Indeed. The key question with % is always "of what?". It seems that all percentages are relative to total iOS sales, which is not intuitive, but it does make some sense. Therefore, 58% can be divided into smaller percentages based on individal models.
58% of all iOS devices failed 29% of all iOS devices were failed iPhone 6 Maybe 60% of all iPhone 6 failed (but that number is not given, it depends on the market share of the iPhone 6)
Actually, I think KDE 1.1 was the best KDE ever. It had some quite innovative features, such as desktop level workers, and a desktop level VFS, which actually worked. KDE never quite reached the same level of functionality later - there was too much change for change sake. KDE4 was a disaster on release, that is correct.
So unfortunately, there is no Linux DE that I actually like. Things were so promising when Gnome and KDE appeared, but soon the fragmentation set in, and now we have 6 or 7 DEs, and none of them reaches any kind of quality. LX is at least light on resources, but man is it ugly.
That is all very nice, but if you want to avoid Windows 10, you have to avoid Windows. Or you stay with an unsupported product like Windows 7, but then again you could have saved yourself all that trouble and stayed on unsupported Windows XP.
Windows 7 is nearly seven years old, and extended support will end in just over three years, so migrating to it now is madness.
That is all very nice, but as an engineer I am always surprised how many IT problems are self inflicted.
"Every computer has to run off the same image" must be up there with the most painful guidelines ever. 90% - sure, 98% - good. But every computer? That is just not feasible, and there is always going to be the odd laser engraver, scanning oscilloscope, motion simulator, or ATM machine that still runs an obsolete OS as an embedded system. Nothing wrong with that as long as network connections are strictly limited, and no data from the public is being processed.
And while we are at it, why is anybody migrating to Windows 7, a system that is already EOLed? Surely by now migration to Windows 10 would be indicated.
I agree. Tablets are really useful, and there is clearly demand, but very little on offer in the quality tablet space.
There is Apple, there is the Samsung Galaxy Tab S, and there was the Sony Xperia Z Tablet series (now discontinued). The Kindle Fire HDX also has aspirations. Dell never played in the same league.
2-in-1 devices are certainly more flexible, but I find Windows really off-putting. It may be more powerful, but the App market is very sorry looking, and real Windows programs just do not scale properly for a tablet.
> maybe those old geezers having been around the block a few times actually know a few things the young naive whippersnappers don't.
Possible. Or maybe if you are 65+ and retired, you do not care much about jobs, while people age 18 certainly do. I think the young people have a point, even if they should have turned out in greater strength.
> although it should be noted that the EU bureaucrats choose who gets "their" largesse
You seem to imply that is a bad thing. What makes you so sure that the UK administration is better at allocating funds than the EU administration? I can see absolutely no evidence for that assertion.
And the EU also spends other countries' contributions according to common interests, including UK interests.
Together we stand, divided we fall. And at the moment, the UK is deeply divided, It could even become the Kingdom of England and Wales.
> For the foreseeable future, a gun is the only device that is a true "equalizer", that allows the weak to defend themselves from the strong. If nothing else, that is one excellent reason to allow people to carry guns.
True, but there is a serious side effect. If guns are prevalent, every time somebody goes crazy, somebody dies (often the same person, often not). And yes, people can go crazy without warning.
In places with much more limited access to guns, people also go crazy, but usually that causes much less harm.
Given that gun ownership is going up in the US, and at the same time being shot is the leading cause of death for working age people, I wonder whether this is the right way to go.
Indeed. I wish we could drop the term "range anxiety" from our vocabulary - it sounds too much like blaming the user. Often (not always) the problem is range rather than anxiety.
That being said, 50 miles round trip should be perfectly possible in good conditions, but you if things go wrong, you would need a charging point along the way.
That is all very nice if you do not charge for it. If you do charge for it (smurfberries?), that implies the is useful. T&Cs cannot override consumer rights in most sane legal systems.
