"Please point me to the phone that had as tight integration," with what? itunes?
itunes sucks. just about every android phone will teather and copy files out with any file manager of choice on any operating system.
"Apple took disparate components and repackaged them" then wrapped some proprietary connectors and non-standards. read, they didn't do most of the work.
granted their slick looking devices, but apple did NOT do most of the heavy lifting. They are the first to point their finger at anyone copying them, although they didn't make most of what they have. Thats my point.
"But give credit where credit is due - you're stretching to actually say that iPhone had 0 impact on the market, and 0 impact on how things are done."
I am saying they had next to zero contribution to actual technological advances, and they actively sue companies that do more to advance technology, resulting in a net loss.
gnome-shell for all its flaws, runs, two monitors at 1440x900 at desktop idle, a whopping 220 MB of RAM.
while playing WoW in wine on one monitor, yakking away on xchat on another, while having firefox open to watch stupid youtube videos and engage in "polite discussion" on/., with a zillion instances of gedit, terminal, and firefox pages, tunes blaring out of 5.1 surround system with rythm box, trying to code while looking up syntax, my system uses, get this:
just under 2 GB of ram.(so says gnome-system-utiliy I feel like a total idiot for spurging on 16GB of ram.
I have no swap enabled, and I feel quite comfortable with/tmp mounted in RAM based tmpfs, and never ever ever came close to running out of memory. ever...
So, Gnome and KDE might be memory hogs, but thats only relivant to gnu/linux. They are both still far more lightweight than either windows 7 or OSX.
reading the article, you see nothing more than political skulldrugery
" Here is incontrovertible proof (as if we needed it) that racism isn't just some imaginary talking point invented by liberals, but an actual problem."
From this sentence its quite obvious what is being done here. Subjective pseudo-research to quantify democrat/liberal talking points. Reading the article, from a liberal blogger, while further reinforce the point.
It seems to me their biggest concern over racism, is critizism of elected officials they favor. A few cherry picked off color twitter comments, and they are already rasing alarms.
Not only is it obviously missing out on anti-white racism, it seems to be ignore good oid fashion white on black racism when its not politically motivated.
this is a political slashvertisement, where a bunch of apparantly out of touch "liberals" feel the need to prove themselves by misleeding the public at large with un-scientific biased, subjective journalism.
thats exactly what I am saying. If you knew anything about technology, you'd know its the truth. relatively little shit apple does is original. They either buyout or steal most of what they have, and then they target devices we might actually want to buy with lawsuits.
iOS runs on ARM class CPUs, so do android phones, and so do almost all cell phones going way back. my motorola razr runs on an older ARM chip(ARM's half life in the embedded market, before reusrging. guess what, apple didn't make that.
There had been smart phones for years, no one wanted one, before apple told them they wanted one. Its all how they were marketed.
They were all marketed as computer devices, and the techies didn't really bite. Apple marketed electronics as fashion accessories, and they sold. Prior to apple, electronics just weren't "cool". So if you want to go to some fashion website and talk about how innovative Apple is there, be my guest.
This is not said fashion website. This is a tech website. I am sorry, apple is not a contributor to technology.
But this is/., we're not here because its cool. we are here because we like technology. Smart is sexy, and we put function over form. Looking at apple's line up from a nerds perspective and there isn't much. They are, always have been, and always will be technologically inferior.
My motoroal razr v3 from 2005 does voice activiation too, siri
It was a HARD decision to make, but the courts in Canda felt they had to ERECT statues to protect the populace from patent abuse. Pfizer now has to compete in the market, and the competition is sure to be STIFF.
many old games got open sourced, and then got linux ports. DOOM engine is open source and works great natively.
There is also DOSBox, which runs a FreeDOS in ontop of linux, and plays ALL Dos games just as well as they were meant to be played.
Many many windows games work in wine, and steam, and the engines associated with it are getting a linux port.
Linux also has far better native driver support than windows, and the nVidia drivers just got a performance doubling overhaul.
what features does windows have that modern linux lacks?
