Yes, but most users don't create the pacific ocean, save it in the default location, and then have no idea whatsoever where that default location is, because it's not a fixed location across all apps, it never says it anywhere except the Save dialog, and it's not a sensible, obvious default.
That's the problem we're trying to solve here - not 'clueless users lose things', but 'regular users get confused when every program saves somewhere different by default'.
What's wrong with DRM that restricts what other people can do with your files? I mean, like it or not, the GPL restricts what other people can do with your code, so why can't there be DRM that restricts what other people can do with your media?
Because the GPL is incompatible with the CDDL, and so ZFS (without a complete from-scratch reimplementation) cannot be included into the Linux kernel codebase.
It should be possible for someone to write a patch to the kernel which could be shipped separately under the CDDL and which end-users could apply to their kernels, but then you start getting into pointless grey areas.
For my money, Solaris, FreeBSD, and Leopard are better bets - ZFS and dtrace, and Solaris/FreeBSD have containers/jails as well.
Sorry - you're saying that if we pay Google for a service, we shouldn't be complaining when that service completely fails to work for days on end, or works intermittently at best? If this were Microsoft everyone would be screaming to the rafters about how pathetic they are, about how their software is junk and they can't even keep an e-mail service running.
Oh, but it's Google! So because it's Google, they're obviously in the right, and if you have problems with them it's your fault.
Well if Google can't run a service reliably, they shouldn't be selling it. Our company signing up with them was a mistake, and it's one we won't repeat.
It's not a question of dropping the ball - Google's services are vastly inferior to any other service I've used (or run myself).
Every day someone will come up to me with a problem. Often they won't be able to get their e-mail for an hour or two. Sometimes the server will say there is no 'INBOX' folder. Sometimes mail won't be delivered for hours, or even until the next day. Sometimes it won't show up at all. In every case, I've checked and re-checked their settings, but when we're sending with their SMTP servers and fetching from their IMAP servers, how is mail getting lost or delayed for hours?
Lately, they've delivered all mail destined to me from our ISP to someone else in the company, and can't figure out what's happening.
Labs has a new feature where you can exclude 'folders' from showing up in IMAP, or you can tell it to delete them when you 'delete' them in IMAP (instead of just hiding them but they still show up in All Mail). Except you can't use Google Maps on Google Apps accounts, so all of our Mac users are relegated to downloading every message twice, or changing their INBOX prefix.
Hell, half of our users forward their work e-mail to a personal account and deal with everything there. Some of our employees don't even use their work e-mail, and just give everyone their personal e-mail address.
When I get a phone call at 8 AM from someone saying 'Outlook isn't working, can you fix it?' and I have to say 'no', there's something horribly wrong. We're switching away from Google, and I'll be glad when they're far, far behind us.
You forgot #6: Whereas most browsers will refuse to cache to disk any content retrieved over SSL, Chrome not only writes 'secure' pages to disk (like your bank info), but indexes it as well to make it easier to find (for anyone with access to your PC) (source.
It bothers me to no end that one of the most basic concepts of dealing with secure data (to avoid storing/disclosing it insecurely), something done since the first version of Netscape Navigator I'd ever used, could be so easily and idiotically ignored in a project meant to represent the future of web browsing - a future, I guess, that doesn't include privacy.
Note to Google: Security is more than just not letting attackers into your machine - it's also protecting secure data to prevent them from getting anything once they get in. One line of defense is not enough.
Don't worry. Once Phase One is complete and your economy has crashed, we'll start Phase Two. Once we've bought up your economy and banks, your chance to be Canada's fourth territory will commence.
There's definitely a point here. It seems like people are fleeing the lock-in inherent in Microsoft's products, and Microsoft's reaction to that is to try and make products to lure people back into the lock-in, rather than make products that don't have it.
It reminds me of my cell carrier. They have a 'feature' which sends you a text message when you miss a call, which is bundled with Visual Voicemail and caller ID. The problem is that it's annoying, often hours behind reality, and no one wants it. In fact, everyone I've talked to (including employees) hate it. So many people called to complain about it and get it taken off their bundle that management started paying attention.
So when the problem is that a huge percentage of your customers hate a feature enough to demand it be disabled, the solution is apparently obvious: forbid customer service from disabling it. Effectively, they have forbidden their agents from giving the customer what they want, in the hopes that people will be happier when forced into something, rather than when given a choice to opt-out.
