The whole concept smacks of being a "Rube Goldberg" contraption to me. While I could see a very small segment of the market liking the idea of replacing components and doing partial upgrades, I'm pretty sure that the mass market will stick with integrated one-piece units that don't fall into a pile of blocks when dropped.
I'd say the Met became complacent if they haven't made the short list. Either they're charging too much for what they do, or they aren't doing it as well as the competitors who submitted tenders.
Either way, losing the contract is their own damn fault. No business can ever afford to assume a long term customer will continue to be a customer unless they have a monopoly.
Aside from the USB bug, there's the annoying fact that they've *completely* stripped the customizability that I used to love about KDE, and don't even let you pin launchers to the desktop any more.
Quite frankly, KDE5 SUCKS compared to KDE4. It's as bad a "jump the shark" release as Gnome 3 initially was.
I don't choose my systems based on the desktop; I choose them based on the applications I actually use. I don't regress to old versions of software just because some bozo broke the release. I scrap the product until it's fixed, or in this case, until it's replacement gets broken.
I got pissed off 'cause I couldn't get KDE 5 to automount USB sticks and cameras under Ubuntu 15.04, so I switched to Gnome 3. KDE had my mindset for close to a decade, so they've had their run at it.
What a shame they fucked it up after so many years.
If your interface "classes" don't define all the methods you need to access an object, your architecture is screwed up. If you have to do typecasting, the interface should provide a method which is used to identify the correct class/interface for casting.
Casting without knowing what kind of object you're dealing with isn't a "bug" -- it's a shitty developer writing crap code who should be fired.
It's the *cellphone* I don't want. I *hated* carrying a cell phone for work, because the boss thought nothing of calling me at all hours of the night and day on it. The hassle soured me on the whole idea of "always on" phone access; I'd rather just stick with a landline and let people leave messages.
Hell, I heard someone answering their cell while taking a crap at one office. Seriously -- if you can't call taking a crap "me time" and leave the damned phone alone, your leash is too short and the collar too tight.
Because I can get a timepiece for $30 that runs over a year on one set of batteries, doing exactly what I want: telling time.
I know many people who don't even own a "smart" phone, and these watches all seem to require being tethered to such a device, and are kind of useless in and of themselves.
So while you're patting yourself on the back for spending $300-500 on a "smart" watch on top of $300-500 for a "smart" phone, I'll happily spend that $570-970 on a desktop upgrade and stick with my old fashioned digital watch. And rather than having people harass me with calls and texts anywhere and everywhere I go 24x7, they can just leave a message and I'll get back to them when *I* feel like it, not when they demand it.
They brought it on themselves with migraine-inducing scrolling, flashing, animated, popup-on-mouse-over, beeping, clicking, sound-clip-playing and malware-inducing crap.
When they used simple static banner ads, I didn't need to ad-block. Now if I want to surf for more than five minutes without developing a raging migraine, I have no choice but to block.
The hardware manufacturers are irrelevant. What matters is whether the web distributors and web browsers support it, as well as the various encoding utilities that people use to transcode video.
Personally I don't expect it to gain much traction, but it will because those "new technology" companies and products aren't supporting it, not because the tired old hardware manufacturers don't. Nowhere has Cisco suggested this would be used for the next generation of BluRay devices, or to address the needs of 4K video anywhere but on the internet.
Due to numerous issues with the latest release of KDE as delivered with Ubuntu 15.04, I switched to Gnome 3 after close to a decade of relying on KDE for my desktop. I must admit I've been too hard on Gnome 3 over the years. Although it is different and not intuitive, I did figure out how to do what I needed to do within a day, and am now quite comfortable with it.
Perhaps most important on an older system like mine, I find it is much more responsive than the latest releases of KDE.
The thing that used to make me stick with KDE was the plethora of configuration options. Most of that functionality has been stripped from the newer releases of KDE, leaving me with no reason to stick with that desktop.
The real showstopper for KDE was when I couldn't get it to automount my camera when I plugged it into a USB port. I spent over 4 hours screwing around with it before I gave up. What good is a desktop that can't even deal with basics like that?
Let the graphics design industry use what it wishes. They can export to web formats, which is what you need.
I spent over thirty years in the computer industry, working on many projects with user interface and graphical elements, and not once did the graphics designers deliver what we needed in Photoshop-specific formats.
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The whole concept smacks of being a "Rube Goldberg" contraption to me. While I could see a very small segment of the market liking the idea of replacing components and doing partial upgrades, I'm pretty sure that the mass market will stick with integrated one-piece units that don't fall into a pile of blocks when dropped.
That could also be explained by the simple fact that their "symptoms" are all in their heads.
I'd say the Met became complacent if they haven't made the short list. Either they're charging too much for what they do, or they aren't doing it as well as the competitors who submitted tenders.
Either way, losing the contract is their own damn fault. No business can ever afford to assume a long term customer will continue to be a customer unless they have a monopoly.
Why would somebody post tutorial code to Github? That makes absolutely no sense...
