It doesn't matter if it's a hit, because Apple Watch will never work adequately with non-Apple devices. I have more confidence that an Android Wear or even Tizen based watch will not have as much lock-in.
I don't want to get rid of those things. Skeuomorphic user interfaces don't specifically address those qualities any better than flat. If the flat UI fails to provide those clues when needed, it needs to be designed better.
North America and Europe are fairly even with each carrying around 30-35%, with Oceania has 10 exceeding 7 by over 10%. However, the remainder more than balances that with much lower upgrade rates in Asia, Africa, and South America.
Some of us hipsters agree with many of the complaints in the summary.
I like unintrusive, post-shiny user interfaces. I really prefer flat UIs. Still, when z-order is a fundamental feature of a UI (windowed desktop) then it makes sense to provide an intuitive mechanism for z-order information (e.g. shadows, highlighting focused windows).
Too much white space, huge margins, too little information
This is true for UIs whose purpose is to disseminate information. Charts, graphics, grids, and such things need to give the user more information while requiring fewer clicks and swipes and less paging. But input UIs generally need to have larger areas of contact and find ways to request less of the user... too many users struggle with positioning a mouse cursor or finger with precision, and nobody wants permanent actions to be triggered by inaccurate input.
Right, the only announcement was for an expensive developer preview version. It's not consumer ready and was never marketed as such. In fact its main market, so far, appears to be commercial.
That may change. They have been iterating and have shown interest in building out support for wireless vs. wired scenarios and AR vs. VR, and are bringing other OEMs on board. HoloLens 2.0 appears to be under development. And there seems to be a real interest in making it a first-class citizen in the Windows ecosystem (with existing UWP support as well as the Project NEON and Composable Shell rumors).
We have a pretty good voting system. There are some other options but each has it's pros and cons. None has a clear advantage over the other in the large scale.
This is wrong.
There are clear advantages of other voting systems over FPTP/plurality. Several criteria have been produced to compare voting systems (example comparisons here). Where criteria focus on specific (often worst-case) scenarios, voting simulations can help see the bigger picture. It can be shown that plurality necessarily devolves into a two-party system.
It is clear that plurality is a terrible system, even if there is no unanimous concensus on which replacement is the best.
It's still fairly easy to still spend pennies on a cup of coffee, if you're willing to get off your ass
I save a bunch while being lazy. I make cold brew at home. I spend about as much time as I would on a single pot of coffee, but it makes concentrate that lasts a couple of weeks. As usual Walmart has good prices if you are ok with the brands they carry.
Also for sweetening cold coffee drinks, making simple sugar is dirt cheap and easy and can last a while too.
All said, with milk and sugar, I average around 75 cents per 16oz glass. Compare that with around $4 for the same at Starbucks.
UI animations like the ones in the Groove app aren't there to wow you, but to make the UI more coherent.
In Groove, once the user starts scrolling (obviously now more interested in the contents of the scroll area than in the contents of the description pane), the top part of the UI collapses so that the description goes away. The animation keeps it from being so jarring. Simultaneously, it ensures that the smallest scroll action only moves the content as far as expected (instead of suddenly having a different button under your mouse... something I've noticed that Google is screwing up in some of their UIs as of late).
Certain government offices might have historically required him to give up control of Facebook, but Donald Trump is currently redefining how much ownership of business one can have as President
False.
I don't recall any laws being changed in this regard. Trump is only pushing boundaries that were never really there. If you dislike it, get your Congressional leaders to pass a law against it.
Isn't it? If "ransomware" is a superset of "ransomware programmed on a Tuesday yada yada", then surely "extortion" includes "extortion via ransomware" .
It appears their current highest data cap is 100GB (at $450 plus device access charge and other fees). At 10 Gbps, that would last around 1 minute, 20 seconds. That comes to $5.63 per second.
Those are theoretical speeds and most of us won't ever see them in real life. Still, data caps need to change dramatically as speeds see such increases.
Microsoft has completely and definitely lost this battle ages ago
This is where your argument fails. There is no end until the company dies; there is only movement within the market, movement across markets, and movement towards new markets.
