There's no reason we couldn't have both. If the application developer does want to provide their own protocol and a thick client and all that, that's great. That doesn't mean the display layer should not have a network layer to allow remote displays. They solve different problems and are useful in different situations.
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When did it stop meaning that. I just pressed ctrl-S and my output was suspended. I pressed ctrl-q and it resumed.
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So a user that uses:ws is not eligible for this hypothetical award? It might be that you sir are Windows-centric in your thinking.
Everyone wants everything for free, and so there is advertising.
The entire idea of "do not track" was ludicrous.
Everyone wants their free lunches with no strings attached, but there will always be strings.
No, not everyone. I would love to pay for a service that's worth the cost rather than use a heavily-tracking service. That's why I chose a private RSS aggregator which charges $20 a year rather than Feedly.
I'll vote with my wallet and give money to companies that have a product worth buying. I will not buy in to a business model that's revolting to me. Don't fucking tell me I want my shit for free. Man up and sell it to me.
1. Non-distracting notifications of emergent information
I don't take my phone out of my pocket every time it buzzes. I don't constantly read twitter every time I happened to pull it out to see what that buzz was. Instead, I just live my life. If I'm walking somewhere, and glass buzzes, I can, at my leisure, cock my head slightly to turn on the display and read the message. If there's a short followup (sic), I speak it into Glass. If there's a long one, I, at my leisure, deal with it later on my phone.
I too just live my life. If I'm walking somewhere, and a message arrives in one of my inboxes, I can, at my leisure process my inboxes and respond to those messages as appropriate in long- or short- form. I configured my notifications on my phone such that important and urgent notifications vibrate my phone and everything else makes no notification at all. I prefer to focus on what I am doing and who I am doing it with rather than extraneous information without fearing I'll miss something important and urgent (of which few things are).
The other two use cases are enabled by glass but the first use-case is already possible today in a superior way.
I personally do on occasion. I sometimes run R on an EC2 instance to be able to use a beefy box and use it remotely from a device of my choice. I don't think that's a particularly odd use case for the types of people that use X today. If Weyland/Weston are not targeting those people, then so be it. If they are, then the remote display use-cases are going to suffer.
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It is awful to steal from millions of users. Users have two options: transact business with a business and entrust their data into the business's protection or shun a business. Let us say that your argument is correct, and it is in the best interest of the working man to transact business with a business and entrust his data into the business's protection because that benefits to business and hence the working man's 401k account. Would it not be reasonable for that working man to then be angry at Ebay for not following pretty basic practices to protect this data, such as telling him about it immediately, encrypting his personally-identifiable data and protecting their network.
I present an alternative view: it is unwise for the working man to tie his worth to the worth of those who do not have his interests in mind. It is wiser for the working man to not spend his money on bolstering the economy by buying unnecessary items from companies that do not have his personal wellbeing in mind. It is better for him to live well within his means and not rely on a 401k.
There's a lot of stealing going on in the world, and most Slashdotters do not stand up for stealing. They do stand up for basic practices that everyone entrusted with someone else's data should follow if they cared at all for that other person's wellbeing. Ebay does not care for our wellbeing (this should not be news). Every reminder of such will anger some people here.
Never buy a car from GM. A company that practices this type of policy can not have my confidence in any way.
So all of them. Hope you work from home!
There are commuting options other than driving and VPN: walking, bicycling, public transport, private jet, personal submarine and many more I am forgetting. Walking, public transport and bicycling are very popular, probably more popular than driving.
That would work if someone has a iPhone and switch to an Android phone without any other devices as a possible iMessage receiver.
User S, the sender has an iPhone. User R, the receiver had an iPhone but now has an Android phone. He also has an iMac.
S goes into his iMessage on his iPhone and wants to send R a message. The iMessage app goes out to Apple's servers with R's phone number and gets a reply back saying the iMessage path is preferred. The message goes out over iMessage and receipt is acknowledged (by the iMac). User S is annoyed because there is no UI to force SMS for iMessage-enabled phone numbers and posts a story.
What user R should do is log into the web portal and remove his iPhone from his support profile if he no longer plans to use it. Then, when S wants to send a message to R's number, the iMessage service will respond "nope, use SMS, we don't recognize that number."
