It will continue to happen whether there is an open standard or not. Look what Apple did with XMPP and SIP, making FaceTime and iMessage by adding proprietary extensions. It's bad for everyone who isn't a major corporation, and certainly very bad for 'consumers'..
It's not existential pain and philosophy. It's hard to watch the world as it is, and the direction it's heading and realize that most things are beyond your control. Yes, there are people starving and there shouldn't be. Corrupt governments and religious leaders abuse people and make things worse rather than helping, and there's very little that only a few people can do to affect change. Being smart and happy means that you're probably ignoring the plight of others. I think that people of below average intelligence in first world countries are probably the happiest.
Metro is good as it forces people to into an iOS-style walled garden where Microsoft gets 30% of all sales and gets to control what people install. I'm hoping you weren't looking for how Metro is good for users, because in the short and long term, it's not.
Using Windows is like buying one of those old integrated stereos that had an amp, a pre-amp, a tuner, a turntable and an 8-track. All the components were poor quality and it was hard to swap out pieces if one broke. With Windows 8 a couple of the components don't even work well together. I prefer the Linux approach where each component is separate, replaceable, and can be tunes to a user's preferences. The 'free' part is an added bonus.
Strangely, a large part of my income is from cleaning up when management *was* presented options and picked based on their biases, back-room deals with vendors, and outdated 'knowledge'. Mistakes will be made regardless, but at least let the people with the most applicable knowledge and experience make them.
Someone not quite so suspicious would also envision this being used to catch any problems early so they could be stopped before they become a big problem; a dumb-ass detection system if you will.
People would probably still be using if it were fast, efficient, and secure. Those three things are tend to be a lot easier to achieve with a highly maintainable code base.
Why do you assume that it takes longer to do it 'right'? With software development, I find it actually takes less time even without taking future maintenance time saved.
I've found that those 'internal demos' pretty much always become production systems if they work. There is rarely such a thing as 'throw-away code', so I've stopped writing stuff like there is.
There's getting the job done, and there's getting the job done in a way that can be maintained by someone else in the future. The only way you should let someone continue developing an unmaintainable mess is when there is absolutely no chance it will ever need to be fixed or added to. I have yet to see that happen.
I thought saw a pic of Robert Scoble wearing it over his glasses. It didn't look like it fit well though. Also... most could wear contacts, but that really doesn't help when you really need to wear sunglasses as well.
iMessage uses it underneath apparently, but added proprietary extensions. It would have been nice to see someone other than Google get behind XMPP. I'm getting tired of dealing with a bunch of proprietary protocols that don't add any value.
The only one I can think of is apparently passing user contact information to the developers of apps in Google Play. I didn't realize they did this, and to date the information has not been abused, but I wasn't aware they did it.
I just helped a friend root his phone for the first time, and Carbon seemed pretty good. If you have a phone with 4.2 on it you can use plain ADB to back it up as well.
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Just? If Apple can decrypt your phone, they're not doing encryption right.
It will continue to happen whether there is an open standard or not. Look what Apple did with XMPP and SIP, making FaceTime and iMessage by adding proprietary extensions. It's bad for everyone who isn't a major corporation, and certainly very bad for 'consumers'..
I would guess that they're doing a bit of a TOS violation "dick move" to stir up some press about their product.
I'd vote for you.
It's not existential pain and philosophy. It's hard to watch the world as it is, and the direction it's heading and realize that most things are beyond your control. Yes, there are people starving and there shouldn't be. Corrupt governments and religious leaders abuse people and make things worse rather than helping, and there's very little that only a few people can do to affect change. Being smart and happy means that you're probably ignoring the plight of others. I think that people of below average intelligence in first world countries are probably the happiest.
Metro is good as it forces people to into an iOS-style walled garden where Microsoft gets 30% of all sales and gets to control what people install. I'm hoping you weren't looking for how Metro is good for users, because in the short and long term, it's not.
Using Windows is like buying one of those old integrated stereos that had an amp, a pre-amp, a tuner, a turntable and an 8-track. All the components were poor quality and it was hard to swap out pieces if one broke. With Windows 8 a couple of the components don't even work well together. I prefer the Linux approach where each component is separate, replaceable, and can be tunes to a user's preferences. The 'free' part is an added bonus.
Malware that targets your phone? You realize that the software comes from Microsoft, right?
Strangely, a large part of my income is from cleaning up when management *was* presented options and picked based on their biases, back-room deals with vendors, and outdated 'knowledge'. Mistakes will be made regardless, but at least let the people with the most applicable knowledge and experience make them.
Someone not quite so suspicious would also envision this being used to catch any problems early so they could be stopped before they become a big problem; a dumb-ass detection system if you will.
People would probably still be using if it were fast, efficient, and secure. Those three things are tend to be a lot easier to achieve with a highly maintainable code base.
Why do you assume that it takes longer to do it 'right'? With software development, I find it actually takes less time even without taking future maintenance time saved.
Look at Adobe. Their Flash code base 'got the job done'.
I've found that those 'internal demos' pretty much always become production systems if they work. There is rarely such a thing as 'throw-away code', so I've stopped writing stuff like there is.
There's getting the job done, and there's getting the job done in a way that can be maintained by someone else in the future. The only way you should let someone continue developing an unmaintainable mess is when there is absolutely no chance it will ever need to be fixed or added to. I have yet to see that happen.
I thought saw a pic of Robert Scoble wearing it over his glasses. It didn't look like it fit well though. Also ... most could wear contacts, but that really doesn't help when you really need to wear sunglasses as well.
I'm Canadian. What's this 'us' you speak of Kimosabe?
I'd guess that China's long term goal is not merely economic domination.
iMessage uses it underneath apparently, but added proprietary extensions. It would have been nice to see someone other than Google get behind XMPP. I'm getting tired of dealing with a bunch of proprietary protocols that don't add any value.
The only one I can think of is apparently passing user contact information to the developers of apps in Google Play. I didn't realize they did this, and to date the information has not been abused, but I wasn't aware they did it.
ChromeBook users might disagree with you about that.
Apparently the Ministry of Education in Schwerin did not, and they're still dealing with the consequences.
Doesn't GPL 2 mean you don't need to release your own changes, just make the original source available?
I thought Linux was GPL 2, not 3, and it wasn't required, but I may be mistaken.
I just helped a friend root his phone for the first time, and Carbon seemed pretty good. If you have a phone with 4.2 on it you can use plain ADB to back it up as well.