Nokia already had this hands full trying to convince his developers to stay around (I'm not saying they aren't managing to get it, just that they are pretty busy doing that).
With Symbian going down, the WP7 entry point and Linux going up (as Nokia recently stated), I don't think Nokia has any momentum to spare trying to push WebOS on their software pipelines.
Well, I was a OSX 10.3 heavy user for almost a year, and I can say that it was, at that time, the most beautiful and coherent UI I ever used.
But it was not perfect. There were a few common tasks where I missed Windows XP (some file manager operations were easier on XP, I swear!).
For the sake of comparison, I still prefer Windows XP UI over the Win7 one. Win7 is prettier, no doubt, but I can reach what I want easier with WinXP (not to mention that some over-simplification on Win7 UI renders some customizations almost impossible - as each folder having its own visualization settings).
For the past 18 months, I'm a heavy Gnu/Linux/Gnome user. Gnome is not aesthetically well done as OSX, but it works fine to me and after a very few customizations (as adding a shell box on each filemanager window) is now the most effective UI to me (but I still miss some WinXP features).
However, I'm not a ordinary user. I'm a software developer - emphasis on mobile (Android and J2ME) and web applications.
J2ME phones still sells as popcorn in "third world" (by lack of a better term) markets. And this is a lot of phones, something as a few hundred's of thousands a day.
Your argument says SQUAT about the stagnation (or not) of the iOS.
Every single mobile manufacturer are doing now (with or without Android) what they always had done in the past.
The bad ones abandon the device the sooner they can, the good ones offers support for sometime, and the pristine ones back their users until the end of times.
I don't know when you started yours, but I got going in the 80s 8-bit home computer era. Everything of consequence was assembly language, and every platform was completely incompatible [...]
You must be kidding. You really think this?
At that time, our users were normally another programmer or, at least, someone literate enough on technology, We didn't had to spend 85% of our planning effort on thinking in ways of doing things to people that does not want to learn anything, to keep the stupid ones from hurting themselves - and still delivering a useful program at the end of pipe.
Everything nowadays is x86/x64, everything runs C++ and hence most interpreted languages, and most everything runs Java. Graphics are fast, storage is gigantic, libraries are mature, and connectivity is pretty much a given. Software development is MUCH easier nowadays. Software development is MUCH easier nowadays.
Are you sure you work in Software?
Did you ever tried to make a multi-platform application (Android, iOS, Symbian and Bada)? Or perhaps porting an Palm/OS program to something newer?
The MS-DOS' ancestor was programmed by ONE guy. The Windows 7 needs more than a thousand just for the core functionalities.
It was EASIER that days. The programs weren't so powerful, feature plenty or idiot proof as the modern ones. But was a lot easier to program them at that times.
I suggest you to learn 6502 and Z80 Assembly languages before making such statements. Teenagers managed to make good money using them as the main programming language.
Your 2TB hard drive is probably filled with video, audio, or image data that is already compressed (both lossy & lossless, via mpeg, mp3, jpeg, etc). A disk-level compressor will do nothing except slow your system down.
The new 2TB ones, yes.
The old 1.5TB are in "production" on some general use computers running linux. One of them mainly used for software development. I think I could made good use of data compression on my SVN repositories.
The thrust of the community didn't protected them from the bad media they got on all that half-baked cheap Android devices.
I don't like this as anyone else, but I can't close my eyes from the fact that they're trying to survive a battle where the adversaries are gaining ground by carefully choosing the devices in which they are being presented to the public (by controlling who have access to the source).
... activate that old and faithful hard disk compressor. (Remember Stacker, SuperStor and DriveSpace?)
I thinking if it's not a good idea pushing on-the-fly data compression on the Linux EXT4 kernel drivers... (apologizes if it's already there, by AFAIK it's a ext2 extension).
I'm happy I already brought a pair of 2TB hard drives not so long ago. I would be really screwed up, as the old 1.5TB pair is not enough for all that PR0N I downloaded.
(Speaking seriously - is this really what we want? Focusing every bit of hardware on one single source? Shit happens everywhere, every time - are we going the right path on this extreme geographical source of goods dependency?)
So, you haven't presented much of an argument so far other than "that's the way it has always been done".
And you haven't presented much of an argument so far other than "I want to know, so you should be compelled to tell me".
As a matter of fact, he did. If people enough stands for it, so it will be. It's what happens on a democracy.
Business should not be granted more rights than people have. The government should be by the people, and for the people - or we will end up in a monetary dictatorship....
I used to work in the automobilistic industry as a consultant. It sucked a lot - I you'll not go into details, they're irrelevant.
I got pissed off, and gone to work on a entertainment industry. I probably got the biggest payment of my life, but it sucked even more - details are, too, irrelevant.
