Microsoft has to keep releasing because they have to keep bringing in money.
Well, but AFAIK, business customers are on a plan in which they keep paying a certain amount every year regardless of the current Windows version, right?
Given how corporate America responded to Vista, I'd say what businesses really want is a few incremental improvements (if that) plus ongoing support.
By the way, who modded you down from 1 to 0? The comment was not in any way trollful or abusive.
instead of releasing a version people don't want and "culling valuable feedback", why release what people don't want in the first place?
Who's asking for this stuff?
Don't people actually do, you know, work with their computers? Invoices, reports, letters to vendors and customers, research, etc.? Also dev, CNC, CRM, CMS, movie/pic editing, and more.
Who is it that stares at their start menu/screen/whatever all day and gush with wonderment? People with work to do open their programs in the morning and... work.
On the other hand, I have to grudgingly admint (as a Linux fan) MS really has something going with Sharepoint and OneNote. Cool stuff in the window environment/OS? Not so much.
Hey, seeing as we're talking about/., anybody know how the point system is supposed to work?
When I first started posting comments, any old comment I'd post would be 2 off the bat. Then, after some time, it was 1, and has been ever since (even though I often get comments modded 5).
People like to complain about/., but the fact is, even 1-rated comments are much better than many/most sites, certainly including Gawker, wonkette.com, and HuffPo.
Agree or disagree with a comment, it's rarely just pure bile.
Yeah, other than a handful of sites (like/.), I don't want to have to have an account just to comment. I (and others) hating Yet Another Account Signup is why sites like bugmenot prosper.
That's where WordPress excels.
Much of the WordPress-based blogosphere still uses the standard no-account-required WordPress settings, so you can just enter your name & email (fake, if desired), and your comment.
No account needed, but most sites let you create one too, if you want.
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Well, donors don't get paid in the US, either (and the article didn't say that). The article said that a body generates about $2 million in income for various parties (hospital, surgeons, etc.).
Think of it like this: If you're the owner of a toy store, and you got free toys because the next-door shop shut down (died), you'll still be asking full price when you sell them, and your customers will pay it.
There's something deep in the geek mind that screams out against such things. Remember the deal about the DeCSS number? ("How can you own an integer?")
Oh, and, I'm sure +- 1 RGB value would hardly be discernible to the naked eye. So, does Ferrari (or Apple) actually claim swathes of the RBG spectrum, or just a single color?
So what, exactly, do you want? Only Apple can make tablets?
Generally, the more useless the distinction between two products, the more that a litigious company will scream.
Gramma goes into a car dealership, and instead of using the generic term "minivan", she says she wants a "Dodge Caravan". She walks out with a Ford Aerostar.
Grandma walks into a store and says she wans a box of Kleenex and walks out with a brand X facial tissue.
The fact that "ipad" is becoming somewhat generic is only Apple's fault for choosing the letter "i", and a generic word that relates to the category, among others (slate, tablet, pad).
Entirely ignoring that the Knight-Ridder tablet took Apple about 90% of the way.
Did you miss the part in the article where the guy had presented his work to Apple? They feigned disinterest, then later came up with: a black rectangular hand-held electronic tablet.
1. The letter i. No, that the Phoenician letter I. The Apple i, after Apple invented it, stands for "me", a pivot around which the universe turns. Also, Latin I is J, for Jehovah^H^H^HJobs.
2. The color black. No other company is allowed to make black plastic personal electronic devices. Apple's special color black is made from lovingly hand-blended ebony shavings from the land of Fantasia.
3. The round rectangles. Before Apple, rectangles were... rectangular.
4. The length/width ratio. I still can't reveal it here, suffice to say that Apple took into account the Golden Ratio, Fibonacci sequences, and Pi. All other manufacturers must either adopt the square or the line as product shapes.
5. The beveling from margin to screen. Non-Apple manufacturers cannot transition gradually from one physical area of the product to another. Diagonal lines are claimed as exclusive Apple property.
Wait, what do you mean UIs are designed to work well for devs and not for normal people?
We've been using computers in the office and schools for, what, 20 years now?
A whole generation of people has grown up using the Start menu/classic Gnome/KDE mode of operation and their children, too!
Gramps and gramma have been using XP-style interfaces just fine for the last 10 years to check their email and go to senior bulletin boards.
So I ask: exactly how many normal people are there left who don't know how to use an XP interface?
The startmenu interface is basically as common and normal as the steering wheel. For whose benefit is it being changed, other than antsy program managers at M$ and Apple who don't have anything else to do. (MS feels they can impose anything they want because businesses don't have a choice. Apple feels confident that their fans will laud anything they do.)
