Are you aware you were comparing Apples with Pears?
Not really, the comparison was fairly similar from what I could tell.
Seriously, if you want a Mac it's because you are going to use OSX
Some people scratch that itch with OSx86, although I do believe they are struggling with Mountain Lion.
Not to mention that iTunes runs very smoothly on Mac, which was kind of expected I guess.
If you have OSx86 properly installed on 'equivalent' PC hardware, do you genuinely expect it not to run "very smoothly" ?
Besides they tend to include premium features before PC vendors, like the Retina displays
Believe it or not, I have used workstations that had a high DPI where the eye couldn't distinguish a single pixel too, before Apple released products that had a high DPI (or what Apple calls 'Retina').
Thunderbolt connections
Will this become as popular and used like Firewire was?
The Windows kernel has a POSIX subsystem that behaves more 'correctly' than X Is Not Unix's BSD subsystem does (as in, Windows doesn't have issues with forking without exec, pthread hell etc). You're probably better off porting to Windows Services for Unix or alternatively, if you need a good userland, Cygwin offers a better Unix & GNU userland than OS X with Macports does, although Cygwin doesn't rely on Windows' POSIX subsystem.
Exactly, I predict a lot of "silly" registrations that domain name companies will convince you that you must have; "england.uk", "scotland.uk", "wales.uk", "gb.uk", "uk.uk", "com.uk", and "xxx.uk" to name a few.
Nominet is proposing to prohibit successful direct.uk applicants from reselling sub-domains created at the third level. Registrants will still be permitted to create sub-domains for their own use.
Its stated reason for this restriction is
âoeHowever, we also wish to ensure the integrity of the direct.uk space and to avoid customer and registrant confusion and would thus seek to minimise abuse and contractually prevent the sale of sub-domains by registrants to third parties.â â" Nominet consultation paper, p.11
And you can't get robbed or scammed when using cash.. right?
Not with coins and paperbills, no. However, I can at least get the transaction reversed where bank transfers, cheques, credit/debit/cash cards are concerned and additionally protected by various financial laws. Can't do that with BTC.
I was pointing out that these devices all have a standard app store which the majority of all owners will only ever use, mostly because the average consumer is too dumb to use anything different.
No, you were talking about
If you want to install non-app store software, you'll just have to "root" your device
which is not the case on stock Android. Comparing a platform you have to root to another you don't and saying it's the same thing is rather ludicrous in my opinion.
And Microsoft has never really been much for locking users down in terms of applications they can run
The software has to be built with an ARM compiler.
So, would you say the following information is incorrect?
Native "Metro" applications don't and won't need to be built with an Arm compiler, nor can they can be ran on a Windows 8 Arm system without certification (Microsoft requires certification, no opt out on Arm). Native Arm executables cannot be ran on the system because Microsoft are not giving out certifications for native Arm binaries, due to their certification requirements being that "Metro" applications are not native code.
i know there's nothing stopping you from opening up a powershell and running add-appxpackage.
Would you also say this information is incorrect?
It still won't let you run the applications as they won't be signed.
Android and iOS already lock the user down to one app store. Microsoft is doing the exact same thing. If you want to install non-app store software, you'll just have to "root" your device
You're being misleading, stock Android does not lock you down to one app store, the only thing you have to do with stock Android is to enable 'installation of software from unknown sources' if you want to install things without the app store, which can be done in a few seconds. No hacking/rooting or whatever.
Most people are only interested in using programs, not in fighting their way through the code trying to learn how to use it and for many people, if it doesn't come with instructions on how to get it working, it's not worth installing.
Most opensource developers (developing in their own free time) are only interested in developing programs, not fighting their way through creating documentation, trying to describe how to use it for many people. If users can't handle the lack of the documentation, they're free to offer a bounty to get documentation written or work together and write their own.
That's my "take" on it, & everyone here pretty much KNOWS I have my own personal "troll psycho-stalker fanclub"
Cool story, bro.:>
I suspect it's only a SINGLE fool though
For the hive mind!
Geeks are PRONE to "geek angst" when you "shoot them down" in errors... & they seek "revenge" via trolling (or as is often done here on/., downmodding posts & running - no justifications whatsoever that are vaild are offered either!)
Exactly! Like when you post "TLDR" to a post, you get rewarded with another TLDR post and a guy posting that you should answer him to disprove the facts on his TLDR post on all your other Slashdot replies!
Now, some of these "trolls" that stalk me CALL ME A TROLL... well, all I can say to that, is this:
Nah. I agree more with this man's concept of getting congress to approve of stuff. So much so, that I don't believe new creative systems like content-delivery should not be the only thing that congress approves, but even newly created content that has a chance of causing competition. Such as new movies, new music, new art, new software etc. They should all be approved by congress first!
Both of them offer the thing that is missing: completeness.
Vague statement, I like it!
Launchpad is a tribute to how shitty it is on the desktop. Literally thousands of unfixed bugs which poke almost every user in the eye on a daily basis. It's hell.
Which isn't any different from Windows user land, I like your arguments thus far. They amuse me.
Last I checked, the European Research Council did work within the European Union, but they weren't operated by the European Union and I don't think you should be attributing credit for funding to the wrong people.
