Did Gmail start with so small amount? I faintly remember 1Gb but today it is 10GB. But Gmail 1GB was something never heard when Hotmail gave 5-10MB.
And what new Skydrive users get? 7GB instead 25Gb.
And lets think about it.... Google has youtube for videos, what is size limit there per user? Videos takes more space than pictures or documents what Skydrive users need to push to their storage instead video service. Youtube allows 2GB size videos and 15-minutes or 20GB if using newer browsers and old users can send over 15min videos.
So think about it, Google user sends two 15GB 1080P HD videos to youtube and it is already pass what Skydrive can hold and share it to their friends only.
Picasa offers 1GB for pictures but basicly unlimited for Google+ users: [quote]It allows users with accounts at Google to store and share 1 GB of large photos for free. Storage is unlimited for photos 2048x2048 pixels or smaller for Google+ users, and for photos 800x800 for everyone else. Videos less than 15 minutes long also don't count towards the limit. After the limit is reached, photos are automatically resized.[17][/quote]
For 1Gb you can give lots of photos for sharing when just making their size a smarter, instead trying to push those full 10Mpix images what takes time to load etc.
I just upgraded 7GB amount to 25GB in skydrive but I don't have a use for it. Data what I have in Google is about 3GB (all emails, images, videos etc) and I have lots of emails and images, none of the videos.
So MS marketing of "25GB skydrive" is just like competing "I have 50 000m house when you just have 120m". Oh yeah... "good for you". So how about just buying a extra 32GB as MicroSD card to smartphone and you have faster, more and full control of your data and sync them to your home computer? Oh yeah, sorry, Windows Phone users can not do that!
Gmail when compared to Hotmail, Yahoo! etc at that time Chrome GUI Picasa new versions after bought Youtube new GUI and features after bought Android (development side) and its commercial use (strategy of open source) Google translation Google goggles Google maps Google street view.... ????
And webkit is work done by KDE.... oh wait... it is Open Source!
Google has lots of fancy and cool projects and services, but most are not even known my avarage users because they only use google search and see ads chosen by site admins or use Android phones.
I even think that "innovation" is today overused word. Everyone tries to do such while what we need is just a small steps and small improvements and polishing. Not huge changes and new awesome features with AMAZING! slogans.
Microsoft should have done that 10 years ago with Windows XP. Then no one could have sue Microsoft from abusive dominant market position to push its media player.
So yes, everything what Microsoft does is wrong because it doesn't do them correctly.
I think it would be. I would gladly take best GUI for different device than "one-must-fit-for-all" GUI what then is terrible on all of them.
Soon we are back at command line and we have just gone trough a loop from CLI to simple GUI to terrible and ugly GUI to bling bling GUI to simple GUI to CLI. Yes, I love my CLI for emails, IM, torrents, file management, process management etc... I so much hope that today files would be as much as possible pure text and they could be tweaked and piped like Unix configuration files etc.
Cant we go back to old pure txt documents without fancy graphics?:D
And that is reason why people can not do work like?
Like what people should possible do with Photoshop what GIMP can not do? And don't say anything about CMYK or some very special needs. GIMP offers almost all tools what are needed and only limit is your imagination and vision to see it trough how to make it. Photoshop is so much used with scripts and automatic functions. And because Photoshop isn't good for Photographers, Adobe made Lightroom for that purpose for them.
What is very smart move because OS X has great window manager what includes awesome features like Exposé and Mission Control and Virtual Desktops. Adobe knew that graphic artist use multiple screens and they scatter stuff around them. And to quickly find a other image, you don't need to use any list or alt tabbing. You just swing mouse or press shortcut to summon Expose effect and you see at glance every open image and window and you just click what you want.
Windows has window manager what lacks all the awesome and useful features. So far best is KWin what allows to make even custom rules per application or per window and own shortcuts for those as well if application does not have them. Support for multiple displays, virtual desktops and advanced window manager is something what is not supported in single window mode.
Thanks that at least GIMP developers maintained the possibility to switch back to better multi-window mode instead that stupid single window mode what only wanna-be Photoshop and Windows users have demanded so much.
