Apple is remarkable good at retroactively inventing things. Like hard-drive based mp3 players, the idea for which was stolen from them e.g. in 1998 by Compaq (4.8 GB), in 2000 by Creative (Nomad, 6 GB) and in the same year by Archos (6 GB). Then Apple re-invented the entire market by bringing out a player with... 5 GB in 2001. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_media_player
It's understandable that so many people believe Apple came up with the idea, considering the advertising budget. Many probably didn't even realize that mp3 players existed before Apple told them about it.
I've used Linux since kernel version 0.99pl15. I don't "love to screw" with my BIOS. I might do it, but it would annoy me.
Anyway, the days of Slackware on sixty 3.5" floppy disks are long gone, you don't need to be a geek any more to use Linux. My wife is perfectly happy with it, so is my dad, and I find it a lot easier to support their systems than if they had Windows machines.
If he was so clever why did he hire morons? Actually he was neither the half-god you make him out to be, nor are the people working for the company now, morons.
They have a lot of good designers and engineers, and a clear focus on user interface and system building. They make nice polished products. They also pursue the same litigious strategy Jobs introduced, and they continue the walled-garden approach which he pushed.
What I don't understand from that is, why they don't put BES on top of their own line of Android phones. They are going after a niche with that service, so why not piggy-back on Android with that? As it is they now have to match all the other features Android and iOS have, and somehow get a comparable selection of apps - but with only a fraction of a market share. I don't think they can achieve that.
Customers won't be willing to carry two devices, and they won't be willing to lose out on all the features they can have with modern smart phones either.
Well if you tell a potential new Linux user they have to flash the BIOS (find the right one for each motherboard) they are going to be a lot less likely to do that than when you tell them: here pop in the LiveCD.
Similar problem when it's just about turning off secure boot - sounds dangerous right from start, and they'll probably have been warned about not turning that off when some software asks them to.
Come on, "the entire planet" is a location, "on record" is a period of time. The statement is correct and it's part of a summary. If you want to know the details you need to read the details. Which are linked.
Bullshit. Accident rates and fatalities in car accidents decline all the time. I'm not even going to bother linking you to the data since there is absolutely nothing out there to support your assertion. Just google it.
No, there is no restrictions for you doing that. You would have to work together with Samsung in some fashion - e.g. importing them from them from Korea.- in order to be impacted by that ban.
The last link to fosspatents.com - that's Florian Mueller's blog. The "FOSS" label serves to give him the appearance of an independent party, while he is in fact a paid lobbyist.
That's a good approach, but there were so many warnings already and for such a long time. These people don't care about their computers at all. You redirect them to a warning page, maybe they'll call you and you'll get them to fix it. That one problem. What about the other malware on their machines? What about the malware they'll get next week?
Your best hope is that sooner or later they'll replace their desktops with iPads.
I guess the problem is when they do that they'll get swamped with support requests by the most clueless of their user base. Who is going to handle all these phone calls? That costs quite a bit of money. Setting up another server to handle these DNS requests is cheap, though. So that's what they are doing.
It seems the user can either install Outlook or get e.g. Thunderbird. How many people use Windows in a business setting and then don't use MS Office? (And when you do that you get Outlook.) So for desktop users I don't see any problems. (Apart from the Metro interface itself that is... I don't think anybody wants that on the desktop.)
Well in this case it's not the RIAA driving the lawsuit, but a producer of gay porn. This (definitely NSFW) is the title in question. Chances of a public performance are probably low.
That's really only true for Apple. You don't necessarily need an App Store for Android (there are other ways to download software), and you don't need to use one particular App Store either.
It makes me very uncomfortable that I don't get root (with a password, obviously) on my phone by default, but you can easily (and completely legally) root Samsung devices, and for the Nexus line you don't even need that.
Well Bing as a search engine is a joke. Bing maps is absolutely gorgeous, though. It's a shame they don't offer an Android app for it, because the bird's eye view is really nice, and it works in places (parks, trails, private roads) where Google street view doesn't. (Obviously I'm not buying an MS smartphone to use this, but if MS were to put their pathetic efforts in the mobile area to rest, and instead offer apps - that might actually work.)
Was it already patented on MacOS? I'm wondering, because you aren't supposed to be able to patent things after you've already made the knowledge public.
