According to Wikipedia, they make products (hardware) for: Acer, Amazon.com, Apple, BlackBerry, Cisco, Dell, Google, HP, Huawei, InFocus, Microsoft, Motorola, Nintendo, Nokia, Sony, Toshiba, Vizio and Xiaomi. So yeah they build a little more than iPhones.
You won't find the phrase "Emergency Manager" in this article, which indirectly positions the parasitic state government as our saviors in this crisis. And yes, I can say that without apologizing for city misconduct. When a newspaper of record like the Washington Post or The New York Times fails to report a detail as enormous as the persistent erosion and suspension of home rule in a time of public austerity, they essentially mislead their readers and distort the historical record.
Here are a few details that the Detroit Free Press and the Flint Journal managed to include but which the Washington Post and the New York Times did not:
- In 2011, newly elected Governor Rick Snyder passed Public Act 4 which allowed him to appoint an Emergency Manager over financially distressed cities with the power to liquidate assets, suspend and renegotiate contracts, and even disincorporate cities.
- In 2012, Michigan voters repealed Public Act 4 by public referendum, but within weeks the Republican majorities in the state legislature passed an almost identical bill, Public Act 436, that, as an appropriation, is referendum proof. Snyder signed this bill.
- From most of 2011 to 2015, Flint has been under a sequence of four Emergency Managers who, during their tenure suspended local officials, liquidated assets and, oh yes, DECIDED TO DRAW OUR DRINKING WATER SUPPLY FROM THE FLINT RIVER! Emergency Manager Ed Kurtz made the commitment, Emergency Manager Darnell Earley oversaw the transition, and Emergency Manager Jerry Ambrose nullified a City Council resolution to switch back to Detroit water in early 2015.
The Post should be ashamed for the way it has reported this story, and I do not say this lightly. These two so-called "bastions of liberal thought" have helped let an overwhelmingly gerrymandered and Republican-dominated state government off the hook for their role in poisoning 100,000 mostly poor, mostly black people in this city.
I was replying to the fact that the GP above me called Darwin a kernel. That's all. It's absolutely not. It's the operating system name. XNU has always been the kernel for NeXTSTEP/OpenSTEP, Darwin, OS X and iOS.
The GP is correct, and you're correct. So WTF are you arguing about? It's based on NeXTSTEP and BSD, as is plainly stated in the article. Besides, the entire web of core components that Mac OSX is built on: NeXSTEP, Mach, OpenBSD; all of them are tied somehow to BSD. It's in all of it.
This has nothing to do with what I was arguing with. I was correcting the person's terminology. It's like saying Debian GNU/kFreeBSD runs off the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD kernel.
The Mac OS X / NeXTSTEP kernel is called XNU - did you even read the Wikipedia article you gave the link to? Darwin is the open source OS that functions as the backend for OS X and iOS that provides the core components.
They don't. If you don't like the way Linux distros are evolving, then try out another OS that uses X11. Who knows, maybe a push towards FreeBSD will help speed up support for more hardware there. There's of course some certain apps (GParted for example) or limited features in a Desktop Environment that depend solely on Linux, but I find that to be generally rare, especially when looking at what FreeBSD Ports supports.
My oldie-but-goodie Slackware Linux is still staying away from systemd, so I'm glad about that.
I mean no offense but I seriously think Slashdot was the last place to ask this question. It's no doubt a subject that needs some resolving, but based on posters' histories here, you should ask someone else.
My personal opinion? Move to Qt and don't use the default look. C++, cross-platform (if management is willing to extend it to that.) This of course costs money for hiring developers who are coherent in it. Typical management would say no. What is the software currently written in? Let me guess: Java.
I'm guessing he used the term "holistic" in a sense that the plan covers multiple aspects of security. The classical term of "holistic" refers to not alternative treatments, but rather it covering the entirety of something or treating everything as interconnected. In medical terms, it usually refers to the mind and body as a whole.