Without other houses involved, Steam surely will fail on Linux
Quite a few titles in Steam's catalog already have pre-existing Linux ports.
I'm also a little surprised about how only one exact version of one exact Linux distro (OK, Ubuntu 12.10 too when that's out next month) is supported, yet Windows Steam supports three (about to be four) different versions of Windows. No love for Fedora or openSuSE then?
You're assuming it won't run on other distributions. With the correct libc and dependencies, it should be fine. Community members can package an RPM as needed to provide Steam the environment it needs to function on other distros, big deal.
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Note: I am not the grandparent poster.
Not really, the comparison was fairly similar from what I could tell.
Some people scratch that itch with OSx86, although I do believe they are struggling with Mountain Lion.
If you have OSx86 properly installed on 'equivalent' PC hardware, do you genuinely expect it not to run "very smoothly" ?
Believe it or not, I have used workstations that had a high DPI where the eye couldn't distinguish a single pixel too, before Apple released products that had a high DPI (or what Apple calls 'Retina').
Will this become as popular and used like Firewire was?
The Windows kernel has a POSIX subsystem that behaves more 'correctly' than X Is Not Unix's BSD subsystem does (as in, Windows doesn't have issues with forking without exec, pthread hell etc). You're probably better off porting to Windows Services for Unix or alternatively, if you need a good userland, Cygwin offers a better Unix & GNU userland than OS X with Macports does, although Cygwin doesn't rely on Windows' POSIX subsystem.
Nominet is proposing to prohibit successful direct.uk applicants from reselling sub-domains created at the third level. Registrants will still be permitted to create sub-domains for their own use.
Its stated reason for this restriction is
âoeHowever, we also wish to ensure the integrity of the direct.uk space and to avoid customer and registrant confusion and would thus seek to minimise abuse and contractually prevent the sale of sub-domains by registrants to third parties.â â" Nominet consultation paper, p.11
Not with coins and paperbills, no. However, I can at least get the transaction reversed where bank transfers, cheques, credit/debit/cash cards are concerned and additionally protected by various financial laws. Can't do that with BTC.
No, you were talking about
which is not the case on stock Android. Comparing a platform you have to root to another you don't and saying it's the same thing is rather ludicrous in my opinion.
I thought http://www.mobiletechworld.com/2012/01/25/windows-phone-8-specifications-rumor-windows-8-kernel-and-more/ was fairly interesting and did not seem that unlikely of a situation.
Slashcode has unicode support. It's just they decided to limit the characters we can use due to abuse.
So, would you say the following information is incorrect?
Native "Metro" applications don't and won't need to be built with an Arm compiler, nor can they can be ran on a Windows 8 Arm system without certification (Microsoft requires certification, no opt out on Arm). Native Arm executables cannot be ran on the system because Microsoft are not giving out certifications for native Arm binaries, due to their certification requirements being that "Metro" applications are not native code.
Would you also say this information is incorrect?
It still won't let you run the applications as they won't be signed.
You're being misleading, stock Android does not lock you down to one app store, the only thing you have to do with stock Android is to enable 'installation of software from unknown sources' if you want to install things without the app store, which can be done in a few seconds. No hacking/rooting or whatever.
Okay, can you explain how I do it on an Arm system running Windows 8?
Actually, if they get paid for it, they are.
Most opensource developers (developing in their own free time) are only interested in developing programs, not fighting their way through creating documentation, trying to describe how to use it for many people. If users can't handle the lack of the documentation, they're free to offer a bounty to get documentation written or work together and write their own.
Or get your BTC stolen by using said services.
Cool story, bro. :>
For the hive mind!
Exactly! Like when you post "TLDR" to a post, you get rewarded with another TLDR post and a guy posting that you should answer him to disprove the facts on his TLDR post on all your other Slashdot replies!
I call you "The hosts file guy".
Nah. I agree more with this man's concept of getting congress to approve of stuff. So much so, that I don't believe new creative systems like content-delivery should not be the only thing that congress approves, but even newly created content that has a chance of causing competition. Such as new movies, new music, new art, new software etc. They should all be approved by congress first!
He's so tense about all of this, it's amazing.
Vague statement, I like it!
Which isn't any different from Windows user land, I like your arguments thus far. They amuse me.
It's now become "It Just Sues!".
Wrong...
THIS... IS... SPARTA!
*kicks mumblestheclown into the hole of forever*
I like how you're unable to elaborate on this at all.
You can keep your Fischerprice interface.
I don't even need to click "Read the rest of this comment..." to know this is yet again, another TL;DR post of APK.
Last I checked, the European Research Council did work within the European Union, but they weren't operated by the European Union and I don't think you should be attributing credit for funding to the wrong people.
Quite a few titles in Steam's catalog already have pre-existing Linux ports.
You're assuming it won't run on other distributions. With the correct libc and dependencies, it should be fine. Community members can package an RPM as needed to provide Steam the environment it needs to function on other distros, big deal.
How would they go about doing that? Would they go to everyone's Bitcoin installation and restore their database file to an earlier time?
That's a different sort of security all together, please stay on topic.