Why do you think I brought this up? Tons and tons of Mac owners who are none too savvy simply run a program from a.dmg and then when they reboot because of an update or whatever, "forget" where they "installed" the program. Then they bother me.
I have dealt with this more times than I would like to recall and I welcome our new App Store overlords.
As much as this review will cause hysteria among the Slashdot crowd (OMG THEY ARE LOCKING OUT CHOICES) I am very much in favor of using the App Store as the default repository. This has two major benefits as far as I see it. First, the applications will actually go into the/Applications folder instead of being run from a mounted.dmg file. Second, applications will actually get updated.
Another benefit is that this move will nip a lot of malware vectors in the bud.
Before everybody gets their panties in a twist, note that you can still install whatever you want after entering an admin user/pass and changing the settings.
I will agree with PC Magazine on a few points though - why the hell does a notepad have to look like a real life notepad? That's just cutesy stupid bullcrap.
Sigh, I think you're being a slack cunt right now. Sigh. In other news, sigh, sigh is worn out so don't sigh any more because it makes you look like a dried out vaginal crunchberry. Sigh.
It's not that startling. All you need to do is find out how many DPI the human eye can resolve at a given distance. I would think that it's pretty obvious.
In case your google skills also suck, I will excerpt for you:
A 20/20 viewer who can resolve lines 1 mm apart will just be able to see both the line structure and the horizontal pixel structure from a distance of three picture heights.
This plea for sanity is going to fall on deaf ears. Clearly the Gnome team knows what it is doing, and people like you do not fall into their use case any more.
It's ok though because you can always use another WM.
The point is, who cares if an application is running! This is 2012 man, if an application is not already running you click he dock icon and it starts and opens the document(s) you were working on before so you can get on with your work.
Irrelevant. Even with a 100" screen you'd have to be closer than 12' to see the difference between SD and HD (let alone 4K) and any closer than that and you have to crane our neck to see different parts of the screen in your zonal or central field of vision (the area that focuses and watches stuff).
Greater display resolution is pointless. You can not even appreciate the difference between standard definition and HD on a 42" screen unless you are closer than about 6 feet, assuming 20/20 vision.
If you don't believe me then clearly you haven't done the math.
Precisely. They made a bunch of changes to GnuStep, licensed the changes under the GPL, and somebody downloaded them from Sony's SNAP developer site and released them. Instantly the project was closed down, and that web site is now dead.
Why? What's the point of overhauling the whole of GnuStep (which is GPL) just to close it down again? Somebody at some level showed willingness to invest, but somebody at a higher level killed it.
This is an excellent point. I am also very happy with my original iPad. The newer iPads are a bit thinner, but the battery life is about the same, and I have heard that the iPad 2's glass and metal are both thinner.
My guess is that as with OS X / PPC, they will release a new version of the iOS that will not run on the iPad one, excusing themselves by claiming it needs more ram or multi-core or some such nonsense.
Anyway I use the iPad instead of a laptop. I am writing a book with it, and using a Bluetooth keyboard some of the time. My buddy uses Garage Band and has made some pretty impressive stuff with it. You can do more than consume media with an iPad, and perhaps Apple will emphasize this with the next iteration. A pressure-sensitive screen would go a long way toward doing that.
You're laboring awfully hard here. This is really a move to comply with India, China, and Saudi Arabia's different censorship regimes.
The USA may be taking down sites like Megaupload and other largely pirate based sites, but we do have laws here that theoretically uphold freedom of speech, unlike the other nations.
If you were a German, you may be interested in certain topics like holocaust revisionism. However, under the new Google regime you won't be able to research it.
They are not censoring the idea that there are secret laws. But how do we know what they MAY be censoring? We certainly do know now that Google is willing to censor stuff.
That's a really fucked up way of looking at things. Google has started to agree to censor what people can see overseas, and you suggest this increases confidence in Google?
