If you're more worried about how it looks than how it fits your requirements, you may want to stick to iDevices, although I think they're either going to bump up the size of their phone or come out with a smaller tablet as well.
Here in Canada, and I would assume the US as well, even the bottom end 15" (at 1440x900) starts at $1800. The 17" does have that resolution, but starts at $2500 and goes up from there. I actually did consider getting an Apple notebook, as I love the hardware, but the price makes it prohibitive, and the corporate behaviour ruled it out completely.
The one thing that they (Dell) and pretty much everyone else are missing is a decent screen resolution. 1366x768 and 1440x900 just don't cut it for development. They're barely useable for browsing.
I've had quite a number of friends and cow-orkers convert and most prefer it to Windows. I make sure to show them the alternate desktop managers though, and most seem to prefer Gnome 2 or Gnome-shell over Unity. I think there are a couple that run Mint as well. After using Linux for a month or so the consensus seems to be that it is actually easier to use than Windows. They're both about the same for the really simple stuff, but anything beyond that in Windows had been getting more difficult to do with each version of Windows.
Now if only we could get better support from commercial software developers... although with the prevalence of web based applications, that's getting less and less important. Valve releasing Steam for Linux will be a big step forward for what remains.
I've actually had very good luck with Ubuntu functionality. The only thing that caused me any real trouble was a RALink wireless card, and it was eventually well supported in later releases. This is across about 10 laptops, mainly quite low-end. I may have just been lucky, but everything but that card worked right out of the box. For a couple of things, there was some tweaking that could be done afterwards (proprietary graphics drivers, etc), but stuff did work to an acceptable level.
All i can say is "about time". It's nice to see this happening just before the UEFI change-over as well to help ensure than Microsoft doesn't lock out other OS options, or at least there's a token commercial opposition. I'm not a fan of Canonical's Unity desktop, but I know some people are, and it definitely looks (and acts) better than 'Metro''. Overall, Canonical's timing could have been a bit better, but it could have been worse. Just before the change-over to a questionable version of Windows, and after a couple of fairly major OS X scares is a decent time to get some advertising in place.
If having a decent sense of humour and an interest in politics (one seems to actually require the other) is "shaming", he can continue to his heart's content. I think most will know who should actually be embarrassed his behaviour.
No, you're thinking of Apple. You can also add "trying to raise prices even for those that don't buy into their walled garden" with their attempts at magazine subscriptions and e-books. The "can't change less on another platform" should have set them up for a nice anti-competition investigation.
For a while, any comment that mentioned Google+ disappeared. I don't know if that's the case, but I had assumed that everyone knew it was censorship. Most people had taken to calling "that other social network". I think their censorship was somewhat effective as well.
Free or not, I think operating systems should have a central update mechanism that can be used by any repository. With Windows, etc, you need to check for updates in many cases manually, from a variety of sources. Apple had the opportunity to build it in and didn't.
You can install software from any source on a Mac (for now), and are not limited to their marketplace. It is quite obviously about either greed or a forthcoming lockdown.
Well, there is a mechanism available to notify users of these updates, but I'm guessing MS is not that interested in handing over 30% of their price. I think Apple's exclusion of 3rd party repositories from their marketplace is pure greed. The Linux model they borrowed from should have been more blatantly copied. I think Windows should do the same, but I think they're following the iOS approach for Metro that locks users to a single market.
One of the best features of Ubuntu, etc, is the single channel for software updates and patches.
Anyone who's familiar with MVC, services, etc, knows the benefits of separating presentation and functionality. This may be marketing people making these sort or decisions, as you would think a decent designer or developer would know better.
Freedom of association? Does that apply? Why do educators seem to love tossing out personal rights and freedoms? Between this, video cameras on laptops, insisting on viewing personal accounts, etc, it's just disheartening. Why not RFID tag them all or lock them in cells on their personal time?
Wouldn't this really just be the same effect as an equivalent area covered by large trees? Yes, it could slightly alter the climate, but any physical environment change will.
I keep reading these accusations and assumptions and almost all of them seem to ignore that the open source software (Kismet?) that they used to grab data logs it all as a default, or at least that's what I've read. Is there even an option to strip the non identifying information out? (I'm actually asking, I don't know this package).
At least it's NFC. When Jobs was still around they were talking about a proprietary technology. This whole thing is just a way to lock people into the iTunes ecosystem. If they open it up so it can be used with any device, and across multiple hosting providers I'd be interested.
I think it's generally caused by indoctrination when they're very young, and it's very hard to break. I think societal pressure also adds to it a lot, but that's been decreasing.
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If you're more worried about how it looks than how it fits your requirements, you may want to stick to iDevices, although I think they're either going to bump up the size of their phone or come out with a smaller tablet as well.
