Well, silly mine-is-better-than-yours wars aside in these threads - Android really badly needed project Butter. Everybody from fandroids to Google admitted this and I think the project managed to achieve it's goal quite well.
Perhaps you don't like these newfangled smartphones from brands such as Apple, HTC, Motorola or Samsung (they're all roughly similar anyway) but that hardly makes people sheep for seeing some value in them.
Hmm, I signed up when I first noticed it, can't remember why or when. The Internet was all exciting then and full of gyrating "under construction" GIFs.
Steve Jobs' talent was that he understood computers should be easy for everybody to use, in a time where they were technically intricate wonders for the initiated circle. He understood what people needed.
Problem is they're constantly redoing everything so it never get the time to mature.
Ten years ago in SuSE I could install my 3rd party TrueType fonts by clicking on the file and follow the KDE font viewers directions. Yesterday on Ubuntu I had to google how and use the command line for installing my extra (no, not the Microsoft) fonts.
I installed Cryptkeeper from the Ubuntu repository but Ubuntu doesn't allow the GUI to show up in the panel (according to a Google search, when it didn't work).
Three times today, while working in Gimp, I got a "Compiz has crashed, wanna send report?" message.
I'm not complaining, I know how to deal with all this. I guess what I'm saying is that the currently "best known" Desktop distribution is just not a mature GUI environment.
Even a few percent would save Google terabytes a day. That's why improvements to compression and protocols that seem quite insignificant to the end user are very popular at the host.
While I agree with your general sentiment I disagree that true genius doesn't like to "show off". You're trying to redefine the mening of the word according to your own ideal. Geniuses are people too and can probable be found with all the usual character flaws or degrees of insanity.
The thing is that even four active cores doesn't make sense for a phone. You might be able to utilize two cores well and for daily mundane usage a single core 'multitasks' perfectly well. This is why you see quad core processors with a single low power fallback core.
Beheading can be difficult to do right, the guillotine for example seems a lot smoother than an untrained guy hacking and sawing at your neck until your head comes off.
Beheadings in the good old days often took a couple of tries.
I like your idea of oxygen deprivation. Why still these grisly methods? Well, at least they remind us that it's not a nice thing to take a life, it should never become a pleasant routine.
At my last infusion the nurse had to try seven times to put the IV into my clearly visible popping veins. Her thick podgy fingers would jab the large caliber needle it in next to the vein and then start digging the needle around under the skin. She exclaimed "In my twenty years I've never had this much trouble!". The patient nearby, who had just had her IV by the same nurse just looked at me and shook her head sadly.
However, they went away. In this time and day of ICE dominance they really are a new thing again. I don't feel a need to ridicule people who doesn't know this.
And most of those programs are completely dormant at most times awaiting user input or I/O. People get excited about quad core smartphones too but have no apps truly utilizing all those cores.
Ah yes and setting up a RAMDisk but forgetting the flag for extended memory so it now took up nearly everything below 640, then discovering I had no rescue boot floppies.
EDLIN still worked.
Or the friend bringing over 20 floppies with stuff, as a Symantec Backup. I said;" let's restore then, give me Symantec Backup". "Er, it's on the backup"...
People often say smartphones are bad phones but IMHO some smartphones are surprisingly good at being phones. For example top models from Samsung and Apple supports AMR-WB and voice quality is impressive where networks support it. Ofcourse it's subjective what a good phone is, considering UI, size, battery, voice quality, etc.
So, it's not clear cut. For my personal opinion I've tried several Apple and Samsung smartphones and I consider them all to be excellent phones. The battery on my current [smart]phone probably lasts five days unless I start doing lots of shit. I think that's fair. In reality I do charge it every couple of days but I've been doing that since my first mobile phone, the Nokia 2110.
Europe is a large number of countries. Some have used chip and pin since the early nineties.
When I moved to Canada in 2007 I felt I'd returned to the distant past. After having used PIN for a decade in Denmark and UK I suddenly had to sign for Everything, I couldn't freely transfer money between accounts in different banks and I was charged for Incoming calls, Incoming! I even saw top loading washing machines with analog dials, like in childhood movies.
We've been introducing it gradually here in Canada during the last few years. Some stores here in Vancouver have had the terminals for a while but only started using PIN last year.
I love it here though, it's the first country I feel at home.
The OS X UI tries to be functional and pleasant but without getting in the users way or stepping on their toes. They also use distinct UI elements that are easy to recognize. They're not perfect but at least these are the things they've always tried to do.
The Windows UI have increasingly been trying to tell the user what to do and how to think to an increasing extent, to the point of taking over the screen and stipulating that we shall all do things the same way. They also flatten the UI elements, making them indisguinsable from the web at times and sometimes it's nonintuitive what can be interacted with. In addition some things gets so "user friendly" that they now confuse advanced users.
Having said that I can work fine with both. I never met a UI I couldn't work with. Well, Microsoft Bob was one... My only fear is that Windows 8 applications will stop offering proper Desktop versions. Time will tell.
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Genius. I wonder if VMWare Player can be configured to do this...
Somebody mentioned disabling iCloud sync of docs and settings as an effective workaround. Might work for you.
Well, silly mine-is-better-than-yours wars aside in these threads - Android really badly needed project Butter. Everybody from fandroids to Google admitted this and I think the project managed to achieve it's goal quite well.
Perhaps you don't like these newfangled smartphones from brands such as Apple, HTC, Motorola or Samsung (they're all roughly similar anyway) but that hardly makes people sheep for seeing some value in them.
