Well, given that Michael Arrington was fired from his own company for ethical reasons a year or two back, his complaints about abuse of power *do* posess a certain ironic value.
The problem is that somebody has to write the other 2 UI's. Keeping in mind that:
- Many of the existing apps on Ubuntu aren't written by inherently Ubuntu developers, but by cross platform, Linux developers. i.e. small existing dedicated dev community
- Ubuntu has alienated a fair portion of the Linux community of late. i.e. shrinking existing dev community
- The desktop experience stinks, in the estimation of many. i.e. questionable prospects for dev community growth
Where are these tri-headed apps going to come from?
If you were to pull your head out of the sand, you might also note that the related drop in the overall homicide numbers over the same period (299 down to 219 = 70) is entirely accounted for by the corresponding drop in guns homicides over the same period (104 down to 30 = 74)
Ubuntu sacrificed usability on the desktop for usability on a phone OS that, ironically, no-one is likely to use at all.
Shuttleworth can sprout all the design language he wants. Fact is, he completely missed the most simple of principals when breaking Ubuntu with Unity - make sure the audience exists before you design for it.
No, it's the usual "[insert name of other product] is good, but, wow, this [insert name of Microsoft product] is great" spiel. Older than Slashdot itself.
Noticed the "XCode taking cues from VS" bit. Nice flourish there.
The smarter shills have started posting anonymously, or with suspiciously high UID's. Because a reasonable sounding opinion becomes less so once you read they said basically the same thing about Windows ME.
...is that my computer screen doesn't punch me in the face when I talk about the sweet, though slightly twisted and, depending on your geolocation, illegal relationship I had with your mother...
Here in Australia, we have an excellent social security system; free, accessible medical care, and soon, an awesome broadband network. All government subsidised.
Results: Very few homeless. Medical care based on need, rather than financial status. An economy in great shape. Low tax rates.
All this forced sharing is achieved with lower tax rates than the US (if my glance at the graph on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_ counts as research). And, even better again, I can still have the big house and the nice car if I work hard.
But hey, you can have the homeless man pissing on your apartment door step, your grandma dying of cancer without respite care, a high jobless rate, and shit broadband. Wouldn't want that forced sharing, right?
Say the total number of characters upper case + lower case + numbers + special characters is somewhere around 80. And a password is, say, 10 characters on average.
Is someone really going to issue 10737418240000000000 requests to a publically exposed web server to break your password?
Or, even in the worst case - they manage to access the password hashes directly and don't need the requests to do it - aren't you basically fucked anyway? If they can access protected areas on a service you trust?
The "Don't Be Evil" way would be to simply not support Alibaba; not cut off Asus.
Maybe "Don't Be Evil" has some small print I don't know about though. God knows I never read those damn agreements.
Quadrupling the resolution *on an iPhone*. Not on a phone - compare it to the screen on the Droid (released prior to the iPhone) had, and the leap seems less monumental.
But, sleep does sound like a good idea, so we are agreed on that!
Retina displays did not exist in phones before the iPhone 4
Your earlier quote of "I'm not just talking minor megapixel or processor upgrades, but something game changing" seems churlish, given you are now talking about minor display density increases.
Frankly, the increased screen size of the androids with a corresponding *reduction* in dpi was a bigger innovation than the high-density display of the iPhone 4. Unseated the iPhone from #1 . Game-changing, no?
Hehe... You do realise that you put the "You've got to throw away the stupid cliches" right after the "You've got to fix the system" line, right?
But I wish you luck on your revolutionary quest to "educate" of 50% or more of your countrymen and women to vote the way you think they should. I'm sure that Kucinich, Paul, Nader, and Perot never thought of trying to do *that*.
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Why is this news?
Well, given that Michael Arrington was fired from his own company for ethical reasons a year or two back, his complaints about abuse of power *do* posess a certain ironic value.
The problem is that somebody has to write the other 2 UI's. Keeping in mind that:
- Many of the existing apps on Ubuntu aren't written by inherently Ubuntu developers, but by cross platform, Linux developers. i.e. small existing dedicated dev community
- Ubuntu has alienated a fair portion of the Linux community of late. i.e. shrinking existing dev community
- The desktop experience stinks, in the estimation of many. i.e. questionable prospects for dev community growth
Where are these tri-headed apps going to come from?
Visit the profile of UnknownSoldier user to see what he/she percieves is the appropriate tone for the site...
Natalie Portman with hot gritz is starting to look pretty good, right?
And where would that "REAL data" be?
When you question the source of data, it is customary to at least provide some evidence...
Only the ignorant think that gun controls don't reduce the possiblity of a sick minded disturbed person from killing.
