I dislike the direction Firefox is taking as much as anyone but gotta congratulate Mozilla for this initiative.
I'd be nice if companies which depend on other open source software did the same too (I'm sure many already do).
Also, although I don't like it, I understand they got to make money to keep going and so I understand why they do things like the new sponsored squares in new tabs.
I totally agree, but many people disagree. There's a huge amount of people on engadget and such that claim that a 2k screen on a 5 inch phone is much better than a full hd one (I doubt I'd be able to see a difference even if I used a magnifying glass).
Also, many people also blindly believe a camera on a cellphone is always better when the megapixel number is larger. They're dooming us to a world of phones that take 30 megapixel photos, can almost display them without zooming out and whose battery will last about 10 minutes. Madness.
It seems that's the future for desktop programs. At least if we believe Microsoft.
Given that most people are moving to mobile platforms, desktop programs, if anything, should be getting more complex, not simpler, since they're supposedly, only going to be used by more hardcore users.
I know that's not really true, but it's sad that mobile-style apps (spare and touch-optmized UI, no functionality beyond the barest basics) are becoming the new normal on desktops.
...Amazon's ecosystem. Both the tablet and the eink based Amazon readers are geared to you buying the content from them.
What the ebook world needs is a universal, non-intrusive, DRM system (if such a thing can actually exist) or no DRM. Then we'd had the digital audio situation in which most stores just sold you mp3 or other non-DRM'd format and thus you can choose the device where you consume that media.
There're some nice ereaders outside of the Kindle but they're harmed by the shortage of legal content for them. And that's a pity because they give you options the Kindle doesn't like: Exceptional PDF support, PDF scribbling and annotating, large screens, Android OS, etc.
In particular, having an eink device that runs Android is actually pretty useful, because, while you're not going to be playing videos o games on it, you can easily use it to read email, webpages or ebooks and in the software of your choice.
I think like you but, sadly, we're a minority. I'd buy a version of Win 7 with the updated internals of Windows 10 but with nothing of the spying crap, forced integration of MS's services and metro/mobile apps and UIs in a heartbeat, and I'd pay good money for it, but they're just not interested in that.
I'm sure you're aware of larger eink based ereaders. There're some with 9,7 inch screens and those are pretty nice for information-dense PDFs. They're something like 1200x800 in resolution, and their size it's still too small to read dense A4 PDFs, but they're certainly much better than the 6 inch readers.
I have an Onyx M92 and it supports a nice number of formats (EPUB, PDF, cbz, even Excel and Word) but that's old and I'm sure there're much better models by now.
I agree it's mostly an ego thing but it's not exclusive of Apple at all. I've seen many people complain that Samsung released Galaxy sn too soon and so that makes their sn-1 "old" and then they're not cool anymore
I think they feel cheated for having the latest and greatest for such a short amount of time. Of course, that also means they care more about having the latest thing than about whether it fulfills their needs.
Me? I just buy the phone that suits me best and I keep it until it breaks.
It does not, but certainly it wouldn't surprise me if that comes to pass in the next release. Microsoft has done so many things to Windows (most of them decidedly anti consumer) I never thought that could happen that this one wouldn't surprise me at all.
I fear the day will come where users will be prevented from doing many things now take for granted on our own computers for "our own good" or some stupid excuse.
The problem is not that the scenario you mention is very common ; it isn't, the problem is that not being able to store books on the sd card is an artificial limitation put there solely for the benefit of Amazon
Now that computers (all kinds, including smartphones) are very powerful, it's sad that most times you can't have software/media X on platform/device Y is not because of technical limitations, it's politics/marketing/money.
Windows 10 may be unattractive to us geeks but regular joes don't seem to care much about all the things we dislike so, sadly, I don't expect Microsoft to change direction.
I also agree that most software is good enough by now but that's one of the reasons they're trying to move to selling subscriptions (Office 365, extra space on OneDrive, etc.). Also, we can't keep using Win 7 forever because eventually new hardware and software will stop being compatible with it. A new version of Win 7 is exactly what I want but doesn't seem very likely.
I'd be happy to pay some money and be able (with officially supported methods, not rooting or the such) to remove all non-essential apps. It'd also be nice if they removed any data gathering except what I explicitly allow
I would mod you up if I hadn't commented already. I also think Microsoft is trying to become Google. Windows 10 is heavy on user tracking, and it also pushes hard Microsoft's services (Using a local account is made hard on purpose to get you to use a Microsoft account, Bing, Cortana, OneDrive (can't be uninstalled), Skype, Windows Store...) and it's also an obvious attempt of pushing their mobile ecosystem.
