I don't get it. Why go to class if you're gonna be playing Stracraft? Was there any system to control if you were there? Otherwise, if you're gonna just play do it in the dorm
I was referring to the fact that it lets you do more thing than iOS (install software from outside the official app store, access the filesystem at the file level, etc).
I had read good things about the N9 but I wasn't sure if it was a full Linux OS. Thanks.
That's what we should have. A pity that Microsoft essentialy forced Nokia to abandon everything but Windows Phone.
The problem is that providing a full computer seems not to be in the best interests of the mobile OS makers. Apple would rather control what you install and get their cut of every app sale, Google would rather push all their services in your face and mine all your data. And 99% of the users don't care about the limitations. For many people a smartphone is something fundamentally different from a "regular" computer so for them is not strange that they can't do the same things.
Yeah, sadly current smartphones have pretty limited OS. As you say, Android is better than iOS but still isn't a "full" desktop-class OS.
There's no technical reason why a phone couldn't run a regular Linux just with an UI adapted for touch. When you docked it you could use the traditional keyboard and mouse UI. I think that was the idea of the Ubuntu phone but they arrived late in the smartphone market (Windows Phone did too) and didn't have a strong corporate backing so they couldn't succeed.
I disagree. With the previous model you made a one time payment and had X years of fixes but you could use that license afterwards.
With the new model either you keep paying every X months or you can't keep using the software (in theory at least).
I'm still running 7, not because I'm cheap or specially attached to old software but because I dislike many things about Windows 10. If I liked it I'd gladly pay the upgrade.
Well, I hate Windows 10 quite a lot already, paying for it forever would indeed be throwing a lot of salt into the wound.
The only thing that really ties me to Windows at home is games I should probably just use it for that.
Buying a console is out of the question since they more often than not not let you use your old games on the new hardware.
What does it mean? That the companies should somehow develop public infrastructures?
Call me old fashioned, but I think that's the job of the town halls, of course they should pay property and land taxes that would allow said town halls to do their job.
I disagree with whom they follow in OS design: It's Google. Windows has been redesigning its UI to be more mobile-like, they've also been adding data gathering and advertising. They seem to want to turn it into Android
Yeah, but I bet there's more than 7 people running OneDrive on ExFat filesystems (don't know about how popular ReFs is).
This smells of a dick move by Microsoft. The eleven-thousandth one since releasing Windows 10.
I believe that forcing manufacturers to include a pretty big number of Google apps if they want to include any of them (including some everyone essentially wants like the Play store, Gmail and Maps) is a bit abusive.
The agreement Google forces upon manufacturers that want to release Android phones also states that they can't release any device bearing an Android-derived OS. That is, Amazon can release their tablets with an Android-derived OS, bug Samsung can't do so since they do release devices with Google's apps.
Anyway, this is much worse for Google than the issue with unfair positioning of their shopping service since Android was essentially developed to promote their services and gather user data which, in turn, feeds Google's primary business of selling ads tailored to the user.
An alternative to the forced bundling of apps and services would be that the manufacturers paid for the privilege of using the closed source bits of Android and Google's apps.
Learn from them? I virtually all western countries birth rates have declined so much that population would be reducing were not for inmigration. Nonetheless, there's lots of poor people in the world that want to go to those countries.
It's widely known birth rate reduces with the increase of the standards of living. Right now population growth is mainly driven by India and Africa. India looks like it will stabilize in the medium term, Africa doesn't look good in the near future.
To sum up, many countries have "learnt" from Japan, it's just that other countries are moving their people to the first ones
Don't worry, decoding is always orders of magnitude less intensive than encoding. A regular PC will probably be enough for full hd playback in the beginning.
Later hardware support will appear both for PC GPUs and for mobile SOCs (there're hardware manufacturers in the alliance) and it'll be feasible to play even on mobile devices.
Meanwhile it can coexist with current codecs.
Funnyly, this is one of those cases in which a few companies (alliance for open media) ally to fight other companies (h265's patent holders) and people in general will be better off for it.
I came to comment this. I think it's a good solution for both parties except for the part that would force Facebook to put a price on the data they usually gather about you. It's reasonable to think they would want to divulge that information.
