Your average consumer will see WinCE and Linux as an alternative OS that you can't run normal software on. Joe Average isn't going to understand why none of the x86 builds he downloads will work. He's just going to be pissed off.
Did you miss the bit in this where TomTom started litigation on some 'method of doing obvious shit with a GPS' bullshit against Microsoft. Then MS decided to open up the Big Chest'O'Patents and teach those upstart little fuckers a lesson. TomTom realised that it had been poking a bear with a stick, and folded, accepted a cross-patent agreement, and to pay some cash for being a little cunt.
They brought all this shit on themselves. MS is not lauching some offensive against your "freedom" - if they did then they would be pulling out all the damn stops on more modern patents like ClearType (sub-pixel anti-aliasing).
But I guess its nice to set someone up to blame for it not yet being 'The Year of The Linux Desktop'...
In Soviet Australia (and probably Cali too) the sun drops out over a kW per square meter. So if you are driving a black car, you are running an aircon to dissipate an extra few kW of power. This is pretty retarded.
I know, I have a black Saab here - and the shitty swedish aircon can't keep up on a 40 degree day (thats like 105 of your silly farenheits).
The term "pirates" to describe those who infringe copyright predates the personal computer. It even predates fucking electricity.
So how about you get your facts straight and stop complaining about how the language makes downloading free shit look worse than you feel it should be?
As professional, you'll recommend free and open source alternatives to replace all the pirated versions as quickly as you can.
Odd. As a professional, I would generally look at some sort of risk/benefit analysis first. Your professionalism may vary, especially if you more interested in pushing your ideology over their business interests.
Considering that my housemate copied GTA4 out of my Steam directory and we could successfully lan it up I would humbly suggest that you are an uninformed dickwad.
Future? Right now I have an old laptop plugged into my TV. It has a cheap korean DVB-T usb dual tuner dongle plugged into the side. Its running Vista Media Center. For input I have a an MS wireless keyboard from the 7000 series desktop set* (its got a little touchpad mouse thing on the side too), and my old XDA2 (3in touchscreen pda) running as a sideshow device.
1) Well, I don't want to work on my TV, or in the lounge. I guess I could take the laptop, but I have a seperate work machine.
2) So lets say user has finished some torrents. User can then hit the bigass green button on the keyboard to switch to media center. Or, as I often do, grab the XDA and walk off to make a coffee/pour a pint while using the sideshow to browse the media library/tv guide. So I can queue up something, and by the time I get back with my coffee the intro is done.
3) User (hey thats me) can shove in disc, and it plays. Currently theres a Bigpond movie store avaliable in media center by default. Its fairly cool, you can "rent" (drm) movies for about the same cost as the local shops - decent browser, decent range. This is why (despite what the purists would think) you need to have a keyboard plugged in, even a little one - sometimes you just need to jam in text. I used to run the live messenger plugin on MC, but now I just run the shitty PDA version - its not like I want to chat much anyway, and the handwriting recognition is passable.
4) Well.... big hard disk and dual tuners works pretty much as you would expect.
So... um... future? I'm enjoying it now, with a pretty much out-the-box solution. You can buy an equivalent PC with media center and tuner over the counter, pair up an old pda, install sideshow and the MCE sideshot plugin on it, and you are pretty much done.
I'm sure if you like tinkering you can get an equivalent result without sucking gates' dick - but im kinda lazy like that;)
Agreed. The only nice thing my smartphone has is that when running as a Sideshow device, I can browse thru my media library on it, and change the play queue, even if the TV is off.
Realistically though if I cared enough about that kinda functionality I'd get one of the logitech remotes that works with sideshow, and has a bunch of buttons.
I've found lately that voice recognition from a limited set isn't limited by the technology, but more the fact that you don't want to seem like a douche by chatting to a device.
