Linux isn't a threat to Windows on the desktop and is losing steam on the server as customers separate the operating system from the development model, according to Microsoft's chief platform strategist. Bill Hilf, general manager of competitive strategy at Microsoft, said pundits have predicted for years that Linux will gain momentum on the desktop, but that won't happen because of the complexity involved in delivering a tightly integrated and tested desktop product.
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Translation: "I want to give myself credibility as I spread FUD about Linux, so I'll pretend to be a Linux user."
That's your opinion. How do you know?
I'm not even sure what this means...
He's talking about unfulfilled promises. Every release of software promises to change your life but practically none deliver.
So, in other words, there are no truly good Open Source software apps, and yet that's mostly what you use on Windows??
He didn't say that. He said that there "weren't enough projects that get the kind of finishing touches...".
How can you think anyone will take your argument seriously when you so blatantly contradict yourself in two contiguous sentences.
He didn't contradict himself. You need to read for comprehension.
There are lots of open-source, Linux apps that are better than what you'd find on Windows. For example, Amarok, K3b and Kmplayer/Kaffeine. Oh, and let's not forget Konqueror or Kate.
Of course there are. There are some excellent apps on Linux. Just not enough of them, according to this guy.
I see the astroturfers are out in force tonight...
The street runs both ways.
Member since:2006-01-03
>I used to be such a Linux guy
>Translation: "I want to give myself credibility as I spread FUD about Linux, so I'll pretend to be a Linux user."
Translation of translation: so called 'linux advocates' feel so insecure they are ready to accuse anyone saying anything negative about linux in all deadlly sins.
Just remember my personal experience. I was working with RH/Gnome at university lab, a few years back. Apparently RH made some modifications to Gnome, and there were some bugs in it. Anyway, I've ended up not even being able to login, and the guys from tech support who knew both linux and gnome but not RH-related mods (or whatever it was) couldn't help me. I recall they have recommended to switch from default GNOME to KDE. That solved some of my problems, but not all of them. My experience from the whole story was that certainly user interface in RH needs some serious stabilization.
Now imagine my surprise when I've joined the related discussion on LinuxToday and posted my experiences. I was immediately accused as an imposter, not ever runing Linux (inspite of the fact that the posting I've made to Linuxtoday was done from RH), a Microsoft shill and whatever you can think of (like, didn't help the old lady to cross the street). Because of a sheer idiocy of all of those replies I've decided not to argue and never ever visited Linuxtoday since.
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"There's a disconnect between how Apple CEO Tim Cook sees his company's tax strategies and how some members of the US Senate view it. That became clearer than ever today after Cook and two other Apple executives testified before Congress, explaining why they're holding most of their international income in Irish subsidiaries like Apple Operations International, which declare no tax residency anywhere in the world. AOI hasn't filed a tax return anywhere in the world for the last five years, yet it earned $30 billion in income from 2009 to 2012, according to a Senate report released yesterday." Just because something is legal, doesn't mean it's just. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and many more - these companies might not be breaking any laws, but it's obvious to anyone that what they are doing is scummy.
The new WebKit Opera for Android has been released. "Opera 14 for Android is built on top of Chromium 26, with a total overhaul of the UI in native code, making it fit well with the latest Android design guidelines. Go get the build from Google Play or point your browser to m.opera.com, and give it a spin!"
The Verge pointed me to a blog post by Leap Motion - which reveals how their Kinect-like motion control works with Windows 8. "From the second you plug in your Leap Motion Controller, you'll be able to browse the web and interact with your computer just by moving your hands and fingers in the air. With Leap Motion technology and Windows, you can do everything that's possible with multi-touch inputs - without actually touching anything. This also means that existing applications in Windows 7 and 8 will respond to your natural hand and finger movements. Soon, we'll show you how Leap Motion will work with Mac OS X." Quite cool.
PocketNow interviews Marc Dillon, and there's an interesting note about why Jolla is keeping the display properties under wraps: "We're leaving some of those details out because we do understand that there are a lot of really big players in the market and they tend to take certain components in the market and dominate them. We created the ability to actually be able to run Sailfish on multiple hardware displays and be able to swap components, so this is part of the demand and supply planning phase. We are committed to this industrial design which is a 4.5-inch display, an 8 megapixel camera on the back and a front-facing camera at the front, and the exact specs of the display we'll provide when we're close to delivery." Something you rarely hear anything about.
"This is my NeXTstation Turbo Color booting the Mac System 7.1 Operating System using a hardware add-on called 'Daydream'. The Daydream has a Mac ROM and a few custom ICs in it and hooked up to the NeXTs DSP port. Turns your NeXT into a full fledged 68k powered Mac." So cool.
"The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.1, the first feature update of the NetBSD 6 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements. Please note that all fixes in the prior security/bugfix updates (NetBSD 6.0.1 and 6.0.2) are also in 6.1."
"At the end of a week in which Electronic Arts confirmed it wasn't developing a thing for the Wii U, one of the software engineers in EA Sports' Canada studio, in a series of since-deleted tweets, disparaged the console as 'crap' and suggested Nintendo should give up on hardware altogether. 'The Wii U is crap. Less powerful than an Xbox 360. Poor online/store. Weird tablet', tweeted Bob Summerwill, listed as a senior software engineer at EA Canada, in a reply to a tweet posting a link about EA's no-Wii U news. 'Nintendo are walking dead at this point'." The Wii U is turning into the 21st century's Virtual Boy.
"In NixOS, the entire operating system - the kernel, applications, system packages, configuration files, and so on - is built by the Nix package manager from a description in a purely functional build language. The fact that it's purely functional essentially means that building a new configuration cannot overwrite previous configurations. Most of the other features follow from this." Interesting approach. A Linux distribution, sure, but with some very refreshing ideas about system configuration.
Appfour added, among other features, C/C++ support to its new version of AIDE. From Android-IDE, "Now you can write parts of your app or your whole app in C/C++ on your device. AIDE supports the Standard Android NDK toolchain (GCC 4.6 + Bionic, STL, ...). No changes are necessary if you want to build an app developed on a PC with Eclipse. C/C++ development is fully integrated: Build errors appear in the error list and files can easily be navigated to with Go to file. The editor supports C/C++ syntax highlighting."
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2005-07-02
I used to be such a Linux guy
Translation: "I want to give myself credibility as I spread FUD about Linux, so I'll pretend to be a Linux user."
I got tired of "try this browser, it's the best" only to have it replaced a little later.
I'm not even sure what this means...
Open Source is great and people can do what they want but in the end, there aren't enough projects that get the kind of finishing touches they need to be truly good. Oddly enough, I get away with mostly free software on Windows and it almost always works better than it does on Linux
So, in other words, there are no truly good Open Source software apps, and yet that's mostly what you use on Windows??
How can you think anyone will take your argument seriously when you so blatantly contradict yourself in two contiguous sentences.
There are lots of open-source, Linux apps that are better than what you'd find on Windows. For example, Amarok, K3b and Kmplayer/Kaffeine. Oh, and let's not forget Konqueror or Kate.
I see the astroturfers are out in force tonight...