So I leaved again (I got fired, but I kinda asked for it), got a very bad time and come back to work as consultant again. This time, to a bank. You will laugh on me, but my time there was one of the best I ever had besides the money being not so good as the last job. But as consultant, I was not being able to negotiate a vacancy to spend with my son (he lives very far), so I gone from there too.
Well, now I'm working as contractor for a marketing little entrepreneurship. Guess what? It still sucks. The money is not bad, really, but dealing with clients idiosyncrasies and stupidities is a pain in the ass. Sometimes we have some little fights with boss or teammates (in small business, we sometimes became a little less professional than desirable) and others I end up working overnights eventually.
BUT....
I can negotiate my vacancies and I like pretty good 80% of what I do there. And some clients are really nice, I'm very proud of a job I did for the local division of Disney (YEAH!!).
So it sucks less, and I don't plan to leave if I have the choice.
I advise you to do what I did. If your job sucks bigtime, stop whining and LEAVE. If you can't, make arrangements so you can manage to leave in the near future.
But if your job doesn't sucks so much, stop whining the same way and learn to live with it.
So as an Oracle customer, what did *I* do to deserve this?
You bought Oracle products, god damnit!
Of course you deserve that. And so do I deserve (the very, very few) times I spent nights trying to figure out that fscking configuration file that blowed up my apache VPS.;-)
Sorry, but no. What the parent is saying is something like
"reboot it once and let's see what happens. If the shit hits the fun again, clone the damn thing, reboot it again to keep the service alive and try to figure out what's happening on the clone."
There is no point, for the patient, to have his disease figured out after his death.
Since the current batteries uses lithium-ion or lithium polymer technology, we have the problem of battery life.
These batteries have a fixed number of recharge cycles before needing being recycled. With this idea, some of these recharge cycles will be consumed by the electrical grid. Who pays for it?
Even more, recharging batteries consumes electricity on its own. So, using the car batteries' energy is wasting the energy already used during the battery charging, what is IMHO a waste of resources.
This can be a good idea on emergency situations, however.
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Someone knows how he was dealing with the heavy criticizing of the Diaspora's code?
please mod parent up.
I utterly regrets have spent all of mine.
You are simply ignoring the simple fact that Americans are still buying Apple products, nevertheless your arguments.
If the Americans were so concerned with their jobs, they would agree to pay a bit more for Made In USA products.
I will never be able to login on any site with children safe content. X-(
EFF is your friend.
Stop whining and go for it.
Nokia already had this hands full trying to convince his developers to stay around (I'm not saying they aren't managing to get it, just that they are pretty busy doing that).
With Symbian going down, the WP7 entry point and Linux going up (as Nokia recently stated), I don't think Nokia has any momentum to spare trying to push WebOS on their software pipelines.
Well, I was a OSX 10.3 heavy user for almost a year, and I can say that it was, at that time, the most beautiful and coherent UI I ever used.
But it was not perfect. There were a few common tasks where I missed Windows XP (some file manager operations were easier on XP, I swear!).
For the sake of comparison, I still prefer Windows XP UI over the Win7 one. Win7 is prettier, no doubt, but I can reach what I want easier with WinXP (not to mention that some over-simplification on Win7 UI renders some customizations almost impossible - as each folder having its own visualization settings).
For the past 18 months, I'm a heavy Gnu/Linux/Gnome user. Gnome is not aesthetically well done as OSX, but it works fine to me and after a very few customizations (as adding a shell box on each filemanager window) is now the most effective UI to me (but I still miss some WinXP features).
However, I'm not a ordinary user. I'm a software developer - emphasis on mobile (Android and J2ME) and web applications.
WinXP still had nearly 50% of the huge Microsoft user base at August/2011 http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=11
J2ME phones still sells as popcorn in "third world" (by lack of a better term) markets. And this is a lot of phones, something as a few hundred's of thousands a day.
Your argument says SQUAT about the stagnation (or not) of the iOS.
... that is messed up. It's the Mobile Business.
Every single mobile manufacturer are doing now (with or without Android) what they always had done in the past.
The bad ones abandon the device the sooner they can, the good ones offers support for sometime, and the pristine ones back their users until the end of times.
You must be kidding. You really think this?
At that time, our users were normally another programmer or, at least, someone literate enough on technology, We didn't had to spend 85% of our planning effort on thinking in ways of doing things to people that does not want to learn anything, to keep the stupid ones from hurting themselves - and still delivering a useful program at the end of pipe.
Are you sure you work in Software?
Did you ever tried to make a multi-platform application (Android, iOS, Symbian and Bada)? Or perhaps porting an Palm/OS program to something newer?
The MS-DOS' ancestor was programmed by ONE guy. The Windows 7 needs more than a thousand just for the core functionalities.
It was EASIER that days. The programs weren't so powerful, feature plenty or idiot proof as the modern ones. But was a lot easier to program them at that times.
