I wouldn't call them retarded, just focused elsewhere. Hell, the same could be said about pretty much any non-IT worker or home user using any operating system.
Unless it's their job to know better, most people won't.
But doesn't firefox offer "F11", which is essentially full screen, hiding everything but the browser window? Move your mouse to the top of the screen and controls become visible. Move the mouse away, you have the full browser window.
Again, not having used Chrome (on Linux), maybe I'm misunderstanding.
My general opinion of Microsoft is that they don't make good software, they make software that's just good enough. That's my personal opinion.
That's pretty much my opinion on any current desktop operating system. They're all just good enough. I currently use Linux pretty much exclusively, except for a VM instance of XP, so I've learned how to deal with and get around anything that bugs me, but I would imagine the same could be said for both OSX and WinX.
There really hasn't been anything new in the desktop world for decades, other than eye candy. Filesystems (which actually could have an impact on how we handle our data) have tended to evolve, rather than radically change.
In Italianyes. but when translated into English, it's always referred to as prime minister, since it would be confusing to English speakers. As an aside, the reason it's translated as prime minister is because most other parliamentary systems also refer to that role as prime minister, not president of the council of ministers.
What about the consumers right to determine what they can do with their property? Their rights trump Apple's in every moral sense.
Consumer rights don't trump anything when the consumer knows fully well going into a contract that the are prohibited from doing "what they want" with their DRMed phones.
Sorry, but if you don't want that kind of control placed on you, just don't buy it. You can complain all you want that the iPhone is wildly popular and therefore should be open to anything, but that's not how Apple works, not is it how it has ever worked.
I'd say taking down a best seller App based on its "Risque-ness" is censorship, any way you want to slice it.
So let's call it censorship, then.
Doesn't really matter. Once you buy into their single point of sale ecosystem, you're buying into their censorship. They have the right to do as they see fit with their storefront.
Now they are just the new microsoft or another corporate giant.. buying whatever they can.. It's like a kid with too much money in their pockets:
they almost stop coding.... they just buy!
I don't know how much coding Google still does or doesn't do these days, but...
Shareholders want to see short term profits, and buying other companies is the way to achieve that. And you'll see this very same behavior from every publicly traded company that has cash available for other purchases.
I mean, aren't there other email options available to iPhone users (I'm honestly asking - I don't use an iPhone). And if there are other options, it's not like the GMail app offered much other than a better search - on the phone. Surely, someone will offer decent search for any iPhone email out there at some point, no?
This has been said many times before: if you don't like a businesses practices, don't use them. Something else will ALWAYS spring up to meet demand.
I don't think HTML5 video will ever be successful, flash video/flv is very dominant.
HTML5, in its current form, won't dominate until there's a way to handle ccntent the creator(s) want to protect. Flash currently handles this.
I just can't imagine a site like Hulu serving any video in HTML5, knowing that any user is a right-click away from downloading their content. They're FAR too protective of their content.
Every major blogger is using Buzz now and some of them are saying they already have a larger Buzz following in just a few days than they had with other social media sites that they spent years building up.
The impressive numbers in the linked blog are assuming that all GMail users are, in fact, also using Buzz. That's a rather general asumption, no?
Don't what major blogger(s) you refer to, but most of the daily blogs I read have been very quick to mention they've turned off Buzz completely, and provided instructions to their reader on how to do so in kind.
You post every possible negative comment about the new product you can find, drum it up into some kind of grand pronouncement on the future of the device
I really didn't read negativity in his statement. I just read one man's opinion, which was pretty neutral.
On the other hand, why would you be getting that bent out of shape over someone's opinion?
I have an admitted fanboy friend that has had all those items throughout the years, except for the 20th anniversary mac.
At the time he had them, "they were the greatest thing ever".
Ask him about them now and he'll tell you they were all crap, with the exception of the PowerPC. He still swears by that (which I really don't understand).
Point being, with technology being what it is and constantly advancing, doesn't everything eventually become crap?
...if you're on a 24-hour plane ride, you're soon going to get tired of...
oIf I'm on a 24 hour flight, I'm going to get bored with any tech soner or later.
I travel with my netbook, my n800 and my Blackberry. Between those three items, together weighing less than 2 pounds tucked away in a small messenger bag, I can do pretty much whatever I need to, be it work or entertainment.