Yes, the Kindle DX did cost "an arm and a leg". Certainly compared to competing tablets, which had colour, back light, and a higher resolution. Cost is what killed the Kindle DX, cost is what made Android tablets so popular in the low end market.
ext4 may not be the most existing file system, but it is the default, solid, and good enough in most situations.
XFS is faster (especially for big files), but it has a few issues. reiserfs is quite good, and more space efficient for small files. Neither are clearly superior to ext4, unless you have specific requirements.
ZFS is taking it to the next level, and as such it may well be worthwhile. It remains to be seen how reliable it is on Linux, but in terms of features it is a clear winner.
Yes, when it comes to writing serious documents, most office packages struggle.
Word has been getting a lot better, especially the new equation editor is miles ahead of the competition, and although not quite as good as LaTeX, good enough for most purposes.
Styles are a contentious issues. LibreOffice has a very logical implementation of styles, but it only works if you are 100% disciplined and approach your styles with great planning and foresight. Microsoft styles have been getting a lot better, and they have always been easier to use. Again, Microsoft is good enough in most applications.
Tables are painful in any program I have used, but Excel and the LibreOffice spreadsheet can deal with them reasonably well.
Exactly my thought. So the latest and greatest is able to run 1080p in at least 120Hz, which is nice. But can it do 2160p in 60Hz? Probably not, because that would mean pushing twice as many pixels. It may also struggle to provide decent VR (2x 1080p with at least 90Hz).
Keyboard can be strange. I have an old Toshiba R500. It is not the thinnest, but certainly the lightest laptop I ever had, just around 1kg. And the keyboard is actually quite excellent. Recent laptops just don't seem to have the same quality.
Exactly. The MacBook Pro comes with a real OS, this Chromebook is just an advertising delivery system. Yes, it is good value, but unless you can open it up for real applications, it is not actually a computer.
For any business user, Thunderbird needs integration with a calendar. At the very least, it would need to be able to send and receive calendar invites. There were a number of attempts to add a calendar to Thunderbird, but as far as I can see they all failed, some miserably so.
The lifetime of a product is pretty well defined by industry standards. For a light bulb, it is 1000h. For a car 100000 miles or more depending on the segment. For building automation it is in the region of 25 years - home products may be a bit more short lived, but certainly not under 10 years.
So by any reasonable way of interpretation, they have broken the promise.
The US was the first country to introduce mobile phones on a significant scale, and they made a few odd decisions.
In the US, mobile phone number are just regular local phone numbers, there is no "mobile" area code. So if you receive a call on a mobile, you have to pay for the cost of the mobile network, because the caller pays a standard landline rate. (And that actually makes some kind of sense.) And if you are not in your home are, you may be asked to pay an additional charge (even that makes a bit of sense).
Then there is CDMA, which is technically superior to 2G, but it is distinctly odd in a few ways. Mobile networks certainly use it as a way of locking in customers (unlocking is useless if you have your own standard). The US have always excelled at segregating markets to increase profit.
> In UK law they have a definition of what a reasonable thinking person is: "The man on the Clapham omnibus"
Good point: this just about sums up how bizarre *English* law is. We are not talking about UK law - Scotland never bought into the whole concept of common law. And why should they? A hypothetical man on a bus in London certain does not define how Scottish law is to be applied:-)
The main reason people are not running Linux is that it is not pre-installed. And the next reason is that it is hard to install on modern machines, especially on laptops (which, as you should have heard, are more popular than desktops).
There are a few useful Chrome apps. Google Remote Desktop is actually pretty good, although the server component is a bit annoying. And it is an exception, in that it actually makes a good desktop app.
But most of them are only really useful in the browser, so there is no need for a launcher. Gmail Offline, Web Store, Everycircuit - they are all browser based, so of course users prefer to start them from the browser.
It is strange that it took Google years to realise such a simple fact.
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Indeed. The key question with % is always "of what?". It seems that all percentages are relative to total iOS sales, which is not intuitive, but it does make some sense. Therefore, 58% can be divided into smaller percentages based on individal models.
