thomholwerda

If you're not running Debian/something Debian-based, do you just dump the .so files in the listed directories and hope for the best? Or is there something more you should do to get these to work on, say, Fedora?

The fingerprint reader on my Dell XPS 13 9370 is the only thing Linux never supported because Goodix.

10 of the world's largest 50 companies by revenue are European.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_r...

The graph for Britain is clearly wrong. David Cameron is clearly far-right by any European standard, so the country's swing to the right should be a lot more pronounced.

How is this relevant? Because country A murders people, country B may freely do so too?

Mandating the availability of such service information etc. to 3rd parties is entirely normal in the automotive world. Why do we always treat software and technology as some sort of super special case that should be held to different rules and standards?

It's about time the idea of "monopoly" is extended beyond mere market share. With the amount of mobile profits Apple is raking in (70%? 80%?) I'd argue that they have FAR more market power in mobile than all the other players combined.

The Dutch city of Willemstad is a perfect example of this.

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.6923818,4.4397462,1155m/data...

Read some neuroscience textbooks, for example, and then come back to me about how it's a "religion".

This has to be one of the worst comments I've seen in ages. My god.

I think some supermarkets fridge their eggs, some don't here in The Netherlands. However, I have never seen anyone not fridge their eggs at home. In fact, it seems crazy gross to me to keep eggs outside of the fridge at room temperature. I wouldn't want to eat an egg that wasn't stored "properly" (i.e., our definition of properly). This is probably entirely irrational, but there it is.

Interestingly, the 'official' Dutch storage advice for eggs [1] states they are to be kept in the fridge, because it reduces the risk of salmonella and makes sure they dry out less quickly.

[1] http://www.voedingscentrum.nl/encyclopedie/eieren.aspx

Do lobbyists spend money to influence politicians? Yes? Then it's corruption.

Private money - whether it be from rich people or large corporations - should have no place in politics. The vote of a poor single mother working two jobs to only barely feed her children should carry just as much weight as that of a rich tycoon. If you believe that money should institutionally equate to influence, then you do not believe in equality.

> As long as they don't watch Netflix.

Netflix works just fine on Linux, right? Or am I mistaken?

> Or play games.

Most people actually do NOT play the big Windows games you are referring to. They play browser-based games. Work just fine.

> Or have any unsupported peripherals.

Linux' hardware support is actually far superior to that of Windows. Trotting out the 'unsupported hardware'-argument made sense ten years ago. It does not make sense today.

On top of that, it's a bit of a silly point to make. If they don't have a monitor, they can't use it either.

> Or want to use any commercial consumer software.

Your only valid point.

Seeing a fervent Apple supporter cry foul over iA even though Apple does the exact same thing all the time is... Beyond belief.

You have to click one link on the front page to a short summary of what Jolla is.

One link.

One.

Of, you can just scroll down.

That's it.

Except that the ITC ruled that Samsung in fact did NOT fail its FRAND obligations. Please read the original ruling before spreading things that simply are not true.

On top of that, the ITC raised considerable doubt about whether or not the patent was even a SEP to begin with. Quite ironically, when Samsung submitted the patent in question to SETI because it "may" be essential, Apple itself argued that the patent was NOT essential (page 50 of the ITC ruling).

http://essentialpatentblog.com/2013/07/itc-releases-public-v...

This is a protectionist move by Obama, nothing more, nothing less. Had the tables been reversed - an ITC ban on a Samsung product with the exact same ruling - Obama would not have stepped in. Anyone who has read the ITC ruling knows what's really going on.

...seriously?

You do understand that this choice that you speak of is simply a strength of the Android platform? You can't just push that aside just to maintain your own world view. Android is the most popular mobile operating system right now - it might or might not be the best or most valuable, but it IS the most popular.

No, you shouldn't. Ever wonder why Palm succeeded where Newton and other failed?

It's because Palm used a standardised, single-stroke learned script, whereas its competitors used full natural handwriting recognition that sucked balls. Glass is clearly going for the same thing.

The cold and harsh truth nobody is willing to put out there: if Apple and Microsoft may abuse vague software patents, why shouldn't Lodsys?

Monkey see, monkey do. You are either against software patents, or you're not. You can't cherry-pick the companies you like and excuse them for abusing software patents. Lodsys is nothing but an exponent of a broken system large companies themselves created and are now sustaining.

You seem to be missing a whole slew of games here, and most importantly, you don't seem to understand just how gritty, dark, and realistic Wolfenstein was for its time.

