iPhone is more populer than Windows Mobile because Windows Mobile is for the most part unuasable junk. game consoles are more popular than PCs for games because most consumers can't do basic math, thus they think the lower up front cost of a game console is cheaper. Windows is more popular than Linux on the desktop because Windows had a monopoly on the desktop before most people had even heard of Linux. That and you fail to count most of the Linux installs.
Freedom has nothing to do with any of those wins. Besides, how do you even come up with the idea that any of those are free for software authors. I write software for a living. I can write software all day long, that does anything I want to on Windows or Linux, but I cannot write software for any of the console systems. Well, I COULD if a cracked them, but I couldn't publish the software. I would also have to worry that the console manufacturer would break my software on purpose at any time. I would also have to realism that my customers would have the console manufacturers actively trying to punish them for using my software.
While I think you are confused about what "Business" is, I agree, developers do not need them because they are in the business of developing. Sales people are in the business of sales, and cards are more useful to them. There was a time when having cards was a sign of legitimacy, because they were not cheap. Now they are so cheap that sometimes they are literally free. There is no status in them, so they are relegated to those with an actual use for them.
I just tried to send a contact to my wife's fine that way. It didn't work. Presumably because she wasn't running any kind of receiving software. I was pretty sure that you were wrong, but figured I should check first, just in case I had missed something incredibly obvious. Just because it doesn't do a secure paring doesn't mean that there is no protocol negotiation, and you still have to get the other person to set their phone up to receive. That alone could take longer than just writing all the information down by hand.
You are correct. I think the "days of the business cards" is dead. That doesn't mean that they are not good tech for some people though. As a developer, I have no use for them. The time it takes for me to manage the act of getting them printed, and putting them in my wallet is more than the amount of time it takes from me to write down a person's name and email address. (or type it into my phone) That is because in the last 10 years, I only would find a card to be useful maybe about once a year. If I was exchanging my name and phone number with lots of new people that I didn't have email contact with first, I would definitely use them.
You seem to be under the same impression as many other posters. Videos are a series of still pictures. If you have a video, you have still pictures. Thus if the camera takes video, you can show them a still picture and can hang the picture on the wall. Of course, it is impossible to show that coworker a still picture taken with a still picture only camera where the image you wanted to show them happened 1 second after your camera took a picture.
25fps isn't a still camera. It is a video camera. And it is much easier to edit a picture that actually exists as opposed to one that doesn't because it happened 1 second after you snapped your single shot still image.
The only reason that space and processing time matter is because hardware is just not up to snuff yet. Give it time. It will get there.
Stills are not easier to manipulate and edit than stills from video. They are exactly the same. The only difference is that with video, you don't have to hope you got the right moment. It is obserd to think that getting the original shot would be easier with a still only camera than it would be via a video.
I never suggested that you would show someone a video. If you wanted to show them a video, we are already there, but that isn't the point.
I have been prediction for some time that still photography will actually become rare. When a single frame of a video file gets to be the resolution of a reasonable snapshot, the idea of taking single shots will start to become silly. Why try to catch that 'just right' still frame when you can just record the scene and pull the 'just right' picture out in post.
Maybe the same people that were buying semen colored MP3 players? OK, your right. Squirt is a stupid name. I think they were just trying to be hip like Google or Twitter.
I'm not sure where all this fecal mania at Slashdot comes from. Every time there is a product that is brown, the fecalphiles come out of the woodwork and start claiming that the product looks like poop. It seems to be an obsession around here. Ubuntu did not look like poop. It was brown. It was earth tones. The Zune did not look like poop any more than an iPod looked like a hand full of semen. In other words. Not at all. Unpleasant things come in pretty much every color. Associating every brown product with poop speaks more to the person making the association than it does to the product.
That reminds me of the Bakers Square restaurant that used to be here in town. Right out side the bathroom, they had a nice framed poster with a naked baby and a caption that said, "Our chocolate silk pie is smooth as....". I always wondered what marketing genius thought it was a good idea to associate chocolate pudding with butts. Then, I would wonder what genius decided it was a good idea to post it outside the toilets.
Are you saying that the PVs are ugly? As opposed to sheets of tar covered paper that have been sprinkeled with gravel? I have heard the complant that solar panels are "ugly". There is nothing ugly about them. The just are not what people are used to seeing. Composite shingles. Now that is ugly. It is just the ugly we are used to.
Could you explain what risk these intelligent people would be avoiding that they are not subjecting themselves to every time the click on link to an unknown site on Google?
To the point, what risk does Javascript in the URL bar pose that Javascript in the page not pose?
Everything you say still applies to Windows, and makes your stanced that for some reason Linux needs to be held to some higher standard hypocritical. The other poster had problems with windows, and there is one thing that you have learned in developing sofware that's widely deployed, it's that if one person is having a specific kind of experience -- he's not the only one.
