And they're not really all that different than all the fandroids who click "buy" the very minute the latest (for that week) Android phone goes on sale online. The only real difference is one group leaves their house to buy it, and thereby gets noticed, and the other group doesn't.
I'm saying that when you share an internet connection you naturally use more. Something barely understood by all the folks here who apparently live alone.
In my limited experience with these things it's not future-proofing that's the issue. It LAZY, SLOPPY PROGRAMMING that's the #1 issue. Developers who learned how to do something bad in the Win9x days, and kept doing it well into the WinXP days... and beyond.
A couple of years ago I had to deal with booking software at an agency. The entire function of this software was hooking into an SQL database. However, it REQUIRED local admin rights simply to RUN. It wouldn't run AT ALL on Vista or 7.
Why? Because it wanted to write files to a program directory. What files? I'm not really that certain. However, this was the way things were done in the Win3.1 day, devs continued lazily doing it in the Win9x days, and WinXP merely tolerated it. Vista slammed that practice to the floor. So, rather than clean up their code an adopt proper coding practices, they just said to us "You have to use it on XP on an account with local admin rights. We're not fixing that issue."
As an addendum, given local admin rights, let's just say it's hard to tell interns "Don't install things."
I'm sorry, but "developers" today are fucking spoiled little children.
Back 15 years ago, before the net was completely widespread, everything shipped on DISK. Floppy, CD, whatever. You had to get get your code right, because if there were bugs, you had to send out service packs on disk too.
Complaining about having to go through Apple's "lengthy" review process is a laugh. Oh no, you wanna send out updates of your app several times a day? Maybe you need better coding standards.
You scoff at them spending $20 on a pencil at an art store, they scoff at IT people spending $300 on a "server grade" hard drive they can get for $65 at TigerDirect.
I remember seeing store advertisements from the '60s and prior where they didn't use photos of real models either: They used illustrations. Usually with unrealistic proportions, too.
The people complaining the most vocally will not be happy until the day when every photo or moving image of a woman they see magically looks exactly like them so they can feel better about themselves. Maybe someday a computer can process virtual fatties modelling clothes individually for their TV or tablet.
"This Christmas' hottest tablet is going to be the Kindle Fire. It comes personally signed by the Amazon employee who shipped it, contains the entire collection of The Babysitters Club, and has something called the Human Library. That's where they have a midget, and attach hundreds of books to him with velcro."
One really good use I've found for a tablet is to be able to load it up full of PDFs with manuals, schematics, etc. that we need for service calls. All the details of every machine we need to work on in a small form factor, easy to load up and search through. You don't have to lug around a laptop, this is a more natural reference form factor, and you don't have to call back to the office anymore and say "can you look this up for me?"
Linux became the standard for servers and the web for a very good reason: No one outside of the IT department actually has to touch it.
So, while your bits are flying through all sort of FOSS stuff all over the net, you never actually come face to face with the software itself.
As for the desktop, that's a very different story, since the average user will be directly interfacing with it. It may be "better" by some standards, but from that perspective it hasn't quite made it yet.
This is a very good point. If Apple were to somehow convince the telecom companies to bundle an Apple TV box with iPhones, we'd see the start of something big.
4K screens? What kind of crack are you on? Only people with perfect eyesight will actually benefit from having those in their living room, and a great number of those people have ordinary digital cable and mistakenly think it's "HD".
NTSC lasted for decades at the resolution it had. I'm sure we'll get along just fine for a few more at 1080p. When you go any higher, we're talking about diminishing returns here.
Cheers was filmed on 35mm. Seinfeld was filmed on 35mm. Pretty much any series with a decent budget was filmed, rather than taped. It was the only way you could get a good picture quality. Video was used for live broadcasts and lower budget multi-camera productions. If you look back and make a comparison, video truly stands out as awful.
Video camera technology has seriously evolved since then, to the point where you can get high quality HD footage out of a DSLR, but back then film was still the way to go.
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Oh yes, Apple realized this when they needed something more than a slightly faster Mac.
I'm not saying they'll do it again, but they've already been in a similar situation. Or do we forget 1997 so quickly?
And they're not really all that different than all the fandroids who click "buy" the very minute the latest (for that week) Android phone goes on sale online. The only real difference is one group leaves their house to buy it, and thereby gets noticed, and the other group doesn't.
Hey, I've got a couple of others:
If everyone simply spoke Mandarin, we'd all communicate better.
If everyone adopted Islam, there would be world peace.
If we all lived in free-market capitalist societies...
Etc, etc.
It's easy to tell everyone that they should adopt your platform.
My point flew over your head.
I'm saying that when you share an internet connection you naturally use more. Something barely understood by all the folks here who apparently live alone.
Some of us aren't perma-bachelors living in a basement paying for our own personal internet connection.
