The expression "won't work with Linux" can usually be translated as "don't know if it works with Linux and we would not support it if we did".
The usual jargon for that is "Linux won't be supported". My first translation of "won't work with Linux" is "we'll actively sabotage Linux"... But, well, marketing language is ambiguous, one'd better not take too much out of it.
I also don't see how people would want to use Office on their tablets - unless there is a docking station, and Office becomes much, much, MUCH less weighty than it is now, but none of those are reality now.
But MS is beting the farm on it, and looks like Intel is joining the club. Those companies normaly know what they are doing marketing-wise (most of the time, anyway - "The internet is a fad" is there to proof they are not infallible).
Normaly, one of the first things a processor designer does after defining an architecture is porting gcc to it (AKA adds Linux support). Often that happens even before the design of the actual processor starts.
You know that this is a processor, right? A processor is something that you use at both phones,tablets, netbooks, notebooks, desktops, workstations and servers. Also, all of those categories are fuzzy, and processors do leak to the neigboring ones.
For the looks of it, this one is a tablet's processor. On tablets, iOS has most of the market, Linux is a minority and Windows does not even mark outside of the error margin, that last OS is the one Intel is going to support. Of course, it will leak to netbooks and notebooks, where Windows rules (but is losing space fast for OS-X).
I have no idea why Intel would even make such a decision, and I doubt AMD, VIA, or ARM management agree with it. From the public info it just doesn't make any sense, there must be something Intel is hidding.
But room tempereature superconducting in graphite have been observed before, several times. Always with a very low signal to noise, but I guess the cheer number of observations is enough to hint that there is something there. It happens on several experimental setups, with several different arrangements of crystals, and nobody is able to point exactly what is superconducting, or how. That article is yet another step into understanding the phenomenum.
They are highter than the power emmited by the phone, otherwise you'd need to charge it for longer than you could use. Also, they are at a neat hight frequency, where they can heat things and interfere with chemical reactions (but not ionize).
If you stay a few meters away from it, certainly, there is nothing to be concerned over, but I'm also curious about the consequences of it (and wouldn't put one near my bed).
I dunno. There was no standard power outlet in Brazil, and once in a while you brought a device that would simply not work on your outlets. In that sense, Brazil didn't "change the power outlets", it did "standardize the power outlets"... But, of course, it standardized into something that nobody used.
Changing a standard is harder, but yeah, some country will come out with a different one.
If manufacturers cared about making good products, they could have choosed something better, but they don't, so we only got to standardize on a data cable. It is not important enough to bother with anyway.
There is nothing enforcing a difference of potential between pins of a phone USB connector (the same does not apply to a PC). If you drop it in condictive liquid, there will be just some capacitive discharge, and no further current will flow.
It's quite possible that any alien we found out there uses the same sequence of DNA -> RNA -> proteins we use, they may also use the same amino-acids. We use those things because they were available, we probably didn't have much choice.
Now, the semantics of DNA chains will quite certainly change.
That's only one problem. Once you get into that route, you must weight it very well how many people you are willing to annoy, and how many people you'll nanny. If you banish too many oppinions, there won't be much people left, and if you banish too little oppinions, there will be too many people offended. Nobody seems to be able to weight it right for a long time. For a while it always looks like a simple task, but it gains complexity with time.
That's in fact a great receipt for a ninche player. But I bet Apple doesn't want to be a ninche player.
But the MicroSD card and port can be 100% encapsulated in metal under the battery cover, making shielding much easier than with the MicroUSB port that has to be exposed externally.
Nope, USB ports are shielded, the standard requires it. That's why the ground pin is huge, and encapsulate all the others. At the MicroSD card one'd need to add shielding, so it is technicaly harder, not hard enough to make any difference, but harder.
It is hard to say the iPhone is doing "just fine" nowadays.
Yeah, lots of companies would like to have the kind of "failure" the iPhone is having now, but it is in free fall, and nobody knows where the bottom is.
...who uses their phone as an mp3 player? I have an mp3 player for that.
In fact. I also carry a voice recorder, a notepad (and a pen), a radio receiver, a pager (in case somebody decides to send me some text), a camera, a phone-number list, a calendar, and a video recorder. Why would I not want to? Each one does its work quite well.
The only problem is that I've run out of supply for my instantaneous camera, and had to stop using it.
It more likely has something to do with DRM. Not having expandable memory can only turn people out of the phone, not into it (you can disagree on how many, it can be near zero, but can't be a positive). Thus, it is in fact hindering MS's objective of locking customers into Windows.
If not for DRM, the next most likely argument is indeed that it will save a few bucks.
Except that you either wouldn't have as much storage with a fixed internal memory or would pay a huge premium for it.
Phones come with expansible memory because each one wants a different capacity, and the manufacturer would be stuck selling a low capacity high volume model and a high capacity low volume one, satisfying nearly nobody.
Also, about TFA, 64 bits Debian had problems running* Flash up to just a few years ago, and it inherently uses more memory than the 32 bits version. Taking into account that there aren't many advantajes to using a 64 bits OS (yeah, you gain a bit of speed), I'm not surprized.
* It was something hard to do, not impossible. One needed a bit of messing with the terminal, chroot, and the browser.
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Yes. GNU/Linux distros will be very limited, but there are plenty of non-GNU ones that'll do ok.
The usual jargon for that is "Linux won't be supported". My first translation of "won't work with Linux" is "we'll actively sabotage Linux"... But, well, marketing language is ambiguous, one'd better not take too much out of it.
