You may be right, they may have shifted the design philosophy for CS3, however they still put out applications that run (and run well) on Mac OS. Its not as thought Adobe simply refused to support Mac OS overnight the way that Apple have with the flash to cs3 compiler.
This whole move reminds me a of an ex partner throwing your shit out of the window. I'm starting to think that someone high up at Apple was refused a job at Adobe at some point in the past..
I don't understand why people are surprised that Apple have taken these measures. Time and again they have gone out of their way to make sure they have a vice like grip over aspects of their products.
Even iAds, which was claimed to be an attempt to revolutionize Advert distribution is simply a way for Apple to monopolize and control the money flow through their products.
Fact is, until people start protesting with their money nothing will change. The only way Apple will stop strong arming Adobe is for them to suddenly pull Photoshop from Mac OS. Fight fire with fire.
Shame it'll never happen. I look forward to seeing the ways Apple will surprise us all with their evil policies in the future.
Take a backtrack Live CD or install the aircrack suite and you'll have free wi-fi access all over the UK.
For some reason our ISP's insist on sending routers out with WEP encryption by default, and most people don't change them.
You'll be breaking the law of course, but don't let that get in the way:)
You're going to shit a brick when they bring in the OO ribbon comes in.
I don't understand why developers feel changing a UI makes things more intuitive. You're essentially asking the user to find where things are all over again.
All I wanted a month ago was a 12" notebook with a dual core chip for under £350. Everything else I could have survived without. The only thing that seemed to be available was 12" netbooks and ridiculously expensive 12" laptops. I eventually found a refurbed machine that fit my needs, but it was originally released almost 18 months ago. Am I missing something with the 12" screen market? People who've used 10" screens must know the pain of constantly scrolling down because web pages don't fit as much height wise the screen. Now the 12" netbooks are going, I doubt anything is going to come in and fill the gap, and its a real shame, because 12" screens, as far as I'm concerned, are the sweet spot for portability and usability in laptops.
As much as I'm sure Google would value your opinion, I'm sure the people there have considered everything. They wouldn't have implemented this design unless it was the most energy and cost efficient design they could possibly think of.
Thats why Ben Jai gets paid a huge sum of money, and you're posting on Slashdot..
We use Sophos at the school I admin with the enterprise console. It is by no means the greatest antivirus out there, but it does the job. It doesn't intrude on the user, updates itself quietly and efficiently and you can manage clients well using the enterprise console. I believe its fairly reasonably priced, but we get a discount being educational (they sell heavily to schools)
Just make sure you only get the endpoint AV and not the bundled firewall - that really sucks
From what I can tell from the screenshots, it looks like it utilizes SkyPlayer, which is available in the UK for £10 per month, and you get Sky One, Sky Sports and a few other flagshiip sky channels (32 in total) If you already have a Sky subscription, it is free to use.
I'm going to get modded down as flamebait here, but lets face it, unless it pretties up the OS, Apple will ignore it. Security hasn't exactly been their strong point
As much as I am thankful for discovering Linux for my laptop, adding a drop down box won't make the difference people are hoping for. Linux is so alien to the average person who would buy from Dell that people would immediately overlook it regardless of price drop. To most of the average Joe users, Windows is a PC, the only other alternative is a Mac.
What Linux really, really needs is to hit the average user where they are most susceptible; in front of the television. A few adverts on US TV would have a domino effect on other countries' markets. I know that most Linux distros don't have the money to put an advert on TV, but it's where the average Joe gets the majority of his/her information about new products. I'd love Shuttleworth to get his hand in his pocket and put some Ubuntu adverts on US TV.
Driving user adoption via advertising = Uptake in users = Support from other big companies who want to jump on the bandwagon
The number of people being fired for people posting things about work have increased ridiculously here in the UK. We hear stories of people getting fired because they say they've had a sh*t day, so this is the next logical step for corporations, as they will no doubt be expecting a major, trend setting lawsuit soon enough. Signing something protects them.
I've abandoned my upgrade as I was informed by Ubuntu's installer that the FGLRX for my ATI graphics card wasn't available anymore, so it's not just nVidia, it's ATI as well
The point you're missing is, even those "Grandmas" that bought Mac or Windows machine didn't have to set up their system either. There are plenty of PC builders that will preinstall Linux on a machine with drivers etc, so your argument isn't really valid.
The apple fan boys haven't arrived yet, so I'll fill in for them
We don't need obvious functionality that is available in the most low end phones, like MMS messaging and video recording. Oh no. All we need is a sexy interface with a glossy product and we're happy. In fact, we'll pretend our phone is the best phone in the world simply because it has the apple logo on it.
Oh wait, hang on, Apple is introducing those features in it's new product? Well praise the lord, we've been waiting for those features for so long. Never mind the fact we said we didn't want them, now they're here our phone is AWESOME
Unfortunately, the social networking society we're in now, where the norm is to accept anyone who 'sends a friend request' will make darknets unworkable for the majority
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I've tried to get involved in the development of the kernel and been hounded out because I asked questions.
What sort of development community is it if you can't ask someone who's written a section of code "What does this function do?"
Has Apple removed the ability to write to the HDD yet?
You may be right, they may have shifted the design philosophy for CS3, however they still put out applications that run (and run well) on Mac OS. Its not as thought Adobe simply refused to support Mac OS overnight the way that Apple have with the flash to cs3 compiler.