Erh.... Why should Office document, spreadsheet, presentation tools offer email-client, email-server, ftp/ssh-server (with webdav etc)? Why not throw a file picker, instant messaging, video call, video editor, photo editor, SVG editor, 3D modeler, DVD-maker, CD/DVD burner, anti-virus, disk/file de-fragmenter.... only thing what is missing is a good office package.
MS Office is for office use like Emacs is for text editing, anything but a....
So why not use separate softwares what does one thing and one thing well? You can build a own server room with exactly needed servers and software what you like. You don't need one office package to give you all.
Oh, wait a minute, how about standards so it does not matter who use what software as all would work together? Ah, I see... Microsoft does not like that idea at all!
Yes, anybody can load and install it. It is very capable software, I use it. But I have started to prefer google docs because I can just drop working and take a hike to road or change workstation without worrying did I save the document and where I did and how I get it.
But what I want, is to now build a owncloud system behind a Plug-PC what would have just enough space for me (250GB is enough) and mount that to all Unix workstations for me and family members.
I would not care about official support as much as official possibility to BUY games for Linux.
Steam is wonderful online storage when compared to EA own Origin system or almost any other. What Apple did for Music and Movies, Steam did for PC gaming and is now doing it for Mac gaming as well and can do it for Linux gaming.
Have you ever heard about window managers? What manages windows (not Microsoft Windows) for you?
Have you ever heard that you can attach multiple displays to your computer and that your working speed improves with it? I can not find the slashdot article about multi-screen efficiency but http://www.multiplemonitors.org/index.php/multiple-monitor-solution/multi-advantages says it is 20-50% overall improvement and that is what I remember from slashdot discussion of different study as well.
At that point, you want just to have MDI = every image as own window and tools in own window. Then you can use window manager to actually manage your windows so you quickly find what you need and you can see all of them at glance, get them in full screen and tools pop-up only when needed by pressing a TAB. You can organize images to second screen or make a duplicates of images and place them to side by side to compare when you want to have a new try of something fancy without undoing everything if it isn't successful.
Since GIMP 2.3 development branch the UI has been very powerful and logical. Much better than in Adobe Photoshop what is illogical but works for those who have born with knowledge to use it. That is one reason why Adobe went and made a Adobe Lightroom for photographers because Adobe Photoshop was designed to totally different work than for photographers. And even Adobe has said that Photoshop UI is terrible and needs tweaking as now it is "one for all" what does not fit at all for everyone, but they need "one for one, everyone gets own". And now they are coming there with customization possibilities per user needs. http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2007/11/photoshop_as_seen_through_johnny_cash.htmlhttp://slashdot.org/story/07/11/09/0226215/adobe-to-unclutter-photoshop-ui
Crysis 1 was good game to the point where player was placed to drive a tank and at least on point when aliens came to picture, game was lost its all last possibilities.
Why it is so hard to make a games like Crysis with human enemies? Why there needs to be some fancy aliens or mutants what to shoot?
Is internet so big after all? Same question can be asked from physical location in countries.
When someone says "USA" (or any other country) to foreign person, what will rise to their minds? A geographical location in world, capital city, famous cities, media (movie, music, other industry etc) information, politics, famous people and possible family ties etc.
But how many starts thinking first all the small places? Like small towns, single unknown people, poor people, people living typical spaces, small bars and restaurants, shops around corner etc etc?
How may internet sites does avarage user use these days in daily habit? I would argue that amount is very limited. Instead surfing (as it was called at 90's) from sites links pages to another and using Altavista and Yahoo! "yellow pages", people open browser (for even today the IE or Firefox is "the internet") and go to facebook, open news page, google something etc.
The internet is actually VERY small for most of the people. It is about information bubble what search engines and social networks builds. Custom search results per user/country etc. Social habits of own friends and so on. They all are so strong forces that can not be dismissed.
How did E-mail chain letters and Spam start? For what reason? People just sit on their computer sharing links to something funny or nice to each other, by social pressure.
Today Facebook is a social pressure. If you don't exist there, you don't exist so much anymore for "civilized people". Corporations, Schools, forums etc demands more and more Facebook account and in worse case, that you give your boss or hiring person a access to your Facebook account and you can not say "I don't have such" so easily. Because "everyone has one".
