We still talk about "filming" things with our camcorder/digital camera/ phone. Still talk about a compilation of songs from an artist as an "Album", and the save icon in programs is still that of a 3.5" floppy.
Proper embedded applications using XP should be on Windows XP Embedded/ "Windows Embedded Standard 2009". WES2009 is XP based and will get security updates until 2019.
My guess is that 90% of the android tablets sold are crappy $100 ones, that people use for 5 minutes, then discover they're shit, and never use again.
I have a friend that's a Blackberry fanboy. He bought a cheap $100 tablet and complains about how shitty Android is, and how it always crashes (it's basically stuck in a reboot loop). I suggest it might be the hardware, but he keeps blaming the software. I've never had major reliability problems with my Nexus 4, or my Asus T700T tablet. But I didn't get the cheapest one I could find.
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"... a future dominated by retards." I think retards may rise in protest: "We may be retards, but we're not dumb!"
Let me guess: The new version of Firefox will be even less stable. The memory-hogging flaws have not been fixed. The memory-hogging flaws are so widely acknowledged that there are add-ons for re-starting Firefox: Firefox Re-start Add-ons. I use Restartless Restart.
Please no obvious replies to this. Please don't make it necessary to post my list of 22 excuses for not fixing the Firefox memory hogging again.
I'm having another problem with the latest version of Firefox. The toolbar icons change back to the default. I have to go to View > Toolbars > Customize and take away the ones I don't want and put back the ones I want.
Also, when I log into Slashdot, I'm recognized as my user name. However, often when I open a tab for a Slashdot story, the story shows that I am not logged in, and logging in at that tab does nothing. Re-starting Firefox fixes that problem for a while.
Have they fixed Allow popups? I know the version at work, everytime (work) changes the OracleDB server name, I have to readd "allow popup for..."
I can either show popup (this time), always allow popups from *** (but it won't show the popup), but I can't both show the popup this time, and always allow in the future.
One of the best things Steve Jobs ever did for the security of computing around the world is slowly crush Flash under his heel.
It's bad. It's always been bad. Apparently, it will always be bad.
Just let it die. It's a CPU and memory hog (another good reason not to use it on mobile; the CPUs these days can handle it, but it's bad for battery life) and it's a massive security hole. Why in the world should it get a pass? Someone at Adobe should've nuked it from orbit years ago.
The inefficiency seems to be getting worse with time. My 2007 PC used to be able to watch 480p Flash videos no problem. Now it studders and stalls, revving the CPU up to 100% while Flash draws in the 2D frame buffer with a crayon. And for inexplicable reasons there seems to be a memory leak: if I watch one Youtube video after another, eventually the Flash process approaches 2GB Working set, and crashes. Doesn't matter the browser.
If I download the raw FLV file and play it in VLC, MPC-HC, etc the CPU sips power at 30%, and it displays butter smooth. So much for all the "hardware acceleration" they keep bragging about with every upgrade. I hope Flash burns in hell one of these days.
Hate to tell you but open source does enough to hurt itself. Hopefully Linux realizes "Linux on the Desktop" won't ever really happen, and they focus on server and other stuff.
What's funny is when you point out that while Linux on the Desktop has yet to happen, Linux on the handheld (Android) is booming.
Then the Freetards clarify that by Linux they actually meant GNU + Linux, using X11 and wobbly windows for a UI. And having to sudo apt-get some commands on your phone... imagine.
I agree with most of what you say. I also own a 3D printer (Solidoodle 3)
I see two main things that are keeping 3d printing from really taking off in the home. Once they solve these two issues it should really take off. There are other minor issues that need to be addressed as well, but the two issues that need to be fixed are : Speed and Reliability. I've designed up a product that I would like to print, but it takes 1.5 hours to print, and that is if it makes it fully through the print. Issues with warping, clogging, overheating, etc... are the main concerns about reliability.
I would be happy if they could cut my print time in half, but it's the current limitation of the technology being used in the home market. Some other technology is going to have to be used in order to overcome both issues, but those technologies are currently out of the budget for home users.
Unlike the post above, I do think it will happen in my lifetime though.
