Chrome's tab-model is a literal Fork-Bomb. If I have to explain it to you, you need to get off
Unlike Firefox where it JIT loads tabs as you need them. Try restoring a 30+ multi-tab session with Chrome, good-luck.
Linux is a kernel, OSX is a Mach kernel, mostly FreeBSD userland with other BSDs thrown in, NextStep, ObjC.
BSDs are always holistic experiences and so is OSX, Windows, etc..
Linux is Bazaar, *BSD has always been Cathedral (take it slow, engineer well).
At the end of the day, people rather live in a Cathedral/hotel where everything stays in known places than the 'vibrant' flea-market with fuzzy pseudo-RPM treadmill hell.
Except you're nowhere close to reality.
pre-JellyBean:
swipe animation queues all 30 frames of the swipe animation, does NOT drop any, and struggles to complete them all, taking 4 seconds to walk the queue with as many skips and pops as expected. Video Player fail.
JellyBean:
swipe animation probably does not queue 30 frames of animation, but ALSO gets PRIORITY to COMPLETE them first in the allotted 1 second. Video Player success
Real-world example, keyboard response -- which is more responsive?: the console that reacts instantly to your key-presses even under a load of 24.00 on a single-processor, or a console that gets back to you after it's done processing some background tasks. The former is "actually" and "feels" more responsive, while the later will run the bg-tasks slightly faster.
Ah, young idealism, trying to be the Debian. I was there, once. It is true that it's better to have open-source drivers, but you need a stable, open, documented hardware platform. PCs are, Android is neither.
You will spend your entire life rebuilding "plumbing" after which the hardware you've built it for is long dead while its descendents -- you cannot support. A life where you didn't actually build anything useful, the next iPhone nor next game-changing piece of software-engineering, but just ran in a mouse-wheel.
Reality is we just have to bend-over a little and suck up buying new hardware; accept the respective new binary blobs. Just try to stay above it. CyanogenMod is doing a good job there.
Works fine on Ubuntu for Android.
Their rendering and window subsystem has already proven to be laggy and inefficient unless you throw overwhelming hardware at it. Why even continue do it in Java and on Mobile!? There's neither memory, cpu/gpu, nor battery, to feed that mess properly.
Even Windows Phone moved their rendering engine to native. Why not a proper port of Wayland (or just switch to Qt) instead?
Hybrids are modern engines. Heard of Atkinson?
Potential? Demonstrated lifetime air pollution reduction (that's 10 years at least), reduced lifetime petro consumption, lower lifetime maintenance costs, is only POTENTIAL?
So you argue against the $5K premium vs a Corolla (there's a hybrid in Corolla's class for interior room, amenities, etc?), but a $15K premium for a Volt -- well that's just fine.
I'm sure you know more about this than anybody. Then you know about differentials and their huge longevity. Btw, Toyota hybrid transmissions are differentials.
People conveniently forget the air-quality benefits of hybrids. There's a huge lifetime difference that can be quantified in health improvement (healthcare cost reductions), lifestyle improvement, etc.
It's not all about the MPG.
I'm sure it costs "much less" to rebuild the transmission, or engine, in any other TEN YEARS old, GEN ONE car.
Which of you have gone 10 years with a laptop, or cellphone battery?
-53.88% damage (since 2011/02/11 #elopcalypse) is still some damage.
And do you guys trust online bill statements? Same problem.
I'd rather they PGP email, or mail-drop an encrypted statement every month than park it on their site (and wait for me to remember to download it) for the amount of money they're making off me every month.
Unless you have a laptop, specifically a Sony. They only do driver updates during the hardware development. Then you're SOL the moment they start selling the hardware. Just the way Carriers like it.
"Protozoa are small, and bacteria are small, but viruses are smaller than the both put together."