58% of all iOS devices failed
29% of all iOS devices were failed iPhone 6
Maybe 60% of all iPhone 6 failed (but that number is not given, it depends on the market share of the iPhone 6)
Actually, I think KDE 1.1 was the best KDE ever. It had some quite innovative features, such as desktop level workers, and a desktop level VFS, which actually worked. KDE never quite reached the same level of functionality later - there was too much change for change sake. KDE4 was a disaster on release, that is correct.
So unfortunately, there is no Linux DE that I actually like. Things were so promising when Gnome and KDE appeared, but soon the fragmentation set in, and now we have 6 or 7 DEs, and none of them reaches any kind of quality. LX is at least light on resources, but man is it ugly.
That is all very nice, but if you want to avoid Windows 10, you have to avoid Windows. Or you stay with an unsupported product like Windows 7, but then again you could have saved yourself all that trouble and stayed on unsupported Windows XP.
Windows 7 is nearly seven years old, and extended support will end in just over three years, so migrating to it now is madness.
That is all very nice, but as an engineer I am always surprised how many IT problems are self inflicted.
"Every computer has to run off the same image" must be up there with the most painful guidelines ever. 90% - sure, 98% - good. But every computer? That is just not feasible, and there is always going to be the odd laser engraver, scanning oscilloscope, motion simulator, or ATM machine that still runs an obsolete OS as an embedded system. Nothing wrong with that as long as network connections are strictly limited, and no data from the public is being processed.
And while we are at it, why is anybody migrating to Windows 7, a system that is already EOLed? Surely by now migration to Windows 10 would be indicated.
I agree. Tablets are really useful, and there is clearly demand, but very little on offer in the quality tablet space.
There is Apple, there is the Samsung Galaxy Tab S, and there was the Sony Xperia Z Tablet series (now discontinued). The Kindle Fire HDX also has aspirations. Dell never played in the same league.
2-in-1 devices are certainly more flexible, but I find Windows really off-putting. It may be more powerful, but the App market is very sorry looking, and real Windows programs just do not scale properly for a tablet.
Yes, and let's call it the Divided Kingdom of Little England and Wales.
> maybe those old geezers having been around the block a few times actually know a few things the young naive whippersnappers don't.
Possible. Or maybe if you are 65+ and retired, you do not care much about jobs, while people age 18 certainly do. I think the young people have a point, even if they should have turned out in greater strength.
> although it should be noted that the EU bureaucrats choose who gets "their" largesse
You seem to imply that is a bad thing. What makes you so sure that the UK administration is better at allocating funds than the EU administration? I can see absolutely no evidence for that assertion.
And the EU also spends other countries' contributions according to common interests, including UK interests.
Together we stand, divided we fall. And at the moment, the UK is deeply divided, It could even become the Kingdom of England and Wales.
> For the foreseeable future, a gun is the only device that is a true "equalizer", that allows the weak to defend themselves from the strong. If nothing else, that is one excellent reason to allow people to carry guns.
True, but there is a serious side effect. If guns are prevalent, every time somebody goes crazy, somebody dies (often the same person, often not). And yes, people can go crazy without warning.
In places with much more limited access to guns, people also go crazy, but usually that causes much less harm.
Given that gun ownership is going up in the US, and at the same time being shot is the leading cause of death for working age people, I wonder whether this is the right way to go.
Indeed. I used to use one of the as a hand-down...
http://www.oldcomputers.net/ib...
Compared to that, a notebook is something very different.
Indeed. I wish we could drop the term "range anxiety" from our vocabulary - it sounds too much like blaming the user. Often (not always) the problem is range rather than anxiety.
That being said, 50 miles round trip should be perfectly possible in good conditions, but you if things go wrong, you would need a charging point along the way.
That is all very nice if you do not charge for it. If you do charge for it (smurfberries?), that implies the is useful. T&Cs cannot override consumer rights in most sane legal systems.
