Gloves: It's for warmth. Picture yourself walking down a road on a winter morning or sitting on a park bench. I have NOT done either, but last winter was my first with an android phone and I wished touchscreen tech were glove friendly.
It is a shock that warm hands are INVISIBLE to your efforts to put pressure on a brittle screen. Then you wonder if you need apply more pressure, and it's obvious what the end result could be.
None of your reasons imply the need of locking the screen at all.
In work and university environments, you have no choice. If anything, why are people criticizing a feature, when, choice is EXACTLY what it brings? If someone builds it, YOU will come.
How is gluing the back panel on an iphone every 23.5 seconds for 12 hours straight for free learning 'valuable work skills' for the students?
How is being paid to get training in navigation, leadership, command and control, electronics, aeronautics, piloting, shooting, logistics, survival, physics, linguistics, chemistry, and hundreds of other disciplines based on your position in horribly well funded first world militaries WORSE than working for Foxconn in China?
The one aims to entertain. The other? to destroy. QED.
Seriously... this is the first time I saw someone who releases "shareware" to be pissed when he sees people sharing his stuff. Wasn't that the whole point, to begin with?
Ugh. People don't know what they say when posting Anonymous on the internet. The "share" portion is as loosely tied to real-life term as "down" and "up" are tied to files "loading" in the world wide web... even more loosely, in fact. Shareware died due to oversharing: it was superseded by a mix of BBS fade-out, online piracy thanks to stolen keys, and the porting of mature FOSS software to the world of windows.
DON'T BE SURPRISED WHEN PEOPLE DON'T PAY YOU, WHEN YOU WERE THE ONE GIVING AWAY THE SOFTWARE WITHOUT REQUESTING PAYMENT.
ASK is another word for REQUEST. Donating is only different from Paying in that the software isn't built around a security model enforcing it. He's not surprised, he's just disappointed that the proverbial "out of the kindness of their hearts" is working from his magic coding fingers out, to thousands of individuals who receive real benefit using the software. Then the numbers game that you expect bankers have proved true with their percentages models shows that this "kindness" trickles from a potential 100% of x thousands to a meager tenth or hundredth of a single percent...
Another key factor killing shareware was all the nagging. Jimmy Wales asks for donations every year for Wikipedia. If he paywalled it by going full New-York-Times-style on users, I'm sure the net effect on traffic, earnings and seekers of alternatives would be severe. There's no trusted alternative to wikipedia, and google has a big part in keeping us continually stumbling upon his site when a simple dictionary definition site would have sufficed.
This just proves that YOU need to see more of 1) DaemonTools 2) JackTheRipper 3) The Firefox extension with a PROOF-OF-CONCEPT wifi SNIFFER (not malware) that we heard about last year. 4) This is important: Android *Rooting* software. See what BIG ISP (tm) did there?
None actually act beyond specs. You still get forced to fight AV software that misleads you with scary sounding payload names. Google shows they are just misleadingly flagged components. Most of these are distributed via ZIP files, so your AV surreptitiously deletes DLLs while you expand, causing weird crashes. There is little to no offer for unblocking / ignoring, and most people who aren't technical and haven't done their research can't test these programs at all.
why go with such big apertures if you want everything in focus? the beauty of such apertures is you can isolate your subject and blur everything else in the frame.
Note to prospective camera geeks: don't take that at face. Consumer pocket cameras lenses and sensors don't provide that type of blur and the number means different things for different lenses. Besides, the fastest apertures they offered at brick stores a month ago were 3.5 to 3.1. My android phone does about the same --everything is "in focus". The end result is zero "blur" for your average group shots. My advanced point and shoot forces 2.0 whenever it can and has a large sensor... yet its "blur" effect looks more like normal sensor noise or slight myopia than helpful cinematic framing.
To provide minor blur without huge, bulky DSLR lenses, the ratio of distance-to-background to distance-to-target has to be past 20:1. That's pretty good compared to most $300 point and shoots. Still, I must focus just inches from the camera to have the living room walls look blurry.
For baseball-player-at-a-stadium photos that really isolate people in an that pretty, defocused background / pro look (even just this simple kind of shot), you need to carry a telephoto lens or some other big-camera gear. It is all fun, though. But I must share my camera with elders that are afraid of complex, bulky things and can't go DSLR to get my "blur" on.
