Most other OSs deal with drivers themselves, or at least audit third party drivers quite carefully, and the main and recommended mechanism for installing drivers is through the OS, not an installer provided by the hardware vendor.
This changes this a lot, however, when it comes to MS, DOS tradition of the vendor providing the driver is still the de-facto, as well as some monetary intereses that are incompatible!
Why not? It's a real issue if they FORCE you to use it, but if they allow you to use your own, what's the harm? In any case, you're the own who compromises you own security.
The issue with rendering previews from a camera is mostly transfer speed between the PC and the device, not so much on-screen rendering time. I use my cell phone as a camera, so I naturally I copy the photos over wireless, it can take one or two minutes to load EVERY preview. Even USB 2.0 cameras are probably limited by transfer speeds.
I hate windows a great deal, but I must admit I've seldom seen people complain about windows 7 crashing, so I guess at least they finally gotten rid of that. When it comes to freezes and slowdowns, I've heard a pretty great deal though.
"A quality e-reader that I can use to read mail, surf the web".
I want a blender that can wash my clothes, but regrettably, we're both listing a product that has one use, and expecting to use it for something completely different.
I know it's no worse than any other LCD; it is in fact an LCD, that's why reading of it is bad for your eyesight. Especially reading entire books from small screens. The strain on the eye is way too much. That's why ereaders use electronic ink.
And NOTHING can be read in a dark room; a tablet has an illuminated screen in case you haven't noticed, so when you turn it on, the room is no longer dark.
1) Photoshop and Illustrator are WYSIWYG programs. 2) The designers you mention only produce mockups of the website, they don't create the actual website themselves, they still need someone; someone else who does the coding. Having another person (a developer) type code still counts as coding.
Sure, I just said I can't stand to see CMSs used everywhere, but of course there are legitimate scenarios where they are the solution. The problem is that they're used in a million places where they were not the right solution!
No, facebook isn't the only problematic one, all the ones you listed are. I have my OpenID, and I can't log into either facebook, google, yahoo, or any other mayor site using it. Aside from 2 o 3 three exceptions, like SO, or slashdot. As long as they're provider-only, they're of little use, the point of a SSO is to be able to SIGN IN everywhere, and I can't.
That's still short of an SSO. If I'm 100km from home, and my laptop crashed and burns, I can get a new one; how would I get the data for the plug-in there? What if it's a loaned laptop? What if I want to log in from my tablet somewhere? There's dozens of scenarios where PH won't work, and a good SSO would.
Again; how do I open this on ANY device? ie: a tablet, or a loaned laptop I got for a trip? I can use any form of SSO through them, but not keepass. Also, I can't get hold of the keepassx file without SOME password for a filesharing service or whatever.
Uhm.. this doesn't really answer the question; how do I open the database on a platform where the application is unavailable?
Also, you're proposing using a third party service (which requires you to log in), to get your passwords, so you can log in. Sort of chicken and egg problem really.
What happens if your disk crashes on the road and you need to use a new PC?
Password Hashes solves an issue, but it's in no way a replacement to SSO.
If you have something like OpenID, you could set up your own SSO providers. Face it; average joe uses the same password everywhere, and won't care about the trustability of the service provider.
Yes, they all support being SSO providers, but if EVERY service provider provides me with an SSO, but none of them let me log in with a third-party SSO, then I don't have a choice but to have a differente account on each place; a facebook account, a google account, etc.
Not really SSO, if I find myself on a trip with a broken laptop, I can't quickly log in from a new one, or from a friends one, I'll need to salvage the data on it first. And since it's the SSO, I can't get a remote backup without it.
Keepass has it's uses; SSO isn't one of them, nor is it a substition for SSO.
Basically, we had OpenID. Along came plenty of services which gave you an OpenID account (or something VERY similar), but none of them allow you to log in using a single sign on hosted elsewhere. Example: Facebook is a SSO. So is google. So are plenty others. But since google wants to be the provider, they won't allow you to log in with facebook's OpenID. The inverse also applies. In the end, everyone is an OpenID provider, but the only place I can log in with a third-party OID provider, is stackoverflow. And sourceforge, IIRC. Until these huge service providers (google, facebook, twitter, etc) start accepting third-party OpenIDs, this won't change.
It really depends on how you define "great ereader". Something that's bad for my eyesight, and can't be read outdoors under the sun isn't a good ereader IMO. They're just different tools, with different uses.
Indeed. With enough knowledge, you can fix any bug, or change almost anything using notepad++. WYSIWYG have their limits, some are very flexible, but they have their limitations in the end.
For some jobs, yes, they are. I can't stand it when people use CMS for every single website. It's a matter of using the right tool for the right job. I've seen two-page static websites based on joomla, and that's just ridiculous!
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Most other OSs deal with drivers themselves, or at least audit third party drivers quite carefully, and the main and recommended mechanism for installing drivers is through the OS, not an installer provided by the hardware vendor.
This changes this a lot, however, when it comes to MS, DOS tradition of the vendor providing the driver is still the de-facto, as well as some monetary intereses that are incompatible!
