MS just seems to time some of their mis-steps so well. There is hope. I only wish some of the Linux distros didn't screw up their desktop environments just as Windows 8 was coming out and Valve was looking at Steam for Linux.
We're almost at the point that we can drop POTS in favour of something less 'controlled'. I'm sure other measures will be taken to ensure it's not that easy though.
mplayer supports it as well. The key binding are '[]', and I think there's a setting that may need to be changed from 'auto' if you're using one of the GUI wrappers.
They've done very similar things to these actually, by blocking developers products from their platforms and then including copies of them in the OS... all the while complaining about people infringing their 'design patents'. Yeah, they're at least as evil as Microsoft.
A lot of the news media have been using Apple products for years, and this is their chance to prove to everyone how bright they were. A good chunk of developers recognize what Apple has become, but the non-technical don't see it yet. (Admittedly, a portion of the technical crowd don't see it yet either).
Rumours are though that they're finally getting rid of their proprietary 30 pin connector. Of course, they'r replacing it with a smaller proprietary connector. I'm assuming that they have some sort of adapter, as this does give people a good excuse to extract themselves from the lock-in if they have to replace docks, etc, anyway.
And the proprietary connectors, and pretending to be police. Doing the embrace, extend, (with proprietary extensions of course) on perfectly good open standards (FaceTime, AirPlay, ePub) made MS look like amateurs at being evil as well.
That bottom area on Gnome 3 is one of its big flaws, I think. They display notifications there, but only when you hover your mouse over them. *Mail notifications*, stuff like that. Notifications are meant to be seen. I want toknow at a glance that I have an email to read. The only way I've found to fix this is with a third party mail notification program. Neither Thunderbird or Evolution will do it properly, even with some of the Gnome extensions.
All of the Ubuntu Users I know switch to Gnome 3 or Xfce as their first step after install. This is obviously a small-ish sample size (15 or so, and mostly IT people), I'm currently tolerating Gnome 3. I find that Unity, in addition to some of it's design faults is too slow.
There really should be criminal charges for a government representative knowingly acting against the interests of the people. Is there one? Does treason cover it, or is specifically for national security related matters/
If companies publicly show support for certain things, I can avoid them. If they quietly throw millions of dollars at those causes, I won't know that I should.
Some of those 'Google things' are things like open data, and open formats, something that is somewhat political, but a bit more technology related. Some of these things are in their best interests and some are not, but I like it when a corporation takes a stand on what it thinks is right. I like it better when those stands align with my own views, but as long as it's not against them, I think it's a good thing. It's pretty obvious that most countries are ruled these corporations these days anyway, so we might as well get the politics out into the open.
At one point where I wanted something similar, I did it with a dot notation file and GraphViz. It had the following advantages:
- As it's text, version control and multiple users can be handled quite easily. - It's open source. - The only tool you need to make updates is a text editor. - It can be displayed as a Node diagram (or other) using a variety of free tools.
Each documented node can specify name, MAC, address, type, model, etc, and you can define the links between nodes. You can also use this to handle very large networks etc, by maintaining separate parts in separate files. The software will create a single large diagram for you from them if you like. Auto-generate the diagram file from the committed files as serve on a web server.
Hell, give us a call when you're actually *allowed* to develop on the iPad. This is a big part of the reason Slashdot readers are ' some of the clingiest whiniest buggy-whip holdingist resistors of change'. Most people see the direction computing is going and realize better than most that it's not good for anyone other than Apple and Microsoft.
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They control their destiny.
Apple dictates what apps can and can't be installed on your phone. If you're an iOS user, they control yours.
Why not? Are they in favour of unauthorized government and corporate wiretapping? I would think most could be convinced quite easily.
MS just seems to time some of their mis-steps so well. There is hope. I only wish some of the Linux distros didn't screw up their desktop environments just as Windows 8 was coming out and Valve was looking at Steam for Linux.
