They saved their asses? China was overrun pretty much like France, and at least the Chinese had the excuse of having a civil war going on while the invasion happened. So after a whole lot of killing, when the ALLIES finally won, countries like China were free to get back to normal. The US forced Japan to surrender, but it was either going to be the US or the Soviet Union that would force their hand to get back to the status quo.
That is a sad part of US history, but that does not mean that Chinese today hold a grudge against American people for it. Hell compare that to what happened in Nanjing in WW2, and to top it all, Japan still say that it was an unfortunate part of the war, never apologizing and in fact, some people even denying the whole thing happened. That is a huge difference with what happened in the US.
Lol drop the crap dude, if anything the people that the Chinese truly hate are the Japanese. You are just making stuff up, but what can you expect from an AC...
Chinese hate US people? You clearly haven't lived in China. Price and good quality is the only reason why Samsung beats Apple here. Hell, I've have people from the business sector tell me that they wanted an iPhone since Android is too confusing but Samsung offered discounts to get phones company-wide, something Apple flat-out refused to do. So in a way, Apple will have to understand sooner rather than later that in China, consumers are extremely saavy and will refuse to buy overpriced stuff unless it is to show face. The problem is that iPhones (especially the 4/4S kind) are so common that even the show face part is moving towards other products, at least in the phone arena since the iPad seems to be doing just fine here.
In my case I have abandoned Linux for the desktop some time ago, and just keep Gentoo around for fiddling with it. In my case I went back to Windows for gaming and OSX for the desktop experience, after having tried console gaming and desktop Linux for quite a bit.
Windows 8 is aiming for the tablet experience. OSX might be merging some stuff from the iPad, but to me, Apple has been doing great at holding out the unusable parts of the tablets in the desktop OS. The addition of the launchpad is good and it will lead the way to deprecate the odd style of having an Applications folder in the Finder. Gnome in the other hand, tried to create something artsy but failed to achieve the whole look & feel. I guess it could have worked if they had better default fonts and not being so extreme as removing the maximize and minimize button.
I thought the same as you regarding GNUStep, but it is too messy and the mindset towards creating an attractive GUI is simply not there. They want to achieve perfection by emulating NeXT, when they should just be trying to copy something like OSX which looks nice.
Linux is either a Fluxbox (or similar) affair, or you are better off with Windoze or better yet, with OSX. It's the fonts, the hardware, the games and the it just works attitude. Sad to see projects going these way but it wasn't hard to predict. I kind of feel the same way as Miguel De Icaza regarding OSX right now.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but all that measures relate to are Google searches. Would be better to actually have download numbers or even sample data of desktop usage.
I don't know what you searched but DDG works fine for me. I have to use Bing for image search and that's it. I'm testing Yandex to see if I can replace both with that.
I have been using DDG for quite a bit, but its lack of image search is a little bit inconvenient. I'm testing Yandex to see if I can use it for everyday stuff.
No country or government will protect your rights. But there is something you can do about it, like having your own small server back home and use alternative services like Yandex, etc. Yandex is a Russian company that have to comply with government requests in the same way American companies have to do back home. So as far as search engines go, you truly have to go with whatever lesser evil you are willing to tolerate. In that regard, DuckDuckGo is a good option.
But if you get a cheap VPS server, even if it isn't as secure as having your own, it's very convenient and you don't have to rely on stuff like Dropbox/GDrive/SkyDrive, ad-supported e-mail, or internet companies with huge tracking issues like Facebook and Google. You can also use DailyMotion to try and break your dependence on YouTube.
haha same here. Although on Safari I have the keywords extension installed so I can type w and then whatever I want, and the search goes directly to wikipedia.
I don't know but if you do not want to use Google, DuckDuckGo is by far one of the best alternatives. Try doing temperature, currency conversions with DuckDuckGo, the integrated results from WolframAlpha are pretty good. The only thing is missing is image search imho.
Err, you are kind of supporting the argument that the PS3 launch was the worst console launch ever.