Might I add that most "holistic" medicine is grade A horseshit.
The hall of shame award goes to Apple's Terminal.app. Horrible handling of the bash key shortcuts.
the bash key shortcuts work just fine in OS X's Terminal.app. Can you give specifics, because I'm a hardcore shortcut user and I've never run into problems compared to X11 term apps regarding shortcuts in bash or any other shells for that matter.
You actually have just as many options as any other term emu. I use zsh with Terminal.app just fine. OS X comes with:
/bin/zsh (z shell)
/bin/ksh (korn shell)
/bin/tcsh (t shell)
/bin/bash (default - bourne again shell)
/bin/sh (not bourne shell but bourne-again shell (bash) - it's not symlinked though which is interesting)
You can change it via the chsh command just like any other unix OS or if you feel like pointing and clicking your way there, you can edit Terminal.app's preferences.
Millenial is completely wrong, and I RTFA and verified that they in fact spelled it correctly there, so what was written here wasn't copy/pasted. Whoever wrote this intentionally mispelled it. WTF Slashdot
As for osx86, I'm running the latest El Capitan Beta just fine on my Main PC (2013ish hardware) and my old Dell Latitude E6420 (2011) without issues - the selected hardware is fully supported. If you want to have OS X run fine on your PC then pay attention to using hardware within the range of what has support, either from Apple or third parties, and you'd be able to run the OS without difficulties.
Looks like this has been said in previous comments - If you remember TransGaming's Cedega for Linux, a closed version of Wine that was considered reasonable competition to the open source version way back in the day, then you've now heard of TransGaming's Mac port of it. It's also considered a bit outdated as well, as current builds of Wine seem to work better on OS X for running games. I remember EA went through a phase of using it and the end results were pretty terrible. I'm amazed that Square Enix actually went this route. Cider is terrible. I bet you if they went for current Wine builds and put it in an app bundle (which people do for many DirectX Windows games to run them on OS X), it would work much better, but I'm sure that going that route versus using a commercial solution causes legal woes.
Sugar causes your brain to produce dopamine as soon as your tongue comes in contact with it. If you have trouble believing this, take a break from sugary food and drinks (artificial sweeteners as well) for a few weeks to a month, and then after, take a bite out of a sugary snack or drink. You will feel this very rewarding, even pleasurable feeling as soon as you taste the food. This is dopamine in action. Other mammals have very similar reactions to sugar - some even getting into a drunken state due to the sugar rush.
Now why the most pleasurable foods are unhealthy, especially with the amounts that Americans consume, is definitely a topic for discussion.
nah
El Capitan is pretty popular; it's a favorite with rock climbers and base jumpers. It makes it the perfect example to apply to this vertical streetview concept on, and with it being a few hours away from Google HQ, it makes sense. I'm actually curious if this project predates the public announcement of OS X 10.11, though I wouldn't be surprised if they knew about it anyway.
You're not alone, and you're not asking for too much when it comes to a popular news site. Assuming the submitter's first language is English, he or she was taught this stuff in high school. There really shouldn't be any excuse.
It's the common name for the open source Intel GMA driver for the BSDs and Linux. Supports some old Intel GMA900 (915g) all the way to Haswell Intel HD support, with some obvious exclusions like GMA500. I don't know if it supports older, though I believe in the Linux kernel they moved old 815G support to i915.
As someone who prefers almost any other OS other than Windows for my main, I still have problems believing that AAA gaming developers will make the big move to support an OS and framework that only covers a minuscule percentage of users.
I used to really be into running games under wine for Linux and OS X (osx86 *cough*), to the point where I would apply patches and do custom wine builds to get my favorite games running. I eventually just let go of it after 8 years and decided to always keep a Windows install ready for games and nothing else. That's probably why I haven't had much interest in SteamOS. It's a wonderful idea and I support it, but you need to win over the big players. The big players will most likely find SteamOS support to be financial waste. I'm glad that the amount of Linux games on Steam continues to rise, but like TFA says, it's just not worth the time and effort to optimize for Linux and in many cases not even try at all. There are many Windows applications that use a cross-platform framework that has wonderful support in X11, but why won't the company release a Linux or *nix version? Time, money, and less profits based on the amount of active desktop Linux users.
