I'm with you. Windows Phone is not bad, and the UI is better than iOS and way better than the confusing mess that is Android. Windows 10 that is,Windows 8 phone was a bit spartan.
I do a lot of mobile websites and UI work, so I like to keep track of what the frontiers of design is. Which is why I carry a iOS,Android and Win Phone device with me and sometimes swap out the SIM card to use the other ones as my main phone. I really like Windows phone but as a day to day phone I still use my iPhone. Why? a) Apps. b) Build quality. c) The windows phone always has finger smudges on the screen. It is little details like that that distinguishes Apple from Microsoft.
Before anywone accuses me of being a MS fanboy, I puse a Macbook day to day and an iPad. I very seldomly use Windows, except to test Websites with Edge (which is quite nice). I really do not like Microsoft on the desktop.
But for general handling of a mobile UI?? Microsoft all the way.
Hah. Just last week, a buddy of mine asked me to solve a problem they had with PHP on IIS. Some stupid thing about a temp file, wasted 8 hours finding it. I have not often worked with PHP, and never with IIS. I showed him and his employer how this works with Unix (MacOS/X in that case) and PHP. He almost got fired (new on the job). I got a nice check for consulting. The will run Unix now.
The one that annoys me the most by far is the time when you switch off your machine and it wants to install a 30 minute update first. "Please do not switchoff the computer".Goddammit, if I want it off, I want it off.
Usually I have Windows 10 in a VM on a 14-core Xeon Linux box in it. That thing is a power hog. If I want to go to sleep, I want the VM Off, NOW so I can switch off the VM that runs it in the first place. If the VM is not off, I cant't switch off the machine.
Ditto when I grab my laptop to go to work, or want to reboot for some reason (which is way more common than on MacOS/X). Apple always asks you about the occasional update where you have to restart the machine and give you the option to plan it.
I am an Apple freak, and use my MacBook, but Apple is going off the rails a bit and it is worrying me.
I know someone like you. He thinks henis the worlds greatest programmer but he is as dumb as a brock. His problem is that he uses very inefficient tools.
Yes. My mother-in-law has a small vineyard and all the other farmers around her use grape oucking machines. She is a luddite and does it all by hand.
The grape picking machine works ok but the juice is more watery and fetches less at market (they are paid by grape sugar content). As some above said, nature is unpredictable, my m-i-l does not pick grapes after a rainstorm because of the water-fetches-less reason
I guarantee you Ethiopia is not going to be automated soon, infrastructure not there. Secondly, they eat most of what they produce so it does not matter.
You are driving a 55 inch screen with a smartphone? I call BS, unless you are running the thing at HD (not Full HD) resolution, which kind of defeats the point. I can also plug my Commodore 64 into my 24 Inch Dell (Really, I can!) and it would work, but...https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/11/20/1726230/a-windows-10-alternative-ubuntu-based-zorin-os-linux-distro#
I agree. Threads are OK IF YOU USE THEM THROUGH A LIBRARY. It is a horror if you try to go down to the primitives and lock things yourself. shared objects and threads are an absolute no-no. The problem with locks is that they look very simple but the interactions are actually very, very hard. It is like building computers from discrete logic gates. Digital logic is not hard in principle, but the emergent complexity quickly becomes totally overwhelming.
Two monitors. I have two 24inchers on my desk with an older Macbook Pro which has an actual HDMI and an Actual mini Displayport connector. If I had the 15 inch model I could have 3 monitors on my desk which I would not mind either.
That is why I decided to spend my 1500 euros on a dual CPU 14 core Xeon rig, which gives me 56 cores and 256GB of RAM. I really do not need to carry all my VMs with me, and they do not need a GPU in any case.
Linux does not run Photoshop Linux does not run Word Linux does not run Excel Linux does not run Illustrator Linux does not run InDesign Linux does not run Acrobat Linux does not run anything that comes close to Logic Pro/X Linux has a crap sound system, all the VSt's are Mac/Windows (in that order) Linux is a total PITA to configure Linux cannot even render a single character on a screen in such a way that I do not want to puke Linux's display subsystem is a joke on steroids. Color accuracy? What? No Linux laptop has the trackpad that a Mac has The Mac has a compliant PDF subsystem built into the OS. With all the standard Adobe fonts installed by default, not some bad substitutes.