In order to say that Sony learned their lesson, I would wait until they are in a dominant position again and pull out that act of humility. They all are for-profit companies, so the only good thing that comes out from there is when you have a real competitor that will take your business away if you don't get your act together. One of the reasons why open source works better for not screwing users up, even if it is hard to monetize on it.
So who's forcing you to use Google? Firefox is a viable alternative that does not collect such data and it doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon. No data collection, no data to share. Easy as pie.
If Google business model requires to collect data from you to exist, you should think hard about whether you value your privacy, measure the risks of identity theft or whether as a human being you should strive for commendable goals that include the promotion of free software to prevent exactly these kinds of issues. I would think that's what the Slashdot audience is all about. Instant gratification with free products or services at the expense of freedom is not a good thing on my book.
Magazines ARE dreadful with an e-Reader. There is no question that you are better off with an LCD screen in tablet form preferably for that particular situation. Same deal with programming books. Other than that, an e-reader is an excellent device that allowed me to switch to digital in that particular front. So it's ok.
Tablets in general, including e-readers and their corresponding bookstores are the reasons why people are getting rid of paper. The whole swift change of magazines to digital versions can be attributed to the iPad. In my case the Nook e-reader did it for me, but for some other people it's a Nexus, or a Kindle Fire. Having said that, the experience of reading in a high resolution device like the Nexus 7 or iPad 3 cannot be matched by my trusty Nook. But one thing e-readers have is that the battery charge holds for 30 days.
Come back after you have actually tried one with a retina display for one month. I doubt you would say the same thing. If anything I complain that they are heavy.
In my case I stopped buying books because anytime I move, books are by far the major hassle. Plus it's neat to have your whole library wherever you go. If Apple comes out with an iPad Mini with Retina I'll switch to that since I can enjoy my B&N collection, can buy from the iBookstore as well as Amazon.
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They saved their asses? China was overrun pretty much like France, and at least the Chinese had the excuse of having a civil war going on while the invasion happened. So after a whole lot of killing, when the ALLIES finally won, countries like China were free to get back to normal. The US forced Japan to surrender, but it was either going to be the US or the Soviet Union that would force their hand to get back to the status quo.
That is a sad part of US history, but that does not mean that Chinese today hold a grudge against American people for it. Hell compare that to what happened in Nanjing in WW2, and to top it all, Japan still say that it was an unfortunate part of the war, never apologizing and in fact, some people even denying the whole thing happened. That is a huge difference with what happened in the US.
Lol drop the crap dude, if anything the people that the Chinese truly hate are the Japanese. You are just making stuff up, but what can you expect from an AC...
I believe the iPhone size is pretty good. In fact, a cell phone with a screen bigger than 4,3 feels oversized in my opinion.
Chinese hate US people? You clearly haven't lived in China. Price and good quality is the only reason why Samsung beats Apple here. Hell, I've have people from the business sector tell me that they wanted an iPhone since Android is too confusing but Samsung offered discounts to get phones company-wide, something Apple flat-out refused to do. So in a way, Apple will have to understand sooner rather than later that in China, consumers are extremely saavy and will refuse to buy overpriced stuff unless it is to show face. The problem is that iPhones (especially the 4/4S kind) are so common that even the show face part is moving towards other products, at least in the phone arena since the iPad seems to be doing just fine here.
Damn, I bought a MacBook last year and it had only 4 GB of RAM. I don't know what universe you guys live in, but it sure is greener on that side :)
In my case I have abandoned Linux for the desktop some time ago, and just keep Gentoo around for fiddling with it. In my case I went back to Windows for gaming and OSX for the desktop experience, after having tried console gaming and desktop Linux for quite a bit.
Windows 8 is aiming for the tablet experience. OSX might be merging some stuff from the iPad, but to me, Apple has been doing great at holding out the unusable parts of the tablets in the desktop OS. The addition of the launchpad is good and it will lead the way to deprecate the odd style of having an Applications folder in the Finder. Gnome in the other hand, tried to create something artsy but failed to achieve the whole look & feel. I guess it could have worked if they had better default fonts and not being so extreme as removing the maximize and minimize button.
