That's also something I have seen "lately" (as in the last decade) in various OSes. A lot of stuff that usually should happen during "boot" being put into post-boot procedures.
Of course you can't rally start working faster, but the manufacturer can brag about faster boot times.
It *could* be a small little step to just force companies to give a refund when they ship a faulty product.
Like it is the case with any *REAL* product, which has to have a warranty. The manufacturer or seller can try a few times to fix a problem, but when they can't the customer can demand his money back if it doesn't work as advertised. That should just be applied to software sales exactly same way.
All pretty valid points. Although for me, points 1) and 2) make me stick with Linux instead of Windows.
1) because I'm just used to it, and 2) because I stand a better chance of figuring out what the problem is, since there is more information available to me on how stuff works, straight down to the source.
Of course the *main* plus point would be that *you* have control over how your system works. Which, sadly, has been on decline with a lot of Linux projects. What I really liked was to look at project A,B,C,D, decide which one I liked best, then started using that. But nowadays that's completely impossible. When I pick project A, I can pretty much bet someone there will get it in their mind "oooooohhh, we need to be more like project C with the next release", and then I'm stuck with something that works like C, which I DIDN'T LIKE when I made my decision to pick project A in the first place.
And, I too, like stuff done the "easy way". Ironically that made me go to Gentoo and Archlinux instead of Ubuntu. They might be somewhat more "complicated" on the technological side, but on the other hand they don't throw spanners into the works because of "ideological" reasons. For example, the media players just work out of the box instead of having to explicitly install "non free" packages in multiple additional steps.
The main OSes have become a lot more alike. Since the 90s Linux has become a lot "GUI-ey", while Windows has a lot more command line possibilities than it had in those days. So from a technologically standpoint I could live will the major OSes pretty well. But what is becoming worse and worse these days is that things that could be possible *technologically* are disabled for ideological reasons.
Of course just the fact that the Amazon Android App store is "US only" seems to point to the fact that you can not even sell ONE copy in another country without actually going to an App store for THAT country to sell it. If Android really wants to take on Apple it must be as just as easy, or at least SOMEWHAT as easy as to do it in the Apple store.
Do YOU know ONE Android app store that you can put your app on to be sold at least "somewhat" internationally?
Yep. Used KDE years ago, then XFCE for a while and now have landed with LXDE since about two years ago.
With KDE and XFCE I always had to fiddle around here and there. LXDE just works out of the box with everything I need from a DE. Although the standard file manager PCManFM is missing the tree view which I really miss and feels somewhat slow somehow, so I use qtFM instead.
Probably not so long ago, someone probably told the person experimenting with agriculture to stop that nonsense, and go find some nuts to feed the tribe for a day.
And the project in question was http://www.skobbler.com/, which as a routing app for Europe has of course smaller countries to deal with, and the EU where prosecution across borders is easier. And their sales are high enough to warrant tax people looking into it.
Not really. I pretty much hate all thing Apple these days, but as an developer that has an app for sale on both Android and iOS told me (on LinuxTag even), one of the big stumbling blocks he has encountered with Android:
- When you sell an app in the Apple store Apple handles sales tax and all other applicable paperwork in the country of sale, you can sell your app worldwide by placing it in one app store, and you only have to deal with one accounting contact.
- In all Android stores he knew YOU have to handle the taxes and paperwork for each country. (That's probably one of the reasons the Amazon App store only works "US Only" as mentioned in the article, so you might even have to put your app into a different store for each country you want to sell it in.)
So it's pretty easy to sell internationally with the Apple Store, but when you want to sell something on Android you have to sell at least a few dozen or even hundreds of apps per country to even break even the cost of filing the taxes in that country.
What *I* would truly like to see, though, is a true open and free OSS mobile platform. Android doesn't seem to keeping the early expectations in that direction.
You can sit back, while you compile your latest podcast listening software for free, and wonder how a platform that shackles both customers and developers ever took off at all.
So, basically, we are back to the times where people have to hire "goons" and/or "mercenaries" again to protect their "villages" from the "bandits", only these days they wear ties instead of rusty armour.