The voice recognition on my Touch Diamond phone is excellent. I can tap the button, say "Call X at home" and it manages to nail it every damn time. Bonus points because that thing is loaded up with hundreds of contacts. The only reason I dont use it is because I don't want to look like a dickhead:P
Even the Vista continuous speech recognition is quite good, if you have a decent microphone. I've found if you are trying to do word-at-a-time it fails badly (especially on an aussie accent), guess it cant use the grammar model. A long sentance of complex words is usually faster than typing for me (and lazier). Pretty similar to trying to listen to someone in a weird accent - so its close.
Apple managed to hit a *peak* of around 20% of smartphone sales, with its massively hyped up launch. So, bascially you are talking crap. The only reports I have seen where an iPhone has "beat" a competitor in sales is when they compare sales rates of "the Apple iPhone" vs say "HTC Touch" or "Nokia N95". They seem to ignore that Nokia, and HTC in particular have a bunch of devices. You are running a comparison of MacBook to Asus SpecificModel, and then extrapolating to say that MacBook outsells PC laptops...
For "obscure" devices, HTC has been doing excellently. Perhaps you would take a glance at their wikipedia page for the long listing. I suspect you haven't seen any of their devices due to not spending enough time in a business environment. Step out the coffee shop once in a while, theres people out here that are actually doing real work.
As for working well, I would say the iPhone is clearly crippled. I have a choice of about 3 or 4 big name mapping programs to run on my HTC Diamond. I picked Tomtom. iPhone is stuck with some gimmicky google maps integration, without turn-by-turn or offline navigation. The AppStore is a fucking joke - at least on a WinMo phone I can install whatever I want (including stuff I develop). Typically with every apple product, there is a bunch of annoyances, and a huge bunch of fanboys shouting people that complain down. In the WinMo community, theres also a bunch of annoyances, and a bunch of developers writing utilities to fix any issues.
I think back then we called it an XDA2. This is around the year 2000... there was another model with internal GPS and WiFi, but alas I was poor. This was in 2000, and the cost was around $600.
If you think iPhone is driving any "innovation" in the smartphone space then you are sorely mistaken.
When you are running enough plugins that your browser is starting to look like a fully fledged operating system and you are 'collaborating in the cloud 2.0' then its time to take a step back.
You are doing it wrong.
Suddenly Xzibit jumps out in front of you. "Yo Dawg!", he exclaims, "I heard you like browsing, so we put an OS in your browser so you can batch while you bat!"*.
And all you can say is "Oh my gawwwd" with a stunned expression on your face....
They are basically in the open source and related projects promotion buisness, and have found a way to make it commercially viable to help people give shit away for free.
Considering they have consistantly lost their investors' money at a rough 10% per year, I would humbly suggest that they have not managed to make it commercially viable in the slightest. From checking their financial stats I would say they are more in the business of "fail".
My tip would be to take money invested in LNUX, go down to your local bank and open a "Kiddie Saver Account" and enjoy the half-percent ROI.
The lesson here is that anyone can start a publically listed company and then piss the investors money up against the wall with a shitty business plan. Having a ticker symbol doesnt equate to "viability".
I agree. Every ausfag should report in, and head over to your image board of choice (guro?). Then submit links to individual images. Keep those bastards working. Theres no way the censors can keep up with/b:D
Heres a thought. If those sites weren't blocked and the "party van" was going after the sick fucks who were going to those sites and clicking thru a bunch of images on a regular basis, then that would solve the problem fairly quickly.
Or is sweeping a bunch of pedos browsing cp under the rug and then claiming that "nobody is looking at cp" (presumably because they are now sitting outside primary schools fapping in a van) the better solution to the problem?
Christ, its not hard to find out who is visiting these sites, and its not hard to tell the difference between me seeing something on 4chan I regret seeing, and someone who has a long history of browsing this material...
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Your average consumer will see WinCE and Linux as an alternative OS that you can't run normal software on. Joe Average isn't going to understand why none of the x86 builds he downloads will work. He's just going to be pissed off.
Shit, I must've been reading the digitally remastered summary ;)
Blah blah blah.
