Your reasoning is based on one quasi-statistic " Look at the installed base of directX compared to other technologies on other platforms. Also, consider driver stability and hardware support from vendors. "
Let's take a look at all of the different types of devices that run web browsers:
Personal computers and servers running a Microsoft OS and browser: working
Personal computers and servers running a Microsoft OS, but not a Microsoft browser: not working
Personal computers and servers running OSX and any browser: not working
Personal computers and servers running other OSs: not working
Mobile devices such as the N800, N810 and the iPad: not working
Phones and handheld PDAs running any OS: not working
Appliances that support web browsing such as the PS3, Wii and Apple TV: not working
Your quasi-statistic regarding Microsoft's market penetration in the personal computer operating system market is probably not a big enough market share in the real world to base a "standard" (and I use the term loosely) on. When developing web standards there is a lot more to take in to consideration than "Windows has the biggest market share on the PC. Windows can all run IE9, and everybody else can be left out." Any web developer worth their weight in dog shit will stay far away from this technology unless it starts working on more devices. For an anecdotal example, take a look at all of the websites that have been written lately to look nice on the ipad/iphone.
There's an app called "Where's my droid" that is useful for this. If you text "Wheres my droid" to your phone number it will start ringing...even if it is on silent. This is mostly useful if you lost it in the house or car or something. If you text "Wheres my droid GPS" it texts back with the coordinates. You can change the text strings it responds to--this may be a good idea so people don't mess with you when you have your phone on silent.
That isn't true. Even with the 1984 incident on the Kindle, the user's notes were still intact. The other thing is purchasing DRM'd books is a choice. I don't understand the e-reader hate here on slashdot. Nobody's forcing anybody to buy DRM'd content. Think of an e-reader like an MP3 player. Sure, it can display DRM'd content if you so choose, but it will display DRM free content if you choose to go that route as well.
Instead of boycotting an entire class of devices because they can display DRM'd content, we should be targeting on the people who let this DRM scam go on in the first place: the publishers and the users who purchase that content.
The word you are looking for is branch. When a distribution packages a piece of software, they usually take a release from upstream, add any patches (create their custom branch) compile it and release their package. If they decided to fork the code, that would imply that they continue to develop the software on their own without the help or contributions from the upstream developers.
Instead of making new, more Orwellian ID cards there should be a penalty (jail time) for people responsible for hiring illegal immigrants without doing proper checks.
The NVIDIA and ATI proprietary drivers have been easily installed in Ubuntu by a program called jockey since the 7.x releases. It's under System --> Administration --> Hardware drivers. It can be launched from the CLI if you so choose with either jockey-gtk or jockey-text. Installing NVIDIA or ATI drivers is as simple as clicking on the driver and clicking "install." When there is a kernel update, DKMS automatically recompiles the driver for the new kernel so there is no screwing around with that any more either.
I'm going to wait to see if there's another revolution in book stores (Google Books, or something similar) that doesn't lock me into just one...
Pretty much all e-readers with the exception of the kindle use the epub format. No matter what e-reader you get you are not really licked in to any book store. You just download the book from whatever bookstore or other souce and copy it to the e-reader. Most bookstores these days sell in the epub format so that makes everything nice and easy. I've even seen a few libraries start "lending" ebooks in the epub and pdf formats as well.
No, companies don't really care if they need to pay a few hundred to get the programmer Visual Studio and increase his productivity by 1500% instead of using the free Dev-C++.
If a programmers productivity goes up 1500% because you switched editors/IDE's, maybe the company should consider hiring better programmers.
Same thing as most companies working with graphics aren't shy to buy Photoshop instead of frustrating their workers with GIMP.
That's assuming the graphics design people are trained in Photoshop and not GIMP. A graphics designer who learned GIMP would be equally frustrated in Photoshop.
I wish automotive engineers would keep this acronym in mind when designing cars. The amount of crap you have to go through on any newer car to do simple maintenance and tune-ups is ridiculous. It doesn't seem like any of this has done much for reliability (which is worse than it was in 1990 IMHO) or fuel economy either. The only tangible benefit I can see is emissions. I know it's hip to be green these days, but I prefer my cars to be simple, cheap and easy to maintain.
So pretty much all of them. Nobody is locking you in to any particular book store. Just mount the reader as USB storage, copy your ebook to it and enjoy. Sony ereaders, the kindle, the nook, and pretty much all of the off-brand ereaders can do this.
But my question is: how is this any different from any random person sending giant e-mail addresses to your servers? Isn't that fairly easy to do, without a bug in a client?
I was not saying it's big news. I was mainly replying to this part of your original comment:
If someone is running an important e-mail system and using a beta, they're crazy...
What happens if I am running an important e-mail system for my company. None of the users of my email system are running any sort of beta client. Now, someone who is not employed at my company (a client or whatever...) starts using the Outlook beta and starts sending oversized messages to users on my email server. I would care about where all of that space went. If my accounts have a limited size, my users may care as well and it's nice that now I would have an answer for them.