As the way things are going, SteamOS will be a great platform for indie games, that's for sure. But Ubisoft? Rockstar? EA? Activision Blizzard? I don't see that happening in the foreseeable future.
Perhaps I'm just getting old or something, but I've actually started to move closer to consoles, even with my nice PC setup that was the latest and greatest in 2013 which I keep around. The interest with indie game developers porting their PC games to PS4 makes me feel I made the right choice with getting one over an xbone. I wish the wave of Linux gamers receive the support they need to defeat this obstacle, but with its small percentage and the fact that it comes down to money and manpower to port and optimize games, it will unfortunately take some time for this to become a reality. If it happens, expect me to be there and ready to make the move from Windows when it comes to gaming.
It comes down to if the desktop app has a Linux-specific dependency. X11 with GTK+/Qt/etc aren't limited to Linux. Something like Gparted is another story for obvious reasons. Virtualization support is another issue. But if you're asking if you can run XFCE/KDE/GNOME/whatever with Firefox/OpenOffice/the usual X11 apps that casual Linux users use, yes it can. However, don't expect equal graphics card support in X11 compared to Linux and even FreeBSD. Take a look in OpenBSD ports if you're curious about something specific. There's probably a number of less-popular apps that aren't in there that would compile just fine; some will probably require a change in the resulting Makefile here and there. As stated in above comments, there are people who use it as a main desktop OS for their laptops.
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According to Wikipedia, they make products (hardware) for: Acer, Amazon.com, Apple, BlackBerry, Cisco, Dell, Google, HP, Huawei, InFocus, Microsoft, Motorola, Nintendo, Nokia, Sony, Toshiba, Vizio and Xiaomi. So yeah they build a little more than iPhones.
Bah I can't edit. *4.3BSD
Mac OS X was based on NeXTSTEP which predates Linux, and NeXTSTEP was based on 4.3FreeBSD and CMU Mach.
If you're interested in how the hardware-driven encryption works in current versions of iOS: Why can't Apple decrypt your iPhone?
The submitter was a prisoninmate, so give the guy a break.
You won't find the phrase "Emergency Manager" in this article, which indirectly positions the parasitic state government as our saviors in this crisis. And yes, I can say that without apologizing for city misconduct. When a newspaper of record like the Washington Post or The New York Times fails to report a detail as enormous as the persistent erosion and suspension of home rule in a time of public austerity, they essentially mislead their readers and distort the historical record.
Here are a few details that the Detroit Free Press and the Flint Journal managed to include but which the Washington Post and the New York Times did not:
- In 2011, newly elected Governor Rick Snyder passed Public Act 4 which allowed him to appoint an Emergency Manager over financially distressed cities with the power to liquidate assets, suspend and renegotiate contracts, and even disincorporate cities.
- In 2012, Michigan voters repealed Public Act 4 by public referendum, but within weeks the Republican majorities in the state legislature passed an almost identical bill, Public Act 436, that, as an appropriation, is referendum proof. Snyder signed this bill.
- From most of 2011 to 2015, Flint has been under a sequence of four Emergency Managers who, during their tenure suspended local officials, liquidated assets and, oh yes, DECIDED TO DRAW OUR DRINKING WATER SUPPLY FROM THE FLINT RIVER! Emergency Manager Ed Kurtz made the commitment, Emergency Manager Darnell Earley oversaw the transition, and Emergency Manager Jerry Ambrose nullified a City Council resolution to switch back to Detroit water in early 2015.
