You know what I never see? iPhone users wishing they had access one of the many Android app stores. Not once.
As someone who owns an iPad. I personally feel mislead by Apple's adverts, mainly the ones stating "Theres an app for that". Wheres my app for changing my default browser? Wheres my better e-mail application that is closer to Zimbra or Outlook? Where is the search that doesn't suck?
In some instances I prefer the Google Play store that I have on my phone, I don't have to spend hours finding an application that is really free and not some trial or subscription based crap (take a look at CRM choices as an example). I don't even need an app to change my default browser on Android, but pretty sure if someone made such an application, it wouldn't get rejected unlike the Apple store.
For proof I direct you to this page of over 100 show stopping bugs which
I was taking you seriously, but very quickly turned off when I started reading the first section, about video drivers - Which apparently is important enough to be first place, so should be good enough to judge the rest of the list.
Coming up with issues like framebuffer drivers being an issue with proprietary drivers when proprietary drivers offer their own framebuffer systems to begin with.
Or even how GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc with Mesa is meant to be a big issue.
Like anyone using a decent Linux desktop installation would even make use of Mesa (software rendering instead of GPU). This makes me feel that this whole list was just a bunch of scare mongering on your part, trying to spread FUD among less knowledgeable users in the matter. The opensource and proprietary drivers provided in xorg for nVidia, Intel and AMD (and probably others, but I haven't checked) chipsets have full support for GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc - If you're relying on software rendering, you've got bigger issues than s3tc.
I get the feeling the issues with driver arguments that users experience were also from using hardware not made by Linux OEMs like System 76. It's really no different from people complaining stuff doesn't work right on Windows 7 when the hardware was provided by the OEM with drivers and such for Windows Vista only.
No unified API for H.264 AVC/Microsoft VC acceleration. VDPAU is only supported on NVIDIA GPUs. Intel's VAAPI is still immature and it's not yet merged and accepted (by mplayer/ffmpeg/xine/etc.)
You mean how it's called "GL_NV_vdpau_interop" because it's not been formalized in an OpenGL specification yet? If AMD, Intel do end up supporting it without even reaching the specification, guess what the major non-unified code difference will be...
GL_AMD_vdpau_interop GL_INTEL_vdpau_interop
And this is obscured behind a libvdpau library which has fall backs for non-support, so userland applications don't even need to be aware of it. I also wasn't aware that applications had to adopt a new technology the moment it's introduced.
Really, these arguments hold little weight with me.
Linux has beautiful UIs, and tons of software, but retailers like myself won't ever touch your product if we install it on a system and 6 months later its broken its own drivers because some dev got a bee in his butt to futz with some low level system files and trashed my customer's WiFi or sound...ohh God sound, WTF were they thinking with Pulse?
I can't recall instances in the corporate environment where this happened with SuSE and Lenovo hardware it came with, nor can I recall consumer instances where this happened with Ubuntu and System76. What Linux OEMs and distro are you referring to in your examples?
If you're a *nix user of any skill or experience and running Ubuntu who is genuinely concerned about performance and stability, you should probably be running Debian anyway and pointing to the Ubuntu repos for anything that might be missing or too old for your liking.
You would make a better case in convincing people if you actually gave reasons why.
I attended an InstallFest today. We installed Ubuntu 12.04 on 50% of the systems and Fedora on the others. After that first boot, Unity was a dog.
Normally at install fests, we see crap PCs. This time we were lucky with most having Core i5 and i7 machines with 4GB-16GB of RAM. They also had 300G of storage free. It was amazing. Only 2 machines were under powered and 1 of those had just 184MB of RAM. We didn't even attempt to install on that, but we did help him get TinyCore running from a flash drive.
I have a hard time believing this event occurred yesterday, even more so from an Anonymous Coward.
The whole panel exploding thing was always pretty stupid. There's no reason to have that much power running through a console that's only there to provide a user interface. How much power is running through your keyboard, mouse, or LCD monitor on your desk? I was disappointed they kept that silliness up in several TNG episodes.
The concept behind it was that the circuitry was actually plasma that was pumped around the ship. Plasma is an excellent conductor of electricity, allowing for more efficient routing of electric currents. People would usually get hurt by plasma burns, not burns produced from electric discharges.
There are literally tens of thousands of programs from the Win9X era you can run right now, this very minute, on Win 7 X64...do you think you'd have a snowball's chance in hell of running even 5 year old software on Linux?
Yes. Worst case scenario is that I need to setup a fakeroot to deal with a conflicting library binary locations, big deal. Now Windows 32bit win9x applications that rely on APIs that were available in win3.11, yeah, those aren't going to run even on win7 32bit.
Quit taking crap sandwiches from the devs, bring some real stability and at least 7 years of ACTUAL support, not that crap like Ubuntu LTS which stands for "don't backport shit"
I've been using the dictation button on the new iPad and it works great. Much better than typing for bulk data input. Then when done, I go back and edit what it couldn't handle (usually not much). Admittedly not a good solution in a noisy classroom or teacher's lounge (background din of people talking), but otherwise, it's good.
