Power plant produces CO2, CO2 warms planet and melts ice, sea levels rise, higher sea levels erode my property, who is responsible for the property damage?
Why stop there? Who's responsible for the damage caused by that property being built in the first place? Those building materials had to come from somewhere, after all.
I personally like the fact that I can buy either Nvidia or ATI and have games both past and present work and have comparable graphics. This thing looks to be different enough that I'm betting code not written specifically for it will probably take a serious performance penalty.
I personally like the fact that I can go out and buy anything with Intel graphics on it and not have to worry about whether a driver exists, whether it'll run KDE 4 at 2 frames per minute, whether I'll have to wait half a year before they release a driver for the current version of X, etc. ATi are trying to match that level of support, but nVidia? Fuck nVidia.
It really sucked when most of the users could never have more than one application using audio simultaneously. Also controlling the devices could not be offered via unified user interface.
I solved that problem by installing a PCI sound card I found in the trash. It can cope with me forkbombing sox processes at it and it has a unified user interface - the three sound buttons on my keyboard that run aumix.
Compare this to Pulseaudio, which manages to combine the obtrusiveness of aRts, the unusability of a Gnome GUI, and the uselessness of a network server that sounds like trying to stream a wav file over 56k - on the rare occasions that it produces any result at all.
Stripping out X would be a GREAT idea. Now all they have to do is reimplement the entire multi-million-line OpenGL stack normally provided by X drivers from scratch.
If Linux needs no fixing, why does the USB controller on my T61 just stop working randomly with Ubuntu, but it never does with XP? How about my screen failing to light up about 10% of the time when it wakes from sleep? Or the wireless adapter failing to accept an IP from my router on another 10% of the wakes?
Most of these problems are caused by the Microsoft ACPI compiler which is designed to produce corrupt output that only works correctly with Microsoft software. You can tell if you're running a crippled BIOS by looking for the string "MSFT" near the top of the kernel log.
What happens when your HD node is deleted from/dev?
It'll disappear from the visible filesystem and have no effect whatsoever on an `rm` command that deletes it, which will happily go on to kill the rest of your directory tree.
/dev # mkdir root_disk.bak && cp -a sda* root_disk.bak && rm -rf sda* /dev # ls sda* ls: cannot access sda*: No such file or directory /dev # mv root_disk.bak/sda* . && rmdir root_disk.bak/ && ls sda* sda sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda5 sda6 sda7
And then the US prosecutor would have to prove that it was maliciously false, that the defendant knew it to be false. Welcome to Soviet Britain, where defendant is guilty until proven innocent!
The opposite side to this is that once you let people say what they want as long as there's a shred of truth buried in it, you end up with abominations like Fox News.
I can answer those for Linux, but not OS X since I don't feel like walking a flight of stairs just to answer a post fully.
How many window managers are there?
Is that window managers in use, window managers installed, or window managers to choose from? My answer to all three is "enough".
How many different window manager STYLES are there?
Should I only count jarringly different appearances like a brushed metal background as different? In either case, the answer is one since both my GTK and Qt apps use the same theme.
How many desktop environments are there?
I have two installed - one with a bunch of eye candy, and a lightweight one when I want to get work done without distractions. Since this is responding to pedantic assholery, I probably have to point out I only run one at a time.
How many applications are there that use their own UI widgets (think Xine)?
I don't use Microsoft apps, Apple apps or Google Chrome, and for video I just use a bare mplayer window, so I guess zero.
KDE 4.2 is perfectly usable on a SiS 690 graphics chip with 256MB of RAM. Of course it won't do flashy transparency effects on there, though it does a pretty good job of faking it.
That's still likely to be a single port, which means now everyone on the LAN is limited to a combined 100 mbits for their video. It means the concept of a LAN party just got very, very impractical.
Well that's easy to fix - instead of using the ethernet, use the HDMI port as a network link. All you need is a special device at the other end to decode the video stream
This is basically like someone trying to justify that Linux Mint is some grand new distribution when it is nothing more then Ubuntu with a few extra tweaks and drivers added.
Which, in itself, is a lot like someone trying to imply that Ubuntu is a distribution when it's nothing more than a snapshot of Debian sid with a few extra tweaks and drivers added.
A five second search of AMO for "MNG" gives me exactly zero results. It says "No results found" in big lettering.
Which, funnily enough, is the same result when I go looking elsewhere for programs that can create, or even just view, the waste of space APNG format invented by Mozilla as an excuse to remove MNG.
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Power plant produces CO2, CO2 warms planet and melts ice, sea levels rise, higher sea levels erode my property, who is responsible for the property damage?
Why stop there? Who's responsible for the damage caused by that property being built in the first place? Those building materials had to come from somewhere, after all.
Why after all these years of living on this planet do we think we have the ability to stop it?
Why not?
I personally like the fact that I can buy either Nvidia or ATI and have games both past and present work and have comparable graphics. This thing looks to be different enough that I'm betting code not written specifically for it will probably take a serious performance penalty.
