My experience with Mandrake, pre-Ubuntu is that it was buggy as hell. For whatever reason, I would say that Ubuntu has raided the bar for Linux distros.
I agree! I do have backups on Google. I also have backups on other online places and several offline places. If Google goes "evil" and cuts me off, I still have the important data (most of my gmail isn't that important) elsewhere.
Even ignoring brain maturation issues, in today's society that's the time when most folks are away from home and on their own for the first time, and are really just starting to figure out Which End Is Up.
Yeah, and when they post pictures before they've figured out which end is up, it can bite them in the end that got on FB.
If the product is worthwhile, the name doesn't matter. I'm thinking about products that have dumb names. I'm betting everyone could come up with their own list. Kindle and Nook come to mind, so does Skype, Ubuntu, Wii...
Sometimes a product can survive a bad name, but sometimes it can't. Wasn't there a car called "Nova" [0] that totally failed in South America?
Could be. I'm an old guy, and I've never posted my phone or address. I do have my birth monthday so people can give me b-day spam at the appropriate time, but no year.
Suppose I have a large search history built up at home. One day I google a new term, and get a new and interesting result. The next day I go out of town and want to revisit that site on a public computer. I google the same term I did the night before, and get nothing. That's bad.
I'm more worried about the opposite. Google knows I'm interested in Ubuntu, so it bumps Ubuntu related stuff in its engine, and I never find out about interesting new stuff in Fedora until I google "linux" from a friend's box.
1) People tried to run it on old, slow systems and it didn't work well. Of course rather than saying "Man, my hardware is too old for a brand new OS, I should upgrade," they blamed the OS for being bad. This was much less of a problem with 7 since there had been 2 years of hardware advances. While dual cores were still a bit of a high end item when Vista hit the market, they are the majority now.
The old, slow systems weren't the problem. The problem was the NEW, slow systems. It's one thing when the latest MS OS runs like crap on your 5 y/o box. It's another when your brand new box, with Vista pre-installed, runs like crap. Many vendors put that pig on 512M boxes, with predictable results.
Bingo! I don't DEPEND on the "cloud" for my data storage, but I have no problem using it. Anything changed in the google docs version gets copied to my HD ASAP for my own piece of mind.
You must not live in Britain. From everything I've heard about them, their crime is worse than America's. Admittedly, they don't get shot as much, but they get stabbed & beaten more.
Except we still have the same primate bodies we had when we were living in caves. Just because our cave is now a house in the burbs doesn't change how our immune systems work.
Except the limits that kept that diet workable aren't in place any more. First of all, if you're an average citizen of an industrialized nation, you can easily obtain far more food than you require without exerting significant physical effort
Too true! If I had to chase my meals, I'd weigh quite a bit less than I do now.
2. People over-estimate the government's ability to track people down. Criminals seem to manage weeks, months or occasionally years in hiding. Mostly because the incentive for catching a petty criminal isn't all that great. Now if it were national secrets at stake that'd be different.
It's not the ABILITY of the government. It's the MOTIVATION. The two-bit conman who ripped me off is still at large, even though he had a long criminal record before he ripped me off, and doubtless a long record afterward. But, I bet if he shot the mayor's dog, he'd be in jail the next day.
For many of us, its a choice between a crappy camera and none. If I were PLANNING to take pictures, I'd want a real camera. But, more likely, I'll happen to see something I want to shoot, and I don't routinely carry a camera around. I do routinely carry a phone with something resembling a camera.
My iPhone camera sux by MY standards, and I'm no photographer. I use it when I want to take pictures on the spur of the moment because I don't carry a real camera around with me. But if I was PLANNING to take pictures, I'd rather do it with a real camera, not the POS built into my phone.
My phone might do a lot of things decently, but it doesn't do any of them well enough to "obsolete" special purpose equipment.
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Really? My mom (70+) doesn't even have a dumbphone, except for the landline.
Is it ALL users? I know Ubuntu sets up a default user with sudo privileges, but I had ASSumed that additional users were "normal".
My experience with Mandrake, pre-Ubuntu is that it was buggy as hell. For whatever reason, I would say that Ubuntu has raided the bar for Linux distros.
And THAT is an indication that the Fedora developers are NOT particularly wise.
We're talking about Microsoft. I'm sure many people here would like them getting the later punishment.
Yeah, that's how I'd describe my experience with Kindle browsing Wikipedia. It's great for reading ebooks, but I'll stick to my iPhone for websurfing.
I agree! I do have backups on Google. I also have backups on other online places and several offline places. If Google goes "evil" and cuts me off, I still have the important data (most of my gmail isn't that important) elsewhere.
Yeah, and when they post pictures before they've figured out which end is up, it can bite them in the end that got on FB.
I agree with that. It's very hard for me to make Windows less secure than it already is.
Sometimes a product can survive a bad name, but sometimes it can't. Wasn't there a car called "Nova" [0] that totally failed in South America?
[0] No va means "no go" in Spanish.
Yeah, google is the best way to find your old friends' Facebook pages. :)
I trust some of my friends with my phone and even my address, but not all, at least on FB. And I DON'T trust FB themnselves with my info.
Could be. I'm an old guy, and I've never posted my phone or address. I do have my birth monthday so people can give me b-day spam at the appropriate time, but no year.
I'm more worried about the opposite. Google knows I'm interested in Ubuntu, so it bumps Ubuntu related stuff in its engine, and I never find out about interesting new stuff in Fedora until I google "linux" from a friend's box.
I don't even want google to remember my settings when I'm sober!
The old, slow systems weren't the problem. The problem was the NEW, slow systems. It's one thing when the latest MS OS runs like crap on your 5 y/o box. It's another when your brand new box, with Vista pre-installed, runs like crap. Many vendors put that pig on 512M boxes, with predictable results.
I try to have at least 3 copies of my data. Desktop, online, and laptop. If my "cloud" goes up in smoke, I still have 2 local copies.
Bingo! I don't DEPEND on the "cloud" for my data storage, but I have no problem using it. Anything changed in the google docs version gets copied to my HD ASAP for my own piece of mind.
You must not live in Britain. From everything I've heard about them, their crime is worse than America's. Admittedly, they don't get shot as much, but they get stabbed & beaten more.
Except we still have the same primate bodies we had when we were living in caves. Just because our cave is now a house in the burbs doesn't change how our immune systems work.
Too true! If I had to chase my meals, I'd weigh quite a bit less than I do now.
It's not the ABILITY of the government. It's the MOTIVATION. The two-bit conman who ripped me off is still at large, even though he had a long criminal record before he ripped me off, and doubtless a long record afterward. But, I bet if he shot the mayor's dog, he'd be in jail the next day.
Dealing with online retailers make me want to toss my cookies anyway.
For many of us, its a choice between a crappy camera and none. If I were PLANNING to take pictures, I'd want a real camera. But, more likely, I'll happen to see something I want to shoot, and I don't routinely carry a camera around. I do routinely carry a phone with something resembling a camera.
My iPhone camera sux by MY standards, and I'm no photographer. I use it when I want to take pictures on the spur of the moment because I don't carry a real camera around with me. But if I was PLANNING to take pictures, I'd rather do it with a real camera, not the POS built into my phone.
My phone might do a lot of things decently, but it doesn't do any of them well enough to "obsolete" special purpose equipment.