Of course, one solution to this problem is better education of users by whoever upgrades them from iOS to Android.
Spreadsheets are not databases, but for some applications they can serve as reasonable simulacrums with certain advantages. Most computer illiterate users can be trained to edit tables for far less effort than taught SQL in the case that the front end breaks. Most computer illiterate users know how to keep backup copies of a spreadsheet for those situations when "the computer did the wrong thing and mess up my data." Most computer illiterate users can use undo and formatting and copying and pasting without learning new paradigms.
While you are right that spreadsheets are worse than databases for many use-cases, there are use-cases where a database is a worse choice. Not knowing exactly what the original poster is attempting to accomplish, we shouldn't be making blanket statements just yet.
But it's not going to work for anyone trying to do anything moderately complex, and to recommend it as a solution for a use case you know nothing about and will not end up testing or supporting is just wrong.... SQL Server Express is free and comes with limitations, but it should easily handle what they need.
So, recommending a solution to a problem that wasn't specified "is just wrong" according to you. Yet you claim that StarOffice won't work for that unspecified problem but SQL Server Express will work for that unspecified problem. Your bias undercuts the recommendations you make.
To answer the original poster's question: I don't know of any analogues to Access in the open source world. What sort of use-cases are you looking to support?
Because the corporations own everyone and everything. They tell you how they're going to screw you over and then tell you that you will love it.
One can buy into the system to various degrees. If one stops trying to keep up with the Joneses and instead puts ones energy into creative pursuit of happiness then corporations have a pretty small sway on one's life.
Looking at something familiar to Slashdot: computer games. Instead of buying a console or DRMed AAA games where the makers lie to you (hi EA!), charge you subscription fees (hi Xbox Live), alter the terms of the deal and make you hope they don't alter it further (hi Steam!), root your machine (hi Sony!) and/or attempt to prevent honest reviews by bait and switch (hi Gearbox!) I adopted a different strategy. I have realized that I only have so many hours I can spend gaming in my life and there are many more games in the world that I'd like to play than I have time to play. If I only play DRM-free games that live up to my standards, that set, while pretty small, is still larger than the amount of time I have to play. Instead of a fear of missing I fill my game playing time with game that provide a lot of upside, support developers that care about their customers and keep me out of really shitty situations like losing all my games because Valve decided I cheated in some game where I have zero recourse to argue my case.
TL;DR - vote with your wallet, there are many alternatives to buying into the system (with various degrees of success in different industries).
Not all Slashdot people are biologically male, you insensitive clod. Also, you are also Slashdot people. Yes, I am feeding the troll. I know I shouldn't.
There are many such games. I played one last night, it's called Faster Than Light. I played another one last week, it's called Baldur's Gate. I played another one last month, it's called The Banner Saga. In fact, I play games often, and I have not purchased anything that didn't make sense to purchase and I have yet to run out of quality games to play in my lifetime. My backlog is so long I'll never finish it. Vote with your wallet, there are tons of good choices out there.
Yes, sometimes it doesn't work out. I would still rather live someplace where my fellow parkers offer up their remaining time than someplace where my fellow parkers pit me against others bidding for their space. I'm okay with taking someone else's now expired receipt and tossing it in the rubbish for them after they offered it to the world to use.
I live in a city where we pay for parking at a meter and get a receipt with the expiration time. Often times, if one is completed with their business and there's a good chunk of time left on the receipt, they will affix it to the meter so that the next person doesn't have to pay. I much prefer my city to San Francisco when it comes to parking etiquette.
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There's no reason we couldn't have both. If the application developer does want to provide their own protocol and a thick client and all that, that's great. That doesn't mean the display layer should not have a network layer to allow remote displays. They solve different problems and are useful in different situations.
When did it stop meaning that. I just pressed ctrl-S and my output was suspended. I pressed ctrl-q and it resumed.
So a user that uses :ws is not eligible for this hypothetical award? It might be that you sir are Windows-centric in your thinking.
"Do not track"?
Everyone wants everything for free, and so there is advertising.
The entire idea of "do not track" was ludicrous.
Everyone wants their free lunches with no strings attached, but there will always be strings.