Or are you one of those people who reads no tech news unless it's splattered across the front page of Slashdot?
I think at this point most of us have already read all the tech-oriented news by the time it hits Slashdot.
Used to be a time I could come here and actually discover something new. Now it's just regurgitated - somewhere you come to comment about news you've read elsewhere.
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I wouldn't call them retarded, just focused elsewhere. Hell, the same could be said about pretty much any non-IT worker or home user using any operating system.
Unless it's their job to know better, most people won't.
About the only thing I can come up with is either FAT32 or NT filesystems, which *would* make sense in the case of IO Data.
Look, I'm not much of a MS fan either, but I just don't see what it is you really want.
Again, not having used Chrome (on Linux), maybe I'm misunderstanding.
Or is this something different?
That's pretty much my opinion on any current desktop operating system. They're all just good enough. I currently use Linux pretty much exclusively, except for a VM instance of XP, so I've learned how to deal with and get around anything that bugs me, but I would imagine the same could be said for both OSX and WinX.
There really hasn't been anything new in the desktop world for decades, other than eye candy. Filesystems (which actually could have an impact on how we handle our data) have tended to evolve, rather than radically change.
Just sayin', as a translator.
Silvio Berlusconi isn't the president. Never has been. He's the Prime Minister.
Consumer rights don't trump anything when the consumer knows fully well going into a contract that the are prohibited from doing "what they want" with their DRMed phones.
Sorry, but if you don't want that kind of control placed on you, just don't buy it. You can complain all you want that the iPhone is wildly popular and therefore should be open to anything, but that's not how Apple works, not is it how it has ever worked.
An informed consumer is a good consumer.
So let's call it censorship, then.
Doesn't really matter. Once you buy into their single point of sale ecosystem, you're buying into their censorship. They have the right to do as they see fit with their storefront.
Don't like it? There are other options.
Anywhere.
I don't know how much coding Google still does or doesn't do these days, but...
Shareholders want to see short term profits, and buying other companies is the way to achieve that. And you'll see this very same behavior from every publicly traded company that has cash available for other purchases.
I mean, aren't there other email options available to iPhone users (I'm honestly asking - I don't use an iPhone). And if there are other options, it's not like the GMail app offered much other than a better search - on the phone. Surely, someone will offer decent search for any iPhone email out there at some point, no?
This has been said many times before: if you don't like a businesses practices, don't use them. Something else will ALWAYS spring up to meet demand.
ME 2!!!1!
It shouldn't even include software, or hardware for that matter (ie, the handsets). They should just worry about the infrastructure.
It would be nice to see these companies go through what old Ma Bell went through WRT their phones, no matter how reliable grandma says they were.
HTML5, in its current form, won't dominate until there's a way to handle ccntent the creator(s) want to protect. Flash currently handles this.
I just can't imagine a site like Hulu serving any video in HTML5, knowing that any user is a right-click away from downloading their content. They're FAR too protective of their content.
The impressive numbers in the linked blog are assuming that all GMail users are, in fact, also using Buzz. That's a rather general asumption, no?
Don't what major blogger(s) you refer to, but most of the daily blogs I read have been very quick to mention they've turned off Buzz completely, and provided instructions to their reader on how to do so in kind.
I really didn't read negativity in his statement. I just read one man's opinion, which was pretty neutral.
On the other hand, why would you be getting that bent out of shape over someone's opinion?
At the time he had them, "they were the greatest thing ever".
Ask him about them now and he'll tell you they were all crap, with the exception of the PowerPC. He still swears by that (which I really don't understand).
Point being, with technology being what it is and constantly advancing, doesn't everything eventually become crap?
oIf I'm on a 24 hour flight, I'm going to get bored with any tech soner or later.
I travel with my netbook, my n800 and my Blackberry. Between those three items, together weighing less than 2 pounds tucked away in a small messenger bag, I can do pretty much whatever I need to, be it work or entertainment.
It reads pretty much anything non DRM I can throw at it, and it fits in my pocket.
It was much easier to come here and actually discover something before bloggers came along.
I think at this point most of us have already read all the tech-oriented news by the time it hits Slashdot.
Used to be a time I could come here and actually discover something new. Now it's just regurgitated - somewhere you come to comment about news you've read elsewhere.
and you'll see it's not blank.