I'd love to get a MacBook (and run Debian/KDE on it). Those new screens are quite nice. If Apple would allow people to install software from alternate sources and stop with the proprietary connectors and frivolous lawsuits, I might be willing to shell out the cash for one.
It will be even longer if people keep starting with an iOS app and port it too closely for Android. The reduced number of controls on iPhones mean a few more compromises must made in navigation, and those should be removed, as Android users generally aren't used to them, and they waste screen real-estate. You really need to take the available controls into account when developing the UI, and many to a quick port without doing that. I have a couple of apps that are barely usable because of it.
I'm not sure, as I've never needed it. You may be correct, although I think the Google techs usually answer questions in many of their community groups... not sure about these one though.
You should probably be aware that you can use Android without any connections to Google at all, despite the FUD. Also, Android is not your only other option.
You can pay money for this. The problem is that currently it's a bit too much money for a lot of people. The value is very good for what you get, but the price is still high considering that most families don't *need* it. I family pricing plan would be a great idea.
I have a feeling people number of people using it for free are greatly reducing the availability of support people to help those who are actually paying for it. As someone who currently uses the free version and wanted to switch over a couple of other domains, I'm less than thrilled, but can understand it. I would have preferred it if they kept it available but said "you get zero support".
They did have a later start. They should have those features, and would guess they'd be easy to implement on their own. The trick is getting all of the different app store behaviours (public store, private stores, alternate stores, and side-loading) working together well and controllable with some sort of device policy. The more open a device is, the more things it has to take into account. It sounds like they could use some of things that BlackBerry has learned though.
If you check the history of the person who made that comment, he an iOS developer and a major Apple fan. I'd be curious about the device as well, as I use a 3 year old Android device and it's quite usable for everything.
Regardless of what it looks like, it's far better for doing any sort of support where you need to type. I find that if I send a couple of hours with a phone on my shoulder while typing (which really doesn't work with mobile phones) I end up with a very sore neck or back the next day. It's just not comfortable.
Where I work, nobody has a desk phone. Everyone has a smartphone and a laptop. You can switch offices easily, share them if people work at home on alternating days, form impromptu sessions in common areas, etc. My smartphone actually gets used so little that it generally gets left at my desk, as I also carry my personal one. It would be quite easy for many people to do without one completely.
Someone was complaining the other day about some of us pointing out the very obvious Microsoft shills, but there is quite obviously a very concerted effort by Microsoft to pump up their credibility and to diminish that of their competitors. It would be quite entertaining if someone were to expose it as they did with the FaceBook attempts.
I'm running Jelly Bean on an original Galaxy S using CyanogenMod and it's pretty damned quick. It probably depends on the phone and the added bloat from the carrier.
There are plenty of threading frameworks in most languages where you can just define threadable operations. Your job is simply to ensure the task is correct, use the right framework and trust it to the correct degree. As with many things, someone only needs to do it right once.
I just switched to KDE because the developers aren't against the idea of me configuring and theming it as I please. It's also faster. Games are now an added bonus.
I understand the issues quite well. The GP seemed to be stating that people have no right to run as root on their own hardware. It was actually unrelated to UEFI. Personally, I don't have that much of a problem with UEFI other than it's Microsoft administering it and it makes it much more difficult for an average user to install Linux (I think that's the actual motive behind it). Hopefully this boot shim will help solve the ease of use issue.
I'm not saying it's right, I'm saying people should call Apple on it as well. Apple is defended regularly here, which is a somewhat technically literate site.
I'd like to know why there's all this outrage about this, but iOS devices which are even worse get a pass. Someone above said you can actually install your own key and remove the Microsoft ones as well.
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I'd love to get a MacBook (and run Debian/KDE on it). Those new screens are quite nice. If Apple would allow people to install software from alternate sources and stop with the proprietary connectors and frivolous lawsuits, I might be willing to shell out the cash for one.