Understood, when you talk about software engineers we 'trust'. But... good luck giving that override authority to our outsourced minimum wage overlords who have little commitment, and a law system that can't reach overseas.
It would be the end of plugins --think of the liabilities Mozilla opens itself to by letting you extend it in unexpected ways. It would be the end of App stores, given that they extend android and allow personal information to be collected in ways that are hidden and unexpected to most. Hmm, but then it would be the end of ALL Flash support and its vulnerabilities. You'd probably have a fresh start to code signing and trust / authentication system. Personally I hate that MS forced EVEN legitimate (read expensive) companies and everyone less powerful to have those stupid "trust" warnings because signing the code cost so much. Instead of actually getting stuff signed, I remember that drivers just added one little page in their install how to asking the user to disregard and click OK. I am sure a super-secure developer world of doom would contain quite a few of these new cheapskate hurdles that limit usability and get passed on to the installation and daily usage side of things.
Imagine all those disclaimers for using JQuery and Node.js and tons of other nifty things on gray and black sites... Anyway, regulation is not really going to happen. App markets are the wind that is pushing cellphone sales up, which is pushing other tech in the USA forward as a side effect of Apple and other giants doing well.
Wow 32" 1080p ? I am not happy, but have seen the numbers improving. You must shop online because stores in my big city show 40" minimum and that is at 720p. I don't use the TV much, so 37" is enough, but never found an equal-sized replacement.
Anyway, it's sad that my cable box offers a max of 1080i instead of 1080p (in case I DO want to upgrade). Sadder still, people I know who aren't DVR owners just keep their 480p boxes on their 37" HD screens. Some others have no idea about what cables to use. Others still don't know that channel lineups require that you tune in to a new set of channels for HD content. It's all too confusing already, so I don't see 4K being brought in without tons of confusion.
Worse, 720p is still underutilized, though things have improved since analog shut down.
Good that you brought up cameras, because we already have media that is being under represented on our computer monitors: Consumer point and shoot camera resolutions... Our 800p and 1080p screens are ill-fit for 16Megapixel cameras. 2816 x 1584 is about 4 Megapixels at 16x9, and 4000 x 2248 is 9.0 MP. Still, we have to downconvert and produce jaggies.
There's a bunch of info on the confusion about how much is enough but I find that even a 21" desktop monitor is way underutilized to display my shots:
The biggest print you can make without losing sharpness as seen through a magnifier from a 4MP camera is 6 x 8" (15x20cm). From a sixteen MP camera likewise you could go to 12 x 16" (30x45cm), and still look at the print through a magnifier.
The OS has to scale down our images, resulting in jaggies even when I just use lower resolutions at 12MP. I wish the standard windows wallpaper system offered an anti-alias option.
Wait a year or three for the Macbook retina display copy cats. One year to work out research, contracts, marketing and push out a few lemons (think of the whole non-existent $500 tablet market as soon as the iPad came out). Then another year for real options to pop up (Samsung Galaxy tabs in my analogy). Finally, one more year for price points to become reasonable.
Pivot monitors area privilege for office environments and home consumers do not get them "standard" with their purchases. Let's illustrate: When normal determined buyers go into a cellphone store and see 19 "Android" phones and 1 "Windows 7" phone, the store has 3 outcomes:
1) Customer Buys the Windows phone. Normally from an informed decision. 2) Customer Buys Android and Misses the Windows phone altogether due to lower statistical chance (5% in a perfect world). Note that the Customer may have preferred Windows and bought it if he had noticed it, putting him in outcome #1. 3) Customer Buys the Android phone because it feels like the "normal" thing to do -- 19 other phones can't be wrong, and the odd one out is probably a lemon because it's not an iPhone.
You'll notice this analogy leaves little reason for the small and mid-size store owners to even stock that 5% chance phone that is a rare choice when they can store another phone with a higher acclaimed phone.
There's a 5 year old perl coding video from Vista's early days to warn anyone of all the wasted time with locally hosted voice recognition AI. At least on smartphones it goes to a server that can be improved continually, though there's a privacy implication here.
In those grounds, Android 4.0 speech-to-text (non-coding) is lots better we don't have a way of using its wealth of code and google-dependant connectivity on a desktop --that I know of. Also handy with alternative input languages. Again, these are NOT coding-aware options like others in this thread, so I'm glad to find them here.
