Firefox doesn't override your title bar and OS windows management controls. Now then again I don't specially like some the new UI either but, those are mockups and not implemented.
Plus, he probably wakes up quite late. I work on the west coast (most time difference with France) and happen to call France quite often. They're officially at work til 10AM for me, and sometimes up later. 10AM for me is 8PM for them. It does happen that they're still up at 1PM for me, just because its easier to reach us. Heh. None of us is up at 5AM for them. None.
Note that 35H is for the lowest class of worker. Everyone gets a higher class, called "cadre", which means manager. Even if you are not technically manager, most companies, specially in IT, give that status to _everyone_. That's because when you are "cadre", you do not have the 35H/week limit, and so, everyone works a lot more (the standard is about 40H to 45H a week). I'm sure they'd like the 3H fantasy was true tho!
Then again they do all have 5 weeks of holidays a year, which IMO, isn't really a bad thing.
Some dude paid some other dudes to do his job. That's the same as what the CEO does in this example. Except he wasnt a CEO, and even thus that this made him the best employee, he got blamed and fired. That was on./ not long ago, too.
The problem is that humans of today aren't any different than the ones from 2000 years ago (or even more). Our civilization isn't even better socially speaking, we haven't moved at all. We only moved forward technically speaking.
Oh yeah, at least, 2000 years ago, people were calling a slave a slave. Now they're calling "chinese workers". "india workers".
the galaxy S 1 is pretty crappy IMO. I don't know how you're getting a *few days* of charge with it unless there's data off and you never pick it to turn on the screen.:P
Just because a non-iphone phone has more features than the iphone doesn't mean that they've been "packing as many features as possible without care for the quality of the said feature".
- changeable battery - useable pull down notifications, with instant switch on/off of features such as wifi, torch, data, sound, vibrate, gps, etc - LTE - NFC - notification led - freedom of market/app install choice - useable maps that instant start - cheap extendable storage
the list can go on for a while, and quite a few of these are _must_ have features, thus not the bloat you imply.
meh meh, my sgs3 lasts 2 days (which is better than any other smartphone i had to date) if you never reboot the iphone, it means you never update it.. I never need to reboot the sgs3 except for updates, and, uhm, never have. the reboot itself takes about 10s so it's not really a big deal anyway. and yes, i'm using cyanogenmod (and I let it auto update once a week). It took about 15min to install (that sounds pretty far from 40hours...)
Feature wise the android devices offer more than apple, heck, even thus being diverse just make it very hard for apple to beat. it also means some android devices sucks more than others. For "regular" smartphone use, both platforms are otherwise and indeed pretty similar.
Since the samsungs interests you here's my actual gripes with the sgs3:
- its too big. yeah, it actually is. unless you're watching movies or browsing the web/reading stuff _all_ the time, it's just too big. sure it fits in the pocket and it's thin. But i'd rather it takes less space. I think I'd be happy to go back to a 3.5 or 4.0 screen. I don't use my phone as my main device. I use my laptop for that (yeah I also have a tablet, that i don't use all that much) - rounded corner sucks for handling. thanks apple for patenting samsung square corners. -the integrated memory is too slow. its slower than the sgs2. makes app install 'n stuff slow. that's not right for a top of the line phone.
that's what i like: -anything non-storage i/o is pretty fast. -the screen contrast and resolution are very good. the colors aren't perfect but that's really not an issue. -the camera is very good -the speaker *and* sound output from the jack are very good (unlike the sgs2) -there's an activity led (although it if was slicing through the side it'd be even better) -the battery life is good for a smartphone -the battery is exchangeable (so i got 3 batteries when i go for a weekend and generally use 1 or 2, but i don't have to worry about running out of battery. 3 batts almost get me through a full week with very light/phone only use) -sdcard slot: zillion mp3s, documents, etc fit on it -works are usbhost, so i can copy people's usb sticks on it
I've met many interns in IT companies and to be honest, many of them are _better_ than senior employees. Younger, talented, they work non-stop (they work at night, during the day, etc. Not saying it's a good idea, but they almost all do that. Good luck beating it with a regular schedule and kids). So yeah, they get shit done, in general, they get shit done very well too.
Thus, I'm not exactly surprised either that they get a good salary, close to what regular IT people get (or egal, sometimes)
actually its pretty simple, any excuse is good for any kind of tax. that's all. it has nothing to do with actual bans or whatever. tax = money. Excuse to pass taxes = good. Well, or bad, depending on your side of the fence.
When I first saw the donate button on Ubuntu download page, I went to archlinux and donated there, and used their iso instead. Simply because their whole model switched to "we really need to make money now" instead of caring for the users, open source, ideals, etc.