It will be even longer if people keep starting with an iOS app and port it too closely for Android. The reduced number of controls on iPhones mean a few more compromises must made in navigation, and those should be removed, as Android users generally aren't used to them, and they waste screen real-estate. You really need to take the available controls into account when developing the UI, and many to a quick port without doing that. I have a couple of apps that are barely usable because of it.
I'm not sure, as I've never needed it. You may be correct, although I think the Google techs usually answer questions in many of their community groups ... not sure about these one though.
You should probably be aware that you can use Android without any connections to Google at all, despite the FUD. Also, Android is not your only other option.
You can pay money for this. The problem is that currently it's a bit too much money for a lot of people. The value is very good for what you get, but the price is still high considering that most families don't *need* it. I family pricing plan would be a great idea.
I have a feeling people number of people using it for free are greatly reducing the availability of support people to help those who are actually paying for it. As someone who currently uses the free version and wanted to switch over a couple of other domains, I'm less than thrilled, but can understand it. I would have preferred it if they kept it available but said "you get zero support".
They did have a later start. They should have those features, and would guess they'd be easy to implement on their own. The trick is getting all of the different app store behaviours (public store, private stores, alternate stores, and side-loading) working together well and controllable with some sort of device policy. The more open a device is, the more things it has to take into account. It sounds like they could use some of things that BlackBerry has learned though.
I was just about to transfer a couple of domains over ... damn.
If you check the history of the person who made that comment, he an iOS developer and a major Apple fan. I'd be curious about the device as well, as I use a 3 year old Android device and it's quite usable for everything.
Regardless of what it looks like, it's far better for doing any sort of support where you need to type. I find that if I send a couple of hours with a phone on my shoulder while typing (which really doesn't work with mobile phones) I end up with a very sore neck or back the next day. It's just not comfortable.
Where I work, nobody has a desk phone. Everyone has a smartphone and a laptop. You can switch offices easily, share them if people work at home on alternating days, form impromptu sessions in common areas, etc. My smartphone actually gets used so little that it generally gets left at my desk, as I also carry my personal one. It would be quite easy for many people to do without one completely.
Someone was complaining the other day about some of us pointing out the very obvious Microsoft shills, but there is quite obviously a very concerted effort by Microsoft to pump up their credibility and to diminish that of their competitors. It would be quite entertaining if someone were to expose it as they did with the FaceBook attempts.
Part of it is the improved file system. Samsung had some strange file system of their own that bottlenecked things apparently.
I'm running Jelly Bean on an original Galaxy S using CyanogenMod and it's pretty damned quick. It probably depends on the phone and the added bloat from the carrier.
These days patents are only used for stopping others from doing something.
There are plenty of threading frameworks in most languages where you can just define threadable operations. Your job is simply to ensure the task is correct, use the right framework and trust it to the correct degree. As with many things, someone only needs to do it right once.
Apple does not want your opinion, they want your money.
The movies still have DRM. I believe the books also use a proprietary extension to ePub, but I don't think it's currently used to implement DRM.
I just switched to KDE because the developers aren't against the idea of me configuring and theming it as I please. It's also faster. Games are now an added bonus.
I understand the issues quite well. The GP seemed to be stating that people have no right to run as root on their own hardware. It was actually unrelated to UEFI. Personally, I don't have that much of a problem with UEFI other than it's Microsoft administering it and it makes it much more difficult for an average user to install Linux (I think that's the actual motive behind it). Hopefully this boot shim will help solve the ease of use issue.
I'm not saying it's right, I'm saying people should call Apple on it as well. Apple is defended regularly here, which is a somewhat technically literate site.
I'd also like to clarify that by "someone above" I meant a previous commenter, not FSM. Sorry for the confusion.
I'd like to know why there's all this outrage about this, but iOS devices which are even worse get a pass. Someone above said you can actually install your own key and remove the Microsoft ones as well.
Of course you can add to that list:
- Microsoft still doing things to suppress competition.
- Apple has joined them.
They earned that dollar sign. The OS is a bit better behaved than 15 years ago, although NT was pretty quick.
Right, because you have no right to do that with a device you supposedly own.