I've wondered lately, how does this censor/"antivirus" software fit into Linux PCs offered by manufacturers? Does it run under those options? Or can no one in China any longer buy or use a Linux PC to go online?
So instead of going to flickr I have to know and maintain all of my friends' computer addresses? In what, an address book that I store on my computer? What if I'm at a friend's house and want to show them another friend's picture, but they don't know the address?
I agree there are good reasons to go to v6, but directly accessing every device via a public address is not the answer, unless it's made really REALLY transparent and easy to use. Who's going to manage that? The OS?
Too bad hitting the [Enter] key won't do a damn thing other than move to a new line? F5 to Execute your script for the win.
And anyone deleting anything from any tables should know better to double check before committing and actually executing the script. Anything else is just amateur.
I agree, and actually, I'd propose that what is considered "average" use is changing. The story of typical usage being light browsing and checking email is tired. Average use now is downloading music and movies from iTunes, streaming video from Hulu, Youtube, and Netflix. And online gaming via Xbox Live and Wii Arcade.
What happens when today's "heavy" users become tomorrow's "average" users?
Is this just fishing for page views? On what planet are they thinking the IE8 experience is better than any of the alternatives?
I've been using the IE8 builds at work since they released the beta. Sure, it's leaps and bounds better than IE7, which itself was better than IE6. But it still doesn't come close to Firefox or Chrome.
Even forgetting the extensions like AdBlock, IE's UI and rendering just feels sluggish after using Firefox or Chrome.
What is the crack they're smoking at computerworld?
That has not been even close to my experience. On my work PC, a Thinkpad T60p, I can launch Firefox, ctrl-L to load a page, ctrl-T to open a new tab, enter an address, and have that loaded before IE7 *or* IE8RC1 even has opened up and loaded our Sharepoint intranet site.
Since IE7 came out IE has never been able to respond to opening the browser, then rattling off new tabs even close to as fast as Firefox can. Just my anecdotal $.02.
Somehow they managed to do it without things like built-in DVD players and crap like that. We haven't started having kids yet, but when we do I'm tempted to NOT have all of those things. My parents had road trips when they were kids without all of this tech, and we did without as kids, too. Why should my kids get to not enjoy the boredom and conversation?
So why not seize control of the cable and DSL lines? Have them owned by the Local People and allow any provider to offer broadband service through those conduits. If it worked for dialup, why won't it work for broadband? Hell, the dialup and DSL are all coming in on the same phone lines!
Outlook Web Access has a lot more functionality under IE flavors than it does under Firefox. I know there's a right-click context menu that's missing, and I think some other menu items are gone, too. It sucks....
The summary asks why MS is apparently scared about Ubuntu, and not so much Mac. In my opinion, they should BOTH be scared. Ultimately, the computing experience is about the applications that run on a given operating system. We are heading towards a time where we'll see more and more OS-agnostic applications, or web based applications that don't care what OS you are running.
Operating systems are becoming products with diminishing returns. Really, all the OS does is offer you an interface to work with those applications, and an interface to connect to your hardware. But that can only go so far. Sure, you may have innovations here and there, but things like Ubuntu will quickly copy and implement those. And that's the problem the Big Two are running into - what do you do when there's really no differentiation between your for-pay OSs and a free OS? What happens when all of your OS products run all the same applications? All you're left with is the user experience factor, and if the free offering can quickly replicate that, then what?
What I'd like to see even more is true innovation on the Linux desktop front. Sure, there's some cool things like Compiz that the other guys don't have, but I'd say 90% of the things that Ubuntu's desktop has or is working on is chasing after what the other guys are doing, imitating it but never really *improving* on it other than making it free.
I tried it last night, on 8.10, and didn't have much luck. I'd really like a dark theme, but none of the ones I find seem to work well. Sure, I'll grant that the theme *did* look good. But it screwed up the controls so that iGoogle looked like crap and I couldn't read half the HTML elements. I like the window border of the theme, but if I only use that I lose the all-black task bar. All in all, I thought Firefox looked pretty bad under this.
