Though I'm used to the default MS bashing here -- I have to wonder have many people have actually USED a Surface (esp the Pro) for more than 5 min in a MS store or at a friend's house?
I have two sitting here in front of me. I had to build the win8 image to push out via SCCM for our enterprise. The Surface pro is fucking terrible. What's the point of it when you spend 99% of your time on the windows desktop instead of Metro?
The entire device lacks focus. It doesn't solve a particular problem (although the multiuser aspect is nice on our domain).
If the Surface disappeared today no one would care. I was actually hopeful as I'd like to see some competition in the market. The Surface however isn't it.
Microsoft is so focused on Office and Outlook that they seem to forget that the huge consumer market for tablets isn't being driven by these features.
They are focused on these because it's all they have left. The OS is largely irrelevant now thanks to cloud services. Enterprise solutions are being edged out by BYOD options. Microsofts enterprise software is in a state of flux (SCCM 2012 is a nightmare IMHO). The cost to use MS software (I say use and not own because they are increasingly moving towards a rental model) is prohibitive and free or cheaper options exist.
Nevermind that MS just has a horrible reputation. No one wants to do business with them. It's like being bullied for 15 years through school by the same asshole and then that asshole wants to be friends after college and hang out.
Linux never was UNIX. It never got certified. If you're really wanting a UNIX OS for free, you're wanting FreeBSD/OpenBSD/PC-BSD, something along those lines. Linux has always been the wild west when it comes to standards. That's worked in its favor as much as it's worked against itself.
1) How many "new users" did they actually talk to?
Zero. They are however losing a lot of "old" users
2) How many GNOME users are there, and of those users, how many are "new"?
Very few. Considering Linux's low desktop market share and the diverse number of DE's I would guess GNOME's userbase to be slightly larger than the number of developers creating it.
It sounds to me like they're removing a feature that millions of people use, on a whim.
I wouldn't say millions. Maybe thousands but certainly not millions. Most people have moved to the ctrl+c and ctrl+v mechanism because it apes Windows and MacOSX. I used to use middle click a lot back in the 90's but ctrl+c is now simpler for me to use since I bounce between platforms so much. I suspect a lot of people are the same way.
I'm not worried they removed it and I think the vast majority of people won't even notice but it didn't hurt anything being there. There was no reason to ditch it. GNOME devs have a serious problem with just letting people work they way they want to. That, to me, is inexcusable. Then again, I've always thought GNOME was fucking garbage, ever since that petulant little child Miguel started the project.
Until dickhead number two starts to road rage on dickhead number one and they start a fight in the middle of the road, or worse, cause an accident.
You're thinking one dimensionally. Dickhead number one has an effect on a large number of people all the way down the road. Ever hear of something called gridlock? It starts with one dickhead not paying attention and dominoes into a whole fleet of lemmings doing the same thing.
You're a fool. IT is infrastructure and an insurance policy when/if something goes wrong. IT does not produce anything, they do not sell anything, IT has no product for which a customer will pay. That in the eyes of an exec is a drain on the company and therefore will always be the first to get cut when they need a new yacht.
Keep deluding yourself that IT is a revenue generator. Try pitching that to the VP of IS/IT while he stares at the spreadsheet showing the hundreds of thousands of dollars you requested that quarter to upgrade XYZ.
IT is not a revenue generator. Executives right now are in a pinch to justify their ridiculous salaries by ever increasing profits in one of the worst economies in US history. My company just announced a 5% cut in employees across the board. Luckily, the dumb fuck execs realized they cut IT so badly over the last 7 years that they can only cut 2.5% from us. Of course, the only people immune from the layoffs are the execs, who not only got raises this year but have actually multiplied like fucking rabbits. I counted 6 new VP's this year alone.
So yeah, IT doesn't make them any money so guess who gets shit on?
Linux is only successful when X11 isn't involved. Like Android. Like servers. Like embedded. Pretty much everywhere Linux is a big deal, X11 isn't. Hope Wayland changes this.
It's quite possible that he could get such a job, though I don't know what the job market is like in Pensacola (I believe that's where the article indicated he was). That doesn't mean that he could afford rent somewhere.
