If you think Apple chose pentalobe (which has been a standard screw type available my entire life) to stop people from opening up their case to replace the soldered in battery, you're just a moron.
ProTip: I have pentalobe drivers from my father that are older than I am. They are not uncommon in older high end cameras where you need tiny screws that don't strip when you breath on them hard.
Are you sure about that? I thought Apple created and patented their own non-standard pentalobe screws and only sells the screwdrivers to Apple techs. It was specifically designed to not work with the screwdrivers available for camera repair or at Ace Hardware. There are many standard screws which are just as high-quality as the Apple pentalobe, going this route only serves to hinder any unauthorized "tampering" with the devices.
I guess I can never underestimate the spin Apple fans will go through to argue that Apple's user-hostile policies are actually good for you.
Not everyone who likes the Surface RT is paid by MS.
I never said they were. It's just that first posts for most Windows 8 articles have been obvious shills for a while now, and this account stepped up the game by being a thinly veiled shill. That does not mean every pro-MS commenter is a shill, just that the the guys pouncing on the most visible comment frequently are.
The astroturfers are stepping up their game this time around - they even bothered to have the account make a few other posts before making the first post here so it wasn't completely obvious it was astroturfing. Next time they might even use accounts with posts more than a few hours ahead.
I think The Old Reader is the best replacement for Google Reader because it seems to be the only RSS reader I've found that is actually trying to do what Google Reader did. The others I've tried (specifically Feedly and Netvibes) seem to have different goals but can be adapted to behave similarly (but not the same) to Google Reader. I actually went with Netvibes for about the first month after the GR announcement because TOR was pretty lacking in the feature department and extremely slow due to the crush of new users. However, TOR had been rapidly updating the feature set, and I switched back over after they fixed up the mobile site and expanded their keyboard shortcuts among other tinngs (they've been great at adding features requested on the user feedback site).
When picking out a replacement to GR, I thought the most important thing was having the same goals as GR did in order provide the same functionality, and TOR has that in spades. I've never figured out why Feedly gets so much love in the GR replacement posts on tech sites. Need to install a browser extension? Yuck. The app wants to look like a magazine? Yuck. If you want to a pretty app to read articles like a magazine on your tablet, Feedly is nice, but it's not a replacement for Google Reader. The Old Reader is, especially now that the mobile site works as well as the Google Reader app ever did.
Also no steering wheel on that side. As long as they are just stealing valuables from the car, it's one less obstacle to pull stuff around and no chance of hitting the car horn and alerting the people in the house.
The problem is preventing abuse of this implementation. How soon until companies are notifying Google that they are offended because they don't like what autocomplete is associating with their product? For example, right now when I enter "iphone" in the Google search bar, one of the autocomplete options is "jailbreak". What if Apple notifies Google that they are offended by that? I think it would get even worse when products have negative reviews or make negative news.
Great. Now all they need to do is expand coverage - as much as I want to switch from Verizon to T-Mobile, it won't do me much good if half the time I can't get a signal.
Question for anyone with T-Mobile currently: I've been talking with my wife about switching to the prepaid, 100 minutes/month, unlimited text/data plan, but a big hangup is that her hometown is in the "Service Partner" coverage area on the T-Mobile coverage map. What data speeds/caps do the prepaid plans in service partner areas, if they are allowed to use data at all?
Now that I've been trying Netvibes for a few hours, a few things are bothering me:
- Do I really need to confirm every time I want to mark all items as read?
- Why can't it put all the "new" items at the top? Sure, it was posted yesterday, but you didn't find it until right now. Why display it after all those other articles I've already read? Google Reader sorted by the time it found the new articles, putting new stuff at the top above all the stuff I already marked as read.
- Why so slow to update feeds? Maybe this is just the crush of new traffic, but it is finding new articles multiple hours after they showed up in Google Reader.
It's ok, but the only thing it has going for it for me right now is that it isn't completely crushed by all the new traffic. Maybe once I can get my feeds imported to Old Reader or Newsblur those will fit my usage patterns better.
Two main advantages Google Reader had over Firefox RSS bookmarks:
Sorting: Instead of needing to go into each bookmark to check if it has new items, just visit Google Reader and it'll have an updated list of all new items for all feeds (or just per folder if you set them up).
Syncing: The list of new items you haven't read is constantly in sync no matter what device you access Google Reader on or what device you last accessed it.
Firefox RSS bookmarks provide a workable RSS solution, but it was just much easier to keep up to date on a large number of feeds with Google Reader.
