And looks like poor Joe Sixpack can handle the change quite well, but isn't willing to change to a worse interface.
Or, in other words, critics of both sides were wrong, and the "shut-up and code" people of the Linux side had plenty of reason. I wonder how far Linux GUIs would be today if the hackers weren't offset by "UI specialists" under pressure of a couple of companies.
I'm quite sure Google and the NSA won't take money from my bank account, and if they want to know my transactions, they have easier ways to get those than looking at my computer.
Now, there is data that is worth protecting, and it's a serious problem (anyway, MS shares at least as much with the NSA as Google, and they seem much more cooperative in increasing the spying - I hope you are talking about FreeBSD, Debian, or Gentoo), but personal finance isn't worth protecting against them.
I'll only add an except that the "fanboy" experience is a determining factor on how real are his impressions. And the usual experience of a "fanboy" varies widily from one OS to another. (Also, of course, what counts as experience is context dependent.)
Anyway, no, I can't even imagine that people try to rationalize as dumb somebody that knows more than them. Now way, people are completely rational:)
Well, it's quite normal to plug external keboards and mice on tablets, I'd say it's obviour that Android supports that, but you probably had no reason to think about it before, so I understand why you wouldn't know. Android supports most devices out there, with notable exceptions for external DVD drivers (that need root) and TTY over USB (default Android is almost useless for hacking). It also does not support shared memory out of the box, making it hard to run a serious database in it (yes, I've tried). All of those are easy to fix.
I'm also confused about ChromeOS, and I suspect all those Chromebooks are running Linux. Anway...
Are electronics companies so pants-shittingly afraid of being sued by Hollywood that they can't offer a box that wink-wink runs VLC?
Good thing you are A/C, that way nobody can come back to you later.
Now, it's my turn: Tablets and notebooks will evolve into only one kind of device. I don't know if we'll still use smething called "Android" in 10 years, but if we do, it will be as powerfull as a desktop OS is nowadays (with as many problems).
Mission critical means that if it fails, the mission fails - whatever the mision is. Now, if you came from a military context (as aviation did), "mission" tends to be something quite frightening, but civilians also have things called "mission".
But anyway, a term has only the meaning we attribute to it, so whatever:)
Money by itself is worthless, and that is one of the few contexts where we should pay attention to that.
If you lend money to a client so he buys your product, you'll only want to do that if you trust that the client will pay you back with something worthwile. China needs the US because the US has a big manufacturing base, and grows a lot of food. It's not because the US is a big consumer.
Will they be more sucessfull launching an ultrabook or a desktop then they were launching a tablet/netbook?
MS already attacked their main clients (OEMs) and the people that push people into their ecosystem (software developers). Attacking again is only more of the same, and expected. MS seems to have a wrong idea about market dependence on their heads - they need clients more than the clients need them, but think otherwise.
Well, I guess I'll patent shirts with sleeves. Since design patents are no big deal, I see no reason for it getting denied. (Yep, that's so big a non-sequitour as your comment.)
Nobody needs a consumer, unless that consumer has something of value to give back. That line is too simplist to be true (altough they do need each other).
MS already tried to put those companies out of the laptop and tablet markets (the most rentable ones), how would competing with them on the desktop market be such a big threat? And if they double the OEM prices for Windows, they'll reduce the price those companies "pay" for Linux, making them more prone to use it.
Most of those mission critical (no need for scare quotes, they are mission critical) VB programms run on Wine quite well. Maybe we'll just avoid the havoc.
No, it's not. And mach or L4 are evidence of that.
But the good news is that one can install the GNU userland and X11 on Android, turning it into GNU/Linux. The bad news is that this one will have to make do with a completely alien/dev architecture, and a stripped down Linux kernel, or maybe recompile the kernel - what is a harder task than it looks like (when it's possible).
I'm not convinced either way. While yes, PCs started lasting more time recently, I see no reason to think that it wasn't a continous process, but PCs sales had a really big discontinuity after the release of Windows 8.
As a conclusion, it may be true that Windows 8 caused a big drop in PC sales - or it may be that there was a jump on the average lifetime of PCs near the release of Windows 8, but for completely unrelated reasons... what is not as unlikely as it sounds, since the released was timed to cohincide with the mobile take-off, that could only happen once PCs got good enough.
In the case of the JavaScript programmer, it involves the programmer repeatedly searching through Stack Overflow, finding code to copy-and-paste, and then hoping that it works well enough to trick the customer or employer into thinking the job is done.
