2. What happens when the major digit begins to resemble Firefox / Chromes out of control version madness? How many years before Linux 19.4?
3.0 was released on 21 Jul 2011. Given the expected timeframe for 4.0 (if he decides to go through with this proposal, of course), then that's roughly 3.25 years per major version. So the answer to your question would be sometime in 2061.
I was going to post exactly the same thing, you would think that after 20 years we could go from 3 to 4 without someone whining about it.
There are tons of clean ways to do solar energy in a place like Arizona that provide power in off peak times, you don't have to be anywhere near as efficient when you're in a desert.
The most obvious, even to a layman, is steam. Is this so hard to understand that you'd rather burn oil and coal.
The last time I wore a watch was in high school before I started playing volleyball. After I started, there was no point to a watch. There's basically no point of wearing a watch today. It's only useful for people that want to show how expensive their Rolex is.
It's not often that I have to get dressed up in a civilized fashion and behave in public, but when I do a watch is invaluable.
This is why I try to keep my hand in all the pots at the same time... I say try, I just can't justify the cost of having enough hardware to be mucking around with iOS, Android and Linux on tablets at the same time.
I should just give in and get me one of those cheap nexus 7 tablets and accept that it won't be a production system in my dirty little hands.
I don't really have much sympathy for someone who's trying to help students and employees circumvent network policy. They can watch their porn or check facebook on their own time.
People who live at school are often subject to filtering even in the dorms. So what is "their own time" to you?
Those students should be taking the issue up with the school to which they are paying fees for the privilege of being censored.
Not a problem for me, but then I'm neither sending newsletters that look like spam nor wanting to read newsletters that arrive by email that look like spam. In fact if my mail gateway would automatically filter all the newsletters I manage to accidentally subscribe to I would be happier.
Sounds to me like an outdated means of communication whose time has come and gone (a decade ago?), these days if people want to read your content they can "go get it" with the click of a mouse on a bookmark, you don't have to send it to them. I suspect the vast majority of newsletter recipients don't want them.
Perhaps he also has a side business in buggy whips and household coal furnaces?
We wonder why so many Americans are ignorant of the standards of science when the only time anything scientific captures their attention, it's complete bullshit wrapped around an intriguing nugget. Selling the bullshit sizzle but not the steak is the reason the majority of the population remains clueless about this important food group.
I would fully expect to be working for the company that's building the software development machines, mostly since that's what I already do.
I do take your point, but the problem is that there are lots of people with non-transferable skills because they're not really skills. That's generally not true in any field that actually requires an education. (And no, business school and anthropology do not count as an education.)
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Dyslexics of the world, untie!
So is home-schooling better or do public schools suck? (Or both...)
2. What happens when the major digit begins to resemble Firefox / Chromes out of control version madness? How many years before Linux 19.4?
3.0 was released on 21 Jul 2011. Given the expected timeframe for 4.0 (if he decides to go through with this proposal, of course), then that's roughly 3.25 years per major version. So the answer to your question would be sometime in 2061.
I was going to post exactly the same thing, you would think that after 20 years we could go from 3 to 4 without someone whining about it.
There are tons of clean ways to do solar energy in a place like Arizona that provide power in off peak times, you don't have to be anywhere near as efficient when you're in a desert.
The most obvious, even to a layman, is steam. Is this so hard to understand that you'd rather burn oil and coal.
*sigh*... Humanity...
Screw that. The googles browser is +5 better! Long live the googles!
I, for one, embrace our new chromey browsing overlords.
The last time I wore a watch was in high school before I started playing volleyball. After I started, there was no point to a watch. There's basically no point of wearing a watch today. It's only useful for people that want to show how expensive their Rolex is.
It's not often that I have to get dressed up in a civilized fashion and behave in public, but when I do a watch is invaluable.
That said, Rolex is for pussies.
"I'm a Craftsman fanboy". "I'm a Snap-On fanboy." Sounds pretty silly, right? That's because it is silly.
And yet they exist. People don't make decisions in a void, they base them on prior experience and bias.
Maybe he just needs to drink a cup of very hot tea.
And something to stick in it.
2 + 2 = 5
Dammit, where did I put my victory cigarets?
And then flew the entire company into the ground.
This is why I try to keep my hand in all the pots at the same time... I say try, I just can't justify the cost of having enough hardware to be mucking around with iOS, Android and Linux on tablets at the same time.
I should just give in and get me one of those cheap nexus 7 tablets and accept that it won't be a production system in my dirty little hands.
Exactly, it's an apples and oranges example.
And the oranges are free... :)
Besides, what are they going to do about it? Attack?
The US has taken that attitude for a long time, and to be fair, who in their right mind would take them on?
It's a damn good thing for the world as a whole that the US is mostly a force for good. (So long as nobody crosses the Rubicon)
If the US truly "went rogue" it would be a royal CF for the rest of the planet.
I am shocked. Shocked! That a country--any country--would spy on a foreign head of state.
What a world we live in
Exactly, this whole thing has been standard practice for decades.
But now that the man on the street knows your elected officials can play it for political points without being the bad guy.
So why are you sending it in the clear?
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I don't really have much sympathy for someone who's trying to help students and employees circumvent network policy. They can watch their porn or check facebook on their own time.
People who live at school are often subject to filtering even in the dorms. So what is "their own time" to you?
Those students should be taking the issue up with the school to which they are paying fees for the privilege of being censored.
is this a non-problem?
Not a problem for me, but then I'm neither sending newsletters that look like spam nor wanting to read newsletters that arrive by email that look like spam. In fact if my mail gateway would automatically filter all the newsletters I manage to accidentally subscribe to I would be happier.
Sounds to me like an outdated means of communication whose time has come and gone (a decade ago?), these days if people want to read your content they can "go get it" with the click of a mouse on a bookmark, you don't have to send it to them. I suspect the vast majority of newsletter recipients don't want them.
Perhaps he also has a side business in buggy whips and household coal furnaces?
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Damn... was that out loud?
Rats
ARMv9 is better than any of this.
My ARM goes to 11
We wonder why so many Americans are ignorant of the standards of science when the only time anything scientific captures their attention, it's complete bullshit wrapped around an intriguing nugget. Selling the bullshit sizzle but not the steak is the reason the majority of the population remains clueless about this important food group.
Beautifully phrased.
Damn you for posting something insightful after I've commented elsewhere.
I thought it was alcohol that removed the need to distinguish between genders.
While this is more true in Appalachia, correlation does not equal causation.
Except that in this case I'm already making software for software development, so it actually makes sense.
I would fully expect to be working for the company that's building the software development machines, mostly since that's what I already do.
I do take your point, but the problem is that there are lots of people with non-transferable skills because they're not really skills. That's generally not true in any field that actually requires an education. (And no, business school and anthropology do not count as an education.)