It's slower than Eclipse but it does quite a few things Eclipse doesn't do well. A visual Java swing application designer that works for starters!
It's more stable too.
Given Oracle's Java procedure support in Oracle they're missing a trick, they should integrate SQL Developer and NetBeans to create a really good Java/Warehouse/BI tool.
With Linux you can update the package source list and run a command to upgrade. This approach can be more hairy than a clean install. There's a million billion different combinations of packages, plus some people like to roll their own kernel.
We need this about as much as we need a much stronger more deadly flu virus.
When rats are vermin and carry disease, why make them even better a survival? or are they scientists thinking that if they get clever enough they'll start writing software for a living?
Haha, it's always easy to look back and say "that wasn't revolutionary".
Look back at the first plane and you think, that looks simple, it wasn't that hard. Look back at the bicycle or many other things.
You probably haven't had a long history of using lousy Windows and Symbian smartphones, what Apple have produced is pretty revolutionary in terms of usability.
Firstly Windows Mobile and Symbian are menu driven, little fiddly pop up menus with key shortcuts. Awful usability!
The iPhone is responsive, Windows Mobile and Symbian phones tend to pause or slow down, they're clunky and with a Windows Mobile touch screen phone there's often a reset button for when it locks up!
The fact that nobody else has done what Apple have done just shows that other mobile makers aren't interested in writing software, they're just OEMs who want to slap on WinMo, Symbian, Android and write a few drivers/boot code. Then people wonder why the devices are suboptimal.
So I guess this isn't because Nokia have made a loss and want to hurt their biggest rival in the smartphone market?
I hope Apple countersue on the basis that Nokia has infringed app store patents, Nokia have even 'stolen' the visual style of icon Apple use (rounded squares with an icon).
Ideal for a development server for those wanting to get familiar with OSX Server.
There are a few openings for OSX Server skills, mainly in the iPhone operator arena as visual voicemail apparently is served from it (hence why only specific operators have the feature).
Your ISP account is the "passport" to the internet.
Sure, you can use a mobile with a contract free SIM to go online, but you're hardly likely to spam or hack the world from a mobile, even if you connect your laptop to it.
I don't get this multitasking argument. What sort of multitasking are you expecting?
Sure, having an MSN app in the background might be useful when browsing the web, but all of the IM applications use the push notification service so you get notification when the IM application isn't running.
HTC can't design a nice looking phone, every phone of theirs I've owned has been ugly or ordinary. At times flimsy and dust got under the screen.
So what if the ZuneHD has better hardware? Microsoft is failing to get anywhere with it. They've not even launched it in the UK.
What's unfair about Apple not letting Palm use iTunes? the use of iTunes on an OS is hardly mandatory and there are other ways of adding music to the Palm Pre.
Instead of wasting their time with iTunes sync they should write their own software.
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Unless the software on the Linux devices has been rewritten for a touch interface I don't see why they're worth bothering with.
That's the genius of the iPad, loads of software apps designed for a touch screen interface. Hence why Apple based it on the iPhone not the Mac.
Tablets with desktop OS software suck and have been around for years, failing to catch on due to poor usability.
I don't want rubbish anti-virus software on a smartphone. They cripple the performance of the device.
I don't care if I get a virus on my phone, I can restore it back to a backup easily. It's not like I'm going to loose valuable work.
Using someone else's wifi (unsecured) is generally illegal and hence applications which help people perform illegal acts are bound to be withdrawn.
Then most mobiles are orwellian. Nokia have had them for years.
People moan about these liquid sensors, but they were around a long time before the iPhone.
From what I've seen they're low-res, dim and no better than a nice big touch screen for showing content.
It's been the default OS for largely the technologically challenged, the sort of people who still think Bill Gates runs Microsoft.
It's hardly a cheap OS though? it never seems to come down in price even though in reality there is nothing massively new in each release.
It's slower than Eclipse but it does quite a few things Eclipse doesn't do well. A visual Java swing application designer that works for starters!
It's more stable too.
Given Oracle's Java procedure support in Oracle they're missing a trick, they should integrate SQL Developer and NetBeans to create a really good Java/Warehouse/BI tool.
