I don't think its update fatigue. I think its that each new version is less functional and more frustrating (and typically slower) than the previous one. Also different. For no apparently useful reason to the end user.
The new versions are different because "they" keep shoving new features in (like adobe online-something-or other, and itune's insistance to be the media center of everything, even though it *should* just be an audio player).
Except in small/large icons mode the control panel won't let you sort the icons by anything other than the stock ordering. You can't (for example) list them alphabetically vertically, which is the fastest way to scan things (up and down). Instead you have to search side to side in a field of arbitrarily named icons, at which point the category/search becomes faster.
The problem with it is that if they have solid numbers about what's popular, all that will be produced is clones of what's popular. Another way: because corporate bean counters only respond to the statistics (when available) it means that whatever the most popular thing is is what will be produced, no one will take risks on a radically different kind of show. Think back when "reality" TV shows were a "new" big thing, the first few were hugely successful, since then less so. Think of what horror would result if whomever made decisions on what new shows to approve had numbers for how popular other things were.
Hackintosh seems to be more along the lines of hacked hardware to get apple software running.
This is the reverse, its hacking into nintendo's hardware (admittedly hacking is limited to custom add-on hardware) to get non-nintendo software to run.
Apple allows you to run whatever you want on their computers (handhelds is a different story).
Couldn't have said it better myself. The commercials breakup casual TV watching, so you're given (well forced to have) the opportunity to go do something else (IE, bathroom, check stove whatever) rather than compulsively chain-loading the next episode....and watching the majority of entire seasons of star trek in single sittings. Not that I've ever done that...
But it would make site operators take better care in terms of the traffic they support. Period. As if they don't, they'd get blacklisted.
Sending NXDOMAINs for domains that DO actually exist wouldn't be anywhere near as problematic as the reverse (what comcast and others were/are doing). Provided that the sides are in fact garbage (and they aren't just blacklisting certian sites because someone pays them to).
Oversight and regulation of blacklisted IPs at the DNS level would be problematic, however it would combat botnets, adware advertising and the like fairly well.
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I don't think its update fatigue. I think its that each new version is less functional and more frustrating (and typically slower) than the previous one. Also different. For no apparently useful reason to the end user. The new versions are different because "they" keep shoving new features in (like adobe online-something-or other, and itune's insistance to be the media center of everything, even though it *should* just be an audio player).
Except in small/large icons mode the control panel won't let you sort the icons by anything other than the stock ordering. You can't (for example) list them alphabetically vertically, which is the fastest way to scan things (up and down). Instead you have to search side to side in a field of arbitrarily named icons, at which point the category/search becomes faster.
The problem with it is that if they have solid numbers about what's popular, all that will be produced is clones of what's popular. Another way: because corporate bean counters only respond to the statistics (when available) it means that whatever the most popular thing is is what will be produced, no one will take risks on a radically different kind of show. Think back when "reality" TV shows were a "new" big thing, the first few were hugely successful, since then less so. Think of what horror would result if whomever made decisions on what new shows to approve had numbers for how popular other things were.
I'm pretty sure a GREAT MANY people are saved annually (from a variety of things) by knives. Knives of the medical sort that is.
Or, at least avoid tying to do the same already-tried-before test/trial/experiment/whatever yielding the same flawed result. Like that /never/ happens.
Hackintosh seems to be more along the lines of hacked hardware to get apple software running. This is the reverse, its hacking into nintendo's hardware (admittedly hacking is limited to custom add-on hardware) to get non-nintendo software to run. Apple allows you to run whatever you want on their computers (handhelds is a different story).
Couldn't have said it better myself. The commercials breakup casual TV watching, so you're given (well forced to have) the opportunity to go do something else (IE, bathroom, check stove whatever) rather than compulsively chain-loading the next episode....and watching the majority of entire seasons of star trek in single sittings. Not that I've ever done that...
But it would make site operators take better care in terms of the traffic they support. Period. As if they don't, they'd get blacklisted. Sending NXDOMAINs for domains that DO actually exist wouldn't be anywhere near as problematic as the reverse (what comcast and others were/are doing). Provided that the sides are in fact garbage (and they aren't just blacklisting certian sites because someone pays them to). Oversight and regulation of blacklisted IPs at the DNS level would be problematic, however it would combat botnets, adware advertising and the like fairly well.