I get between 5-6 hours of normal use out of mine (Athlon NEO, Radeon x1270, 250gb hdd, 11" display, 6 cell battery.) To be honest, I bought mine to be more of a thin and light notebook rather than a "netbook" so this is more than enough for my purposes. As far as heat goes, the fan rarely has to spin up and it runs much cooler than any "normal" laptop I've owned.
Every product benefits form market share. There is nothing wrong with having a high market share. I am just arguing that having the highest market share != having the best product. See the web browser or operating system markets for examples:-).
They support DRM, but they don't try to force customers to use DRM'd content in any way. It supports DRM like the DVD player attached to your TV supports DRM.
Yes it has DRM, to protect their content. So fraking what. The ability to get new media ( in particular periodicals) from anywhere without a pc, sets the kindle apart from the others.
The Sony Daily Edition has wireless capability, the ability to download periodicals and new content with or without a computer, a touchscreen and most importantly it's not a DRM laden POS locking you in to one bookstore.
Did you know that the ipod also has even more intrusive DRM, but yet it is considered to be the best device out there.
Considered the best by who? There are many portable media devices out there that are better than the IPOD both in features and price. I think you are confusing "Best" with "Has the highest market share."
Unlike an ipod, all you need to do to add third party content to a kindle is hook it up to a computer and it becomes a usb storage device, or surf the kindle to the numerous sites out there like feedbooks to get content.
Why are you comparing the kindle to an ipod? Pretty much every e-reader does this.
I'm not sure about combining flash memory and a radio on one card. However, plain, old microSD wifi cards have been on the market for quite a while now.
In theory, Japan's rearmament is prohibited by Article 9 of the Japanese constitution which states: "The Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes", but also declares, "land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained." In practice however, the Diet (or Parliament), which Article 41 of the Constitution defines as "the highest organ of the state power", established the Self-Defense Forces in 1954. Due to the constitutional debate concerning the Forces' status, any attempt at increasing the Forces' capabilities and budget tends to be controversial. Thus the JSDF has very limited capabilities to operate overseas, lacks long range offensive capabilities such as long-range surface-to-surface missiles, aerial refueling (as of 2004[update]), marines, amphibious units, and large caches of ammunition. The Rules of Engagement are strictly defined by the Self-Defense Forces Act 1954.
That analogy is terrible. It may work if Microsoft's primary business model was selling music, but we all know that is not the case. Valve distributes all of their games on Steam. Valve has a vested interest in keeping Steam running since it is needed for all of their (current) and their partners (MW2 for example) flagship products to work.
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Let's take a look at all of the different types of devices that run web browsers:
Your quasi-statistic regarding Microsoft's market penetration in the personal computer operating system market is probably not a big enough market share in the real world to base a "standard" (and I use the term loosely) on. When developing web standards there is a lot more to take in to consideration than "Windows has the biggest market share on the PC. Windows can all run IE9, and everybody else can be left out." Any web developer worth their weight in dog shit will stay far away from this technology unless it starts working on more devices. For an anecdotal example, take a look at all of the websites that have been written lately to look nice on the ipad/iphone.
There's an app called "Where's my droid" that is useful for this. If you text "Wheres my droid" to your phone number it will start ringing...even if it is on silent. This is mostly useful if you lost it in the house or car or something. If you text "Wheres my droid GPS" it texts back with the coordinates. You can change the text strings it responds to--this may be a good idea so people don't mess with you when you have your phone on silent.
This video stuff is funny because you can't stop it.
Click on the video. It's not hard.
I demand a punchline from this press release, or at least some enlightened puns about how to reduce the window manager's footprint!
Enlightenment isn't the default WM in Gnome anymore :-)
Oh, you talking about the footprint logo thingey there.
Amarok, F-Spot.
That isn't true. Even with the 1984 incident on the Kindle, the user's notes were still intact. The other thing is purchasing DRM'd books is a choice. I don't understand the e-reader hate here on slashdot. Nobody's forcing anybody to buy DRM'd content. Think of an e-reader like an MP3 player. Sure, it can display DRM'd content if you so choose, but it will display DRM free content if you choose to go that route as well.
Instead of boycotting an entire class of devices because they can display DRM'd content, we should be targeting on the people who let this DRM scam go on in the first place: the publishers and the users who purchase that content.
The word you are looking for is branch. When a distribution packages a piece of software, they usually take a release from upstream, add any patches (create their custom branch) compile it and release their package. If they decided to fork the code, that would imply that they continue to develop the software on their own without the help or contributions from the upstream developers.
What OS is forked thousands of times? I'm pretty sure "forked" doesn't mean what you think it means.
Instead of making new, more Orwellian ID cards there should be a penalty (jail time) for people responsible for hiring illegal immigrants without doing proper checks.
The NVIDIA and ATI proprietary drivers have been easily installed in Ubuntu by a program called jockey since the 7.x releases. It's under System --> Administration --> Hardware drivers. It can be launched from the CLI if you so choose with either jockey-gtk or jockey-text. Installing NVIDIA or ATI drivers is as simple as clicking on the driver and clicking "install." When there is a kernel update, DKMS automatically recompiles the driver for the new kernel so there is no screwing around with that any more either.
