he Quick Launch Toolbar (which is exactly the same as "Pinning" programs)
Actually the Quick Launch is better than pinning because there are things you can't pin that you can put in quick launch and you can repeatedly click the quick launcher with the left mouse button to open up multiple copies of the same application.
I'm trying to imagine how the hell people are having such difficulty navigating the fucking start menu and for the life of me I can't...
"Difficulty" is relative and there are some things about the windows 7 menu that are suboptimal vs the many alternatives. That's all that's being said. Please try not to get your identity wrapped up so much with your choice of OS. It makes you come off like a real tool.
Are you referring to Steven Sinofsky's blog? Doesn't it make sense that the developer of a particular piece of software is going to sing its praises? That blog is a part of marketing and should be taken with a boulder of salt. If you want to "prove" that the new menu is better than the old there is a way to do that. It's called science. Publish some papers. Get some peer review. Show some empirical evidence. That's how it's been done and I don't see why this should be any different if you want to be taken seriously.
KDE is awesome no doubt. If version 4.3 or greater (when it got good) had been available when Shuttleworth first started with Ubuntu and had he went with that instead of Gnome, and continued to refine the shit out of it I think desktop Linux might be taken a lot more seriously these days. I'm not saying Ubuntu is desktop Linux but when you mention it to normal people there is at least a chance they may have heard of it. The KDE developers seem to be pretty happy with its adoption but for I for one would really like to see a big desktop focused distro to come out of the woodwork like Ubuntu did and champion it. Probably won't happen though. Oh well.
I must have a lot of dexterity then because I find setting menushowdelay in the registry to 10 ms down from 400 ms and the flyout menus in XP and the classic start menu on windows 7 to be much faster than the hover and click fest of the default windows 7 menu.
It depends. Some of the most popular games in the world think World of Warcraft, Everquest, etc. run well on good enough integrated graphics a lot of laptops come with. The AMD stuff does work better than the intel stuff though by a long shot.
It's called business. Apple makes a lot of money and is in a sector ripe for real competition. It's the war of the ecosystems and with MS and Apple playing for keeps you better believe Google is going to step in the mix.
If you're that paranoid, word has it Amazon is running some kind of Android app store. If the rumors are to be believed you can even go to their website on your Android device and install the installer.
I'm doing this now with my Ubuntu chroot. I usually use androidVNC to show the graphical applications but I'm messing around with this xserver. So far, for the things that work with it it is much better than using a vnc client. The only problem is there are a lot of applications that don't work. Sadly, almost nothing works.
It would appear my enthusiasm was a bit premature. This thing needs work. It crashes on everything but the most rudimentary of applications but it does at least work. I have a feeling that there's going to be a lot of enthusiasm for this though. Great things to come.
I have been suffering with using androidVNC to do all of my x server duties on Android and it's been a long hard wrong but finally it would seem I have suffered long enought. THIS IS FUCKING AWESOOOOOOME!!!!
Based on my observations of how patent law is applied in the realm of software these days I think you're confusing theory with reality. As things are now software patents are enforced on the end not the means. Of course legal arguments can get very nebulous almost immediately. A good lawyer could ask the court, "what is the 'end' of what we're talking about? The end is to get a search result. Therefore the patent is invalid as you are patenting means." And on and on. Just look at the shenanigans between Apple/MS and the various Android OEM's. They are not arguing 'means' by any stretch. One of the patents MS is wielding against Barnes & Noble is one where the text is displayed before the background in a web browser. Is that the means or the end? It could easily be argued both ways. I'd say it is the end as the algorithm itself is the means. But that isn't what MS is saying. They are saying if you implement text before image then pay up. I mean, wtf is that? When it's all said and done though, it's all up for interpretation so your opinion is valid and so is mine. My opinion is that this patent will not stand up to scrutiny despite your unquestioning faith in MS research as you mentioned in another post. They may be smart and they may have many resources but MS has lost in court before so blind faith is a bit misplaced on your part.
