If everybody needed only appliances, who could become a developer? Even Jobs had to have a hacker on his hands to succeed. Now he tries to keep them as far as possible. Passion and marketing can do only so much... What we are witnessing now is an inflation of trademark.
It seems that Google is in some kind of a hurry and tries to catch-up with Twitter and Facebook using Gmail (quite aggressively) as a leverage. It seems that they didn't ponder a lot about social consequences of their move.
Well, it has all the components that normal computer have, and behaves that way to - seems very computerish to me! Now all we have to do is to hack it.
I noticed that I take half a second to a second more to find the now iconless menus in Ubuntu 9.10. It looks like icons can become a visual markers to not actually look at them and decipher their meaning but just to memorize the general outlook of them, like when you read, you read the whole words, not just letter by letter.
BTW; if you are concerned about Flash CPU usage, use 10.1 beta which has GPU decoding under Windows. I have seen it using almost nothing while playing 1080P video over youtube.
Wow, that's really sensible, throwing hardware solutions against software that acts like cancer in the web ecosystem since its inception.
... and they wan't their focus back. I can multitask e-mail, phone/SMS, 3 IM chats at a time while watching TV and at the end of the day I can't really remember is a blur (I born in the '80s). I'm trying to scale back on all this distractions by having a call whitelist on my cell phone which is also muted most of the time (SMS is actually better for managing distraction), my e-mail client checks for e-mail every hour or two (or I just leave it closed and open it once or twice a day).
A "multi" prefix doesn't necessarily make tasking better. It's mostly hype if you ask me.
... everybody else is pretty much closed. So, if I stay with Google, my data is ready to leave, but I can't go anywhere else because it would get closed. I wonder if Google would be still so open with their products if the competition wasn't so dumb enough to screw their customers over and over again.
"Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration." Thomas Edison
I think that the 99% percent is often the problem with these projects. You come up with something, make a proof of concept, but it takes a lot more work to perfect it.
That was my first thought about this news. It's actually useless to MS as well to others except for export/import applications. But MS gains publicity about openness. On the other hand, AFAIK ISO standards actually work on this principle, but we couldn't say that in the case of Office Open XML
I agree, Wave seems to be the only one who actually openly tries to solve deficiencies of email and converge all e-communication to one service. That's why I'm looking forward to it.
The video is perfect. The video correctly represent Windows 7 and its design philosophy. And it evokes the same feelings in me that using Windows does.
Congratulations!
It also implicitly implies: "No matter how our products are nauseating to you, you'll still have to buy it. BWAHAHAHAHHA!!!!"
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Why on Earth nobody else had the guts to stand up against MS if prior art seems to be so easy to find?
No, MS Word prevents them that.
MPEG-LA has ius prima noctis?
If everybody needed only appliances, who could become a developer? Even Jobs had to have a hacker on his hands to succeed. Now he tries to keep them as far as possible. Passion and marketing can do only so much... What we are witnessing now is an inflation of trademark.
I use technology in order to hate it more properly. (Nam June Paik)
Me too. The "Games for Windows" tag should be the other way around anyway. And nothing else.
It seems that Google is in some kind of a hurry and tries to catch-up with Twitter and Facebook using Gmail (quite aggressively) as a leverage. It seems that they didn't ponder a lot about social consequences of their move.
*****Warning: Linux Troll***** If you are the resident "expert" then your family didn't have much choice. Just like my girlfriend didn't :)
Well, it has all the components that normal computer have, and behaves that way to - seems very computerish to me! Now all we have to do is to hack it.
I noticed that I take half a second to a second more to find the now iconless menus in Ubuntu 9.10. It looks like icons can become a visual markers to not actually look at them and decipher their meaning but just to memorize the general outlook of them, like when you read, you read the whole words, not just letter by letter.
BTW; if you are concerned about Flash CPU usage, use 10.1 beta which has GPU decoding under Windows. I have seen it using almost nothing while playing 1080P video over youtube.
Wow, that's really sensible, throwing hardware solutions against software that acts like cancer in the web ecosystem since its inception.
I can imagine this will end up in "Shoot the enemy here or here to kill him." Also available in spanish.
... and they wan't their focus back. I can multitask e-mail, phone/SMS, 3 IM chats at a time while watching TV and at the end of the day I can't really remember is a blur (I born in the '80s). I'm trying to scale back on all this distractions by having a call whitelist on my cell phone which is also muted most of the time (SMS is actually better for managing distraction), my e-mail client checks for e-mail every hour or two (or I just leave it closed and open it once or twice a day).
A "multi" prefix doesn't necessarily make tasking better. It's mostly hype if you ask me.
The same thing is happening to biology what already happened to Newtonian physics with relativity theory.
Would it be possible to use DMCA to force people pull down pics with your face on them?
... by the father of this terrorist. Nagging ordinary citizens and letting go actual terrorists - what the f**k is going on?
Hey, I used to be the kid that learned everything by himself and taught my parents how computers and programs work.
Microsoft, the nanny company?
... everybody else is pretty much closed. So, if I stay with Google, my data is ready to leave, but I can't go anywhere else because it would get closed. I wonder if Google would be still so open with their products if the competition wasn't so dumb enough to screw their customers over and over again.
...ForkSQL, the new MySQL.
... LHC also broke the record for working for the longest uninterrupted time.
...can be one of the most effective advertising.
"Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration." Thomas Edison
I think that the 99% percent is often the problem with these projects. You come up with something, make a proof of concept, but it takes a lot more work to perfect it.
That was my first thought about this news. It's actually useless to MS as well to others except for export/import applications. But MS gains publicity about openness. On the other hand, AFAIK ISO standards actually work on this principle, but we couldn't say that in the case of Office Open XML
I agree, Wave seems to be the only one who actually openly tries to solve deficiencies of email and converge all e-communication to one service. That's why I'm looking forward to it.
The video is perfect. The video correctly represent Windows 7 and its design philosophy. And it evokes the same feelings in me that using Windows does.
Congratulations!
It also implicitly implies: "No matter how our products are nauseating to you, you'll still have to buy it. BWAHAHAHAHHA!!!!"