No, not everyone. I would love to pay for a service that's worth the cost rather than use a heavily-tracking service. That's why I chose a private RSS aggregator which charges $20 a year rather than Feedly.
I'll vote with my wallet and give money to companies that have a product worth buying. I will not buy in to a business model that's revolting to me. Don't fucking tell me I want my shit for free. Man up and sell it to me.
shouldn't such tools have some kind of client-server model?
They do. Hopefully Weyland/Weston will as well and hopefully it will work as good or better than the solution we have today.
nobody else will start saying or writing the year first
lolwut
You need to get out in the world more.
You know many people who start with the year when they are referencing a specific date? "We are planning a trip in 2015-07-20".
Saying and writing are two different things. People do write the year first; in fact it's a very popular format.
The value of glass:
1. Non-distracting notifications of emergent information
I don't take my phone out of my pocket every time it buzzes. I don't constantly read twitter every time I happened to pull it out to see what that buzz was. Instead, I just live my life. If I'm walking somewhere, and glass buzzes, I can, at my leisure, cock my head slightly to turn on the display and read the message. If there's a short followup (sic), I speak it into Glass. If there's a long one, I, at my leisure, deal with it later on my phone.
I too just live my life. If I'm walking somewhere, and a message arrives in one of my inboxes, I can, at my leisure process my inboxes and respond to those messages as appropriate in long- or short- form. I configured my notifications on my phone such that important and urgent notifications vibrate my phone and everything else makes no notification at all. I prefer to focus on what I am doing and who I am doing it with rather than extraneous information without fearing I'll miss something important and urgent (of which few things are).
The other two use cases are enabled by glass but the first use-case is already possible today in a superior way.
I personally do on occasion. I sometimes run R on an EC2 instance to be able to use a beefy box and use it remotely from a device of my choice. I don't think that's a particularly odd use case for the types of people that use X today. If Weyland/Weston are not targeting those people, then so be it. If they are, then the remote display use-cases are going to suffer.
It is awful to steal from millions of users. Users have two options: transact business with a business and entrust their data into the business's protection or shun a business. Let us say that your argument is correct, and it is in the best interest of the working man to transact business with a business and entrust his data into the business's protection because that benefits to business and hence the working man's 401k account. Would it not be reasonable for that working man to then be angry at Ebay for not following pretty basic practices to protect this data, such as telling him about it immediately, encrypting his personally-identifiable data and protecting their network.
I present an alternative view: it is unwise for the working man to tie his worth to the worth of those who do not have his interests in mind. It is wiser for the working man to not spend his money on bolstering the economy by buying unnecessary items from companies that do not have his personal wellbeing in mind. It is better for him to live well within his means and not rely on a 401k.
There's a lot of stealing going on in the world, and most Slashdotters do not stand up for stealing. They do stand up for basic practices that everyone entrusted with someone else's data should follow if they cared at all for that other person's wellbeing. Ebay does not care for our wellbeing (this should not be news). Every reminder of such will anger some people here.
Never buy a car from GM. A company that practices this type of policy can not have my confidence in any way.
So all of them. Hope you work from home!
There are commuting options other than driving and VPN: walking, bicycling, public transport, private jet, personal submarine and many more I am forgetting. Walking, public transport and bicycling are very popular, probably more popular than driving.
stop telling little girls that they're pretty, and instead tell them that they're smart.
Telling children that they're smart negatively effects their desire to learn. http://www.psychologytoday.com...
That would work if someone has a iPhone and switch to an Android phone without any other devices as a possible iMessage receiver.
User S, the sender has an iPhone.
User R, the receiver had an iPhone but now has an Android phone. He also has an iMac.
S goes into his iMessage on his iPhone and wants to send R a message. The iMessage app goes out to Apple's servers with R's phone number and gets a reply back saying the iMessage path is preferred. The message goes out over iMessage and receipt is acknowledged (by the iMac). User S is annoyed because there is no UI to force SMS for iMessage-enabled phone numbers and posts a story.
What user R should do is log into the web portal and remove his iPhone from his support profile if he no longer plans to use it. Then, when S wants to send a message to R's number, the iMessage service will respond "nope, use SMS, we don't recognize that number."
Of course, one solution to this problem is better education of users by whoever upgrades them from iOS to Android.