Assuming they get this patent granted, if and when it goes to court they're going to need something better than it "shows better accuracy and efficiency than state-of-the-art methods". If it were that easy patents would be worthless as you could make a few changes on anything and be home free. Samsung: "our slide to unlock has a shorter distance to travel and a bigger slide:)". Of course, maybe the insanity is to such a level that it really is that easy but if that were the case I'd use your logic and say "This is probably not as simple as $CORPORATION trying to patent something which has already been done before." but then I'd ask why isn't everyone doing it?
I'm not saying you're wrong here but I'm curious what all thos cool stuff I'm missing out on is. I have a Galaxy Nexus on Verizon with a grandfathered unlimited data plan. Its definitely unlimited as I regularly exceed 500 MB a day. I don't pay for texts as I use google voice and my phone is with the lowest minutes as I make calls via voip. So I get all the internet I want and its pretty much instant loading as lte has good coverage here and I have unlimited mi utes since I use voip. So what am I missing? I hear they watch TV on phones in Asia. Not interested even a little bit.
What if space aliens stole it as part of their nefarious plot of taking it over and killing us all? Just a thought. Too bad nuclear bombs are banned in space or we could just nuke it in orbit. You know, just to be sure.
Android is released in its entirety under OSI approved open source licenses. The issue with bootloader unlocked hardware like the Galaxy Nexus/Nexus S etc. is that in order for some of the hardware to work requires binary blobs but developers at Google are hard at work alleviating this requirement. But as far as Android itself it is completely open source under very liberal licenses mostly Apache 2.0.
And should you find yourself at a construction site just put a 2x4 over your shoulder and walk purposefully with a stern look on your face. Works every time.
If you want Eclipse so you can write Android apps on your Android device, you can always use this. With that you can write java cli apps or regular Android apps all day long on your TF.
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he Quick Launch Toolbar (which is exactly the same as "Pinning" programs)
Actually the Quick Launch is better than pinning because there are things you can't pin that you can put in quick launch and you can repeatedly click the quick launcher with the left mouse button to open up multiple copies of the same application.
I'm trying to imagine how the hell people are having such difficulty navigating the fucking start menu and for the life of me I can't...
"Difficulty" is relative and there are some things about the windows 7 menu that are suboptimal vs the many alternatives. That's all that's being said. Please try not to get your identity wrapped up so much with your choice of OS. It makes you come off like a real tool.
Are you referring to Steven Sinofsky's blog? Doesn't it make sense that the developer of a particular piece of software is going to sing its praises? That blog is a part of marketing and should be taken with a boulder of salt. If you want to "prove" that the new menu is better than the old there is a way to do that. It's called science. Publish some papers. Get some peer review. Show some empirical evidence. That's how it's been done and I don't see why this should be any different if you want to be taken seriously.
KDE is awesome no doubt. If version 4.3 or greater (when it got good) had been available when Shuttleworth first started with Ubuntu and had he went with that instead of Gnome, and continued to refine the shit out of it I think desktop Linux might be taken a lot more seriously these days. I'm not saying Ubuntu is desktop Linux but when you mention it to normal people there is at least a chance they may have heard of it. The KDE developers seem to be pretty happy with its adoption but for I for one would really like to see a big desktop focused distro to come out of the woodwork like Ubuntu did and champion it. Probably won't happen though. Oh well.
I must have a lot of dexterity then because I find setting menushowdelay in the registry to 10 ms down from 400 ms and the flyout menus in XP and the classic start menu on windows 7 to be much faster than the hover and click fest of the default windows 7 menu.
It depends. Some of the most popular games in the world think World of Warcraft, Everquest, etc. run well on good enough integrated graphics a lot of laptops come with. The AMD stuff does work better than the intel stuff though by a long shot.
Plenty of them but since you're such an asshole, fuck you.
It's called business. Apple makes a lot of money and is in a sector ripe for real competition. It's the war of the ecosystems and with MS and Apple playing for keeps you better believe Google is going to step in the mix.
If you're that paranoid, word has it Amazon is running some kind of Android app store. If the rumors are to be believed you can even go to their website on your Android device and install the installer.
