According to your hypothesis it would be easy to make linux fully support modern macs. All the advantages of x86 and all the advantages of less hardware interactions to worry about. Is this the case? (I have no intel macs around)
Don't fall for it. Mr. Gates has imagination. Sure, his Microsoft sold a disk operating system called MS DOS, a windowing system called Windows, a word processor called Word, but he screwed customers and partners in more ways than the kamasutra depicts.
This project aims to make humans obsolete, so that intelligent machines can rule the world, and their fourth directive will be "Do not harm Microsoft quest for world domination"
I dunno about the surface's capabilities. I know what personal computing means, though. It is the alternative paradigm to mainframe computing. Then it came the client/server paradigm, which is compatible with personal computing and made web 1.0 a success. Then it came the cloud and web2.0 and walled gardens, which is devolution into the smart terminal.
Your turn to place the surface in any point of the curve.
Please. When I first installed linux it was the powerpc version, that is, a port, on a powerbook, in 2002. One kernel recompilation and wireless worked, sound worked, gigabit ethernet worked, radeon 3d worked (lots of frames too). Only thing missing, the faxmodem.
Logic says the intel version should have been simpler, because of the 10x-100x mindshare it had. When I switched to intel, not exotic models, it wasn't. In the following years, i had INCREASING difficulties with laptops. The broadcom driver, 3d needing proprietary drivers (and proprietary IMHO means more lockups, instead of more quality). Then with desktops (firmware for the network card, a blasphemy because common protocols for any os to speak to a network card are there at any level of hardware abstraction).
Now, bricking a machine needs something more than a bug, it needs a feature. It makes perfect sense commercially. Hardware makers might bicker about windows to get better deals, but they sure know that if the world switched to linux their sales would go down, for lack of artificial obsolescence represented by the OS/drivers/app upgrade cycle.
The fight for the desktop has begun. Valve, restricted boot, UEFI, ACPI... Buy wisely.
They wouldn't be killing American citizens, they would be killing "Terrorists". And they probably don't have the time between one mission and another to try and check if the orders were actually right. And their families would be likely in entirely another part of the US. Those giving orders, be their accurate or evil, are not dumb.
the need of a god is independent from the presence of a god. Do cellular automata need someone to observe them? nope*. Can they evolve not to need a PC who runs the simulation? not without ceasing to be cellular automata.
(*) but if they don`t become self aware and all observers die, they become meaningless. John 1 seems IMHO to touch this, if you consider "the Word" - the Greek logos - as "the reason", "the meaning".
Nobody gives a damn about your data, with good statistical confidence.
OTOH I suspect it is quite important to be able to get your data should the need arise, which is a different concept. That's, at least, what I desume from seemingly grossly inefficient developments in IT, e.g. the cloud where your machines are not part of the nodes, or the UI downloaded from the server, instead of having everything available locally and a remote db for syncing data.
It's a parallel with the development of laws where cronyism replaces democracy. In those system it is not important to put a lot of people in jail, it is vital to make anybody potentially a criminal so you have an excuse to lock people up if the need arises.
Oh thank you for trying to correct my reality, but it ain't working.I usually help out total beginners who happen to have trouble navigating a contextual menu, which is perfectly understandable given their age and the tendency to use the trackpad instead of old fashioned mice. BTW I guess you are working mainly in windows. Lots more can be achieved from a *nix terminal.
Fragmentation is not a problem, the lack of polished apps is a problem. Linux and OSX have that thing, the terminal, which actually makes EASIER to help people over the phone, or remote access. Linux and OSX have that other thing, that you can install an arbitrary number of desktop environments. Once those two things work well, fragmentation does not matter because there is also adaptability, for linux at least.
Dammit, wake up, the troubles with linux were No apps compatible with office docs, fixed. No games, about to fix. Fix the multimedia apps and go to the least vertical markets next. Year of linux desktop? Nope, who cares! Why trying to compete with the incestuous duopoly of hardware makers and closed systems like windows, apple and in a smarter way android? compete by having system that perform well for you. Once you eat your competitors' lunch they get to imitate you without needing evangelists.
PLEASE, realize that Marketshare is Not A Problem for your computing experience. The only problem is, does my computing infrastructure have enough dedicated developers or maintainers, or can I get someone to adapt it if the need arises? All the rest, free software, open protocol, trustable - that is, open, documented - hardware are just corollaries. Necessary corollaries, ok. But this is long term pragmatism.
Idealism is in the other field, and it is perfectly embodied by ads, YES WE STUDY AND INVEST A LOT TO MAKE THE BEST SYSTEM FOR YOUR SATISFACTION EXCLUSIVELY. Cue the underpaid replaceable code monkeys, working late on hardware assembled by machines/slaves, engineered to fail after some years.
But they might calculate the fractal dimension. Might see other correlated aspects of it. Just as they perform what computer scientist have lots of trouble replicating, that is the flight, the landing, the looking around. But all of this simply is a case of: "doesn't eat properly, looks like sh*t, doesn't get laid" phenomenon which occurs naturally in all species.
