Yeah, but this is yet another data point along with Android-overtaking-iOS timeline. First it was all Android phones outselling iPhones for a quarter. Then it was all Android phones overtaking iPhones in market share, but the iPhone massively outselling any single Android phone. Now one Android phone outsold the iPhone for one quarter, if only for the worst iPhone quarter, but I'm expecting it to become more of a regular occurrence in the future.
Although a lot of people will be dismissing these numbers as irrelevant outside of fanboi dick-measuring, they do matter. The Android phone app ecosystem was far behind the iOS phone ecosystem until the Android marketshare started too large for it to be ignored, and now they are effectively equivalent. However, when it comes to physical phone accessories, iPhones are massively more supported then any Android phone (at least as far as I can tell from personal observation). Once certain Android phones start selling in numbers comperable to iPhones, the accessory support will follow.
Also, now that Google has started focusing on tablets, I'm expecting a similar pattern on those in the future.
....that candidates are winning elections via data mining versus appealing to people with ideas?
I wouldn't say that that they won via data mining, they still appealed to people with ideas to win the election. They just used data mining to determine the best way to present the ideas in order to appeal to the most people more efficiently.
KDE is one of the only environments left that doesn't treat its users like morons. It isn't a perfect piece of software, but it's one of the only remaining things that isn't after the "dumb everything down!!" mantra. The others: Windows, Gnome, Unity, OSX, IOS, Android, all seem to be chasing the other roads.
For that reason alone, I've found it worth giving them money, which you can do here: http://www.kde.org/community/donations/ - I've given them about euros 100 over the last year.
FWIW two others that don't treat users like morons are Cinnamon and MATE. I prefer Cinnamon, but if you're running from Gnome either would probably be an easier adjustment than KDE. I just wanted to point out donationoptions for people who'd like to keep a Gnome 2-like UI.
As a curious Cyanogenmod user, does anyone know specifically what builds are affected? I'm assuming all of the nightly builds since this was committed include it, but since I now stick to the M-builds I'm wondering if it's in those too.
I'll be looking forward to the updates soon. I switched to Linux Mint once Cinnamon came out, it seemed less buggy than Mate while still giving me the use of Gnome utilities that I preferred over XFCE. Cinnamon was feature-limited at first, but Linux Mint + Cinnamon still had most of the Ubuntu goodness combined with a UI direction that made sense. Now that more features are getting added to Cinnamon with every new version, I'm glad I made the switch. My only real question is how to best move my Nautilus scripts over to Nemo.
In addition to all of the other instances mentioned above, I've been using Alarm Clock Xtreme with shake to turn off on my Android phone (actually two phones, using on both a Droid Incredible and Galaxy Nexux) for a couple years now. This patent is only original if you consider whacking the phone significantly innovative over shaking, flipping, or any other motion based ways to silence phones that have been around for years.
We gained a bunch of customers by advertising a data-hogging feature of our phones, but then the customers had the audacity to want to use that feature! How dare they!
So! I hope Google will be equally as cheerful when the government comes in and wrenches all of their technologies away from them because they've become so ubiquitous! I mean, if there's anything "everyone" uses on the Internet nowadays that ought to be "shared," it's Google search, right?
You too can create your own search engine to compete against Google. Google doesn't have a patent on that, only their particular algorithm for doing search. Create your own search engine algorithm and you're good to go. What you can't do, however, is create your own algorithm to search multiple sources on a phone, or create your own slide-to-unlock algorithm for a phone, because Apple has patented the very idea of doing that. And somehow you think those are the "technologies" that need protection from the government wrenching them away.
why should they spend any money on getting a new version of the OS onto an already sold and accounted for phone?
Because customers are unlikely to come back if their last phone never got updated? This attitude sounds like a good way to get customers to switch do a phone that gets timely updates.
I realize this is fanciful, and the odds are really high that this didn't happen, but who is to say that six thousand years ago something didn't just pop everything into existence fully formed, *including* all of the evidence?