This whole move reminds me a of an ex partner throwing your shit out of the window. I'm starting to think that someone high up at Apple was refused a job at Adobe at some point in the past..
I don't understand why people are surprised that Apple have taken these measures. Time and again they have gone out of their way to make sure they have a vice like grip over aspects of their products.
Even iAds, which was claimed to be an attempt to revolutionize Advert distribution is simply a way for Apple to monopolize and control the money flow through their products.
Fact is, until people start protesting with their money nothing will change. The only way Apple will stop strong arming Adobe is for them to suddenly pull Photoshop from Mac OS. Fight fire with fire.
Shame it'll never happen. I look forward to seeing the ways Apple will surprise us all with their evil policies in the future.
It still won't be as good as the HTC Desire
**prepares to be modded down by Apple fanboys**
Take a backtrack Live CD or install the aircrack suite and you'll have free wi-fi access all over the UK. For some reason our ISP's insist on sending routers out with WEP encryption by default, and most people don't change them. You'll be breaking the law of course, but don't let that get in the way :)
You're going to shit a brick when they bring in the OO ribbon comes in. I don't understand why developers feel changing a UI makes things more intuitive. You're essentially asking the user to find where things are all over again.
But it literally, just this minute, came back for me in the UK.
All I wanted a month ago was a 12" notebook with a dual core chip for under £350. Everything else I could have survived without. The only thing that seemed to be available was 12" netbooks and ridiculously expensive 12" laptops. I eventually found a refurbed machine that fit my needs, but it was originally released almost 18 months ago. Am I missing something with the 12" screen market? People who've used 10" screens must know the pain of constantly scrolling down because web pages don't fit as much height wise the screen. Now the 12" netbooks are going, I doubt anything is going to come in and fill the gap, and its a real shame, because 12" screens, as far as I'm concerned, are the sweet spot for portability and usability in laptops.
This didn't work for Napster, and it won't work for Kazaa.
I predict a flood of MJ puns in /.'s near future.
As much as I'm sure Google would value your opinion, I'm sure the people there have considered everything. They wouldn't have implemented this design unless it was the most energy and cost efficient design they could possibly think of.
Thats why Ben Jai gets paid a huge sum of money, and you're posting on Slashdot..
We use Sophos at the school I admin with the enterprise console. It is by no means the greatest antivirus out there, but it does the job. It doesn't intrude on the user, updates itself quietly and efficiently and you can manage clients well using the enterprise console. I believe its fairly reasonably priced, but we get a discount being educational (they sell heavily to schools)
Just make sure you only get the endpoint AV and not the bundled firewall - that really sucks
From what I can tell from the screenshots, it looks like it utilizes SkyPlayer, which is available in the UK for £10 per month, and you get Sky One, Sky Sports and a few other flagshiip sky channels (32 in total) If you already have a Sky subscription, it is free to use.
You articulated what I was trying to say a whole lot better than I originally did!
I'm going to get modded down as flamebait here, but lets face it, unless it pretties up the OS, Apple will ignore it. Security hasn't exactly been their strong point
As much as I am thankful for discovering Linux for my laptop, adding a drop down box won't make the difference people are hoping for. Linux is so alien to the average person who would buy from Dell that people would immediately overlook it regardless of price drop. To most of the average Joe users, Windows is a PC, the only other alternative is a Mac. What Linux really, really needs is to hit the average user where they are most susceptible; in front of the television. A few adverts on US TV would have a domino effect on other countries' markets. I know that most Linux distros don't have the money to put an advert on TV, but it's where the average Joe gets the majority of his/her information about new products. I'd love Shuttleworth to get his hand in his pocket and put some Ubuntu adverts on US TV. Driving user adoption via advertising = Uptake in users = Support from other big companies who want to jump on the bandwagon
The number of people being fired for people posting things about work have increased ridiculously here in the UK. We hear stories of people getting fired because they say they've had a sh*t day, so this is the next logical step for corporations, as they will no doubt be expecting a major, trend setting lawsuit soon enough. Signing something protects them.
I personally also noticed and instant improvemant in boot times, performace and feedback from the OS compared with Vista Ultimate and Windows XP.
I've abandoned my upgrade as I was informed by Ubuntu's installer that the FGLRX for my ATI graphics card wasn't available anymore, so it's not just nVidia, it's ATI as well
The point you're missing is, even those "Grandmas" that bought Mac or Windows machine didn't have to set up their system either. There are plenty of PC builders that will preinstall Linux on a machine with drivers etc, so your argument isn't really valid.
The apple fan boys haven't arrived yet, so I'll fill in for them We don't need obvious functionality that is available in the most low end phones, like MMS messaging and video recording. Oh no. All we need is a sexy interface with a glossy product and we're happy. In fact, we'll pretend our phone is the best phone in the world simply because it has the apple logo on it. Oh wait, hang on, Apple is introducing those features in it's new product? Well praise the lord, we've been waiting for those features for so long. Never mind the fact we said we didn't want them, now they're here our phone is AWESOME
Unfortunately, the social networking society we're in now, where the norm is to accept anyone who 'sends a friend request' will make darknets unworkable for the majority
the first thing I did was chuckle, mac OS must be the most unreliable OS ever
I've got a pair of Zyxel that are 200meg, and unless 802.11n drops in price anytime soon, I'll be sticking with them.