You know, I've seen zealotry before-- I used to be an OS/2 user!-- but Apple fanbois really take the prize. Are we really to the point where no criticism can be made of Itune/IOS/I-this-that-or-the-other? Dear God, it's not as if I'm attacking their coolness or hipness!
"Am I the only one that has 700+ TV shows and 300+ movies in my iTunes, none of which were purchased through the iTunes Store?"
I have a comparable number of movies and songs, *none* of which I had to sell my soul to get. Besides, we're talking about apps, not media content.
They jumped it some time ago. Itunes making you have to go through Apple to do *anything* is not just a walled garden, it's a prison. Yes, consumers might put up with that shit, but businesses won't.
As a Mint and SUSE user, this Unity thing doesn't affect me, and hopefully it never will.
Desktops are desktops and tablets are tablets. This trying to shove a tablet interface up everyone's ass whether they're using a tablet or not is very very wrong.
"If Intel had come out with Bulldozer instead of AMD, we'd be calling this Prescott version 2.0."
Bingo. I love the underdog as much as anyone, and my last few systems have all been AMD-based (Athlon 64 2800, X2 4800, Phenom II X4 810) but now the Sandy Bridge chips are just blowing everything else out of the water. It's a month until my birthday, so I'll be getting a Core I7 2600K with a decent H67 motherboard to treat myself.
Tablets have their niche, and far be it from me to tell others they're wasting their money. What Apple has always had going for it was the coolness factor. Why? Your guess is as good as mine. There's nothing a non-phone tablet can do that a netbook or especially a notebook can't do better. Their only advantages are size and battery life. Apple's tight control of the platform and apps are its greatest strength, but also the reason I personally hate them the most. If I buy a device I own the frickin' thing, and the fact that you have to go through iTunes to do anything is antithetical to that.
Okay, very well, Micro$oft, GNOME 3, and Unity all seem to be pushing their users towards a "unified" interface that's common to both PCs and tablets. They accomplish this by dumbing down the PC interface and removing functionality. Can someone please explain to me how this is desirable? And don't get me started about the ribbon interface-- most monitors sold nowadays are WXGA and vertical pixels are valuable. It all smacks of, "We know what's best for you, the consumer. Now shut up."
In America, health care costs so much because it can. It has a (seemingly) bottomless pit to tap from with the insurance companies, and now it's been mandated by the Gubbermint.
People-- the consumers of health care-- are not the people who pay. Nameless and faceless and 'inexhaustible' companies pay for health care by the billion. And if they can't afford it the government's good for a trillion or two of Chinese debt.
This isn't rocket science people. Market economics. What if the sellers of health care had to bear real, un-artificially-altered market pressures? But I've been smoking again....
Yep, BASIC Computer Games by David Ahl..... I'm not a professional programmer today, but those (and the Sinclair User's Manual that came with my ZX-81) were what I learned on.
The point of having a desktop environment is to get work done quickly. I spent several years using KDE 2, then 3, and now 4 is counterintuitive & slows me down, so I switched to GNOME 2. Now I'm being told that it's going down the toilet too. This headlong rush for eye candy is probably going to appeal to Windows and Mac users, but longtime & loyal users like myself are being ignored. Someone pointed out that earlier iterations of GNOME and KDE aped Microsoft and the new ones are aping OSX.... As far as DEs go, I think Win2K's was the most efficient, and when I finally installed XP the first thing I did was enable the "classic" look. Does that make me a Luddite? **The purpose of an interface is to enable the user to get his work done as quickly as he can.**
Get off my lawn!
I'm sorry, but count me among the ones who're not happy with 4.x.
Eye candy is nice but the purpose of a desktop environment ought to be to enable the user to get his work done as quickly as possible. Do that, *then* add the gravy.
KDE 4 is the best thing to ever happen to GNOME.
Not being a citizen of the UK I don't know what sorts of rights to privacy are constitutionally or statutorily conferred to her people, but couldn't you folks have seen this coming with the cameras everywhere?
If it's any consolation, we Yanks are right behind you. George Orwell is spinning in his grave right now.
Define 'polarizing'. Do you mean taking a strong stance; for example being strongly for or against a hot-button issue-of-the-day? I am against same-sex marriage and have posted this to FB many times. I got comments from friends who disagreed and even a nasty-gram from one, but no one unfriended me.