Well, if you know that this solves your problem, then you might be willing to spend money. You have to find out first, though. So let's say there are twenty programs which might be suitable or maybe not. You need to evaluate them - read the docs, look a screen shots, try them out. Which one would you try last? The one which is the most hassle to evaluate and/or costs you money to try, maybe?
Even with binaries you may need this new library and that update any further barriers will make the package even less accessible. Statistically - the harder it is to access the software, the fewer people will actually get to know it. He'll have a smaller user base, that's unavoidable, and that has fuck-all to do with whether his users would be willing to donate or not. Wishful thinking is not getting him around this problem.
Well, if the textbook involves pictures - as would be appropriate for many subjects - then tablets have an edge. Also for searching in the text, referencing something on the web etc they have advantages. I think it's likely that ebooks will go the tablet route rather than having dedicated ebook readers. I don't know how long it will take to fix the ebook pricing and DRM disaster, but it seems likely that it will be fixed eventually.
Other than that - they are just computers with touch-screen input. So there is not going to be anything which they can do which you couldn't also do with a laptop. It will always be about the form factor and the input methods.
Well the bible is full of such interventions, and the Catholic church is still declaring people to be saints. (To become a saint, at least one miracle has to be attributed to the person in question.)
God is more concerned with humanity than individual humans
Sorry, but those are weasel words. Next time firemen save a family from a burning building you'll see the faithful falling over themselves proclaiming that the family was protected by god, or that god should be offered thanks. Those are not the wingnuts they represent the mainstream of Christianity.
I work for a large multi-national company. It wastes company dollars year after year on stupid, wasteful and inefficient programs. That's an effect of large organizations - the people deciding things are no longer directly affected by their decisions. The market will favor less broken organizations, but that can take a long time and it will only replace companies with others who do better on average. Also sections of the company which do well will keep alive sections of the company which only burn cash.
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Apple is remarkable good at retroactively inventing things. Like hard-drive based mp3 players, the idea for which was stolen from them e.g. in 1998 by Compaq (4.8 GB), in 2000 by Creative (Nomad, 6 GB) and in the same year by Archos (6 GB). Then Apple re-invented the entire market by bringing out a player with ... 5 GB in 2001. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_media_player
It's understandable that so many people believe Apple came up with the idea, considering the advertising budget. Many probably didn't even realize that mp3 players existed before Apple told them about it.
Yes.
I've used Linux since kernel version 0.99pl15. I don't "love to screw" with my BIOS. I might do it, but it would annoy me.
Anyway, the days of Slackware on sixty 3.5" floppy disks are long gone, you don't need to be a geek any more to use Linux. My wife is perfectly happy with it, so is my dad, and I find it a lot easier to support their systems than if they had Windows machines.
If he was so clever why did he hire morons? Actually he was neither the half-god you make him out to be, nor are the people working for the company now, morons.
They have a lot of good designers and engineers, and a clear focus on user interface and system building. They make nice polished products. They also pursue the same litigious strategy Jobs introduced, and they continue the walled-garden approach which he pushed.
What I don't understand from that is, why they don't put BES on top of their own line of Android phones. They are going after a niche with that service, so why not piggy-back on Android with that? As it is they now have to match all the other features Android and iOS have, and somehow get a comparable selection of apps - but with only a fraction of a market share. I don't think they can achieve that.
Customers won't be willing to carry two devices, and they won't be willing to lose out on all the features they can have with modern smart phones either.
There is really no need to move away from x86 just for this - if they want to build their own hardware they can build their own BIOS, too.
Well if you tell a potential new Linux user they have to flash the BIOS (find the right one for each motherboard) they are going to be a lot less likely to do that than when you tell them: here pop in the LiveCD.
Similar problem when it's just about turning off secure boot - sounds dangerous right from start, and they'll probably have been warned about not turning that off when some software asks them to.
Come on, "the entire planet" is a location, "on record" is a period of time. The statement is correct and it's part of a summary. If you want to know the details you need to read the details. Which are linked.
Safety equipment in cars is actually a wash.
Bullshit. Accident rates and fatalities in car accidents decline all the time. I'm not even going to bother linking you to the data since there is absolutely nothing out there to support your assertion. Just google it.
