And I think we'd see a huge increase in suicides of the over-70s. 35-45 years of work drives a lot of people to despair already, doubling that would push them over the edge (it sure would with me)
That's before even considering that thought of the extra time just being spent dealing with age related illness. Nobody is going to want to spend 70 years (half their life!) basically dying.
It's a pain sometimes (some big shopping centres have some nice displays during certain times of the year!) but yeah, as it's private property they can ask you to stop taking photos or be escorted out. They can even, if they really wanted to (though it'd be bad for business) kick you out because they don't like your face.
Doesn't mean taking photos is illegal as such, just that if they don't allow it they have the right to boot you out.
Malls being private property and not some sort of public rights-exercising ground is a concept that some have still to learn (WHY ARE YOU CLOSED? I HAVE A RIGHT TO SHOP!):)
Reasoning for being told not to take photos seems to vary, but when I was asked to put my camera away once - politely - the reason given was "the shops get a bit upset about their copyrighted logos", which is probably where the claims of illegality come in. And knowing how extremely touchy companies tend to be about their logos, it's not entirely surprising if it's the most popular reason that brought forth all this fuss to begin with.
It gets a little different, I believe, if you're taking pictures of the mall (including any outward facing shop windows) from the outside, as there you would be in a public area and they have chosen to display things in view of a public area. I've heard of photographers being asked to leave from in front of a shop on a public high street and, basically, being able to say no. Though I suspect depending on the side the policeman's on if they got involved, they could possibly think up some sort of public order offence.
Precisely why I switched to Chrome a few days ago too.
I understand, unlike some of the sister comments, that it's not the frequency of the updates themselves that is the problem (updates = security and progress. Security and progress = good) but the way it applies them. When I open an application, generally I want to do something with it. When I'm blocked from doing something with it while it updates itself, checks the addons, tells me about the addons and finally opens a window telling me about the changes I don't care about right now - it gets annoying. Especially with this new system of bringing out a new Firefox release every other week.
It may not seem much - a few seconds to update, a dialog here, a dialog there - but barriers (whether only delays, or things to click on) stopping users doing what they want to do really really irritate them - myself included, and I actually understand what it's saying (now think how annoying it is for the average Joe who doesn't know WTF it's on about and just wants to get to his Hotmail).
So many developers don't seem to grasp the "user just wants to use it and hates things getting in the way" concept.
As far as I can see nobody is being "forced" to do this. I don't see anything to back up the claims that they're preventing people in other countries from using their service until they've done some translation work for them, and I seriously doubt they're doing that.
So if people choose to, they can help out. They know what they're getting (nothing, except the satisfaction of sharing the fun), they're presumably individuals with their own minds who are capable of making their own decisions, so why does this matter to anyone?
Valve will see how effective it is soon enough (I'm thinking not very). If it actually works well, good for them.
Yes it will be interesting to see if they do any editing to work around this stuff.
Another example would be that they stuck bits of black cardboard over some of the rear consoles (behind Yar/Worf) in the early days to prevent reflections of the camera. You can actually see them quite often even in the DVD version. (I remember reading somewhere like Memory Alpha that Wil Wheaton kept telling them they'd show up if people were paying attention or technology improved and, indeed, they'd tell him to shut up)
Well, it explains why Slashdot has always been so Pro-Apple!
Kidding about coincidences aside, best wishes to Rob. That parting message got to me a lot more than the Steve Jobs thing (and I'm an Apple fan), particularly the thing about us all being nerds together. *salute*
Generally there are the good 2G networks that have rather lackluster 3G networks (O2, Vodafone) And vice versa (The others)
But T-Mobile uses 3's 3G network (which I consider easily the best) and a combined T-Mobile+Orange 2G network (not as good as Vodafone's 2G coverage but really not bad at all). Seems a really good all-rounder. And they have nice modern Twitter based support where they actually answer you.