I'm somewhat reminded of early '90s CD-R burning. Rigs like this: http://www.cbronline.com/news/... were $32500 1991 dollars ($55,000 2014 dollars) if you breathed on them you would lose your $100+ CD-R. Mid '90s saw $1000 CD-R drives. Come the late 1990s CD-RW drives were $300 with buffers, but still the occasional buffer-underrun. Now a DVD burner is $20 and comes with BURN-Proof underrun tech.
On the other hand, 15 years ago about ~90% of my friends who had computers had printers at home to print their photos, these days none of them has (including me).
Take your memory stick to the local supermarket or photo shop to get high-quality prints from a working, regularly serviced photo printing machine is cheaper and the quality is better. The same way I print Photos maybe 5-10 times a year at most, I can't imagine I would need/want to 3D print something that often that having my own 3D printer would make sense.
Even better than taking a flash drive to a supermarket, I can go to their website and upload photos from the comfort of my house. The next time I'm at the store picking up groceries, the prints are ready. At sale prices of $0.10, they are exponentially better quality than home inkjets, and cheaper.
At home I have a monochrome laser printer which is suitable for most of what I need for home. If I need the odd colour document I'll use the work laser
In Canada we get stuck with an abomination combination of the two. Though most things sold are measured in metric, they frequently have roots in "standard" units. A can of pop (soda) or beer is 355ml (12 US Fl oz), a bottle of domestic beer is 341ml (12 Imp Fl oz.) Large 18.9l water jugs are 5 US Gallons. Even though Canada is supposed to be metric, if the word "gallon" is used without specifying US or imperial, it's assumed to be Imperial Gallons, since that's the last gallon we used. I believe some paint retailers got in trouble for their deals on "a gallon" of paint that ended up being 3.78 liters. Produce at grocery stores will be advertized in per-pound prices, but the scales register in kg.
Even though the preferred units in Canada for fuel economy is l/100km, people keep talking about "MPG", and NRCan will also report economy in ImpMPG. Yet even though these people prefer MPG, they don't understand why Canadian tests are "so inaccurate" and result in the MPG being 20% higher than what's posted in the US / what they are getting (eg: it's just the difference in size in gallons). They want to use these arcane units, but are too stupid to realize that there's two gallons, or that odometers don't register in miles, nor do fuel pumps dispense in gallons.
The US gallon (3.78541 liters) is different than the Imperial gallon (4.54609 liters). Fluid ounces are different too. 128 US fluid oz in a US gallon, 160 imperial fluid ounces in an Imperial gallon. So a US oz is 1.04084 Imp oz.
There are PCI cards to replace some of the PDP I/O so the PDP emulator needs to run on the host OS. Also because of licensing it needs to run on HP hardware (since HP bought Compaq that bought DEC). The vendor now supports Windows 7 so we are working to migrate to that.
We are more interested in keeping a stable system(and slowly make progress in migrating the application away from PDP) than making a full on nerd cool Beowulf cluster in mom's basement.
Most of the local discussion groups seem to have moved to G+ or Facebook. You can always sign up with a pseudonym if you really want to participate, but yeah... Nothing like the good old days.
Unless I'm missing something, G+ and Facebook don't have nice threaded searchable discussions the way Usenet or a Forum do. Usenet benefits from being decentralized service, and I actually enjoyed using a desktop client. G+ and Facebook are the opposite, and are worse at archiving or searching than Forums. I find for tech-support, Forums / Usenet seems to be where a LOT of solutions are found, as it lets users with similar issues notice a trend, and pound away at their findings and solutions as they go, in a media that gets recorded, where the users aren't organized / patient enough to add that data to a Wiki somewhere.
Similarly, if you dig out an old copy of BYTE or something similar, it is the *ads* which can be more interesting than the articles. You want *how* *much* for *that*??
Occasionally you find an old flyer for an electronics store too. Get to see the price for 27" CRT TVs, $4000 prices for ugly ass beige Pentium 100 computers, film cameras, etc.
Easy. As much as I hate to say it. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/s... is the complete showstopper, not only for me. For the last 2 years, suddenly, SVG, EPS simply do not work anymore, at all. I have hundreds of lecturing slides that from yesterday to tomorrow cannot be shown any longer. And what has been done so far? Read the comments, and read the comments in the dup bug reports. This isn't as dangerous as the Heartbleed, but similarly without any concern nor consideration by the people in the project. Though they keep rolling out new versions regularly, which have been suffering from this, known, bug for all versions since 4.X.
