I really want to see Packaged Apps take off across all browsers, mobile and desktop. I'm willing to take a little performance hit to have apps available across all platforms.
Sigh. Slashdot used to be a FOSS / open standards blog. Moving away from an MS protocol to an open one would have been cheered. I wonder what happened to/. over the years?
There is no rational definition under which Apple is losing anything right now.
Umm, they lost $35B in market cap just a couple of days ago. That's something. Their stock is down about 23% from a couple of moths ago. They're losing something.
This is my first time posting to Slashdot in a while, I guess, and I just noticed my old sig from 2 1/2 years ago. I guess Google has done a bit of that identity integration with Chrome already. Yay! IT's tied to Google. Boo!
Follow up: Why don't you have a Nexus-style hardware program (promoted on the front page of Ubuntu.com) where hardware partners produce Ubuntu desktops / laptops that are certified to receive working updates for 3 years?
50ml is actually a pretty common limit for unlicensed combustion-powered bikes. Electrics appear to be around 300-500W, but higher and lower limits exist.
Yes, I was thinking that he should host an eGroupware instance and use the sync options available there. Mail, calendar, contacts, docs storage: I think it has just about all of what he wanted.
Disclaimer: I haven't used eGroupware for about five years. It's still actively maintained, though.
Well... you know.... users immediately disable as much security on their boxes as they are able to and then click on everything they see, generally prefer Facebook and Farmville over something better, don't understand what a browser is, and confuse their word processors with their OSes. So, yeah, users are on average bad and don't know how to use their tools. Once (if) they learn a tool, they would rather live in perpetual inefficiency than relearn.
I still have hope that this will happen. Google+ is changing so quickly now that making a proposal would be self-defeating. There are quite a few projects that started closed and then opened when the API settled down. Heck, why not publish the source? Google would be smart to open-source Google Apps, too, since its success depends mostly on Google's massive data centers and only slightly on technology itself.
You need to research this and then come back. The issue revolves around responsible disclosure. There are numerous cases of Microsoft refusing to fix a bug for years, sitting on it until the researcher gets frustrated and releases it to the public. Microsoft then tries to ruin the researcher's life in the name of "responsible disclosure."
Microsoft doesn't seem to understand that the definition of responsible disclosure includes giving the vendor a reasonable amount of time before releasing. They believe that it means that the researcher doesn't talk to anyone else, ever. Once they tell the researcher "we're not moving on this right now," all bets are off.
I support responsible disclosure, but that's not what MS offers.
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I really want to see Packaged Apps take off across all browsers, mobile and desktop. I'm willing to take a little performance hit to have apps available across all platforms.
Like Java -- "Write once; debug everywhere."
Sigh. Slashdot used to be a FOSS / open standards blog. Moving away from an MS protocol to an open one would have been cheered. I wonder what happened to /. over the years?
There is no rational definition under which Apple is losing anything right now.
Umm, they lost $35B in market cap just a couple of days ago. That's something. Their stock is down about 23% from a couple of moths ago. They're losing something.
Well, I'm going to guess that about 40% of the patents filed in the last 30 years have already expired ("been invalidated").
This is my first time posting to Slashdot in a while, I guess, and I just noticed my old sig from 2 1/2 years ago. I guess Google has done a bit of that identity integration with Chrome already. Yay! IT's tied to Google. Boo!
Steve Jobs merely tread upon a road well worn by those that came before, and he charged as much money as he could to those who weren't in the know.
Wow, that works both specifically and generally. I'm impressed with what you did there.
So ... how's OS X on that old hardware you were complaining about? Significantly better than Linux?
Follow up: Why don't you have a Nexus-style hardware program (promoted on the front page of Ubuntu.com) where hardware partners produce Ubuntu desktops / laptops that are certified to receive working updates for 3 years?
No, Chromebooks are Linux on the desktop. Android is Linux in your hand.
Best way to stay 3 versions behind on Skype? Run it on Linux! ;)
Because he zoomed out.
Wow. You need to work on your reading comprehension.
50ml is actually a pretty common limit for unlicensed combustion-powered bikes. Electrics appear to be around 300-500W, but higher and lower limits exist.
Yes, I was thinking that he should host an eGroupware instance and use the sync options available there. Mail, calendar, contacts, docs storage: I think it has just about all of what he wanted.
Disclaimer: I haven't used eGroupware for about five years. It's still actively maintained, though.
I'm surprised people still come here. I'm at work on a Sunday. That's my only reason for being on Slashdot anymore.
Yes. In fact, it dedups at the bit level.
Who has cable or OTA TV anymore? Why would anyone want that? ;)
Well, aren't you the hipster?
Obvious (as I understand it) means that I would have solved the same problem in the same way, no matter how much work it took
Don't confuse lack of familiarity with bad design.
You're right. A tool should be all things to all people. In fact, I'm not sure why anyone uses anything except Emacs.
Well ... you know .... users immediately disable as much security on their boxes as they are able to and then click on everything they see, generally prefer Facebook and Farmville over something better, don't understand what a browser is, and confuse their word processors with their OSes. So, yeah, users are on average bad and don't know how to use their tools. Once (if) they learn a tool, they would rather live in perpetual inefficiency than relearn.
I still have hope that this will happen. Google+ is changing so quickly now that making a proposal would be self-defeating. There are quite a few projects that started closed and then opened when the API settled down. Heck, why not publish the source? Google would be smart to open-source Google Apps, too, since its success depends mostly on Google's massive data centers and only slightly on technology itself.
You need to research this and then come back. The issue revolves around responsible disclosure. There are numerous cases of Microsoft refusing to fix a bug for years, sitting on it until the researcher gets frustrated and releases it to the public. Microsoft then tries to ruin the researcher's life in the name of "responsible disclosure."
Microsoft doesn't seem to understand that the definition of responsible disclosure includes giving the vendor a reasonable amount of time before releasing. They believe that it means that the researcher doesn't talk to anyone else, ever. Once they tell the researcher "we're not moving on this right now," all bets are off.
I support responsible disclosure, but that's not what MS offers.