I find that MacOS and iOS are far more stable than Windows or Android
I always find people who make that claim suspect.
As a regular user of all 4 platforms, their stability seems about identical to me... They're all pretty damn stable.
Your argument is, "If they did that, someone would have seen it and reported it to some forum where you and I would have heard about it."
That's a really stupid argument... I'm always disappointed when I read your posts. Your shilling is so blatantly transparent, and you seem like a decently intelligent person otherwise the rabid defense of everything-apple.
Was hard not to. Felt like one of those "Holy shit, humanity... Holy shit." moments.
Shit coming back from space and landing without banging off the ground or splashing into the water... is pretty amazing. Even cooler that the entire thing is autonomous.
Generally, I agree with you.
But I'm not sure anyone knows right where the line of warming is that enough factors add up to the collapse of our civilization. At that point, extinction is a lot more likely.
It's not hard to imagine the right large bread basket becoming barren, leading to the right set of total wars, pulling in the right set of allied nations for us to tear it all down. And while I'm quite certain whatever is left over will do just fine with its own devices to rebuild... There's simply a smaller chance of survival for smaller groups.
Ubuntu asks the installer about LVM, GRUB, streaming updates during install, there's a couple screens about keyboard detection, the ability to add web servers or print servers, along with other functions, all as part of the process of installing. YES, you can ignorantly click next on each screen, but the point remains you still have a couple dozen times you need to click next.
This is again, false.
You are right about the keyboard selection. Were you perhaps installing "Ubuntu Server?"
You don't need to setup your bootloader, LVM, or any of that stuff. I just installed Ubuntu 17.10. "Like 5 clicks" about sums it up.
While you're certainly correct that could be the reasoning behind it... That would be some pretty stupid software design. (If your firmware updater can decrypt the firmware, so can I... therefore pointless.)
http://www.overclockers.com/fo...
I own several pieces of Razer hardware. I like it. But I think the reason reason they won't support Linux for this, is because they can't force you to log in to their cloud and run their spyware in order to configure your device within Linux. They don't want us to be able to talk to the devices correctly, because they can't enforce control over the device. Their market is small enough that opening up their lock-in for the sake of a few more Linux users is likely worth a lot less money than they make by monetizing your gaming preferences.
This post is complete bullshit.
I just so happened to have installed Windows 10, and Ubuntu 17.10 within hours of each other for a new machine.
The "difficulty" (If it can be called that) is literally almost identical. The steps are the same. Minus entering your user information, you can click "Next" all the way through it, just as you can with Windows.
This makes Linux a waste of resources for gaming companies.
The quickly growing list of AAA titles on Linux via Steam tells me you're a bit out of touch, here.
Razor employees may love Linux. But they can not justify the expense in supporting it. And digging all the legal to make things open enough for the community to do something about it.
As an owner of several Razor devices, I think the *real* reason behind this, is they like to tie their firmware updated to their cloud-configurator spyware horseshit software. They make some great hardware... But they have some shitty design decisions happening in the upper echelons regarding software and morality.
No one is asking them to *support* Linux. They're being asked to make their firmware available along with some specifications for how to upload it to the device correctly. We will do the rest, as we do with other hardware.
You can survive, but when somebody emails you a tarball, or something that ends with.gz do you still have that post-it note that tells you how to install that application?
No. I reply and ask them why the hell they're using that archaic compression algorithm.
Bacteria do have methods of lateral gene transfer, that is true...
But still, there are specie alive on this planet today that have cloned themselves for millions of years and haven't died out yet.
It's probably not a great survival tactic, but given a wide spread enough species, and a large enough extant population, I'm still pretty sure you end up with enough genetic variation through simple background mutations during cloning to survive.
Yes, I wasn't comparing parthenogenetic animals to bacteria, simply that their methodology of survival would be similar.
There are species of insect that have been cloning themselves for millions of years without dying out. Could they die out? Sure.
Is it an overall decrease in adaptability? Probably. You're relying on nothing but background mutation rate (remember- none of these are *perfect* clones.)
Sexual reproduction is critical for spreading favorable genes like resistance to predators, poisons, etc.
No, there are quite a few pathenogenetic species. Sexual reproduction allows for better mixing of genes, but it's hardly critical for spreading them. These animals will simply operate more like a bacteria. Those that survive will replace those that did not, instead of spreading the resistant genome through the population.
I used it pre-SP1 on an AMD Athlon XP Barton... Hardly a supercomputer. Ran beautifully. No stability or performance problems.