We have 2 adults and 2 teens living in this house, and I doubt our 300 GB cap will be sufficient for long.
In my limited experience with these things it's not future-proofing that's the issue. It LAZY, SLOPPY PROGRAMMING that's the #1 issue. Developers who learned how to do something bad in the Win9x days, and kept doing it well into the WinXP days... and beyond.
A couple of years ago I had to deal with booking software at an agency. The entire function of this software was hooking into an SQL database. However, it REQUIRED local admin rights simply to RUN. It wouldn't run AT ALL on Vista or 7.
Why? Because it wanted to write files to a program directory. What files? I'm not really that certain. However, this was the way things were done in the Win3.1 day, devs continued lazily doing it in the Win9x days, and WinXP merely tolerated it. Vista slammed that practice to the floor. So, rather than clean up their code an adopt proper coding practices, they just said to us "You have to use it on XP on an account with local admin rights. We're not fixing that issue."
As an addendum, given local admin rights, let's just say it's hard to tell interns "Don't install things."
Astroturfing? In MY Slashdot?
It's more likely than you think.
Every time some tech columnist makes some glorious prediction that "[YEAR] Will Be The Year Of [TECH]", I roll my eyes.
Old man alert (and I'm only in my 30s):
I'm sorry, but "developers" today are fucking spoiled little children.
Back 15 years ago, before the net was completely widespread, everything shipped on DISK. Floppy, CD, whatever. You had to get get your code right, because if there were bugs, you had to send out service packs on disk too.
Complaining about having to go through Apple's "lengthy" review process is a laugh. Oh no, you wanna send out updates of your app several times a day? Maybe you need better coding standards.
You scoff at them spending $20 on a pencil at an art store, they scoff at IT people spending $300 on a "server grade" hard drive they can get for $65 at TigerDirect.
webOS isn't HP's baby. They just adopted it when they bought Palm.
I remember seeing store advertisements from the '60s and prior where they didn't use photos of real models either: They used illustrations. Usually with unrealistic proportions, too.
The people complaining the most vocally will not be happy until the day when every photo or moving image of a woman they see magically looks exactly like them so they can feel better about themselves. Maybe someday a computer can process virtual fatties modelling clothes individually for their TV or tablet.
I would see a main difference is that you normally can't run 2 different AV software packages at the same time.
Tell that to the people whose computers I fix.
They either think it makes their computer safer, or they don't realize they already have one installed when they go to install another.
The people want what they're told to want. That's why the airwaves are full of "paid messages" from all sorts of interests.
I wonder what Stefan would say...
"This Christmas' hottest tablet is going to be the Kindle Fire. It comes personally signed by the Amazon employee who shipped it, contains the entire collection of The Babysitters Club, and has something called the Human Library. That's where they have a midget, and attach hundreds of books to him with velcro."
Are there sure it wasn't a stampede? Because I was under the assumption that only two things come from Oklahoma, and earthquakes aren't one of them.
One really good use I've found for a tablet is to be able to load it up full of PDFs with manuals, schematics, etc. that we need for service calls. All the details of every machine we need to work on in a small form factor, easy to load up and search through. You don't have to lug around a laptop, this is a more natural reference form factor, and you don't have to call back to the office anymore and say "can you look this up for me?"
I'd say it's replaced floppies for at least a good 5 years now.
Linux became the standard for servers and the web for a very good reason: No one outside of the IT department actually has to touch it.
So, while your bits are flying through all sort of FOSS stuff all over the net, you never actually come face to face with the software itself.
As for the desktop, that's a very different story, since the average user will be directly interfacing with it. It may be "better" by some standards, but from that perspective it hasn't quite made it yet.
So, are we allowed to call Samsung buyers "sheeple" now, or is that somehow exclusively reserved for Apple?
This is a very good point. If Apple were to somehow convince the telecom companies to bundle an Apple TV box with iPhones, we'd see the start of something big.
4K screens? What kind of crack are you on? Only people with perfect eyesight will actually benefit from having those in their living room, and a great number of those people have ordinary digital cable and mistakenly think it's "HD".
NTSC lasted for decades at the resolution it had. I'm sure we'll get along just fine for a few more at 1080p. When you go any higher, we're talking about diminishing returns here.
If you have an HDTV, there's all the difference in the world. PS2 games were designed around NTSC.
Even when games aren't running in full HD, the difference is still there.
Cheers was filmed on 35mm. Seinfeld was filmed on 35mm. Pretty much any series with a decent budget was filmed, rather than taped. It was the only way you could get a good picture quality. Video was used for live broadcasts and lower budget multi-camera productions. If you look back and make a comparison, video truly stands out as awful.
Video camera technology has seriously evolved since then, to the point where you can get high quality HD footage out of a DSLR, but back then film was still the way to go.
My Android runs HURD.