It does not matter what a avarage Slashdot nerd knows about technology or history or what is "out there" in Internet (Internet is more than just WWW, but normal people WWW is the Internet) as world is full of avarage users who do not want to know about it. They just want to live with their families and friends and just "get it done". No matter of philosophies, no matter of better technologies, no matter of better future for everyone by protecting freedom (like GPL license for software) as they want everything NOW. So they are ready to pay from it or vote a person who just lies to their faces saying "This is now the thing you want" in TV.
People have been trained to blindly repeat propaganda of greedy people and that is the "Competition". That competition is great and best of all. That is the corner stone of western society. That is just world greatest lie what is told to kids in schools and TV, brainwashed even more in later of their ages so they just start repeating it like zombies.
Non-competitive situation does not mean in economy that there is monopoly or that government is controlling. Non-competitive situation is where people have alternatives and multiple choices but everyone is working together. In non-competitive economy there is no place for greedy people or a sociopaths who want to control everyone else and they start fighting for power of them in political manner.
Competition is synonym for war. And only one who always suffers are civilians, aka customers. Everything else is just propaganda. There is no real winner ever. Even the winning corporation lose more than gain and people lose most.
It is as well very stupid to say "You can go else where to post what you want". Because it is exactly same thing as saying "Shut the fuck up and go away, we don't want to hear you".
I could have just to say you with valid argument that you should never have posted that but write that to text file in your computer and just save it for your family to read it.
These days people need to have a facebook account if they want to get easy on commenting in different big sites. Many does not anymore care about doing separate login proceedings per site, forum, blog, service etc. They don't care to have different login names, dif
Erh.... You clearly don't know that Android has nothing to do with Google services or applications.
Google services are used trough Google applications, they are called as "gapps".
Gapps do not belong to Android, as they are third party applications what only Google offers trough Play and operators and Phone OEM preinstall them because people wants Google services (search, maps, navigation, cloud sync to contacts, email etc) and because Google pays to them from every search what is made trough Google Search widget (that search bar on launcher desktop).
I have used many Android phones what does not have gapps installed. But the phone feels just half smart then.
There are as well official Android phones what has gapps replaced with Microsoft versions (hotmail, bing etc).
What was MS versions for iTunes, iPhoto, iMovies, OS X at that time?
iPhone success isn't just it has big multi-touch display and just one physical button (- volume and power) what to use.
It was that Apple had released iTunes, gathered, Music, Movies and others there and allow easy automatic syncing to 4-8GB flash memory what first iPhone had. It was full blown browser and email.
Apple knew that to get successful phone, you need to have services ready for its users. Not way round like Microsoft usually does that product is "ready" but services lacks few years behind.
Recent? KWin is much older than "recent" window manager. It have allowed to set windows to open in specific size and position almost from the start. Like 50% in horizontal and to left/right edge of screen. And since vista have that snap feature as well.
I would argue that whole Nation should sue Monsanto because people should get pure (as possible) food and not genetically manipulated in the lab. I would argue that it is farmer duty to feed people around them, as many as they do have the food what the grow. And no one should take away or dismiss that duty by buying that food to somewhere other locations or denying it because some people want to make money.
I would argue that farmer should have 50% from the price what every person pays when they buy the food.
And thinking that as Android use Linux operating system, you have great amount of hackers to pay a little to help. And when thinking about Open Source projects like FlightGear and its community, there should be even few hackers what has skills to make a some kind program(s) what would read I/O from Android phone sensors and do calculations and then turn them to simple timed commands for one axis motors what you need at least two (Y and X)
It is sad that most people only see world trough commercial companies making money. And do not trust what a community can do together when willing just to work together and share the knowledge what they together gain and gather.
With open source, you can make awesome things cheaply, what wold otherwise take millions if not billions of dollars by private corporation.
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Did Gmail start with so small amount? I faintly remember 1Gb but today it is 10GB.
But Gmail 1GB was something never heard when Hotmail gave 5-10MB.
And what new Skydrive users get? 7GB instead 25Gb.
And lets think about it.... Google has youtube for videos, what is size limit there per user?
Videos takes more space than pictures or documents what Skydrive users need to push to their storage instead video service.
Youtube allows 2GB size videos and 15-minutes or 20GB if using newer browsers and old users can send over 15min videos.
So think about it, Google user sends two 15GB 1080P HD videos to youtube and it is already pass what Skydrive can hold and share it to their friends only.
