I just need to manage my iPhones. I need separate profiles (since I have multiple devices) so they don't try and sync up apps with whatever the last person did. I don't need music playing when all I wanted to do was drag some tunes into my phone.
Maybe I'm using it wrong? I'm not an apple fanatic. I just needed to get into the iOS development game, and it was a good deal on a decent phone (now that the iPhone 5 is out, iPhone 4/4s is a heck of a deal if you are in a contract anyway)
Apple should have an iOS Device Manager that does all the syncing and such, and keep iTunes separate.
Thank god. I talked to one of these idiots a long time ago.... I ask "what bank does this card belong to?" They say "It's your card ending in 9999" I say, that's not what I asked and hang up.
I hope they get the death penalty. Nothing less is warranted - same goes for spammers and virus authors.
The movie was a red herring. The protests were entirely the result of al qaida operatives fomenting crowds as cover for actual attacks on American embassies.
Many said this from day one, and two weeks after the attacks, it was finally acknowledged by the US.
As for laws prohibiting "offensive speech" - I have some offensive speech for anybody who proposes such nonsense. We live int he 21st century, not the 8th century. Tribal bullshit is tribal bullshit, and was meant to be left in the dark ages, as most of the world has. If your culture is still steeped in such insanity, perhaps it's time to REFORM like the other world religions and grow a thick skin.
Anybody that's served overseas has sent stuff back and forth via cargo containers.
This is a really dumb question.... just pack your stuff well and stop worrying about it, like the thousands of service personnel have done for decades of shipping personal computers, stereo equipment, etc...
Is this going to be cheaper than SSD? The price point for solid state finally reached where platter drives were about ten years ago (a dollar or less a gig) and I installed one on my system just last week as my OS drive. Also, are these going to be significantly faster than the standard five platter density drives? Frankly, weight only matters in tablets, phones, and laptops. I'm not aware of any crushing weight problems in the steel server racks...
I think the idea is that they're going to be making 4-5TB drives with it, and those aren't as cheap as run of the mill 1-3TB HDDs that we're used to.
I'm guessing that they'll be selling to a crowd that values maximum storage size over price/GB.
Actually, it sounds like 6TB drives. initially, these will be enterprise drives, but I'm sure there will be consumer drives avialable. Platter drives still compete with SSDs in the consumer marketplace, and they do this for volume (which reduces costs). The only problem is that as SSD capacities rise (even if the $/GB is still much higher than platter drives) within the usual consumer "Benchmark" pricing (i.e. $200 or less), platter drives HAVE to increase capacity and maintain sub-$200 pricing.
The whole Thailand flood thing allowed platter drive vendors to breathe a bit after spending so much time at the low margin end fo the business, but it's gone on WAY TOO LONG. Now SSDs have started mainstreaming as boot drives on desktops and laptops. Platter drives are quickly being relegated to secondary storage status as slower data drives for consumers... Outside of enthusiasts, who needs much more than 500GB on a desktop or laptop? In another year, 500GB SSDs will be available for under $200 (that magic consumer price point), and only enthusiasts will be looking for bigger secondary drives to hold their games, music, movies and porn - and where will that leave platter vendors?
I had a vendor give me an invalid tracking number and didn't ship the product I bought, but the nice thing is that AliExpress ESCROWS the payment. That means the seller doesn't get paid until I get the product.
I quickly got a refund (faster than a current eBay case I'm dealing with), and ordered a slightly different product from a different (and more reputable) vendor... I got that product without any issues (2 years ago, 10" Android Tablet with GPS, still use it today).
I wouldn't have a problem at all using AliExpress. My only advice is to select vendors with plenty of feedback to avoid hassles.
They are pretty stupid. The first thing I did when I bought my phone was spend even more money on the biggest SD card it would take. I will, in all probability, never remove it from the phone - or at least, I never have removed them from my previous phones.
That means for me, the SD card just makes the phone bulkier, more expensive, and more prone to failure. I'm sure there are people who actually use the removable storage, but certainly it appears that I'm not alone.
How is it making it more expensive? When there is no external storage, your phone price jumps in disproportionate amounts to the memory it has onboard. I suppose if you like paying $100 extra to get an extra 16GB on your phone, then having an "undefiled" phone will make you happy.
