Comment Re:Only a little evil (Score 0) 305
Or, perhaps, those particular high-profile products actually do infringe on their patents?
A crazy suggestion, I know!
Or, perhaps, those particular high-profile products actually do infringe on their patents?
A crazy suggestion, I know!
Which has precisely nothing to do with the ACs whining about the restrictions on iOS software installs.
And exaggerate more - if they were blocking all competing products, you wouldn't be able to buy anything else.
Which you were fully aware of when you bought it.
At least this time it gives them a chance of making a good, well-integrated product.
I've been a Windows hater for a very long time, because it's a shoddy product. That said, I'll easily be able to find respect for MS if they carry on doing interesting, useful things.
I've got a feeling the AC was saying that Amiga OS is 'only used by hobbyists in lala land'...
The whole problem with these UX designers is they forget that it is 2012 and EVERYONE ALREADY KNOWS HOW TO USE COMPUTERS
You've missed the point really. Or, more likely, nobody's ever bothered to explain it.
Good UX usually relies upon the standard and accepted ways of interacting with the computer. So it doesn't patronize you by trying to show you what to do with a text input field - we can usually assume the user knows what they are looking at, as long as we lean on the accepted ways of presenting standard functionality.
The real task of good UX is to use present the domain the application is servicing in an easily understood and accessible manner. For example, a good system for doing tax returns might help the user to understand the terms the tax system uses and perhaps how to calculate those numbers.
I agree completely about the Office ribbon btw. MS' UX people clearly thought they could improve on the accepted patterns used for interacting with desktop applications... I think their solution is awful. Change *can* be a good thing though, and sometimes a fundamental change is needed to move things forward - I think that the paradigm shifts made in iOS are great, for example.
Actually, I don't expect that I'll ever need that much computer assistance for my daily shit.
Computerized laxatives - the digital future of constipation treatment.
you have to get your apps only from Apple sources (iOS/Mac App Store) for them to have access to it.
I'll bite.
There's nothing stopping an application from being able to save to the local disk, is there now? You can save your files and use them in other apps just as you always have.
The fact that they're allegedly restricting the use of *their service* to apps which they have approved hardly seems to me like the catastrophe people here are making it out to be.
Steam for OS X, a big step forward though it was, hasn't delivered a massive amount of content.
I haven't got numbers to back that up, but often when I hear about a game being released on Steam (usually from a developer / publisher which isn't Valve) that I would like, I open the client and find out it's Windows-only. Which is a shame. Publishers still clearly think that Mac is a niche market. The situation with a Linux client is unlikely to be much better.
That said, having Valve's own stuff available is no bad thing. They have produced plenty of good content.
MYTHS!: https://vms.drweb.com/myths/
They also sell virus protection. These guys seem top notch.
How do you get those numbers, unless you wrote the software yourself?
Coincidentally, the originators of the information (a Russia based firm called Dr Web) have a virus scanner they can sell you. You'll probably need root to install it...
Nope! Nothing suspect here...
Does Android count?
Do routers count?
"What man has done, man can aspire to do." -- Jerry Pournelle, about space flight
