i agree... it's a bit hard for david (apple) to kill off goliath (samsung) when the giant is helping to keep david alive... talk about biting the hand that feeds you
apple is a bug for samsung, who is a much bigger player in many more industries than just smartphones... at most apple is a very annoying bug, that samsung will eventually just get sick of and squash
they get shit for doing something new merely for the sake of doing something different
if they actually created anything innovating people would be more encouraging... if you need proof look at all the apple sheep; change is profitable, just as long as it is change with style or function, not just some lame attempt to confuse the crap out of otherwise productive users
wtf were they thinking with that stupid fish background in the consumer preview?...and i thought linux developers smoked a lot of pot
linux does need a few more big players like adobe or autodesk (good luck with that) but i did hear a rumor that blizzard may be getting fed up with microsoft and its windows 8 changes and releasing one of its popular titles for linux this year... which could make a big noise
lightroom and photoshop are replaceable by things like darktable and gimp if you're willing to put the same amount of effort learning them as you already have lightroom and ps... the problem is you are affected by your status quo, which is fine, but new generation users aren't and an ever increasing number are starting with these from the beginning instead of wasting their money on bloated adobe products (lightroom doesn't even have hardware acceleration for crap's sake, whereas darktable does and it's lightning fast even on an average spec machine). heaps of photoshop lusers bag gimp as being substandard, but that's just because they don't have a clue. gimp is by experts for experts... ps is popular with businesses and universities because it focuses more on ease of use (which doesn't equate to productivity but many think otherwise because they aren't aware of gimp's features, plugins and shortcuts).
Linux is still definitely an OS for enthusiasts and power users, with user-friendliness and eye-candy often taking a back seat to all the more important stuff like functionality, efficiency, reliability, etc.
The community is often targeted as "elitist", but given it consists mostly of volunteers who give up their time to help with solving real problems, the RTFM responses come about merely because they aren't limited by customer relations requirements... do you really think behind all the polite corporate support calls there isn't a heap of ridicule and RTFM banter? just because they are paid to be nice doesn't mean they have any respect for you, or that they are really helphing you... they are often only making you more dependent and unable to think for yourself. sometimes people need to be told to RTFM because they don't get the message any other way, and if you troll the forums, you'll often find that those asking the questions that don't get the answer they want are the ones being rude and unappreciative. The community is what made linux what it is, and it deserves a little more credit and respect.
"It needs to take away some freedom, it needs to simplify and focus not on engineers and programmers, but slick form-and-substance applications, it needs to settle on a standard UI, and a standard distro"... if that happens, the community that gives its time freely to improve linux will abandon linux in droves (for something else that restores or maintains these freedoms). Debian is one of the oldest distros that drives a lot of linux development (including ubuntu) and it will likely never move away from its freedom ideals. Companies can port and derive and add on their own closed extensions, but Debian sits at the top of a very large distribution tree and it will always have a decent amount of clout in the politics of linux (if redhat is like the republican party, debian is like the democrats).
Capitalists aren't scared of linux... on the contrary... they embrace it because it comes with less risk to business than microsoft products. You'll find that the bigger a company gets, the more likely they are to go with linux for critical infrastructure like servers. Hardware manufacturers of things like tvs, routers, set top boxes, etc can install linux without any concern for royalties squandering profits and they have less restrictions on how they can use it.
in all fairness to apple, the new (2012) imac does look pretty sleek... they seem to have been at the forefront of geek style for a few years now
you don't see any dell or hp desktop pc's looking anywhere near as good as an imac...and that's coming from a guy who doesn't have anything from apple and who uses linux
Symbian isn't dead... only recently has Samsung exceeded Nokia's sales, and Nokia still sells more handsets than Apple. Even in smartphone sales (a subset of cellphone sales), Nokia isn't far behind Samsung and Apple.
welfare bums with more disposable cash than they know what to do with buy iphones
working folk buy galaxy s2/3
just take a look on any construction site... ask a tradesman if he has an iphone and he'll likely call you a poof
offices are a little different, but even that is changing; when contracts finish even office workers are changing to galaxy because having an iphone is becoming more of an embarrassment, like they are one of the teeny-bopper sheep
i foresee microsoft phones will be more for the executive types (sorta like blackberries), but there aren't many of those so microsoft won't make a killing
i think your stoush is actually with the europeans (who settled the land)
history is full of conquerors and conquered... do you see italy still paying off any of the people it conquered during the roman empire? how about france for napoleon's endevours?...or the united states for almost eliminating native american-indian culture?