I'm also a bit baffled how a slot makes the phone "bulkier" - SD slots don't really add much to the thickness, and if anything, we've learned that phones CAN get too small (form factors for most things don't tolerate being shrunk too much).
What I'd prefer to see is all smart phones come equipped with SDXC slots, perhaps one internal (battery slot) and one external.
I predict Vista will be on more Desktop and Laptop systems than Windows 8 by October 2014, and Windows 8 will never overtake Windows 7.
The caveat here, of course, is that Microsoft will inevitably include Tablet and Phone "RT Version" Windows 8 installs in their ultimate numbers, which would articficially drive the numbers up beyond XP, Win7 and Vista combined by then (even with lackluster mobile sales, since mobile device sales dwarf the desktop/laptop market).
Windows 8 will be great on tablets and phones. Laptops? perhaps 20% less annoying than desktops, where Win8 is a UI fail. Touchscreen UIs are not useful for desktops. We've had touchscreens for ages, but nobody wants to spend 8+ hours a day using gestures, nor does the idea of cheetos-stained fingers smudging up the screen excite me in the least (not that my fingers are cheetos-stained, but I've known plenty of people who fit this general type).
If removing UI elements is your idea of a "Dream OS" then perhaps you don't need a general purpose PC at all. Stick to a tablet or your phone and you'll be happy forever.
They should call it "Pane" because it is a pane in my ass to use gestures with my trackball or learn all the keyboard combos that I never had to use before Metro was shoved down users' throats.
As I posted below... they could have put Metro apps in a window with standard buttons to do the gesture actions. Win8 would have been lauded as a boon to mobile developers... instead, Microsoft has spent the last year drinking kool-aid.
Microsoft could have kept the desktop and mobile UIs separate... and made Metro apps windowed (with common operations like "Close" remaining a button, ratehr than a gesture). The Metro app would live in it's own sandbox, and be just as effective (more so, actually) for desktop users used to operating multiple windows and jumping between apps.
Could have.
They chose to force it down people's throats, which is a big mistake. I think Windows 8 with a standard Desktop, and a Metro App-in-a-Window paradigm would have been a smash hit for Microsoft; a real reason for developers to jump on board and make mobile apps and put them in the Metro market place. Instead they decided to ignore 30 years of good UI research to put a tablet UI on the desktop. Morons.
The summary probably has most of it right, but so many bits of news have come out, who knows what the whole picture is on this? Admins in Mexico, there was a raid, then there wasn't, now there was... WTF?
Demonoid was a great site... nicely browseable listings, great search capability, and a good community that kept content clean (or at least well reported malware or false positives).
I hope their UI can be resurrected by somebody else and they attract many of the members of Demonoid that made that site so good.
It doesn't close the app, though any other metro apps do seem to be closed after launching something else.
Still no good for a GUI. Beyond the counter-intuitive "guess the gesture to perform an action" - I'm not working with a touchscreen, so gestures are about the LEAST efficient way to do things. It's also doubtful that, short of a table top touchscreen, tablet or phone, I would ever desire a touchscreen on my PC.
This remains a major FAIL on Microsoft's Metro UI.
Remember, closing an application means it no longer consumes memory and CPU cycles or any other resources... not just that it goes out of site.
Even in webOS I can close an application with a swipe. I actually like tablets and smart phones, I just don't think it's smart to try and use the same UI on a desktop.
Nope, not working in Metro Maps. Left-clicking does nothing in the upper corners, right-clicking just brings up the menu at the bottom with no "Exit app" icon. Same goes for a quick check in Metro IE.
Alt-F4 works, but as I said, that is complete GUI Fail on Microsoft's part.
Wake me when they bring back their best input device ever... the 5-button Microsoft Trackball Optical. Ergonomic, useful, and an efficient number and layout of buttons for work and play.
As for WinMetro, what use is a mouse? Can somebody explain how, WITHOUT USING A KEYBOARD, you can exit a Metro app on the desktop strictly by GUI?
Microsoft shills keep popping up explaining how we are all idiots for notusing the simple keyboard shortcuts. I rebut this by stating a UI is useless if you MUST use the keyboard to do basic operations (like exit the app)
From all indications, Office 2013 is just more metro UI devolution insanity from Microsoft.
Corporate IT will not have a problem skipping this upgrade cycle, and will be richer for it. No upgraded licenses to pay for to Microsoft, no new training required for users, and everybody is happier (except for the Microsoft people, of course).