I believe you can do it by editing your apple ID support profile on the web.
Spreadsheets are not databases, but for some applications they can serve as reasonable simulacrums with certain advantages. Most computer illiterate users can be trained to edit tables for far less effort than taught SQL in the case that the front end breaks. Most computer illiterate users know how to keep backup copies of a spreadsheet for those situations when "the computer did the wrong thing and mess up my data." Most computer illiterate users can use undo and formatting and copying and pasting without learning new paradigms.
While you are right that spreadsheets are worse than databases for many use-cases, there are use-cases where a database is a worse choice. Not knowing exactly what the original poster is attempting to accomplish, we shouldn't be making blanket statements just yet.
But it's not going to work for anyone trying to do anything moderately complex, and to recommend it as a solution for a use case you know nothing about and will not end up testing or supporting is just wrong. ... SQL Server Express is free and comes with limitations, but it should easily handle what they need.
So, recommending a solution to a problem that wasn't specified "is just wrong" according to you. Yet you claim that StarOffice won't work for that unspecified problem but SQL Server Express will work for that unspecified problem. Your bias undercuts the recommendations you make.
To answer the original poster's question: I don't know of any analogues to Access in the open source world. What sort of use-cases are you looking to support?
Because the corporations own everyone and everything. They tell you how they're going to screw you over and then tell you that you will love it.
One can buy into the system to various degrees. If one stops trying to keep up with the Joneses and instead puts ones energy into creative pursuit of happiness then corporations have a pretty small sway on one's life.
Looking at something familiar to Slashdot: computer games. Instead of buying a console or DRMed AAA games where the makers lie to you (hi EA!), charge you subscription fees (hi Xbox Live), alter the terms of the deal and make you hope they don't alter it further (hi Steam!), root your machine (hi Sony!) and/or attempt to prevent honest reviews by bait and switch (hi Gearbox!) I adopted a different strategy. I have realized that I only have so many hours I can spend gaming in my life and there are many more games in the world that I'd like to play than I have time to play. If I only play DRM-free games that live up to my standards, that set, while pretty small, is still larger than the amount of time I have to play. Instead of a fear of missing I fill my game playing time with game that provide a lot of upside, support developers that care about their customers and keep me out of really shitty situations like losing all my games because Valve decided I cheated in some game where I have zero recourse to argue my case.
TL;DR - vote with your wallet, there are many alternatives to buying into the system (with various degrees of success in different industries).
It took me a while to realize you didn't mean a quarter of an hour.
A big car corporation - no names - I used to work at had an average speed of 2 lines per hour and team member.
That seems about right, if we're talking about shipping, maintainable code.
Do they have land lines?
Or do they leave the kids with no phone at the house?
Do either of those matter to the count of mobile phones in active use?
I was indeed leaving out those that desire that which they already have.
Then I discovered absolutely No one in my town (major US city here not a backwater hill town) is set up for it.
When it comes to payment infrastructure, most major US cities are effectively backwaters.
I would never hand over an unlocked phone to a police officer so he can take it back with him to his cruiser to "copy down the information".
Slashdot people don't get any pussy.
Not all Slashdot people are biologically male, you insensitive clod. Also, you are also Slashdot people. Yes, I am feeding the troll. I know I shouldn't.
There are many such games. I played one last night, it's called Faster Than Light. I played another one last week, it's called Baldur's Gate. I played another one last month, it's called The Banner Saga. In fact, I play games often, and I have not purchased anything that didn't make sense to purchase and I have yet to run out of quality games to play in my lifetime. My backlog is so long I'll never finish it. Vote with your wallet, there are tons of good choices out there.
Yes, sometimes it doesn't work out. I would still rather live someplace where my fellow parkers offer up their remaining time than someplace where my fellow parkers pit me against others bidding for their space. I'm okay with taking someone else's now expired receipt and tossing it in the rubbish for them after they offered it to the world to use.
I live in a city where we pay for parking at a meter and get a receipt with the expiration time. Often times, if one is completed with their business and there's a good chunk of time left on the receipt, they will affix it to the meter so that the next person doesn't have to pay. I much prefer my city to San Francisco when it comes to parking etiquette.