FirefoxOS will still be around, just not on phones (focus on IoT). Perhaps it will be more suited to something like a TV. Panasonic loses nothing, the OS is open source and they are a big enough company to continue support even if Mozilla would totally abandon FirefoxOS.
I remember the first time i ever started gimp. It was on this OSS CD i bought (because back then, you bought your OSS software on CD because downloading was to expensive and would take to much time). It was even worse then MS Paint, it had this Motif GUI and looked horrible, it also couldn't do much, i didn't leave it installed on my system. Second time i tried it, there was no need anymore to buy a CD and it was included in the distro. Motif was replace by the Gimp ToolKit and Gimp itself was able to do already some nifty stuff.
I don't know how old your kids are, but Fallout 4 is a pretty adult game, if they are old enough to play that they can save up the money to buy a ps4 themself. Sure i used to play games rated above my age, but the worst we had in my day was mortal kombat and at that time i already was well into my teens.
My kids, they really really enjoy all that nintendo stuff. The wii is still getting a lot of playtime, sure they would like a wii u, but i don't have the spare money to spend. They are saving up for a 3 or 2DS themself, but they also still love to play in the normal DS.
Now, since you are a linux guy and you have an aging gaming pc, why not replace it with a steambox, or better build one yourself (just add the steam controller to complete the expirience). A gaming pc on-par gaming with a ps4 is cheaper to build.
IoT police body camera device is running windows, really? It's powerful enough for that, but not for running a security scanner. I think conficker is the least of their problems.
Linux gaming is in it's infancy, but in a short time things have already improved a lot. I remember a time when windows was starting to get games, and performance was just horrible. Together with my friends we just laughed about the idea of windows as a viable gaming platform, it couldn't even touch DOS. Look at where we are now.
Not disclosed, but that doesn't mean it is unknown. Some other, blackhat hacker may be aware of and using it already, perhaps even months/years before it's recent public discovery.
I'm more worried about changes to games through patches. You read a review of a one year old game, because it's much cheaper to buy now, but because of the immense amount of patches and features added/removed the game has changed a lot form the inital reviewed game. Sometimes for better, sometimes for worse.
Ian must have never worked for a big company, it's their normal way of working. I see it here each time there is an issue with some piece of enterprise software, the phone is picked up, the account manager is called and threatened. If you talk about OSS, the first question you get is - who do we call when it doesn't work. As long as you can say there is a support structure behind it, they panic goes away. Support mostly means that you have somebody to yell at, because the actual support part is in most cases not that great (with any vendor).
Qualified electricial engineers who were working within some of the world's largest companies in 1991 (when I was barely in secondary school?). They'd be about 60-something by now. Probably retired. Certainly not in the "social media" generation, in any large way. And probably still subject to NDA's.
6 degrees of seperation should enable you to find these people quickly. somebody always knows somebody who knows somebody that was involved in something.
Was a heavy OS2 Warp user at the time because i had a multinode BBS and it basically the best OS you could have for this kind of environment. There was also DesqView, but that didn't work as well as OS2.
That said, the GUI was horrible, just horrible. I never could quite understand why people keep on going on about the wonderful OS2 GUI. It really wasn't. In fact at the time, a lot of other sysops who also ran OS2 just disabled the whole graphical environment (to save memory, but also because it was not very good).
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must be getting old. i remember a post on/. (long ago) where the imdb founder said in an interview that he would love to have a site like slashdot. not so sure that he still feels this way now though.
take of your pink-retro-glasses, those games were pushing the HW to the max when they came out. who could play them at full screen? only folks who had the latest 386, 486 (doom) or pentium (quake).
Maybe a VERY small percentage would prefer it, because they're knowledgeable enough of a coder to tweak a driver to fix a specific problem they're encountering? But that's got to be far less than 1% of the user-base.
just like a kernel, maybe 1% is knowledgable enough to understand & contribute to kernel code, but i'm sure happy linux has an open sourced kernel so those 1% can continue to improve it.
and then we get into the discussion that the source provided might not be the same as what is actually running in your ECU. who's going to check those things?
All my media is also on a linux server, but i'm playing my media using Kodi. a few months ago i bought the openelec box (wetek play), why would i replace it with plex? Netflix subscription is watched on my chromecast.
All this is connected to a Yamaha receiver with Jamo speakers, displayed on a Panasonic TV.
Indeed, what a complicated procedure. My wife is a doctor and she get her papers just as you described. First thing i thought about when i read the summary.
Take all the disadvantages of a diesel engine and you know why it is not interesting to put the two together. It doesn't matter that the engine would be smaller, it will still be more complicated, more nox producing, more expensive etc. then a gasoline engine.
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FirefoxOS will still be around, just not on phones (focus on IoT). Perhaps it will be more suited to something like a TV.
Panasonic loses nothing, the OS is open source and they are a big enough company to continue support even if Mozilla would totally abandon FirefoxOS.
I remember the first time i ever started gimp. It was on this OSS CD i bought (because back then, you bought your OSS software on CD because downloading was to expensive and would take to much time).