Maybe with an old keyboard at floor level and some bits and pieces from the DIY store, he could rig himself up a shift-key foot pedal?
I don't see a person like the story poster doing it, since it would require wiring dexterity and soldering for a project that will be dropped in six months, so DIY is probably not his intention.
That said, one can easily purchase a real foot pedal aimed at the music industry at Radioshack or music stores. At around $20 dollars, it's cheap and more sightly than whole keyboards (or half ones) rigged to sit on the floor because it has a single big clicker rather than 100+.
Someone with the engineering knowhow could adapt the end plug to USB somehow, but the extinct PS/2 probably would be easier to implement.
As natural progression of our computer revolution, wasting time on a cellphone is a lot more conpicuous than doing the same on a computer. This is due to generational / cultural novelty: Decades ago parents and friends could NOT be convinced that my sitting for hours staring at a monitor was in itself "work."
For now, cellphones moved into that role of "wait, tapping away at it cannot be more serious than the conversation / class still in progress". I do recall that playing solitaire in a lab setting was barely frowned upon, partly because it is so hard to distinguish from real activity if the instructors are far away. But looking down into a phone is more obvious and even enforced / penalizable thru commonplace cell bans in schools. Can't *ban* the PC that they're each supposed to learn with (including self owned laptops for notes), though.
I think it hinges on how modern cells had their root on phones --2-way ACTIVE communication systems-- and are notorious for distractingly active texting. Full PCs are still seen as work tools for more PASSIVE chatting when employer/instructor allows it a work setting. Yes, the moral "honor system" largely determines how hard we'll work on not using a superset of the assigned functions. Remember the graphing calculator bans from most tests?
Surely theose came AFTER the then-unconventional abuse was deemed too rampant. Not before.
Seemingly strong words to say Electrolysis failed, yet I knew it... I've been watching on and off since 2010 and apparently didn't hit your link because even their project page is obsfuscated and lacked updates till I got tired of checking.
I've abandoned FF for Rockmelt in my main computer. Mozilla gave the impression that Chrome-like tabs were around the corner in 2010. The fact that a web developer recently gave me little feedback when I mentioned it by name should have tripped some alarms. It's good to have closure and know I've done the right thing. I still install FF for the PC illiterate because of brand recognition and feature needs.
I've been using this scheme for about one year on the nightly version which is automatically updated by firefox PPA channel. It also works on the current stable version.
Nice screenshot. Can you tell us where I can download your "5 modpoints" extension ? *ducks*
The integrated campaign encompasses TV, out-of-home, digital, in-store displays and merchandising. New online interactive work breaking today includes a takeover on Verizon's homepage and a dedicated microsite, Droiddoes.com"
$100 in 2009 money: "the largest in Verizon history" back in November 2009. Compare to Apple and..."wow" INDEED. Another tidbit:
The target market is the tech-savvy, early adopter young male in his 20s or 30s who cares more about functionality and productivity, and tends to eschew certain lifestyle brands that attract herds of followers.
I still have the last version of Pandora from before they added Personal Contacts to the permissions installed on my phone
Yet another reason to always deny updates. The important things will just update themselves anyway (like the infamous and confirmation-less Market -> Google Play rename) but you can keep the latest Facebook address-wipe "feature" from affecting your phone.
What would be better is some tool to keep the OS services from spamming you. I keep clearing the "You have 20 updates waiting", notification only to see it again a few times a day. While we're at that, how about google stops asking me for a cellphone number every time I attempt to use it? Not like they are oblivious to it...
Wireless is a mess. I have found windows XP computers that just completely refuse to connect properly to specific routers, so you have to change security to yucky WEP from WPA. I lost two hours to realize that the standard-ish WAP TKIP + AES combo solved the problem without having to reorient all the other devices already set up there, but it was annoying.
Linux is even worse... back in 2005 it was the whole ndiswrapper tragedy, while these days RedHat-based distros and some Ubuntus force you to do static IP. WPA_supplicant would reconnect over and over in Ubuntu 9. To top all things off, you are affected even in VM's which distros apparently aren't paying attention to, so even your LAN tests are foiled by misteryous errors that result in a networkless Linux you can't download anything new into.
