Someone needs to let them know that they have a huge base of very useful, non-trivial plug-ins that people actually use, and they tend to break at least some of them with every update. We're still stuck on 3.6 waiting for the plug-ins to catch up because frankly they're more important to us than FF itself. And now the new hotness is your addons will just start being continuously breakable at any time?
This article like many others before it continues to miss the blatantly obvious - that once anonymous, people are finally saying what they actually think
I learned so much more from Bob's writing for a couple of bucks than I ever did in school in EE. It's not that school was 'wrong', just that they taught and followed rules, and Bob actually understood what they meant. A loss of one of engineering's finest talents - the guy that both knew it, and could explain it in English.
It's not clear from TFA, but it doesn't appear that they have taken mortality into account. So they're selling the 'lifetime payback', but that assumes you have a lifetime.
Wow. I had seriously written off ever getting off this rock because only hands-on science specialists ever get the seats, no matter who it is. As people in arguably the world's most remotable profession, I assumed we were doomed.
Actually resistive touch screens work fine with a finger, no stylus necessary. Case in point a Palm Treo, which was designed to be dialed with a finger tip.
The stylus gives much finer control so apps were written to leverage that, but that wasn't a requirement and any number of Palm apps were 'finger friendly. For a more recent example, the HTC Sense UI is entirely finger oriented and runs perfectly on WinMo devices like a Touch Pro 2.
Comcast's idea of the Internet is an increasingly detached 'consumer endpoint' version of the Internet. If you're not in a rural area, then find a true Internet provider and move on.
The assembly process is intense, to put it lightly. Instructions are generally correct and straightforward 90% of the time, but given the intimidating complexity of the project, insane number of parts and dexterity required for some of the assemblies, simply locating the correct widget can sometimes be challenging. As the online assembly guide progresses, the instructions increasingly rely on your prior knowledge of repetitious concepts. We’re talking sanding, soldering, cutting, punching, scrubbing, gluing, and screwing hundreds of bolt/nut combinations. Only attempt this project if you’re the type of person that wakes up with ideas on the order of, “I think I’ll build an air conditioner this weekend.”, and actually completes the task. Like I said: intense.
Awesome! Damm this post is going to cost me a ton of time.
I have a new Nook here, which is a complete piece of junk. It can't handle PDFs in reasonable way, no zoom at all. And yet today I remember why I waited so long to get a Nook instead of a Kindle.
I'm returning the Nook, and now won't be getting the Kindle. I should all but applaud Amazon's desire to remind us of their complete disassociation with the Constitution.
I'd write cust service, but who are we kidding. Only surgical removal of dollars is real to them. But if we could, I'd write "Dear Jeff -- you don't tell my kids what they can read at my expense."
How long before we admit eReaders are nothing but PAID FOR ads for certain distributors?
this has the potential for much more widespread damage. It also puts the Free Software Foundation in an... interesting position, as this technically is the first salvo from Apache in a license war between GPL and Apache License.
www.fuckgpl.com -- the shot was fired a long time ago.
FSF - "Free as in Not" (tm)
The Chrysler fleet was very cool, and sadly most had to be destroyed after their field test. But they were built almost 10 years after GM's research led to the three Firebird showcars, which were turbine-based rolling technology testbeds. The first basically a car wrapped around an engine, then a family sedan, and finally an ultra-high-tech showcase. See www.conklinsystems.com/firebird/
Actually GM turbine work went as far back as the 30s, and they built a turbine bus and a turbine truck as well.
Publishers don't get it. I purchased more games from GoG in a year than I have in the last 10 through any other channel. Specifically BECAUSE they were DRM-free.;-/
The tablets you refer to are not even licensed by google, which means no market.
Licensed by Google? That IS my point. What definition of 'open' involves getting a license to access core functionality? Where would Linux be if people had to line up to get licenses from Linus? Or you had to get a contract to use Arduino for each microcontroller project?
The point isn't that Android is bad, or whether there's a tablet build, but simply that it's not really open. So these 'new features' may or may not be new Android features - they may only be for Google licensees. There's Android, and there's Google blessed/sold/controlled/owned Android. They're not the same - one is a subset. If this feature isn't available to all Android devices, it should be indicated in the title, just like Mac and Windows-only apps are identified accordingly.
After shopping Android tablets hard for the last few days, the reality is there are lots of potentially great Android devices - that can't have apps. They can't because the "open" OS Android won't let you access Marketplace without ponying up to Google. (Let alone use Google's apps.) Net result is you get a device that's crippled compared to even a base Linux distro.
Yet/. invariably front pages what they do, because they successfully pitched Android as 'open' while keeping core functionality (the app market!) closed and/. fell for it. This reflects badly on/. as much as Google - if you're going to rip on proprietary OS's, you better crap on Android too.
TFA reads "Google introduced the next generation of interaction with its Android operating system". Well that needs to be clarified. Are these new features available for Android, the open OS available all over now? Or is this just more for Google Android, the proprietary OS with a marketplace and PIM functionality? I'm guessing the latter.
What we see here is not even a shadow of the beauty that is the TabKit add on. Or being less nice, this UI bites.
I can only hope Mozilla doesn't use their position to force this second-rate solution down everyone's throats. Seriously, TabKit is the single most important add-on I have, being key to keep everything managable. If I have to pick between TabKit and FF, I'd rather have Tabkit and fork FF.
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Fortunately, every other vehicle on the road is made of granite and thus incapable of catching fire...
