Can't you blame them? they're working against the tide of closed source proprietary development at Microsoft and other companies that like to keep their protocols secret.
Only when protocols are open will we see true interoperability.
Project managers should be responsible, these are often the people who push the developers into writing things fast. QA Managers should manage the test process properly to ensure a release of software is free of defects.
Designers should create the best designs, then the coding is more trivial. Testers can use the designs to ensure the software works according to the specifications. When will people learn?
Seems Apple has become a bit of a one product shop. While they do make computers they are reliant on the huge margins of the iPod to keep them afloat. A rather bad position to be in. Once media playing phones mature there won't be much need for carring two devices around.
The success of the Intel based Macs is not guaranteed, after all Intel are the cheap badly designed warm running processors, not the nice optimal designed processors that AMD and Motorola/IBM produce.
I mean the web, ftp, email, news and the core stack (TCP/IP) are all open and pretty much free to use by anyone.
Can you imagine the mess the net and LANs would be in if all of these had been proprietary? you'd have WindowsLAN, MacLAN, SunLAN, IBMLAN etc... yes I know Apple had AppleTalk, but that will die.
In the UK you can buy a phone SIM free, but most people who want good handsets get a contract phone where you buy a phone for less than its cost and pay rental which also pays for the remainder of the handset cost.
Each operator seems to tailor some of the interface for their network. Vodaphone are well known for butchering the interface, many people are known to flash back to manufacturer sourced firmware where possible as the interface mods can be annoying.
Either GTK or QT will have to die or both with need to conform to a visual appearance. Having multiple libraries will just keep everything looking different.
It would be handy if you could just apply something like a style sheet to a GUI.
It's not like Sony aren't known for use cheap parts, CD mechanism of Playstation, DVD mechanism of PS2. Even the screens of the PSP have been a bit too speckled with stuck pixels, forcing many people to return them.
Trouble with most Smartphones is you can't upgrade the firmware yourself. This is the one area where Windows Mobile devices shine, user upgradability. Sony Ericsson devices had a problem with large text messages (SMS), fixing it requires sending your phone back to a service centre? which means finding another phone to use in the mean time.
The Apple Lisa was way too expensive and rather slow. The Mac was much cheaper and worked much better. Hence why you buy an Apple Mac not an Apple Lisa when you go to an Apple store now.
It was Steve Jobs who brought us the Mac too, he recognised it was the right product and better than the Lisa. Much of the work on the project until Jobs took over was done by Raskin and his team.
All three of the properties in the subject need to be covered but you will see a weakening of Office's grasp.
Compatibility isn't 100% (probably never will be, it's a moving target). A company with the resources can migrate and test it's current documents to see if savings can be made.
In terms of features it is lagging a bit, there needs to be some killer features integrated. Being able to interogate databases, embedding SQL reports or statements into documents to bring back data or information etc..
Price is much cheaper (even free if you're confident about using open source).
Well the design really is distictive. It just shows other laptop designers are quite lazy and that when you have a good long thing about the design you can alter the shape and form. Plus add some other cool ideas at the same time.
These need to be the main focus of KDE now. There's tons of features but it needs to be faster and more rock solid.
It's a nuisance when Windows Explorer on an average Athlon is slightly more responsive than Linux and KDE on an AMD64 x2. Also Konqueror struggles with some pages, rendering them really slowly.
Well I will believe that piracy harms sales when I see no queues outside the cinema to see these films. The fact remains the fans will pay to go see the films on the release date.
If any of the drivers you are using are reverse engineered or not well maintained then you will get problems when running under load (ie. on a server).
You have to pick the hardware to suit Linux, not everything is that well supported, some vendors don't like to see their register layouts exposed for some reason (even though you can probably find that stuff in datasheets).
You will probably see more changes to how people collaborate on documents and how they are stored than any actual changes to the editing and formatting functionality.
They're missing the point that IE is an integral part of the desktop on Windows. It's very hard to get away from IE flaws.
IE is largely a Windows app now (Mac support was cut off). With Firefox you get to choose the most secure platform to run it on since it is available for many operating systems.
Many of the flaws in Firefox were discovered by the Firefox developer community and patched rapidly.
The interface is so appalingly bad as to make it fairly unusable. I hope this version seriously improves on previous versions.
People really need to choose either GTK or QT when designing complex Linux software. Both these libraries have good widgets and look fairly professional.
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Just looks like another paintjob. Just a reworking of the GUI which will annoy users as they spend hours trying to find something they need to change.
What about pie detectors? :)
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Can't you blame them? they're working against the tide of closed source proprietary development at Microsoft and other companies that like to keep their protocols secret.
Only when protocols are open will we see true interoperability.
Project managers should be responsible, these are often the people who push the developers into writing things fast. QA Managers should manage the test process properly to ensure a release of software is free of defects.