And don't even get me started on Wifi file transfer issues. 300Mb wireless may sound better than your old maxed out 100Mb ethernet connection, but in practice the numbers don't add up due to overhead, and you BETTER remember to MOVE rather than "copy" a whole home folder over wireless, so you can resume it 4 or 5 times for every random connection drop. You're better off with the slow trusty wire for emergencies
You have clients... charge a little more and absorb the cost of new hardware. What's so hard about that?
Sure, but he is a MAC developer. 1) Not that many mac-only clients out there 2) World recession means that clients actively look for better deals. It's not too hard to switch Windows + Bootcamp and find a PC-only software provider. No mac premiums there. Not often that you hear clients saying "hey, you know, we're going to switch our userbase to macs we don't already own", so the switch to the PC should be more elastic. 3) Note how he says "I" and not "my company." This is a small shop business where there are no money pools, and cash is budgeted by himself --drawback? every client he loses entails another hard networking effort akin to landing a job.
Haven't any of these people actually had to DO what they're talking about? There's a whole realm of software meant just for this purpose
Thanks to TIMTOWTDI and the lack of regulation, there's a tradeoff in working in the nascent field of PC tech. Qualified degree-holders are the minority, and certs, colleges and pro training courses focus on vendor tools like CISCO, COMPTIA rather than general solutions --you learn those from textbooks and Real-Life networking interaction. It's part of our sad lock-in world. Compare to how each PC tech applies their personal choice of tools for, say, spyware-cleaning. It's not like there's a law to follow that you learn in tech school, let alone CS programs that cover no IT at all.
The dedicated guy you pay to lay cables or install stuff lacks the training / interest of a network admin and thus would not know these tools. If you have some newbie/intern/secretary who takes your handwritten observations and patch panel numbers / mac addresses and knows only excel then cvs/git/wiki version control and CSV conversion becomes a large obstacle. Perhaps companies should advertise management solutions some more, but these tend to be hidden gems that are only seen by people in the trenches because they cost so much anyway. That would help us to stop asking the same answered questions (or finding they have unsolved answers)
Compare that to the non-existing world of OSS Data Recovery tools and how we end up finding that lost clusters on the VP's machine won't be coming back because nobody is trained or willing to pay for the non-advertised, shady tools you find in a panicked google search.
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Gloves: It's for warmth. Picture yourself walking down a road on a winter morning or sitting on a park bench.
I have NOT done either, but last winter was my first with an android phone and I wished touchscreen tech were glove friendly.
It is a shock that warm hands are INVISIBLE to your efforts to put pressure on a brittle screen. Then you wonder if you need apply more pressure, and it's obvious what the end result could be.
None of your reasons imply the need of locking the screen at all.
In work and university environments, you have no choice. If anything, why are people criticizing a feature, when, choice is EXACTLY what it brings? If someone builds it, YOU will come.
How is gluing the back panel on an iphone every 23.5 seconds for 12 hours straight for free learning 'valuable work skills' for the students?
How is being paid to get training in navigation, leadership, command and control, electronics, aeronautics, piloting, shooting, logistics, survival, physics, linguistics, chemistry, and hundreds of other disciplines based on your position in horribly well funded first world militaries WORSE than working for Foxconn in China?
The one aims to entertain.
The other? to destroy.
QED.
Seriously... this is the first time I saw someone who releases "shareware" to be pissed when he sees people sharing his stuff. Wasn't that the whole point, to begin with?
Ugh. People don't know what they say when posting Anonymous on the internet. The "share" portion is as loosely tied to real-life term as "down" and "up" are tied to files "loading" in the world wide web... even more loosely, in fact. Shareware died due to oversharing: it was superseded by a mix of BBS fade-out, online piracy thanks to stolen keys, and the porting of mature FOSS software to the world of windows.
DON'T BE SURPRISED WHEN PEOPLE DON'T PAY YOU, WHEN YOU WERE THE ONE GIVING AWAY THE SOFTWARE WITHOUT REQUESTING PAYMENT.
ASK is another word for REQUEST. Donating is only different from Paying in that the software isn't built around a security model enforcing it. He's not surprised, he's just disappointed that the proverbial "out of the kindness of their hearts" is working from his magic coding fingers out, to thousands of individuals who receive real benefit using the software. Then the numbers game that you expect bankers have proved true with their percentages models shows that this "kindness" trickles from a potential 100% of x thousands to a meager tenth or hundredth of a single percent...