Well, all those gyrating widgets straining for attention are just a nerd fest anyway ;)
Hmm, I signed up when I first noticed it, can't remember why or when. The Internet was all exciting then and full of gyrating "under construction" GIFs.
Steve Jobs' talent was that he understood computers should be easy for everybody to use, in a time where they were technically intricate wonders for the initiated circle. He understood what people needed.
Problem is they're constantly redoing everything so it never get the time to mature.
Ten years ago in SuSE I could install my 3rd party TrueType fonts by clicking on the file and follow the KDE font viewers directions. Yesterday on Ubuntu I had to google how and use the command line for installing my extra (no, not the Microsoft) fonts.
I installed Cryptkeeper from the Ubuntu repository but Ubuntu doesn't allow the GUI to show up in the panel (according to a Google search, when it didn't work).
Three times today, while working in Gimp, I got a "Compiz has crashed, wanna send report?" message.
I'm not complaining, I know how to deal with all this. I guess what I'm saying is that the currently "best known" Desktop distribution is just not a mature GUI environment.
I remember in particular a time when all sites had "under construction" animated GIFs.
Even a few percent would save Google terabytes a day. That's why improvements to compression and protocols that seem quite insignificant to the end user are very popular at the host.
While I agree with your general sentiment I disagree that true genius doesn't like to "show off". You're trying to redefine the mening of the word according to your own ideal. Geniuses are people too and can probable be found with all the usual character flaws or degrees of insanity.
Dumb indeed. What you describe would run much more efficiently on one single core. Let the OS distribute the bigger workloads.
The thing is that even four active cores doesn't make sense for a phone. You might be able to utilize two cores well and for daily mundane usage a single core 'multitasks' perfectly well. This is why you see quad core processors with a single low power fallback core.
Beheading can be difficult to do right, the guillotine for example seems a lot smoother than an untrained guy hacking and sawing at your neck until your head comes off.
Beheadings in the good old days often took a couple of tries.
I like your idea of oxygen deprivation. Why still these grisly methods? Well, at least they remind us that it's not a nice thing to take a life, it should never become a pleasant routine.
At my last infusion the nurse had to try seven times to put the IV into my clearly visible popping veins. Her thick podgy fingers would jab the large caliber needle it in next to the vein and then start digging the needle around under the skin. She exclaimed "In my twenty years I've never had this much trouble!". The patient nearby, who had just had her IV by the same nurse just looked at me and shook her head sadly.
It is real?! I thought it was a sick joke. I wonder if it is as good as my fav; Sharktopus.
Seems Tara Reid is keeping her career going well there..
Yes, my dog once delivered to me a dead rodent. He had chewed it good, probably breaking every bone in its little body without breaking the skin.
Yes, yes, ofcourse.
However, they went away. In this time and day of ICE dominance they really are a new thing again. I don't feel a need to ridicule people who doesn't know this.
And most of those programs are completely dormant at most times awaiting user input or I/O. People get excited about quad core smartphones too but have no apps truly utilizing all those cores.
Ah yes and setting up a RAMDisk but forgetting the flag for extended memory so it now took up nearly everything below 640, then discovering I had no rescue boot floppies.
EDLIN still worked.
Or the friend bringing over 20 floppies with stuff, as a Symantec Backup. I said;" let's restore then, give me Symantec Backup". "Er, it's on the backup"...
People often say smartphones are bad phones but IMHO some smartphones are surprisingly good at being phones. For example top models from Samsung and Apple supports AMR-WB and voice quality is impressive where networks support it. Ofcourse it's subjective what a good phone is, considering UI, size, battery, voice quality, etc.
So, it's not clear cut. For my personal opinion I've tried several Apple and Samsung smartphones and I consider them all to be excellent phones.
The battery on my current [smart]phone probably lasts five days unless I start doing lots of shit. I think that's fair. In reality I do charge it every couple of days but I've been doing that since my first mobile phone, the Nokia 2110.
Try to understand that consoles and PCs are two different gaming experiences. Comparing things like graphics capabilities is missing the point.
I enjoy MMOGs on my PC but also have lots of fun playing games on the console with my family.
NB: I have never met a controller I couldn't get used to, but I'm flexible that way.
Europe is a large number of countries. Some have used chip and pin since the early nineties.
When I moved to Canada in 2007 I felt I'd returned to the distant past. After having used PIN for a decade in Denmark and UK I suddenly had to sign for Everything, I couldn't freely transfer money between accounts in different banks and I was charged for Incoming calls, Incoming! I even saw top loading washing machines with analog dials, like in childhood movies.
We've been introducing it gradually here in Canada during the last few years. Some stores here in Vancouver have had the terminals for a while but only started using PIN last year.
I love it here though, it's the first country I feel at home.
These guys are great, endless number of customization options and default is no OS - you have to add your choice of OS as an option if you want it.
US based.
Perhaps because theyre so different.
The OS X UI tries to be functional and pleasant but without getting in the users way or stepping on their toes. They also use distinct UI elements that are easy to recognize. They're not perfect but at least these are the things they've always tried to do.
The Windows UI have increasingly been trying to tell the user what to do and how to think to an increasing extent, to the point of taking over the screen and stipulating that we shall all do things the same way. They also flatten the UI elements, making them indisguinsable from the web at times and sometimes it's nonintuitive what can be interacted with. In addition some things gets so "user friendly" that they now confuse advanced users.
Having said that I can work fine with both. I never met a UI I couldn't work with. Well, Microsoft Bob was one...
My only fear is that Windows 8 applications will stop offering proper Desktop versions. Time will tell.