Not sure why i bother to respond, but that was only the first encounter with the Apple evangelism/elitism. And seeing how tightly Apple controls the itunes ecosystem i not helping.
Not sure i like the sound of Linux and libertarian combined like that. But then i mentally connect libertarian to runaway corporatism, so maybe it is me that is the problem...
Not sure about anyone else, but for me at least what tarred Apple products forever was an encounter by a internet asshat that used every chance given to claim the Apple way a better way. Something as simple as a irc file transfer that failed because the Mac side did not id the file type in the name caused a rant about how the Apple way of id-ing files where better...
The big difference between wifi and bluetooth is that bluetooth come with a whole host of convenient profiles.
if both devices support the obex push or obex ftp (singular or multiple file transfer) your good to go. Same with wifi and you have to figure out what protocol to use (ftp, http, scp, sftp, smb/cifs, xmpp, and the list goes on and on) and this is on top of either having one device act as a dhcp (and perhaps dns) server or else one have to manually enter ip addresses at either end.
Same with voice, hsp for basic earpiece, hfp for more advanced stuff (usually in car controls).
Sad thing is that US carriers had this bad habit of neutering anything that could potentially turn the phone into a "tether" to the net unless the customer payed for the business grade premium package. And so people assume that bluetooth is only for the "ear dong"...
From watching various discovery shows, it seems that once the dimensions become large enough all units are thrown away and instead replaced with comparisons to school buses, 747s and whats-not...
Something like that, i recall reading that the SS sent some troops across the Polish border disguised as Polish soldiers and opened fire on the German troops stationed on the German side.
And it is easy to say in hindsight that the Germans should have shot Hitler, but at the time he and the National-Socialist party had managed to restore order and meaning to a broken nation.
Heh, i was mostly aiming it at the "higher detection rate" AV packages where the detection rate ends up being inflated by false positives and over-reporting "threats" that are more annoyances that have gotten news media coverage...
I guess there is always media, as in music, movies and such. Funny how US law seems to be more and more draconian in protecting said sectors existence...
dunno, i guess "unobtrusive" is the word for many "power users". That is, minimal amount of graphics but with a lot of control over shape, placement and such. Oh, and the ability to remember where something was between uses.
End result is a UI that forms itself around the user rather then forcing the user to form himself around the limitations of the UI.
The funny thing is that during their most prosperous period Rome used a copper based coin that had its value from a senate controlled amount rather then some kind of metallic scarcity. As they switched to gold and silver things went crazy...
The thing about ARM based chips is that unless we are talking Qualcomm or Marvell there is effectively zero difference. That is, as long as one is only looking at the cpu. The difference happens in that they are more often then not SoCs, and so have not just the cpu, but also the gpu and the chipset on the same physical chip. The differences between the products will be in the gpu and chipset features, and how they are interconnected (driving Torvalds up the wall in the process).
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Not sure why i bother to respond, but that was only the first encounter with the Apple evangelism/elitism. And seeing how tightly Apple controls the itunes ecosystem i not helping.
Heinlein gives me indigestion, and his writings are all over the map as well...
Not sure i like the sound of Linux and libertarian combined like that. But then i mentally connect libertarian to runaway corporatism, so maybe it is me that is the problem...
Not sure about anyone else, but for me at least what tarred Apple products forever was an encounter by a internet asshat that used every chance given to claim the Apple way a better way. Something as simple as a irc file transfer that failed because the Mac side did not id the file type in the name caused a rant about how the Apple way of id-ing files where better...
The big difference between wifi and bluetooth is that bluetooth come with a whole host of convenient profiles.
if both devices support the obex push or obex ftp (singular or multiple file transfer) your good to go. Same with wifi and you have to figure out what protocol to use (ftp, http, scp, sftp, smb/cifs, xmpp, and the list goes on and on) and this is on top of either having one device act as a dhcp (and perhaps dns) server or else one have to manually enter ip addresses at either end.
Same with voice, hsp for basic earpiece, hfp for more advanced stuff (usually in car controls).
Sad thing is that US carriers had this bad habit of neutering anything that could potentially turn the phone into a "tether" to the net unless the customer payed for the business grade premium package. And so people assume that bluetooth is only for the "ear dong"...
Anything can be considered comfortable when used for long enough...
i prefer using bluetooth (at least until wifi direct becomes common), but i agree that tethering is the way to go.
From watching various discovery shows, it seems that once the dimensions become large enough all units are thrown away and instead replaced with comparisons to school buses, 747s and whats-not...
thought so.
basically the movie world it dead set to repeat everything the audio world tries, 5-10 years later...
Some would claim that taking less over longer times will make you immune...
Iirc, that game had only one campaign that involved the rebels. The others where straight up pirates and such.
Something like that, i recall reading that the SS sent some troops across the Polish border disguised as Polish soldiers and opened fire on the German troops stationed on the German side.
And it is easy to say in hindsight that the Germans should have shot Hitler, but at the time he and the National-Socialist party had managed to restore order and meaning to a broken nation.
Heh, i was mostly aiming it at the "higher detection rate" AV packages where the detection rate ends up being inflated by false positives and over-reporting "threats" that are more annoyances that have gotten news media coverage...
What about false positives? Or having the audacity to report a simple ad cookie multiple times to inflate the detection hit counter?
Got no hard and fast numbers, but the number of people that actually live of their creative work at present is fewer then news media may make it seem.
just saying that things that look the same chemically can behave differently for non-chemical reasons.
One thing to keep in mind is that the same chemical protein have different effects depending on how it is folded...
First response when presented with a long term health issue, put the patient on the first available returning transport?
Not so much a option if one is halfway between Earth and Mars...
I guess there is always media, as in music, movies and such. Funny how US law seems to be more and more draconian in protecting said sectors existence...
funny enough the XFCE setup i use right now looks a bit like win98/win2k with a multi desktop pager added.
dunno, i guess "unobtrusive" is the word for many "power users". That is, minimal amount of graphics but with a lot of control over shape, placement and such. Oh, and the ability to remember where something was between uses.
End result is a UI that forms itself around the user rather then forcing the user to form himself around the limitations of the UI.
looks like i will be using XFCE for the foreseeable future. Tho if this dumbing down spreads, i may be forced to go LXDE or even FVWM...
The funny thing is that during their most prosperous period Rome used a copper based coin that had its value from a senate controlled amount rather then some kind of metallic scarcity. As they switched to gold and silver things went crazy...
I wonder if part of the problem is the focus on growth, what to me appears to be an artifact of the last 200 or so years of human history.
The thing about ARM based chips is that unless we are talking Qualcomm or Marvell there is effectively zero difference. That is, as long as one is only looking at the cpu. The difference happens in that they are more often then not SoCs, and so have not just the cpu, but also the gpu and the chipset on the same physical chip. The differences between the products will be in the gpu and chipset features, and how they are interconnected (driving Torvalds up the wall in the process).