Also, I still didn't like the icons. Why do 99% of the gnome icon themes suck? They all have this ugly volume control, and ugly 4 bars for the wireless connection. I've found some nice minimalist OSX-like icons themes, but they are always black and don't work well with the dark interfaces!
I did like the mini-style of the theme. Changing back to some of my others I realized how much space is wasted on some of the menus and the bars. Just my $.02.
Actually, with global warming causing icecaps to melt and whatnot, his crazy swimming abilities might actually have an evolutionary benefit! I, for one, welcome our half-fish super-fast-swimming overlords.
Who are you to care about what someone else does in their own privacy? The world needs a lot more MYOB and STFU....if we each worried more about how we lived our own lives, and less about how others lived theirs, it would be a lot better place.
Conversely, I live in mid-Michigan, in a city 20 minutes from the capital and right along an interstate, and have Cable: --local cable company that makes Comcast's rates and service offerings look good
DSL: --AT&T
And then there's dialup if I don't want broadband, and satellite internet if I want to pay $$$ for slower access than the DSL offers.
Granted, I think the Lansing area gets Comcast, and AT&T's UVerse is starting to appear in West and East Michigan, but still. I would think having 7 options for broadband Internet would be a big exception.
But you're paying for water usage and electric usage for a finite resource, not the means of transmission. All Charter or any other ISP is providing me is a means to access a resource. I'm paying my water company for the water I use, not the pipes that it comes in on. If I wanted, I could contract with Koolaid to put a reservoir on my land where my water comes in, and I would pay them to provide Koolaid instead of water. Would I keep paying the water company?
Bandwidth caps are stupid stupid stupid, as are the retarded attempts to defend them. This is a situation where the ISPs *don't* want to build new infrastructure and lower their margins, so they are attempting to socially engineer lower bandwidth consumption. If you're running out of space on your pipes, build bigger and more pipes. Don't try and coerce people to use *less* of your service.
WTF would Charter do if all of a sudden every single subscriber signed up for the 60Meg tier and maxed out their bandwidth 24/7. They'd be back in the same fucking boat they're in now.
They may not have all the functionality of Acrobat(TM), but they do most of it, contrast OO.o and MSO.
Then, IMHO, it is not Good Enough. The biggest problem I have with a lot of FOSS alternatives, is just that - they only do *most* of the job of the commercial alternatives. Firefox got where it is because it did everything IE did, but did it better, plus offered more on top of that.
I think we're at a point where FOSS is becoming mainstream enough that it will no longer be able to rely on the "it does most of what expensive commercial product X does, but is free!". To really get over the next hump, projects need to not only have feature parity with their commercial counterparts, but go beyond that to offer something even better and more innovative.
But then you depend on the Package Repository for new software and updates to your existing software. In my experience, that's hit or miss. Lots of everyday software I use is 2-3 minor versions behind in the packages. And in a lot of cases installing from downloads on the product page is even more of a pain in the butt. I cross my fingers that I an find a.deb package. On Windows, each program usually will at least alert me to a new version, and most of them self-update. Having a central repo is nice, but it's nice to not have to depend on it, too.
The thing is, Outlook sucks, and last I tried it Evolution was just a half-assed imitation of Outlook. I don't think copying/imitating Outlook is the answer.
Someone needs to come up with a client that works with Exchange, but does it *better* than Outlook. There are so many quirks and annoyances that I have to deal with each day by using Outlook. Why does everyone try and copy it, rather than improve it?
I haven't checked in awhile, but I'd like to see some sort of melding between Thunderbird's email handling and Chandlers PIM features.
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Obviously it's man-made global (solar?) warming that is causing this increased sunspot activity...
I've wondered lately, how does this censor/"antivirus" software fit into Linux PCs offered by manufacturers? Does it run under those options? Or can no one in China any longer buy or use a Linux PC to go online?
So instead of going to flickr I have to know and maintain all of my friends' computer addresses? In what, an address book that I store on my computer? What if I'm at a friend's house and want to show them another friend's picture, but they don't know the address?
