I had been wondering this when my dad started getting all excited about iPhone 3.0 (incidentally, it fixes a few of the reasons I settled on a G1).
My guess is that they'll be relying on a mixture of improved hardware (802.11n for example, or from a cheaper non-GPS phone to one that does do GPS) and fashion.
Though this is also something hitting PCs, especially with Win7 working on more basic hardware, where the continual round of buying a new PC every n months is moving towards every 2n or 3n months as the hardware lasts longer. Companies relying on this continual stream of new sales of hardware and licenses are just going to have to adapt to it and I think phone manufacturers will likely have to go the same way and produce fewer handsets each with a higher price and a longer life.
That or they'll just design them to fall apart after 17 months and 3 weeks.
I can putty with mine fine. Not felt the need to use VoIP yet, I'm struggling to get through the contract-bundled minutes at the minute. Aside from T-Mobile arbitrarily sticking a net-nanny on it, and then revoking it after a brief phone call, I've not found any restrictions on the connectivity yet.
I've nothing against them being brought to book over it at all.
I'm just irked that the media has attached so much importance to this when far more money is wasted by the government elsewhere through its general desire to mismanage everything in sight.
How is it that so many more people can lose faith in parliament through them fiddling their expenses than through even just the NHS IT project?
Look how long it took them to do the right thing in respect of the Gurkhas. As well as the continuing foot dragging in respect of MPs' "expenses". They still do not appear to understand why the public is so offended by their actions.
I'm completely perplexed as to why the public are so apparently offended by these, too. Especially the expenses. How so many people can get so worked up at the loss of such a comparatively small amount of money is beyond me.
I actually read the article and it seems to lack one important thing... Why? Why should a Windows Power User wish to install Ubuntu? I mean it is "free" but my time certainly isn't, so I guess what is in it for me? What advantages does it have over, let's say, Windows XP?
You've no idea until you've tried it. That's how I first came across anything non-Windows.
This is probably not a reason for *you* to try it. There might well not be much of a reason for you to try it. I know there's not much of a reason for me to give Ubuntu 9.whatsit a go.
But it's why someone might want to.
So, if all his points are invalid, then why is marketshare for Linux on the desktop so insignificant?
Not all of his points are invalid. As the poster said "many of the points made are very much correct, and deserve attention.".
It is a shame that whenever anyone sets out to compile a list of things Linux needs, they always manage to heavily mar it with inaccuracies, and misunderstandings, since this greatly reduces the credibility of the rest of it.
As a longish-term Linux user, obviously I don't find it has many faults for what I do with it. But one think I *know* Linux is heavily lacking is well-thought out, objective and consistently accurate criticism. As said elsewhere, TFA does raise some very good points, but the fact that he's so blatantly wrong on some of the points I *do* know about makes me wonder whether I can take his word for it on those which are news to me.
Heh. This is my biggest dislike of using windows. Middle-clicking and nothing happening. Middle-clicking harder and still nothing happening.
I've never noticed inconsistencies in clipboards in Linux. Maybe I just use funny software...
You don't need to. You've not needed to use a terminal to install an application for several years.
Personally, I thought the 'Add/Remove Programs' item in *Ubuntu was a fantastic idea[1]. Unlike the MS one of similar name, you can use it to quite easily add or remove programs. For the 'average joe' user it's great, for the slightly more advanced user there's still Synaptic and Adept which deal with packages rather than applications. I gather that the underlying app/system that *buntu use for that can play with rpms too, so I'd be surprised if it's not in Fedora and related distros.
There are plenty of ways to fault Linux, but I really don't think application installation is one of them any more.
This is the split that I see: Windows and OSX are both designed in order to achieve a large market share. Linux is mostly developed to scratch the particular itches of the developers.
As well as not having a strong leader, the Linux community doesn't have a unifying vision of a Linux box in every home. It's just a bunch of people that want an OS they like.
As a result, Linux turns out to be a very good OS for the people that like it, but a pretty poor one for those that don't. Windows and OSX are quite sufficient for pretty much anyone.
I've had more issues with people using FF or Safari from home, and asking me why they can't search their emails in OWA - it worked when I showed them on their desktop in the office (in IE).
The point, though, is not where the money ends up. It's that it's being paid at all.
Thus far, it has been widely acknowledged that pirates do what they do because they want everything for free. If The Pirate Bay can come up with a model whereby pirates are willing to pay for what they get, this proves that there is *some* model under which the people who are currently pirating will pay for their media.
Odds are that many who will pay 5/month to download something illegally would be willing to pay 5/month to do it legally. Some might even be willing to pay more.
The PRS only collects royalties for performances in the UK.
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1: Steam going under affects games you've bought online, yes. But using steam doesn't proscribe buying discs at all. Sure, it's missing a bit of the point, but your 1. is exactly why I do it. And you can (or at least could last time I checked) install the game off the disc without using Steam. 2: Works with no issues. I quite regularly play while offline. 3: This is where it's great - serial reformatters. Install steam, select all the games, hit 'Install' and go to bed. Wake up, all your games are there. No disc-swapping and endless 'next' clicking.
The small exposure I've had to him (a documentary he did supposedly on Darwinism) portrayed him as a fundamentalist nutbar intent on dismissing and arguing with people who are trying to have a reasonable conversation.
Were I an impartial viewer, I'd have come away seeing the Church as the more reasonable and rational movement, and this fervent 'darwinism' as quite worrying and deluded.
So I've not seen him being particularly insulting to theists, I suppose, but he's hardly doing anything for atheism.
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It's funny, I've never heard it this way round before.
I had been wondering this when my dad started getting all excited about iPhone 3.0 (incidentally, it fixes a few of the reasons I settled on a G1).