It's the not the technical means that matter here. it's the way it's headed. It will come a day, if that model keeps getting more support, where your Ubuntu will be far from "free and open" and just another android-like-for-the-desktop with some open source parts such as the kernel, and that's mostly it. (mind you, paid apps are closed source, tracking users is against privacy, etc)
"don't want to mess with all these new fangled thingies that will be obsolete or irrelevant in 1.7 years"
I can agree with that one. I can't be bothered to mess with crap that I know will fail and that every new kid on the block think its the new best thing since sliced bread. Heck, I'm *that* old so I do look at them. It's just that the vast majority (yes, including those big fancy names) just plain suck, or have been already tried or invented.
Sometimes there's a good new thing but its more rare than one think. Listening to the youngsters, every 10 first posts of hackernews every day = OMG TOMORROWS NEW BOMB MUST USE IT EVERYWHERE WITHOUT THINKING !
I'm hoping they will not modify current notifications in a bad way. current ones are useful for regular desktop use. I'm sure they're not as useful for FB, twitter announces and that sort of crap and it seems to be what they want to fix.
The stuff nerds like me don't give a rat's ass about.
The latest problem has been Flash. Adobe released a version of flash that managed to freeze firefox. Except everyone will think "its a firefox issue". They took forever to fix it. In a way, they're right - this happens ONLY with firefox. IE and Chrome gets "special versions". I'd almost go with a conspiracy theory here sometimes.
It's "funny" how "the law" can stop and break down anyone without any consequence. By the law I of course mean the ones with power and money. You go against them, you'll die or everything will be taken from you including your freedom, til you eventually wish you die.
It's unfair, yet what can we do, what do we do? Nothing.
Because... wait for it.... applications not behaving properly during updates and figuring out what to do is NOT the expected behavior for non-technical end users?
If you keep stuff in ram it will take more ram. It you load when needed, it will break if you update without restart.
Besides, for servers, if the configuration changes and is reread, it will fail too.
In fact, many upgrade mechanisms actually *restart* the daemons after upgrade. It's just that you can't restart GUI apps without breaking stuff for the user.
it's more effort, thats why people use SPDY. Changing all the gear to support SCTP is hard. Specially those pesky hp/cisco/juniper/you-name-it proprietary network hardware
That's also why Google is sometimes pushing for open source software on top of network hardware IMO.
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Firefox doesn't override your title bar and OS windows management controls.
Now then again I don't specially like some the new UI either but, those are mockups and not implemented.
Plus, he probably wakes up quite late. I work on the west coast (most time difference with France) and happen to call France quite often. They're officially at work til 10AM for me, and sometimes up later. 10AM for me is 8PM for them. It does happen that they're still up at 1PM for me, just because its easier to reach us. Heh. None of us is up at 5AM for them. None.
Note that 35H is for the lowest class of worker. Everyone gets a higher class, called "cadre", which means manager. Even if you are not technically manager, most companies, specially in IT, give that status to _everyone_.
That's because when you are "cadre", you do not have the 35H/week limit, and so, everyone works a lot more (the standard is about 40H to 45H a week). I'm sure they'd like the 3H fantasy was true tho!
Then again they do all have 5 weeks of holidays a year, which IMO, isn't really a bad thing.
Some dude paid some other dudes to do his job. That's the same as what the CEO does in this example. Except he wasnt a CEO, and even thus that this made him the best employee, he got blamed and fired. That was on ./ not long ago, too.
The problem is that humans of today aren't any different than the ones from 2000 years ago (or even more).
Our civilization isn't even better socially speaking, we haven't moved at all. We only moved forward technically speaking.
Oh yeah, at least, 2000 years ago, people were calling a slave a slave. Now they're calling "chinese workers". "india workers".
you generally can get new covers + bigger batteries for phones, which results in exactly what you're looking for.
See http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Galaxy-Nexus-Extended-Battery/dp/B006OBSUUG for example.
there are also much bigger ones with a bigger cover. you can probably find something of around 4000mah for the galaxy nexus.
the galaxy S 1 is pretty crappy IMO. I don't know how you're getting a *few days* of charge with it unless there's data off and you never pick it to turn on the screen. :P
Just because a non-iphone phone has more features than the iphone doesn't mean that they've been "packing as many features as possible without care for the quality of the said feature".
- changeable battery
- useable pull down notifications, with instant switch on/off of features such as wifi, torch, data, sound, vibrate, gps, etc
- LTE
- NFC
- notification led
- freedom of market/app install choice
- useable maps that instant start
- cheap extendable storage
the list can go on for a while, and quite a few of these are _must_ have features, thus not the bloat you imply.
meh meh, my sgs3 lasts 2 days (which is better than any other smartphone i had to date)
if you never reboot the iphone, it means you never update it.. I never need to reboot the sgs3 except for updates, and, uhm, never have.
the reboot itself takes about 10s so it's not really a big deal anyway. and yes, i'm using cyanogenmod (and I let it auto update once a week). It took about 15min to install (that sounds pretty far from 40hours...)
Feature wise the android devices offer more than apple, heck, even thus being diverse just make it very hard for apple to beat. it also means some android devices sucks more than others. For "regular" smartphone use, both platforms are otherwise and indeed pretty similar.