I agree there are good reasons to go to v6, but directly accessing every device via a public address is not the answer, unless it's made really REALLY transparent and easy to use. Who's going to manage that? The OS?
Too bad hitting the [Enter] key won't do a damn thing other than move to a new line? F5 to Execute your script for the win.
And anyone deleting anything from any tables should know better to double check before committing and actually executing the script. Anything else is just amateur.
Methinks you are doing entirely too much research for posting to a web forum then! All comments should be quick off-the-cuff remarks!
I agree, and actually, I'd propose that what is considered "average" use is changing. The story of typical usage being light browsing and checking email is tired. Average use now is downloading music and movies from iTunes, streaming video from Hulu, Youtube, and Netflix. And online gaming via Xbox Live and Wii Arcade.
What happens when today's "heavy" users become tomorrow's "average" users?
And what if I'm talking on the phone while watching TV? Or at a friend's house and want to use their entertainment system?
Is this just fishing for page views? On what planet are they thinking the IE8 experience is better than any of the alternatives?
I've been using the IE8 builds at work since they released the beta. Sure, it's leaps and bounds better than IE7, which itself was better than IE6. But it still doesn't come close to Firefox or Chrome.
Even forgetting the extensions like AdBlock, IE's UI and rendering just feels sluggish after using Firefox or Chrome.
What is the crack they're smoking at computerworld?
That has not been even close to my experience. On my work PC, a Thinkpad T60p, I can launch Firefox, ctrl-L to load a page, ctrl-T to open a new tab, enter an address, and have that loaded before IE7 *or* IE8RC1 even has opened up and loaded our Sharepoint intranet site.
Since IE7 came out IE has never been able to respond to opening the browser, then rattling off new tabs even close to as fast as Firefox can. Just my anecdotal $.02.
You could always pay for hosting, and store your encrypted files on an FTP site, right?
Heh, I just ordered a new Lenovo keyboard, and according to UPS it looks like it's enroute from China. I wonder if I should feel bad about it....
Until tiered pricing and bandwidth caps come into play?
Somehow they managed to do it without things like built-in DVD players and crap like that. We haven't started having kids yet, but when we do I'm tempted to NOT have all of those things. My parents had road trips when they were kids without all of this tech, and we did without as kids, too. Why should my kids get to not enjoy the boredom and conversation?
So why not seize control of the cable and DSL lines? Have them owned by the Local People and allow any provider to offer broadband service through those conduits. If it worked for dialup, why won't it work for broadband? Hell, the dialup and DSL are all coming in on the same phone lines!
Outlook doesn't run under Ubuntu at home. Well, maybe it does via WINE or a VM....but it's easier...er, passable to use OWA.
Outlook Web Access has a lot more functionality under IE flavors than it does under Firefox. I know there's a right-click context menu that's missing, and I think some other menu items are gone, too. It sucks....
The summary asks why MS is apparently scared about Ubuntu, and not so much Mac. In my opinion, they should BOTH be scared. Ultimately, the computing experience is about the applications that run on a given operating system. We are heading towards a time where we'll see more and more OS-agnostic applications, or web based applications that don't care what OS you are running.
Operating systems are becoming products with diminishing returns. Really, all the OS does is offer you an interface to work with those applications, and an interface to connect to your hardware. But that can only go so far. Sure, you may have innovations here and there, but things like Ubuntu will quickly copy and implement those. And that's the problem the Big Two are running into - what do you do when there's really no differentiation between your for-pay OSs and a free OS? What happens when all of your OS products run all the same applications? All you're left with is the user experience factor, and if the free offering can quickly replicate that, then what?
What I'd like to see even more is true innovation on the Linux desktop front. Sure, there's some cool things like Compiz that the other guys don't have, but I'd say 90% of the things that Ubuntu's desktop has or is working on is chasing after what the other guys are doing, imitating it but never really *improving* on it other than making it free.
