You've pretty well defined why forcing layout is a wasted effort - And why whitespace delimiting should fail. Let your tools figure out formatting and layout, make your content the focus. Tabs should define logic, not spacing (This is a new paragraph/block, etc) and your tool should figure out how to present that through styles. When I worked in prepress, one of the most vexing issues was "designers" forcing layout with extraneous tabs/spaces.
Their core fanbase doesn't buy anything - the reasons I hear people "prefer" android are either pirate/"free" side-loading or because the device was what their carrier handed them for free.
I wish there really was a "deep state" which could keep crap like this from happening. This is why we need professionals in DC who are interested in keeping their jobs rather than taking care of the people who'll keep them rich once they're kicked out of their jobs.
Playstation Now already does this, and it works pretty darn good... But I'm not interested in paying a subscription to play games I already own(ed) for PS3 just because they never solved backwards compatibility... If Geforce Now lets me tie in the games I own from other platforms and just pay for their power/bandwidth, at a reasonable rate, I'm in for times I don't have my massive slab of a gaming laptop handy... Bonus points if I end up being able to do so from my iPad down the line.
The only reason I ever touch Windows is for games... everything I do with work, social media, etc is on iOS or a Mac. If these machines wonâ(TM)t run steam and subsequent games unmodified theyâ(TM)re a non-starter.
I highly doubt that iPadification will ever really truly threaten macOS in the ways people think - Apple firmly believes in different devices for different needs (if for no other reason than selling more devices). Microsoft is the one that's tried for over a decade to convince people that one OS should run on all their devices, as long as it's Windows.
If anything, I suspect that the next iteration we'll see is a context-sensitive, display-backed gesture-board for Macs, like the magic trackpad but with visuals underneath or around the edges for smart-widgets per-app.
While MS will still be trying to suggest you should be using your monitor at 30 degrees like an easel, or reaching up to your monitor, or whatever crazy RSI inducing UI they come up with next.
Also forgotten in the article - Software can be updated, if the hardware is solid (and other than the one generation with questionable antenna choices, the iPhone hardware has been about the best constructed and designed devices on the market).
As long as the hardware is working, the software can be addressed, updated, fixed.. And most likely will, and driven with automatic updates which aren't governed by carrier device lifecycles, which have made most other brand's handsets stuck with bad software after a short cycle of updates.
As a hard-core touch-typist, I hate to reach for the Escape key - with a remapped Caps-to-Control I would rather ^[ as a much less impactful combination.
You know you will only get down-voted for not screaming against Apple products right? Most sane response to the post gets a score of 2, and on a day I don't have mod points...
Before Linux existed I was running Minix on an IBM XT... The code was so clean, I could pretty comfortably find how every single part of the system worked... The more recent Minix 3 is a bit more mature, but everywhere I've looked the OSS version is still more clean and understandable than any other usable OS.
There's one addition I would add to the BSD thought process - macOS. Apple's platform is a hybrid, but if you need to run commercial production apps and use a hereditary Unix/BSD, macOS should be considered part of the family too.
When starting with Windows 10 (have a device which won't run anything else) I tried edge for several months. It was often faster than Chrome, actually... Except when it froze hard for long periods, which would persist until I rebooted the device, even with nothing else visibly running. back to Chrome as the default browser.
In an age where everything else is off fiddling with systemd, moving around config files and installing software and support wherever they feel like, Slackware still looks, thinks and behaves like it's a Unix...
The installer hasn't substantially changed in 20 years, and looks/feels more like the FreeBSD install than anything else, and package management is more akin to the BSDs than anything else.
For someone like me that uses Linux because it's Unix-y and not just an alternative to Windows, the fact that Slackware retains these qualities is of great comfort and reminds me that all these fads of deviation from the Unix way will pass...
I agree with you on the fundamental premise of "put Linux on it" to get better privacy and usually longer support lifetimes... but this is actually bad advice in this particular narrow scenario. These Clover Trail SOCs don't have Linux drivers! Moreover, all Clover Trail systems shipped with 32-bit UEFI with no legacy boot support (aka no CSM). None of the major distros have put any effort in to supporting this platform. These computers are pretty much Windows only, the only sane option seems to be to run Windows 8.1 on them.
Thank you for pointing that out - Even some of the newer Atom SoC devices, over several further generations, you see more of the 32 bit UEFI boots and devices with no Linux drivers, over which your only real OS option is Windows 8 or 10, and 32-bit only.
Let's try that again while logged in...
