Re: one of the lucky ones to get a Nexus 7 early
I used Android tabs only briefly but I see no advantage to them. I never owned an iPhone or other touch device and recently got an iPad... everything was massively intuitive.
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"I probably spend a few hours a day on my iPad all the time. It's perfect for browsing and book reading, and it's also not bad - but not so perfect - for music, video and photo editing.
I can't see an 8" tablet being nearly as useful for any of the above"
I'm not sure why not. An 8" tablet has a bigger screen than a Kindle so as a paperback replacement it's just fine. For music the screen isn't relevant and for personal video watching, just move it slightly closer to your eyes!
For real work it could suffer a lot but that's not what most people use them for.
And who exactly do you think is going to do that work? If you write a Windows-only game, it is man-months of work to make it properly cross-platform. That could cost $50-100k... of course then you can re-use the tech in new games but still it's a LOT of work if the code was not written cross-platform to start with (i.e. DirectX only).
Any Steam games already available outside Steam on Linux will be available very fast... but any games designed for Steam will probably be heavily Windows-orientated so this could be a chicken & egg problem... developers wait to see if there is a Linux market to justify the time porting the game or developing new games for Linux, users wait until some games turn up to start suing the service.
Won't proper Linux fans complain the Steam platform uses DRM, demands a web connection and is closed-source?
"Maybe Apple hates the way SIMs give power to the consumer but they must not be allowed to dilute it by spreading non-standard interfaces. That can be no engineering reason to change the SIM. Even full size sims are tiny compare to the size of today's smart phones."
It's not non-standard.
Have you seen how tiny modern phone components are? A SIM is probably 10% the size of the battery or the same size as a RAM chip.
In fact, a SIM takes up as much space as a micro-SD and you'd like one of those wouldn't you?
If people who bought W7 phones are stupid then nearly all Android users are stupid because most are still on 2.x and will be forever.
This whole "it's useless if you don't get the next OS" argument is ludicrous.
Is this specific to things you post publicly or do the same rules apply if you DO lock down your privacy but
a)the site you post on is hacked and data is released
b)the site inadvertently releases the private data without hacker help
c)one of your FB friends shops you
Is it getting found out, or the action of posting publicly, which is the offence?
A handful of plays on BBC3 would earn her that much. Radio and download may be different, but if people are paying to use Spotify the artists should get their fair cut because users think by paying for a subscription they are supporting the artist and therefore don't need to buy an album.
Yawn. If you're so scared of the internet maybe you'd better stay away from it.
Your bank, utility companies, local council, etc all have your intimate personal data and have done for years. Telling people not to put data on the web if they want it to be private is just burying your head in the sand... the data is already out there waiting to be leaked even if you join the cool kids who laugh at facebook and only access the web via proxies. I guess you don't use phone or email either in case they record and leak your conversations.
There's being sensible - making sure your data can only be seen IF it's leaked rather than because you didn't RTFM - and there's being paranoid.
Find something which lets you do this, like Action Pack. Or, get more appropriate clients who don't expect a lone developer to be running a cluster... that kind of work should bring in enough money to afford proper licenses :)
Where in the story does it say you won't be able to continue what you're doing anyway - does it definitely claim that?
" I doubt any of the people parroting this rubbish even used the versions they're talking about. 3.1 and earlier is basically just a GUI for DOS; 95, 98 and Me were all more or less all as shit as each other"
As someone who has been using since DOS3.3, you're talking junk. 95/98/ME have big differences and ME is definitely inferior. Wasn't 98 crap until SE came out, at which point it was the best pre-XP version?
Aside from the inevitable "it's dross" comments which I'll leave to others, A couple of neat things:
>>Anyone buying a PC from today will be able to upgrade to Windows 8 for $14.95, she said, and for the rest of us the $39.99 price tag looks set in stone
>>All customers will get access to SkyDrive cloud storage with a Windows 8 purchase
SkyDrive for free especially seems quite cool, depending how much you get. I do wonder though what happens if you already have a Windows Phone... can you combine your included storage?
"I know quite a lot of Christians, the number I know who are "anti-gay" is vanishingly small."
Since the definition of "a Christian" is not very strict, this doesn't mean much. I AM a Christian and the majority of people in my church hold to the 'old fashioned' view that same-sex relationships are wrong. However I don't necessarily equate that with being anti-gay - there is a massive difference between disapproving of what a person does, and who they are.