I suggest you to learn 6502 and Z80 Assembly languages before making such statements. Teenagers managed to make good money using them as the main programming language.
(I am a Linux, Windows *and* OSX user - I share all the pains)
Software development used to be easier when I started this life...
RUN
After typing what follows:
10 for i = 1 to 10
20 for j = 1 to i
30 print "*";
40 next
50 print
60 next
(this was my first program ever. I still remember it after 25 years)
The new 2TB ones, yes.
The old 1.5TB are in "production" on some general use computers running linux. One of them mainly used for software development. I think I could made good use of data compression on my SVN repositories.
The thrust of the community didn't protected them from the bad media they got on all that half-baked cheap Android devices.
I don't like this as anyone else, but I can't close my eyes from the fact that they're trying to survive a battle where the adversaries are gaining ground by carefully choosing the devices in which they are being presented to the public (by controlling who have access to the source).
Kindle is the new I.E.6; Is the Amazon the new Microsoft?
... activate that old and faithful hard disk compressor. (Remember Stacker, SuperStor and DriveSpace?)
I thinking if it's not a good idea pushing on-the-fly data compression on the Linux EXT4 kernel drivers... (apologizes if it's already there, by AFAIK it's a ext2 extension).
I'm happy I already brought a pair of 2TB hard drives not so long ago. I would be really screwed up, as the old 1.5TB pair is not enough for all that PR0N I downloaded.
(Speaking seriously - is this really what we want? Focusing every bit of hardware on one single source? Shit happens everywhere, every time - are we going the right path on this extreme geographical source of goods dependency?)
Part of a democracy is to have meaningful, substantive discussions, something you and the GP seem incapable of.
And you are doing a soooo great work doing that by making personal attacks, isn't?
So, given that this isn't happening, the current state of affairs is perfectly acceptable, and no argument is necessary. Sweet.
Yep. But "bittersweet" would be a better choice of word, IMHO.
So, you haven't presented much of an argument so far other than "that's the way it has always been done".
And you haven't presented much of an argument so far other than "I want to know, so you should be compelled to tell me".
As a matter of fact, he did. If people enough stands for it, so it will be. It's what happens on a democracy.
Business should not be granted more rights than people have. The government should be by the people, and for the people - or we will end up in a monetary dictatorship....
Oh, wait....
MY GOD! X-(
I don't believe I noticed this just now! X-(
Where I wrote I you'll not go into details, please read I will not go into details.
Sorry my poor english.
You don't really know how business works, do you?
Maybe he don't, but I do.
I used to work in the automobilistic industry as a consultant. It sucked a lot - I you'll not go into details, they're irrelevant.
I got pissed off, and gone to work on a entertainment industry. I probably got the biggest payment of my life, but it sucked even more - details are, too, irrelevant.
So I leaved again (I got fired, but I kinda asked for it), got a very bad time and come back to work as consultant again. This time, to a bank. You will laugh on me, but my time there was one of the best I ever had besides the money being not so good as the last job. But as consultant, I was not being able to negotiate a vacancy to spend with my son (he lives very far), so I gone from there too.
Well, now I'm working as contractor for a marketing little entrepreneurship. Guess what? It still sucks. The money is not bad, really, but dealing with clients idiosyncrasies and stupidities is a pain in the ass. Sometimes we have some little fights with boss or teammates (in small business, we sometimes became a little less professional than desirable) and others I end up working overnights eventually.
BUT....
I can negotiate my vacancies and I like pretty good 80% of what I do there. And some clients are really nice, I'm very proud of a job I did for the local division of Disney (YEAH!!).
So it sucks less, and I don't plan to leave if I have the choice.
I advise you to do what I did. If your job sucks bigtime, stop whining and LEAVE. If you can't, make arrangements so you can manage to leave in the near future.
But if your job doesn't sucks so much, stop whining the same way and learn to live with it.
So as an Oracle customer, what did *I* do to deserve this?
You bought Oracle products, god damnit!
Of course you deserve that. And so do I deserve (the very, very few) times I spent nights trying to figure out that fscking configuration file that blowed up my apache VPS. ;-)
You have responsability on the choices you make!
Sorry, but no. What the parent is saying is something like
"reboot it once and let's see what happens. If the shit hits the fun again, clone the damn thing, reboot it again to keep the service alive and try to figure out what's happening on the clone."
There is no point, for the patient, to have his disease figured out after his death.
Since the current batteries uses lithium-ion or lithium polymer technology, we have the problem of battery life.
These batteries have a fixed number of recharge cycles before needing being recycled. With this idea, some of these recharge cycles will be consumed by the electrical grid. Who pays for it?
Even more, recharging batteries consumes electricity on its own. So, using the car batteries' energy is wasting the energy already used during the battery charging, what is IMHO a waste of resources.
This can be a good idea on emergency situations, however.
Yes, they did!
This is going to be interesting...