So he can leave Pensacola and go where the jobs/money are. My dad moved our family from Florida to Michigan to Arizona and then CA for work. He never batted an eye, never thought to get hand outs or bitch that life wasn't fair. He went where the work is. I'm sick of the lazy bastards who wont move for a good job and a chance to better their life.
Yes, and if you hold a gun to their head and make them do things you'll have broken their security. Seriously? Apple is damned if they do and damned if they don't with people like you.
Yes people may force their victims to do this, no it's not likely to be common. The point of the finger print reader isn't to somehow, mystically prevent an armed robber from getting into your shit. Its to keep purse snatchers and pick pockets from getting in as well as keeping it moderately secure should you forget it at a bar or airport.
It makes it much easier to spy on your own citizens when you do that. They are just mad they don't have a piece of the action.
Regardless of their ability to spy on their own people I think this is a good thing and I say that as a red, white and blue American citizen. I don't like that we control the whole ball of wax. Its time other countries stepped things up and built on what the US started. The internet is supposed to be bigger than any one country.
"Objective Europa aims to send human beings to Jupiter's icy moon, Europa, on a one way mission in search of extraterrestrial life"
Seriously, before you throw your lives away, at least get a minimal amount of evidence that life exists there. I'm sure lots of "special" people will apply for this but none of them will be the types we actually want going there.
Yeah, it sounds like Cook is talking about Jobs. Boo Hoo... He was a rich (dick) who died relatively young.
Regardless of whether Jobs was a dick, he certainly was rich. He didn't die because of a lack of health care, he died because he was fucking stupid and didn't listen to his doctors, and pursued homeopathic bullshit remedies for an aggressive pancreatic cancer.
Jobs would likely be here today running Apple had he not been a fucking idiot hippie with a grudge against modern medicine. In Jobs case, natural selection was not his friend.
You think they don't already have health data on people? How many times did you google herpes this year? Did you email your parents/kids telling them about your shingles, bad knees, bad eyesite?
If other people over the age of 50-60 are anything like my parents and parents in law, virtually every conversation revolves around their new ailments. Google has a crap ton of this info in their systems already and are fully prepared to start spamming the latest Cialis ads at every that's every used the word "dick" in an email.
I wouldn't say he's first. He's just the most publicized. Theo from OpenBSD is pretty bad and a quick glance over the Debian mailing lists will blow your mind. Linus is bad but there are far worse offenders than him.
I tell you what grinds me...the installers. The best one for "just get it done" is PC-BSD - but even it can be flaky.
The FreeBSDinstaller is fine if you arent trying to do anything fancy, otherwise you're dropping to a terminal and doing a little manual work. The plus side is FreeBSD has what I consider to be the best documentation of any UNIX out there with the possible exception of Arch.
PCBSD is an unmitigated disaster though. I'd stay far away from that pile of shit. The installer is flakey, the distro is bloated as fuck and the community is fucking worthless. Being based on FreeBSD you would think the documentation would be decent but its total crap. The whole PBI concept is the workmanship of retards too.
I'd like to see this go to trial and see if they can really get a conviction. It would be very cool if they fail and then get sued for damages and compensation.
Yeah really cool. In the meantime the kid misses out on his high school education, is traumatized for life due to incarceration as a juvenile and his parents go fucking bankrupt on attorneys fees and the state billing them for their kids room and board as ward of the state.
"What do you mean there wasn't a backup disk? Fucking kill yourself with a pipe wrench. I hate you, your mother was a whore and your dad was the neighbors dog. People like you make me sick."
This is guaranteed to work almost as good as the Evil Bit, an extra field in IPv4 headers where senders of packets indicate malicious intent, so that people administering firewalls can discard such packets if desired.
(The problem in the first place was that the people wiretapping didn't give a shit about rules, etiquette, and being decent. More rules and etiquette aren't the solution to that problem.)
Rick
And yet people still pass laws to try and stop gun ownership. I mean clearly criminals obey the law and stop shooting people when we pass laws telling them not too. So why not include a header on our websites telling the NSA not to spy on us?
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Though I'm used to the default MS bashing here -- I have to wonder have many people have actually USED a Surface (esp the Pro) for more than 5 min in a MS store or at a friend's house?
I have two sitting here in front of me. I had to build the win8 image to push out via SCCM for our enterprise. The Surface pro is fucking terrible. What's the point of it when you spend 99% of your time on the windows desktop instead of Metro?