Another key factor killing shareware was all the nagging. Jimmy Wales asks for donations every year for Wikipedia. If he paywalled it by going full New-York-Times-style on users, I'm sure the net effect on traffic, earnings and seekers of alternatives would be severe. There's no trusted alternative to wikipedia, and google has a big part in keeping us continually stumbling upon his site when a simple dictionary definition site would have sufficed.
This just proves that YOU need to see more of
1) DaemonTools
2) JackTheRipper
3) The Firefox extension with a PROOF-OF-CONCEPT wifi SNIFFER (not malware) that we heard about last year.
4) This is important: Android *Rooting* software. See what BIG ISP (tm) did there?
None actually act beyond specs. You still get forced to fight AV software that misleads you with scary sounding payload names. Google shows they are just misleadingly flagged components. Most of these are distributed via ZIP files, so your AV surreptitiously deletes DLLs while you expand, causing weird crashes. There is little to no offer for unblocking / ignoring, and most people who aren't technical and haven't done their research can't test these programs at all.
Weird. Isn't this the exact kind of thing you'd like to have some extension improve?
why go with such big apertures if you want everything in focus? the beauty of such apertures is you can isolate your subject and blur everything else in the frame.
Note to prospective camera geeks: don't take that at face. Consumer pocket cameras lenses and sensors don't provide that type of blur and the number means different things for different lenses. Besides, the fastest apertures they offered at brick stores a month ago were 3.5 to 3.1. My android phone does about the same --everything is "in focus". The end result is zero "blur" for your average group shots. My advanced point and shoot forces 2.0 whenever it can and has a large sensor... yet its "blur" effect looks more like normal sensor noise or slight myopia than helpful cinematic framing.
To provide minor blur without huge, bulky DSLR lenses, the ratio of distance-to-background to distance-to-target has to be past 20:1. That's pretty good compared to most $300 point and shoots. Still, I must focus just inches from the camera to have the living room walls look blurry.
For baseball-player-at-a-stadium photos that really isolate people in an that pretty, defocused background / pro look (even just this simple kind of shot), you need to carry a telephoto lens or some other big-camera gear. It is all fun, though. But I must share my camera with elders that are afraid of complex, bulky things and can't go DSLR to get my "blur" on.
Understood, when you talk about software engineers we 'trust'. But... good luck giving that override authority to our outsourced minimum wage overlords who have little commitment, and a law system that can't reach overseas.
It would be the end of plugins --think of the liabilities Mozilla opens itself to by letting you extend it in unexpected ways. It would be the end of App stores, given that they extend android and allow personal information to be collected in ways that are hidden and unexpected to most. Hmm, but then it would be the end of ALL Flash support and its vulnerabilities. You'd probably have a fresh start to code signing and trust / authentication system. Personally I hate that MS forced EVEN legitimate (read expensive) companies and everyone less powerful to have those stupid "trust" warnings because signing the code cost so much. Instead of actually getting stuff signed, I remember that drivers just added one little page in their install how to asking the user to disregard and click OK. I am sure a super-secure developer world of doom would contain quite a few of these new cheapskate hurdles that limit usability and get passed on to the installation and daily usage side of things.
Imagine all those disclaimers for using JQuery and Node.js and tons of other nifty things on gray and black sites... Anyway, regulation is not really going to happen. App markets are the wind that is pushing cellphone sales up, which is pushing other tech in the USA forward as a side effect of Apple and other giants doing well.
Wow 32" 1080p ? I am not happy, but have seen the numbers improving. You must shop online because stores in my big city show 40" minimum and that is at 720p. I don't use the TV much, so 37" is enough, but never found an equal-sized replacement.
Anyway, it's sad that my cable box offers a max of 1080i instead of 1080p (in case I DO want to upgrade). Sadder still, people I know who aren't DVR owners just keep their 480p boxes on their 37" HD screens. Some others have no idea about what cables to use. Others still don't know that channel lineups require that you tune in to a new set of channels for HD content. It's all too confusing already, so I don't see 4K being brought in without tons of confusion.
Worse, 720p is still underutilized, though things have improved since analog shut down.
Good that you brought up cameras, because we already have media that is being under represented on our computer monitors: Consumer point and shoot camera resolutions... Our 800p and 1080p screens are ill-fit for 16Megapixel cameras. 2816 x 1584 is about 4 Megapixels at 16x9, and 4000 x 2248 is 9.0 MP. Still, we have to downconvert and produce jaggies.
