I think it would be very hard to run a modern OS (Linux included) on a read-only filesystem.
It's been done. Hugh Daniel used to do this with all the BSD servers he was responsible for, and it's really just a matter of knowing enough about the contents of a distro to know what should and shouldn't be writeable. It was a fair bit of work, but it wasn't particularly difficult.
Donating a library is standard practice. Bribing University employees directly and personally is not.
Should we care that a pack of Hollywood helicopter parents got gouged on the bribes to get their incompetent brats into formerly-prestigious schools? Probably not.
That being said, my apathy on the matter isn't a reason for anyone to skate on a wire fraud charge, and the minions who received the bribes should certainly be staring down the barrel of multi-million dollar lawsuits from their employers.
They've been operating with impunity since Hoover was still prancing around in his pinafores.
Their attempt to force MLK to commit suicide should have been quite enough to cause their demise, if we had anything like a functioning justice system in this country.
Apple has transitioned the Mac across CPU architectures three times already. 6800 to 68K (before it shipped), 68K to PPC, and PPC to Intel, not to mention dealing with the 24-bit to 32-bit address space issue in the 68K days, and the 64-bit transition in the PPC days.
CPU migration hasn't killed the Mac yet, why would it this time?
The A380 has always been a monument to European stupidity/delusion of grandeur
Oh, fuck off with your posturing. You don't know shit, so quit pretending that you do.
The A380 made sense under the conditions that were known at the time of its design. They didn't, and couldn't anticipate the rule changes that allowed two-engine aircraft to make long-haul flights over water. Boeing was looking at making higher-capacity versions of the 747, too.
Yes, they could do that, but it's a political can of worms that they do not want to deal with. If they were the main CPU vendor to the Dells and HPs of the world, they'd have no end of litigation every time a project plan was changed or dropped. Not to mention, the cost of trying to merge organizations with such drastically different cultures.
will they be able to design something that provides similar performance to what Qualcomm produces
Of course they will. They will hire whoever they need to do so.
Apple didn't know how to run retail stores. They hired Ron Johnson. They didn't know how to do portable devices. They hired Tony Fadell. Whenever they get into any new field, they go on a hiring spree, and they can outbid any competitor for the people they really want.
Ron Howard almost saved it. I'd like to see what he could do with a star wars movie if he had full control, instead of being called in to salvage a clusterfuck in progress.
There are a couple of other directors I think would do a great job with SW. Peter Jackson, Ang Lee, Tom Hanks, Clint Eastwood, and even the guy who did the last two Harry Potter flicks.
Did anyone NOT think Disney would muck up the Star Wars franchise?
I actually had some hopes that they'd get it back on an even keel. I had assumed that being a real business with real shareholders to answer to, they'd hire competent writers and directors to try to earn back the billion or so they spent buying it from George Lucas.
I long for the time when I thought the Ewoks were the stupidest thing I'd ever see in a Star Wars flick.
They are free to make their movie any way they want.
Of course they are, just as we're free to criticize the shit they delivered.
When the magnitude of Disney's failures with the SW franchise became obvious, did they hire some competent writers and try to do better? No! They did a full-court press in the media to disparage the fans. They have every right to do so of course, but they should expect to be called on it.
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Porn is why Beta lost to VHS.
-jcr
She wasn't corrupt,
Tell it to Haiti.
-jcr
I think it would be very hard to run a modern OS (Linux included) on a read-only filesystem.
It's been done. Hugh Daniel used to do this with all the BSD servers he was responsible for, and it's really just a matter of knowing enough about the contents of a distro to know what should and shouldn't be writeable. It was a fair bit of work, but it wasn't particularly difficult.
-jcr
Flying machine will always have much worse transport efficiency than car with wheels
Wrong. Time is money, and VTOL aircraft can go point-to-point.
-jcr
The druids have been gone for over a millennium. Hippies LARPing as druids aren't druids.
-jcr
why worry about further degredation in education.
Dude, that ship has sailed. The Marxists basically destroyed education outside of STEM by the early 90s.
-jcr
they were simply Ayn Rand followers
Oh yeah, Hollywood is full of Objectivists. Totally.
Putz.
