If clutter is in your book fine. I was expecting you would say something like XFCE. KDE is just a lot of clutter thrown to your face. It is not easier to use than Windows but you have my sympathies for standing up for free software.
Yup, reading Walter Isaacson's book you realize how they were betrayed by Adobe real bad. In a way they created the market for Google so I guess they feel a bit like that again.
Anybody that says that there are no real competitors for Google Maps has not tried Nokia Maps. As far as smartphones go, Nokia still has clear advantage with that app alone.
I totally agree with you. I played the demo of Torchlight 2 and while it's fun, the intensity of the battles is no match for what you find on Diablo 3. Matt Uelmen on the other hand is Torchlight's biggest asset IMHO.
In any case, I think you can enjoy both games. Maybe Diablo 3 isn't what people expected of a Diablo 2 successor but it still is a great game on its own. It's not like the Diablo series were the greatest game ever for me since I'm more of an RTS fan and I would take a Dark Reign sequel over Diablo any day.
Now that's the real reason to upgrade a PC, not the operating system. Since when you upgrade a PC, most likely you get Windows with the new computer, it's a win-win situation.
But I agree with a lot of other posters. Changing something just to keep Microsoft afloat is absurd. I think a lot of people should use Linux for people that only use their computers for Office, e-mail and the web browser, which is like the vast majority of people. Then use Windows or whatever system for the specialized stuff like AutoCAD.
I was kind of opposed to the "tabletization" of OS X in the beginning, but now that I have used Mountain Lion for several weeks I have to say that it is a great idea. I enjoy Launchpad and the Notification Center a lot. Notes and Mail that behave exactly like my iPhone is a big plus, especially since Notes are like Evernote but much much faster. I really should mention Mail since I really thought that e-mail clients kind of hit a ceiling and that program proved me wrong. Reminders are ok but nothing spectacular. The deep App Store integration is also a good thing considering that OS X Lion and Mountain Lion breaks a lot of old software, Photoshop included, so when you get something from there you never have to wonder "will it run on my Mac?".
I think what Apple is doing wrong is breaking application support. I was very annoyed at not being able to use most of my games and a lot of software with the latest releases. I think when Apple was using Rosetta to run PowerPC programs they were doing fine. Once they took that attitude of "update your apps or else", it really made me appreciate all the hard work that Microsoft has done in that sense. I can still run a lot of old stuff in the latest Windows, and even the DOS applications can be run with a bunch of free emulators like DOSBox. There is no way to run an emulated OSX 10.2 or similar that I know of in a Mac.
You just need to learn to use the system. If you complain about stuff like that on a Mac, I cannot imagine how you would be trashing Linux for all its quirkiness. Systems are different. The most productive system is the one where you learn all the keyboard shortcuts and the easiest is the one with the pretty GUIs and less clutter. Choose your poison and stop whining.
Laptops have their place and tables are useful also. Tablets are for e-books, web browsing, e-mail and the main device you can still use while laying down. A laptop is more of a sit properly affair.
I don't know. I'm still using my iPhone 3G and I'll keep using it until I replace it either with a Nokia Lumia or an iPhone 5. The only other phone that I ever had that lasted for so long was a Motorola Razr.
But I agree with you, Jobs was an amazing marketing guy. He could probably convince a lot of people that the sky is green.
Yeah, try to remove Google from all of those to see how "free" Android is. Google is just using the same tactics Microsoft uses to push their products. It would be nice to have the system give you a choice of browser, search engine (Duck Duck Go anyone?) and an universal id instead of a Google one. As I understand, Android is not supposed to be owned by Google but by a consortium.
I have ordered stuff from an Indian manufacturer and things went quite well. One thing you should keep in mind is that you can ask most sellers for a sample of the product to verify quality, etc. Then you can make the order you had in mind.
Instead of thinking globally, I want to share why I didn't try to push for the Linux desktop anymore, after being a Linux zealot for a long time.
With Linux you had the excitement of doing something new and radical, helping the community with LUGs, pushing the boundaries, etc, etc. Once that became old, you were left with trying to make it work for real for people around you. At my LUG, we had success at our college lab and even with a couple of teachers who started teaching C programming in Linux instead of Windows as well as computer graphics programming (POV ray stuff, OpenGL/Mesa). Then came the problems, the multiple support issues with hardware drivers, either faulty or complete lack of drivers for some stuff. The major selling point back then was stability, and that got eroded real fast with some of the "easy" distros, only this time you had to learn each particular distro and surf the net for that hard to find answer. Lately I was even installing Ubuntu to a complete office with several computers and to my boss in another office. That was the climax I guess.
