Nope. That just means you're talking to an old timer that doesn't want/need to use newer and less frightening tools.
That's what it really boils down to: fright. It's not really about "usability", it's about users that have been conditioned into thinking that they are helpless and that tech might implode if they look at it wrong.
Although a line of text is a lot easier to deal with in terms of "remote support". An entire description of how to deal with a GUI including pictures incurs a lot more overhead.
The device node for a particular disk drive is pretty f*cking irrelevant.
All I need to know is where in the filesystem it is mounted at. The GUI provides ample opportunities to view this information. There are icons in various places for your drives.
Although chances are that the directory you need will just "pop up automatically" in it's own window.
It won't give you a screen full of options prone to confuse a n00b either, like Vista and Win7 does.
No. All of his points are valid. The only thing Windows has going for it, or ever really had going for it, was the perception that it is the monopoly. This means more 3rd party support of various kinds.
Although using the vendor supplied driver is not always the best option.
The main thing is the perception that it "runs everything". This has been fueling WinDOS adoption since Microsoft mean DOS.
Not at all. Mobile devices aren't capable of dealing with any of the various random video formats that a DVR may need to handle.
> New flash: users don't care about RAM, super-overclocked multicore 4 GHZ CPUs or any other such acronyms.
Without such a machine, their mobile device will be out of luck as it has limited ability to decode video. It needs a real PC to do all the "heavy lifting".
A specialized part is always going to trump the "jack of all trades". That's rather the point of having the specialize part.
Claims of this kind are especially funny considering that ARM CPUs simply don't have the ability to deal with the vast bulk of video content already out there. That's why these SoCs have special GPUs to begin with.
An ARM would be dead in the water without special purpose silicon for video decoding.
I might have implemented that in the 80s and forgotten about it.
Trivial things simply don't rate giving the "inventor" the means to screw around with the rest of the industry and stifle innovation for the next 17 years. That's not what patents are for.
There's really no great bother to it past setting it up. You can even get suitable and suitably simple software for this task with just about any consumer external disk.
Apple does it. Seagate does it. Western Digital does it.
There's really no good "but it's too hard" excuse here.
If anything, it's the "time is money" mentality that supports the idea of having a robust backup plan. Nothing is going to waste time more than getting caught with your pants down when you have a drive failure.
Although in that case you are likely to lose things that no amount of time or money can replace.
Just archive your iTunes video purchases over a number of years.
Given that Apple's model is predominantly a "purchase" model, I am surprised this hasn't really occurred to most people. Do you really want to spend all that money and have nothing to show for it? Sooner or later you are bound to accumulate enough stuff where these larger drives become relevant.
Such drives probably make more sense then expecting the "average consumer" to manage some sort of array.
Sure. Once you've picked up all of the older classic bits of content from Frys or Walmart for a song, then you can pretty much turn your back on the MPAA.
I have so much stuff that I tend to forget the stuff that I have rented via Netflix. Never mind the cinema.
Why watch the remake when the original is available and cheaper than one trip to the movies?
On the other hand, if your bank fails you will likely find that you cannot access your funds for up to 18 months or more.
Let that sink in.
Sure, it's "insured" but you have to go through several layers of government beaurocrats in order to get paid.
So all of the stuff that applies to the cloud does apply to banks. Although banks are much more mature and debugged "technology", people still suffer from large system failures and the fact that they had no "offline backup".
They own a number of storage locker facilities. Of course they don't want the power or the burden of rifling through everyone's stuff. It's a burden and the customers certainly don't want it.
A tenant rightfully expects some degree of privacy and control over the space they've rented.
That's a very dangerous thing for one particular tiny industry to push just for it's own benefit.
Ok then. Lets try 1985. I am sure there is some DOS era terminal program that implemented some sort of menued multikey. Graphical onscreen keyboards certainly go back that far.
Sure they did. They were likely breaking the law too. They certainly would have been considered to be breaking the now. If not as "members of the press" then as individuals they would be. That would make the equally liable for the situation that ensued.
Seems like you're going to get charged with a felony either way so you might as well throw the Paparazzi out the window. It might give the rest pause before being jack*sses.
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Nope. That just means you're talking to an old timer that doesn't want/need to use newer and less frightening tools.
That's what it really boils down to: fright. It's not really about "usability", it's about users that have been conditioned into thinking that they are helpless and that tech might implode if they look at it wrong.
Although a line of text is a lot easier to deal with in terms of "remote support". An entire description of how to deal with a GUI including pictures incurs a lot more overhead.
Nope. I used the available resources (Google) to find out that there was a better way to deal with addressing devices by name.
Linux doesn't really have any marketing to speak of, especially in the desktop space.
The device node for a particular disk drive is pretty f*cking irrelevant.
All I need to know is where in the filesystem it is mounted at. The GUI provides ample opportunities to view this information. There are icons in various places for your drives.