Anyway I think all services that are currently paid for with the data they gather about their users should have an option to pay with money. That would include not only Facebook, Google and other Internet services but also Windows 10. Many mobile apps have two options: One free with ads, one paid for without ads.
Completely agree. An OS does not need to send any info to the manufacturer to work.
You should be able to completely disable the sending on any data. I was hoping cases like this would force Microsoft to do the right thing but it seems goverments really don't care. This will only be seen by OS makers as a green light to get more bolder with user spying, publicity and other anti user "features".
Right now I'm not happy with any OS of the major manufacturers (Apple, Microsoft and Google). They all try to either push you to buy services from them, force to install software from a store they control, include publicity in the fucking OS (Win 10) or spy you in a million ways.
The obvious alternative is to use Linux but it still doesn't have the same kind of support from the commercial software developers and I do really want to use some software that's Windows only.
I just want a "classic" OS which doesn't limit the user in any way, doesn't spy them and just stays out of the way. I really liked Win 7 but it seems we'll never see another one like it.
It's free because mining your photos gives Google a lot of information about you, which is really they only thing they want about you.
I'm tired of being spied in all ways possible. What I really want is the old paradigm: I get services/goods for money and not for letting you spy me. Some services have both options (which is nice), but many don't even give you the option of paying.
Welcome to the new world where everything (websites and even "apps" for Windows) are designed for touch first*, whitespace is cool and flat is a religion.
*Means it works ok with fingers but it's really suboptimal for mouse and keyboard users. Gee, I just want to be given an *option* to use a (classic) UI designed for mouse use, but no, it has to be one size fits all
What I don't see anywhere (and so I suppose is a no) is whether they're going to continue selling drm-less individual books somewhere. I have an ereader that's not a Kindle and I don't wanna be tied to a specific company/device so having drm free epubs and pdfs is essential for me. If they're not gonna sell them anywhere is over for me
Well, I personally have met several vegatarians and vegans and none of them have told me meat is bad for health, all of them chose not to eat meat because of ethical reasons.
I'd mod you up but I've already posted. Yep, you're right.
It'd been nice if they'd lowered the price a bit more. Apart from the bad reputation the device has garnered there's also the fact that the Note 8 is not too far away (august according to some sources) but Samsung instead of lowering the price of the refurbished 7s they've opted for upping that of the 8 (about 1000$ if I remember right).
Reasons:
-Thinness
-Seamless metal bodies
-Planned obsolesence
Most people seem to want the first two (I don't care much for either and I actually prefer a slightly thicker phone with a larger battery) and manufacturers of course love the latter.
The future looks bad for those who prefer removable batteries
Because they're jealous of iOS and their control over users and 30% cut of every app store sale. They want the same from Windows.
If you've been following Windows 10 it's pretty obvious they want it to be a mixture of iOS and Android: It's full of publicity (lots of preinstalled crap apps in a Microsoft downloaded ISO, publicity in Windows explorer, lots of bullying to use Microsoft products and services), it spies on the user and they're turning the UI into a touch first mess.
So they released a version of Windows which can run "legacy" Win32 apps and let the user run programs from wherever they want but they want most people to use the limited, smartphone-OS-like, "S" version.
Some users may be biased against Apple, that you can't avoid in a large community but I believe Apple gets what they deserve here.
What you may be right about is that maybe other companies also deserve some negativity from us. I personally despise the sealed battery strategy that has become the norm on smartphones and I hate every company for it. Some will call me hyprocrite for buying a non removable battery smartphone on my next change but I can't buy something that does not exist (I won't considered unknown brands).
Another trends I hate is the "Mobilization" of desktop computers (App stores, built in publicity (clean installations of Win 10 have crap like Candy Crush preinstalled, publicity in Windows explorer...), spying, apps force UIs designed for touch on everyone...)
We users are losing rights on our devices and if we don't push back we'll keep losing
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I don't get it. Why go to class if you're gonna be playing Stracraft? Was there any system to control if you were there? Otherwise, if you're gonna just play do it in the dorm
I was referring to the fact that it lets you do more thing than iOS (install software from outside the official app store, access the filesystem at the file level, etc).
