Sadly, the slashdot community used to feel the same about Apple as they did about Microsoft. That changed after Apple's PR folks faked enough 'openness' and bought the apple.slashdot.org domain. Do they cosponsor and pay the bandwidth for that part of your operation, Dice? And why is this Apple PR shit polluting the it.slashdot.org domain now? This isn't the fanboy domain. Shoo!
Windows RT is dead. It died the minute places like Dell started selling Windows 8.1 tablets with Intel x86 processors in them that can run the full Windows 8.1 for $300. Why would ANYBODY buy a crippled ARM tablet when a tablet that will run all their classic Windows applications is available for the same price or less? Why anybody would buy a crippled iPad is also weird. Apple, it's time for you to sell a low-cost OS X tablet.
When the linux.advocacy newsgroup on Usenet became unusable they all migrated here. Why wouldn't they have done that? Everybody needs a place to call home.
Virtual instances of Windows XP can be configured to not connect to the Internet, though. When your copy of XP is a large virtual hard drive contained in a single file, it's fairly easy to protect it. Microsoft's XP Mode is more problematic than the third party VMs, of course, because XP Mode is blended into your regular Windows install.
Windows XP mode is an awkward kludge. I paid for it, but never use it anymore. Virtualbox is a better alternative.
All that XP mode does is run a full virtual copy of XP inside your Windows 7 (which has to be the more expensive upgraded Pro version) in a more awkward arrangement that Virtualbox, because it's more 'nested' into the Win 7 setup, whereas Virtualbox partitions it into a completely separate container (to communicate, you mount a directory on your Win 7 drive as a network share on the XP machine.)
And once you have a VirtualBox disk image file of your XP install, you can archive it, and transport the single file around between various machines that have VirtualBox installed. With XP Mode, you've just got something all smudged into a single instance of Win 7.
Did you know that even if you refuse to close all those browser tabs, (it causes you to break out in a sweat at the idea of closing the browser once a day or so) that you can set up most modern browsers (including Firefox, I presume, though I use Seamonkey personally) to save your tab sessions, and reopen all of them again after you restart the browser? Or does the low PID number the browser runs under give you the same sort of esteem that a low Slashdot UID might give other people?
I remember when my Linux video experience was nearly flawless. When my main machine had a Trident 8900CL graphics card.
I haven't used Linux much since then so I can't say much about recent times. Linux was also pretty good with my Sound Blaster 16, because it wasn't a clone card.
The 3C509 driver was nearly flawless, too, although I mostly used 3C503 cards in my machines.
Linux is a kernel. Many OSes are based on the Linux kernel. Linux is not an OS.
From Wikipedia (always authoritative, right?):
The Linux kernel is a Unix-like operating system kernel used by a variety of operating systems based on it, which are usually in the form of Linux distributions.
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You can get an account on freeshell.org and have a lifetime 'free' website with PHP and MySQL for making a single-time ~$40 donation to upgrade your account. It's been awhile since I got mine so I am not certain that's current. But I paid once and have never had to pay again. My pages has various little PHP dingbat calculators that are popular with a small group of people who play a specific game. I've never used the MySQL backend but it's there.
Since everyone says that only stupid people use iPhones
No. Everyone does not say that. In fact, a lot of Android users don't really care much one way or the other about iPhones.
Personally, I am disappointed in iOS but I certainly don't care about it enough to consider iOS/Android to be a glorious battle of the righteous. They're just two phone operating systems and I prefer Android. Can't we keep it that simple?
I am on Slashdot, where there are people like me, who have hardware older than the average age of people who frequent the site. We're nerds here. People who leap at glee with new product releases aren't nerds, they're misguided wannas. Yeah, that blow-dried teen in a TV show you watch religiously isn't a nerd either.
Except, we are talking about a software ecosystem, not which company is reaping the highest profit from sales of their tablet to the wealthy minority who can afford it. All the Android hardware runs on a common software platform so can be summed up to compare to the smaller iOS market segment.
Apple is going down the same path they were in the 80's. They refused to compare themselves to the PC clone market, and instead insisted on only being compared to a few of the most expensive brands (Compaq and IBM mostly.)
They can kid themselves, maybe even kid their investors for awhile. They can't fool the market. It's only a matter of time.
That guy at Apple (rip) said I would need to file down my fingers, for a start.
I kid, though. I haven't had to file down anything. I have a 7" Galaxy Tab and an 8" Win 8.1 tablet. I tried a 10.1" Acer android tablet before the Galaxy Tab but it was too heavy to use so I returned it.
My two year old iPod Touch is considered obsolete by Apple. I paid full retail for it and it can't run the new iOS. It was one of my biggest mistake purchases recently.
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If more relatives would off themselves because they are so left-wing that they feel that sort of shame, the world would improve.
I am more worried about a bunch of musty old farts at the 'College Board' ruining Khan Academy.
Just scissors and paste?
Oh, and a stack of old magazines.
'Those dumb proles can't defend themselves. It's a good thing that we in the Inner Party can and will enforce their protection. For their own good!'
Sadly, the slashdot community used to feel the same about Apple as they did about Microsoft. That changed after Apple's PR folks faked enough 'openness' and bought the apple.slashdot.org domain. Do they cosponsor and pay the bandwidth for that part of your operation, Dice? And why is this Apple PR shit polluting the it.slashdot.org domain now? This isn't the fanboy domain. Shoo!