I use ALL of those programs on a day to day basis, and sometimes dabble with Final Cut/Motion and After Effects as well.
As for Windows, the Mac has several things Windows does not:
A functional Posix build system with gcc and all the Unix utilities Lots of Mac-only software for much lower prices than anything in Windows All the unix utilities you can imagine A decent working development environment which is pretty much the same a that on Linux
And before the circle-jerk Command Line fanbois whine about me using GUIsa and how vi is so much better, I use my terminal and Sublime Text way more than any GUI. This completely rules out Windows.
I work in a shop where I have to do a lot of publishing of Websites and PDF documents as part of a workflow. In an actual office with actual customers who use Word/Excel and such normal things. Linux is a no-go horror in such circumstances. On my Mac I can use ALL the normal Windows apps I like to use and I STILL HAVE A COMMAND LINE THAT CAN INTERACT WITH THEM.
Get real. Only question I ask about a Laptop is easy: Does it run OS/X?
Apparently you know nothing about nuclear explosions. No rain, disease, politics, the only things you really need to worry about are radiation and a shock wave.
Admittedly still lots of earthquake, tornado and hurricane in there
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I'm with you. Windows Phone is not bad, and the UI is better than iOS and way better than the confusing mess that is Android. Windows 10 that is,Windows 8 phone was a bit spartan.
I do a lot of mobile websites and UI work, so I like to keep track of what the frontiers of design is. Which is why I carry a iOS,Android and Win Phone device with me and sometimes swap out the SIM card to use the other ones as my main phone. I really like Windows phone but as a day to day phone I still use my iPhone. Why? a) Apps. b) Build quality. c) The windows phone always has finger smudges on the screen. It is little details like that that distinguishes Apple from Microsoft.
Before anywone accuses me of being a MS fanboy, I puse a Macbook day to day and an iPad. I very seldomly use Windows, except to test Websites with Edge (which is quite nice). I really do not like Microsoft on the desktop.
But for general handling of a mobile UI?? Microsoft all the way.
Hah. Just last week, a buddy of mine asked me to solve a problem they had with PHP on IIS. Some stupid thing about a temp file, wasted 8 hours finding it. I have not often worked with PHP, and never with IIS. I showed him and his employer how this works with Unix (MacOS/X in that case) and PHP. He almost got fired (new on the job). I got a nice check for consulting. The will run Unix now.
"Tedious". That is the best way to describe it, yes.
Windows is weird in that way. Everything is always tedious.
Why would I EVER want to run Apache instead of nginx is more the question. As for IIS, just no.
The one that annoys me the most by far is the time when you switch off your machine and it wants to install a 30 minute update first. "Please do not switchoff the computer".Goddammit, if I want it off, I want it off.
Usually I have Windows 10 in a VM on a 14-core Xeon Linux box in it. That thing is a power hog. If I want to go to sleep, I want the VM Off, NOW so I can switch off the VM that runs it in the first place. If the VM is not off, I cant't switch off the machine.
Ditto when I grab my laptop to go to work, or want to reboot for some reason (which is way more common than on MacOS/X). Apple always asks you about the occasional update where you have to restart the machine and give you the option to plan it.
I am an Apple freak, and use my MacBook, but Apple is going off the rails a bit and it is worrying me.
You just made my day...
Thanks
I know someone like you. He thinks henis the worlds greatest programmer but he is as dumb as a brock. His problem is that he uses very inefficient tools.
That is why we old-timers call them hypsters
So Linux finally arrived at the point where the rest of us was 5 years ago?
Yes. My mother-in-law has a small vineyard and all the other farmers around her use grape oucking machines. She is a luddite and does it all by hand.
The grape picking machine works ok but the juice is more watery and fetches less at market (they are paid by grape sugar content). As some above said, nature is unpredictable, my m-i-l does not pick grapes after a rainstorm because of the water-fetches-less reason
I guarantee you Ethiopia is not going to be automated soon, infrastructure not there. Secondly, they eat most of what they produce so it does not matter.