Are you naive enough to imagine that they will censor their platform based on something as simple as the top level domain? They will censor by IP range.
Google has take a big step toward evil here. What's next? Should the New York Times that is sold in Hong Kong limit their coverage of corruption of Chinese food issues?
You must be in PR, or work for Google, because without drinking some potent kind of Kool-Ade it is impossible to perceive this as a positive thing.
"Sony" is an umbrella that contains many relatively independent operations. Sony Computer Entertainment, Sony Records, Sony Pictures, and their chip foundry operations are all effectively independent.
I wonder what Google is censoring in the USA? Could be that they have strict orders to keep whatever it is secret, so nobody will even know about it.
And before anybody jumps down my throat and vaporishly wails "Oh but that COULDN'T happen in AMERICA!" please direct your attention to this post : http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/9/30/215-section-act-patriot/ and senator Wyden's recent comments on secret interpretations of the Patriot act.
Heck, my two year old iPad still gets well over 25 hours of battery life on a charge. The specs say "10 hours of HD video" but that's about the most intensive thing you can do on an iPad, aside from OpenGL-heavy gaming.
When it was new it got over 30 hours of light PDF-reading and web browsing.
You should also smash your HP, Dell, and Sony computers and phones, and your Xbox 360, because Foxconn makes them all.
Do you know of any manufacturer that does not use or exploit workers in nations like China or Thailand or Brazil?
This is just a bunch of wind from journalists who have been paid off by (likely) Microsoft or another one of the usual players. By the way, Microsoft now employs thousands of third world coders.
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Why do you think I brought this up? Tons and tons of Mac owners who are none too savvy simply run a program from a .dmg and then when they reboot because of an update or whatever, "forget" where they "installed" the program. Then they bother me.
I have dealt with this more times than I would like to recall and I welcome our new App Store overlords.
It's not really fair to say Android outsold iOS, when the vast majority of Android devices are given away with the plan.
As much as this review will cause hysteria among the Slashdot crowd (OMG THEY ARE LOCKING OUT CHOICES) I am very much in favor of using the App Store as the default repository. This has two major benefits as far as I see it. First, the applications will actually go into the /Applications folder instead of being run from a mounted .dmg file. Second, applications will actually get updated.
Another benefit is that this move will nip a lot of malware vectors in the bud.
Before everybody gets their panties in a twist, note that you can still install whatever you want after entering an admin user/pass and changing the settings.
I will agree with PC Magazine on a few points though - why the hell does a notepad have to look like a real life notepad? That's just cutesy stupid bullcrap.
Sigh, I think you're being a slack cunt right now. Sigh. In other news, sigh, sigh is worn out so don't sigh any more because it makes you look like a dried out vaginal crunchberry. Sigh.
It's not that startling. All you need to do is find out how many DPI the human eye can resolve at a given distance. I would think that it's pretty obvious.
In case your google skills also suck, I will excerpt for you:
A 20/20 viewer who can resolve lines 1 mm apart will just be able to see both the line structure and the horizontal pixel structure from a distance of three picture heights.
You made me laugh. I think I woke up my wife.
A dolphin is streamlined too but I wouldn't want one for a computer.
This plea for sanity is going to fall on deaf ears. Clearly the Gnome team knows what it is doing, and people like you do not fall into their use case any more.
It's ok though because you can always use another WM.
Sigh, and now we have people like you who don't realize that Nextstep introduced the Dock, and that OS X is just a modern version of Nextstep...
The point is, who cares if an application is running! This is 2012 man, if an application is not already running you click he dock icon and it starts and opens the document(s) you were working on before so you can get on with your work.
Irrelevant. Even with a 100" screen you'd have to be closer than 12' to see the difference between SD and HD (let alone 4K) and any closer than that and you have to crane our neck to see different parts of the screen in your zonal or central field of vision (the area that focuses and watches stuff).
You know almost all the menu items have keyboard shortcuts, listed right there in the menu...
