Ubuntu seem to be trying to go for mainstream with easier/better looking UI and tools - but they feel unfinished, actually buggy and not feature-complete; at the cost of pissing off the historical Linux community by going their own way on a lot of topics seeming to distance themselves from and piss on the community and the mainstream projects.
I'm wondering who's left ?
They also seem to be spreading themselves very thin. Could we have an nice, finished, desktop OS, instead of half-baked / pipe-dream stage phone, tablet,...
Not at all.
ChromeCast is a very different beast than miracast/ariwhatever....: the content is *not* streamed from the master to the slave, but *pointed at and handed off*. The slave then directly connects to the server, the master then can even be switched off with no consequences.
I've racked my brain trying to dream up a smartwatch I'd want, couldn't really hack it.
Maybe Apple will come up with something nice.Or maybe they'll come up with something shiny, magical and overpriced
Don't burn bridges. Not so much with your ex-company, as with your ex-colleagues, especially if the situation is not that bad.
If you don't have a good reason for cutting it short, do the time required to exit gracefully. Discuss it with your n+1 or n+2 if you work well with either of them, or with HR if you don't.
Then again, if you new employer needs you RIGHT NOW, your colleagues are assholes, and your company are slavers, do whatever. Just don't expect any leg-up from them, ever.
Last time I checked, there was no lifespan issue for SSDs (I think it was 33 years at 10GB/day).
Even bug issues seem to have been dealt with, I haven't heard any of the once-frequent OCZ horror stories (bricked SSD) in a while.
I'd assume hybrid drives to be just as good as pure HDDs, actually a bit better since the SSD part will save wear and tear on the HDD part. Bugs notwithstanding.
I think animals have much shorter memories than us. There are horses next to my parents' place. I go feed and scrub them every time I'm there (they're abandoned, which is scandalous, almost starved to death last winter), which varies widely: I housesit for a few weeks in the summer, then come for a few days at a time every few weeks.
When I'm there for a while, their behaviour changes: the white mare starts running as soon as she sees me, and gets more aggressive about blocking my exit if she thinks she hasn't been brushed nearly enough, and more directive about *where* she wants to be brushed, and more touchy feely (head resting on my shoulder, between my legs...), she'll even let me bash her with the brush without a peep when I try to squash those nasty (big flies that suck blood... translation ?); the gray gelding gets ever more pushy about grabbing his carrots (and less afraid of the plastic bag or backpack they're in), and lets himself be brushed after a few days (he moves away when I start the first few days), he'll also start bumping me in the back with his nose (must be horsey for either a fist bump or "more carrots or else !").
If I've been away for a couple of months, we start from scratch: I've got to go get them, the mare will be nervous during brushing, the gelding won't let himself be touched, and neither will touch me. I've tried talking to them, wearing the same clothes... they just don't seem to click.
I'd say the USA is the greatest enemy of the USA. If the madness don't stop soon, the 1% will have sucked the 99% so dry the USA will be a dessicated husk.
They could be propping up regimes that routinely use torture and abuse human rights, and randomly killing innocents with drones.
But then there'd be nothing left for the US to do...
You're right, Apple products are very good for some specific uses. But Apple need broad markets to maintain their growth and profits, I doubt all Devs + all Musicians + half of all Graphics/Video Artists would be enough.
For Joe Publics like me, buying Apple means getting luxury products at luxury prices, and getting locked into a system where there are *only* luxury products at luxury prices, even the apps and accessories/peripherals are more expensive. Add to that a few irritating drawbacks (I put the biggest SDs I can in all my devices because I'm often not on-line, I find all-in-ones a very bad choice, I need a server with oodles of hard drives...).
As for MS forbidding dual-booting, that's the first I heard of it. I even remember reading they gave keys to some Linux outfit so that you could dual-boot w/o even disabling SecureBoot. Apple on the other end, make it illegal to install their OS on non-Apple hardware, as far as I recall.
Indeed. And there's a big difference between being locked in to an ecosystem with a single vendor, expensive on top of that (iPhones for the whole family, at $600 a pop, then $1k+ Macs and MacBooks, $300 iPods, $400+ iPads), versus a multivendor ecosystem where I can get a $600 GS4 or HTC One, but also $200 phones for the kids, $100-200 tablets, $50 Android desktops... Sure, the quality of the cheap stuff is not the same, but the big difference is between having the stuff or not having it; how good the stuff is comes a very distant second. I got a phone, a tablet, a netbook, and an Android stick for less than the cost of a single 64GB iPhone...
