Assembling a computer from parts is fairly easy. Building new components is a little more difficult. I don't have access to a billion-dollar chip fabrication plant.
Having an iPhone doesn't guarantee automatic upgrades, etc. either. Apple really likes dropping hardware support as soon as they're able to get away with it, just like any other manufacturer. Try putting the latest iOS on the 1st generation iPhone. Good luck. However, you can put the latest Android on there.
Minecraft is a huge moment in the gaming industry because it demonstrated that Gamers are interested in being shown a tech demo that's fun, and paying for the tech demo now in return for a full game later.
Odd. My Athlon II x4 feels much, much faster than my old 486 DX2. I was running SuSE on the 486 and running Debian 6.0 on my current machine. Running things like GIMP or Povray was way more painful on the 486.
And that's about where I stopped reading. I have automatic distrust of any social media company and the Chinese government, so why would I join one from China?
If you're using a Firefox-based browser (ie Iceweasel on Debian), then just uncompress the tarball and move libflashplayer.so into ~/.mozilla/plugins and you're done.
This is a little similar to what Standard Oil could do: get much lower shipping rates on oil because of how much volume they produce. The difference being that Standard Oil had nearly 95% of the oil market whereas Apple isn't anywhere close to that.
Anything Apple touches is groundbreaking. How dare you sully their reputation in the year 56 ASJ*. There was nothing groundbreaking prior to the year 1 ASJ. In fact we hardly know anything that happened in those dark times.
* ASJ = After Steve Jobs. BSJ = Before Steve Jobs, when the dark ages were upon us.
All the other programs running on top comprise the OS. Why can't people get this straight? There isn't just a "Linux" community, there's a GNU community, an X community, a Debian community, a GCC community, an Android community, etc. Some parts overlap and some parts don't. But to say that all of these communities is Linux is a little misleading.
I never understood how or why MySpace became so popular. The individual pages were just so bad: horrible backgrounds, horrible background music that won't shut up, videos that keep playing, etc. It all reminded me of geocities (*shudder*). In contrast, Facebook just provides a much more clean and polished look.
When I'm on a flight, I'm usually asleep. And when I am awake, I'm watching videos, reading comics, or reading books on my Nook Color. So wifi might be interesting on a flight, but I definitely wouldn't pay for it.
Yes, so you don't actually use your OS to do work and get things done (apart from maybe web browsing or development).
What exactly do you consider "work"? And no, I don't use the OS to do work. The OS gets out of the way while I do work, which is exactly what it should do.
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Quiet you! I just bought $600k worth of tickets in this game!!!
Assembling a computer from parts is fairly easy. Building new components is a little more difficult. I don't have access to a billion-dollar chip fabrication plant.
Thank you for illustrating my point.
Having an iPhone doesn't guarantee automatic upgrades, etc. either. Apple really likes dropping hardware support as soon as they're able to get away with it, just like any other manufacturer. Try putting the latest iOS on the 1st generation iPhone. Good luck. However, you can put the latest Android on there.
hmm, that would make it "1 HURD"
I store stuff in /dev/null and retrieve from /dev/random. /dev/random has everything!
Minecraft is a huge moment in the gaming industry because it demonstrated that Gamers are interested in being shown a tech demo that's fun, and paying for the tech demo now in return for a full game later.
Actually, Quake III showed us that.
Odd. My Athlon II x4 feels much, much faster than my old 486 DX2. I was running SuSE on the 486 and running Debian 6.0 on my current machine. Running things like GIMP or Povray was way more painful on the 486.
And that's about where I stopped reading. I have automatic distrust of any social media company and the Chinese government, so why would I join one from China?
If you're using a Firefox-based browser (ie Iceweasel on Debian), then just uncompress the tarball and move libflashplayer.so into ~/.mozilla/plugins and you're done.
I only ever used it to watch videos, but it so far works just as well as the prior release (running 64-bit Debian 6.0).
This is a little similar to what Standard Oil could do: get much lower shipping rates on oil because of how much volume they produce. The difference being that Standard Oil had nearly 95% of the oil market whereas Apple isn't anywhere close to that.
Anything Apple touches is groundbreaking. How dare you sully their reputation in the year 56 ASJ*. There was nothing groundbreaking prior to the year 1 ASJ. In fact we hardly know anything that happened in those dark times.
* ASJ = After Steve Jobs. BSJ = Before Steve Jobs, when the dark ages were upon us.
and Pfizer, Merck, Abbott, Boston Scientific, General Electric, Boeing, Lockheed, United Technologies, etc.
All the other programs running on top comprise the OS. Why can't people get this straight? There isn't just a "Linux" community, there's a GNU community, an X community, a Debian community, a GCC community, an Android community, etc. Some parts overlap and some parts don't. But to say that all of these communities is Linux is a little misleading.
Hopefully it is.
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I never understood how or why MySpace became so popular. The individual pages were just so bad: horrible backgrounds, horrible background music that won't shut up, videos that keep playing, etc. It all reminded me of geocities (*shudder*). In contrast, Facebook just provides a much more clean and polished look.
Does any other sector suffer as many patent lawsuits with supposed patent infringement as the software industry?
A few of them: pharmaceutical, medical devices, electronics, etc.
and bought my own tropical island to live on.
Probably logged into XBox Live and fragging each other in Halo.
Sounds like emacs...
Kind of like the IPv6 transition, eh?
When I'm on a flight, I'm usually asleep. And when I am awake, I'm watching videos, reading comics, or reading books on my Nook Color. So wifi might be interesting on a flight, but I definitely wouldn't pay for it.
Yes, so you don't actually use your OS to do work and get things done (apart from maybe web browsing or development).
What exactly do you consider "work"? And no, I don't use the OS to do work. The OS gets out of the way while I do work, which is exactly what it should do.