If you've never driven anywhere but on a level plain, you might not appreciate the difference.
Let me put this another way: You do NOT want to drive Hwy 321 anywhere north/east of Elizabethton, TN during the winter using anything other than a stick. Unless you like driving at 5-10 MPH the whole way, or have a fondness for vertical travel.
You presume a lot, and you presume mostly wrongly.
If you were born after 1977, then I've been using computers longer than you've been alive.
In any case, I've seen Vista in (in)action on enough machines with plenty of horsepower to recognise it as completely horrid, even for post-2K Windows.
And just so you know, I shop for specs. Computer store salespeople hate me with a passion.
And I do not care what version of Windows comes with *my* computer, because Windows gets wiped and replaced with an operating system about 10 minutes after I get the machine home.
As other posters have mentioned doing, I keep my/home on a separate partition, and I NEVER bother with upgrades: I just back up/home (never actually had to use the backup in such a case, but better safe than sorry), then let the installer reformat all other partitions and do a fresh install. Takes the same amount of time, and I don't worry about those slipups I'm always hearing about where some one little thing somehow doesn't actually get upgraded during someone's upgrade (older version of a library doesn't get replaced, whatever), and hilarity ensues.
2. Automated slander is still slander. If some robocaller called you, would you accept "it is the machine calling you! I am not responsible!" as an excuse? If the Google self-driving car hit somebody, would you claim that Google is not responsible because it is just "the result of an algorithm"? If Google's algorithm resulted in spreading slander, then Google IS responsible for it.
Your argument falls on its face because Google is not the active party here. It's more like you're ringing a number which records voice messages from anyone who wishes to leave one, hearing one that offends you, then blaming Google rather than the person who actually recorded the offensive message.
After all, if some kid spray-painted "ANONYMOUS COWARD SUCKS!!" on your house, you'd sue the building contractor who constructed the wall that got tagged with the kid's message, right?
Windows 7 was basically Windows Vista SP2 with a new taskbar.
Right. The fact that Windows 7 (unlike its predecessor) would actually stay up long enough to get something done with it was of relatively little consequence.
And that's why one would recommend a tablet that runs a full desktop OS and can, in fact, function as a proper laptop for 99% of users with the addition of a simple keyboard.
So 99% of those users would be perfectly well served by a laptop that is cheaper than surface + keyboard.
Tablets could be a natural classroom accessory for technical fields of study. Instead of showing Power Point decks, profs could beam rich slides and video clips to hundreds of students toting these tablets.
Or they could, you know, just have one big screen at the front of the room, and show the slides and vids on that?
Aren't most corporate apps these days really Web apps? Where I work (very big, very multinational software company), the only things that everyone has to use and that actually have to *run* on people's machines are Web browser, VPN, and maybe an office suite.
Tablets already have the first 2 covered quite well. (It's not like we're sitting around on our thumbs waiting on ports of Firefox or AnyConnect to iOS and Android.) And who the fuck is going to write a 20-page whitepaper or 50-slide PPT preso on a tablet?
So we'll have the sales guys going for e-peen points waving their tablets at each other, while (surprise, surprise) not doing much actual work on them at all. And 90% of corporate workers will still be using desktops or laptops.
So yes, in this case, x86 compatibility is not much of a draw at all.
(Now for me *personally* it might be fun to get one of these and to try to put Linux or Android on it. But "fun" does not a business case make.)
You think this is any different now? You are aware that the FBI bugged MLK, aren't you? And that the guy who assassinated him likely had help from the Feds, don't you?
Susan remembers Bob before he went crazy and wants to keep his picture up from their wedding. Does Bob's desire to remove himself from Facebook trump Susan's right to remember her husband as he was before he took the crazy train out of town?
Susan certainly has the right to retain a personal copy of such a photo, but if she insists on keeping it posted on FB, I'll insist on some counselling.
(Survivor of a marriage that ended when my partner, as you so quaintly put it, "rode the crazy train out of town".)
OP spoke of "unofficial threats", which is probably not far off the mark: "But if you make FB do this, they'll lose money. And this is bad for you, because...".
Here's a tip: Before attempting to participate in the "is that you, X?" meme, who should make sure that whomever you're responding to is actually expressing opinions that sound like those of X. It works much better that way.
Fortunately for you, you posted AC, so you can at least bear your shame in private.
Do I feel as trapped by US popular culture and attitudes here as I did when I lived in the States? No.
Do I worry quite as much that my kids and I might die in some huge man-made catastrophe (including warfare)? No. (Sweden hasn't been in a war for over 200 years.)
Do I imagine myself completely free of US influence of varying sorts? Of course not. It's not like I moved to another planet, after all. Even if it seems that way much of the time.
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If you've never driven anywhere but on a level plain, you might not appreciate the difference.
Let me put this another way: You do NOT want to drive Hwy 321 anywhere north/east of Elizabethton, TN during the winter using anything other than a stick. Unless you like driving at 5-10 MPH the whole way, or have a fondness for vertical travel.
And it's not that much better in summer.
let's face it, if we were real Linux users, we would probably just have posted listings of our XKeysimDB files at each other. :)
You presume a lot, and you presume mostly wrongly.
If you were born after 1977, then I've been using computers longer than you've been alive.
In any case, I've seen Vista in (in)action on enough machines with plenty of horsepower to recognise it as completely horrid, even for post-2K Windows.
And just so you know, I shop for specs. Computer store salespeople hate me with a passion.