I get annoyed when people use, shall we say, "creative interpretation" to claim that video games cause violence... whilst it's nice to balance it out with the opposite, it'd be kind of hypocritical to support this method of jumping to conclusions just because it's suddenly in our favour.
Perhaps a move to re-releasing classics will prove more fruitful than high development cost MMORPGs?
Isn't that pretty much all they've been doing tons of already?
But they keep insisting on remaking crap like FF2j.
What they should probably do is something like 1) Remake Final Fantasy VII 2) ???? 3) Profit!
People have been screaming and shouting for an FFVII remake for 10+ years. There are people who would sell their souls to Sony for a remake of that game. Yet they're absolutely adamant that it's never going to happen. There's a market here waiting to give them full high-end retail prices for a game that is already done and just needs a graphical revamp.. take the money!!
I think there are quite a few who wouldn't mind a remake of VI either.
It's all well and good saving an FFVII remake for a "special occasion" but that's never going to happen if S-E go bankrupt.
Either that or go back to making *new* FFs that don't suck. For that they'll probably need Sakaguchi back (preferably Uematsu too)
With all this backlash, it'd be incredibly short-sighted of Canonical not to AT LEAST significantly improve Unity - enough to tame the hatred it's garnered.
Sticking to their decisions won't do them much good if everyone has moved on to some other highly compatible Debian derivative as an easier alternative to tweaking their apt sources to some unofficial GNOME repository and trying to maintain it as an option.
Also, they tend to do these "usability studies" where they conclude feature X was only used by 5% of the users, and feature Y by 3%, so it must be OK to sacrifice them on the altar of simplicity. But everyone has a different X or Y they use, so eventually this hurts _everybody_.
Best argument I've heard for Alternative Vote yet! (/uk_current_affairs)
I don't see how Unity is even simple. If all you want to do is web browse, sure - it's easy enough to see Firefox on the copy of OSX's Dock (if you know to look for the Firefox icon - I guess many would be looking for a blue 'e'?)
When you want to look for other applications it took ME - a computer user of about 25 years - a while to figure out that you had to find the "other applications" icon then use this almost-hidden little drop-down in the top-right to choose a category of application and show a list. It's AWFUL.
I'll wait for Canonical to copy OS X Lion (they're only up to Tiger so far but they're trying hard to copy Apple, bless them) - that has an iPad-style launcher, which while not as intuitive as the Start Menu from 1995, is still a lot more intuitive than Unity's launching system.
Plenty of time for Steam to seal PCs (possibly even time for Macs to catch up) as the dominating gaming platform then. The current gen consoles are already considerably showing their age compared to PC stuff IMO.
Seems a bit of a foot-shooting exercise that they're dragging their heels so much this time around.
"Our new Macbooks are so energy efficient, they take even less energy to run than to manufacture them in the first place, making the lifetime energy consumption (% of total) our lowest EVER!"
Obviously we're a bit of a more savvy audience here, hopefully wise enough to just switch Flash off, but from the sounds of the summary it proves exactly how bad the experience is with it enabled. Everyone would've been piling in at the Genius Bars in droves to return their iPhone because "the browser is really really slow and freezes and crashes a lot"
Having Flash turned on sounds like an awful user experience, not exactly what Apple goes for.
I can't say I miss it very often (never been into Miniclip or whatever) and I certainly don't miss the animated ads.
I love the keyboard, but the trackpad is crippled under Windows. It still has multitouch etc, but has funny issues like right-click taps requiring 3 fingers instead of 2.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with the hardware and in general Windows is often better on a Mac than a PC. But it'd certainly be worth remaining aware of any issues - making your Windows experience superb and smooth is hardly Apple's priority so bugs go on for some time.
Just buy the OEM version. Even Microsoft themselves can't agree on whether it's acceptable or not (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/is-it-ok-to-use-oem-windows-on-your-own-pc-dont-ask-microsoft/1561) but as far as I'm concerned after interpreting the license as best as I could (IANAL etc), it's absolutely fine.
