I've seen people who bookmark every single thing they go to, their bookmark/favorites are a mess. So much so, they can't find what they are looking for in their bookmarks, so they google for it, and then bookmark it (adding to the mess).
It all depends on your needs. My intranet sites are all memorized as there are only a few of them, and the names usually make sense to what they are.
If you're detailed to organize your bookmarks/favorites, then I bow down before you. But you're the exception, not the rule. Most people don't take the time to organize favorites/bookmarks.
Bookmarks are so passe. I've stopped using Bookmarks because to find something I use Google, and if Google finds something for me, then it can find it again for me. Most of the linked articles off websites are transient or just plain timely (one time) pieces of info. Seriously, I've pretty much stopped using bookmarks and just use Google to find what I need.
And the great thing, it is always available, even on my phone!!!
I don't use cache or password remembering features because that is just plain stupid in today's world of dynamic content and security concerns (Firefox plaintext passwords?? ). This service offered me nothing I need.
You are suggesting we all go back to CLI because that isn't bloated overloaded application (aka windowing desktop) ?
Change your perspective, and realize that people want to move their data around easy, and Apple makes it easy, either because of the bloat or in spite of it. Again depending on your perspective.
Look at Linux..(and no, I'm not flamebaiting, I like Linux)
Plays my music... after I figure out how to download and install, configure DeCSS and fiddle with things for 2 hours Reads my Files... okay that works Installs some random app... first I have to figure out what app does what I want, then double check to see if RGXFido* is what it says it is. only to realize I also need four other apps that RGXFido needs to do whatever it was that I wanted. Reads some website... unless it has flash or.Net** or whatever, then it is hit or miss.
* completely made up name, to show how cryptic and silly some names are.
** Who named it Mono? After a freaking Kissing disease? Geez guys, can't you find a better name?
Apple is always "jumping the shark", but usually before people know it. Lots of times Apple does stuff that people like you think is wrong, only to just be way ahead of the curve. I mean Android looks great, and I'm probably going to get one, but that was only after Apple figured out how to do the iPhone right the first time. Before iPhone, smartphones were Palm, Wince, and Blackberry, all of which now look clunky next to iPhone and Android. And Palm, WInce are being relegated to the backburner when they should have evolved. And Blackberry is only surviving on corporate purchases and BES entrenchment.
Other things Apple did better first dumping 3.5" drives, standards of CD and networking built into every machine. USB that worked. Etc Etc. And not to mention a Tablet that everyone wants.
Oracle doesn't care about their "brand" any more. They only care about profits at any cost. The problem with this economically, is that eventually people see through the hype and start to find alternative products that fill the need. Take a look...
Oracle buys Sun, and Solaris instantly becomes next to worthless, except for Oracle DBs and big Corporation purchases. Sun gets Java and immediately starts rebranding it, breaking software. Nice testing there Oracle. Sun gets OpenOffice and tell the team "go away"
Oracle is eating itself alive. And that makes the books look good for the short term. We IT guys are already looking for ways to get off your anti-customer products and services. It might take a while, but we're already starting the process
Inflexible rules creates inflexible conditions to work in.
And while the rule you stated and the defined reason as given by you, are good example of why a rule needs to be in place, the conditions given in the grandparent are reason why inflexible rules are often just as unfair as before.
This is why rules need to be flexible, and when all parties can come to mutually agreed upon alternative contracts then they should have the ability to waive them.
Additionally, I'd love to see a %33.3 percent tax on all fees earned by non-scaled "Stars" that goes back into a pool to help starving actors.
What good is a phone if you can't use it? Verizon is the only one of the big four that doesn't suck here in my town. And by "doesn't suck", means I can actually make a call without having to move to a particular location so I can get a clear signal.
I'm personally convinced that tiered pricing is designed to screw people. Here's how.
They take everyone who uses data, and figure that MOST people use around 250-300 MB data / month. They create a Tier at 200MB and now they can charge MORE for their 2 GIG, than "unlimited" actually costs now.
My smartphone usage was about to go way up (Droid), but now I'm reconsidering.
You so left wing, you're not happy until everyone is poor and miserable?
Worst part is you're a pig that loves to enslave people to the state. Get people dependent on services of the state, and you have a great voting block for the rest of their lives. Slavery by any other measure.
