The original app was more than a glorified web browser--originally. When the iPhone came out, Youtube videos were all Flash, so the only way to get Youtube videos on the iPhone was through the app.
(To be honest, the current Youtube app is pretty much a glorified web browser, as to my knowledge it does nothing the website can't. It just runs faster.)
Google is not doing that, even though they've given Apple access to the same APIs. So taken by itself, Microsoft is in the right and Google is in the wrong.
More pinned icons without needing to clutter up your desktop is what I like about it. You also don't have to move the mouse around the screen--just use the arrow keys. And I couldn't care less that it takes up the full screen, as I brought it up to launch another application, meaning I don't need to see everything else I have opened already.
Keyboard-based app launchers tend to be much faster than using a mouse, even with the scenario described. Don't forget that moving the mouse around is also wrist movement, and usually much more than moving your mouse hand to your keyboard. What I find interesting is that W8 feels like it has more concessions to power users than is typical. Using just the keyboard, I can fly around much quicker than I could with any previous versions of Windows, whether by keyboard or mouse.
Concession? Hardly. 8.1 is akin to a service pack, if it's even that big. What's weirder to me is that the download is through the Windows Store, not the regular Windows Update.
Yeah, Kindle seems to have the best prices. Though I do buy Adobe-"protected" books, I always load them into Calibre and strip the DRM. I'm not sure what sites you buy from, though; I haven't had to install Adobe Digital Edition...yet.
In my experience, the Nook has a similar selection to Amazon, except perhaps for indie authors. I think the problem here is mindshare. Amazon was first, everyone and their mom shops at Amazon, and they've had the Kindle plastered on the front page for years.
I agree that it'll be a loss for consumers if the Nook disappears. However...
I've owned (or currently own) three Kindles, one Nook (the glow light version), and the new Kobo that got slashvertised here a few weeks ago. As I've posted before, Amazon simply has the best platform of the three (I haven't tried others). It's ridiculously easy to sideload books wirelessly, without jailbreaking, to all of your Kindles at once. More importantly, Kindle will sync the location of sideloaded books. Third-party publishers, such as Baen, already offer MOBI files, so you don't even need to use Calibre.
The only other eBook vendor I know of that syncs sideloaded stuff is Apple, and they don't have a dedicated eReader, and sideloading is a little bit trickier than the Kindle. I haven't checked out Google; how are they in this arena?
I've also found Amazon to be the cheapest, at least for books I actually want to read. Two books on my shortlist, A Fire Upon the Deep and The Last Colony, are both $2 more on the Kobo store. A couple dollars here and there add up. (My solution right now is to buy on Amazon and convert it for the Kobo.)
What makes it all so frustrating is that Amazon has the worst hardware of the three. It isn't that it's bad, it's that it's very utilitarian. The Nook has the best-feeling reader, while the Kobo has the best software (their text options are downright great), screen, and backlight.
You can cut (move) in the context menu by holding Option. Like I said, it's obtuse, but the functionality is there. I'm not sure why Apple feels the need to hide it behind a keyboard toggle.
We got one (a Samsung) for my mom to use, and she likes it. I like it because my tech support requests went way down after purchasing, though it does seem to take a while to connect to a network on resume, which leads to some frustration. She also says it doesn't give any warning that the battery is low, but I haven't verified this. Sounds like a big oversight if true.
About a billion things. Apple gear is so hamstrung its silly. I know because i have a full Apple set (2011 mac mini, ipad 2, iphone 4s) . This was my first step into Apple gear and the limitations are ASTOUNDING. Even OSX is a bit of a joke, cant even CUT and paste files. Cant direct delete without going to the command line. The biggest problem Apple faces right now is the platform is just too locked down. They are going to have to loosen up or Android weirdo use-cases will consume their market.
The first bolded sentence is just wrong (though the method of cutting+pasting files is obtuse, it's there). The second one doesn't make sense, but also sounds wrong.
I agree, though, it would be nice if Apple opened up more.
71. All spatially organized the way I might have icons organized on my desktop--only now I can have my desktop empty and uncluttered, showing icons only when I need them. My 6 most-used apps are on the far left, followed by my most-used directories, followed by my second-most-used apps, followed by a large mess of games I have thrown up to help me decide what to play when I have some free time.
It's faster because sorting by use is more intuitive than sorting by alphabet position.
Start screen has never bothered me, as whenever I used the old start menu, all of my attention was focused on it anyway. For me, having a start screen just means that I can display more icons at once, which is a plus. I would love a boot to desktop mode, though.