Since the samsungs interests you here's my actual gripes with the sgs3:
- its too big. yeah, it actually is. unless you're watching movies or browsing the web/reading stuff _all_ the time, it's just too big. sure it fits in the pocket and it's thin. But i'd rather it takes less space. I think I'd be happy to go back to a 3.5 or 4.0 screen. I don't use my phone as my main device. I use my laptop for that (yeah I also have a tablet, that i don't use all that much)
- rounded corner sucks for handling. thanks apple for patenting samsung square corners.
-the integrated memory is too slow. its slower than the sgs2. makes app install 'n stuff slow. that's not right for a top of the line phone.
that's what i like:
-anything non-storage i/o is pretty fast.
-the screen contrast and resolution are very good. the colors aren't perfect but that's really not an issue.
-the camera is very good
-the speaker *and* sound output from the jack are very good (unlike the sgs2)
-there's an activity led (although it if was slicing through the side it'd be even better)
-the battery life is good for a smartphone
-the battery is exchangeable (so i got 3 batteries when i go for a weekend and generally use 1 or 2, but i don't have to worry about running out of battery. 3 batts almost get me through a full week with very light/phone only use)
-sdcard slot: zillion mp3s, documents, etc fit on it
-works are usbhost, so i can copy people's usb sticks on it
That usually makes me want to move, because, yes, that's true. :P
Specially given that many IT positions are paying about 80k/y right now, in top companies anyways. It's not like if everyone was making 200k/y+ in IT.
I've met many interns in IT companies and to be honest, many of them are _better_ than senior employees.
Younger, talented, they work non-stop (they work at night, during the day, etc. Not saying it's a good idea, but they almost all do that. Good luck beating it with a regular schedule and kids).
So yeah, they get shit done, in general, they get shit done very well too.
Thus, I'm not exactly surprised either that they get a good salary, close to what regular IT people get (or egal, sometimes)
actually its pretty simple, any excuse is good for any kind of tax. that's all. it has nothing to do with actual bans or whatever. tax = money. Excuse to pass taxes = good. Well, or bad, depending on your side of the fence.
Repeat after me: http://www.openwrt.org/
Turns your router into a Linux box. That routes too. And more. And let you tinker with it, too. ;)
When I first saw the donate button on Ubuntu download page, I went to archlinux and donated there, and used their iso instead.
Simply because their whole model switched to "we really need to make money now" instead of caring for the users, open source, ideals, etc.
It's the not the technical means that matter here. it's the way it's headed.
It will come a day, if that model keeps getting more support, where your Ubuntu will be far from "free and open" and just another android-like-for-the-desktop with some open source parts such as the kernel, and that's mostly it. (mind you, paid apps are closed source, tracking users is against privacy, etc)
"don't want to mess with all these new fangled thingies that will be obsolete or irrelevant in 1.7 years"
I can agree with that one. I can't be bothered to mess with crap that I know will fail and that every new kid on the block think its the new best thing since sliced bread.
Heck, I'm *that* old so I do look at them. It's just that the vast majority (yes, including those big fancy names) just plain suck, or have been already tried or invented.
Sometimes there's a good new thing but its more rare than one think. Listening to the youngsters, every 10 first posts of hackernews every day = OMG TOMORROWS NEW BOMB MUST USE IT EVERYWHERE WITHOUT THINKING !
Well yeah, I'm too old for that shit =)
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I'm hoping they will not modify current notifications in a bad way. current ones are useful for regular desktop use. I'm sure they're not as useful for FB, twitter announces and that sort of crap and it seems to be what they want to fix.
The stuff nerds like me don't give a rat's ass about.
The latest problem has been Flash.
Adobe released a version of flash that managed to freeze firefox. Except everyone will think "its a firefox issue". They took forever to fix it.
In a way, they're right - this happens ONLY with firefox. IE and Chrome gets "special versions". I'd almost go with a conspiracy theory here sometimes.
Unfortunate.
It's "funny" how "the law" can stop and break down anyone without any consequence. By the law I of course mean the ones with power and money. You go against them, you'll die or everything will be taken from you including your freedom, til you eventually wish you die.
It's unfair, yet what can we do, what do we do? Nothing.
Because ... wait for it .... applications not behaving properly during updates and figuring out what to do is NOT the expected behavior for non-technical end users?
No. It doesn't work.
If you keep stuff in ram it will take more ram. It you load when needed, it will break if you update without restart.
Besides, for servers, if the configuration changes and is reread, it will fail too.
In fact, many upgrade mechanisms actually *restart* the daemons after upgrade. It's just that you can't restart GUI apps without breaking stuff for the user.
That even includes xorg.
it's more effort, thats why people use SPDY.
Changing all the gear to support SCTP is hard. Specially those pesky hp/cisco/juniper/you-name-it proprietary network hardware
That's also why Google is sometimes pushing for open source software on top of network hardware IMO.
Maybe they finally figured out that for the medium and longer term its better to actually please and fight for the customers.
But then again, I'm probably wrong.