Google offers an app for various devices that provides 2 factor authentication. You get challenged during login with a number and you type the response that shows up on the app. Use that. There is nothing to say the phone, tablet or emulator you run it from even has to be attached to the internet or an active phone number. If you were super paranoid you'd buy some shitty android phone solely to run the app. Or launch an emulator from an encrypted volume. Or use it in conjunction with other measures such as encryption. Or don't use a cloud based email system run by a large corporation at all.
The whole PIN reset thing is for a different scenario. If someone DOES hack into your account and change the password, how do you regain control of it again. That's what the PIN reset is for, and it would be completely adequate for the vast majority of people.
I think an x86 transformer is likely to cost in the ballpark of existing ultrabooks so throw a few hundred on top of that. And you might not even get the keyboard in the base model.
I have no issue with games using WINE so long as they work. I'm just pointing out that WINE is the most likely way games will appear. If most developers cannot be arsed to port to the Mac from scratch and just use Cider then I don't see the situation for Linux being hugely different. Maybe we'll see a smattering of native games but I think the only chance of seeing games from the likes of EA, Ubisoft etc. is running against WINE as a runtime or compiled and linked against it.
Of course maybe Steam / Valve are about to launch cloud gaming and render the target platform irrelevant. Given how many other cloud gaming platforms are launching I wouldn't be surprised by this either but that really is cheating since the game isn't running on the client machine at all.
Considering how tiny the Mac library is, I doubt it. Porting from Mac to Linux is relatively easy compared to porting from Windows to anything else, but when you speak of Linux you speak of a number of distributions that do not agree about a number of different things, drivers that lack proper support or adherence to established norms, etc.
Most Mac titles are just Windows titles recompiled using Transgaming's Cider environment which is basically a commercial WINE derivative for OS X. It seems likely to me that Steam for Linux will operate along similar lines or perhaps Steam might even pack a version of Cedega or native WINE under its hood. So it won't be so much as porting games as testing and running them against WINE. There may be a smattering of genuinely native games but I expect most will be appear through this route.
I believe that MS decided that tablets were the main focus of this release and features for desktop / legacy systems taking a back seat. If so it would explain why stuff that should be in Metro simply isn't, such as folders, or the ability to zoom out the UI to fit more tiles into the space. Just those two things would go 90% of the way to making Metro tolerable to desktop users.
The experience is so borderline awful that I think Windows 8 will be as reviled as Windows Me and Windows Vista were. At least on the desktop. It's hard to say if the same will apply for tablets where Metro is kind of nice to use albeit more primitive than ICS for example. I could see trouble brewing there too though especially confusion surrounding Windows on Arm and Windows on Intel and what one version allows that the other doesn't adding to the resentment.
All that makes me think MS will have to turn out a Windows 9 pretty fast and I wouldn't be surprised if one main focus on that release is fixing the desktop experience.
Er no, nothing like GNOME did. First off there is a very loose coupling on Linux between the desktop and the apps that run inside it mostly via protocols developed by freedesktop.org. So if you don't like GNOME3 as your desktop you are free to use any other desktop but with the same apps. You can even have more than one desktop available in the same dist if you want. Secondly, GNOME 3 is first and foremost about the desktop experience, not tablet experience. It is clearly got aspirations to be usable with tablets but it's nowhere close to that yet. Thirdly, GNOME 3 is rather well implemented and pretty elegant. It's certainly not without its faults (Linus went into a valid rant about some of them the other day) but it has well thought out workflows and works well. Fourth if you really hate some particular behaviour and don't want to switch outright you can write an extension to change it. The Mint distribution have customised GNOME 3 so much it more closely resembles GNOME 2 while benefiting from compositing and all the rest.
There are dozens of no-name tablets which are capable of running fully free software. Many of them already do by shipping with one vanilla version of Android or another.
This thing has the specs of an ultrabook plus a touch screen and breaks apart into two halves. I cannot see this being cheap whether the keyboard is sold separately or not.
Metro is inspiring anger not for being a tablet interface but for treating desktop users as second class citizens and for essentially deprecating classic Windows altogether. I think Metro could work pretty well on a desktop if it offered functionality analogous to the start menu but it doesn't. Everything is shoehorned into the flat, linear tile metaphor and collision between the old and new world looks terrible.
