I am surprised that the independents do not get together and create a site.
There's a few problems going on:
-Content creators are deciding they want a larger piece of the pie, and pulling content from Netflix with the hope that people will spend another $10 per month on another video streaming service. I want to spend it for all my content, I'm not going to pay $10/month for one show I want to watch.
-At Blockbuster I could wander the aisles in different categories and see the entire selection. With Netflix, even though it claims to have a catalog of ~4000 movies and ~1000 TV shows, they seem to insist on recommending the same 5 shows to me. Sometimes in multiple categories. For the love of god I don't want to watch Big Mouth! I have to get recommendations from friends to find something useful. So much for their AI engine.
While I still have "a camera" that I use when I know I want to take pictures (eg: vacation), I still like having a good "so-so camera" on my phone. Cellphone cameras have improved tremendously over the years. "The Best Camera Is The One You Have With You", making it great if I want to capture something that I see while I'm out and about on a regular day, and very easy if I want to capture something to share with friends or family.
Don't teach Docs or Word, teach word processing. Don't teach Sheets or Excel, teach spreadsheets. Don't teach Windows or Linux, teach file management. Don't teach Chrome or Firefox, teach web browsers. Part of the 'higher' part of 'higher education' is being exposed to lots of different things, and learning to problem solve
I think this is the right approach. Younger people are more adaptable, and should be able to apply the fundamentals to a different product. Plus there's no guarantee it will be the same products in 10-20 years time anyways. I did elementary school with Apple II / DOS computers, middle school and high school with Macs, university with Windows PCs. Switching platforms didn't harm me.
Other people will be able to open your Word '97.doc files no problem. However you won't be able to open their.docx, and.odt files. Microsoft's compatibility addon for.docx wasn't released for versions older than 2000.
Other way around. AudioCD recordables were more expensive but had no way of telling the player they were audio-only.
Data recordables where the levy was not paid, were usually sold with bare labels (intended to be printed on, not permanent marker) but otherwise unless the recordables were set redbook only, many audio players would try to play data tracks, eg car audio.
Both Audio and Data CD-R(W)s had levies on them, but they were higher in the Audio ones.
Some set top CD-Recorders could only use the more expensive audio CD-Rs.
Computer CD-Writers could write to either disc, and can create either a Data or Audio disc that will play in virtually any player.
Then DVD-R media didn't have the levies on it, so quite quickly they were cheaper than blank CDs. Unless you had to have a CD, they were cheaper, even if you just wanted to write 100MB on them. Then came along DVD-Decrypter and DVD-Shrink, and copying borrowed DVDs, removing all the forbidden actions, and fitting them on a single layer blank was child's play.
> for her it was a significant upgrade to a 12 year old netbook
To be fair though, an Etch-a-sketch would be a significant upgrade over a netbook. Can't believe those were ever a thing.
I don't think netbooks were near as bad as people make them out to be. At the time manufacturers were trying to push $1500 ultra light laptops. If nothing else Netbooks showed there was a very strong under-served market for $400 ultraportable computing devices. That $400 market eventually became filled by more tablets and phones, but Netbooks were fine to remote into another system, quick web browsing, offload photos from a camera, or watch a movie during a flight, and are still easier to type on than a phone or tablet (without external keyboard).
Yeah, and add an almost appropriate alliterative adjective.
You mock, and I agree: cutesy code names are annoying, but Canonical's random animals have at least been alphabetical, so you stood a chance of figuring out what a given release version was relative to what's current. Apple's cutesy code names are uselessly arbitrary.
"Requires OS X Tortoiseshell". Well f--k. I'm running OS X Calico. Is that newer or older than Tortoiseshell?
"Requires macOS La Brea". Well f--k. I'm running macOS Mount Diablo. Is that newer or older than La Brea?
Agree. Much easier to know that Ubuntu Masterbating Monkey is newer than Ubuntu Horny Hardon. Except they've already wrapped around again. How are you supposed to know Bionic Beaver is newer than Breezy Badger? How the fuck do you go through so many versions in 10 years? At least the version number 18.10 representing released 10th month of 2018 makes some sense.
Kind of like MS versions did. Server 2000, 2003, 2008. Then they fucked it up with the R2 versions.
Point in case: Configuring an IP address is the exact same thing as it was in windows 95. Well, up until 7 it was, dunno what they did afterward.
At least with NT/2000/XP/7, etc you could change the IP without having to reboot the computer for it to take effect. I remember with my laptop I could cheat by changing the IP, then removing and reinserting the PCMCIA card.
The big innovation is the move from purchasing a license to paying for a subscription. You don't buy the software anymore; you rent it. It's a huge step backwards for the end user but from a revenue standpoint it's a huge step forward for Microsoft. All of the "legacy" desktop software vendors like Adobe and Intuit have been moving in this direction for several years now.
