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Gnome doesn't want to be left behind Unity in suckiness.
Gnome doesn't want to be left behind Unity in suckiness.
Just because you're buying "hardware" doesn't mean you're getting the privilege of installing whatever the hell you want on the device.
Go back to your grave Steve, you're drunk.
Because Microsoft is a UEFI promoter, no Linux companies have representation at that level.
A quick perusal of the UEFI members shows several Linux companies, and a number of hardware vendors that contribute to the Linux kernel, including Red Hat, IBM, Canonical, Cray, etc...
The post you replied and "corrected" is still accurate: only Microsoft has promoter status.
And also to haiku OS. They all were useful or fun' and still are.
Could you please define "professionalism", since at this point I've heard and read the word used and overused, and I don't understand it anymore.
Seriously, waiting for an answer.
I don't give a flying fuck WHO it is, be it Torvalds or Ballmer or Cook or Ellison if someone acts like a total fucking douchebag they should be called out for it and I'm calling him out, Linus Torvalds you sir are a douchebag. you could have solved the whole fucking thing in under 30 seconds by simply explaining why "it must be thus" but instead just acted like a giant flaming prick, it was completely uncalled for, the other guy was acting complete civil and politely, therefor the asshole of the week award should be given to Torvalds for flying so completely off the handle when there was zero point in it.
Actually, the other guy, while being incompetent, was very manipulative, and it worked - with people like you. To be manipulative like that you have to have a lot of social intelligence, and that helps you to navigate situations in which your incompetence surfaces. Some people have little patience with such manipulations and fakery.
My wife likes her Nexus 7, but she'd rather have an iPad mini. Yes this is anecdotal, but its pretty common outside the fanboy arena.
Apart from the fact that this is laughably irrelevant, there is also the problem that the "fanboy" community is centered around Apple, not Android. People using Android devices couldn't care less, there is no cult following as there is no status symbol in them.
Exactly, I wanted the GNU/Linux toolset which has only been ported to Android in chunks by people that want certain tools, it was easier to run Debian in chroot and apt-get install whatever I needed than it was to track down the combination of ports needed to get what I wanted (or port them myself). This is in no way an indictment of Android, just that my particular use case was kind of atypical and so the software I wanted hadn't been ported in one package and I was lazy.
Indeed. One could argue that it's actually a strength of the OS to allow you to run Debian that way.
Anyway, Android is opensource, so anyone can make anything they want with it - and some do, like Amazon. That means the OS isn't crippled at all in any way or form.
That you run Debian in a chroot to get at its power is evidence enough of Android's inherently crippled nature.
Not so fast. The poster you replied to uses chroot to run Debian so he can use the GNU userland. This is necessary because Android uses a different userland. That does not mean Android is crippled - it is just a different open source OS than Linux.
It's quite trivial for this to happen. Suppose someone writes a Word document (with the latest version of Word), then sends it to another person who has Word 97, who maybe opens and edits it, then passes it along to someone with another version of Word again. Somewhere along the line the document will get corrupted,
It was corrupted right at the start, when the first person saved it as
Oh, I hear you say "Word 97 is old, they should buy the new one." Yes, and pay MS their extortion money only because they made the new format incompatible with the previous version for reasons that 99.9999999% of users won't appreciate.
Contrast with OpenOffice, that is backwards compatible since forever.
Lots of things. Say you have an app built using the LAMP stack; and want to tun it on the tablet. You can't do that on Android since the APM stack is still not good enough in Android. So you either rewrite your app in Android-Java, or run it in a browser, hosted elsewhere on a proper Intel server. But Ubuntu on a tablet would be a better fit in more than 90% use cases.
It's not like tablets are full-fledged PCs
Why not? Like a PC, a tablet has a CPU, RAM, enough storage, and more options for 100% always-on networking than the PC's LAN or WiFi. Many tablets support full USB so keyboards and mice can be connected when required.
Android is just the Linux kernel without GNU; a full fledged GNU/Linux would be a very useful gadget.
Ditch the conditional: now there is a distro (based off the MeeGo work) that you can install on tablets
The KDE developers don't think they work for Apple and seem to listen to what users want.
Or Microsoft, for that matter - thanks go to Miguel, for his contribution in derailing Gnome.
Ubuntu is doomed. If tablets are Ubuntu's goal, they fucked up already: first off, Unity, which is drek on the desktop is also drek on tablets - so they alienated a large part of the desktop users in favor of nothing (add the local search beamed to Amazon thing for extra bonus points of alienation).
And in the meantime, KDE waltzes in, almost effortlessly creates Plasma and already now there is a distribution, Plasma Active, running on the Nexus 7, and it's actually usable and easy on the eyes.
I should also mention that the tablet marketplace is cutthroat-competitive, and even Microsoft has its work cut out to get in.
Ubuntu should step back from the precipice right fucking now.
Well, if it's a toy, it has to be just about my favorite toy. I'd rather have a tablet than a laptop myself - for "real" mouse/typing work I want a desktop with a keyboard that isn't little mushed things that I have to reach over a fat "sand bar" to get at while broadcasting false mouse events as my hands pass over the touchpad.
I hate touchpads/trackpads with a passion. It's why for me only laptops with trackpoints ("nipple") will do. And exactly for the reason you cite: it's hard to type while trying to hover the thumbs over the trackpad. If you do touch it, the cursor will jump somewhere random, and your text will continue to be typed there
Funny - we know this to be true, yet American continues to export jobs and technology to China. Idiots in CEO suits, idiots in Board of Director suits, idiots in Consultant suits - the whole lot of them have read time and time again about the Chinese stealing IP. But, they decide amongst themselves that it's best to take advantage of all that slave labor in China. All that IP given away, in the quest for free or almost free labor.
They're not idiots, just psychopaths - they don't give a fuck about American intellectual property or jobs, or any countries interests, for that matter. In fact, they don't even give a shit about the publicly traded company they're heading. That company can crash and burn in the long term, but by that time they'll have their money and be heading another company into the abyss.
Corporate psychopaths/sociopaths have no allegiance to country, company or institution. Hell, sometimes it seems they quite enjoy the trail of destruction they leave behind them.
In any case, they're not idiots.
UNIX is hot. It's more than hot. It's steaming. It's quicksilver lightning with a laserbeam kicker. -- Michael Jay Tucker
