So, basically adapting your style of work to accommodate the desktop, not the other way around. I always have a problem with that, even though it is an option. I don't think I should have to, especially if there's no efficiency benefit.
Part of the deal will be that they won't be allowed to disclose the numbers.
People jumping on iTunes publishing is the same as developers jumping into Apple's walled app garden. It's short term greed over longer term benefits for consumers, personal computing in general, and even the developers and publishers profiting from it in the longer term. Allowing Apple to gain market dominance will only lock everyone in even further, at which point you will have very little negotiating power.
It would be nice to see some companies show a little social conscience, or at least thinking beyond the next quarter.
Think of the children? These people should be thinking that they've just robbed their children of the right to privacy. They're most certainly not thinking of the children.
One of the upcoming Gnome or Unity release uses an idea I had a while ago. It drops the menu out of the title on float over, or on click. It's kind of the best of both, you get the space back, and you reduce the mouse movements. I've tried single menu, and find that on large monitors or multiple monitor setups, it's awful. It somewhat tolerable on a laptop, although I find it also takes space away from my status bar , which I use to display other things... that menu takes up a lot of space. I'm looking forward to trying out the hidden, per-window menus.
There's a trick to putting them in, and I prefer the marshmallow adapters rather than the rubber ones (they come with a selection of types and sizes). I find that if you pull your earlobe out and forward while seating the earbud it seals nicely and stays in place. You get they hang of it quite quickly.
Part of the method used to protest bad corporate behaviour is to boycott them. The other part is to spread the word. Only being boycotted by the people you've screwed over probably wouldn't even do much damage to Sony, (although it would be much more than most)
To stay on-topic, my favourites headphones are these JVCs at about $50, They have a cheaper pair for about half the price (HX-33s?) that are almost as good. They isolate noise enough tthat I wear them while woodworking or mowing the lawn. Great sound, and I can wear them comfortably all day. You can actually get them on sale for about half the price listed on occasion. They seem quite sturdy, but I'm not that rough on headphones despite wearing them so much.
You're forgetting that like the rest of the government, education seems to be heavily controlled by the copyright cartels. How the hell did we let these people get this much money and power?
A laptop with a screen like that is almost required if you're running an IDE without a large external monitor (as in developing while away from the office).
They damn well better start rolling them out. I've been waiting for a decent resolution like this at a decent price for ages, and I've almost lowered my values enough to buy a Mac. If I don't see other manufacturers coming out with them in the next year, it could happen.
You still have a choice of who those providers are, and you can switch occasionally to one who gives better prices, better support, or better hardware. If you go with iDevices, you can't do that. You're essentially worse off than back in the old IBM days.
Microsoft is not a single software provider. Apple is once again closer to that as well, requiring you to pay extra to break out of the walled garden. You find out what the problem is with a single provider when they decide on huge price increases. dropping support for certain features (hardware especially) or including proprietary interface that locks you to them for peripherals. Having options available is far from a 'hackerspace'... it's about having the best solution. I'm not saying iDevices are bad, I'm saying you're not as limited when choosing a solution where multiple options are available.... and open source means you need to tinker now?
What's sad is many corporations will short-sightedly force people onto iDevices and end up worse off than they were with Microsoft, with them now being tied to a single hardware provider. I find it quite strange when there's an open source solution with a variety of hardware options.
Patter are simply giving names to the same things we've been doing for many, many years, and they're useful because of that. You can now describe your approach to a solution without showing actual code. Obvious examples most people will recognize are the Observer patter, Publish/Subscribe, and Factory. Many people implement these themselves long before someone gave an 'official' name to the solution. You use the right solution for the problem at hand, patterns just give a name to it... or at least that's what they're supposed to do. I realize that some people consider it a contest to see if they can 'collect the whole set'.
The summary doesn't mention it, and I winder... by phone or tablet, do they mean *any* phone or tablet, or are they going to pull an Apple and lock it to their devices?
Apple TV is more likely to be a big screen phone, running iOS. If they plan on continuing with their content censorship they may also limit their success, unless they decide they want to be the next Disney.
I would think that giving people interactive hints that can be used to work around censorship is generally 'not evil'. More evil than taking a stand and ignoring the Chinese government until they're completely blocked and replaced wholesale with a Chinese government controlled search engine? Perhaps, perhaps not.
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So, basically adapting your style of work to accommodate the desktop, not the other way around. I always have a problem with that, even though it is an option. I don't think I should have to, especially if there's no efficiency benefit.
Part of the deal will be that they won't be allowed to disclose the numbers.