Software patents or no software patents? can't have it both ways.
If you don't want patents then copying of ideas will happen. It seems like a pretty obvious idea anyway.
I thought they were on about Lulu the recording artist at first, why would she introduce DRM? maybe because it "makes you want to shout"? :)
Depends how the upgrade is performed.
With Linux you can update the package source list and run a command to upgrade. This approach can be more hairy than a clean install. There's a million billion different combinations of packages, plus some people like to roll their own kernel.
Software variation can be greater with Linux.
We need this about as much as we need a much stronger more deadly flu virus.
When rats are vermin and carry disease, why make them even better a survival? or are they scientists thinking that if they get clever enough they'll start writing software for a living?
I agree with many of your points, one thing you forgot to mention is the activation limits too.
You can only activate XP five times, even if you buy the retail box version. After then you have to buy it *again*.
The RIAA would love for networks and the Internet to vanish. Sharing information electronically obviously upsets them.
Which cave did they crawl out of?
Many files have been copied and accessed due to Windows file sharing mistakenly enabled on a public LAN, should it be banned too?
Haha, it's always easy to look back and say "that wasn't revolutionary".
Look back at the first plane and you think, that looks simple, it wasn't that hard. Look back at the bicycle or many other things.
You probably haven't had a long history of using lousy Windows and Symbian smartphones, what Apple have produced is pretty revolutionary in terms of usability.
Firstly Windows Mobile and Symbian are menu driven, little fiddly pop up menus with key shortcuts. Awful usability!
The iPhone is responsive, Windows Mobile and Symbian phones tend to pause or slow down, they're clunky and with a Windows Mobile touch screen phone there's often a reset button for when it locks up!
The fact that nobody else has done what Apple have done just shows that other mobile makers aren't interested in writing software, they're just OEMs who want to slap on WinMo, Symbian, Android and write a few drivers/boot code. Then people wonder why the devices are suboptimal.
Many companies have tried to beat the iPod but none of them got it quite right.
With Apple having produced iPods and the iPhone with the same OS it's pretty hard for anyone else to produce anything with such a large user base.
Firstly Apple only use Intel processors, so why are you comparing Intel with AMD?
There's nothing truly comparable to an iMac or a Mac Pro, they're custom computers and don't use off the shelf board or case designs.
So I guess this isn't because Nokia have made a loss and want to hurt their biggest rival in the smartphone market?
I hope Apple countersue on the basis that Nokia has infringed app store patents, Nokia have even 'stolen' the visual style of icon Apple use (rounded squares with an icon).
Ideal for a development server for those wanting to get familiar with OSX Server.
There are a few openings for OSX Server skills, mainly in the iPhone operator arena as visual voicemail apparently is served from it (hence why only specific operators have the feature).
Except it will be a phone made by someone like HTC, be butt ugly and lack any style or design flair.
Mobile networks branding phones is a lousy idea.
Your ISP account is the "passport" to the internet.
Sure, you can use a mobile with a contract free SIM to go online, but you're hardly likely to spam or hack the world from a mobile, even if you connect your laptop to it.
Yet another public figure who doesn't 'get' the internet.
If you want people to pay for your content, make it require a secure login and subscription.
He should thank Google, if it wasn't for search engines people wouldn't even find his site.
I don't get this multitasking argument. What sort of multitasking are you expecting?
Sure, having an MSN app in the background might be useful when browsing the web, but all of the IM applications use the push notification service so you get notification when the IM application isn't running.
HTC can't design a nice looking phone, every phone of theirs I've owned has been ugly or ordinary. At times flimsy and dust got under the screen.
So what if the ZuneHD has better hardware? Microsoft is failing to get anywhere with it. They've not even launched it in the UK.
The python team were big radio listeners, they didn't get their first TV until they were in their teens.
Don't worry, it's a well known fact the Goon show was an influence, they also liked the fact that the show made fun of the BBC station it was on.
What's unfair about Apple not letting Palm use iTunes? the use of iTunes on an OS is hardly mandatory and there are other ways of adding music to the Palm Pre.
Instead of wasting their time with iTunes sync they should write their own software.