I would imagine people who don't need all of Photoshop's features don't buy Photoshop, as it's a very expensive piece of software. Thus, I'm not sure that an alternative stealing low-end customers would be all that problematic for Adobe, as they weren't Adobe's customers to begin with.
It would be pretty simple to have the car simply refuse to fly if it didn't pass some sort of internal systems check. What I'm more worried about is the fact that most people would make terrible, terrible flyers. People have enough trouble with just two dimensions...
I think most people do skip versions. At my work, we were using CS2 until just a few days ago, when we finally upgraded to CS6. It costs too much money for too little payoff, and that's before considering re-training people to use the new version.
The people who upgrade most consistently are probably the pirates, which I imagine this is designed to attempt to thwart.
Another promising alternative (in Mac-land) is Pixelmator, though it's missing several important features, such as layer styles. What kills it for me is that it's RGB only with no CMYK option, which makes it a no-go in 75% of my use cases.
Photoshop has several aspects that annoy me, but I don't know of any other application out there that does everything it does with a workable interface. Any suggestions?
Out of curiosity, is it possible to vote for none of the candidates? I've always felt that not voting is a vote against the system itself, and thus, a type of vote.
"Security" isn't limited to foreign conquerors; it applies to anything that would threaten the state, foreign or domestic. This includes one's own government, should it become necessary. The Declaration of Independence and the American War of Independence should be all the proof you need that the founders thought it was important to be able to cast off an oppressive government.
The worst part about it is that most of those guns will end up stolen and on the streets at some point in the very near future.
This, exactly. I know what is meant, but it takes a little bit of mental juggling on my part, for whatever reason. It does get a bit more confusing if you aren't sure if the person is referencing centigrade or Fahrenheit. 1/2 of 23C is a lot different from 1/2 of 73F (in colloquial usage).
Beyond that, my pedantic mind prefers to use phrases like "half as fast" instead of "twice as slow," but I don't fuss over it.
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The original app was more than a glorified web browser--originally. When the iPhone came out, Youtube videos were all Flash, so the only way to get Youtube videos on the iPhone was through the app.
(To be honest, the current Youtube app is pretty much a glorified web browser, as to my knowledge it does nothing the website can't. It just runs faster.)
Google is not doing that, even though they've given Apple access to the same APIs. So taken by itself, Microsoft is in the right and Google is in the wrong.
Actually, Google makes the iOS Youtube app.
More pinned icons without needing to clutter up your desktop is what I like about it. You also don't have to move the mouse around the screen--just use the arrow keys. And I couldn't care less that it takes up the full screen, as I brought it up to launch another application, meaning I don't need to see everything else I have opened already.
Keyboard-based app launchers tend to be much faster than using a mouse, even with the scenario described. Don't forget that moving the mouse around is also wrist movement, and usually much more than moving your mouse hand to your keyboard. What I find interesting is that W8 feels like it has more concessions to power users than is typical. Using just the keyboard, I can fly around much quicker than I could with any previous versions of Windows, whether by keyboard or mouse.
Concession? Hardly. 8.1 is akin to a service pack, if it's even that big. What's weirder to me is that the download is through the Windows Store, not the regular Windows Update.
Actually, they started that in Vista, I believe. I don't have anything against it, though; I always just use the search feature, as it's faster.
Yeah, Kindle seems to have the best prices. Though I do buy Adobe-"protected" books, I always load them into Calibre and strip the DRM. I'm not sure what sites you buy from, though; I haven't had to install Adobe Digital Edition...yet.
In my experience, the Nook has a similar selection to Amazon, except perhaps for indie authors. I think the problem here is mindshare. Amazon was first, everyone and their mom shops at Amazon, and they've had the Kindle plastered on the front page for years.
I agree that it'll be a loss for consumers if the Nook disappears. However...
I've owned (or currently own) three Kindles, one Nook (the glow light version), and the new Kobo that got slashvertised here a few weeks ago. As I've posted before, Amazon simply has the best platform of the three (I haven't tried others). It's ridiculously easy to sideload books wirelessly, without jailbreaking, to all of your Kindles at once. More importantly, Kindle will sync the location of sideloaded books. Third-party publishers, such as Baen, already offer MOBI files, so you don't even need to use Calibre.
The only other eBook vendor I know of that syncs sideloaded stuff is Apple, and they don't have a dedicated eReader, and sideloading is a little bit trickier than the Kindle. I haven't checked out Google; how are they in this arena?
