Google Reader here... it makes reading a ridiculous number of feeds quite manageable. I used to use desktop clients, but they lacked the synchronization of what was read, no matter which desktop you read it on. That's the killer feature for Google Reader.
RSS is sill used by a huge number of people, and the same kind of paid postings can happen there as well, although their visibility is the same as any other item. Also, in terms of advertising, it seems like a pretty good deal.
I'm fairly sure that software in Metro is only available through the Microsoft 'market' and must be 'vetted' by them. They get a cut of all sales as well of course.
When are we going to get all the software available prepackaged and regularly updated from the repository?
That's a fairly half-hearted troll. Most Linux distros have package management and multi-source software repositories that make iOS, Metro, and OS X look like the limited attempts at platform lock-in that they really are.
My main beef with it is the single provider source for their "Metro" interface. Pushing this sort of lock-in was bound to happen with Apple making such an ass-load of money from it though. I'd love to see developers *not* jump on the Metro bandwagon, but like with iOS, serious money is likely to be made only by the first in the door. Like most of society though, enough developers will jump in for the short term greed, despite the problems it will cause for them and users in general in the long term.
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Don't forget his friend "h111", praising Windows phone (and iPhone) and giving backhanded compliments to Android.
I'd like to say that this would not have happened with an open source driver, but that's not necessarily true. It would almost definitely have been patched by now though.
Don't feed the troll (or shill). New user, brief comment history is pro-Microsoft 'information', much of which is not even true. This is a bit better than the usual over the top, obvious stuff though.
Keep in mind that this is a US company being sued in a US court by a company from Taiwan. Apple recently had the fact that their iPhone design was 'borrowed' from Sony suppressed in their Samsung lawsuit; I'm sure they're not very worried about this.
The first part of the summary is actually from the original Wired story (my quotation marks were removed). I always thought the docket was the schedule as well.
I thought the patents in question had actually been exposed because of the mistakes Microsoft made during the B&N extortion (and were extremely weak, unlikely to survive any patent re-evaluation).
If it could be done through the screen or on the back on the device, it would be fantastic, Fingerprint to confirm RFC purchase, fingerprint to unlock screen, etc. It's quick, and less open to hacking than gesture based unlocks.
Bonus patent grab, and to piss off Samsung, who I think also use their tech.
Extensions now fix the network/cpu monitor (I really missed if as well), the open new vs. brig old window up, and lots of other things. I think they've fixed the multiple monitor support as well, but I haven't done that for a while. It is kind of sad that all these changes do is bring back things we had with Gnome/Gnome-Do for ages without adding much that is good. I'm still trying to get Evolution or Thunderbird to display *visible* persistent notifications. How could they think that I want to hover my mouse over the bottom panel to see if I have any new messages... why not just bring up the damn application? Even Unity gets that certain notifications should be in you face as their things you are immediately interested in at a glance. Of course, Unity with their 'global menu' silliness and poor performance has even more serious problems.
This is pretty much the experience I've had with installing Linux for people. I usually set them up as dual boot, and a couple of times they've come back and asked if I can show them how to get rid of the Windows partition... they never used it and wanted the space back.
I think Linux actually is easier to use than Windows, although 7 made a few improvements and borrowed some of the features. The ability to have a central facility that updates all your software without being tied to a single 'walled garden' repository is a huge plus as well.
They could use some good word of mouth from the Linux community as well. I'm still depressed that Canonical and Gnome both picked a very bad time to screw around with their usability. With the mess that is Windows 8 coming out, and Steam coming for Linux, there's never been a more promising time for Linux. UEFI still worries the crap out of me for the future though. I wish Google would come out with a 'Google/Chrome Linux' full distro to get some momentum behind adoption.
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Google Reader here ... it makes reading a ridiculous number of feeds quite manageable. I used to use desktop clients, but they lacked the synchronization of what was read, no matter which desktop you read it on. That's the killer feature for Google Reader.
RSS is sill used by a huge number of people, and the same kind of paid postings can happen there as well, although their visibility is the same as any other item. Also, in terms of advertising, it seems like a pretty good deal.