And now, I'm wondering if there is another way for creating DOM manipulating Javascript. I mean, I can most of times make a Linux module by reading the documentation of a device and writting code that makes it work (but for some devices, it's the Javascript way), imagine some kind of data representation and then write it down with native types, imagine a Python map, a Haskell fold, or a SQL query, write it down, and in all those cases the stuff that I imagined works (given or taken a few bugs). But I could never, in my entire life, create a piece of DOM manipulating Javascript that did what I thought it should do. I always resort to trial and error.
I'm glad that was a joke. I think it'd be funny if I got it.
The problem is that I've seen a few people honestly holding that same oppinion - there is a "law" about no joke being obvious enough in the Internet, I just don't remember its name.
And a 70's CLI will provide you with completion that complains when you use the wrong kind of arguments, and a buffer from where you could edit your last command of "man yyymy" that you used to make sure it was the right one.
Search and tooltips are CLI like tools, imported badly into GUIs.
Nope, that's not hate. it's enlightenment. Depending on closed source software is a liability in so many ways that people don't even care to enumerate, they just don't depend on it.
And sorry, but I'm not taking the time to learn another closed enviroment for administrating Windows. If cmd.exe (that I learned in other times) is not powerull enough, I'll use some open source alternative (likely cygwin).
If somebody creates an open source powershell-like environment, I may take the time to learn it. If it runs on Linux, I'll quite likely do so. By the way, the fact that nobody did that in those years that powershell is out is evidence that it's not really as good as you claim it to be.
I assume that's because the working set of data fits in memory.
As memory access count as CPU time, not I/O, doing any query in a dataset that is in memory will be CPU bound. But that does not mean that you'll get improvements by adding CPU speed.
Except that GPUs are bad for most of the tasks a database do. Normaly, databases require random memory access (not mapping arrays) and complex selection rules. GPUs are best doing maps over continuous arrays, and with very simple (best if none) conditional cases.
What should browsers have done instead to unbreak body text width on an MF website?
Well, if a narrow text body is desired, the browser should break the text to make it narrow. That's something that really shouldn't be done at the server side.
because the operating system forces it (such as a mobile device docked to an HDMI monitor)
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And looks like poor Joe Sixpack can handle the change quite well, but isn't willing to change to a worse interface.
Or, in other words, critics of both sides were wrong, and the "shut-up and code" people of the Linux side had plenty of reason. I wonder how far Linux GUIs would be today if the hackers weren't offset by "UI specialists" under pressure of a couple of companies.
Why worry? Because you'll be able to deliver more value with less work?
I'm quite sure Google and the NSA won't take money from my bank account, and if they want to know my transactions, they have easier ways to get those than looking at my computer.
Now, there is data that is worth protecting, and it's a serious problem (anyway, MS shares at least as much with the NSA as Google, and they seem much more cooperative in increasing the spying - I hope you are talking about FreeBSD, Debian, or Gentoo), but personal finance isn't worth protecting against them.
I'll only add an except that the "fanboy" experience is a determining factor on how real are his impressions. And the usual experience of a "fanboy" varies widily from one OS to another. (Also, of course, what counts as experience is context dependent.)
Anyway, no, I can't even imagine that people try to rationalize as dumb somebody that knows more than them. Now way, people are completely rational :)
Well, it's quite normal to plug external keboards and mice on tablets, I'd say it's obviour that Android supports that, but you probably had no reason to think about it before, so I understand why you wouldn't know. Android supports most devices out there, with notable exceptions for external DVD drivers (that need root) and TTY over USB (default Android is almost useless for hacking). It also does not support shared memory out of the box, making it hard to run a serious database in it (yes, I've tried). All of those are easy to fix.
I'm also confused about ChromeOS, and I suspect all those Chromebooks are running Linux. Anway...
In a word: yes.
Good thing you are A/C, that way nobody can come back to you later.
Now, it's my turn: Tablets and notebooks will evolve into only one kind of device. I don't know if we'll still use smething called "Android" in 10 years, but if we do, it will be as powerfull as a desktop OS is nowadays (with as many problems).
Mission critical means that if it fails, the mission fails - whatever the mision is. Now, if you came from a military context (as aviation did), "mission" tends to be something quite frightening, but civilians also have things called "mission".
