I will second this. The pre-Android 4.0 was slow making it easy to competitive against the browser. This showed what's possible with the same hardware, thus driving Android improvements. If a phone is fast on slow hardware at a cheaper cost, it is a better value than one needing more expensive hardware for the same work. A competitive app market helps this.
Most current Ubuntu installations have never displayed the command line. Drivers, updates, printers, networking, sharing, & multiple DEs all work without it. Like Windows, non-native development and lean admin work requires the command-line. The only real exception is installing a program that's not packaged right, and that's equally non-intuitive in Windows.
I'm in USA's West coast, where Whole Foods (and others) almost guarantees to have a higher price and not compete with the "loss leader" companies, but instead sell a better product. They're running the "loss leader" companies out of (the nicer parts of) town. And with such bulk, their prices on organic products are competitive.
Back in the old days for your monthly bills
Mortgage, Car, Power, Telephone.
Today
Mortgage, Car, Power, Telephone, Internet, Cell Phone, Cable TV, Netflix...
Interesting list, but for me:
no Mortgage, I'm renting
no telephone for decades
no Cable TV or Netflix
I'm considering (like others) to have Internet service through the cellphone only, and possibly going to 1 car for the family, leaving:
Renting, Car, Power, Internet/Cell Phone
Where are all these riches you mention?
There have been long Slashdot discussions on DC. If I remember right, DC loses more power than AC on wire runs & has a higher shock risk. USB3 offers a good low-watt (4.5W max) DC power spec with power-saving modes. It requires "intelligent" devices to plug-in to request the power, which shouldn't be a problem nowadays.
Agreed, it's a personal take on the bad economy. Maybe even a natural balance: Resource-constrained populations (bad economy) avoid children for quality-of-life reasons (theirs & children). That causes fewer children thereby reducing the resource constraint.
There are 1-to-1 tools like LibreOffice Base. Those setups can move data to a shared RDBMS backend (MySQL & others) when concurrency is needed.
Then with data in a database backend, any web tool from Ruby-on-Rails to PHP libraries can edit the data or render graphs.
You bring a new, unopened laptop in a box with the manufacturer's untouched tape still on it to the service center to request a Windows refund. It worked for me (with Acer). There's no way I extracted any value from Windows with the tape still on the box.
Drizzle (Mysql fork) has a lot of low-hanging fruit & its modular nature helps.
Otherwise if you're really contributing just for notoriety, consider Sqlite. It has plenty of work needed & it's critical for 100s of big companies: Google, Apple, Adobe (Photoshop), many more.
True in a driverless world. But the issue's when another human-driven vehicle fails to yield. Legally there's no obligation for avoidance unless avoidance is easy & safe. Next, driverless car passengers prefer to live & want great avoidance measures for their life and lastly minimal injuries (although legal) caused to the criminal.
Thanks for the perspective, it makes the morality of the situation seems trivial.
I'll join that team:
Function Fog_Speed_Limit(){// called a few times a second
Laser_Pointer.on();
var image = Front_Camera.get_image();
Laser_Pointer.off();// assuming camera sees laser & is "above" it (scanline-wise).
int horizontalLine = find_highest_horizontal_where_laser_line_is_a_beam(image);
int visibilityDist = HorizLine2Dist_Lookup_Table[horizontalLine];
return StoppingDist2Speed_Lookup_Table[visibilityDist];
}
Like early auto-pilots that required huge safe distances & cautions, driverless cars initially will be similar since safety is far more important than expedient travel. It's likely travel will be so slow and it'll let so many cars cut them off that taking a bus is faster.
If you're installing Ubuntu, then you get a Python 3.x stack with tons of libraries ready-to-go (and in use drawing a decent portion of your UI). If you want any other Unix-common tool, the Software Center has a faster install path then what's similarly available for Windows. If you have a video card that isn't friendly to compositing, choices usually are:
1. Fix it yourself: incredibly difficult for newbies, hard for experts.
2. Hardware upgrade: common, Windows with compositing (Vista) requires this too.
3. Install Lubuntu or Xubuntu: gets max newbie-friendliness without compositing
Unity Dash is the slowest Linux UI I know. Try Kubuntu, Lubuntu, or Xubuntu instead if response is essential. This info is readily available to newbies on StackExchange & Ubuntu forums too.
