Comment Re:Feedly looks ok (Score 1) 287
Hardly a surprise since theoldreader was set up when Google dropped the social side of Reader (in favour of G+ integration).
Hardly a surprise since theoldreader was set up when Google dropped the social side of Reader (in favour of G+ integration).
But they are different kinds of conversation.
Here's something that happens to me a lot. I get an IM asking me a question, in order to answer it I need a bit more information so I ask a question. I wait. Just at the point where I think there's no reply coming and I can re-focus on whatever I was doing before I get an answer. I reply, adding a further request for information. Repeat a couple of times until I finally say "Send me an email".
If that was a phone conversation the person would generally answer immediately or at least I would know what was happening. Silence on IM might mean they're thinking about my question, or it might mean they've been distracted by an email.
The problem with IM for me is that it's somewhere between email and phone in terms of being "live". It can come across as passive agressive because it demands attention right now but the person at the other end can more easily split their attention across other things. A phonecall would require both my and the other person's attention equally. An email requires my attention but I can prioritise when I reply.
Use Calibre to convert it.
A digital camcorder that fits in your pocket in 1994? They'd go crazy for it.
Thing is even if they did (are?)
a) we're talking about a lot of money to fill even a small proportion of the missing apps
b) for the health of the Linux software eco-system there needs to be many developers of such apps, not just IBM and a few other big corporations
Thing to realise is this is a keynote speech at a conference. Despite the tone of "I'm tired of waiting" he's not really talking about what applications he personally, or IBM as an organisation want/need, he's trying to throw out a challenge to the community in general. I'm sure if there are specific apps that IBM need on Linux they are willing and able to develop them.
Indeed "I'm tired of waiting" sounds to me like an attention-grabbing phrase rather than anything else.
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.