Actually, it would be more like the Gestapo. Hugely overblown reputation, any only so "successful" because people fell over each other reporting on other people they wanted out of their way.
On the other hand, think of all the small-time-burglar-career opportunities, when all coin-up machines would have to have cash in them to give change when you buy an M&M with it.
Which is really hard to define in IT. Everything that has been done is based on something, even if it's just the binary system. They just have debate whether any "ground" is pwned by Oracle.
The truth is the probably have integrated the version number as an integer all over the place, and they are desperate to switch to 64 bit before the version number hits the 32 bit integer limit later in the year.
In the US these days, at least when you go by the movie and game ratings, blowing up 20 kids is BY LARGE more morally acceptable than a single exposed nipple.
The thing I never got about screening pilots for security reasons:
Why the hell would a pilot want to try to smuggle a knife on board to force himself in to compliance, or a bomb to blow up the plane, when he can just fly the fracking thing into any building en route anyway without any additional tools?
Why is the same crows that "Oh, Oh, the cloud is great, put stuff in the cloud" all the time now so AGAINST the mail processing of the Blackberry being done not on the device itself, but "in the cloud" somewhere?
Wouldn't that mean that Android and iOS is BEHIND Blackberry, since they need more power and network pipes from the device, not having so much of the processing done "in the Cloud" somewhere? Is it because RIM is "not as cool" as Apple and Google?
I like my Blackberry. I can read and write mails, and I can make calls. And the battery last about a week. And when I'm abroad for a few days the bill is a fraction of what colleagues with iDevices get.
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That's also something I have seen "lately" (as in the last decade) in various OSes. A lot of stuff that usually should happen during "boot" being put into post-boot procedures.
Of course you can't rally start working faster, but the manufacturer can brag about faster boot times.
Hey, now I have figured it all out. The terrorist have just changed tactics:
They started impersonating TSA agents a few years back without anybody noticing. After all, those are the ones terrorizing people these days.
It *could* be a small little step to just force companies to give a refund when they ship a faulty product.
Like it is the case with any *REAL* product, which has to have a warranty.
The manufacturer or seller can try a few times to fix a problem, but when they can't the customer can demand his money back if it doesn't work as advertised. That should just be applied to software sales exactly same way.
>And encouraging others to follow in your footsteps because of nebulous, vague, unsubstantiated (and even unstated), claims is what?
Advertising.
All pretty valid points. Although for me, points 1) and 2) make me stick with Linux instead of Windows.
1) because I'm just used to it, and 2) because I stand a better chance of figuring out what the problem is, since there is more information available to me on how stuff works, straight down to the source.
Of course the *main* plus point would be that *you* have control over how your system works. Which, sadly, has been on decline with a lot of Linux projects. What I really liked was to look at project A,B,C,D, decide which one I liked best, then started using that. But nowadays that's completely impossible. When I pick project A, I can pretty much bet someone there will get it in their mind "oooooohhh, we need to be more like project C with the next release", and then I'm stuck with something that works like C, which I DIDN'T LIKE when I made my decision to pick project A in the first place.
And, I too, like stuff done the "easy way". Ironically that made me go to Gentoo and Archlinux instead of Ubuntu. They might be somewhat more "complicated" on the technological side, but on the other hand they don't throw spanners into the works because of "ideological" reasons. For example, the media players just work out of the box instead of having to explicitly install "non free" packages in multiple additional steps.
The main OSes have become a lot more alike. Since the 90s Linux has become a lot "GUI-ey", while Windows has a lot more command line possibilities than it had in those days. So from a technologically standpoint I could live will the major OSes pretty well. But what is becoming worse and worse these days is that things that could be possible *technologically* are disabled for ideological reasons.
Of course just the fact that the Amazon Android App store is "US only" seems to point to the fact that you can not even sell ONE copy in another country without actually going to an App store for THAT country to sell it. If Android really wants to take on Apple it must be as just as easy, or at least SOMEWHAT as easy as to do it in the Apple store.
Do YOU know ONE Android app store that you can put your app on to be sold at least "somewhat" internationally?
