Just for reference, multiple UNIX variants supported hot plug before Linux was a thought in Linus's mind. Its not like it hasn't been around since the very beginning of 'UNIX', and really before that. Have you even used a real UNIX? Just because you're used to using desktop hardware on the x86 platform doesn't mean anyone else does it that way.

It doesn't require anything different than a static text file, and hasn't for the last 30-40 years that UNIX has been dealing with dynamic hardware.

I'm not sure why you seem to think that just because startup and configuration happen at the same time (name one OS that doesn't do this? All UNIX variants do, as well as Windows and Linux, I guess embedded ones don't in some specialized cases) that reconfiguration can't happen later?

Hacks? You mean design. Sending signals is the way its intended to be done. You think because someone invents a new way to do the same thing using much more complex code that its magically better?

Let me guess, you also think virtualization and 'hypervisors' are new too?

Except they didn't get all of it up front, it was being given in chunks smaller than $30 million per quarter. Apple has probably given them less than $60 million, possibly a little over $80 million. Pocket change for Tim Cook.

And if you actually understood what was happening, they GT Advanced) are operating business AS USUAL during the bankruptcy. Its not like the company is closing up shop and sending everyone home and shutting down production. This is unlikely to have any effect on their production unless the judge says no. I'd bet a months pay Apple knew this was coming and is prepared for it, probably even helped plan it.

Apple DOES their due diligence checks. They don't wonder into shitty deals with companies that can't keep them. They aren't HP.

Really? The same models that predict that result in the weather man telling you its going to be a beautiful sunny day while it pours down rain?

Weather models are an absolute joke.

Functionally better HOW and by WHOS definition?

From Google's perspective, its the opposite of what they want. They don't want users to be able to have apps stop spying on them, thats how Google makes money.

Users are never going to bother installing something YOU think is superior, or it would be year of the Linux desktop too.

Phone manufactures aren't going to want to cut themselves out of reaping the benefits of Google's spying.

Theres pretty much nothing of value in CyanogenMod outside of geeky techs.

99.99% of the population doesn't give a fuck about the things you care about. If they did, they'd have dropped the extra coin to buy an iPhone and get the things you're saying they want. They want a cheap phone, the only way they're going to get that is by Google spying on them. CyanogenMod becoming a for-profit means its going to actually have to have a business plan. That business plan is either going involve a fee (which anyone who knows anything about android knows Android users don't pay for shit) or its going to involve selling user data. Selling user data makes it just like stock android. Paying extra for it, might as well by an iPhone.

Before you rant about walled garden, again, users don't actually care despite the silly thought on slashdot that slashdot users represent 'the norm' rather than a niche market.

Anyone who thinks CyanogenMod is worth money to anyone other than Google is very confused. Google is the only one who's going to pay for them, and thats just to hide them to avoid people knowing what they do is possible.

Billion dollar valuation? Yea, the turds I just left in the toilet are worth a billion dollars too.

Thats just utterly ridiculous.

Exec command.com or cmd.exe, using a pipe to read the output, parse it.

Or you use some shitty language/library that doesn't give you access to the standard API calls.
A perfect example would be someone using code which depending on other code like this:

http://stackoverflow.com/quest...

Rather than properly handling the response directly and correctly, some apps provide wrappers like this to scripting languages rather than exposing the proper version information.

Bad code is what it comes down to in every case, but in the real world you have to take into account that most users are not recompiling programs to fix bugs due to shitty developers that stopped developing the app 12 years ago and there is no source available. This is something that people have to deal with daily.

Microsoft attempts to work around these problems, as does Apple to a lesser extent. Linux pretty much just says 'fuck'ed', hence the massive number of commercial applications for Linux relative to OS X or Windows (Sarcasm)

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You too are confusing your own ideology with unrelated things and pretending what the GP is saying is false because you don't like it.

MS extorting money from Android has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that they contribute to open source software governed by an open source license.

There can no be any 'suspect' in the 'openness' because they have agreed to the license by contributing and as such the 'openness' is secured by law.