And I do not care what version of Windows comes with *my* computer, because Windows gets wiped and replaced with an operating system about 10 minutes after I get the machine home.
As other posters have mentioned doing, I keep my /home on a separate partition, and I NEVER bother with upgrades: I just back up /home (never actually had to use the backup in such a case, but better safe than sorry), then let the installer reformat all other partitions and do a fresh install. Takes the same amount of time, and I don't worry about those slipups I'm always hearing about where some one little thing somehow doesn't actually get upgraded during someone's upgrade (older version of a library doesn't get replaced, whatever), and hilarity ensues.
Already the first hit for "Guy Hingston" (at least for me, YMMV). Nice work. :)
2. Automated slander is still slander. If some robocaller called you, would you accept "it is the machine calling you! I am not responsible!" as an excuse? If the Google self-driving car hit somebody, would you claim that Google is not responsible because it is just "the result of an algorithm"? If Google's algorithm resulted in spreading slander, then Google IS responsible for it.
Your argument falls on its face because Google is not the active party here. It's more like you're ringing a number which records voice messages from anyone who wishes to leave one, hearing one that offends you, then blaming Google rather than the person who actually recorded the offensive message.
After all, if some kid spray-painted "ANONYMOUS COWARD SUCKS!!" on your house, you'd sue the building contractor who constructed the wall that got tagged with the kid's message, right?
Windows 7 was basically Windows Vista SP2 with a new taskbar.
Right. The fact that Windows 7 (unlike its predecessor) would actually stay up long enough to get something done with it was of relatively little consequence.
And that's why one would recommend a tablet that runs a full desktop OS and can, in fact, function as a proper laptop for 99% of users with the addition of a simple keyboard.
So 99% of those users would be perfectly well served by a laptop that is cheaper than surface + keyboard.
Thanks for enlightening us. :)
Tablets could be a natural classroom accessory for technical fields of study. Instead of showing Power Point decks, profs could beam rich slides and video clips to hundreds of students toting these tablets.
Or they could, you know, just have one big screen at the front of the room, and show the slides and vids on that?
Aren't most corporate apps these days really Web apps? Where I work (very big, very multinational software company), the only things that everyone has to use and that actually have to *run* on people's machines are Web browser, VPN, and maybe an office suite.
Tablets already have the first 2 covered quite well. (It's not like we're sitting around on our thumbs waiting on ports of Firefox or AnyConnect to iOS and Android.) And who the fuck is going to write a 20-page whitepaper or 50-slide PPT preso on a tablet?
So we'll have the sales guys going for e-peen points waving their tablets at each other, while (surprise, surprise) not doing much actual work on them at all. And 90% of corporate workers will still be using desktops or laptops.
So yes, in this case, x86 compatibility is not much of a draw at all.
(Now for me *personally* it might be fun to get one of these and to try to put Linux or Android on it. But "fun" does not a business case make.)
More like Canonical trying to be MS trying to be Apple, but otherwise agreed.
Wrong. The default key binding for Yakuake is F12. Alt+F1 brings up the KDE menu.
I guess if you don't know that, you're really not a Linux guy, after all, are you?
Look into OpenSUSE, then.
The 11.x/12.x releases have been pretty consistently good for me.
Even better... no Unity to complain about.
(Never saw what the big buzzy was over Ubuntu in any case. I tried it a couple of times and found it marginally acceptable, but annoying.)
You think the near-simultaneous appearance of "gorilla glass" and "gorilla arm" was a coincidence?
Some folks have lost... years.
You think this is any different now? You are aware that the FBI bugged MLK, aren't you? And that the guy who assassinated him likely had help from the Feds, don't you?
Only the names have changed.
The only ambiguity there is 'warned', and whether it's an active or passive verb doesn't significantly alter the sense.
Maybe your parser needs upgrading. Mine handled this just fine.
Susan remembers Bob before he went crazy and wants to keep his picture up from their wedding. Does Bob's desire to remove himself from Facebook trump Susan's right to remember her husband as he was before he took the crazy train out of town?
Susan certainly has the right to retain a personal copy of such a photo, but if she insists on keeping it posted on FB, I'll insist on some counselling.
(Survivor of a marriage that ended when my partner, as you so quaintly put it, "rode the crazy train out of town".)
IOW, you post nothing of value that merits preservation. And you enjoy fucking up your friends' discussions.
Thanks for making these things clear to us.
Enough with the revisionism.
*You* said "invade". Nobody else did.
OP spoke of "unofficial threats", which is probably not far off the mark: "But if you make FB do this, they'll lose money. And this is bad for you, because...".
Please note that in the foregoing post, "everyone" is used as a polite euphemism for "gun nuts".
I rather like the idea of interdependence growing to the point where countries simply can't afford to have wars with one another, myself.
Not even close, bonehead.
Here's a tip: Before attempting to participate in the "is that you, X?" meme, who should make sure that whomever you're responding to is actually expressing opinions that sound like those of X. It works much better that way.
Fortunately for you, you posted AC, so you can at least bear your shame in private.
Do I feel as trapped by US popular culture and attitudes here as I did when I lived in the States? No.
Do I worry quite as much that my kids and I might die in some huge man-made catastrophe (including warfare)? No. (Sweden hasn't been in a war for over 200 years.)
Do I imagine myself completely free of US influence of varying sorts? Of course not. It's not like I moved to another planet, after all. Even if it seems that way much of the time.
Satisfied SUSE/OpenSUSE user here, since 2004 or so.