Its because of the fact "Play" branding is used for more than just apps. They have the "Play Store", "Play Movies", "Play Music", and I believe a few others, too.
Brilliant. They all sound stupid and make people less interested in bothering with them. The whiteboard team who came up with this plan deserves a shiny new participation trophy, to put on the shelf with the rest of them.
While they're at it, what's with the stupid "Play" brand? It's a app store, what's wrong with calling it an app store? Play should be a category of app, but in Google newspeak, an app is a kind of play. Google's branding makes no sense whatsoever, maybe consider reducing the hallucinogenic content in their smart water.
Google, Samsung, Sony etc etc all do the same fucking thing as apple.
Apple guys never get tired of ranting about how Apple makes most of the profit in the handset industry. Therefore, Apple is the main problem. Solve most of the problem by putting Apple on a crash profit diet.
If you take the inner loop and replace it with a function call that describes what the inner loop does, then your outer loop actually gets much easier to read...
Nice idea when things happen to factor that way. But often they do not, and the additional glue you need to factor out the inner loop adds more obfuscation than it removes. The takeaway is, just don't be mindless about factoring techniques.
I do agree that trying to invest the money in growing Yahoo! would have been throwing it away.
But that is exactly what Marissa Mayer did, and incompetently at that. Not all the money, but many tens or hundreds of millions. Enough to remove all doubt about her talents, or lack of them.
Under her, Yahoo nearly tripled in value, from about $16 billion to $44 billion.
Wow, I didn't believe that, but I checked YHOO's stock price and kamapuaa is correct...
That is entirely about Yahoo's windfall stake in Alibaba and has nothing whatsoever to do with good management by Marissa Mayer, quite the contrary. Factor out Alibaba and the truth emerges: Yahoo went straight down the crapper with Marissa Mayer at the helm.
Basic (optional) telemetry to help improve the product is a terrible thing.
Telemetry that is opt-out instead of opt-in is bad. Telemetry with no opt-out is worse. Spyware under the guise of product improvement is the worst. The latter is classic Microsoft. Rejected.
I suppose when you're aiming for first post you don't have too much time to think of anything more constructive.
What, framing the discussion properly is not constructive? See, if Microsoft had ever genuinely reformed, then it would indeed be unconstructive to respond to Microsoft's potentially worthy initiative in such a perjorative way. But Microsoft never did reform. It is unnecessary to look any further than Microsoft's shenanigans with Windows 10 to be sure of that, just the tip of the iceberg. So, actually, "fuck Microsoft" is a lot more constructive than you seem to believe: it helps keeps us alert to evil intent, should there be any, irrespective of the possibility that there might really be none in this case. Not that I have the slightest interest in adopting Microsoft's development platform. I am perfectly happy and productive with the one I have now, the development of which is controlled by people I trust.
You Microsofties would be better advised to improve your behavior instead of trying to downmod the richly earned Slashdot cricticism.
You do realize that most of the complaints you have are basically moving a Linux desktop more toward what MS has done with Windows desktop
If that's what you think, then use KDE, it's smoother, more flexible and more sensibly organized than Microsoft's Windows GUI. And doesn't lean on a horrible centralized configuration hack like the dconf, gconf or registry monstrosities. A lot of the Microsoft envy that Gnome devs suffer from is just pure brain damage, as evidenced by Gnome development falling off the rails multiple times. Sure, Microsoft had some good ideas worth learning from, but a lot of them, like the registry, are pure crap, apparently designed mainly to maximize the suffering of long suffering Windows victims.
Microsoft employee with mod points posts "-1, Disagree"
You do realize that most of the complaints you have are basically moving a Linux desktop more toward what MS has done with Windows desktop
If that's what you think, then use KDE, it's smoother, more flexible and more sensibly organized than Microsoft's Windows GUI. And doesn't lean on a horrible centralized configuration hack like the dconf, gconf or registry monstrosities. A lot of the Microsoft envy that Gnome devs suffer from is just pure brain damage, as evidenced by Gnome development falling off the rails multiple times. Sure, Microsoft had some good ideas worth learning from, but a lot of them, like the registry, are pure crap, apparently designed mainly to maximize the suffering of long suffering Windows victims.
I suppose when you're aiming for first post you don't have too much time to think of anything more constructive.