The same can be said of Microsoft. There are a lot of smart, talented people at Microsoft who are being paid to do anti-user things in anti-user ways. Management seems to believe that if A requires B, then they'll sell A and B and end up with happy customers that have an integrated solution. They don't seem to realize that the prevailing attitude is now 'if A requires B and I don't want B, I'll get A from somewhere else' and that's why Microsoft is losing out.
And not just Windows XP Vista - all three versions of XP and all eight versions of Windows Vista! Truly the broadest, deepest multiplatform support of any programming language available!
"Your Macbook portable computer comes from the factory pre-bricked. To unbrick your computer, or wake it from brick mode after inactivity, simply press the power button above the keyboard."
It says 'United States Government, as represented by the Director, National Security Agency'. I dunno about you, but it seems to me that the United States as intended is a lot different than the United States most government agencies seem to represent these days.
Which wasn't that big of a deal when you could buy a case of them with cash up-front, but not being able to get them from anywhere unless you sign a contract seems to me to be kind of a dick thing to do. If someone wants to buy it and have a shitty experience, knowing full well that they'll be missing out on stuff, then go for it. Make them pay full price, but don't limit them. Let carriers implement visual voicemail, and off you go.
I'm sure Apple would be thrilled if the exclusivity agreement was deemed invalid. Then they get to work with T-Mobile to add visual voicemail and some good data plans, and then even MORE people get to buy the iPhone (and even less care about the G1).
The only question then becomes whether T-Mobile's 3G network is good enough to handle iPhone data traffic, or if they're willing to build it out fast enough if it's not.
As a sufferer of Crohn's Disease, I've been advised by my dietician to avoid foods that are high in fibre, as well as leafy greens and other similar foods, because they do not digest as thoroughly and can cause irritation in the lower intestines. For myself and as many as 600,000 individuals in North America alone, wireless technologies such as this will enable the living of healthy, normal lives by replacing networks that are high in fibre with networks more suited to the special diets our conditions require.
I haven't had any of the problems you've described, but I've got some input on them.
1a) If your microwave is interfering with your wireless network, you need a new microwave, or you need to move your wireless router. A properly shielded microwave won't spew enough radiation far enough to interfere with a proper network (I used to use my laptop next to the microwave while reheating things, with no problems). 1b) You could always upgrade to 802.11n and run on the 5 GHz band, which is less susceptible to interference (or at least, there's less things that interfere in that band). This will also improve your range and throughput.
2) What form of wireless keyboard are you using? Bluetooth (a standard) won't interfere with other bluetooth devices, but 'RF' wireless devices are a free-for-all. I've never had any issues with any Bluetooth device.
3) It's not just about cellphones, it's about network coverage and capacity. A single cell tower can only handle so many subscribers before it reaches its capacity, so cell networks need to put 'more towers in more places' to achieve full coverage. This is the dropped-calls issue.
Wired technologies are great, but as a laptop owner and iPhone owner, I have no interest in plugging in a mouse, keyboard, and network cable every time I sit down - nor are they always available anyway.
I've had nothing but favorable experiences with wireless technologies (with the exception of overloaded access points). Perhaps you've just ended up with crappy stuff? Maybe you're buying cheap.
Maybe you should sleep with the first guy's wife so she'll have something to fill her... uh... time, while her husband's at work and she's obviously bored stiff.
I'm glad we're hosting the Olympics, I'm glad it's going to bring people to Vancouver and see the city, and I'm glad we're facing huge transportation infrastructure upgrades as a result.
But this? No. Go fuck yourselves you righteous cocks.
Trademark whatever the hell else you want, trademark your own names or the names of all the athletes, trademark circles and colours and whatever other bullshit you want, but you're not, in this lifetime, going to misappropriate OUR NATIONAL FUCKING ANTHEM.
I was thinking the same thing, but having to buy an external case+lens is a barrier to entry for people. Now, those who already have the phone and want the case could certainly avail themselves, but beyond that, it makes it difficult to design a software product that requires a separate hardware one in order to function.
You could always add a keypad, I guess, so people can punch it in manually.
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Yes, but most users don't create the pacific ocean, save it in the default location, and then have no idea whatsoever where that default location is, because it's not a fixed location across all apps, it never says it anywhere except the Save dialog, and it's not a sensible, obvious default.
That's the problem we're trying to solve here - not 'clueless users lose things', but 'regular users get confused when every program saves somewhere different by default'.
Only, including the cost of development tools, distribution, credit card processing, bandwidth, etc.
