This looks very much like what is coming in out in Gnome Desktop (Gnome 3) as well. As someone who generally has 40 or 50 tabs open, I'm looking forward to it. If it allows me to search tabs quickly with a hotkey and a couple of words like Mozilla Ubiquity did I'll be extra happy.
As someone here said a few weeks ago so concisely: "Apple: Freedom from choice". One phone, one interface, few or no options. If that's what you want, great, but personally I'm glad Android along.
Where I went to school we actually did have a course in business writing that included writing specifications, proposal requests, etc. I didn't enjoy it at the time but it has come in useful on many occasions.
I don't understand why they don't sell it as an option on all on their machines, even if they don't provide software support for it. If nothing else, it would allow them to become a convenient source for machines (especially laptops) for those of us who object to paying the Windows tax. Perhaps if more people tried to return their Windows licence? An added bonus would be to list the Linux compatibility of each of their machines. This would require a fairly minimal effort and would help buyers out greatly.
I actually looked at Dell for a Linux based machine for the last laptop I bought, and I think they had one machine. They never really had enough options to determine whether or not they could have sold very many machines. Seriously, without proving support, wouldn't it really only require a different disk image?
A keyboard/mouse may be a superior controller to play with but it's not easy to use as you sit back on your couch. That's the target market for consoles.
Paying video stores to only carry your format is not really letting the market decide. The whole things was a weasel-fest, and the more expensive format, with a non-finalized spec and forced DRM (or so I'm let to believe) won. I'm still dreaming the day consumers get together and start asking "in that an open, non-patent encumbered format", and not using it if the answer is "no". In my defence, I do realise it is dreaming.
... that advertising company has gone out of its way so that you are *not* locked into their services. The work required to dump Apple, especially if you're computer+phone+medial player is quite a lot.
I generally pick a machine in my price range and check the processor speed rating against others. Inevitable, I look at the graphs and say ""yeah, it'll be fine". You can run a full Java IDE and an application server on a Linux netbook. Unless you're playing the very latest games, almost anything is fine for most people.
I don't know you well enough to determine whether or not it's annoying enough to stab you in the head with a fork, but it is getting a little annoying.
By coincidence, a friend of mine had his iPhone crash when calling 911 last week. It was admittedly one he found on the ground beside a sidewalk, but seemed to be in decent shape. I think it will take a few years before everybody gets all the bugs worked out of the underlying operating systems.
independent software development in general (including a large chunk of FOSS) is doomed.
Only in countries silly enough to allow software patents. The rest of the world will laugh quietly to themselves as some countries bring themselves to a creative and technological standstill.
I saw some numbers on FaceBook's database set-up a couple of years ago. Their database hardware and software to run everything only cost 5 million dollars. I can't even imagine what one of the database companies would change for licences for that.
The developer community is a big factor as well. If you develop in Java, there's tons of frameworks available for everything, too many sometimes. You can find code to do anything, and almost never really need to re-invent the wheel. The C# community does not seem to be nearly as open, with most of the open frameworks and tools being copied from the Java stuff. The attitude seems to be that you should be paid for everything, and fewer people will share their work. This seems to be changing, but there's still a ways to go.
It's actually worse than that. On top of the dreaded "COBOL fingers", there's also the mental damage, generally resulting in you thinking you need three levels of approval for everything you do. It's a sad thing to see.
The only recourse the bands are left with is the equivalent of somebody's response to my original comment: "So don't play there". I don't think it's particularly fair that this is the only recourse, but I guess life doesn't have to be fair.
Of course they flourish. When these are used, people really aren't given another option in most cases. This is much like saying "Despite outrageous fees, TicketMaster flourishes".
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This looks very much like what is coming in out in Gnome Desktop (Gnome 3) as well. As someone who generally has 40 or 50 tabs open, I'm looking forward to it. If it allows me to search tabs quickly with a hotkey and a couple of words like Mozilla Ubiquity did I'll be extra happy.
As someone here said a few weeks ago so concisely: "Apple: Freedom from choice". One phone, one interface, few or no options. If that's what you want, great, but personally I'm glad Android along.