It looks like you've tried devices from many generations. I guess that the progress is easily visible? Is it much better now than say 10 years ago?
I had read good things about the N9 but I wasn't sure if it was a full Linux OS. Thanks.
That's what we should have. A pity that Microsoft essentialy forced Nokia to abandon everything but Windows Phone.
The problem is that providing a full computer seems not to be in the best interests of the mobile OS makers. Apple would rather control what you install and get their cut of every app sale, Google would rather push all their services in your face and mine all your data. And 99% of the users don't care about the limitations. For many people a smartphone is something fundamentally different from a "regular" computer so for them is not strange that they can't do the same things.
Yeah, sadly current smartphones have pretty limited OS. As you say, Android is better than iOS but still isn't a "full" desktop-class OS.
There's no technical reason why a phone couldn't run a regular Linux just with an UI adapted for touch. When you docked it you could use the traditional keyboard and mouse UI. I think that was the idea of the Ubuntu phone but they arrived late in the smartphone market (Windows Phone did too) and didn't have a strong corporate backing so they couldn't succeed.
I disagree. With the previous model you made a one time payment and had X years of fixes but you could use that license afterwards.
With the new model either you keep paying every X months or you can't keep using the software (in theory at least).
I'm still running 7, not because I'm cheap or specially attached to old software but because I dislike many things about Windows 10. If I liked it I'd gladly pay the upgrade.
Well, I hate Windows 10 quite a lot already, paying for it forever would indeed be throwing a lot of salt into the wound. The only thing that really ties me to Windows at home is games I should probably just use it for that. Buying a console is out of the question since they more often than not not let you use your old games on the new hardware.
What does it mean? That the companies should somehow develop public infrastructures?
Call me old fashioned, but I think that's the job of the town halls, of course they should pay property and land taxes that would allow said town halls to do their job.
I disagree with whom they follow in OS design: It's Google. Windows has been redesigning its UI to be more mobile-like, they've also been adding data gathering and advertising. They seem to want to turn it into Android
Yeah, but I bet there's more than 7 people running OneDrive on ExFat filesystems (don't know about how popular ReFs is).
This smells of a dick move by Microsoft. The eleven-thousandth one since releasing Windows 10.
I believe that forcing manufacturers to include a pretty big number of Google apps if they want to include any of them (including some everyone essentially wants like the Play store, Gmail and Maps) is a bit abusive.
The agreement Google forces upon manufacturers that want to release Android phones also states that they can't release any device bearing an Android-derived OS. That is, Amazon can release their tablets with an Android-derived OS, bug Samsung can't do so since they do release devices with Google's apps.
Anyway, this is much worse for Google than the issue with unfair positioning of their shopping service since Android was essentially developed to promote their services and gather user data which, in turn, feeds Google's primary business of selling ads tailored to the user.
An alternative to the forced bundling of apps and services would be that the manufacturers paid for the privilege of using the closed source bits of Android and Google's apps.
Learn from them? I virtually all western countries birth rates have declined so much that population would be reducing were not for inmigration. Nonetheless, there's lots of poor people in the world that want to go to those countries.
It's widely known birth rate reduces with the increase of the standards of living. Right now population growth is mainly driven by India and Africa. India looks like it will stabilize in the medium term, Africa doesn't look good in the near future.
To sum up, many countries have "learnt" from Japan, it's just that other countries are moving their people to the first ones
Don't worry, decoding is always orders of magnitude less intensive than encoding. A regular PC will probably be enough for full hd playback in the beginning.
Later hardware support will appear both for PC GPUs and for mobile SOCs (there're hardware manufacturers in the alliance) and it'll be feasible to play even on mobile devices.
Meanwhile it can coexist with current codecs.
Funnyly, this is one of those cases in which a few companies (alliance for open media) ally to fight other companies (h265's patent holders) and people in general will be better off for it.
I came to comment this. I think it's a good solution for both parties except for the part that would force Facebook to put a price on the data they usually gather about you. It's reasonable to think they would want to divulge that information.
