"has proper folders instead of Gmail's "Labels" (which also have their merits, but I prefer folders)."
I have never understood this complaint being that a "folder" is nothing but a fancy label for a smaller pile of items that came from a bigger pile. Which is exactly what a Gmail label is.
Finally, have you ever noticed how many people don't even have the basic computer skills in their job description? I've found this to be especially egregious in academia. Explaining basic Office functions to a counselor for the 23523312th time is tiring, to say the least. Isn't this a school? Aren't there classes for this crap that you could take for free? Whoever is pretending to manage these assholes needs to fuck off immediately.
Why learn it when they can have their computer geek friend fix it for them for the 23523313th time? Feigned ignorance to cover laziness is so much fun!
A several hundred dollar office suite shouldn't need the extra step of opening a non-formatting text editor in order to do this very common, very basic task. Especially in 2011. It's shameful.
"The "Unified world" will be a divided one - Android smartphones and tablets, and Apple smartphones and tablets. There is no room for a #3 (just like on the desktop, or we would have had a "year of the linux desktop" already) unless you consider 1% to be "success"."
And it's not really divided like the desktop world was. For every iOS app there's almost always and Android version. There's not really any document compatibility issues between the two that I know of (both can use PDFs, etc) like there is in the desktop arena (.doc.xls or.ppt file working 100% on anything else than Office, good luck). Because it's iOS and Android there hasn't been an apparent Embrace, Extend, Extinguish event yet that I'm guessing would likely happen if WP7 got a large foothold.
Are the people in China really this misinformed about the goings on in their country to where they have to have the authorities sort this out for them?
I can't imagine they would stand for shopping at these stores had they known, after all they're there for the brand name like the rest of us, aren't they?
Earlier GNOMES and KDEs imitated Windows. One thing Windows did right was the Taskbar. It is, in all seriousness, an extremely good metaphor. It separates the acts of launching programs from managing which ones are running, because, dammit, those are different things.
OSX, with its Dock, conflates launching a program with looking at a window that it has opened. The implicit metaphor is that all programs are always "running," and that the messy details of actually starting a process should be wrapped up by the operating system so that we don't need to think about it. Then, multitasking within a program falls to the program itself. Everybody ends up implementing their own tabs.
This is not a Taskbar vs Dock issue. The issue is that in OSX the act of closing a window does not equate to closing a program. This is why so many Windows users new to OSX mistake the Dock for leaving programs running when in Windows clicking the red X means quit. In OSX the user has to specifically choose Quit from the menu bar, right click on the icon in the Dock and select Quit, or press Command-Q. Whether this is a good idea is another debate topic.
But for the Taskbar vs Dock metaphor, give me the simplified idea of the icon is the program, therefore clicking it brings it up no matter if it's already launched or not. Even Windows 7 went this direction.
That's because iTunes isn't an encoder. Quicktime is. iTunes is just the library application that uses Quicktime for playback (decoding). Try encoding something in iTunes next time and then go look at the song info. You'll see something like "Encoded with: iTunes 10.4, QuickTime 7.6.6".
Yes it did, but it was a long time after that before peripherals on the PC bothered to use USB. Many PCs even well after XP came out were still using PS/2 keyboards and mice, printers using the parallel port, etc.
"Well MINE came with a 8MP thingy instead of a measly 2MP thingy. And furthermore it has a latch that you can remove so you can swap the CMOS battery whenever you want. And I paid $100 less for mine."
"Yeah, but every single app has jerky screen-tearing animation. And what's with all the useless crud that comes installed on that thing?"
"What useless crud? I rooted mine with SuperHalogenFrodoMod and installed all the good stuff and got rid of that crud."
My guess is the problem is not the hardware keeping up but the developers. Most console games I see now are just $60 portals to an online multiplayer melee on a handful of maps (Call of Duty, etc). Finding any decent single player content anymore is like trying to throw kittens in the bathtub.
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"has proper folders instead of Gmail's "Labels" (which also have their merits, but I prefer folders)."
I have never understood this complaint being that a "folder" is nothing but a fancy label for a smaller pile of items that came from a bigger pile. Which is exactly what a Gmail label is.
Do you really believe iTunes is required to play AAC files?
How many songs can you fit on your portable music player in your precious FLAC format?
Nice story, thanks.
The green Phone icon on both devices are exactly the same as well.
Only works on Windows, like F1 for Help.