Depends on what they hit I guess. I'd have thought they'd be pretty screwed if they landed in a puddle, or pretty much anywhere which did not fling them free of the water at the point of impact.
Certain kinds of tech such as bluetooth headsets, Segways look great on paper but make the user look like a complete dork. I think Google's glasses fit into that category too. Perhaps they will find a use in business, e.g. for people driving (as a kind of HUD with directions) especially for couriers, warehouses and so on but I see little utility for them in every day life.
I'm one of the developers enticed over and I have released apps on their store and have another in the pipeline but they're android apps ported to.bar files. It's a pain in the arse to do and compounded by the fact that the android environment has been deliberately crippled to prevent users from installing other app stores, or even from sideloading. Apparently RIM intend to disable sideloading altogether but how it affects devs will be interesting to see. Either way it's really annoying.
The OS is pretty good but it has it's share of annoyances. I hate the way the lock / pin screen sometimes rotates and sometimes doesn't depending on the app underneath (i.e. if you have mail open under the lock screen it won't rotate). Some icons like Music / Video mysteriously disappear from time to time. Some of the default apps are a mixed experience mess or point to proprietary commercial services (e.g. Zinio). Sometimes wifi goes awol and a total reboot is required. The browser is fast but lacks options like password manager, edit bookmarks, or to put touch activated placeholders for flash. Lots of little things that add up to be annoying. A.5 release could really nail the experience but I fear it may never happen. If anyone ever figures out how to root these things, I'll be installing ICS like a shot.
I really think they should just dump their OS altogether IMO. RIM's value is in security, certification and business infrastructure. They can provide this as value added software / hardware over Android. I think a security hardened Android would be extremely popular.
I have a Playbook and it is nice hardware. It's just a shame about the software which suffers primarily from the fact it isn't android. The app store is pitifully empty and what apps there are often cost more than their counterparts in android land. The OS itself is reasonably stable but still suffers by comparison to android 3.x or higher. I think RIM should give up on their own hardware and really think about becoming a VAR over android.
My reading comprehension is just fine. You throw around insults because a GUI dares not do things the way you expect. Rather than stepping back and perhaps considering the rationale for this decision, or maybe, just maybe offering constructive criticism you start ranting and insulting people. Immature doesn't begin to cover it. Grow up.
Er sorry, but evolution is studied as rigourously as any other scientific discipline. Papers are published, papers are peer reviewed, rebuttals are issued, hypotheses are discarded and the science gets stronger. You pretend this is not the case but even a cursory examination of the field shows it to be the case.
If you have Netflix and consider yourself a scientist that is not afraid of new evidence, watch "Expelled, No Intelligence Allowed". I found the documentary to be disturbing and scary as well as informative and entertaining.
Now I see where you're coming from and it's certainly not from a scientific viewpoint. That movie has been soundly debunked for the creationist propaganda that it is and it isn't hard to find virtually point by point rebuttals of everything it says.
No I get the point all too well. If developers don't exactly deliver what you Mr Anonymous Coward demand (for free) regardless of it's merits vs some other mechanism then you're going to call them assholes. I'm sure they'll be very sorry to see you go.
Yeah those arrogant GNOME people put in a sensible default behaviour and the means for you to override it if you wish via an extension. Such arrogance!
People debating evolution are not rational people. If over 100 years of overwhelming evidence from multiple strands is not enough to convince these people then what difference will a few more make? The first rule of the denialist is to ignore or handwave away the evidence no matter how comprehensive it may be. Ignore it, cherry pick it, nit pick it, place undue weight on dubious evidence, emphasise the gaps in knowledge or minor discrepancies, employ copious amounts of wishful thinking and pseudoscience to pretend it doesn't matter, quote mine your opponents, and generally do everything to avoid confronting it at all. And above all else, never advance another explanation which is in any way reasonable or testable.
Creationists are old hands at doing all of the above but the technique is common to denialists of all shades - moon hoaxers, 9/11 truthers, anti-vaxxers, global warming deniers. The same tactics every time.
It's not too hard to conform with the rules. It mainly involves getting user consent before issuing tracking cookies. i.e. a web filter might test for a user-has-consented-to-tracking cookie and redirect them to an informational page explaining what cookies or data is stored on the user's machine and what it does. If they click OK then the user-has-consented-to-tracking cookie is set and it's business as usual.
