Windows 8 [AKA: the current Mother Ship] introduces significant changes to the operating system's platform, primarily focused towards improving its experience on mobile devices such as tablets to rival other mobile operating systems (such as Android and iOS),[4] taking advantage of new and emerging technologies (such as USB 3.0, UEFI firmware, near field communications, cloud computing, and the low-power ARM architecture)
Now, I've never seen a similar move before: just compare users and impact of Windows CE vs. Windows 98 [AKA the Mother Ship, at the time]. Did they already touched the ARM architecture with "some software" in the past? Yes. Did they ever adapted their main product to exploit the ARM architecture? Not very much so. My point is that if it wouldn't be for the "other mobile operative systems[*]" push, there wouldn't have been such an involvement in the design of the next ARM architecture.
[*]...that are already occupying the front seat and the two seat rows below in the aforementioned bandwagon.
ARM twisted then thrown through Windows (bad, bad joke).
Guess what, MS discovered the Wonderful World of ARM processors and wants to jump on the bandwagon.
That's almost already full
And they'll call "shotgun".
You know, for a server being violated is always a matter of probability, same story about hardware failures ("when", not "if"). Some of the variables in this equation is how "interesting" your server could. And a server releasing certificates is quite "interesting", if you ask me.
So if you keep the logs of such an important server on the machine itself, there isn't much to say: the administrators of such a server are incompetent.
The US custom *is* in Canada. They probably have a treaty, so if you're going in US through Canada, you go through custom (or not) before actually entering US.
At first I had mixed feelings of slight disappointment and concern, especially because it is the default filesystem in several distros, (including Android). Although, after some second thoughts, I have come to the following conclusions:
1) it is part of the game of having a continuous development toward improvement (most of the times) and new features implies some pitfalls. So far, benefits are much larger than costs.
2) Despite the fact developers are still working on a fix, I wouldn't be surprised if it would be found soon.
I guess buying and making it dual-booting a full Linux distro could be the biggest appeal, but I'm not convinced about the bargain.
For few tens of dollars more you can get a real laptop running a decent subset of the x86 program ecosystem. Then, why would I ever think about buying something that's craving for the network all the time in order to unroll its full potential? When you'll try to color me unimpressed, I'll be long gone...
Let's see, if we trust the summary to be a real summary of the article (no, it wasnt' enough to trigger my interest in reading TFA), there are only few [sarcasm] points where the choice of parameters for the training of this feature could go wrong:
radar and laser scanners: false positives? sensitivity? distance cut-off? Am I going off-road because of a restaurant at the end of the road?
front-mounted camera: image recognition accuracy? influence of light condition/weather?
alert the driver: how is the driver going to react to a very friendly red-blinking "Imminent death" widget in his dashboard, or a soft-voice "We'reAllGoingToDie" reminder? AirFrance disaster anyone?
if the driver cannot immediately turn: what's the timeout? why he can't turn? Maybe there are obstacles on the sides the front-mounted camera can't see? Just sayin'...
Oh, and let's not forget the most important one!
A new computer system automatically steers the car
That's possibly the worst that can happen when there's a driver trying to do... well... the driver.
The main reason TV is "too much" for kids has been related to the excess of stimuli that their brain can get. Then It gets harder later on that reality can compete with it... I'm still in the process of making up my mind, 'cause on one hand I think what's said in the link makes sense, but on the other hand I consider videogames one big step over the passive fruition of TV (and US television crap is not even considered here...)
I don't agree with this. Just to make things clear, I use mainly Debian and only occasionally play with Kubuntu.
As other people pointed out, there are several Ubuntu derivatives that give you pretty much all of the benefits you get with Big-U without all the mess (Unity or whatever Lens they put on top of it...). And for what matters, I think Kubuntu itself is really well-made, with great care of details and usability.
I don't like Ubuntu, but all its merits must be recognized: it positively influenced the world of distros by stressing that style and identity are as much important as the programs you provide (totally different scenario than Apple); it proofed the idea started pushing the idea that Linux can be a viable alternative in the Grown Ups market and you can sell a computer
without Windows.
It wasn't the only player, for sure, but Ubuntu moves contributed (directly or indirectly) to make Linux a less fuzzy target, maybe influencing other moves (did I think about Valve?).
Let's see, for the common user:
- Debian couldn't be enough (questionable, in recent times, but let's keep it...)
- Ubuntu is too much (bad bad Unity, desktop invasion, etc...)
- Ubuntu-derivatives (more usable desktop, no crazy marketing $h1t
-...
- Profit
Putting aside any judgements for a moment, one could try to see the desire of Shuttleworth to push Linux in the mainstream, and this could be good... somehow.
