No it isn't. All you're seeing is that PCs are now better built and more robust. People don't need the latest breakthrough in technology because the last breakthroughs are still carrying them. I ran my last video card for 6 years before I felt the need to replace it and that was because it was damaged, not because the specs of the card itself were not good enough.
What you see as a "shrinking market share" is actually people who are happy enough with their current setup that they feel no need to change it.
When I log into my Xenix system with my 110 baud teletype, both vi and Emacs are just too damn slow. They print useless messages like, ‘C-h for help’ and ‘“foo” File is read only’. So I use the editor that doesn't waste my VALUABLE time.
Ed, man! !man ed
ED(1) Unix Programmer's Manual ED(1)
NAME
ed - text editor
SYNOPSIS
ed [ - ] [ -x ] [ name ] DESCRIPTION
Ed is the standard text editor. ---
Computer Scientists love ed, not just because it comes first alphabetically, but because it's the standard. Everyone else loves ed because it's ED!
“Ed is the standard text editor.”
And ed doesn't waste space on my Timex Sinclair. Just look:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 24 Oct 29 1929/bin/ed -rwxr-xr-t 4 root 1310720 Jan 1 1970/usr/ucb/vi -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5.89824e37 Oct 22 1990/usr/bin/emacs Of course, on the system I administrate, vi is symlinked to ed. Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K; and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!
“Ed is the standard text editor.”
Let's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed:
Note the consistent user interface and error reportage. Ed is generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm the novice with verbosity.
“Ed is the standard text editor.”
Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.
ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! ED HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES! ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS!! ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR! ED MAKES THE SUN SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!!
When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a “viitor”. Not a “emacsitor”. Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!
TEXT EDITOR.
When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their “edlin” on a Unix standard, did they mimic vi? No. Emacs? Surely you jest. They chose the most karmic editor of all. The standard.
Ed is for those who can remember what they are working on. If you are an idiot, you should use Emacs. If you are an Emacs, you should not be vi. If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE SO-CALLED “VISUAL” EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!
Realistically, you want to get rid of Samsung's Android firmware entirely and that solves a lot of problems. Install cyanogenmod ( http://www.cyanogenmod.org/ ) and you can quite easily reclaim your phone. I'm still using my SGS2 i9100 and don't feel any need to update at all.
You're assuming apple fanatics operate on the basis of logical argument. They often don't. Most buy the next iteration just because it exists, not because it's solving any problem they may or may not have. Making the previous iteration slow or unstable seems like a perfectly logical thing for apple to do to incentivize their rabid fanbase.
>Apple didn't come from behind in the smartphone market
That's total bullshit. Microsoft was selling smartphones long before Apple ever was. The completely came from behind in the market.
>Apple introduced revolutionary new hardware - capacitive based multitouch technology
No they didn't. That already existed long before Apple came along and used it.
Apple trying to say they invented multitouch is a complete joke, and frankly is insulting to all the other people involved. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
...Apple has made a commitment to force you to pay a massive premium for using their products. It's great that they're doing this, but they're forcing the consumer to pay for it, then they turn around and try to act like they're awesome.
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>The desktop Windows market is shrinking rapidly
No it isn't. All you're seeing is that PCs are now better built and more robust. People don't need the latest breakthrough in technology because the last breakthroughs are still carrying them. I ran my last video card for 6 years before I felt the need to replace it and that was because it was damaged, not because the specs of the card itself were not good enough.
What you see as a "shrinking market share" is actually people who are happy enough with their current setup that they feel no need to change it.
I'll skip ahead to advanced table flipping.
They've created an algorithm for producing fuzzy blobs!
it's not regulated until it's regulated. That regulation is coming, and you can't escape it.
If you all haven't learned by now that shitcoin and all the garbage like it has got serious issues you deserve everything coming your way.
You need plex, then all files will be compatible regardless of what they start as. Trying to do it any other way is truly painful.
So you're going to change the system clock 5 - 10 times per movie? Yeah, I'd probably just use a different device.