Cookies to do with security, checkout baskets etc. are largely exempt. The law is to control analytics cookies from advertisers, sites that remember users and so forth.
A bigger issue is this law is going to be hideously hard to enforce, there are plenty of edge cases to consider (such that the guidelines are 30 pages long) and at the end of the day it's not really doing much for the user. I think it would have been better to oblige EU sites under law to honour a "do not track" cookie sent by the browser with various levels of privacy control.
Want to bet that if this material made its way into products that the bottle would be redesigned and coincidentally the total volume was reduced by a substantial amount. That or they'll hike the price up way beyond the 0.1c or whatever it costs to actually apply it.
Yahoo Mail has a fairly reasonable UI these days but the spam filtering, or rather the lack of it makes it subpar compared to other services. Not a day passes without various spams and phishing emails getting through. If GMail manages to filter this crap out, I don't understand why Y! Mail cannot.
I cannot feel the slightest shred of sympathy for Oracle over this. When it comes to damages they'll be lucky if they receive a sum which pays for their legal expenses. This is somewhat removed from the beeelions they originally wanted.
I was running keyboard and mouse on a MIPS device running 2.1 (IIRC) 18 months ago. I never used it in anger so I don't know if it would have been a tolerable way to control the OS (probably stuff like advanced editing and stuff would have been a complete mess) but you could certainly do it in 2.x.
Depends if NOVA or Shadowgun work on ARMv6 devices. If not they'll be filtered out. There are a fair smattering of v6 phones but mostly low spec so I doubt the high performance games bother to target them.
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The whole PIN reset thing is for a different scenario. If someone DOES hack into your account and change the password, how do you regain control of it again. That's what the PIN reset is for, and it would be completely adequate for the vast majority of people.
I think an x86 transformer is likely to cost in the ballpark of existing ultrabooks so throw a few hundred on top of that. And you might not even get the keyboard in the base model.
Of course maybe Steam / Valve are about to launch cloud gaming and render the target platform irrelevant. Given how many other cloud gaming platforms are launching I wouldn't be surprised by this either but that really is cheating since the game isn't running on the client machine at all.
Considering how tiny the Mac library is, I doubt it. Porting from Mac to Linux is relatively easy compared to porting from Windows to anything else, but when you speak of Linux you speak of a number of distributions that do not agree about a number of different things, drivers that lack proper support or adherence to established norms, etc.
Most Mac titles are just Windows titles recompiled using Transgaming's Cider environment which is basically a commercial WINE derivative for OS X. It seems likely to me that Steam for Linux will operate along similar lines or perhaps Steam might even pack a version of Cedega or native WINE under its hood. So it won't be so much as porting games as testing and running them against WINE. There may be a smattering of genuinely native games but I expect most will be appear through this route.
The experience is so borderline awful that I think Windows 8 will be as reviled as Windows Me and Windows Vista were. At least on the desktop. It's hard to say if the same will apply for tablets where Metro is kind of nice to use albeit more primitive than ICS for example. I could see trouble brewing there too though especially confusion surrounding Windows on Arm and Windows on Intel and what one version allows that the other doesn't adding to the resentment.
All that makes me think MS will have to turn out a Windows 9 pretty fast and I wouldn't be surprised if one main focus on that release is fixing the desktop experience.
So no nothing like GNOME.
There are dozens of no-name tablets which are capable of running fully free software. Many of them already do by shipping with one vanilla version of Android or another.
This thing has the specs of an ultrabook plus a touch screen and breaks apart into two halves. I cannot see this being cheap whether the keyboard is sold separately or not.
Metro is inspiring anger not for being a tablet interface but for treating desktop users as second class citizens and for essentially deprecating classic Windows altogether. I think Metro could work pretty well on a desktop if it offered functionality analogous to the start menu but it doesn't. Everything is shoehorned into the flat, linear tile metaphor and collision between the old and new world looks terrible.
Depends on what they hit I guess. I'd have thought they'd be pretty screwed if they landed in a puddle, or pretty much anywhere which did not fling them free of the water at the point of impact.
