Desktop/UI enhancements that reduce time mucking about with windows.
Faster searching.
64-bit from day one, appropriate driver availability is much higher.
Better 3d graphical support, possibly why stability is much higher. Less time rebooting, less 'glitches' affecting productivity. (This would have a huge impact where I work.)
Multiply all these little things together by the number of people and you get a factor of how many man-hours it equals. If it's higher than the upgrade cost, you've profited. Where I work it'd be huge, but we're in mid-project right now.
None of which is hugely useful to the average office worker, who will be confused by quite a few of the new things, such as the change to how search works.
The combined sum is. Also, confusion is temporary.
I consider the move by the marketing people to call their LCDs with LED backlighting "LED displays" as a deliberate attempt to get people to confuse them with OLEDs.
I'd be more likely to agree if OLED displays were actually being used in anything TV sized. They're not and I'd happily bet that the vast majority of the American consumers have no idea what OLED is.
That's probably because the format sucks for reading. I'm sure it's great for cruising the web, watching videos and gaming, but actual reading isn't so good with it.
You're talking about 'novel reading'. The iPad is great for magazine'ish reading (not that far off from web browsing) and it travels nicely to the bathroom.
The difference is that if taken to an extreme we'll develop a society where everything's okay to do until you're physically prevented from doing it. (If you've ever paid attention to all the frivolous lawsuits filed in the last two decades, you can already see this happening.)
Here's a scenario: Imagine in the not too distant future it becomes a standard feature of cell phones to automatically go silent when in a theater. Pretty soon restaurants start silencing phones because people get extra noisy in there. They figure the phone's working, so it's okay to use it. Not long after that, book stores start silencing them and so on. It becomes a race to shut people up instead of making it socially unacceptable.
If you have trouble buying that scenario, fine, that's cool. I suggest instead of hitting reply to me you just think about the times you got in trouble as a kid and all the different excuses you invented to try to come out blameless. Then think about the sense of entitlement we (well, us Americans anyway) already have. Then ask yourself if you really want somebody else setting your alarm clock for you.
I think it's sad my post was modded down. I remember TV shopping in early 2009 and my friends were telling me "GET THE LCD! It's better than the fluorescent!" But today.. it's 2011 and we've got karma fueled posts with people acting like they're confused about what an LED TV is.
Do you like to be able to modify every little facet of your phone, right down to the hardware it runs on...
... after researching which phones can easily be 'rooted' and which brands have a reputation for maintaining the phone so you'll get the latest version of the OS?
Yeah, why the fuck would I want to use a feature on a device that I paid quite a lot of money for? In fact, why are we using our iPhones as anything other than a fucking phone?!
(Note: For the slow amongst you, this post is laden with sarcasm).
For your consideration. 2011 Slashdot Insightful Awards
They made it 'idiot proof' (translation: 'Easy to use') and they coupled it with a library of music that is also 'easy to use'. The 'best features' of the other MP3 players were trying to compensate for their lack of a good/popular legit source of music.
The reason you don't understand is that you're neglecting iTunes.
Oh, and the "fix it yourself" people need to shut the fuck up too. That's fine when it's an open-source project with fifty users hosted on sourceforge, not when it's in-production software that runs on millions and millions of phones.
Settle down, it's just karma balancing itself.
The more time you spend shouting from the rooftops how superior your preferences are, the more people are going to get in line to take you down a peg.
Consider that the next time you decide how loud you'd like to shout about how OSS has more eyeballs.
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Improved stability/up-time.
Desktop/UI enhancements that reduce time mucking about with windows.
Faster searching.
64-bit from day one, appropriate driver availability is much higher.
Better 3d graphical support, possibly why stability is much higher. Less time rebooting, less 'glitches' affecting productivity. (This would have a huge impact where I work.)
Multiply all these little things together by the number of people and you get a factor of how many man-hours it equals. If it's higher than the upgrade cost, you've profited. Where I work it'd be huge, but we're in mid-project right now.
What gave Vista the bad reputation was that at launch drivers were horrible.
That and a bunch of noisy asshats looking at memory usage and jumping to conclusions.
None of which is hugely useful to the average office worker, who will be confused by quite a few of the new things, such as the change to how search works.
The combined sum is. Also, confusion is temporary.
I consider the move by the marketing people to call their LCDs with LED backlighting "LED displays" as a deliberate attempt to get people to confuse them with OLEDs.
I'd be more likely to agree if OLED displays were actually being used in anything TV sized. They're not and I'd happily bet that the vast majority of the American consumers have no idea what OLED is.
That's probably because the format sucks for reading. I'm sure it's great for cruising the web, watching videos and gaming, but actual reading isn't so good with it.