The Post should be ashamed for the way it has reported this story, and I do not say this lightly. These two so-called "bastions of liberal thought" have helped let an overwhelmingly gerrymandered and Republican-dominated state government off the hook for their role in poisoning 100,000 mostly poor, mostly black people in this city.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)#Kernel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU
Actually read it.
The GP is correct, and you're correct. So WTF are you arguing about? It's based on NeXTSTEP and BSD, as is plainly stated in the article. Besides, the entire web of core components that Mac OSX is built on: NeXSTEP, Mach, OpenBSD; all of them are tied somehow to BSD. It's in all of it.
This has nothing to do with what I was arguing with. I was correcting the person's terminology. It's like saying Debian GNU/kFreeBSD runs off the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD kernel.
The Mac OS X / NeXTSTEP kernel is called XNU - did you even read the Wikipedia article you gave the link to? Darwin is the open source OS that functions as the backend for OS X and iOS that provides the core components.
They don't. If you don't like the way Linux distros are evolving, then try out another OS that uses X11. Who knows, maybe a push towards FreeBSD will help speed up support for more hardware there. There's of course some certain apps (GParted for example) or limited features in a Desktop Environment that depend solely on Linux, but I find that to be generally rare, especially when looking at what FreeBSD Ports supports.
My oldie-but-goodie Slackware Linux is still staying away from systemd, so I'm glad about that.
I mean no offense but I seriously think Slashdot was the last place to ask this question. It's no doubt a subject that needs some resolving, but based on posters' histories here, you should ask someone else.
My personal opinion? Move to Qt and don't use the default look. C++, cross-platform (if management is willing to extend it to that.) This of course costs money for hiring developers who are coherent in it. Typical management would say no. What is the software currently written in? Let me guess: Java.
I'm guessing he used the term "holistic" in a sense that the plan covers multiple aspects of security. The classical term of "holistic" refers to not alternative treatments, but rather it covering the entirety of something or treating everything as interconnected. In medical terms, it usually refers to the mind and body as a whole.
Might I add that most "holistic" medicine is grade A horseshit.
The hall of shame award goes to Apple's Terminal.app. Horrible handling of the bash key shortcuts.
the bash key shortcuts work just fine in OS X's Terminal.app. Can you give specifics, because I'm a hardcore shortcut user and I've never run into problems compared to X11 term apps regarding shortcuts in bash or any other shells for that matter.
You actually have just as many options as any other term emu. I use zsh with Terminal.app just fine. OS X comes with:
/bin/zsh (z shell)
/bin/ksh (korn shell)
/bin/tcsh (t shell)
/bin/bash (default - bourne again shell)
/bin/sh (not bourne shell but bourne-again shell (bash) - it's not symlinked though which is interesting)
You can change it via the chsh command just like any other unix OS or if you feel like pointing and clicking your way there, you can edit Terminal.app's preferences.
Millenial is completely wrong, and I RTFA and verified that they in fact spelled it correctly there, so what was written here wasn't copy/pasted. Whoever wrote this intentionally mispelled it. WTF Slashdot
Here's the list of supported Macs for the latest El Capitan Beta which goes back to some 2007 models: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/mac/releasenotes/General/rn-osx-10.11/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40016209
As for osx86, I'm running the latest El Capitan Beta just fine on my Main PC (2013ish hardware) and my old Dell Latitude E6420 (2011) without issues - the selected hardware is fully supported. If you want to have OS X run fine on your PC then pay attention to using hardware within the range of what has support, either from Apple or third parties, and you'd be able to run the OS without difficulties.
same here
Looks like this has been said in previous comments - If you remember TransGaming's Cedega for Linux, a closed version of Wine that was considered reasonable competition to the open source version way back in the day, then you've now heard of TransGaming's Mac port of it. It's also considered a bit outdated as well, as current builds of Wine seem to work better on OS X for running games. I remember EA went through a phase of using it and the end results were pretty terrible. I'm amazed that Square Enix actually went this route. Cider is terrible. I bet you if they went for current Wine builds and put it in an app bundle (which people do for many DirectX Windows games to run them on OS X), it would work much better, but I'm sure that going that route versus using a commercial solution causes legal woes.
