I'm digging my new Android. Love it compared to the iThing it replaced. I don't feel at all "deprived" for switching and my Android device is certainly "perky" enough compared to the Apple device I used before.
Perhaps Motorola needs to stop blaming others.
If you've got 70% returns, then it's not the stuff people are adding to it that's the problem.
This CEO is whining about apps being resource hogs.
THAT is what top is for: to tell you what the offending party is rather than just randomly b*tch and moan about it and act like nothing can be done.
Top may be too "geeky" for you but something needs to fill it's role.
Something needs to be there to answer the call when the end user asks: "What the h*ll is sucking the life out of this thing? Can I kill it and erase it?".
Who cares WHY it has a bigger market share? Who cares in generally really. The main reason you even have to consider such nonsense is the "winner take all" mindset of the fanboys of proprietary systems.
Apple can ignore me and it's fanboys can try to marginalize me so long as I have a means to escape either of them.
> After someone told me I'd have to repeat this process after each update
Don't be so gullible. There was no good reason really to subject yourself to this unless there was some particular bleeding edge (or broken) feature you were interested in. This was true even with Linux 2.2 in 2000.
2.0.0 might have been the last time I actually needed to build a kernel. Although defecting to another distribution solved the problem.
The 19th century? Are you kidding? Clearly you don't know your history.
The state of capitalism in the 19th century is what inspired Karl Marx to conclude that it would implode. 19th century capitalism included severe exploitation of the masses and severe boom and bust cycles that foreshadowed the Great Depression.
It wasn't the rosey fantasy that the some "misguided proles" like to pretend it was.
Apple is popular now in one segment of the market. Meanwhile, they are still a relative failure in their legacy products. Microsoft might want to consider that Apple might not be a darling for forever or not even a terrribly long time. Apple is already starting to see an erosion of their market share where brands aren't terribly important and turnover is quick.
Frankly, Microsoft isn't very good at being an Apple and probably never will. It's just not how the company operates.
Pretending to be another Apple will probably end badly for Microsoft.
Getting a degree is more time consuming and expensive more than anything else. In a technical field, it doesn't necessarily even "broaden your horizons". People inclined to learn on their own don't need to be led around by the nose by some large institution.
Any theory generally is better understood (and can be related to others better) once you've experienced a few relevant disasters yourself.
> There is nothing wrong with going to school, but your friends would have good paying stable jobs with or without their education.
Yes. At Wal-mart.
For most people, education does matter. It helps give them a clue and a credential that opens doors. Varying degrees of that education may be less relevant. However, it's important overall. It also helps to not have a PhD in philosophy.
A corporate mono-culture is what caused the great blight.
This is the single most threatening aspect of big-agribusiness like ConAgra and Monsanto. They fixate on a small number of plant varieties and prevent farmers from owning their own seed. So-called eco-terrorists are not the problem.
I feel the same way about telemarketers and U-verse salesmen. It's easy enough to move the bar.
Although I would save my ire for those coders that know they are helping trap people and destroy the free market. Tools built on open protocols and formats are not nearly as despicable as software that's specifically designed to take away my right to avoid it.
There's plenty of places in the US where the tap water is unfit. It may be due to chemical contamination or just be a biohazard.
You can't just blindly assume that "the government will make you safe". It doesn't always happen that way and blindly assuming it does tends to ensure that it won't. Not enough people will bother to pay any attention or raise a ruckus if necessary.
Can't avoid GMO foods. Can't avoid stuff made in China. Hard to avoid WinDOS.
I pay $15 for an uber-organic and also locally grown chicken.
Sure, the costs are high but they aren't quite as bad as what some want to claim.
Do you want to know why I will pay that much for a chicken? Someone in the family is seriously allergic to penicillin and tends to have allergic reactions to more industrially grown chickens. There's enough penicillin still in the chicken afterwards to be a problem for some people.
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A 120G is useful for more than just the OS install. It's also handy for data.
If a machine is under-spec'ed it will likely do poorly regardless of what OS you put on it.
I got a couple of the original netbooks off of woot for yuks and the keyboard is painful to use (but not too bad) but the storage is just too meagre.
The screen is also a bit tiny. This is an area where the whole tablet (or hybrid) thing makes a lot of sense. More screen, smaller over all footprint.
It's Unix. Why are you molesting it all the time? Just leave it be.
I'm digging my new Android. Love it compared to the iThing it replaced. I don't feel at all "deprived" for switching and my Android device is certainly "perky" enough compared to the Apple device I used before.
Perhaps Motorola needs to stop blaming others.
If you've got 70% returns, then it's not the stuff people are adding to it that's the problem.
Flash is like Microsoft and how Apple wants to be.
It's something that you can't really avoid. You can be "pretend snooty" all you like. No one really believes you.
Sure there is a need.
This CEO is whining about apps being resource hogs.
THAT is what top is for: to tell you what the offending party is rather than just randomly b*tch and moan about it and act like nothing can be done.
Top may be too "geeky" for you but something needs to fill it's role.