Picasa offers 1GB for pictures but basicly unlimited for Google+ users:
[quote]It allows users with accounts at Google to store and share 1 GB of large photos for free. Storage is unlimited for photos 2048x2048 pixels or smaller for Google+ users, and for photos 800x800 for everyone else. Videos less than 15 minutes long also don't count towards the limit. After the limit is reached, photos are automatically resized.[17][/quote]
For 1Gb you can give lots of photos for sharing when just making their size a smarter, instead trying to push those full 10Mpix images what takes time to load etc.
I just upgraded 7GB amount to 25GB in skydrive but I don't have a use for it. Data what I have in Google is about 3GB (all emails, images, videos etc) and I have lots of emails and images, none of the videos.
So MS marketing of "25GB skydrive" is just like competing "I have 50 000m house when you just have 120m". Oh yeah... "good for you".
So how about just buying a extra 32GB as MicroSD card to smartphone and you have faster, more and full control of your data and sync them to your home computer? Oh yeah, sorry, Windows Phone users can not do that!
Gmail when compared to Hotmail, Yahoo! etc at that time ....
Chrome GUI
Picasa new versions after bought
Youtube new GUI and features after bought
Android (development side) and its commercial use (strategy of open source)
Google translation
Google goggles
Google maps
Google street view
????
And webkit is work done by KDE.... oh wait... it is Open Source!
Google has lots of fancy and cool projects and services, but most are not even known my avarage users because they only use google search and see ads chosen by site admins or use Android phones.
I even think that "innovation" is today overused word. Everyone tries to do such while what we need is just a small steps and small improvements and polishing. Not huge changes and new awesome features with AMAZING! slogans.
Microsoft should have done that 10 years ago with Windows XP. Then no one could have sue Microsoft from abusive dominant market position to push its media player.
So yes, everything what Microsoft does is wrong because it doesn't do them correctly.
A security researcher believes that Microsoft has
I almost stopped reading at that point...
Microsoft said that they will continue supporting "other"* platforms... what people know**
* OS X and Android
** not other Linux platforms than Android
I think it would be. I would gladly take best GUI for different device than "one-must-fit-for-all" GUI what then is terrible on all of them.
Soon we are back at command line and we have just gone trough a loop from CLI to simple GUI to terrible and ugly GUI to bling bling GUI to simple GUI to CLI.
Yes, I love my CLI for emails, IM, torrents, file management, process management etc... I so much hope that today files would be as much as possible pure text and they could be tweaked and piped like Unix configuration files etc.
Cant we go back to old pure txt documents without fancy graphics? :D
And that is reason why people can not do work like?
Like what people should possible do with Photoshop what GIMP can not do? And don't say anything about CMYK or some very special needs.
GIMP offers almost all tools what are needed and only limit is your imagination and vision to see it trough how to make it.
Photoshop is so much used with scripts and automatic functions. And because Photoshop isn't good for Photographers, Adobe made Lightroom for that purpose for them.
I can design a new GUI for you.... Here http://kde-look.org/CONTENT/content-pre1/114078-1.jpg
Oh, sorry, that was just few years old (Oct 20 2009) so it isn't modern anymore, we need COLORS!
What is very smart move because OS X has great window manager what includes awesome features like Exposé and Mission Control and Virtual Desktops.
Adobe knew that graphic artist use multiple screens and they scatter stuff around them. And to quickly find a other image, you don't need to use any list or alt tabbing. You just swing mouse or press shortcut to summon Expose effect and you see at glance every open image and window and you just click what you want.
Windows has window manager what lacks all the awesome and useful features.
So far best is KWin what allows to make even custom rules per application or per window and own shortcuts for those as well if application does not have them.
Support for multiple displays, virtual desktops and advanced window manager is something what is not supported in single window mode.
Thanks that at least GIMP developers maintained the possibility to switch back to better multi-window mode instead that stupid single window mode what only wanna-be Photoshop and Windows users have demanded so much.
And who doesn't remember or know how Exposé was presented to world http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktTNcj0fAM4
Erh.... Why should Office document, spreadsheet, presentation tools offer email-client, email-server, ftp/ssh-server (with webdav etc)? Why not throw a file picker, instant messaging, video call, video editor, photo editor, SVG editor, 3D modeler, DVD-maker, CD/DVD burner, anti-virus, disk/file de-fragmenter.... only thing what is missing is a good office package.