IPTV vs. Net Neutrality is a false dichotomy. In fact, most people recognize that Net Neutrality inherently encourages IPTV by allowing more players in the market. I agree that Net Neutrality is important. I agree that ISPs should not be allowed to provide content. That doesn't change the fact that TV over the internet is better than the crappy system we have now where the data provider has 100% control over the content.
The Confederacy had it's own government, it's own money, and it's own army, and it's own Constitution. The USA not recognizing the CSA as a separate country is like you not recognizing that the woman that just moved out of your house and told you she was leaving you, isn't your girlfriend anymore. The USA did not conquer the CSA to 'end slavery'. That is a nice fairy tale, but it isn't the case. While slavery was a hot political topic at the time, it was central to much of the North/South disagreements, and the North took the opportunity to put an end to it, it wasn't the reason for the war. The reason for the war was because the USA was an expansionist nation. It was shooting to stretch from 'Sea to shining sea". Having large chunks of your country split off would be enough for a non-expansionist nation to go to war to reconquer a seceded territory. It certainly is enough to drive an expansionist nation to war.
So, you make a comment that Linux constantly breaks and Windows doesn't. Someone responds with exactly the same story, but with Windows being the broken OS and Linux being stable. So, your response is to tell them that their experience isn't valid?
My son did a fresh install of Ubuntu a week after his 2nd birthday. No he could not read yet, but he could recognize 'Next'. He failed at installing XP at that time due to the need to be able to read. At the point that a 2 year old child can install an OS, worrying about whether it is 'difficult' or not is just silly. Anyone that has even the slightest inclanation to do so can install any of the current major OSes.
The same can mostly be said of UI. Sure there are tweaks that can make stuff a little more usable. Yes, Windows 7 and OSX have made the task bar a little less usable, but the basic UI was solved decades ago. The same child that installed Linux at 2 was happily using Linux (and occasionally windows) from start up to proper shudown a few weeks after his first birthday. It took about 5 minutes to show him how to use the mouse, and after he played for an hour or so, another 5 minutes to show him how to use the start button and how to shut down properly.
The Linux user interface issues have be solved for a very long time. At this point Linux is in the same boat as Windows an OSX. They have a very usable UI that they are trying to tweak to make better. Geeks got it, and have already addressed your concerns. If you are still opening MAN pages, you are in the same boat as people claiming that electric cars are badly designed because it is too hard to put gas in them.
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I taught mine that magic is pretend, and from that he was able to easily determine that Thor and Jesus were pretend.
iPhone is more populer than Windows Mobile because Windows Mobile is for the most part unuasable junk. game consoles are more popular than PCs for games because most consumers can't do basic math, thus they think the lower up front cost of a game console is cheaper. Windows is more popular than Linux on the desktop because Windows had a monopoly on the desktop before most people had even heard of Linux. That and you fail to count most of the Linux installs. Freedom has nothing to do with any of those wins. Besides, how do you even come up with the idea that any of those are free for software authors. I write software for a living. I can write software all day long, that does anything I want to on Windows or Linux, but I cannot write software for any of the console systems. Well, I COULD if a cracked them, but I couldn't publish the software. I would also have to worry that the console manufacturer would break my software on purpose at any time. I would also have to realism that my customers would have the console manufacturers actively trying to punish them for using my software.
While I think you are confused about what "Business" is, I agree, developers do not need them because they are in the business of developing. Sales people are in the business of sales, and cards are more useful to them. There was a time when having cards was a sign of legitimacy, because they were not cheap. Now they are so cheap that sometimes they are literally free. There is no status in them, so they are relegated to those with an actual use for them.
It's right behind the knee. Giggidy Giggidy!
Just because you get away with it doesn't make it legal.
I just tried to send a contact to my wife's fine that way. It didn't work. Presumably because she wasn't running any kind of receiving software. I was pretty sure that you were wrong, but figured I should check first, just in case I had missed something incredibly obvious. Just because it doesn't do a secure paring doesn't mean that there is no protocol negotiation, and you still have to get the other person to set their phone up to receive. That alone could take longer than just writing all the information down by hand.
You are correct. I think the "days of the business cards" is dead. That doesn't mean that they are not good tech for some people though. As a developer, I have no use for them. The time it takes for me to manage the act of getting them printed, and putting them in my wallet is more than the amount of time it takes from me to write down a person's name and email address. (or type it into my phone) That is because in the last 10 years, I only would find a card to be useful maybe about once a year. If I was exchanging my name and phone number with lots of new people that I didn't have email contact with first, I would definitely use them.
Most of us don't have the medical problems you do. Have you checked to see if you can get better parking for it?
Only to fecalphiles.
There was a time when many said that Pros and keen amateurs would not be lining up for digital at all.
Video does not have to be 30fps, and frequently isn't.
For most of the population, a still camera IS just a shutter button.
You seem to be under the same impression as many other posters. Videos are a series of still pictures. If you have a video, you have still pictures. Thus if the camera takes video, you can show them a still picture and can hang the picture on the wall. Of course, it is impossible to show that coworker a still picture taken with a still picture only camera where the image you wanted to show them happened 1 second after your camera took a picture.