I wouldn't mind so much if all of this was optional, but must things aren't. I would be fine is they offered Windows in 2 versions:
- A spying and ad sponsored version
- A paid-for version which would work like Win 7 with regards to integration of Ms services (i.e.: none) and spying.
I'd chose option two and be happy but for some reason they won't do that.
I understand their reasons: The PC has stopped being the primary computing device of most people meaning that if they don't make it big on the mobile front they'll be irrelevant in the long run. But that's a reason to create the number one version I talked about above not to not make the option 2.
I see myself using Linux in the short run
I doesn't make sense to me either. What's in Win 10 that may make a Mac guy like it more than Win 7? That it looks more like a mobile OS? That's the only thing that I can think of.
To me it's much worse than Win 7
Well, the problem for me is that even if you don't want all these conveniences they won't still let you have an OS which doesn't totally spy on you. If all that new crap was optional I wouldn't have a problem with it but you're forced to use many of these new things and pushed hard to use the rest.
It's bad enough that Android is essentially a spying device for Google but Windows has gone from the classic (and fair) model of money in exchange for software which does what's supposed to (and gets out of the way) to a device to push Microsoft's services and their mobile ecosystem.
I wouldn't be so pissed off if they had a "good" version of Windows which you had to pay for. I'd totally go for that.
The games are the only software tying me to Windows, I might have to start playing Linux-compatible titles only.
...if you upload your pictures to the Photos service.
Their AI is so good it can recognize landmarks and objects in the pictures which you can search through later without having to bother to tag them. Of course, Google also gets to know even more about you.
I miss the old days when, in addition to sell your data for free service you also had the option of paying for things with actual money. Even Windows seems to be that way now.
Disgusting.
In another desperate move to get people to use Edge using it was one of two official methods of watching the latest presentation of new Apple iPhones. The other one, of course, was using Apple hardware. I wonder how much Microsoft paid Apple for the privilege.
Another thing: Microsoft, why don't you make Windows 10 so that people like it? Then maybe they'd use it willingly and you wouldn't have to resort to desperate moves such as installing malware that constantly pesters you to "upgrade" on previous versions of Windows.
Make all the mobile, integrated services and spying completely optional and I'm in. It's simple, but it looks they don't want me. I can't even pay for a version of Windows 10 that doesn't suck.
It'd be fun if they released a nice Linux distro at the same time they're pushing the most-invasive Windows version ever. Maybe some Linux hackers could give us a nice Windows version.
The problem I see with continuing to use Windows is not the annoyances you might have to turn off or live with in the short term. The problem is the change of physolophy at Microsoft: Windows used to be an OS which stayed out of the way, did what the user requested and whatever things did wrong was by mistake. Now it's a tool to make Microsoft richer: It endlessdly pushes their services to you (Microsoft login, Cortana, Bing, Windows Store, OneDrive), it sends data to Microsoft behind your back, it even shows publicity of Office, it downloads Windows 10 without asking first,...
They seem to think your computer is theirs to exploit and profit from and thus it doesn't matter how relatively harmless it might seem right now because, with the precedents given, it looks likely to become much worse in the future.
Haven't you learnt anything? Modern feminists and politically correct thinkers completely disregard the wellbeing of males. You're on your own.
Her suggestion would probably be something like "learn to be attractive to females", because, for women like this, the only "ethical" way of men having sex is by exchanging it for a deep relationship with a woman in which he satisfies all her economic and emotional needs.
Yeah, but they can't all fuck the rich and handsome guys, there's not so many of them, so if they want sex with one of the alphas but won't do it with their actual boyfriend it doesn't really matter for the poor guy that women actually want sex as much as guys since he isn't getting any.
It's a pity that people haven't reacted to Win 10 with the same intensity as they did to the announcement of the required always-on connectivity to use the new Xbox. Maybe that way they'd get scared and release a decent Windows OS again.
Maybe the fact that Xbox has a ver close replacement (Ps4 runs most of the same games) had something to do with that backtrack. In contrast, with Windows there exists no almost equivalent replacement and by what I mean a OS that runs the same software. Older Windows versions count to a degree because they will be abandoned shortly, and Wine and ReactOS aren't still compatible enough
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I dislike the direction Firefox is taking as much as anyone but gotta congratulate Mozilla for this initiative.