Anyway, the big pet-peeve for me is people who never post anything at all but have signed up for apps that spam the bejeebers out of everyone. Block the app, rinse, repeat. Then you find their accounts have no activity at all.
The way the Net is currently implemented, there's no way to secure it. PEBKAC. I'm skeptical it can be secured in any form, because people are frickin' stoooooopid.
This is not to say we shouldn't *try*, any more than we should *try* to stop all murders from occurring.
I know this will be an unpopular thing to say on SD, but nearly all shenanigans would stop if a way could be found to erase anonymity. Criminals depend on not being identified or caught; this is why more houses get burgled at night. Before you cry foul at the idea, realize that the world is getting ever more connected and therefore ever more vulnerable. All information and all media will be on the Internet. Sooner or later a decision will have to be made as to whether anonymity or a usable world is more important.
Sorry, but I just don't see why. A few months ago I found a 16GB 3g iPod laying in the middle of the street. I turned it on, but the only identification the owner had put on it was simply the name, "William."
So I took it home and booted to Windows, and installed iTunes so I could interface with the damn thing. It was then I learned that just about *anything* you want to do, you have to go through Apple to do. Apple has your nuts in a vise in ways Micro$oft never dreamed of if you own one of these.
Over the next few days I downloaded a number of jailbreaking apps, all carrying strong cautions about my device being subject to bricking. I made a token effort. All this just to have the ability to control a device that I now owned. I'd've been very happy to give it back to William had I known who he was.
I ended up selling it for $40, so, happy ending there. As for the iPad, I'm sure it's a shiny and very nifty piece of technology, but the price to both wallet and soul are wayyyyy too high.
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No, no, no. Don't want. That roaring sound you hear is all the Mint users installing LMDE, or Debian, itself, or some KDE distro like SUSE
You know, I've seen zealotry before-- I used to be an OS/2 user!-- but Apple fanbois really take the prize. Are we really to the point where no criticism can be made of Itune/IOS/I-this-that-or-the-other? Dear God, it's not as if I'm attacking their coolness or hipness!
"Am I the only one that has 700+ TV shows and 300+ movies in my iTunes, none of which were purchased through the iTunes Store?" I have a comparable number of movies and songs, *none* of which I had to sell my soul to get. Besides, we're talking about apps, not media content.
They jumped it some time ago. Itunes making you have to go through Apple to do *anything* is not just a walled garden, it's a prison. Yes, consumers might put up with that shit, but businesses won't.
Mainly because of Star Trek
As a Mint and SUSE user, this Unity thing doesn't affect me, and hopefully it never will.
Desktops are desktops and tablets are tablets. This trying to shove a tablet interface up everyone's ass whether they're using a tablet or not is very very wrong.
"If Intel had come out with Bulldozer instead of AMD, we'd be calling this Prescott version 2.0."
Bingo. I love the underdog as much as anyone, and my last few systems have all been AMD-based (Athlon 64 2800, X2 4800, Phenom II X4 810) but now the Sandy Bridge chips are just blowing everything else out of the water. It's a month until my birthday, so I'll be getting a Core I7 2600K with a decent H67 motherboard to treat myself.
...In other news, scientists have devised perpetual motion, faster-than-light travel, and figured out how to avoid death and taxes!
Rest in Peace Steve.
Tablets have their niche, and far be it from me to tell others they're wasting their money. What Apple has always had going for it was the coolness factor. Why? Your guess is as good as mine. There's nothing a non-phone tablet can do that a netbook or especially a notebook can't do better. Their only advantages are size and battery life. Apple's tight control of the platform and apps are its greatest strength, but also the reason I personally hate them the most. If I buy a device I own the frickin' thing, and the fact that you have to go through iTunes to do anything is antithetical to that.
... It already is online. I myself go to one. Is it the future of higher education? Yes in some proportion. Should it be? I don't know.
Okay, very well, Micro$oft, GNOME 3, and Unity all seem to be pushing their users towards a "unified" interface that's common to both PCs and tablets. They accomplish this by dumbing down the PC interface and removing functionality. Can someone please explain to me how this is desirable? And don't get me started about the ribbon interface-- most monitors sold nowadays are WXGA and vertical pixels are valuable. It all smacks of, "We know what's best for you, the consumer. Now shut up."