I did however have 4GB of memory, so perhaps that's what was necessary for it not to suck... But I never did witness the alleged suckiness of Vista, and assumed it was simply the product of some viral meme.
I had the same experience as you, though with less impressive hardware. Single core AMD Athlon Barton.
Never had a single problem with Vista. No stability problems, no performance problems... Ran great.
When I eventually did upgrade the machine to Windows 7, I didn't notice any difference whatsoever except that my start menu was now a weird circle.
I always assumed the difference between them was simply marketing.
I agree with your criticism, so very much.
I *hate* the model. Virtual game "ownership" (as long as the service exists) is a pile of shit. That being said, the market has failed to give enough of a shit to break the business model, and it is the dominating business model on just about all platforms now.
As much as I wish the business model did not exist, Valve did do the leg work to get a large amount of games to natively support Linux.
Nearly half of my Steam library (~360 titles) runs on Linux.
And it is admittedly nice being able to install the games I want on whatever machines I want without having to dredge up physical media...
I guess in short... They're offering some value for their predatory fucked up business model, at least.
The committed voted on sending the minority memo to the WH along with the majority memo, and to submit them to WH vetting and if passed, release, concurrently.
The minority did move for this to happen in spite of the entire house not having seen it yet (persuant to Committee Rule 14(i), which *allows* for such a thing to happen, but does *not* require it for what the minority then motions for.)
The minority argues that since none of the House has seen any of the underlying evidence supporting either memo, along with all but 2 of the members of the Intelligence Committee, that the opinion of the whole House was irrelevant, and just political drum beating, and the real reason for the majority's demand that the minority memo go through the same process is to delay the release of the minority memo to be able to set the narrative publicly with their memo, which has been described as misleading and reckless.
This is all in the meeting notes, including citations of relevant rules.
In short, you're wrong. You're asserting the existence of a rule that does not exist. What a concept.
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I find that MacOS and iOS are far more stable than Windows or Android
I always find people who make that claim suspect.
As a regular user of all 4 platforms, their stability seems about identical to me... They're all pretty damn stable.
then why is Apple also ranking first in customer satisfaction [cultofmac.com]?
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Strikingly accurate. I'd +1 Insightful you if I hadn't spent all my modpoints already.
Your argument is, "If they did that, someone would have seen it and reported it to some forum where you and I would have heard about it."
That's a really stupid argument... I'm always disappointed when I read your posts. Your shilling is so blatantly transparent, and you seem like a decently intelligent person otherwise the rabid defense of everything-apple.
I actually got a little choked-up.
Was hard not to. Felt like one of those "Holy shit, humanity... Holy shit." moments.
Shit coming back from space and landing without banging off the ground or splashing into the water... is pretty amazing. Even cooler that the entire thing is autonomous.
Generally, I agree with you.
But I'm not sure anyone knows right where the line of warming is that enough factors add up to the collapse of our civilization. At that point, extinction is a lot more likely.
It's not hard to imagine the right large bread basket becoming barren, leading to the right set of total wars, pulling in the right set of allied nations for us to tear it all down. And while I'm quite certain whatever is left over will do just fine with its own devices to rebuild... There's simply a smaller chance of survival for smaller groups.
Ubuntu asks the installer about LVM, GRUB, streaming updates during install, there's a couple screens about keyboard detection, the ability to add web servers or print servers, along with other functions, all as part of the process of installing. YES, you can ignorantly click next on each screen, but the point remains you still have a couple dozen times you need to click next.
This is again, false.
You are right about the keyboard selection. Were you perhaps installing "Ubuntu Server?" You don't need to setup your bootloader, LVM, or any of that stuff. I just installed Ubuntu 17.10. "Like 5 clicks" about sums it up.
Compatibility? With what? bzip2 and xz are ubiquitous, these days.
While you're certainly correct that could be the reasoning behind it... That would be some pretty stupid software design. (If your firmware updater can decrypt the firmware, so can I... therefore pointless.)
http://www.overclockers.com/fo...
I own several pieces of Razer hardware. I like it. But I think the reason reason they won't support Linux for this, is because they can't force you to log in to their cloud and run their spyware in order to configure your device within Linux. They don't want us to be able to talk to the devices correctly, because they can't enforce control over the device. Their market is small enough that opening up their lock-in for the sake of a few more Linux users is likely worth a lot less money than they make by monetizing your gaming preferences.
This post is complete bullshit.
I just so happened to have installed Windows 10, and Ubuntu 17.10 within hours of each other for a new machine.