That's the great thing about open source, you can fix it yourself!/sarcasm
As long as both Apache and The Document Foundation collaborate on future versions of the Open Document Format and ensure their codebases remain feature-equivalent, there's no major downside other than version confusion.
How about duplicating resources on two almost identical projects? Much better to have those people working on different aspects of the same project.
You can barely find stuff from 5 years ago on the web. Some stuff yes, but most of it vanishes or becomes very difficult to locate using modern search tools which are oriented towards serving up ads and hits for what's popular and current.
Google seems to be getting worse as time progresses. Back when Google was just coming around (early '00), and Altavista was dominant, to search for ALL words (Boolean AND) in a query: +you +had +to +put +a +plus +in +front +of +everything or else it assumed a Boolean OR.
Google assumed you wanted Boolean AND.
Now in Google "+you" "+need" "+quotes" "+and" "+plus" for Boolean AND, or else it will search Boolean OR/ALL_SYNONYMS.
I'm also getting kinda sad because useful Usenet discussion is vanishing. My city used to have a reasonably active Usenet group. It is now a wasteland, and there's no good Forum replacements. And of what forums there are (for any and all subjects), Archive.org or otherwise don't archive them as well as old Usenet discussions are on Deja / Google Groups.
You seem a little over-exaggerating, but I can relate to the GP. In the late '90s when I was in art class we would pick through old National Geographics from the '60s and '70s. Half the fun was looking at the old ads. Especially car ads for some reason. Looking at old car ads in any old media is always a hoot.
No, the PC is the refrigerator. Tablets are the beds. A home needs exactly one refrigerator (more are a luxury), but it needs about one bed per person. Now consider that people have been sleeping in refrigerators for the past 20 years. Thus, the market for refrigerators is highly over-saturated, and the market for beds is seeing explosive growth as millions of people have never had one before. In the end, though, everybody still needs a refrigerator. There may come a day when they don't, but everybody knows that a refrigerator isn't a bed.
Yes, the metaphor is a bit strained.
Point being that consumers are realizing that tablets do about 90% of what they want in a PC, so they just buy tablets. That doesn't mean they don't occasionally need something for that remaining 10%. We may see tablet docks that turn a tablet PC into a full desktop setup, but we're not there yet. I can browse the web, watch a movie, play a song, look up information, and type an email or text on a tablet or phone. I can probably do my online banking -- although it's a bit cumbersome. I wouldn't want to write a paper, or seriously manage my finances, or do photo editing, or do my taxes on a tablet (unless I was single, had no kids, had one job which withheld taxes, and did not own a home).
Steve jobs has some sort of quote about PCs (Windows & Mac) being like trucks, always a need for them but not what everyone needs. It's true though. Three years ago when I went on a trip I'd pack my Netbook to use at the hotel, or at my folks place. Now I'll use a tablet. Much quicker to pick up and use than to pull out and set up and boot a PC (netbook). Mobile has excelled at other things. Though I still like my real digital camera, if I want to take a picture of something and quickly email it off it's a lot easier to use my smartphone. Checking my email is a lot easier on my phone than on a computer (especially at work waiting for the Corporate-bogged down IT image of XP to load on my i7), though composing an email (or this post) I rather use a PC.
Like yourself I like PCs for the heavy lifting: manage photos, do finances / taxes, download media, edit videos / photos. Though I do worry that our options and availability for relatively open PC like platforms may diminish, which wouldn't be a good thing.
I use both ufile.ca ($10-15) and studiotax (free). I find ufile more user friendly, and you only have to pay if you want to netfile. So what I do is fill out in both ufile and studio tax and make sure the numbers are the same, if not I look to see what I did differently and which one is wrong, once they both add up to the same, I submit through studiotax so I don't have to pay.
I agree. I load up Studiotax as soon as it's available to start crunching numbers. My folks buy the desktop copy of uFile ($20). Good for an ever decreasing number of returns (4 this year). I agree that it's more user friendly.
I'm amazed, in Canada at least, at the number of people that still manually file paper returns. CRA provides a list of companies offering free Tax software http://www.netfile.gc.ca/sftwr... , and even if you don't qualify to NETFILE, you can still use software to prepare the forms, and print with a 2D barcode with all your data.
