However, now we have more than 7 apps on our phones, PLEASE, PLEASE can we get rid of those *&^% stupid icons and have drop down text menus instead - EVEN WHEN ITS IN PHONE MODE.
If I wanted to learn the meaning of hundreds of icons, I would leant Kanji - its been tested as a UI for over 4,000 years, is used by several billion people, and is far more useful than some idiot phone UI that will be replaced in about 18 months.
While there are exceptions, the general rule in English is that names should not be in use in the language already. The simplest way to achieve this is to use a word that belongs in another language - particularly if this provides some contextual guidance as to its meaning. Real or fake Greek words are associated with the concept of science.
We associated the idea of descriptive names with other cultures, and do not call our daughters things like "cloud-flower" (although we do use Fern, Ivy, April, etc).
Very, very few apps are even worth $0. The vast majority are worth even less, given the amount of time they waste to deliver a negative experience, and the time to get rid of them afterwards.
I have paid over $10 for a couple of apps, but most of the ones I paid $1-$2 for have turned out to be worth MINUS$5 - I will probably not buy more than 2 more apps in my life.
I hope that in a couple of years, it will be possible to stop kids accidentally buying Ferraris by fat-fingering the "shoot" button, the industry will have learned that in-game ads don't sell meaningful product. Shortly afterwards the ad-funded model will be dead. if we want to buy stuff, we search for it.
Slow march to obscurity? Hell, it may have been terminally sick, but they stabbed it in the back with Windows 10.
Helix is presumably a contraction of "Hell-X (box)". My family''s experience of the UI is that it is unusable - the kids have abandoned it for games on Android tablets.
Despite what any FIntech company does, financial services, legal services, healthcare services etc. will never be replaced by robots.
I went into my bank last week. There was a long queue. The staff said that 2/3 of their number were going to be laid off, because of machines being installed inside the branch for paying in, and for doing other stuff. I went back this week, and sure enough, half the staff had gone, and I paid in my money in seconds using a machine that counted the notes.
Most robots don't have legs. Probably most sexbots won't have legs either. I havn't met one yet, so I don't know.
Have you any proof that I have not been replaced by a robot?
Housing isn't a real problem, there is plenty of undeveloped or underdeveloped land, and plenty of underutilized labor capable of constructing houses, and in some places, there are simply empty houses, and not all of them are derelict ones.
Nobody can go see his boss and asks to replace Photoshop by "GIMP".
maybe if you learned to say "replace Photoshop with "GIMP", your boss might listen to you. Acting illiterate probably does not enhance your reputation as a source of advice.
Damn - you spotted the most obvious flaw in the study! How comes paid scientific journalrats can't see this obvious boo-boo?
It is worth pointing out that the sun's radiation includes the same wavelengths as cellphones use, and the sun is on all day, every day of your life, while cellphones only for a few minutes at a time.
If the radiation was dangerous, people would probably die from skin cancer even if the didn't use use cellphones.
If I was there commanding officer in the armed forces, I would expect them to obey me without regard to money - assuming the orders to be legal, of course.
Yep, Fox should be sued for $1M for each illegal viewing, and barred from using the DCMA for life+ 50 years. And the MD should get 500 lashes, and 50 years in a Da'Esh prison.
However, it is the USA, so probably he will get a pay rise.
You take too much notice of adverts for charities.
In a lot of poor countries (income less than "$1 a day") it is because the majority of the population is outside the monetary economy. They have food and drink (Water, fruit juice, palm wine, and local gin). However, they have limited means to trade with the neighboring villages let alone the world, so they cannot replace their home, inefficient, farm tools with modern stuff, or buy better seeds and feedstock. They know that the machinery used in Europe or America is unsuitable for their purposes (their grandfathers imported it, and it did not work). They do not know that there are other solutions like rotavators which will work, and can be bought cheap from Alibaba, - which they can't without the Internet.
In large part, poverty IS brought about by lack of communications - and Internet access WILL help. Income distribution in poor countries is generally very uneven, and even the poorest villages often have some people with money, cars and mobile phones.
Also not mentioned here is the fact that, in Africa, Facebook is not JUST used by teenage girls with no real friends (although I am sure they are an "important" sector of users), it is also used as a way to communicate with people overseas without paying monster international call charges.
I agree that a good many in severe poverty are forced to avoid schooling because of the need to work (at occupations yielding little or no money, of merely to get food), but more often, people are poor as a consequence of actively avoiding investing in the future.
This extreme short termist approach to life is a consequence of growing up in circumstances where the alternative to a short termist approach is death.
My point is that where whole communities are poor, providing any kind of resources often has little long term benefit because of the general culture poverty brings about.
Internet access is one of the few things that can bring these people into contact with other ways of understanding the world than what the people around them tell them ("it is the conspiracy that made us poor. Not waste seeds by putting them in the ground - eat them while they are still edible").
This is just as true amongst poor communities in the developed world as anywhere else.
