Any sensor can be jammed or fooled in some way. The best sensors we have are either radar or infrared. Infrared is less useful in the ground because there are many heat sources which can obscure the target. The alternative is human eye tracking but humans don't have quick enough reaction times to intercept an artillery shell.
Intel graphics are not an issue since the open source drivers are the best available and have all the required features. NVIDIA or AMD binary drivers are just a point and cilck install in Ubuntu. That only leaves things like PowerVR or Mali which you will usually not find in x86 platforms anyway.
A lot of those games on GoG are running on DosBox or ScummVM so you can run them on Linux just as well. Not that GoG makes any specific effort to actually list these or have any proper Linux support however.
You will not get a job in a top flight university without taking lots of research projects that bring funding to the university. You will end up in some 3rd rate college earning a lot less than those people do.
If you are beginning a course you have to prepare classes, which takes even more time than giving the classes themselves, you may find yourself grading 200 or 300 exams. That sort of thing. If you have students you can dump most of the grading to them but you still have to prepare the classes.
Do you think you can submit a publication to a once a year conference any time you want? Government grants also have specific timetables both for when you can ask for funding and for how long you have to conduct your research. It's common for people in research to pull all-nighters working on finishing this stuff.
Bingo. Most of the extra cost has been on land. Easier credit compared to back then also means people accept these highly inflated prices when they wouldn't do it otherwise.
I have a pre-paid cellphone, the second cheapest DSL rate, bought my car with cash, do not do vacations more than 30 km away. Granted I pay more in water, electricity, and communications than my grandparents did. However things are a lot more skewed than some people think and the reason is not services. Its just that the price of a house is whatever the market is willing to bear and with loans, which weren't easy to come by back then, people can bear a lot more. See the Melbourne house price chart I posted in the other thread.
FYI I have compared a same sized house (similar number of sq meters) in a similar neighborhood. Yes my grandfather was a hard working person however I could not buy a same sized house in the same time frame he did even if I worked overtime. I have crunched the numbers more than once. I am a software engineer with a graduate degree so its not like I am earning minimum wage here. My grandfather was a stone mason in case you were wondering.
You can downmod me all you want. I know what I am talking about. I have the documents of the transaction and I know the regular wages in that era. I talked with my grandmother while she was still alive. I have seen similar studies of people both in the US and elsewhere in Europe claiming the same thing. If you read this article you can clearly see even back in the 1980s houses in the UK were a lot more affordable than they are now.
What did not exist back then was the ease of credit people have now so house prices were not inflated nearly to the same degree. But you can keep drinking the kool aid as much as you want.
The living standards are getting better but products keep using worse materials. Just try finding a piece of furniture made of actual solid wood.
Not everything is better off. The time it takes for a middle class person to pay for a house is now much longer. My grandparent for example managed to buy a house in 3 years while it would take me 10 years of work to buy one. He wasn't college educated and I am college educated in one of the top schools in this country. So you figure that math out.
There are plenty of already existing plants which grow their own toxins to protect themselves from predators. Kidney beans are one example. So I do not think plants that produce their own insecticide are necessarily problematic. What is problematic is the lack of labeling of GMO products. Many staple foods are toxic but because people know how to prepare the food properly via soaking, cooking, or whatever this is not considered a major problem. The problem is when foods you don't perceive as toxic act differently than you would expect and you have no information about it.
The Crusades were a backlash against Muslim invasion. If we took it under the present UN charter they could have been considered a defensive war like Korea or the first Gulf War. Attrocities were commited on both sides.
Q1 2009 converged mobile device units: 13.7 million
Q2 2009 converged mobile device units: 16.9 million
Q3 2009 converged mobile device units: 16.4 million
Q4 2009 converged mobile device units: 20.8 million
Q1 2010 converged mobile device units: 21.5 million
Q2 2010 converged mobile device units: 24.0 million
Q3 2010 converged mobile device units: 26.5 million
Q4 2010 converged mobile device units: 28.3 million
If we do this by semesters like the chart:
H1 2009: 30.6 million
H2 2009: 37.2 million
H1 2010: 45.5 million
H2 2010: 54.8 million
Nokia have demonstrated their real area of expertise is hardware, not software
This is a typical mistake. SGI also thought their area of expertise was hardware then they switched from IRIX to Windows NT and the market dropped out from under their feet. The fact is the software is an integral part of Nokia's platforms as much as the hardware is. Android would have enabled full source access to the entire operating system and control over their own destiny. Nokia proved itself able to maintain a full operating system (Symbian) for a decade not to mention they developed MeeGo to fruition so they could certainly have handled the limited work necessary to customize Android to their requirements.
If I was in control of Nokia I would have tried to move away from Symbian to Linux earlier. Even if I was put in control by the time Elop got on board I would have just kept developing MeeGo. If the choice ever came between Android and Windows Phone the choice was trivially simple. Android all the way.
Did you notice Ubuntu is trying to commercialize a smartphone operating system? I doubt they have a fraction of the resources Nokia had at their disposition.
If the problem was the cars wearing down the roads from driving on them they should just slap a per-mile tax on all vehicles not just high efficiency vehicles.
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Any sensor can be jammed or fooled in some way. The best sensors we have are either radar or infrared. Infrared is less useful in the ground because there are many heat sources which can obscure the target. The alternative is human eye tracking but humans don't have quick enough reaction times to intercept an artillery shell.
Intel graphics are not an issue since the open source drivers are the best available and have all the required features. NVIDIA or AMD binary drivers are just a point and cilck install in Ubuntu. That only leaves things like PowerVR or Mali which you will usually not find in x86 platforms anyway.
