Once again we have a clear example of Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
If it can be "Yes" too. Andrew C. Oliver clearly thinks so "I have a lot of respect for many of the people on the Apache board, but it's probably time for new leadership and a new perspective on what makes a successful project -- and when it should really, truly be allowed out of incubation and how to ensure private interests don't cloud judgement regarding that". The reality is the answer is more complex than that.
I understand Betteridge's law of headlines...I am simply tired of it being misunderstood.
Now if I need to know what my word count is, Alt-T-W-(glance)-Spacebar is back in effect, which takes about 1 second. Since the non-modal word count was also (surprise!) as buggy as an old corpse, the LibreOffice alternative was Alt-T-W-(glance)-spacebar, crap I just accidentally deleted a paragraph, Ctrl-Z, triple-click paragraph, Shift-Left-Right (in case that would force the word count to update after the triple-click; it usually didn't), close word count, Alt-T-W, move mouse to the Close button, click. Time, about 7 seconds.
I look down at the statusbar 1 second LibreOffice FTW!
Not really any different to the FSF, and all they really have is the userland for GNU/Linux distributions. In 3 decades they *still* dont have a production kernel.
The FSF is just doing great, and their kernel is still being developed albeit not on the scale on the similarly licensed and awesome Linux. Which is kind of the point. The reality is the FSF does lots of things. The License still succeeded even if Linus values it for its Tit for Tat qualities as opposed to freedom, but its there, and its close enough to being free software. The also do a little more than a kernel. I someone who is not a Fruit Lover, I personally wished that they had got further with Gnash, a free Flash implementation. I hoped it would open up Flash Development with all the positives without the down sides.
Only a fanboy will overlook at the fact that the specs are more of a requirement of the OS than actually something useful
Hold on there. A smart phone is more than an OS that is the point. The reason why Apple phones couldn't run Flash while Android phones could...is the something useful. The something useful is your first party...and your third party applications. Those specifications define how and what games can do. Apple already is missing out on whole countries worth of Applications...already fallen 100,000 applications behind Google, but it looks to be finding itself unable to run the latest games.
Have you not been paying attention to the last 10 years? Apple has repeatedly shown they've tried to beat down this sort of restrictive shit.
Remember who resulted in music losing DRM.
Apple is the rapist of ecosystems using walled prisons; proprietary connectors; proprietary API; proprietary software. They actually got caught for illegal monopolistic practices with Publishers...and have been forced to allow other companies to publish on their not your devices. The MP3 thing was a war attrition, Companies were offering DRM free on other platforms before Apple. Their not your books and movies still are.
The fact that it is easily replaced is the point of this article. You do lost the ability to "carry" a spare battery, but hopefully Motorola having a focus on battery life by using two separate processors to help improve battery life.
Will you ever stop sucking Googles cock? It's a remarkably average phone
To put the Moto X some kind of perspective
The iPhone 5 ========== 1.3Ghx dual-core CPU GPU (three cores) @325 MHz 1GB LPDDR2-1066 RAM 4 in (100 mm) diagonal 640 × 1,136 pixels (326 ppi)
The Moto X ========= 1.7Ghz dual-core GPU (quad-core) @400 MHz 2 GB LP-DDR2 4.7 in (120 mm) diagonal 1280x720 (316 ppi)
To put it in some kind of perspective it destroys Apples Flagship Phone. You are right though its not the fastest or has the most cores or is the largest *Android* Phone, but then it made the choice to focus on customising the phone and desirable features such as active notifications , focusing on what was important, and making an elegant phone...if they got their research right.
You are not wrong, I have seen many features things on for example Nokia phones before they became another "Designed in" company, but then I like the old features like hardware keyboard(back on the droid), waterproofing(On the latest Sony Z), IR (on the HTC One)....now where are those Internal FM transmitters.
...at least if Google/Motorola have done their Market research right. They have clearly created a phone that is easily put together, so you as a consumer can have a phone that matches your lifestyle (football team, car, personality or simply favourite colours), and Google still manages to assemble in America, with a JIT inventory and a 4 day turnaround.
That and the the fact that everyone from large companies to small individuals often don't throw things away when they do break. This may be against Apple/Microsoft disposable electronics, but many here would prefer to fix something than throw it away...Its fun and rewarding. I just took my current phone apart to swap colours from black to white.
The bottom line is this is a great phone; this is simply another feature.
