Lack of TRIM support is annoying, and hopefully it's just a feature that hasn't been announced yet. For now, you can always get a drive with a SandForce controller. In fact, this is what everyone recommends doing.
From my understanding, the green '+' button is being repurposed to do the full-screen thing. I just wish I could resize windows from any of the borders, rather than the bottom-right corner. That's my biggest irritation with the UI.
The nice thing with Launchpad is being able to reorganize your apps without actually changing the location of the application bundles themselves. For whatever reason, Bad Things can happen if you do this yourself in your Applications directory.
That said, I probably won't ever use it much. Alfred (or any other launcher) is way faster, anyways.
I've been running the dev channel ever since it became available, and in my experience it's more stable than Firefox. It's just a browser; I don't see anything wrong with trying out a potentially unstable version. YMMV.
This just in...iPad worth more than copper! Crude! Corn! Coal! Of course, it's cheaper than gold, or platinum, or diamonds, or...yeah. The comparison is so dumb that we're discussing it instead of the possibility tablets cost too much. Do they? Well, netbooks are considerably cheaper. So...probably.
No, it's restricted to acts that truly hurt people, not inconvenience them. I can't think of any reasonable scenario that lack of OtherOS would hurt someone (and that they couldn't just use, I don't know, a PC), but If not having Linux on your PS3 hurts you, you shouldn't have upgraded.
I have never once said Sony is in the right for doing this. I even said I was personally annoyed at losing the feature. I merely think that "evil" is too strong a word. Evil should be reserved for special acts, such as murder or rape, not removing a random feature from a video game console. That's simply "bad".
So you're only successful if you're a big, multinational corporation? There are plenty of businesses that don't struggle to survive and aren't huge. There are also plenty of huge businesses that are struggling.
Fair enough. I was somewhat miffed at losing OtherOS support, myself, so I see nothing wrong with others criticizing for it. But I still can hardly consider the act "evil".
That's actually an essential feature of car safety. Removing Linux from a game machine (and no matter how Sony may market the thing, that's what its main focus is) is hardly equivalent.
Plus, Sony openly said that they were removing OtherOS. There was no "sneaking".
You could always just wait for the video to buffer all the way, which is like downloading (only it's nonpersistent, so you have to download it again if you want to watch it some other session).
My brother and his family and his wife's family are mormon. I've never really learned a ton about the religion, but I've been to a few church services and certainly never heard of anything remotely like, well, any of that. Except for the existence of the crazies out in Arizona, which the church officially repudiates, that's all news to me.
Of course, the benefits of piracy is a double-edged sword--if there were no pirates to begin with, we wouldn't have DRM. No DRM means no need for all the no-CD cracks and what have you. Did that world ever have a chance to exist? No; there were always going to be pirates. Do I like or want DRM? No and no. Do I understand why companies feel they must spend resources trying to stop people from stealing their stuff? Yes.
The funny thing about this is that retailers must pay extra for the "service" of not requiring signatures or other forms of verification for purchases under $25. Funny in a money-grubbing kind of way, at least.
That's pretty close to my experiences in the US. I only ever had one class, on finite automata, that used problems from the textbook as graded material, but it also had unique problem sets, as well. My classes were usually along the lines of "X% for labs/programming assignments, but if you don't have a passing grade in this, then you fail regardless of what your class total is".
And I haven't seen extra-credit since junior high.
I suppose it really depends on where in the country you are (surprise, surprise).
Getting more frequent, but smaller releases is preferable than fewer, large releases. Helps the marketers say they are innovating, or at least that they aren't stagnating, and users get to enjoy new things faster. For myself, I always like knowing that the software I use is being maintained, and a fairly frequent release cycle is a great way to prove it.
Android may be more complex, but the summary specifically mentions hardware, which has nothing to do with what OS is running. You make a good point about where you set the bar, but it also raises the question: Which is more important--quality and lower-tech or bug-ridden and bleeding edge? There's no real answer to this, as it's a matter of perspective.
I used to revel in the latter category ("Yeah, there's bugs, but I'm using stuff other guys won't see for months, or maybe even YEARS"), but now I'm closer to the middle. I don't want to be hopelessly obsolete, but I still expect my stuff to work well most of the time, and that includes having quality hardware. It seems like many (certainly not all) Android-based manufacturers neglect the hardware side of things, which is puzzling.
If you can't match the quality of a competitor that launched eight months before you, then you probably rushed the thing. (Yes, it is an oversimplification, but it's also hard to excuse a latecomer that offers little to recommend it over the Other Guy's first-generation product.)
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It's especially strange when you consider the Air comes with an SSD... Then again, I'm not sure who the manufacturer is.
Lack of TRIM support is annoying, and hopefully it's just a feature that hasn't been announced yet. For now, you can always get a drive with a SandForce controller. In fact, this is what everyone recommends doing.
