My uninformed guess is that they realized that most people didn't know that the 'Google Drive' app was for document editing, and with the release of Office for iPad they wanted to make they had a visible competitor.
Businesses hate chargebacks, they cost them money. If you're ever in dispute about a credit card charge and you've given a company a fair chance to resolve it just call your credit card provider and dispute the charge.
Google wouldn't intentionally cause discomfort for its userbase without a good reason
A year ago I would have agreed with you, but after having used the now much-crippled Android Google Maps app I can't help thinking there's been a change of leader there to one whose vision for the product doesn't match the users' use of it.
Out of interest, how long did it take between arriving at the station and boarding the train? There must be a distance at which it becomes more time effective to use the train instead of a plane, especially considering that many stations are right in the centre of towns and cities.
Most of us here are cynical old(ish) tech guys and gals that value content over form; the content on/. being the comments, not the 2 and 3 day old stories. Has anyone actually complained about a problem with the current design or is this just (another) redesign for the sake of a redesign?
...if you hunt around you will be able to find third party DRM removal plugins, so when your old DRM device dies, or your old format with DRM goes out of use, you can convert to almost any other format and leave the DRM behind.
I would recommend doing this before your device dies or the DRM goes out of use. Some formats require an active DRM server to decode against.
I landed on Feedly after trying the Old Reader but what worries me for all of these Google Reader alternatives is that they appear to have no business model past 'get loads of people to sign up.'
The only way to get "silver bullet" memory management is the same way we do it on the desktopâ"by having 10x more memory than your program really needs
Give it a couple of years and that's exactly what will happen. Problem 'worked around'.
Yes, every so often Chrome gets itself in a mess and just sits there with 'waiting for cache' while the disk chugs away. I can only think that everyone working on Chrome has a machine with a super-fast SSD and don't notice any problems themselves.
If it's not there already then there needs to be a 'reasonable endeavour' clause. If you can show that you've gone out of your way to track down a copyright owner without success - and it certainly sounds as if you have - then you should be allowed to publish and have a defence against any action should the copyright holder suddenly appear. I suppose the only difficulty would be defining what constitutes reasonable endeavour.
I started using Map Maker when it was released here in the UK a couple of months ago. I stopped when I questioned why I was giving my time, knowledge and expertise to a private company for free.
IIRC, Google even went so far as to not close their body and html tags back then because all the browsers still rendered the page correctly and it saved them a few bytes per page.
I use a 5 year old Q6600 for my everyday computing and only now starting to feel a little sluggish. I suspect that with more RAM and/or an SSD it could quite happily chug along for another 2 or 3 years.
The Nexus 4 is my first touch-screen phone and I wouldn't want anything larger. I can just stretch my thumb across the whole screen while holding it with one hand; any larger and I would either need to use two hands or be prone to dropping it.
With NatWest I have to use a card reader and my PIN to set up a new payee online. Someone who broke into my account could pay my credit card bill or transfer money to my brother but would find it hard to actually gt their hands on my cash.
"Hey tepples, I've just bought an iPhone but can't get iTunes to install on that PC of mine that you fixed. Could you come round and take a look please? I'm also having problems getting Netflix to work; could you take a look at that too, please? "
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What were they doing buying Nokia, then?
My uninformed guess is that they realized that most people didn't know that the 'Google Drive' app was for document editing, and with the release of Office for iPad they wanted to make they had a visible competitor.
"simple". Not something my parents could do (nor would I expect them to).
Businesses hate chargebacks, they cost them money. If you're ever in dispute about a credit card charge and you've given a company a fair chance to resolve it just call your credit card provider and dispute the charge.
Google wouldn't intentionally cause discomfort for its userbase without a good reason
A year ago I would have agreed with you, but after having used the now much-crippled Android Google Maps app I can't help thinking there's been a change of leader there to one whose vision for the product doesn't match the users' use of it.
I'm pretty sure that the world's largest ship has floated before.
Out of interest, how long did it take between arriving at the station and boarding the train? There must be a distance at which it becomes more time effective to use the train instead of a plane, especially considering that many stations are right in the centre of towns and cities.
Don't document what your code does, I can (usually) tell that from reading it. Document why it does what it does.
Most of us here are cynical old(ish) tech guys and gals that value content over form; the content on /. being the comments, not the 2 and 3 day old stories. Has anyone actually complained about a problem with the current design or is this just (another) redesign for the sake of a redesign?
...if you hunt around you will be able to find third party DRM removal plugins, so when your old DRM device dies, or your old format with DRM goes out of use, you can convert to almost any other format and leave the DRM behind.
I would recommend doing this before your device dies or the DRM goes out of use. Some formats require an active DRM server to decode against.
I landed on Feedly after trying the Old Reader but what worries me for all of these Google Reader alternatives is that they appear to have no business model past 'get loads of people to sign up.'
The only way to get "silver bullet" memory management is the same way we do it on the desktopâ"by having 10x more memory than your program really needs
Give it a couple of years and that's exactly what will happen. Problem 'worked around'.
Yes, every so often Chrome gets itself in a mess and just sits there with 'waiting for cache' while the disk chugs away. I can only think that everyone working on Chrome has a machine with a super-fast SSD and don't notice any problems themselves.
If it's not there already then there needs to be a 'reasonable endeavour' clause. If you can show that you've gone out of your way to track down a copyright owner without success - and it certainly sounds as if you have - then you should be allowed to publish and have a defence against any action should the copyright holder suddenly appear. I suppose the only difficulty would be defining what constitutes reasonable endeavour.
I started using Map Maker when it was released here in the UK a couple of months ago. I stopped when I questioned why I was giving my time, knowledge and expertise to a private company for free.
IIRC, Google even went so far as to not close their body and html tags back then because all the browsers still rendered the page correctly and it saved them a few bytes per page.
Stop spreading FUD about UK hospitals. This is the actual truth, but I guess that doesn't match either your views on Islam or socialised healthcare.
I use a 5 year old Q6600 for my everyday computing and only now starting to feel a little sluggish. I suspect that with more RAM and/or an SSD it could quite happily chug along for another 2 or 3 years.
The Nexus 4 is my first touch-screen phone and I wouldn't want anything larger. I can just stretch my thumb across the whole screen while holding it with one hand; any larger and I would either need to use two hands or be prone to dropping it.
I'm pretty sure the French police have probably thought of that...
With NatWest I have to use a card reader and my PIN to set up a new payee online. Someone who broke into my account could pay my credit card bill or transfer money to my brother but would find it hard to actually gt their hands on my cash.
"Hey tepples, I've just bought an iPhone but can't get iTunes to install on that PC of mine that you fixed. Could you come round and take a look please? I'm also having problems getting Netflix to work; could you take a look at that too, please? "
Just tried it on my Nexus 4; the lag when scrolling makes it completely unusable. I don't get this problem when using any other sites.
I'm amazed that after all these years you are the very first person to think of that joke.
This refers to carrier unlocks, not rooting or jailbreaks.