Bless them maybe they should spend a little of that 70% Gross Margin. Customers measure support from time of purchase as does consumer law. The bottom line is XP users had no viable upgrade option till Windows 7, and then that is unlikely to support XP machines and peripherals.
When you're done GNU/Linux is here for you to upgrade to.
It has been marked flamebait, which is kind of strange considering users are migrating on the Desktop to GNU/Linux(For want of a name) Chrome and Android (seriously!?), the trend is small, but noticeable. Apple is having its own problem on the Desktop.
The bottom line is this version Metro is going to be Microsoft's OS offering those hostages of XP, end of Line only months away. I have to say the timing of Balmers departure looks almost as convenient as Bill (Fuck your charity) Gates (I don't need to pay taxes I have a charity) exit.
That is not a start menu. That is a start screen. Who do they think is falling for this nonsense. The reality is, it was never about the start button. It was about taking a usable productive and powerful desktop environment using precision pointing and fast text input, and swapping it out for the weakest of the tablet OS's. In the hope in creating what they call an ecosystem, and moving the computer into an locked down electronic device running Micro$oft Store (The $ stands for money grabbing Monopolist), Rather than compete on price that 70% gross margins still too thin.
The real question is is it iOS, Android, Chrome or GNU/Linux
You might actually want to read up on the facts of the case. Or, actually reading the lawsuit, and Apple's response to it.
Lol I did, July 10, 2013, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York decision found that Apple conspired to fix the prices of e-books in the United States. They were so obviously guilty. It was even published in Jobs book. ebook prices went up...Apple was found guilty.
dump bing and the rest of the money losing businesses that have no hope of turning a profit
I think one of the problems Microsoft had was its focus on profits. The reality is its current products revolve around its increasingly unimportant Monopoly...much as you personally might benefit from focussing on them, and that is not healthy.
Microsoft tried to please the producers.Apple did it the other way round. Apple made things for the end users
Ironically Apple recently found guilty of forming a cartel with publishing companies forcing up the price of books to its customers...and everyone else.
Microsoft needs to learn to lead and stay ahead of the trends..
That is already well and good...you should put a one in from of it and a Profit??? somewhere. The point is the future is already here consumer portable electronics , tablets smartphones Smart TV and watches, and Internet Giants in Retail; Search and Social...and Microsoft has failed or doesn't have a product in those market places.
No, microsoft doesn't need to catch up because it isn't behind. They have everything, what it doesn't have is something that is different, innovativ and without spyware.
Microsoft in the suddenly relevant, consumer, mobile, socially linked, always connected, future now...behind in market share, mindshare, technology both hardware and software with a poisonous brand, a stench of repeated failure, leaving its OEM Slaves and hostages as expendable casualties...even though they suddenly have to compete.
If you actually read the link, what he means is "Windows is already great for gaming
Let me just stop you there. Windows has been an awful place for gaming. Its console ports, watered down challenges, Short Gameplay, Multiplayer focused, DRM ridden, Paid add-ons. etc etc Thank the Lord that Cross platform (indie) gaming is back.
I suspect Gimp is used much more today, but even 10 years ago Gimp Forks was used in the Media Industry (Diclaimer I have heard of these:)
Elf (2003) Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003) League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) Duplex (2003) The Last Samurai (2003) Showtime (2002) Blue Crush (2002) 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) The Harry Potter series Cats & Dogs (2001) Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001) Little Nicky (2000) The Grinch (2000) The 6th Day (2000) Stuart Little (1999) Planet of the Apes (2001) Stuart Little 2 (2002) Spider-Man (2002) Scooby-Doo (2002) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) The Last Samurai (2003) Stuart Little (1999)
For a game designed with a keyboard or an Xbox 360 Controller in mind, I don't see how Android is so relevant. Only a few Android devices come with a controller, such as the Xperia Play phone and the OUYA console
...and I own both. You left out GameStick; Mojo by mad catz; Nvidia Shield; GamePop; A range of tablet consoles from JDX; Archos Gamepad...and this is before heavyweights Amazon and Google both rumoured to step into the ring. That is only for games "designed" or Playstation Controller first, those designed for screen input first will obviously have even less of a problem.
And no, GIMP is not competition (and I have been using that, since the late-90s).
