I'm glad someone else gets it - many tasks are suited to length rather than width. Whenever a company supplied me with 'pivotable' monitors, I used to get strange looks in the office, even from supposed techies, about why one of my monitors was rotated pi/2.
Monitors that come with a pivotable base aren't the norm, so perhaps it's worth investing in one of those dual vesa mounts that clamp to one's desk. They're typically adjustable for a variety of angles.
And because it has that pesky locked bootloader, enterprising young Russian students (see yesterday) can't even port ReactOS for ARM to the cursed thing!:)
I thought your Carribean neighbours had a great climate for sugar cane??:-)
Drop the embargo and you'll reboot the Cuban economy, most of whose sugar mills have turned to rust since the Soviets checked out. Keeping the blockade only entrenches the Castro brothers' reign and condemns the great-grandchildren of the revolution (50+ years of embargo and counting) to poverty and the whims of Venezuela's Chavez.
Well I've never had the fortune of visiting the USA but here's an anecdote...
In Australia, our sugar comes from Queensland-grown cane. When I tried Coca-Cola in Germany/Austria/Norway/Spain/Portugal etc it had a 'sicklier' sweeter and less subtle taste. Aussie Coke tends to have more body, somehow. So unless they've tweaked the secret formula across continents, whatever they sweeten Euro-Coke with does indeed make it taste different. Whereas in Argentina/Chile it tasted like back home - I guess that's from Brazilian sugar cane.
On the other hand, just the other day we read that Linux is incorporating elements of user-space (dbus) into the kernel, because dbus is otherwise too slow. In that sense, isn't it monolithic?
Missing my point. People don't like change and for many, Windows is a pleasant enough shell for daily use. Switch to, say, Unity and things are different. If they wanted something more akin to Windows they'd chose lxde or similar. Plus, Windows explorer craps all over nautilus in terms of usability, IMHO.
One goal of ReactOS is to be binary compatible with Windows (emulating a baseline of XP/2003 server NT 5.2) - including at the driver level. So if you have an old piece of hardware like a scanner or a printer that has a driver for XP, that same driver will (eventually) run with ReactOS.
That same piece of hardware might not have a driver for Linux nor Windows 8.
As for 'completion' well probably never simply because it doesn't have the manpower. But if these guys are having fun, who are we to criticise?
The effort invested into Reactos would make much more sense if invested into Wine instead.
Perhaps, but ReactOS does borrow code from Wine. There's cross-pollination of ideas/code(license permitting) between the developers of each project. Wine benefits by having their implementation battle-hardened on a non unix-like foundation.
Anyway, some folks prefer the Windows XP paradigm to, say, Unity or Gnome 3. Each to their own...
Because Aleksey is a clever young fella who was offered a teaching gig. Naturally he'd pick an area of interest that he's expert in.
I'm sure there are plenty of other OS theory courses worldwide that use Linux, Minix, Hurd, L4, FreeBSD etc - this is one unique course, so why the hate?
Nevertheless, idealism doesn't match reality - a lot of content still requires a flash plugin. Even a story posted on Slashdot yesterday had embedded flash video.:(
So although I use chromium or firefox for most things, I keep Chrome handy for news services etc.
If you read through the recent/. discussion about MS Surface, many (myself included) like the concept of one device that functions as a tablet AND a netbook but aren't sold on MS' vision because of (a) Complaints about the kickstand and robustness (b) Heat and noise from using a Core i5 instead of an ARM/Atom (c) Price (d) Queasiness about Windows 8 and the metro interface.
If Google came out with a Asus Transformer clone in place of Chromebooks, these would sell arguably *better* than a neutered version of Gentoo that only runs Google services and lacks the app ecosystem of Android. This is not to say that Android is perfect for laptop use but Samsung were addressing the L&F aspect with their window manager concept.
Which is fine if you're a yank or a pom. Amazon is often more expensive than other book retailers since, last I checked, they charge for international shipping. Nor did they even process overseas orders for electronics.
I seem to remember reading that ChromeOS would load by default and that to boot into, say, Ubuntu one had to hold down some keys on startup and manually select an OS. i.e. it wasn't possible just to automatically load one's preferred OS on startup.
OOP is one paradigm but I'm thinking of enrolling in Martin Odersky's functional programming course - a class taught by the guy who created the language isn't something you do everyday!
Purists might contend that lisp, ocaml or haskell are the only ways to grok functional programming. Nevertheless, a functional/OO hybrid that runs on the JVM might be a nice complement to the ubiquitous Java courses this kid may encounter. (Do they still use Java as a teaching language?!)
Combine that with the fact that Blackberry centralizes all emails and BBMs to go through its own centralized servers in Canada, the UK, the US, and Australia, even if you're just sending a BBM to a person sitting across from you in a non-Anglo country. And it's no wonder that several European countries believe that RIM (now Blackberry) is just a front for the US/UK/Canadian/Australian Echelon program.
I'm an Anglo residing in one of those countries. Should I be concerned about BigBrother-over-BlackBerry? Or should I just have faith that yankee doodle Uncle Sam hasn't partnered up with US companies? Android (Google), WP8 (Microsoft) or iOS (Apple) could all equally be infiltrated by 'them'.
Meh, I'll just get one of those cheap Huawei phones.:)
Well the reviews have the kickstand as an ergonomic failure. It's a novel design but functionally, other convertible designs seem to do the job better - e.g. Asus Transformer, Dell Inspiron Duo, HP envy x2.
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What about your neck? How is gazing at a 50 inch TV in the distance while glancing down at a mouse and keyboard good ergonomics?
Well unless the submitter is planning on developing iOS/OS X software, perhaps you missed the point about "trying to keep the cost down reasonable" ?
