You'd be surprised. Some of the machines here at work are similarly specked. I just installed 7 on a 1.2 GHz Mobile Celeron with 512 MB RAM. Wish Aero and indexing turned off it is still fairly peppy. I wouldn't want to do any 3D modeling or CAD work, but it does get the job done.
For those of us running Linux or that choose not to install the bloatware that is iTunes on our PCs, yes...it is an arduous process. Simple documents such as music and pictures should have the capability to be dragged and dropped as if the iWhatever were just another removable drive.
How on Earth do you know it's all in their head? I agree completely with the statement that E-Ink is much easier on the eyes than LCD. Anything with a backlight is going to strain the eyes. I'm still reasonably young, but decades of TV and computers will no doubt take their toll and my eyes will probably be near useless come retirement.
Why would a non Muslim want to draw a picture of Prophet Mohamed in a wrong manner (if not to anger Muslims) you can call it freedom but Freedom is a trial from God and to miss use it is to be answerable to God and we have no right to kill or hurt such a person
We do it to express our freedom. You need to respect that we feel the same way about freedom of speech in the West as Muslims feel about Mohammed. We are willing to protect it at any cost. In all honesty if the Muslim extremists didn't get their knickers in a bunch every time somebody drew a half-assed picture of Mohammed there wouldn't even be an issue. However since they feel the need to censor us in our own countries we feel the need to prove that we still have the freedom to ridicule anyone.
My religious tolerance ends when you start trying to take away my freedoms. And with Scientology.
I'd agree with that, although there is room for multiple browsers. Chrome is nice for when I just want to fire up a browser to check my mail or get directions before I leave. Firefox has a far more mature set of plugins. Until Chrome gets the same retinue I doubt Firefox has much to fear. Without fully featured versions of AdBlock, Noscript, FlashBlock, Web Developer, and Greasemonkey, I won't be switching over anytime soon. And if Chrome ever does become robust enough to have support for the same variety of plugins that Firefox has I have to believe that it will be as "bloated" as Firefox is now perceived to be.
To Mozilla, if you're listening...please please please plug the memory leak that is constantly plaguing your product! There is no reason that Firefox with 5 tabs should be using over 300 MB of RAM without any Flash or PDF files open.
There's plenty of reasons. We use them to store oft-printed forms, scanned images, and a pretty staggering array of things in between. Maybe what you meant is that there is no reason to store an image in non-volatile memory if it has not been specified by the user.
I wish you weren't right, but you hit the nail on the head. The system is broken and despite how it gets my blood boiling I find it difficult to blame corporate entities from taking advantage of the situation. IMHO the solution is to start recruiting people to the patent office that have a background in software. Maybe I'm a dreamer but I'd also like to see the patents written in plainer English rather than in the convoluted techno-jargon that makes swiping a screen to unlock a phone seem as complicated as rocket surgery.
The problem is that in order to create a modern polished device, typically a large amount of money is needed for engineers and patent lawyers (don't even get me started on that). The only entities with those sorts of resources are the Microsofts and Apples of the world. I'm not asking Apple to open the floodgates and allow anybody to sell from their app store. All I'm asking is for them to let the consumer make the decision instead of unilaterally laying down the law.
It has been awhile (at least since it's made the news) but updates from Apple have been known to brick iDevices that are jailbroken. I rarely update my Touch (First rule of engineering: If it ain't broke, don't fix it).
A few weeks ago I was visiting a site on Safari which for some reason made the app eat up every bit of available RAM and slow to a halt. Since there is no task manager and no way of forcing threads to die, I had to use a terminal emulator that I downloaded from Cydia to kill the process manually.
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How do you get a kid into coding? Guess.
Mind altering drugs?
The result looked like an AMC Pacer worked over by the set designers of Battlestar Galactica.
I frakking want one!
The RIAA can lick my scrotus humungous.
You may want to get that checked out.
You'd be surprised. Some of the machines here at work are similarly specked. I just installed 7 on a 1.2 GHz Mobile Celeron with 512 MB RAM. Wish Aero and indexing turned off it is still fairly peppy. I wouldn't want to do any 3D modeling or CAD work, but it does get the job done.
Let's be realistic here. At Apple any mouse with more than one button, or any phone with more than one button is considered "hard to use".
