"there are also lingering fears that the company might be part of a social networking bubble"
Lingering fears??? This should be very solid alarm! People will never learn, will they? Just how many more years do we want this recession to go on for? Idiots.
What an absolute load of nonsense. If ever we needed a useful reminder of why deploying Microsoft products in production environments is more trouble than it's worth, here it is.
I'm sure this is a perfectly decent distro, but isn't it about time the Linux world tried moving on from the sub-Windows-95 Gnome interface that's been doing the rounds for years? At least Ubuntu are having a go at moving ahead with something new and exciting that might actually appeal to the world outside the IT Department - I think they deserve more support for that personally.
What on earth are you doing throwing £150 a year down the drain? If you don't watch live broadcast TV then you don't need to pay for a licence. The hardware you have in your house is totally irrelevant.
They don't need to 'leave the mobile sector' to avoid serious patent disputes, they just need to do something a little more imaginative than cloning iPhones.
Thank god I stopped paying for a TV licence (legally: I no longer watch any live broadcast TV) if this is the sort of nonsense the BBC are wasting their money on.
Yes, that makes sense. I was thinking about the technical side, didn't really consider the licensing issues. That explains why LOVEFiLM's streaming selection is so crap then.
Maybe if they put as much energy into coding as they do into forking-related politics then OpenOffice and its variants wouldn't suck as much as they currently do.
Apple and Intel made it clear when Thunderbolt first came to market that, in order to get it into products, they'd decided to stick with non-optical connections for the time being, and then they'd move the technology into using optical connections once it was possible to do so.
I'm always amazed by how much searching people need to do. Why not just remember where you put things? It's much easier. For those times when you really can't remember, Spotlight seems to do the trick very nicely - I've never personally understood the great need for Spotlight replacement apps such as Caffeine but I know some people who swear by them.
1. We aren't all mindless zombies who spend our time catatonic in front of the TV when we're not at work. A lot of us use our technology to create photographs, music, writing, etc. outside of our day job.
2. An iPad isn't just for content consumption. It also has a load of creative content-producing apps for music, photography, etc.
"The largest network under my care has 250 physical servers; my 9-5 has less than 50. Most networks I oversee have fewer than five servers and all of these networks have far fewer switches than systems."
Blimey Trevor, how many different sysadmin jobs do you have and how do you fit them all in??
I think it's a bit much to expect a new OS to work perfectly on such a heavily hacked system. You need to be realistic about these things. Not the best review I've ever read really.
Personally I hope Google+ just goes away again, as I can well do without yet another site to have to keep up to date. The only thing Google+ has going for it (as far as I can make out from the comments; creepy Google refused to let me join in without giving them my mobile number, which I'm certainly not going to do, so I haven't been able to try it myself) is the ability to put contacts in groups more easily. Well I'm sure it won't be long because Facebook has improved its groups feature to make it similarly easy to use.
What I want from my ISP is a decent service, helpful customer support, and a good solid unthrottled Internet connection. That's what they should be focusing on doing, not putting their resources into providing music apps. I want my Internet to come _through_ them, not _from_ them.
Shame it won't run on my iPhone, but I guess a lot of its coolness would be lost on the smaller screen. Yet another great reason to buy an iPad, I suppose.
Incidentally, the iPhone 4 has now overtaken the D90 as the most popular camera on Flickr.
The point is that you can easily get great results in a really enjoyable, hands-on way, instead of having to fiddle around with stupidly complex and overpriced software on a computer.
This is just a bunch of overworked pros whinging because some stuff has changed. Give them time, they'll settle down and enjoy getting to grips with the new version.
I loved Llamatron but I couldn't get on with Minotron - because the control system requires fingers all over the place on the screen, the fingers get in the way and stop you from seeing what's going on so you just end up dying all the time. But maybe I just haven't got the proper 'knack' or something, because it's got amazing reviews on the App Store.
Does this mean they've finally ditched the lame 'poor man's Windows 95' interface with the ridiculous quantity of menu bars wasting all your precious screen real estate?
I'm just pointing out that we don't know what happened before the recording started. It sounds to me like she put in the request for the PAC, probably explained that it would take a couple of hours for it to come through, and instead of just waiting for the text to come through he decided to get petulant and start abusing the woman because he couldn't get his code immediately. She was just doing her job in trying to retain him as a customer since he apparently decided to stay on the phone. He could have politely stated that he didn't want to stay on the phone, but instead he just kept talking over her and being unnecessarily rude and belligerent in a particularly knob-like way.