Just hopped on Google Play Store, and downloaded something purported to be the "XBMC Media" app. It required me to sign in (WTF?) and seems to be related to something called "ZappoTV".
In short, it sucked. It went on an endless loop trying to access my DLNA media server, which even other Android media player apps can read.
Hopefully, this "full" XBMC will fully support MKV containers. I'm also looking forward to getting the "real" VLC Media player.
Don't forget, a $500 monitor from today is larger, but with worse resolution, than your 2007 benchmark. The explosion of HDTV has regressed monitor resolution, even as the screens grow. I want to go back in time to when 19" LCDs at 1600x1200 was "standard" and at 21" and larger, you got more.
A 1920x1080 monitor (HDTV) has more pixels than a 1600x1200.
Beyond that, we ARE seeing 2560x1440 in the widescreen form factor and larger, even - you just have to be willing to spend more than the $100~200 "sweet spot" price for monitors to get that additional resolution.
As for form-factor, it seems some people just can't stop hating on any computer monitor that matches up to HDTV's 16:9 display ratio. Why is this? I have no problem with convergence... it greatly reduces manufacturing costs, resulting in lower consumer prices for quality monitors. Don't knock the ability to buy additional monitors for your setup, and spend less than what a single good 1600x1200 21" monitor cost.
CRTs vs LCDs also have changed the space available on our work surfaces, too.... as well as greatly reduced eyestrain.
So... could you buy a 2560x1440 30" monitor for $500 in 2007? I can get it for less than $400 today. I don't recall being able to buy anything with 2 megapixels for less than $500 in 2007./Just don't understand all the misinformation people are willing to spread in their hate on 1080p consumer monitors.
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I just need to manage my iPhones. I need separate profiles (since I have multiple devices) so they don't try and sync up apps with whatever the last person did. I don't need music playing when all I wanted to do was drag some tunes into my phone.
Maybe I'm using it wrong? I'm not an apple fanatic. I just needed to get into the iOS development game, and it was a good deal on a decent phone (now that the iPhone 5 is out, iPhone 4/4s is a heck of a deal if you are in a contract anyway)
Apple should have an iOS Device Manager that does all the syncing and such, and keep iTunes separate.
Thank god. I talked to one of these idiots a long time ago.... I ask "what bank does this card belong to?" They say "It's your card ending in 9999" I say, that's not what I asked and hang up.
I hope they get the death penalty. Nothing less is warranted - same goes for spammers and virus authors.
The UN will draft a strongly worded memo and strike him with it.
That will teach him to go and try and fix the environment without their approval!
The movie was a red herring. The protests were entirely the result of al qaida operatives fomenting crowds as cover for actual attacks on American embassies.
Many said this from day one, and two weeks after the attacks, it was finally acknowledged by the US.
As for laws prohibiting "offensive speech" - I have some offensive speech for anybody who proposes such nonsense. We live int he 21st century, not the 8th century. Tribal bullshit is tribal bullshit, and was meant to be left in the dark ages, as most of the world has. If your culture is still steeped in such insanity, perhaps it's time to REFORM like the other world religions and grow a thick skin.
Anybody that's served overseas has sent stuff back and forth via cargo containers.
This is a really dumb question.... just pack your stuff well and stop worrying about it, like the thousands of service personnel have done for decades of shipping personal computers, stereo equipment, etc...
Yup, it's all explained there... you use Windows+®+Right-ALT to get the button to appear.
It really couldn't be any simpler with Windows 8!
Failing the keyboard command, you could to a swirly-Q gesture, followed by a triple tap and rapid swipe between each corner. Easy Peasy.
Is this going to be cheaper than SSD? The price point for solid state finally reached where platter drives were about ten years ago (a dollar or less a gig) and I installed one on my system just last week as my OS drive. Also, are these going to be significantly faster than the standard five platter density drives? Frankly, weight only matters in tablets, phones, and laptops. I'm not aware of any crushing weight problems in the steel server racks...
I think the idea is that they're going to be making 4-5TB drives with it, and those aren't as cheap as run of the mill 1-3TB HDDs that we're used to.
I'm guessing that they'll be selling to a crowd that values maximum storage size over price/GB.