You aren't talking about openness or freedom, you're talking about wanting shit for 0 monetary, and thats entirely different and is purely your own personal agenda and not related to anything in this discussion at all. You're one of those people who just doesn't want to pay for anything but hides it behind OSS.

Hardly.

That means instead of the apps being written for the Win32/MFC/.NET runtime, they are written for the Android runtime ... how is that any different? Please explain how its different other than you're a fanboy for Chrome/Android rather than Microsoft.

Right, except no its not. If you want ad-ladened crap, Android is where its at. The 'market' is everywhere else. There may be a lot of apps there, but that doesn't mean anyone cares, which the stats have shown by the number of apps with exactly no downloads.

So basically, just like Windows now. People don't want 'windows' they want an environment they are used to and works well, and more importantly the apps they've been using for years. You've given no actual reason why people would want new android apps that work entirely differently over what they already have and are used to. On top of that, the end result for those people would be exactly the same as they already have, except now Google would be in Microsofts place.

Thats just stupid. With Microsoft, at least you are the customer and your data is yours. With Google, you're the product and your data is their data. The whole point is to push more advertising on you and manipulate you into spending more money. Awesome.

Awesome, so instead of being locked into desktop apps with 30 years of evolution and growing, we're locked into phone and tablet apps ... on the desktop ... which are still infants made mostly by random people who think installing Eclipse makes them a developer, awesome. Thats my favorite lock-in right there. Lock in and shitty apps made for tiny screens ... on my 27" inch displays.

There is nothing that magically makes this better than just using an OS and skipping the extra layer of crap added by running your tablet app on your desktop. Have you really thought about how silly this actually is? Turn off your fanboy for 15 minutes and think about it. Its a stupid idea that no one is actually going to use for anything other than some very rare instances.

Never before has someones OS runtime layer been a real product on someone elses OS. Java hasn't ruled the world, Android isn't going to magically make that so just because people use it on their phones. Adding another standard on top of existing standards never results in this magical silver bullet that revolutionizes the world and changes everything. Proper design from the bottom up does that.

We should expect more from people who post on slashdot ... sadly, its silly to have expectations.

TLDs have certain requirements associated with them, unless Amazon magically also has some super special secret deal that Google hasn't told the world about after losing ... then Amazon won't be able to monopolize or otherwise use the TLD to an unfair advantage.

They can set certain things related to how the TLD operates, but they don't get it all to themselves. They didn't buy a TLD for themselves, they bought the right to run a TLD under ICANNs guidelines.

It doesn't work that way. Judges don't make rules, they judge the application of existing ones. Apple can not be compelled to do something that isn't already codified into law, regardless of what the judge or enforcement want.

Like wise, the most the cops can do is enforce existing laws.

The federal congress or state congress would have to pass a law requiring back doors. And congress we control. They are elected not selected. What you need to worry about is making sure congress can't do this sort of change in a secret vote and that you will vote them out of office if they try!

Sadly, they know most people don't vote, and most of those that do just check the party checkbox they've been checking since mommy and daddy indoctrinated them into the sport of politics.

Thats about the easiest solution to your problems. Pretty much every other solution you see in this thread is going to require more maintenance than a windows machine. You can't expect a bunch of armchair admins to provide you sensible answers, 90% of the response you get here are going to be custom solutions that aren't completely thought out and require 100 times more effort than the person giving them to you realizes. You're just getting spew from a bunch of guys who think they are super clever.

The solution is to make it so you don't need to support them, and if all they do is browse the web, a Chrome Book is the answer. The down side is that they become Google's bitch, but its probably worth it for your needs.

Yes, modern drives don't have a problem waiting and resuming writing once data arrives, and thats been true for god knows how many years.

Lets make some notes about your experience:

And you don't understand that ridiculous hours and fear driven work style is the norm in this region for many people? Yes, in this region, its not likely to go away anytime soon.

As far as Scott Hanselman's comments, he's mixing 3 different things into the same umbrella, the first 2 of which are actual things that SLOW development down, not drive it. Only the 3rd is what you're referring to. And really, picking a random dude who blogs a lot and has worked for MS for a few years probably isn't the best place to quote. He's got nothing really that impressive to make him an expert on properly managing development practices that most people don't have as well.