I do think that when you're a customer service employee trying to help a customer, and he obviously just fancies himself as Tim Westwood and is mouthing off at you, then you _are_ experiencing abuse - try looking it up in the dictionary. If you don't think that's abusive then I'm bloody glad I don't live in your world.
It sounded to me like she'd already told him that it would take a while for the PAC to come through before he started recording the conversation, and it seemed as if he'd deliberately stayed on the phone to act petulantly and abusively instead of just signing off and waiting a couple of hours for the PAC to arrive in a text message. But I might be wrong.
The guy sounds like a bit of a knob to be honest. Why didn't he just ask them to text him the PAC when it was available, instead of staying on the phone and abusing the woman?
I also make extensive use of Iris Photo Suite for comprehensive general editing plus effects, textures, layers, etc. It's a fantastic app. I use Photoshop Express occasionally but it's not all that great in comparison to these other options.
"how Microsoft got their monopoly ... was by having products that were easier to use, produced better results than what went before"
What utter nonsense. They got their monopoly because they got the contract for their crappy MS-DOS to be the OS on IBM PCs, and they didn't even write that. All they've ever done since then is manipulate that fortunate position in order to increase their monopoly further and further.
I think your arrogant and patronising use of terms such as 'whatever', 'iFad-thingie' and 'snapshots' suggests that your closed-mindedness prevents you from appreciating art for the sake of art, regardless of what was used to create it.
You stick with your anal, expensive, time-consuming approach, and I'll keep enjoying my iPhoneography. If we're both enjoying what we're doing and getting pleasing results then I don't really see a problem with either approach.
The only problem here, really, is your utter arrogance and false belief that you need to spend lots of money on expensive kit to get worthwhile results. I think we can all do without that, to be honest.
Just google 'professional iphone photographers', or something along those lines, to find examples of pros using iPhones for photography.
I'm a very active iPhoneographer and I've done some of my best shots using Slow Shutter Cam. My most popular (or 'interesting') photo on Flickr (203 views, 35 comments, 30 faves, 2 galleries) was done using this.
I started using Puma/10.1 back in 2002 and felt like I'd come home after a few grim years in a Windows wilderness (following the effective death of the Amiga). The great GUI combined with UNIX CLI was the best of both worlds - all the geek power you could ever need, combined with all the front-end apps you could ever want. It just keeps getting better and better, and I still absolutely love it.
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"there are also lingering fears that the company might be part of a social networking bubble"
Lingering fears??? This should be very solid alarm! People will never learn, will they? Just how many more years do we want this recession to go on for? Idiots.
What an absolute load of nonsense. If ever we needed a useful reminder of why deploying Microsoft products in production environments is more trouble than it's worth, here it is.
Re: Very Wrong.
"owning a computer with an internet connection now requires you to have a TV licence"
Utterly false. Stop spreading stupid ill-informed urban myths and actually try doing some research to learn the truth.
Time to stop fighting the future
I'm sure this is a perfectly decent distro, but isn't it about time the Linux world tried moving on from the sub-Windows-95 Gnome interface that's been doing the rounds for years? At least Ubuntu are having a go at moving ahead with something new and exciting that might actually appeal to the world outside the IT Department - I think they deserve more support for that personally.
@EddieD
"All I watch, I stream via iPlayer/4OD/Tvcatchup - and FWIW, I do have a tv license..."
You must have a lot more money than sense then, because if you're only watching catch-up TV and no live TV then you don't need a licence.
Here's hoping he improves the appalling repairs policy in Apple Stores, though I'm not holding my breath.
What on earth are you doing throwing £150 a year down the drain? If you don't watch live broadcast TV then you don't need to pay for a licence. The hardware you have in your house is totally irrelevant.
They don't need to 'leave the mobile sector' to avoid serious patent disputes, they just need to do something a little more imaginative than cloning iPhones.
Wow, a few bugs... in the first release of a new version of an operating system? SURELY NOT?!
Ah, Microsoft up to their old bribery tricks again then. Some things never change.
Thank god I stopped paying for a TV licence (legally: I no longer watch any live broadcast TV) if this is the sort of nonsense the BBC are wasting their money on.