The technology could open up doors. Or not, we don't know. Running x86 Windows apps on an ARM device is something that has been requested by users for years. Continuum was of mild interest for a lot of users, but this could push many over the edge toward Windows devices.
If the leaders at Google and Apple are smart, they aren't asleep at the helm. The moment they think they're safe is the moment they become a casualty a la Microsoft circa 2007.
I was quite clear about not placing responsibility on any single item, but on a host of transformations across markets. The largest boosts in mobile web browsing most certainly occurred from Android devices. Indeed, Firefox had already won the hearts of power users and even quite a few consumers (though, that support was starting to level off).
But let's be clear, Apple was a strong catalyst for the kinds of changes that impacted the IE monopoly at just a time when the web (and PCs) were becoming stagnate again. Apple seemingly negotiated tough with AT&T (which was Cingular months before) and so the iPhone required an unlimited data plan, but it was affordable. The iPhone was a (relatively) large screen in a small-phone world, making it more capable of browsing "the full web" (as Steve Jobs said) instead of WAP... so long as that web was compliant with HTML standards and didn't include Flash and other plugins that were pretty much required for any reasonable level of functionality in IE. It's easy to dismiss just how good pinch-to-zoom was, but it made so much difference. Sites were now rendered for the resolution at which they were designed--and that made the web useful in mobile.
Primarily Apple set a trend, but I agree that the iPhone never truly commanded the market. I'm not an Apple fanboy, and I'm not even saying they invented anything specific. But ignoring the spark they brought to these industries is revisionist history.
There's also no rational reason to believe that humans are capable of consciousness or human-level intelligence. What if I'm the only actual conscious human? What if I'm living in a Truman-show or Matrix-style simulation?
We can't say what robot consciousness is if we can't even define what ours is.
These things are the only legitimate reasons I know of (besides maybe tax exemptions, though some don't even believe in those) that marriage is good for from a legal perspective.
So I'm having a tough time understanding where robots will fit in for those cases. Power of attorney/last will and testament could be solved better with existing technology (e.g. blockchain). And what happens when we have multiple robots to service different aspects of our needs, would it be legal to marry them all? What about cloning memories and programming between multiple identical robots?
I hesitate at the word "chance". A lot of damn hard work went into breaking the IE monopoly.
New browsers such as Firefox and Chrome had to be built, which is quite difficult given the complexity of any web browser. But then they needed to gain traction, so the web standards problem had to be fixed... and the only player in the game, IE, refused to comply and seemed to even actively push against standards. But then to fix the web required a third-party browser to already exist that adhered to standards to gain marketshare, which came in the form of mobile Safari on the iPhone. But the iPhone wouldn't have been special without reinventing how people interacted with smartphone devices, and mobile Safari would have been useless if data still cost $30 for the first 20MB.
Entire markets had to be reinvented just to break the IE monopoly. It was a huge undertaking, and might not have happened if IE, smart phones, or cellular providers were any more tolerable than they were at the time.
Indeed. My Pebble Time was actually quite useful, especially for driving. I could peek at the notification while stopped at a light, without having to dig the phone out. I also used it for two-factor authentication codes, being much more convenient than pulling out my phone and unlocking it.
When I returned it*, I noticed how much more inconvenient it is trying to fumble around to get my huge phone with its large case out of my pocket, especially when most notifications aren't worth it.
* I only owned it for about 2 weeks before Pebble tanked. I since returned it knowing that the warranty was gone and the community will probably dry up and move on soon. I'm still planning to find a replacement, and I might hold out for Android Wear 2.0.
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It doesn't matter if it's a hit, because Apple Watch will never work adequately with non-Apple devices. I have more confidence that an Android Wear or even Tizen based watch will not have as much lock-in.
I don't want to get rid of those things. Skeuomorphic user interfaces don't specifically address those qualities any better than flat. If the flat UI fails to provide those clues when needed, it needs to be designed better.
StatCounter has 7 at 40% and 10 at 27% for desktop worldwide market share.
North America and Europe are fairly even with each carrying around 30-35%, with Oceania has 10 exceeding 7 by over 10%. However, the remainder more than balances that with much lower upgrade rates in Asia, Africa, and South America.