Theres a dictation button? I've been using "The new iPad" for months now and didn't even know. It didn't even come with a manual in the box.
Maybe if you weren't anonymous and flashed your actual qualifications and education on the matter they might be more willing to listen to your legal advice?
The online components in Dragon Age II are pretty much the same as Dragon Age: Origins, with the exception of your save games being backed up automatically to the cloud if the option is enabled.
I'm thinking specifically franchises like Deus Ex and Mass Effect, both of which have gotten worse as they make them controllable with a thumb joystick and four buttons.
I actually really enjoyed the later iterations, heh.
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As someone who owns an iPad. I personally feel mislead by Apple's adverts, mainly the ones stating "Theres an app for that". Wheres my app for changing my default browser? Wheres my better e-mail application that is closer to Zimbra or Outlook? Where is the search that doesn't suck?
In some instances I prefer the Google Play store that I have on my phone, I don't have to spend hours finding an application that is really free and not some trial or subscription based crap (take a look at CRM choices as an example). I don't even need an app to change my default browser on Android, but pretty sure if someone made such an application, it wouldn't get rejected unlike the Apple store.
Opera doesn't on my iPad. It tries anyway and then fails.
Why would you do that? Is there something special about the flavor of Apple fanboi dicks?
I'm one of those oddities or weirdos who actually get better performance under Linux with games. This includes some that I run under crossover games.
I was taking you seriously, but very quickly turned off when I started reading the first section, about video drivers - Which apparently is important enough to be first place, so should be good enough to judge the rest of the list.
Coming up with issues like framebuffer drivers being an issue with proprietary drivers when proprietary drivers offer their own framebuffer systems to begin with.
Or even how GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc with Mesa is meant to be a big issue.
Like anyone using a decent Linux desktop installation would even make use of Mesa (software rendering instead of GPU). This makes me feel that this whole list was just a bunch of scare mongering on your part, trying to spread FUD among less knowledgeable users in the matter. The opensource and proprietary drivers provided in xorg for nVidia, Intel and AMD (and probably others, but I haven't checked) chipsets have full support for GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc - If you're relying on software rendering, you've got bigger issues than s3tc.
I get the feeling the issues with driver arguments that users experience were also from using hardware not made by Linux OEMs like System 76. It's really no different from people complaining stuff doesn't work right on Windows 7 when the hardware was provided by the OEM with drivers and such for Windows Vista only.
You mean how it's called "GL_NV_vdpau_interop" because it's not been formalized in an OpenGL specification yet? If AMD, Intel do end up supporting it without even reaching the specification, guess what the major non-unified code difference will be...
GL_AMD_vdpau_interop
GL_INTEL_vdpau_interop
And this is obscured behind a libvdpau library which has fall backs for non-support, so userland applications don't even need to be aware of it. I also wasn't aware that applications had to adopt a new technology the moment it's introduced.
Really, these arguments hold little weight with me.
I can't recall instances in the corporate environment where this happened with SuSE and Lenovo hardware it came with, nor can I recall consumer instances where this happened with Ubuntu and System76. What Linux OEMs and distro are you referring to in your examples?
I like Unity, but I prefer KDE.
You would make a better case in convincing people if you actually gave reasons why.
I have a hard time believing this event occurred yesterday, even more so from an Anonymous Coward.
Can you back up this statement?
You must be new here.
I've known a guy who only ever had and used laptops for gaming. Are you making assumptions?
Do you have stairs in your house?
The concept behind it was that the circuitry was actually plasma that was pumped around the ship. Plasma is an excellent conductor of electricity, allowing for more efficient routing of electric currents. People would usually get hurt by plasma burns, not burns produced from electric discharges.
Yes. Worst case scenario is that I need to setup a fakeroot to deal with a conflicting library binary locations, big deal. Now Windows 32bit win9x applications that rely on APIs that were available in win3.11, yeah, those aren't going to run even on win7 32bit.
Unless you activate the backport repos...
Don't feed the hosts file guy. He'll drag you down to his level and then beat you with experience.
Theres a dictation button? I've been using "The new iPad" for months now and didn't even know. It didn't even come with a manual in the box.
Should have used Word.
Word works fine here.
First time I've even heard of "programming patterns" actually. So, basing it off this experience, it feels like I'm learning something new.
Maybe if you weren't anonymous and flashed your actual qualifications and education on the matter they might be more willing to listen to your legal advice?
They can opt-in to a working DNP by using a different browser.
I don't understand the problem?
The online components in Dragon Age II are pretty much the same as Dragon Age: Origins, with the exception of your save games being backed up automatically to the cloud if the option is enabled.
I actually really enjoyed the later iterations, heh.
I don't understand how the UUID event is a problem?
If you can convert them to US dollars.