Yes, that makes sense. I was thinking about the technical side, didn't really consider the licensing issues. That explains why LOVEFiLM's streaming selection is so crap then.
'Without a DVD component, the range of content Netflix can offer will be limited.'
Um... why?
Maybe if they put as much energy into coding as they do into forking-related politics then OpenOffice and its variants wouldn't suck as much as they currently do.
I've tried some of those and wasn't hugely excited by any of them. Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, on the other hand, I thought was fantastic fun.
There's no great mystery here
Apple and Intel made it clear when Thunderbolt first came to market that, in order to get it into products, they'd decided to stick with non-optical connections for the time being, and then they'd move the technology into using optical connections once it was possible to do so.
I have absolutely no idea why anyone would buy this when you can stream about a million radio channels from the Internet using the TuneIn Radio app??
You're missing the point
The whole point is that Ubuntu is supposed to be a simple one-stop solution for those who don't have time to faff about like that.
Why is this such a big issue?
I'm always amazed by how much searching people need to do. Why not just remember where you put things? It's much easier. For those times when you really can't remember, Spotlight seems to do the trick very nicely - I've never personally understood the great need for Spotlight replacement apps such as Caffeine but I know some people who swear by them.
"Most employers will contribute to your pension"
Not nowadays they won't. There just isn't that kind of money knocking around any more.
Useless, unfortunately
I've extensive experience of O2 and Vodafone coverage in the area where I work, and this map completely contradicts what I know to be the case.
What absolute rubbish
1. We aren't all mindless zombies who spend our time catatonic in front of the TV when we're not at work. A lot of us use our technology to create photographs, music, writing, etc. outside of our day job.
2. An iPad isn't just for content consumption. It also has a load of creative content-producing apps for music, photography, etc.
So utterly wrong for two reasons.
How many jobs?
"The largest network under my care has 250 physical servers; my 9-5 has less than 50. Most networks I oversee have fewer than five servers and all of these networks have far fewer switches than systems."
Blimey Trevor, how many different sysadmin jobs do you have and how do you fit them all in??
Not a hugely useful review
I think it's a bit much to expect a new OS to work perfectly on such a heavily hacked system. You need to be realistic about these things. Not the best review I've ever read really.
I can't see the point either
Personally I hope Google+ just goes away again, as I can well do without yet another site to have to keep up to date. The only thing Google+ has going for it (as far as I can make out from the comments; creepy Google refused to let me join in without giving them my mobile number, which I'm certainly not going to do, so I haven't been able to try it myself) is the ability to put contacts in groups more easily. Well I'm sure it won't be long because Facebook has improved its groups feature to make it similarly easy to use.
Why do I want my ISP to provide a music app??
What I want from my ISP is a decent service, helpful customer support, and a good solid unthrottled Internet connection. That's what they should be focusing on doing, not putting their resources into providing music apps. I want my Internet to come _through_ them, not _from_ them.
LOVEFiLM streaming sucks
"the inability to watch films in Flash format on my iPad using my LoveFilm account is a never-ending annoyance"
I wouldn't worry too much about that. The streaming quality on LOVEFiLM is so crap that it's actually preferable to just go without.
Looks like a great app
Shame it won't run on my iPhone, but I guess a lot of its coolness would be lost on the smaller screen. Yet another great reason to buy an iPad, I suppose.
Incidentally, the iPhone 4 has now overtaken the D90 as the most popular camera on Flickr.
What's the point?
The point is that you can easily get great results in a really enjoyable, hands-on way, instead of having to fiddle around with stupidly complex and overpriced software on a computer.
The onboard camera is irrelevant
This is what the iPad Camera Connection Kit is for.
No big deal
This is just a bunch of overworked pros whinging because some stuff has changed. Give them time, they'll settle down and enjoy getting to grips with the new version.
Their network sucks anyway
Nobody using O2 in Islington would notice any difference between this and their normal 'service'.
Mac
The Mac version also requires Adobe Air.
I wouldn't inflict this rubbish on my mates.
It was absolutely bloody awful at the cinema and could only be worse on the smaller screen.
Also, I'm not stupid enough to have bought into this whole 3D bollocks for my home entertainment system.