Yep. Used KDE years ago, then XFCE for a while and now have landed with LXDE since about two years ago.
With KDE and XFCE I always had to fiddle around here and there. LXDE just works out of the box with everything I need from a DE. Although the standard file manager PCManFM is missing the tree view which I really miss and feels somewhat slow somehow, so I use qtFM instead.
Probably not so long ago, someone probably told the person experimenting with agriculture to stop that nonsense, and go find some nuts to feed the tribe for a day.
I wouldn't know, I'm not a US citizen. ;-P
And the project in question was http://www.skobbler.com/, which as a routing app for Europe has of course smaller countries to deal with, and the EU where prosecution across borders is easier. And their sales are high enough to warrant tax people looking into it.
Until it rains......
Not really. I pretty much hate all thing Apple these days, but as an developer that has an app for sale on both Android and iOS told me (on LinuxTag even), one of the big stumbling blocks he has encountered with Android:
- When you sell an app in the Apple store Apple handles sales tax and all other applicable paperwork in the country of sale, you can sell your app worldwide by placing it in one app store, and you only have to deal with one accounting contact.
- In all Android stores he knew YOU have to handle the taxes and paperwork for each country. (That's probably one of the reasons the Amazon App store only works "US Only" as mentioned in the article, so you might even have to put your app into a different store for each country you want to sell it in.)
So it's pretty easy to sell internationally with the Apple Store, but when you want to sell something on Android you have to sell at least a few dozen or even hundreds of apps per country to even break even the cost of filing the taxes in that country.
What *I* would truly like to see, though, is a true open and free OSS mobile platform. Android doesn't seem to keeping the early expectations in that direction.
You can sit back, while you compile your latest podcast listening software for free, and wonder how a platform that shackles both customers and developers ever took off at all.
So, basically, we are back to the times where people have to hire "goons" and/or "mercenaries" again to protect their "villages" from the "bandits", only these days they wear ties instead of rusty armour.
Actually, it would be more like the Gestapo. Hugely overblown reputation, any only so "successful" because people fell over each other reporting on other people they wanted out of their way.
On the other hand, think of all the small-time-burglar-career opportunities, when all coin-up machines would have to have cash in them to give change when you buy an M&M with it.
Depends on how you define "ground".
Which is really hard to define in IT. Everything that has been done is based on something, even if it's just the binary system. They just have debate whether any "ground" is pwned by Oracle.
Until you become *so* evil that people with torches and pitchforks come and burn your factory down. Which really should happen more often.
Well, Anonymous was somewhat of a start I guess.
Also, with the additional layer of paint and less temperature fluctuations in the upper layer your roof might last a few years longer.
So where can I pick up my "I survived 5 minutes of Fox News without my head exploding, although I did get a slight nose bleed" badge?
The truth is the probably have integrated the version number as an integer all over the place, and they are desperate to switch to 64 bit before the version number hits the 32 bit integer limit later in the year.
Proof: Compare this to that.
Which makes you go "awwwwwwwww, how cute."
In the US these days, at least when you go by the movie and game ratings, blowing up 20 kids is BY LARGE more morally acceptable than a single exposed nipple.
The thing I never got about screening pilots for security reasons:
Why the hell would a pilot want to try to smuggle a knife on board to force himself in to compliance, or a bomb to blow up the plane, when he can just fly the fracking thing into any building en route anyway without any additional tools?
Dunno. Would have to re-check that possibility once the US is really a Democracy again one day, instead of a Corporate Oligarchy
Why is the same crows that "Oh, Oh, the cloud is great, put stuff in the cloud" all the time now so AGAINST the mail processing of the Blackberry being done not on the device itself, but "in the cloud" somewhere?
Wouldn't that mean that Android and iOS is BEHIND Blackberry, since they need more power and network pipes from the device, not having so much of the processing done "in the Cloud" somewhere? Is it because RIM is "not as cool" as Apple and Google?
I like my Blackberry. I can read and write mails, and I can make calls. And the battery last about a week. And when I'm abroad for a few days the bill is a fraction of what colleagues with iDevices get.