Comment Re:loud quiet loud quiet (Score 2) 288
Whoops, that don't work no more:
Whoops, that don't work no more:
It is, at least, original.
Tried listening to it recently, it's getting a bit ear bleeding awful.
I liked it when it had some semblance of dub still in it:
http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/04/valve-steam-machine-hands-on/
"Anyone who uses Steam's Big Picture Mode is already intimately acquainted with SteamOS, as they're very similar. SteamOS looks and acts like Big Picture Mode, except it's the basis for the entire hardware system. It's controller-friendly and easy to navigate. The same Steam splash page washes across the screen when it launches, and the same tile-based layout of games and the Steam store are visible at launch. As promised, the OS is built on Linux (not based on Ubuntu, we're told, but entirely custom), though you'd never know it as the only interactive layer is all Steam.
That means it also has the limitations of Steam: SteamOS is not the replacement for Windows 8 you've been waiting for. Beyond basics like browsing the web, there's little in the way of standard OS functions."
http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/04/valve-steam-machine-hands-on/
"Anyone who uses Steam's Big Picture Mode is already intimately acquainted with SteamOS, as they're very similar. SteamOS looks and acts like Big Picture Mode, except it's the basis for the entire hardware system. It's controller-friendly and easy to navigate. The same Steam splash page washes across the screen when it launches, and the same tile-based layout of games and the Steam store are visible at launch. As promised, the OS is built on Linux (not based on Ubuntu, we're told, but entirely custom), though you'd never know it as the only interactive layer is all Steam.
That means it also has the limitations of Steam: SteamOS is not the replacement for Windows 8 you've been waiting for. Beyond basics like browsing the web, there's little in the way of standard OS functions."
Awful.
*brushes up CV*
More and more the evidence points to pack up, ship out and let rich corps fight over me.
Roll on ARM Radeon SoCs!
Please? It would make an awesome desktop PC.
Doesn't everybody with that class of media library just use their DLNA server of choice or XBMC or something now?
I use Plex, it indexes a bajillion tracks and I just choose what I want to listen to through Bubble on my phone and fling it at the player attached to a sound system
You can build these, Ambilight clones for you TV:
http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/11/04/ambipi-ambilight-clone-raspberrypi-raspberry_pi/
Yes, but that's just the marketing numbers by the manufacturer.
You'll only *really* get 22 TiB 755 GiB 65 MiB 932 KiB
He's also lying, unless my knowledge is wildly out of date.
For a very long time my fat-client email provider (Evolution) has supported GMail Mail, Contacts and Calendar.
You even just select "Add Google Account" and it does all the tricky stuff for you.
But I stopped using a fat client a long time ago, because why the hell would you even bother?
That's just my IMO of course.
So what's he going on about "no longer working with 3rd party clients well"
Does he just mean Outlook and EAS?
Oh and the IMAP folders/labels dichotomy.
Yes, you'll end up with multiple headers coming down.
But deleting, copying and moving just gets translated into label actions.
Again, just IMO, does does this really matter?
The guys entitled to his opinion but this one seems a bit stretched.
They do.
The ask for a donation when you download the ISO.
And guess what?
They complained about that too. Very loudly indeed.
In summary, there will always be people on forums complaining about everything.
They will always be first and loudest.
The people who just install it, judge it good enough and put a dollar in the hat don't go on-line to troll about it.
Long live Mark, Canonical, Unity and Mir.
Oh course they did.
The one that told Adam to eat the apple.
Ah yes, but Windows never gets past that feeling that it was designed and implemented my many teams of many types over many years and not once did they ever speak to each other.
Although I too hate the Linux ecosystems "tinkerers" attitude.
Luckily for us we have Canonical, which have been developing their OS which has shown consistent improvement for 9 years.
Still a long way to go though, but once you get there, well, you're there aren't you?
I think Canonical have a decent shot at shipping the first usable phone and tablet OS.
And I mean usable in a desktop/laptop replacement way, which Android isn't yet and doesn't seem to be aiming at.
Microsoft are also on the case obviously, with Win8 across the board.
I hear people aren't loving it so much.
I like the concept of Surface, just not the OS.
Roll on Unity 8 + Mir! 8D
I shall name them Cross Over OSes.
OSes that are designed to provide a consistent and useful experience across all platforms, Desktop, Laptop, TV, Phone and Tablet.
Historically Canonical have done a fantastic job of making it easy to put Ubuntu on what you put Ubuntu on.
Eventually it will be shipped hardware but I won't be surprised when I see a Windows EXE that auto-flashes your Nexus tablet with Ubuntu 1.x.
If all else fails, lower your standards.
