Comment Re: Get a real browser (Score 4, Insightful) 219
Donâ(TM)t forget that most people also use a mobile phone that was created by an advertising company.
>> Who expects software to make them cry? Answer: Anyone who's dealt with Oracle
I nearly cry every time I fire up Google Picasa to edit my photos, and realise that this awesome piece of software will never be updated. It's face tagging was awesome and around long before Google Photos could do that.
Well, it was the French analyzing California wine. What did you expect?
One wonders if they also looked at French wine using the same process/rigour?
Battery life sitting at about 9 days, which I could extend if I took out the second hand movement, smooth moving hands (and didn't update the whole display every second). When it's getting flat, I can charge it fully while having a shave and shower.
I'm more than happy with mine.
Why on earth would you ever need 30 fps on a watch?
I don't need or want touch on a desktop - I've got a full keyboard and and a real mouse.
On my personal macbook pro - touch would be nice, but the mac's touch-pad is pretty sweet, though occasionally I connect a real mouse
On last year's laptop, a 12" windows laptop with a tiny touch-pad - it is crying out for a touch screen.
On this year's model laptops that have windows 8, touch screen and a touch-pad too - it is awesome.
For fast use the touch screen, clicking dialog boxes, installing software, fixing things - you generally don't have to keep typing.
For accurate use the touch-pad. editing, anything that uses both keyboard and mouse.
Yes. The best hardware.
Only one fucking mouse button.
But the best hardware.
Not used one lately hey?, the whole magic mouse surface is the button - and it is multi-touch enabled.
One finger click for regular left click. Two finger click for regular right click.
Although you can boot Windows on a Mac, you don't have to do that. Windows, including Win 10, can be run safely in a Parallels or VMWare sandbox.
On a Mac you can have both of these - my Windows 7 bootcamp install is also the VMware target. So I can run it natively for games, and later as a VM if for I'm working on OSX. Not upgraded yet to 10 - hoping it works just as well.
That is one major advantage to OS X. You can make a drive image and boot off of it. Helps for migration testing and backups. It really frosts me that Microsoft hasn't figured out how to do that yet. I can keep a 128 GB flash drive in my bike bag and restore my laptop anywhere in the world I can get a new HD. Pretty damned convenient.
I love the fact that the included OSX backup (and dead simple) program Time Machine, creates a bootable USB backup - there's nothing remotely similar in Windows land but should be.
I have to disagree - Yes, I personally go for a waaay more paranoid backup approach, but just backing up to an external USB HDD (though with a "real" backup, not his manual drag-and-drop BS) puts someone a whole world of hurt better off than 99% of computer use
If Grandma calls and says her HDD died and she hasn't "run that DVD backup thing" in a few months, well gee, sucks for you, granny! If, however, she calls and asks for help getting her nightly USB drive backup reinstalled to a new computer, hey, cool, she's lost almost nothing.
Once my parents had access to a decent internet connection (not just a modem) then I soon transferred them over to use Crashplan and have everything backed up at my place on an old Windows Home Server - works perfectly fine, and I get an email if the backup fails or doesn't run regularly.
Sure I'd have to build a new PC if theirs fails but all dad's family tree info and photos are safely backed up at my place (and online too)
...when the damn USB interfaces are crammed so close together that I can only plug one thing in at a time anyway.
Don't worry though, I'm sure that design consideration is right around the corner. I mean, we consumers have only been complaining about that bullshit for years now...
Recently passed through KickStarter
Three. One for the mouse, one for the cable to the USB hub with the external hard disks in the shelve, and one spare one (e.g. for a USB stick, or to connect the smartphone).
Would this be of any use to you?
A recently funded KickStarter project.
https://www.kickstarter.com/pr... (which you can order through)
What is this Star Trek IV you speak of? On a related note, isn't it weird how they skipped straight from ST II to ST VI, and Spock was suddenly back with no explanation?
Likewise, I'm still waiting for the release of Star Wars Episodes I, II, & III to be made.
There was an attempt a few years ago by some George Lucas look-alike, but they were far too silly to really be part of the story:
Midichlorians and a Jar like character - strange ideas for a semi-decent sci-fi story.
Might not be so well known in the US, as in UK and Australia Not my favourite, but was the first one that I though of.
As for humanity surviving on Earth - aside from a "grey-goo" scenario, or malevolent AI bent on human extermination, I can't think of anything that would actually present a credible threat to the species. Now lot's of things could bring about the collapse of our civilization, or even *almost* wipe out the species, but even a 99.9% extermination rate would leave 7+ million people - twice the population that is estimated to have existed before the birth of agriculture. Even a 99.9999% extermination rate would leave 7+ thousand people - more than the estimated population during the worst of the last major ice age. And those few survivors would have access to a wealth of knowledge and technology undreamed of by our ancestors - I doubt they'd have trouble eventually rebuilding a new civilization, at worst it might take a few thousand years - and we've been tool-makers for over a million already.
The biggest problem that people starting to rebuild civilisation after most of us have been wiped out - is going to be energy sources, then metals.
All of the easy to get to coal, oil and metals have been strip mined and basically used up - the really hard to get to stuff (which they won't be able to get to) is going to be all that remains.
The coal and oil could eventually be replenished, but only in geological timescales (and favourable conditions)
I suspect they'll be a stone-age people until a passing UFO checks out the world that suddenly went quiet.
Never ask two questions in a business letter. The reply will discuss the one you are least interested, and say nothing about the other.