So you're suggesting we add a little destruction to the mix? I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
What's wrong with wanting both? I prefer to manually index my files, you prefer using iTunes. How difficult is it to simply allow both options?
For those of us running Linux or that choose not to install the bloatware that is iTunes on our PCs, yes...it is an arduous process. Simple documents such as music and pictures should have the capability to be dragged and dropped as if the iWhatever were just another removable drive.
And how many iPhones were subsidized by AT&T?
that is exactly the reason that IPhone apps smoke any other platform when it comes to performance.
So why not let the consumers decide? If apps written in Objective C or C++ will "smoke" the competition, what does Apple have to fear?
They're working too hard for Windows lockin.
And Apple isn't working just as feverishly for their own lockin?
How on Earth do you know it's all in their head? I agree completely with the statement that E-Ink is much easier on the eyes than LCD. Anything with a backlight is going to strain the eyes. I'm still reasonably young, but decades of TV and computers will no doubt take their toll and my eyes will probably be near useless come retirement.
Maybe this just means the motto is actually "do less evil"
You must have a hell of an NAS! Mine just sits in my server closet humming with the LEDs sometimes flickering.
Why would a non Muslim want to draw a picture of Prophet Mohamed in a wrong manner (if not to anger Muslims) you can call it freedom but Freedom is a trial from God and to miss use it is to be answerable to God and we have no right to kill or hurt such a person
We do it to express our freedom. You need to respect that we feel the same way about freedom of speech in the West as Muslims feel about Mohammed. We are willing to protect it at any cost. In all honesty if the Muslim extremists didn't get their knickers in a bunch every time somebody drew a half-assed picture of Mohammed there wouldn't even be an issue. However since they feel the need to censor us in our own countries we feel the need to prove that we still have the freedom to ridicule anyone.
My religious tolerance ends when you start trying to take away my freedoms. And with Scientology.
I'd agree with that, although there is room for multiple browsers. Chrome is nice for when I just want to fire up a browser to check my mail or get directions before I leave. Firefox has a far more mature set of plugins. Until Chrome gets the same retinue I doubt Firefox has much to fear. Without fully featured versions of AdBlock, Noscript, FlashBlock, Web Developer, and Greasemonkey, I won't be switching over anytime soon. And if Chrome ever does become robust enough to have support for the same variety of plugins that Firefox has I have to believe that it will be as "bloated" as Firefox is now perceived to be.
To Mozilla, if you're listening...please please please plug the memory leak that is constantly plaguing your product! There is no reason that Firefox with 5 tabs should be using over 300 MB of RAM without any Flash or PDF files open.
There's plenty of reasons. We use them to store oft-printed forms, scanned images, and a pretty staggering array of things in between. Maybe what you meant is that there is no reason to store an image in non-volatile memory if it has not been specified by the user.
It's the Elvish word for 'friend'
So Google is Herbert?
Your informational distinction will be added to our own.
Google is addicted to your information.
Just a few more kilobytes man, just a few more and I'm done!
I wish you weren't right, but you hit the nail on the head. The system is broken and despite how it gets my blood boiling I find it difficult to blame corporate entities from taking advantage of the situation. IMHO the solution is to start recruiting people to the patent office that have a background in software. Maybe I'm a dreamer but I'd also like to see the patents written in plainer English rather than in the convoluted techno-jargon that makes swiping a screen to unlock a phone seem as complicated as rocket surgery.
The problem is that in order to create a modern polished device, typically a large amount of money is needed for engineers and patent lawyers (don't even get me started on that). The only entities with those sorts of resources are the Microsofts and Apples of the world. I'm not asking Apple to open the floodgates and allow anybody to sell from their app store. All I'm asking is for them to let the consumer make the decision instead of unilaterally laying down the law.
I'd maintain that the analogy holds. What Apple is doing isn't illegal, it's just sketchy.
It has been awhile (at least since it's made the news) but updates from Apple have been known to brick iDevices that are jailbroken. I rarely update my Touch (First rule of engineering: If it ain't broke, don't fix it).
A few weeks ago I was visiting a site on Safari which for some reason made the app eat up every bit of available RAM and slow to a halt. Since there is no task manager and no way of forcing threads to die, I had to use a terminal emulator that I downloaded from Cydia to kill the process manually.