Except for a whole lot of variations that wouldn't be supported on standard hardware out of the box with a generic boot disk.
Seriously, a bootable Linux distro that boots on ALL hardware, with full sound, acceleration and properly configured hardware (mostly HID) devices? I'd love to see it, but no one has done it yet and no one will. You can do it for a specific hardware configuration, which is why consoles can do it, generic randomly configured hardware that people use? No, try again.
The end result would just be a bunch of pissed off people complaining about how much it sucks on the Internet, and the resulting backlash would ruin any hope of SteamOS succeeding due to the sour taste left in peoples mouths.
Not to mention letting random people have direct access to your hardware? No fucking thank you, I stopped using DOS and moved to a real OS for a reason.
Except that all the problems that are caused by it will just piss non-geeks off will result in a bunch of bad press that will just make everyone think the SteamBox sucks ass.
Seriously, if you think saying dual boot is even an option, you utterly fail. Half Life isn't THAT impressive, at this point its a lot like Duke Nukem Forever... which mind you they should have just not finished and left the DNF initials as a joke/truth.
Awesome, it'll be like going back to DOS, no thanks. I actually understand what my OS does for me and I'll keep it thanks, last thing I want is random 20 year old game devs having direct access to my hardware.
OSX support fat binaries. One binary can contain ppc, i386, x84-64, arm6, arm7, arm7s and arm8.
I know this because I have libraries that do just that. I have two separate executables for iOS version OS X due to other differences, but processor architecture has absolutely nothing to do with it, hence why the libraries support all architectures.
Eg: In Android applications can publish "intents" and other apps can utilize their functionality without tightly coupling to the program Input / Output data interface...
Heh, so basically, you want ActiveX to be a standard that everyone uses?
When the system is vast and varied you don't funnel activity / traffic / etc into single a single locus! Imagine if all information in the universe had to pass through a single point just to be processed into the Next frame?! NO, that's NOT what Physics does to make stuff move, it's what you do to REBOOT the SIM!::BANG::
Actually, that single frame unit of time is called 'Planck Time', as far as we can tell, the universe operates in steps of Planck time... this behavior makes it look a whole hell of a lot like a massive simulation. And if it is, how would you notice, you've been programed not to!
Well, considering Microsoft has been trying to bridge the mobile and desktop OS for 10 years, and no one before Apple made a smartphone that wasn't just a crappy geek toy. Sure you could run SSH on your n900, but it was still a shitty geek toy.
Apple came out and made portable music players, then phones, and finally tablets popular, when everyone else fucked it up in every way.
I'd say Apple is most likely the one to do it, though I have my doubts without Steve leading the charge.e
Do you find a 7-8" tablet like the Nexus 7 or iPad mini closer to a 10" laptop or to a 4-5" phone in this sense?
An 8 inch tablet is closer to a 10 inch laptop than a 4 inch phone in every way. A 7 splits the difference, but is really just the worst of both worlds. If these are something you don't mind carrying around through out the day, good for you, but I'm not carrying a purse full or backpack with me all the time just to have a tablet that I'll use once or twice during the day just like I don't carry a laptop.
A phone (not some stupid phablet crap) fits in your pocket without requiring extra hands or purses to carry it.
Do you realize why phones are the most popular camera's in the world?
Phones will simply be where your storage and possibly processor live. They'll have a separate UI for the tiny touch screen compared to normal desktop usage. It won't be the same UI in both instances.
It will more or less be exactly what Apple is doing. A normal desktop OS (OS X) when connected to a full keyboard/mouse/monitor or the tiny touch screen UI if its just the phone on its on.
I'm fairly certain I was having a discussion about merging a phone with a desktop and just making the phone a dock able desktop before the iPhone existed, while I was still using WindowsCE.
If Apple merges the two, and I beg them to, it won't be because you started the trend, I'm fairly certain they started it before you and they're already well on their way to pulling it off when it makes sense.
