My theory about the delusions of Google fans is confirmed. Talk about the disappointing features of an Apple product then you're insightful. Talk ill of Google than you're a Troll.
What you say perhaps applies to consoles back in the time they were actually made of different components than standard desktop PCs. Now you've got the same, just arbitrary stripped down in terms of possibilities of doing anything else with it.
A console has a defined set of hardware features and therefore much easier to develop and maintain. There is no need to support the many combinations of video hardware and drivers, memory configurations, CPU speeds, and OS versions that are found on PCs.
Consoles generally have hardware designed with gaming in mind, but the well defined hardware and API specifications not to mention being better suited for use on your living room's television is what gives game consoles their advantage.
This is not a new criticism. Steve Jobs had the same opinion of previous Windows tablet computers (general computing vs. dedicated mobile device).
I think it's not as relevant today since it appears that Microsoft is willing to cripple the desktop ( just a little ) to make a unified computing experience between tablet and desktop more feasible.
Does a de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver count? Technically it could do all three (fly, land on water and land). Yea you can't go on the interstate but why? It can fly!
Find me haggis, black pudding, Kyoto variety eggplant and carrots.
You just assume you can't find those in the US.
Kyoto variety eggplant can be found in a lot of Japanese Food Markets that are usually found in strip malls around a medium to large size town.
As technically a resident of Alabama (Gulf Coast Region differs culturally from the rest of the state), I have no problems finding food from other countries. When I was young I ate with cargo ship captains and had the "real thing", but now I can find the equivalent in these specialties shops. I can't drive a mile without passing a Japanese, Chinese, "Asian", or Mediterranean supermarket, nor without passing a restaurant that serves German, Indian, Greek, Jewish/Middle Eastern, Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean, Thai, Irish or UK food (which seems to always be a "pub"), and of course the Caribbean based cuisines. These tend to be locally own restaurants and not those national chains that pretend to cook foreign cuisine.
In fact Snape was ordered by Dumbledore to betray Dumbledore. Anyway, Snape had a curse that would have killed him had he not followed through. Snape protected Harry Potter because he loved Harry's mother Lilly, but treated Harry poorly because Harry reminded Snape of Harry's father James. There! We got Harry Potter out of our system!
Linus as you said started and guided the construction of a serious system...
Actually Linux did not start out as a "serious system" it started out as a hobby. I took the liberty of googling for an old post of Linus to show the understatement of the last millennium:
...I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
Luckily if the new and weird start screen is too weird and new for you, you can always drop to the kosher desktop and the standard old way of doing things, albeit without a Start menu.
Truth be told, most people won't even miss the start menu. I think that people used the bookmarks on the desktop anyway.
The first question that popped in my mind was "Why is Texas scared?". Are they doing something that they should be ashamed of? The observation would be done where the poll workers are seated. It's not like the OSCE will be behind the curtain and actually stuffing the ballot box. That job is still safely in the hands of state party officials with questionable absentee ballots.
The other question is "Is Texas law applicable?". Does the AG's argument have merit since we are talking about an international agreement of which the US is a signatory and the "Supremacy Clause" of the US Constitution trumps Texas state law. The fact that this is a federal election and not just a state level election doesn't help the AG's argument either.
I think Neokushan is correct since the more choices you have the more complicated things become. However, I don't think that is what he meant.
Windows does not give you a choice, so you are forced to learn its UI like everyone else. Because so many people are forced to learn the Windows UI and Windows is the dominate OS, the learning curve experienced by the new user is not taken seriously by current Windows users because Windows has reached the level of "this is the way it has always been". It takes a lot of effort to fight against the momentum that the Windows UI has and come up with a different way of doing something using the GUI. People will equate this difference as difficult.
Of course with Windows 8 the user will be forced once again to learn a different UI. However this time, Microsoft may have shot itself in the foot. If the UI is too foreign then it becomes less difficult for people to try new operating systems with better UI.
It could be argued that one of the main reasons why Linux has utterly failed as an operating system for average people on average computers is Linus Torvalds. It has certainly been successful in other areas, but as a "just works" freeware replacement for Windows, it's been a bust.
The goal behind Linux was to have a multi-user, multi-tasking OS that was Unix like. It was not meant to compete directly against or replace Windows. Linux is just a kernel and nothings prevent someone from building an easy to use OS from the kernel at anytime. You had RedHat, Slackware, Mandrake, Debian, and eventually Ubuntu and other distributions designing what they felt would be a good user experience. I don't understand how Linus had any negative influence, nor do I understand the relevance of your statement. Especially when you consider the sheer number of non-computer savvy people unknowingly using the Linux kernel within their smartphones through Android.
