During the week, Tanenbaum was trying to troll Linus and RMS by suggesting there were more MINIX installs than Linux and that was because Linus had chosen the GPL.
Hackers detivoize the Minix install and every PC commences mining cryptocurrency on behalf of our 'enemy' and the 3 letter agencies are unable to crack their way in since a firmware update retivoizes the machine locking the backdoors.
Competition is a good thing, it helps keep Amazon, Google and Apple on their toes.
Probably MS will crash and burn in wasting another few billion. OR, perhaps in 3 years time Phil and Tim will re-use the iBook trademark (again) on an insanely great competitor.
No more paper notepads or printed lecture notes that can become illegible by being rain damaged or having coffee spilt on them! And if you can't read your own handwriting, let a machine worry about that!
Well it's Microsoft, so I hope they fail but, on the other hand, good luck to them.
They've avoided the hybrid tablet/laptop form factor, so it's neither a poor man's iPad, nor a poor man's Macbook. And they avoid the app-gap because it's not a direct competitor to iPhone.
What's the market here? MS added an epub reader to Edge, so I'd assume it's a competitor to Amazon for the online book space. And this foldable e-reader becomes a full-blown ARM64 PC when docked to keyboard, display and mouse.
Ove the years, I've bought Chinese knockoff replacement batteries from ebay for a handful of electronic devices and never had any of them catch fire, yet!
Customizability seems inversely proportional to price. Headphone jack, FM radio, removable battery, SD Card, dual SIM etc are features still found in low-medium end Android models.
A more expensive phone buys you a lighter, sleeker phone with a better camera and waterproof housing but coming in a sealed unit that encourages trading up to the latest model every 24 months.
Am I right in thinking that the more expensive a model, the more likely an expensive screen replacement is needed? Just an anecdote but I've never broken a screen on any cheap phone I've owned!
I am a software nerd so, yes, lack the skills to fix anything like that.
My grandfather once made a living attaching new soles to shoes and boots. Nowadays unless it's a premium leather shoe costing several hundred dollars, it isn't worth taking to the repair man given the rate they charge.
But I'm using a Nexus 4, rather than contribute to landfill every 2 years. If I can help it, I won't buy again a phone without a user serviceable battery. I cracked the glass back on the phone - it really shouldn't be that hard to install a $15 replacement off ebay.
The metaphors are non obvious. Canonical tried a bold experiment but most would seem content with a traditional taskbar/system tray inherited from Windows 95.
No menu bar and an app bar that isn't hierarchical. And swiping from sides of a screen to get various elements to show. Fine if you like autohide on Windows, I personally do not.
I flashed Ubuntu Touch from ubports.com recently. Unity 8 is supposed to be designed for phones but it feels weird there too. They might have had more success if they ditched Unity/Mir for something resembling a more orthodox Android-style launcher - which I think Plasma Mobile (KDE/Wayland) attempted.
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There's always the Doctor Who Christmas special.
The latest fanrage surrounds her wearing braces (suspenders). Did they not have belts on Gallifrey?!
With CBS buying Channel 10, a struggling TV network here in Australia, I was hoping it would end up on free to air.
But apparently they've already sold the distribution rights to Netflix Australia. :(
During the week, Tanenbaum was trying to troll Linus and RMS by suggesting there were more MINIX installs than Linux and that was because Linus had chosen the GPL.
Hackers detivoize the Minix install and every PC commences mining cryptocurrency on behalf of our 'enemy' and the 3 letter agencies are unable to crack their way in since a firmware update retivoizes the machine locking the backdoors.
If one runs Firefox inside Windows Subsystem for Linux, does it report Windows or Linux as the OS?
Windows 10 could be a good OS if it had a decent package manager like apt!
Nor provide updates to Android firmware after a couple of years.
Freedreno is in development but it's not the default on any Android distro.
Ramifications for the Mobile World Conference, held every February in Barcelona - the valley's biggest Mediterranean junket?
Competition is a good thing, it helps keep Amazon, Google and Apple on their toes.
Probably MS will crash and burn in wasting another few billion. OR, perhaps in 3 years time Phil and Tim will re-use the iBook trademark (again) on an insanely great competitor.
Students?
No more paper notepads or printed lecture notes that can become illegible by being rain damaged or having coffee spilt on them! And if you can't read your own handwriting, let a machine worry about that!
WSL gives you bash. :)
Well it's Microsoft, so I hope they fail but, on the other hand, good luck to them.
They've avoided the hybrid tablet/laptop form factor, so it's neither a poor man's iPad, nor a poor man's Macbook. And they avoid the app-gap because it's not a direct competitor to iPhone.
What's the market here? MS added an epub reader to Edge, so I'd assume it's a competitor to Amazon for the online book space. And this foldable e-reader becomes a full-blown ARM64 PC when docked to keyboard, display and mouse.
Not to mention the crusades, the Iberian reconquista and the fall of the ottoman empire.
Since Canonical nor Mint really gave KDE much love, there's little reason for KDE Mint or Kubuntu to exist when KDE now have their own Ubuntu spin.
Ove the years, I've bought Chinese knockoff replacement batteries from ebay for a handful of electronic devices and never had any of them catch fire, yet!
Customizability seems inversely proportional to price. Headphone jack, FM radio, removable battery, SD Card, dual SIM etc are features still found in low-medium end Android models.
A more expensive phone buys you a lighter, sleeker phone with a better camera and waterproof housing but coming in a sealed unit that encourages trading up to the latest model every 24 months.
Am I right in thinking that the more expensive a model, the more likely an expensive screen replacement is needed? Just an anecdote but I've never broken a screen on any cheap phone I've owned!
I have no wife nor kids, you insensitive clod!
So to me these advanced biometric features are a gimmick. :) My laptop from 2007 did have a fingerprint scanner, mind you.
I am a software nerd so, yes, lack the skills to fix anything like that.
My grandfather once made a living attaching new soles to shoes and boots. Nowadays unless it's a premium leather shoe costing several hundred dollars, it isn't worth taking to the repair man given the rate they charge.
But I'm using a Nexus 4, rather than contribute to landfill every 2 years. If I can help it, I won't buy again a phone without a user serviceable battery. I cracked the glass back on the phone - it really shouldn't be that hard to install a $15 replacement off ebay.
The metaphors are non obvious. Canonical tried a bold experiment but most would seem content with a traditional taskbar/system tray inherited from Windows 95.
No menu bar and an app bar that isn't hierarchical. And swiping from sides of a screen to get various elements to show. Fine if you like autohide on Windows, I personally do not.
I flashed Ubuntu Touch from ubports.com recently. Unity 8 is supposed to be designed for phones but it feels weird there too. They might have had more success if they ditched Unity/Mir for something resembling a more orthodox Android-style launcher - which I think Plasma Mobile (KDE/Wayland) attempted.
In Mint's case, it's an overlay of an additional repo on top of Ubuntu.
Whereas Debian and downstream Ubuntu do NOT share repositories.
Religion neatly demolished your vegetarian argument 2000 years ago.
Christ is both the good shepherd and the sacrificial lamb as symbolised in the sacraments of the Eucharist
And Sailfish running on Xperia.
Which always confused me with Microsoft and Canonical's collaboration.
Windows Subsystem for Linux contains very little Linux and mostly GNU running atop an NT kernel.
Yep, hot-desking, where you just plug in.
It happened where I worked with consultants. The idea was that they were too busy with work out in the field with clients to require a permanent desk.
Whose.
It is Spring, damn it.
Why would you use a geographically dependent naming convention?