Why not? It's a real issue if they FORCE you to use it, but if they allow you to use your own, what's the harm? In any case, you're the own who compromises you own security.
By 2009, most phones had microUSB, so it's been like three years now, he didn't exactly say "lots of year" :P
The issue with rendering previews from a camera is mostly transfer speed between the PC and the device, not so much on-screen rendering time.
I use my cell phone as a camera, so I naturally I copy the photos over wireless, it can take one or two minutes to load EVERY preview. Even USB 2.0 cameras are probably limited by transfer speeds.
C'mon, the only reason this is downvotes is because of fanboyism, it's cleary intended to be funny, and it very much is.
I hate windows a great deal, but I must admit I've seldom seen people complain about windows 7 crashing, so I guess at least they finally gotten rid of that.
When it comes to freezes and slowdowns, I've heard a pretty great deal though.
"A quality e-reader that I can use to read mail, surf the web".
I want a blender that can wash my clothes, but regrettably, we're both listing a product that has one use, and expecting to use it for something completely different.
And what do those designers use? Because, in case you haven't noticed, tools like Photoshop are pretty much WYSIWYG. And quite literally, BTW.
I know it's no worse than any other LCD; it is in fact an LCD, that's why reading of it is bad for your eyesight. Especially reading entire books from small screens. The strain on the eye is way too much. That's why ereaders use electronic ink.
And NOTHING can be read in a dark room; a tablet has an illuminated screen in case you haven't noticed, so when you turn it on, the room is no longer dark.
1) Photoshop and Illustrator are WYSIWYG programs.
2) The designers you mention only produce mockups of the website, they don't create the actual website themselves, they still need someone; someone else who does the coding. Having another person (a developer) type code still counts as coding.
Sure, I just said I can't stand to see CMSs used everywhere, but of course there are legitimate scenarios where they are the solution. The problem is that they're used in a million places where they were not the right solution!
No, facebook isn't the only problematic one, all the ones you listed are.
I have my OpenID, and I can't log into either facebook, google, yahoo, or any other mayor site using it. Aside from 2 o 3 three exceptions, like SO, or slashdot.
As long as they're provider-only, they're of little use, the point of a SSO is to be able to SIGN IN everywhere, and I can't.
That's still short of an SSO. If I'm 100km from home, and my laptop crashed and burns, I can get a new one; how would I get the data for the plug-in there? What if it's a loaned laptop? What if I want to log in from my tablet somewhere? There's dozens of scenarios where PH won't work, and a good SSO would.
Again; how do I open this on ANY device? ie: a tablet, or a loaned laptop I got for a trip? I can use any form of SSO through them, but not keepass. Also, I can't get hold of the keepassx file without SOME password for a filesharing service or whatever.
Uhm.. this doesn't really answer the question; how do I open the database on a platform where the application is unavailable?
Also, you're proposing using a third party service (which requires you to log in), to get your passwords, so you can log in. Sort of chicken and egg problem really.
What happens if your disk crashes on the road and you need to use a new PC?
Password Hashes solves an issue, but it's in no way a replacement to SSO.
What happens if I have various PCs? Or if one of my devices doesn't have firefox (ie: webOS)?
In this case, ignorance isn't bliss. Reading about these sort of protocols might be a good idea.
If you have something like OpenID, you could set up your own SSO providers.
Face it; average joe uses the same password everywhere, and won't care about the trustability of the service provider.
Yes, they all support being SSO providers, but if EVERY service provider provides me with an SSO, but none of them let me log in with a third-party SSO, then I don't have a choice but to have a differente account on each place; a facebook account, a google account, etc.
Not really SSO, if I find myself on a trip with a broken laptop, I can't quickly log in from a new one, or from a friends one, I'll need to salvage the data on it first. And since it's the SSO, I can't get a remote backup without it.
Keepass has it's uses; SSO isn't one of them, nor is it a substition for SSO.
Because everyone want to be the SSO provider.
Basically, we had OpenID. Along came plenty of services which gave you an OpenID account (or something VERY similar), but none of them allow you to log in using a single sign on hosted elsewhere.
Example: Facebook is a SSO. So is google. So are plenty others. But since google wants to be the provider, they won't allow you to log in with facebook's OpenID. The inverse also applies.
In the end, everyone is an OpenID provider, but the only place I can log in with a third-party OID provider, is stackoverflow. And sourceforge, IIRC. Until these huge service providers (google, facebook, twitter, etc) start accepting third-party OpenIDs, this won't change.
"Kindle" and "Kindle Fire" are two absolutely different products, much like the "Nexus 7" and the "Nexus Q".
It really depends on how you define "great ereader". Something that's bad for my eyesight, and can't be read outdoors under the sun isn't a good ereader IMO. They're just different tools, with different uses.
Indeed. With enough knowledge, you can fix any bug, or change almost anything using notepad++. WYSIWYG have their limits, some are very flexible, but they have their limitations in the end.
For some jobs, yes, they are. I can't stand it when people use CMS for every single website. It's a matter of using the right tool for the right job. I've seen two-page static websites based on joomla, and that's just ridiculous!