most australians (born in australia at least) don't really give a shit about race... aussie is aussie, as long as you play by the rules and treat others as you would like to be treated (and by the way i don't mind being criticised and poked fun at, as long as it is in jest), but when you get laws that favour certain race, blaming the government that maintains those laws is a poke at the government, not the race for which they favour, and we live in a country where our freedom to blame the government is as important as our right to drink beer
the real racists of the world are the ones who get their back up over race in the first place
i don't give a shit what race you are, if you get more than me from the government than me merely because you're a certain colour, the government is a bunch of fucking nit wits
spot the windows fanboi... the proof is in the pudding... the number of linux kernels operating in the world (including beneath android and in embedded systems like set top boxes) far exceeds the number of windows installs, and yet no malware or virus problems, yet windows STILL needs antivirus and even then it gets infected
windows is only competently set up if it has antivirus... linux doesn't need it
usually problems with projects are caused by poor project management... regardless of whether the project is programming or otherwise
if there are problems, project managers don't often look at themselves (and take responsibility) to see if they could personally do things differently or learn how to manage better
you're assurance isn't reassuring. i doubt most politicians know what asio does on the hacking front. they probably know asio is a security organisation with a website and a building
australia is a backwater country with a small population and small economy (even though standard of living and per capita stats are good)
there are some large cities (melbourne, sydney, brisbane) but there isn't really much in the way of populated landmarks that would make good targets like the wtc in nyc
there are very few nuclear facilities (lucas heights) and a huge sparsely populated landmass to hide military facilities in
even our government is pretty tame in the big scheme of things
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i agree... it's a bit hard for david (apple) to kill off goliath (samsung) when the giant is helping to keep david alive... talk about biting the hand that feeds you
apple is a bug for samsung, who is a much bigger player in many more industries than just smartphones... at most apple is a very annoying bug, that samsung will eventually just get sick of and squash
you saying Windows RT is a competitor for Chromebook?
hahahahahahaha... that was a joke right?
that would be offensive to jim morrison and countless bong-chuffing bikies... very dangerous for microsoft
they get shit for doing something new merely for the sake of doing something different
if they actually created anything innovating people would be more encouraging... if you need proof look at all the apple sheep; change is profitable, just as long as it is change with style or function, not just some lame attempt to confuse the crap out of otherwise productive users
wtf were they thinking with that stupid fish background in the consumer preview? ...and i thought linux developers smoked a lot of pot
linux does need a few more big players like adobe or autodesk (good luck with that) but i did hear a rumor that blizzard may be getting fed up with microsoft and its windows 8 changes and releasing one of its popular titles for linux this year... which could make a big noise
lightroom and photoshop are replaceable by things like darktable and gimp if you're willing to put the same amount of effort learning them as you already have lightroom and ps... the problem is you are affected by your status quo, which is fine, but new generation users aren't and an ever increasing number are starting with these from the beginning instead of wasting their money on bloated adobe products (lightroom doesn't even have hardware acceleration for crap's sake, whereas darktable does and it's lightning fast even on an average spec machine). heaps of photoshop lusers bag gimp as being substandard, but that's just because they don't have a clue. gimp is by experts for experts... ps is popular with businesses and universities because it focuses more on ease of use (which doesn't equate to productivity but many think otherwise because they aren't aware of gimp's features, plugins and shortcuts).
Linux is still definitely an OS for enthusiasts and power users, with user-friendliness and eye-candy often taking a back seat to all the more important stuff like functionality, efficiency, reliability, etc.
The community is often targeted as "elitist", but given it consists mostly of volunteers who give up their time to help with solving real problems, the RTFM responses come about merely because they aren't limited by customer relations requirements... do you really think behind all the polite corporate support calls there isn't a heap of ridicule and RTFM banter? just because they are paid to be nice doesn't mean they have any respect for you, or that they are really helphing you... they are often only making you more dependent and unable to think for yourself. sometimes people need to be told to RTFM because they don't get the message any other way, and if you troll the forums, you'll often find that those asking the questions that don't get the answer they want are the ones being rude and unappreciative. The community is what made linux what it is, and it deserves a little more credit and respect.