You and Microsoft are an example of pushing to far too fast and doing it wrong. Hell, you couldn't even convince other people to fund your project and were unwilling to pay for it yourself, WTF, thats a pretty shitty lead to follow.
Most executives would be happy to say 'we'll accept a slightly lower margin if we can make up for it in sales volume because more people will buy our product if we can guarantee a certain standard of living for people on our production lines'. At least, they would be happy to say it if it were true. Unless people are willing to boycott Sony and not buy a PS4 over this kind of thing, they have no incentive to stop.
Thats nice and idealistic and all, but most people, including a lot of people like yourself who pretend to be high and mighty will still go out and buy a PS4 or Xbox One or iPhone or PC made with parts from FoxConn without a moments hesitation.
They are so in demand that everyone uses them to build their stuff, and they have such control over the labor market that they can get free labor.
If you ignore human civilization/ethics for the moment, FoxConn is doing EXACTLY what a business should do. They are literally following the text books on this.
Tesla hasn't really revolutionized car manufacturing any more than any of several car manufactures that came, did something awesome, and still failed. Just because Tesla is the first company you've heard about doesn't mean its doing something completely out of the ordinary.
You aren't going to 'revolutionize' low wage factory workers in America unless you simply remove the factory worker and replace them with a robot, thats the only possible way to beat what FoxConn has. American minimum wage is ridiculous compared to what the get workers for, oh and their workers are happy to be getting a paycheck at all so they can eat, unlike the fat fuck American workers who bitch about minimum wage while living on welfare and complaining about factories in China.
And in a week, no one will give a shit that the PS4 is made in a crappy FoxConn factory the same way they don't give a shit that its made right next to the iPhones, Nexus and Galaxy devices, and Xbox One's.
Again I ask you, what problem is FoxConn having other than you're being dramatic about this when it will have no effect on them worth mentioning. They'll have to put out a few press releases over the next month and it'll be over, things will go back to the way they were last month.
This is silly. Taking a measurement of the microwaves that passed through it doesn't change that it was modified by the measurement. They're just using the excuse that the microwaves weren't theres, and then ignoring the fact that the microwaves were changing the process themselves.
The fact that the microwaves behaved differently is a direct result of their interaction with the wave function. Both were modified by the interaction.
They still didn't measure quantum collapse without effecting it, they're just ignoring the effect. They used microwaves to directly measure it, but just ignore that the microwaves passed through it.
Seriously? His 'articles' are written like a 12 year old school project. His thoughts are incomplete and childish responses to someone else's ignorance.
In short, this is just an angst story about someone else's angst video on youtube. Both could use a good bit of growing up before anyone else is submitted to the torture of reading this crap.
The company shouldn't have sold shares if it can't accept direct democracy, they should get investments in other ways. Shares are a special kind of tool for investing in companies. Its a special kind of investment as you do gain some power in the company by purchasing shares.
No. Its like blaming the wrong guy when someone is shot with his stolen gun. Anyone who argues it is just stupid or trying to justify the fact that they do it themselves.
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Because those people are trying to give the impression that Linux is worth supporting. That doesn't make it actually worth supporting.
Its silly to pretend those numbers are meaningful, bias ruins any sort of meaning those numbers have.
Except for a whole lot of variations that wouldn't be supported on standard hardware out of the box with a generic boot disk.
Seriously, a bootable Linux distro that boots on ALL hardware, with full sound, acceleration and properly configured hardware (mostly HID) devices? I'd love to see it, but no one has done it yet and no one will. You can do it for a specific hardware configuration, which is why consoles can do it, generic randomly configured hardware that people use? No, try again.
The end result would just be a bunch of pissed off people complaining about how much it sucks on the Internet, and the resulting backlash would ruin any hope of SteamOS succeeding due to the sour taste left in peoples mouths.
Not to mention letting random people have direct access to your hardware? No fucking thank you, I stopped using DOS and moved to a real OS for a reason.