That is easily explained: Microsoft employs Daleks to write their software, and Klingons to debug it. The alien chipmunks are the quality control department's new hires.
MS produced DOS long after Unix was in use. Hell, there were loads of good OSes before DOS. DOS was, in fact, the worst. However, it was America, and in America, corruption is more important than quality. We have come to expect that of 3rd world countries.
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If I wanted to learn the meaning of hundreds of icons, I would leant Kanji - its been tested as a UI for over 4,000 years, is used by several billion people, and is far more useful than some idiot phone UI that will be replaced in about 18 months.
Personally, I want live long enough to experience the discovery of "Unobtanium"
We associated the idea of descriptive names with other cultures, and do not call our daughters things like "cloud-flower" (although we do use Fern, Ivy, April, etc).
I have paid over $10 for a couple of apps, but most of the ones I paid $1-$2 for have turned out to be worth MINUS$5 - I will probably not buy more than 2 more apps in my life.
I hope that in a couple of years, it will be possible to stop kids accidentally buying Ferraris by fat-fingering the "shoot" button, the industry will have learned that in-game ads don't sell meaningful product. Shortly afterwards the ad-funded model will be dead. if we want to buy stuff, we search for it.
Helix is presumably a contraction of "Hell-X (box)". My family''s experience of the UI is that it is unusable - the kids have abandoned it for games on Android tablets.
I went into my bank last week. There was a long queue. The staff said that 2/3 of their number were going to be laid off, because of machines being installed inside the branch for paying in, and for doing other stuff. I went back this week, and sure enough, half the staff had gone, and I paid in my money in seconds using a machine that counted the notes.
Most robots don't have legs. Probably most sexbots won't have legs either. I havn't met one yet, so I don't know.
Have you any proof that I have not been replaced by a robot?
You obviously do not live in the UK.
Some of the robots will have to do overtime at weekends.
maybe if you learned to say "replace Photoshop with "GIMP", your boss might listen to you. Acting illiterate probably does not enhance your reputation as a source of advice.
Personally, I would rather lean Cobol than Python, but that is just me.
You should stop reading faux news - the Ghanaians are producing their own cars http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/29/africa/ghana-katanka-cars-feat/index.html - and even bicycles made from bamboo http://www.un.org/climatechange/blog/2014/08/bamboo-bikes-initiative-ghana/
It is not a real operating system. FTFY
FTFY.
It is worth pointing out that the sun's radiation includes the same wavelengths as cellphones use, and the sun is on all day, every day of your life, while cellphones only for a few minutes at a time.
If the radiation was dangerous, people would probably die from skin cancer even if the didn't use use cellphones.
If I was there commanding officer in the armed forces, I would expect them to obey me without regard to money - assuming the orders to be legal, of course.
I think you will find 200% of 0 is still 0.
However, it is the USA, so probably he will get a pay rise.
You do realise people can write porn without even having to learn to spell!
You don't actually need ChromeOS for porn. Hell, you can even draw it in the sand with a stick.
In a lot of poor countries (income less than "$1 a day") it is because the majority of the population is outside the monetary economy. They have food and drink (Water, fruit juice, palm wine, and local gin). However, they have limited means to trade with the neighboring villages let alone the world, so they cannot replace their home, inefficient, farm tools with modern stuff, or buy better seeds and feedstock. They know that the machinery used in Europe or America is unsuitable for their purposes (their grandfathers imported it, and it did not work). They do not know that there are other solutions like rotavators which will work, and can be bought cheap from Alibaba, - which they can't without the Internet.
In large part, poverty IS brought about by lack of communications - and Internet access WILL help. Income distribution in poor countries is generally very uneven, and even the poorest villages often have some people with money, cars and mobile phones.
Also not mentioned here is the fact that, in Africa, Facebook is not JUST used by teenage girls with no real friends (although I am sure they are an "important" sector of users), it is also used as a way to communicate with people overseas without paying monster international call charges.
This extreme short termist approach to life is a consequence of growing up in circumstances where the alternative to a short termist approach is death.
My point is that where whole communities are poor, providing any kind of resources often has little long term benefit because of the general culture poverty brings about.
Internet access is one of the few things that can bring these people into contact with other ways of understanding the world than what the people around them tell them ("it is the conspiracy that made us poor. Not waste seeds by putting them in the ground - eat them while they are still edible").
This is just as true amongst poor communities in the developed world as anywhere else.
As for advertisers targetting this segment, you can bet the ocada drivers are on to this one: http://techloy.com/2013/01/30/angry-nigerian-game/
Ziva, Is that you?
That is easily explained: Microsoft employs Daleks to write their software, and Klingons to debug it. The alien chipmunks are the quality control department's new hires.
Except that I am.
MS produced DOS long after Unix was in use. Hell, there were loads of good OSes before DOS. DOS was, in fact, the worst. However, it was America, and in America, corruption is more important than quality. We have come to expect that of 3rd world countries.
FTFY
No. It uses the cloud!