What, framing the discussion properly is not constructive? See, if Microsoft had ever genuinely reformed, then it would indeed be unconstructive to respond to Microsoft's potentially worthy initiative in such a perjorative way. But Microsoft never did reform. It is unnecessary to look any further than Microsoft's shenanigans with Windows 10 to be sure of that, just the tip of the iceberg. So, actually, "fuck Microsoft" is a lot more constructive than you seem to believe: it helps keeps us alert to evil intent, should there be any, irrespective of the possibility that there might really be none in this case. Not that I have the slightest interest in adopting Microsoft's development platform. I am perfectly happy and productive with the one I have now, the development of which is controlled by people I trust.
As for textbook definitions, they're no more than the opinion of whatever person or persons wrote or edited the textbook.
Sorry, no. These textbooks are the textbooks of the people who built the operating system. I suppose you want to call a math textbook just a matter of opinion of the author as well? Maybe so, but the math itself is not an opinion.
Whatever THEY think, try running the Linux kernel by itself. Put the kernel on a disc of some kind ALONE, no LILO, no GRUB, no Chainloader, nothing, JUST the kernel, and try to boot from it.
Every heard of initrd? It's part of Linux, includes a complete user space. That is enough to boot Linux.
How do you reconcile your refrain with the fact that this unambiguously defines the characteristics of an operating system, all of which Linux has, and not all of which Android (the user space, not the Linux part) has? Also, did you ever consider the possibility that the Android Wikipedia page just parrots the Google marketing line? As opposed to the Wikipedia operating system page, which matches what you will find in any operating system textbook. It seems clear that you never studied computer science and are unwilling to learn anything about it.
VC++ does lag annoyingly behind g++ and clang in standards conformance, but it catches up to the standard eventually.
Wow, that must suck. Meanwhile, I have two great compilers, gcc and clang, that both do a great job of tracking the standard and, by all appearances, are just generally better than VC++. For free.
The article headline is crap. Android/Linux total users passed Windows in long ago. The article should have said that, those users now create nearly the same amount of web traffic as Windows PCs.
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Its because of the fact "Play" branding is used for more than just apps. They have the "Play Store", "Play Movies", "Play Music", and I believe a few others, too.
Brilliant. They all sound stupid and make people less interested in bothering with them. The whiteboard team who came up with this plan deserves a shiny new participation trophy, to put on the shelf with the rest of them.
Google seriously needs to stop this.
While they're at it, what's with the stupid "Play" brand? It's a app store, what's wrong with calling it an app store? Play should be a category of app, but in Google newspeak, an app is a kind of play. Google's branding makes no sense whatsoever, maybe consider reducing the hallucinogenic content in their smart water.
Same old Microsoft, same old thugs, nobody should forget that.
Google, Samsung, Sony etc etc all do the same fucking thing as apple.
Apple guys never get tired of ranting about how Apple makes most of the profit in the handset industry. Therefore, Apple is the main problem. Solve most of the problem by putting Apple on a crash profit diet.
If you take the inner loop and replace it with a function call that describes what the inner loop does, then your outer loop actually gets much easier to read...
Nice idea when things happen to factor that way. But often they do not, and the additional glue you need to factor out the inner loop adds more obfuscation than it removes. The takeaway is, just don't be mindless about factoring techniques.
Android is better and cheaper anyway.
Come on Alphabet, are you competing with Apple for the title of world's most ugly megacorp hq? Tent slum vs giant hubcap.
I do agree that trying to invest the money in growing Yahoo! would have been throwing it away.
But that is exactly what Marissa Mayer did, and incompetently at that. Not all the money, but many tens or hundreds of millions. Enough to remove all doubt about her talents, or lack of them.
Choosing not to sell the Alibaba stake and invest the money in trying to grow Yahoo! was good management.
Throw away the money, you mean. I don't call that good management. Neither is Yahoo in the business of stock speculation.
Under her, Yahoo nearly tripled in value, from about $16 billion to $44 billion.
Wow, I didn't believe that, but I checked YHOO's stock price and kamapuaa is correct...
That is entirely about Yahoo's windfall stake in Alibaba and has nothing whatsoever to do with good management by Marissa Mayer, quite the contrary. Factor out Alibaba and the truth emerges: Yahoo went straight down the crapper with Marissa Mayer at the helm.
Basic (optional) telemetry to help improve the product is a terrible thing.
Telemetry that is opt-out instead of opt-in is bad. Telemetry with no opt-out is worse. Spyware under the guise of product improvement is the worst. The latter is classic Microsoft. Rejected.
VS does send certain metrics to Microsoft...
However much it is, it's too much. Rejected.
I suppose when you're aiming for first post you don't have too much time to think of anything more constructive.