Some of us hipsters agree with many of the complaints in the summary.
I like unintrusive, post-shiny user interfaces. I really prefer flat UIs. Still, when z-order is a fundamental feature of a UI (windowed desktop) then it makes sense to provide an intuitive mechanism for z-order information (e.g. shadows, highlighting focused windows).
Too much white space, huge margins, too little information
This is true for UIs whose purpose is to disseminate information. Charts, graphics, grids, and such things need to give the user more information while requiring fewer clicks and swipes and less paging. But input UIs generally need to have larger areas of contact and find ways to request less of the user... too many users struggle with positioning a mouse cursor or finger with precision, and nobody wants permanent actions to be triggered by inaccurate input.
Right, the only announcement was for an expensive developer preview version. It's not consumer ready and was never marketed as such. In fact its main market, so far, appears to be commercial.
That may change. They have been iterating and have shown interest in building out support for wireless vs. wired scenarios and AR vs. VR, and are bringing other OEMs on board. HoloLens 2.0 appears to be under development. And there seems to be a real interest in making it a first-class citizen in the Windows ecosystem (with existing UWP support as well as the Project NEON and Composable Shell rumors).
Where did they lie? This was always a developer version, nobody seriously expected consumer-level sales figures.
http://www.howtogeek.com/25851...
Wow. I've got to say, this is the first time I'm actually impressed by a Trump appointment.
We have a pretty good voting system. There are some other options but each has it's pros and cons. None has a clear advantage over the other in the large scale.
This is wrong.
There are clear advantages of other voting systems over FPTP/plurality. Several criteria have been produced to compare voting systems (example comparisons here). Where criteria focus on specific (often worst-case) scenarios, voting simulations can help see the bigger picture. It can be shown that plurality necessarily devolves into a two-party system.
It is clear that plurality is a terrible system, even if there is no unanimous concensus on which replacement is the best.
"But Hillary" isn't an answer. We were doomed by the primaries. Neither candidate should have made it into the general election.
Using one as an excuse for the other ignores the role of both parties in placing terrible candidates on the ballot.
We need a better voting system, one which focuses on who you want in office instead of who you hate the most.
rather than just winning their ideological war
Ha, that's not even close to the purpose. It's to keep the two parties in control. That's it.
A third party can't rise up if you hate one of the main two parties so much that you would sell your soul to the other major party.
It's still fairly easy to still spend pennies on a cup of coffee, if you're willing to get off your ass
I save a bunch while being lazy. I make cold brew at home. I spend about as much time as I would on a single pot of coffee, but it makes concentrate that lasts a couple of weeks. As usual Walmart has good prices if you are ok with the brands they carry.
Also for sweetening cold coffee drinks, making simple sugar is dirt cheap and easy and can last a while too.
All said, with milk and sugar, I average around 75 cents per 16oz glass. Compare that with around $4 for the same at Starbucks.
(I've worked at a coffee shop for a few years.)
No statement of right or wrong was made or intended.
UI animations like the ones in the Groove app aren't there to wow you, but to make the UI more coherent.
In Groove, once the user starts scrolling (obviously now more interested in the contents of the scroll area than in the contents of the description pane), the top part of the UI collapses so that the description goes away. The animation keeps it from being so jarring. Simultaneously, it ensures that the smallest scroll action only moves the content as far as expected (instead of suddenly having a different button under your mouse... something I've noticed that Google is screwing up in some of their UIs as of late).
Certain government offices might have historically required him to give up control of Facebook, but Donald Trump is currently redefining how much ownership of business one can have as President
False.
I don't recall any laws being changed in this regard. Trump is only pushing boundaries that were never really there. If you dislike it, get your Congressional leaders to pass a law against it.
Isn't it? If "ransomware" is a superset of "ransomware programmed on a Tuesday yada yada", then surely "extortion" includes "extortion via ransomware" .
It appears their current highest data cap is 100GB (at $450 plus device access charge and other fees). At 10 Gbps, that would last around 1 minute, 20 seconds. That comes to $5.63 per second.