I have no sympathy for their members getting "extorted" for being lying, cheating partners in a marriage. They deserve the shitstorm coming their way.
I've been using KDE on Ubuntu for about 7 years, so I call "bullshit".
USB sticks and cameras mount fine for the OS and fine for Gnome 3.
Therefore the problem is KDE5.
Aside from the USB bug, there's the annoying fact that they've *completely* stripped the customizability that I used to love about KDE, and don't even let you pin launchers to the desktop any more.
Quite frankly, KDE5 SUCKS compared to KDE4. It's as bad a "jump the shark" release as Gnome 3 initially was.
Oh, do kindly go fuck yourself.
Was *that* grammatically correct?
Ubuntu's desktop releases are hardly "bleeding edge."
Face it. The KDE team screwed up. All software teams do, sooner or later. They post a broken "release", and it gets shipped.
Unfortunately, that can be how you lose your user base.
Besides, it's not like there aren't a bazillion desktops out there waiting to replace one that's been screwed up.
15.04 comes with OpenJDK 8.
I don't choose my systems based on the desktop; I choose them based on the applications I actually use. I don't regress to old versions of software just because some bozo broke the release. I scrap the product until it's fixed, or in this case, until it's replacement gets broken.
I got pissed off 'cause I couldn't get KDE 5 to automount USB sticks and cameras under Ubuntu 15.04, so I switched to Gnome 3. KDE had my mindset for close to a decade, so they've had their run at it.
What a shame they fucked it up after so many years.
Note: "struct" overlays are another issue entirely, but even they should have a header field that lets you know how to cast the overlay.
If your interface "classes" don't define all the methods you need to access an object, your architecture is screwed up. If you have to do typecasting, the interface should provide a method which is used to identify the correct class/interface for casting.
Casting without knowing what kind of object you're dealing with isn't a "bug" -- it's a shitty developer writing crap code who should be fired.
It's the *cellphone* I don't want. I *hated* carrying a cell phone for work, because the boss thought nothing of calling me at all hours of the night and day on it. The hassle soured me on the whole idea of "always on" phone access; I'd rather just stick with a landline and let people leave messages.
Hell, I heard someone answering their cell while taking a crap at one office. Seriously -- if you can't call taking a crap "me time" and leave the damned phone alone, your leash is too short and the collar too tight.
Because I can get a timepiece for $30 that runs over a year on one set of batteries, doing exactly what I want: telling time.
I know many people who don't even own a "smart" phone, and these watches all seem to require being tethered to such a device, and are kind of useless in and of themselves.
So while you're patting yourself on the back for spending $300-500 on a "smart" watch on top of $300-500 for a "smart" phone, I'll happily spend that $570-970 on a desktop upgrade and stick with my old fashioned digital watch. And rather than having people harass me with calls and texts anywhere and everywhere I go 24x7, they can just leave a message and I'll get back to them when *I* feel like it, not when they demand it.
They brought it on themselves with migraine-inducing scrolling, flashing, animated, popup-on-mouse-over, beeping, clicking, sound-clip-playing and malware-inducing crap.
When they used simple static banner ads, I didn't need to ad-block. Now if I want to surf for more than five minutes without developing a raging migraine, I have no choice but to block.
Here's hoping she's charged and impeached before she's even elected.
The hardware manufacturers are irrelevant. What matters is whether the web distributors and web browsers support it, as well as the various encoding utilities that people use to transcode video.
Personally I don't expect it to gain much traction, but it will because those "new technology" companies and products aren't supporting it, not because the tired old hardware manufacturers don't. Nowhere has Cisco suggested this would be used for the next generation of BluRay devices, or to address the needs of 4K video anywhere but on the internet.
Don't you mean "Thithco"? :P
Due to numerous issues with the latest release of KDE as delivered with Ubuntu 15.04, I switched to Gnome 3 after close to a decade of relying on KDE for my desktop. I must admit I've been too hard on Gnome 3 over the years. Although it is different and not intuitive, I did figure out how to do what I needed to do within a day, and am now quite comfortable with it.
Perhaps most important on an older system like mine, I find it is much more responsive than the latest releases of KDE.
The thing that used to make me stick with KDE was the plethora of configuration options. Most of that functionality has been stripped from the newer releases of KDE, leaving me with no reason to stick with that desktop.
The real showstopper for KDE was when I couldn't get it to automount my camera when I plugged it into a USB port. I spent over 4 hours screwing around with it before I gave up. What good is a desktop that can't even deal with basics like that?
The New Yorker cartoons are about as un-funny as they get. So Microsoft is claiming they can detect something that doesn't even exist.
Let the graphics design industry use what it wishes. They can export to web formats, which is what you need.
I spent over thirty years in the computer industry, working on many projects with user interface and graphical elements, and not once did the graphics designers deliver what we needed in Photoshop-specific formats.
The article isn't about games.
i.e. Those cases where the plugin/add-on model actually made sense.
The problem was most companies who went the "freemium" route did not have that model in place for their software.