I *think* this was posted on Lifehacker yesterday, that you could download and install the theme that this uses. Here's the link:
http://lifehacker.com/5147379/get-hps-dark+themed-mini-look-on-your-ubuntu-desktop
I tried it last night, on 8.10, and didn't have much luck. I'd really like a dark theme, but none of the ones I find seem to work well. Sure, I'll grant that the theme *did* look good. But it screwed up the controls so that iGoogle looked like crap and I couldn't read half the HTML elements. I like the window border of the theme, but if I only use that I lose the all-black task bar. All in all, I thought Firefox looked pretty bad under this.
Also, I still didn't like the icons. Why do 99% of the gnome icon themes suck? They all have this ugly volume control, and ugly 4 bars for the wireless connection. I've found some nice minimalist OSX-like icons themes, but they are always black and don't work well with the dark interfaces!
I did like the mini-style of the theme. Changing back to some of my others I realized how much space is wasted on some of the menus and the bars. Just my $.02.
Actually, with global warming causing icecaps to melt and whatnot, his crazy swimming abilities might actually have an evolutionary benefit! I, for one, welcome our half-fish super-fast-swimming overlords.
Who are you to care about what someone else does in their own privacy? The world needs a lot more MYOB and STFU....if we each worried more about how we lived our own lives, and less about how others lived theirs, it would be a lot better place.
Conversely, I live in mid-Michigan, in a city 20 minutes from the capital and right along an interstate, and have
Cable:
--local cable company that makes Comcast's rates and service offerings look good
DSL:
--AT&T
And then there's dialup if I don't want broadband, and satellite internet if I want to pay $$$ for slower access than the DSL offers.
Granted, I think the Lansing area gets Comcast, and AT&T's UVerse is starting to appear in West and East Michigan, but still. I would think having 7 options for broadband Internet would be a big exception.
But you're paying for water usage and electric usage for a finite resource, not the means of transmission. All Charter or any other ISP is providing me is a means to access a resource. I'm paying my water company for the water I use, not the pipes that it comes in on. If I wanted, I could contract with Koolaid to put a reservoir on my land where my water comes in, and I would pay them to provide Koolaid instead of water. Would I keep paying the water company?
Bandwidth caps are stupid stupid stupid, as are the retarded attempts to defend them. This is a situation where the ISPs *don't* want to build new infrastructure and lower their margins, so they are attempting to socially engineer lower bandwidth consumption. If you're running out of space on your pipes, build bigger and more pipes. Don't try and coerce people to use *less* of your service.
WTF would Charter do if all of a sudden every single subscriber signed up for the 60Meg tier and maxed out their bandwidth 24/7. They'd be back in the same fucking boat they're in now.
They may not have all the functionality of Acrobat(TM), but they do most of it, contrast OO.o and MSO.
Then, IMHO, it is not Good Enough. The biggest problem I have with a lot of FOSS alternatives, is just that - they only do *most* of the job of the commercial alternatives. Firefox got where it is because it did everything IE did, but did it better, plus offered more on top of that.
I think we're at a point where FOSS is becoming mainstream enough that it will no longer be able to rely on the "it does most of what expensive commercial product X does, but is free!". To really get over the next hump, projects need to not only have feature parity with their commercial counterparts, but go beyond that to offer something even better and more innovative.
But then you depend on the Package Repository for new software and updates to your existing software. In my experience, that's hit or miss. Lots of everyday software I use is 2-3 minor versions behind in the packages. And in a lot of cases installing from downloads on the product page is even more of a pain in the butt. I cross my fingers that I an find a .deb package. On Windows, each program usually will at least alert me to a new version, and most of them self-update. Having a central repo is nice, but it's nice to not have to depend on it, too.
The thing is, Outlook sucks, and last I tried it Evolution was just a half-assed imitation of Outlook. I don't think copying/imitating Outlook is the answer.
Someone needs to come up with a client that works with Exchange, but does it *better* than Outlook. There are so many quirks and annoyances that I have to deal with each day by using Outlook. Why does everyone try and copy it, rather than improve it?
I haven't checked in awhile, but I'd like to see some sort of melding between Thunderbird's email handling and Chandlers PIM features.