Snow Leopard already has the Mac App Store.
From my understanding, the green '+' button is being repurposed to do the full-screen thing. I just wish I could resize windows from any of the borders, rather than the bottom-right corner. That's my biggest irritation with the UI.
The nice thing with Launchpad is being able to reorganize your apps without actually changing the location of the application bundles themselves. For whatever reason, Bad Things can happen if you do this yourself in your Applications directory.
That said, I probably won't ever use it much. Alfred (or any other launcher) is way faster, anyways.
I've been running the dev channel ever since it became available, and in my experience it's more stable than Firefox. It's just a browser; I don't see anything wrong with trying out a potentially unstable version. YMMV.
Mod parent up.
This just in...iPad worth more than copper! Crude! Corn! Coal!
Of course, it's cheaper than gold, or platinum, or diamonds, or...yeah. The comparison is so dumb that we're discussing it instead of the possibility tablets cost too much. Do they? Well, netbooks are considerably cheaper. So...probably.
No, it's restricted to acts that truly hurt people, not inconvenience them. I can't think of any reasonable scenario that lack of OtherOS would hurt someone (and that they couldn't just use, I don't know, a PC), but If not having Linux on your PS3 hurts you, you shouldn't have upgraded.
But this is a pointless argument.
I have never once said Sony is in the right for doing this. I even said I was personally annoyed at losing the feature. I merely think that "evil" is too strong a word. Evil should be reserved for special acts, such as murder or rape, not removing a random feature from a video game console. That's simply "bad".
So you're only successful if you're a big, multinational corporation? There are plenty of businesses that don't struggle to survive and aren't huge. There are also plenty of huge businesses that are struggling.
Fair enough. I was somewhat miffed at losing OtherOS support, myself, so I see nothing wrong with others criticizing for it. But I still can hardly consider the act "evil".
That's actually an essential feature of car safety. Removing Linux from a game machine (and no matter how Sony may market the thing, that's what its main focus is) is hardly equivalent.
Plus, Sony openly said that they were removing OtherOS. There was no "sneaking".
It's weird to be supporting Sony right now (and twice in the same thread!), but you've got that analogy backwards.
Evil? To remove a feature the vast majority of people didn't even know was there, let alone use? That word is so overused now as to be meaningless.
You could always just wait for the video to buffer all the way, which is like downloading (only it's nonpersistent, so you have to download it again if you want to watch it some other session).
My brother and his family and his wife's family are mormon. I've never really learned a ton about the religion, but I've been to a few church services and certainly never heard of anything remotely like, well, any of that. Except for the existence of the crazies out in Arizona, which the church officially repudiates, that's all news to me.
I'll have to ask him about it.
Of course, the benefits of piracy is a double-edged sword--if there were no pirates to begin with, we wouldn't have DRM. No DRM means no need for all the no-CD cracks and what have you. Did that world ever have a chance to exist? No; there were always going to be pirates. Do I like or want DRM? No and no. Do I understand why companies feel they must spend resources trying to stop people from stealing their stuff? Yes.
It's 64% violent, after all.
The funny thing about this is that retailers must pay extra for the "service" of not requiring signatures or other forms of verification for purchases under $25. Funny in a money-grubbing kind of way, at least.
That's pretty close to my experiences in the US. I only ever had one class, on finite automata, that used problems from the textbook as graded material, but it also had unique problem sets, as well. My classes were usually along the lines of "X% for labs/programming assignments, but if you don't have a passing grade in this, then you fail regardless of what your class total is".
And I haven't seen extra-credit since junior high.
I suppose it really depends on where in the country you are (surprise, surprise).
Getting more frequent, but smaller releases is preferable than fewer, large releases. Helps the marketers say they are innovating, or at least that they aren't stagnating, and users get to enjoy new things faster. For myself, I always like knowing that the software I use is being maintained, and a fairly frequent release cycle is a great way to prove it.
Chrome has a better UI and more extensions available, last time I checked.
The iMac literally has laptop hardware in it. Is it a big laptop?
Android may be more complex, but the summary specifically mentions hardware, which has nothing to do with what OS is running. You make a good point about where you set the bar, but it also raises the question: Which is more important--quality and lower-tech or bug-ridden and bleeding edge? There's no real answer to this, as it's a matter of perspective.
I used to revel in the latter category ("Yeah, there's bugs, but I'm using stuff other guys won't see for months, or maybe even YEARS"), but now I'm closer to the middle. I don't want to be hopelessly obsolete, but I still expect my stuff to work well most of the time, and that includes having quality hardware. It seems like many (certainly not all) Android-based manufacturers neglect the hardware side of things, which is puzzling.
If you can't match the quality of a competitor that launched eight months before you, then you probably rushed the thing. (Yes, it is an oversimplification, but it's also hard to excuse a latecomer that offers little to recommend it over the Other Guy's first-generation product.)