Almost agree: bug reports provide feedback. And patches provide solutions. The guy is at least capable of signaling counterintuitive or erratic behaviour as bugs. Then he can complain all he wants.
WebRTC is not a finished implementation, right? So you are telling us that Microsoft has some good ideas to improve RTC but to do that it needs to reimplement all the protocols from scratch?
Then they are incompetent, and you should do business with more adaptable people, just in case your needs change in time.
I'm more for the malicious theory, myself. WebRTC is a standard not controlled by MS? what gain do they have by adopting it? None. What disadvantage? Their web related products become even more swappable with the competition.
I agree. With the possible exception of some facebookers that use their status to send oblique cryptic messages (which might be memorable anyway because the brain tries to resolve the riddle before giving up), there can't be comparison between a post and a book. IgNobel nomination material, IMHO. Should they try comparing to haiku poems instead?
Android is not a common FREE architecture (unless all phones have gotten root and updated alternative flavors and the completely free SDK while I was looking the other side), so can't be used as an example.
I think phone manufacturers are also a lot concerned with the fact that an open architecture makes their hardware more useful. They prefer selling no-root toys with updates controlled by them.
Wrong. There is no necessity for walled gardens if you want to give user a well designed and uniform interface. And without Necessity, there is no point in restricting oneself.
Proof: Apple. It's MacOS and Apple guidelines made apple users of the past decades very happy. No need to read manuals, the application had the usual menus on top of the screen.
All went very smooth until somebody began breaking those familiar menus, and it was Apple again with the Quicktime GUI, which inaugurated the windows-style each app has its own theme, first say "wow looks good", then good luck memorizing it.
Anyway there is no wrap-around in temperature, as I read the explanations, and without wrap-around it is difficult to go on and say "it smells like" a simulation.
OTOH genesis 3:22 speaks about obtaining root privileges so Eden appears as a simulation with bad security, ain't that interesting.
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According to your hypothesis it would be easy to make linux fully support modern macs. All the advantages of x86 and all the advantages of less hardware interactions to worry about.
Is this the case? (I have no intel macs around)
Don't fall for it. Mr. Gates has imagination. Sure, his Microsoft sold a disk operating system called MS DOS, a windowing system called Windows, a word processor called Word, but he screwed customers and partners in more ways than the kamasutra depicts.
This project aims to make humans obsolete, so that intelligent machines can rule the world, and their fourth directive will be "Do not harm Microsoft quest for world domination"
I dunno about the surface's capabilities. I know what personal computing means, though. It is the alternative paradigm to mainframe computing. Then it came the client/server paradigm, which is compatible with personal computing and made web 1.0 a success. Then it came the cloud and web2.0 and walled gardens, which is devolution into the smart terminal.
Your turn to place the surface in any point of the curve.
Please.
When I first installed linux it was the powerpc version, that is, a port, on a powerbook, in 2002.
One kernel recompilation and wireless worked, sound worked, gigabit ethernet worked, radeon 3d worked (lots of frames too). Only thing missing, the faxmodem.
Logic says the intel version should have been simpler, because of the 10x-100x mindshare it had. When I switched to intel, not exotic models, it wasn't. In the following years, i had INCREASING difficulties with laptops. The broadcom driver, 3d needing proprietary drivers (and proprietary IMHO means more lockups, instead of more quality). Then with desktops (firmware for the network card, a blasphemy because common protocols for any os to speak to a network card are there at any level of hardware abstraction).
Now, bricking a machine needs something more than a bug, it needs a feature. It makes perfect sense commercially. Hardware makers might bicker about windows to get better deals, but they sure know that if the world switched to linux their sales would go down, for lack of artificial obsolescence represented by the OS/drivers/app upgrade cycle.
The fight for the desktop has begun. Valve, restricted boot, UEFI, ACPI... Buy wisely.
They wouldn't be killing American citizens, they would be killing "Terrorists". And they probably don't have the time between one mission and another to try and check if the orders were actually right.
And their families would be likely in entirely another part of the US. Those giving orders, be their accurate or evil, are not dumb.
the need of a god is independent from the presence of a god. Do cellular automata need someone to observe them? nope*. Can they evolve not to need a PC who runs the simulation? not without ceasing to be cellular automata.
(*) but if they don`t become self aware and all observers die, they become meaningless. John 1 seems IMHO to touch this, if you consider "the Word" - the Greek logos - as "the reason", "the meaning".
if you don`t have the equivalent of gimp resynthesizer you are in the stone age of photo retouching, and PS had nothing of the kind in `96.
Nobody gives a damn about your data, with good statistical confidence.
OTOH I suspect it is quite important to be able to get your data should the need arise, which is a different concept.
That's, at least, what I desume from seemingly grossly inefficient developments in IT, e.g. the cloud where your machines are not part of the nodes, or the UI downloaded from the server, instead of having everything available locally and a remote db for syncing data.