I also don't see how people would want to use Office on their tablets - unless there is a docking station, and Office becomes much, much, MUCH less weighty than it is now, but none of those are reality now.
But MS is beting the farm on it, and looks like Intel is joining the club. Those companies normaly know what they are doing marketing-wise (most of the time, anyway - "The internet is a fad" is there to proof they are not infallible).
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Normaly, one of the first things a processor designer does after defining an architecture is porting gcc to it (AKA adds Linux support). Often that happens even before the design of the actual processor starts.
You know that this is a processor, right? A processor is something that you use at both phones,tablets, netbooks, notebooks, desktops, workstations and servers. Also, all of those categories are fuzzy, and processors do leak to the neigboring ones.
For the looks of it, this one is a tablet's processor. On tablets, iOS has most of the market, Linux is a minority and Windows does not even mark outside of the error margin, that last OS is the one Intel is going to support. Of course, it will leak to netbooks and notebooks, where Windows rules (but is losing space fast for OS-X).
I have no idea why Intel would even make such a decision, and I doubt AMD, VIA, or ARM management agree with it. From the public info it just doesn't make any sense, there must be something Intel is hidding.
Yes, it does deserve an article for itself.
But room tempereature superconducting in graphite have been observed before, several times. Always with a very low signal to noise, but I guess the cheer number of observations is enough to hint that there is something there. It happens on several experimental setups, with several different arrangements of crystals, and nobody is able to point exactly what is superconducting, or how. That article is yet another step into understanding the phenomenum.
I'm pretty sure you can install KDE in less than an hour.
As an added bonus, you won't have to suffer using neither Unity nor Windows for the next months. That must be worth something.
This way we could discuss the actual stuff, indead of the report.
Like, for example, how usefull is it in a non-police state to have security features on the money that people can't ever detect?
They are highter than the power emmited by the phone, otherwise you'd need to charge it for longer than you could use. Also, they are at a neat hight frequency, where they can heat things and interfere with chemical reactions (but not ionize).
If you stay a few meters away from it, certainly, there is nothing to be concerned over, but I'm also curious about the consequences of it (and wouldn't put one near my bed).
I dunno. There was no standard power outlet in Brazil, and once in a while you brought a device that would simply not work on your outlets. In that sense, Brazil didn't "change the power outlets", it did "standardize the power outlets"... But, of course, it standardized into something that nobody used.
Changing a standard is harder, but yeah, some country will come out with a different one.
Too bad, it is the one we made.
If manufacturers cared about making good products, they could have choosed something better, but they don't, so we only got to standardize on a data cable. It is not important enough to bother with anyway.
There is nothing enforcing a difference of potential between pins of a phone USB connector (the same does not apply to a PC). If you drop it in condictive liquid, there will be just some capacitive discharge, and no further current will flow.
It's quite possible that any alien we found out there uses the same sequence of DNA -> RNA -> proteins we use, they may also use the same amino-acids. We use those things because they were available, we probably didn't have much choice.
Now, the semantics of DNA chains will quite certainly change.
FCC and FAA.
That setup doesn't allow exams. If exams are so important, you can make them on some other kind of setup.
Yet you type that in a magic box (only explained by quantum physics) that puts your text on a magic screen (built witth he help of quantum mechanics).
That's only one problem. Once you get into that route, you must weight it very well how many people you are willing to annoy, and how many people you'll nanny. If you banish too many oppinions, there won't be much people left, and if you banish too little oppinions, there will be too many people offended. Nobody seems to be able to weight it right for a long time. For a while it always looks like a simple task, but it gains complexity with time.
That's in fact a great receipt for a ninche player. But I bet Apple doesn't want to be a ninche player.
Until it bites them, then they start to care. That said, DRM isn't very malign yet, and has bitten just a tiny minority.
Nope, USB ports are shielded, the standard requires it. That's why the ground pin is huge, and encapsulate all the others. At the MicroSD card one'd need to add shielding, so it is technicaly harder, not hard enough to make any difference, but harder.
It is hard to say the iPhone is doing "just fine" nowadays.
Yeah, lots of companies would like to have the kind of "failure" the iPhone is having now, but it is in free fall, and nobody knows where the bottom is.
In fact. I also carry a voice recorder, a notepad (and a pen), a radio receiver, a pager (in case somebody decides to send me some text), a camera, a phone-number list, a calendar, and a video recorder. Why would I not want to? Each one does its work quite well.
The only problem is that I've run out of supply for my instantaneous camera, and had to stop using it.
It more likely has something to do with DRM. Not having expandable memory can only turn people out of the phone, not into it (you can disagree on how many, it can be near zero, but can't be a positive). Thus, it is in fact hindering MS's objective of locking customers into Windows.
If not for DRM, the next most likely argument is indeed that it will save a few bucks.
Yeah, that's great. But it is not a reason for wanting expandable memory. Android phones with only internal memory have a USB mode too.
Except that you either wouldn't have as much storage with a fixed internal memory or would pay a huge premium for it.
Phones come with expansible memory because each one wants a different capacity, and the manufacturer would be stuck selling a low capacity high volume model and a high capacity low volume one, satisfying nearly nobody.
Why?
Also, about TFA, 64 bits Debian had problems running* Flash up to just a few years ago, and it inherently uses more memory than the 32 bits version. Taking into account that there aren't many advantajes to using a 64 bits OS (yeah, you gain a bit of speed), I'm not surprized.
* It was something hard to do, not impossible. One needed a bit of messing with the terminal, chroot, and the browser.