The Australian example:
1996, introduction of strict gun controls: 0.57 per 100,000
2012, current gun homicide rate: 0.17 per 100,000
(source: http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/australia)
If you were to pull your head out of the sand, you might also note that the related drop in the overall homicide numbers over the same period (299 down to 219 = 70) is entirely accounted for by the corresponding drop in guns homicides over the same period (104 down to 30 = 74)
Ubuntu sacrificed usability on the desktop for usability on a phone OS that, ironically, no-one is likely to use at all.
Shuttleworth can sprout all the design language he wants. Fact is, he completely missed the most simple of principals when breaking Ubuntu with Unity - make sure the audience exists before you design for it.
Using the TIOBE methodology, I deduce that the following activities are more popular that C Programming:
- Abduction by alien
- Going to prison
- Dying
It's a new technology and it needs a new process.
Personally, I prefer to relocate the element of surprise such that it falls after the delivery of gift.
The wife looks briefly away from the screen to profusely thank me for the e-gift voucher. A couple of clicks, and... WHAM! Goatse!
Handing out an desktop operating system that only has a desktop user interface?
This is 20-damn-12, I'd expect a mimimum of at least one useless user interface!
Does that count as "holding it wrong"?
I'm not cynical. Just trepiditious when an industrialist comes with the name of a Bond villian.
I mean, RTFA. Nothing is contradicting this theory. The "Valley of Death" phase? his "Huge Steel Balls"?
Oh, yeah... and the insignificant little factoid that he's BUILDING A GOD-DAMN ROCKET AND TRYING TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD?
No, it's the usual "[insert name of other product] is good, but, wow, this [insert name of Microsoft product] is great" spiel. Older than Slashdot itself. Noticed the "XCode taking cues from VS" bit. Nice flourish there. The smarter shills have started posting anonymously, or with suspiciously high UID's. Because a reasonable sounding opinion becomes less so once you read they said basically the same thing about Windows ME.
A poor workman blames his tools.
...is that my computer screen doesn't punch me in the face when I talk about the sweet, though slightly twisted and, depending on your geolocation, illegal relationship I had with your mother...
She was great, by the way.
Here in Australia, we have an excellent social security system; free, accessible medical care, and soon, an awesome broadband network. All government subsidised.
Results: Very few homeless. Medical care based on need, rather than financial status. An economy in great shape. Low tax rates.
All this forced sharing is achieved with lower tax rates than the US (if my glance at the graph on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_ counts as research). And, even better again, I can still have the big house and the nice car if I work hard.
But hey, you can have the homeless man pissing on your apartment door step, your grandma dying of cancer without respite care, a high jobless rate, and shit broadband. Wouldn't want that forced sharing, right?
Why?
Say the total number of characters upper case + lower case + numbers + special characters is somewhere around 80. And a password is, say, 10 characters on average.
Is someone really going to issue 10737418240000000000 requests to a publically exposed web server to break your password?
Or, even in the worst case - they manage to access the password hashes directly and don't need the requests to do it - aren't you basically fucked anyway? If they can access protected areas on a service you trust?
The "Don't Be Evil" way would be to simply not support Alibaba; not cut off Asus. Maybe "Don't Be Evil" has some small print I don't know about though. God knows I never read those damn agreements.
You, sir, are obviously a shill. Just not sure for whom!
It shouldn't be an either/or... Why isn't "neither" an option?
Quadrupling the resolution *on an iPhone*. Not on a phone - compare it to the screen on the Droid (released prior to the iPhone) had, and the leap seems less monumental.
But, sleep does sound like a good idea, so we are agreed on that!
Retina displays did not exist in phones before the iPhone 4
Your earlier quote of "I'm not just talking minor megapixel or processor upgrades, but something game changing" seems churlish, given you are now talking about minor display density increases.
Frankly, the increased screen size of the androids with a corresponding *reduction* in dpi was a bigger innovation than the high-density display of the iPhone 4. Unseated the iPhone from #1 . Game-changing, no?
Hehe... You do realise that you put the "You've got to throw away the stupid cliches" right after the "You've got to fix the system" line, right?
But I wish you luck on your revolutionary quest to "educate" of 50% or more of your countrymen and women to vote the way you think they should. I'm sure that Kucinich, Paul, Nader, and Perot never thought of trying to do *that*.
Guess what I do when they fail at the very task they themselves so derogatorily suggested?
Act like a condescending jerk?
Granted, all I have is a snippet as the basis for that guess...
I have had it with these motherfucking cakes on this motherfucking plane!
They may laugh at us in between crises, but when things go wrong, they are more than happy to see the Cowboy Yanks show up to save them.
Says who? Fox News?