You write your app and upload it, and then Apple sends you a cheque. Sounds like a pretty damn good deal to me.
What's wrong with DRM that restricts what other people can do with your files? I mean, like it or not, the GPL restricts what other people can do with your code, so why can't there be DRM that restricts what other people can do with your media?
Were they... Hatian scientists?
Just asking.
Ooh, ooh! Do me next!
Because the GPL is incompatible with the CDDL, and so ZFS (without a complete from-scratch reimplementation) cannot be included into the Linux kernel codebase.
It should be possible for someone to write a patch to the kernel which could be shipped separately under the CDDL and which end-users could apply to their kernels, but then you start getting into pointless grey areas.
For my money, Solaris, FreeBSD, and Leopard are better bets - ZFS and dtrace, and Solaris/FreeBSD have containers/jails as well.
I've disabled the killswitch on the one device I use that runs iPhone OS 2.1.
Ooh, let me guess... is it... an iPhone?
Sorry - you're saying that if we pay Google for a service, we shouldn't be complaining when that service completely fails to work for days on end, or works intermittently at best? If this were Microsoft everyone would be screaming to the rafters about how pathetic they are, about how their software is junk and they can't even keep an e-mail service running.
Oh, but it's Google! So because it's Google, they're obviously in the right, and if you have problems with them it's your fault.
Well if Google can't run a service reliably, they shouldn't be selling it. Our company signing up with them was a mistake, and it's one we won't repeat.
It's not a question of dropping the ball - Google's services are vastly inferior to any other service I've used (or run myself).
Every day someone will come up to me with a problem. Often they won't be able to get their e-mail for an hour or two. Sometimes the server will say there is no 'INBOX' folder. Sometimes mail won't be delivered for hours, or even until the next day. Sometimes it won't show up at all. In every case, I've checked and re-checked their settings, but when we're sending with their SMTP servers and fetching from their IMAP servers, how is mail getting lost or delayed for hours?
Lately, they've delivered all mail destined to me from our ISP to someone else in the company, and can't figure out what's happening.
Labs has a new feature where you can exclude 'folders' from showing up in IMAP, or you can tell it to delete them when you 'delete' them in IMAP (instead of just hiding them but they still show up in All Mail). Except you can't use Google Maps on Google Apps accounts, so all of our Mac users are relegated to downloading every message twice, or changing their INBOX prefix.
Hell, half of our users forward their work e-mail to a personal account and deal with everything there. Some of our employees don't even use their work e-mail, and just give everyone their personal e-mail address.
When I get a phone call at 8 AM from someone saying 'Outlook isn't working, can you fix it?' and I have to say 'no', there's something horribly wrong. We're switching away from Google, and I'll be glad when they're far, far behind us.
You mean... wait for it to leave beta? What's Google like in your parallel universe? Because ours must be pretty different.
You forgot #6: Whereas most browsers will refuse to cache to disk any content retrieved over SSL, Chrome not only writes 'secure' pages to disk (like your bank info), but indexes it as well to make it easier to find (for anyone with access to your PC) (source.
It bothers me to no end that one of the most basic concepts of dealing with secure data (to avoid storing/disclosing it insecurely), something done since the first version of Netscape Navigator I'd ever used, could be so easily and idiotically ignored in a project meant to represent the future of web browsing - a future, I guess, that doesn't include privacy.
Note to Google: Security is more than just not letting attackers into your machine - it's also protecting secure data to prevent them from getting anything once they get in. One line of defense is not enough.
Don't worry. Once Phase One is complete and your economy has crashed, we'll start Phase Two. Once we've bought up your economy and banks, your chance to be Canada's fourth territory will commence.
and STILL hasn't made Entourage into a first-class Exchange client
Anyone find it funny that the iPhone got ActiveSync/Exchange support before Entourage did? Maybe the MBU wasn't willing to pay the licensing fees?
There's definitely a point here. It seems like people are fleeing the lock-in inherent in Microsoft's products, and Microsoft's reaction to that is to try and make products to lure people back into the lock-in, rather than make products that don't have it.
It reminds me of my cell carrier. They have a 'feature' which sends you a text message when you miss a call, which is bundled with Visual Voicemail and caller ID. The problem is that it's annoying, often hours behind reality, and no one wants it. In fact, everyone I've talked to (including employees) hate it. So many people called to complain about it and get it taken off their bundle that management started paying attention.
