The problem with these OS'es is that they don't have any apps. If I run Android on my television I can run gazzilion apps and games for every possible scenario imaginable and I can expect that they will be supported for some time.There is a problem with support for all these third party systems. I can expect that for example Netflix will be supported for a very long time on Android given the user base. But the chances that Netflix will be supported in webOS for the version on your TV in the next 10 years is slim to none. For example I bought a Philips TV with SmartTV OS like 8 years ago and none of the apps work any longer and can't be updated since they connect to some web functions which have been discontinued.
Hmmm. Didn't Apple just announce bringing $350 BEEELION dollars back to the U.S.?
Talk is cheap. A promise from a company holds no value, especially for a 5 year plan. The CEO could be fired to tomorrow and the plans could change over night. I don't trust anything from a company unless it has already been implemented.
We don't want people to have to go to multiple [systems] or live with a device that's not integrated
When your device doesn't integrate with anything else then your device sucks. There is a standard called USB why don't you use it? Apple is an extremely annoying company with the "not invented here" mentality. If I have to bring a different cable for every iDevice everywhere I go I will not buy your product.
might think that Apple "is good at making money." But he says "that's not who we are
It's easy to make money when you don't pay any taxes.
Why would I install a second Gmail app when I can't even uninstall the first one? This would take up even more storage space. Do these idiots at Google not even realise that even if you disable the Gmail app it still takes up storage space?
Who would have thought that if you just priced your products fairly you could gain all the market and crack down on pirating easily? It's not like this was something that everybody knew all along.
It's funny I was a Red Hot Chili Pepper fan and I thought Californication was a good album musically. But I found that I got tired of listening to it and that the sound somehow sounded monotone. It wasn't until many years later that I found out that this was the most compressed album in history and so it all made sense.
When people say that music used to be better in the old days, that is actually true, it was better in the old days. Music in the old days had more dynamic range. Today it's just loud and flat.
long shape suggests that it is a spaceship of some sort
And why is that? You do realize that shape doesn't have to be streamlined in space? There is no air therefore you can have the shape to be any way you like.
So are you saying that at these locations that people thought that they saw Yetis, there where indigenous bears at the same locations? And no one actually made the obvious connection?
Here is a hint for those people: If you see a big hairy animal at a distance and you know that there are big hairy animals roaming around called bears. It's fair to assume that those are bears.
That is right. Self defense is not a legimate use to own a gun. You can use self defense just not with guns. The problem in the first place is that everybody can have guns and that escalates the self defense problem.
That really isn't equal comparision in any way. If you had used cars instead of guns it would maybe have been better argument.
You see guns are special objects. For most other objects their primary purpose is not directly to kill people, although some can be used in such a way indirectly. Therefore guns are special objects, which are hard to compare to anything else.
The second problem with that argument is that no one is trying to ban guns entirely. Most people just want to have some serious regulations on their usage and limit what people can get them.
Has anyone tested if there are actually any benefits compared to just zipping up the js file and send that? This kind of wire format has actually been done before in WAP with horibble results. The problem with this approach is that you are hard coding the wire format to the data format, so if you add new data definitions you must also change the transfer format.
But what is actually worse is that this adds little benefit or possibly worse to just using a generic compressor like zip instead. So instead of getting the best of both worlds: Compression and independent wire format, you get the worst of everything: New compression format that has not been tested very much and tigthly coupled wire format.
I was seriously thinking of buying a Logitech Harmony remote to replace my old Philips remote, but now it's clear that I will not be buying any Logitech products ever in the future. So does anyone know of any good universal remotes?
What? Is Lorenz saying pink cupcakes are only for women? Is she saying pink is a girl color only? Or that cupcakes are only for girls? I am outraged at this sexist remark. I am a middle aged man that loves cupcakes of all colors, especially the pink ones.
I don't think anyone will yell when an operating system comes with basic software that makes it usable. Having an OS with no text editor, file browser, sound player, calculator, image viewer, screen saver, e.t.c or basically zero applications is completely useless. I think the litigations where mainly because they bundled the applications so tightly that these applications where no longer applications but a part of the OS and couldn't be removed cleanly. There where also secret API's that gave Microsoft application better integration than competitors.
I personally would want as many basic applications as possible to come with an OS. I would like to see Movie editors, Sound editors, Media Players, Sound recorders, word processing, spreadsheet to be included with an OS. But you also have to have the ability to remove these if you want and install some other products.
And this is why you never ever rely on any program made by Microsoft because they will either abandon it or remove it from you at some point. Always use open source software for everything, because you can quarantie it won't be taken away and even if it is abandoned you can still download the last version of it.
Yes the thing is most success is simply based on luck and also with how much money your parents give you and their connections. But mostly it is being at the right time at the right place with the right product. For every successful businessman there are million of others who failed, but not necessarly because they where bad but because they just where at the wrong time. If being successfull was only based on how much you where willing to work hard there would millions of Bill Gates running around.
This is why you should not release new features in a fixpack for the current OS version. Instead you release a new version of the OS with those new features or better yet don't bundle the new features into the OS but bundle them as a separate pack that can be downloaded.
People like you scream for perfection then complain about stagnation.
No I only scream for perfection given that Microsoft has unlimited amount of money which means they should have 100% QA.
I don't have to use their products, but unfortunately most people are using Windows so that means most of the time it will have to be me to fix my relatives and friends computers.
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The problem with these OS'es is that they don't have any apps. If I run Android on my television I can run gazzilion apps and games for every possible scenario imaginable and I can expect that they will be supported for some time.There is a problem with support for all these third party systems. I can expect that for example Netflix will be supported for a very long time on Android given the user base. But the chances that Netflix will be supported in webOS for the version on your TV in the next 10 years is slim to none. For example I bought a Philips TV with SmartTV OS like 8 years ago and none of the apps work any longer and can't be updated since they connect to some web functions which have been discontinued.