So, is this just another update to shuffle a couple of buttons and checkboxes around or is there something else in this update?
Good luck finding the change log from Microsoft.
I'm assuming they've updated all the "SkyDrive" stuff to "OneDrive", since they lost the trademark lawsuit on that one.
That happened in some previous update I think. When I go to my user folder there's a folder named "OneDrive". Open it up and the breadcrumb navication calls it OneDrive. Yet when I check the actual path it's still actually "c:\users\Linuxisgarbage\SkyDrive" folder.
Nope. If you're seeing anything on the Windows GUI called "OneDrive", then you must have the update released today. I'm still waiting for the update to finish installing, but it definitely has always been called "SkyDrive" except on the web site.
Nope. I had noted the OneDrive / Skydrive thing two weeks ago, and I have Updates currently disabled (and am months behind). I also note that on my Windows 7 PC Skydrive changed to Onedrive. Looks like it was pushed out in February: http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/...
On the Win 8.1 it can be as easy as changing the desktop.ini to include:
So, is this just another update to shuffle a couple of buttons and checkboxes around or is there something else in this update?
Good luck finding the change log from Microsoft.
I'm assuming they've updated all the "SkyDrive" stuff to "OneDrive", since they lost the trademark lawsuit on that one.
That happened in some previous update I think. When I go to my user folder there's a folder named "OneDrive". Open it up and the breadcrumb navication calls it OneDrive. Yet when I check the actual path it's still actually "c:\users\Linuxisgarbage\SkyDrive" folder.
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We still talk about "filming" things with our camcorder/digital camera/ phone. Still talk about a compilation of songs from an artist as an "Album", and the save icon in programs is still that of a 3.5" floppy.
Proper embedded applications using XP should be on Windows XP Embedded/ "Windows Embedded Standard 2009". WES2009 is XP based and will get security updates until 2019.
My guess is that 90% of the android tablets sold are crappy $100 ones, that people use for 5 minutes, then discover they're shit, and never use again.
I have a friend that's a Blackberry fanboy. He bought a cheap $100 tablet and complains about how shitty Android is, and how it always crashes (it's basically stuck in a reboot loop). I suggest it might be the hardware, but he keeps blaming the software. I've never had major reliability problems with my Nexus 4, or my Asus T700T tablet. But I didn't get the cheapest one I could find.
"... a future dominated by retards." I think retards may rise in protest: "We may be retards, but we're not dumb!"
Let me guess: The new version of Firefox will be even less stable. The memory-hogging flaws have not been fixed. The memory-hogging flaws are so widely acknowledged that there are add-ons for re-starting Firefox: Firefox Re-start Add-ons. I use Restartless Restart.
Please no obvious replies to this. Please don't make it necessary to post my list of 22 excuses for not fixing the Firefox memory hogging again.
I'm having another problem with the latest version of Firefox. The toolbar icons change back to the default. I have to go to View > Toolbars > Customize and take away the ones I don't want and put back the ones I want.
Also, when I log into Slashdot, I'm recognized as my user name. However, often when I open a tab for a Slashdot story, the story shows that I am not logged in, and logging in at that tab does nothing. Re-starting Firefox fixes that problem for a while.
Have they fixed Allow popups? I know the version at work, everytime (work) changes the OracleDB server name, I have to readd "allow popup for ..."
I can either show popup (this time), always allow popups from *** (but it won't show the popup), but I can't both show the popup this time, and always allow in the future.
One of the best things Steve Jobs ever did for the security of computing around the world is slowly crush Flash under his heel.
It's bad.
It's always been bad. Apparently, it will always be bad.
Just let it die. It's a CPU and memory hog (another good reason not to use it on mobile; the CPUs these days can handle it, but it's bad for battery life) and it's a massive security hole. Why in the world should it get a pass? Someone at Adobe should've nuked it from orbit years ago.
The inefficiency seems to be getting worse with time. My 2007 PC used to be able to watch 480p Flash videos no problem. Now it studders and stalls, revving the CPU up to 100% while Flash draws in the 2D frame buffer with a crayon. And for inexplicable reasons there seems to be a memory leak: if I watch one Youtube video after another, eventually the Flash process approaches 2GB Working set, and crashes. Doesn't matter the browser.