We're almost at the point that we can drop POTS in favour of something less 'controlled'. I'm sure other measures will be taken to ensure it's not that easy though.
... it does need mobile clients, although an Android client is apparently in the works.
Time to switch to something where we actually know what the software is doing.
No, thanks to Linux, a decent OS gui, associated software, and integration is free. Apple lock-in is the priceless part.
mplayer supports it as well. The key binding are '[]', and I think there's a setting that may need to be changed from 'auto' if you're using one of the GUI wrappers.
They've done very similar things to these actually, by blocking developers products from their platforms and then including copies of them in the OS ... all the while complaining about people infringing their 'design patents'. Yeah, they're at least as evil as Microsoft.
Oracle didn't have a Reality Distortion Field to counteract their douche-baggery.
A lot of the news media have been using Apple products for years, and this is their chance to prove to everyone how bright they were. A good chunk of developers recognize what Apple has become, but the non-technical don't see it yet. (Admittedly, a portion of the technical crowd don't see it yet either).
Rumours are though that they're finally getting rid of their proprietary 30 pin connector. Of course, they'r replacing it with a smaller proprietary connector. I'm assuming that they have some sort of adapter, as this does give people a good excuse to extract themselves from the lock-in if they have to replace docks, etc, anyway.
And the proprietary connectors, and pretending to be police. Doing the embrace, extend, (with proprietary extensions of course) on perfectly good open standards (FaceTime, AirPlay, ePub) made MS look like amateurs at being evil as well.
Since iOS.
So it's not all over for him.
The TSA and secret tribunals ... you're far more optimistic than I.
That bottom area on Gnome 3 is one of its big flaws, I think. They display notifications there, but only when you hover your mouse over them. *Mail notifications*, stuff like that. Notifications are meant to be seen. I want toknow at a glance that I have an email to read. The only way I've found to fix this is with a third party mail notification program. Neither Thunderbird or Evolution will do it properly, even with some of the Gnome extensions.
... of course, my opinion shouldn't be trusted because I don't know the peoper "its" to use.
All of the Ubuntu Users I know switch to Gnome 3 or Xfce as their first step after install. This is obviously a small-ish sample size (15 or so, and mostly IT people), I'm currently tolerating Gnome 3. I find that Unity, in addition to some of it's design faults is too slow.
It depends on what restrictions are added later. Most people don't realize how important their freedom is until after it's gone.
Kiteo, his eyes closed.
There really should be criminal charges for a government representative knowingly acting against the interests of the people. Is there one? Does treason cover it, or is specifically for national security related matters/
If companies publicly show support for certain things, I can avoid them. If they quietly throw millions of dollars at those causes, I won't know that I should.
Some of those 'Google things' are things like open data, and open formats, something that is somewhat political, but a bit more technology related. Some of these things are in their best interests and some are not, but I like it when a corporation takes a stand on what it thinks is right. I like it better when those stands align with my own views, but as long as it's not against them, I think it's a good thing. It's pretty obvious that most countries are ruled these corporations these days anyway, so we might as well get the politics out into the open.
At one point where I wanted something similar, I did it with a dot notation file and GraphViz. It had the following advantages:
- As it's text, version control and multiple users can be handled quite easily.
- It's open source.
- The only tool you need to make updates is a text editor.
- It can be displayed as a Node diagram (or other) using a variety of free tools.
Each documented node can specify name, MAC, address, type, model, etc, and you can define the links between nodes. You can also use this to handle very large networks etc, by maintaining separate parts in separate files. The software will create a single large diagram for you from them if you like. Auto-generate the diagram file from the committed files as serve on a web server.
Hell, give us a call when you're actually *allowed* to develop on the iPad. This is a big part of the reason Slashdot readers are ' some of the clingiest whiniest buggy-whip holdingist resistors of change'. Most people see the direction computing is going and realize better than most that it's not good for anyone other than Apple and Microsoft.