I personally like the fact that I can go out and buy anything with Intel graphics on it and not have to worry about whether a driver exists, whether it'll run KDE 4 at 2 frames per minute, whether I'll have to wait half a year before they release a driver for the current version of X, etc. ATi are trying to match that level of support, but nVidia? Fuck nVidia.
It really sucked when most of the users could never have more than one application using audio simultaneously. Also controlling the devices could not be offered via unified user interface.
I solved that problem by installing a PCI sound card I found in the trash. It can cope with me forkbombing sox processes at it and it has a unified user interface - the three sound buttons on my keyboard that run aumix.
Compare this to Pulseaudio, which manages to combine the obtrusiveness of aRts, the unusability of a Gnome GUI, and the uselessness of a network server that sounds like trying to stream a wav file over 56k - on the rare occasions that it produces any result at all.
Stripping out X would be a GREAT idea. Now all they have to do is reimplement the entire multi-million-line OpenGL stack normally provided by X drivers from scratch.
Should only take them about 8-10 years.
It won't be better than, or equal to mplayer for me until it can play realaudio streams without suddenly disconnecting a few minutes in.
They didn't catch them, they hired them.
All the main programming languages were invented in the English speaking world, by English speakers for English speakers.
Yeah, right.
Erm, no? They redraw nice and zippy.
Actually I _can_ see it on mine... it takes almost 2 tenths of a second to redraw 4 windows and the panel thing when I change desktops.
Obviously I could never have this problem on Vista - it won't run on my 2002 PC at all, nor does it have multiple desktops.
If Linux needs no fixing, why does the USB controller on my T61 just stop working randomly with Ubuntu, but it never does with XP? How about my screen failing to light up about 10% of the time when it wakes from sleep? Or the wireless adapter failing to accept an IP from my router on another 10% of the wakes?
Most of these problems are caused by the Microsoft ACPI compiler which is designed to produce corrupt output that only works correctly with Microsoft software. You can tell if you're running a crippled BIOS by looking for the string "MSFT" near the top of the kernel log.
If you won't run executables from untrusted sources, how did you get far enough to complain about it on a website?
What happens when your HD node is deleted from /dev?
It'll disappear from the visible filesystem and have no effect whatsoever on an `rm` command that deletes it, which will happily go on to kill the rest of your directory tree.
And then the US prosecutor would have to prove that it was maliciously false, that the defendant knew it to be false. Welcome to Soviet Britain, where defendant is guilty until proven innocent!
The opposite side to this is that once you let people say what they want as long as there's a shred of truth buried in it, you end up with abominations like Fox News.
I'd much rather play the original discs in it, but there isn't a Sega CD emulator in the HBC yet. :(
(It'd be nice if it supported USB CD drives for this reason, too.)
If you're worried about security at all, why are you running a browser 19 security patches out of date?
I can answer those for Linux, but not OS X since I don't feel like walking a flight of stairs just to answer a post fully.
How many window managers are there?
Is that window managers in use, window managers installed, or window managers to choose from? My answer to all three is "enough".
How many different window manager STYLES are there?
Should I only count jarringly different appearances like a brushed metal background as different? In either case, the answer is one since both my GTK and Qt apps use the same theme.
How many desktop environments are there?
I have two installed - one with a bunch of eye candy, and a lightweight one when I want to get work done without distractions. Since this is responding to pedantic assholery, I probably have to point out I only run one at a time.
How many applications are there that use their own UI widgets (think Xine)?
I don't use Microsoft apps, Apple apps or Google Chrome, and for video I just use a bare mplayer window, so I guess zero.
The real problem is that Windows is trying to be Linux, and most people are too stupid to see it the right way around.
KDE 4.2 is perfectly usable on a SiS 690 graphics chip with 256MB of RAM. Of course it won't do flashy transparency effects on there, though it does a pretty good job of faking it.
Next They Will Ban Rocks.
That's still likely to be a single port, which means now everyone on the LAN is limited to a combined 100 mbits for their video. It means the concept of a LAN party just got very, very impractical.
Well that's easy to fix - instead of using the ethernet, use the HDMI port as a network link. All you need is a special device at the other end to decode the video stream
This is basically like someone trying to justify that Linux Mint is some grand new distribution when it is nothing more then Ubuntu with a few extra tweaks and drivers added.
Which, in itself, is a lot like someone trying to imply that Ubuntu is a distribution when it's nothing more than a snapshot of Debian sid with a few extra tweaks and drivers added.
A five second search of AMO for "MNG" gives me exactly zero results. It says "No results found" in big lettering.
Which, funnily enough, is the same result when I go looking elsewhere for programs that can create, or even just view, the waste of space APNG format invented by Mozilla as an excuse to remove MNG.
I thought this was common sense.
You wouldn't use a sports car to tow an 18-wheeler trailer, nor would you go racing in a truck. Most of the time, anyway.
Zero divided by any number = 0
Any number divided by itself = 1
THEREFORE 0/0 = (0 && 1) = 0
See? Easy.
These CPUs aren't aimed at people who have a bunch of beige boxes running as servers. They're better for gamers and virtualisation.
If you want a low-power standalone server, buy VIA. They've been doing low power chips with hardware crypto for years.