I have a desktop PC for my computing needs and the cloud services I need while in transit are adequately served by the web. If I'm restless on public transport I'll whip out my e-reader and read a chapter of a book rather than fiddling with an app.
I'm still Google-OS free after nearly a year of Firefox OS.
The inbuilt email client mightn't be quite as slick as the Gmail app but it's way more usable than Google's mobile mail web page. Facebook feels lighter than the app on my old HTC. I use the web interface of the old reader since I never found an RSS reader on Android I was comfortable with. Here Maps from Nokia does the job, even if it's not Google.
A heavy app user would feel cheated, I guess. But I'm a cheapskate who never *purchased* a single app from Google Play and 90% of the time I am more than content with a dumb phone running on bleeding-edge Gecko, which is smoother than Android browsers on similar hardware.
That HTC runs Kitkat via cyanogenmod, which I've since donated to my 73yo mother. She finds Android heavy and confusing - her daughter-in-law thinks she'd be better off with a shiny new iPhone. As an experiment, we recently swapped handsets - she found Firefox OS cleaner and more intuitive and was reluctant to give it back after a week, except for the apps she'd be missing - mainly from MS (Office for viewing mail attachments and Skype)
The Windows Insider builds are available to anyone who can be bothered signing up to the program. The only 'leak' here is if publishing screenshots constitutes a breach of the EULA.
Because Apple is a premium brand whose users typically receive 'free' lifetime upgrades to the newest model whenever their contracts roll over.
So as long as the battery doesn't lose too much juice over that period, consumers will tolerate a slight drop since a replacement phone is just a few months away.
Well yes, Russia under Putin *will* do whatever the hell he likes. But failing to implement policy based on the actions of a global pariah is not something to aspire to.
As for China, we buy their stuff. Using Tim Cook as a poster child, insist that any environmental standards that would apply to building an iProduct in the USA apply to the manufacturing chain from start to finish, including the sourcing of renewable energy. If that adds $75 to the cost of a manufacturing a $1500 Macbook then so be it. Other companies will follow.
100% is ambitious certainly. Using a compound interest calculator, the global target range of 40-70% can be achieved by a mere 1.5-3% annual reduction.
If the world were actually serious, they'd divert more than a trivial % of GDP into investment.
My own Australian government are apologists for the coal industry, naturally.:(
A lose debian analogy, the difference being MS might revoke access to the Insider program without notice.
If you want Jessie (stable), you can upgrade free of charge from Wheezy (oldstable) or Squeeze (oldoldstable) but if you want to upgrade from Lenny or Etch or otherwise, you must buy a new computer with Jessie pre-installed or purchase retail Jessie DVD installation media.
On the other hand if you sell your soul to Linus, promising your firstborn child to RMS, you may access the Stretch (testing) and Sid (unstable) rolling releases free of charge but may not downgrade to Jessie without following the steps above.
If you are using Testing during the trunk freeze prior a new release, you may painlessly switch to Stable provided you had a valid installation of OldStable or OldOldStable.
windows translation of the above:
If you want Windows 10, you can upgrade free of charge from 8.x or 7 but if you want to upgrade from Vista or XP or otherwise, you must buy a new computer with Windows 10 pre-installed or purchase retail Windows 10 DVD installation media.
On the other hand if sign up to the Windows Insider program, promising your firstborn child to Microsoft, you may access the Slow or Fast rolling releases free of charge but may not downgrade to Windows 10 without following the steps above.
If you are using Windows Insider builds prior to the new release, you may painlessly switch to Windows 10 provided you had a valid installation of 8.x or 7.
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HP had their chance to create an internet of things niche when they bought Palm.
WebOS lives on only at lg
'Fast' is relative.
The question is whether 10 is as responsive as 7. MS specifically tuned 7 to run on low-end hardware, such as this netbook.
Unstable is fairly conservative about the bleeding edge.
Pick a different distro if you want to try Wayland or, say, KDE5.
Well I for one am content with a 'dumbphone'.
I have a desktop PC for my computing needs and the cloud services I need while in transit are adequately served by the web. If I'm restless on public transport I'll whip out my e-reader and read a chapter of a book rather than fiddling with an app.
nice cartoon!
I'm still Google-OS free after nearly a year of Firefox OS.
The inbuilt email client mightn't be quite as slick as the Gmail app but it's way more usable than Google's mobile mail web page. Facebook feels lighter than the app on my old HTC. I use the web interface of the old reader since I never found an RSS reader on Android I was comfortable with. Here Maps from Nokia does the job, even if it's not Google.
