I'm a sysadmin for a lare design agency that is about 70% Mac. I've grown to really hate Apple for dropping of the XServe and all the server related products, and that's not talking about the anger I feel for the increasingly erratic usability and interoperability issues that OSX is bringing lately. Apple's deliberate hostility towards anything legacy, such as its dropping of all PPC support in 10.7 (and all Mac OS 9 support back in 10.5) makes supporting Apple a much more expensive proposition than supporting windows, even though OSX needs much less in the way of support than windows does in my experience.
In your post, you're only wrong about one point: Imaging a Mac from a standard image is a lot easier than it is in windows. You don't actually need pxe.
The OP is not the only who really hates Unity. Judging from the majority of the comments, there are very few who actually like it, so the OP is fairly inline with his post.
Another one here who's switched to LMDE using XFCE. I'm pretty happy, can work again and don't have to worry about strange GUI paradigms stopping my workflow for weeks on end.
I still see many, many people using the start menu where I work. Windows 7 made docking icons easier but it in no way removed the need for the Start menu.
This is appallingly retarded and it is going to come back to bite Microsoft in the ass when corporate users refuse to upgrade because their users are pissed off and lost with yet another irrational GUI change from MS after ribbons were introduced. Now, if only the main Linux distros weren't equally or even more retarded with bullshit like Unity or Gnome 3, then things would be great fro office workers who just need a simple GUI to do their work.
Fluent French speaker and reader here as well. Although I understand the authors' need to earn some money, I think I'll just put in an offer to translate a chapter here myself.
Apple is much more dependent on brand recognition than Windows ever was. When Facebook campaigns start up against Apple and Apple is perceived as uncool and Windows- or Microsoft-like, Apple will suffer and it doesn't have the world wide installed base that Microsoft does.
I beg you to prove any bias on Engadget against Apple, unless you see reviews of anything other than Apple devices as a bias against Apple. As for biases, I would say you must be new here, were it not for your id, because the rampant Apple fanboi-ism on Slashdot has been a plague for years.
What does that have to do with Apple getting them banned then, unless you claim that it was a waste of Apple's time anyway? You might have noticed that Apple got samsung phones banned in Europe as well and they seem to sell very well.
I wouldn't be surprised if Apple wanted to make a TV, BUT, they will face a world of patent lawsuits if they do, because none of the makers of TVs will quickly forget how Apple is currently treating competitors.
Not only that, but all of them will be watching with eagle eyes for any possible way to return the favour to Apple in any way they can.
This was posted there last night, and I was pretty surprised at the anger towards Apple in the comments (The comments there have since degenerated into an Apple Fanboi vs. the rest of the world "ur mom" catfight). But the general tone is clear: Apple could not have done more or better marketing for Samsung's devices. Apple is also royally hurting its own sacred brand with these type of actions, as the perception of Apple as the feisty underdog becomes one of an abusive monopoly similar to the way Microsoft has long been perceived.
Both the Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet and Samsung's just announced Note have styluses, and there is almost certainly a market for them, even if it's only a niche. Businesspeople who need to sketch processes and write notes, professionals who need to sketch ideas and students and artists who need to, well sketch have a definite need of Styluses.
The reason they didn't sell before is, as the OP says, because Windows was a horrible tablet OS, just as Windows mobile prior to 7 was a fucktastic mobile OS. We'll see if Android fits the bill better.
Texting, or SMS as it has been known in the rest of the world since the mid 90s, was almost universally popular long before the concept started to grow in the US. SMS had replaced email as the most popular communication medium for most younger people in Europe by 1999. This was long before smartphones were commonplace.
Couldn't give a flying fuck if he ran a penguin or Steve Ballmer's chair, but he is a fanboi, and if it makes him happy, good on him. Personally, as a Mac system admin, I think Macs are fine, but the Mac fans tend to miss out on the fact that there is other good stuff besides Apple out there.
After the way the Dutch handled Apple's case against Samsung, I am not surprised at the way they're treating this guy. Dutch legal system sucking US legal cock much?
This site has brought me more entertainment and information than just about any other over the last 10 years. Take care and I wish you the very best of luck with your family and whatever else you choose to do, mate.
I own a Netbook, a Lenovo S10. The keyboard is so cramped that it's very difficult to type at full speed. The tiny 10" sceen is pretty crap as well, with its resolution just above a moden smartphone. You want small laptops? The MacBook Air, the Acer UX21 etc, they've got it covered, with OSes that don't heave and crap out on one when all you want to do is email, web, write, photos and music. Nope, the netbook as a concept is dead. The only OS that actually makes any sense on it is currently JoliOS, a fully web based OS like Chrome. Shuttleworth and McCann made UIs for computers that went from being in to obsolescent in two years.
Tough for them. And tough for us who actually enjoyed their work until they got Mac envy.
That stood out to me as well. He basically went ahead and said "LA LA LA LA LA, I can't hear you". What was even more hilarious was when he said that the "vocal minority" was basically saying "you're wrong, I'm right" when he basically said the same thing, too.
Absolutely. Devs will (actually have already) start moving to XFCE and LXDE and interest in Unity and Gnome3 will die down to become a joke that people will use to refer to when discussing how to lose your user base.