So when the problem is that a huge percentage of your customers hate a feature enough to demand it be disabled, the solution is apparently obvious: forbid customer service from disabling it. Effectively, they have forbidden their agents from giving the customer what they want, in the hopes that people will be happier when forced into something, rather than when given a choice to opt-out.
The same can be said of Microsoft. There are a lot of smart, talented people at Microsoft who are being paid to do anti-user things in anti-user ways. Management seems to believe that if A requires B, then they'll sell A and B and end up with happy customers that have an integrated solution. They don't seem to realize that the prevailing attitude is now 'if A requires B and I don't want B, I'll get A from somewhere else' and that's why Microsoft is losing out.
And not just Windows XP Vista - all three versions of XP and all eight versions of Windows Vista! Truly the broadest, deepest multiplatform support of any programming language available!
"Your Macbook portable computer comes from the factory pre-bricked. To unbrick your computer, or wake it from brick mode after inactivity, simply press the power button above the keyboard."
It says 'United States Government, as represented by the Director, National Security Agency'. I dunno about you, but it seems to me that the United States as intended is a lot different than the United States most government agencies seem to represent these days.
Which wasn't that big of a deal when you could buy a case of them with cash up-front, but not being able to get them from anywhere unless you sign a contract seems to me to be kind of a dick thing to do. If someone wants to buy it and have a shitty experience, knowing full well that they'll be missing out on stuff, then go for it. Make them pay full price, but don't limit them. Let carriers implement visual voicemail, and off you go.
I'm sure Apple would be thrilled if the exclusivity agreement was deemed invalid. Then they get to work with T-Mobile to add visual voicemail and some good data plans, and then even MORE people get to buy the iPhone (and even less care about the G1).
The only question then becomes whether T-Mobile's 3G network is good enough to handle iPhone data traffic, or if they're willing to build it out fast enough if it's not.
As a sufferer of Crohn's Disease, I've been advised by my dietician to avoid foods that are high in fibre, as well as leafy greens and other similar foods, because they do not digest as thoroughly and can cause irritation in the lower intestines. For myself and as many as 600,000 individuals in North America alone, wireless technologies such as this will enable the living of healthy, normal lives by replacing networks that are high in fibre with networks more suited to the special diets our conditions require.
I haven't had any of the problems you've described, but I've got some input on them.
1a) If your microwave is interfering with your wireless network, you need a new microwave, or you need to move your wireless router. A properly shielded microwave won't spew enough radiation far enough to interfere with a proper network (I used to use my laptop next to the microwave while reheating things, with no problems).
1b) You could always upgrade to 802.11n and run on the 5 GHz band, which is less susceptible to interference (or at least, there's less things that interfere in that band). This will also improve your range and throughput.
2) What form of wireless keyboard are you using? Bluetooth (a standard) won't interfere with other bluetooth devices, but 'RF' wireless devices are a free-for-all. I've never had any issues with any Bluetooth device.
3) It's not just about cellphones, it's about network coverage and capacity. A single cell tower can only handle so many subscribers before it reaches its capacity, so cell networks need to put 'more towers in more places' to achieve full coverage. This is the dropped-calls issue.
Wired technologies are great, but as a laptop owner and iPhone owner, I have no interest in plugging in a mouse, keyboard, and network cable every time I sit down - nor are they always available anyway.
I've had nothing but favorable experiences with wireless technologies (with the exception of overloaded access points). Perhaps you've just ended up with crappy stuff? Maybe you're buying cheap.
Maybe you should sleep with the first guy's wife so she'll have something to fill her... uh... time, while her husband's at work and she's obviously bored stiff.
I'm glad we're hosting the Olympics, I'm glad it's going to bring people to Vancouver and see the city, and I'm glad we're facing huge transportation infrastructure upgrades as a result.
But this? No. Go fuck yourselves you righteous cocks.
Trademark whatever the hell else you want, trademark your own names or the names of all the athletes, trademark circles and colours and whatever other bullshit you want, but you're not, in this lifetime, going to misappropriate OUR NATIONAL FUCKING ANTHEM.
So yeah. DIAF, kthx.
I'm pretty sure it's hex - 0x2010 - but they don't specify the endianness, so I'm not sure where they're going with this.
I was thinking the same thing, but having to buy an external case+lens is a barrier to entry for people. Now, those who already have the phone and want the case could certainly avail themselves, but beyond that, it makes it difficult to design a software product that requires a separate hardware one in order to function.
You could always add a keypad, I guess, so people can punch it in manually.