But anyway, a term has only the meaning we attribute to it, so whatever :)
Money by itself is worthless, and that is one of the few contexts where we should pay attention to that.
If you lend money to a client so he buys your product, you'll only want to do that if you trust that the client will pay you back with something worthwile. China needs the US because the US has a big manufacturing base, and grows a lot of food. It's not because the US is a big consumer.
Will they be more sucessfull launching an ultrabook or a desktop then they were launching a tablet/netbook?
MS already attacked their main clients (OEMs) and the people that push people into their ecosystem (software developers). Attacking again is only more of the same, and expected. MS seems to have a wrong idea about market dependence on their heads - they need clients more than the clients need them, but think otherwise.
Well, I guess I'll patent shirts with sleeves. Since design patents are no big deal, I see no reason for it getting denied. (Yep, that's so big a non-sequitour as your comment.)
Nobody needs a consumer, unless that consumer has something of value to give back. That line is too simplist to be true (altough they do need each other).
Din't this already happen?
MS already tried to put those companies out of the laptop and tablet markets (the most rentable ones), how would competing with them on the desktop market be such a big threat? And if they double the OEM prices for Windows, they'll reduce the price those companies "pay" for Linux, making them more prone to use it.
Most of those mission critical (no need for scare quotes, they are mission critical) VB programms run on Wine quite well. Maybe we'll just avoid the havoc.
No, it's not. And mach or L4 are evidence of that.
But the good news is that one can install the GNU userland and X11 on Android, turning it into GNU/Linux. The bad news is that this one will have to make do with a completely alien /dev architecture, and a stripped down Linux kernel, or maybe recompile the kernel - what is a harder task than it looks like (when it's possible).
I'm not convinced either way. While yes, PCs started lasting more time recently, I see no reason to think that it wasn't a continous process, but PCs sales had a really big discontinuity after the release of Windows 8.
As a conclusion, it may be true that Windows 8 caused a big drop in PC sales - or it may be that there was a jump on the average lifetime of PCs near the release of Windows 8, but for completely unrelated reasons... what is not as unlikely as it sounds, since the released was timed to cohincide with the mobile take-off, that could only happen once PCs got good enough.
Parent is(n't) clarifying that the brine will be washed long after the summer comes.
And now, I'm wondering if there is another way for creating DOM manipulating Javascript. I mean, I can most of times make a Linux module by reading the documentation of a device and writting code that makes it work (but for some devices, it's the Javascript way), imagine some kind of data representation and then write it down with native types, imagine a Python map, a Haskell fold, or a SQL query, write it down, and in all those cases the stuff that I imagined works (given or taken a few bugs). But I could never, in my entire life, create a piece of DOM manipulating Javascript that did what I thought it should do. I always resort to trial and error.
I'm glad that was a joke. I think it'd be funny if I got it.
The problem is that I've seen a few people honestly holding that same oppinion - there is a "law" about no joke being obvious enough in the Internet, I just don't remember its name.
And a 70's CLI will provide you with completion that complains when you use the wrong kind of arguments, and a buffer from where you could edit your last command of "man yyymy" that you used to make sure it was the right one.
Search and tooltips are CLI like tools, imported badly into GUIs.
Nope, that's not hate. it's enlightenment. Depending on closed source software is a liability in so many ways that people don't even care to enumerate, they just don't depend on it.
And sorry, but I'm not taking the time to learn another closed enviroment for administrating Windows. If cmd.exe (that I learned in other times) is not powerull enough, I'll use some open source alternative (likely cygwin).
If somebody creates an open source powershell-like environment, I may take the time to learn it. If it runs on Linux, I'll quite likely do so. By the way, the fact that nobody did that in those years that powershell is out is evidence that it's not really as good as you claim it to be.
Stock markets crash about every 4 years. Earthquakes at this place happen about every 200 years.
A comparable prediction in the stock market would have a 5 months window.
As memory access count as CPU time, not I/O, doing any query in a dataset that is in memory will be CPU bound. But that does not mean that you'll get improvements by adding CPU speed.
Except that GPUs are bad for most of the tasks a database do. Normaly, databases require random memory access (not mapping arrays) and complex selection rules. GPUs are best doing maps over continuous arrays, and with very simple (best if none) conditional cases.
Well, if a narrow text body is desired, the browser should break the text to make it narrow. That's something that really shouldn't be done at the server side.
Talking about broken...
Not the same problem at all. And no, it's not the coders that design that kind of site.