Which is why black people regularly vote 90% for the (D) party, even while they've spent two entire generations living substandard lives dependent upon those "services" you're so proud of.
Are you proud of the lifetime achievement of social programs that have enslaved two generations of people?
Taxes are about freedom as much as your "rights, personal integrity and in extension safeguarding a free and democratic society" are. In fact, I would suggest that any government who's tax rates are greater than 20% on personal income is deeply infringing upon the right to pursue happiness.
Of course, well regulated citizenry is key to socialistic bliss. And damn everything else, I want to download music and not pay the artists a wit for it.
Speak all you want about sticking it to the man, and how you're for the poor oppressed artists and whatnot. And poor starving artists still exist, in spite of all the attempts of the Pirate Party and geeks protesting the MAFIAA.
The point is, here we are, ten years into the age of File Sharing and whatnot, and all those people downloading all that music and not paying for it are doing is making noise and giving me a headache.
Meanwhile government fines people for growing food in their backyard.
Government skimming off the top of the productivity of people is 100 times worse than anything the MAFIAA is doing to artists.
It will be CB radio all over again. 40 channels of everyone trying to talk over everyone else. It will die in obscurity with nobody using it, because they've moved to something else. Think about how many people live in the 50 miles surrounding where you live.
My point is that the ipad is intentionally closed and crippled, and intentionally lacks features.
Intentionally crippled (in your opinion) equals "just works" in mine. You want a Tablet built to your specific desires and wants, often unreasonable for most other people.
Car analogy: You want a car with a manual shift transmission. You want the clutch, six speed transmission. My wife wants a car to go to the store, and cares not about such things.
You see a manual transmission and say "I can fix that", replacing clutch plate, cables or whatever (reasonably simple job) while you look at a automatic trany with distain because you can't fix it. You see automatic 4 speed and think "Intentionally crippled". I mean, after all, it doesn't shift the way you want, nor have the number of gears you want.
You aren't the market for iPad, and that is okay. It doesn't mean the iPads are broken anymore than automatic trany is broken. It just isn't for you.
Looking back, the original linux kernel looks like a joke. So what is your point?
My point is that iPads are something that doesn't exist right now, in any other form / functionality/ease of use. Droid based tablets may (and probably will) make headway into that form factor market. We may see features and capabilities not found in current iPad and other tablet devices.
But does all of that mean that iPads are cruel jokes today? Hardly.
You appear to be confusing 'troll' with "someone who disagrees with my perfectly correct opinions and therefore must be silenced".
You must be new* to/.
Welcome!!!
I realize you're not quite new here. There is a vocal few who seem to use their mod points to down mod anything that they disagree with -1 Troll They must be from Digg or 4Chan or something.
You don't know what Libertarianism is. Libertarianism isn't economic in nature, though it touches upon it. It is about political structure and rights (liberties)and justice when liberties are violated.
To the idea that Libertarians are for "capitalism", what you mean by that, and what I mean by that are two different things. Corporatism is not capitalism. In fact, I'd suggest to you that Corporatism is much closer to being collectivism (communism) than it is free economics, which is exactly why it marches towards tyranny with government.
Remember too that Corporations exist at the pleasure of the government, and that there is an unholy alliance between corporations and government that subverts the rights of the people (individuals) in favor of the collective.
I'm very much aware of the evils of corporatism and agree with much of what the political left has to complain about how much influence they have, but I'm also aware of other collectives (unions) that have almost as much influence they have. Collectivization and balkinization of political and economic classes is dividing the people in ways it shouldn't.
That is why I'm libertarian, not because of "economic" reasons.
now get off my damned lawn
You should be happy you have a lawn. In some places, they are illegal:-P
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I've seen people who bookmark every single thing they go to, their bookmark/favorites are a mess. So much so, they can't find what they are looking for in their bookmarks, so they google for it, and then bookmark it (adding to the mess).
It all depends on your needs. My intranet sites are all memorized as there are only a few of them, and the names usually make sense to what they are.
If you're detailed to organize your bookmarks/favorites, then I bow down before you. But you're the exception, not the rule. Most people don't take the time to organize favorites/bookmarks.
Um
Bookmarks are so passe. I've stopped using Bookmarks because to find something I use Google, and if Google finds something for me, then it can find it again for me. Most of the linked articles off websites are transient or just plain timely (one time) pieces of info. Seriously, I've pretty much stopped using bookmarks and just use Google to find what I need.