The Mozilla folks refuse to revert to coding skins for somebody else's browser. They have more integrity than that.
Google with their Chrome? Not so much.
Windows RT is dead. It died the minute places like Dell started selling Windows 8.1 tablets with Intel x86 processors in them that can run the full Windows 8.1 for $300. Why would ANYBODY buy a crippled ARM tablet when a tablet that will run all their classic Windows applications is available for the same price or less? Why anybody would buy a crippled iPad is also weird. Apple, it's time for you to sell a low-cost OS X tablet.
So the javascript interpreter is part of the 'rendering engine'?
Yeah, due to Apple's feelings of insecurity. That has the word 'security' embedded in it.
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It's slashdot.
When the linux.advocacy newsgroup on Usenet became unusable they all migrated here. Why wouldn't they have done that? Everybody needs a place to call home.
Virtual instances of Windows XP can be configured to not connect to the Internet, though. When your copy of XP is a large virtual hard drive contained in a single file, it's fairly easy to protect it. Microsoft's XP Mode is more problematic than the third party VMs, of course, because XP Mode is blended into your regular Windows install.
Windows XP mode is an awkward kludge. I paid for it, but never use it anymore. Virtualbox is a better alternative.
All that XP mode does is run a full virtual copy of XP inside your Windows 7 (which has to be the more expensive upgraded Pro version) in a more awkward arrangement that Virtualbox, because it's more 'nested' into the Win 7 setup, whereas Virtualbox partitions it into a completely separate container (to communicate, you mount a directory on your Win 7 drive as a network share on the XP machine.)
And once you have a VirtualBox disk image file of your XP install, you can archive it, and transport the single file around between various machines that have VirtualBox installed. With XP Mode, you've just got something all smudged into a single instance of Win 7.
Download Virtualbox from Oracle and install a virtual instance of XP for her to run her greeting card program on.
Did you know that even if you refuse to close all those browser tabs, (it causes you to break out in a sweat at the idea of closing the browser once a day or so) that you can set up most modern browsers (including Firefox, I presume, though I use Seamonkey personally) to save your tab sessions, and reopen all of them again after you restart the browser? Or does the low PID number the browser runs under give you the same sort of esteem that a low Slashdot UID might give other people?
I remember when my Linux video experience was nearly flawless. When my main machine had a Trident 8900CL graphics card.
I haven't used Linux much since then so I can't say much about recent times. Linux was also pretty good with my Sound Blaster 16, because it wasn't a clone card.
The 3C509 driver was nearly flawless, too, although I mostly used 3C503 cards in my machines.
Apple used to use 'Harmon-Kardon sound system' in their marketing bullet points the same way they use 'FreeBSD' today.
Linux is a kernel. Many OSes are based on the Linux kernel. Linux is not an OS.
From Wikipedia (always authoritative, right?):
The Linux kernel is a Unix-like operating system kernel used by a variety of operating systems based on it, which are usually in the form of Linux distributions.
You can get an account on freeshell.org and have a lifetime 'free' website with PHP and MySQL for making a single-time ~$40 donation to upgrade your account. It's been awhile since I got mine so I am not certain that's current. But I paid once and have never had to pay again. My pages has various little PHP dingbat calculators that are popular with a small group of people who play a specific game. I've never used the MySQL backend but it's there.
So you think the statistic means that any malware publisher will be 97% successful in penetrating any phone running android that they target?
Where were('nt) you educated?
Since everyone says that only stupid people use iPhones
No. Everyone does not say that. In fact, a lot of Android users don't really care much one way or the other about iPhones.
Personally, I am disappointed in iOS but I certainly don't care about it enough to consider iOS/Android to be a glorious battle of the righteous. They're just two phone operating systems and I prefer Android. Can't we keep it that simple?
I am on Slashdot, where there are people like me, who have hardware older than the average age of people who frequent the site. We're nerds here. People who leap at glee with new product releases aren't nerds, they're misguided wannas. Yeah, that blow-dried teen in a TV show you watch religiously isn't a nerd either.
The downmod of my previous comment indicates some fearful zealots.
Why not leave the comment up as is? Talking about third party contenders is on-topic.
Except, we are talking about a software ecosystem, not which company is reaping the highest profit from sales of their tablet to the wealthy minority who can afford it. All the Android hardware runs on a common software platform so can be summed up to compare to the smaller iOS market segment.
Apple is going down the same path they were in the 80's. They refused to compare themselves to the PC clone market, and instead insisted on only being compared to a few of the most expensive brands (Compaq and IBM mostly.)
They can kid themselves, maybe even kid their investors for awhile. They can't fool the market. It's only a matter of time.
That guy at Apple (rip) said I would need to file down my fingers, for a start.
I kid, though. I haven't had to file down anything. I have a 7" Galaxy Tab and an 8" Win 8.1 tablet. I tried a 10.1" Acer android tablet before the Galaxy Tab but it was too heavy to use so I returned it.
My two year old iPod Touch is considered obsolete by Apple. I paid full retail for it and it can't run the new iOS. It was one of my biggest mistake purchases recently.