Posts by JDX 6848 publicly visible posts • joined 28 May 2010
How is their security 'idiot' if someone puts an app on FaceBook which users download and enter their details into?
Still, you managed to get a few plus votes by following the usual tactic of insulting someone with an argument which appears on cursory glance to seem sensible. Quite the heights of Reg debate then really...
Unless you've played the beta, how do you know an offline mode makes sense? It's presumably a new game, not just a rehash with newer graphics - since SC2000 the audience has changed massively - literally a whole generation of new gamers have been born and reached an age to buy games.
MS manage to patch the OS, IE, Office and other software using one mechanism, which is handy. Every other application I use on Windows seems to have its own update checking mechanism.. and the same appears to be true on OSX (unless you buy through appstore).
How do you (generally) speaking get updates on Linux systems? Does your package manager do it, or do apps monitor themselves or is it all down to the administrator to keep on to of these things?
This is assuming you get OS patches and updates in the same way as Windows/OSX, which seems pretty likely... even Linux has bugs!
>>Why should LO (or OO) be judged by a standard that MS don't meet?
Because they are the ones trying to steal market share, not hold onto it. If you want to win MS users you need to make the transition absolutely super slick.
If LO's main goal is to win users from MS (is it?) then 100% perfect support for MS docs should be their absolute #1 priority. Otherwise it doesn't matter how good LO is, people won't switch.
So you admit you can't come up with a good counter argument then? You eat cheese and it's gone... you use software and it's still there.
Most of the world's software is going service-based implicitly simply by going web-based after all... gmail, dropbox, Jira, github, etc - the question is only if you pay for them or not.
>>Maybe that's because "IT types" have some notion of efficiency and how to lay out a helpful user interface.
No they really don't. The last person you want developing a user interface is a software developer... that leads to "well just learn these 100 keyboard shortcuts and then it's easy". Crap UX is one of the only real failings of traditional FOSS offerings... Blender, GIMP, Vi, etc.
I don't know if I like it but I have no problem with it... it appeared and within a week I was happy using it. Sometimes I have to google where to find a specific feature I haven't used before or for a long time, but I don't think that's different than the old system.
The wife loves Ribbon, says it's way better.
What a surprise, a web-designer suggesting a site should be redesigned.
I've never found a single site, even one brand new from a good designer, that other designers don't tear to shreds. It seems ingrained into being a web-designer that every site must be completely re-designed every year or two.
Of course this is unbiased professionalism, not blatant self-interest.
Jobs rebuilt Apple based deciding what people should have, listening to nobody even other Apple people.
But of course, he also pretty much ran it into the ground by deciding what people wanted.
I'd rather MS made bold moves and got it wrong.. we can always leave MS products... than that everyone sat there doing nothing.
These botnets target desktops if I understand rightly, but with the explosion in the number of servers running is it likely we'll see botnets attacking cloud servers, etc? In that world, targeting Linux would be the obvious route just as targeting Android in the mobile space is the sensible choice.
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