The fact that I use it instead of Photoshop shows it is. I suspect that as Photoshop start moving more and more to the cloud and users have to pay a subscription, more people will suddenly find Gimp very competitive.
would be good for Nokia to get rid of him and Microsoft will continue it's journey into irrelevance. Double Bonus!
Ironically it wasn't that long ago Elop was a serious name in the hat as a replacement for Balmer. Ironically as well Nokia is now worthless even to Microsoft, after the damage done by selling their phones on the back of Microsoft Product Exclusively. I personally thought it was one of Balmers better moves was to get Nokia to take all the risks. If Windows Phone had been a better product things might be different today.
I am not sure why the Knives are out. He saw the end of anti-trust in Europe when it clearly wasn't deserved. He bought out ISO during the OOXML destroying the reputation of a standards body in the process. He kept the threat of Linux creeping in on netbooks by killing them with Intel(Admittedly leaving a vacuum for tablets). He managed the Xbox 360 failing with red rings, and painted its third place as a success story(Live truly was one). He got Nokia to take all the risks and consequences, as a cost in European jobs, Hardware Reputation from European Manufacture on a wink and small change. There is a smell of failure over Microsoft Bing; Surface (and yes both kinds), Office 365, Metro everywhere, Windows 8(Phone, Desktop, Tablet)...and its deserved because they are all pretty crap, and saying otherwise has not fooling real consumers, but there is a desire evolve its static product line with these products, reinvent...and there are some good (great perhaps!?) ideas in places. The competition was(And is) simply better...and first...and
The bottom line is although not perhaps a nice man(not telegenic certainly), he did successfully preserve the monopoly on the Desktop through abusive means...Micro$oft still take a 70% Gross Margin, His only real failing is not catching the (now) larger computing market(with its own products, or software sold to OEMS) which includes mobile, when it was both obvious...and they had products in the area years before, but how much of that is really Steves Fault, Unless compared to the mythical ghost of Steve Jobs(He was the second coming). I can't see anything changing with his departure.
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Once again we have a clear example of Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
If it can be "Yes" too. Andrew C. Oliver clearly thinks so "I have a lot of respect for many of the people on the Apache board, but it's probably time for new leadership and a new perspective on what makes a successful project -- and when it should really, truly be allowed out of incubation and how to ensure private interests don't cloud judgement regarding that". The reality is the answer is more complex than that.
I understand Betteridge's law of headlines...I am simply tired of it being misunderstood.
Both suites are in active development, have a distinctly different focus
Except there is very little Development of OpenOffice and they have the same focus...in fact its ridiculous to suggest otherwise.
Now if I need to know what my word count is, Alt-T-W-(glance)-Spacebar is back in effect, which takes about 1 second. Since the non-modal word count was also (surprise!) as buggy as an old corpse, the LibreOffice alternative was Alt-T-W-(glance)-spacebar, crap I just accidentally deleted a paragraph, Ctrl-Z, triple-click paragraph, Shift-Left-Right (in case that would force the word count to update after the triple-click; it usually didn't), close word count, Alt-T-W, move mouse to the Close button, click. Time, about 7 seconds.
I look down at the statusbar 1 second LibreOffice FTW!
Not really any different to the FSF, and all they really have is the userland for GNU/Linux distributions. In 3 decades they *still* dont have a production kernel.
The FSF is just doing great, and their kernel is still being developed albeit not on the scale on the similarly licensed and awesome Linux. Which is kind of the point. The reality is the FSF does lots of things. The License still succeeded even if Linus values it for its Tit for Tat qualities as opposed to freedom, but its there, and its close enough to being free software. The also do a little more than a kernel. I someone who is not a Fruit Lover, I personally wished that they had got further with Gnash, a free Flash implementation. I hoped it would open up Flash Development with all the positives without the down sides.
The bottom Line is Linus is so Amazing
We all know that the License was chosen to placate IBM, but really it needs to given to the LibreOffice Developers. Anything else is stupid.
Only a fanboy will overlook at the fact that the specs are more of a requirement of the OS than actually something useful
Hold on there. A smart phone is more than an OS that is the point. The reason why Apple phones couldn't run Flash while Android phones could...is the something useful. The something useful is your first party...and your third party applications. Those specifications define how and what games can do. Apple already is missing out on whole countries worth of Applications...already fallen 100,000 applications behind Google, but it looks to be finding itself unable to run the latest games.