Seems Xconomy can't decide whether they like it or not:
The original title seems to have been "The Lytro Camera is no iPhone but it's revolutionary anyway".
going by the URL fragment: the-lytro-camera-is-no-iphone-but-its-revolutionary-anyway
The current title is the less positive "The Lytro Camera Is Revolutionary, But Itâ(TM)s No iPhone" (Note: Not being an iPhone is a negative in a Stevebot's eyes.)
Sounds nice. I'm just scared of the possibility the car deciding to malfunction. KISS and all that. Fail-safe. Or better, don't fail at all.
So for me, a boring, reliable Toyota or Honda is the ticket. I don't carry a white iPhone that I need to have the music of instantly transfer from its ivory white headphones to the car the moment I grace the seat with my presence.
That makes it seem like it's entirely random, like the chances for an asteroid collision.
In fact, though, the decision to go war or not will be made by a handful of people or just one: Obama.
And since this is going to be a preventive war (preventing Iran from enriching nuclear fuel for its power and medical reactors), it's an at-will decision.
Why should car owners have to understand anything (I'm not talking about the need to change the oil or keep up the tire pressure).
Why should they have to understand the "need" for a reboot?
Rebooting may well be a valid diagnostic technique, but it doesn't make it any more acceptable for the car manufacturer. Their anger was not directed at you as a mechanic. Their anger is directed toward the maker who can't get a car to run in the 21st century without "crashing".
Slashdot Mirror
Well, one thing's for sure: there's no raw meets going on among the Slashdot crowd. Maybe they could grab some genes from around here.
Well, but AFAIK, business customers are on a plan in which they keep paying a certain amount every year regardless of the current Windows version, right?
Given how corporate America responded to Vista, I'd say what businesses really want is a few incremental improvements (if that) plus ongoing support.
By the way, who modded you down from 1 to 0? The comment was not in any way trollful or abusive.
instead of releasing a version people don't want and "culling valuable feedback", why release what people don't want in the first place?
Who's asking for this stuff?
Don't people actually do, you know, work with their computers? Invoices, reports, letters to vendors and customers, research, etc.? Also dev, CNC, CRM, CMS, movie/pic editing, and more.
Who is it that stares at their start menu/screen/whatever all day and gush with wonderment? People with work to do open their programs in the morning and ... work.
On the other hand, I have to grudgingly admint (as a Linux fan) MS really has something going with Sharepoint and OneNote. Cool stuff in the window environment/OS? Not so much.
Hey, seeing as we're talking about /., anybody know how the point system is supposed to work?
When I first started posting comments, any old comment I'd post would be 2 off the bat. Then, after some time, it was 1, and has been ever since (even though I often get comments modded 5).
-Can't even think of contributing to OpenOffice or Gnome, since just setting up the build environments for those is highly complex, I've heard.
-Huge amount of time to build and test those programs.
-I'm afraid of what setting up the dev libraries would do to my normal environment I use for normal work.
-Requires a hugely powerful machine, whereas some of us like to work on a less-powerful, smaller, portable laptop.
People like to complain about /., but the fact is, even 1-rated comments are much better than many/most sites, certainly including Gawker, wonkette.com, and HuffPo.
Agree or disagree with a comment, it's rarely just pure bile.
Yeah, other than a handful of sites (like /.), I don't want to have to have an account just to comment. I (and others) hating Yet Another Account Signup is why sites like bugmenot prosper.
That's where WordPress excels.
Much of the WordPress-based blogosphere still uses the standard no-account-required WordPress settings, so you can just enter your name & email (fake, if desired), and your comment.
No account needed, but most sites let you create one too, if you want.
Well, donors don't get paid in the US, either (and the article didn't say that). The article said that a body generates about $2 million in income for various parties (hospital, surgeons, etc.).
Think of it like this: If you're the owner of a toy store, and you got free toys because the next-door shop shut down (died), you'll still be asking full price when you sell them, and your customers will pay it.
Well, there's a "post stuff about ""Enterprise false flag" conspiracy theory" on Slashdot conspiracy".
There's something deep in the geek mind that screams out against such things. Remember the deal about the DeCSS number? ("How can you own an integer?")
Oh, and, I'm sure +- 1 RGB value would hardly be discernible to the naked eye. So, does Ferrari (or Apple) actually claim swathes of the RBG spectrum, or just a single color?
that, while on the one hand, many geeks find religion to be illogical, superstitious, and ill-founded
on the other hand,
many geeks are enamored of the religion of a bunch of characters in the mind of George Lucas in a galaxy far, far away?