I'd be nice if companies which depend on other open source software did the same too (I'm sure many already do).
Also, although I don't like it, I understand they got to make money to keep going and so I understand why they do things like the new sponsored squares in new tabs.
I totally agree, but many people disagree. There's a huge amount of people on engadget and such that claim that a 2k screen on a 5 inch phone is much better than a full hd one (I doubt I'd be able to see a difference even if I used a magnifying glass).
Also, many people also blindly believe a camera on a cellphone is always better when the megapixel number is larger. They're dooming us to a world of phones that take 30 megapixel photos, can almost display them without zooming out and whose battery will last about 10 minutes. Madness.
It seems that's the future for desktop programs. At least if we believe Microsoft.
Given that most people are moving to mobile platforms, desktop programs, if anything, should be getting more complex, not simpler, since they're supposedly, only going to be used by more hardcore users.
I know that's not really true, but it's sad that mobile-style apps (spare and touch-optmized UI, no functionality beyond the barest basics) are becoming the new normal on desktops.
...Amazon's ecosystem. Both the tablet and the eink based Amazon readers are geared to you buying the content from them.
What the ebook world needs is a universal, non-intrusive, DRM system (if such a thing can actually exist) or no DRM. Then we'd had the digital audio situation in which most stores just sold you mp3 or other non-DRM'd format and thus you can choose the device where you consume that media.
There're some nice ereaders outside of the Kindle but they're harmed by the shortage of legal content for them. And that's a pity because they give you options the Kindle doesn't like: Exceptional PDF support, PDF scribbling and annotating, large screens, Android OS, etc.
In particular, having an eink device that runs Android is actually pretty useful, because, while you're not going to be playing videos o games on it, you can easily use it to read email, webpages or ebooks and in the software of your choice.
I think like you but, sadly, we're a minority. I'd buy a version of Win 7 with the updated internals of Windows 10 but with nothing of the spying crap, forced integration of MS's services and metro/mobile apps and UIs in a heartbeat, and I'd pay good money for it, but they're just not interested in that.
I'm sure you're aware of larger eink based ereaders. There're some with 9,7 inch screens and those are pretty nice for information-dense PDFs. They're something like 1200x800 in resolution, and their size it's still too small to read dense A4 PDFs, but they're certainly much better than the 6 inch readers.
I have an Onyx M92 and it supports a nice number of formats (EPUB, PDF, cbz, even Excel and Word) but that's old and I'm sure there're much better models by now.
I agree it's mostly an ego thing but it's not exclusive of Apple at all. I've seen many people complain that Samsung released Galaxy sn too soon and so that makes their sn-1 "old" and then they're not cool anymore
I think they feel cheated for having the latest and greatest for such a short amount of time. Of course, that also means they care more about having the latest thing than about whether it fulfills their needs.
Me? I just buy the phone that suits me best and I keep it until it breaks.
It does not, but certainly it wouldn't surprise me if that comes to pass in the next release. Microsoft has done so many things to Windows (most of them decidedly anti consumer) I never thought that could happen that this one wouldn't surprise me at all.
I fear the day will come where users will be prevented from doing many things now take for granted on our own computers for "our own good" or some stupid excuse.
The problem is not that the scenario you mention is very common ; it isn't, the problem is that not being able to store books on the sd card is an artificial limitation put there solely for the benefit of Amazon
Now that computers (all kinds, including smartphones) are very powerful, it's sad that most times you can't have software/media X on platform/device Y is not because of technical limitations, it's politics/marketing/money.
Windows 10 may be unattractive to us geeks but regular joes don't seem to care much about all the things we dislike so, sadly, I don't expect Microsoft to change direction.
I also agree that most software is good enough by now but that's one of the reasons they're trying to move to selling subscriptions (Office 365, extra space on OneDrive, etc.). Also, we can't keep using Win 7 forever because eventually new hardware and software will stop being compatible with it. A new version of Win 7 is exactly what I want but doesn't seem very likely.
That's nice to know but it should be available on all Android devices
I'd be happy to pay some money and be able (with officially supported methods, not rooting or the such) to remove all non-essential apps. It'd also be nice if they removed any data gathering except what I explicitly allow
I would mod you up if I hadn't commented already. I also think Microsoft is trying to become Google. Windows 10 is heavy on user tracking, and it also pushes hard Microsoft's services (Using a local account is made hard on purpose to get you to use a Microsoft account, Bing, Cortana, OneDrive (can't be uninstalled), Skype, Windows Store ...) and it's also an obvious attempt of pushing their mobile ecosystem.
