Okay, how about Business users who don't want to have to type in the fricking domain name each time they log into a different machine.
For some utterly confounding reason, Microsoft decided to do away with the customizable msgina login system (username, password, drop-down box for Domain) and replace it with the brain-damaged domain\username, password pair. Oh, and forget about writing your own drop-in replacement, they "fixed" that too.
For more Windows 7 great ideas, how about the Shut Down button that now lacks any kind of confirmation dialog? Want to Suspend? Find the little arrow right beside the words Shut Down, but don't miss by a couple of pixels or you lose your workspace.
In principle I agree with you 100%. This is what China's manufacturing sector depends on - low wages and low environmental accountability, two area where he west cannot (and should not) compete. This is also one of the reasons I buy locally manufactured goods where possible.
However in the case of tablets and smartphones the big name brands are manufactured in very similar, if not identical, conditions to the cheap ones,. In that light the appeal of expensive ones evaporates.
In the tablet market at least, there's little compelling reason to go for anything over $200. With the likes of the Boxchip A13 there's hardly any point going above $150 unless you need some premium feature like quad-core.
Seriously, how many people on/. haven't bought sub-$90 Android tablets from Chinese resellers in the past year or so?
I try to buy locally-made products where I can, but given the big name tablets and phones are made in the same province as the cheap stuff, there's no advantage there.
I don't know what was in the ad, but I now imagine a guy in a suit addressing the camera like this:
Please buy this phone as it is not crap. We are still a relevant company. We have not let a troll into our CEO seat. And our decision to adopt the Windows platform was above reproach.
Last time I took an iPad out of the box to set it up for someone I couldn't switch the fricking thing on without connecting it to a computer with iTunes.
So let me get this straight: in order to deploy or even test your new app on the target platform you need to pay $100 to Apple, otherwise your app is stuck forever in at best a simulator.
Is that what you're saying?
I'm sure it's a very nice simulator but the app may as well be a native desktop application.
How many computers at your work? 20? Oh dear, so now I guess Java is only installed on more than 2,999,999,980 devices.
That'll show 'em.
In all seriousness though, I agree with you. Ellison is a douche and the purchase of Java and MySQL (the only parts of Sun worth anything) was the worst things that could have happened to them.
Well, unless Microsoft or Apple bought them instead but that doesn't bear thinking about.
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Wait, so FLAC isn't a codec? Not sure I follow...
All I can say is, good on you for fighting these trolls and the horrible system that has allowed them to flourish.
Sincerely, thank you.
I would, if their hardware didn't rely on closed third-party drivers which, to all intents and purposes, may as well be magic.
I agree with your second sentence entirely, and applaud you for its elegance. You just failed to name a foundation to which that principle applies.
Okay, how about Business users who don't want to have to type in the fricking domain name each time they log into a different machine.
For some utterly confounding reason, Microsoft decided to do away with the customizable msgina login system (username, password, drop-down box for Domain) and replace it with the brain-damaged domain\username, password pair. Oh, and forget about writing your own drop-in replacement, they "fixed" that too.
For more Windows 7 great ideas, how about the Shut Down button that now lacks any kind of confirmation dialog? Want to Suspend? Find the little arrow right beside the words Shut Down, but don't miss by a couple of pixels or you lose your workspace.
Because they're awesome, that's why.
yum install firefox?
pacman -S firefox?
Isn't IE that tool people use to download Firefox?
In principle I agree with you 100%. This is what China's manufacturing sector depends on - low wages and low environmental accountability, two area where he west cannot (and should not) compete. This is also one of the reasons I buy locally manufactured goods where possible.
However in the case of tablets and smartphones the big name brands are manufactured in very similar, if not identical, conditions to the cheap ones,. In that light the appeal of expensive ones evaporates.
In the tablet market at least, there's little compelling reason to go for anything over $200. With the likes of the Boxchip A13 there's hardly any point going above $150 unless you need some premium feature like quad-core.
Seriously, how many people on /. haven't bought sub-$90 Android tablets from Chinese resellers in the past year or so?
I try to buy locally-made products where I can, but given the big name tablets and phones are made in the same province as the cheap stuff, there's no advantage there.
But she has a new hat!
An LED that flickers with a high-frequency signal and looks like it's always on?
You mean like pretty much every optical SPDIF interface on the planet?
I don't know what was in the ad, but I now imagine a guy in a suit addressing the camera like this:
Please buy this phone as it is not crap.
We are still a relevant company.
We have not let a troll into our CEO seat.
And our decision to adopt the Windows platform was above reproach.
Have they yet replaced the defective closed-architecture chips that required binary-only drivers?
I mean, they've pretty much already mismanaged themselves into utter irrelevance so why not go full suicide?
Well, no. In fact I suggested in my earlier post that you fix the error so others are not misled.
You'd best update John Roebling's Wikipedia page then, since it states that he died from tetanus that arose from having his foot crushed by a ferry.
In fact, you could say he experienced a sort of compression sickness :)
Looking at your posts so far I think it's fair to say that you are the expert in this thread.
(humbly sits on floor, ready to learn)
Please, tell us more about your work and what challenges may arise for these researchers.
Last time I took an iPad out of the box to set it up for someone I couldn't switch the fricking thing on without connecting it to a computer with iTunes.
So let me get this straight: in order to deploy or even test your new app on the target platform you need to pay $100 to Apple, otherwise your app is stuck forever in at best a simulator.
Is that what you're saying?
I'm sure it's a very nice simulator but the app may as well be a native desktop application.
Good to see No Starch Press still putting out good titles.
Ah, so you're a LibreOffice man.
How many computers at your work? 20? Oh dear, so now I guess Java is only installed on more than 2,999,999,980 devices.
That'll show 'em.
In all seriousness though, I agree with you. Ellison is a douche and the purchase of Java and MySQL (the only parts of Sun worth anything) was the worst things that could have happened to them.
Well, unless Microsoft or Apple bought them instead but that doesn't bear thinking about.
Man, you would have to have been living in a box or walking on the moon not to get that one.
Mod up.
Thank you, that looks like a good collection of FOSS apps.
Not as good.