Windows 10 only really works, UI wise, on what I call "platypus" hardware - Systems that don't really know what they should be. I have a little crappy Asus 2-in-1 which provides the best Windows 10 experience I've had anywhere... It's small enough that reaching to use the elements that really only make sense with a Touch isn't a pain in the wrist/a$$, but can use a full keyboard and mouse for the other 85% of things which haven't evolved and were never designed for touch...
Most UI targets are too small to touch reliably, or require contextual interaction (right/2-finger click is easier and more reliable than the long-press of a touch interaction) but some are designed around gestures that are painful to use a mouse to enact (and don't have a touchpad gesture because nobody can assume anything on the fragmented marketplace of hardware)...
Windows 10 is a painful blend of design by committee, legacy software inertia, and bad UX.
Google killing Reader was the last straw in me building around their services... It was the one thing of theirs I went to every day, more than email (at least via the gmail web interface...
I use Feedly now, via an app on my iPhone and Mac, and RSS is still my go-to means for gathering the news of the day for filtering and eventually consuming news. If I had to go hit various sites to find content, I'd pretty much be down to one or two sites a day, and the breadth of my view would be diminished.
I am certain this is only because it exempts them from having to programatically exclude Trump and his deplorables, giving them plausible deniability when the eventual investigation asks what they knew when.
You mean the fingerprint scanner that interacts directly with the secure enclave chip outside the OS? The one that could be misused by various actors if replaced with act-alike hardware? I'm not sensing the problem here - Feature not a Bug.
For anyone who's been paying attention, the new pope has been working hard to put the service and social commitments back to the front of the Church's mission... Reaching out to people who can and do make disruptive waves can mean a lot. There's so many cases where an app with the right niche in mind has revolutionized life for remote communities, and so many places where even small incremental changes can mean life or death for people...
They have a lot of skepticism to overcome, but I would like to believe they're trying to help the right people reach the right needs.
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Are there mod ratings for "Racist"?
You've pretty well defined why forcing layout is a wasted effort - And why whitespace delimiting should fail. Let your tools figure out formatting and layout, make your content the focus. Tabs should define logic, not spacing (This is a new paragraph/block, etc) and your tool should figure out how to present that through styles. When I worked in prepress, one of the most vexing issues was "designers" forcing layout with extraneous tabs/spaces.
Their core fanbase doesn't buy anything - the reasons I hear people "prefer" android are either pirate/"free" side-loading or because the device was what their carrier handed them for free.
That idea is just E.V.I.L.
I wish there really was a "deep state" which could keep crap like this from happening. This is why we need professionals in DC who are interested in keeping their jobs rather than taking care of the people who'll keep them rich once they're kicked out of their jobs.
Playstation Now already does this, and it works pretty darn good... But I'm not interested in paying a subscription to play games I already own(ed) for PS3 just because they never solved backwards compatibility... If Geforce Now lets me tie in the games I own from other platforms and just pay for their power/bandwidth, at a reasonable rate, I'm in for times I don't have my massive slab of a gaming laptop handy... Bonus points if I end up being able to do so from my iPad down the line.
The only reason I ever touch Windows is for games... everything I do with work, social media, etc is on iOS or a Mac. If these machines wonâ(TM)t run steam and subsequent games unmodified theyâ(TM)re a non-starter.
I highly doubt that iPadification will ever really truly threaten macOS in the ways people think - Apple firmly believes in different devices for different needs (if for no other reason than selling more devices). Microsoft is the one that's tried for over a decade to convince people that one OS should run on all their devices, as long as it's Windows.
If anything, I suspect that the next iteration we'll see is a context-sensitive, display-backed gesture-board for Macs, like the magic trackpad but with visuals underneath or around the edges for smart-widgets per-app.
While MS will still be trying to suggest you should be using your monitor at 30 degrees like an easel, or reaching up to your monitor, or whatever crazy RSI inducing UI they come up with next.
Also forgotten in the article - Software can be updated, if the hardware is solid (and other than the one generation with questionable antenna choices, the iPhone hardware has been about the best constructed and designed devices on the market).
As long as the hardware is working, the software can be addressed, updated, fixed.. And most likely will, and driven with automatic updates which aren't governed by carrier device lifecycles, which have made most other brand's handsets stuck with bad software after a short cycle of updates.
As a hard-core touch-typist, I hate to reach for the Escape key - with a remapped Caps-to-Control I would rather ^[ as a much less impactful combination.
You know you will only get down-voted for not screaming against Apple products right? Most sane response to the post gets a score of 2, and on a day I don't have mod points...
