Battery sucks on ALL laptops with Linux. I've tried some of the fixes (like killing the hrtimer) and it still sucks. The fan control is poor, and so my CPUs tend to overheat before their time.
Desktop linux is GREAT, but on the laptop it leaves a lot to be desired.
Amazon will lose once it's tax-free status goes away. They run with razor-thin margins (or else they wouldn't have sweatshop warehouses). That margin evaporates if the cost of doing business with Amazon goes up 3-9%. As a merchant storefront? They can continue to make money, but only on stuff you can't find locally.
Note that by losing I don't mean Amazon is going to die - it just loses a lot of it's advantage compared to B&N and just waiting for a book to arrive. Especially if you have to pay tax AND shipping costs.
Annie's Book Stop, a small chain here in Mass/RI in the late 80's, early 90's would have weekly book drops. This was back before the huge upsurge in UPS and FedEx, so it was worth it. Crazy things I had to look up on microfiche, but could have a week later if I wanted.
Or Waldenbooks, where thanks to generous family I built my huge-ass and nearly complete collection of 2nd edition AD&D gear.
But nostalgia aside, I'm happy to have Amazon, and have been a customer nearly since day 1.
IF they hadn't thrown away support for WiMo 6 all that hackers who built that ecosystem would still be using Microsoft phones. All the tinkerers I know who liked Windows Mobile are now all Android users.
Way to fuck your customer, again (Play4sure), Microsoft!
That is true if you're counting I/O, where the extra abstraction layer adds overhead (but which is diminishing with every hardware generation).
In terms of actual CPU computation ability, there's no difference between running on bare-metal and in a VM.
Yes this is worth the effort, because Android wasn't built to be multi-user (which is where I assume you're trying to take this argument). Putting in a hardware level hypervisor would be easier, in some respects, than re-engineering Android. Nevermind it makes the surety of a remote-kill more palatable to IT security types.
Simple - the insanity of paying someone a million dollars for a single weeks work. I know plenty of people who could have pulled off Friends for 1/1000th the price.
Just like US Elections, our entertainment is getting way too expensive.
We should be throwing money at technology that works: nuclear power. The research on nuclear power didn't end in 1973 - it continued. And unlike the rest of the green movement, we KNOW we can achieve break-even before the lifetime of the plant expires.
No, the reason Android took off is because it was a platform for which the handset makers didn't have to create an OS for. The apps had nothing to do with it. Chrome got them something that could compete with the iPhone for nearly zero cost.
That it's improving is undeniable, but trust me, it wasn't the walled garden that caused Androids success. It was no-money down smartphones from the likes of TMobile that started it.
The problem is the design of the software. 98/XP and ilk made malware prevalent, but the real issue with perceived "slowness" is Microsoft's damn registry, context menu hell, and shitloads of COM objects (Ole Automation).
They built this technology (good stuff, it really is), without a single thought as to how to clean it up and remove it. Installers shouldn't be necessary for apps - a simple tarball should be the way to go.
Actually, while its not quite that extreme, I do slow down at every green, more so whenever there isnt a parked car at the cross street, simply because ive almost been destroyed by someone run i g a red light. It pays to be aware.
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Battery sucks on ALL laptops with Linux. I've tried some of the fixes (like killing the hrtimer) and it still sucks. The fan control is poor, and so my CPUs tend to overheat before their time.
Desktop linux is GREAT, but on the laptop it leaves a lot to be desired.
I keep seeing people say this, but I have yet to see anyone produce a single reference supporting this argument.
Please help me out.
When 32bit ARM SoC's like the Guruplug are getting cheaper?
All things said about the Space Shuttle.
Spacecraft are not airplanes - yet. Virgin might change that, but I'm still skeptical until I see reliable 1-2 day turnarounds.
an executive usually has the legal obligation (towards shareholders) to do exactly that.
False. And demonstrably so. Otherwise every CEO/VP/EVP/SVP of a bankrupt business would be in fucking pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
This is an urban legend - stop promulgating it.
Who's George R. R. Martin?
Wait, I thought Slashdot had a hard-on for the penguin?
Amazon will lose once it's tax-free status goes away. They run with razor-thin margins (or else they wouldn't have sweatshop warehouses). That margin evaporates if the cost of doing business with Amazon goes up 3-9%. As a merchant storefront? They can continue to make money, but only on stuff you can't find locally.