25fps isn't a still camera. It is a video camera. And it is much easier to edit a picture that actually exists as opposed to one that doesn't because it happened 1 second after you snapped your single shot still image.
The only reason that space and processing time matter is because hardware is just not up to snuff yet. Give it time. It will get there.
Stills are not easier to manipulate and edit than stills from video. They are exactly the same. The only difference is that with video, you don't have to hope you got the right moment. It is obserd to think that getting the original shot would be easier with a still only camera than it would be via a video.
I never suggested that you would show someone a video. If you wanted to show them a video, we are already there, but that isn't the point.
I have been prediction for some time that still photography will actually become rare. When a single frame of a video file gets to be the resolution of a reasonable snapshot, the idea of taking single shots will start to become silly. Why try to catch that 'just right' still frame when you can just record the scene and pull the 'just right' picture out in post.
Maybe the same people that were buying semen colored MP3 players? OK, your right. Squirt is a stupid name. I think they were just trying to be hip like Google or Twitter.
I'm not sure where all this fecal mania at Slashdot comes from. Every time there is a product that is brown, the fecalphiles come out of the woodwork and start claiming that the product looks like poop. It seems to be an obsession around here. Ubuntu did not look like poop. It was brown. It was earth tones. The Zune did not look like poop any more than an iPod looked like a hand full of semen. In other words. Not at all. Unpleasant things come in pretty much every color. Associating every brown product with poop speaks more to the person making the association than it does to the product.
That reminds me of the Bakers Square restaurant that used to be here in town. Right out side the bathroom, they had a nice framed poster with a naked baby and a caption that said, "Our chocolate silk pie is smooth as ....". I always wondered what marketing genius thought it was a good idea to associate chocolate pudding with butts. Then, I would wonder what genius decided it was a good idea to post it outside the toilets.
Are you saying that the PVs are ugly? As opposed to sheets of tar covered paper that have been sprinkeled with gravel? I have heard the complant that solar panels are "ugly". There is nothing ugly about them. The just are not what people are used to seeing. Composite shingles. Now that is ugly. It is just the ugly we are used to.
Could you explain what risk these intelligent people would be avoiding that they are not subjecting themselves to every time the click on link to an unknown site on Google?
To the point, what risk does Javascript in the URL bar pose that Javascript in the page not pose?
Everything you say still applies to Windows, and makes your stanced that for some reason Linux needs to be held to some higher standard hypocritical. The other poster had problems with windows, and there is one thing that you have learned in developing sofware that's widely deployed, it's that if one person is having a specific kind of experience -- he's not the only one.
IPTV vs. Net Neutrality is a false dichotomy. In fact, most people recognize that Net Neutrality inherently encourages IPTV by allowing more players in the market. I agree that Net Neutrality is important. I agree that ISPs should not be allowed to provide content. That doesn't change the fact that TV over the internet is better than the crappy system we have now where the data provider has 100% control over the content.
The Confederacy had it's own government, it's own money, and it's own army, and it's own Constitution. The USA not recognizing the CSA as a separate country is like you not recognizing that the woman that just moved out of your house and told you she was leaving you, isn't your girlfriend anymore. The USA did not conquer the CSA to 'end slavery'. That is a nice fairy tale, but it isn't the case. While slavery was a hot political topic at the time, it was central to much of the North/South disagreements, and the North took the opportunity to put an end to it, it wasn't the reason for the war. The reason for the war was because the USA was an expansionist nation. It was shooting to stretch from 'Sea to shining sea". Having large chunks of your country split off would be enough for a non-expansionist nation to go to war to reconquer a seceded territory. It certainly is enough to drive an expansionist nation to war.
So, you make a comment that Linux constantly breaks and Windows doesn't. Someone responds with exactly the same story, but with Windows being the broken OS and Linux being stable. So, your response is to tell them that their experience isn't valid?
My son did a fresh install of Ubuntu a week after his 2nd birthday. No he could not read yet, but he could recognize 'Next'. He failed at installing XP at that time due to the need to be able to read. At the point that a 2 year old child can install an OS, worrying about whether it is 'difficult' or not is just silly. Anyone that has even the slightest inclanation to do so can install any of the current major OSes.
The same can mostly be said of UI. Sure there are tweaks that can make stuff a little more usable. Yes, Windows 7 and OSX have made the task bar a little less usable, but the basic UI was solved decades ago. The same child that installed Linux at 2 was happily using Linux (and occasionally windows) from start up to proper shudown a few weeks after his first birthday. It took about 5 minutes to show him how to use the mouse, and after he played for an hour or so, another 5 minutes to show him how to use the start button and how to shut down properly.
The Linux user interface issues have be solved for a very long time. At this point Linux is in the same boat as Windows an OSX. They have a very usable UI that they are trying to tweak to make better. Geeks got it, and have already addressed your concerns. If you are still opening MAN pages, you are in the same boat as people claiming that electric cars are badly designed because it is too hard to put gas in them.