Average users? Not so much. Not everyone grew up in the Win3.1 era where keyboard shortcuts were pretty much required to do anything meaningful in the OS.
I doubt visual quality will be an issue... remember, this is the generation that loves streaming 96kbps MP3 files from Pandora! They don't give no shits bout quality
If bandwidth is concerned, it is no different than watching Netflix, Hulu, Twitch, Prime Video, or YouTube. Consumers are already aware of their data caps if they're hitting them.
As well as Amazon Basics batteries. Their normal Alkaline batteries are cheap and work great. They released a line of rechargable batteries that are on-par quality wise with high-end Eneloop batteries but for half the cost. These have been a huge deal in the photography world for people that need faster recycle time on portable strobes.
If all you want is Animated GIFs, lemme tell ya. I make them using Paint Shop Pro 5. It came out in 1998. It still works perfectly well on Windows 10 x64. It is also so small, it loads instantly on modern hardware. It is amazing for quick simple tasks.
For reference, Microsoft's Speech API launched in 1995 - Note that the fastest consumer processor in the world at the time was the Intel Pentium (original) in the 200MHz range. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I love how their reasoning is battery life... The mic is already turned on 24/7 to listen to the "OK Google" command, so that doesn't change. And then the actual audio is only about 1-5 seconds in length that takes about the same amount of time to process. Having the CPU at max for such a short period of time does absolutely nothing to significantly drain the battery. Do they think that having the radio turned on to transmit/receive data from the cloud magically uses less data?
Depending on the situation, yes. In my particular case, not so much. It is like a console vs GUI application. In my use case, I generally will watch a TV show beginning to end before going on to the next. On the CLI, it is as simple as "up"+"enter" to re-run the last command. On the GUI, first launch and re-launch of an application is the same process. Using the on screen navigation better mirrors a GUI application. In the case of Netflix + Alexa, it is as simple as saying "resume [show]" - this command, regardless of what application I have, will automatically open the appropriate video app, navigate to the particular show I've been watching, and automatically start playing the next episode in the series. Time requirements and complexity mirror that of "up"+"enter" on a CLI application, and is completed in only a few seconds (mostly processing time of the OS switching applications).
There already is a killer app: "play [insert name of TV show]", and it pulls it up on Netflix, Prime, Hulu, or what ever other service is available that has the TV show.
Alexa, and other voice assistant services, are just text-to-speech command line interfaces. Nobody considers a particular shell a "killer feature", just the means to get to the real applications.
In once sense, the "internet" is simply a lot of interconnected networks. Following? AWESOME! Now, there is a new "as a service" that is emerging right now, SD-WAN, or "software defined wide area network" - it is simply a virtualized network on top of the internet, much like VLANing is a virtualized network on top of a physical network. SD-WAN is essentially an "internet as a service" as it allows multiple networks to become interconnected virtually to create a wide-area, or pseudo-internet on top of the physical internet. Confusing? Probably. But there are real business needs for it. Think of it as point-to-point VPN service, but instead of 2 points, the number of points interconnected is virtually unlimited!
As a Debian to FreeBSD convert myself, it sounds like pretty much everything they're looking for is already solved in the FreeBSD ecosystem. It has been absolutely night and day as a user, administrator, and contributor working with FreeBSD compared to any Linux distro. It is so nice having one single ecosystem for the kernel, base OS, and 3rd party software, instead of each being handled by different communities with different objectives overall. if a breaking change needs to occur in the FreeBSD world, the entire kernel/OS/software stack is updated in unison with a new major version release.
Or maybe it is exactly as I stated. It is already being reported that simply using a user agent spoofer with both Firefox and Opera allow Skype to function just fine. Microsoft is intentionally blocking other browsers for the wrong reasons. Even more interested, Microsoft is NOT blocking the Vivaldi browser, which is also Chromium, just like Opera.
How does it *NOT* support Opera? It is literally the same codebase as Chrome (both Blink/Chromium based), the same thing the new Edge is being based on. This means they're checking user agents, and denying ones they don't like. This is 2019, not 1999. STOP THIS SHIT RIGHT NOW.
No shit! At my workplace, we *STILL* have a SCO Unix machine in production, along with some HP printers that just turned 20 years old in January... Y2038 is now less than 20 years away, so anything built today MIGHT be running then!
For those curious, this isn't intended to be a desktop/laptop replacement, it is intended to be a ChromeBook competitor in the low-end, cheap, managed device department for schools. For those claiming "i want control", just look at the success of Google's ChromeBook. Microsoft isn't ditching the traditional OS, this is just for an alternative market sector.
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Average users? Not so much. Not everyone grew up in the Win3.1 era where keyboard shortcuts were pretty much required to do anything meaningful in the OS.
I doubt visual quality will be an issue... remember, this is the generation that loves streaming 96kbps MP3 files from Pandora! They don't give no shits bout quality
If bandwidth is concerned, it is no different than watching Netflix, Hulu, Twitch, Prime Video, or YouTube. Consumers are already aware of their data caps if they're hitting them.