Certain kinds of tech such as bluetooth headsets, Segways look great on paper but make the user look like a complete dork. I think Google's glasses fit into that category too. Perhaps they will find a use in business, e.g. for people driving (as a kind of HUD with directions) especially for couriers, warehouses and so on but I see little utility for them in every day life.
I think 16:10 would work better on a tablet than 16:9. 16:9 doesn't work very well in portrait mode especially for browsers.
The OS is pretty good but it has it's share of annoyances. I hate the way the lock / pin screen sometimes rotates and sometimes doesn't depending on the app underneath (i.e. if you have mail open under the lock screen it won't rotate). Some icons like Music / Video mysteriously disappear from time to time. Some of the default apps are a mixed experience mess or point to proprietary commercial services (e.g. Zinio). Sometimes wifi goes awol and a total reboot is required. The browser is fast but lacks options like password manager, edit bookmarks, or to put touch activated placeholders for flash. Lots of little things that add up to be annoying. A .5 release could really nail the experience but I fear it may never happen. If anyone ever figures out how to root these things, I'll be installing ICS like a shot.
I really think they should just dump their OS altogether IMO. RIM's value is in security, certification and business infrastructure. They can provide this as value added software / hardware over Android. I think a security hardened Android would be extremely popular.
I have a Playbook and it is nice hardware. It's just a shame about the software which suffers primarily from the fact it isn't android. The app store is pitifully empty and what apps there are often cost more than their counterparts in android land. The OS itself is reasonably stable but still suffers by comparison to android 3.x or higher. I think RIM should give up on their own hardware and really think about becoming a VAR over android.
My reading comprehension is just fine. You throw around insults because a GUI dares not do things the way you expect. Rather than stepping back and perhaps considering the rationale for this decision, or maybe, just maybe offering constructive criticism you start ranting and insulting people. Immature doesn't begin to cover it. Grow up.
If you have Netflix and consider yourself a scientist that is not afraid of new evidence, watch "Expelled, No Intelligence Allowed". I found the documentary to be disturbing and scary as well as informative and entertaining.
Now I see where you're coming from and it's certainly not from a scientific viewpoint. That movie has been soundly debunked for the creationist propaganda that it is and it isn't hard to find virtually point by point rebuttals of everything it says.
No I get the point all too well. If developers don't exactly deliver what you Mr Anonymous Coward demand (for free) regardless of it's merits vs some other mechanism then you're going to call them assholes. I'm sure they'll be very sorry to see you go.
Yeah those arrogant GNOME people put in a sensible default behaviour and the means for you to override it if you wish via an extension. Such arrogance!
Creationists are old hands at doing all of the above but the technique is common to denialists of all shades - moon hoaxers, 9/11 truthers, anti-vaxxers, global warming deniers. The same tactics every time.
Cookies to do with security, checkout baskets etc. are largely exempt. The law is to control analytics cookies from advertisers, sites that remember users and so forth.
A bigger issue is this law is going to be hideously hard to enforce, there are plenty of edge cases to consider (such that the guidelines are 30 pages long) and at the end of the day it's not really doing much for the user. I think it would have been better to oblige EU sites under law to honour a "do not track" cookie sent by the browser with various levels of privacy control.
Want to bet that if this material made its way into products that the bottle would be redesigned and coincidentally the total volume was reduced by a substantial amount. That or they'll hike the price up way beyond the 0.1c or whatever it costs to actually apply it.
Yahoo Mail has a fairly reasonable UI these days but the spam filtering, or rather the lack of it makes it subpar compared to other services. Not a day passes without various spams and phishing emails getting through. If GMail manages to filter this crap out, I don't understand why Y! Mail cannot.
I cannot feel the slightest shred of sympathy for Oracle over this. When it comes to damages they'll be lucky if they receive a sum which pays for their legal expenses. This is somewhat removed from the beeelions they originally wanted.
I was running keyboard and mouse on a MIPS device running 2.1 (IIRC) 18 months ago. I never used it in anger so I don't know if it would have been a tolerable way to control the OS (probably stuff like advanced editing and stuff would have been a complete mess) but you could certainly do it in 2.x.
Depends if NOVA or Shadowgun work on ARMv6 devices. If not they'll be filtered out. There are a fair smattering of v6 phones but mostly low spec so I doubt the high performance games bother to target them.