Designers should create the best designs, then the coding is more trivial. Testers can use the designs to ensure the software works according to the specifications. When will people learn?
Seems Apple has become a bit of a one product shop. While they do make computers they are reliant on the huge margins of the iPod to keep them afloat. A rather bad position to be in. Once media playing phones mature there won't be much need for carring two devices around.
The success of the Intel based Macs is not guaranteed, after all Intel are the cheap badly designed warm running processors, not the nice optimal designed processors that AMD and Motorola/IBM produce.
Why can't they just release all the protocols?
I mean the web, ftp, email, news and the core stack (TCP/IP) are all open and pretty much free to use by anyone.
Can you imagine the mess the net and LANs would be in if all of these had been proprietary? you'd have WindowsLAN, MacLAN, SunLAN, IBMLAN etc... yes I know Apple had AppleTalk, but that will die.
In the UK you can buy a phone SIM free, but most people who want good handsets get a contract phone where you buy a phone for less than its cost and pay rental which also pays for the remainder of the handset cost.
Each operator seems to tailor some of the interface for their network. Vodaphone are well known for butchering the interface, many people are known to flash back to manufacturer sourced firmware where possible as the interface mods can be annoying.
Either GTK or QT will have to die or both with need to conform to a visual appearance. Having multiple libraries will just keep everything looking different.
It would be handy if you could just apply something like a style sheet to a GUI.
It's not like Sony aren't known for use cheap parts, CD mechanism of Playstation, DVD mechanism of PS2. Even the screens of the PSP have been a bit too speckled with stuck pixels, forcing many people to return them.
Trouble with most Smartphones is you can't upgrade the firmware yourself. This is the one area where Windows Mobile devices shine, user upgradability. Sony Ericsson devices had a problem with large text messages (SMS), fixing it requires sending your phone back to a service centre? which means finding another phone to use in the mean time.
The Apple Lisa was way too expensive and rather slow. The Mac was much cheaper and worked much better. Hence why you buy an Apple Mac not an Apple Lisa when you go to an Apple store now.
It was Steve Jobs who brought us the Mac too, he recognised it was the right product and better than the Lisa. Much of the work on the project until Jobs took over was done by Raskin and his team.
Maybe now they know how it felt for Linux users trying to view DVD films before deCSS appeared.
Yes, mod chips can overcome region encoding. But they also overcome measures to prevent the booting of copied discs.
If the mod chips sold only play original games and overcome region coding then there's no problem with them in my book.
All three of the properties in the subject need to be covered but you will see a weakening of Office's grasp.
Compatibility isn't 100% (probably never will be, it's a moving target). A company with the resources can migrate and test it's current documents to see if savings can be made.
In terms of features it is lagging a bit, there needs to be some killer features integrated. Being able to interogate databases, embedding SQL reports or statements into documents to bring back data or information etc..
Price is much cheaper (even free if you're confident about using open source).
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Well the design really is distictive. It just shows other laptop designers are quite lazy and that when you have a good long thing about the design you can alter the shape and form. Plus add some other cool ideas at the same time.
These need to be the main focus of KDE now. There's tons of features but it needs to be faster and more rock solid.
It's a nuisance when Windows Explorer on an average Athlon is slightly more responsive than Linux and KDE on an AMD64 x2. Also Konqueror struggles with some pages, rendering them really slowly.
Well I will believe that piracy harms sales when I see no queues outside the cinema to see these films. The fact remains the fans will pay to go see the films on the release date.
If any of the drivers you are using are reverse engineered or not well maintained then you will get problems when running under load (ie. on a server).
You have to pick the hardware to suit Linux, not everything is that well supported, some vendors don't like to see their register layouts exposed for some reason (even though you can probably find that stuff in datasheets).
Indeed, since not only will they have to find a method to read the data, figure out the encoding etc, they will also have to decrypt it.
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Here you can read about the problems encountered without DRM in recovering data in weird and old formats:
Firstly how a modern day Doomsday book project became unreadable:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,69
Project who managed to salvage it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAMiLEON
Wikipedia info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project
The terrorists will just come up with a detection device.
What about CCTV?
You will probably see more changes to how people collaborate on documents and how they are stored than any actual changes to the editing and formatting functionality.
They're missing the point that IE is an integral part of the desktop on Windows. It's very hard to get away from IE flaws.
IE is largely a Windows app now (Mac support was cut off). With Firefox you get to choose the most secure platform to run it on since it is available for many operating systems.
Many of the flaws in Firefox were discovered by the Firefox developer community and patched rapidly.
Have you ever tried any of the previous releases?
The interface is so appalingly bad as to make it fairly unusable. I hope this version seriously improves on previous versions.
People really need to choose either GTK or QT when designing complex Linux software. Both these libraries have good widgets and look fairly professional.
BeOS never got any decent MIDI apps. Steinberg were supposedly working on Cubase for it, but it never was released.