I'm glad someone else gets it - many tasks are suited to length rather than width. Whenever a company supplied me with 'pivotable' monitors, I used to get strange looks in the office, even from supposed techies, about why one of my monitors was rotated pi/2.
Monitors that come with a pivotable base aren't the norm, so perhaps it's worth investing in one of those dual vesa mounts that clamp to one's desk. They're typically adjustable for a variety of angles.
Monkey, great sage, the equal of heaven.
The 'real' GB includes England, Wales and Scotland. But politically, 'UK' is the correct term when including the region around Belfast.
And because it has that pesky locked bootloader, enterprising young Russian students (see yesterday) can't even port ReactOS for ARM to the cursed thing! :)
I thought your Carribean neighbours had a great climate for sugar cane?? :-)
Drop the embargo and you'll reboot the Cuban economy, most of whose sugar mills have turned to rust since the Soviets checked out. Keeping the blockade only entrenches the Castro brothers' reign and condemns the great-grandchildren of the revolution (50+ years of embargo and counting) to poverty and the whims of Venezuela's Chavez.
Well I've never had the fortune of visiting the USA but here's an anecdote...
In Australia, our sugar comes from Queensland-grown cane. When I tried Coca-Cola in Germany/Austria/Norway/Spain/Portugal etc it had a 'sicklier' sweeter and less subtle taste. Aussie Coke tends to have more body, somehow. So unless they've tweaked the secret formula across continents, whatever they sweeten Euro-Coke with does indeed make it taste different. Whereas in Argentina/Chile it tasted like back home - I guess that's from Brazilian sugar cane.
Coke Zero tastes the same everywhere. :-)
On the other hand, just the other day we read that Linux is incorporating elements of user-space (dbus) into the kernel, because dbus is otherwise too slow. In that sense, isn't it monolithic?
Missing my point. People don't like change and for many, Windows is a pleasant enough shell for daily use. Switch to, say, Unity and things are different. If they wanted something more akin to Windows they'd chose lxde or similar. Plus, Windows explorer craps all over nautilus in terms of usability, IMHO.
One goal of ReactOS is to be binary compatible with Windows (emulating a baseline of XP/2003 server NT 5.2) - including at the driver level. So if you have an old piece of hardware like a scanner or a printer that has a driver for XP, that same driver will (eventually) run with ReactOS.
That same piece of hardware might not have a driver for Linux nor Windows 8.
As for 'completion' well probably never simply because it doesn't have the manpower. But if these guys are having fun, who are we to criticise?
Perhaps, but ReactOS does borrow code from Wine. There's cross-pollination of ideas/code(license permitting) between the developers of each project. Wine benefits by having their implementation battle-hardened on a non unix-like foundation.
Anyway, some folks prefer the Windows XP paradigm to, say, Unity or Gnome 3. Each to their own...
Because Aleksey is a clever young fella who was offered a teaching gig. Naturally he'd pick an area of interest that he's expert in.
I'm sure there are plenty of other OS theory courses worldwide that use Linux, Minix, Hurd, L4, FreeBSD etc - this is one unique course, so why the hate?
Nevertheless, idealism doesn't match reality - a lot of content still requires a flash plugin. Even a story posted on Slashdot yesterday had embedded flash video. :(
So although I use chromium or firefox for most things, I keep Chrome handy for news services etc.
Ubuntu phone - security updates are as easy as syncing with your local distro mirror. An LTS release would provide security updates for 3 years.
Placentals are so mainstream when there exist monotremes.
It's 2013 and we're on Slashdot. I have to fire up a malware-bait browser because the article submission doesn't embed HTML video? :(
[/Angry nerd rant]
emacs key-bindings ??? :)
If you read through the recent /. discussion about MS Surface, many (myself included) like the concept of one device that functions as a tablet AND a netbook but aren't sold on MS' vision because of
(a) Complaints about the kickstand and robustness
(b) Heat and noise from using a Core i5 instead of an ARM/Atom
(c) Price
(d) Queasiness about Windows 8 and the metro interface.
If Google came out with a Asus Transformer clone in place of Chromebooks, these would sell arguably *better* than a neutered version of Gentoo that only runs Google services and lacks the app ecosystem of Android. This is not to say that Android is perfect for laptop use but Samsung were addressing the L&F aspect with their window manager concept.
Which is fine if you're a yank or a pom. Amazon is often more expensive than other book retailers since, last I checked, they charge for international shipping. Nor did they even process overseas orders for electronics.
Have they sanitized the bootloader yet?
I seem to remember reading that ChromeOS would load by default and that to boot into, say, Ubuntu one had to hold down some keys on startup and manually select an OS. i.e. it wasn't possible just to automatically load one's preferred OS on startup.
Purists might contend that lisp, ocaml or haskell are the only ways to grok functional programming. Nevertheless, a functional/OO hybrid that runs on the JVM might be a nice complement to the ubiquitous Java courses this kid may encounter. (Do they still use Java as a teaching language?!)
I'm an Anglo residing in one of those countries. Should I be concerned about BigBrother-over-BlackBerry? Or should I just have faith that yankee doodle Uncle Sam hasn't partnered up with US companies? Android (Google), WP8 (Microsoft) or iOS (Apple) could all equally be infiltrated by 'them'.
Meh, I'll just get one of those cheap Huawei phones. :)
Well the reviews have the kickstand as an ergonomic failure. It's a novel design but functionally, other convertible designs seem to do the job better - e.g. Asus Transformer, Dell Inspiron Duo, HP envy x2.
Haskell has bindings for Gtk+ if you want a statically typed language without the bloat of a VM (Java/c#).