Actually, it sounds like 6TB drives. initially, these will be enterprise drives, but I'm sure there will be consumer drives avialable. Platter drives still compete with SSDs in the consumer marketplace, and they do this for volume (which reduces costs). The only problem is that as SSD capacities rise (even if the $/GB is still much higher than platter drives) within the usual consumer "Benchmark" pricing (i.e. $200 or less), platter drives HAVE to increase capacity and maintain sub-$200 pricing.
The whole Thailand flood thing allowed platter drive vendors to breathe a bit after spending so much time at the low margin end fo the business, but it's gone on WAY TOO LONG. Now SSDs have started mainstreaming as boot drives on desktops and laptops. Platter drives are quickly being relegated to secondary storage status as slower data drives for consumers... Outside of enthusiasts, who needs much more than 500GB on a desktop or laptop? In another year, 500GB SSDs will be available for under $200 (that magic consumer price point), and only enthusiasts will be looking for bigger secondary drives to hold their games, music, movies and porn - and where will that leave platter vendors?
I had a vendor give me an invalid tracking number and didn't ship the product I bought, but the nice thing is that AliExpress ESCROWS the payment. That means the seller doesn't get paid until I get the product.
I quickly got a refund (faster than a current eBay case I'm dealing with), and ordered a slightly different product from a different (and more reputable) vendor... I got that product without any issues (2 years ago, 10" Android Tablet with GPS, still use it today).
I wouldn't have a problem at all using AliExpress. My only advice is to select vendors with plenty of feedback to avoid hassles.
They are pretty stupid. The first thing I did when I bought my phone was spend even more money on the biggest SD card it would take. I will, in all probability, never remove it from the phone - or at least, I never have removed them from my previous phones.
That means for me, the SD card just makes the phone bulkier, more expensive, and more prone to failure. I'm sure there are people who actually use the removable storage, but certainly it appears that I'm not alone.
How is it making it more expensive? When there is no external storage, your phone price jumps in disproportionate amounts to the memory it has onboard. I suppose if you like paying $100 extra to get an extra 16GB on your phone, then having an "undefiled" phone will make you happy.
I'm also a bit baffled how a slot makes the phone "bulkier" - SD slots don't really add much to the thickness, and if anything, we've learned that phones CAN get too small (form factors for most things don't tolerate being shrunk too much).
What I'd prefer to see is all smart phones come equipped with SDXC slots, perhaps one internal (battery slot) and one external.
I predict Vista will be on more Desktop and Laptop systems than Windows 8 by October 2014, and Windows 8 will never overtake Windows 7.
The caveat here, of course, is that Microsoft will inevitably include Tablet and Phone "RT Version" Windows 8 installs in their ultimate numbers, which would articficially drive the numbers up beyond XP, Win7 and Vista combined by then (even with lackluster mobile sales, since mobile device sales dwarf the desktop/laptop market).
Windows 8 will be great on tablets and phones. Laptops? perhaps 20% less annoying than desktops, where Win8 is a UI fail. Touchscreen UIs are not useful for desktops. We've had touchscreens for ages, but nobody wants to spend 8+ hours a day using gestures, nor does the idea of cheetos-stained fingers smudging up the screen excite me in the least (not that my fingers are cheetos-stained, but I've known plenty of people who fit this general type).
If removing UI elements is your idea of a "Dream OS" then perhaps you don't need a general purpose PC at all. Stick to a tablet or your phone and you'll be happy forever.
They should call it "Pane" because it is a pane in my ass to use gestures with my trackball or learn all the keyboard combos that I never had to use before Metro was shoved down users' throats.
As I posted below... they could have put Metro apps in a window with standard buttons to do the gesture actions. Win8 would have been lauded as a boon to mobile developers... instead, Microsoft has spent the last year drinking kool-aid.
Microsoft could have kept the desktop and mobile UIs separate... and made Metro apps windowed (with common operations like "Close" remaining a button, ratehr than a gesture). The Metro app would live in it's own sandbox, and be just as effective (more so, actually) for desktop users used to operating multiple windows and jumping between apps.
Could have.
They chose to force it down people's throats, which is a big mistake. I think Windows 8 with a standard Desktop, and a Metro App-in-a-Window paradigm would have been a smash hit for Microsoft; a real reason for developers to jump on board and make mobile apps and put them in the Metro market place. Instead they decided to ignore 30 years of good UI research to put a tablet UI on the desktop. Morons.
