So Windows 8 has too low a market share but desktop Linux support is a great investment of time. Mozilla is the same organization that tried to make an antitrust stink out of the Metro browser as well. They seem to have a vested interest in portraying it as failure.
True, but if the business is to trick you into clicking the paid link instead of the algo link, then why don't we just be honest about it and go back to paid placement?
Did you even bother to look? There's no overreachtion here. I just ran the same query and saw the same thing. It's not an A/B test, and it's been this way for a while.
Having Android as the OS doesn't magically make the phone capable of hardware decoding the video. They all have the same problem. Your Faux-open operating system doesn't solve that.
Between undergrad and graduate school I am still paying it off and I'm pushing 40. So now I'm supposed to pay my own way (plus interest) and pay a tax so that everyone after me goes for free and without any real appreciation of the cost of doing so?? Screw that. The last thing we need is thousands more comparative literature BA graduates working at Starbucks with my tax dollars paving the way.
If all of your friends on facebook are people you've never met, then isn't it possible you are responsible for your own crappy experience? I only friend people that, you know, I am actually friends with. My experience on facebook is great. Garbage in, garbage out.
Which suggests to me that the Glass Hole in question was an incredulous jerk when confronted hopping on his high horse refusing to cooperate, leading to the authorities getting involved. Even movie theater employees recognize that bringing law enforcement in to get rid of somebody is not good for business.
I hear this critique a lot, yet I've never once read complaints of how iOS app shutdown works. Hint- they copied the Metro method except you swipe up instead of down.
Some people, and this is the crowd using it day to day making themselves public. Normal people either will not buy it or a few will and not leave the house with them.
I went to that first link and had a look at some of the clowns commenting on the G+ thread. Even the typical/. crowd would shun these people as dorks. Google Glass could cure cancer and make you able to fly, and they are NEVER going to sell these things when that is the face of the product.
Judging by your comment history, your having some "fucking perspective" applies uniquely to the companies that you like (or work for?). Your Nokia/Microsoft comment from Dec 5 is particularly rich in this light.
Glass houses
One of the problems with taking your position is you might be wrong. I know it's popular on/. to trash anyone with a business degree as a know nothing douchebag, but sometimes perspective outside of the core engineering effort can pay dividends. Instead of trashing the guy and trying to go over his head to torpedo his job, try working with him. You might be surprised what happens if you take a constructive tone.
Plenty of people seem to be failing to understand that a tablet is not and never will be a laptop replacement for doing laptop style things. Including microsoft it would appear, who are designing products by committee/feature tickbox sheet without any thoughts as to what it will be used for in the real world.
The only reason you think the tablet cannot be a laptop replacement is because Steve Jobs told you so. Some, like me, don't like schlepping around a second device because I might need the other. I'm not sure it will work, but it might. And for that I will give it a try.
I don't see how a bogus licencing is more ethical than a bogus suit.
One is a bad deal and the other is abuse of the legal system. Put another way, one will give you a bad reputation and the other will get the FTC knocking on your door.
Microsoft has negotiated agreements with Android vendors for licensing. According to you, Google has the right to sue for 2.25% of revenue because they don't like how much their business partners negotiated to pay Microsoft in licensing. 2.25% of revenue for wifi FRAND licenses is clearly orders of magnitude out of line. Google is digging itself a big hole here. THIS issue is one of the keys to the potential antitrust suit against Google and rather than see the obvious writing on the wall, they choose to double down on it. Not a wise judgement in my view.
I wouldn't call myself ageist, but if I were to pick any reason why I might be hesitant to hire someone 60+, it would be based on the assumption you don't have the drive for it anymore. Having been out of work, I hope for your sake you've been keeping yourself busy for the past 3 years working on something related- smartphone apps, websites, open source projects, whatever. If not, I would probably write you off too. Sorry to say but true.
Didn't you hear? Everything has to run in the browser now. I'm waiting for the operating system that runs in a browser so I can create an infinite recursive loop of stupidity.
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Pedal your bullshit elsewhere. Oh wait, this is /.? Carry on.
So Windows 8 has too low a market share but desktop Linux support is a great investment of time. Mozilla is the same organization that tried to make an antitrust stink out of the Metro browser as well. They seem to have a vested interest in portraying it as failure.