The "difficulty" (If it can be called that) is literally almost identical. The steps are the same. Minus entering your user information, you can click "Next" all the way through it, just as you can with Windows.
This makes Linux a waste of resources for gaming companies.
The quickly growing list of AAA titles on Linux via Steam tells me you're a bit out of touch, here.
Razor employees may love Linux. But they can not justify the expense in supporting it. And digging all the legal to make things open enough for the community to do something about it.
As an owner of several Razor devices, I think the *real* reason behind this, is they like to tie their firmware updated to their cloud-configurator spyware horseshit software. They make some great hardware... But they have some shitty design decisions happening in the upper echelons regarding software and morality.
No one is asking them to *support* Linux. They're being asked to make their firmware available along with some specifications for how to upload it to the device correctly. We will do the rest, as we do with other hardware.
You can survive, but when somebody emails you a tarball, or something that ends with .gz do you still have that post-it note that tells you how to install that application?
No. I reply and ask them why the hell they're using that archaic compression algorithm.
Great point
Ya, there are enough cases of it, that it really does seem like it is, itself an adaptation to enhance survival, that maybe sometimes gets "stuck"
Bacteria do have methods of lateral gene transfer, that is true...
But still, there are specie alive on this planet today that have cloned themselves for millions of years and haven't died out yet.
It's probably not a great survival tactic, but given a wide spread enough species, and a large enough extant population, I'm still pretty sure you end up with enough genetic variation through simple background mutations during cloning to survive.
Good job finding that missing "r"
Yes, I wasn't comparing parthenogenetic animals to bacteria, simply that their methodology of survival would be similar.
There are species of insect that have been cloning themselves for millions of years without dying out. Could they die out? Sure.
Is it an overall decrease in adaptability? Probably. You're relying on nothing but background mutation rate (remember- none of these are *perfect* clones.)
Sexual reproduction is critical for spreading favorable genes like resistance to predators, poisons, etc.
No, there are quite a few pathenogenetic species. Sexual reproduction allows for better mixing of genes, but it's hardly critical for spreading them. These animals will simply operate more like a bacteria. Those that survive will replace those that did not, instead of spreading the resistant genome through the population.
Holy shit. Amazing. Thanks for sharing
though, of course, the book will leave you believing that the way of comparing operating system kernels is by their relative inferiority to MINIX
LOL- half way through your post, I was going to reply with exactly that... Good to see I wasn't alone
I used it pre-SP1 on an AMD Athlon XP Barton... Hardly a supercomputer. Ran beautifully. No stability or performance problems.
I did however have 4GB of memory, so perhaps that's what was necessary for it not to suck... But I never did witness the alleged suckiness of Vista, and assumed it was simply the product of some viral meme.
I had the same experience as you, though with less impressive hardware. Single core AMD Athlon Barton.
Never had a single problem with Vista. No stability problems, no performance problems... Ran great.
When I eventually did upgrade the machine to Windows 7, I didn't notice any difference whatsoever except that my start menu was now a weird circle.
I always assumed the difference between them was simply marketing.
I agree with your criticism, so very much.
I *hate* the model. Virtual game "ownership" (as long as the service exists) is a pile of shit. That being said, the market has failed to give enough of a shit to break the business model, and it is the dominating business model on just about all platforms now.
As much as I wish the business model did not exist, Valve did do the leg work to get a large amount of games to natively support Linux.
Nearly half of my Steam library (~360 titles) runs on Linux.
And it is admittedly nice being able to install the games I want on whatever machines I want without having to dredge up physical media...
I guess in short... They're offering some value for their predatory fucked up business model, at least.
Oh they stand a decent chance of reproducing... But those kids aren't gonna be pretty
I reverse snorted a line of coca cola when I read the asbestos line
The committed voted on sending the minority memo to the WH along with the majority memo, and to submit them to WH vetting and if passed, release, concurrently.
The minority did move for this to happen in spite of the entire house not having seen it yet (persuant to Committee Rule 14(i), which *allows* for such a thing to happen, but does *not* require it for what the minority then motions for.)
The minority argues that since none of the House has seen any of the underlying evidence supporting either memo, along with all but 2 of the members of the Intelligence Committee, that the opinion of the whole House was irrelevant, and just political drum beating, and the real reason for the majority's demand that the minority memo go through the same process is to delay the release of the minority memo to be able to set the narrative publicly with their memo, which has been described as misleading and reckless.
This is all in the meeting notes, including citations of relevant rules.
In short, you're wrong. You're asserting the existence of a rule that does not exist. What a concept.