And the great thing, it is always available, even on my phone!!!
I don't use cache or password remembering features because that is just plain stupid in today's world of dynamic content and security concerns (Firefox plaintext passwords?? ). This service offered me nothing I need.
You are suggesting we all go back to CLI because that isn't bloated overloaded application (aka windowing desktop) ?
Change your perspective, and realize that people want to move their data around easy, and Apple makes it easy, either because of the bloat or in spite of it. Again depending on your perspective.
Oops ... Plays MOVIES ... not music. ... Uggghhh I need more coffee
Look at Linux ..(and no, I'm not flamebaiting, I like Linux)
Plays my music ... after I figure out how to download and install, configure DeCSS and fiddle with things for 2 hours ... okay that works ... first I have to figure out what app does what I want, then double check to see if RGXFido* is what it says it is. only to realize I also need four other apps that RGXFido needs to do whatever it was that I wanted. ... unless it has flash or .Net** or whatever, then it is hit or miss.
Reads my Files
Installs some random app
Reads some website
* completely made up name, to show how cryptic and silly some names are.
** Who named it Mono? After a freaking Kissing disease? Geez guys, can't you find a better name?
Apple is always "jumping the shark", but usually before people know it. Lots of times Apple does stuff that people like you think is wrong, only to just be way ahead of the curve. I mean Android looks great, and I'm probably going to get one, but that was only after Apple figured out how to do the iPhone right the first time. Before iPhone, smartphones were Palm, Wince, and Blackberry, all of which now look clunky next to iPhone and Android. And Palm, WInce are being relegated to the backburner when they should have evolved. And Blackberry is only surviving on corporate purchases and BES entrenchment.
Other things Apple did better first dumping 3.5" drives, standards of CD and networking built into every machine. USB that worked. Etc Etc. And not to mention a Tablet that everyone wants.
Don't discount Apple yet.
Oracle doesn't care about their "brand" any more. They only care about profits at any cost. The problem with this economically, is that eventually people see through the hype and start to find alternative products that fill the need. Take a look ...
Oracle buys Sun, and Solaris instantly becomes next to worthless, except for Oracle DBs and big Corporation purchases.
Sun gets Java and immediately starts rebranding it, breaking software. Nice testing there Oracle.
Sun gets OpenOffice and tell the team "go away"
Oracle is eating itself alive. And that makes the books look good for the short term. We IT guys are already looking for ways to get off your anti-customer products and services. It might take a while, but we're already starting the process
Hey Oracle ... Nice going.
Inflexible rules creates inflexible conditions to work in.
And while the rule you stated and the defined reason as given by you, are good example of why a rule needs to be in place, the conditions given in the grandparent are reason why inflexible rules are often just as unfair as before.
This is why rules need to be flexible, and when all parties can come to mutually agreed upon alternative contracts then they should have the ability to waive them.
Additionally, I'd love to see a %33.3 percent tax on all fees earned by non-scaled "Stars" that goes back into a pool to help starving actors.
What good is a phone if you can't use it? Verizon is the only one of the big four that doesn't suck here in my town. And by "doesn't suck", means I can actually make a call without having to move to a particular location so I can get a clear signal.
I'm personally convinced that tiered pricing is designed to screw people. Here's how.
They take everyone who uses data, and figure that MOST people use around 250-300 MB data / month. They create a Tier at 200MB and now they can charge MORE for their 2 GIG, than "unlimited" actually costs now.
My smartphone usage was about to go way up (Droid), but now I'm reconsidering.
You so left wing, you're not happy until everyone is poor and miserable?
Worst part is you're a pig that loves to enslave people to the state. Get people dependent on services of the state, and you have a great voting block for the rest of their lives. Slavery by any other measure.
Which is why black people regularly vote 90% for the (D) party, even while they've spent two entire generations living substandard lives dependent upon those "services" you're so proud of.
Are you proud of the lifetime achievement of social programs that have enslaved two generations of people?
I guess it all depends on how you look at it.
You mean like congress and taxes??
Taxes are about freedom as much as your "rights, personal integrity and in extension safeguarding a free and democratic society" are. In fact, I would suggest that any government who's tax rates are greater than 20% on personal income is deeply infringing upon the right to pursue happiness.