MS Office is for office use like Emacs is for text editing, anything but a....
So why not use separate softwares what does one thing and one thing well?
You can build a own server room with exactly needed servers and software what you like. You don't need one office package to give you all.
Oh, wait a minute, how about standards so it does not matter who use what software as all would work together? Ah, I see... Microsoft does not like that idea at all!
Yes, anybody can load and install it. It is very capable software, I use it. But I have started to prefer google docs because I can just drop working and take a hike to road or change workstation without worrying did I save the document and where I did and how I get it.
But what I want, is to now build a owncloud system behind a Plug-PC what would have just enough space for me (250GB is enough) and mount that to all Unix workstations for me and family members.
Did it only made content to Google Earth and not as well to Google Maps?
I would not care about official support as much as official possibility to BUY games for Linux.
Steam is wonderful online storage when compared to EA own Origin system or almost any other.
What Apple did for Music and Movies, Steam did for PC gaming and is now doing it for Mac gaming as well and can do it for Linux gaming.
Because technology is different in Windows Phones than in Windows Mobile.
Single Window GUI (SDI) is terrible in photoshop.
Have you ever heard about window managers? What manages windows (not Microsoft Windows) for you?
Have you ever heard that you can attach multiple displays to your computer and that your working speed improves with it?
I can not find the slashdot article about multi-screen efficiency but http://www.multiplemonitors.org/index.php/multiple-monitor-solution/multi-advantages says it is 20-50% overall improvement and that is what I remember from slashdot discussion of different study as well.
At that point, you want just to have MDI = every image as own window and tools in own window. Then you can use window manager to actually manage your windows so you quickly find what you need and you can see all of them at glance, get them in full screen and tools pop-up only when needed by pressing a TAB. You can organize images to second screen or make a duplicates of images and place them to side by side to compare when you want to have a new try of something fancy without undoing everything if it isn't successful.
Since GIMP 2.3 development branch the UI has been very powerful and logical. Much better than in Adobe Photoshop what is illogical but works for those who have born with knowledge to use it. That is one reason why Adobe went and made a Adobe Lightroom for photographers because Adobe Photoshop was designed to totally different work than for photographers. And even Adobe has said that Photoshop UI is terrible and needs tweaking as now it is "one for all" what does not fit at all for everyone, but they need "one for one, everyone gets own". And now they are coming there with customization possibilities per user needs.
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2007/11/photoshop_as_seen_through_johnny_cash.html http://slashdot.org/story/07/11/09/0226215/adobe-to-unclutter-photoshop-ui
So go and get yourself a good window manager (like KWin) so you can get functions like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktTNcj0fAM4 and virtual desktops and so on.
Crysis 1 was good game to the point where player was placed to drive a tank and at least on point when aliens came to picture, game was lost its all last possibilities.
Why it is so hard to make a games like Crysis with human enemies? Why there needs to be some fancy aliens or mutants what to shoot?
Is internet so big after all?
Same question can be asked from physical location in countries.
When someone says "USA" (or any other country) to foreign person, what will rise to their minds?
A geographical location in world, capital city, famous cities, media (movie, music, other industry etc) information, politics, famous people and possible family ties etc.
But how many starts thinking first all the small places? Like small towns, single unknown people, poor people, people living typical spaces, small bars and restaurants, shops around corner etc etc?
How may internet sites does avarage user use these days in daily habit?
I would argue that amount is very limited. Instead surfing (as it was called at 90's) from sites links pages to another and using Altavista and Yahoo! "yellow pages", people open browser (for even today the IE or Firefox is "the internet") and go to facebook, open news page, google something etc.
The internet is actually VERY small for most of the people. It is about information bubble what search engines and social networks builds. Custom search results per user/country etc. Social habits of own friends and so on. They all are so strong forces that can not be dismissed.
How did E-mail chain letters and Spam start? For what reason? People just sit on their computer sharing links to something funny or nice to each other, by social pressure.
Today Facebook is a social pressure. If you don't exist there, you don't exist so much anymore for "civilized people". Corporations, Schools, forums etc demands more and more Facebook account and in worse case, that you give your boss or hiring person a access to your Facebook account and you can not say "I don't have such" so easily. Because "everyone has one".