Something needs to be there to answer the call when the end user asks: "What the h*ll is sucking the life out of this thing? Can I kill it and erase it?".
I dunno.
You plug in the phone, a file mangler window pops up, you drag and drop some stuff, you unplug the phone.
That all seems remarkably more simple and straightforward than what Apple makes you do.
It's no longer 1999 and you're no longer competiting against the Nomad.
Who cares WHY it has a bigger market share? Who cares in generally really. The main reason you even have to consider such nonsense is the "winner take all" mindset of the fanboys of proprietary systems.
Apple can ignore me and it's fanboys can try to marginalize me so long as I have a means to escape either of them.
> After someone told me I'd have to repeat this process after each update
Don't be so gullible. There was no good reason really to subject yourself to this unless there was some particular bleeding edge (or broken) feature you were interested in. This was true even with Linux 2.2 in 2000.
2.0.0 might have been the last time I actually needed to build a kernel. Although defecting to another distribution solved the problem.
Back in the mid 90s, you were likely fighting with technology that was not designed with Plug-n-Play in mind at all.
It's a lot easier to deal with something when you can reliably determine what it is.
Latter day PC users really don't have any appreciation of this.
I also dispute the whole "Xfree86 nightmare" thing.
X has done auto-detection when available and has fallen back to Win3x style config wizards otherwise.
The 19th century? Are you kidding? Clearly you don't know your history.
The state of capitalism in the 19th century is what inspired Karl Marx to conclude that it would implode. 19th century capitalism included severe exploitation of the masses and severe boom and bust cycles that foreshadowed the Great Depression.
It wasn't the rosey fantasy that the some "misguided proles" like to pretend it was.
Microsoft has never been a "premium" brand and now is no time to try and start.
Apple is popular now in one segment of the market. Meanwhile, they are still a relative failure in their legacy products. Microsoft might want to consider that Apple might not be a darling for forever or not even a terrribly long time. Apple is already starting to see an erosion of their market share where brands aren't terribly important and turnover is quick.
Frankly, Microsoft isn't very good at being an Apple and probably never will. It's just not how the company operates.
Pretending to be another Apple will probably end badly for Microsoft.
No. Some changes cause more backlash than others.
Chase away the Free Software and this is what you get. The gratis software becomes much less reputable even if it is inside someone's walled garden.
The entire "ecosystem" becomes remarkably more crass and predatory.
Getting a degree is more time consuming and expensive more than anything else. In a technical field, it doesn't necessarily even "broaden your horizons". People inclined to learn on their own don't need to be led around by the nose by some large institution.
Any theory generally is better understood (and can be related to others better) once you've experienced a few relevant disasters yourself.
> There is nothing wrong with going to school, but your friends would have good paying stable jobs with or without their education.
Yes. At Wal-mart.
For most people, education does matter. It helps give them a clue and a credential that opens doors. Varying degrees of that education may be less relevant. However, it's important overall. It also helps to not have a PhD in philosophy.
A corporate mono-culture is what caused the great blight.
This is the single most threatening aspect of big-agribusiness like ConAgra and Monsanto. They fixate on a small number of plant varieties and prevent farmers from owning their own seed. So-called eco-terrorists are not the problem.
I feel the same way about telemarketers and U-verse salesmen. It's easy enough to move the bar.
Although I would save my ire for those coders that know they are helping trap people and destroy the free market. Tools built on open protocols and formats are not nearly as despicable as software that's specifically designed to take away my right to avoid it.
...the rants of the blissfully unaware.
There's plenty of places in the US where the tap water is unfit. It may be due to chemical contamination or just be a biohazard.
You can't just blindly assume that "the government will make you safe". It doesn't always happen that way and blindly assuming it does tends to ensure that it won't. Not enough people will bother to pay any attention or raise a ruckus if necessary.
Can't avoid GMO foods.
Can't avoid stuff made in China.
Hard to avoid WinDOS.
I pay $15 for an uber-organic and also locally grown chicken.
Sure, the costs are high but they aren't quite as bad as what some want to claim.
Do you want to know why I will pay that much for a chicken? Someone in the family is seriously allergic to penicillin and tends to have allergic reactions to more industrially grown chickens. There's enough penicillin still in the chicken afterwards to be a problem for some people.
> 2. You've got me there. Patents on food (and medicine, imho.. probably software too, but I digress) are stupid.
Stop right there. Not owning your own seed is a show stopper. The rest doesn't really matter after that.
Farmers need to be able to be self sufficient rather than being artificially dependent on and at the mercy of one particular corporation.
> Hate to break your bubble, but wayland is an X server.
No it isn't. Wayland is a rallying point for X-haters and is an attempt to specifically dump X.
> The other drawback is that PC interfaces are designed for a keyboard/trackpad.
Then use better software, or configure it better.
I have a "page down" button on my remote for getting through large file trees.
Roku/AppleTV/Wii doesn't have such a thing because the remotes for those "appliances" are castrated to the point of being less useful.
Even if they don't, what's so time critical to having your TV startup in 4 seconds or less?
What's the rush really?
Turn it on. Go get a Soda. Come back. Start watching.