There's a bunch of info on the confusion about how much is enough but I find that even a 21" desktop monitor is way underutilized to display my shots:
The OS has to scale down our images, resulting in jaggies even when I just use lower resolutions at 12MP. I wish the standard windows wallpaper system offered an anti-alias option.
Wait a year or three for the Macbook retina display copy cats. One year to work out research, contracts, marketing and push out a few lemons (think of the whole non-existent $500 tablet market as soon as the iPad came out). Then another year for real options to pop up (Samsung Galaxy tabs in my analogy). Finally, one more year for price points to become reasonable.
Pivot monitors area privilege for office environments and home consumers do not get them "standard" with their purchases. Let's illustrate: When normal determined buyers go into a cellphone store and see 19 "Android" phones and 1 "Windows 7" phone, the store has 3 outcomes:
1) Customer Buys the Windows phone. Normally from an informed decision.
2) Customer Buys Android and Misses the Windows phone altogether due to lower statistical chance (5% in a perfect world). Note that the Customer may have preferred Windows and bought it if he had noticed it, putting him in outcome #1.
3) Customer Buys the Android phone because it feels like the "normal" thing to do -- 19 other phones can't be wrong, and the odd one out is probably a lemon because it's not an iPhone.
You'll notice this analogy leaves little reason for the small and mid-size store owners to even stock that 5% chance phone that is a rare choice when they can store another phone with a higher acclaimed phone.
There's a 5 year old perl coding video from Vista's early days to warn anyone of all the wasted time with locally hosted voice recognition AI. At least on smartphones it goes to a server that can be improved continually, though there's a privacy implication here.
In those grounds, Android 4.0 speech-to-text (non-coding) is lots better we don't have a way of using its wealth of code and google-dependant connectivity on a desktop --that I know of. Also handy with alternative input languages. Again, these are NOT coding-aware options like others in this thread, so I'm glad to find them here.
Maybe with an old keyboard at floor level and some bits and pieces from the DIY store, he could rig himself up a shift-key foot pedal?
I don't see a person like the story poster doing it, since it would require wiring dexterity and soldering for a project that will be dropped in six months, so DIY is probably not his intention.
That said, one can easily purchase a real foot pedal aimed at the music industry at Radioshack or music stores. At around $20 dollars, it's cheap and more sightly than whole keyboards (or half ones) rigged to sit on the floor because it has a single big clicker rather than 100+.
Someone with the engineering knowhow could adapt the end plug to USB somehow, but the extinct PS/2 probably would be easier to implement.
As natural progression of our computer revolution, wasting time on a cellphone is a lot more conpicuous than doing the same on a computer. This is due to generational / cultural novelty: Decades ago parents and friends could NOT be convinced that my sitting for hours staring at a monitor was in itself "work."
For now, cellphones moved into that role of "wait, tapping away at it cannot be more serious than the conversation / class still in progress". I do recall that playing solitaire in a lab setting was barely frowned upon, partly because it is so hard to distinguish from real activity if the instructors are far away. But looking down into a phone is more obvious and even enforced / penalizable thru commonplace cell bans in schools. Can't *ban* the PC that they're each supposed to learn with (including self owned laptops for notes), though.
I think it hinges on how modern cells had their root on phones --2-way ACTIVE communication systems-- and are notorious for distractingly active texting. Full PCs are still seen as work tools for more PASSIVE chatting when employer/instructor allows it a work setting. Yes, the moral "honor system" largely determines how hard we'll work on not using a superset of the assigned functions. Remember the graphing calculator bans from most tests?
Surely theose came AFTER the then-unconventional abuse was deemed too rampant. Not before.
Seemingly strong words to say Electrolysis failed, yet I knew it... I've been watching on and off since 2010 and apparently didn't hit your link because even their project page is obsfuscated and lacked updates till I got tired of checking.
I've abandoned FF for Rockmelt in my main computer. Mozilla gave the impression that Chrome-like tabs were around the corner in 2010. The fact that a web developer recently gave me little feedback when I mentioned it by name should have tripped some alarms. It's good to have closure and know I've done the right thing. I still install FF for the PC illiterate because of brand recognition and feature needs.
Windows-only as far as I can tell.
-Darmy
I've been using this scheme for about one year on the nightly version which is automatically updated by firefox PPA channel. It also works on the current stable version.