>The gender imbalance in mathematics is long-standing and pervasive...
Enough of this stupid clickbait shit. Good math doesn't know gender.
....Linux deathtop?
Fuck that. Keep 'em in school all year. They're getting dumber and dumber and it's high time we put a stop to it.
This is a joke, right? I sure sounds like a joke.
>But it appears self-driving cars are already hear, and one idiot ...
So much irony.
...so basically it's not testable. I fail to see how these new conditions change anything.
...and then we added ANOTHER BLADE ... err, dimension...
For the record, I now don't know if I'm looking for the closest shave ever, or a unified theory.
> this guy seems to be guilty
This is my problem with online mobs. They determine guilt before it's even established.
( obligatory, credit to: https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/... )
When I log into my Xenix system with my 110 baud teletype, both vi and Emacs are just too damn slow. They print useless messages like, ‘C-h for help’ and ‘“foo” File is read only’. So I use the editor that doesn't waste my VALUABLE time.
Ed, man! !man ed
ED(1) Unix Programmer's Manual ED(1)
NAME
ed - text editor
SYNOPSIS
ed [ - ] [ -x ] [ name ]
DESCRIPTION
Ed is the standard text editor.
---
Computer Scientists love ed, not just because it comes first alphabetically, but because it's the standard. Everyone else loves ed because it's ED!
“Ed is the standard text editor.”
And ed doesn't waste space on my Timex Sinclair. Just look:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 24 Oct 29 1929 /bin/ed /usr/ucb/vi /usr/bin/emacs
-rwxr-xr-t 4 root 1310720 Jan 1 1970
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5.89824e37 Oct 22 1990
Of course, on the system I administrate, vi is symlinked to ed. Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K; and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!
“Ed is the standard text editor.”
Let's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed:
golem$ ed
?
help
?
?
?
quit
?
exit
?
bye
?
hello?
?
eat flaming death
?
^C
?
^C
?
^D
?
---
Note the consistent user interface and error reportage. Ed is generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm the novice with verbosity.
“Ed is the standard text editor.”
Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.
ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! ED HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES! ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS!! ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR! ED MAKES THE SUN SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!!
When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a “viitor”. Not a “emacsitor”. Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!
TEXT EDITOR.
When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their “edlin” on a Unix standard, did they mimic vi? No. Emacs? Surely you jest. They chose the most karmic editor of all. The standard.
Ed is for those who can remember what they are working on. If you are an idiot, you should use Emacs. If you are an Emacs, you should not be vi. If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE SO-CALLED “VISUAL” EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!
...and none of the affordability. Go Elon go!
Realistically, you want to get rid of Samsung's Android firmware entirely and that solves a lot of problems. Install cyanogenmod ( http://www.cyanogenmod.org/ ) and you can quite easily reclaim your phone. I'm still using my SGS2 i9100 and don't feel any need to update at all.
...and they don't. My ipad stopped getting updates a long time ago. However they made sure the last update it got made it run badly.
You're assuming apple fanatics operate on the basis of logical argument. They often don't. Most buy the next iteration just because it exists, not because it's solving any problem they may or may not have. Making the previous iteration slow or unstable seems like a perfectly logical thing for apple to do to incentivize their rabid fanbase.
Really? That's not a sales pitch, it's a warning bell.
>Apple didn't come from behind in the smartphone market
That's total bullshit. Microsoft was selling smartphones long before Apple ever was. The completely came from behind in the market.
>Apple introduced revolutionary new hardware - capacitive based multitouch technology
No they didn't. That already existed long before Apple came along and used it.
Apple trying to say they invented multitouch is a complete joke, and frankly is insulting to all the other people involved. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
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...Apple has made a commitment to force you to pay a massive premium for using their products. It's great that they're doing this, but they're forcing the consumer to pay for it, then they turn around and try to act like they're awesome.
No, bose basically patented something that has been around for decades. They didn't create shit.