Comment Re:Need local printing (Score 1) 37
I have a Brother, an HP and a Canon printer hooked up to my Android phone.
It must be really difficult hauling all of that equipment around.
I have a Brother, an HP and a Canon printer hooked up to my Android phone.
It must be really difficult hauling all of that equipment around.
Let's just skip to the end and launch an initiative to remove Yahoo.
Seriously, who uses them?
Anybody who installed Firefox and accepted all defaults
To make the workspace task centric and simple to use. It's still designed first and foremost for a mouse and keyboard although the design doesn't exclude touch. I'd add that the shell is also extendible and many plugins exist that rectify things people commonly moan about, e.g. if you want a start-like menu, taskbar, workspace switcher etc. then those things exist..
Hiding things behind nondescriptive hamburger menus or something similar only gives an illusion of simplicity and hinders discoverability. It's simple if you already know where the option or setting or whatever is buried (i.e. you're an expert user or a developer of the application), but if you've never used the application before it turns into a game of "How do I do <task>? Where did <developer> hide <option I want>?"
This will make a LOT of people here mad, but the exponential growth computational power of digital computers is ending. We can no longer count of the computers of tomorrow to be significantly faster or have more memory than today. If you have been following the industry closely you can already see start to happen 10 years ago. So we can forget about projections that used the argument of exponential growth creating the "Singularity" or "AI". There just simply won't be enough processor power available with classical digital computers. The computer you use 10 years from now will look and perform a lot like the one you have today.
Heck, the computer I use 10 years from now might very well be the same computer that I'm using today.
You can use bittorrent to share your own videos, it is peer-to-peer, two-way, etc... All you need it is a typical home internet connection.
But look at what bittorrent is used for : 90% of it is for piracy of popular content like Hollywood blockbusters. I almost felt weird when I shared original content on TPB.
Despite the occasional collateral damage caused by anti-piracy systems, the little voice is actually better heard on video sharing platforms like YouTube, at least for now. That's simply because with piracy out of the way, people are forced to see less mainstream content instead. YouTube RED may change this, not because it is bad, I think it is actually a very good initiative, but it may cause the mainstream to come back. And experience has shown us that all other things being equal, people prefer to watch Hollywood blockbusters rather than independent content.
Lots of 'typical home connection' ISPs get really grumpy if you start sending lots of gigabytes of information to the Internet.
Posting AC because of mods, but I agree with you, heavily. It's rather crushing to go back and read predictions made in the 70's, 80's, and even into the 90's. There was so much optimism and innovative ideas, there were actually individuals, and it was decentralized - you could actually own a piece of the internet. People even hosted their own websites!! Imagine that. Watching it all fade to the world of Twitter and Facebook...
Hey now, I own a piece of the Internet (several, in fact), and I still run a few websites for my personal enjoyment/enrichment and to get my personal message out there, but since each website I run is one out of about a billion voices, it's tough to be heard above the din.
There are a lot more non-technical users of the Internet these days than there are technical users, but everyone wants their voice to be heard. The problem is that for people like you and me, setting up and maintaining a website is trivial, but to the average Internet user, setting up a website, even one that's barebones HTML is either too hard, or too time consuming. The masses flock to places like twitter and facebook and youtube because they can get their message out quickly and easily and they don't have to have any technical skill (which is to say, they don't have to *gasp* learn something).
You go here to meta moderate. Though I've long wondered about the utility of marking a comment as 'good or bad' over the old metamod's 'moderating the moderations', and I'm not even sure what meta moderating even does these days.
Can you implement code to auto delete any post that contains "APK" ?
If that happened, how would we be able to discuss the latest and greatest Android application packages?
With all that crappy sites out there the web is barely usable on Lynx anymore.
*sigh!*
If a site doesn't care enough to have a text-only failsafe mode (you know, in case javascript is turned of, adblockers are on, something from their CDN didn't load, or, heaven forbid, you're using something like a screen reader because you're visually impaired, or some other issue), then I'd say that site probably isn't worth anyone's time anyway.
Linux is massively overrated and that's why I stopped using it. But defending the Windows 10 GUI? If I don't like it, it's fear of change? OK.
I just swapped your car's pedals and inverted the dashboard, and the fuel cap is now under the left wheel. Quit being afraid of change and adapt.
So, Linux is overrated because it's not Windows?
Chocolate-doom for the most vanilla experience.
Huh, I wouldn't have called that one.
Amen to that. Installing and updating the proprietary Nvidia drivers manually is a colossal pain, especially if you're running Ubuntu or similar and they fart out a new kernel revision every couple of weeks, requiring new kernel headers, and a rebuild of the driver. Not to mention that the proprietary driver still is missing some features that they solved in the Windows driver years ago. For example, you still can't enable TwinView (multiple monitors) and SLI at the same time, and that was a problem that Nvidia managed to fix in Windows Vista.
I think you mean "ermagherd darknrt"
That reminds me... I haven't played a Legend of Zelda game in a while.
darknrt
Gesundheit.
It's my computer, so the only one who gets to decide what software is installed on it is me.
... until you agree to the Win10 EULA.
Which I didn't do. That was a bridge too far, and it pushed me out of the Windows ecosystem entirely. Yeah, it sucks that I can no longer play a large portion of games in my Steam library, for example (which is bloated beyond belief with stuff I'll probably never get to anyway thanks to indie bundles and Steam sales), but that's a sunk cost, and I have a big enough console game backlog over a dozen or so systems (going back to the NES) that I'm not going to be wanting for video games to play any time soon.
Work is the crab grass in the lawn of life. -- Schulz