No, there is no restrictions for you doing that. You would have to work together with Samsung in some fashion - e.g. importing them from them from Korea .- in order to be impacted by that ban.
The last link to fosspatents.com - that's Florian Mueller's blog. The "FOSS" label serves to give him the appearance of an independent party, while he is in fact a paid lobbyist.
That's a good approach, but there were so many warnings already and for such a long time. These people don't care about their computers at all. You redirect them to a warning page, maybe they'll call you and you'll get them to fix it. That one problem. What about the other malware on their machines? What about the malware they'll get next week?
Your best hope is that sooner or later they'll replace their desktops with iPads.
I guess the problem is when they do that they'll get swamped with support requests by the most clueless of their user base. Who is going to handle all these phone calls? That costs quite a bit of money. Setting up another server to handle these DNS requests is cheap, though. So that's what they are doing.
It seems the user can either install Outlook or get e.g. Thunderbird. How many people use Windows in a business setting and then don't use MS Office? (And when you do that you get Outlook.) So for desktop users I don't see any problems. (Apart from the Metro interface itself that is... I don't think anybody wants that on the desktop.)
Well in this case it's not the RIAA driving the lawsuit, but a producer of gay porn. This (definitely NSFW) is the title in question. Chances of a public performance are probably low.
That's true, but (apart from WP7 maybe) these aren't really in the category claimed to replace the PC.
That's really only true for Apple. You don't necessarily need an App Store for Android (there are other ways to download software), and you don't need to use one particular App Store either.
It makes me very uncomfortable that I don't get root (with a password, obviously) on my phone by default, but you can easily (and completely legally) root Samsung devices, and for the Nexus line you don't even need that.
returns the term "marriage" to organized religion.
It doesn't belong to them.
The connotation of "worse" is that it was already bad to begin with.
Fine it's not my native language, but come on: that's complete nonsense. How do you think "less good" is expressed?
Well Bing as a search engine is a joke. Bing maps is absolutely gorgeous, though. It's a shame they don't offer an Android app for it, because the bird's eye view is really nice, and it works in places (parks, trails, private roads) where Google street view doesn't. (Obviously I'm not buying an MS smartphone to use this, but if MS were to put their pathetic efforts in the mobile area to rest, and instead offer apps - that might actually work.)
Was it already patented on MacOS? I'm wondering, because you aren't supposed to be able to patent things after you've already made the knowledge public.
Well, if you know that this solves your problem, then you might be willing to spend money. You have to find out first, though. So let's say there are twenty programs which might be suitable or maybe not. You need to evaluate them - read the docs, look a screen shots, try them out. Which one would you try last? The one which is the most hassle to evaluate and/or costs you money to try, maybe?
Even with binaries you may need this new library and that update any further barriers will make the package even less accessible. Statistically - the harder it is to access the software, the fewer people will actually get to know it. He'll have a smaller user base, that's unavoidable, and that has fuck-all to do with whether his users would be willing to donate or not. Wishful thinking is not getting him around this problem.
Well, if the textbook involves pictures - as would be appropriate for many subjects - then tablets have an edge. Also for searching in the text, referencing something on the web etc they have advantages. I think it's likely that ebooks will go the tablet route rather than having dedicated ebook readers. I don't know how long it will take to fix the ebook pricing and DRM disaster, but it seems likely that it will be fixed eventually.
Other than that - they are just computers with touch-screen input. So there is not going to be anything which they can do which you couldn't also do with a laptop. It will always be about the form factor and the input methods.
Well the bible is full of such interventions, and the Catholic church is still declaring people to be saints. (To become a saint, at least one miracle has to be attributed to the person in question.)
God is more concerned with humanity than individual humans
Sorry, but those are weasel words. Next time firemen save a family from a burning building you'll see the faithful falling over themselves proclaiming that the family was protected by god, or that god should be offered thanks. Those are not the wingnuts they represent the mainstream of Christianity.
I work for a large multi-national company. It wastes company dollars year after year on stupid, wasteful and inefficient programs. That's an effect of large organizations - the people deciding things are no longer directly affected by their decisions. The market will favor less broken organizations, but that can take a long time and it will only replace companies with others who do better on average. Also sections of the company which do well will keep alive sections of the company which only burn cash.