Some of my favorite shows are sitcoms. I actually would like to see them replace the reality TV filler. I liked "The Office", "Modern Family", and "30 Rock" most recently. I understand "Parks and Recreation" is good, but I haven't seen it yet.
I agree that its a time consuming effort, but it has to start somewhere.
It's not just "time consuming", it is breathtakingly difficult. You are pitting yourself against a vast bureaucracy. These people are so dependent on the system that they run around like chickens with their heads cut off when faced with a 5% budget shortfall. Their problems are often neither real nor major, but they are so focused on their role within the bureaucracy that they cannot be reasoned with. They spend their entire life within the bureaucracy - they live and breath it. And then you come in from the outside for an hour or two at the end of the day and throw stones at it, maybe poke at it a bit. You are easily dismissed, and never respected... you are left with the stark choice of becoming one of them yourself and hoping that you can do better, or just becoming cynical about the whole thing.
And that's just local politics - everything gets worse as you ascend the bureaucracy.
Fair enough, but you are not exactly in a position to comment on Cyanogenmod's stability.
Which is why I made sure to indicate that I was using the unsupported version.
hint: there is a good reason why your phone doesn't have official CM support.
Yes, it is a $200 Samsung. CM is an enthusiast product meant for enthusiasts, who happen to spend big bucks on flagship phones. Don't get me wrong, I like a good gadget, but that's not my hobby. My phone lets me listen to podcasts and works well for navigation, and it lets me check email and do the Facebook thing. I might have gotten a cheap Nexus 4 (hey, it's only an extra Benjamin) if they had been released when I bought mine, but they are just too big for me. They also sell a ghetto Samsung Galaxy III mini that I'd try for the right price.
Seriously -- you're using an unsupported community build of CM with god-knows-what kernel and you think this is a representative experience??
Well, yes, unless you can let me know of a way to run CM on my phone in a supported way. Many of the supported phones already have decent factory support - telling someone who complains about support with their phone to use CM is very likely to result in my experience.
I'm not sure what to say to FUD like that,
It's not FUD - I was very clear to mention that I was running an unofficial build.
For some considerable time now, CM has shipped with a CM-updater utility that will (as an option) check regularly for new builds (you can specify whether or not you want nightlies, experimental releases, stable releases included) and will download any updates.
My experience is that the auto-updating function does not work with my phone's unsupported CM. In any case, it's not the updating that takes time - it's the backups, troubleshooting, and the occasional restore to a previous better-working version.
But please don't judge some half-baked, buggy XDA community build with the quality that's coming out of cyanogenmod right now.
That was not my intention. But it's also misleading to say that one can just "install Cyanogenmod" to fix problems with carrier support. First you have to root the phone - sometimes this is easy, sometimes not. Some devices have locked boot loaders and some have workarounds for the locked boot loader - that might be your next step. Then you have to hope that you have a device that is supported by CM, which is frankly not likely to be the case... there are roughly 50 supported devices, mostly tablets and higher-end phones. If you have a typical $200-class abandoned Android phone, you aren't getting a supported CM version.
I run (unofficial) Cyanogenmod and mostly like it, but I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Every release has a little something important broken. Don't get me wrong, I'm very grateful to the people doing this stuff for free, but when your battery life suddenly gets cut in half and you have to choose between a working camera in the newest release or short battery life, it gets to be a PITA. Plus, it's a time sink...
Way to pick up on my mistake in typing "Control Panels" instead of "Settings". My complaint is that I now have an additional step to take, let alone that I now have to know that "printers" is in the settings category.
Ignorant and/or stupid "geeks" who pick one little item out of a long post and get all pedantic. Lol.
Well, I've never tried this method. It looks to me like they are opening CMD (on Windows) using this command. Depending on how RDP works, it's not inconceivable that further commands will pop open windows on the same RDP connection.
I've had the rare ill-behaved X application ignore the environmental variable for DISPLAY and cause me trouble, but on the whole it works really well with the -Y flag in ssh once you have your local X server configured.
I think this page describes how it would (theoretically) work with the current implementation. Definitely some room for improvement in terms of usability, but it doesn't look too bad.
I have not-as-geeky friends hitting up Facebook for advice all the time. I do think geek input counts. One recent exchange involved a tablet because she "wanted to read on the beach". I steered her towards an e-ink device while everyone else was pushing iPads or Kindle Fires, which is retarded.