I'm doing this now with my Ubuntu chroot. I usually use androidVNC to show the graphical applications but I'm messing around with this xserver. So far, for the things that work with it it is much better than using a vnc client. The only problem is there are a lot of applications that don't work. Sadly, almost nothing works.
It would appear my enthusiasm was a bit premature. This thing needs work. It crashes on everything but the most rudimentary of applications but it does at least work. I have a feeling that there's going to be a lot of enthusiasm for this though. Great things to come.
I have been suffering with using androidVNC to do all of my x server duties on Android and it's been a long hard wrong but finally it would seem I have suffered long enought. THIS IS FUCKING AWESOOOOOOME!!!!
A benevolent monarchy is the best form of government but people are too incompetent to recognize one and continually revolt in search of "rights".
Yeah but when the monarchy decides not to be so benevolent anymore you're royally screwed.
Based on my observations of how patent law is applied in the realm of software these days I think you're confusing theory with reality. As things are now software patents are enforced on the end not the means. Of course legal arguments can get very nebulous almost immediately. A good lawyer could ask the court, "what is the 'end' of what we're talking about? The end is to get a search result. Therefore the patent is invalid as you are patenting means." And on and on. Just look at the shenanigans between Apple/MS and the various Android OEM's. They are not arguing 'means' by any stretch. One of the patents MS is wielding against Barnes & Noble is one where the text is displayed before the background in a web browser. Is that the means or the end? It could easily be argued both ways. I'd say it is the end as the algorithm itself is the means. But that isn't what MS is saying. They are saying if you implement text before image then pay up. I mean, wtf is that? When it's all said and done though, it's all up for interpretation so your opinion is valid and so is mine. My opinion is that this patent will not stand up to scrutiny despite your unquestioning faith in MS research as you mentioned in another post. They may be smart and they may have many resources but MS has lost in court before so blind faith is a bit misplaced on your part.
Assuming they get this patent granted, if and when it goes to court they're going to need something better than it "shows better accuracy and efficiency than state-of-the-art methods". If it were that easy patents would be worthless as you could make a few changes on anything and be home free. Samsung: "our slide to unlock has a shorter distance to travel and a bigger slide :)". Of course, maybe the insanity is to such a level that it really is that easy but if that were the case I'd use your logic and say "This is probably not as simple as $CORPORATION trying to patent something which has already been done before." but then I'd ask why isn't everyone doing it?
I'm not saying you're wrong here but I'm curious what all thos cool stuff I'm missing out on is. I have a Galaxy Nexus on Verizon with a grandfathered unlimited data plan. Its definitely unlimited as I regularly exceed 500 MB a day. I don't pay for texts as I use google voice and my phone is with the lowest minutes as I make calls via voip. So I get all the internet I want and its pretty much instant loading as lte has good coverage here and I have unlimited mi utes since I use voip. So what am I missing? I hear they watch TV on phones in Asia. Not interested even a little bit.
the GPL was the very worst thing that ever happened to linux -- it isolated and emasculated the platform in one easy step.
And in one fell swoop, the troll is slain. Emasculated indeed. ha
I saw it.
What if space aliens stole it as part of their nefarious plot of taking it over and killing us all? Just a thought. Too bad nuclear bombs are banned in space or we could just nuke it in orbit. You know, just to be sure.
pseudo open source with have with Android
Android is released in its entirety under OSI approved open source licenses. The issue with bootloader unlocked hardware like the Galaxy Nexus/Nexus S etc. is that in order for some of the hardware to work requires binary blobs but developers at Google are hard at work alleviating this requirement. But as far as Android itself it is completely open source under very liberal licenses mostly Apache 2.0.
Not necessarily. It just helps you look busy.
And should you find yourself at a construction site just put a 2x4 over your shoulder and walk purposefully with a stern look on your face. Works every time.
I don't see a port of Eclipse any time soon
If you want Eclipse so you can write Android apps on your Android device, you can always use this. With that you can write java cli apps or regular Android apps all day long on your TF.
Dude, we get it, you like your iPad. I like mine too. Would you stop with the obnoxious platform zealotry? Please?
She malformed the link and when you do that slash code mangles it like that for you. It happens to all of us at least once eventually.