger.
from what i recall stuxnet also shared a lots of code in common with another pernicious computer virus conficker that has infected computer all over the world
frankly if Torvalds wasn't constantly shitting out new kernels it really wouldn't be hard to get your kernel signed and use it in Linux.
So let me get this straight; your against getting security patches and improvements that come with new kernels?
also its not Torvalds that controls when you distro pumps out a new kernel that is entirely up to the distros kernel team all Torvald does that relates is push source code into the mainline trunk in a git.
there still irc file sharing bots around? i know nntp was still widely used but though most irc filesharing had died
If the studios really wanted that profit then why don't they distribute it online for free in a ad supported fashion (just like they do/did with traditional television) themselves?
the networks could make lots of money with ad supported "official legal" torrent site and set it up like any other torrent site (just less porn ads and more normal ads) with every episode available in multiple resolutions drm free and in every imaginable format, hell they could even embed ads in the episode like the do with tv. they would say "oh but people block ads with adblockers but then again so do viewers with tivo or other time delay setups. it would cost them less bandwidth than trying to stream every every episode to everyone and their dog separately, they would not have to license any drm they, they could have links to where you could buy the the physical disks and merchandise, they could quickly and accurately judge popularity of shows based on number of people torrenting it. they would argue that others would simply copy their torrent remove ads and redistribute them but they have problem as is anyway.
but they would rather prosecute other people then sell goods the way masses want them in the vain hope that they will somehow get back to the glory days of pre-internet.
what exactly is a serious crime?
and when Unicode and ASCII are replaced?
Microsoft makes more money on Xbox & business licensing than in the consumer market.
Consumer MS has been declining for a while now.
Doesn't stop some dumbass author from writing an article, or an editor who can't distinguishing between Windows desktop OS and Windows Server, from "predicting"/praying for the death of Microsoft via their lynx browsers.
I don't know where you get your information but xbox has been widely known to be a giant hole into which microsoft dumps coupious amounts of money then lights it on fire. Xbox has never really made it into the black. But that was not its point in any case, xbox was made soley to keep developers using directX rather than opengl and having game sbe easily ported to other operating systems like MacOSX and Linux, thus risking the loss of the consumer gaming market.
Of course they can survive. They can decide they want to make the Xbox touch-screen only and still have cash in the bank. It will take many years, of year-on-year Windows 8 style decisions for Microsoft to fall. Even then, they will see the end coming a long way off and be able to steer away from the edge.
year upon year of windows 8 style decision?
killing zune
vista
ribbon ui
bing (on this list becaus its a money sink not about market share)
metro
win32 x86 only forcing arm to use metro only
"ending service packs" for windows seven
killing the Courier tablet
killing the dev group that created the courier tablet
anyone care to add to the list?
Explain how an iPad or Android tablet with a bluetooth keyboard is functionally different than a laptop running Windows?
less ram, less drive space, weaker prossesor, less powerful video card, less control of the system. thats how.
correct me if i am wrong but in a episode with The Master and David Tennants Doctor wasn't it said that the time lords would occasionally bestow extra regens on time lord in time of war? Thus explaining why the master was around despite having died numerous times?
"Uhhhhhhh.... ISS this is Houston. Why exactly are you downloading files named 'femalebodyparts.data'...."
hmm what would be the consequences being caught downloading copyrighted torrents from the iss? i would think you are out of anyones juristiction.
why don't they have it print to postscript. many modern printers take postscript input so it would not be hard to have it pipe the input to the printer.
there is a large difference. the expoits in code are generally used as attacks and don't effect the normal use of the code. this would be the equivalent to holding the engineering firms that design the bridge responsible for the terrorist that bombed it.