The difference being is that Facebook/Twitter/iCloud integration doesn't pop up to remind you that you haven't signed into your facebook/twitter/iCloud account and to renew now! Oh and give some third party money. Lots and lots of money.
Nor is it running a disk thrashing background process that can slow your machine to a crawl if you're not on an SSD.
So, yes. It is much better than the office trial, or the AV trial, or the trial for whatever online services come packed in.
It's a system feature, not crapware. By that token Windows 8 comes with crapware because it wants you to log into SkyDrive.
Just don't use it. Don't sign in with your twitter,Facebook or iCloud accounts.
Jeez.
Also, it shouldn't be basic computer literacy to take a wire brush to your computer the second you ill it out of the box, or have to pave and start over from scratch.
The problem is, this is a problem across the board for the electronics industry as a whole. The center can not hold. Morons are running the ship. Including Apple.
I was pulling a random example out of thin air of a place that might not have patent protections the way America does.
Still, given operating costs, it's not unfeasible to imagine that the real barriers to entry aren't going to be patent fees or suits. Rather, you know, manufacturing or regulatory issues.
I'm pretty sure cost to manufacture and certify your device as safe are larger barriers to entry than the cost of a patent lawyer.
I mean in theory that sounds nice but, just not feasible for a host of other reasons that have nothing to do with patents. Why haven't we seen massive amounts of innovation in places like china where there aren't the same level of patent protections in place?
Hint: the answer is very long, nuanced and likely boring unless you're a nerd(where it's fascinating) or a racist(where these things don't matter and china sucks).
Sure, he gave the world GNU, but he also did it under a very liberal license. Why should I give credit to a guy who doesn't understand that credit is the basis for IP law?
IP Law is very flawed, but, the notion that work and ideas are commodity products are his notion and if he doesn't like it, maybe he should rethink things.
Nothing changes the fact that Linus had something booting in the 1990s while the GNU/Hurd project was going nowhere.
If anything, the fact that in the wider media it's called Linux should be a sobering message to RMS that being truly free means never having to say, "GNU Slash" and being able to take from the community.
Moffat and Davies have been good at making the little things unpredictable. Is in the finer detail does the show suck or succeed. Lately it's been success wrapped in a layer of crap. Even if its crap in the short term, moffat has done a great job of keeping me coming back.
Sinofsky leaving Microsoft is different than say, Forstall leaving Apple.
I can look at Apple's C level executives and "Leadership", point to half of them and find someone who could make reasonable taste decisions. Particularly guys like Edy Cue, Bob Mansfield and Jony Ive.
Besides J. Allard and Ray Ozzie, I can't seem to think of anyone at Microsoft who had taste. J. Allard's taste is questionable since he's the one who signed off on the "blades" UI for the original Xbox 360 UI.
Whether or not they can be *innovative* is one question. Whether or not they can *execute* is another. Apple's under no pressure to innovate like Microsoft is. Microsoft needs a winner, and that kind of pressure can get some damn good results. It can also lead us to some major stinkers too like the Kin phones(which partially were innovative; they were feature phones with really good features).
Even if ip rights weren't a problem, making sure your spiffy new phone doesn't blow up or having the kind of industrial capacity to build these things are bigger barriers to entry.
I want fire departments, I want infrastructure and I think we're better off together than we are alone.
Enough of us agree that this is what the law is.
If you don't like the laws we pass, go elsewhere. We are collectivist. It is not a dirty word. Work with other people. It's refreshing. Anarcho capitalism is the running definition of the Dunning Kruger effect.
If you've got an in-house developer developing custom applications for a team of users, 300 bucks is probably less than what you spend on donuts for the weekly meeting.
If that laptop's running OSX, then no. That laptop can't be running software that hasn't been in constant development for 30 years.
OR
If it was successfully ported to OSX using Cocoa, then porting it to Cocoa Touch for iOS would be trivial and using a corporate iOS deployment server means you can deploy Touch versions of that software.
What's your point?
People don't do "real work" on tablets? Other than writing, spreadsheets, SSH, art, music, video and maybe some photography, sure. no one uses tablets for "real work."
Kind of like Shakespeare, lots of stolen ideas done very well(Hey, if you don't think of the new trilogy as star wars movies, they get much better; plus Crystal Skull wasn't that bad!).
Execution is sometimes also really important. Twilight was original, but the execution? Sheesh.
Slashdot Mirror
as a giant NPR fan, what if I want to listen to you know...
Radio?
The difference being is that Facebook/Twitter/iCloud integration doesn't pop up to remind you that you haven't signed into your facebook/twitter/iCloud account and to renew now! Oh and give some third party money. Lots and lots of money.
Nor is it running a disk thrashing background process that can slow your machine to a crawl if you're not on an SSD.
So, yes. It is much better than the office trial, or the AV trial, or the trial for whatever online services come packed in.
It's a system feature, not crapware. By that token Windows 8 comes with crapware because it wants you to log into SkyDrive.
Just don't use it. Don't sign in with your twitter,Facebook or iCloud accounts.
Jeez.
Also, it shouldn't be basic computer literacy to take a wire brush to your computer the second you ill it out of the box, or have to pave and start over from scratch.
That's a shame.
Sure, every good slashdotter should know this.