It does not matter what a avarage Slashdot nerd knows about technology or history or what is "out there" in Internet (Internet is more than just WWW, but normal people WWW is the Internet) as world is full of avarage users who do not want to know about it. They just want to live with their families and friends and just "get it done". No matter of philosophies, no matter of better technologies, no matter of better future for everyone by protecting freedom (like GPL license for software) as they want everything NOW. So they are ready to pay from it or vote a person who just lies to their faces saying "This is now the thing you want" in TV.
People have been trained to blindly repeat propaganda of greedy people and that is the "Competition". That competition is great and best of all. That is the corner stone of western society. That is just world greatest lie what is told to kids in schools and TV, brainwashed even more in later of their ages so they just start repeating it like zombies.
Non-competitive situation does not mean in economy that there is monopoly or that government is controlling. Non-competitive situation is where people have alternatives and multiple choices but everyone is working together.
In non-competitive economy there is no place for greedy people or a sociopaths who want to control everyone else and they start fighting for power of them in political manner.
Competition is synonym for war. And only one who always suffers are civilians, aka customers. Everything else is just propaganda. There is no real winner ever. Even the winning corporation lose more than gain and people lose most.
It is as well very stupid to say "You can go else where to post what you want". Because it is exactly same thing as saying "Shut the fuck up and go away, we don't want to hear you".
I could have just to say you with valid argument that you should never have posted that but write that to text file in your computer and just save it for your family to read it.
These days people need to have a facebook account if they want to get easy on commenting in different big sites. Many does not anymore care about doing separate login proceedings per site, forum, blog, service etc. They don't care to have different login names, dif
Erh.... You clearly don't know that Android has nothing to do with Google services or applications.
Google services are used trough Google applications, they are called as "gapps".
Gapps do not belong to Android, as they are third party applications what only Google offers trough Play and operators and Phone OEM preinstall them because people wants Google services (search, maps, navigation, cloud sync to contacts, email etc) and because Google pays to them from every search what is made trough Google Search widget (that search bar on launcher desktop).
I have used many Android phones what does not have gapps installed. But the phone feels just half smart then.
There are as well official Android phones what has gapps replaced with Microsoft versions (hotmail, bing etc).
What was MS versions for iTunes, iPhoto, iMovies, OS X at that time?
iPhone success isn't just it has big multi-touch display and just one physical button (- volume and power) what to use.
It was that Apple had released iTunes, gathered, Music, Movies and others there and allow easy automatic syncing to 4-8GB flash memory what first iPhone had.
It was full blown browser and email.
Apple knew that to get successful phone, you need to have services ready for its users. Not way round like Microsoft usually does that product is "ready" but services lacks few years behind.
Maybe person wants to have scroll bar visible or video controls and so on?
Recent? KWin is much older than "recent" window manager. It have allowed to set windows to open in specific size and position almost from the start. Like 50% in horizontal and to left/right edge of screen. And since vista have that snap feature as well.
Why I always hear men whining about woman ass widening in ^4 ratio with their age?
I would argue that whole Nation should sue Monsanto because people should get pure (as possible) food and not genetically manipulated in the lab.
I would argue that it is farmer duty to feed people around them, as many as they do have the food what the grow.
And no one should take away or dismiss that duty by buying that food to somewhere other locations or denying it because some people want to make money.
I would argue that farmer should have 50% from the price what every person pays when they buy the food.
And thinking that as Android use Linux operating system, you have great amount of hackers to pay a little to help.
And when thinking about Open Source projects like FlightGear and its community, there should be even few hackers what has skills to make a some kind program(s) what would read I/O from Android phone sensors and do calculations and then turn them to simple timed commands for one axis motors what you need at least two (Y and X)
It is sad that most people only see world trough commercial companies making money. And do not trust what a community can do together when willing just to work together and share the knowledge what they together gain and gather.
With open source, you can make awesome things cheaply, what wold otherwise take millions if not billions of dollars by private corporation.
But when you have a RC with realtime video feed from its direction, you are all the time in control of it and clear understanding where it is heading.
So no line-of-sight is needed at all.
If you loose remote control of the plain, then there is nothing you can do even if you have line-of-sight to it.