The crap about selling it with a fully assembled system is for when the EULA takes effect: which is when it's been opened. While it remains unopened, PC enthusiast vendors are just selling the package and the agreement doesn't apply yet. It applies to the person who opens it, and if you're the "system builder" (in this case all you have to do to "build" it is er, install the OS?) building for yourself then don't worry about anything it says about the agreement between the builder and the buyer. You can't sue *yourself*:)
The people who speak for Microsoft are mostly call centre droids who don't really know either way.
Anyway... yeah I'd say start with the reboot as well, there's some great stuff in there (silly Russell Davies episodes and his farting aliens aside) and it just seems sensible to start with the modern. Indeed you can always go back.
I have tried watching from the very first episode with Hartnell and was bored to tears - plus there were LOADS of episodes as it was a serial with the kind of regularity of Coronation Street.. not like the 13 episodes a year or whatever it is nowadays. It'd take forever.
Go for the popular stuff like the Tom Baker episodes maybe if you want to geek out a bit, but I'd concentrate on the modern day version.
Apart from that it's really obvious to the boss anyway when he walks in and instead of looking up and saying hello you go wide eyed and stab at your keyboard. Many bosses seem to pretend not to notice - until they need ammunition...
If it's a program I've never used before, I'll click around for a few minutes to see if I can guess it. After that, I'll hand you the manual, and let you figure it out yourself.
You do right. Translation of the original request: "Learn this software for me, because I can't be bothered".
Happens all the time. Because I "know about computers" I must know exactly how to operate every piece of software ever written, instinctively!
It's probably that we can stay calm and rational and think logically instead of going "OMG PANIC DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO, DURRR", it just blows the mind that this is so difficult for so many people. Sit someone in front of a computer - all willingness to learn goes out of the window.
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And I think we'd see a huge increase in suicides of the over-70s. 35-45 years of work drives a lot of people to despair already, doubling that would push them over the edge (it sure would with me)
That's before even considering that thought of the extra time just being spent dealing with age related illness. Nobody is going to want to spend 70 years (half their life!) basically dying.
It's a pain sometimes (some big shopping centres have some nice displays during certain times of the year!) but yeah, as it's private property they can ask you to stop taking photos or be escorted out. They can even, if they really wanted to (though it'd be bad for business) kick you out because they don't like your face.
Doesn't mean taking photos is illegal as such, just that if they don't allow it they have the right to boot you out.
Malls being private property and not some sort of public rights-exercising ground is a concept that some have still to learn (WHY ARE YOU CLOSED? I HAVE A RIGHT TO SHOP!) :)
Reasoning for being told not to take photos seems to vary, but when I was asked to put my camera away once - politely - the reason given was "the shops get a bit upset about their copyrighted logos", which is probably where the claims of illegality come in. And knowing how extremely touchy companies tend to be about their logos, it's not entirely surprising if it's the most popular reason that brought forth all this fuss to begin with.
It gets a little different, I believe, if you're taking pictures of the mall (including any outward facing shop windows) from the outside, as there you would be in a public area and they have chosen to display things in view of a public area. I've heard of photographers being asked to leave from in front of a shop on a public high street and, basically, being able to say no. Though I suspect depending on the side the policeman's on if they got involved, they could possibly think up some sort of public order offence.
Precisely why I switched to Chrome a few days ago too.
I understand, unlike some of the sister comments, that it's not the frequency of the updates themselves that is the problem (updates = security and progress. Security and progress = good) but the way it applies them. When I open an application, generally I want to do something with it. When I'm blocked from doing something with it while it updates itself, checks the addons, tells me about the addons and finally opens a window telling me about the changes I don't care about right now - it gets annoying. Especially with this new system of bringing out a new Firefox release every other week.
It may not seem much - a few seconds to update, a dialog here, a dialog there - but barriers (whether only delays, or things to click on) stopping users doing what they want to do really really irritate them - myself included, and I actually understand what it's saying (now think how annoying it is for the average Joe who doesn't know WTF it's on about and just wants to get to his Hotmail).