Finally, have you ever noticed how many people don't even have the basic computer skills in their job description? I've found this to be especially egregious in academia. Explaining basic Office functions to a counselor for the 23523312th time is tiring, to say the least. Isn't this a school? Aren't there classes for this crap that you could take for free? Whoever is pretending to manage these assholes needs to fuck off immediately.
Why learn it when they can have their computer geek friend fix it for them for the 23523313th time? Feigned ignorance to cover laziness is so much fun!
A several hundred dollar office suite shouldn't need the extra step of opening a non-formatting text editor in order to do this very common, very basic task. Especially in 2011. It's shameful.
"The "Unified world" will be a divided one - Android smartphones and tablets, and Apple smartphones and tablets. There is no room for a #3 (just like on the desktop, or we would have had a "year of the linux desktop" already) unless you consider 1% to be "success"."
And it's not really divided like the desktop world was. For every iOS app there's almost always and Android version. There's not really any document compatibility issues between the two that I know of (both can use PDFs, etc) like there is in the desktop arena (.doc .xls or .ppt file working 100% on anything else than Office, good luck). Because it's iOS and Android there hasn't been an apparent Embrace, Extend, Extinguish event yet that I'm guessing would likely happen if WP7 got a large foothold.
Try running a large scale ag business without software.
Android != smartphone.
Are the people in China really this misinformed about the goings on in their country to where they have to have the authorities sort this out for them?
I can't imagine they would stand for shopping at these stores had they known, after all they're there for the brand name like the rest of us, aren't they?
"An official press release showing an image of the device appeared on January 18, 2007"
"The first iPhone was unveiled by Apple CEO Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007"
Earlier GNOMES and KDEs imitated Windows. One thing Windows did right was the Taskbar. It is, in all seriousness, an extremely good metaphor. It separates the acts of launching programs from managing which ones are running, because, dammit, those are different things.
OSX, with its Dock, conflates launching a program with looking at a window that it has opened. The implicit metaphor is that all programs are always "running," and that the messy details of actually starting a process should be wrapped up by the operating system so that we don't need to think about it. Then, multitasking within a program falls to the program itself. Everybody ends up implementing their own tabs.
This is not a Taskbar vs Dock issue. The issue is that in OSX the act of closing a window does not equate to closing a program. This is why so many Windows users new to OSX mistake the Dock for leaving programs running when in Windows clicking the red X means quit. In OSX the user has to specifically choose Quit from the menu bar, right click on the icon in the Dock and select Quit, or press Command-Q. Whether this is a good idea is another debate topic.
But for the Taskbar vs Dock metaphor, give me the simplified idea of the icon is the program, therefore clicking it brings it up no matter if it's already launched or not. Even Windows 7 went this direction.
That's because iTunes isn't an encoder. Quicktime is. iTunes is just the library application that uses Quicktime for playback (decoding). Try encoding something in iTunes next time and then go look at the song info. You'll see something like "Encoded with: iTunes 10.4, QuickTime 7.6.6".
Yes it did, but it was a long time after that before peripherals on the PC bothered to use USB. Many PCs even well after XP came out were still using PS/2 keyboards and mice, printers using the parallel port, etc.
Just get two adapters, Mini-DisplayPort to DVI, then a DVI to HDMI.
Wouldn't this work?
I see your point, but in my case I'm using Chrome with AdBlock.
Congrats to the Opera fans, but for the rest of us the "browser that does everything approach" died with Netscape Communicator almost 10 years ago.
I think what we can take away from this is that generally most people want a fast browser that works over all other concerns.
Stop me if you've heard this conversation before:
"Well MINE came with a 8MP thingy instead of a measly 2MP thingy. And furthermore it has a latch that you can remove so you can swap the CMOS battery whenever you want. And I paid $100 less for mine."
"Yeah, but every single app has jerky screen-tearing animation. And what's with all the useless crud that comes installed on that thing?"
"What useless crud? I rooted mine with SuperHalogenFrodoMod and installed all the good stuff and got rid of that crud."
Probably about as locked down as MSN is.
Please, the video playback performance on it seems even worse than Flash if that's even possible.
(3 year old desktop system)
I wonder if Steve Jobs is drawing off his experience with Pixar and how much their company changed when they moved into their campus in Emeryville.
My guess is the problem is not the hardware keeping up but the developers. Most console games I see now are just $60 portals to an online multiplayer melee on a handful of maps (Call of Duty, etc). Finding any decent single player content anymore is like trying to throw kittens in the bathtub.
Didn't Android users *just* get Netflix?
Call it even?