It was even worse then MS Paint, it had this Motif GUI and looked horrible, it also couldn't do much, i didn't leave it installed on my system.
Second time i tried it, there was no need anymore to buy a CD and it was included in the distro. Motif was replace by the Gimp ToolKit and Gimp itself was able to do already some nifty stuff.
I don't know how old your kids are, but Fallout 4 is a pretty adult game, if they are old enough to play that they can save up the money to buy a ps4 themself.
Sure i used to play games rated above my age, but the worst we had in my day was mortal kombat and at that time i already was well into my teens.
My kids, they really really enjoy all that nintendo stuff. The wii is still getting a lot of playtime, sure they would like a wii u, but i don't have the spare money to spend. They are saving up for a 3 or 2DS themself, but they also still love to play in the normal DS.
Now, since you are a linux guy and you have an aging gaming pc, why not replace it with a steambox, or better build one yourself (just add the steam controller to complete the expirience). A gaming pc on-par gaming with a ps4 is cheaper to build.
IoT police body camera device is running windows, really? It's powerful enough for that, but not for running a security scanner.
I think conficker is the least of their problems.
Linux gaming is in it's infancy, but in a short time things have already improved a lot.
I remember a time when windows was starting to get games, and performance was just horrible. Together with my friends we just laughed about the idea of windows as a viable gaming platform, it couldn't even touch DOS. Look at where we are now.
switch to full screen mode, who needs all that gui nonsense anyway?
Not disclosed, but that doesn't mean it is unknown. Some other, blackhat hacker may be aware of and using it already, perhaps even months/years before it's recent public discovery.
And they're working on a linux port too!
https://twitter.com/RocketLeag...^tfw
I'm more worried about changes to games through patches.
You read a review of a one year old game, because it's much cheaper to buy now, but because of the immense amount of patches and features added/removed the game has changed a lot form the inital reviewed game. Sometimes for better, sometimes for worse.
so maybe guilt is driving bill gates too?
Ian must have never worked for a big company, it's their normal way of working.
I see it here each time there is an issue with some piece of enterprise software, the phone is picked up, the account manager is called and threatened.
If you talk about OSS, the first question you get is - who do we call when it doesn't work. As long as you can say there is a support structure behind it, they panic goes away. Support mostly means that you have somebody to yell at, because the actual support part is in most cases not that great (with any vendor).
Qualified electricial engineers who were working within some of the world's largest companies in 1991 (when I was barely in secondary school?). They'd be about 60-something by now. Probably retired. Certainly not in the "social media" generation, in any large way. And probably still subject to NDA's.
6 degrees of seperation should enable you to find these people quickly. somebody always knows somebody who knows somebody that was involved in something.
for rpg lovers: icewind dale, baldurs gate 1 & 2, wasteland 2, pillars of eternity, legend of grimrock, swordcoast, trochlight 2, shadowrun, witcher 2 (witcher 3 comming), shadow of mordor.
that's hundreth of hours of quality gametime right there.
500 games? That's about 1/3th of the games available for SteamOS, which hasn't even been release officially yet!
I agree with this.
Was a heavy OS2 Warp user at the time because i had a multinode BBS and it basically the best OS you could have for this kind of environment. There was also DesqView, but that didn't work as well as OS2.
That said, the GUI was horrible, just horrible. I never could quite understand why people keep on going on about the wonderful OS2 GUI. It really wasn't. In fact at the time, a lot of other sysops who also ran OS2 just disabled the whole graphical environment (to save memory, but also because it was not very good).
must be getting old. /. (long ago) where the imdb founder said in an interview that he would love to have a site like slashdot. not so sure that he still feels this way now though.
i remember a post on
take of your pink-retro-glasses, those games were pushing the HW to the max when they came out.
who could play them at full screen? only folks who had the latest 386, 486 (doom) or pentium (quake).
Maybe a VERY small percentage would prefer it, because they're knowledgeable enough of a coder to tweak a driver to fix a specific problem they're encountering? But that's got to be far less than 1% of the user-base.
just like a kernel, maybe 1% is knowledgable enough to understand & contribute to kernel code, but i'm sure happy linux has an open sourced kernel so those 1% can continue to improve it.
and then we get into the discussion that the source provided might not be the same as what is actually running in your ECU.
who's going to check those things?
All my media is also on a linux server, but i'm playing my media using Kodi. a few months ago i bought the openelec box (wetek play), why would i replace it with plex? Netflix subscription is watched on my chromecast.
All this is connected to a Yamaha receiver with Jamo speakers, displayed on a Panasonic TV.
Indeed, what a complicated procedure.
My wife is a doctor and she get her papers just as you described. First thing i thought about when i read the summary.
or pick a phone supported by the many custom rom projects available, even better and longer support.
containers are so hyped, docker this, lxd that, stop it already!
But not for long, they will be switching to gasoline hybrids soon (link in dutch).
http://gocar.be/nl/autonieuws/...
Take all the disadvantages of a diesel engine and you know why it is not interesting to put the two together.
It doesn't matter that the engine would be smaller, it will still be more complicated, more nox producing, more expensive etc. then a gasoline engine.