I don't know which is worse, to be beaten by Flash or by IE, although technically IE 64-bit is pretty well unusable last I checked, so I don't know if it counts.
I'll agree that those factors could be part of it, but certainly not the whole story. A developer friend of mine runs both Linux and Windows at home (personal and work computers, as he works from home), and he says he is lucky to get through a day without rebooting or resetting his Windows machine. This is not not from installing cracks or other questionable software, but from merely doing the normal types of things a software developer does in a day. He says he can go longer without rebooting since upgrading from xp, but it's still generally several times per week.
Contrast this with his Linux machines, which generally reboot when the kernel gets updated. Granted, these are two different usage patterns, but he's not doing anything far-out risky by any stretch.
And let us not forget the story that graced/. roughly three years ago, featuring a video interview with the microsoft.com devs admitting that until their web servers went 64-bit they had them on a 5-minute rotating reboot cycle thanks to memory leaks. I wish I could find the link to that story, but it's not turning up.
For that you don't need to jailbreak an Android phone - just select an app from the market or enable other market
It's not the installing that is so hard, it's the uninstalling. I had serious reservations about rooting and flashing the HTC Android phone that my employer bought for my use, but after seeing that stupid racing game for the 30th time, I finally had to try playing it...at which point I learned that it's not a game at all, but an ad for a game that somebody wants you to pay for. Imagine, you can't play it and you can't uninstall it! It just sits there taking space and attention on the phone that you're trying to use to accomplish useful things.
Well, I've used computers with preinstalled software before, so I know what crapware is all about. I did my employer and myself a favour and put CM on there (after a lousy first and second date with Oxygen).
Google's laisser-faire approach with the carriers is a problem as you say, but I think only in the short term. I for one will not buy a phone until I have researched and confirmed to my satisfaction that it will run CM or some other open and up-to-date OS. As somebody who roots his phone, I'm sure I'm in the minority of users, but that's a trend that I believe will grow.
For a more mature example of this phenomenon, check out the SOHO wireless router market. In the early part of the past decade a company called Linksys was selling a great little router called the WRT-54G. It was unlike any other router in that market in that it actually ran a Linux-based firmware. And if that wasn't enough, some smart people actually figured out how to write and install their own customized firmwares for that router. It's reputation in that space was small and cult-like.
Flash forward 9 or so years to the present and the WRT54GL continues to be the symbol of open router firmware and is only just now starting to give way as the router of choice for basement techs, DIY'ers, and even casual hobbyists and folks who are willing to spend an hour learning about how to get a better router. Despite its continuing icon status, the WRT54G is now joined by other free firmware-friendly routers carrying badges as varied as ASUS, Buffalo, Netgear, TP-Link, Trendnet, and the list goes on.
Granted, many, maybe even most consumers will continue to be content with the cheapest router with the flashiest packaging, but the Tomato, dd-wrt, openwrt, and other related projects have had their effect on this entire market and forced the corporate players to step up their game. So will it be with Android. It may be up against a more active opposition that were these router firmware projects, but it also enjoys a lot more substantial corporate backing in Google. In the end the consumer will choose, and consumers inevitably choose open over restricted.
You just added hundreds or thousands of dollars to a $1000 NAS and locked yourself to a specific piece of esoteric hardware in one swoop. BIOS-based RAID is a little too pedestrian for serious storage, yes, but there's nothing to be ashamed of in a true software RAID setup (ie, mdadm), even if it means adding SATA ports through a card.
It's not Google holding back the updates but the phone makers and the carriers. By making the Android source code free and available Google has created an effective workaround, where side channels like CM and similar projects allow me to have high quality and up-to-date software on my phone despite my greedy any-colour-you-like-as-long-as-it's-black mobility monopoly.
The fact that MS may actually be doing something for their customer (I'll take your word for it) is a sure sign that they're not winning in this market place. Witness the millstone that was IE6 (IE5 for Apple fans!) for so many years until some viable alternatives showed up.
