Also, I have seen very few tables running Linux, most tables are just solid wood or metal.
Linux should be ported to tables as soon as possible, the installation base is huge. You will get the gamers interested too, as so many games are played on table platforms.
As a sidenote though, if you were using SmartDrive (Microsoft's disk caching utility), it was recommended to command "smartdrv/c" before powering off to ensure that the buffer was flushed.
Still not buying it. There are operating systems and hardware abstraction layers, but it's still too far-fetched to say that there is a virtual machine running in the scenario which you described.
You seem to be thinking that every time when a program is working from within any form of abstraction, it means it is running in a virtual machine.
that thing that we used before we could go to Google and efficiently search for anything, right? Just so I'm on the same page.
What if you don't remember what to search? For example, you find some random page with some interesting topic, but you never remember to get back to it. Bookmarks can be handy for that.
C is not interpreted, but it does run on a virtual machine. The C runtime is the implementation of that virtual machine.
I wouldn't call it a virtual machine either. The C runtime library is just implementation of various system functions, making it look more like a shared object.
And all compiled C code, including the runtime library, run on bare metal.
Not that there's anything wrong with a gaming platform. But if platforms are being driven single-mindedly toward an architecture optimized for one class of app. I say: Go get your own platform (an Xbox). Desktop means we may need to minimize your precious full screen game. Maybe open another app on top of it. Maybe even a client from a remote system. So, if we have to strip everything out to satisfy your performance requirements, forget it.
Why would this kind of scenario even be a problem? When we detect that there is a full screen OpenGL-accelerated application (game) running, we keep other apps buzzing in the background but not let them actually draw anything. We can give all the resources to the game, and popping another app on top of a full screen game is not very important. Then when we quit the game, normal desktop operation is restored.
Shouldn't Wayland be out already? The R-Pi port is cool but those demos including terminal windows and flowers are the same ones we saw a couple of years ago already. Let me guess that Canonical has Mir mostly working in a year from now.
I think this goes to the same bin when last week some people here suggested that people will move to Linux because it got faster OpenGL Intel driver than other operating systems.
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Also, I have seen very few tables running Linux, most tables are just solid wood or metal.
Linux should be ported to tables as soon as possible, the installation base is huge. You will get the gamers interested too, as so many games are played on table platforms.
No. They are technical descriptions of incorrect behavior of the software.
Err...so you are fine with the Windows 8 UI if you can avoid using it as much as possible?
I couldn't find a single function in the Win8 UI which would work better, faster or more productively than its Win7 counterpart.
Why bother upgrading?
Good point. Even if Windows 8 didn't have all the Metro silliness, Windows 7 would still do its job just fine.
As a sidenote though, if you were using SmartDrive (Microsoft's disk caching utility), it was recommended to command "smartdrv /c" before powering off to ensure that the buffer was flushed.
There's a "Restart" option in the sidebar too.
Still not buying it. There are operating systems and hardware abstraction layers, but it's still too far-fetched to say that there is a virtual machine running in the scenario which you described.
You seem to be thinking that every time when a program is working from within any form of abstraction, it means it is running in a virtual machine.
IMHO, Mr. Torvalds should step in and organize / unify this mess if the Year of Linux in the desktop is to ever happen.
As much as some people here may not like him, Mr. Shuttleworth is doing exactly what you described.
It's equally valid to say SanDisk failed (umm, violated) Moore's law.
In a way that is true, because at the same time Moore's law was discovered, it was set as an engineering goal.
Opera has been free for a long time now. Youtube has HTML 5 support.
YouTube offers only a portion of their videos in HTML5.
that thing that we used before we could go to Google and efficiently search for anything, right? Just so I'm on the same page.
What if you don't remember what to search? For example, you find some random page with some interesting topic, but you never remember to get back to it. Bookmarks can be handy for that.
You have to start somewhere.
C is not interpreted, but it does run on a virtual machine. The C runtime is the implementation of that virtual machine.
I wouldn't call it a virtual machine either. The C runtime library is just implementation of various system functions, making it look more like a shared object.
And all compiled C code, including the runtime library, run on bare metal.
Please, sir, you are confusing us with facts!
Sadly I suspect that most of us have forgotten this event by the end of the week.
No. World takes a lot of shapes, both good and bad. We should instead say "Dear Kid, meet the real PayPal".
Not that there's anything wrong with a gaming platform. But if platforms are being driven single-mindedly toward an architecture optimized for one class of app. I say: Go get your own platform (an Xbox). Desktop means we may need to minimize your precious full screen game. Maybe open another app on top of it. Maybe even a client from a remote system. So, if we have to strip everything out to satisfy your performance requirements, forget it.
Why would this kind of scenario even be a problem? When we detect that there is a full screen OpenGL-accelerated application (game) running, we keep other apps buzzing in the background but not let them actually draw anything. We can give all the resources to the game, and popping another app on top of a full screen game is not very important. Then when we quit the game, normal desktop operation is restored.
Shouldn't Wayland be out already? The R-Pi port is cool but those demos including terminal windows and flowers are the same ones we saw a couple of years ago already. Let me guess that Canonical has Mir mostly working in a year from now.
I think this goes to the same bin when last week some people here suggested that people will move to Linux because it got faster OpenGL Intel driver than other operating systems.
If you see objects that are hanging from transparent strings of fishing line...
This might not affect Portal in any way, but as an interesting sidenote they recently added OpenGL 2 support to the i915 hardware under Linux. :)
True. Stallman has some good ideas but his strict idealism is actually hurting his agenda. It's a net loss.
This is the best answer in my opinion. In most cases you can just use the operating system name to cover all the stuff it includes.
But the possibility that it might be, is interesting.