Did you miss the bit in this where TomTom started litigation on some 'method of doing obvious shit with a GPS' bullshit against Microsoft. Then MS decided to open up the Big Chest'O'Patents and teach those upstart little fuckers a lesson. TomTom realised that it had been poking a bear with a stick, and folded, accepted a cross-patent agreement, and to pay some cash for being a little cunt.
They brought all this shit on themselves. MS is not lauching some offensive against your "freedom" - if they did then they would be pulling out all the damn stops on more modern patents like ClearType (sub-pixel anti-aliasing).
But I guess its nice to set someone up to blame for it not yet being 'The Year of The Linux Desktop'...
In Soviet Australia (and probably Cali too) the sun drops out over a kW per square meter. So if you are driving a black car, you are running an aircon to dissipate an extra few kW of power. This is pretty retarded.
I know, I have a black Saab here - and the shitty swedish aircon can't keep up on a 40 degree day (thats like 105 of your silly farenheits).
The term "pirates" to describe those who infringe copyright predates the personal computer. It even predates fucking electricity.
So how about you get your facts straight and stop complaining about how the language makes downloading free shit look worse than you feel it should be?
Odd. As a professional, I would generally look at some sort of risk/benefit analysis first. Your professionalism may vary, especially if you more interested in pushing your ideology over their business interests.
How classy? I'd give that about an eight point five.
Considering that my housemate copied GTA4 out of my Steam directory and we could successfully lan it up I would humbly suggest that you are an uninformed dickwad.
IIRC it was ripped using the same WebSense autoupdate mechanism.
Future? Right now I have an old laptop plugged into my TV. It has a cheap korean DVB-T usb dual tuner dongle plugged into the side. Its running Vista Media Center. For input I have a an MS wireless keyboard from the 7000 series desktop set* (its got a little touchpad mouse thing on the side too), and my old XDA2 (3in touchscreen pda) running as a sideshow device.
1) Well, I don't want to work on my TV, or in the lounge. I guess I could take the laptop, but I have a seperate work machine.
2) So lets say user has finished some torrents. User can then hit the bigass green button on the keyboard to switch to media center. Or, as I often do, grab the XDA and walk off to make a coffee/pour a pint while using the sideshow to browse the media library/tv guide. So I can queue up something, and by the time I get back with my coffee the intro is done.
3) User (hey thats me) can shove in disc, and it plays. Currently theres a Bigpond movie store avaliable in media center by default. Its fairly cool, you can "rent" (drm) movies for about the same cost as the local shops - decent browser, decent range. This is why (despite what the purists would think) you need to have a keyboard plugged in, even a little one - sometimes you just need to jam in text. I used to run the live messenger plugin on MC, but now I just run the shitty PDA version - its not like I want to chat much anyway, and the handwriting recognition is passable.
4) Well.... big hard disk and dual tuners works pretty much as you would expect.
So... um... future? I'm enjoying it now, with a pretty much out-the-box solution. You can buy an equivalent PC with media center and tuner over the counter, pair up an old pda, install sideshow and the MCE sideshot plugin on it, and you are pretty much done.
I'm sure if you like tinkering you can get an equivalent result without sucking gates' dick - but im kinda lazy like that ;)
Agreed. The only nice thing my smartphone has is that when running as a Sideshow device, I can browse thru my media library on it, and change the play queue, even if the TV is off.
Realistically though if I cared enough about that kinda functionality I'd get one of the logitech remotes that works with sideshow, and has a bunch of buttons.
Except $ourceforge (LNUX). Cos... ya know.... they seem to be more about losing money ;)
I've found lately that voice recognition from a limited set isn't limited by the technology, but more the fact that you don't want to seem like a douche by chatting to a device.
The voice recognition on my Touch Diamond phone is excellent. I can tap the button, say "Call X at home" and it manages to nail it every damn time. Bonus points because that thing is loaded up with hundreds of contacts. The only reason I dont use it is because I don't want to look like a dickhead :P
Even the Vista continuous speech recognition is quite good, if you have a decent microphone. I've found if you are trying to do word-at-a-time it fails badly (especially on an aussie accent), guess it cant use the grammar model. A long sentance of complex words is usually faster than typing for me (and lazier). Pretty similar to trying to listen to someone in a weird accent - so its close.