And how is this *not* creationism? If you're trying to prove that not everyone that doubts evolution is a harboiled creationist, you probably shouldn't base your argument on a slightly reworded form of creationism.
The formats are a de facto standard, Open/LibreOffice aren't completely interoperable 100% of the time, and no one ever got fired for using the solution that works best with the documents/spreadsheets everyone else is creating.
On serious note: what are the alternatives? Are there any other menu-based window managers, that look nice? I mean, I can tolerate the Fluxbox, but my wife definitely cant
Linux Mint. Based on Ubuntu, but with a reasonable desktop manager plan. I use Cinnamon, which is trying to make Gnome3 look similar to the Gnome2 desktop but it still a bit of a work in progress. It also comes with Mate, which is a full fork of Gnome2. Either way Mint is more oriented for desktop-friendly interfaces in the long term, as opposed to thinking a tablet interface is a good idea.
Except, as far as science is concerned, the open discussion and debate has already occured, and the correct idea won. The problem is that the losing side still won't give up because they are more concerned with the Bible being the literal truth than the actual science involved.
I suppose a good example to reinforce what you are saying would be this post. Just go to the comments and look what happens when an article about the Facebook login page gets promoted to the #1 Google result for "facebook login". So many helpless people. Just imagine what changing the method to open a browser would do to them.
It makes sense to compare Foxconn to practically-no-longer-existing factories in the Western world because of the recession and high unemployment in the Western world. The US could really use those manufacturing jobs, but Apple would rather exploit cheap Chinese labor because it helps increase their record profits. There is a reason the Western world implemented regulations preventing the type of labor conditions that exist in these factories, but Apple (and everyone else using Foxconn) would like to ignore those reasons if it helps their bottom line.
We shouldn't be granting exceptions we should be scrapping the program entirely. 9/11 would not have succeeded had the airline industry not been so cheap as to not pay for the kind of reinforced doors that had been in place in planes flown in other parts of the world. Additionally, had we not banned knives on planes, it's unlikely that the plot would have succeeded either as the terrorists would have been outnumbered.
It's simpler than that. 9/11 succeeded more due to the mindset at the time than anything that wasn't allowed on planes. Ten years ago, the standard operating procedure for a hijacking was to give in and deal with it on the ground. The 9/11 attackers went after the flaw in this plan, which assumed the hijackers weren't suicidal. Today, even if we didn't have reinforced doors and still banned knives on planes, any would be hijackers with box cutters wouldn't make it two steps up the aisle before half the passengers would take them down.
I've been thinking for a while that Canonical should distribute their own line of hardware, perhaps 3 models of laptop at various levels of power and price, similar to the Apple model, but cheaper, and open. This would get around some of the problems people run into with unusual, unsupported wireless and video cards. If done right, it could probably pull off marketing it as a bit of an upscale laptop.
I take it this just steams songs on demand when I want to play them on my phone? I gave up on using Pandora in my car because inconsistent cell coverage led to choppy playback, and now it appears this service would require me to rely on the same coverage to listen to my personal library. I'd be very interested if this gave me the ability to sync to multiple locations, but I don't see that mentioned anywhere. I don't know about always being dependent on available network bandwidth to listen to my music.
Uh, yeah, except the hedge has so many holes in it that people can continue coming in to drink the lemonade for free. If the Times notices that someone has had too many drinks this visit, they just have to change their hat and they can start drinking again.
And all of this is Google's problem how? As long as Honeycomb works correctly on the platforms it was designed for, it's not their fault if I install some wonky version on an unintended platform. It's not their job to protect me from myself, it's to follow the terms of the software license.
Speaking of how loathe people are to change defaults, how many people actually use the search bar instead of straight up visiting Google?
I ask this as someone that has seen his wife bring up Google in the Firefox browser window to do a search when the Google search bar is right! frickin! there!