Really this whole metro vs desktop thing is such a red herring.
It might be as far as sales go, but I've yet to meet someone real (and not just posting online) that actually enjoys using Windows 8 on a desktop computer. I never liked the Start Menu... I think it is a terrible idea to have everything duplicated like that. My initial enthusiasm gave way to even greater disappointment when I discovered that they had actually EXPANDED the stupid thing into an entire scrolling page. Search sucks now. In the past I could just hit the Windows key and type "printer" and down arrow a few times to open up the printers control panel. Now I have to navigate the Start Screen and select the "Control Panels" category before it shows up. And God help you if you don't know which settings are in the charms panel and which ones are in the old control panel. I also just LOVE when you open a document for reference in "Metro" and then go work on something else. Come back to look at the document and it is gone! Windows has decreed that you are done with it! Lovely.
Anyway, what I do know is that I'm "The Geek" that friends and family ask about computer purchases, and I'm often steering people to either Windows 7 or tablets. People just want to dick with the internet while sitting on the couch. A TRS-80 can handle your kid's book report.
I'm reading. This is the kind of stuff I come to read, though sometimes I admit getting sucked into the trolling articles about BIG COMPANY X suing BIG COMPANY Y.
They seem to be going the RDP route for network apps. I'll have to leave criticism to the experts, but my own experience is that RDP on Windows has much better performance than X via ssh or VNC. And as of MS Server 2008, single apps can be shared (TS Remote Apps) - no longer do you need to share the entire desktop. I have no experience with FreeNX, because the servers I remote into don't have it installed.
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Some of my favorite shows are sitcoms. I actually would like to see them replace the reality TV filler. I liked "The Office", "Modern Family", and "30 Rock" most recently. I understand "Parks and Recreation" is good, but I haven't seen it yet.
Since when are accents not funny?
It's not racism, unless Canadians are a race. I was poking fun at the way some of them talk by paraphrasing South Park.
This is aboot dignity! This is aboot justice!
The program is written in C#. Only MS knows what is going on there.
Then what the heck are all those field hands speaking??? No wonder they look at me funny. Well, that and my face.
All this "precision" to test against an arbitrary "90th" and "97th" percentile.
I agree that its a time consuming effort, but it has to start somewhere.
It's not just "time consuming", it is breathtakingly difficult. You are pitting yourself against a vast bureaucracy. These people are so dependent on the system that they run around like chickens with their heads cut off when faced with a 5% budget shortfall. Their problems are often neither real nor major, but they are so focused on their role within the bureaucracy that they cannot be reasoned with. They spend their entire life within the bureaucracy - they live and breath it. And then you come in from the outside for an hour or two at the end of the day and throw stones at it, maybe poke at it a bit. You are easily dismissed, and never respected... you are left with the stark choice of becoming one of them yourself and hoping that you can do better, or just becoming cynical about the whole thing.
And that's just local politics - everything gets worse as you ascend the bureaucracy.
See also: leveling the playing field.
Fair enough, but you are not exactly in a position to comment on Cyanogenmod's stability.
Which is why I made sure to indicate that I was using the unsupported version.
hint: there is a good reason why your phone doesn't have official CM support.
Yes, it is a $200 Samsung. CM is an enthusiast product meant for enthusiasts, who happen to spend big bucks on flagship phones. Don't get me wrong, I like a good gadget, but that's not my hobby. My phone lets me listen to podcasts and works well for navigation, and it lets me check email and do the Facebook thing. I might have gotten a cheap Nexus 4 (hey, it's only an extra Benjamin) if they had been released when I bought mine, but they are just too big for me. They also sell a ghetto Samsung Galaxy III mini that I'd try for the right price.
Seriously -- you're using an unsupported community build of CM with god-knows-what kernel and you think this is a representative experience??
Well, yes, unless you can let me know of a way to run CM on my phone in a supported way. Many of the supported phones already have decent factory support - telling someone who complains about support with their phone to use CM is very likely to result in my experience.
I'm not sure what to say to FUD like that,
It's not FUD - I was very clear to mention that I was running an unofficial build.
For some considerable time now, CM has shipped with a CM-updater utility that will (as an option) check regularly for new builds (you can specify whether or not you want nightlies, experimental releases, stable releases included) and will download any updates.