I see no big issue out of it. It is much like Oracle only used to certify their database on RedHat.
Redhat and Fedora are more or less the same thing really.
A lot of those games on GoG are running on DosBox or ScummVM so you can run them on Linux just as well. Not that GoG makes any specific effort to actually list these or have any proper Linux support however.
If it gets really serious they will just change their name and continue operating like Arthur Andersen/Accenture.
You will not get a job in a top flight university without taking lots of research projects that bring funding to the university. You will end up in some 3rd rate college earning a lot less than those people do.
If you are beginning a course you have to prepare classes, which takes even more time than giving the classes themselves, you may find yourself grading 200 or 300 exams. That sort of thing. If you have students you can dump most of the grading to them but you still have to prepare the classes.
Do you think you can submit a publication to a once a year conference any time you want? Government grants also have specific timetables both for when you can ask for funding and for how long you have to conduct your research. It's common for people in research to pull all-nighters working on finishing this stuff.
Bingo. Most of the extra cost has been on land. Easier credit compared to back then also means people accept these highly inflated prices when they wouldn't do it otherwise.
I have a pre-paid cellphone, the second cheapest DSL rate, bought my car with cash, do not do vacations more than 30 km away. Granted I pay more in water, electricity, and communications than my grandparents did. However things are a lot more skewed than some people think and the reason is not services. Its just that the price of a house is whatever the market is willing to bear and with loans, which weren't easy to come by back then, people can bear a lot more. See the Melbourne house price chart I posted in the other thread.
Another chart this time house prices vs income in Melbourne Australia 1965-2010.
FYI I have compared a same sized house (similar number of sq meters) in a similar neighborhood. Yes my grandfather was a hard working person however I could not buy a same sized house in the same time frame he did even if I worked overtime. I have crunched the numbers more than once. I am a software engineer with a graduate degree so its not like I am earning minimum wage here. My grandfather was a stone mason in case you were wondering.
You can downmod me all you want. I know what I am talking about. I have the documents of the transaction and I know the regular wages in that era. I talked with my grandmother while she was still alive. I have seen similar studies of people both in the US and elsewhere in Europe claiming the same thing. If you read this article you can clearly see even back in the 1980s houses in the UK were a lot more affordable than they are now.
What did not exist back then was the ease of credit people have now so house prices were not inflated nearly to the same degree. But you can keep drinking the kool aid as much as you want.
PS: You can also get Giana Sisters on GoG in case you hate DRM.
Giana Sisters. You can get it for Windows on Steam.
There is also a fan based remake which works on Linux etc.
The living standards are getting better but products keep using worse materials. Just try finding a piece of furniture made of actual solid wood.
Not everything is better off. The time it takes for a middle class person to pay for a house is now much longer. My grandparent for example managed to buy a house in 3 years while it would take me 10 years of work to buy one. He wasn't college educated and I am college educated in one of the top schools in this country. So you figure that math out.
There are plenty of already existing plants which grow their own toxins to protect themselves from predators. Kidney beans are one example. So I do not think plants that produce their own insecticide are necessarily problematic. What is problematic is the lack of labeling of GMO products. Many staple foods are toxic but because people know how to prepare the food properly via soaking, cooking, or whatever this is not considered a major problem. The problem is when foods you don't perceive as toxic act differently than you would expect and you have no information about it.
They had in Sparta until the society imploded. Not many long term successful societies with negative population growth rates.
Are you accounting for inflation? The man had his own airliner back then.
The Crusades were a backlash against Muslim invasion. If we took it under the present UN charter they could have been considered a defensive war like Korea or the first Gulf War. Attrocities were commited on both sides.
Q1 2009 converged mobile device units: 13.7 million
Q2 2009 converged mobile device units: 16.9 million
Q3 2009 converged mobile device units: 16.4 million
Q4 2009 converged mobile device units: 20.8 million
Q1 2010 converged mobile device units: 21.5 million
Q2 2010 converged mobile device units: 24.0 million
Q3 2010 converged mobile device units: 26.5 million
Q4 2010 converged mobile device units: 28.3 million
If we do this by semesters like the chart:
H1 2009: 30.6 million H2 2009: 37.2 million H1 2010: 45.5 million H2 2010: 54.8 million
The chart seems perfectly accurate to me.
Two quarters before the burning platform memo was when Elop got on board. Units and share are not the same thing. The market is still growing now.
Nokia have demonstrated their real area of expertise is hardware, not software
This is a typical mistake. SGI also thought their area of expertise was hardware then they switched from IRIX to Windows NT and the market dropped out from under their feet. The fact is the software is an integral part of Nokia's platforms as much as the hardware is. Android would have enabled full source access to the entire operating system and control over their own destiny. Nokia proved itself able to maintain a full operating system (Symbian) for a decade not to mention they developed MeeGo to fruition so they could certainly have handled the limited work necessary to customize Android to their requirements.
If I was in control of Nokia I would have tried to move away from Symbian to Linux earlier. Even if I was put in control by the time Elop got on board I would have just kept developing MeeGo. If the choice ever came between Android and Windows Phone the choice was trivially simple. Android all the way.
Did you notice Ubuntu is trying to commercialize a smartphone operating system? I doubt they have a fraction of the resources Nokia had at their disposition.
Perhaps you should just stop being fatalistic. This was entirely self-inflicted.
If the problem was the cars wearing down the roads from driving on them they should just slap a per-mile tax on all vehicles not just high efficiency vehicles.