Nice screenshot.
Can you tell us where I can download your "5 modpoints" extension ? *ducks*
That's pretty rediculous, $1.1 billion advertising two new products?!
Does anyone know what competing products have spent on advertising? That kind of information would help make more sense of their numbers.
Remember the original scifi-ish Verizon Droid campaign?
From that link:
$100 in 2009 money: "the largest in Verizon history" back in November 2009. Compare to Apple and ..."wow" INDEED. Another tidbit:
The target market is the tech-savvy, early adopter young male in his 20s or 30s who cares more about functionality and productivity, and tends to eschew certain lifestyle brands that attract herds of followers.
I still have the last version of Pandora from before they added Personal Contacts to the permissions installed on my phone
Yet another reason to always deny updates. The important things will just update themselves anyway (like the infamous and confirmation-less Market -> Google Play rename) but you can keep the latest Facebook address-wipe "feature" from affecting your phone.
What would be better is some tool to keep the OS services from spamming you. I keep clearing the "You have 20 updates waiting", notification only to see it again a few times a day. While we're at that, how about google stops asking me for a cellphone number every time I attempt to use it? Not like they are oblivious to it...
Wireless is a mess. I have found windows XP computers that just completely refuse to connect properly to specific routers, so you have to change security to yucky WEP from WPA. I lost two hours to realize that the standard-ish WAP TKIP + AES combo solved the problem without having to reorient all the other devices already set up there, but it was annoying.
Linux is even worse... back in 2005 it was the whole ndiswrapper tragedy, while these days RedHat-based distros and some Ubuntus force you to do static IP. WPA_supplicant would reconnect over and over in Ubuntu 9. To top all things off, you are affected even in VM's which distros apparently aren't paying attention to, so even your LAN tests are foiled by misteryous errors that result in a networkless Linux you can't download anything new into.
And don't even get me started on Wifi file transfer issues. 300Mb wireless may sound better than your old maxed out 100Mb ethernet connection, but in practice the numbers don't add up due to overhead, and you BETTER remember to MOVE rather than "copy" a whole home folder over wireless, so you can resume it 4 or 5 times for every random connection drop. You're better off with the slow trusty wire for emergencies
You have clients ... charge a little more and absorb the cost of new hardware. What's so hard about that?
Sure, but he is a MAC developer.
1) Not that many mac-only clients out there
2) World recession means that clients actively look for better deals. It's not too hard to switch Windows + Bootcamp and find a PC-only software provider. No mac premiums there. Not often that you hear clients saying "hey, you know, we're going to switch our userbase to macs we don't already own", so the switch to the PC should be more elastic.
3) Note how he says "I" and not "my company." This is a small shop business where there are no money pools, and cash is budgeted by himself --drawback? every client he loses entails another hard networking effort akin to landing a job.
Haven't any of these people actually had to DO what they're talking about? There's a whole realm of software meant just for this purpose
Thanks to TIMTOWTDI and the lack of regulation, there's a tradeoff in working in the nascent field of PC tech. Qualified degree-holders are the minority, and certs, colleges and pro training courses focus on vendor tools like CISCO, COMPTIA rather than general solutions --you learn those from textbooks and Real-Life networking interaction. It's part of our sad lock-in world. Compare to how each PC tech applies their personal choice of tools for, say, spyware-cleaning. It's not like there's a law to follow that you learn in tech school, let alone CS programs that cover no IT at all.
The dedicated guy you pay to lay cables or install stuff lacks the training / interest of a network admin and thus would not know these tools. If you have some newbie/intern/secretary who takes your handwritten observations and patch panel numbers / mac addresses and knows only excel then cvs/git/wiki version control and CSV conversion becomes a large obstacle. Perhaps companies should advertise management solutions some more, but these tend to be hidden gems that are only seen by people in the trenches because they cost so much anyway. That would help us to stop asking the same answered questions (or finding they have unsolved answers)
Compare that to the non-existing world of OSS Data Recovery tools and how we end up finding that lost clusters on the VP's machine won't be coming back because nobody is trained or willing to pay for the non-advertised, shady tools you find in a panicked google search.
There's also the idea that people blacklist applications just like they boycott companies like SONY, Ford, presidents, and certain religious groups.
Choice is a right not always given to people like him, you know? Remember the days of all-Netscape, all-the-time under Unix machines in the nineties?