My father didn't have many OS choices. We do. That's the real difference. Dad could use MS-Dos, PC-Dos or DR-Dos on his x86 compatible PC. That was pretty much it.
there has never been a shortage of OS choice as far as i can remember.
A friend of mine is a reviewer, but for console only. This is how it works for him, he gets special reviewer games, the discs are always ugly, white labels with in big bold black letters 'REVIEW VERSION, EXPIRES ' on it. The disc is useless after the date mentioned on the disc.
Sure, every now and then he gets a limited reviewer edition, that contains a beautiful box and disk including special items (figurines, artwork, dvd disc, soundtrack cd, what have you), but he never asks for them.
I think Valve wants Linux/SteamOS to succeed, or at least they want it to be more successful then it is currently. A lot of people claim not to make the move because game X is not available on Linux.
no benchmarks have been published yet, even though valve acknowledges that there will be an impact, there are also a lot of games where this will be a no-issue or barely noticable.
if you really want to own physical copies, you can still do so. since less and less people choose to actually own them, i guess that was the preferred option all along, except that it wasn't available to do so.
i stream a lot, but i also have a lot of physical copies. If i like it well enough, i will buy it! otherwise, it was nice for one viewing/reading/listen, but not anything more. Not that much different to how a library works (except that it requires a bit more effort).
we've been there before, but nothing much happened. linux was 64bit ready even before 64bit x86 cpu's were available, how long did it take for Windows to catch up?
not to mention that desktop ARM computers have been available for/with linux on them for a while already, they're called chromebooks.
me thinking ARM already shines on Linux, so much so that it is the most used OS for that CPU. ARM obviously wants to expand their market reach, that would include Windows, the most use desktop OS. the usage numbers of those two markets combined makes Apple look like small fish.
Many comments here about protein, and the sources of protein, yadda. For some bizarre reason scientists and the general public assume that low carb means high protein. IT DOESN'T. Every responsible low carb diet makes it perfectly clear that one should not eat much protein. For one thing, your body will use it to make carbohydrates. Why people choose to ignore this is baffling.
right!
this is what i tell people who are all into the 'protein diet' craze. it's BS, your body works on carbs - your brain needs it to function, your muscles need it to perform. your body will try anything to get carbs from somewhere if it doesn't get it through normal channels (you eating). transforming fat or proteins, but in general getting it from proteins is bad.
carbs are not evil, just some carbs are, just like fat isn't evil, just some fats are.
As long as this resolution also includes software and not only hardware it should be good. These days you're nothing with an android phone from 4 years ago that you can still repair but is running android 4.0 filled with security holes. And let's not start with all the IoT devices.
got pulled over by police, my insurance was not valid, the valid paper was at home, i just got it in the mail and didn't put it in my car yet. so the officer asks me - is there somebody at home who can fax it to us. come again, what? a fax? no, but i can have a picture taken and email it. that wasn't any good, so i ended up having to show the paper at the police station the next day.
other stories are that the fire department needs to get a fax from the mayor to declare certain states of alert. criminals that need to transported, require fax approvals, etc
the list of uses for faxes in the government seems to be endless.
then just sell the device without software. people are free to put any OS they want on it, there are multiple images available online.
or
sell it with a bare bones linux on it. oh, look, somebody made a script available that will install kodi on it.
ofcourse i think what facebook did here is bellow anything. kodi is awesome, sure it is used to play pirated material, but facebook itself contains pirated material, maybe facebook should ban facebook from facebook.
let's hire more programmers to add fake bugs to our programs or let's hire more security people to help audit and remove security issues from our programs.
his advisor tried to make it simple and steer him in the right direction, it worked so many times before. except for this time.
i really lol'ed when i read this, until i realised that probably others will copy Apple and as a result we will end up with a lot of laptops that have this kind of keyboard. just, you know, to be cool like Apple is.
just like with the phone nodge, Apple their silliness is affecting us all!
OS is such a wasteland that it needs special tools to clean up after itself. said tools are just as horrible, people still keep using both because... no valid reason what so ever.
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only 129MB large and only 200MB of ram needed... for windows 95.
that's more then 20 years of progress for you, right there!
My father didn't have many OS choices. We do. That's the real difference.
Dad could use MS-Dos, PC-Dos or DR-Dos on his x86 compatible PC. That was pretty much it.
there has never been a shortage of OS choice as far as i can remember.
A friend of mine is a reviewer, but for console only. This is how it works for him, he gets special reviewer games, the discs are always ugly, white labels with in big bold black letters 'REVIEW VERSION, EXPIRES ' on it. The disc is useless after the date mentioned on the disc.