If someone held the OpenStack project to the core requirements needed to be useful there would still be nothing preventing a distribution from making a more featured or easier to use version that is built on top of OpenStack.
Linus made a project to make a UNIX like operating system. He found like minded individuals that wanted to help on USENET. I still look fondly back at the old days of trying to get the build to work. Later own I was able to have CDs mailed to me from people like CheapBytes that made the work so much easier (I don't missed the days of dialup internet). Eventually RedHat came around and I was hooked. Through it all Linus kept the project on course.
It takes a lot of discipline to take an idea from a post on USENET in 1991 to what Linux is today. His discipline and stewardship is worth way more than any code that he contributed to the cause.
Okay I used up my "stick up for Linus" allowance for the year.
Actually they came up with yet another method of Forward Error Correction (FEC). I haven't had time to read the article and look forward to see how they compare to Reed-Solomon or other Reed-Muller codes (Walsh-Hadamard code is used in CDMA).
This isn't exactly new but I'm glad to see someone take the initiative to apply it to today's WiFi networks. The mentality as of late is that the speed is more than fast enough to deliver the data and the occasional resend. FEC currently used where data rates are quite limited or the latencies are such that retransmissions are prohibitive long.
MS has been doing mobile devices since the late 1990's trying to make a unified OS.
Yes and those Windows CE PDAs and WinPhones kinda sucked. Microsoft tried to do too much with the limited power of the embedded processors of that time. The low resolution screens made the window UI practically useless, but Microsoft refused to abandon it on the phones. Palm was a better PDA and Handsprings Phone/PDA had a much better user experience than the slow clunky Microsoft CE devices.
Microsoft was myopic with their "Windows Everywhere" ambitions. They still seem stuck in that mode. It just took 20 years for the hardware to finally be powerful enough to support Microsoft's goals.
apple got lucky with the price of mobile components dropping to reasonable levels and the fact that samsung and others started to make touch screens
You make your own luck and Apple put a lot of planning and risk entering the mobile device market. If you browse through their patent portfolio you'd see that they been working on the iPad for years before it was finally released to the public. The iPad had to take a back seat to the development of the iPhone. Apple had to engineer the battery life, display performance, and took a gigantic leap of faith when they decided how they will enter the wireless market (No other computer company has pulled it off). There was a "controversy" over Apple abandoning the traditional Window UI for an exclusively full screen application design. The lessons learned over the demise of the Apple Newton was behind all this attention to detail. Remember Apple was still a niched company and this was a HUGE risk for Steve Jobs.
Sure today the media falls over themselves to praise Apple and follow their every move. I think is to make up for them discounting the significance of Apple's release of the original iPhone, played up how Apple was risking too much by taking on entrenched phone manufactures and the large peanut gallery of pundits that announced the death of Apple.
Their poor forecast embarrassed them so now I think they preemptively are positive toward Apple (and Google, Microsoft, others) because they learned it looks better to praise a new technology/product/upstart and allow it to fail on its own and write articles investigating the reasons than it is to be skeptical and then eat crow when the company succeeds.
When everyone think about the good old days, they forgot about all the crap they went through to get to where they are today.
If we were in a tall office building and terrorist crashed our christmas party, you'd probably be that coked up salesman that gets shot because even the terrorists aren't buying your bullshit.
Okay maybe your not ready for the enterprise just yet.
You keep making assumptions that do not align with reality at most businesses. The marketing department is not going to send a Photoshop CS 7 file to the nurses station in a hospital. Most employees will not deal with outside vendors much. They will use a specialized program designed to work with their corporate data system.
PCs were 16 colour CGA with a sprinkling of EGA, they beeped when the Amiga could produce robotic sounding speach synthesis...
Actually when I was in college in the 80s, the physics department had a Truevision graphics card installed in a IBM AT. It had 24 bit color graphics. The card itself was more expensive than the Amiga computer system.
That is the fallacy it is broke. Will it read photoshop CS 7 files? Nope. Will it get security updates? Nope. Is the architecture not secure. Yep. Will it read Office 2k13 files with office 2k3? Nope. Will it read PDF files make in Adobe 12? Nope, Will its IE read HTML 5 sites? Nope. Will FF and Chrome still support it after 2014?Nope.
I think you've completely misunderstand what is going on. The companies that refuse to update from XP probably have lots of workstations that work fine as is or have vertical market software that will not run on the newest Windows. Their ability to run the latest and greatest of photoshop is far removed from their requirements.
Not all businesses are web based, so don't be surprised that Windows XP's inability to run FF or Chrome after 2014 is high on their priority list either. Nor will they care that that some webmaster is worried about keeping their site compatible with IE6. The only things they care about are that the current software works, the workstations can be replaced and re-imaged with the working software, and they don't have to make a large investment in IT to support Microsoft's wishes.