Have you not been paying attention to the last 10 years? Apple has repeatedly shown they've tried to beat down this sort of restrictive shit.
Remember who resulted in music losing DRM.
Apple is the rapist of ecosystems using walled prisons; proprietary connectors; proprietary API; proprietary software. They actually got caught for illegal monopolistic practices with Publishers...and have been forced to allow other companies to publish on their not your devices. The MP3 thing was a war attrition, Companies were offering DRM free on other platforms before Apple. Their not your books and movies still are.
That is a step backwards as far as i'm concerned.
The fact that it is easily replaced is the point of this article. You do lost the ability to "carry" a spare battery, but hopefully Motorola having a focus on battery life by using two separate processors to help improve battery life.
Will you ever stop sucking Googles cock? It's a remarkably average phone
To put the Moto X some kind of perspective
The iPhone 5
==========
1.3Ghx dual-core CPU
GPU (three cores) @325 MHz
1GB LPDDR2-1066 RAM
4 in (100 mm) diagonal 640 × 1,136 pixels (326 ppi)
The Moto X
=========
1.7Ghz dual-core
GPU (quad-core) @400 MHz
2 GB LP-DDR2
4.7 in (120 mm) diagonal 1280x720 (316 ppi)
To put it in some kind of perspective it destroys Apples Flagship Phone. You are right though its not the fastest or has the most cores or is the largest *Android* Phone, but then it made the choice to focus on customising the phone and desirable features such as active notifications , focusing on what was important, and making an elegant phone...if they got their research right.
You are not wrong, I have seen many features things on for example Nokia phones before they became another "Designed in" company, but then I like the old features like hardware keyboard(back on the droid), waterproofing(On the latest Sony Z), IR (on the HTC One)....now where are those Internal FM transmitters.
...at least if Google/Motorola have done their Market research right. They have clearly created a phone that is easily put together, so you as a consumer can have a phone that matches your lifestyle (football team, car, personality or simply favourite colours), and Google still manages to assemble in America, with a JIT inventory and a 4 day turnaround.
That and the the fact that everyone from large companies to small individuals often don't throw things away when they do break. This may be against Apple/Microsoft disposable electronics, but many here would prefer to fix something than throw it away...Its fun and rewarding. I just took my current phone apart to swap colours from black to white.
The bottom line is this is a great phone; this is simply another feature.
I bet Micro$oft is tired of supporting XP
Bless them maybe they should spend a little of that 70% Gross Margin. Customers measure support from time of purchase as does consumer law. The bottom line is XP users had no viable upgrade option till Windows 7, and then that is unlikely to support XP machines and peripherals.
When you're done GNU/Linux is here for you to upgrade to.
It has been marked flamebait, which is kind of strange considering users are migrating on the Desktop to GNU/Linux(For want of a name) Chrome and Android (seriously!?), the trend is small, but noticeable. Apple is having its own problem on the Desktop.
The bottom line is this version Metro is going to be Microsoft's OS offering those hostages of XP, end of Line only months away. I have to say the timing of Balmers departure looks almost as convenient as Bill (Fuck your charity) Gates (I don't need to pay taxes I have a charity) exit.
It appears that Microsoft are responding to the needs of their customers
The response was "fuck you"
That is not a start menu. That is a start screen. Who do they think is falling for this nonsense. The reality is, it was never about the start button. It was about taking a usable productive and powerful desktop environment using precision pointing and fast text input, and swapping it out for the weakest of the tablet OS's. In the hope in creating what they call an ecosystem, and moving the computer into an locked down electronic device running Micro$oft Store (The $ stands for money grabbing Monopolist), Rather than compete on price that 70% gross margins still too thin.
The real question is is it iOS, Android, Chrome or GNU/Linux
You might actually want to read up on the facts of the case. Or, actually reading the lawsuit, and Apple's response to it.
Lol I did, July 10, 2013, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York decision found that Apple conspired to fix the prices of e-books in the United States. They were so obviously guilty. It was even published in Jobs book. ebook prices went up...Apple was found guilty.
dump bing and the rest of the money losing businesses that have no hope of turning a profit
I think one of the problems Microsoft had was its focus on profits. The reality is its current products revolve around its increasingly unimportant Monopoly...much as you personally might benefit from focussing on them, and that is not healthy.
Microsoft tried to please the producers.Apple did it the other way round. Apple made things for the end users
Ironically Apple recently found guilty of forming a cartel with publishing companies forcing up the price of books to its customers...and everyone else.
