Of course it is about horribly broken distros/installs (what else?...). Benq, for example, used to ship with their laptops some Asian Linux distro (in the vein of Linpus)...that booted into pure textmode and didn't have drivers for the laptops it was shipping with. Toshiba used to ship with DVD of Knoppix; sligthly better, still no drivers. And HP...yeah, they were often shipping with FreeDOS on theiur cheapest laptops.
All of them (with the exceptions withing staistical error) were ending up with pirated copy of Windows XP.
PS. I really wouldn't mention computers with FreeDOS as succes stories; in many cases it is made simply to ship them with anything, it will be wiped out and replaced with XP anyway (and since FreeDOS is smaller and doesn't even pretend to require needed functionality like horribly broken Linux installs, the better)
Ironic - sure. Personally I'll wait for the final report.
But looking at safety statistics it seems those systems, at the least, don't make things worse, overall. And in the long term they might only become better (systems improving, tricking down to smaller and smaller planes)
Also, those rumors might have something to do with litigation craze in some parts of the world. It's much more convenient to allow 100 accidents due due to "unfortunate circumstances/force majeure" (harder to point out the blame...or the guilty are dead) than to prevent 99 and have one caused by obvious computer/manufacturer error...where participants were totally helpless.
But "GPL only in the kernel" is a policy of Linus (who you seem to prefer)...and ultimately it has the potential to bring much better drivers (with a HUGE bonus of being independent from CPU architecture)
Europe has European Convention on Human Rights. Just because it isn't called "Constitution", just because signatory countries often have that term reserved for something else, doesn't change how it's very similar in function.
In practice it might depend on the country of course...but the submitter is able to easily find a close one that has utmost respect to the principles of the Convention. Probably moreso than USA has to its Constitution recently...
It's so convenient that some people actually like the weather that supposedly is a problem in Norway/etc. (and IMHO such winters are better than harsh, continental ones). Heck, I wouldn't mind Tromso at all.
Yeah, I'm thinking about moving after finalizing part of my education (with a bonus that I can still narrow down the field) and general life matters; basically any Scandinavian country would be absolutelly great (coming from post-soviet country, riddled with corruption, nepotism and "homo sovieticus" mindset)
But for some reason Norway is high on the list. Norwegian neighbour of my buddy might be helping that perception:P ("how can he stand it?", you ask? Well...a woman;P Plus his retirement affords great living standard here; probably no other sensible reasons are possible;) (and one of the nicest cities anyway, on the border))
Of course, I wouldn't imagine that OS/software won't need changes for quite radical shift in overall system architecure (not like we don't do that already).
BTW, specialized cores struck me as something that we're already planning to do with Larabee, Fusion and, generally, GPGPU (well...and Cell). Since we go that route already why not use the architecture that is unparalled in energy efficiency... (yeah, I know, x86 legacy)
Couldn't the reason for occasional spiral be that you check "casual" websites at the beginning of work (so if something catches your attention...), not at the end? (in cases when you already did everything that was sensible to do that day, and there's no point in starting anything new)
Are paintings, sculptures, music, photography, cinema (and so on...) challenging? For the one who receives them. Or perhaps it's more about what was in the mind of the creator and how do you receive this particular cultural artifact? (which might include challenge)
Well...you decide that.
So - decide, let others decide, don't yell "consoles are dumbing our games!" (I can see that bs already in this thread...), you still have and will have a choice. Sure, more "mainstream" games will appear to hijack the whole show, but you should know better.
Plus it might bring some new talent. Also, I assure you - there is already enough past games which you'd love that you have things to play for the rest of your life. Sure, technical side of their visuals might be "obsolete"...but in this case who's "mainstream" now?
Well, yeah, somebody would have to build them; that was sorta the point (whether or not it's worth it).
And actually...with ARM that's fairly straightforward in the sense that you're not on the whim of ARM (the company) - you just license their IP core and do whatever is sensible in your case. I might imagine Googles of the world doing just that at some point...
However, aren't ARMs so cheap (also in production, transistor-wise) and power efficient that you can throw 10 times as many at the problem (hey, seems you're operating a farm already) and still decisively win on price and power?
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Saying about your experience with "laptop keyboards" generally in an article about Thinkpad keyboards really doesn't make the latter justice.
They are probably the closest to good, full-sized keyboard. Also, they hardly changed the layout throughout the years.
Straight from Lenovo: http://lenovoblogs.com/designmatters/?p=1565
I come back to /. and see this...
Of course it is about horribly broken distros/installs (what else?...). Benq, for example, used to ship with their laptops some Asian Linux distro (in the vein of Linpus)...that booted into pure textmode and didn't have drivers for the laptops it was shipping with. Toshiba used to ship with DVD of Knoppix; sligthly better, still no drivers. And HP...yeah, they were often shipping with FreeDOS on theiur cheapest laptops.
All of them (with the exceptions withing staistical error) were ending up with pirated copy of Windows XP.
But...does it run Windows?