For business users, email will be the driver on this. In the past 4 or 5 years there's been a major trend towards companies outsourcing their mail hosting to either Google G Suite or Microsoft Office 365. If you were paying for volume licences, and software assurance, and now you have Microsoft hosting your email, you might as well take full advantage of licencing the office suite that way.
No idea what that means for small business or consumers.
Look back at some of the older Macintoshes.You had Performa's, LC series, etc. You had Performa 475's, 476's that were equivalent to LC 475's, which were also Quadra 605's. Apple has had just as bad of naming schemes before. You had Power Macintoshes/Performa/Workgroup Server naming schemes....
I mean you even had the iPhone SE...
That was during the time after Steve left. When he returned he really cut down and focused the product line to a laptop and a desktop each for both user and professional.
Now they have desktops shaped like garbage cans, keyboards that break if they are dusty, and phones with ridiculous names.
Companies are outsourcing their email hosting, to either Google's G Suite, or Microsoft's O365. If you're paying MS to host your email, you might as well use their office suite.
The distro included on the original Netbook, the Asus EeePC 701 / 4G, Xandros, was terrible. Replacing it with a Ubuntu derivative (or any other name brand distro) was preferable. The computer shipped with Linux, but half the manual talked about installing Windows XP, and the included DVD had Windows drivers. I think it was a move by Asus to try and get low cost XP licenses from Microsoft, rather than Microsoft trying to prevent the spread of Linux.
Kindle DX was an almost 10" screen. It seems there's no market for the textbook / letter / A4 sized e-reader, so they were back to novel-only sized units.
But I agree. Anyone I know that upgraded an e-reader only does so because the old one broke.
but I can see why they want to do this as they have a lot of original content, and they have a point as to how people would find out about it otherwise.
As it is they do a terrible job of recommending me the same 5 shows I have no interest in watching, now they want to annoy with again with shows I have no interest in watching.
Slashdot Mirror
The video store had more than Netflix.
I am surprised that the independents do not get together and create a site.
There's a few problems going on:
-Content creators are deciding they want a larger piece of the pie, and pulling content from Netflix with the hope that people will spend another $10 per month on another video streaming service. I want to spend it for all my content, I'm not going to pay $10/month for one show I want to watch.
-At Blockbuster I could wander the aisles in different categories and see the entire selection. With Netflix, even though it claims to have a catalog of ~4000 movies and ~1000 TV shows, they seem to insist on recommending the same 5 shows to me. Sometimes in multiple categories. For the love of god I don't want to watch Big Mouth! I have to get recommendations from friends to find something useful. So much for their AI engine.
While I still have "a camera" that I use when I know I want to take pictures (eg: vacation), I still like having a good "so-so camera" on my phone. Cellphone cameras have improved tremendously over the years. "The Best Camera Is The One You Have With You", making it great if I want to capture something that I see while I'm out and about on a regular day, and very easy if I want to capture something to share with friends or family.
"You mouse has moved. Windows 10 needs to reboot. [OK]"
I think Windows 10 reboots more frequently than Windows 95.
Windows 10 doesn't prompt:
Configuring new mouse position for Windows 10
55% complete
Don't turn off or try and use your computer, this will take a while
Your PC will restart several times
Don't teach Docs or Word, teach word processing. Don't teach Sheets or Excel, teach spreadsheets. Don't teach Windows or Linux, teach file management. Don't teach Chrome or Firefox, teach web browsers. Part of the 'higher' part of 'higher education' is being exposed to lots of different things, and learning to problem solve
I think this is the right approach. Younger people are more adaptable, and should be able to apply the fundamentals to a different product. Plus there's no guarantee it will be the same products in 10-20 years time anyways. I did elementary school with Apple II / DOS computers, middle school and high school with Macs, university with Windows PCs. Switching platforms didn't harm me.
Other people will be able to open your Word '97 .doc files no problem. However you won't be able to open their .docx, and .odt files. Microsoft's compatibility addon for .docx wasn't released for versions older than 2000.
Other way around.
AudioCD recordables were more expensive but had no way of telling the player they were audio-only.
Data recordables where the levy was not paid, were usually sold with bare labels (intended to be printed on, not permanent marker) but otherwise unless the recordables were set redbook only, many audio players would try to play data tracks, eg car audio.
Both Audio and Data CD-R(W)s had levies on them, but they were higher in the Audio ones.
Some set top CD-Recorders could only use the more expensive audio CD-Rs.
Computer CD-Writers could write to either disc, and can create either a Data or Audio disc that will play in virtually any player.
Then DVD-R media didn't have the levies on it, so quite quickly they were cheaper than blank CDs. Unless you had to have a CD, they were cheaper, even if you just wanted to write 100MB on them. Then came along DVD-Decrypter and DVD-Shrink, and copying borrowed DVDs, removing all the forbidden actions, and fitting them on a single layer blank was child's play.
> for her it was a significant upgrade to a 12 year old netbook
To be fair though, an Etch-a-sketch would be a significant upgrade over a netbook. Can't believe those were ever a thing.