"It needs to take away some freedom, it needs to simplify and focus not on engineers and programmers, but slick form-and-substance applications, it needs to settle on a standard UI, and a standard distro"... if that happens, the community that gives its time freely to improve linux will abandon linux in droves (for something else that restores or maintains these freedoms). Debian is one of the oldest distros that drives a lot of linux development (including ubuntu) and it will likely never move away from its freedom ideals. Companies can port and derive and add on their own closed extensions, but Debian sits at the top of a very large distribution tree and it will always have a decent amount of clout in the politics of linux (if redhat is like the republican party, debian is like the democrats).
Capitalists aren't scared of linux... on the contrary... they embrace it because it comes with less risk to business than microsoft products. You'll find that the bigger a company gets, the more likely they are to go with linux for critical infrastructure like servers. Hardware manufacturers of things like tvs, routers, set top boxes, etc can install linux without any concern for royalties squandering profits and they have less restrictions on how they can use it.
in all fairness to apple, the new (2012) imac does look pretty sleek... they seem to have been at the forefront of geek style for a few years now
you don't see any dell or hp desktop pc's looking anywhere near as good as an imac ...and that's coming from a guy who doesn't have anything from apple and who uses linux
there's an app for that... ebay
dell is just as bad, and many real businesses buy directly from dell
(even dell servers come with preloaded crapware)
they haven't really "sold" 60 million licenses (to consumers) because many are still sitting in OEM warehouses
Symbian isn't dead... only recently has Samsung exceeded Nokia's sales, and Nokia still sells more handsets than Apple. Even in smartphone sales (a subset of cellphone sales), Nokia isn't far behind Samsung and Apple.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/416666/20121219/samsung-tops-mobile-phone-market-2012-nokia.htm
welfare bums with more disposable cash than they know what to do with buy iphones
working folk buy galaxy s2/3
just take a look on any construction site... ask a tradesman if he has an iphone and he'll likely call you a poof
offices are a little different, but even that is changing; when contracts finish even office workers are changing to galaxy because having an iphone is becoming more of an embarrassment, like they are one of the teeny-bopper sheep
i foresee microsoft phones will be more for the executive types (sorta like blackberries), but there aren't many of those so microsoft won't make a killing
i'll only buy it if it comes with a free supply of fresh toe cheese
too late; apple has already long since captured that market
i think your stoush is actually with the europeans (who settled the land)
history is full of conquerors and conquered... do you see italy still paying off any of the people it conquered during the roman empire? how about france for napoleon's endevours? ...or the united states for almost eliminating native american-indian culture?
most australians (born in australia at least) don't really give a shit about race... aussie is aussie, as long as you play by the rules and treat others as you would like to be treated (and by the way i don't mind being criticised and poked fun at, as long as it is in jest), but when you get laws that favour certain race, blaming the government that maintains those laws is a poke at the government, not the race for which they favour, and we live in a country where our freedom to blame the government is as important as our right to drink beer
the real racists of the world are the ones who get their back up over race in the first place
i don't give a shit what race you are, if you get more than me from the government than me merely because you're a certain colour, the government is a bunch of fucking nit wits
spot the windows fanboi... the proof is in the pudding... the number of linux kernels operating in the world (including beneath android and in embedded systems like set top boxes) far exceeds the number of windows installs, and yet no malware or virus problems, yet windows STILL needs antivirus and even then it gets infected
windows is only competently set up if it has antivirus... linux doesn't need it
keep drinking the microsoft kool-aid, moron
have you ever been outside australia?
as long as they don't steal your kiddie pr0n collection
...ASIO computers have been hacked!
...doll
usually problems with projects are caused by poor project management... regardless of whether the project is programming or otherwise
if there are problems, project managers don't often look at themselves (and take responsibility) to see if they could personally do things differently or learn how to manage better
you're assurance isn't reassuring. i doubt most politicians know what asio does on the hacking front. they probably know asio is a security organisation with a website and a building
windows isn't overly buggy... it's just inherently insecure
i hate tony "budgie smuggler" abbott, and i'm not racist because i hate all races equally
go take your politically motivated garbage elsewhere
asio is probably akin to the cia in the states
australia is a backwater country with a small population and small economy (even though standard of living and per capita stats are good)
there are some large cities (melbourne, sydney, brisbane) but there isn't really much in the way of populated landmarks that would make good targets like the wtc in nyc
there are very few nuclear facilities (lucas heights) and a huge sparsely populated landmass to hide military facilities in
even our government is pretty tame in the big scheme of things
guess that's why its called the lucky country