MSNBC, nytimes.com, washingtonpost.com, politico.com, thedailybeast.com, and fox news. I check out Fox because they will have the GOP and rightwing viewpoints featured prominently. Sometimes Fox has some things you won't see elsewhere, but usually I marvel at how one-sided, misleading and prejudiced the "conservatives" are. By prejudiced, I mean: how much they distort and throw hate at Democrats and the left.
I tried to learn LaTex a long time ago when I was just getting started with Linux, but gave up when I found that I could use MS Word and get what I needed, without the steep learning curve. I'm sure LaTex is much better than Word for some things, but I've never needed anything as specialized as LaTex. In fact, I don't use 99% of what Word is capable of and most of the time I'm using a simple text editor or vim or atom.
Really wonderful and thorough report. I'm not at all a security expert but manage to learn quite a lot from reading this post. Kudos to the author for giving context and background on the issues. If more security reports are written like this, the whole industry would benefit greatly.
I remember when Facebook announced the acquisition of Parse. I was talking to some devs who really like Parse. They were pretty down about the news. The comment that really struck me was, "Now that Facebook bought them, I don't trust Parse anymore." A lot of devs seemed to sour on Parse, but Facebook seemed to push back by seeming to say that Parse was going to be around for a long time. Well, that was interesting.
Cool hack. Although there are already some nice terminals and IDEs on the Play store for Android. I wouldn't want to run Eclipse on my phone even though I like it a lot.
3D tv display technology just isn't there. Either as a convincing experience nor can it compete with the quality of HD TV. I would guess that if someone saw regular tv for the first time, after only seeing 3D tv, he would be impressed with the better quality of color/contrast/sharpness of regular tv.
This is a pleasant surprise, because I've noticed that newer versions haven't been coming too often. I use GIMP on both windows and linux and it seems like the windows version has stagnated, could be the same situation for linux as well. Not that it matters since I'm not really a graphics/UI person. And most of the time that I fire up GIMP, it's for very simple things, or else I'm forced to google how to do things. I took a course on photoshop, where I followed all of the steps to do the projects and exercises. But unless you use these programs constantly, you're not going to remember how things are done. So GIMP is fine for my uses and suits me well because it's free. I understand there's a free version of photoshop (or whatever it's called) that can do most of what I use GIMP for, but that's only available on Windows, so I stick with GIMP because I'm using linux most of the time.
"My impression has been that this has mostly been about giving a cheap, easy to use software platform, and they've succeeded at that because of the price/performance balance."
It was chosen mainly for the low price. The performance was a little subpar but it had the advantage of a decent video graphics block.
"Now that this platform is more established, I imagine they can apply some pressure to get things like the video core to be more open"
Broadcom was one of the worst companies to get documentation from, even for their own customers. Unless you were a big customer, you're lucky to get the time of day from them. Hopefully, their new owners Avago will have a different attitude towards the open source community.
I would've liked to see Project Ara continue. I never thought the phone idea was good because the economics didn't seem to make sense. There's no way that a low volume product using expensive parts can compete with the handset makers and carriers on price and finished quality.
The real strength was in the maker space where you can put together components to custom build your own product. Just like a higher level arduino system, you can easily get a lot of functionality without the pain of low level development. There is a lot of potential, especially from the healthcare field, which had a lot of interest in this project. I know of a few people who were working on projects around project Ara before they pulled the plug on it.
Crashing a printer sounds strange to me because linux has always had strong printer support. It became the default printer server software in a lot of large companies (Cisco where I was an intern) and has supported printers that were orphaned by windows. In fact on some printers, there is more than one driver available, and some of them work better than others. There are some proprietary printers that don't have good support from linux and that might be the issue here.
You'll probably need a larger hard disk to accommodate both operating systems if you dual boot. I prefer to run virtualbox/vmware and have both running side by side while using the best tools/software on each platform.
Dell is really pushing the envelope when it comes to monitors. I was tempted to get a 4K monitor during the holiday season, but decided not to when I found out that I had to upgrade all of my graphics cards and laptops.
The Nokia name and brand reminds me of what happened to Blackberry. Former giants in the pre-smartphone era (Apple iPhone) that couldn't pivot to making successful smartphones. I know Microsoft has always had computerized phones, but they sucked and didn't have the wow factor of the iPhone. The iPhone's open app ecosystem (relatively, for its time) also seemed to have contributed to it's success.
I gave up on C++ right after I learned it. At the time, this was before the STL was part of the standard, it looked really cool but I could tell that it was easy to get into trouble and it would take years and years to be really good at it. When Java became popular, it looked like it solved a lot of the problems that I was afraid of with C++. But it was slow and really verbose compared to C++ and C. Recently, I heard someone say that today's C++ is not your grandfather's C++ and the speaker made some interesting comments about how much better it was. So I'm intrigued by it and definitely open to looking into the new C++.
I seem to remember a few other apps and scripts that do the same thing, but I also heard that they get out of date pretty quickly. Don't know if this is going to keep up with the updates, but it shows that this is an ongoing problem with Windows10.
You and others make a good point about getting going faster on windows, but one thing that a lot of people don't factor in is the amount of time fiddling with windows as well. Getting it working or fixing problems and other configuration probs. And not all hardware works well under windows or the latest version of windows. There is some real time spent trying to configure windows as well.
The main problem that the article presents is that windows acts like malware which brings a new element to your desktop. I remember getting a popup notification from facebook, this after I thought I turned off all of that stuff. You don't face that in linux. You did with some earlier versions of Ubuntu, but not anymore.
No doubt, windows brings computing to people who aren't technical and makes it easy, but anything beyond the most simple configuration will take a lot of time as well.
Part of the problem is due to the small community of developers involved. There are a lot of ways to package and build your source tree, especially if you draw from a lot of different projects. See the chromium or android projects to see what I mean. If you compare the smaller and older embedded projects to the Arduino community, it's like day and night. The Arduino project has a much larger community of users and contributors which has given it much better libraries, tools, and support.