(yeah, I'm going to hell for this one)
PS. I really wouldn't mention computers with FreeDOS as succes stories; in many cases it is made simply to ship them with anything, it will be wiped out and replaced with XP anyway (and since FreeDOS is smaller and doesn't even pretend to require needed functionality like horribly broken Linux installs, the better)
Ironic - sure. Personally I'll wait for the final report.
But looking at safety statistics it seems those systems, at the least, don't make things worse, overall. And in the long term they might only become better (systems improving, tricking down to smaller and smaller planes)
Also, those rumors might have something to do with litigation craze in some parts of the world. It's much more convenient to allow 100 accidents due due to "unfortunate circumstances/force majeure" (harder to point out the blame...or the guilty are dead) than to prevent 99 and have one caused by obvious computer/manufacturer error...where participants were totally helpless.
It's a shame. We would have a lot better world if people would think at least about few next generations...
But "GPL only in the kernel" is a policy of Linus (who you seem to prefer)...and ultimately it has the potential to bring much better drivers (with a HUGE bonus of being independent from CPU architecture)
BTW, small nitpick - Loongson isn't ARM.
Except in places where they were more or less simply renamed to the hundreds of deities of larger part of Judeo-Christian adherents.
Not likely (and luckily), IMHO, seeing how many other browsers they suggest .
OTOH all of those browser also got nice Javascript speedups lately...perhaps enough to implement something "bittorrent-like" there?
For now. I suspect large proportions of recorded materials will find their way out sooner or later.
Might not help this revolution, perhaps the next one...
Europe has European Convention on Human Rights. Just because it isn't called "Constitution", just because signatory countries often have that term reserved for something else, doesn't change how it's very similar in function.
In practice it might depend on the country of course...but the submitter is able to easily find a close one that has utmost respect to the principles of the Convention. Probably moreso than USA has to its Constitution recently...
It's so convenient that some people actually like the weather that supposedly is a problem in Norway/etc. (and IMHO such winters are better than harsh, continental ones). Heck, I wouldn't mind Tromso at all.
Yeah, I'm thinking about moving after finalizing part of my education (with a bonus that I can still narrow down the field) and general life matters; basically any Scandinavian country would be absolutelly great (coming from post-soviet country, riddled with corruption, nepotism and "homo sovieticus" mindset)
But for some reason Norway is high on the list. Norwegian neighbour of my buddy might be helping that perception :P ("how can he stand it?", you ask? Well...a woman ;P Plus his retirement affords great living standard here; probably no other sensible reasons are possible ;) (and one of the nicest cities anyway, on the border))
kept*
Beautiful for you perhaps? ;p (and generally anybody from "outside"/with quite different set of genes)
Or the Vikings just kidnapped the prettiest ones ;>
Beautiful = healthy.
Mixes of genes that aren't very close together tend to be more healthy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Above_and_Beyond
Of course, I wouldn't imagine that OS/software won't need changes for quite radical shift in overall system architecure (not like we don't do that already).
BTW, specialized cores struck me as something that we're already planning to do with Larabee, Fusion and, generally, GPGPU (well...and Cell). Since we go that route already why not use the architecture that is unparalled in energy efficiency... (yeah, I know, x86 legacy)
Couldn't the reason for occasional spiral be that you check "casual" websites at the beginning of work (so if something catches your attention...), not at the end? (in cases when you already did everything that was sensible to do that day, and there's no point in starting anything new)
Or, looking at it the other way - we are much more determined by "development program" in our DNA than we'd like to think.
You'd have to find bullets made of iron or its alloys (well, alternatively nickel or cobalt but those are significantly rarer)
Hm, and so we've found my problem... (some time ago I got used to smoking while on a PC)
Are paintings, sculptures, music, photography, cinema (and so on...) challenging? For the one who receives them. Or perhaps it's more about what was in the mind of the creator and how do you receive this particular cultural artifact? (which might include challenge)
Well...you decide that.
So - decide, let others decide, don't yell "consoles are dumbing our games!" (I can see that bs already in this thread...), you still have and will have a choice. Sure, more "mainstream" games will appear to hijack the whole show, but you should know better.
Plus it might bring some new talent. Also, I assure you - there is already enough past games which you'd love that you have things to play for the rest of your life. Sure, technical side of their visuals might be "obsolete"...but in this case who's "mainstream" now?
Well, yeah, somebody would have to build them; that was sorta the point (whether or not it's worth it).
And actually...with ARM that's fairly straightforward in the sense that you're not on the whim of ARM (the company) - you just license their IP core and do whatever is sensible in your case. I might imagine Googles of the world doing just that at some point...
If bits of the saw are coming off you're living in the real world. Just a matter of proportion.
And if you want to minimize the risk of contamination with articulate bits of metal...
However, aren't ARMs so cheap (also in production, transistor-wise) and power efficient that you can throw 10 times as many at the problem (hey, seems you're operating a farm already) and still decisively win on price and power?