Then the boss computer Ubuntu's presented a major issue with the chipset where it would totally lock the computer. Lack of certain applications made it hard to convince people using things like AutoCAD to join the fray. There were some issues with printer drivers. Samba acting funny with Windows Vista when it came out and lack of documentation that left me in the dust. After hearing so many complaints, that the file format of openoffice is not the same, the lockups, the ugly fonts, etc, etc. I kind of had it. Left people to their own devices, and in my case I could explore other platforms that were truly awesome, like OS X. I still have a Gentoo box since I love tinkering with stuff but in general I would consider myself an Apple guy, Objective-C and all. Looking back I would never have imagined I would go from hippy open source to a totally closed source monopolistic company. That's life I guess and that is the state of the Linux Desktop for me.
Yeah but the data plan is kind of useless really. I mean, most people have a smartphone already and you can use internet teethering and wifi on your ereader/tablet and be done with it. This reminds me of cable tv sometimes, where with some channels you are actually paying a monthly fee to watch commercials. The Google Nexus 7 is a much better tablet and I'm pretty sure they are not selling that at a loss, so I don't buy the whole Amazon's subsidize argument.
eReaders are very convenient when you have to either travel or move to another place. I have made a point of replacing my whole library with digital stuff. I had to move from the US to South America and by far the most annoying thing to move were all the books. After becoming a B&N Nook junkie, I can honestly say that books in printed form are a waste of space and resources in every sense. And you can skip the whole ads debacle by using an Apple or a Barnes and Noble device.
Oh you are talking about OSX 10.8! Yes, a dead guy had to flip bits so that 32-bit GPU drivers wouldn't work with Mountain Lion's complete 64-bit architecture just to piss people off. What a wonderful idea. I have owned several PCs and Macs and very rarely has a PC survived one of my Macs and remained relevant for that matter.
You my friend, the Anonymous Coward being modded Insightful, are a troll.
They didn't divide anything that wasn't already divided. If anything, even if they were valid reasons, GNOME divided the Linux landscape. Unity is just more of the same story, only in this case their goal is Linux for the masses so it is a fair goal. Me? I'm perfectly happy with Gentoo or Slackware, especially the latter because of its true simplicity. But let the noobs have their distro and that is called Ubuntu.
You do understand that because he always asked the impossible from his employees is that he ended up reaching that genius status right? Of course the cube was ridiculous but he wanted to have perfect things he pictured in his head, not unlike many great artists from previous times. People did leave the company but most of them also said they had the times of their lives while making history at Apple.
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If clutter is in your book fine. I was expecting you would say something like XFCE. KDE is just a lot of clutter thrown to your face. It is not easier to use than Windows but you have my sympathies for standing up for free software.
Yup, reading Walter Isaacson's book you realize how they were betrayed by Adobe real bad. In a way they created the market for Google so I guess they feel a bit like that again.
Anybody that says that there are no real competitors for Google Maps has not tried Nokia Maps. As far as smartphones go, Nokia still has clear advantage with that app alone.
I totally agree with you. I played the demo of Torchlight 2 and while it's fun, the intensity of the battles is no match for what you find on Diablo 3. Matt Uelmen on the other hand is Torchlight's biggest asset IMHO.
In any case, I think you can enjoy both games. Maybe Diablo 3 isn't what people expected of a Diablo 2 successor but it still is a great game on its own. It's not like the Diablo series were the greatest game ever for me since I'm more of an RTS fan and I would take a Dark Reign sequel over Diablo any day.
Don't know, Kaspersky has been rock solid for me and for the office machines.
Now that's the real reason to upgrade a PC, not the operating system. Since when you upgrade a PC, most likely you get Windows with the new computer, it's a win-win situation.
But I agree with a lot of other posters. Changing something just to keep Microsoft afloat is absurd. I think a lot of people should use Linux for people that only use their computers for Office, e-mail and the web browser, which is like the vast majority of people. Then use Windows or whatever system for the specialized stuff like AutoCAD.
I was kind of opposed to the "tabletization" of OS X in the beginning, but now that I have used Mountain Lion for several weeks I have to say that it is a great idea. I enjoy Launchpad and the Notification Center a lot. Notes and Mail that behave exactly like my iPhone is a big plus, especially since Notes are like Evernote but much much faster. I really should mention Mail since I really thought that e-mail clients kind of hit a ceiling and that program proved me wrong. Reminders are ok but nothing spectacular. The deep App Store integration is also a good thing considering that OS X Lion and Mountain Lion breaks a lot of old software, Photoshop included, so when you get something from there you never have to wonder "will it run on my Mac?".
I think what Apple is doing wrong is breaking application support. I was very annoyed at not being able to use most of my games and a lot of software with the latest releases. I think when Apple was using Rosetta to run PowerPC programs they were doing fine. Once they took that attitude of "update your apps or else", it really made me appreciate all the hard work that Microsoft has done in that sense. I can still run a lot of old stuff in the latest Windows, and even the DOS applications can be run with a bunch of free emulators like DOSBox. There is no way to run an emulated OSX 10.2 or similar that I know of in a Mac.