I don't think netbooks were near as bad as people make them out to be. At the time manufacturers were trying to push $1500 ultra light laptops. If nothing else Netbooks showed there was a very strong under-served market for $400 ultraportable computing devices. That $400 market eventually became filled by more tablets and phones, but Netbooks were fine to remote into another system, quick web browsing, offload photos from a camera, or watch a movie during a flight, and are still easier to type on than a phone or tablet (without external keyboard).
for her it was a significant upgrade to a 12 year old netbook that she was using.
Netbooks became a thing in 2007. What 2006 time machine was she using?
You mock, and I agree: cutesy code names are annoying, but Canonical's random animals have at least been alphabetical, so you stood a chance of figuring out what a given release version was relative to what's current. Apple's cutesy code names are uselessly arbitrary.
"Requires OS X Tortoiseshell".
Well f--k. I'm running OS X Calico. Is that newer or older than Tortoiseshell?
"Requires macOS La Brea".
Well f--k. I'm running macOS Mount Diablo. Is that newer or older than La Brea?
Agree. Much easier to know that Ubuntu Masterbating Monkey is newer than Ubuntu Horny Hardon. Except they've already wrapped around again. How are you supposed to know Bionic Beaver is newer than Breezy Badger? How the fuck do you go through so many versions in 10 years? At least the version number 18.10 representing released 10th month of 2018 makes some sense.
Kind of like MS versions did. Server 2000, 2003, 2008. Then they fucked it up with the R2 versions.
In this case, a $1000.00 buggy, badly-designed pile of poo.
At least the pile of poo is animated according to its face recognition algorithm. Since that seems to be the level of innovation at Apple...
I was implying win 9x you had to change reboot the computer, but not with NT(or NT based such a XP, 7 etc).
Point in case: Configuring an IP address is the exact same thing as it was in windows 95. Well, up until 7 it was, dunno what they did afterward.
At least with NT/2000/XP/7, etc you could change the IP without having to reboot the computer for it to take effect. I remember with my laptop I could cheat by changing the IP, then removing and reinserting the PCMCIA card.
The big innovation is the move from purchasing a license to paying for a subscription. You don't buy the software anymore; you rent it. It's a huge step backwards for the end user but from a revenue standpoint it's a huge step forward for Microsoft. All of the "legacy" desktop software vendors like Adobe and Intuit have been moving in this direction for several years now.
For business users, email will be the driver on this. In the past 4 or 5 years there's been a major trend towards companies outsourcing their mail hosting to either Google G Suite or Microsoft Office 365. If you were paying for volume licences, and software assurance, and now you have Microsoft hosting your email, you might as well take full advantage of licencing the office suite that way.
No idea what that means for small business or consumers.
"Tea, Earl Grey, Hot"
"Coffee, Black"
"Make it yourself"
sigh.... why me can no do html any more :(
Upper right: Click username-account-Posting-Comment Post Mode
I usually set Plain Old Text so I don't have to deal with line breaks.
Outlook webmail is okay, once focused inbox is disabled.
Look back at some of the older Macintoshes.You had Performa's, LC series, etc. You had Performa 475's, 476's that were equivalent to LC 475's, which were also Quadra 605's. Apple has had just as bad of naming schemes before. You had Power Macintoshes/Performa/Workgroup Server naming schemes....
I mean you even had the iPhone SE...
That was during the time after Steve left. When he returned he really cut down and focused the product line to a laptop and a desktop each for both user and professional.
Now they have desktops shaped like garbage cans, keyboards that break if they are dusty, and phones with ridiculous names.
Companies are outsourcing their email hosting, to either Google's G Suite, or Microsoft's O365. If you're paying MS to host your email, you might as well use their office suite.
School kids are growing up to become consumers that likely will prefer what they're used to using.
That's why I bought an Apple II when I graduated highschool 15 years ago, it's what I was used to using in elementary.
The distro included on the original Netbook, the Asus EeePC 701 / 4G, Xandros, was terrible. Replacing it with a Ubuntu derivative (or any other name brand distro) was preferable. The computer shipped with Linux, but half the manual talked about installing Windows XP, and the included DVD had Windows drivers. I think it was a move by Asus to try and get low cost XP licenses from Microsoft, rather than Microsoft trying to prevent the spread of Linux.
At least your iOS quotation marks worked.
They paid for UNLIMITED data, that's all that matters.
They can get UNLIMITED, at 9600bps or whatever.
Did they have a business plan with a guarantee of service or a consumer plan?
Kindle DX was an almost 10" screen. It seems there's no market for the textbook / letter / A4 sized e-reader, so they were back to novel-only sized units.
But I agree. Anyone I know that upgraded an e-reader only does so because the old one broke.
but I can see why they want to do this as they have a lot of original content, and they have a point as to how people would find out about it otherwise.
As it is they do a terrible job of recommending me the same 5 shows I have no interest in watching, now they want to annoy with again with shows I have no interest in watching.