Anyway I think all services that are currently paid for with the data they gather about their users should have an option to pay with money. That would include not only Facebook, Google and other Internet services but also Windows 10. Many mobile apps have two options: One free with ads, one paid for without ads.
Completely agree. An OS does not need to send any info to the manufacturer to work.
You should be able to completely disable the sending on any data. I was hoping cases like this would force Microsoft to do the right thing but it seems goverments really don't care. This will only be seen by OS makers as a green light to get more bolder with user spying, publicity and other anti user "features".
Right now I'm not happy with any OS of the major manufacturers (Apple, Microsoft and Google). They all try to either push you to buy services from them, force to install software from a store they control, include publicity in the fucking OS (Win 10) or spy you in a million ways.
The obvious alternative is to use Linux but it still doesn't have the same kind of support from the commercial software developers and I do really want to use some software that's Windows only.
I just want a "classic" OS which doesn't limit the user in any way, doesn't spy them and just stays out of the way. I really liked Win 7 but it seems we'll never see another one like it.
I didn't know they still made typewriters. Do they get used anywhere except for a few nostalgics?
It's free because mining your photos gives Google a lot of information about you, which is really they only thing they want about you.
I'm tired of being spied in all ways possible. What I really want is the old paradigm: I get services/goods for money and not for letting you spy me. Some services have both options (which is nice), but many don't even give you the option of paying.
Yeah, it's touch first (i.e. fuck desktop users) design philosophy.
A cancer that's spreading thorough all kinds of applications and devices.
Welcome to the new world where everything (websites and even "apps" for Windows) are designed for touch first*, whitespace is cool and flat is a religion. *Means it works ok with fingers but it's really suboptimal for mouse and keyboard users. Gee, I just want to be given an *option* to use a (classic) UI designed for mouse use, but no, it has to be one size fits all
What I don't see anywhere (and so I suppose is a no) is whether they're going to continue selling drm-less individual books somewhere. I have an ereader that's not a Kindle and I don't wanna be tied to a specific company/device so having drm free epubs and pdfs is essential for me. If they're not gonna sell them anywhere is over for me
Well, I personally have met several vegatarians and vegans and none of them have told me meat is bad for health, all of them chose not to eat meat because of ethical reasons.
I'd mod you up but I've already posted. Yep, you're right.
It'd been nice if they'd lowered the price a bit more. Apart from the bad reputation the device has garnered there's also the fact that the Note 8 is not too far away (august according to some sources) but Samsung instead of lowering the price of the refurbished 7s they've opted for upping that of the 8 (about 1000$ if I remember right).
Reasons:
-Thinness
-Seamless metal bodies
-Planned obsolesence
Most people seem to want the first two (I don't care much for either and I actually prefer a slightly thicker phone with a larger battery) and manufacturers of course love the latter.
The future looks bad for those who prefer removable batteries
Because they're jealous of iOS and their control over users and 30% cut of every app store sale. They want the same from Windows.
If you've been following Windows 10 it's pretty obvious they want it to be a mixture of iOS and Android: It's full of publicity (lots of preinstalled crap apps in a Microsoft downloaded ISO, publicity in Windows explorer, lots of bullying to use Microsoft products and services), it spies on the user and they're turning the UI into a touch first mess.
So they released a version of Windows which can run "legacy" Win32 apps and let the user run programs from wherever they want but they want most people to use the limited, smartphone-OS-like, "S" version.
Some users may be biased against Apple, that you can't avoid in a large community but I believe Apple gets what they deserve here.
What you may be right about is that maybe other companies also deserve some negativity from us. I personally despise the sealed battery strategy that has become the norm on smartphones and I hate every company for it. Some will call me hyprocrite for buying a non removable battery smartphone on my next change but I can't buy something that does not exist (I won't considered unknown brands).
Another trends I hate is the "Mobilization" of desktop computers (App stores, built in publicity (clean installations of Win 10 have crap like Candy Crush preinstalled, publicity in Windows explorer...), spying, apps force UIs designed for touch on everyone...)
We users are losing rights on our devices and if we don't push back we'll keep losing