The Model A of when?
Guys, I know it's horrifying but at this stage 1981 was a lot more than 15 years ago.
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I mean, why did they ever think there would be less of a demand for business PCs? Surely no significant percentage of companies is really having people do word processing from iPads. Or editing spreadsheets on their phones. Everyone uses PCs.
In recent years, a lot of kids wore those shoes with little wheels in the bottom. Turned out to be no threat to the automotive industry.
Affordable computers are now getting to have the sort of power where writing a program to try things exhaustively is easier than trying to derive a proof analytically.
So who needs the actual proof any more? Makes more sense to peer-review the Python script that generated it...
If you're always insist on navigating your desktop with a mouse, you'll defiinitely find GNOME3 harder to use.
However, if you just tap the system key (the one with the Windows logo on it) and type what you want, it's frickin' glorious.
In many cases it will even match a rough idea of what you're after instead of the application's actual name - ie. type 'resolution' and it will return the Display settings program.
I like it, and it's really not that similar to a smartphone interface either - unless you insist on always going back to that big page with all the applications on it, which decidedly counts as Doing It Wrong.
It's nice to know this sort of computing power is up for grabs if something really important requires it.
What would be utterly magnificent is if we could get an annual 'No Google Day', in which ALL their resources were pointed at something like World Community Grid for twenty-four hours.
I guess the businesses that rely on Google Docs and suchlike wouldn't be too pleased but... um, I dunno, make it on Christmas or something.
They've made a phone that doesn't work properly if you put your hand over a particular part of it, and then have the cheek to tell us that doing so constitutes using it wrongly.
I'm left handed, but can quite happily use a phone with either hand. The point is, every other phone in existence, you CAN use with either hand.
... is the bug whereby installing it for dual-boot on a system that previously only had Windows causes grub to get the Windows partition number wrong, meaning you can't boot Windows until you edit the GRUB config file manually.
This has been the case for years and you wouldn't think it would be too hard to sort...