I wouldn't mind so much if all of this was optional, but must things aren't. I would be fine is they offered Windows in 2 versions: - A spying and ad sponsored version - A paid-for version which would work like Win 7 with regards to integration of Ms services (i.e.: none) and spying. I'd chose option two and be happy but for some reason they won't do that.
I understand their reasons: The PC has stopped being the primary computing device of most people meaning that if they don't make it big on the mobile front they'll be irrelevant in the long run. But that's a reason to create the number one version I talked about above not to not make the option 2.
I see myself using Linux in the short run
I doesn't make sense to me either. What's in Win 10 that may make a Mac guy like it more than Win 7? That it looks more like a mobile OS? That's the only thing that I can think of.
To me it's much worse than Win 7
Well, the problem for me is that even if you don't want all these conveniences they won't still let you have an OS which doesn't totally spy on you. If all that new crap was optional I wouldn't have a problem with it but you're forced to use many of these new things and pushed hard to use the rest.
It's bad enough that Android is essentially a spying device for Google but Windows has gone from the classic (and fair) model of money in exchange for software which does what's supposed to (and gets out of the way) to a device to push Microsoft's services and their mobile ecosystem.
I wouldn't be so pissed off if they had a "good" version of Windows which you had to pay for. I'd totally go for that.
The games are the only software tying me to Windows, I might have to start playing Linux-compatible titles only.
...if you upload your pictures to the Photos service.
Their AI is so good it can recognize landmarks and objects in the pictures which you can search through later without having to bother to tag them. Of course, Google also gets to know even more about you.
I miss the old days when, in addition to sell your data for free service you also had the option of paying for things with actual money. Even Windows seems to be that way now.
Disgusting.
In another desperate move to get people to use Edge using it was one of two official methods of watching the latest presentation of new Apple iPhones. The other one, of course, was using Apple hardware. I wonder how much Microsoft paid Apple for the privilege.
Another thing: Microsoft, why don't you make Windows 10 so that people like it? Then maybe they'd use it willingly and you wouldn't have to resort to desperate moves such as installing malware that constantly pesters you to "upgrade" on previous versions of Windows.
Make all the mobile, integrated services and spying completely optional and I'm in. It's simple, but it looks they don't want me. I can't even pay for a version of Windows 10 that doesn't suck.
It'd be fun if they released a nice Linux distro at the same time they're pushing the most-invasive Windows version ever. Maybe some Linux hackers could give us a nice Windows version.
The problem I see with continuing to use Windows is not the annoyances you might have to turn off or live with in the short term. The problem is the change of physolophy at Microsoft: Windows used to be an OS which stayed out of the way, did what the user requested and whatever things did wrong was by mistake. Now it's a tool to make Microsoft richer: It endlessdly pushes their services to you (Microsoft login, Cortana, Bing, Windows Store, OneDrive), it sends data to Microsoft behind your back, it even shows publicity of Office, it downloads Windows 10 without asking first, ...
They seem to think your computer is theirs to exploit and profit from and thus it doesn't matter how relatively harmless it might seem right now because, with the precedents given, it looks likely to become much worse in the future.
Haven't you learnt anything? Modern feminists and politically correct thinkers completely disregard the wellbeing of males. You're on your own.
Her suggestion would probably be something like "learn to be attractive to females", because, for women like this, the only "ethical" way of men having sex is by exchanging it for a deep relationship with a woman in which he satisfies all her economic and emotional needs.
Yeah, but they can't all fuck the rich and handsome guys, there's not so many of them, so if they want sex with one of the alphas but won't do it with their actual boyfriend it doesn't really matter for the poor guy that women actually want sex as much as guys since he isn't getting any.
It's a pity that people haven't reacted to Win 10 with the same intensity as they did to the announcement of the required always-on connectivity to use the new Xbox. Maybe that way they'd get scared and release a decent Windows OS again.
Maybe the fact that Xbox has a ver close replacement (Ps4 runs most of the same games) had something to do with that backtrack. In contrast, with Windows there exists no almost equivalent replacement and by what I mean a OS that runs the same software. Older Windows versions count to a degree because they will be abandoned shortly, and Wine and ReactOS aren't still compatible enough