You have no clue. Google Reader aggregates all of those bookmarks into one web site. With your method, if you have 35 web sites you like to read, you have to open 35 bookmarks to see if they've posted anything new. With Google Reader, you only have to visit one site to see if any of those 35 sites has been updated. And even if they only post snippets in the RSS feed (most I use show full articles), it's still tons more convenient than visiting each website to see if they have new articles.
Netvibes seems ok to me for now. I'd like to try Old Reader, but it's limiting feed imports for now due to the huge influx of traffic and I haven't been able to import all my Google Reader feeds yet. I'm avoiding Feedly out of principal - it keeps asking me to download the app for Firefox in order to view it. I shouldn't have to download an "app" to view a web page, especially if I'm not on my own computer and just want to check my RSS feeds quick. Just give me the web page.
Well then you just buy another Surface Pro and a new copy of Office to go with it. What, you aren't really planning on fixing your old computer, are you? Well then you don't really matter.
Mine does too. And even plugged into a wall, it takes well more than a few minutes of charging to last more than a half hour in the type of usage that drained the battery by the middle of the day. If I'm using my phone that much needing to charge it every half hour is a pain. Sure, if you don't need to use your phone, your method is fine, but every time I run out of battery early I'm on the go and doing lots of things with my phone.
I used to carry the spare batteries, but the portable phone charger can charge my phone AND other devices about 3 or 4 times. My ear is not tethered to my phone, so it's not a big deal to have my phone plugged into a plastic device that's about the same size as my phone. If you can't put your phone down for a few minutes at a time, then go for the spare batteries -
I don't know about that. I have a portable charger, and while it was nice to be able to charge any device, it takes more than a few minutes to get any significant charge out of it. So if you're only charging for a few minutes at a time, you're charging for a few minutes at a time several times for the rest of the day. And if you're using your phone so much it needs a recharge in the middle of the day, you're less likely to be able to set it down and let it just charge. It was nice when I got my Galaxy Nexus with a spare battery - take a minute to swap the battery and then I don't have to worry about it the rest of the day.
but then you've got to figure out when you are going to charge them. Want to spend your whole evening in the hotel charging a variety of batteries in your phone?
Assuming you get a charger that can charge the battery outside of the phone, this shouldn't take any longer than charging the portable charger.
Yes, generally. Although I was assuming the majority of Instagram users just use it as an avenue for sharing pictures on Facebook or Twitter (until that got blocked). How many features would those users actually miss if they dropped Instagram and just posted the pictures directly to Twitter? (And how much would the rest of us benefit from not having crappy filters applied to those photos?:-)
Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Today's lesson: maybe you shouldn't pay a billion dollars dollars for a service that users can easily drop and replace with dozens of other similar services if they don't like how you try to monetize it.
The problem is that you assume he read the summary. With the "$scientists" stuck in there, this guy clearly read "vaccine" in the title and rushed in to make his screed against Big Pharma.
“Hi, so you think by removing all my access across the infrastructure was going to be a great idea? We had a chat yesterday, you’ve decided to end this bitter. How about I just change the DNS entries right now. CM will practically go down.”
Refusing to be extorted for funds, and then being threatened is “ending it bitter”? Today, it happened: all of our records were deleted, and cyanogenmod.com is slowly expiring out of the Internet and being replaced by blank pages and non-existing sites.
(emphasis mine)
Not fixed, just hasn't been broken yet for a steadily decreasing number of people.
So um... what's to prevent random attendees (or previous credential-holders who have gotten their credentials revoked) from live tweeting the whole game?
Getting enough cell phone bandwidth when surrounded by several tens of thousands of other cell phones in the stadium.
As one of those commenters talking about Android getting the most market share, I don't necessarily want an Android monopoly. All I really want is Android phone and tablet app and accessory support that matches iOS support and death to mandatory walled gardens and locked phones. Device support is pretty self explanatory, but we've already seen Microsoft go from a relatively open desktop OS to a locked down phone/tablet OS in order to try and copy the closed Apple model, and I think that is bad for the future of computing. Start people in a walled garden if you want, but give them the ability to opt-out and unlock their phones if they so choose. The more Android marginalizes iOS, the less likely it is that the next challengers follow that closed pattern.
That being said, if Android does manage to get an OS monopoly, I think the open source nature of the Android project will keep it from copying many of the lock-in problems that made the Windows monopoly so bad.
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If you think Apple chose pentalobe (which has been a standard screw type available my entire life) to stop people from opening up their case to replace the soldered in battery, you're just a moron.