A heavy app user would feel cheated, I guess. But I'm a cheapskate who never *purchased* a single app from Google Play and 90% of the time I am more than content with a dumb phone running on bleeding-edge Gecko, which is smoother than Android browsers on similar hardware.
That HTC runs Kitkat via cyanogenmod, which I've since donated to my 73yo mother. She finds Android heavy and confusing - her daughter-in-law thinks she'd be better off with a shiny new iPhone. As an experiment, we recently swapped handsets - she found Firefox OS cleaner and more intuitive and was reluctant to give it back after a week, except for the apps she'd be missing - mainly from MS (Office for viewing mail attachments and Skype)
Last I checked, Europe didn't border the Pacific Ocean, save a few miscellaneous islands owned by Britain and France.
meanwhile the folks at soylent implemented it ages ago.
With all the effort wasted on 'beta', I wonder how much of the open source slashcode remains.
It would be nice if someone had converted that to metric.
~ 2.5kg.
Only 1 of my 3 computers has a working optical drive in any case.
Live CDs now make use of a quirk in the ISO format to allow writable partitions on a 'burnt' USB key, if I'm not mistaken.
People still use flashdisks, with 'the cloud' and 2TB USB3 drives? :-)
Migrate to Geany.
It's a GTK+ text editor that works on both Linux and Windows and has a configurable toolbar.
otoh, Hacker News has a pro-MS anti-FOSS slant.
I got savagely downvoted there by suggesting you *should* look a gift horse in the mouth when it came to 'free shit' from Microsoft.
Have you tried it recently? I'm running a nightly 3.0 on my phone which has served me well for the past 12 months.
FxOS got a series of bad reviews based on early releases and nasty hardware but is evolving.
Copied and pasted from a comment yesterday.
Please think before you moderate this FUD up. An article on Microsoft is no license to Mozilla-bash.
Maybe you should complain to Amazon to optimize their unresponsive web page? :)
The Windows Insider builds are available to anyone who can be bothered signing up to the program. The only 'leak' here is if publishing screenshots constitutes a breach of the EULA.
MS releases an updated beta. *yawn*
If he didn't get a planet named after him, the dog certainly didn't deserve one.
Because Apple is a premium brand whose users typically receive 'free' lifetime upgrades to the newest model whenever their contracts roll over.
So as long as the battery doesn't lose too much juice over that period, consumers will tolerate a slight drop since a replacement phone is just a few months away.
It's 2015 and Windows still doesn't have a package manager? Oh wait, it does...
C:\> choco install jre8
They are. It's called Continuum and allows one to plug and pray mice, keyboards and external screens into one's Windows 10 phone.
Well yes, Russia under Putin *will* do whatever the hell he likes. But failing to implement policy based on the actions of a global pariah is not something to aspire to.
As for China, we buy their stuff. Using Tim Cook as a poster child, insist that any environmental standards that would apply to building an iProduct in the USA apply to the manufacturing chain from start to finish, including the sourcing of renewable energy. If that adds $75 to the cost of a manufacturing a $1500 Macbook then so be it. Other companies will follow.
100% is ambitious certainly. Using a compound interest calculator, the global target range of 40-70% can be achieved by a mere 1.5-3% annual reduction.
If the world were actually serious, they'd divert more than a trivial % of GDP into investment.
My own Australian government are apologists for the coal industry, naturally. :(
A lose debian analogy, the difference being MS might revoke access to the Insider program without notice.
If you want Jessie (stable), you can upgrade free of charge from Wheezy (oldstable) or Squeeze (oldoldstable) but if you want to upgrade from Lenny or Etch or otherwise, you must buy a new computer with Jessie pre-installed or purchase retail Jessie DVD installation media.
On the other hand if you sell your soul to Linus, promising your firstborn child to RMS, you may access the Stretch (testing) and Sid (unstable) rolling releases free of charge but may not downgrade to Jessie without following the steps above.
If you are using Testing during the trunk freeze prior a new release, you may painlessly switch to Stable provided you had a valid installation of OldStable or OldOldStable.
windows translation of the above:
If you want Windows 10, you can upgrade free of charge from 8.x or 7 but if you want to upgrade from Vista or XP or otherwise, you must buy a new computer with Windows 10 pre-installed or purchase retail Windows 10 DVD installation media.
On the other hand if sign up to the Windows Insider program, promising your firstborn child to Microsoft, you may access the Slow or Fast rolling releases free of charge but may not downgrade to Windows 10 without following the steps above.
If you are using Windows Insider builds prior to the new release, you may painlessly switch to Windows 10 provided you had a valid installation of 8.x or 7.
And then Windows 8 came out and they decided to wait for Windows 10...
Ribbon hate?