Those are theoretical speeds and most of us won't ever see them in real life. Still, data caps need to change dramatically as speeds see such increases.
Microsoft has completely and definitely lost this battle ages ago
This is where your argument fails. There is no end until the company dies; there is only movement within the market, movement across markets, and movement towards new markets.
The technology could open up doors. Or not, we don't know. Running x86 Windows apps on an ARM device is something that has been requested by users for years. Continuum was of mild interest for a lot of users, but this could push many over the edge toward Windows devices.
If the leaders at Google and Apple are smart, they aren't asleep at the helm. The moment they think they're safe is the moment they become a casualty a la Microsoft circa 2007.
If you're running bloatware, or need on-access antivirus that would inhibit gaming performance... you're doing it wrong.
Run a nightly scan and don't open crap you shouldn't.
I was quite clear about not placing responsibility on any single item, but on a host of transformations across markets. The largest boosts in mobile web browsing most certainly occurred from Android devices. Indeed, Firefox had already won the hearts of power users and even quite a few consumers (though, that support was starting to level off).
But let's be clear, Apple was a strong catalyst for the kinds of changes that impacted the IE monopoly at just a time when the web (and PCs) were becoming stagnate again. Apple seemingly negotiated tough with AT&T (which was Cingular months before) and so the iPhone required an unlimited data plan, but it was affordable. The iPhone was a (relatively) large screen in a small-phone world, making it more capable of browsing "the full web" (as Steve Jobs said) instead of WAP... so long as that web was compliant with HTML standards and didn't include Flash and other plugins that were pretty much required for any reasonable level of functionality in IE. It's easy to dismiss just how good pinch-to-zoom was, but it made so much difference. Sites were now rendered for the resolution at which they were designed--and that made the web useful in mobile.
Primarily Apple set a trend, but I agree that the iPhone never truly commanded the market. I'm not an Apple fanboy, and I'm not even saying they invented anything specific. But ignoring the spark they brought to these industries is revisionist history.
There's also no rational reason to believe that humans are capable of consciousness or human-level intelligence. What if I'm the only actual conscious human? What if I'm living in a Truman-show or Matrix-style simulation?
We can't say what robot consciousness is if we can't even define what ours is.
These things are the only legitimate reasons I know of (besides maybe tax exemptions, though some don't even believe in those) that marriage is good for from a legal perspective.
So I'm having a tough time understanding where robots will fit in for those cases. Power of attorney/last will and testament could be solved better with existing technology (e.g. blockchain). And what happens when we have multiple robots to service different aspects of our needs, would it be legal to marry them all? What about cloning memories and programming between multiple identical robots?
It's an interesting thought experiment at least.
I hesitate at the word "chance". A lot of damn hard work went into breaking the IE monopoly.
New browsers such as Firefox and Chrome had to be built, which is quite difficult given the complexity of any web browser. But then they needed to gain traction, so the web standards problem had to be fixed... and the only player in the game, IE, refused to comply and seemed to even actively push against standards. But then to fix the web required a third-party browser to already exist that adhered to standards to gain marketshare, which came in the form of mobile Safari on the iPhone. But the iPhone wouldn't have been special without reinventing how people interacted with smartphone devices, and mobile Safari would have been useless if data still cost $30 for the first 20MB.
Entire markets had to be reinvented just to break the IE monopoly. It was a huge undertaking, and might not have happened if IE, smart phones, or cellular providers were any more tolerable than they were at the time.
I used an authenticator app on my Pebble Time. Having it that convenient made me rethink how often I use 2FA.
Indeed. My Pebble Time was actually quite useful, especially for driving. I could peek at the notification while stopped at a light, without having to dig the phone out. I also used it for two-factor authentication codes, being much more convenient than pulling out my phone and unlocking it.
When I returned it*, I noticed how much more inconvenient it is trying to fumble around to get my huge phone with its large case out of my pocket, especially when most notifications aren't worth it.
* I only owned it for about 2 weeks before Pebble tanked. I since returned it knowing that the warranty was gone and the community will probably dry up and move on soon. I'm still planning to find a replacement, and I might hold out for Android Wear 2.0.