Note that by losing I don't mean Amazon is going to die - it just loses a lot of it's advantage compared to B&N and just waiting for a book to arrive. Especially if you have to pay tax AND shipping costs.
Annie's Book Stop, a small chain here in Mass/RI in the late 80's, early 90's would have weekly book drops. This was back before the huge upsurge in UPS and FedEx, so it was worth it. Crazy things I had to look up on microfiche, but could have a week later if I wanted.
Or Waldenbooks, where thanks to generous family I built my huge-ass and nearly complete collection of 2nd edition AD&D gear.
But nostalgia aside, I'm happy to have Amazon, and have been a customer nearly since day 1.
Wait until Amazon gets in the PoD business for those of us who still like real books. :-)
I would kill to be able to customize a set of say, LoTR or Harry Potter, instead of taking the publishers mainstream crap.
IF they hadn't thrown away support for WiMo 6 all that hackers who built that ecosystem would still be using Microsoft phones. All the tinkerers I know who liked Windows Mobile are now all Android users.
Way to fuck your customer, again (Play4sure), Microsoft!
Except you very much DO own your likeness and it's use thereof.
Daily operations - there's be an answer for that for DECADES (at least one) called Wake-On-LAN.
Windows, the only OS in the world you can't network boot.
And that's wrong too - flying, like driving, shouldn't be a privilege in the modern era.
Patents and copyrights should be identical, if they exist at all. Twenty years, tops.
VM's are not speed daemons
That is true if you're counting I/O, where the extra abstraction layer adds overhead (but which is diminishing with every hardware generation).
In terms of actual CPU computation ability, there's no difference between running on bare-metal and in a VM.
Yes this is worth the effort, because Android wasn't built to be multi-user (which is where I assume you're trying to take this argument). Putting in a hardware level hypervisor would be easier, in some respects, than re-engineering Android. Nevermind it makes the surety of a remote-kill more palatable to IT security types.
Any fuckers who want to patent this better watch out. I wrote about this years ago right here on Slashdot, somewhere...
I know I'm by no means the smartest kid in class, but this should have been obvious once phones started equaling computers in capabilities.
Google desktop is the only thing that makes my desktop usable - that can search my gigabytes of Outlook email, that makes my computer USEFUL!
You can pry my Google Desktop out of my cold dead hands!
I don't think Outlook search compares, nor do I think Microsoft's indexing compares. It's just not as comparable, in my opinion.
Spartacus. That's it. That's all the Starz I think I've ever KNOWINGLY watched.
Starz made more money off of me BECAUSE of Netflix - I also have the DVDs of Spartacus. That wouldn't have happened without Netflix.
Simple - the insanity of paying someone a million dollars for a single weeks work. I know plenty of people who could have pulled off Friends for 1/1000th the price.
Just like US Elections, our entertainment is getting way too expensive.
Is anyone else cringing when they see company websites as
http://facebook.com/facelessssoullesscorp
instead of
http://www.facelesssoullesscorp.com?
Facebook, the new AOL of the Internet?
We should be throwing money at technology that works: nuclear power. The research on nuclear power didn't end in 1973 - it continued. And unlike the rest of the green movement, we KNOW we can achieve break-even before the lifetime of the plant expires.
No, the reason Android took off is because it was a platform for which the handset makers didn't have to create an OS for. The apps had nothing to do with it. Chrome got them something that could compete with the iPhone for nearly zero cost.
That it's improving is undeniable, but trust me, it wasn't the walled garden that caused Androids success. It was no-money down smartphones from the likes of TMobile that started it.
The problem is the design of the software. 98/XP and ilk made malware prevalent, but the real issue with perceived "slowness" is Microsoft's damn registry, context menu hell, and shitloads of COM objects (Ole Automation).
They built this technology (good stuff, it really is), without a single thought as to how to clean it up and remove it. Installers shouldn't be necessary for apps - a simple tarball should be the way to go.
Actually, while its not quite that extreme, I do slow down at every green, more so whenever there isnt a parked car at the cross street, simply because ive almost been destroyed by someone run i g a red light. It pays to be aware.