Hmmm. Didn't Apple just announce bringing $350 BEEELION dollars back to the U.S.?
Talk is cheap. A promise from a company holds no value, especially for a 5 year plan. The CEO could be fired to tomorrow and the plans could change over night. I don't trust anything from a company unless it has already been implemented.
Apple is the biggest company pushing USB-C right now.
Yes now, maybe. But what about all the other devices in the past?
Maybe that works for you but Apple pays millions in taxes every year,
The Interweb doesn't agree with you:
apple tax avoidance
We don't want people to have to go to multiple [systems] or live with a device that's not integrated
When your device doesn't integrate with anything else then your device sucks. There is a standard called USB why don't you use it? Apple is an extremely annoying company with the "not invented here" mentality. If I have to bring a different cable for every iDevice everywhere I go I will not buy your product.
might think that Apple "is good at making money." But he says "that's not who we are
It's easy to make money when you don't pay any taxes.
You know just rebranding your shit to "Le Shité" doesn't change the fact it's still shit.
Why would I install a second Gmail app when I can't even uninstall the first one? This would take up even more storage space. Do these idiots at Google not even realise that even if you disable the Gmail app it still takes up storage space?
Who would have thought that if you just priced your products fairly you could gain all the market and crack down on pirating easily? It's not like this was something that everybody knew all along.
It's funny I was a Red Hot Chili Pepper fan and I thought Californication was a good album musically. But I found that I got tired of listening to it and that the sound somehow sounded monotone. It wasn't until many years later that I found out that this was the most compressed album in history and so it all made sense.
No the problem is compression or the loudness war:
https://www.cnet.com/news/comp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
When people say that music used to be better in the old days, that is actually true, it was better in the old days. Music in the old days had more dynamic range. Today it's just loud and flat.
You are still assuming earth like atmosphere. On the alien planet it's possible there is little or no athmosphere.
long shape suggests that it is a spaceship of some sort
And why is that? You do realize that shape doesn't have to be streamlined in space? There is no air therefore you can have the shape to be any way you like.
It's a trap!
Until they will release USB-D after some years or whatever it will be called. Remember there will always be a new USB plug created every few years.
So are you saying that at these locations that people thought that they saw Yetis, there where indigenous bears at the same locations? And no one actually made the obvious connection?
Here is a hint for those people: If you see a big hairy animal at a distance and you know that there are big hairy animals roaming around called bears. It's fair to assume that those are bears.
That is right. Self defense is not a legimate use to own a gun. You can use self defense just not with guns. The problem in the first place is that everybody can have guns and that escalates the self defense problem.
That really isn't equal comparision in any way. If you had used cars instead of guns it would maybe have been better argument.
You see guns are special objects. For most other objects their primary purpose is not directly to kill people, although some can be used in such a way indirectly. Therefore guns are special objects, which are hard to compare to anything else.
The second problem with that argument is that no one is trying to ban guns entirely. Most people just want to have some serious regulations on their usage and limit what people can get them.
Has anyone tested if there are actually any benefits compared to just zipping up the js file and send that? This kind of wire format has actually been done before in WAP with horibble results. The problem with this approach is that you are hard coding the wire format to the data format, so if you add new data definitions you must also change the transfer format.
But what is actually worse is that this adds little benefit or possibly worse to just using a generic compressor like zip instead. So instead of getting the best of both worlds: Compression and independent wire format, you get the worst of everything: New compression format that has not been tested very much and tigthly coupled wire format.
I was seriously thinking of buying a Logitech Harmony remote to replace my old Philips remote, but now it's clear that I will not be buying any Logitech products ever in the future. So does anyone know of any good universal remotes?
What? Is Lorenz saying pink cupcakes are only for women? Is she saying pink is a girl color only? Or that cupcakes are only for girls? I am outraged at this sexist remark. I am a middle aged man that loves cupcakes of all colors, especially the pink ones.
I don't think anyone will yell when an operating system comes with basic software that makes it usable. Having an OS with no text editor, file browser, sound player, calculator, image viewer, screen saver, e.t.c or basically zero applications is completely useless. I think the litigations where mainly because they bundled the applications so tightly that these applications where no longer applications but a part of the OS and couldn't be removed cleanly. There where also secret API's that gave Microsoft application better integration than competitors.
I personally would want as many basic applications as possible to come with an OS. I would like to see Movie editors, Sound editors, Media Players, Sound recorders, word processing, spreadsheet to be included with an OS. But you also have to have the ability to remove these if you want and install some other products.
Yes partly, although Google usually gives you the option to migrate to a better product or at least gives you some warning before hand.
And this is why you never ever rely on any program made by Microsoft because they will either abandon it or remove it from you at some point. Always use open source software for everything, because you can quarantie it won't be taken away and even if it is abandoned you can still download the last version of it.
Yes the thing is most success is simply based on luck and also with how much money your parents give you and their connections. But mostly it is being at the right time at the right place with the right product. For every successful businessman there are million of others who failed, but not necessarly because they where bad but because they just where at the wrong time. If being successfull was only based on how much you where willing to work hard there would millions of Bill Gates running around.
So do we finally get symbolic links now? Or is this "Backup and Sync" uncomplete garbage app like always from Google?
This is why you should not release new features in a fixpack for the current OS version. Instead you release a new version of the OS with those new features or better yet don't bundle the new features into the OS but bundle them as a separate pack that can be downloaded.
People like you scream for perfection then complain about stagnation.
No I only scream for perfection given that Microsoft has unlimited amount of money which means they should have 100% QA.
I don't have to use their products, but unfortunately most people are using Windows so that means most of the time it will have to be me to fix my relatives and friends computers.