If I download the raw FLV file and play it in VLC, MPC-HC, etc the CPU sips power at 30%, and it displays butter smooth. So much for all the "hardware acceleration" they keep bragging about with every upgrade. I hope Flash burns in hell one of these days.
What's the problem?
A lot of these people have shit colored glasses bolted to their skulls.
That's just the default Ubuntu colour scheme.
Hate to tell you but open source does enough to hurt itself. Hopefully Linux realizes "Linux on the Desktop" won't ever really happen, and they focus on server and other stuff.
What's funny is when you point out that while Linux on the Desktop has yet to happen, Linux on the handheld (Android) is booming.
Then the Freetards clarify that by Linux they actually meant GNU + Linux, using X11 and wobbly windows for a UI. And having to sudo apt-get some commands on your phone... imagine.
I agree with most of what you say. I also own a 3D printer (Solidoodle 3)
I see two main things that are keeping 3d printing from really taking off in the home. Once they solve these two issues it should really take off. There are other minor issues that need to be addressed as well, but the two issues that need to be fixed are : Speed and Reliability. I've designed up a product that I would like to print, but it takes 1.5 hours to print, and that is if it makes it fully through the print. Issues with warping, clogging, overheating, etc... are the main concerns about reliability.
I would be happy if they could cut my print time in half, but it's the current limitation of the technology being used in the home market. Some other technology is going to have to be used in order to overcome both issues, but those technologies are currently out of the budget for home users.
Unlike the post above, I do think it will happen in my lifetime though.
I'm somewhat reminded of early '90s CD-R burning. Rigs like this: http://www.cbronline.com/news/... were $32500 1991 dollars ($55,000 2014 dollars) if you breathed on them you would lose your $100+ CD-R. Mid '90s saw $1000 CD-R drives. Come the late 1990s CD-RW drives were $300 with buffers, but still the occasional buffer-underrun. Now a DVD burner is $20 and comes with BURN-Proof underrun tech.
On the other hand, 15 years ago about ~90% of my friends who had computers had printers at home to print their photos, these days none of them has (including me).
Take your memory stick to the local supermarket or photo shop to get high-quality prints from a working, regularly serviced photo printing machine is cheaper and the quality is better. The same way I print Photos maybe 5-10 times a year at most, I can't imagine I would need/want to 3D print something that often that having my own 3D printer would make sense.
Even better than taking a flash drive to a supermarket, I can go to their website and upload photos from the comfort of my house. The next time I'm at the store picking up groceries, the prints are ready. At sale prices of $0.10, they are exponentially better quality than home inkjets, and cheaper.
At home I have a monochrome laser printer which is suitable for most of what I need for home. If I need the odd colour document I'll use the work laser
In Canada we get stuck with an abomination combination of the two. Though most things sold are measured in metric, they frequently have roots in "standard" units. A can of pop (soda) or beer is 355ml (12 US Fl oz), a bottle of domestic beer is 341ml (12 Imp Fl oz.) Large 18.9l water jugs are 5 US Gallons. Even though Canada is supposed to be metric, if the word "gallon" is used without specifying US or imperial, it's assumed to be Imperial Gallons, since that's the last gallon we used. I believe some paint retailers got in trouble for their deals on "a gallon" of paint that ended up being 3.78 liters. Produce at grocery stores will be advertized in per-pound prices, but the scales register in kg.
Even though the preferred units in Canada for fuel economy is l/100km, people keep talking about "MPG", and NRCan will also report economy in ImpMPG. Yet even though these people prefer MPG, they don't understand why Canadian tests are "so inaccurate" and result in the MPG being 20% higher than what's posted in the US / what they are getting (eg: it's just the difference in size in gallons). They want to use these arcane units, but are too stupid to realize that there's two gallons, or that odometers don't register in miles, nor do fuel pumps dispense in gallons.
The US gallon (3.78541 liters) is different than the Imperial gallon (4.54609 liters). Fluid ounces are different too. 128 US fluid oz in a US gallon, 160 imperial fluid ounces in an Imperial gallon. So a US oz is 1.04084 Imp oz.