-jcr
Donating a library is standard practice. Bribing University employees directly and personally is not.
Should we care that a pack of Hollywood helicopter parents got gouged on the bribes to get their incompetent brats into formerly-prestigious schools? Probably not.
That being said, my apathy on the matter isn't a reason for anyone to skate on a wire fraud charge, and the minions who received the bribes should certainly be staring down the barrel of multi-million dollar lawsuits from their employers.
-jcr
Bullshit. People buy Macs to run Mac apps.
-jcr
By that measure, Ponzi was even better!
-jcr
This dude needs rehab, pronto.
-jcr
They've been operating with impunity since Hoover was still prancing around in his pinafores.
Their attempt to force MLK to commit suicide should have been quite enough to cause their demise, if we had anything like a functioning justice system in this country.
-jcr
Apple has transitioned the Mac across CPU architectures three times already. 6800 to 68K (before it shipped), 68K to PPC, and PPC to Intel, not to mention dealing with the 24-bit to 32-bit address space issue in the 68K days, and the 64-bit transition in the PPC days.
CPU migration hasn't killed the Mac yet, why would it this time?
-jcr
The A380 has always been a monument to European stupidity/delusion of grandeur
Oh, fuck off with your posturing. You don't know shit, so quit pretending that you do.
The A380 made sense under the conditions that were known at the time of its design. They didn't, and couldn't anticipate the rule changes that allowed two-engine aircraft to make long-haul flights over water. Boeing was looking at making higher-capacity versions of the 747, too.
-jcr
You're an idiot, and you need to get your meds adjusted.
-jcr
Are they really doing that well on their ARM Chips though in comparison to other companies?
Yes, they are.
Just because Apple stands on stage and says how awesome their hardware is, doesn't always make it true..
If you don't trust the sites that run and publish the benchmarks, you can always do it yourself to be sure.
-jcr
Yes, they could do that, but it's a political can of worms that they do not want to deal with. If they were the main CPU vendor to the Dells and HPs of the world, they'd have no end of litigation every time a project plan was changed or dropped. Not to mention, the cost of trying to merge organizations with such drastically different cultures.
-jcr
will they be able to design something that provides similar performance to what Qualcomm produces
Of course they will. They will hire whoever they need to do so.
Apple didn't know how to run retail stores. They hired Ron Johnson. They didn't know how to do portable devices. They hired Tony Fadell. Whenever they get into any new field, they go on a hiring spree, and they can outbid any competitor for the people they really want.
-jcr
maybe we should think about what exactly we're promoting here?
What I'm promoting here is my right to tell someone else about surveillance. If you have an issue with that, go fuck yourself.
-jcr
Go read the first amendment, and then go fuck yourselves. We have every right to tell each other about unwarranted surveillance.
-jcr
David Carradine would have done a better job, despite being dead.
-jcr
I enjoyed Solo more than 1, 2 and 3.
Ron Howard almost saved it. I'd like to see what he could do with a star wars movie if he had full control, instead of being called in to salvage a clusterfuck in progress.
There are a couple of other directors I think would do a great job with SW. Peter Jackson, Ang Lee, Tom Hanks, Clint Eastwood, and even the guy who did the last two Harry Potter flicks.
-jcr
Did anyone NOT think Disney would muck up the Star Wars franchise?
I actually had some hopes that they'd get it back on an even keel. I had assumed that being a real business with real shareholders to answer to, they'd hire competent writers and directors to try to earn back the billion or so they spent buying it from George Lucas.
I long for the time when I thought the Ewoks were the stupidest thing I'd ever see in a Star Wars flick.
-jcr
They are free to make their movie any way they want.
Of course they are, just as we're free to criticize the shit they delivered.
When the magnitude of Disney's failures with the SW franchise became obvious, did they hire some competent writers and try to do better? No! They did a full-court press in the media to disparage the fans. They have every right to do so of course, but they should expect to be called on it.
-jcr
Luke was shown to have become essentially a homeless good for nothing bum.
When he gets his big fight with Darth Emo at the end, we find out that he didn't show up, he literally phoned it in, and it still killed him!
Luke is supposed to be the archetypal hero who never gives up. Disney gutted him.
-jcr