How many months did it take for him to loose productivity and money finding someone under the age of 60 who has even used that product before? How much money did he loose or have his secretary not be able to answer emails because the system was obsolete?
No more than 2 weeks if I remember correctly. Emails? This was mid-90's his industry used telexes (and he had a dedicated machine from Western Union for that) and faxes which was a stand alone machine too. It worked well for him.
Today the situation hasn't improved much. You'd be surprised how many people still need to be trained to use Word or even Excel.
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My theory about the delusions of Google fans is confirmed. Talk about the disappointing features of an Apple product then you're insightful. Talk ill of Google than you're a Troll.
A console has a defined set of hardware features and therefore much easier to develop and maintain. There is no need to support the many combinations of video hardware and drivers, memory configurations, CPU speeds, and OS versions that are found on PCs.
Consoles generally have hardware designed with gaming in mind, but the well defined hardware and API specifications not to mention being better suited for use on your living room's television is what gives game consoles their advantage.
I was looking at my razor and thinking I should have more than 6 blades!
I think it's a little dated to have a Google flagship phone with no MicroSD, no LTE, and a maximum of 16GB available.
Google could have done better, but I'm sure they didn't want to help LG make a phone that would be better than the Motorola offerings.
This is not a new criticism. Steve Jobs had the same opinion of previous Windows tablet computers (general computing vs. dedicated mobile device).
I think it's not as relevant today since it appears that Microsoft is willing to cripple the desktop ( just a little ) to make a unified computing experience between tablet and desktop more feasible.
Does a de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver count? Technically it could do all three (fly, land on water and land). Yea you can't go on the interstate but why? It can fly!
I forgot to mention that the US distributor of Haggis (Stahly Quality Foods brand) is located in my area too.
You just assume you can't find those in the US.
Kyoto variety eggplant can be found in a lot of Japanese Food Markets that are usually found in strip malls around a medium to large size town.
As technically a resident of Alabama (Gulf Coast Region differs culturally from the rest of the state), I have no problems finding food from other countries. When I was young I ate with cargo ship captains and had the "real thing", but now I can find the equivalent in these specialties shops. I can't drive a mile without passing a Japanese, Chinese, "Asian", or Mediterranean supermarket, nor without passing a restaurant that serves German, Indian, Greek, Jewish/Middle Eastern, Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean, Thai, Irish or UK food (which seems to always be a "pub"), and of course the Caribbean based cuisines. These tend to be locally own restaurants and not those national chains that pretend to cook foreign cuisine.
In fact Snape was ordered by Dumbledore to betray Dumbledore. Anyway, Snape had a curse that would have killed him had he not followed through. Snape protected Harry Potter because he loved Harry's mother Lilly, but treated Harry poorly because Harry reminded Snape of Harry's father James. There! We got Harry Potter out of our system!
My daughter got me started with those books....
Actually Linux did not start out as a "serious system" it started out as a hobby. I took the liberty of googling for an old post of Linus to show the understatement of the last millennium:
Truth be told, most people won't even miss the start menu. I think that people used the bookmarks on the desktop anyway.
The first question that popped in my mind was "Why is Texas scared?". Are they doing something that they should be ashamed of? The observation would be done where the poll workers are seated. It's not like the OSCE will be behind the curtain and actually stuffing the ballot box. That job is still safely in the hands of state party officials with questionable absentee ballots.
The other question is "Is Texas law applicable?". Does the AG's argument have merit since we are talking about an international agreement of which the US is a signatory and the "Supremacy Clause" of the US Constitution trumps Texas state law. The fact that this is a federal election and not just a state level election doesn't help the AG's argument either.
I think Neokushan is correct since the more choices you have the more complicated things become. However, I don't think that is what he meant.
Windows does not give you a choice, so you are forced to learn its UI like everyone else. Because so many people are forced to learn the Windows UI and Windows is the dominate OS, the learning curve experienced by the new user is not taken seriously by current Windows users because Windows has reached the level of "this is the way it has always been". It takes a lot of effort to fight against the momentum that the Windows UI has and come up with a different way of doing something using the GUI. People will equate this difference as difficult.
Of course with Windows 8 the user will be forced once again to learn a different UI. However this time, Microsoft may have shot itself in the foot. If the UI is too foreign then it becomes less difficult for people to try new operating systems with better UI.
The goal behind Linux was to have a multi-user, multi-tasking OS that was Unix like. It was not meant to compete directly against or replace Windows. Linux is just a kernel and nothings prevent someone from building an easy to use OS from the kernel at anytime. You had RedHat, Slackware, Mandrake, Debian, and eventually Ubuntu and other distributions designing what they felt would be a good user experience. I don't understand how Linus had any negative influence, nor do I understand the relevance of your statement. Especially when you consider the sheer number of non-computer savvy people unknowingly using the Linux kernel within their smartphones through Android.