I'll tell you a few windows lacks
1. a filesystem that doesn't suck. Mabey win8 changed things, but NTFS was old slow, and fail. ext4 beats it in benchmarks hands down. Thats only until btrfs comes out and does things like online partition resizing. Can you even resize an NTFS partition at ALL in windows? No but you can do it in linux. Linux has native read-write support for windows NTFS, FAT, OSX HFS+, IBM XFS, JFS, and quite a few other high end proffesional grade file systems.
2. a good system for dealing with libraries. Why in hell would windows ever ship without the microsoft c/c++ runtime libraries. you install a program in linux, whatever libraries needed get pulled. They also get updated with system updates. In fact there are not a bazillion diffrent slightly incompatible versions of linux libraries. When libraries introduce incompatibilities they rename the file, so forked versions can run concurrent, and programs link to the one they need to run. Despite the hype, libraries are more standard on linux between distros than they are on windows, between install files.
3. that gets us to updates. windows uses browswer based active x controls which have proved almost trivial to hack by faking broken as fuck SSL cert system, and all modern browsers are limited to broken TLS 1.0. This is the only means of authenticating packages.
most major distros going back a long time have used gpg signed packages to authenticate and error check packages that are downloaded.
Oh yeah, and install third party software usually involves verifying keys and importing the developers repository, so you get the most updated versions, everytime you update, gpg signed, so the work you need to do to keep your system bug free with the latest patches is far far far far less.
On newb systems like linux mint and ubuntu, there are really great graphical tools that run automaticly that update automaticly, to make sure newbs get their shit updated.
4. Call me paranoid, but MS has a long standing history of putting backdoors in its software.
5. Better hardware support. Unless you have some really oddball hardware modern(3.0+) kernels will most likely support all your hardware out of the box. The exception is video cards, of which the three major manufactures of video cards give you some pretty nice options. Intel maintains its own open source drivers for linux on video cards and ALL of their hardware. They are rock solid. nVidia has feature complete official binaries they release, that work on every distro, and open source KMS modules that recompile with almost every kernel, seemlessly with scripts nVidia wrote. nvidia just released a new high performance binary release to co-incide with steam for linux to make it a success.(doubles frame rates). Then there is nouveau, feature complete 2d/3d acceleration rock solid, community maintained open source drives that just hit a 1.0 ABI stable release.
AMD again has feature complete drivers, and official contributes to the open source project for their drivers. They are slightly buggy on all operating systems, but work.
Installing drivers on newb distros like linux is easy as an automaticly running jockey-gtk will prompt if you want to install propreitary drivers
do a clean install of windows. What do you get?
6. cutting edge graphics and displays. Windows will copy *NIX desktop design elements mabey 5-10 years later. Or 2 in the case of win8 and gnome-shell.
the greatest crime of our generation is our history books are written by mercenaries who will write down whomever will pay for the privledge of deeming themselves worthy, and the real heros and inovators to be left in the dustbin of history.
I only hope that sites like archive.org will save the mass reactions that people have, so when history is whitewashed, 200 years later people will learn the controversy of these figures, and perhaps have enough information to prompt them to ask questions which will eventually dig and find the truth.
slashdot has gotten pretty bad recently. need more metamods and more real geeks on the firehouse. Less FUD, Less brownshirts, and less corporate sponsored ego trips.
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MD5, what is this 1993?
I am sick of hearing how large companies somehow automaticly make good decisions on technology.
MD5 is long broken and should have been discontinuted 10 years ago.
And there Brave New World dystopia future with no sex, no booze, and really really crappy cars.
Its here. At least for cars.
Google can now import swap people from florida to hunt the gators.
Who will sell gator meat, and gator skin products and add jobs to the economy.
"Also, swap is good for big apps like chrome, firefox, java, etc, where the apps requests several GB of RAM"
I've done the math plenty before doing this. I've never seen firefox, nor any other app, despite hype, use more than 1GB of RAM.
Not even world of warcraft though wine.
"You know that you should have ALWAYS some swap enabled"
live cds run just fine without swap.
"Please point me to the phone that had as tight integration,"
with what? itunes?
itunes sucks. just about every android phone will teather and copy files out with any file manager of choice on any operating system.
"Apple took disparate components and repackaged them"
then wrapped some proprietary connectors and non-standards. read, they didn't do most of the work.
granted their slick looking devices, but apple did NOT do most of the heavy lifting. They are the first to point their finger at anyone copying them, although they didn't make most of what they have. Thats my point.
