Ya, by all means! I mean, they should absolutely take an O/S that they've spent 10 years securing and improving, and then carve a giant hole in it just so a bunch of techno-Luddite-retards can still keep running an O/S whose kernel might be in highschool if it was one of their gap-toothed, inbred coverall-wearing offspring...
MY response to all of those mouth-breathing fuckwits would've been, "It's time for you to SHUT-UP and FUCK OFF!" -- all those tinfoil-hat-wearing mental-midgets who STILL promote the use of WinXP NEED TO JUST DIE, and take all of those shit-ass, spam-spewing, DDOS-supporting rootkit-and-assorted-malware-hosting piece of shit machines with them down into the pits of hell!
And you're just as nicely encouraging these nice folks to switch to Linux, right? Gee, thanks.
Actually, Jasc had 2 products that Adobe wanted to bu(r)y, the other one being PaintShop Pro.
But Trajectory was the first visual SVG authoring app that had any serious potential, and I have since then nursed a recurring desire to see Adobe's collective toes toasting in Hell for removing it from the market.
By which time all the small shops will have been pouring money into competing products long enough that Adobe will no longer hold a viable monopoly on the industry...
How did that work out for people who used Macromedia Dreamweaver and Jasc Trajectory Pro?
(Your scenario is an attractive one, but I'm skeptical.)
I am beginning to think that I am the only tablet owner on the planet who had the sense and 25 bucks to buy a charging stand for my device.
No more looking around for the tablet, since stuff doesn't get laid on top of it anymore.
No more fishing around behind the desk or nightstand, looking for the charging plug.
Device stays fully charged except when detached. Easy to detach for hands-on tasks.
No need to prop it up against something to watch a movie; also very handy for hands-free voice and video calls.
And you don't have to leave space for the keyboard you're not using. Try reading something at the kitchen table over dinner on your laptop or netbook vs a freestanding tablet. You will rapidly discover why I prefer the latter in this scenario.:^)
f you live in a city for your entire life, and if your transportation needs are measured in single miles,...
You've just stated the use case for mass transit very nicely. Why do I need some gizmo that I'll have to pay parking (I'd have to rent parking places at both home and work), charging fees, taxes, insurance, etc., when I can ride anywhere in the greater metro for a hundred bucks a month?
If I want to go off somewhere over the weekend, I can hire a car, which afterwards resumes being someone else's worry.
Oh right, you must be from the US, where everyone must travel the 3 blocks to the grocery in his very own private container.
(I am also from the US. But I've come to know better.)
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Show me all the links if you can, based on the value returned for display dimensions, which I'm pretty sure you can get from the browser.
That's not even necessary. They could figure out from the UA string that you're not on a phone or tablet.
Ya, by all means! I mean, they should absolutely take an O/S that they've spent 10 years securing and improving, and then carve a giant hole in it just so a bunch of techno-Luddite-retards can still keep running an O/S whose kernel might be in highschool if it was one of their gap-toothed, inbred coverall-wearing offspring...
MY response to all of those mouth-breathing fuckwits would've been, "It's time for you to SHUT-UP and FUCK OFF!" -- all those tinfoil-hat-wearing mental-midgets who STILL promote the use of WinXP NEED TO JUST DIE, and take all of those shit-ass, spam-spewing, DDOS-supporting rootkit-and-assorted-malware-hosting piece of shit machines with them down into the pits of hell!
And you're just as nicely encouraging these nice folks to switch to Linux, right? Gee, thanks.
The actual hierarchical start menu? Worthless legacy cruft that has been more or less replaced by search anyway.
Who needs a hierarchy or a TOC? That sounds like a great idea for our user manuals! They're searchable, after all...
*starts email to share revelation with boss*
And so it goes that Adobe becomes the enemy of self-employed graphic designers everywhere, attempting to destroy the artist who's barely scraping by.
I'm stumped.
(a) 'Becomes'? Where have you been since, oh, 1995 or so?
(b) You say this as if Adobe had ever been a friend of self-employed designers, an assumption that may not be warranted.
Pick one.