What, framing the discussion properly is not constructive? See, if Microsoft had ever genuinely reformed, then it would indeed be unconstructive to respond to Microsoft's potentially worthy initiative in such a perjorative way. But Microsoft never did reform. It is unnecessary to look any further than Microsoft's shenanigans with Windows 10 to be sure of that, just the tip of the iceberg. So, actually, "fuck Microsoft" is a lot more constructive than you seem to believe: it helps keeps us alert to evil intent, should there be any, irrespective of the possibility that there might really be none in this case. Not that I have the slightest interest in adopting Microsoft's development platform. I am perfectly happy and productive with the one I have now, the development of which is controlled by people I trust.
You Microsofties would be better advised to improve your behavior instead of trying to downmod the richly earned Slashdot cricticism.
You do realize that most of the complaints you have are basically moving a Linux desktop more toward what MS has done with Windows desktop
If that's what you think, then use KDE, it's smoother, more flexible and more sensibly organized than Microsoft's Windows GUI. And doesn't lean on a horrible centralized configuration hack like the dconf, gconf or registry monstrosities. A lot of the Microsoft envy that Gnome devs suffer from is just pure brain damage, as evidenced by Gnome development falling off the rails multiple times. Sure, Microsoft had some good ideas worth learning from, but a lot of them, like the registry, are pure crap, apparently designed mainly to maximize the suffering of long suffering Windows victims.
Microsoft employee with mod points posts "-1, Disagree"
You do realize that most of the complaints you have are basically moving a Linux desktop more toward what MS has done with Windows desktop
If that's what you think, then use KDE, it's smoother, more flexible and more sensibly organized than Microsoft's Windows GUI. And doesn't lean on a horrible centralized configuration hack like the dconf, gconf or registry monstrosities. A lot of the Microsoft envy that Gnome devs suffer from is just pure brain damage, as evidenced by Gnome development falling off the rails multiple times. Sure, Microsoft had some good ideas worth learning from, but a lot of them, like the registry, are pure crap, apparently designed mainly to maximize the suffering of long suffering Windows victims.
I suppose when you're aiming for first post you don't have too much time to think of anything more constructive.
What, framing the discussion properly is not constructive? See, if Microsoft had ever genuinely reformed, then it would indeed be unconstructive to respond to Microsoft's potentially worthy initiative in such a perjorative way. But Microsoft never did reform. It is unnecessary to look any further than Microsoft's shenanigans with Windows 10 to be sure of that, just the tip of the iceberg. So, actually, "fuck Microsoft" is a lot more constructive than you seem to believe: it helps keeps us alert to evil intent, should there be any, irrespective of the possibility that there might really be none in this case. Not that I have the slightest interest in adopting Microsoft's development platform. I am perfectly happy and productive with the one I have now, the development of which is controlled by people I trust.
A cube looks like a hexagon, looking down the long diagonal.
As for textbook definitions, they're no more than the opinion of whatever person or persons wrote or edited the textbook.
Sorry, no. These textbooks are the textbooks of the people who built the operating system. I suppose you want to call a math textbook just a matter of opinion of the author as well? Maybe so, but the math itself is not an opinion.
Whatever THEY think, try running the Linux kernel by itself. Put the kernel on a disc of some kind ALONE, no LILO, no GRUB, no Chainloader, nothing, JUST the kernel, and try to boot from it.
Every heard of initrd? It's part of Linux, includes a complete user space. That is enough to boot Linux.
Linux is the kernel. It's not a SYSTEM. The entire thing, that lets you DO stuff, is a SYSTEM
Oh, you mean like a Linux distribution? Android is a kind of Linux distribution, nothing more and nothing less. And therefore a kind of Linux.
Sure, but BSD/Linux, what is that? Did you mean GNU/kFreeBSD?
Consider the following two statements:
1) A dog is a kind of animal.
2) Android is a kind of Linux.
Linux kernel is the kernel.
How do you reconcile your refrain with the fact that this unambiguously defines the characteristics of an operating system, all of which Linux has, and not all of which Android (the user space, not the Linux part) has? Also, did you ever consider the possibility that the Android Wikipedia page just parrots the Google marketing line? As opposed to the Wikipedia operating system page, which matches what you will find in any operating system textbook. It seems clear that you never studied computer science and are unwilling to learn anything about it.
VC++ does lag annoyingly behind g++ and clang in standards conformance, but it catches up to the standard eventually.
Wow, that must suck. Meanwhile, I have two great compilers, gcc and clang, that both do a great job of tracking the standard and, by all appearances, are just generally better than VC++. For free.
I'm using C++14 right now, for free, using GCC.
The article headline is crap. Android/Linux total users passed Windows in long ago. The article should have said that, those users now create nearly the same amount of web traffic as Windows PCs.