As a techie who wears t-shirts in the office but a suit when visiting clients or when doing consultancy gigs: bollocks to you, sir.
Also, my colleague who is infinitely more knowledgable than me goes to client meetings and presentations in extremely good suits, because like any good obsessive, he believes that no suit is better than a poor suit.
PowerShell is a definite improvement but it's still wrapped in the same functionally crippled terminal window they've been using for years. I haven't yet found a better alternative - if anyone knows about one I'd be grateful.
Which they are. The ipad is a relatively young device. If you have an original model ipad, you're locked out of the current iOS release, and the older iOS releases are slowly becoming less and less useful. Give it n years and an original model ipad that has no other hardware defects will be rendered completely useless due to only being able to run an obsolete OS. This is NOT a good situation for computing to find itself in.
I work for a review platform. We have decided that you only really need four ratings, Bad, Poor, Good, Excellent. We don't have a neutral option because really neutral tends to mean bad.
Of course, quite a lot of our users (and our marketing department) seem to prefer stars. Because an arbitrary scale is so much more useful that simply saying what you think of something. Apparently.
I tried to give our office manager Libre Office to save us the license fee for a copy of MS Office. The very first document she tried to work on:
Some of the numbers in her ordered lists were randomly bold. Unbold them, save document, open it again, they're back in bold.
At one point in the document, libre office was acting as if there were a page break present, when there was not one. It appeared to be impossible to remove this phantom non-existent page break.
Orig: "What the OP means is their(0) dropping it because of legal issues around GPLv3,(1) on Windows 8 approved hardware they won't be able to keep the private signing key,(2) private which would result in their certificates being revoked."
(0) debatably incorrect use of "their" (possessive) vs "they're" (contraction). Can be argued to be intended but it probably wasn't
(1) comma splice - two sentences that can stand alone joined together incorrectly. The correct punctuation here would be a semicolon
(2) this comma just doesn't belong here. They want to keep the private signing key private.
I'm not a costume wearing Trekkie, but I was pretty hardcore in the Whedonverse fandom for a few years, especially when Serenity came out, and my wife really couldn't give two hoots for anything in the 'verse. She just doesn't get it. Didn't matter - she never stopped me travelling to meet other Browncoats or seeing the film in the cinema a bunch of times. So we just don't watch it together. It's not a big deal. She's mad for CSI and the like and I don't like it, so she watches it when I'm out.
We both agree Game of Thrones is pretty awesome, so we watch that together.
Just because you don't share someone's passion doesn't mean you inherently want to stop them indulging it.
I don't know whether the audio is better than the S3 but it is almost certainly better than the Note. In fact my (positively prehistoric) HTC Desire's audio was significantly better than the Note.
My thinkpad and dell laptops have always had a scroll modifier for the nub, which I like more than any other control system I've tried. The only time I reach for the mouse is for graphic related work.
It saddens me that even the corporate laptops are locking the nub these days.
"You can be the bigger man. Even if you get the short end of the stick, somebody will probably notice your conduct and recognize it for the right way to behave. Sometimes you might end up working for them 5 years down the line."
In addition to being good business practise, this is good advice for pretty much everything in life in my experience including but not limited to driving, relationships, friendships.
My experience with cheap Toshibas has been overwhelmingly terrible. Cheap nasty buggy parts, highly prone to failure and falling apart and loaded to the eyeballs with crapware.
The old Satellite Pro and Portege models used to be very solid and reliable, but have not had much experience with the newer ones. A Satellite I bought for me a couple of years ago was nothing but trouble. However it has continued to not work very well for a couple of years under my wife's use, and she's death to laptops, so maybe that's a point in their favour.
Oh, and once the keys come off the keyboard it's almost impossible to get them back on, and this has been true with every Tosh I've ever owned.
There's been a recent pilot scheme based around introducing ipads into schools in the UK. I think generallly for 8-10 year olds. They create "books" on them, make animations, have a ton of educational games (more than edubuntu could offer, I believe) and stuff I don't even know about.
We bought one under the scheme, and in addition to the above the older children use it for their homework, instead of using one of our laptops, and email it in to their teacher.
Watching our smallest children* use it, you really do realise how intuitive they are. My 20 month old can navigate around the OS quite easily, and that's without us teacher her, she's learned from watching us and figuring stuff out herself.
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and an unlicensed particle accelerator on the back ...
As a techie who wears t-shirts in the office but a suit when visiting clients or when doing consultancy gigs: bollocks to you, sir.
Also, my colleague who is infinitely more knowledgable than me goes to client meetings and presentations in extremely good suits, because like any good obsessive, he believes that no suit is better than a poor suit.
You don't need to be "on your feet" at work ... just at some point during the day.
I've wondered in the past about how practical it would be to have a "stand up" office workstation, with no chair, everything at standing height.
Of course, no idea is new on the internet. (Lots of useful links branch off that one)
PowerShell is a definite improvement but it's still wrapped in the same functionally crippled terminal window they've been using for years. I haven't yet found a better alternative - if anyone knows about one I'd be grateful.
