Bullshit. Navigation is pretty broken on touch devices. Scrolling gets interpreted as clicks quite often, when it does scroll it's laggy. There is no visual feedback when you do click so you can't tell if it registered a click or not. It's a usability nightmare.
Wrong. I hate it because scrolling is laggy, page load is laggy, clicking gives no feedback, touch events are too sensitive, no full summaries, etc. Those are all pretty major regressions in usability and functionality.
Yes but Unicode and IPv6 are clearly just fads. They aren't nearly as important as Facebook/Google+ login and filling out the buzzword bingo card with all the fad frameworks:
We built this app using the latest technologies and frameworks such as Backbone, Zepto, Underscore, Hamstache, Jasmine, and Sass.
Or it's simply Dice pushing the feature to harvest your social network info. That's far more likely than any significant group of users asking for such a thing.
But that would require actually expending effort to fix things. That's never been the Slashdot way. They couldn't even fix the pagination bugs in the version before they did the whole discussion overhaul. They want to chunk out new code, not do "boring" software maintenance.
No thanks. It's pretty terrible. Can you also stop the chooser popup please? I want to use the classic site without constantly bombardment with a popup.
Or they can see bog standard specs and an OS that has basically cherry-picked and evolved features from others? Using QtQuick is cool, but not revolutionary in anyway. Nokia phones were already using that. It's definitely an improvement over their other latest offerings but nothing "revolutionary" about the OS or the Z10.
Did you not even read it? Xerox said that to get access to the facilities they had to be paid in stock options. And it wasn't buying it at the "going rate". The quote even says "at the pre-IPO price of $10 a share". That's some pretty bad reading comprehension on your part.
Apple had agreed to license certain parts of its GUI to Microsoft for use in Windows 1.0, but when Microsoft made changes in Windows 2.0 adding overlapping windows and other features found in the Macintosh GUI, Apple filed suit. Apple added additional claims to the suit when Microsoft released Windows 3.0. ...
Much of the court's ruling was based on the original licensing agreement between Apple and Microsoft for Windows 1.0, and this fact made the case more of a contractual matter than of copyright law, to the chagrin of Apple. This also meant that the court avoided a more far-reaching "look and feel copyright" precedent ruling. However, the case did establish that the analytic dissection (rather than the general "look and feel") of a user interface is vital to any copyright decision on such matters.
Jobs and several Apple employees including Jef Raskin visited Xerox PARC in December 1979 to see the Xerox Alto. Xerox granted Apple engineers three days of access to the PARC facilities in return for the option to buy 100,000 shares (800,000 split-adjusted shares) of Apple at the pre-IPO price of $10 a share.[40] Jobs was immediately convinced that all future computers would use a graphical user interface (GUI), and development of a GUI began for the Apple Lisa.[41]
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Your code is broken, then.
and navigation is more friendly to touch devices.
Bullshit. Navigation is pretty broken on touch devices. Scrolling gets interpreted as clicks quite often, when it does scroll it's laggy. There is no visual feedback when you do click so you can't tell if it registered a click or not. It's a usability nightmare.
The browsers all use Webkit. But they are far more than just reskinned versions of Safari.
Which is pretty broken design for a mobile device site.
No. Mobile Safari is at default settings.
Wrong. I hate it because scrolling is laggy, page load is laggy, clicking gives no feedback, touch events are too sensitive, no full summaries, etc. Those are all pretty major regressions in usability and functionality.
Yes but Unicode and IPv6 are clearly just fads. They aren't nearly as important as Facebook/Google+ login and filling out the buzzword bingo card with all the fad frameworks:
We built this app using the latest technologies and frameworks such as Backbone, Zepto, Underscore, Hamstache, Jasmine, and Sass.
Or it's simply Dice pushing the feature to harvest your social network info. That's far more likely than any significant group of users asking for such a thing.
Don't forget the lack of full summaries amongst the other feature and usabllity regressions.
Because they are flailing around at trying to figure out how to stay relevant. It's inane as when they added the "like" feature.
But that would require actually expending effort to fix things. That's never been the Slashdot way. They couldn't even fix the pagination bugs in the version before they did the whole discussion overhaul. They want to chunk out new code, not do "boring" software maintenance.
No thanks. It's pretty terrible. Can you also stop the chooser popup please? I want to use the classic site without constantly bombardment with a popup.
KDE is not a GNU project.
You have an interesting definition of "more". Dec 2012 marketshare figues was RIM at 1.1% and MS and Windows Phone at 2.6.
Yes. So can you name a single one of the "revolutionary" features?
Or they can see bog standard specs and an OS that has basically cherry-picked and evolved features from others? Using QtQuick is cool, but not revolutionary in anyway. Nokia phones were already using that. It's definitely an improvement over their other latest offerings but nothing "revolutionary" about the OS or the Z10.
What is revolutionary about either the OS or the hardware?
How is it painful. You right click and choose from the context menu. It's extremely easy to do almost anything the CLI does.
TortoiseGit has existed for years...
Also to add, Apple went public at $22 a share. Which means that PARC was getting their shares at half the IPO price.
Did you not even read it? Xerox said that to get access to the facilities they had to be paid in stock options. And it wasn't buying it at the "going rate". The quote even says "at the pre-IPO price of $10 a share". That's some pretty bad reading comprehension on your part.
How is it new?
Apple had agreed to license certain parts of its GUI to Microsoft for use in Windows 1.0, but when Microsoft made changes in Windows 2.0 adding overlapping windows and other features found in the Macintosh GUI, Apple filed suit. Apple added additional claims to the suit when Microsoft released Windows 3.0.
...
Much of the court's ruling was based on the original licensing agreement between Apple and Microsoft for Windows 1.0, and this fact made the case more of a contractual matter than of copyright law, to the chagrin of Apple. This also meant that the court avoided a more far-reaching "look and feel copyright" precedent ruling. However, the case did establish that the analytic dissection (rather than the general "look and feel") of a user interface is vital to any copyright decision on such matters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Microsoft_Corporation
Only people who never actual read the ruling of the case think it had to do with being unable to copyright look-and-feel.
You believe wrong. Xerox asked for Apple to give them stock options in exchange for access to the facilities.
Jobs and several Apple employees including Jef Raskin visited Xerox PARC in December 1979 to see the Xerox Alto. Xerox granted Apple engineers three days of access to the PARC facilities in return for the option to buy 100,000 shares (800,000 split-adjusted shares) of Apple at the pre-IPO price of $10 a share.[40] Jobs was immediately convinced that all future computers would use a graphical user interface (GUI), and development of a GUI began for the Apple Lisa.[41]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.
Happy?
Your post goes over most of their heads. Many don't even know the difference between a patent and trademark.