No, my criteria is "How can I make it fit my needs?"
I am familiar with OS X. I know it does have a desktop switcher, but it's really rather terrible. Windows has one too, which is actually better than Apple's, though not great. If you actually like the Dock, you can have one on Windows or Linux (Dell even ships their systems with one by default). If you don't like the Dock on OS X, well, tough. You have to throw the whole OS out and replace it with something else.
You don't seem particularly familiar with X UIs. They borrow as much from Apple as they do Microsoft, and both then borrow back bits as well. There's nothing wrong with that, whoever happens to be doing it.
Android phones can have both stupid fart apps and useful apps that threaten Apple's business interests. iPhones just get the fart apps.
App store restrictions aren't going to stop malware. Good old fashioned security vulnerabilities will make that an interesting problem in the coming years, and there's no magic bullet to fix it.
So how do you get rid of that stupid Dock, replace it with a proper panel, add a desktop switcher and other widgets, and make windowed programs close when you ask them to?
I have no problem with fart apps being in the marketplace, but they're not a replacement for useful software. Yes, I know Apple caved on podcasting software, but I can't be bothered to look up what they're banning right this second.
To you, maybe. To a consumer that is more than happy with the 300,000 applications available (more than Android). And a consumer that appreciates that Apple is removing malware and poor quality apps, then it's an advantage, not a reason for exclusion.
So, how many Fart Apps equals one RSS reader?
Call it what you like, there is no OS with a better UI.
On the contrary, you have to dig pretty deep to find an OS without a better UI.
The user remains in control. The user can say I don't want to run Microsoft's operating system. There may be consequences for that decision, but you can do it.
No one begrudges them the right to protest, but come on. Part of protesting is eventually packing it in and going home. The Falun Gong have built semi-permanent structures on the sidewalk. Even if you agree with them in principle (and I do, for the most part), that's a bit much.
I have no problem with them putting out religious texts, or even running a newspaper, but if they do the latter they should clearly identify it as the former.
The link I was referring to was TFA.
You have a very narrow definition of cult. The Hare Krishnas don't fit yours, but they certainly are one.
They've held a decade long, 24/7 vigil at the Chinese embassy here. They've taken it to the point that many people assume the building belongs to them. They run a high production value propaganda newspaper, as linked to here.
They're wild-eyed and a bit unstable. They may have good reason for their fanaticism, and I'm sure they have legitimately been persecuted, but it's fanaticism none the less.
They're pretty out there. They're very active around Vancouver, protesting the Chinese embassy and such. They're mostly harmless, and they've got mostly fair points about the Chinese government, but yeah, they're a cult.
But most people won't, and it doesn't say anywhere prominently on their site that they're a sectarian organization, like, say, The Christian Science Monitor.
You can load.mobi files on your Kindle without asking Amazon's permission. It's no more censorship than your local bookstore declining to order a box of your books is.
And really, it's just about money. Amazon doesn't want to spend money looking in to whether or not your use of rape or incest has literary worth or not. They're happy to sell works including that if someone else ponies up the cash for editorial review, as evidenced by all the Heinlein in their store, but they don't want to sift through all the slash fiction garbage on the internets.
It's thought that the Russian nuclear program would have happened years earlier if they'd tried to do it themselves, rather than replicate the American's based on smuggled partial plans.
He's in jail because the first rule of spy club is you don't talk about spy club. If he'd kept his mouth shut about what he'd done, he'd probably never have been caught. Possibly, but probably not.
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Who is "they"?
Roll up your sleeves and pitch in or STFU.
They could find and prosecute every single person even tertiarily involved and the hive would simply get stronger.
We are all Anonymous.
Please have an orderly shut down of your company. The internets haz spoken. Disobey at your peril.
Is our children Facebooking?
No, my criteria is "How can I make it fit my needs?"
I am familiar with OS X. I know it does have a desktop switcher, but it's really rather terrible. Windows has one too, which is actually better than Apple's, though not great. If you actually like the Dock, you can have one on Windows or Linux (Dell even ships their systems with one by default). If you don't like the Dock on OS X, well, tough. You have to throw the whole OS out and replace it with something else.
You don't seem particularly familiar with X UIs. They borrow as much from Apple as they do Microsoft, and both then borrow back bits as well. There's nothing wrong with that, whoever happens to be doing it.
Android phones can have both stupid fart apps and useful apps that threaten Apple's business interests. iPhones just get the fart apps.
App store restrictions aren't going to stop malware. Good old fashioned security vulnerabilities will make that an interesting problem in the coming years, and there's no magic bullet to fix it.
So how do you get rid of that stupid Dock, replace it with a proper panel, add a desktop switcher and other widgets, and make windowed programs close when you ask them to?
I have no problem with fart apps being in the marketplace, but they're not a replacement for useful software. Yes, I know Apple caved on podcasting software, but I can't be bothered to look up what they're banning right this second.
So, how many Fart Apps equals one RSS reader?
On the contrary, you have to dig pretty deep to find an OS without a better UI.
A mobile OS that tells me what software I am or am not allowed to run is out of the running by definition.
OS X is just BSD with a crappy window manager you can't get rid of.
The user remains in control. The user can say I don't want to run Microsoft's operating system. There may be consequences for that decision, but you can do it.
No one begrudges them the right to protest, but come on. Part of protesting is eventually packing it in and going home. The Falun Gong have built semi-permanent structures on the sidewalk. Even if you agree with them in principle (and I do, for the most part), that's a bit much.
I have no problem with them putting out religious texts, or even running a newspaper, but if they do the latter they should clearly identify it as the former.
The link I was referring to was TFA.
You have a very narrow definition of cult. The Hare Krishnas don't fit yours, but they certainly are one.
Only someone fanatical would put themselves through that. That doesn't mean it isn't noteworthy, but it does mean they're a bit unbalanced.
You are misinformed. It was founded by the Church of Christ, Scientist for the purposes of publishing favourable coverage of themselves.
They've held a decade long, 24/7 vigil at the Chinese embassy here. They've taken it to the point that many people assume the building belongs to them. They run a high production value propaganda newspaper, as linked to here.
If that's not organized, what is?
They're wild-eyed and a bit unstable. They may have good reason for their fanaticism, and I'm sure they have legitimately been persecuted, but it's fanaticism none the less.
They're pretty out there. They're very active around Vancouver, protesting the Chinese embassy and such. They're mostly harmless, and they've got mostly fair points about the Chinese government, but yeah, they're a cult.
But most people won't, and it doesn't say anywhere prominently on their site that they're a sectarian organization, like, say, The Christian Science Monitor.
It's the propaganda wing of the Falun Gong cult.
Would you really want your phone locked down so you can't get at it? What is the objection here?
You can load .mobi files on your Kindle without asking Amazon's permission. It's no more censorship than your local bookstore declining to order a box of your books is.
And really, it's just about money. Amazon doesn't want to spend money looking in to whether or not your use of rape or incest has literary worth or not. They're happy to sell works including that if someone else ponies up the cash for editorial review, as evidenced by all the Heinlein in their store, but they don't want to sift through all the slash fiction garbage on the internets.
What part of "not yours" do you not understand? It doesn't matter if she's your spouse or not.
It's thought that the Russian nuclear program would have happened years earlier if they'd tried to do it themselves, rather than replicate the American's based on smuggled partial plans.
You'll finally dominate the USSR militarily, ending the Cold War.
He's in jail because the first rule of spy club is you don't talk about spy club. If he'd kept his mouth shut about what he'd done, he'd probably never have been caught. Possibly, but probably not.