I would think Linux already has taken #2 if you include Android game apps.
The article specifically mentioned PC Gaming. Yes you can run android and play android games on your PC if you want to, but I bet the number is insignificant
Think of something more like the Arab Spring vs the Civil War. Maybe i'm being optimistic, but I can't see the US army rolling tanks through the streets to quash widespread revolt. In the US. Killing US civilians.
Arab spring is civil war. It's just named differently since it was backed by the west
There is a white knight saving us from Google domination while still firmly grounded in the Android camp: Cyanogenmod. They're starting to ship presintalled in devices, now. I hope it's an ongoing trend, since the true power of open source is the ability to fork. And if more and more closely related forks appear, Google will want to keep everything compatible with its Play Store, which will halt its gradual proprietarization (eh?) of Android.
The pre-installed Cyanogenmod on the Oppo N1 is Google certified, akin to TouchWiz on Samsung, Sense on HTC, or Timescape on Xperia, and not exactly a fork.
Cultural mis-reference!
Patlabor! I just want to know if the robot was named "Griffin."
SCHAFT's Type J9 code name is "Griffon"
B-b-but fweeeeedum!
Don't worry, your tv will most likely run some sort of linux distro
is, not was
Still nearest neighbor? Of course. Still most important regional neighbor? Hmmm... maybe?
Probably true, just a bit worried since it ships with 12.04 which is almost two years old. 13.10 would be a better choice to get a more useful version of Unity.
12.04 is the current LTS, and will be supprted and patched until 2017. Alternatively, almost any hardware that is supported on 12.04 will run just fine on 13.x, with maybe certain AMD cards as an exception, but that has nothing to do with ubuntu
Matrox dabbled, but never got close to a cost efficient gaming card, really IMO... the closest they came was the G400 IIRC. That was the era when you could possibly claim there were 4 competing vendors. Soon after, Matrox left the market to concentrate on 2D, and 3dfx dissapeared up their own arse. I'm not sure who the other 2 you are alluding to are.... SiS, VIA?
3DLabs? PowerVR? Rendition? Granted, most of them only released 2-3 generations worth of graphic chips, but they did gave us options back then. I remembered the how PowerVR delivered competition when they released the Kyro after the success of PowerVR2 on DreamCast
An entire country locked in a mexican standoff, that sounds nice.
Or could this actually be a new type of standoff entirely? The American standoff?
You guys did it at worldwide scale back then. Remember the cold war?
Once in a while I check Tom's Hardware for the video card roundups and they all seem priced accordingly. There is no longer a "best bang for you buck" card. A $70 Nvidia cards performs as well as a $70 AMD card.
The last bang for buck video card that I had was the GeForce 4 TI 4200 64MB. It lasted roughly 3 years before I migrated to the a 6600
The fact that it runs on low end luminas with 512 megs of ram and single core cpus and runs decently where gingerbread wont even boot is why I wrote that. I have a galaxy s1 with similiar hardware with the exception of a dual core arm and its barely functional with Android 2.3 which is obsolete.
Windows 8 kernel uses less than 20 megs of ram. Try having linux run with that
Windows is not vista or xp anymore. They have gotten their act together with the exception of Metro. 8.1 runs on 10 year old systems fine with the exception of a real video driver.
My problem is, it doesn't really matter to me, the end user, that a certain OS runs on less resource than other OS if both handsets is priced the same. If both handset performs similarly on benches or general use cases, but one is much, much cheaper than the other since it uses last year SoC and less RAM than the other, I might be swayed to buy the cheaper one. As of now, My S4 is a power sucking, plasticky toy, but it will do (almost) everything a Lumia 920/1020 or the 5s can, and perhaps a little bit more, while being priced the same, or cheaper than the 5s
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