There are PCI cards to replace some of the PDP I/O so the PDP emulator needs to run on the host OS. Also because of licensing it needs to run on HP hardware (since HP bought Compaq that bought DEC). The vendor now supports Windows 7 so we are working to migrate to that.
We are more interested in keeping a stable system(and slowly make progress in migrating the application away from PDP) than making a full on nerd cool Beowulf cluster in mom's basement.
I still use mini computers (PDP-11) at work you insensitive clod. Though a couple run in emulation on Windows XP PC's. . .
Most of the local discussion groups seem to have moved to G+ or Facebook. You can always sign up with a pseudonym if you really want to participate, but yeah... Nothing like the good old days.
Unless I'm missing something, G+ and Facebook don't have nice threaded searchable discussions the way Usenet or a Forum do. Usenet benefits from being decentralized service, and I actually enjoyed using a desktop client. G+ and Facebook are the opposite, and are worse at archiving or searching than Forums. I find for tech-support, Forums / Usenet seems to be where a LOT of solutions are found, as it lets users with similar issues notice a trend, and pound away at their findings and solutions as they go, in a media that gets recorded, where the users aren't organized / patient enough to add that data to a Wiki somewhere.
Similarly, if you dig out an old copy of BYTE or something similar, it is the *ads* which can be more interesting than the articles. You want *how* *much* for *that*??
Occasionally you find an old flyer for an electronics store too. Get to see the price for 27" CRT TVs, $4000 prices for ugly ass beige Pentium 100 computers, film cameras, etc.
Easy. As much as I hate to say it. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/s... is the complete showstopper, not only for me. For the last 2 years, suddenly, SVG, EPS simply do not work anymore, at all. I have hundreds of lecturing slides that from yesterday to tomorrow cannot be shown any longer. And what has been done so far? Read the comments, and read the comments in the dup bug reports.
This isn't as dangerous as the Heartbleed, but similarly without any concern nor consideration by the people in the project. Though they keep rolling out new versions regularly, which have been suffering from this, known, bug for all versions since 4.X.
That's the great thing about open source, you can fix it yourself! /sarcasm
As long as both Apache and The Document Foundation collaborate on future versions of the Open Document Format and ensure their codebases remain feature-equivalent, there's no major downside other than version confusion.
How about duplicating resources on two almost identical projects? Much better to have those people working on different aspects of the same project.
You can barely find stuff from 5 years ago on the web. Some stuff yes, but most of it vanishes or becomes very difficult to locate using modern search tools which are oriented towards serving up ads and hits for what's popular and current.
Google seems to be getting worse as time progresses. Back when Google was just coming around (early '00), and Altavista was dominant, to search for ALL words (Boolean AND) in a query: +you +had +to +put +a +plus +in +front +of +everything or else it assumed a Boolean OR.
Google assumed you wanted Boolean AND.
Now in Google "+you" "+need" "+quotes" "+and" "+plus" for Boolean AND, or else it will search Boolean OR/ALL_SYNONYMS.
I'm also getting kinda sad because useful Usenet discussion is vanishing. My city used to have a reasonably active Usenet group. It is now a wasteland, and there's no good Forum replacements. And of what forums there are (for any and all subjects), Archive.org or otherwise don't archive them as well as old Usenet discussions are on Deja / Google Groups.
You seem a little over-exaggerating, but I can relate to the GP. In the late '90s when I was in art class we would pick through old National Geographics from the '60s and '70s. Half the fun was looking at the old ads. Especially car ads for some reason. Looking at old car ads in any old media is always a hoot.
No, the PC is the refrigerator. Tablets are the beds. A home needs exactly one refrigerator (more are a luxury), but it needs about one bed per person. Now consider that people have been sleeping in refrigerators for the past 20 years. Thus, the market for refrigerators is highly over-saturated, and the market for beds is seeing explosive growth as millions of people have never had one before. In the end, though, everybody still needs a refrigerator. There may come a day when they don't, but everybody knows that a refrigerator isn't a bed.
Yes, the metaphor is a bit strained.
