Today, you are expected to work 60+ hours a week, get divorced, have health issues, even die on the job (had multiple deaths in the current project so far : cancer, heart attacks, some among young people who shouldn't be having these problems) - as bad as building a big steel bridge or skyscraper).
The Japanese have a word for this - karoshi.
Same goes for us down in Australia. I've had great experiences with Amazon and bought a bunch of books from them recently, but it's virtually impossible to find electronics that ship outside the US on there.
No, these were the projections accounting for the UI Formerly Known as Metro. They just underestimated how bad it would be.
Why, that sounds almost as if they would be held accountable for their actions, to the extent that it might actually be disadvantageous to break the law...
The very reason it's a clusterfuck is because of the fragmentation these guys are trying to address. Each device has a different kernel, even those that use the same SoC (because the GPIOs, etc. are hardcoded). That means that the developers efforts are fragmented - only a small number of people see the bugs and put in the effort to fix them, which undermines Linus' law. 3.7 will help, but there's still a lot to be done before ARM has the kind of compatibility that x86 does.
tldr: These guys are doing useful, important work that will vastly improve the state of Linux ARM.
For that matter Linaro has been making ARM patchsets for various hardware for over 10 years (maybe even longer!).
Citation needed. According to wikipedia, Linaro was only founded 2 years ago.
This is also true in other Commonwealth countries, such as Australia, Canada, etc.
KDE is hardly an alternative desktop - it has more in common with Gnome (in terms of popularity) than XFCE.
There's a difference between premature optimization and software bloat. I can see absolutely no reason one program should take up 2+ orders of magnitude more resources than a competing product with 90% of the features.
Once upon a time there was an idea to target both phones and tablets - what happened to that? It seems like they're only concentrating on tablets now.
-someone who was really looking forward to running KDE on his phone
Here's a useful reference point: I ordered one from both element14 and RS at the same time. The RS one arrived several weeks after the one from element14. I ordered another one from element14 more recently, and it arrived in under 3 weeks.
AFAICT, most of the people complaining ordered theirs from RS. I suspect part of the reason may be that RS is using a completely separate website and therefore likely has a completely separate administrative process for fulfilling orders, which isn't as capable. Element14 just added them as items to their regular site, so they aren't subject to the same limitations. (I'd say that was a pretty good move on their part, given that I've since ordered lots of more obscure components from them.)
I have Word docs in a git repository. Diffs seem to work fine, though I haven't tried doing any merges yet.
The fact that this wasn't fixed during development is pretty telling. There are plenty of commonplace devices that simply don't work, the most notable being powered USB hubs.
Here's some perspective: I have an Android tablet which I installed Debian on. The 2.6 kernel I use on it is a modified Android kernel, and the 3.1 is a beta kernel provided by Nvidia. I am yet to find a device that works under x86 Linux that is not supported by either of these kernels. Now, I'm more than willing to say that the device is a hack, plain and simple. There are plenty of bugs, some of which are show stoppers (there's a reason I use 2 different kernels on a regular basis). Yet this franken-tablet with a small handful of people intermittently working on it has better driver support than a mature product like the Raspberry Pi with hundreds of developers. That should say something about the nature of the bugs.
It's pretty much standard at my university (in Australia) to post video lectures and slides online, and I'd say it's invaluable. The slides are great if you need to look something up or fill in something you missed during the lecture, but the videos are better if you missed the lecture entirely (you could have a clash, been ill, etc.) since the lecturer often goes into additional details and explanations beyond what's in the slides, or does a derivation in the margins.
Solution: put the button inside the case, maybe directly on the motherboard.
If you're serious about security, the case is going to be physically locked anyway.
Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while.