My experience is that the auto-updating function does not work with my phone's unsupported CM. In any case, it's not the updating that takes time - it's the backups, troubleshooting, and the occasional restore to a previous better-working version.
But please don't judge some half-baked, buggy XDA community build with the quality that's coming out of cyanogenmod right now.
That was not my intention. But it's also misleading to say that one can just "install Cyanogenmod" to fix problems with carrier support. First you have to root the phone - sometimes this is easy, sometimes not. Some devices have locked boot loaders and some have workarounds for the locked boot loader - that might be your next step. Then you have to hope that you have a device that is supported by CM, which is frankly not likely to be the case... there are roughly 50 supported devices, mostly tablets and higher-end phones. If you have a typical $200-class abandoned Android phone, you aren't getting a supported CM version.
My device is not officially supported by Cyanogenmod (or anyone, for that matter), so I'm reduced to using XDA releases.
I run (unofficial) Cyanogenmod and mostly like it, but I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Every release has a little something important broken. Don't get me wrong, I'm very grateful to the people doing this stuff for free, but when your battery life suddenly gets cut in half and you have to choose between a working camera in the newest release or short battery life, it gets to be a PITA. Plus, it's a time sink...
Personally, I think it's a bit of a bargain right now. Timing the market is always kind of foolish, but this one is tempting.
Way to pick up on my mistake in typing "Control Panels" instead of "Settings". My complaint is that I now have an additional step to take, let alone that I now have to know that "printers" is in the settings category.
Ignorant and/or stupid "geeks" who pick one little item out of a long post and get all pedantic. Lol.
But ahhhhh, the magic of a zip lock bag...
This works much better with a non-touch reader.
Well, I've never tried this method. It looks to me like they are opening CMD (on Windows) using this command. Depending on how RDP works, it's not inconceivable that further commands will pop open windows on the same RDP connection.
I've had the rare ill-behaved X application ignore the environmental variable for DISPLAY and cause me trouble, but on the whole it works really well with the -Y flag in ssh once you have your local X server configured.
To, um, make sure she wasn't dead?
I think this page describes how it would (theoretically) work with the current implementation. Definitely some room for improvement in terms of usability, but it doesn't look too bad.
I for one am glad that our cars share the same controls as our bikes and horses. Everything should have a belly kick interface.
I have not-as-geeky friends hitting up Facebook for advice all the time. I do think geek input counts. One recent exchange involved a tablet because she "wanted to read on the beach". I steered her towards an e-ink device while everyone else was pushing iPads or Kindle Fires, which is retarded.
Really this whole metro vs desktop thing is such a red herring.
It might be as far as sales go, but I've yet to meet someone real (and not just posting online) that actually enjoys using Windows 8 on a desktop computer. I never liked the Start Menu... I think it is a terrible idea to have everything duplicated like that. My initial enthusiasm gave way to even greater disappointment when I discovered that they had actually EXPANDED the stupid thing into an entire scrolling page. Search sucks now. In the past I could just hit the Windows key and type "printer" and down arrow a few times to open up the printers control panel. Now I have to navigate the Start Screen and select the "Control Panels" category before it shows up. And God help you if you don't know which settings are in the charms panel and which ones are in the old control panel. I also just LOVE when you open a document for reference in "Metro" and then go work on something else. Come back to look at the document and it is gone! Windows has decreed that you are done with it! Lovely.
Anyway, what I do know is that I'm "The Geek" that friends and family ask about computer purchases, and I'm often steering people to either Windows 7 or tablets. People just want to dick with the internet while sitting on the couch. A TRS-80 can handle your kid's book report.
That would require a similar flag get built into ssh. I use "-Y" :)
I'm reading. This is the kind of stuff I come to read, though sometimes I admit getting sucked into the trolling articles about BIG COMPANY X suing BIG COMPANY Y.
This got hashed out around here two weeks ago.
They seem to be going the RDP route for network apps. I'll have to leave criticism to the experts, but my own experience is that RDP on Windows has much better performance than X via ssh or VNC. And as of MS Server 2008, single apps can be shared (TS Remote Apps) - no longer do you need to share the entire desktop. I have no experience with FreeNX, because the servers I remote into don't have it installed.