Except that all the problems that are caused by it will just piss non-geeks off will result in a bunch of bad press that will just make everyone think the SteamBox sucks ass.
Seriously, if you think saying dual boot is even an option, you utterly fail. Half Life isn't THAT impressive, at this point its a lot like Duke Nukem Forever ... which mind you they should have just not finished and left the DNF initials as a joke/truth.
Awesome, it'll be like going back to DOS, no thanks. I actually understand what my OS does for me and I'll keep it thanks, last thing I want is random 20 year old game devs having direct access to my hardware.
Uhm, why not? I do it every day.
OSX support fat binaries. One binary can contain ppc, i386, x84-64, arm6, arm7, arm7s and arm8.
I know this because I have libraries that do just that. I have two separate executables for iOS version OS X due to other differences, but processor architecture has absolutely nothing to do with it, hence why the libraries support all architectures.
maybe some of the smaller Mac houses will bite.
Unlikely, GUI toolkits for Linux are such a joke. Windows developers are used to shitty looking UIs with crappy APIs, Mac developers are the opposite.
Note: I do both.
Eg: In Android applications can publish "intents" and other apps can utilize their functionality without tightly coupling to the program Input / Output data interface...
Heh, so basically, you want ActiveX to be a standard that everyone uses?
When the system is vast and varied you don't funnel activity / traffic / etc into single a single locus! Imagine if all information in the universe had to pass through a single point just to be processed into the Next frame?! NO, that's NOT what Physics does to make stuff move, it's what you do to REBOOT the SIM! ::BANG::
Actually, that single frame unit of time is called 'Planck Time', as far as we can tell, the universe operates in steps of Planck time ... this behavior makes it look a whole hell of a lot like a massive simulation. And if it is, how would you notice, you've been programed not to!
Well, considering Microsoft has been trying to bridge the mobile and desktop OS for 10 years, and no one before Apple made a smartphone that wasn't just a crappy geek toy. Sure you could run SSH on your n900, but it was still a shitty geek toy.
Apple came out and made portable music players, then phones, and finally tablets popular, when everyone else fucked it up in every way.
I'd say Apple is most likely the one to do it, though I have my doubts without Steve leading the charge.e
Mac OS usage share keeps going up. The only complainers I see are on slashdot and those are just complaints against any and all change ...
I'd say you're the one spreading the FUD.
Apple is taking a slow path and figuring out how to combine them without making it suck ass.
Microsoft just shoe horned one UI on top of the other and put it to market.
Big difference, but both are heading the same direction.
A Nexus 7 fits comfortably in my bag.
Thats a big purse you carry.
Do you find a 7-8" tablet like the Nexus 7 or iPad mini closer to a 10" laptop or to a 4-5" phone in this sense?
An 8 inch tablet is closer to a 10 inch laptop than a 4 inch phone in every way. A 7 splits the difference, but is really just the worst of both worlds. If these are something you don't mind carrying around through out the day, good for you, but I'm not carrying a purse full or backpack with me all the time just to have a tablet that I'll use once or twice during the day just like I don't carry a laptop.
A phone (not some stupid phablet crap) fits in your pocket without requiring extra hands or purses to carry it.
Do you realize why phones are the most popular camera's in the world?
Phones will simply be where your storage and possibly processor live. They'll have a separate UI for the tiny touch screen compared to normal desktop usage. It won't be the same UI in both instances.
It will more or less be exactly what Apple is doing. A normal desktop OS (OS X) when connected to a full keyboard/mouse/monitor or the tiny touch screen UI if its just the phone on its on.
Sorry Mark,
I'm fairly certain I was having a discussion about merging a phone with a desktop and just making the phone a dock able desktop before the iPhone existed, while I was still using WindowsCE.
If Apple merges the two, and I beg them to, it won't be because you started the trend, I'm fairly certain they started it before you and they're already well on their way to pulling it off when it makes sense.