Sugar causes your brain to produce dopamine as soon as your tongue comes in contact with it. If you have trouble believing this, take a break from sugary food and drinks (artificial sweeteners as well) for a few weeks to a month, and then after, take a bite out of a sugary snack or drink. You will feel this very rewarding, even pleasurable feeling as soon as you taste the food. This is dopamine in action. Other mammals have very similar reactions to sugar - some even getting into a drunken state due to the sugar rush. Now why the most pleasurable foods are unhealthy, especially with the amounts that Americans consume, is definitely a topic for discussion.
nah El Capitan is pretty popular; it's a favorite with rock climbers and base jumpers. It makes it the perfect example to apply to this vertical streetview concept on, and with it being a few hours away from Google HQ, it makes sense. I'm actually curious if this project predates the public announcement of OS X 10.11, though I wouldn't be surprised if they knew about it anyway.
You're not alone, and you're not asking for too much when it comes to a popular news site. Assuming the submitter's first language is English, he or she was taught this stuff in high school. There really shouldn't be any excuse.
It's the common name for the open source Intel GMA driver for the BSDs and Linux. Supports some old Intel GMA900 (915g) all the way to Haswell Intel HD support, with some obvious exclusions like GMA500. I don't know if it supports older, though I believe in the Linux kernel they moved old 815G support to i915.
As someone who prefers almost any other OS other than Windows for my main, I still have problems believing that AAA gaming developers will make the big move to support an OS and framework that only covers a minuscule percentage of users.
I used to really be into running games under wine for Linux and OS X (osx86 *cough*), to the point where I would apply patches and do custom wine builds to get my favorite games running. I eventually just let go of it after 8 years and decided to always keep a Windows install ready for games and nothing else. That's probably why I haven't had much interest in SteamOS. It's a wonderful idea and I support it, but you need to win over the big players. The big players will most likely find SteamOS support to be financial waste. I'm glad that the amount of Linux games on Steam continues to rise, but like TFA says, it's just not worth the time and effort to optimize for Linux and in many cases not even try at all. There are many Windows applications that use a cross-platform framework that has wonderful support in X11, but why won't the company release a Linux or *nix version? Time, money, and less profits based on the amount of active desktop Linux users.
As the way things are going, SteamOS will be a great platform for indie games, that's for sure. But Ubisoft? Rockstar? EA? Activision Blizzard? I don't see that happening in the foreseeable future.
Perhaps I'm just getting old or something, but I've actually started to move closer to consoles, even with my nice PC setup that was the latest and greatest in 2013 which I keep around. The interest with indie game developers porting their PC games to PS4 makes me feel I made the right choice with getting one over an xbone. I wish the wave of Linux gamers receive the support they need to defeat this obstacle, but with its small percentage and the fact that it comes down to money and manpower to port and optimize games, it will unfortunately take some time for this to become a reality. If it happens, expect me to be there and ready to make the move from Windows when it comes to gaming.
It comes down to if the desktop app has a Linux-specific dependency. X11 with GTK+/Qt/etc aren't limited to Linux. Something like Gparted is another story for obvious reasons. Virtualization support is another issue. But if you're asking if you can run XFCE/KDE/GNOME/whatever with Firefox/OpenOffice/the usual X11 apps that casual Linux users use, yes it can. However, don't expect equal graphics card support in X11 compared to Linux and even FreeBSD. Take a look in OpenBSD ports if you're curious about something specific. There's probably a number of less-popular apps that aren't in there that would compile just fine; some will probably require a change in the resulting Makefile here and there. As stated in above comments, there are people who use it as a main desktop OS for their laptops.
Let the flame war commence!
Though the source code has supposedly been released under GPLv2, according to their website. Confusing.
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