But then, from Shuttleworth's words:
"It makes perfect sense to integrate Amazon search results in the Dash, because the Home Lens of the Dash should let you find *anything* anywhere"
Seriously? it should "let me find"? You put tons of advertises in user's computers *and* tons of user's data on Amazon servers and you didn't provide it as opt-in feature? And I can't even disable it [until a rushed update came out]?
Good job! You're alienating the most important thing you gained so far, your users. You know, not only it is important to bring Ubuntu in the mainstream: you need to be sure you don't get there alone, you know?
It seems another case of "shut up, we know better than users what users really want". Do you?
As easy as "use smaller engines".
Not one of the best Italian cars for sure, the latest
Fiat Panda officially reaches 17.8 Km/l (or 67.4 MPG). Even when you disable the MLF (marketing lies field), actual users on forums report reaching easily over 16 Km/l ( ~62 MPG).
I don't buy the excuse that in US you need a V6 to get into the intersections: the highest speed limit I''ve see in in California is 75 MPH in some freeways. In Italy the highway limit is 80 MPH but nobody goes that slow.
The same European car is sold here in US with bigger engines (i.e VW Golf 1.6L vs 2.5L) just to keep up with competitor comparisons.
As far as people will like to go to buy grocery with a 4.8 liters engine, you're screwed.
If you count all the money spent in military actions to bring full-metal democracy in places were oil is sucked from the soil, US gas doesn't get much cheaper than in EU.
From my personal experience, I don't think it's a bad thing that the "editors display comments in such a way as" your brain is not bothered by them while parsing the code.
Comments are written in common language most of the time (pseudo-code in few cases) and it takes some effort to interpret them while you're trying to follow the data flow in the code. Graying them out or even collapsing them is a feature.
On the other hand, you when you look for them, I think most of the editors don't make it hard for you to access them.
Every time I read "X degrees celcius", I can't help myself to think about how many degrees faratnight would correspond to...
(DISCLAIMER: no intent to be rude nor go grammar nazi on a fellow, but it's just the third time that happen this week, and I'm starting to suspect it's a new./ trend. And don't bother modding me down/troll, I'm already at 0 degrees S)
An IDC survey of 1000 IT professionals found UNIX to be superior to Linux in multi-processing, integration, security, and skills availability.
Here it is, black on white, the reason why Linux sucks: everybody knows that UNIX has better skills availability (go ahead, try "modprobe skill_avail" on your open source rip-off free OS)
The greatest improvements in OpenServer 6 include multi-threaded application support [up to no less than 32 processors, gentlemen], large file support (up to 1 terabyte)
That's right: others would have stopped at 16 cores, but hey, this is UNIX(c), babe, they've earned that "X" at the end of their name!
OpenServer 6 customers have reported up to 1000% increase in performance.
That would explain the lack of that hnd_brake process that was constantly running with 99.9% CPU usage in their previous version.
And if this didn't knock you off from your chairs yet, here come the frosting. Recent improvements include (among others):
Flash Player Support
and... wait for it...
USB modems/serial adapters.
Now, once I've managed to convince my boss to sign for these these $25568 for our 32 core machine, I just have to figure out if I have to file this clearly "competitive advantage" under
Well, you need to have a device that's accessible to these 'Linux hackers'.
Once they can put their hands on them, and tickle the hardware with the entire software-land of Linux, you could have the equivalent of a CyanogenMod installer that even a dumb user could install without having to go to bricking-prone steps (root, install ROM recovery, yadda yadda...)
The fact that IE is reported using less RAM is a sign.
It means that the people who wrote the article don't know necessarily what they are talking about (and, by extension, that among tech sites, not only Slashdot is sucking more and more, recently).
Oh, so you were serious... Sorry about that, pal, I'll try to mend it.
Near the end of the summary there is the statement:
"...guest-to-host virtual machine escape."
that's the connection with what happens in the second Matrix movie.
If there were "sorry" mod points you would get mine.
To keep on with it, though, it seems the bug is not so dangerous if you have to reload to make it work... [duck and run away ashamed]
Maybe he's a film maker or prolific but unpublished musician.
Don't be fooled by his nick "multimediavt". No, let the lazy pig purge all these vintage copies of WIN386.SWP and PAGE.SYS files he keeps in his hardrives and stop complaining about the lack of space. I don't understand how people can store Gb of stuff that are not crap.
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But it is also true that in the last 15 years, there was nothing comparable with the all the fuss that's currently going on.