Of course, well regulated citizenry is key to socialistic bliss. And damn everything else, I want to download music and not pay the artists a wit for it.
Speak all you want about sticking it to the man, and how you're for the poor oppressed artists and whatnot. And poor starving artists still exist, in spite of all the attempts of the Pirate Party and geeks protesting the MAFIAA.
The point is, here we are, ten years into the age of File Sharing and whatnot, and all those people downloading all that music and not paying for it are doing is making noise and giving me a headache.
Meanwhile government fines people for growing food in their backyard.
Government skimming off the top of the productivity of people is 100 times worse than anything the MAFIAA is doing to artists.
I don't know if I should be up or down, but I definitely feel strange about your ideas.
Laws always code for the exceptions and never for the rules, instead of coding for the rule, and checking for exceptions.
So, what you're saying is that WP and SS are mature products.It happens
Nope it won't.
It will be CB radio all over again. 40 channels of everyone trying to talk over everyone else. It will die in obscurity with nobody using it, because they've moved to something else. Think about how many people live in the 50 miles surrounding where you live.
hahahahahahah Good one.
Would you want an iPad if it was thicker, heavier easier to break?
As for your car analogy, More like you're comparing one of these to a car, and saying it was intentionally crippled (no fourth wheel, no spare etc).
I just see things differently than most ;) (and I don't own any apple products)
Design options unreasonable or crippled.
iPad Camera Connection Kit including a USB Type A connector adapter and an SD card reader, for transferring photos and videos
It has options for what you want. That is not "crippled". Proprietary maybe, crippled no. It was a design choice that suits MOST people.
You're not "most people".
I'm only going to address one point you made.
Intentionally crippled (in your opinion) equals "just works" in mine. You want a Tablet built to your specific desires and wants, often unreasonable for most other people.
Car analogy: You want a car with a manual shift transmission. You want the clutch, six speed transmission. My wife wants a car to go to the store, and cares not about such things.
You see a manual transmission and say "I can fix that", replacing clutch plate, cables or whatever (reasonably simple job) while you look at a automatic trany with distain because you can't fix it. You see automatic 4 speed and think "Intentionally crippled". I mean, after all, it doesn't shift the way you want, nor have the number of gears you want.
You aren't the market for iPad, and that is okay. It doesn't mean the iPads are broken anymore than automatic trany is broken. It just isn't for you.
Looking back, the original linux kernel looks like a joke. So what is your point?
My point is that iPads are something that doesn't exist right now, in any other form / functionality/ease of use. Droid based tablets may (and probably will) make headway into that form factor market. We may see features and capabilities not found in current iPad and other tablet devices.
But does all of that mean that iPads are cruel jokes today? Hardly.
Red or Blue??
Don't give them any ideas!
Actually Wait!
That might not be such a bad idea. NYCL where are you?? Please patent stupid lawyer tricks, so stupid lawyers can't use them any longer. PLEASE!
You must be new* to /.
Welcome!!!
I realize you're not quite new here. There is a vocal few who seem to use their mod points to down mod anything that they disagree with -1 Troll They must be from Digg or 4Chan or something.
1) ATT ... NO ... NO ... NO ... NO
2) Windows Mobile
3) $595
4) $1 / min
5)???
6) Fail
You don't know what Libertarianism is. Libertarianism isn't economic in nature, though it touches upon it. It is about political structure and rights (liberties)and justice when liberties are violated.
To the idea that Libertarians are for "capitalism", what you mean by that, and what I mean by that are two different things. Corporatism is not capitalism. In fact, I'd suggest to you that Corporatism is much closer to being collectivism (communism) than it is free economics, which is exactly why it marches towards tyranny with government.
Remember too that Corporations exist at the pleasure of the government, and that there is an unholy alliance between corporations and government that subverts the rights of the people (individuals) in favor of the collective.
I'm very much aware of the evils of corporatism and agree with much of what the political left has to complain about how much influence they have, but I'm also aware of other collectives (unions) that have almost as much influence they have. Collectivization and balkinization of political and economic classes is dividing the people in ways it shouldn't.
That is why I'm libertarian, not because of "economic" reasons.
You should be happy you have a lawn. In some places, they are illegal :-P