Although chances are that the directory you need will just "pop up automatically" in it's own window.
It won't give you a screen full of options prone to confuse a n00b either, like Vista and Win7 does.
Marketing and boutique stores as well as a halo effect with associated consumer electronics.
The Mac was a platform that was introduced in a Super Bowl commercial.
No. All of his points are valid. The only thing Windows has going for it, or ever really had going for it, was the perception that it is the monopoly. This means more 3rd party support of various kinds.
Although using the vendor supplied driver is not always the best option.
The main thing is the perception that it "runs everything". This has been fueling WinDOS adoption since Microsoft mean DOS.
The GPL always allowed for linking to proprietary "system libraries".
Troll harder next time.
> DVR - mobile can do that just fine
Not at all. Mobile devices aren't capable of dealing with any of the various random video formats that a DVR may need to handle.
> New flash: users don't care about RAM, super-overclocked multicore 4 GHZ CPUs or any other such acronyms.
Without such a machine, their mobile device will be out of luck as it has limited ability to decode video. It needs a real PC to do all the "heavy lifting".
Never mind little things like storage and tuners.
You're funny.
A specialized part is always going to trump the "jack of all trades". That's rather the point of having the specialize part.
Claims of this kind are especially funny considering that ARM CPUs simply don't have the ability to deal with the vast bulk of video content already out there. That's why these SoCs have special GPUs to begin with.
An ARM would be dead in the water without special purpose silicon for video decoding.
> Excuse me, are you from the past?
Nope. He's just being honest about the present and not trying to sugar coat anything or cherry pick skewed examples.
It wouldn't be the first author to be viewed as grossly overrated by "book geeks" as opposed to academics.
The patent is trivial.
It doesn't matter what the scope is.
I might have implemented that in the 80s and forgotten about it.
Trivial things simply don't rate giving the "inventor" the means to screw around with the rest of the industry and stifle innovation for the next 17 years. That's not what patents are for.
Duplicate and Automate.
There's really no great bother to it past setting it up. You can even get suitable and suitably simple software for this task with just about any consumer external disk.
Apple does it. Seagate does it. Western Digital does it.
There's really no good "but it's too hard" excuse here.
If anything, it's the "time is money" mentality that supports the idea of having a robust backup plan. Nothing is going to waste time more than getting caught with your pants down when you have a drive failure.
Although in that case you are likely to lose things that no amount of time or money can replace.
Just archive your iTunes video purchases over a number of years.
Given that Apple's model is predominantly a "purchase" model, I am surprised this hasn't really occurred to most people. Do you really want to spend all that money and have nothing to show for it? Sooner or later you are bound to accumulate enough stuff where these larger drives become relevant.
Such drives probably make more sense then expecting the "average consumer" to manage some sort of array.
Nothing eats drive space like video.
Most people don't fully appreciate that.
Sure. Once you've picked up all of the older classic bits of content from Frys or Walmart for a song, then you can pretty much turn your back on the MPAA.
I have so much stuff that I tend to forget the stuff that I have rented via Netflix. Never mind the cinema.
Why watch the remake when the original is available and cheaper than one trip to the movies?
That's a clever way of trying to avoid admitting that Microsoft was last to the party again.
Taking 2 hours to push around a BD file?
Ethernet manages better transfer rates than that. Never mind direct attached SATA connections.
On the other hand, if your bank fails you will likely find that you cannot access your funds for up to 18 months or more.
Let that sink in.
Sure, it's "insured" but you have to go through several layers of government beaurocrats in order to get paid.
So all of the stuff that applies to the cloud does apply to banks. Although banks are much more mature and debugged "technology", people still suffer from large system failures and the fact that they had no "offline backup".
So yeah. Keep some actual cash around.
If the cloud is not more robust than what your grandma could come up with on her own then what's the point really?
Isn't the whole point of "the cloud" the fact that you aren't managing this stuff yourself? You don't have the burden? You don't need the expertise?
If you push it back on the cloud consumer then a lot of it is really quite pointless.
They own a number of storage locker facilities. Of course they don't want the power or the burden of rifling through everyone's stuff. It's a burden and the customers certainly don't want it.
A tenant rightfully expects some degree of privacy and control over the space they've rented.
That's a very dangerous thing for one particular tiny industry to push just for it's own benefit.
> So are we just going to be nitpicking?
The law is just like programming. The little details matter. You can't ignore a single comma or semicolon. You certainly ignore "bigger" things.
So, yeah those nits are important.
Ok then. Lets try 1985. I am sure there is some DOS era terminal program that implemented some sort of menued multikey. Graphical onscreen keyboards certainly go back that far.
Sure they did. They were likely breaking the law too. They certainly would have been considered to be breaking the now. If not as "members of the press" then as individuals they would be. That would make the equally liable for the situation that ensued.
Seems like you're going to get charged with a felony either way so you might as well throw the Paparazzi out the window. It might give the rest pause before being jack*sses.