From the Windows 8 Wikipedia page:
Windows 8 [AKA: the current Mother Ship] introduces significant changes to the operating system's platform, primarily focused towards improving its experience on mobile devices such as tablets to rival other mobile operating systems (such as Android and iOS),[4] taking advantage of new and emerging technologies (such as USB 3.0, UEFI firmware, near field communications, cloud computing, and the low-power ARM architecture)
Now, I've never seen a similar move before: just compare users and impact of Windows CE vs. Windows 98 [AKA the Mother Ship, at the time].
...that are already occupying the front seat and the two seat rows below in the aforementioned bandwagon.
Did they already touched the ARM architecture with "some software" in the past? Yes.
Did they ever adapted their main product to exploit the ARM architecture? Not very much so.
My point is that if it wouldn't be for the "other mobile operative systems[*]" push, there wouldn't have been such an involvement in the design of the next ARM architecture.
[*]
ARM twisted then thrown through Windows (bad, bad joke).
Guess what, MS discovered the Wonderful World of ARM processors and wants to jump on the bandwagon.
That's almost already full
And they'll call "shotgun".
You know, for a server being violated is always a matter of probability, same story about hardware failures ("when", not "if"). Some of the variables in this equation is how "interesting" your server could. And a server releasing certificates is quite "interesting", if you ask me. So if you keep the logs of such an important server on the machine itself, there isn't much to say: the administrators of such a server are incompetent.
The US custom *is* in Canada. They probably have a treaty, so if you're going in US through Canada, you go through custom (or not) before actually entering US.
At first I had mixed feelings of slight disappointment and concern, especially because it is the default filesystem in several distros, (including Android). Although, after some second thoughts, I have come to the following conclusions:
...please, guys, don't do it again!
1) it is part of the game of having a continuous development toward improvement (most of the times) and new features implies some pitfalls. So far, benefits are much larger than costs.
2) Despite the fact developers are still working on a fix, I wouldn't be surprised if it would be found soon.
3)
I guess buying and making it dual-booting a full Linux distro could be the biggest appeal, but I'm not convinced about the bargain.
For few tens of dollars more you can get a real laptop running a decent subset of the x86 program ecosystem.
Then, why would I ever think about buying something that's craving for the network all the time in order to unroll its full potential?
When you'll try to color me unimpressed, I'll be long gone...
radar and laser scanners: false positives? sensitivity? distance cut-off? Am I going off-road because of a restaurant at the end of the road?
front-mounted camera: image recognition accuracy? influence of light condition/weather?
alert the driver: how is the driver going to react to a very friendly red-blinking "Imminent death" widget in his dashboard, or a soft-voice "We'reAllGoingToDie" reminder? AirFrance disaster anyone?
if the driver cannot immediately turn: what's the timeout? why he can't turn? Maybe there are obstacles on the sides the front-mounted camera can't see? Just sayin'...
Oh, and let's not forget the most important one!
A new computer system automatically steers the car
That's possibly the worst that can happen when there's a driver trying to do... well... the driver.
I'm getting mixed messages from recently.
The main reason TV is "too much" for kids has been related to the excess of stimuli that their brain can get. Then It gets harder later on that reality can compete with it...
I'm still in the process of making up my mind, 'cause on one hand I think what's said in the link makes sense, but on the other hand I consider videogames one big step over the passive fruition of TV (and US television crap is not even considered here...)
By the way, this post agrees with parent post.
I don't agree with this. Just to make things clear, I use mainly Debian and only occasionally play with Kubuntu.
...
As other people pointed out, there are several Ubuntu derivatives that give you pretty much all of the benefits you get with Big-U without all the mess (Unity or whatever Lens they put on top of it...). And for what matters, I think Kubuntu itself is really well-made, with great care of details and usability.
I don't like Ubuntu, but all its merits must be recognized: it positively influenced the world of distros by stressing that style and identity are as much important as the programs you provide (totally different scenario than Apple); it proofed the idea started pushing the idea that Linux can be a viable alternative in the Grown Ups market and you can sell a computer without Windows.
It wasn't the only player, for sure, but Ubuntu moves contributed (directly or indirectly) to make Linux a less fuzzy target, maybe influencing other moves (did I think about Valve?).
Let's see, for the common user:
- Debian couldn't be enough (questionable, in recent times, but let's keep it...)
- Ubuntu is too much (bad bad Unity, desktop invasion, etc...)
- Ubuntu-derivatives (more usable desktop, no crazy marketing $h1t
-
- Profit
But then, from Shuttleworth's words:
Seriously? it should "let me find"? You put tons of advertises in user's computers *and* tons of user's data on Amazon servers and you didn't provide it as opt-in feature? And I can't even disable it [until a rushed update came out]?
