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Re:Running Linux on your smartphone in 2020 on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @01:12PM (#22056702)
Question for the knowledgeable, what "makes" Ubuntu touch and can those components be ported to arch?
They will make Microsoft look saintly
Oh my god. Only my stance is current otherwise it's instant doomsday
Why shouldn't it? If I spent 10 months coming up with non trivial interface and 10 years marketing and popularizing it, you cant come in one day and steal the thunder
Re:Tech giants have as much money and influence as nations on Sunday January 12, 2020 @11:31PM (#22031846)
It's a play on faang. Which excludes Microsoft because cool people like Paul graham think (wrongly of course, as usual) I that Microsoft is dead
Re:Tech giants have as much money and influence as nations on Sunday January 12, 2020 @11:30PM (#22031841)
Mars colonization would fit well, just like their recent products shiny and beautiful and utterly useless
Re:Welcome to Apple: A one-party state on Sunday January 12, 2020 @11:23PM (#22031806)
His son is also a UX guru and created the ultimate power tool, enso- a launcher.
For once rooting for Oracle. They may be slimy but Google needs to be dethroned for the tech world to progress.
No if you believe vague handwaving.

Yes if you see they have an open bounty

ITT: people feeling bad for jussie but can't say it outright because then theyd be revealed as hypocrites
A brave Microsoft guy who calls out bullshit like it should be. Respect and good luck
Re:Microsoft’s Ready to Contribute to OpenJDK on Friday December 20, 2019 @12:54AM (#21841993)
Sorry I didn't clarify. You're right about the states reason and legal reason but in reality the problem was j++ bring better
Re:Microsoft’s Ready to Contribute to OpenJDK on Thursday December 19, 2019 @01:52PM (#21837921)
Behave? J++ was Mike's ahead of sun, hence the lawsuit. Their jitter beat sun's
What's the point of bringing Russia here at all? Yes Russia interfered. So did Israel and China. What's your point?
Re:Krita Receives Epic MegaGrant on Thursday December 19, 2019 @02:03AM (#21832667)
Going by their donation this month, this is roughly equiv to 12 months'
Re:Who Was the Buddha? on Thursday December 19, 2019 @01:34AM (#21832520)
Hes using the word "place" in the sense Americans use it.
I didn't have a computer in 1983. I wasn't born even. But Windows 98 felt faster than Macintosh and even Linux.
Re:The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen (2016) [pdf] on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @10:49AM (#21826026)
I appreciate your trying to figure out a solution to my problem. A sincere thanks.
Re:A programming language in ancient Chinese text on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @04:05AM (#21823112)
Now you need to bootstrap it.
Re:The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen (2016) [pdf] on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @04:00AM (#21823095)
Anybody got a Chinese to English dictionary where more frequent meaning comes first? Cdict has this problem that lots of times some random obscure meanings are mentioned before popular meanings.

(For example ,下去- go down is an irrelevant meaning and the first relevant meaning- continue is 3rd in the list)