ProTip: I have pentalobe drivers from my father that are older than I am. They are not uncommon in older high end cameras where you need tiny screws that don't strip when you breath on them hard.
Are you sure about that? I thought Apple created and patented their own non-standard pentalobe screws and only sells the screwdrivers to Apple techs. It was specifically designed to not work with the screwdrivers available for camera repair or at Ace Hardware. There are many standard screws which are just as high-quality as the Apple pentalobe, going this route only serves to hinder any unauthorized "tampering" with the devices.
I guess I can never underestimate the spin Apple fans will go through to argue that Apple's user-hostile policies are actually good for you.
Not everyone who likes the Surface RT is paid by MS.
I never said they were. It's just that first posts for most Windows 8 articles have been obvious shills for a while now, and this account stepped up the game by being a thinly veiled shill. That does not mean every pro-MS commenter is a shill, just that the the guys pouncing on the most visible comment frequently are.
The astroturfers are stepping up their game this time around - they even bothered to have the account make a few other posts before making the first post here so it wasn't completely obvious it was astroturfing. Next time they might even use accounts with posts more than a few hours ahead.
New != Good
Sticking with the old version != unwillingness to learn
If the old version works better, why should they change? That's looking at it's own merits. Changing just because it's newer isn't.
Change for the sake of change == bad
I think The Old Reader is the best replacement for Google Reader because it seems to be the only RSS reader I've found that is actually trying to do what Google Reader did. The others I've tried (specifically Feedly and Netvibes) seem to have different goals but can be adapted to behave similarly (but not the same) to Google Reader. I actually went with Netvibes for about the first month after the GR announcement because TOR was pretty lacking in the feature department and extremely slow due to the crush of new users. However, TOR had been rapidly updating the feature set, and I switched back over after they fixed up the mobile site and expanded their keyboard shortcuts among other tinngs (they've been great at adding features requested on the user feedback site).
When picking out a replacement to GR, I thought the most important thing was having the same goals as GR did in order provide the same functionality, and TOR has that in spades. I've never figured out why Feedly gets so much love in the GR replacement posts on tech sites. Need to install a browser extension? Yuck. The app wants to look like a magazine? Yuck. If you want to a pretty app to read articles like a magazine on your tablet, Feedly is nice, but it's not a replacement for Google Reader. The Old Reader is, especially now that the mobile site works as well as the Google Reader app ever did.
Yeah, but then you might have the ability to buy things through an avenue in which Apple can't take a cut, and why would you ever want to do that?
Also no steering wheel on that side. As long as they are just stealing valuables from the car, it's one less obstacle to pull stuff around and no chance of hitting the car horn and alerting the people in the house.
The problem is preventing abuse of this implementation. How soon until companies are notifying Google that they are offended because they don't like what autocomplete is associating with their product? For example, right now when I enter "iphone" in the Google search bar, one of the autocomplete options is "jailbreak". What if Apple notifies Google that they are offended by that? I think it would get even worse when products have negative reviews or make negative news.
As someone with daughter that just turned two years old, meaning we now have to pay for a ticket for her to fly, this sounds like a great deal to me.
Great. Now all they need to do is expand coverage - as much as I want to switch from Verizon to T-Mobile, it won't do me much good if half the time I can't get a signal.
Question for anyone with T-Mobile currently: I've been talking with my wife about switching to the prepaid, 100 minutes/month, unlimited text/data plan, but a big hangup is that her hometown is in the "Service Partner" coverage area on the T-Mobile coverage map. What data speeds/caps do the prepaid plans in service partner areas, if they are allowed to use data at all?
Now that I've been trying Netvibes for a few hours, a few things are bothering me:
- Do I really need to confirm every time I want to mark all items as read?
- Why can't it put all the "new" items at the top? Sure, it was posted yesterday, but you didn't find it until right now. Why display it after all those other articles I've already read? Google Reader sorted by the time it found the new articles, putting new stuff at the top above all the stuff I already marked as read.
- Why so slow to update feeds? Maybe this is just the crush of new traffic, but it is finding new articles multiple hours after they showed up in Google Reader.
It's ok, but the only thing it has going for it for me right now is that it isn't completely crushed by all the new traffic. Maybe once I can get my feeds imported to Old Reader or Newsblur those will fit my usage patterns better.
Two main advantages Google Reader had over Firefox RSS bookmarks:
Firefox RSS bookmarks provide a workable RSS solution, but it was just much easier to keep up to date on a large number of feeds with Google Reader.