You cherry-pick robo-Hitler in order to paint Wolfenstein as a fun and happy game - but the fact of the matter is that when it was released, it was the most realistic game ever made (give or take), in which you killed nazis. Nothing but nazis. In a first-person perspective, in a dark and gritty environment, in what was seen as very realistic. The policor backlash to the game's realism and grittiness - and the nazi-aspect - was huge. Wolfenstein was far, far more realistic and gritty than Halo has ever been, when put in historical perspective.

Then there's the fact that other realistic console shooters existed long before Halo came out. Take Goldeneye 007 and Perfect Dark for the N64, for instance. Two highly-realistic first person shooters, accompanied by successful multiplayer elements. Or Medal of Honor for the PS1. On the PC, too - take Rise of the Triad, one of the most violent games I can think of. Its multiplayer was simplistic, straightforward, and incredibly violent and gory.

I know it's all the rage to talk down on console gaming and games like Halo in particular, but the fact of the matter is that this kind of gaming didn't start with Halo, and had been around for a long, long time before it. Games like this have always existed alongside deeper and richer games, and that's a good thing - I like more intelligent and rewarding experiences, but after a long day or a stressful week, I just want to get some friends together and shoot zombies in Left 4 Dead 1/2 - just as I don't want every movie I see to be Philadelphia. Sometimes, I just want Armageddon or Die Hard, and there's nothing wrong with that.

"When Halo came out"? As opposed to the endless steam of first person shooters that came before it that were even more straightforward, simplistic, and violence-driven?

Blaming Microsoft for this is insane. There is virtually no difference between Wolfenstein and Doom on the one hand, and Halo and Gears of War on the other - except for better graphics. If you think this is a trend of the past decade, then you either weren't a gamer in the '90s, or you are letting nostalgia colour your perceptions.

Wishing people to death really isn't cool. How would you feel if random people on the web told you they wanted you or your family to die?

Disagrement - okay - but calling for people to be killed - not okay, especially not over over something as utterly inconsequential as ads on a damn website. Remember that you just committed a very serious criminal offense with your post. I'm not sure how this reflects on the compony you work for as per your profile.

Google Reader has been active for 8 years. That's longer than most technology products. In addition, there are countless alternatives to choose from, and you can easily get your data out of Reader and move to one of those countless alternatives.

This whole thing has been so overblown. It's like everyone is bored or something.

Yes, but this applies to any and all software - including H.26{5,6,7,8,9}.

Sadly.

This agreement covers VP9 as well.

On top of that, Qualcomm and Broadcom are WebM supporters.

http://www.webmproject.org/about/supporters/

VP8 went from (according to the MPEG-LA and its proponents) legally dangerous to a better option (at least legally) than H.264, covering more users and more usage scenarios (namely, not just non-commercial, but commercial too), and for free to users, to boot.

So yes, VP8 (and thus Google) won.

The author has clearly never seen a PalmOS device. Outdated now, sure, but they were a massive hit, and everyone - still - knows the platform. Put in its correct perspective - i.e., computers were less ubiquitous during its heyday - the Palm Pilot and its successors were a massive hit. It's a clear case of revisionist history to say that the iPhone is the "first comprehensively successful attempt to create a mass-market, consumer-friendly, always-on, pocketable touch screen computer".

The article makes some great points, but is entirely undermined by Gruber stating that "iOS - and the iPhone in particular - is its leading edge", with "its" referring to flat design. At the same time, he reduces Windows Phone/Metro to a footnote, and can't even stomach mentioning Google's Holo design.

That is nothing short of insane. Just because a few applications on iOS use a flat(ter) design, iOS is the leading edge of flat design? That makes no sense, when there's Windows Phone and Windows 8, two high-profile products from one of the largest technology companies in the world which have adopted this design style to its very extremes.

Heck, even Google has adopted this flat design to a great degree with Holo and, by lack of a better name, the "Google Now"-theme.

Yes, there is a trend towards this flat design, but if you're looking for its leading edge, iOS, and Apple as a whole, is about as far removed from said edge as possible.

I'm not sure if Gruber is intentionally dishonest, or if he actually believes what he's writing here. I'm not sure which is worse.

Normalised by the number of countries it was available in, it didn't do any better than the 4S (from @asymco).

http://twitpic.com/axx0ki

I was about to say. Stuff like this happens to the best of us. Look at any Apple press event and you'll see several machines lined up - and in fact, Jobs has had his hiccups as well during keynotes.

If this is regarded as a "fail", than the OP clearly has never held any serious presentation that involved hardware and software.

Doesn't work on Android's Chrome because of a huge non-dismissable social media SEO spam overlay.

Combined with the title makes me think the author has an agenda here.