You're mixing up "casing shininess" and "quality". I have a $200 cheap Chinese phone and a $600 (at the time) Galaxy Note (v1), and there's no doubt which is higher quality. The Samsung has a much better screen, camera, sound, buttons, touch reactivity and precision, extra apps. Both are wrapped in plastic though. Both do the job, though.
OK... let's push this a bit more: guns are made of steel. Lots of people (in Japan and everywhere) got killed by guns too, like by atomic bombs. We should ban steel then ?
This is dumb, insensitive, and offensive. Nuclear accidents have nothing to do with people lobbing atomic bombs at you, especially atomic that are redundant and being lobbed for the sake of doing a live test. Maybe it's the US who have a bad record with responsible use of weaponry...
I rather prefer my Android tablet to my brother's iPad. What bugs me with iPads (apart from price,I/O) is the totally inconsistent UI: Android has a menu key and a back key, and that's where stuff gets done. iOS doesn't, so there's buttons all over the place, sometimes even off-screen. Shades of single-button vs 2-button+wheel mice...
I'd never put my phone in my back pocket, for fear of sitting on it. It does in the front, and nobody ever noticed it. And no, it's not being overshadowed nor given extra rooms by having an overly large or tiny neighbour.
fits in pocket - check (it's actually only about 1cm longer than my 5.1" Note, not wider, a bit thicker) fits in hand - check thumb-navigable - 80%: - I can reach a tad less than half the screen while holding it securely one handed; and that's the area of the screen where most interaction goes on: typing, scrolling dialing... - I can reach the whole screen one-handed while.. not... holding it securely - I do have 2 hands, so having to occasionally use the second one is not a catastrophe. My nose is going a bit more unpicked, though.
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Ubuntu seem to be trying to go for mainstream with easier/better looking UI and tools - but they feel unfinished, actually buggy and not feature-complete; at the cost of pissing off the historical Linux community by going their own way on a lot of topics seeming to distance themselves from and piss on the community and the mainstream projects. I'm wondering who's left ? They also seem to be spreading themselves very thin. Could we have an nice, finished, desktop OS, instead of half-baked / pipe-dream stage phone, tablet, ...
It's an exception, where your own local station acts as a server. For brodcast media, it's pointed at.
Not at all. ChromeCast is a very different beast than miracast/ariwhatever....: the content is *not* streamed from the master to the slave, but *pointed at and handed off*. The slave then directly connects to the server, the master then can even be switched off with no consequences.
I've racked my brain trying to dream up a smartwatch I'd want, couldn't really hack it. Maybe Apple will come up with something nice.Or maybe they'll come up with something shiny, magical and overpriced
At least he didn't kill anybody else.
shockinger that Google haven't come up with an ad supported product for those cranes. Especially since I've been told they are already in the cloud ?
I'm gonna hit the little red cross now, and NOT shift+ctrl+t it back.
Don't burn bridges. Not so much with your ex-company, as with your ex-colleagues, especially if the situation is not that bad. If you don't have a good reason for cutting it short, do the time required to exit gracefully. Discuss it with your n+1 or n+2 if you work well with either of them, or with HR if you don't. Then again, if you new employer needs you RIGHT NOW, your colleagues are assholes, and your company are slavers, do whatever. Just don't expect any leg-up from them, ever.
Actually, Obama is tired of Russia and China showing up the US about human rights :-p
Last time I checked, there was no lifespan issue for SSDs (I think it was 33 years at 10GB/day). Even bug issues seem to have been dealt with, I haven't heard any of the once-frequent OCZ horror stories (bricked SSD) in a while. I'd assume hybrid drives to be just as good as pure HDDs, actually a bit better since the SSD part will save wear and tear on the HDD part. Bugs notwithstanding.