Control system causes problems for me
I loved Llamatron but I couldn't get on with Minotron - because the control system requires fingers all over the place on the screen, the fingers get in the way and stop you from seeing what's going on so you just end up dying all the time. But maybe I just haven't got the proper 'knack' or something, because it's got amazing reviews on the App Store.
Change at least
Does this mean they've finally ditched the lame 'poor man's Windows 95' interface with the ridiculous quantity of menu bars wasting all your precious screen real estate?
Hmm
There's no need to get personal.
I'm just pointing out that we don't know what happened before the recording started. It sounds to me like she put in the request for the PAC, probably explained that it would take a couple of hours for it to come through, and instead of just waiting for the text to come through he decided to get petulant and start abusing the woman because he couldn't get his code immediately. She was just doing her job in trying to retain him as a customer since he apparently decided to stay on the phone. He could have politely stated that he didn't want to stay on the phone, but instead he just kept talking over her and being unnecessarily rude and belligerent in a particularly knob-like way.
I do think that when you're a customer service employee trying to help a customer, and he obviously just fancies himself as Tim Westwood and is mouthing off at you, then you _are_ experiencing abuse - try looking it up in the dictionary. If you don't think that's abusive then I'm bloody glad I don't live in your world.
Hmm
It sounded to me like she'd already told him that it would take a while for the PAC to come through before he started recording the conversation, and it seemed as if he'd deliberately stayed on the phone to act petulantly and abusively instead of just signing off and waiting a couple of hours for the PAC to arrive in a text message. But I might be wrong.
Hmm
The guy sounds like a bit of a knob to be honest. Why didn't he just ask them to text him the PAC when it was available, instead of staying on the phone and abusing the woman?
MobileMe's track record is not 'spotty at best'
"Its track record on its cloudy MobileMe offering, it must be remembered, has been spotty at best"
False. I've used MobileMe for years and - apart from a couple of fairly brief blips - it's been a thoroughly excellent service.
Haven't been able to try it
I tried running it in VMWare on my Mac and it wouldn't boot. I tried upgrading to it from 10.10 on my Linux laptop and it then refused to boot. Great.
Given up now.
Freedom to run whatever you like??
"the most important aspect of openness that Android provides is the ability to run whatever I want on my device"
Sure... just so long as the stuff you want to run doesn't get remotely deleted from your device by Google.
Requires Flash
*sigh*
Generally agree
I also make extensive use of Iris Photo Suite for comprehensive general editing plus effects, textures, layers, etc. It's a fantastic app. I use Photoshop Express occasionally but it's not all that great in comparison to these other options.
The truth about the Microsoft monopoly
"how Microsoft got their monopoly ... was by having products that were easier to use, produced better results than what went before"
What utter nonsense. They got their monopoly because they got the contract for their crappy MS-DOS to be the OS on IBM PCs, and they didn't even write that. All they've ever done since then is manipulate that fortunate position in order to increase their monopoly further and further.
iPad 2 content
Wow, this is a fascinating story about Timothy Prickett Morgan. Was there something about the iPad 2 in there also? It was quite hard to spot.
'Whatever'
I think your arrogant and patronising use of terms such as 'whatever', 'iFad-thingie' and 'snapshots' suggests that your closed-mindedness prevents you from appreciating art for the sake of art, regardless of what was used to create it.
I feel quite sorry for you, TBH.
Jolly good, Jake
You stick with your anal, expensive, time-consuming approach, and I'll keep enjoying my iPhoneography. If we're both enjoying what we're doing and getting pleasing results then I don't really see a problem with either approach.
The only problem here, really, is your utter arrogance and false belief that you need to spend lots of money on expensive kit to get worthwhile results. I think we can all do without that, to be honest.
Just google 'professional iphone photographers', or something along those lines, to find examples of pros using iPhones for photography.
I love this app
I'm a very active iPhoneographer and I've done some of my best shots using Slow Shutter Cam. My most popular (or 'interesting') photo on Flickr (203 views, 35 comments, 30 faves, 2 galleries) was done using this.
Happy birthday, OS X!
I started using Puma/10.1 back in 2002 and felt like I'd come home after a few grim years in a Windows wilderness (following the effective death of the Amiga). The great GUI combined with UNIX CLI was the best of both worlds - all the geek power you could ever need, combined with all the front-end apps you could ever want. It just keeps getting better and better, and I still absolutely love it.
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