but don't be surprised if Intel tries pulling some nasty shit in the future as we have seen in the past its SOP for them when they have more than token competition.
Here's an AMD response to some FUD that probably was probably paid for by Intel.
My biggest concern if this is successful, I can see other movies in the future doing this to make a few more bucks.
The feline has escaped the containment device. Both the #1 film (Avatar) and #3 film (Titanic) already did this trick. Endgame is just following the pack.
The only thing they've achieved with this is to make it harder to find the "correct" version to download. I'm not going to pay full price to see a post credits scene
This, and the dark theme preference is not consistent with industry. It's heavily skewed towards young, unmarried coders who code at night.
Dark theme: because for some reason developers are overwhelmingly choosing to not stare into a bright white light all fucking day and/or night too, even going so far as to install browser extensions to make all websites dark.
And all this for what? So some fucking design wankers can apply their print design knowledge to something that isn't a printed page.
This is about cost,
No shit sherlock
nothing more.
And that's where you're wrong; cost was merely the trigger that made them decide to go ahead with this multi year project
from their site, explaining the rationale:
The project’s principles of engagement are to:
Deliver the same service to every category of CERN personnel
Avoid vendor lock-in to decrease risk and dependency
Keep hands on the data
Address the common use-cases
You must be one of those people who only read the headline and think you know what's going on.
Microsoft recently revoked the organisations status as an academic institution, instead pricing access to its services on users. This bumps the cost of various software licenses 10x, which is just too much for CERN's budget.
Budgeting must be hard for you, so reduce the numbers to something within the realm of your usual lifestyle:
If your electricity provider decided to raise your bill to 10x what it was last year, you would be also want to shop elsewhere, or for a more 'IT' scenario
If MS decided to raise your Azure fees by 10x, you'd start porting your shit to AWS or Google etc
Have any of these big dramatic exits from the Windows OS ever actually gone as planned? I can't think of one that hasn't gone "casters up."
Ever heard of ssh, shell scripts, apt-get, etc?
Yes, I have. Most of them are very useful, but for me, apt-get is absolutely useless. You see, it's designed to install, update and upgrade
That's what the 'etc' was for, dipshit.
Yes yes, we know, because you keep mentioning it. Give it a rest already. Chromebooks are single user machines. One use, one chromebook, they're not meant to be shared.
I have a Chromebook, It allows multiple user accounts, even a guest account.
It even has a quick "note taking" feature that does not require a login, just pull out the stylus and the default stylus app opens
Pretty sure this only applies to laptops released after today. Laptops released last fall all have crostini support (that's the Linux feature the article dances around the name of) but latest Chromebooks will have a newer kernel version which enables more features. Chromebooks never have their kernel updated. If you want the latest hotness wait for Chromebooks released in June 2019, newer production of old models will never get the update.
I bought an Acer Chromebook tab 10 recently, it had an update to allow me to use Linux on it. I've either got a new enough kernel already for a device that came out last year, or they have updated my kernel (unlikely) Either way, the implication is that one does not need a June 2019 or newer ChromeOS device to use Linux.
If there is a move to a UWP world, I'll be looking at other operating systems.
You should have moved already. There already was a move to a UWP world. It eventually failed, but around the same time, my main OS changed from Windows to Linux Mint. Windows has been banished to a VM where it can't cause me any long term problems.
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