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What were the reasons for Motorola, Samsung, LG, and Sony Ericsson to drop their support for Symbian OS? They could have easily stuck with Symbian instead of switching to Android. Whereismylunch ( talk) 04:17, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
You might as well ask why computer manufacturers moved away from OS/2 or MSDOS. The operating system wasn't designed to handle powerful CPUs and graphics hardware that modern phones contain, and in general its entire design wasn't very modern. Being closed source it was also hard to modify, so even if the phone makers wanted to there was no easy way to update it with modern features. 81.138.15.171 ( talk) 11:53, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
Can a computer be hacked while someone is using Skype or some other such application? 99.250.118.116 ( talk) 13:33, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
What's the maximum size of an allocation group in an XFS filesystem? All online sources seem to agree that the minimum size is 16 megabytes, but there seems to be some disagreement about the maximum size.
I would just test it out myself by trying to create an XFS filesystem with 1TiB allocation group, but I can't because I don't have any spare HDDs larger than 160GB. Thanks all for the help. 81.20.145.100 ( talk) 13:43, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
Like hard disks (1956-c. 2010), HTML4 (1997-2014), 32-bit (1980s-c.2004), DVDs (1996-c.2007), C99 (99-2011), music CDs (1982-2000s), cellphone 3G, non-UHD HDTV, LCDs, websites or software from the 1900s that suddenly became unhip or non-existent most recently... I don't know which of Python, JavaScript, Perl, Ruby on Rails or any of the numerous other non-minor languages had high-longevity versions, explaining the paucity of examples. Sagittarian Milky Way ( talk) 19:29, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
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What were the reasons for Motorola, Samsung, LG, and Sony Ericsson to drop their support for Symbian OS? They could have easily stuck with Symbian instead of switching to Android. Whereismylunch ( talk) 04:17, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
You might as well ask why computer manufacturers moved away from OS/2 or MSDOS. The operating system wasn't designed to handle powerful CPUs and graphics hardware that modern phones contain, and in general its entire design wasn't very modern. Being closed source it was also hard to modify, so even if the phone makers wanted to there was no easy way to update it with modern features. 81.138.15.171 ( talk) 11:53, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
Can a computer be hacked while someone is using Skype or some other such application? 99.250.118.116 ( talk) 13:33, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
What's the maximum size of an allocation group in an XFS filesystem? All online sources seem to agree that the minimum size is 16 megabytes, but there seems to be some disagreement about the maximum size.
I would just test it out myself by trying to create an XFS filesystem with 1TiB allocation group, but I can't because I don't have any spare HDDs larger than 160GB. Thanks all for the help. 81.20.145.100 ( talk) 13:43, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
Like hard disks (1956-c. 2010), HTML4 (1997-2014), 32-bit (1980s-c.2004), DVDs (1996-c.2007), C99 (99-2011), music CDs (1982-2000s), cellphone 3G, non-UHD HDTV, LCDs, websites or software from the 1900s that suddenly became unhip or non-existent most recently... I don't know which of Python, JavaScript, Perl, Ruby on Rails or any of the numerous other non-minor languages had high-longevity versions, explaining the paucity of examples. Sagittarian Milky Way ( talk) 19:29, 5 December 2014 (UTC)