The problem is, this is a problem across the board for the electronics industry as a whole. The center can not hold. Morons are running the ship. Including Apple.
I was pulling a random example out of thin air of a place that might not have patent protections the way America does.
Still, given operating costs, it's not unfeasible to imagine that the real barriers to entry aren't going to be patent fees or suits. Rather, you know, manufacturing or regulatory issues.
I'm pretty sure cost to manufacture and certify your device as safe are larger barriers to entry than the cost of a patent lawyer.
I mean in theory that sounds nice but, just not feasible for a host of other reasons that have nothing to do with patents. Why haven't we seen massive amounts of innovation in places like china where there aren't the same level of patent protections in place?
Hint: the answer is very long, nuanced and likely boring unless you're a nerd(where it's fascinating) or a racist(where these things don't matter and china sucks).
The guy who gave the world emacs? no way.
Sure, he gave the world GNU, but he also did it under a very liberal license. Why should I give credit to a guy who doesn't understand that credit is the basis for IP law?
IP Law is very flawed, but, the notion that work and ideas are commodity products are his notion and if he doesn't like it, maybe he should rethink things.
But the argument that "Linux is just a kernel" is so crap though.
If I pull out all the GNU stuff and use Clang/LLVM, etc. would that shut people up about GNU/Linux?
Nothing changes the fact that Linus had something booting in the 1990s while the GNU/Hurd project was going nowhere.
If anything, the fact that in the wider media it's called Linux should be a sobering message to RMS that being truly free means never having to say, "GNU Slash" and being able to take from the community.
GNU sat on their hands and didnt bother with releasing a kernel, ever.
They don't get to piggy back on Linus' achievement of actually finishing on time.
Unless they think they should get credit for BSD, NeXT and OSX too.
Moffat and Davies have been good at making the little things unpredictable. Is in the finer detail does the show suck or succeed. Lately it's been success wrapped in a layer of crap. Even if its crap in the short term, moffat has done a great job of keeping me coming back.
I just still want to know...
WHY DID THE TARDIS BLOW UP. AND BY WHO?!
Some of us have been consistently nuanced.
Sinofsky leaving Microsoft is different than say, Forstall leaving Apple.
I can look at Apple's C level executives and "Leadership", point to half of them and find someone who could make reasonable taste decisions. Particularly guys like Edy Cue, Bob Mansfield and Jony Ive.
Besides J. Allard and Ray Ozzie, I can't seem to think of anyone at Microsoft who had taste. J. Allard's taste is questionable since he's the one who signed off on the "blades" UI for the original Xbox 360 UI.
Whether or not they can be *innovative* is one question. Whether or not they can *execute* is another. Apple's under no pressure to innovate like Microsoft is. Microsoft needs a winner, and that kind of pressure can get some damn good results. It can also lead us to some major stinkers too like the Kin phones(which partially were innovative; they were feature phones with really good features).
Torches were patented by the Rand Corporation in the 80's.
Zippos?
Even if ip rights weren't a problem, making sure your spiffy new phone doesn't blow up or having the kind of industrial capacity to build these things are bigger barriers to entry.
Try again.
try playing Letterpress sometime. Totally makes gamecenter worth it.
Who care about the intent?
If Benjamin Franklin knew about the state of the world today there would've no second amendment and healthcare for all.
I want fire departments, I want infrastructure and I think we're better off together than we are alone.
Enough of us agree that this is what the law is.
If you don't like the laws we pass, go elsewhere. We are collectivist. It is not a dirty word. Work with other people. It's refreshing. Anarcho capitalism is the running definition of the Dunning Kruger effect.
So a bunch of really old dead white dudes matter?
The founding fathers were people, not gods.
Big deal.
Didn't agree to it? Leave.
or lobby to change it.
It's up to you. Don't complain when your point of view isn't respected.
Is it just the windows version of java? What about tomcat and other enterprisey java packages? Do they suffer from the same flaws?
Why the hell do we vote for the judiciary? I don't get that shit at all
It doesn't produce justice, it produces popular vengeance.
$299/year.
Not cheap, but not expensive either.
https://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/enterprise/
If you've got an in-house developer developing custom applications for a team of users, 300 bucks is probably less than what you spend on donuts for the weekly meeting.
If that laptop's running OSX, then no. That laptop can't be running software that hasn't been in constant development for 30 years.
OR
If it was successfully ported to OSX using Cocoa, then porting it to Cocoa Touch for iOS would be trivial and using a corporate iOS deployment server means you can deploy Touch versions of that software.
What's your point?
People don't do "real work" on tablets? Other than writing, spreadsheets, SSH, art, music, video and maybe some photography, sure. no one uses tablets for "real work."
If someone on your network DDoSes my server, I will sue YOU for being negligent for letting some fuckwad on YOUR network.
Then once I find out who that fuck wad is, i'm going to go after them too.
It's like how a license plate != person. But if you lend someone your car, and they hit and run and abandon it, you're on the hook.
Kind of like Shakespeare, lots of stolen ideas done very well(Hey, if you don't think of the new trilogy as star wars movies, they get much better; plus Crystal Skull wasn't that bad!).
Execution is sometimes also really important. Twilight was original, but the execution? Sheesh.