So many developers don't seem to grasp the "user just wants to use it and hates things getting in the way" concept.
So sound travels faster than light now too? :D /pedant
This.
As far as I can see nobody is being "forced" to do this. I don't see anything to back up the claims that they're preventing people in other countries from using their service until they've done some translation work for them, and I seriously doubt they're doing that.
So if people choose to, they can help out. They know what they're getting (nothing, except the satisfaction of sharing the fun), they're presumably individuals with their own minds who are capable of making their own decisions, so why does this matter to anyone?
Valve will see how effective it is soon enough (I'm thinking not very). If it actually works well, good for them.
Yes it will be interesting to see if they do any editing to work around this stuff.
Another example would be that they stuck bits of black cardboard over some of the rear consoles (behind Yar/Worf) in the early days to prevent reflections of the camera. You can actually see them quite often even in the DVD version. (I remember reading somewhere like Memory Alpha that Wil Wheaton kept telling them they'd show up if people were paying attention or technology improved and, indeed, they'd tell him to shut up)
Sort of like QWERTY touch typing, but without any sort of structure
It's more like my fingers learned it over 25 years.
fucking hell, if we've pretty much given up on space, commercialise it. That will get us out there!
(I'm serious)
o_o
Well, it explains why Slashdot has always been so Pro-Apple!
Kidding about coincidences aside, best wishes to Rob. That parting message got to me a lot more than the Steve Jobs thing (and I'm an Apple fan), particularly the thing about us all being nerds together. *salute*
1997... it seems like yesterday. I feel so old!
Generally there are the good 2G networks that have rather lackluster 3G networks (O2, Vodafone)
And vice versa (The others)
But T-Mobile uses 3's 3G network (which I consider easily the best) and a combined T-Mobile+Orange 2G network (not as good as Vodafone's 2G coverage but really not bad at all). Seems a really good all-rounder. And they have nice modern Twitter based support where they actually answer you.
This.
I get annoyed when people use, shall we say, "creative interpretation" to claim that video games cause violence... whilst it's nice to balance it out with the opposite, it'd be kind of hypocritical to support this method of jumping to conclusions just because it's suddenly in our favour.
Isn't that pretty much all they've been doing tons of already?
But they keep insisting on remaking crap like FF2j.
What they should probably do is something like
1) Remake Final Fantasy VII
2) ????
3) Profit!
People have been screaming and shouting for an FFVII remake for 10+ years. There are people who would sell their souls to Sony for a remake of that game. Yet they're absolutely adamant that it's never going to happen. There's a market here waiting to give them full high-end retail prices for a game that is already done and just needs a graphical revamp.. take the money!!
I think there are quite a few who wouldn't mind a remake of VI either.
It's all well and good saving an FFVII remake for a "special occasion" but that's never going to happen if S-E go bankrupt.
Either that or go back to making *new* FFs that don't suck. For that they'll probably need Sakaguchi back (preferably Uematsu too)
Natty is actually a Cheetah because it's copying Tiger :)
Only 11 more Ubuntu releases then they'll be at Zealous Zebra and in need a new naming convention...
With all this backlash, it'd be incredibly short-sighted of Canonical not to AT LEAST significantly improve Unity - enough to tame the hatred it's garnered.
Sticking to their decisions won't do them much good if everyone has moved on to some other highly compatible Debian derivative as an easier alternative to tweaking their apt sources to some unofficial GNOME repository and trying to maintain it as an option.
Best argument I've heard for Alternative Vote yet!
(/uk_current_affairs)
I don't see how Unity is even simple. If all you want to do is web browse, sure - it's easy enough to see Firefox on the copy of OSX's Dock (if you know to look for the Firefox icon - I guess many would be looking for a blue 'e'?)
When you want to look for other applications it took ME - a computer user of about 25 years - a while to figure out that you had to find the "other applications" icon then use this almost-hidden little drop-down in the top-right to choose a category of application and show a list. It's AWFUL.