If someone held the OpenStack project to the core requirements needed to be useful there would still be nothing preventing a distribution from making a more featured or easier to use version that is built on top of OpenStack.
Linus made a project to make a UNIX like operating system. He found like minded individuals that wanted to help on USENET. I still look fondly back at the old days of trying to get the build to work. Later own I was able to have CDs mailed to me from people like CheapBytes that made the work so much easier (I don't missed the days of dialup internet). Eventually RedHat came around and I was hooked. Through it all Linus kept the project on course.
It takes a lot of discipline to take an idea from a post on USENET in 1991 to what Linux is today. His discipline and stewardship is worth way more than any code that he contributed to the cause.
Okay I used up my "stick up for Linus" allowance for the year.
Why do we have to have the one brand that rules them all?
The brand name?
Actually they came up with yet another method of Forward Error Correction (FEC). I haven't had time to read the article and look forward to see how they compare to Reed-Solomon or other Reed-Muller codes (Walsh-Hadamard code is used in CDMA).
This isn't exactly new but I'm glad to see someone take the initiative to apply it to today's WiFi networks. The mentality as of late is that the speed is more than fast enough to deliver the data and the occasional resend. FEC currently used where data rates are quite limited or the latencies are such that retransmissions are prohibitive long.
Yes and those Windows CE PDAs and WinPhones kinda sucked. Microsoft tried to do too much with the limited power of the embedded processors of that time. The low resolution screens made the window UI practically useless, but Microsoft refused to abandon it on the phones. Palm was a better PDA and Handsprings Phone/PDA had a much better user experience than the slow clunky Microsoft CE devices.
Microsoft was myopic with their "Windows Everywhere" ambitions. They still seem stuck in that mode. It just took 20 years for the hardware to finally be powerful enough to support Microsoft's goals.
You make your own luck and Apple put a lot of planning and risk entering the mobile device market. If you browse through their patent portfolio you'd see that they been working on the iPad for years before it was finally released to the public. The iPad had to take a back seat to the development of the iPhone. Apple had to engineer the battery life, display performance, and took a gigantic leap of faith when they decided how they will enter the wireless market (No other computer company has pulled it off). There was a "controversy" over Apple abandoning the traditional Window UI for an exclusively full screen application design. The lessons learned over the demise of the Apple Newton was behind all this attention to detail. Remember Apple was still a niched company and this was a HUGE risk for Steve Jobs.
Sure today the media falls over themselves to praise Apple and follow their every move. I think is to make up for them discounting the significance of Apple's release of the original iPhone, played up how Apple was risking too much by taking on entrenched phone manufactures and the large peanut gallery of pundits that announced the death of Apple.
Their poor forecast embarrassed them so now I think they preemptively are positive toward Apple (and Google, Microsoft, others) because they learned it looks better to praise a new technology/product/upstart and allow it to fail on its own and write articles investigating the reasons than it is to be skeptical and then eat crow when the company succeeds.
When everyone think about the good old days, they forgot about all the crap they went through to get to where they are today.
You're not monitoring a server. You are verifying that you are talking to the correct server.
If we were in a tall office building and terrorist crashed our christmas party, you'd probably be that coked up salesman that gets shot because even the terrorists aren't buying your bullshit.
Okay maybe your not ready for the enterprise just yet.
You keep making assumptions that do not align with reality at most businesses. The marketing department is not going to send a Photoshop CS 7 file to the nurses station in a hospital. Most employees will not deal with outside vendors much. They will use a specialized program designed to work with their corporate data system.
Not everyone is in sales.
Actually when I was in college in the 80s, the physics department had a Truevision graphics card installed in a IBM AT. It had 24 bit color graphics. The card itself was more expensive than the Amiga computer system.
I think you've completely misunderstand what is going on. The companies that refuse to update from XP probably have lots of workstations that work fine as is or have vertical market software that will not run on the newest Windows. Their ability to run the latest and greatest of photoshop is far removed from their requirements.
Not all businesses are web based, so don't be surprised that Windows XP's inability to run FF or Chrome after 2014 is high on their priority list either. Nor will they care that that some webmaster is worried about keeping their site compatible with IE6. The only things they care about are that the current software works, the workstations can be replaced and re-imaged with the working software, and they don't have to make a large investment in IT to support Microsoft's wishes.
No more than 2 weeks if I remember correctly. Emails? This was mid-90's his industry used telexes (and he had a dedicated machine from Western Union for that) and faxes which was a stand alone machine too. It worked well for him.
Today the situation hasn't improved much. You'd be surprised how many people still need to be trained to use Word or even Excel.