This looks like it's an attempt to resurrect the 9P philosophies, bolting on a wider security framework.
A quick look at contributors confirms Rob Pike and Dave Presotto among them, who was among the key personalities at Bell Labs working on Plan9, all but confirming the lineage. As I recall, some of the same folks are behind Go.
What are the odds this has a different future than Plan9?
And me without mod points... I've played "similar" games to Advance Wars on iOS and the bigger screen/touch input can be a boon... But they never match the style or story of the originals.
I'd vote for Fire Emblem games as well.
But there isn't anything I can't do on it that I could do on linux.
sure there is - You can't sanctimoniously complain about manufacturers not supporting your Freedom!
Apple is a leading OSS contributor, and on top of that makes the best hardware in the business, especially when it comes to laptops. Putting a Macbook of any line next to a Dell, HP, or Asus, comparing the fit/finish/polish, makes any other brand feel like toys.
I use Mint KDE on a Thinkpad at work, and while it's a perfectly adequate solution, it never feels as solid as a Macbook, and no other OS compares to macOS.
System76 laptops sound all fine and good, they're no more ugly than the rest of the non-Mac world....
They fail to offer the one thing I need for a computer to actually be functional for me - Run macOS. (legally, without fighting drivers and hacking kexts)
Thank you for pointing that out - I was skimming to see if someone had before doing it myself. I normally remap caps-lock to control though, and the reach to Esc already had me doing the ^{ more of the time anyways... Even on a smaller keyboard the F-keys and Esc are farther than you should have to reach from home row.
Many years ago Apple acquired Fingerworks and got the best engineers of touch-pad and gesture-navigation in the business... And it shows. PC manufacturers are largely buying the cheapest, oldest tech they can for wherever they can get away with it, so they can race to the bottom on price and still hope to have some kind of margin... And pointer devices are one place where it shows.
If this can be used as a Cardboard VR viewer it might be worth it just for that, the design looks like it sucks less than most of the ones I've seen...
And yet, everyone and their brother will be slavishly attempting to copy the effect on other devices within months...
Tilt/shift is another physical effect that has been recreated with software to decent effect... For those of us who don't have the budget for extreme glass, software is easily good enough.
Just because you don't know what they're doing doesn't mean they aren't... I was just looking at this article which points out that Apple's R&D has gone up many times over since Job's passed on...
Apple has a VERY long view of their devices, and the incremental improvements and developments you see in their products today are only glimpses of what I believe will come down the line.
I call BS on that. In every meaningful way, on domestic policy Hillary has been among the furthest left leaning people in DC for decades. IF that's not far enough on the spectrum for your taste, that's as bad as the tea party extremists who say their way or the highway. She has fought for a progressive agenda from her first days out of college, with an incrementalist approach that has meant walking the nation further to the left year by year instead of failing by trying to force a nearly ideologically split nation beyond it's comfort.
She's made missteps, but when you've been on the national stage for that long that's bound to happen, and she has grown every step of the way. The byproduct of that is that she's evolved to be the best candidate available for the seat of the president.
Case sensitivity in OS X works just fine now, if you don't install any third-party software... And most software just works, especially if it's a Mac First program... But a lot of stuff that's developed cross-platform has weird inconsistent file referencing that "works just fine" in Windows and case-insensitive HFS+ but breaks once you start caring about case.
Most pundits decry Apple for not making the iPad a convergence device.
The tablet condenses nearly every hard problem in making computers - big, high-res displays take more memory and compute to drive. Memory takes battery to drive. Battery weighs a lot. Nobody wants to carry that weight.
Every tablet is a compromise - no matter what MS tries to tell you.
Nope, that's too simple. They deserve to slide into oblivion, watching their business model fall to obscurity, while they eventually get caught up in litigation for the blackmail tactics they've burned consumers with.
There are literally THOUSANDS of games for Linux and Mac on Steam, and for every DirectX/Windows exclusive purchased on launch you could comfortably buy 2-4 of those and get just as much time, enjoyment, story and entertainment if not more.
Reward devs who support the platforms you want to use. Buy their software, and don't buy software from companies who don't want you.
The same goes for hardware. If you reliably buy GPUs that support Linux drivers well, and give feedback wherever possible that it was a contributing factor in your choice, they will do it more.
Comeback would suggest it ever really arrived...
I think the safer terms might be "Pathetic return" if you're trying to track reality, or perhaps "heroic but futile attempt" if you really are a MS booster.
Relevant to what I was just reading - http://pragmaticemacs.com/emac...
More seriously, emacs runs on nearly every platform around, in some cases is natively installed, and has several VERY good email clients depending on your needs and workflow... mu4e as a search-based client, gnus for people who deal with lots of threaded and list-based emails, mew for the more traditional IMAP workflow...
Extensible to nearly any purpose, each client is on it's own a best-in-class for a certain type of user.
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This looks like it's an attempt to resurrect the 9P philosophies, bolting on a wider security framework.
A quick look at contributors confirms Rob Pike and Dave Presotto among them, who was among the key personalities at Bell Labs working on Plan9, all but confirming the lineage. As I recall, some of the same folks are behind Go.
What are the odds this has a different future than Plan9?
And me without mod points... I've played "similar" games to Advance Wars on iOS and the bigger screen/touch input can be a boon... But they never match the style or story of the originals. I'd vote for Fire Emblem games as well.
