Yes, it is evil. No sane person, who keeps up to date on the psychology of advertising, would agree to keep being exposed to this evil shit.
There is a lot of research that if you're exposed to ads, even if you don't pay attention, you'll have a better opinion on a product. There is also research that if ads with beautiful women keep being displayed, men will value their wife less beautiful, because their unconscious tells them: you can get better.
Now tell me, how can you call this not evil? How would anyone sane agree to have their mind influenced by a bunch of companies?
And what kinds of messes do certain Continental European countries create? Germany, France and Switzerland are major arms exporters.
Hey, don't forget the rest of Europe! I'm from the Netherlands and we're at least as big as, as, I dunno, Idaho! And we make really nasty stuff too, like, errrr, ummm, like target sights! Or at least, we used to make them, let me look that up *returns to computer terminal*
You can't just grab a "generic" laptop power supply (the one that comes with multiple voltages and a bunch of rounded tips) from any shop if you forgot/lost yours
Isn't it just a matter of time before the generic laptop power supplies include a new tip?
Apt has better fit and finish. For example, the default for "do you want to install what you just asked for" is yes in Apt, no in Yum.
Yum might need a gig of memory to resolve dependencies. Personally I think this is fucking ridiculous. They long claimed it was all they could do. More recently they have done lots of work on the way that package dependencies are resolved so this might be fixed.
Really PCKeyboard (aka Unicomp) I really will be buying some keyboards from you... real soon now.... if these Model M's would just DIE.
You can't win from a Model M. If you strike them down, they will become more powerful than you could possibly imagine. They're the Obi-Wan's of the industry.
That's kind of funny, now that you mention it. It's a shame they can't price it according to the buyer it's country's GDP or some such. Probably costs and all that.
Noble, but you're overdoing it. Lots of people would like to know the name of your company, please mention it. Anonymously, if you don't want to get the extra karma.
Not at all. When you use Google Apps, you own your own domain name. Should Google block everything for some reason (which is obviously the ultimate doom scenario, and is not happening here), you just point the domain name to another provider and off you go.
Backing up the stuff from Google is very easy, too.
I can accept something like a Mac being locked down, to a certain extent, since it is Apple hardware with Apple software - though I don't believe they prevent you from installing other operating systems?
It comes with Bootcamp, which you give a Windows image, and it then repartitions the disk and installs Windows. Complete with drivers for the apple hardware.
Thanks, great info. Due to prolonged use of soft contacts, I have a mild case of corneal neovascularization so I'm really scared of other bad stuff happening to my eyes.
I couldn't get a single one of the apps above satisfactorily replaced in the Android ecosystem
That has been my experience as well. I wanted a note-taking app that syncs to the web, so I got SimpleNote on my iPad. Of course it works on my iPhone as well.
Two months later, I damage the iPhone beyond repair and due to budget, I change to an Android phone. In the Google Play store, there are about 6-8 note-taking apps that can talk to the SimpleNote platform, and none of them work. NONE of them. They all have one or two severe bugs, like not syncing, losing notes etc. And I'm including paid apps, not just trying free ones.
In the end, I spent $40 on Evernote, which works on all platforms. But my lesson was that the apps on Android are sub-par in general.
Sometimes the secretary remembers to run it, sometimes she doesn't. But even when she does, she keeps the tapes on site and close by
Does she say so, or did you, yourself, see her doing it? I've had the situation where a developer said he had made a backup, and after a drive crash, he claimed he said: "he would soon make a backup". So we had to restore some old shit, which thankfully turned out to barely have changed.
My conclusion: manual backups are a foolish thing to rely on.
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If nothing else, it's a very good music player.
Does it come in a one handed version?
The "college version"? This is the reason why I never buy second-hand laptops from students.
I'm not sure advertising is "evil,"
Yes, it is evil. No sane person, who keeps up to date on the psychology of advertising, would agree to keep being exposed to this evil shit.
There is a lot of research that if you're exposed to ads, even if you don't pay attention, you'll have a better opinion on a product. There is also research that if ads with beautiful women keep being displayed, men will value their wife less beautiful, because their unconscious tells them: you can get better.
Now tell me, how can you call this not evil? How would anyone sane agree to have their mind influenced by a bunch of companies?
And what kinds of messes do certain Continental European countries create? Germany, France and Switzerland are major arms exporters.