Yes, your single experience is an indicator of how the whole world is going to operate for the rest of eternity.

Or not. Your experience is indicative of local culture, be happy they let you off one day a week and gave you pizza, most won't get that.

In the rest of the world, no FDD is a rare thing that usually is one of the last things a company does before it collapses into a heap of rubbish and ceases to exist because the only people working at it are unqualified people who can't get a job ANYWHERE else, so they HAVE to stay there.

FDD is the result of managers not having any clue about how to manage people, nothing else. The solution is to go somewhere else. In the case of southeast Asia, you probably will have to physically move somewhere else to get away from it, but thats better than jumping off the roof in a year or two.

The fact that you're posting on slashdot means you don't live in a country that will prevent you from changing your situation, only that you have not bothered to change your situation and seem to think your one experience is how they all are.

That or you're just Scott Hanselman trying to drive traffic to your blog in a slashvertisement ... which seems more likely, because otherwise your post is kind of dumb ... just like Hanselman's blog entry on the subject.

Either you don't use an iPhone, you don't use OSX, or you're intentionally lying. Other than the general change in icons/theme, what makes it more like iOS in this version? Are you one of those people that still manually starts Launchpad and then bitches about it looking like iOS because you started an app designed to add some very specific iOS functionality to OSX ... an App that is in no way the default and takes manual lunching every time you want to use it ...

... One feature: Continuity. Done. I just beat innovation in every other OS for the last couple of years as far as desktop users are concerned. What have other OSes been doing thats so innovative? Linux certainly doesn't have ANYTHING impressive to show off for the last several years unless you want to be really geeky, which 99.9% of the Linux desktop users don't care about, let alone the rest of the world. Most would argue Windows is going downhill in the UI aspect, with the pending save from Windows 9. So what is this innovative OS that you seem to be comparing to? OpenBSD? What?

Now you've just proved you're being intentionally obtuse. I know I know, Windows doesn't get any bug fixes either. And yet somehow we see stories on slashdot about bug fixes causing some people problems. Just because your obscure bug doesn't get fixed doesn't make such a generalized statement fair.

You're one of those people who just bitches to bitch, not because you have something useful to contribute.

I have some complaints about 10.10 myself, but most of them revolve around aesthetic preferences, not actual usability. This whole 'everything should be flat squares with single colors and MAYBE some basic gradients at a 45 degree angle' crap that everyone jumped on the bandwagon of its just retarded.

Good, this indicates that doctors and people who think they should take antibiotics like vitamins haven't completely screwed up our natural immunities and that most of the world still fights off this infections even though drugs no longer work on them.

Can we please get back to the point where we take antibiotics when we're in need of them, not just because we might have an infection or have a mild infection?

I'm all for taking them in the cases where it will be life threatening not to, but FFS not just because we're sick. We're making all of these things capable of fighting off the drugs and getting ourselves to the point where first world countries with antibiotics are going to be less safe than 3rd world shit holes where the people at least have functional immune systems that can fight off what they see in their environment.

We have survived for hundreds of thousands of years without taking daily antibiotic doses, why do some people and worse still some doctors think we should take them like candy now when someone gets the sniffles.

So lets summarize the authors babbling: Apple has no actual incentive to OSS Swift other than appeasing people like the author who think Apple should do what they want even though they don't care for Apple.

Basically, he's a freeloader and thinks Apple should support him.

He seems to think his opinion of whats good for Apple matters, and that Apple doesn't know what they are doing. Ironically, Apple is sitting on ridiculous amounts of cash, and the author is a writer for Infoworld.

Now, I'm not even bothering to address the technical reasons the author is a moron, just the plain old common sense things. This guy's just grumpy he can't install some sort of Swift capable IDE/Environment on his windows machine for free, thats the only reason the article exists.

From a technical perspective he doesn't seem to understand that Swift, as done by Apple, without Cocoa ... is fucking pointless. The whole point of swift is a language that works perfectly for a nextstep/cocoa style universe. Trying to shoehorn the rest of the computing world into swift is just pointless.