Here in Canada, and I would assume the US as well, even the bottom end 15" (at 1440x900) starts at $1800. The 17" does have that resolution, but starts at $2500 and goes up from there. I actually did consider getting an Apple notebook, as I love the hardware, but the price makes it prohibitive, and the corporate behaviour ruled it out completely.
I'm of the opinion that the vertical space is quite lacking for browsing.
The one thing that they (Dell) and pretty much everyone else are missing is a decent screen resolution. 1366x768 and 1440x900 just don't cut it for development. They're barely useable for browsing.
I had assumed that each was signed with its own key.
I've had quite a number of friends and cow-orkers convert and most prefer it to Windows. I make sure to show them the alternate desktop managers though, and most seem to prefer Gnome 2 or Gnome-shell over Unity. I think there are a couple that run Mint as well. After using Linux for a month or so the consensus seems to be that it is actually easier to use than Windows. They're both about the same for the really simple stuff, but anything beyond that in Windows had been getting more difficult to do with each version of Windows.
Now if only we could get better support from commercial software developers ... although with the prevalence of web based applications, that's getting less and less important. Valve releasing Steam for Linux will be a big step forward for what remains.
What I would prefer is that the key be provided so i could sign any other OS.
I've actually had very good luck with Ubuntu functionality. The only thing that caused me any real trouble was a RALink wireless card, and it was eventually well supported in later releases. This is across about 10 laptops, mainly quite low-end. I may have just been lucky, but everything but that card worked right out of the box. For a couple of things, there was some tweaking that could be done afterwards (proprietary graphics drivers, etc), but stuff did work to an acceptable level.
All i can say is "about time". It's nice to see this happening just before the UEFI change-over as well to help ensure than Microsoft doesn't lock out other OS options, or at least there's a token commercial opposition. I'm not a fan of Canonical's Unity desktop, but I know some people are, and it definitely looks (and acts) better than 'Metro''. Overall, Canonical's timing could have been a bit better, but it could have been worse. Just before the change-over to a questionable version of Windows, and after a couple of fairly major OS X scares is a decent time to get some advertising in place.
If having a decent sense of humour and an interest in politics (one seems to actually require the other) is "shaming", he can continue to his heart's content. I think most will know who should actually be embarrassed his behaviour.
Facebook were only the ones that have been caught. It's fairly obvious that there are more companies involved.
No, you're thinking of Apple. You can also add "trying to raise prices even for those that don't buy into their walled garden" with their attempts at magazine subscriptions and e-books. The "can't change less on another platform" should have set them up for a nice anti-competition investigation.
For a while, any comment that mentioned Google+ disappeared. I don't know if that's the case, but I had assumed that everyone knew it was censorship. Most people had taken to calling "that other social network". I think their censorship was somewhat effective as well.
Free or not, I think operating systems should have a central update mechanism that can be used by any repository. With Windows, etc, you need to check for updates in many cases manually, from a variety of sources. Apple had the opportunity to build it in and didn't.
You can install software from any source on a Mac (for now), and are not limited to their marketplace. It is quite obviously about either greed or a forthcoming lockdown.
Well, there is a mechanism available to notify users of these updates, but I'm guessing MS is not that interested in handing over 30% of their price. I think Apple's exclusion of 3rd party repositories from their marketplace is pure greed. The Linux model they borrowed from should have been more blatantly copied. I think Windows should do the same, but I think they're following the iOS approach for Metro that locks users to a single market.
One of the best features of Ubuntu, etc, is the single channel for software updates and patches.
Anyone who's familiar with MVC, services, etc, knows the benefits of separating presentation and functionality. This may be marketing people making these sort or decisions, as you would think a decent designer or developer would know better.
Freedom of association? Does that apply? Why do educators seem to love tossing out personal rights and freedoms? Between this, video cameras on laptops, insisting on viewing personal accounts, etc, it's just disheartening. Why not RFID tag them all or lock them in cells on their personal time?
Wouldn't this really just be the same effect as an equivalent area covered by large trees? Yes, it could slightly alter the climate, but any physical environment change will.
I keep reading these accusations and assumptions and almost all of them seem to ignore that the open source software (Kismet?) that they used to grab data logs it all as a default, or at least that's what I've read. Is there even an option to strip the non identifying information out? (I'm actually asking, I don't know this package).
At least it's NFC. When Jobs was still around they were talking about a proprietary technology. This whole thing is just a way to lock people into the iTunes ecosystem. If they open it up so it can be used with any device, and across multiple hosting providers I'd be interested.
It doesn't really explain why so many radicals and extremists are engineers though (other than they may be targeted because of their skills).
I think it's generally caused by indoctrination when they're very young, and it's very hard to break. I think societal pressure also adds to it a lot, but that's been decreasing.
Yes, but like so many things, it's far more news-worthy when Apple invents it.
And then they'll sue Applebees for using the name (I'll assume this is a joke, although I should probably check to see if this has actually happened)