Microsoft needs to learn to lead and stay ahead of the trends..
That is already well and good...you should put a one in from of it and a Profit??? somewhere. The point is the future is already here consumer portable electronics , tablets smartphones Smart TV and watches, and Internet Giants in Retail; Search and Social...and Microsoft has failed or doesn't have a product in those market places.
(Ketchup?!)
No, microsoft doesn't need to catch up because it isn't behind. They have everything, what it doesn't have is something that is different, innovativ and without spyware.
Microsoft in the suddenly relevant, consumer, mobile, socially linked, always connected, future now...behind in market share, mindshare, technology both hardware and software with a poisonous brand, a stench of repeated failure, leaving its OEM Slaves and hostages as expendable casualties...even though they suddenly have to compete.
If you actually read the link, what he means is "Windows is already great for gaming
Let me just stop you there. Windows has been an awful place for gaming. Its console ports, watered down challenges, Short Gameplay, Multiplayer focused, DRM ridden, Paid add-ons. etc etc Thank the Lord that Cross platform (indie) gaming is back.
I suspect Gimp is used much more today, but even 10 years ago Gimp Forks was used in the Media Industry (Diclaimer I have heard of these :)
Elf (2003)
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
Duplex (2003)
The Last Samurai (2003)
Showtime (2002)
Blue Crush (2002)
2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
The Harry Potter series
Cats & Dogs (2001)
Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001)
Little Nicky (2000)
The Grinch (2000)
The 6th Day (2000)
Stuart Little (1999)
Planet of the Apes (2001)
Stuart Little 2 (2002)
Spider-Man (2002)
Scooby-Doo (2002)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
The Last Samurai (2003)
Stuart Little (1999)
For a game designed with a keyboard or an Xbox 360 Controller in mind, I don't see how Android is so relevant. Only a few Android devices come with a controller, such as the Xperia Play phone and the OUYA console
...and I own both. You left out GameStick; Mojo by mad catz; Nvidia Shield; GamePop; A range of tablet consoles from JDX; Archos Gamepad...and this is before heavyweights Amazon and Google both rumoured to step into the ring. That is only for games "designed" or Playstation Controller first, those designed for screen input first will obviously have even less of a problem.
And no, GIMP is not competition (and I have been using that, since the late-90s).
The fact that I use it instead of Photoshop shows it is. I suspect that as Photoshop start moving more and more to the cloud and users have to pay a subscription, more people will suddenly find Gimp very competitive.
would be good for Nokia to get rid of him and Microsoft will continue it's journey into irrelevance. Double Bonus!
Ironically it wasn't that long ago Elop was a serious name in the hat as a replacement for Balmer. Ironically as well Nokia is now worthless even to Microsoft, after the damage done by selling their phones on the back of Microsoft Product Exclusively. I personally thought it was one of Balmers better moves was to get Nokia to take all the risks. If Windows Phone had been a better product things might be different today.
I am not sure why the Knives are out. He saw the end of anti-trust in Europe when it clearly wasn't deserved. He bought out ISO during the OOXML destroying the reputation of a standards body in the process. He kept the threat of Linux creeping in on netbooks by killing them with Intel(Admittedly leaving a vacuum for tablets). He managed the Xbox 360 failing with red rings, and painted its third place as a success story(Live truly was one). He got Nokia to take all the risks and consequences, as a cost in European jobs, Hardware Reputation from European Manufacture on a wink and small change. There is a smell of failure over Microsoft Bing; Surface (and yes both kinds), Office 365, Metro everywhere, Windows 8(Phone, Desktop, Tablet)...and its deserved because they are all pretty crap, and saying otherwise has not fooling real consumers, but there is a desire evolve its static product line with these products, reinvent...and there are some good (great perhaps!?) ideas in places. The competition was(And is) simply better...and first...and
The bottom line is although not perhaps a nice man(not telegenic certainly), he did successfully preserve the monopoly on the Desktop through abusive means...Micro$oft still take a 70% Gross Margin, His only real failing is not catching the (now) larger computing market(with its own products, or software sold to OEMS) which includes mobile, when it was both obvious...and they had products in the area years before, but how much of that is really Steves Fault, Unless compared to the mythical ghost of Steve Jobs(He was the second coming). I can't see anything changing with his departure.