The folks at TiVo will be glad to read this.
True, but if the business is to trick you into clicking the paid link instead of the algo link, then why don't we just be honest about it and go back to paid placement?
Did you even bother to look? There's no overreachtion here. I just ran the same query and saw the same thing. It's not an A/B test, and it's been this way for a while.
Having Android as the OS doesn't magically make the phone capable of hardware decoding the video. They all have the same problem. Your Faux-open operating system doesn't solve that.
Between undergrad and graduate school I am still paying it off and I'm pushing 40. So now I'm supposed to pay my own way (plus interest) and pay a tax so that everyone after me goes for free and without any real appreciation of the cost of doing so?? Screw that. The last thing we need is thousands more comparative literature BA graduates working at Starbucks with my tax dollars paving the way.
If all of your friends on facebook are people you've never met, then isn't it possible you are responsible for your own crappy experience? I only friend people that, you know, I am actually friends with. My experience on facebook is great. Garbage in, garbage out.
Which suggests to me that the Glass Hole in question was an incredulous jerk when confronted hopping on his high horse refusing to cooperate, leading to the authorities getting involved. Even movie theater employees recognize that bringing law enforcement in to get rid of somebody is not good for business.
For starters, they'll always notice that you are 'that guy' wearing Google Glass. In case you haven't noticed, you people don't exactly blend in.
I hear this critique a lot, yet I've never once read complaints of how iOS app shutdown works. Hint- they copied the Metro method except you swipe up instead of down.
Amusing, since "I hate it so everybody else who doesn't is a shill" seems to be the prevailing wisdom around here.
Xbox One will be doing exactly this and will sue Square Enix out of existence for it.
I do. Your face appears on the G+ thread.
Some people, and this is the crowd using it day to day making themselves public. Normal people either will not buy it or a few will and not leave the house with them.
I went to that first link and had a look at some of the clowns commenting on the G+ thread. Even the typical /. crowd would shun these people as dorks. Google Glass could cure cancer and make you able to fly, and they are NEVER going to sell these things when that is the face of the product.
Slashdot. The place we go to bitch about legal business practices and celebrate price fixing and anticompetitiveness.
Judging by your comment history, your having some "fucking perspective" applies uniquely to the companies that you like (or work for?). Your Nokia/Microsoft comment from Dec 5 is particularly rich in this light. Glass houses
One of the problems with taking your position is you might be wrong. I know it's popular on /. to trash anyone with a business degree as a know nothing douchebag, but sometimes perspective outside of the core engineering effort can pay dividends. Instead of trashing the guy and trying to go over his head to torpedo his job, try working with him. You might be surprised what happens if you take a constructive tone.
Plenty of people seem to be failing to understand that a tablet is not and never will be a laptop replacement for doing laptop style things. Including microsoft it would appear, who are designing products by committee/feature tickbox sheet without any thoughts as to what it will be used for in the real world.
The only reason you think the tablet cannot be a laptop replacement is because Steve Jobs told you so. Some, like me, don't like schlepping around a second device because I might need the other. I'm not sure it will work, but it might. And for that I will give it a try.
I don't see how a bogus licencing is more ethical than a bogus suit.
One is a bad deal and the other is abuse of the legal system. Put another way, one will give you a bad reputation and the other will get the FTC knocking on your door.
Microsoft has negotiated agreements with Android vendors for licensing. According to you, Google has the right to sue for 2.25% of revenue because they don't like how much their business partners negotiated to pay Microsoft in licensing. 2.25% of revenue for wifi FRAND licenses is clearly orders of magnitude out of line. Google is digging itself a big hole here. THIS issue is one of the keys to the potential antitrust suit against Google and rather than see the obvious writing on the wall, they choose to double down on it. Not a wise judgement in my view.
I wouldn't call myself ageist, but if I were to pick any reason why I might be hesitant to hire someone 60+, it would be based on the assumption you don't have the drive for it anymore. Having been out of work, I hope for your sake you've been keeping yourself busy for the past 3 years working on something related- smartphone apps, websites, open source projects, whatever. If not, I would probably write you off too. Sorry to say but true.
Didn't you hear? Everything has to run in the browser now. I'm waiting for the operating system that runs in a browser so I can create an infinite recursive loop of stupidity.