You have a Wii, XBox 360, and a PS3...Could you, at a glance, mistake one for another?
Of course the answer to this question is no, but unfortunately that's the wrong question, because the range of designs that can effectively serve as an appliance that sits near the tv and plays video games is much broader than the range of designs that fits in your hand and plays games or surfs the web.
The human hand, unlike a common tv stand, can accommodate and effectively interact with only so much variation in a functional product. In a world without iDevices would Samsung have designed a device with square corners, despite the fact that these are obviously less comfortable to hold and more likely to scratch a person or be damaged during normal use? Would they have opted for a thicker bezel and smaller screen?
I have no idea to what extent one design team may have copied another, and thank heaven I'm not an IP lawyer or judge, but to say flat out that B must have copied A simply because B has features in common with A is a bit of a leap when not supported by facts, and a kind-of-related-but-not-really comparison of some other tech is not a substitute in the absence thereof.
The majority of upstream links are billed based on the 95th percentile.
Correct.
but can handle your peak times without affecting your bill too much.
Incorrect, as least as concerns the quotes I've received from 3 different fibre providers in the past year. My 95th percentile usage is around 13 mbps, which would cost me approximately the same as a 40 mbps dedicated connection from the same providers. 95th percentile billing sounds smart, but in actuality is a rip-off, at least in the Alberta market.
Putting the computer to sleep is so 2000s. My computer boots from SSD in under 10 seconds, bypassing all the buggy ACPI crap and fear of a dead battery.
I have had an Android phone for work for about 10 months now and the keyboard is easily the worst part of the whole experience. If I'm not in front of a computer, I will actually read emails on the phone and then walk the necessary distance to a computer before composing a response. The keys are too small, certain keys really should be there but aren't (.com, @. Somehow the smiley trumped these), and I spend way too much time hitting the alt and shift keys to get to them. It's really difficult to move the cursor to an arbitrary position in text that you've typed; I usually just end up backspacing if it's less than about a dozen characters.
While I'm on this rant, the UI can really drag sometimes. For example, screen rotation usually takes several seconds. Fingering through text isn't quite right; you can actually see the text moving slower than your finger by about 10%. You might think 10% doesn't matter, but it really does. It just doesn't feel good.
You might think I'm being fussy, and maybe I am, but in the short time I've spent using iOS, it seems that Apple has got all of this right. Somehow on the iphone I have no trouble hitting the keys I want. If I do need to go back, it's dead easy to move the cursor to the exact position I want with little fuss. Rotation is near-instant and scrolling is a dream.
I do actually like Android, and freedom does matter to me, but in the case of iOS v Gingerbread, I have to concede this battle to Apple.
And for the record, my phone is an HTC Desire running Cyanogenmod 7.10-RC1. I used the stock HTC software for a while, but it turns out I'm not a very serious masochist.
That's cool if you're into microcode trojans. Personally I can't stomach the thought, which is why I do all my own rare earth mining and built a clean room into the basement.
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I don't know which is worse, to be beaten by Flash or by IE, although technically IE 64-bit is pretty well unusable last I checked, so I don't know if it counts.
I'll agree that those factors could be part of it, but certainly not the whole story. A developer friend of mine runs both Linux and Windows at home (personal and work computers, as he works from home), and he says he is lucky to get through a day without rebooting or resetting his Windows machine. This is not not from installing cracks or other questionable software, but from merely doing the normal types of things a software developer does in a day. He says he can go longer without rebooting since upgrading from xp, but it's still generally several times per week.
Contrast this with his Linux machines, which generally reboot when the kernel gets updated. Granted, these are two different usage patterns, but he's not doing anything far-out risky by any stretch.
And let us not forget the story that graced /. roughly three years ago, featuring a video interview with the microsoft.com devs admitting that until their web servers went 64-bit they had them on a 5-minute rotating reboot cycle thanks to memory leaks. I wish I could find the link to that story, but it's not turning up.
