Interesting Links for 18-04-2012
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andrewducker- Scotland's wind expertise is paying off - now selling turbines to the USA.
- Scotland's wind expertise is paying off - now selling turbines to the USA.
- Moore's Law hits cinema cameras - a 2.5K Cinema Camera with 12bit RAW for $3000
- A message to application programmers (these things piss me off too)
- 10 films that were rumoured to be ghost-directed
- Boston, 1967: When marathons were just for men
- At last, a use for homeopathy!
- An explanation of tech terms through the medium of breakfast cereal
- The 501 Developer Manifesto - valuing life over your job
- Wind Turbine Makes 1,000 Liters of Clean Water a Day in the Desert
- The BP oil spill, two years later: Natural recovery far greater than expected
- Twitter Vows To Sue For 'Defensive' Patent Purposes Only. Fantastic. Can we see a trend please?
- Talking to yourself has cognitive benefits
- Half-siblings of autistic children have 50% the chance of having autism as full-siblings
- Neil Gaiman Interviews Stephen King
- What Happened to the Iceberg That Sank the Titanic? (I'm looking forward to The Berg Strikes Back!)
- Now that consumer IP is non-rivalrous and non-excludable, what does that tell us about its price?
- Further evidence found of disturbed immune system in autism
- Operators think Nokia would sell better with Android - Windows smartphones still not selling
A shame, as I'd love there to be more competitors in the phone space, to keep everyone on their toes. I'd actually be tempted by a Windows phone, if they weren't locked to the MS app store.
- We Don't Need Game Publishers, Hardware Makers or Retailers
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Date: 2012-04-18 11:03 pm (UTC)interesting. Given that I don't use windows at home, and have a severely limited set-up at uni, I have very little idea of how this works. On Macs it's quite a lot different. I get to choose on install whether something has a permanent or auto-launch presence. It's generally very obvious if something is auto-launching, and trivial to ask it not to. Updates are largely painless, thanks to the completely free and open Sparkle update mechanism / the App store update mechanism.
I don't care how often a program gets updated. Daily is fine, because it's almost completely painless and often background-automatic. System resets are rarely required - occasionally on initial install, almost never for non-Apple updates.
actually, now I think about it, I stopped using the Vista partition on my laptop because it insisted on 'installing updates' on shutdown, which usually took hours and just made me force power-down.
I'm not attempting an arsey pro-Apple dig here, just interested by the difference. I had assumed Win7 would be better
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Date: 2012-04-19 08:58 am (UTC)I can understand why they might think that was difficult, as there are thousands of ways of installing a Windows app. But they could have said "We will do unattended/background installs, but only if you follow pattern X." and then people would presumably have shifted over to that pattern.
As it is lots of apps have implemented the functionality themselves. Firefox just started doing it in version 14 by using a background service. Chrome does it by installing silently into the user's profile folder. Not sure how Flash does it, but it's also started.
Definitely a major gap in the functionality.