Nothing to me, as I've managed to completely avoid using it. That is, until I began implementing parts of the iCalendar and vCard RFCs. Outlook's support for these standards is per capita worse than HTML support in any version of IE. In a month I had managed to implement better recurrence rule support than Outlook ever had.
Exactly, none of this will matter much. Studios know when they have shit on their hands; if it stinks enough, they don't allow press screenings. Or they shift the release date to a low traffic month like January.
More metal blades doesn't make a better razor after 2 or 3. After that, the manufacturers are just one-upping each other to keep the marketing going.
I'd gladly pay much more for a razor with only two ceramic blades. But that'll never happen, because metal razor blades are by definition planned obsolescence.
No one, not even the most "hard core" fiscal conservatives / libertarians, claim the free market is "infallable."
Too bad there are few if any actual free markets in existence, even though it gets invoked to support just about any argument. Might as well claim the free market is "magical" while you're at it, like unicorns.
You nailed it.... I want to see the keyboard and my screen contents at the same time. I've been considering the Photon Q, but the non-removable battery and hardwired SIM card give me pause. Also, what's it like moving away from an AMOLED screen?
Unless a phone has a full QWERTY hardware keyboard, I don't really care. Unfortunately, the handset makers and carriers seem to think there's little to no market for such devices, so I'll be keeping my Epic 4G for a while.
Root will be nesessary until the carriers allow us to freely uninstall their bloatware, and other useless/quasi-hostile junk (for me, that means facebook).
Elop will quietly move back the MS once they are done.
Exactly. He'll come back as VP of mobile hardware development (or some such) when MS swoops in to take the boots from Nokia's corpse. Is there anyone left who doesn't see this as a convoluted, shady, long term plan for MS to become a handset maker?
Don't worry; Steve Ballmer's reorg will fix all of this.
Recycling 6 million unsold tablets into chairs is about as likely to fix anything in Redmond as Ballmer's reorg. What the reorg will do is hide any useful business metrics for a year or more while Ballmer continues to run the behemoth into the ground.
Well, now that the folly that is 3d TV/movies is all but dead (again), what makes you think the TV and film industries aren't working to bring the long-awaited Smell-O-Vision to market?
How is blindly trusting a modder functionally different than blindly trusting a distro provider? Do you inspect every binary package you download from a distro's package repositories? I think not.
Last I checked, about 1.5% of Internet users disabled Javascript (in the late 90s, this was about 10%). The average user doesn't know what Javascript is, nor do they deliberately disable it. If a site "breaks" because JS is disabled, it's debatable who's fault that is, the developer(s) or the user. Even in today's reality, JS is a de facto requirement.
That 1.5% deliberately chooses to disable JS, whether their reasons are valid or loony. Removing the ability to do so does a disservice to the informed; the ignorant will be unaffected.
LibreOffice is just as good as Office for 90% of tasks. GIMP, on the other hand, is still a dystopian nightmare compared to Photoshop, for one main reason: separate windows for everything.
Aero looked nice at a glance, but it really had no design philosophy beyond "shiny", which hearkens back to XP's default Fisher Price blue plastic. Plus, it was implemented in the least accessible way possible for customizing. Embedding the skin images in a binary? Please. If you set the window border to a reasonable size (1-3 pixels instead of the default... 8?) you'll notice the corners look distorted. And $diety help anyone who wants a color scheme that lacks huge areas of blinding #ffffff white.
Google doesn't want seamless integration with existing/external normative systems. Gmail uses a bizarre facsimile of IMAP. Google Talk killed Jabber support a few weeks ago. Voice is not really a phone service, stop thinking of it as one.
Sorry Google, just because you're putting chain link and razor wire around your garden (instead of masonry) doesn't make it any better. Hangouts will be the graveyard for all these services that users don't want bolted together, but are walled off from everything else.
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If the phone spying program is so inconsequential, then what does the NSA plan to do with the $5.1B data data center they're building in Provo, UT? 300 numbers a year could be checked by one guy in one cubicle, and he'd still have lots of time to spend hanging around the water cooler.
If Microsoft wants to be the company that people are excited to see what their new product will be
The high point of their reputation was either in 1995 or 2001. Ballmer isn't helping, he's just a bean counter that couldn't make an informed technical, UI, or workflow decision if there was a gun to his head. Their other major problem is they are still hell bent on deciding what their users want, rather than finding out what that is up front. Zune, Kin, Windows CE/Mobile/Phone, Vista, Win 8, Win RT, Surface, and XBox One are all victims of Redmond's hubris and/or short-sighted greed. They still have not-invented-here syndrome and a dysfunctionally myopic view of how their software can be used.
Their god complex is more of a hindrance than any inferiority complex they may have. They don't think they suck, and aren't capable of understanding why they suck when it's explained to them with even the smallest of words. And they've been floundering more and more as they find themselves actually needing to compete.
I remember reading this when jQuery Mobile was just starting up; John Resig was very aware of it, and there was considerable effort put into addressing performance issues. I waited for this to be mentioned in the review, but it wasn't. There are several JS mobile frameworks out there, but jQuery's desktop popularity and large number of plugins available would seem to lend jQM a clear advantage for development if performance was not still an issue.
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Nothing to me, as I've managed to completely avoid using it. That is, until I began implementing parts of the iCalendar and vCard RFCs. Outlook's support for these standards is per capita worse than HTML support in any version of IE. In a month I had managed to implement better recurrence rule support than Outlook ever had.