I'm trying to post some whitespace to decrease the temperature in here, but the lameness filter keeps getting in the way!
Well, actually, if you messed up, it was easier going before God than before Jobs, so it's a wash.
So what, exactly, do you want? Only Apple can make tablets?
Generally, the more useless the distinction between two products, the more that a litigious company will scream.
Gramma goes into a car dealership, and instead of using the generic term "minivan", she says she wants a "Dodge Caravan". She walks out with a Ford Aerostar.
Grandma walks into a store and says she wans a box of Kleenex and walks out with a brand X facial tissue.
The fact that "ipad" is becoming somewhat generic is only Apple's fault for choosing the letter "i", and a generic word that relates to the category, among others (slate, tablet, pad).
Entirely ignoring that the Knight-Ridder tablet took Apple about 90% of the way.
Did you miss the part in the article where the guy had presented his work to Apple? They feigned disinterest, then later came up with: a black rectangular hand-held electronic tablet.
You're obviously not getting it.
I hadn't wanted to do this, but the legions of Apple-haters have forced my hand.
Apple's special, secret-sauce patented tablet design includes:
1. The letter i. No, that the Phoenician letter I. The Apple i, after Apple invented it, stands for "me", a pivot around which the universe turns. Also, Latin I is J, for Jehovah^H^H^HJobs.
2. The color black. No other company is allowed to make black plastic personal electronic devices. Apple's special color black is made from lovingly hand-blended ebony shavings from the land of Fantasia.
3. The round rectangles. Before Apple, rectangles were ... rectangular.
4. The length/width ratio. I still can't reveal it here, suffice to say that Apple took into account the Golden Ratio, Fibonacci sequences, and Pi. All other manufacturers must either adopt the square or the line as product shapes.
5. The beveling from margin to screen. Non-Apple manufacturers cannot transition gradually from one physical area of the product to another. Diagonal lines are claimed as exclusive Apple property.
>color the plastic in the front bezel anything but black
What, so now they own the color black?
What color was the Knight-Ridder tablet? Black, of course (before Apple "invented" it).
they finished scarfing down Google's search database, and are just working on fine tuning what percent of false negatives to return?
Wait, what do you mean UIs are designed to work well for devs and not for normal people?
We've been using computers in the office and schools for, what, 20 years now?
A whole generation of people has grown up using the Start menu/classic Gnome/KDE mode of operation and their children, too!
Gramps and gramma have been using XP-style interfaces just fine for the last 10 years to check their email and go to senior bulletin boards.
So I ask: exactly how many normal people are there left who don't know how to use an XP interface?
The startmenu interface is basically as common and normal as the steering wheel. For whose benefit is it being changed, other than antsy program managers at M$ and Apple who don't have anything else to do. (MS feels they can impose anything they want because businesses don't have a choice. Apple feels confident that their fans will laud anything they do.)
Well, as you say, you don't use it for your day to day work.
That's why you don't really mind it.
I guess I wouldn't, either, if I were just using Ubuntu for light browsing.
Seems Xconomy can't decide whether they like it or not:
The original title seems to have been "The Lytro Camera is no iPhone but it's revolutionary anyway".
going by the URL fragment:
the-lytro-camera-is-no-iphone-but-its-revolutionary-anyway
The current title is the less positive "The Lytro Camera Is Revolutionary, But Itâ(TM)s No iPhone" (Note: Not being an iPhone is a negative in a Stevebot's eyes.)
Sounds nice. I'm just scared of the possibility the car deciding to malfunction. KISS and all that. Fail-safe. Or better, don't fail at all.
So for me, a boring, reliable Toyota or Honda is the ticket. I don't carry a white iPhone that I need to have the music of instantly transfer from its ivory white headphones to the car the moment I grace the seat with my presence.
That makes it seem like it's entirely random, like the chances for an asteroid collision.
In fact, though, the decision to go war or not will be made by a handful of people or just one: Obama.
And since this is going to be a preventive war (preventing Iran from enriching nuclear fuel for its power and medical reactors), it's an at-will decision.
This is outrageous. Who do these scientists think they are?
New Yorkers are humans, too!
Why should car owners have to understand anything (I'm not talking about the need to change the oil or keep up the tire pressure).
Why should they have to understand the "need" for a reboot?
Rebooting may well be a valid diagnostic technique, but it doesn't make it any more acceptable for the car manufacturer. Their anger was not directed at you as a mechanic. Their anger is directed toward the maker who can't get a car to run in the 21st century without "crashing".