8.0, the one that is supposed to finally be available in a 64-bit compile for Windows? Come on, even Flash player beat you to it!
Clean install of Ubuntu six months ago, updated less than a week ago. Chrome is installed via Google's .deb installer, which adds their repo's to apt.
I am running 64-bit though. Possibly the 32-bit version of Chrome on Linux comes with Flash preinstalled, but I wouldn't know.
Every OS is as stable as the user.
So would you say that Windows makes people unstable, or that unstable people tend to choose Windows?
I can't speak for FreeBSD, but Flash is not built into Chrome in Linux. I had to install the plugin separately. Not so for my Windows desk, of course.
Don't get all logical on me now!
hardware and software makers can make their systems more competitive in the entertainment marketplace by locking down their products.
O the irony of that statement! And yet I concede that in this twisted world you are indeed correct.
hmm I wonder if the back-plain and cpu actualy can manage 4+ Gbps
The switch? Maybe. The CPU? Not a chance.
No, I haven't tested this model, but I've test-driven enough routers to know that a 680 MHz processor isn't going to route even 1 gbps.
For that you don't need to jailbreak an Android phone - just select an app from the market or enable other market
It's not the installing that is so hard, it's the uninstalling. I had serious reservations about rooting and flashing the HTC Android phone that my employer bought for my use, but after seeing that stupid racing game for the 30th time, I finally had to try playing it...at which point I learned that it's not a game at all, but an ad for a game that somebody wants you to pay for. Imagine, you can't play it and you can't uninstall it! It just sits there taking space and attention on the phone that you're trying to use to accomplish useful things.
Well, I've used computers with preinstalled software before, so I know what crapware is all about. I did my employer and myself a favour and put CM on there (after a lousy first and second date with Oxygen).
Google's laisser-faire approach with the carriers is a problem as you say, but I think only in the short term. I for one will not buy a phone until I have researched and confirmed to my satisfaction that it will run CM or some other open and up-to-date OS. As somebody who roots his phone, I'm sure I'm in the minority of users, but that's a trend that I believe will grow.
For a more mature example of this phenomenon, check out the SOHO wireless router market. In the early part of the past decade a company called Linksys was selling a great little router called the WRT-54G. It was unlike any other router in that market in that it actually ran a Linux-based firmware. And if that wasn't enough, some smart people actually figured out how to write and install their own customized firmwares for that router. It's reputation in that space was small and cult-like.
Flash forward 9 or so years to the present and the WRT54GL continues to be the symbol of open router firmware and is only just now starting to give way as the router of choice for basement techs, DIY'ers, and even casual hobbyists and folks who are willing to spend an hour learning about how to get a better router. Despite its continuing icon status, the WRT54G is now joined by other free firmware-friendly routers carrying badges as varied as ASUS, Buffalo, Netgear, TP-Link, Trendnet, and the list goes on.
Granted, many, maybe even most consumers will continue to be content with the cheapest router with the flashiest packaging, but the Tomato, dd-wrt, openwrt, and other related projects have had their effect on this entire market and forced the corporate players to step up their game. So will it be with Android. It may be up against a more active opposition that were these router firmware projects, but it also enjoys a lot more substantial corporate backing in Google. In the end the consumer will choose, and consumers inevitably choose open over restricted.
you may want raid 6 on a raid card
You just added hundreds or thousands of dollars to a $1000 NAS and locked yourself to a specific piece of esoteric hardware in one swoop. BIOS-based RAID is a little too pedestrian for serious storage, yes, but there's nothing to be ashamed of in a true software RAID setup (ie, mdadm), even if it means adding SATA ports through a card.
It's not Google holding back the updates but the phone makers and the carriers. By making the Android source code free and available Google has created an effective workaround, where side channels like CM and similar projects allow me to have high quality and up-to-date software on my phone despite my greedy any-colour-you-like-as-long-as-it's-black mobility monopoly.
The fact that MS may actually be doing something for their customer (I'll take your word for it) is a sure sign that they're not winning in this market place. Witness the millstone that was IE6 (IE5 for Apple fans!) for so many years until some viable alternatives showed up.