Good job! You're alienating the most important thing you gained so far, your users. You know, not only it is important to bring Ubuntu in the mainstream: you need to be sure you don't get there alone, you know?
It seems another case of "shut up, we know better than users what users really want".
Do you?
As easy as "use smaller engines".
Not one of the best Italian cars for sure, the latest Fiat Panda officially reaches 17.8 Km/l (or 67.4 MPG). Even when you disable the MLF (marketing lies field), actual users on forums report reaching easily over 16 Km/l ( ~62 MPG).
I don't buy the excuse that in US you need a V6 to get into the intersections: the highest speed limit I''ve see in in California is 75 MPH in some freeways. In Italy the highway limit is 80 MPH but nobody goes that slow.
The same European car is sold here in US with bigger engines (i.e VW Golf 1.6L vs 2.5L) just to keep up with competitor comparisons.
As far as people will like to go to buy grocery with a 4.8 liters engine, you're screwed.
If you count all the money spent in military actions to bring full-metal democracy in places were oil is sucked from the soil, US gas doesn't get much cheaper than in EU.
It is amazing how few respected armchair scientists can keep at bay legions of puny exogeologists and so-called experts.
Something similar to this should be applied to the Titanic before the iron-eating bug will be done.
Except that (rarely) it happened to me also on Kubuntu, FYI.
From my personal experience, I don't think it's a bad thing that the "editors display comments in such a way as" your brain is not bothered by them while parsing the code.
Comments are written in common language most of the time (pseudo-code in few cases) and it takes some effort to interpret them while you're trying to follow the data flow in the code. Graying them out or even collapsing them is a feature.
On the other hand, you when you look for them, I think most of the editors don't make it hard for you to access them.
Every time I read "X degrees celcius", I can't help myself to think about how many degrees faratnight would correspond to...
(DISCLAIMER: no intent to be rude nor go grammar nazi on a fellow, but it's just the third time that happen this week, and I'm starting to suspect it's a new ./ trend. And don't bother modding me down/troll, I'm already at 0 degrees S)
An IDC survey of 1000 IT professionals found UNIX to be superior to Linux in multi-processing, integration, security, and skills availability.
Here it is, black on white, the reason why Linux sucks: everybody knows that UNIX has better skills availability (go ahead, try "modprobe skill_avail" on your open source rip-off free OS)
The greatest improvements in OpenServer 6 include multi-threaded application support [up to no less than 32 processors, gentlemen], large file support (up to 1 terabyte)
That's right: others would have stopped at 16 cores, but hey, this is UNIX(c), babe, they've earned that "X" at the end of their name!
OpenServer 6 customers have reported up to 1000% increase in performance.
That would explain the lack of that hnd_brake process that was constantly running with 99.9% CPU usage in their previous version.
And if this didn't knock you off from your chairs yet, here come the frosting. Recent improvements include (among others):
Flash Player Support
and ... wait for it...
USB modems/serial adapters.
Now, once I've managed to convince my boss to sign for these these $25568 for our 32 core machine, I just have to figure out if I have to file this clearly "competitive advantage" under
low total cost of ownership
or under
established reseller relationships.
Fools. They don't know what they did... Let's hope that James Cole makes it, this time.
Well, you need to have a device that's accessible to these 'Linux hackers'. Once they can put their hands on them, and tickle the hardware with the entire software-land of Linux, you could have the equivalent of a CyanogenMod installer that even a dumb user could install without having to go to bricking-prone steps (root, install ROM recovery, yadda yadda...)
The fact that IE is reported using less RAM is a sign. It means that the people who wrote the article don't know necessarily what they are talking about (and, by extension, that among tech sites, not only Slashdot is sucking more and more, recently).
That critical link is missing from your post.
Oh, so you were serious... Sorry about that, pal, I'll try to mend it. Near the end of the summary there is the statement:
"...guest-to-host virtual machine escape."
that's the connection with what happens in the second Matrix movie. If there were "sorry" mod points you would get mine. To keep on with it, though, it seems the bug is not so dangerous if you have to reload to make it work... [duck and run away ashamed]
I see that you're trying to link it to the Matrix, but beyond that... nothing. What exactly are you trying to say?
Wow, you got it! I was afraid here nobody would have ever guess...
They better release a fix before agent Smith finds about it...
Maybe he's a film maker or prolific but unpublished musician.
Don't be fooled by his nick "multimediavt". No, let the lazy pig purge all these vintage copies of WIN386.SWP and PAGE.SYS files he keeps in his hardrives and stop complaining about the lack of space. I don't understand how people can store Gb of stuff that are not crap.