Sure grandpa. Just don't expect me to support it.
Maps? Sure, quite often
Weather? Every day!
You are driving a 55 inch screen with a smartphone? I call BS, unless you are running the thing at HD (not Full HD) resolution, which kind of defeats the point. I can also plug my Commodore 64 into my 24 Inch Dell (Really, I can!) and it would work, but...https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/11/20/1726230/a-windows-10-alternative-ubuntu-based-zorin-os-linux-distro#
> Content must not disparage a person or a group of people on the basis of [...] Ideology
Technically, that would even invalidate Kindle or iBook or any Ebook reader.
Actually, that will even invalidate a web browser!
But Samsung rejected it!
I agree. Threads are OK IF YOU USE THEM THROUGH A LIBRARY. It is a horror if you try to go down to the primitives and lock things yourself. shared objects and threads are an absolute no-no. The problem with locks is that they look very simple but the interactions are actually very, very hard. It is like building computers from discrete logic gates. Digital logic is not hard in principle, but the emergent complexity quickly becomes totally overwhelming.
All programmers should be required to read this:
https://pragprog.com/book/pb7c...
and Doug Lea's book about Java Concurrency.
http://www.informit.com/store/...
Lea is so good his stuff became part of the official Java Spec.
Two monitors. I have two 24inchers on my desk with an older Macbook Pro which has an actual HDMI and an Actual mini Displayport connector. If I had the 15 inch model I could have 3 monitors on my desk which I would not mind either.
That is why I decided to spend my 1500 euros on a dual CPU 14 core Xeon rig, which gives me 56 cores and 256GB of RAM. I really do not need to carry all my VMs with me, and they do not need a GPU in any case.
Can Gimp do Vector? No
Can Gimp do Page layout? No
Can Gimp do PDF workflows? No
Can Blender do Vector? No
Can Blender do Page layout? No
Can Blender do PDF workflows? No
Can Gimp open CMYK files properly? No
You have no idea what you are talking about. We are talking PROFESSIONAL work here.
Blender is pretty OK though. But in comparison to Photoshop Gimp is a joke.
> then more and more software houses will start porting their software to Linux.
No they won't
Easy.
Linux does not run Photoshop
Linux does not run Word
Linux does not run Excel
Linux does not run Illustrator
Linux does not run InDesign
Linux does not run Acrobat
Linux does not run anything that comes close to Logic Pro/X
Linux has a crap sound system, all the VSt's are Mac/Windows (in that order)
Linux is a total PITA to configure
Linux cannot even render a single character on a screen in such a way that I do not want to puke
Linux's display subsystem is a joke on steroids. Color accuracy? What?
No Linux laptop has the trackpad that a Mac has
The Mac has a compliant PDF subsystem built into the OS. With all the standard Adobe fonts installed by default, not some bad substitutes.
I use ALL of those programs on a day to day basis, and sometimes dabble with Final Cut/Motion and After Effects as well.
As for Windows, the Mac has several things Windows does not:
A functional Posix build system with gcc and all the Unix utilities
Lots of Mac-only software for much lower prices than anything in Windows
All the unix utilities you can imagine
A decent working development environment which is pretty much the same a that on Linux
And before the circle-jerk Command Line fanbois whine about me using GUIsa and how vi is so much better, I use my terminal and Sublime Text way more than any GUI. This completely rules out Windows.
I work in a shop where I have to do a lot of publishing of Websites and PDF documents as part of a workflow. In an actual office with actual customers who use Word/Excel and such normal things. Linux is a no-go horror in such circumstances. On my Mac I can use ALL the normal Windows apps I like to use and I STILL HAVE A COMMAND LINE THAT CAN INTERACT WITH THEM.
Get real. Only question I ask about a Laptop is easy: Does it run OS/X?
NTSC stood for "Never Twice the Same Color"
ATSC stands for "Always The Same Color"
So no.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Apparently you know nothing about nuclear explosions. No rain, disease, politics, the only things you really need to worry about are radiation and a shock wave.
Admittedly still lots of earthquake, tornado and hurricane in there