I've also found Amazon to be the cheapest, at least for books I actually want to read. Two books on my shortlist, A Fire Upon the Deep and The Last Colony, are both $2 more on the Kobo store. A couple dollars here and there add up. (My solution right now is to buy on Amazon and convert it for the Kobo.)
What makes it all so frustrating is that Amazon has the worst hardware of the three. It isn't that it's bad, it's that it's very utilitarian. The Nook has the best-feeling reader, while the Kobo has the best software (their text options are downright great), screen, and backlight.
You can cut (move) in the context menu by holding Option. Like I said, it's obtuse, but the functionality is there. I'm not sure why Apple feels the need to hide it behind a keyboard toggle.
We got one (a Samsung) for my mom to use, and she likes it. I like it because my tech support requests went way down after purchasing, though it does seem to take a while to connect to a network on resume, which leads to some frustration. She also says it doesn't give any warning that the battery is low, but I haven't verified this. Sounds like a big oversight if true.
About a billion things. Apple gear is so hamstrung its silly. I know because i have a full Apple set (2011 mac mini, ipad 2, iphone 4s) . This was my first step into Apple gear and the limitations are ASTOUNDING. Even OSX is a bit of a joke, cant even CUT and paste files. Cant direct delete without going to the command line. The biggest problem Apple faces right now is the platform is just too locked down. They are going to have to loosen up or Android weirdo use-cases will consume their market.
The first bolded sentence is just wrong (though the method of cutting+pasting files is obtuse, it's there). The second one doesn't make sense, but also sounds wrong.
I agree, though, it would be nice if Apple opened up more.
71. All spatially organized the way I might have icons organized on my desktop--only now I can have my desktop empty and uncluttered, showing icons only when I need them. My 6 most-used apps are on the far left, followed by my most-used directories, followed by my second-most-used apps, followed by a large mess of games I have thrown up to help me decide what to play when I have some free time.
It's faster because sorting by use is more intuitive than sorting by alphabet position.
Talking about the "pin to start menu" thing. I never went into "All Programs" because it was slow and cumbersome.
Thanks for the tip; my Desktop tile was actually already there, so this makes things a bit quicker.
Start screen has never bothered me, as whenever I used the old start menu, all of my attention was focused on it anyway. For me, having a start screen just means that I can display more icons at once, which is a plus. I would love a boot to desktop mode, though.
I would imagine people who don't need all of Photoshop's features don't buy Photoshop, as it's a very expensive piece of software. Thus, I'm not sure that an alternative stealing low-end customers would be all that problematic for Adobe, as they weren't Adobe's customers to begin with.
Interesting to know; thanks!
It would be pretty simple to have the car simply refuse to fly if it didn't pass some sort of internal systems check. What I'm more worried about is the fact that most people would make terrible, terrible flyers. People have enough trouble with just two dimensions...
I think most people do skip versions. At my work, we were using CS2 until just a few days ago, when we finally upgraded to CS6. It costs too much money for too little payoff, and that's before considering re-training people to use the new version.
The people who upgrade most consistently are probably the pirates, which I imagine this is designed to attempt to thwart.
Another promising alternative (in Mac-land) is Pixelmator, though it's missing several important features, such as layer styles. What kills it for me is that it's RGB only with no CMYK option, which makes it a no-go in 75% of my use cases.
Photoshop has several aspects that annoy me, but I don't know of any other application out there that does everything it does with a workable interface. Any suggestions?
Out of curiosity, is it possible to vote for none of the candidates? I've always felt that not voting is a vote against the system itself, and thus, a type of vote.
"Security" isn't limited to foreign conquerors; it applies to anything that would threaten the state, foreign or domestic. This includes one's own government, should it become necessary. The Declaration of Independence and the American War of Independence should be all the proof you need that the founders thought it was important to be able to cast off an oppressive government.
The worst part about it is that most of those guns will end up stolen and on the streets at some point in the very near future.
Based on...?
Though that's an awkward way of saying it, "half again as big" is a similar phrase that does get used.
This, exactly. I know what is meant, but it takes a little bit of mental juggling on my part, for whatever reason. It does get a bit more confusing if you aren't sure if the person is referencing centigrade or Fahrenheit. 1/2 of 23C is a lot different from 1/2 of 73F (in colloquial usage).
Beyond that, my pedantic mind prefers to use phrases like "half as fast" instead of "twice as slow," but I don't fuss over it.