Apple managed to hit a *peak* of around 20% of smartphone sales, with its massively hyped up launch. So, bascially you are talking crap. The only reports I have seen where an iPhone has "beat" a competitor in sales is when they compare sales rates of "the Apple iPhone" vs say "HTC Touch" or "Nokia N95". They seem to ignore that Nokia, and HTC in particular have a bunch of devices. You are running a comparison of MacBook to Asus SpecificModel, and then extrapolating to say that MacBook outsells PC laptops...
For "obscure" devices, HTC has been doing excellently. Perhaps you would take a glance at their wikipedia page for the long listing. I suspect you haven't seen any of their devices due to not spending enough time in a business environment. Step out the coffee shop once in a while, theres people out here that are actually doing real work.
As for working well, I would say the iPhone is clearly crippled. I have a choice of about 3 or 4 big name mapping programs to run on my HTC Diamond. I picked Tomtom. iPhone is stuck with some gimmicky google maps integration, without turn-by-turn or offline navigation. The AppStore is a fucking joke - at least on a WinMo phone I can install whatever I want (including stuff I develop). Typically with every apple product, there is a bunch of annoyances, and a huge bunch of fanboys shouting people that complain down. In the WinMo community, theres also a bunch of annoyances, and a bunch of developers writing utilities to fix any issues.
I think back then we called it an XDA2. This is around the year 2000... there was another model with internal GPS and WiFi, but alas I was poor. This was in 2000, and the cost was around $600.
If you think iPhone is driving any "innovation" in the smartphone space then you are sorely mistaken.
Enterprise and government have access to the Windows source to review it. Unless you are suggesting that OP plans to read through it himself?
When you are running enough plugins that your browser is starting to look like a fully fledged operating system and you are 'collaborating in the cloud 2.0' then its time to take a step back.
You are doing it wrong.
Suddenly Xzibit jumps out in front of you. "Yo Dawg!", he exclaims, "I heard you like browsing, so we put an OS in your browser so you can batch while you bat!"*.
And all you can say is "Oh my gawwwd" with a stunned expression on your face....
Alternatively: ...so you can root while you shoot.
Ah cheers :)
Maybe install a util that gives a mouse cursor and buttons?
Considering they have consistantly lost their investors' money at a rough 10% per year, I would humbly suggest that they have not managed to make it commercially viable in the slightest. From checking their financial stats I would say they are more in the business of "fail".
My tip would be to take money invested in LNUX, go down to your local bank and open a "Kiddie Saver Account" and enjoy the half-percent ROI.
The lesson here is that anyone can start a publically listed company and then piss the investors money up against the wall with a shitty business plan. Having a ticker symbol doesnt equate to "viability".
$750 per unit to spend on blow & hookers isn't enough of a good reason for charging $2.5k?
I agree. Every ausfag should report in, and head over to your image board of choice (guro?). Then submit links to individual images. Keep those bastards working. Theres no way the censors can keep up with /b :D
Heres a thought. If those sites weren't blocked and the "party van" was going after the sick fucks who were going to those sites and clicking thru a bunch of images on a regular basis, then that would solve the problem fairly quickly.
Or is sweeping a bunch of pedos browsing cp under the rug and then claiming that "nobody is looking at cp" (presumably because they are now sitting outside primary schools fapping in a van) the better solution to the problem?
Christ, its not hard to find out who is visiting these sites, and its not hard to tell the difference between me seeing something on 4chan I regret seeing, and someone who has a long history of browsing this material...
You forgot to list the state of the competition at each year...
Thats because my phone comes with elephant repellant.
Seconded. Touch Diamond also gives you a wanky touch interface too...
In fact a choice of various wanky touch interfaces.