Most likely accounting for 1% of profits...
But there isn't anything I can't do on it that I could do on linux.
sure there is - You can't sanctimoniously complain about manufacturers not supporting your Freedom!
Apple is a leading OSS contributor, and on top of that makes the best hardware in the business, especially when it comes to laptops. Putting a Macbook of any line next to a Dell, HP, or Asus, comparing the fit/finish/polish, makes any other brand feel like toys.
I use Mint KDE on a Thinkpad at work, and while it's a perfectly adequate solution, it never feels as solid as a Macbook, and no other OS compares to macOS.
This! "I'm surprised that Belkin or someone else hasn't made a C-to-MagSafe adapter for MacBook owners."
If nobody has done it yet, I hope someone does, if for no other reason than to make my existing extra magsafe adapters live a bit longer.
System76 laptops sound all fine and good, they're no more ugly than the rest of the non-Mac world....
They fail to offer the one thing I need for a computer to actually be functional for me - Run macOS. (legally, without fighting drivers and hacking kexts)
Thank you for pointing that out - I was skimming to see if someone had before doing it myself. I normally remap caps-lock to control though, and the reach to Esc already had me doing the ^{ more of the time anyways... Even on a smaller keyboard the F-keys and Esc are farther than you should have to reach from home row.
Many years ago Apple acquired Fingerworks and got the best engineers of touch-pad and gesture-navigation in the business... And it shows. PC manufacturers are largely buying the cheapest, oldest tech they can for wherever they can get away with it, so they can race to the bottom on price and still hope to have some kind of margin... And pointer devices are one place where it shows.
If this can be used as a Cardboard VR viewer it might be worth it just for that, the design looks like it sucks less than most of the ones I've seen...
And yet, everyone and their brother will be slavishly attempting to copy the effect on other devices within months...
Tilt/shift is another physical effect that has been recreated with software to decent effect... For those of us who don't have the budget for extreme glass, software is easily good enough.
...which is no real surprise... Frankly none of us would even be responding if we thought the article, or /.'s posting of it, was any match to reality.
Just because you don't know what they're doing doesn't mean they aren't... I was just looking at this article which points out that Apple's R&D has gone up many times over since Job's passed on...
https://medium.com/beyond-devi...
Apple has a VERY long view of their devices, and the incremental improvements and developments you see in their products today are only glimpses of what I believe will come down the line.
I call BS on that. In every meaningful way, on domestic policy Hillary has been among the furthest left leaning people in DC for decades. IF that's not far enough on the spectrum for your taste, that's as bad as the tea party extremists who say their way or the highway. She has fought for a progressive agenda from her first days out of college, with an incrementalist approach that has meant walking the nation further to the left year by year instead of failing by trying to force a nearly ideologically split nation beyond it's comfort. She's made missteps, but when you've been on the national stage for that long that's bound to happen, and she has grown every step of the way. The byproduct of that is that she's evolved to be the best candidate available for the seat of the president.
Case sensitivity in OS X works just fine now, if you don't install any third-party software... And most software just works, especially if it's a Mac First program... But a lot of stuff that's developed cross-platform has weird inconsistent file referencing that "works just fine" in Windows and case-insensitive HFS+ but breaks once you start caring about case.
Most pundits decry Apple for not making the iPad a convergence device. The tablet condenses nearly every hard problem in making computers - big, high-res displays take more memory and compute to drive. Memory takes battery to drive. Battery weighs a lot. Nobody wants to carry that weight. Every tablet is a compromise - no matter what MS tries to tell you.
Let's try that again - And Apple is still making more profit from iTunes and the stores it houses that some whole other industries.
And still making Apple more profit than some whole other industries.
Because there are no apps, or users, to be affected...
Nope, that's too simple. They deserve to slide into oblivion, watching their business model fall to obscurity, while they eventually get caught up in litigation for the blackmail tactics they've burned consumers with.
...AAA industry for developing Windows Only.
There are literally THOUSANDS of games for Linux and Mac on Steam, and for every DirectX/Windows exclusive purchased on launch you could comfortably buy 2-4 of those and get just as much time, enjoyment, story and entertainment if not more.
Reward devs who support the platforms you want to use. Buy their software, and don't buy software from companies who don't want you.
The same goes for hardware. If you reliably buy GPUs that support Linux drivers well, and give feedback wherever possible that it was a contributing factor in your choice, they will do it more.
Vote with your $$
Comeback would suggest it ever really arrived... I think the safer terms might be "Pathetic return" if you're trying to track reality, or perhaps "heroic but futile attempt" if you really are a MS booster.
He's been an apologist for MS in the OSS community for as long as I can remember, this seems like a natural move for him.
Thank you everyone who braved that tripe so later ./ers could avoid losing brain cells.
They don't want body-cams or any other kind of oversight either, that doesn't mean they're bad ideas.
Relevant to what I was just reading - http://pragmaticemacs.com/emac... More seriously, emacs runs on nearly every platform around, in some cases is natively installed, and has several VERY good email clients depending on your needs and workflow... mu4e as a search-based client, gnus for people who deal with lots of threaded and list-based emails, mew for the more traditional IMAP workflow... Extensible to nearly any purpose, each client is on it's own a best-in-class for a certain type of user.