My guess is that they'll be relying on a mixture of improved hardware (802.11n for example, or from a cheaper non-GPS phone to one that does do GPS) and fashion.
Though this is also something hitting PCs, especially with Win7 working on more basic hardware, where the continual round of buying a new PC every n months is moving towards every 2n or 3n months as the hardware lasts longer. Companies relying on this continual stream of new sales of hardware and licenses are just going to have to adapt to it and I think phone manufacturers will likely have to go the same way and produce fewer handsets each with a higher price and a longer life.
That or they'll just design them to fall apart after 17 months and 3 weeks.
I can putty with mine fine. Not felt the need to use VoIP yet, I'm struggling to get through the contract-bundled minutes at the minute. Aside from T-Mobile arbitrarily sticking a net-nanny on it, and then revoking it after a brief phone call, I've not found any restrictions on the connectivity yet.
I've nothing against them being brought to book over it at all.
I'm just irked that the media has attached so much importance to this when far more money is wasted by the government elsewhere through its general desire to mismanage everything in sight.
How is it that so many more people can lose faith in parliament through them fiddling their expenses than through even just the NHS IT project?
I'm completely perplexed as to why the public are so apparently offended by these, too. Especially the expenses. How so many people can get so worked up at the loss of such a comparatively small amount of money is beyond me.
You've no idea until you've tried it. That's how I first came across anything non-Windows. This is probably not a reason for *you* to try it. There might well not be much of a reason for you to try it. I know there's not much of a reason for me to give Ubuntu 9.whatsit a go. But it's why someone might want to.
Not all of his points are invalid. As the poster said "many of the points made are very much correct, and deserve attention.".
It is a shame that whenever anyone sets out to compile a list of things Linux needs, they always manage to heavily mar it with inaccuracies, and misunderstandings, since this greatly reduces the credibility of the rest of it.
As a longish-term Linux user, obviously I don't find it has many faults for what I do with it. But one think I *know* Linux is heavily lacking is well-thought out, objective and consistently accurate criticism. As said elsewhere, TFA does raise some very good points, but the fact that he's so blatantly wrong on some of the points I *do* know about makes me wonder whether I can take his word for it on those which are news to me.
Heh. This is my biggest dislike of using windows. Middle-clicking and nothing happening. Middle-clicking harder and still nothing happening. I've never noticed inconsistencies in clipboards in Linux. Maybe I just use funny software...
You don't need to. You've not needed to use a terminal to install an application for several years.
Personally, I thought the 'Add/Remove Programs' item in *Ubuntu was a fantastic idea[1]. Unlike the MS one of similar name, you can use it to quite easily add or remove programs. For the 'average joe' user it's great, for the slightly more advanced user there's still Synaptic and Adept which deal with packages rather than applications. I gather that the underlying app/system that *buntu use for that can play with rpms too, so I'd be surprised if it's not in Fedora and related distros.
There are plenty of ways to fault Linux, but I really don't think application installation is one of them any more.
In my experience, the Ribbon is a vast improvement over the 'old' UI. Sure, the 'old' UI wasn't broken, but neither were steam engines.
I was really hoping to lambast MS for getting it wrong again with change for the sake of change, but I really think they got it right this time.
This is not that Linux is not mature, this is that Linux is not what you want.
But normally they make a point of sticking to their guidelines in the document that lays them out.
This is the split that I see: Windows and OSX are both designed in order to achieve a large market share. Linux is mostly developed to scratch the particular itches of the developers.
As well as not having a strong leader, the Linux community doesn't have a unifying vision of a Linux box in every home. It's just a bunch of people that want an OS they like.
As a result, Linux turns out to be a very good OS for the people that like it, but a pretty poor one for those that don't. Windows and OSX are quite sufficient for pretty much anyone.
That's more down to the BBC being funded by TV Licensing.
I've had more issues with people using FF or Safari from home, and asking me why they can't search their emails in OWA - it worked when I showed them on their desktop in the office (in IE).
I'm sure OWA from Exchange 03 in FF3.x was HTML?
All I noticed when I visited with IE was the appearence of a search button. Exactly which bit of IE this is dependent on, I've no idea.
Third sentence:
"Karpinski emphasized that correlation does not equal causation and that the grades association could be caused by something else".
I wish my country's government (UK) was anywhere near that technically adept...
*achieves*
The point, though, is not where the money ends up. It's that it's being paid at all. Thus far, it has been widely acknowledged that pirates do what they do because they want everything for free. If The Pirate Bay can come up with a model whereby pirates are willing to pay for what they get, this proves that there is *some* model under which the people who are currently pirating will pay for their media. Odds are that many who will pay 5/month to download something illegally would be willing to pay 5/month to do it legally. Some might even be willing to pay more.
The PRS only collects royalties for performances in the UK.
1: Steam going under affects games you've bought online, yes. But using steam doesn't proscribe buying discs at all. Sure, it's missing a bit of the point, but your 1. is exactly why I do it. And you can (or at least could last time I checked) install the game off the disc without using Steam.
2: Works with no issues. I quite regularly play while offline.
3: This is where it's great - serial reformatters. Install steam, select all the games, hit 'Install' and go to bed. Wake up, all your games are there. No disc-swapping and endless 'next' clicking.
The small exposure I've had to him (a documentary he did supposedly on Darwinism) portrayed him as a fundamentalist nutbar intent on dismissing and arguing with people who are trying to have a reasonable conversation.
Were I an impartial viewer, I'd have come away seeing the Church as the more reasonable and rational movement, and this fervent 'darwinism' as quite worrying and deluded.
So I've not seen him being particularly insulting to theists, I suppose, but he's hardly doing anything for atheism.
I don't think he is, and I'm having trouble working out where you got that idea from.
Unless US English has some _very_ different meanings for some of those words to English English?