You have no clue. Google Reader aggregates all of those bookmarks into one web site. With your method, if you have 35 web sites you like to read, you have to open 35 bookmarks to see if they've posted anything new. With Google Reader, you only have to visit one site to see if any of those 35 sites has been updated. And even if they only post snippets in the RSS feed (most I use show full articles), it's still tons more convenient than visiting each website to see if they have new articles.
Netvibes seems ok to me for now. I'd like to try Old Reader, but it's limiting feed imports for now due to the huge influx of traffic and I haven't been able to import all my Google Reader feeds yet. I'm avoiding Feedly out of principal - it keeps asking me to download the app for Firefox in order to view it. I shouldn't have to download an "app" to view a web page, especially if I'm not on my own computer and just want to check my RSS feeds quick. Just give me the web page.
Well then you just buy another Surface Pro and a new copy of Office to go with it. What, you aren't really planning on fixing your old computer, are you? Well then you don't really matter.
These days, I have no clue where Microsoft is going
Oh, that's easy to figure out. Just look at what Apple did in the last year and expect Microsoft to go there in two years.
Mine does too. And even plugged into a wall, it takes well more than a few minutes of charging to last more than a half hour in the type of usage that drained the battery by the middle of the day. If I'm using my phone that much needing to charge it every half hour is a pain. Sure, if you don't need to use your phone, your method is fine, but every time I run out of battery early I'm on the go and doing lots of things with my phone.
I used to carry the spare batteries, but the portable phone charger can charge my phone AND other devices about 3 or 4 times. My ear is not tethered to my phone, so it's not a big deal to have my phone plugged into a plastic device that's about the same size as my phone. If you can't put your phone down for a few minutes at a time, then go for the spare batteries -
I don't know about that. I have a portable charger, and while it was nice to be able to charge any device, it takes more than a few minutes to get any significant charge out of it. So if you're only charging for a few minutes at a time, you're charging for a few minutes at a time several times for the rest of the day. And if you're using your phone so much it needs a recharge in the middle of the day, you're less likely to be able to set it down and let it just charge. It was nice when I got my Galaxy Nexus with a spare battery - take a minute to swap the battery and then I don't have to worry about it the rest of the day.
but then you've got to figure out when you are going to charge them. Want to spend your whole evening in the hotel charging a variety of batteries in your phone?
Assuming you get a charger that can charge the battery outside of the phone, this shouldn't take any longer than charging the portable charger.
Yes, generally. Although I was assuming the majority of Instagram users just use it as an avenue for sharing pictures on Facebook or Twitter (until that got blocked). How many features would those users actually miss if they dropped Instagram and just posted the pictures directly to Twitter? (And how much would the rest of us benefit from not having crappy filters applied to those photos? :-)
Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Today's lesson: maybe you shouldn't pay a billion dollars dollars for a service that users can easily drop and replace with dozens of other similar services if they don't like how you try to monetize it.
The problem is that you assume he read the summary. With the "$scientists" stuck in there, this guy clearly read "vaccine" in the title and rushed in to make his screed against Big Pharma.
I thought GNOME already had a "classic" experience extension - called MATE. (Or Cinnamon. YMMV)
“Hi, so you think by removing all my access across the infrastructure was going to be a great idea? We had a chat yesterday, you’ve decided to end this bitter. How about I just change the DNS entries right now. CM will practically go down.”
Refusing to be extorted for funds, and then being threatened is “ending it bitter”? Today, it happened: all of our records were deleted, and cyanogenmod.com is slowly expiring out of the Internet and being replaced by blank pages and non-existing sites.
(emphasis mine)
Not fixed, just hasn't been broken yet for a steadily decreasing number of people.
So um... what's to prevent random attendees (or previous credential-holders who have gotten their credentials revoked) from live tweeting the whole game?
Getting enough cell phone bandwidth when surrounded by several tens of thousands of other cell phones in the stadium.
As one of those commenters talking about Android getting the most market share, I don't necessarily want an Android monopoly. All I really want is Android phone and tablet app and accessory support that matches iOS support and death to mandatory walled gardens and locked phones. Device support is pretty self explanatory, but we've already seen Microsoft go from a relatively open desktop OS to a locked down phone/tablet OS in order to try and copy the closed Apple model, and I think that is bad for the future of computing. Start people in a walled garden if you want, but give them the ability to opt-out and unlock their phones if they so choose. The more Android marginalizes iOS, the less likely it is that the next challengers follow that closed pattern.
That being said, if Android does manage to get an OS monopoly, I think the open source nature of the Android project will keep it from copying many of the lock-in problems that made the Windows monopoly so bad.