Posts by monkeyfish 513 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Apr 2012
Quite. The ribbon would have been just fine if MS had given us the option of turning it off. New users for those that didn't care would have used it, maybe even the old die-hard would start to use it if it wasn't a hated non-option. Same with TAFKAM, have it there by default but let us turn off and it would have been fine. I'd have probably bought win8 for my ageing XP laptop instead of trying linux. Ho-hum. As someone else said earlier, why do they always have to trash the old way just because they've come up with a new way?
Ermm...Google don't charge for Android. That's the point. The manufacturers only have to pay for patent licensing for all the stuff Google ripped-off from other companies.
No money is received directly by Google when you buy an Android handset.
Ermm... No. Google charge for access to certain apps. What now? Ah yes, access to apps such as Gmail, Maps, Playstore etc. So, in fact, you do pay for the Gmail app already. If that's not enough to sustain their business, then maybe they should charge more for it? It's their business model after all, and they already push you to google search (obviously), which does indeed serve you adverts.
Seems a bit off to me. I realise there needs to be adverts for gmail in a browser, because you haven't paid for the service. But if your using gmail on android then you have paid for the service, it was included in the cost of the handset when you bought it... Also, the cost of an email app with no ads is between £1 and £2, are they going to charge that for a no-ads version? Because I'm pretty sure your phones google licence cost more than that already, if they're not making enough from android sales maybe they should charge more for it in the first place.
Except that the core underbelly of windows has been getting consistanly faster and more stable in each release since vista (I realise vista was a dog, but they actually fixed it and made 8 about as fast as XP on the same hardware). It's not the fault of the engineers and coders that some **** of a CEO wants a giant eye sore of garish colours for a start menu, is it?
Fifty-nine per cent of listeners said they have no need to acquire a DAB set, and 39 per cent are happy with what they've got.
What the hells wrong with using the % symbol for 'per cent', and wring the occasional numbers out? Have you purposefully tried to make it harder to read, or did you have to do it to increase the word count?
It might actually be worth trying them with an easier version of linux, esp the ones with the ancient windows boxes. Once the system is up and running, and you've shown them the process of installing from the package manager, it should last longer before needing a service. That said, you will have to pick a version for them, and install it, and check it works with all the hardware so they aren't faced with a non-operational wifi card (or similar) from the outset.
My Mum falls into the 'using it by proxy, but not actually using it' category. We've tried to get her online, but why would she? She's already living in the future. She has a completely voice controlled operating system that will print emails, show her facebook, buy tickets for shows, in fact it'll do almost anything computer related without her ever having to actually sit in front of one. He's called my Dad.
moving from Samsung to LG wouldn't be left figuring out a new experience
Because they want to make it easier for you to buy another phone from them than buy one of someone else?
Updates would be pushed out to phones faster
Because they want you to buy a new phone. If your old phone did everything you wanted it to you would buy a new one, would you?
full of crap is a perfectly good reason not to like Android. It's not Androids fault of course, just like it isn't with Windows. But the OEMs do like to fill these things up with the an insurmountable pile of steaming manure. If you could just delete it all with out the thing balking it would be fine, but alas, this is the Achilles Heel of Android.
Ah remotes. The worst I've ever had is that of my current panasonic TV. About half of the buttons are to control a panasonic PVR I don't own, then there are the ones for the picture view SD card I don't use. But that's not as bad as the settings reset button. That's right. You know all the settings you painstakingly set up so the colours were good but not garish and the sound was reasonably bassy but not distorting? Well my TV has a single button that resets all that. Does it ask you if you meant to press it? No. Is it recessed to prevent accidental operation? No. Is it right next to the AV button used to frequently change input device? Yes. One day I'll just gouge/glue that bastard right out of the interface, but I've trained myself not to press it now.
/rant
OTOH I have a roku with an excellent remote. Hardly any buttons and a well designed ui.
Hold on, are you saying that (as they don't currently have permission) you can download an app from the play store to install a custom ROM on your phone that will then be blocked from downloading anything else from the play store? Plus your phone will be out of warranty for using it?
They had better make that pretty clear when your downloading it.
(the old way of installing would make it pretty obvious your doing something that is out of warranty and isn't supported by Google, but a play store app could literately be used by anyone.
I would agree with most of your sentiment, but I would also postulate that being an adult you have built up muscle memory, so if you start to stumble you correct for it without actually thinking about it. That and I suspect the kids are charging about at full speed, so are more likely to stumble, whereas old gits tend to shuffle about the place as slowly as they can get away with, and would prefer not to get up off the sofa at this precise moment in time if it's all the same to you, thanks.
Laymen don't understand how a dentist drill works. Not because they can't, but because they lack interest. It's the same for other machines. So while I applaud anyone's effort to remove the religions, scams, and other waleware from their machines, I cannot recommend that they attempt such a feat as the decline of human intelligence progresses.
Making it easier for the newb just makes it harder in the long run.
Sure, I don't know how to use a dentist drill, but does the dentist understand how to design a power supply for the drill that will operate from the mains voltage and regulate the drill speed? Thought not. The very nature of knowledge is that that you can't know all of it. Some people like to spend their free time fiddling with computers and trying out new distros. Other people just want a computer that works so that they can get on with something else.
I just put mint on an older xp laptop, the first time I've ever used any version of linux after 20+ years of windows. The main problems with linux are:
1) As the op said, the fact that there are countless different versions of it. Ask for an opinion of which one to install and you'll get as many different answers as there are versions. In the end I just guessed at mint, as it looked pretty similar to xp, but even then there were 4 different current versions to guess from.
2) You're on your own. The wifi card didn't work and although I could find forum references to this problem the solutions involved some sort of terminal or tar ball which might as well have been written in latin for all I understood it. You can't just download the drivers from the manufacturer as it is an unsupported OS. I bought a small wifi dongle to get around the problem but that didn't work either, in fact it didn't even seem to recognise that I had plugged it in. I went to un-install the whole thing on sat only to find the built in wifi works now. I have no idea why it now works when it didn't previously and no idea what to do if it stops. Now working it works well and I quite like it. But you're on your own.
I was thinking that, if it was made plush enough it could be an alternative to a cruse ship, albeit one I would actually like to travel on*. Plenty of places an airship could go that a cruse ship can't.
*You could make the interior styling that of the 1930's, rather than plastic tat, and specify that the crew wear monocles and such. Give every passenger a pipe and smoking jacket on boarding, I say. What what?
That's because the people in the middle either have no sound-bite-able position, or don't care about the argument. Take any coverage of the evils of WINTER SNOW or SUMMER HEAT. Most people they try to interview on the street don't give them the sensational opinions they were looking for.
Your point was? I've got a modern digital/analog hybrid that is powered by sunlight, glows in the dark, is waterproof to 100 meters and resets its self from the European radio atomic time base overnight. It's over 5 years old and has never needed servicing.
People get what they are prepared to pay for, not what technology is able to provide.
Actually that sounds like a fairly cheap casio, whereas a very expensive rolex may only tell the time and nothing else. Price has nothing to do with features.
Apparently in the UK these tiny mobes are causing some concern, but the reason for this is partly because a 15 minute call costs $17 from some US prison payphones, and that's a lot of laundry duty.
So how much does it cost from a UK prison? Not as much as that I'll wager.
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