The summary probably has most of it right, but so many bits of news have come out, who knows what the whole picture is on this? Admins in Mexico, there was a raid, then there wasn't, now there was... WTF?
Demonoid was a great site... nicely browseable listings, great search capability, and a good community that kept content clean (or at least well reported malware or false positives).
I hope their UI can be resurrected by somebody else and they attract many of the members of Demonoid that made that site so good.
Also just read Scalzi's God Engines... the ending is amgibuous enough to be either the doom of men or its salvation.
It doesn't close the app, though any other metro apps do seem to be closed after launching something else.
Still no good for a GUI. Beyond the counter-intuitive "guess the gesture to perform an action" - I'm not working with a touchscreen, so gestures are about the LEAST efficient way to do things. It's also doubtful that, short of a table top touchscreen, tablet or phone, I would ever desire a touchscreen on my PC.
This remains a major FAIL on Microsoft's Metro UI.
Remember, closing an application means it no longer consumes memory and CPU cycles or any other resources... not just that it goes out of site.
Even in webOS I can close an application with a swipe. I actually like tablets and smart phones, I just don't think it's smart to try and use the same UI on a desktop.
That doesn't exit the application, though. It merely switches to the Metro screen.
How can Microsoft feel OK designing a GUI that does not allow you to CLOSE AN APPLICATION without a keyboard command?
Nope, not working in Metro Maps. Left-clicking does nothing in the upper corners, right-clicking just brings up the menu at the bottom with no "Exit app" icon. Same goes for a quick check in Metro IE.
Alt-F4 works, but as I said, that is complete GUI Fail on Microsoft's part.
Odd, I prefer the feedback of a wheel, and while I've been using them for 2 decades, I've never broken a single mouse wheel, nor had one fail for me.
Perhaps you are doing it wrong?
Wake me when they bring back their best input device ever... the 5-button Microsoft Trackball Optical. Ergonomic, useful, and an efficient number and layout of buttons for work and play.
As for WinMetro, what use is a mouse? Can somebody explain how, WITHOUT USING A KEYBOARD, you can exit a Metro app on the desktop strictly by GUI?
Microsoft shills keep popping up explaining how we are all idiots for notusing the simple keyboard shortcuts. I rebut this by stating a UI is useless if you MUST use the keyboard to do basic operations (like exit the app)
...would like a word with you, sir.
Earlier this week, Fred Willard was arrested by LAPD for an attempted shooting at an adult theater.
Related incident?
From all indications, Office 2013 is just more metro UI devolution insanity from Microsoft.
Corporate IT will not have a problem skipping this upgrade cycle, and will be richer for it. No upgraded licenses to pay for to Microsoft, no new training required for users, and everybody is happier (except for the Microsoft people, of course).
Just hopped on Google Play Store, and downloaded something purported to be the "XBMC Media" app. It required me to sign in (WTF?) and seems to be related to something called "ZappoTV".
In short, it sucked. It went on an endless loop trying to access my DLNA media server, which even other Android media player apps can read.
Hopefully, this "full" XBMC will fully support MKV containers. I'm also looking forward to getting the "real" VLC Media player.
Don't forget, a $500 monitor from today is larger, but with worse resolution, than your 2007 benchmark. The explosion of HDTV has regressed monitor resolution, even as the screens grow. I want to go back in time to when 19" LCDs at 1600x1200 was "standard" and at 21" and larger, you got more.
A 1920x1080 monitor (HDTV) has more pixels than a 1600x1200.
Beyond that, we ARE seeing 2560x1440 in the widescreen form factor and larger, even - you just have to be willing to spend more than the $100~200 "sweet spot" price for monitors to get that additional resolution.
As for form-factor, it seems some people just can't stop hating on any computer monitor that matches up to HDTV's 16:9 display ratio. Why is this? I have no problem with convergence... it greatly reduces manufacturing costs, resulting in lower consumer prices for quality monitors. Don't knock the ability to buy additional monitors for your setup, and spend less than what a single good 1600x1200 21" monitor cost.
CRTs vs LCDs also have changed the space available on our work surfaces, too.... as well as greatly reduced eyestrain.
So... could you buy a 2560x1440 30" monitor for $500 in 2007? I can get it for less than $400 today. I don't recall being able to buy anything with 2 megapixels for less than $500 in 2007. /Just don't understand all the misinformation people are willing to spread in their hate on 1080p consumer monitors.