Point being that consumers are realizing that tablets do about 90% of what they want in a PC, so they just buy tablets. That doesn't mean they don't occasionally need something for that remaining 10%. We may see tablet docks that turn a tablet PC into a full desktop setup, but we're not there yet. I can browse the web, watch a movie, play a song, look up information, and type an email or text on a tablet or phone. I can probably do my online banking -- although it's a bit cumbersome. I wouldn't want to write a paper, or seriously manage my finances, or do photo editing, or do my taxes on a tablet (unless I was single, had no kids, had one job which withheld taxes, and did not own a home).
Steve jobs has some sort of quote about PCs (Windows & Mac) being like trucks, always a need for them but not what everyone needs. It's true though. Three years ago when I went on a trip I'd pack my Netbook to use at the hotel, or at my folks place. Now I'll use a tablet. Much quicker to pick up and use than to pull out and set up and boot a PC (netbook). Mobile has excelled at other things. Though I still like my real digital camera, if I want to take a picture of something and quickly email it off it's a lot easier to use my smartphone. Checking my email is a lot easier on my phone than on a computer (especially at work waiting for the Corporate-bogged down IT image of XP to load on my i7), though composing an email (or this post) I rather use a PC.
Like yourself I like PCs for the heavy lifting: manage photos, do finances / taxes, download media, edit videos / photos. Though I do worry that our options and availability for relatively open PC like platforms may diminish, which wouldn't be a good thing.
I use both ufile.ca ($10-15) and studiotax (free).
I find ufile more user friendly, and you only have to pay if you want to netfile. So what I do is fill out in both ufile and studio tax and make sure the numbers are the same, if not I look to see what I did differently and which one is wrong, once they both add up to the same, I submit through studiotax so I don't have to pay.
I agree. I load up Studiotax as soon as it's available to start crunching numbers. My folks buy the desktop copy of uFile ($20). Good for an ever decreasing number of returns (4 this year). I agree that it's more user friendly.
I'm amazed, in Canada at least, at the number of people that still manually file paper returns. CRA provides a list of companies offering free Tax software http://www.netfile.gc.ca/sftwr... , and even if you don't qualify to NETFILE, you can still use software to prepare the forms, and print with a 2D barcode with all your data.
So, is this just another update to shuffle a couple of buttons and checkboxes around or is there something else in this update?
Good luck finding the change log from Microsoft.
I'm assuming they've updated all the "SkyDrive" stuff to "OneDrive", since they lost the trademark lawsuit on that one.
That happened in some previous update I think. When I go to my user folder there's a folder named "OneDrive". Open it up and the breadcrumb navication calls it OneDrive. Yet when I check the actual path it's still actually "c:\users\Linuxisgarbage\SkyDrive" folder.
Nope. If you're seeing anything on the Windows GUI called "OneDrive", then you must have the update released today. I'm still waiting for the update to finish installing, but it definitely has always been called "SkyDrive" except on the web site.
Nope. I had noted the OneDrive / Skydrive thing two weeks ago, and I have Updates currently disabled (and am months behind). I also note that on my Windows 7 PC Skydrive changed to Onedrive. Looks like it was pushed out in February:
http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/...
On the Win 8.1 it can be as easy as changing the desktop.ini to include:
[.ShellClassInfo]
IconResource=C:\Users\LinuxisGarbage\AppData\Local\Microsoft\SkyDrive\SkyDrive.exe,1
LocalizedResourceName=OneDrive
Not that hard to push that out.
So, is this just another update to shuffle a couple of buttons and checkboxes around or is there something else in this update?
Good luck finding the change log from Microsoft.
I'm assuming they've updated all the "SkyDrive" stuff to "OneDrive", since they lost the trademark lawsuit on that one.
That happened in some previous update I think. When I go to my user folder there's a folder named "OneDrive". Open it up and the breadcrumb navication calls it OneDrive. Yet when I check the actual path it's still actually "c:\users\Linuxisgarbage\SkyDrive" folder.
Doesn't seem to work for spelling mistakes and typos though ;)
To be fair the high level exec thing looks more like Slashdot barfing at Unicode, it was copied and pasted from the linked website.
I doubt Sarten-X has an editor budget.
Somewhere in here, there's a joke about FLOSS text editors and the ensuing flame wars, but I just can't think of a good way to phrase it.
I have a plugin that could help with that phrasing, but I don't remember how to run it...
Just use emacs and you won't need a plugin.