That is, 8 "nahs", two repetitions of "nah nah nah nah".
8, you're welcome
You MAY be able to use directory junctions / NTFS simlinks to get round this issue.
And where the fuck was RMS when Apple was doing the same to iOS for fricking years?
Free Software Foundation "Defective By Design" site, specifically highlighting the locked down nature of the ipad. Not sure if it's directly steered by Stallman, but I'm pretty sure he's always been vocal about the evils of DRM in Apple products.
Which they are. The ipad is a relatively young device. If you have an original model ipad, you're locked out of the current iOS release, and the older iOS releases are slowly becoming less and less useful. Give it n years and an original model ipad that has no other hardware defects will be rendered completely useless due to only being able to run an obsolete OS. This is NOT a good situation for computing to find itself in.
I work for a review platform. We have decided that you only really need four ratings, Bad, Poor, Good, Excellent. We don't have a neutral option because really neutral tends to mean bad.
Of course, quite a lot of our users (and our marketing department) seem to prefer stars. Because an arbitrary scale is so much more useful that simply saying what you think of something. Apparently.
Does anyone else play the "Predict which XKCD this will be" game when Oblig XKCD links are posted?
(Those that don't know the strip numbers off by heart of course)
I tried to give our office manager Libre Office to save us the license fee for a copy of MS Office. The very first document she tried to work on:
Some of the numbers in her ordered lists were randomly bold. Unbold them, save document, open it again, they're back in bold.
At one point in the document, libre office was acting as if there were a page break present, when there was not one. It appeared to be impossible to remove this phantom non-existent page break.
I gave up and she got MS Office back.
You may laugh, but Trial of Paul Chambers. Fortunately it didn't land him in prison.
And that 3GS will later be repaired, refurbished, then either resold or given to another customer like yourself.
Many thanks. That was it.
Orig: "What the OP means is their(0) dropping it because of legal issues around GPLv3,(1) on Windows 8 approved hardware they won't be able to keep the private signing key,(2) private which would result in their certificates being revoked."
(0) debatably incorrect use of "their" (possessive) vs "they're" (contraction). Can be argued to be intended but it probably wasn't
(1) comma splice - two sentences that can stand alone joined together incorrectly. The correct punctuation here would be a semicolon
(2) this comma just doesn't belong here. They want to keep the private signing key private.
Offtopic: but I can no longer even compose using HTML. Any tags I put in just get passed through. Anyone know why?
YMMV
I'm not a costume wearing Trekkie, but I was pretty hardcore in the Whedonverse fandom for a few years, especially when Serenity came out, and my wife really couldn't give two hoots for anything in the 'verse. She just doesn't get it. Didn't matter - she never stopped me travelling to meet other Browncoats or seeing the film in the cinema a bunch of times. So we just don't watch it together. It's not a big deal. She's mad for CSI and the like and I don't like it, so she watches it when I'm out.
We both agree Game of Thrones is pretty awesome, so we watch that together.
Just because you don't share someone's passion doesn't mean you inherently want to stop them indulging it.
Bracknell
I don't know whether the audio is better than the S3 but it is almost certainly better than the Note. In fact my (positively prehistoric) HTC Desire's audio was significantly better than the Note.
My thinkpad and dell laptops have always had a scroll modifier for the nub, which I like more than any other control system I've tried. The only time I reach for the mouse is for graphic related work.
It saddens me that even the corporate laptops are locking the nub these days.
"You can be the bigger man. Even if you get the short end of the stick, somebody will probably notice your conduct and recognize it for the right way to behave. Sometimes you might end up working for them 5 years down the line."
In addition to being good business practise, this is good advice for pretty much everything in life in my experience including but not limited to driving, relationships, friendships.
My experience with cheap Toshibas has been overwhelmingly terrible. Cheap nasty buggy parts, highly prone to failure and falling apart and loaded to the eyeballs with crapware.
The old Satellite Pro and Portege models used to be very solid and reliable, but have not had much experience with the newer ones. A Satellite I bought for me a couple of years ago was nothing but trouble. However it has continued to not work very well for a couple of years under my wife's use, and she's death to laptops, so maybe that's a point in their favour.
Oh, and once the keys come off the keyboard it's almost impossible to get them back on, and this has been true with every Tosh I've ever owned.
"What can a child do with an iPad at that age?"
Loads of stuff. Loads and loads of stuff.
There's been a recent pilot scheme based around introducing ipads into schools in the UK. I think generallly for 8-10 year olds. They create "books" on them, make animations, have a ton of educational games (more than edubuntu could offer, I believe) and stuff I don't even know about.
We bought one under the scheme, and in addition to the above the older children use it for their homework, instead of using one of our laptops, and email it in to their teacher.
Watching our smallest children* use it, you really do realise how intuitive they are. My 20 month old can navigate around the OS quite easily, and that's without us teacher her, she's learned from watching us and figuring stuff out herself.
* yes, I have a bunch of children