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Yeah, but this is yet another data point along with Android-overtaking-iOS timeline. First it was all Android phones outselling iPhones for a quarter. Then it was all Android phones overtaking iPhones in market share, but the iPhone massively outselling any single Android phone. Now one Android phone outsold the iPhone for one quarter, if only for the worst iPhone quarter, but I'm expecting it to become more of a regular occurrence in the future.
Although a lot of people will be dismissing these numbers as irrelevant outside of fanboi dick-measuring, they do matter. The Android phone app ecosystem was far behind the iOS phone ecosystem until the Android marketshare started too large for it to be ignored, and now they are effectively equivalent. However, when it comes to physical phone accessories, iPhones are massively more supported then any Android phone (at least as far as I can tell from personal observation). Once certain Android phones start selling in numbers comperable to iPhones, the accessory support will follow.
Also, now that Google has started focusing on tablets, I'm expecting a similar pattern on those in the future.
....that candidates are winning elections via data mining versus appealing to people with ideas?
I wouldn't say that that they won via data mining, they still appealed to people with ideas to win the election. They just used data mining to determine the best way to present the ideas in order to appeal to the most people more efficiently.
Yes. If this election season has taught us anything, it's the it is way easier to get rich if you start with a lot of money.
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KDE is one of the only environments left that doesn't treat its users like morons. It isn't a perfect piece of software, but it's one of the only remaining things that isn't after the "dumb everything down!!" mantra. The others: Windows, Gnome, Unity, OSX, IOS, Android, all seem to be chasing the other roads.
For that reason alone, I've found it worth giving them money, which you can do here: http://www.kde.org/community/donations/ - I've given them about euros 100 over the last year.
FWIW two others that don't treat users like morons are Cinnamon and MATE. I prefer Cinnamon, but if you're running from Gnome either would probably be an easier adjustment than KDE. I just wanted to point out donation options for people who'd like to keep a Gnome 2-like UI.
As a curious Cyanogenmod user, does anyone know specifically what builds are affected? I'm assuming all of the nightly builds since this was committed include it, but since I now stick to the M-builds I'm wondering if it's in those too.
They do it because they know the masses will pay that much for it and insist it's better.
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Just a couple I use off the top of my head
I'll be looking forward to the updates soon. I switched to Linux Mint once Cinnamon came out, it seemed less buggy than Mate while still giving me the use of Gnome utilities that I preferred over XFCE. Cinnamon was feature-limited at first, but Linux Mint + Cinnamon still had most of the Ubuntu goodness combined with a UI direction that made sense. Now that more features are getting added to Cinnamon with every new version, I'm glad I made the switch. My only real question is how to best move my Nautilus scripts over to Nemo.
In addition to all of the other instances mentioned above, I've been using Alarm Clock Xtreme with shake to turn off on my Android phone (actually two phones, using on both a Droid Incredible and Galaxy Nexux) for a couple years now. This patent is only original if you consider whacking the phone significantly innovative over shaking, flipping, or any other motion based ways to silence phones that have been around for years.
We gained a bunch of customers by advertising a data-hogging feature of our phones, but then the customers had the audacity to want to use that feature! How dare they!
So! I hope Google will be equally as cheerful when the government comes in and wrenches all of their technologies away from them because they've become so ubiquitous! I mean, if there's anything "everyone" uses on the Internet nowadays that ought to be "shared," it's Google search, right?
You too can create your own search engine to compete against Google. Google doesn't have a patent on that, only their particular algorithm for doing search. Create your own search engine algorithm and you're good to go. What you can't do, however, is create your own algorithm to search multiple sources on a phone, or create your own slide-to-unlock algorithm for a phone, because Apple has patented the very idea of doing that. And somehow you think those are the "technologies" that need protection from the government wrenching them away.
why should they spend any money on getting a new version of the OS onto an already sold and accounted for phone?
Because customers are unlikely to come back if their last phone never got updated? This attitude sounds like a good way to get customers to switch do a phone that gets timely updates.
I realize this is fanciful, and the odds are really high that this didn't happen, but who is to say that six thousand years ago something didn't just pop everything into existence fully formed, *including* all of the evidence?
