Take a look at appdb to see how many of the games you play under Windows (which don't have explicit Linux support) will actually work via WINE. You might be surprised - it's not all of them, but these days they work more often than not.
"I knew slashdot was right wing these days"
LOL really?! The leftist propaganda keeps me away from this site most of the time.
Slashdot is US-centric, which means it's right-wing from an international perspective. Right and Left aren't absolute terms.
Keep in mind that Google Inbox is really just a fancy email client, albeit one implemented in the browser. I don't really care if they experiment with it, because I've always used a regular IMAP client instead, and I don't see them removing that option any time soon.
Open source hardware isn't viable, though, at least not in its own right. You need to make profit somewhere, and it's usually one of software, hardware, or support. The SoC manufacturers sell hardware - if they just gave it away by open sourcing it, they'd lose their biggest source of revenue. Pretty much all the open source hardware in existence is either bought by a small segment of zealots (e.g. any of the attempts at a completely FOSS tablet), or is sold as a loss leader (e.g. Sparkfun open sources the designs for their breakout boards, because they also sells the parts for them).
there are not enough tools to quickly provide them all of my os/cpu/motherboard/hd/videocard information (yes sometimes this is needed for bugs)
$ sudo lshw > hardware_info
The premise of the article is just weird - an article about programming languages with single letter names makes about as much sense as an article about operating systems with blue logos. That D is compared to C instead of C++ further demonstrates the author's cluelessness. (Many D programmers regard D as an improved, non-backward compatible version of C++.)
While I agree with your point, it is worth noting that there have been several studies over the last half-century disproving the diet-heart hypothesis.
You're conflating aspect ratio and resolution. If the 16:9 monitor is 1600x900, then a 4:3 with equivalent vertical resolution would be 1600x1200.
I use 2x 1280x1024 on my desktop, and 1x 1920x1080 on my laptop. I agree that 16:9 is almost like having dual screens, but it's just not as good. If you're going to use dual screens anyway, then it makes more sense to go with 4:3 and have one window per screen.
A semi-related issue is that Linux HiDPI support isn't quite there yet (KDE5 and Wayland aren't mainstream yet), so there's little reason to upgrade until then.
The only reason, AFAIK, is because it's of strategic advantage to the systemd project, and by extension, Red Hat. (If someone has evidence to the contrary, I'd love to hear it.)
I've used systemd since mid-2013, and since then I've acquired a fair few reasons to dislike it, but it's the management of the project that bothers me more than any technical aspect. The systemd modules all seem to depend on the process manager and journal. The process manager requires that systemd also acts as init,* and user instances require a root instance. None of these dependencies need to exist - even the journalling library could be replaced by a shim that just forwards everything to stderr. Traditionally they would have been separate projects and such dependencies wouldn't exist.
* Systemd is a much better process manager than SysVinit, but there was never any reason to prevent the user from choosing another init.
How is that not fair? As a solar panel user, you’re no different from any other generator company.
The problem is that they aren't under the same contract as another generation company; they're just given a flat rate. The generators are subject to dynamic pricing that varies by the hour, and those prices take power factors into account. In certain regions, at certain times, the price of electricity can even go negative if the mismatch between demand and supply gets too great (this is typically associated with large wind/solar installations, which are inherently unpredictable).
Of course, the reason they're given a flat rate in the first place is because dynamic pricing would be too complex and unpredictable for the average consumer, even though it would result in a more efficient system. Ultimately I suspect they'll just offer a mean price that compensates for this, with dynamic pricing as a possible alternative.
Generalized Bechdel test: how many movies have conversations between minor characters that are about something other than the main character?
When you flick a pencil in the absence of gravity, you impart both translational and rotational momentum to it, both of which are conserved. Flick it in the center, and it will fly forward, and you backward. Flick it at an extreme*, and while it spins forward, you will spin backward. Flick it anywhere in between, and you'll get some combination of those.
* I doubt you can flick it without imparting any translational momentum in practice, because your finger is not infinitely thin.
Rather than choosing specific resources, you might find it more helpful to look for comprehensive collections. e.g.
In addition to these, any of the standard comp sci books (e.g. the Art of Programming) will give you something to mull over. Learn a functional language if you haven't used one before (I suggest Haskell).
I think D is spectacular and I'm sorry it hasn't seen more adoption.
I'll second that. It seems to be purely a matter of corporate backing - Go and Rust have received a significant amount of funding from Google and Mozilla, but D hasn't gotten much more than a few conferences sponsored by Facebook.
If it's not supported on WINE, then it's completely random whether or not the WINE demographic will buy it, and MBA-types tend to prefer predictability.
Furthermore, if it does work well under WINE, that implies the effort needed to port it is minimal - simply bundling WINE (or a similar translation layer) with it would be sufficient. In my experience, there isn't much support available for games anyway, unless it's a game-breaking bug that affects a large number of people.
The sooner all the animals are extinct, the sooner we'll find their money. - Ed Bluestone