C makes 1970s assumptions like there will be only 1 thread (no parallelism), no such thing as SSE, and few built-ins (thus requiring a variety of libraries that may make similar errors). Modern technology offers C extensions (OpenMP), better libraries, better compilers which have utilize modern architecture targets. Even Java now auto-parallelizes some code that it once ran linearly. There is enormous potential for non-trivial code to better-fit the hardware.
Now that Ubuntu's kernel & GNU tools run Dalvik, PulseAudio has an AudioFlinger API, and Ubuntu creates its own notification system... if a few other libraries gain some APIs then an Ubuntu tablet would natively run Android applications. This could easily push a native Linux userspace into the mainstream. Do you think it should be done?
Ubuntu's pull into the future has been muddled lately when better alternatives arriving later aren't embraced (even if just for the sake of work sharing). SystemD, no-scripts-in-boot, In-Kernel sound, file layout simplification/unification, Wayland, btrfs rollbacks, X32. Is being the most high-tech distro no-longer part of the Ubuntu plan?
I love Unity, but notice all the work items this cycle are around things KDE already has (Widgets from multiple vendors, compositor performance, File manager isn't onboard, preparing for Wayland). Is the KDE compositor & utilities a better direction for Unity?
My wife & I love PC games but prefer safe bank transactions & better web browsing. Dual-booting's a pain, so we just stick with Linux & Linux HumbleBundle games. We own StarCraft2, but don't play it much since I don't want the whole procedure to get there.
(to help GP)
The open-source JVM is available though, which is very feature-complete. The open-source flash lags behind or (usually) isn't worth it, but YouTube has HTML5 videos now.
Anything Windows-oriented is unavailable (FOSS or not) like ndiswrapper (which you shouldn't need), wine (not running windows apps directly may affect you). There's KVM (Kernel Virtualization Module), but it only virtualizes ARM systems. If you must, there's bochs to run x86 on ARM, but it's slow and limited.
Other "common for me" 3rd-party drivers like Lightscribe won't work.
But otherwise things like scanners & well-supported (openprinting.org) printers should work. You'll even get to use USB devices that work in x86 Linux via open-source drivers.
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I will second this. The pre-Android 4.0 was slow making it easy to competitive against the browser. This showed what's possible with the same hardware, thus driving Android improvements. If a phone is fast on slow hardware at a cheaper cost, it is a better value than one needing more expensive hardware for the same work. A competitive app market helps this.
Most current Ubuntu installations have never displayed the command line. Drivers, updates, printers, networking, sharing, & multiple DEs all work without it. Like Windows, non-native development and lean admin work requires the command-line. The only real exception is installing a program that's not packaged right, and that's equally non-intuitive in Windows.
True P2P. The internet can realize its potential for peer exchanges. Servers and censorship begin to lose their grip.
I'm in USA's West coast, where Whole Foods (and others) almost guarantees to have a higher price and not compete with the "loss leader" companies, but instead sell a better product. They're running the "loss leader" companies out of (the nicer parts of) town. And with such bulk, their prices on organic products are competitive.
Back in the old days for your monthly bills
Mortgage, Car, Power, Telephone.
Today
Mortgage, Car, Power, Telephone, Internet, Cell Phone, Cable TV, Netflix...
Interesting list, but for me:
no Mortgage, I'm renting
no telephone for decades
no Cable TV or Netflix
I'm considering (like others) to have Internet service through the cellphone only, and possibly going to 1 car for the family, leaving:
Renting, Car, Power, Internet/Cell Phone
Where are all these riches you mention?
There have been long Slashdot discussions on DC. If I remember right, DC loses more power than AC on wire runs & has a higher shock risk. USB3 offers a good low-watt (4.5W max) DC power spec with power-saving modes. It requires "intelligent" devices to plug-in to request the power, which shouldn't be a problem nowadays.
Mod him up. This is nice.
Agreed, it's a personal take on the bad economy. Maybe even a natural balance: Resource-constrained populations (bad economy) avoid children for quality-of-life reasons (theirs & children). That causes fewer children thereby reducing the resource constraint.