In America, health care costs so much because it can. It has a (seemingly) bottomless pit to tap from with the insurance companies, and now it's been mandated by the Gubbermint. People-- the consumers of health care-- are not the people who pay. Nameless and faceless and 'inexhaustible' companies pay for health care by the billion. And if they can't afford it the government's good for a trillion or two of Chinese debt. This isn't rocket science people. Market economics. What if the sellers of health care had to bear real, un-artificially-altered market pressures? But I've been smoking again....
Yes. It's called freedom.
Yep, BASIC Computer Games by David Ahl..... I'm not a professional programmer today, but those (and the Sinclair User's Manual that came with my ZX-81) were what I learned on.
Next they'll be wanting computers to get married!
The point of having a desktop environment is to get work done quickly. I spent several years using KDE 2, then 3, and now 4 is counterintuitive & slows me down, so I switched to GNOME 2. Now I'm being told that it's going down the toilet too. This headlong rush for eye candy is probably going to appeal to Windows and Mac users, but longtime & loyal users like myself are being ignored. Someone pointed out that earlier iterations of GNOME and KDE aped Microsoft and the new ones are aping OSX.... As far as DEs go, I think Win2K's was the most efficient, and when I finally installed XP the first thing I did was enable the "classic" look. Does that make me a Luddite? **The purpose of an interface is to enable the user to get his work done as quickly as he can.** Get off my lawn!
I'm sorry, but count me among the ones who're not happy with 4.x. Eye candy is nice but the purpose of a desktop environment ought to be to enable the user to get his work done as quickly as possible. Do that, *then* add the gravy. KDE 4 is the best thing to ever happen to GNOME.
Is there a catch?
Well, we KDE users got the big one rammed up our butts with 4.x, so now it's the Gnome users' turn...
Not being a citizen of the UK I don't know what sorts of rights to privacy are constitutionally or statutorily conferred to her people, but couldn't you folks have seen this coming with the cameras everywhere? If it's any consolation, we Yanks are right behind you. George Orwell is spinning in his grave right now.
Mod up, up, up. The only reason I boot to Windows either is to play games that won't run under wine.
Define 'polarizing'. Do you mean taking a strong stance; for example being strongly for or against a hot-button issue-of-the-day? I am against same-sex marriage and have posted this to FB many times. I got comments from friends who disagreed and even a nasty-gram from one, but no one unfriended me. Anyway, the big pet-peeve for me is people who never post anything at all but have signed up for apps that spam the bejeebers out of everyone. Block the app, rinse, repeat. Then you find their accounts have no activity at all.
The way the Net is currently implemented, there's no way to secure it. PEBKAC. I'm skeptical it can be secured in any form, because people are frickin' stoooooopid. This is not to say we shouldn't *try*, any more than we should *try* to stop all murders from occurring. I know this will be an unpopular thing to say on SD, but nearly all shenanigans would stop if a way could be found to erase anonymity. Criminals depend on not being identified or caught; this is why more houses get burgled at night. Before you cry foul at the idea, realize that the world is getting ever more connected and therefore ever more vulnerable. All information and all media will be on the Internet. Sooner or later a decision will have to be made as to whether anonymity or a usable world is more important.
Sorry, but I just don't see why. A few months ago I found a 16GB 3g iPod laying in the middle of the street. I turned it on, but the only identification the owner had put on it was simply the name, "William." So I took it home and booted to Windows, and installed iTunes so I could interface with the damn thing. It was then I learned that just about *anything* you want to do, you have to go through Apple to do. Apple has your nuts in a vise in ways Micro$oft never dreamed of if you own one of these. Over the next few days I downloaded a number of jailbreaking apps, all carrying strong cautions about my device being subject to bricking. I made a token effort. All this just to have the ability to control a device that I now owned. I'd've been very happy to give it back to William had I known who he was. I ended up selling it for $40, so, happy ending there. As for the iPad, I'm sure it's a shiny and very nifty piece of technology, but the price to both wallet and soul are wayyyyy too high.