People jumping on iTunes publishing is the same as developers jumping into Apple's walled app garden. It's short term greed over longer term benefits for consumers, personal computing in general, and even the developers and publishers profiting from it in the longer term. Allowing Apple to gain market dominance will only lock everyone in even further, at which point you will have very little negotiating power.
It would be nice to see some companies show a little social conscience, or at least thinking beyond the next quarter.
Well, it's a big improvement over pictures of Steve Jobs.
Think of the children? These people should be thinking that they've just robbed their children of the right to privacy. They're most certainly not thinking of the children.
One of the upcoming Gnome or Unity release uses an idea I had a while ago. It drops the menu out of the title on float over, or on click. It's kind of the best of both, you get the space back, and you reduce the mouse movements. I've tried single menu, and find that on large monitors or multiple monitor setups, it's awful. It somewhat tolerable on a laptop, although I find it also takes space away from my status bar , which I use to display other things ... that menu takes up a lot of space. I'm looking forward to trying out the hidden, per-window menus.
In 1994 it wasn't feasible because of space restrictions on computers and players, and to a degree, download speeds.
Justin Beiber's baby would confirm what a lot of people have been saying.
Of course, I also wish I "could were allowed" to haz a grammar, or read my posts before I submitted them.
Don't you wish you could just decide for yourself what you could were allowed to install on your device?
There's a trick to putting them in, and I prefer the marshmallow adapters rather than the rubber ones (they come with a selection of types and sizes). I find that if you pull your earlobe out and forward while seating the earbud it seals nicely and stays in place. You get they hang of it quite quickly.
Part of the method used to protest bad corporate behaviour is to boycott them. The other part is to spread the word. Only being boycotted by the people you've screwed over probably wouldn't even do much damage to Sony, (although it would be much more than most)
To stay on-topic, my favourites headphones are these JVCs at about $50, They have a cheaper pair for about half the price (HX-33s?) that are almost as good. They isolate noise enough tthat I wear them while woodworking or mowing the lawn. Great sound, and I can wear them comfortably all day. You can actually get them on sale for about half the price listed on occasion. They seem quite sturdy, but I'm not that rough on headphones despite wearing them so much.
You're forgetting that like the rest of the government, education seems to be heavily controlled by the copyright cartels. How the hell did we let these people get this much money and power?
A laptop with a screen like that is almost required if you're running an IDE without a large external monitor (as in developing while away from the office).
They damn well better start rolling them out. I've been waiting for a decent resolution like this at a decent price for ages, and I've almost lowered my values enough to buy a Mac. If I don't see other manufacturers coming out with them in the next year, it could happen.
Adapting to new environments isn't just for other species.
You still have a choice of who those providers are, and you can switch occasionally to one who gives better prices, better support, or better hardware. If you go with iDevices, you can't do that. You're essentially worse off than back in the old IBM days.
Microsoft is not a single software provider. Apple is once again closer to that as well, requiring you to pay extra to break out of the walled garden. You find out what the problem is with a single provider when they decide on huge price increases. dropping support for certain features (hardware especially) or including proprietary interface that locks you to them for peripherals. Having options available is far from a 'hackerspace' ... it's about having the best solution. I'm not saying iDevices are bad, I'm saying you're not as limited when choosing a solution where multiple options are available. ... and open source means you need to tinker now?
What's sad is many corporations will short-sightedly force people onto iDevices and end up worse off than they were with Microsoft, with them now being tied to a single hardware provider. I find it quite strange when there's an open source solution with a variety of hardware options.
A stormtroopod? Of course it can't get out, it's got lousy aim.
Patter are simply giving names to the same things we've been doing for many, many years, and they're useful because of that. You can now describe your approach to a solution without showing actual code. Obvious examples most people will recognize are the Observer patter, Publish/Subscribe, and Factory. Many people implement these themselves long before someone gave an 'official' name to the solution. You use the right solution for the problem at hand, patterns just give a name to it ... or at least that's what they're supposed to do. I realize that some people consider it a contest to see if they can 'collect the whole set'.
The summary doesn't mention it, and I winder ... by phone or tablet, do they mean *any* phone or tablet, or are they going to pull an Apple and lock it to their devices?
Not quite, but they would be searching for your rebel base.
Apple TV is more likely to be a big screen phone, running iOS. If they plan on continuing with their content censorship they may also limit their success, unless they decide they want to be the next Disney.
I link the Assembly language idea. Scaring all Fox news listeners away from any computer use would help solve a lot of problems.
I would think that giving people interactive hints that can be used to work around censorship is generally 'not evil'. More evil than taking a stand and ignoring the Chinese government until they're completely blocked and replaced wholesale with a Chinese government controlled search engine? Perhaps, perhaps not.