The entire device lacks focus. It doesn't solve a particular problem (although the multiuser aspect is nice on our domain).
If the Surface disappeared today no one would care. I was actually hopeful as I'd like to see some competition in the market. The Surface however isn't it.
Actually, as a tablet device, they aren't awful.
Well there ya have it! I'm sold! Just what I always wanted, a tablet that isn't awful!
Microsoft is so focused on Office and Outlook that they seem to forget that the huge consumer market for tablets isn't being driven by these features.
They are focused on these because it's all they have left. The OS is largely irrelevant now thanks to cloud services. Enterprise solutions are being edged out by BYOD options. Microsofts enterprise software is in a state of flux (SCCM 2012 is a nightmare IMHO). The cost to use MS software (I say use and not own because they are increasingly moving towards a rental model) is prohibitive and free or cheaper options exist.
Nevermind that MS just has a horrible reputation. No one wants to do business with them. It's like being bullied for 15 years through school by the same asshole and then that asshole wants to be friends after college and hang out.
Linux never was UNIX. It never got certified. If you're really wanting a UNIX OS for free, you're wanting FreeBSD/OpenBSD/PC-BSD, something along those lines. Linux has always been the wild west when it comes to standards. That's worked in its favor as much as it's worked against itself.
Two questions:
1) How many "new users" did they actually talk to?
Zero. They are however losing a lot of "old" users
2) How many GNOME users are there, and of those users, how many are "new"?
Very few. Considering Linux's low desktop market share and the diverse number of DE's I would guess GNOME's userbase to be slightly larger than the number of developers creating it.
It sounds to me like they're removing a feature that millions of people use, on a whim.
I wouldn't say millions. Maybe thousands but certainly not millions. Most people have moved to the ctrl+c and ctrl+v mechanism because it apes Windows and MacOSX. I used to use middle click a lot back in the 90's but ctrl+c is now simpler for me to use since I bounce between platforms so much. I suspect a lot of people are the same way.
I'm not worried they removed it and I think the vast majority of people won't even notice but it didn't hurt anything being there. There was no reason to ditch it. GNOME devs have a serious problem with just letting people work they way they want to. That, to me, is inexcusable. Then again, I've always thought GNOME was fucking garbage, ever since that petulant little child Miguel started the project.
Until dickhead number two starts to road rage on dickhead number one and they start a fight in the middle of the road, or worse, cause an accident.
You're thinking one dimensionally. Dickhead number one has an effect on a large number of people all the way down the road. Ever hear of something called gridlock? It starts with one dickhead not paying attention and dominoes into a whole fleet of lemmings doing the same thing.
You're a fool. IT is infrastructure and an insurance policy when/if something goes wrong. IT does not produce anything, they do not sell anything, IT has no product for which a customer will pay. That in the eyes of an exec is a drain on the company and therefore will always be the first to get cut when they need a new yacht.
Keep deluding yourself that IT is a revenue generator. Try pitching that to the VP of IS/IT while he stares at the spreadsheet showing the hundreds of thousands of dollars you requested that quarter to upgrade XYZ.
IT is not a revenue generator. Executives right now are in a pinch to justify their ridiculous salaries by ever increasing profits in one of the worst economies in US history. My company just announced a 5% cut in employees across the board. Luckily, the dumb fuck execs realized they cut IT so badly over the last 7 years that they can only cut 2.5% from us. Of course, the only people immune from the layoffs are the execs, who not only got raises this year but have actually multiplied like fucking rabbits. I counted 6 new VP's this year alone.
So yeah, IT doesn't make them any money so guess who gets shit on?
Linux is only successful when X11 isn't involved. Like Android. Like servers. Like embedded. Pretty much everywhere Linux is a big deal, X11 isn't. Hope Wayland changes this.
It's quite possible that he could get such a job, though I don't know what the job market is like in Pensacola (I believe that's where the article indicated he was). That doesn't mean that he could afford rent somewhere.
So he can leave Pensacola and go where the jobs/money are. My dad moved our family from Florida to Michigan to Arizona and then CA for work. He never batted an eye, never thought to get hand outs or bitch that life wasn't fair. He went where the work is. I'm sick of the lazy bastards who wont move for a good job and a chance to better their life.