Before Linux existed I was running Minix on an IBM XT... The code was so clean, I could pretty comfortably find how every single part of the system worked... The more recent Minix 3 is a bit more mature, but everywhere I've looked the OSS version is still more clean and understandable than any other usable OS.
All this on a day I don't have mod points...
There's one addition I would add to the BSD thought process - macOS. Apple's platform is a hybrid, but if you need to run commercial production apps and use a hereditary Unix/BSD, macOS should be considered part of the family too.
When starting with Windows 10 (have a device which won't run anything else) I tried edge for several months. It was often faster than Chrome, actually... Except when it froze hard for long periods, which would persist until I rebooted the device, even with nothing else visibly running. back to Chrome as the default browser.
... because it was impossible to build it anywhere else...
Why worry about the regulations - A Slave Obeys.
Only the parasite wants to step in the way of innovation...
(Because I didn't see any of the obvious and obligatory Andrew Ryan references among the comments yet)
In an age where everything else is off fiddling with systemd, moving around config files and installing software and support wherever they feel like, Slackware still looks, thinks and behaves like it's a Unix...
The installer hasn't substantially changed in 20 years, and looks/feels more like the FreeBSD install than anything else, and package management is more akin to the BSDs than anything else.
For someone like me that uses Linux because it's Unix-y and not just an alternative to Windows, the fact that Slackware retains these qualities is of great comfort and reminds me that all these fads of deviation from the Unix way will pass...
I agree with you on the fundamental premise of "put Linux on it" to get better privacy and usually longer support lifetimes... but this is actually bad advice in this particular narrow scenario. These Clover Trail SOCs don't have Linux drivers! Moreover, all Clover Trail systems shipped with 32-bit UEFI with no legacy boot support (aka no CSM). None of the major distros have put any effort in to supporting this platform. These computers are pretty much Windows only, the only sane option seems to be to run Windows 8.1 on them.
Thank you for pointing that out - Even some of the newer Atom SoC devices, over several further generations, you see more of the 32 bit UEFI boots and devices with no Linux drivers, over which your only real OS option is Windows 8 or 10, and 32-bit only.
Let's try that again while logged in... Windows 10 only really works, UI wise, on what I call "platypus" hardware - Systems that don't really know what they should be. I have a little crappy Asus 2-in-1 which provides the best Windows 10 experience I've had anywhere... It's small enough that reaching to use the elements that really only make sense with a Touch isn't a pain in the wrist/a$$, but can use a full keyboard and mouse for the other 85% of things which haven't evolved and were never designed for touch...
Most UI targets are too small to touch reliably, or require contextual interaction (right/2-finger click is easier and more reliable than the long-press of a touch interaction) but some are designed around gestures that are painful to use a mouse to enact (and don't have a touchpad gesture because nobody can assume anything on the fragmented marketplace of hardware)...
Windows 10 is a painful blend of design by committee, legacy software inertia, and bad UX.
Google killing Reader was the last straw in me building around their services... It was the one thing of theirs I went to every day, more than email (at least via the gmail web interface...
I use Feedly now, via an app on my iPhone and Mac, and RSS is still my go-to means for gathering the news of the day for filtering and eventually consuming news. If I had to go hit various sites to find content, I'd pretty much be down to one or two sites a day, and the breadth of my view would be diminished.
I am certain this is only because it exempts them from having to programatically exclude Trump and his deplorables, giving them plausible deniability when the eventual investigation asks what they knew when.
You may not like it, though a lot of my friends did... Jupiter Rising is firmly SciFi and very original.
Right now, I wouldn't be surprised if that argument got some off in court (Pun fully intended, knowingly in bad taste)
You mean the fingerprint scanner that interacts directly with the secure enclave chip outside the OS? The one that could be misused by various actors if replaced with act-alike hardware? I'm not sensing the problem here - Feature not a Bug.
My 4th grade English teacher used to say, "A bad workman blames his tools."
Sounds relevant to me here.
Apparently your 4th grade English teacher has never tried to use a hammer covered in spikes that arrived in a box labeled "Screwdriver".
You found Windows! Don't forget that the handle's splinters each carry a different painful virus
For anyone who's been paying attention, the new pope has been working hard to put the service and social commitments back to the front of the Church's mission... Reaching out to people who can and do make disruptive waves can mean a lot. There's so many cases where an app with the right niche in mind has revolutionized life for remote communities, and so many places where even small incremental changes can mean life or death for people...
They have a lot of skepticism to overcome, but I would like to believe they're trying to help the right people reach the right needs.