Hey, don't forget the rest of Europe! I'm from the Netherlands and we're at least as big as, as, I dunno, Idaho! And we make really nasty stuff too, like, errrr, ummm, like target sights! Or at least, we used to make them, let me look that up *returns to computer terminal*
You can't just grab a "generic" laptop power supply (the one that comes with multiple voltages and a bunch of rounded tips) from any shop if you forgot/lost yours
Isn't it just a matter of time before the generic laptop power supplies include a new tip?
Then practice what you preach, and graciously admit you weren't clear.
Apt has better fit and finish. For example, the default for "do you want to install what you just asked for" is yes in Apt, no in Yum.
Yum might need a gig of memory to resolve dependencies. Personally I think this is fucking ridiculous. They long claimed it was all they could do. More recently they have done lots of work on the way that package dependencies are resolved so this might be fixed.
Because Mountain Lion isn't THAT much of an upgrade over Lion, and whatever comes after
"Space Lion". Obviously.
I'm used to 7-7.5 inches and under 300 grams of weight
That's what she said.
Really PCKeyboard (aka Unicomp) I really will be buying some keyboards from you ... real soon now.... if these Model M's would just DIE.
You can't win from a Model M. If you strike them down, they will become more powerful than you could possibly imagine. They're the Obi-Wan's of the industry.
That's kind of funny, now that you mention it. It's a shame they can't price it according to the buyer it's country's GDP or some such. Probably costs and all that.
Noble, but you're overdoing it. Lots of people would like to know the name of your company, please mention it. Anonymously, if you don't want to get the extra karma.
Not at all. When you use Google Apps, you own your own domain name. Should Google block everything for some reason (which is obviously the ultimate doom scenario, and is not happening here), you just point the domain name to another provider and off you go.
Backing up the stuff from Google is very easy, too.
It once again goes to show that the Microsoft slogan is "Where do you want to be taken today"
For some reason, my brain translates every Microsoft slogan into "bite the pillow, I'm going in dry".
I can accept something like a Mac being locked down, to a certain extent, since it is Apple hardware with Apple software - though I don't believe they prevent you from installing other operating systems?
It comes with Bootcamp, which you give a Windows image, and it then repartitions the disk and installs Windows. Complete with drivers for the apple hardware.
+1 funny
Thanks, great info. Due to prolonged use of soft contacts, I have a mild case of corneal neovascularization so I'm really scared of other bad stuff happening to my eyes.
Apparently, the catchy new name they've settled on is 'Windows 8 style UI'
Well, it was either that, or "Microsoft Office Live Style UI Media Center Edition for Windows Genuine Advantage".
I couldn't get a single one of the apps above satisfactorily replaced in the Android ecosystem
That has been my experience as well. I wanted a note-taking app that syncs to the web, so I got SimpleNote on my iPad. Of course it works on my iPhone as well.
Two months later, I damage the iPhone beyond repair and due to budget, I change to an Android phone. In the Google Play store, there are about 6-8 note-taking apps that can talk to the SimpleNote platform, and none of them work. NONE of them. They all have one or two severe bugs, like not syncing, losing notes etc. And I'm including paid apps, not just trying free ones.
In the end, I spent $40 on Evernote, which works on all platforms. But my lesson was that the apps on Android are sub-par in general.
I had a personal experience involving a company that had to give their workers special "bonuses" during every crunch time
You mean getting paid for overtime? Oh my god, what kind of savages were you dealing with??!?
Sometimes, the read heads are stuck to the platters. Lowering the temperature might make the metal contract enough to loosen them.
It's not that choice is bad, but Android is so fractured a platform that it negates its open-source benefits.
I think it was Horace Dediu who said that Android is not so much a platform, but more of an "enabling technology".
The above only goes when you're short-sighted, right?
Thanks for the warning.
What will they name releases when they run out of cats?
After Mountain Lion comes.... Space Lion!!
Sometimes the secretary remembers to run it, sometimes she doesn't. But even when she does, she keeps the tapes on site and close by
Does she say so, or did you, yourself, see her doing it? I've had the situation where a developer said he had made a backup, and after a drive crash, he claimed he said: "he would soon make a backup". So we had to restore some old shit, which thankfully turned out to barely have changed.
My conclusion: manual backups are a foolish thing to rely on.