Indeed. I also take issue with the use of "missing." There was never any indication that it was there in the first place for it to be "missing."
If it's so fucking cold outside then why are you sitting around reading an ebook in it?
Yes, and if you hold a gun to their head and make them do things you'll have broken their security. Seriously? Apple is damned if they do and damned if they don't with people like you.
Yes people may force their victims to do this, no it's not likely to be common. The point of the finger print reader isn't to somehow, mystically prevent an armed robber from getting into your shit. Its to keep purse snatchers and pick pockets from getting in as well as keeping it moderately secure should you forget it at a bar or airport.
It makes it much easier to spy on your own citizens when you do that. They are just mad they don't have a piece of the action.
Regardless of their ability to spy on their own people I think this is a good thing and I say that as a red, white and blue American citizen. I don't like that we control the whole ball of wax. Its time other countries stepped things up and built on what the US started. The internet is supposed to be bigger than any one country.
"Objective Europa aims to send human beings to Jupiter's icy moon, Europa, on a one way mission in search of extraterrestrial life"
Seriously, before you throw your lives away, at least get a minimal amount of evidence that life exists there. I'm sure lots of "special" people will apply for this but none of them will be the types we actually want going there.
Just send a fucking probe. Don't BE a probe.
Yeah, it sounds like Cook is talking about Jobs. Boo Hoo... He was a rich (dick) who died relatively young.
Regardless of whether Jobs was a dick, he certainly was rich. He didn't die because of a lack of health care, he died because he was fucking stupid and didn't listen to his doctors, and pursued homeopathic bullshit remedies for an aggressive pancreatic cancer.
Jobs would likely be here today running Apple had he not been a fucking idiot hippie with a grudge against modern medicine. In Jobs case, natural selection was not his friend.
You think they don't already have health data on people? How many times did you google herpes this year? Did you email your parents/kids telling them about your shingles, bad knees, bad eyesite?
If other people over the age of 50-60 are anything like my parents and parents in law, virtually every conversation revolves around their new ailments. Google has a crap ton of this info in their systems already and are fully prepared to start spamming the latest Cialis ads at every that's every used the word "dick" in an email.
Seriously, other than nostalgia why are they still using corks when much better methods have existed for decades?
Sorry Natalie, I'm married.
I wouldn't say he's first. He's just the most publicized. Theo from OpenBSD is pretty bad and a quick glance over the Debian mailing lists will blow your mind. Linus is bad but there are far worse offenders than him.
OSX = BSD, so yeah, its been year of BSD on the desktop for about a decade.
Was this FreeBSD or one of the others?
I tell you what grinds me...the installers. The best one for "just get it done" is PC-BSD - but even it can be flaky.
The FreeBSDinstaller is fine if you arent trying to do anything fancy, otherwise you're dropping to a terminal and doing a little manual work. The plus side is FreeBSD has what I consider to be the best documentation of any UNIX out there with the possible exception of Arch.
PCBSD is an unmitigated disaster though. I'd stay far away from that pile of shit. The installer is flakey, the distro is bloated as fuck and the community is fucking worthless. Being based on FreeBSD you would think the documentation would be decent but its total crap. The whole PBI concept is the workmanship of retards too.
I'd like to see this go to trial and see if they can really get a conviction. It would be very cool if they fail and then get sued for damages and compensation.
Yeah really cool. In the meantime the kid misses out on his high school education, is traumatized for life due to incarceration as a juvenile and his parents go fucking bankrupt on attorneys fees and the state billing them for their kids room and board as ward of the state.
Sure would be fucking cool.
Allow me to channel Linus Torvalds a minute:
"What do you mean there wasn't a backup disk? Fucking kill yourself with a pipe wrench. I hate you, your mother was a whore and your dad was the neighbors dog. People like you make me sick."
Yes, of course!
This is guaranteed to work almost as good as the Evil Bit, an extra field in IPv4 headers where senders of packets indicate malicious intent, so that people administering firewalls can discard such packets if desired.
(The problem in the first place was that the people wiretapping didn't give a shit about rules, etiquette, and being decent. More rules and etiquette aren't the solution to that problem.)
Rick
And yet people still pass laws to try and stop gun ownership. I mean clearly criminals obey the law and stop shooting people when we pass laws telling them not too. So why not include a header on our websites telling the NSA not to spy on us?