"But give credit where credit is due - you're stretching to actually say that iPhone had 0 impact on the market, and 0 impact on how things are done."
I am saying they had next to zero contribution to actual technological advances, and they actively sue companies that do more to advance technology, resulting in a net loss.
"fundamentalist lunatics focus on Israel rather than on us."
bull fucking shit they do. They focus on us because of our support for Israel.
Real ally?? what were they doing to help the invasions of Iraq and Afganistan????
All they seem to do is eat 2 billion in foreign aid, and prevent any serious attempt we have at diplomacy in the reigon.
Don't say they share our values either, and they are NOT the only democracy.
Our unflitching support for Israel is why the rest of the reigon is at best suspicious of us.
why is this our problem?
all of the above.
I got the feathers
unity sucks.
/., with a zillion instances of gedit, terminal, and firefox pages, tunes blaring out of 5.1 surround system with rythm box, trying to code while looking up syntax, my system uses, get this:
/tmp mounted in RAM based tmpfs, and never ever ever came close to running out of memory. ever...
gnome-shell for all its flaws, runs, two monitors at 1440x900 at desktop idle, a whopping 220 MB of RAM.
while playing WoW in wine on one monitor, yakking away on xchat on another, while having firefox open to watch stupid youtube videos and engage in "polite discussion" on
just under 2 GB of ram.(so says gnome-system-utiliy I feel like a total idiot for spurging on 16GB of ram.
I have no swap enabled, and I feel quite comfortable with
So, Gnome and KDE might be memory hogs, but thats only relivant to gnu/linux. They are both still far more lightweight than either windows 7 or OSX.
reading the article, you see nothing more than political skulldrugery
" Here is incontrovertible proof (as if we needed it) that racism isn't just some imaginary talking point invented by liberals, but an actual problem."
From this sentence its quite obvious what is being done here. Subjective pseudo-research to quantify democrat/liberal talking points. Reading the article, from a liberal blogger, while further reinforce the point.
It seems to me their biggest concern over racism, is critizism of elected officials they favor. A few cherry picked off color twitter comments, and they are already rasing alarms.
Not only is it obviously missing out on anti-white racism, it seems to be ignore good oid fashion white on black racism when its not politically motivated.
this is a political slashvertisement, where a bunch of apparantly out of touch "liberals" feel the need to prove themselves by misleeding the public at large with un-scientific biased, subjective journalism.
thats exactly what I am saying. If you knew anything about technology, you'd know its the truth. relatively little shit apple does is original. They either buyout or steal most of what they have, and then they target devices we might actually want to buy with lawsuits.
/., we're not here because its cool. we are here because we like technology. Smart is sexy, and we put function over form. Looking at apple's line up from a nerds perspective and there isn't much. They are, always have been, and always will be technologically inferior.
iOS runs on ARM class CPUs, so do android phones, and so do almost all cell phones going way back. my motorola razr runs on an older ARM chip(ARM's half life in the embedded market, before reusrging. guess what, apple didn't make that.
There had been smart phones for years, no one wanted one, before apple told them they wanted one. Its all how they were marketed.
They were all marketed as computer devices, and the techies didn't really bite. Apple marketed electronics as fashion accessories, and they sold. Prior to apple, electronics just weren't "cool". So if you want to go to some fashion website and talk about how innovative Apple is there, be my guest.
This is not said fashion website. This is a tech website. I am sorry, apple is not a contributor to technology.
But this is
My motoroal razr v3 from 2005 does voice activiation too, siri
It was a HARD decision to make, but the courts in Canda felt they had to ERECT statues to protect the populace from patent abuse. Pfizer now has to compete in the market, and the competition is sure to be STIFF.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLgQMtquS6Y
MSNBC is a fucking joke.
All the news microsoft sees fit to print.
apple always was a follower.
They've just sold what everyone else was doing for years, to the masses and claimed they made it all up themselves.
"For most of the other 6.7 billion people who don't live in the US, he got it right."
you'd probably want to ask them about that first next time....
the same people being hit by drone strikes in pakistan?
woz was the hacker.
jobs was a anti-social marketing fuckhead.
your grouping victims of a biased outdated legal system in with predators.