You're talking about 'novel reading'. The iPad is great for magazine'ish reading (not that far off from web browsing) and it travels nicely to the bathroom.
How is this any different than my alarm clock?
Is it my mother because it wakes me?
The difference is that if taken to an extreme we'll develop a society where everything's okay to do until you're physically prevented from doing it. (If you've ever paid attention to all the frivolous lawsuits filed in the last two decades, you can already see this happening.)
Here's a scenario: Imagine in the not too distant future it becomes a standard feature of cell phones to automatically go silent when in a theater. Pretty soon restaurants start silencing phones because people get extra noisy in there. They figure the phone's working, so it's okay to use it. Not long after that, book stores start silencing them and so on. It becomes a race to shut people up instead of making it socially unacceptable.
If you have trouble buying that scenario, fine, that's cool. I suggest instead of hitting reply to me you just think about the times you got in trouble as a kid and all the different excuses you invented to try to come out blameless. Then think about the sense of entitlement we (well, us Americans anyway) already have. Then ask yourself if you really want somebody else setting your alarm clock for you.
I think it's sad my post was modded down. I remember TV shopping in early 2009 and my friends were telling me "GET THE LCD! It's better than the fluorescent!" But today.. it's 2011 and we've got karma fueled posts with people acting like they're confused about what an LED TV is.
I sent you an SMS but my boss got it instead. Now I have to meet with him and explain what "You're holding it wrong" meant.
imagine if you couldn't use your phone because the network was always full of other people's traffic?
Imagine people doing that because the phone company advertised that's what you could use it for.
There's a reason for cost-effective plans, and I'm sure the providers will increase the caps over time as they add more capacity...
Hahaha!
Do you like to be able to modify every little facet of your phone, right down to the hardware it runs on...
... after researching which phones can easily be 'rooted' and which brands have a reputation for maintaining the phone so you'll get the latest version of the OS?
The whole fad of marketing LCD displays with LED backlight as "LED displays" is really confusing for the consumer.
No it's not, nobody has any bloody idea. Look at you' you're muddying OLED with LED just to make your point. You're just mugging for mod points.
Being localized to a particular breed of bird already rules out an updraft, but thanks for the generalization that 300 million people drive SUV's.
Blimey, wd ignored the whole bit about iTunes and its store before replying to me, didn't we?
Did he do this when he was in Mexico or something?
Yeah, why the fuck would I want to use a feature on a device that I paid quite a lot of money for? In fact, why are we using our iPhones as anything other than a fucking phone?!
(Note: For the slow amongst you, this post is laden with sarcasm).
For your consideration. 2011 Slashdot Insightful Awards
Any particular reason you didn't write a similar version of this rant in the Android text-message story?
The point is that the iOS time routines are unreliable. You need a redundant clock/alarm that doesn't run on iOS.
I haven't met one yet that was reliable. We can partly thank a monkey in office that changed the DST.
I don't understand why you use a phone as an alarm clock.
- The phone sets itself, inluding daylight savings time.
- It charges next to my bed so I have a fresh charge the next day. This is a good idea anyway despite you're implied suggestion oterwise.
- I have it set to only go off on weekdays.
- I have it with me so I can set it right away if I have to work on saturday or go in earlier the next day.
- It can display a text message about why it's going off.
- Instead of setting the time, I can just tell it to go off in 3 hours because Im taking a nap.
- I have my alarm with me when Im sleeping somewhere other than home.
- Ive been doing this without fail for years. My stupid ass alarm clock, however, needed a lot more attention.
It isn't free anyway, it's ad supported. Everybody who lost data paid for the service.
Do you want to get one that'll suit your needs or do you want some e-bling to impress other Slashdotters?
They made it 'idiot proof' (translation: 'Easy to use') and they coupled it with a library of music that is also 'easy to use'. The 'best features' of the other MP3 players were trying to compensate for their lack of a good/popular legit source of music.
The reason you don't understand is that you're neglecting iTunes.
> Why is ANYONE with half a brain still using Microsoft browsers?
Why is anyone with half a brain still using any Microsoft software at all?
People with half a brain should be using Linux instead?
Oh, and the "fix it yourself" people need to shut the fuck up too. That's fine when it's an open-source project with fifty users hosted on sourceforge, not when it's in-production software that runs on millions and millions of phones.
Settle down, it's just karma balancing itself.
The more time you spend shouting from the rooftops how superior your preferences are, the more people are going to get in line to take you down a peg.
Consider that the next time you decide how loud you'd like to shout about how OSS has more eyeballs.
That whole sequence is the reason R2 didn't look right. He was put into an absurd situation and expected to come out heroric.
That's not "CGI's" fault, that's what the director approved.
that is why there is no issue with google.