I'll wait for Canonical to copy OS X Lion (they're only up to Tiger so far but they're trying hard to copy Apple, bless them) - that has an iPad-style launcher, which while not as intuitive as the Start Menu from 1995, is still a lot more intuitive than Unity's launching system.
Plenty of time for Steam to seal PCs (possibly even time for Macs to catch up) as the dominating gaming platform then. The current gen consoles are already considerably showing their age compared to PC stuff IMO.
Seems a bit of a foot-shooting exercise that they're dragging their heels so much this time around.
Or at least taking the piss!
I guess it's a neat idea if you're feeling flush.
But I still think it's a bit potty.
Yeah it appears you missed the joke about marketing spin, seems to have gone over a few heads that one.
"Our new Macbooks are so energy efficient, they take even less energy to run than to manufacture them in the first place, making the lifetime energy consumption (% of total) our lowest EVER!"
Well yeah.
Obviously we're a bit of a more savvy audience here, hopefully wise enough to just switch Flash off, but from the sounds of the summary it proves exactly how bad the experience is with it enabled. Everyone would've been piling in at the Genius Bars in droves to return their iPhone because "the browser is really really slow and freezes and crashes a lot"
Having Flash turned on sounds like an awful user experience, not exactly what Apple goes for.
I can't say I miss it very often (never been into Miniclip or whatever) and I certainly don't miss the animated ads.
I love the keyboard, but the trackpad is crippled under Windows. It still has multitouch etc, but has funny issues like right-click taps requiring 3 fingers instead of 2.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with the hardware and in general Windows is often better on a Mac than a PC. But it'd certainly be worth remaining aware of any issues - making your Windows experience superb and smooth is hardly Apple's priority so bugs go on for some time.
Just buy the OEM version. Even Microsoft themselves can't agree on whether it's acceptable or not (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/is-it-ok-to-use-oem-windows-on-your-own-pc-dont-ask-microsoft/1561) but as far as I'm concerned after interpreting the license as best as I could (IANAL etc), it's absolutely fine.
The crap about selling it with a fully assembled system is for when the EULA takes effect: which is when it's been opened. While it remains unopened, PC enthusiast vendors are just selling the package and the agreement doesn't apply yet. It applies to the person who opens it, and if you're the "system builder" (in this case all you have to do to "build" it is er, install the OS?) building for yourself then don't worry about anything it says about the agreement between the builder and the buyer. You can't sue *yourself* :)
The people who speak for Microsoft are mostly call centre droids who don't really know either way.
I believe in David Tenet.
Anyway... yeah I'd say start with the reboot as well, there's some great stuff in there (silly Russell Davies episodes and his farting aliens aside) and it just seems sensible to start with the modern. Indeed you can always go back.
I have tried watching from the very first episode with Hartnell and was bored to tears - plus there were LOADS of episodes as it was a serial with the kind of regularity of Coronation Street.. not like the 13 episodes a year or whatever it is nowadays. It'd take forever.
Go for the popular stuff like the Tom Baker episodes maybe if you want to geek out a bit, but I'd concentrate on the modern day version.
Apart from that it's really obvious to the boss anyway when he walks in and instead of looking up and saying hello you go wide eyed and stab at your keyboard. Many bosses seem to pretend not to notice - until they need ammunition...
God, number 2
If it's a program I've never used before, I'll click around for a few minutes to see if I can guess it. After that, I'll hand you the manual, and let you figure it out yourself.
You do right. Translation of the original request: "Learn this software for me, because I can't be bothered".
Happens all the time. Because I "know about computers" I must know exactly how to operate every piece of software ever written, instinctively!
It's probably that we can stay calm and rational and think logically instead of going "OMG PANIC DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO, DURRR", it just blows the mind that this is so difficult for so many people. Sit someone in front of a computer - all willingness to learn goes out of the window.