Someone needs to let them know that they have a huge base of very useful, non-trivial plug-ins that people actually use, and they tend to break at least some of them with every update. We're still stuck on 3.6 waiting for the plug-ins to catch up because frankly they're more important to us than FF itself. And now the new hotness is your addons will just start being continuously breakable at any time?
This article like many others before it continues to miss the blatantly obvious - that once anonymous, people are finally saying what they actually think
I learned so much more from Bob's writing for a couple of bucks than I ever did in school in EE. It's not that school was 'wrong', just that they taught and followed rules, and Bob actually understood what they meant. A loss of one of engineering's finest talents - the guy that both knew it, and could explain it in English.
It's not clear from TFA, but it doesn't appear that they have taken mortality into account. So they're selling the 'lifetime payback', but that assumes you have a lifetime.
Wow. I had seriously written off ever getting off this rock because only hands-on science specialists ever get the seats, no matter who it is. As people in arguably the world's most remotable profession, I assumed we were doomed.
Can we finally just admit that the FSF is irrelevant and move forward?
FSF -- Free as in Not
Actually resistive touch screens work fine with a finger, no stylus necessary. Case in point a Palm Treo, which was designed to be dialed with a finger tip. The stylus gives much finer control so apps were written to leverage that, but that wasn't a requirement and any number of Palm apps were 'finger friendly. For a more recent example, the HTC Sense UI is entirely finger oriented and runs perfectly on WinMo devices like a Touch Pro 2.
Comcast's idea of the Internet is an increasingly detached 'consumer endpoint' version of the Internet. If you're not in a rural area, then find a true Internet provider and move on.
Really? I'm totally game to build this thing, but I think building a compressor from scratch looks pretty real.
Still, it's always what you don't know that scares you.
Awesome! Damm this post is going to cost me a ton of time.
I have a new Nook here, which is a complete piece of junk. It can't handle PDFs in reasonable way, no zoom at all. And yet today I remember why I waited so long to get a Nook instead of a Kindle.
I'm returning the Nook, and now won't be getting the Kindle. I should all but applaud Amazon's desire to remind us of their complete disassociation with the Constitution.
I'd write cust service, but who are we kidding. Only surgical removal of dollars is real to them. But if we could, I'd write "Dear Jeff -- you don't tell my kids what they can read at my expense."
How long before we admit eReaders are nothing but PAID FOR ads for certain distributors?
That rocked! I can't believe I'm the first to say that.
And so where do we get to donate to cover said 7 figure expense and otherwise bitchslap said patent trolls?
Checkbook's right here. And they still suck.
this has the potential for much more widespread damage. It also puts the Free Software Foundation in an... interesting position, as this technically is the first salvo from Apache in a license war between GPL and Apache License.
www.fuckgpl.com -- the shot was fired a long time ago. FSF - "Free as in Not" (tm)
If Java is the new COBOL, I highly recommend not telling the millions of Android developers out there
Not to worry, they don't listen to anything as it is!
To paraphrase Morecock, "Apple is a thousand times more evil than Microsoft"
Why they get a pass on /. I'll never understand.
The Chrysler fleet was very cool, and sadly most had to be destroyed after their field test. But they were built almost 10 years after GM's research led to the three Firebird showcars, which were turbine-based rolling technology testbeds. The first basically a car wrapped around an engine, then a family sedan, and finally an ultra-high-tech showcase. See www.conklinsystems.com/firebird/
Actually GM turbine work went as far back as the 30s, and they built a turbine bus and a turbine truck as well.
Publishers don't get it. I purchased more games from GoG in a year than I have in the last 10 through any other channel. Specifically BECAUSE they were DRM-free. ;-/
It was too dark to play in a well lit area, but the perfect game for playing with the lights out and surround sound.
Spot on. I'd play in the dark, at night with the speakers cranked and the lights out and damm, it was perfect! One of the greats!
The tablets you refer to are not even licensed by google, which means no market.
Licensed by Google? That IS my point. What definition of 'open' involves getting a license to access core functionality? Where would Linux be if people had to line up to get licenses from Linus? Or you had to get a contract to use Arduino for each microcontroller project?
The point isn't that Android is bad, or whether there's a tablet build, but simply that it's not really open. So these 'new features' may or may not be new Android features - they may only be for Google licensees. There's Android, and there's Google blessed/sold/controlled/owned Android. They're not the same - one is a subset. If this feature isn't available to all Android devices, it should be indicated in the title, just like Mac and Windows-only apps are identified accordingly.
After shopping Android tablets hard for the last few days, the reality is there are lots of potentially great Android devices - that can't have apps. They can't because the "open" OS Android won't let you access Marketplace without ponying up to Google. (Let alone use Google's apps.) Net result is you get a device that's crippled compared to even a base Linux distro.
Yet /. invariably front pages what they do, because they successfully pitched Android as 'open' while keeping core functionality (the app market!) closed and /. fell for it. This reflects badly on /. as much as Google - if you're going to rip on proprietary OS's, you better crap on Android too.
TFA reads "Google introduced the next generation of interaction with its Android operating system". Well that needs to be clarified. Are these new features available for Android, the open OS available all over now? Or is this just more for Google Android, the proprietary OS with a marketplace and PIM functionality? I'm guessing the latter.
I wonder how many will actually cut AT&T some slack or give them credit for NOT interfering?
What we see here is not even a shadow of the beauty that is the TabKit add on. Or being less nice, this UI bites.
I can only hope Mozilla doesn't use their position to force this second-rate solution down everyone's throats. Seriously, TabKit is the single most important add-on I have, being key to keep everything managable. If I have to pick between TabKit and FF, I'd rather have Tabkit and fork FF.
X = 1/X - isn't that the new age's definition of equality?