Yes, the Kindle DX did cost "an arm and a leg". Certainly compared to competing tablets, which had colour, back light, and a higher resolution. Cost is what killed the Kindle DX, cost is what made Android tablets so popular in the low end market.
A lot of them are useless,but four are not:
ext4 may not be the most existing file system, but it is the default, solid, and good enough in most situations.
XFS is faster (especially for big files), but it has a few issues. reiserfs is quite good, and more space efficient for small files. Neither are clearly superior to ext4, unless you have specific requirements.
ZFS is taking it to the next level, and as such it may well be worthwhile. It remains to be seen how reliable it is on Linux, but in terms of features it is a clear winner.
Yes, when it comes to writing serious documents, most office packages struggle.
Word has been getting a lot better, especially the new equation editor is miles ahead of the competition, and although not quite as good as LaTeX, good enough for most purposes.
Styles are a contentious issues. LibreOffice has a very logical implementation of styles, but it only works if you are 100% disciplined and approach your styles with great planning and foresight. Microsoft styles have been getting a lot better, and they have always been easier to use. Again, Microsoft is good enough in most applications.
Tables are painful in any program I have used, but Excel and the LibreOffice spreadsheet can deal with them reasonably well.
Yes, also known as "shoot the messenger". If you shoot all messengers, there will be no bad news. And usually bad news stops coming much sooner.
Exactly my thought. So the latest and greatest is able to run 1080p in at least 120Hz, which is nice. But can it do 2160p in 60Hz? Probably not, because that would mean pushing twice as many pixels. It may also struggle to provide decent VR (2x 1080p with at least 90Hz).
Keyboard can be strange. I have an old Toshiba R500. It is not the thinnest, but certainly the lightest laptop I ever had, just around 1kg. And the keyboard is actually quite excellent. Recent laptops just don't seem to have the same quality.
Exactly. The MacBook Pro comes with a real OS, this Chromebook is just an advertising delivery system. Yes, it is good value, but unless you can open it up for real applications, it is not actually a computer.
For any business user, Thunderbird needs integration with a calendar. At the very least, it would need to be able to send and receive calendar invites. There were a number of attempts to add a calendar to Thunderbird, but as far as I can see they all failed, some miserably so.
The lifetime of a product is pretty well defined by industry standards. For a light bulb, it is 1000h. For a car 100000 miles or more depending on the segment. For building automation it is in the region of 25 years - home products may be a bit more short lived, but certainly not under 10 years.
So by any reasonable way of interpretation, they have broken the promise.
The US was the first country to introduce mobile phones on a significant scale, and they made a few odd decisions.
In the US, mobile phone number are just regular local phone numbers, there is no "mobile" area code. So if you receive a call on a mobile, you have to pay for the cost of the mobile network, because the caller pays a standard landline rate. (And that actually makes some kind of sense.) And if you are not in your home are, you may be asked to pay an additional charge (even that makes a bit of sense).
Then there is CDMA, which is technically superior to 2G, but it is distinctly odd in a few ways. Mobile networks certainly use it as a way of locking in customers (unlocking is useless if you have your own standard). The US have always excelled at segregating markets to increase profit.
> In UK law they have a definition of what a reasonable thinking person is: "The man on the Clapham omnibus"
Good point: this just about sums up how bizarre *English* law is. We are not talking about UK law - Scotland never bought into the whole concept of common law. And why should they? A hypothetical man on a bus in London certain does not define how Scottish law is to be applied :-)
The main reason people are not running Linux is that it is not pre-installed. And the next reason is that it is hard to install on modern machines, especially on laptops (which, as you should have heard, are more popular than desktops).
There are a few useful Chrome apps. Google Remote Desktop is actually pretty good, although the server component is a bit annoying. And it is an exception, in that it actually makes a good desktop app.
But most of them are only really useful in the browser, so there is no need for a launcher. Gmail Offline, Web Store, Everycircuit - they are all browser based, so of course users prefer to start them from the browser.
It is strange that it took Google years to realise such a simple fact.