You just need to learn to use the system. If you complain about stuff like that on a Mac, I cannot imagine how you would be trashing Linux for all its quirkiness. Systems are different. The most productive system is the one where you learn all the keyboard shortcuts and the easiest is the one with the pretty GUIs and less clutter. Choose your poison and stop whining.
Laptops have their place and tables are useful also. Tablets are for e-books, web browsing, e-mail and the main device you can still use while laying down. A laptop is more of a sit properly affair.
I don't know. I'm still using my iPhone 3G and I'll keep using it until I replace it either with a Nokia Lumia or an iPhone 5. The only other phone that I ever had that lasted for so long was a Motorola Razr.
But I agree with you, Jobs was an amazing marketing guy. He could probably convince a lot of people that the sky is green.
Yeah, try to remove Google from all of those to see how "free" Android is. Google is just using the same tactics Microsoft uses to push their products. It would be nice to have the system give you a choice of browser, search engine (Duck Duck Go anyone?) and an universal id instead of a Google one. As I understand, Android is not supposed to be owned by Google but by a consortium.
They were trying OS X Nookie but then Barnes & Noble complained.
They thought about CLOSESTEP but that didn't work either.
Not that China wants. It was a Chinese island before the war, then the US controlled the islands and gave them to the Japanese.
I have ordered stuff from an Indian manufacturer and things went quite well. One thing you should keep in mind is that you can ask most sellers for a sample of the product to verify quality, etc. Then you can make the order you had in mind.
Instead of thinking globally, I want to share why I didn't try to push for the Linux desktop anymore, after being a Linux zealot for a long time.
With Linux you had the excitement of doing something new and radical, helping the community with LUGs, pushing the boundaries, etc, etc. Once that became old, you were left with trying to make it work for real for people around you. At my LUG, we had success at our college lab and even with a couple of teachers who started teaching C programming in Linux instead of Windows as well as computer graphics programming (POV ray stuff, OpenGL/Mesa). Then came the problems, the multiple support issues with hardware drivers, either faulty or complete lack of drivers for some stuff. The major selling point back then was stability, and that got eroded real fast with some of the "easy" distros, only this time you had to learn each particular distro and surf the net for that hard to find answer. Lately I was even installing Ubuntu to a complete office with several computers and to my boss in another office. That was the climax I guess.
Then the boss computer Ubuntu's presented a major issue with the chipset where it would totally lock the computer. Lack of certain applications made it hard to convince people using things like AutoCAD to join the fray. There were some issues with printer drivers. Samba acting funny with Windows Vista when it came out and lack of documentation that left me in the dust. After hearing so many complaints, that the file format of openoffice is not the same, the lockups, the ugly fonts, etc, etc. I kind of had it. Left people to their own devices, and in my case I could explore other platforms that were truly awesome, like OS X. I still have a Gentoo box since I love tinkering with stuff but in general I would consider myself an Apple guy, Objective-C and all. Looking back I would never have imagined I would go from hippy open source to a totally closed source monopolistic company. That's life I guess and that is the state of the Linux Desktop for me.
Yeah but the data plan is kind of useless really. I mean, most people have a smartphone already and you can use internet teethering and wifi on your ereader/tablet and be done with it. This reminds me of cable tv sometimes, where with some channels you are actually paying a monthly fee to watch commercials. The Google Nexus 7 is a much better tablet and I'm pretty sure they are not selling that at a loss, so I don't buy the whole Amazon's subsidize argument.
eReaders are very convenient when you have to either travel or move to another place. I have made a point of replacing my whole library with digital stuff. I had to move from the US to South America and by far the most annoying thing to move were all the books. After becoming a B&N Nook junkie, I can honestly say that books in printed form are a waste of space and resources in every sense. And you can skip the whole ads debacle by using an Apple or a Barnes and Noble device.
We don't know but the guy does have a point, that picture was photoshopped.
I honestly don't know how you deal with Ubuntu being a power user.
Oh you are talking about OSX 10.8! Yes, a dead guy had to flip bits so that 32-bit GPU drivers wouldn't work with Mountain Lion's complete 64-bit architecture just to piss people off. What a wonderful idea. I have owned several PCs and Macs and very rarely has a PC survived one of my Macs and remained relevant for that matter.
You my friend, the Anonymous Coward being modded Insightful, are a troll.
They didn't divide anything that wasn't already divided. If anything, even if they were valid reasons, GNOME divided the Linux landscape. Unity is just more of the same story, only in this case their goal is Linux for the masses so it is a fair goal. Me? I'm perfectly happy with Gentoo or Slackware, especially the latter because of its true simplicity. But let the noobs have their distro and that is called Ubuntu.
A journalist trying to earn a living writing about a current trendy person?
The funny thing is not that they hate Apple but a lot people actually cheer for Google here. That I will never understand.
You do understand that because he always asked the impossible from his employees is that he ended up reaching that genius status right? Of course the cube was ridiculous but he wanted to have perfect things he pictured in his head, not unlike many great artists from previous times. People did leave the company but most of them also said they had the times of their lives while making history at Apple.