I thought the same as you regarding GNUStep, but it is too messy and the mindset towards creating an attractive GUI is simply not there. They want to achieve perfection by emulating NeXT, when they should just be trying to copy something like OSX which looks nice.
Linux is either a Fluxbox (or similar) affair, or you are better off with Windoze or better yet, with OSX. It's the fonts, the hardware, the games and the it just works attitude. Sad to see projects going these way but it wasn't hard to predict. I kind of feel the same way as Miguel De Icaza regarding OSX right now.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but all that measures relate to are Google searches. Would be better to actually have download numbers or even sample data of desktop usage.
I don't know what you searched but DDG works fine for me. I have to use Bing for image search and that's it. I'm testing Yandex to see if I can replace both with that.
I have been using DDG for quite a bit, but its lack of image search is a little bit inconvenient. I'm testing Yandex to see if I can use it for everyday stuff.
No country or government will protect your rights. But there is something you can do about it, like having your own small server back home and use alternative services like Yandex, etc. Yandex is a Russian company that have to comply with government requests in the same way American companies have to do back home. So as far as search engines go, you truly have to go with whatever lesser evil you are willing to tolerate. In that regard, DuckDuckGo is a good option.
But if you get a cheap VPS server, even if it isn't as secure as having your own, it's very convenient and you don't have to rely on stuff like Dropbox/GDrive/SkyDrive, ad-supported e-mail, or internet companies with huge tracking issues like Facebook and Google. You can also use DailyMotion to try and break your dependence on YouTube.
Lol, keep spreading the FUD. There are things that can be done. They are not God you know.
haha same here. Although on Safari I have the keywords extension installed so I can type w and then whatever I want, and the search goes directly to wikipedia.
I don't know but if you do not want to use Google, DuckDuckGo is by far one of the best alternatives. Try doing temperature, currency conversions with DuckDuckGo, the integrated results from WolframAlpha are pretty good. The only thing is missing is image search imho.
Problem is that all the "services" XBL provided for a fee, Sony provided for free on a PS3.
Err, you are kind of supporting the argument that the PS3 launch was the worst console launch ever.
In order to say that Sony learned their lesson, I would wait until they are in a dominant position again and pull out that act of humility. They all are for-profit companies, so the only good thing that comes out from there is when you have a real competitor that will take your business away if you don't get your act together. One of the reasons why open source works better for not screwing users up, even if it is hard to monetize on it.
So who's forcing you to use Google? Firefox is a viable alternative that does not collect such data and it doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon. No data collection, no data to share. Easy as pie.
If Google business model requires to collect data from you to exist, you should think hard about whether you value your privacy, measure the risks of identity theft or whether as a human being you should strive for commendable goals that include the promotion of free software to prevent exactly these kinds of issues. I would think that's what the Slashdot audience is all about. Instant gratification with free products or services at the expense of freedom is not a good thing on my book.
Magazines ARE dreadful with an e-Reader. There is no question that you are better off with an LCD screen in tablet form preferably for that particular situation. Same deal with programming books. Other than that, an e-reader is an excellent device that allowed me to switch to digital in that particular front. So it's ok.
Tablets in general, including e-readers and their corresponding bookstores are the reasons why people are getting rid of paper. The whole swift change of magazines to digital versions can be attributed to the iPad. In my case the Nook e-reader did it for me, but for some other people it's a Nexus, or a Kindle Fire. Having said that, the experience of reading in a high resolution device like the Nexus 7 or iPad 3 cannot be matched by my trusty Nook. But one thing e-readers have is that the battery charge holds for 30 days.
Come back after you have actually tried one with a retina display for one month. I doubt you would say the same thing. If anything I complain that they are heavy.
In my case I stopped buying books because anytime I move, books are by far the major hassle. Plus it's neat to have your whole library wherever you go. If Apple comes out with an iPad Mini with Retina I'll switch to that since I can enjoy my B&N collection, can buy from the iBookstore as well as Amazon.
You can alternatively use the LendMe feature on Nook devices for the same purpose. One area where I feel the Nook is better.
I don't know, I can browse books by genre directly from my Nook e-reader.