You and Microsoft are an example of pushing to far too fast and doing it wrong. Hell, you couldn't even convince other people to fund your project and were unwilling to pay for it yourself, WTF, thats a pretty shitty lead to follow.
Because they stopped when they couldn't get other people to pay for their R&D projects. Thats not impressive, it means he failed before he started.
more security focused Linux distributions
You mean the distros that use code contributed by the very spies you're worried about monitoring you?
Whats so difficult about simply turning off the power saving features a notch or 10 when theres a mains supply connected?
Frustrates me that iOS doesn't have the option to automatically disable auto-lock when on mains, my laptop does it.
Replace Android with an iPhone and you won't have to jailbreak your phone for basic privacy features.
Most executives would be happy to say 'we'll accept a slightly lower margin if we can make up for it in sales volume because more people will buy our product if we can guarantee a certain standard of living for people on our production lines'. At least, they would be happy to say it if it were true. Unless people are willing to boycott Sony and not buy a PS4 over this kind of thing, they have no incentive to stop.
Thats nice and idealistic and all, but most people, including a lot of people like yourself who pretend to be high and mighty will still go out and buy a PS4 or Xbox One or iPhone or PC made with parts from FoxConn without a moments hesitation.
What problems are they having, exactly?
They are so in demand that everyone uses them to build their stuff, and they have such control over the labor market that they can get free labor.
If you ignore human civilization/ethics for the moment, FoxConn is doing EXACTLY what a business should do. They are literally following the text books on this.
Tesla hasn't really revolutionized car manufacturing any more than any of several car manufactures that came, did something awesome, and still failed. Just because Tesla is the first company you've heard about doesn't mean its doing something completely out of the ordinary.
You aren't going to 'revolutionize' low wage factory workers in America unless you simply remove the factory worker and replace them with a robot, thats the only possible way to beat what FoxConn has. American minimum wage is ridiculous compared to what the get workers for, oh and their workers are happy to be getting a paycheck at all so they can eat, unlike the fat fuck American workers who bitch about minimum wage while living on welfare and complaining about factories in China.
And in a week, no one will give a shit that the PS4 is made in a crappy FoxConn factory the same way they don't give a shit that its made right next to the iPhones, Nexus and Galaxy devices, and Xbox One's.
Again I ask you, what problem is FoxConn having other than you're being dramatic about this when it will have no effect on them worth mentioning. They'll have to put out a few press releases over the next month and it'll be over, things will go back to the way they were last month.
This is silly. Taking a measurement of the microwaves that passed through it doesn't change that it was modified by the measurement. They're just using the excuse that the microwaves weren't theres, and then ignoring the fact that the microwaves were changing the process themselves.
The fact that the microwaves behaved differently is a direct result of their interaction with the wave function. Both were modified by the interaction.
They still didn't measure quantum collapse without effecting it, they're just ignoring the effect. They used microwaves to directly measure it, but just ignore that the microwaves passed through it.
Seriously? His 'articles' are written like a 12 year old school project. His thoughts are incomplete and childish responses to someone else's ignorance.
In short, this is just an angst story about someone else's angst video on youtube. Both could use a good bit of growing up before anyone else is submitted to the torture of reading this crap.
LavaBit wasn't a publicly traded company. THEY can shutdown whenever the investors/owner decides.
Apple can not shut down if the majority of the shareholders disagree with their actions.
The company shouldn't have sold shares if it can't accept direct democracy, they should get investments in other ways. Shares are a special kind of tool for investing in companies. Its a special kind of investment as you do gain some power in the company by purchasing shares.
No. Its like blaming the wrong guy when someone is shot with his stolen gun. Anyone who argues it is just stupid or trying to justify the fact that they do it themselves.
forums trade in bitcoin as an easy way to move money around without detection.
Except that its been shown, multiple different ways by different people that it is trivial to track.
If you think you're being sneaky and hard to trace by using bitcoin, you're an idiot.