#fail
Here is a good PSA on sex offenders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17u01_sWjRE
as long as sex crimes involve victimless crimes, then there will be injustice.
"where the Maine Republican Party turned her game playing into a significant issue."
I feel the kingdom of stormwind is unfairly taxing me 5% of auction house gains. What is she going to do about this?
then to match the performance of multicore x86s they will most likely need 32-64 arm cores.
just saying
many old games got open sourced, and then got linux ports. DOOM engine is open source and works great natively.
There is also DOSBox, which runs a FreeDOS in ontop of linux, and plays ALL Dos games just as well as they were meant to be played.
Many many windows games work in wine, and steam, and the engines associated with it are getting a linux port.
Linux also has far better native driver support than windows, and the nVidia drivers just got a performance doubling overhaul.
what features does windows have that modern linux lacks?
I'll tell you a few windows lacks
1. a filesystem that doesn't suck. Mabey win8 changed things, but NTFS was old slow, and fail. ext4 beats it in benchmarks hands down. Thats only until btrfs comes out and does things like online partition resizing. Can you even resize an NTFS partition at ALL in windows? No but you can do it in linux. Linux has native read-write support for windows NTFS, FAT, OSX HFS+, IBM XFS, JFS, and quite a few other high end proffesional grade file systems.
2. a good system for dealing with libraries. Why in hell would windows ever ship without the microsoft c/c++ runtime libraries. you install a program in linux, whatever libraries needed get pulled. They also get updated with system updates. In fact there are not a bazillion diffrent slightly incompatible versions of linux libraries. When libraries introduce incompatibilities they rename the file, so forked versions can run concurrent, and programs link to the one they need to run. Despite the hype, libraries are more standard on linux between distros than they are on windows, between install files.
3. that gets us to updates. windows uses browswer based active x controls which have proved almost trivial to hack by faking broken as fuck SSL cert system, and all modern browsers are limited to broken TLS 1.0. This is the only means of authenticating packages.
most major distros going back a long time have used gpg signed packages to authenticate and error check packages that are downloaded.
Oh yeah, and install third party software usually involves verifying keys and importing the developers repository, so you get the most updated versions, everytime you update, gpg signed, so the work you need to do to keep your system bug free with the latest patches is far far far far less.
On newb systems like linux mint and ubuntu, there are really great graphical tools that run automaticly that update automaticly, to make sure newbs get their shit updated.
4. Call me paranoid, but MS has a long standing history of putting backdoors in its software.
5. Better hardware support. Unless you have some really oddball hardware modern(3.0+) kernels will most likely support all your hardware out of the box. The exception is video cards, of which the three major manufactures of video cards give you some pretty nice options. Intel maintains its own open source drivers for linux on video cards and ALL of their hardware. They are rock solid. nVidia has feature complete official binaries they release, that work on every distro, and open source KMS modules that recompile with almost every kernel, seemlessly with scripts nVidia wrote. nvidia just released a new high performance binary release to co-incide with steam for linux to make it a success.(doubles frame rates). Then there is nouveau, feature complete 2d/3d acceleration rock solid, community maintained open source drives that just hit a 1.0 ABI stable release.
AMD again has feature complete drivers, and official contributes to the open source project for their drivers. They are slightly buggy on all operating systems, but work.
Installing drivers on newb distros like linux is easy as an automaticly running jockey-gtk will prompt if you want to install propreitary drivers
do a clean install of windows. What do you get?
6. cutting edge graphics and displays. Windows will copy *NIX desktop design elements mabey 5-10 years later. Or 2 in the case of win8 and gnome-shell.
next steve jobs indeed.
the greatest crime of our generation is our history books are written by mercenaries who will write down whomever will pay for the privledge of deeming themselves worthy, and the real heros and inovators to be left in the dustbin of history.
I only hope that sites like archive.org will save the mass reactions that people have, so when history is whitewashed, 200 years later people will learn the controversy of these figures, and perhaps have enough information to prompt them to ask questions which will eventually dig and find the truth.
slashdot has gotten pretty bad recently. need more metamods and more real geeks on the firehouse. Less FUD, Less brownshirts, and less corporate sponsored ego trips.
was just thinking that. ;)