And how is this *not* creationism? If you're trying to prove that not everyone that doubts evolution is a harboiled creationist, you probably shouldn't base your argument on a slightly reworded form of creationism.
Office.
The formats are a de facto standard, Open/LibreOffice aren't completely interoperable 100% of the time, and no one ever got fired for using the solution that works best with the documents/spreadsheets everyone else is creating.
On serious note: what are the alternatives? Are there any other menu-based window managers, that look nice? I mean, I can tolerate the Fluxbox, but my wife definitely cant
Linux Mint. Based on Ubuntu, but with a reasonable desktop manager plan. I use Cinnamon, which is trying to make Gnome3 look similar to the Gnome2 desktop but it still a bit of a work in progress. It also comes with Mate, which is a full fork of Gnome2. Either way Mint is more oriented for desktop-friendly interfaces in the long term, as opposed to thinking a tablet interface is a good idea.
Except, as far as science is concerned, the open discussion and debate has already occured, and the correct idea won. The problem is that the losing side still won't give up because they are more concerned with the Bible being the literal truth than the actual science involved.
I suppose a good example to reinforce what you are saying would be this post. Just go to the comments and look what happens when an article about the Facebook login page gets promoted to the #1 Google result for "facebook login". So many helpless people. Just imagine what changing the method to open a browser would do to them.
It makes sense to compare Foxconn to practically-no-longer-existing factories in the Western world because of the recession and high unemployment in the Western world. The US could really use those manufacturing jobs, but Apple would rather exploit cheap Chinese labor because it helps increase their record profits. There is a reason the Western world implemented regulations preventing the type of labor conditions that exist in these factories, but Apple (and everyone else using Foxconn) would like to ignore those reasons if it helps their bottom line.
$250,000 is nothing compared to future revenue once they are locked in to Microsoft products
This.
We shouldn't be granting exceptions we should be scrapping the program entirely. 9/11 would not have succeeded had the airline industry not been so cheap as to not pay for the kind of reinforced doors that had been in place in planes flown in other parts of the world. Additionally, had we not banned knives on planes, it's unlikely that the plot would have succeeded either as the terrorists would have been outnumbered.
It's simpler than that. 9/11 succeeded more due to the mindset at the time than anything that wasn't allowed on planes. Ten years ago, the standard operating procedure for a hijacking was to give in and deal with it on the ground. The 9/11 attackers went after the flaw in this plan, which assumed the hijackers weren't suicidal. Today, even if we didn't have reinforced doors and still banned knives on planes, any would be hijackers with box cutters wouldn't make it two steps up the aisle before half the passengers would take them down.
I've been thinking for a while that Canonical should distribute their own line of hardware, perhaps 3 models of laptop at various levels of power and price, similar to the Apple model, but cheaper, and open. This would get around some of the problems people run into with unusual, unsupported wireless and video cards. If done right, it could probably pull off marketing it as a bit of an upscale laptop.
You mean like System76? I guess it's not run by Canonical, but they are Ubuntu partners.
I take it this just steams songs on demand when I want to play them on my phone? I gave up on using Pandora in my car because inconsistent cell coverage led to choppy playback, and now it appears this service would require me to rely on the same coverage to listen to my personal library. I'd be very interested if this gave me the ability to sync to multiple locations, but I don't see that mentioned anywhere. I don't know about always being dependent on available network bandwidth to listen to my music.
Uh, yeah, except the hedge has so many holes in it that people can continue coming in to drink the lemonade for free. If the Times notices that someone has had too many drinks this visit, they just have to change their hat and they can start drinking again.
And all of this is Google's problem how? As long as Honeycomb works correctly on the platforms it was designed for, it's not their fault if I install some wonky version on an unintended platform. It's not their job to protect me from myself, it's to follow the terms of the software license.
Speaking of how loathe people are to change defaults, how many people actually use the search bar instead of straight up visiting Google?
I ask this as someone that has seen his wife bring up Google in the Firefox browser window to do a search when the Google search bar is right! frickin! there!