Sure, every now and then he gets a limited reviewer edition, that contains a beautiful box and disk including special items (figurines, artwork, dvd disc, soundtrack cd, what have you), but he never asks for them.
for 99% of home users LibreOffice offers all they need.
we're talking games here, so corporate use was never part of the discussion.
not a windows guy, but sharepoint script run in... the browser?
i never had a problem with sharepoint on linux so far.
I think Valve wants Linux/SteamOS to succeed, or at least they want it to be more successful then it is currently. A lot of people claim not to make the move because game X is not available on Linux.
This excuse won't be valid anymore.
no benchmarks have been published yet, even though valve acknowledges that there will be an impact, there are also a lot of games where this will be a no-issue or barely noticable.
if you really want to own physical copies, you can still do so. since less and less people choose to actually own them, i guess that was the preferred option all along, except that it wasn't available to do so.
i stream a lot, but i also have a lot of physical copies. If i like it well enough, i will buy it! otherwise, it was nice for one viewing/reading/listen, but not anything more. Not that much different to how a library works (except that it requires a bit more effort).
you never know which one will blow up.
...to use an ipad.
we've been there before, but nothing much happened.
linux was 64bit ready even before 64bit x86 cpu's were available, how long did it take for Windows to catch up?
not to mention that desktop ARM computers have been available for/with linux on them for a while already, they're called chromebooks.
me thinking ARM already shines on Linux, so much so that it is the most used OS for that CPU.
ARM obviously wants to expand their market reach, that would include Windows, the most use desktop OS.
the usage numbers of those two markets combined makes Apple look like small fish.
... this should show Apple-sheep how overpriced their products are.
Many comments here about protein, and the sources of protein, yadda. For some bizarre reason scientists and the general public assume that low carb means high protein. IT DOESN'T. Every responsible low carb diet makes it perfectly clear that one should not eat much protein. For one thing, your body will use it to make carbohydrates. Why people choose to ignore this is baffling.
right!
this is what i tell people who are all into the 'protein diet' craze. it's BS, your body works on carbs - your brain needs it to function, your muscles need it to perform. your body will try anything to get carbs from somewhere if it doesn't get it through normal channels (you eating). transforming fat or proteins, but in general getting it from proteins is bad.
carbs are not evil, just some carbs are, just like fat isn't evil, just some fats are.
As long as this resolution also includes software and not only hardware it should be good.
These days you're nothing with an android phone from 4 years ago that you can still repair but is running android 4.0 filled with security holes.
And let's not start with all the IoT devices.
Software obsolescence is just as big a problem.
what a great solution!
imagine if they would just remove those bad apps, luckily we get an alert we can safely ignore instead.
governments still use it a lot.
got pulled over by police, my insurance was not valid, the valid paper was at home, i just got it in the mail and didn't put it in my car yet. so the officer asks me - is there somebody at home who can fax it to us.
come again, what? a fax? no, but i can have a picture taken and email it. that wasn't any good, so i ended up having to show the paper at the police station the next day.
other stories are that the fire department needs to get a fax from the mayor to declare certain states of alert. criminals that need to transported, require fax approvals, etc
the list of uses for faxes in the government seems to be endless.
then just sell the device without software.
people are free to put any OS they want on it, there are multiple images available online.
or
sell it with a bare bones linux on it.
oh, look, somebody made a script available that will install kodi on it.
ofcourse i think what facebook did here is bellow anything.
kodi is awesome, sure it is used to play pirated material, but facebook itself contains pirated material, maybe facebook should ban facebook from facebook.
that is the AI taking over optimizing your battery.
obviously it's better for your battery not to be charged.
the AI knows best, just comply.
certainly not for a system that is not 100% open.
and what about those new samsung watches? +$300, what the hell...
is that security scanning and reporting tools are added to the CI/CD pipeline.
which is already a first good step in the right direction.
pointy haired boss had two choices;
let's hire more programmers to add fake bugs to our programs
or
let's hire more security people to help audit and remove security issues from our programs.
his advisor tried to make it simple and steer him in the right direction, it worked so many times before.
except for this time.
i really lol'ed when i read this, until i realised that probably others will copy Apple and as a result we will end up with a lot of laptops that have this kind of keyboard. just, you know, to be cool like Apple is.
just like with the phone nodge, Apple their silliness is affecting us all!
OS is such a wasteland that it needs special tools to clean up after itself.
said tools are just as horrible, people still keep using both because... no valid reason what so ever.
isn't this what traders do? it's just that they now added cryptocurrencies to their playbook.