Exactly, none of this will matter much. Studios know when they have shit on their hands; if it stinks enough, they don't allow press screenings. Or they shift the release date to a low traffic month like January.
"If you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about." Does that sound familiar, Mr. Alexander?
Obviously, you are very worried.
More metal blades doesn't make a better razor after 2 or 3. After that, the manufacturers are just one-upping each other to keep the marketing going.
I'd gladly pay much more for a razor with only two ceramic blades. But that'll never happen, because metal razor blades are by definition planned obsolescence.
Too bad there are few if any actual free markets in existence, even though it gets invoked to support just about any argument. Might as well claim the free market is "magical" while you're at it, like unicorns.
You nailed it.... I want to see the keyboard and my screen contents at the same time. I've been considering the Photon Q, but the non-removable battery and hardwired SIM card give me pause. Also, what's it like moving away from an AMOLED screen?
Unless a phone has a full QWERTY hardware keyboard, I don't really care. Unfortunately, the handset makers and carriers seem to think there's little to no market for such devices, so I'll be keeping my Epic 4G for a while.
Root will be nesessary until the carriers allow us to freely uninstall their bloatware, and other useless/quasi-hostile junk (for me, that means facebook).
Exactly. He'll come back as VP of mobile hardware development (or some such) when MS swoops in to take the boots from Nokia's corpse. Is there anyone left who doesn't see this as a convoluted, shady, long term plan for MS to become a handset maker?
Recycling 6 million unsold tablets into chairs is about as likely to fix anything in Redmond as Ballmer's reorg. What the reorg will do is hide any useful business metrics for a year or more while Ballmer continues to run the behemoth into the ground.
Only infinite resursion jokes never end.
Because Chrome is not trying to copy everything Firefox does at every opportunity.
Well, now that the folly that is 3d TV/movies is all but dead (again), what makes you think the TV and film industries aren't working to bring the long-awaited Smell-O-Vision to market?
I don't care unless there are at least 1200 pixels vertically. Come back when you have one that's 2800x1200.
How is blindly trusting a modder functionally different than blindly trusting a distro provider? Do you inspect every binary package you download from a distro's package repositories? I think not.
I envision an inversion of XBill, where Ballmer must throw chairs at Linuses trying to install Linux on networked machines.
Last I checked, about 1.5% of Internet users disabled Javascript (in the late 90s, this was about 10%). The average user doesn't know what Javascript is, nor do they deliberately disable it. If a site "breaks" because JS is disabled, it's debatable who's fault that is, the developer(s) or the user. Even in today's reality, JS is a de facto requirement.
That 1.5% deliberately chooses to disable JS, whether their reasons are valid or loony. Removing the ability to do so does a disservice to the informed; the ignorant will be unaffected.
LibreOffice is just as good as Office for 90% of tasks. GIMP, on the other hand, is still a dystopian nightmare compared to Photoshop, for one main reason: separate windows for everything.
Aero looked nice at a glance, but it really had no design philosophy beyond "shiny", which hearkens back to XP's default Fisher Price blue plastic. Plus, it was implemented in the least accessible way possible for customizing. Embedding the skin images in a binary? Please. If you set the window border to a reasonable size (1-3 pixels instead of the default... 8?) you'll notice the corners look distorted. And $diety help anyone who wants a color scheme that lacks huge areas of blinding #ffffff white.
Google doesn't want seamless integration with existing/external normative systems. Gmail uses a bizarre facsimile of IMAP. Google Talk killed Jabber support a few weeks ago. Voice is not really a phone service, stop thinking of it as one.
Sorry Google, just because you're putting chain link and razor wire around your garden (instead of masonry) doesn't make it any better. Hangouts will be the graveyard for all these services that users don't want bolted together, but are walled off from everything else.
Hey, don't blame all of us for Wordpress.
If the phone spying program is so inconsequential, then what does the NSA plan to do with the $5.1B data data center they're building in Provo, UT? 300 numbers a year could be checked by one guy in one cubicle, and he'd still have lots of time to spend hanging around the water cooler.
The high point of their reputation was either in 1995 or 2001. Ballmer isn't helping, he's just a bean counter that couldn't make an informed technical, UI, or workflow decision if there was a gun to his head. Their other major problem is they are still hell bent on deciding what their users want, rather than finding out what that is up front. Zune, Kin, Windows CE/Mobile/Phone, Vista, Win 8, Win RT, Surface, and XBox One are all victims of Redmond's hubris and/or short-sighted greed. They still have not-invented-here syndrome and a dysfunctionally myopic view of how their software can be used.
Their god complex is more of a hindrance than any inferiority complex they may have. They don't think they suck, and aren't capable of understanding why they suck when it's explained to them with even the smallest of words. And they've been floundering more and more as they find themselves actually needing to compete.
No, they made a lot of bad stuff fashionable. The only thing they did right was "Paste & Go" on the location bar context menu.
I remember reading this when jQuery Mobile was just starting up; John Resig was very aware of it, and there was considerable effort put into addressing performance issues. I waited for this to be mentioned in the review, but it wasn't. There are several JS mobile frameworks out there, but jQuery's desktop popularity and large number of plugins available would seem to lend jQM a clear advantage for development if performance was not still an issue.