I would say that speeding is the cause of near zero traffic accidents. It merely magnifies other causes (and effects).
I'm fairly sure that software in Metro is only available through the Microsoft 'market' and must be 'vetted' by them. They get a cut of all sales as well of course.
When are we going to get all the software available prepackaged and regularly updated from the repository?
That's a fairly half-hearted troll. Most Linux distros have package management and multi-source software repositories that make iOS, Metro, and OS X look like the limited attempts at platform lock-in that they really are.
My main beef with it is the single provider source for their "Metro" interface. Pushing this sort of lock-in was bound to happen with Apple making such an ass-load of money from it though. I'd love to see developers *not* jump on the Metro bandwagon, but like with iOS, serious money is likely to be made only by the first in the door. Like most of society though, enough developers will jump in for the short term greed, despite the problems it will cause for them and users in general in the long term.
Don't forget his friend "h111", praising Windows phone (and iPhone) and giving backhanded compliments to Android.
I'd like to say that this would not have happened with an open source driver, but that's not necessarily true. It would almost definitely have been patched by now though.
Don't feed the troll (or shill). New user, brief comment history is pro-Microsoft 'information', much of which is not even true. This is a bit better than the usual over the top, obvious stuff though.
At least it looks like they did a bit better with the webmail interface than the XBox one. It's awful to use with both controller and Kinect.
Keep in mind that this is a US company being sued in a US court by a company from Taiwan. Apple recently had the fact that their iPhone design was 'borrowed' from Sony suppressed in their Samsung lawsuit; I'm sure they're not very worried about this.
No, they're talking about music here. I doubt rap was even included.
I believe that it actually runs within a WINE wrapper.
The article does contain this:
“In February 2006, before the claimed iPhone design was conceived
The first part of the summary is actually from the original Wired story (my quotation marks were removed). I always thought the docket was the schedule as well.
The mock-ups were based on the design description from Sony, and are quite similar to the design patent awarded to Apple.
I thought the patents in question had actually been exposed because of the mistakes Microsoft made during the B&N extortion (and were extremely weak, unlikely to survive any patent re-evaluation).
If it could be done through the screen or on the back on the device, it would be fantastic, Fingerprint to confirm RFC purchase, fingerprint to unlock screen, etc. It's quick, and less open to hacking than gesture based unlocks.
Bonus patent grab, and to piss off Samsung, who I think also use their tech.
Extensions now fix the network/cpu monitor (I really missed if as well), the open new vs. brig old window up, and lots of other things. I think they've fixed the multiple monitor support as well, but I haven't done that for a while. It is kind of sad that all these changes do is bring back things we had with Gnome/Gnome-Do for ages without adding much that is good. I'm still trying to get Evolution or Thunderbird to display *visible* persistent notifications. How could they think that I want to hover my mouse over the bottom panel to see if I have any new messages ... why not just bring up the damn application? Even Unity gets that certain notifications should be in you face as their things you are immediately interested in at a glance. Of course, Unity with their 'global menu' silliness and poor performance has even more serious problems.
This is pretty much the experience I've had with installing Linux for people. I usually set them up as dual boot, and a couple of times they've come back and asked if I can show them how to get rid of the Windows partition ... they never used it and wanted the space back.
I think Linux actually is easier to use than Windows, although 7 made a few improvements and borrowed some of the features. The ability to have a central facility that updates all your software without being tied to a single 'walled garden' repository is a huge plus as well.
Metro on the XBox sucks immensely, both with the controller and Kinect gestures. (IMHO, there are major usability flaws)
Mint would be the next best choice.
They could use some good word of mouth from the Linux community as well. I'm still depressed that Canonical and Gnome both picked a very bad time to screw around with their usability. With the mess that is Windows 8 coming out, and Steam coming for Linux, there's never been a more promising time for Linux. UEFI still worries the crap out of me for the future though. I wish Google would come out with a 'Google/Chrome Linux' full distro to get some momentum behind adoption.
You may want to look into how long it took for Apple to approve the Google Voice app.