You neglected to mention that it's also an end-run around software licensing issues.
And yes, a long-time Linux user here. I *like* having control of my own machine, thanks very much.
Now that we've heard from the anonymous 14-year-old, would any adults care to continue the discussion?
CS6 will run pretty much for ever unless an OS change makes it not compatible.
Virtual machines take care of that problem pretty nicely.
Actually, Jasc had 2 products that Adobe wanted to bu(r)y, the other one being PaintShop Pro.
But Trajectory was the first visual SVG authoring app that had any serious potential, and I have since then nursed a recurring desire to see Adobe's collective toes toasting in Hell for removing it from the market.
By which time all the small shops will have been pouring money into competing products long enough that Adobe will no longer hold a viable monopoly on the industry...
How did that work out for people who used Macromedia Dreamweaver and Jasc Trajectory Pro?
(Your scenario is an attractive one, but I'm skeptical.)
Time and again the BitTorrent site has responded by relocating to new domains.
They should implement themselves in software, and put it on BitTorrent.
Something like this, perhaps?
Give me control of a planet's oxygen supply, and I won't care who runs the banks.
I am beginning to think that I am the only tablet owner on the planet who had the sense and 25 bucks to buy a charging stand for my device.
No more looking around for the tablet, since stuff doesn't get laid on top of it anymore.
No more fishing around behind the desk or nightstand, looking for the charging plug.
Device stays fully charged except when detached. Easy to detach for hands-on tasks.
No need to prop it up against something to watch a movie; also very handy for hands-free voice and video calls.
And you don't have to leave space for the keyboard you're not using. Try reading something at the kitchen table over dinner on your laptop or netbook vs a freestanding tablet. You will rapidly discover why I prefer the latter in this scenario. :^)
Now think about a cell phone type stick device that you can put to your ear.
Yes, and Nichelle Nichols had the legs to get away with wearing anything she wanted.
I use my dying form factor to compile database servers and tools, and to process very large XML documents.
I've not owned a desktop machine in years.
I don't have any trouble using my S3 one-handed. And my fingers are on the short and stubby side.
I'd rather see the homeless guy. Some of our local buskers can actually sing and/or play.
I would say that my Android tablet makes a great Chinese character trainer, but I find that my phone is actually a better size for this purpose.
f you live in a city for your entire life, and if your transportation needs are measured in single miles, ...
You've just stated the use case for mass transit very nicely. Why do I need some gizmo that I'll have to pay parking (I'd have to rent parking places at both home and work), charging fees, taxes, insurance, etc., when I can ride anywhere in the greater metro for a hundred bucks a month?
If I want to go off somewhere over the weekend, I can hire a car, which afterwards resumes being someone else's worry.
Oh right, you must be from the US, where everyone must travel the 3 blocks to the grocery in his very own private container.
(I am also from the US. But I've come to know better.)
...music, or pictures, or words typed in using a bluetooth keyboard.
The problem is that it takes so long to type in the data for the pictures, especially on a touchscreen keyboard..
Reminds me of entering machine-language programs for the C64.
I feel that way about *all* trackpads. Once returned a laptop because it had one that could not be disabled.
(Strangely enough, I like my tablet, though.)
In case somebody doesn't get the joke, or thinks I'm trolling--I should point out that I spent a good part of my childhood in Baton Rouge. :)
"i.e. run it as a server and the GPL claouse of distrubtion doesn't apply".
Now you're trolling. Or dumb as a bag of rocks. I'm betting on the former, though.
Overheard in front of MS Surface display at local MediaMarkt:
"Varför finns det ingen skärm på den här skärmen, bara ikoner? Hur fan kan man hitta något på det här sättet?"
("Why is there no screen on this screen, only icons? How the hell do you find anything this way?")
The Windows 7 GUI feels more polished, especially in the area of app installation.
Something tells me you haven't used Linux for a very long time, if ever...
Something tells me that you've just taken an astro-turfer at at his word. Not smart.
With so much stuff running remotely through web interfaces, operating systems matter very little.
...unless you're actually (stupid and/or unfortunate enough to be) paying for the OS.