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Then again I'm an old fart who misses the 90s world wide web with its simple and direct approach without java and flash.
You're talking about 1992-1995 then?
The web was so small then that it'd probably fit on a modern desktop hard drive!
NOW THEY'RE SCARED. NERDS WITH GUNS!!!!
I'm imagining a high noon showdown between Linus and RMS
(n/t)
We, the British government, will protect you from this bane.
The British Government can go suck my **** !
(just so long as they don't watch the recording over public wi-fi)
HTML needs an active companion language, an actual programming language, one that will replace the disparate third-party technologies in use today. Just eliminating Flash and Javascript for example would eliminate a vast majority of the world's browsing headaches.
I agree!
I shall call this new language "Jscript"!
-Bill
A quick buck, or a quick death in a dying market?
Well said! IBM might not be the giants they once were but they're still pretty clued up. They sold off Thinkpad to Leveno and it's pretty clear now that the PC* market is dying.
The server market may well be about to choke it with cloud servers becoming so popular (AWS and whatnort). It doesn't seem sensible for a company of IBM's size to hold on to a market that is fast becoming a niece market.
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*I use "PC market" to mean "desktop/laptop market"... I hate it how Apple commandeered the term PC as if it somehow doesn't apply to Macs
Getting lasik back in '04 was the best 4 grand I ever spent.
From the FAQ:
If you’ve had Lasik surgery, ask your doctor about risks of eye impact damage before using Glass.
Sucks to be you!
.. awful. Really, try it. Back eight feet away from your monitor and what can you see?
I can see doctors...
I backud up and fell out of the window and now I'm in hospital
Hey Julian, good to hear from you. How's life in the embassy treating you?
Well, it's quite obvious really, it's been REDACTED
Should be really easy to study - are aircrew more likely to suffer the ill effects of ionizing radiation, whatever those are.
I propose that we should legislate to ensure that all the passengers are wrapped inside one metal enclosure before take-off!
Maybe not the year of the Linux desktop, but instead the year of the Linux set-top-box.
As long as Valve (and ideally other developers as well) make big-name games availale, then I think a lot of gamers would switch to Linux on their existing computer rather than buy a set-top box.
Plenty of people only use their computers for basic web/email/word processing and games and the only thing that ties them to Windows is games. I'm sure plenty would welcome the opportunity to not have to pay for Windows (or have the hassle of pirating it) so long as the games they want to play are available on Linux.
Unfortunately, right now, the choice is lacking. I see Counter-Strike:Source and Team Fortress 2 being the only big-name games. This is disappointing as they were allegedly beta testing with Left 4 Dead 2 which still isn't available on Linux.
Once the other main Source games become available and new games are written with Linux in mind then I can see adoption of Linux for gaming picking up.
I'm thinking of submitting win.com
"A dirty mind is a joy forever." -- Randy Kunkee