People dress in a myriad different ways in London, and frankly nobody could give a toss about somebody wearing shorts and a baseball cap, heck, many locals will dress like that at times (not this time of the year tough, it has been quite cold and windy the last few days).
London is quite a big place, If you go to Greenwich area the Science Museum.area is too far away. Even attractions that are centrally located (lets say Westminster area and the South Bank area) are 5 minutes away by underground rather than 15 or 20 minutes walk in the horrid weather of Nov or Dec.
My desktop is frankly useless without a network connection nowadays, so the Internet connection is nowadays a given, so recoiling on that regard is valid only in Zimbabwe or other such places.
We will let know China and India, who are producing more Engineers and scientists than pretty much anywhere else (and Russia also, who has some serious geniuses out there).
I find particularly puzzling that people seriously think that it is better to entrust education to people at the local level while ignoring the best of the best that could be gathered around a country the size of the US.
Now tell us how a higher education institution will be able to know if your grades are worth the paper they are written in once you dump standardized testing?
.... that there are people actually trying to justify application approval.
Jobs does it, it is fine and dandy.
If Microsoft did it, their monopolistic abusing ass would be kicked by everyone and his dog, including government regulatory agencies.
The iPhone is just a highly connected micro computer, it is immoral and against the best traditions in the IT industry that people need to get permission in order to develop applications for the device.
I wish people would stop defending this unethical behaviour.
They can no longer install programs they find in the net, download and watch videos and pictures, and run that funny program that was sent by a person they have not met before.
Computers are not in an office to satisfy employees aesthetic tastes, they are there to accomplish specific tasks, so frankly I would not be particularly concerned if users feel frustrated, there are enough people out there that would be grateful to have a job, so they can give their place to somebody else if they feel aggravated by using restricted computing resources.
There have been several of those "dead horses" in the past.
Apple's Newton comes to mind, where an idea was way ahead of its time.
In this case everything seems to be in place: people are already doing most of their work online (email, webs surfing, now even document editing, presentations and basic photographic and video editing) and we have broadband, something we lacked during previous attempts.
When Sun tried the idea they didn't have desktop applications in offer. It all worked great, but the only thing you could do is run an X application back in your display.
Now you have all applications online, even in corporate networks.
You are also underestimating the frustration in many companies with the asinine maintenance cycle of Windows based desktops. In many companies they are trying to use things like Citirix and bizarre Windows thin clients in order to minimize maintenance costs, a thin client with credible applications is a holly grail, not a dead horse.
Open Source licenses (like the GPL) are not EULAs in the traditional sense, they are copyright agreements.
If Google release the code then as long as you respect how the code is copied and modified (Copyright) I don't think they can dictate how the software is used (EULA).
An alternative to anything will not ape mindlessly the thing it is intending to supplant, people developing similar tools arrive to different conclussions, specially when it comes to usability.
Usability is certainly related to familiarity (most people that say something is not "user friendly" or "intuitive" what they really mean is that they are used to a piece of software and that they will never learn anything else because they have invested so much on the previous tool.
The GIMP certainly is no drop in replacement for Photoshop, but deriding it because it isn't is childish in extreme.
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People dress in a myriad different ways in London, and frankly nobody could give a toss about somebody wearing shorts and a baseball cap, heck, many locals will dress like that at times (not this time of the year tough, it has been quite cold and windy the last few days).
It is little Venice....
.... I was taught to look in both directions.
Once again Mexican education trounces the rest of the world's ...
Not for now, from January you will be able to use them with Oyster card as well, but only in the Greater London Area.
London is quite a big place, If you go to Greenwich area the Science Museum.area is too far away. Even attractions that are centrally located (lets say Westminster area and the South Bank area) are 5 minutes away by underground rather than 15 or 20 minutes walk in the horrid weather of Nov or Dec.
My desktop is frankly useless without a network connection nowadays, so the Internet connection is nowadays a given, so recoiling on that regard is valid only in Zimbabwe or other such places.
Give money to the Unions, at least they have to pacify normal people like you and I, unlike the plutocrats in big enterprises.
We will let know China and India, who are producing more Engineers and scientists than pretty much anywhere else (and Russia also, who has some serious geniuses out there).
I find particularly puzzling that people seriously think that it is better to entrust education to people at the local level while ignoring the best of the best that could be gathered around a country the size of the US.
Women with good jobs tend to look for partners lower in the chain food. That way the relationship is not competitive.
Of course you need a man grown up enough to deal with that, but there are many out there, contrary to what most /.ers would think.
There are many chicks out there that can see more on males than mere manutention machines.
In other countries that is not the case.
Now tell us how a higher education institution will be able to know if your grades are worth the paper they are written in once you dump standardized testing?
.... that there are people actually trying to justify application approval.
Jobs does it, it is fine and dandy.
If Microsoft did it, their monopolistic abusing ass would be kicked by everyone and his dog, including government regulatory agencies.
The iPhone is just a highly connected micro computer, it is immoral and against the best traditions in the IT industry that people need to get permission in order to develop applications for the device.
I wish people would stop defending this unethical behaviour.
iPhones are luxury items, most people don't have one, ditto for iPods.
Play video games? Buy a console.
As for the rest, I fail to see why you can't upload pictures from your camera (have you heard about this little thing called Picassa?)
And of course if you have a web browser+flash+java you can work from home (there are several solutions out there that will work for you).
They can no longer install programs they find in the net, download and watch videos and pictures, and run that funny program that was sent by a person they have not met before.
Computers are not in an office to satisfy employees aesthetic tastes, they are there to accomplish specific tasks, so frankly I would not be particularly concerned if users feel frustrated, there are enough people out there that would be grateful to have a job, so they can give their place to somebody else if they feel aggravated by using restricted computing resources.
There have been several of those "dead horses" in the past.
Apple's Newton comes to mind, where an idea was way ahead of its time.
In this case everything seems to be in place: people are already doing most of their work online (email, webs surfing, now even document editing, presentations and basic photographic and video editing) and we have broadband, something we lacked during previous attempts.
When Sun tried the idea they didn't have desktop applications in offer. It all worked great, but the only thing you could do is run an X application back in your display.
Now you have all applications online, even in corporate networks.
You are also underestimating the frustration in many companies with the asinine maintenance cycle of Windows based desktops. In many companies they are trying to use things like Citirix and bizarre Windows thin clients in order to minimize maintenance costs, a thin client with credible applications is a holly grail, not a dead horse.
Open Source licenses (like the GPL) are not EULAs in the traditional sense, they are copyright agreements.
If Google release the code then as long as you respect how the code is copied and modified (Copyright) I don't think they can dictate how the software is used (EULA).
how is there a monopoly in a market that nobody else wants (or can) offer the same product?
In any case having a monopoly is not evil, abusing it is.
.... that is all the reconciliation we need.
So I will outsource that to Google.
But of course you need some computing literacy beyond knowing how to turn on your computer, but the original poster seems to fit that profile,
So maybe it is not a bug, but a feature.
First time I read this...
Everybody knows what it is, what would be the reason to change the name? (I don't like it is not a reason).
You are looking for rip-offs.
An alternative to anything will not ape mindlessly the thing it is intending to supplant, people developing similar tools arrive to different conclussions, specially when it comes to usability.
Usability is certainly related to familiarity (most people that say something is not "user friendly" or "intuitive" what they really mean is that they are used to a piece of software and that they will never learn anything else because they have invested so much on the previous tool.
The GIMP certainly is no drop in replacement for Photoshop, but deriding it because it isn't is childish in extreme.