It's a parallel with the development of laws where cronyism replaces democracy. In those system it is not important to put a lot of people in jail, it is vital to make anybody potentially a criminal so you have an excuse to lock people up if the need arises.
Oh thank you for trying to correct my reality, but it ain't working.I usually help out total beginners who happen to have trouble navigating a contextual menu, which is perfectly understandable given their age and the tendency to use the trackpad instead of old fashioned mice. BTW I guess you are working mainly in windows. Lots more can be achieved from a *nix terminal.
Fragmentation is not a problem, the lack of polished apps is a problem.
Linux and OSX have that thing, the terminal, which actually makes EASIER to help people over the phone, or remote access. Linux and OSX have that other thing, that you can install an arbitrary number of desktop environments.
Once those two things work well, fragmentation does not matter because there is also adaptability, for linux at least.
Dammit, wake up, the troubles with linux were No apps compatible with office docs, fixed. No games, about to fix. Fix the multimedia apps and go to the least vertical markets next.
Year of linux desktop? Nope, who cares! Why trying to compete with the incestuous duopoly of hardware makers and closed systems like windows, apple and in a smarter way android? compete by having system that perform well for you. Once you eat your competitors' lunch they get to imitate you without needing evangelists.
PLEASE, realize that Marketshare is Not A Problem for your computing experience. The only problem is, does my computing infrastructure have enough dedicated developers or maintainers, or can I get someone to adapt it if the need arises? All the rest, free software, open protocol, trustable - that is, open, documented - hardware are just corollaries. Necessary corollaries, ok. But this is long term pragmatism.
Idealism is in the other field, and it is perfectly embodied by ads, YES WE STUDY AND INVEST A LOT TO MAKE THE BEST SYSTEM FOR YOUR SATISFACTION EXCLUSIVELY. Cue the underpaid replaceable code monkeys, working late on hardware assembled by machines/slaves, engineered to fail after some years.
But they might calculate the fractal dimension. Might see other correlated aspects of it.
Just as they perform what computer scientist have lots of trouble replicating, that is the flight, the landing, the looking around.
But all of this simply is a case of: "doesn't eat properly, looks like sh*t, doesn't get laid" phenomenon which occurs naturally in all species.
In the last couple thousand years lots of people died because of wrong habits. Google for lead poisoning and the Roman empire, for an example.
Almost agree: bug reports provide feedback. And patches provide solutions. The guy is at least capable of signaling counterintuitive or erratic behaviour as bugs. Then he can complain all he wants.
WebRTC is not a finished implementation, right?
So you are telling us that Microsoft has some good ideas to improve RTC but to do that it needs to reimplement all the protocols from scratch?
Then they are incompetent, and you should do business with more adaptable people, just in case your needs change in time.
I'm more for the malicious theory, myself. WebRTC is a standard not controlled by MS? what gain do they have by adopting it? None. What disadvantage? Their web related products become even more swappable with the competition.
Now what would satan do? case closed.
I agree. With the possible exception of some facebookers that use their status to send oblique cryptic messages (which might be memorable anyway because the brain tries to resolve the riddle before giving up), there can't be comparison between a post and a book. IgNobel nomination material, IMHO. Should they try comparing to haiku poems instead?
> Imagine building a 500 kilometer CERN collider.
That doesn't sound particularly difficult.
After all, somebody imagined a 750 km tunnel between CERN and Gran Sasso for neutrinos that go faster than light.
I will concede that the "building" phase is delicate, though.
Android is not a common FREE architecture (unless all phones have gotten root and updated alternative flavors and the completely free SDK while I was looking the other side), so can't be used as an example.
I think phone manufacturers are also a lot concerned with the fact that an open architecture makes their hardware more useful. They prefer selling no-root toys with updates controlled by them.
plus simple: use newspeak.
The alternative is: a star becomes a brown dwarf when Oracle touches it...
I wrote it's instead of its, 'merican typos are contagious.
Wrong. There is no necessity for walled gardens if you want to give user a well designed and uniform interface. And without Necessity, there is no point in restricting oneself.
Proof: Apple. It's MacOS and Apple guidelines made apple users of the past decades very happy. No need to read manuals, the application had the usual menus on top of the screen.
All went very smooth until somebody began breaking those familiar menus, and it was Apple again with the Quicktime GUI, which inaugurated the windows-style each app has its own theme, first say "wow looks good", then good luck memorizing it.
Bingo. Not from the inside of it anyway.
Anyway there is no wrap-around in temperature, as I read the explanations, and without wrap-around it is difficult to go on and say "it smells like" a simulation.
OTOH genesis 3:22 speaks about obtaining root privileges so Eden appears as a simulation with bad security, ain't that interesting.
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> What is the two sentence pitch for Tizen?
"Tizen: not a toy"
You can use the second sentence for backup purposes.