I'm going to wait to see if there's another revolution in book stores (Google Books, or something similar) that doesn't lock me into just one...
Pretty much all e-readers with the exception of the kindle use the epub format. No matter what e-reader you get you are not really licked in to any book store. You just download the book from whatever bookstore or other souce and copy it to the e-reader. Most bookstores these days sell in the epub format so that makes everything nice and easy. I've even seen a few libraries start "lending" ebooks in the epub and pdf formats as well.
No, companies don't really care if they need to pay a few hundred to get the programmer Visual Studio and increase his productivity by 1500% instead of using the free Dev-C++.
If a programmers productivity goes up 1500% because you switched editors/IDE's, maybe the company should consider hiring better programmers.
Same thing as most companies working with graphics aren't shy to buy Photoshop instead of frustrating their workers with GIMP.
That's assuming the graphics design people are trained in Photoshop and not GIMP. A graphics designer who learned GIMP would be equally frustrated in Photoshop.
I wish automotive engineers would keep this acronym in mind when designing cars. The amount of crap you have to go through on any newer car to do simple maintenance and tune-ups is ridiculous. It doesn't seem like any of this has done much for reliability (which is worse than it was in 1990 IMHO) or fuel economy either. The only tangible benefit I can see is emissions. I know it's hip to be green these days, but I prefer my cars to be simple, cheap and easy to maintain.
Right, because only kids watch shows like South Park, Family Guy and The Simpsons.
So pretty much all of them. Nobody is locking you in to any particular book store. Just mount the reader as USB storage, copy your ebook to it and enjoy. Sony ereaders, the kindle, the nook, and pretty much all of the off-brand ereaders can do this.
But my question is: how is this any different from any random person sending giant e-mail addresses to your servers? Isn't that fairly easy to do, without a bug in a client?
I was not saying it's big news. I was mainly replying to this part of your original comment:
If someone is running an important e-mail system and using a beta, they're crazy...
What happens if I am running an important e-mail system for my company. None of the users of my email system are running any sort of beta client. Now, someone who is not employed at my company (a client or whatever...) starts using the Outlook beta and starts sending oversized messages to users on my email server. I would care about where all of that space went. If my accounts have a limited size, my users may care as well and it's nice that now I would have an answer for them.
Yes, water will void the warranty but so does smashing the device. TFA is regarding insurance claims (which usually cover water damage.)
I get between 5-6 hours of normal use out of mine (Athlon NEO, Radeon x1270, 250gb hdd, 11" display, 6 cell battery.) To be honest, I bought mine to be more of a thin and light notebook rather than a "netbook" so this is more than enough for my purposes. As far as heat goes, the fan rarely has to spin up and it runs much cooler than any "normal" laptop I've owned.
Every product benefits form market share. There is nothing wrong with having a high market share. I am just arguing that having the highest market share != having the best product. See the web browser or operating system markets for examples :-).
They support DRM, but they don't try to force customers to use DRM'd content in any way. It supports DRM like the DVD player attached to your TV supports DRM.
Yes it has DRM, to protect their content. So fraking what. The ability to get new media ( in particular periodicals) from anywhere without a pc, sets the kindle apart from the others.
The Sony Daily Edition has wireless capability, the ability to download periodicals and new content with or without a computer, a touchscreen and most importantly it's not a DRM laden POS locking you in to one bookstore.
Did you know that the ipod also has even more intrusive DRM, but yet it is considered to be the best device out there.
Considered the best by who? There are many portable media devices out there that are better than the IPOD both in features and price. I think you are confusing "Best" with "Has the highest market share."
Unlike an ipod, all you need to do to add third party content to a kindle is hook it up to a computer and it becomes a usb storage device, or surf the kindle to the numerous sites out there like feedbooks to get content.
Why are you comparing the kindle to an ipod? Pretty much every e-reader does this.
I'm not sure about combining flash memory and a radio on one card. However, plain, old microSD wifi cards have been on the market for quite a while now.
I call bullshit. European countries, Japan et al have perfectly capable REGIONAL armies.
Just a nitpick here, but the Japanese National Defence Force is not really a capable REGIONAL army.
From wikipedia:
In theory, Japan's rearmament is prohibited by Article 9 of the Japanese constitution which states: "The Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes", but also declares, "land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained." In practice however, the Diet (or Parliament), which Article 41 of the Constitution defines as "the highest organ of the state power", established the Self-Defense Forces in 1954. Due to the constitutional debate concerning the Forces' status, any attempt at increasing the Forces' capabilities and budget tends to be controversial. Thus the JSDF has very limited capabilities to operate overseas, lacks long range offensive capabilities such as long-range surface-to-surface missiles, aerial refueling (as of 2004[update]), marines, amphibious units, and large caches of ammunition. The Rules of Engagement are strictly defined by the Self-Defense Forces Act 1954.
That analogy is terrible. It may work if Microsoft's primary business model was selling music, but we all know that is not the case. Valve distributes all of their games on Steam. Valve has a vested interest in keeping Steam running since it is needed for all of their (current) and their partners (MW2 for example) flagship products to work.