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I'm a sysadmin for a lare design agency that is about 70% Mac. I've grown to really hate Apple for dropping of the XServe and all the server related products, and that's not talking about the anger I feel for the increasingly erratic usability and interoperability issues that OSX is bringing lately. Apple's deliberate hostility towards anything legacy, such as its dropping of all PPC support in 10.7 (and all Mac OS 9 support back in 10.5) makes supporting Apple a much more expensive proposition than supporting windows, even though OSX needs much less in the way of support than windows does in my experience.
In your post, you're only wrong about one point: Imaging a Mac from a standard image is a lot easier than it is in windows. You don't actually need pxe.
I use OS X and Ubuntu.
I see where the problem is.
The OP is not the only who really hates Unity. Judging from the majority of the comments, there are very few who actually like it, so the OP is fairly inline with his post.
Another one here who's switched to LMDE using XFCE. I'm pretty happy, can work again and don't have to worry about strange GUI paradigms stopping my workflow for weeks on end.
I still see many, many people using the start menu where I work. Windows 7 made docking icons easier but it in no way removed the need for the Start menu.
This is appallingly retarded and it is going to come back to bite Microsoft in the ass when corporate users refuse to upgrade because their users are pissed off and lost with yet another irrational GUI change from MS after ribbons were introduced. Now, if only the main Linux distros weren't equally or even more retarded with bullshit like Unity or Gnome 3, then things would be great fro office workers who just need a simple GUI to do their work.
Not understanding the difference between rights and writing, ouch!
Fluent French speaker and reader here as well. Although I understand the authors' need to earn some money, I think I'll just put in an offer to translate a chapter here myself.
The given medium was Alpine granite.....
They are available here in Switzerland, online at arp.ch, I just checked.
I did and you wrote "... geeks who would probably buy a Galaxy Tab over an iPad anyway".
You could have at least found something a bit more actual.
Apple is much more dependent on brand recognition than Windows ever was. When Facebook campaigns start up against Apple and Apple is perceived as uncool and Windows- or Microsoft-like, Apple will suffer and it doesn't have the world wide installed base that Microsoft does.
I beg you to prove any bias on Engadget against Apple, unless you see reviews of anything other than Apple devices as a bias against Apple. As for biases, I would say you must be new here, were it not for your id, because the rampant Apple fanboi-ism on Slashdot has been a plague for years.
What does that have to do with Apple getting them banned then, unless you claim that it was a waste of Apple's time anyway? You might have noticed that Apple got samsung phones banned in Europe as well and they seem to sell very well.
I wouldn't be surprised if Apple wanted to make a TV, BUT, they will face a world of patent lawsuits if they do, because none of the makers of TVs will quickly forget how Apple is currently treating competitors.
Not only that, but all of them will be watching with eagle eyes for any possible way to return the favour to Apple in any way they can.
This was posted there last night, and I was pretty surprised at the anger towards Apple in the comments (The comments there have since degenerated into an Apple Fanboi vs. the rest of the world "ur mom" catfight). But the general tone is clear: Apple could not have done more or better marketing for Samsung's devices. Apple is also royally hurting its own sacred brand with these type of actions, as the perception of Apple as the feisty underdog becomes one of an abusive monopoly similar to the way Microsoft has long been perceived.
Both the Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet and Samsung's just announced Note have styluses, and there is almost certainly a market for them, even if it's only a niche. Businesspeople who need to sketch processes and write notes, professionals who need to sketch ideas and students and artists who need to, well sketch have a definite need of Styluses.
The reason they didn't sell before is, as the OP says, because Windows was a horrible tablet OS, just as Windows mobile prior to 7 was a fucktastic mobile OS. We'll see if Android fits the bill better.
I'm betting that this time it will be better.
Texting, or SMS as it has been known in the rest of the world since the mid 90s, was almost universally popular long before the concept started to grow in the US. SMS had replaced email as the most popular communication medium for most younger people in Europe by 1999. This was long before smartphones were commonplace.
U Mad?
Couldn't give a flying fuck if he ran a penguin or Steve Ballmer's chair, but he is a fanboi, and if it makes him happy, good on him. Personally, as a Mac system admin, I think Macs are fine, but the Mac fans tend to miss out on the fact that there is other good stuff besides Apple out there.
After the way the Dutch handled Apple's case against Samsung, I am not surprised at the way they're treating this guy. Dutch legal system sucking US legal cock much?
This site has brought me more entertainment and information than just about any other over the last 10 years. Take care and I wish you the very best of luck with your family and whatever else you choose to do, mate.
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I own a Netbook, a Lenovo S10. The keyboard is so cramped that it's very difficult to type at full speed. The tiny 10" sceen is pretty crap as well, with its resolution just above a moden smartphone. You want small laptops? The MacBook Air, the Acer UX21 etc, they've got it covered, with OSes that don't heave and crap out on one when all you want to do is email, web, write, photos and music. Nope, the netbook as a concept is dead. The only OS that actually makes any sense on it is currently JoliOS, a fully web based OS like Chrome. Shuttleworth and McCann made UIs for computers that went from being in to obsolescent in two years.
Tough for them. And tough for us who actually enjoyed their work until they got Mac envy.
That stood out to me as well. He basically went ahead and said "LA LA LA LA LA, I can't hear you". What was even more hilarious was when he said that the "vocal minority" was basically saying "you're wrong, I'm right" when he basically said the same thing, too.
Fuck him. Gnome is dead for me.
Absolutely. Devs will (actually have already) start moving to XFCE and LXDE and interest in Unity and Gnome3 will die down to become a joke that people will use to refer to when discussing how to lose your user base.