There are 1-to-1 tools like LibreOffice Base. Those setups can move data to a shared RDBMS backend (MySQL & others) when concurrency is needed. Then with data in a database backend, any web tool from Ruby-on-Rails to PHP libraries can edit the data or render graphs.
You bring a new, unopened laptop in a box with the manufacturer's untouched tape still on it to the service center to request a Windows refund. It worked for me (with Acer). There's no way I extracted any value from Windows with the tape still on the box.
Drizzle (Mysql fork) has a lot of low-hanging fruit & its modular nature helps.
Otherwise if you're really contributing just for notoriety, consider Sqlite. It has plenty of work needed & it's critical for 100s of big companies: Google, Apple, Adobe (Photoshop), many more.
True in a driverless world. But the issue's when another human-driven vehicle fails to yield. Legally there's no obligation for avoidance unless avoidance is easy & safe. Next, driverless car passengers prefer to live & want great avoidance measures for their life and lastly minimal injuries (although legal) caused to the criminal.
Thanks for the perspective, it makes the morality of the situation seems trivial.
I'll join that team: // called a few times a second // assuming camera sees laser & is "above" it (scanline-wise).
Function Fog_Speed_Limit(){
Laser_Pointer.on();
var image = Front_Camera.get_image();
Laser_Pointer.off();
int horizontalLine = find_highest_horizontal_where_laser_line_is_a_beam(image);
int visibilityDist = HorizLine2Dist_Lookup_Table[horizontalLine];
return StoppingDist2Speed_Lookup_Table[visibilityDist];
}
Like early auto-pilots that required huge safe distances & cautions, driverless cars initially will be similar since safety is far more important than expedient travel. It's likely travel will be so slow and it'll let so many cars cut them off that taking a bus is faster.
Unity Dash is the slowest Linux UI I know. Try Kubuntu, Lubuntu, or Xubuntu instead if response is essential. This info is readily available to newbies on StackExchange & Ubuntu forums too.
C makes 1970s assumptions like there will be only 1 thread (no parallelism), no such thing as SSE, and few built-ins (thus requiring a variety of libraries that may make similar errors). Modern technology offers C extensions (OpenMP), better libraries, better compilers which have utilize modern architecture targets. Even Java now auto-parallelizes some code that it once ran linearly. There is enormous potential for non-trivial code to better-fit the hardware.
Now that Ubuntu's kernel & GNU tools run Dalvik, PulseAudio has an AudioFlinger API, and Ubuntu creates its own notification system... if a few other libraries gain some APIs then an Ubuntu tablet would natively run Android applications. This could easily push a native Linux userspace into the mainstream. Do you think it should be done?
Ubuntu's pull into the future has been muddled lately when better alternatives arriving later aren't embraced (even if just for the sake of work sharing). SystemD, no-scripts-in-boot, In-Kernel sound, file layout simplification/unification, Wayland, btrfs rollbacks, X32. Is being the most high-tech distro no-longer part of the Ubuntu plan?
I love Unity, but notice all the work items this cycle are around things KDE already has (Widgets from multiple vendors, compositor performance, File manager isn't onboard, preparing for Wayland). Is the KDE compositor & utilities a better direction for Unity?
Is that a bug or a feature?
My wife & I love PC games but prefer safe bank transactions & better web browsing. Dual-booting's a pain, so we just stick with Linux & Linux HumbleBundle games. We own StarCraft2, but don't play it much since I don't want the whole procedure to get there.
I'd go for another few compounds that would make it easy for us to live there.
My thinking exactly. That was disproven.
(to help GP)
The open-source JVM is available though, which is very feature-complete. The open-source flash lags behind or (usually) isn't worth it, but YouTube has HTML5 videos now.
Anything Windows-oriented is unavailable (FOSS or not) like ndiswrapper (which you shouldn't need), wine (not running windows apps directly may affect you). There's KVM (Kernel Virtualization Module), but it only virtualizes ARM systems. If you must, there's bochs to run x86 on ARM, but it's slow and limited.
Other "common for me" 3rd-party drivers like Lightscribe won't work.
But otherwise things like scanners & well-supported (openprinting.org) printers should work. You'll even get to use USB devices that work in x86 Linux via open-source drivers.
Nah, Linux (heck, Wii) had this use-case covered for years.