"Meh"
you could make a shortcut to sd.bat with sd.bat = shutdown /s
I think animals have much shorter memories than us. There are horses next to my parents' place. I go feed and scrub them every time I'm there (they're abandoned, which is scandalous, almost starved to death last winter), which varies widely: I housesit for a few weeks in the summer, then come for a few days at a time every few weeks. When I'm there for a while, their behaviour changes: the white mare starts running as soon as she sees me, and gets more aggressive about blocking my exit if she thinks she hasn't been brushed nearly enough, and more directive about *where* she wants to be brushed, and more touchy feely (head resting on my shoulder, between my legs...), she'll even let me bash her with the brush without a peep when I try to squash those nasty (big flies that suck blood... translation ?); the gray gelding gets ever more pushy about grabbing his carrots (and less afraid of the plastic bag or backpack they're in), and lets himself be brushed after a few days (he moves away when I start the first few days), he'll also start bumping me in the back with his nose (must be horsey for either a fist bump or "more carrots or else !"). If I've been away for a couple of months, we start from scratch: I've got to go get them, the mare will be nervous during brushing, the gelding won't let himself be touched, and neither will touch me. I've tried talking to them, wearing the same clothes... they just don't seem to click.
for 20 years ?
I'd say the USA is the greatest enemy of the USA. If the madness don't stop soon, the 1% will have sucked the 99% so dry the USA will be a dessicated husk.
They could be propping up regimes that routinely use torture and abuse human rights, and randomly killing innocents with drones. But then there'd be nothing left for the US to do...
You're right, Apple products are very good for some specific uses. But Apple need broad markets to maintain their growth and profits, I doubt all Devs + all Musicians + half of all Graphics/Video Artists would be enough. For Joe Publics like me, buying Apple means getting luxury products at luxury prices, and getting locked into a system where there are *only* luxury products at luxury prices, even the apps and accessories/peripherals are more expensive. Add to that a few irritating drawbacks (I put the biggest SDs I can in all my devices because I'm often not on-line, I find all-in-ones a very bad choice, I need a server with oodles of hard drives...). As for MS forbidding dual-booting, that's the first I heard of it. I even remember reading they gave keys to some Linux outfit so that you could dual-boot w/o even disabling SecureBoot. Apple on the other end, make it illegal to install their OS on non-Apple hardware, as far as I recall.
Indeed. And there's a big difference between being locked in to an ecosystem with a single vendor, expensive on top of that (iPhones for the whole family, at $600 a pop, then $1k+ Macs and MacBooks, $300 iPods, $400+ iPads), versus a multivendor ecosystem where I can get a $600 GS4 or HTC One, but also $200 phones for the kids, $100-200 tablets, $50 Android desktops... Sure, the quality of the cheap stuff is not the same, but the big difference is between having the stuff or not having it; how good the stuff is comes a very distant second. I got a phone, a tablet, a netbook, and an Android stick for less than the cost of a single 64GB iPhone...
You're mixing up "casing shininess" and "quality". I have a $200 cheap Chinese phone and a $600 (at the time) Galaxy Note (v1), and there's no doubt which is higher quality. The Samsung has a much better screen, camera, sound, buttons, touch reactivity and precision, extra apps. Both are wrapped in plastic though. Both do the job, though.
OK... let's push this a bit more: guns are made of steel. Lots of people (in Japan and everywhere) got killed by guns too, like by atomic bombs. We should ban steel then ?
This is dumb, insensitive, and offensive. Nuclear accidents have nothing to do with people lobbing atomic bombs at you, especially atomic that are redundant and being lobbed for the sake of doing a live test. Maybe it's the US who have a bad record with responsible use of weaponry...
I rather prefer my Android tablet to my brother's iPad. What bugs me with iPads (apart from price,I/O) is the totally inconsistent UI: Android has a menu key and a back key, and that's where stuff gets done. iOS doesn't, so there's buttons all over the place, sometimes even off-screen. Shades of single-button vs 2-button+wheel mice ...
that's "whose", you illiterate twit !
I'd never put my phone in my back pocket, for fear of sitting on it. It does in the front, and nobody ever noticed it. And no, it's not being overshadowed nor given extra rooms by having an overly large or tiny neighbour.
fits in pocket - check (it's actually only about 1cm longer than my 5.1" Note, not wider, a bit thicker)
fits in hand - check
thumb-navigable - 80%:
- I can reach a tad less than half the screen while holding it securely one handed; and that's the area of the screen where most interaction goes on: typing, scrolling dialing...
- I can reach the whole screen one-handed while.. not... holding it securely
- I do have 2 hands, so having to occasionally use the second one is not a catastrophe. My nose is going a bit more unpicked, though.