As well as Amazon Basics batteries. Their normal Alkaline batteries are cheap and work great. They released a line of rechargable batteries that are on-par quality wise with high-end Eneloop batteries but for half the cost. These have been a huge deal in the photography world for people that need faster recycle time on portable strobes.
If all you want is Animated GIFs, lemme tell ya. I make them using Paint Shop Pro 5. It came out in 1998. It still works perfectly well on Windows 10 x64. It is also so small, it loads instantly on modern hardware. It is amazing for quick simple tasks.
Flickr photo sets have been used for computational work loads and data mining for well over a decade, this is hardly NEWs.
https://www.ted.com/talks/blai...
The United States is worried that China is doing in 2019 what the USA did starting in the 1960s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
For reference, Microsoft's Speech API launched in 1995 - Note that the fastest consumer processor in the world at the time was the Intel Pentium (original) in the 200MHz range. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I love how their reasoning is battery life... The mic is already turned on 24/7 to listen to the "OK Google" command, so that doesn't change. And then the actual audio is only about 1-5 seconds in length that takes about the same amount of time to process. Having the CPU at max for such a short period of time does absolutely nothing to significantly drain the battery. Do they think that having the radio turned on to transmit/receive data from the cloud magically uses less data?
Screw HVAC, can I please get this in the data center !?!?
Depending on the situation, yes. In my particular case, not so much. It is like a console vs GUI application. In my use case, I generally will watch a TV show beginning to end before going on to the next. On the CLI, it is as simple as "up"+"enter" to re-run the last command. On the GUI, first launch and re-launch of an application is the same process. Using the on screen navigation better mirrors a GUI application. In the case of Netflix + Alexa, it is as simple as saying "resume [show]" - this command, regardless of what application I have, will automatically open the appropriate video app, navigate to the particular show I've been watching, and automatically start playing the next episode in the series. Time requirements and complexity mirror that of "up"+"enter" on a CLI application, and is completed in only a few seconds (mostly processing time of the OS switching applications).
There already is a killer app: "play [insert name of TV show]", and it pulls it up on Netflix, Prime, Hulu, or what ever other service is available that has the TV show.
Alexa, and other voice assistant services, are just text-to-speech command line interfaces. Nobody considers a particular shell a "killer feature", just the means to get to the real applications.
One bad network card took out almost all of CenturyLink nation wide, including 911 services in many states, for several days.
So yeah, technology is fickle like that.
Error 404: variable "goingToCrash" not found. Application will now crash.
Who the hell is Joylent!? I know who Joyent is, but not Joylent.
AWS US-EAST is proven... to have entire datacenter failures multiple times a year.
In once sense, the "internet" is simply a lot of interconnected networks. Following? AWESOME! Now, there is a new "as a service" that is emerging right now, SD-WAN, or "software defined wide area network" - it is simply a virtualized network on top of the internet, much like VLANing is a virtualized network on top of a physical network. SD-WAN is essentially an "internet as a service" as it allows multiple networks to become interconnected virtually to create a wide-area, or pseudo-internet on top of the physical internet. Confusing? Probably. But there are real business needs for it. Think of it as point-to-point VPN service, but instead of 2 points, the number of points interconnected is virtually unlimited!
As a Debian to FreeBSD convert myself, it sounds like pretty much everything they're looking for is already solved in the FreeBSD ecosystem. It has been absolutely night and day as a user, administrator, and contributor working with FreeBSD compared to any Linux distro. It is so nice having one single ecosystem for the kernel, base OS, and 3rd party software, instead of each being handled by different communities with different objectives overall. if a breaking change needs to occur in the FreeBSD world, the entire kernel/OS/software stack is updated in unison with a new major version release.
Or maybe it is exactly as I stated. It is already being reported that simply using a user agent spoofer with both Firefox and Opera allow Skype to function just fine. Microsoft is intentionally blocking other browsers for the wrong reasons. Even more interested, Microsoft is NOT blocking the Vivaldi browser, which is also Chromium, just like Opera.
How does it *NOT* support Opera? It is literally the same codebase as Chrome (both Blink/Chromium based), the same thing the new Edge is being based on. This means they're checking user agents, and denying ones they don't like. This is 2019, not 1999. STOP THIS SHIT RIGHT NOW.
You mean like this? https://www.theverge.com/2018/...
Which is really sad, because I start with a +2 score. So SOMEONE didn't like it. OH WELL!
I think Google has contaminated more of the planet than just coal power plants with Chromium...
No shit! At my workplace, we *STILL* have a SCO Unix machine in production, along with some HP printers that just turned 20 years old in January... Y2038 is now less than 20 years away, so anything built today MIGHT be running then!
For those curious, this isn't intended to be a desktop/laptop replacement, it is intended to be a ChromeBook competitor in the low-end, cheap, managed device department for schools. For those claiming "i want control", just look at the success of Google's ChromeBook. Microsoft isn't ditching the traditional OS, this is just for an alternative market sector.