Greater display resolution is pointless. You can not even appreciate the difference between standard definition and HD on a 42" screen unless you are closer than about 6 feet, assuming 20/20 vision.
If you don't believe me then clearly you haven't done the math.
Precisely. They made a bunch of changes to GnuStep, licensed the changes under the GPL, and somebody downloaded them from Sony's SNAP developer site and released them. Instantly the project was closed down, and that web site is now dead.
Why? What's the point of overhauling the whole of GnuStep (which is GPL) just to close it down again? Somebody at some level showed willingness to invest, but somebody at a higher level killed it.
This is an excellent point. I am also very happy with my original iPad. The newer iPads are a bit thinner, but the battery life is about the same, and I have heard that the iPad 2's glass and metal are both thinner.
My guess is that as with OS X / PPC, they will release a new version of the iOS that will not run on the iPad one, excusing themselves by claiming it needs more ram or multi-core or some such nonsense.
Anyway I use the iPad instead of a laptop. I am writing a book with it, and using a Bluetooth keyboard some of the time. My buddy uses Garage Band and has made some pretty impressive stuff with it. You can do more than consume media with an iPad, and perhaps Apple will emphasize this with the next iteration. A pressure-sensitive screen would go a long way toward doing that.
Sigh, people who start their comments with "sigh" are bordering on the ridiculous.
Especially when they are ACs.
You're laboring awfully hard here. This is really a move to comply with India, China, and Saudi Arabia's different censorship regimes.
The USA may be taking down sites like Megaupload and other largely pirate based sites, but we do have laws here that theoretically uphold freedom of speech, unlike the other nations.
If you were a German, you may be interested in certain topics like holocaust revisionism. However, under the new Google regime you won't be able to research it.
So they should take a stand and stop selling Google Adwords in China or other repressive countries.
It would be up to the authorities to try to block Google in China, and we all know that there are many ways around the Great Firewall.
Doesn't Google make enough money already?
They are not censoring the idea that there are secret laws. But how do we know what they MAY be censoring? We certainly do know now that Google is willing to censor stuff.
Thanks for playing though.
That's a really fucked up way of looking at things. Google has started to agree to censor what people can see overseas, and you suggest this increases confidence in Google?
Are you naive enough to imagine that they will censor their platform based on something as simple as the top level domain? They will censor by IP range.
Google has take a big step toward evil here. What's next? Should the New York Times that is sold in Hong Kong limit their coverage of corruption of Chinese food issues?
You must be in PR, or work for Google, because without drinking some potent kind of Kool-Ade it is impossible to perceive this as a positive thing.
"Sony" is an umbrella that contains many relatively independent operations. Sony Computer Entertainment, Sony Records, Sony Pictures, and their chip foundry operations are all effectively independent.
I wonder what Google is censoring in the USA? Could be that they have strict orders to keep whatever it is secret, so nobody will even know about it.
And before anybody jumps down my throat and vaporishly wails "Oh but that COULDN'T happen in AMERICA!" please direct your attention to this post : http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/9/30/215-section-act-patriot/ and senator Wyden's recent comments on secret interpretations of the Patriot act.
We are really down the rabbit hole here folks.
Heck, my two year old iPad still gets well over 25 hours of battery life on a charge. The specs say "10 hours of HD video" but that's about the most intensive thing you can do on an iPad, aside from OpenGL-heavy gaming.
When it was new it got over 30 hours of light PDF-reading and web browsing.
You should also smash your HP, Dell, and Sony computers and phones, and your Xbox 360, because Foxconn makes them all.
Do you know of any manufacturer that does not use or exploit workers in nations like China or Thailand or Brazil?
This is just a bunch of wind from journalists who have been paid off by (likely) Microsoft or another one of the usual players. By the way, Microsoft now employs thousands of third world coders.
People have been saying this since the iPhone came out what, 5 years ago?
It's not going to happen.