Where I went to school we actually did have a course in business writing that included writing specifications, proposal requests, etc. I didn't enjoy it at the time but it has come in useful on many occasions.
I don't understand why they don't sell it as an option on all on their machines, even if they don't provide software support for it. If nothing else, it would allow them to become a convenient source for machines (especially laptops) for those of us who object to paying the Windows tax. Perhaps if more people tried to return their Windows licence? An added bonus would be to list the Linux compatibility of each of their machines. This would require a fairly minimal effort and would help buyers out greatly.
I actually looked at Dell for a Linux based machine for the last laptop I bought, and I think they had one machine. They never really had enough options to determine whether or not they could have sold very many machines. Seriously, without proving support, wouldn't it really only require a different disk image?
A keyboard/mouse may be a superior controller to play with but it's not easy to use as you sit back on your couch. That's the target market for consoles.
Paying video stores to only carry your format is not really letting the market decide. The whole things was a weasel-fest, and the more expensive format, with a non-finalized spec and forced DRM (or so I'm let to believe) won. I'm still dreaming the day consumers get together and start asking "in that an open, non-patent encumbered format", and not using it if the answer is "no". In my defence, I do realise it is dreaming.
... that advertising company has gone out of its way so that you are *not* locked into their services. The work required to dump Apple, especially if you're computer+phone+medial player is quite a lot.
Interesting idea, but if it runs under iTunes, it certainly ain't TV for me.
So that's why I keep hearing "The Imperial March" in my head when I read stories about Apple these days. They know I love music!
That sort of reply is now mandatory for any open source related story. It is now formally referred to as "Anonymous Coward's Law".
I prefer glossy, as I can always apply a matte, or anti-glare coating or film. You can't really apply a film to go back to glossy.
I generally pick a machine in my price range and check the processor speed rating against others. Inevitable, I look at the graphs and say ""yeah, it'll be fine". You can run a full Java IDE and an application server on a Linux netbook. Unless you're playing the very latest games, almost anything is fine for most people.
I don't know you well enough to determine whether or not it's annoying enough to stab you in the head with a fork, but it is getting a little annoying.
So basically, it's like any other government IT department.
It's true, I always feel completely out of place there when I wear my evil overlord costume.
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This is an excellent item for them to test then. The iPhone is frequently considered to be both.
People distributing copyrighted worked stripped of their DRM will happen regardless of whether or not it is legal to remove DRM for your own use.
By coincidence, a friend of mine had his iPhone crash when calling 911 last week. It was admittedly one he found on the ground beside a sidewalk, but seemed to be in decent shape. I think it will take a few years before everybody gets all the bugs worked out of the underlying operating systems.
independent software development in general (including a large chunk of FOSS) is doomed.
Only in countries silly enough to allow software patents. The rest of the world will laugh quietly to themselves as some countries bring themselves to a creative and technological standstill.
I saw some numbers on FaceBook's database set-up a couple of years ago. Their database hardware and software to run everything only cost 5 million dollars. I can't even imagine what one of the database companies would change for licences for that.
The developer community is a big factor as well. If you develop in Java, there's tons of frameworks available for everything, too many sometimes. You can find code to do anything, and almost never really need to re-invent the wheel. The C# community does not seem to be nearly as open, with most of the open frameworks and tools being copied from the Java stuff. The attitude seems to be that you should be paid for everything, and fewer people will share their work. This seems to be changing, but there's still a ways to go.
It's actually worse than that. On top of the dreaded "COBOL fingers", there's also the mental damage, generally resulting in you thinking you need three levels of approval for everything you do. It's a sad thing to see.
The only recourse the bands are left with is the equivalent of somebody's response to my original comment: "So don't play there". I don't think it's particularly fair that this is the only recourse, but I guess life doesn't have to be fair.
Of course they flourish. When these are used, people really aren't given another option in most cases. This is much like saying "Despite outrageous fees, TicketMaster flourishes".
At this point they are so large and powerful, they can not only game the system, but actually change it to their advantage with relative ease.