It's reckless to assume that just because they're not MS employees they must have bought the phone intentionally.
IIS has 16% of publicly visible market share. That number shifts dynamically when you peek behind the firewalls of large corporations.
And 16% of a large population have an IQ below 80. There's a reason most people hide that $#!7
You have a Wii, XBox 360, and a PS3...Could you, at a glance, mistake one for another?
Of course the answer to this question is no, but unfortunately that's the wrong question, because the range of designs that can effectively serve as an appliance that sits near the tv and plays video games is much broader than the range of designs that fits in your hand and plays games or surfs the web.
Now the real question: You have an XBox 360 controller, a PS3 controller and a Logitech F310 controller. Could you, at a glance, mistake one for another?
The human hand, unlike a common tv stand, can accommodate and effectively interact with only so much variation in a functional product. In a world without iDevices would Samsung have designed a device with square corners, despite the fact that these are obviously less comfortable to hold and more likely to scratch a person or be damaged during normal use? Would they have opted for a thicker bezel and smaller screen?
I have no idea to what extent one design team may have copied another, and thank heaven I'm not an IP lawyer or judge, but to say flat out that B must have copied A simply because B has features in common with A is a bit of a leap when not supported by facts, and a kind-of-related-but-not-really comparison of some other tech is not a substitute in the absence thereof.
Welcome to /.
The numbering of Ubuntu releases is yy.mm. Oneiric was released in October of 2011, so it is release 11.10.
List of Ubuntu releases with dates.
Translation: We exported all of those problems and their related functionality to some third-party modules.
The majority of upstream links are billed based on the 95th percentile.
Correct.
but can handle your peak times without affecting your bill too much.
Incorrect, as least as concerns the quotes I've received from 3 different fibre providers in the past year. My 95th percentile usage is around 13 mbps, which would cost me approximately the same as a 40 mbps dedicated connection from the same providers. 95th percentile billing sounds smart, but in actuality is a rip-off, at least in the Alberta market.
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I think we've found the problem.
Putting the computer to sleep is so 2000s. My computer boots from SSD in under 10 seconds, bypassing all the buggy ACPI crap and fear of a dead battery.
Nah, Ballmer's got more class than that.
What, is he dead now too?
why not just deorbit the whole thing in a controlled fashion and aim it at an ocean?
Or a Michael Bolton concert, assuming you're trying to minimise the chance of it hitting someone.
I have had an Android phone for work for about 10 months now and the keyboard is easily the worst part of the whole experience. If I'm not in front of a computer, I will actually read emails on the phone and then walk the necessary distance to a computer before composing a response. The keys are too small, certain keys really should be there but aren't (.com, @. Somehow the smiley trumped these), and I spend way too much time hitting the alt and shift keys to get to them. It's really difficult to move the cursor to an arbitrary position in text that you've typed; I usually just end up backspacing if it's less than about a dozen characters.
While I'm on this rant, the UI can really drag sometimes. For example, screen rotation usually takes several seconds. Fingering through text isn't quite right; you can actually see the text moving slower than your finger by about 10%. You might think 10% doesn't matter, but it really does. It just doesn't feel good.
You might think I'm being fussy, and maybe I am, but in the short time I've spent using iOS, it seems that Apple has got all of this right. Somehow on the iphone I have no trouble hitting the keys I want. If I do need to go back, it's dead easy to move the cursor to the exact position I want with little fuss. Rotation is near-instant and scrolling is a dream.
I do actually like Android, and freedom does matter to me, but in the case of iOS v Gingerbread, I have to concede this battle to Apple.
And for the record, my phone is an HTC Desire running Cyanogenmod 7.10-RC1. I used the stock HTC software for a while, but it turns out I'm not a very serious masochist.
That's cool if you're into microcode trojans. Personally I can't stomach the thought, which is why I do all my own rare earth mining and built a clean room into the basement.