I'd expect a modest swing to Labor in conservative WA, where Barnett may be running out of puff and there's no scare campaign over a mining tax this time. Apathy for Palaczuk may have offset anger over Newman, so again, smaller than expected swings in QLD, maybe a handful of seats but not a landslide like at the state level. SA will lose seats over manufacturing but Labor's vote in 2013 there held up reasonably. Vics were never pro-Abbott, so not too many seats will change hands. Tassie swung hard to the Coalition last time and will swing back somewhat.
So at the end of the day, the election will be decided in NSW where many prominent government members reside and at a state level Baird is popular.
Labor aren't much better with "think of the children" Conroy running the show. The Greens did block certain legislation but may face voter backlash over senate voting rules.
The Pirates have their own party. But I think I'll vote for the Science Party; who wouldn't want to live in a 21st century metropolis named after Alan Turing?:)
I'm from Victoria and I'd honestly never heard of the expression until a federal politician decided to parade his manliness, apparently quite seductive to rusted-on Liberal-voters, in red Speedos.
Ubuntu: An ancient African word meaning "too pragmatic to install debian".
Ubuntu has some innovations such as launchpad integration and PPAs but I can't say I miss much running Mate on upstream debian.
(it's Canonical's non-desktop development that holds some interest - I might give Ubuntu Touch another try on my phone once I file a bug on network-specific 3G data support.)
I think the OP's point is that truth is stranger than fiction.
Five years ago when Ballmer was running the joint, helping out a competitor running Linux would have signalled that hell had frozen over. MS might still be the great Satan but a lot has pleasantly changed under Nadella.
Well for a start, you're a generation behind - Cherry Trail was all the rage in 2015 in products such as Surface 3. A Surface 4 with a Willow Trail SoC will be released in time for Christmas, no doubt.
I looked at these Bay Trail tablets when the supermarkets here had them on sale. I decided even for $AU99 they were trouble.:(
I seem to remember there was some clause on their download page that it could only be used on IBM branded hardware.
Which was a pity as testing one's product with J9, jamvm, harmony etc might reveal hitherto problems related to ambiguities in the Java spec. (of which I found a few in my own code when testing with classpath)
At least on the high end Lumia 950 (but not the budget models, yet), WP10 is supposed to have a feature that switches when docked, giving you an ARM desktop experience. I'm not sure what the limitations are in terms of supported APIs and naturally x86 won't run.
If they could run any Win32 application compiled for ARM they might have a contender. But if it's as restricted as Win RT, maybe not.
Canonical calls their competing technology Convergence and will run anything from LibreOffice to GIMP.
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... wondering what the heck a Kik is?
You're out by a factor of 10. That's .4mm, not cm :)
After the mess failed-CEO Apotheker made with webOS, I wouldn't trust any Linux solution on HP.
I'd expect a modest swing to Labor in conservative WA, where Barnett may be running out of puff and there's no scare campaign over a mining tax this time.
Apathy for Palaczuk may have offset anger over Newman, so again, smaller than expected swings in QLD, maybe a handful of seats but not a landslide like at the state level.
SA will lose seats over manufacturing but Labor's vote in 2013 there held up reasonably.
Vics were never pro-Abbott, so not too many seats will change hands.
Tassie swung hard to the Coalition last time and will swing back somewhat.
So at the end of the day, the election will be decided in NSW where many prominent government members reside and at a state level Baird is popular.
Labor aren't much better with "think of the children" Conroy running the show. The Greens did block certain legislation but may face voter backlash over senate voting rules.
The Pirates have their own party. But I think I'll vote for the Science Party; who wouldn't want to live in a 21st century metropolis named after Alan Turing? :)
I'm from Victoria and I'd honestly never heard of the expression until a federal politician decided to parade his manliness, apparently quite seductive to rusted-on Liberal-voters, in red Speedos.
Ubuntu: An ancient African word meaning "too pragmatic to install debian".
Ubuntu has some innovations such as launchpad integration and PPAs but I can't say I miss much running Mate on upstream debian.
(it's Canonical's non-desktop development that holds some interest - I might give Ubuntu Touch another try on my phone once I file a bug on network-specific 3G data support.)
If only they had shaved off an additional 400 microns.
I'd prefer a thicker laptop if it meant NO FAN!
They want to cram a Core i7 into this thing? Hell, no,
Dear slashdot.
Please fix foreign characters.
At this rate, they should have sufficient material by inauguration day to commence constructing the Great Wall of Canada.
I think the OP's point is that truth is stranger than fiction.
Five years ago when Ballmer was running the joint, helping out a competitor running Linux would have signalled that hell had frozen over. MS might still be the great Satan but a lot has pleasantly changed under Nadella.
Dear /.
It's April the 2nd here.
Signed, The future.
Does he favour Intel or AT&T syntax?
A bit early to be publishing these April 1 Zombie Apocalypse stories, no?
So like installing Ubuntu in a chroot but the host OS is Windows?
Seems to me like exposing a compatibility layer required to run ART apps seamlessly in WP10, only for generic Linux binaries too.
The Australian PM recently got into hot water by waffling on about 'Continuity and Change', stolen straight from Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
President Trump, ftw.
Gotta pull out Billy Shakespeare - Branagh's Hamlet goes for just over 4 hours.
back in the day, computers only did upper case.
Well for a start, you're a generation behind - Cherry Trail was all the rage in 2015 in products such as Surface 3. A Surface 4 with a Willow Trail SoC will be released in time for Christmas, no doubt.
I looked at these Bay Trail tablets when the supermarkets here had them on sale. I decided even for $AU99 they were trouble. :(
I seem to remember there was some clause on their download page that it could only be used on IBM branded hardware.
Which was a pity as testing one's product with J9, jamvm, harmony etc might reveal hitherto problems related to ambiguities in the Java spec. (of which I found a few in my own code when testing with classpath)
At least on the high end Lumia 950 (but not the budget models, yet), WP10 is supposed to have a feature that switches when docked, giving you an ARM desktop experience. I'm not sure what the limitations are in terms of supported APIs and naturally x86 won't run.
If they could run any Win32 application compiled for ARM they might have a contender. But if it's as restricted as Win RT, maybe not.
Canonical calls their competing technology Convergence and will run anything from LibreOffice to GIMP.
Victoria, thanks for asking.