It could happen, too, if someone with lots of clout truly endorsed it. For example Google - they have clout and muscle, and the brains to do it right. Also, they still have that star-studded mantle of a visionary company about them (which IBM for instance, hasn't got).
Nobody cares about tablet specs outside of screen size, battery life, and price.
I hear that a lot, since yesterday, mostly from Apple fanbois. I'm not saying you're one of them, just that this "nobody cares about tablet specs" has become an awfully popular phrase as of very recently.
I'm digging it. A cover that doubles as a keyboard is nice to have. Sure, it's a crappy keyboard, but for the thickness and the price, it can't be beat. Also, comes with ICS, has decent power under the hood, and the screen is OK. And comes at a very competitive price.
What hurts the people more? Not being able to choose a browser, or not being able to buy Windows at all? As much as we like to think that Linux is a good OS, it's not a drop in replacement for Windows. You can't just tell MS that they can no longer do business at all in your country/continent. That would annoy a fair number of your citizens and cripple many businesses.
So, you seem to agree with the GP that Microsoft's copyrights should be invalidated in the EU, so everyone who wants can take any copy of Windows and install it on any computer they like. I agree with you, that's indeed a good and useful punishment.
I think this whole thing is a little stupid. You've always been able to install whatever browser you wanted to on your Windows machine with absolutely no trouble. They shouldn't need to present you with a nice little screen asking which one you want to install.
They shouldn't, but it doesn't hurt. It helps those that aren't able, because of lack of training and/or skills, to download an alternative browser by themselves.
Besides, Microsoft agreed previously with the EU that they will have that "nice little screen" in Windows, or else they get bitchslapped. Now they broke that agreement, and logically and consequentially, are going to be bitchslapped. I really don't get what's so confusing for you, in this trivially straightforward matter.
Live streaming video requires Safari 4 or later on Mac OS X v10.6 or later; Safari on iOS 4.2 or later. Streaming via Apple TV requires second- or third-generation Apple TV with software 5.0.2 or later.
I've worked with three different laser ablation systems last year. For that, I had to go through a one-day training session, to prepare me for all the safety issues involved. Most notable is protection of your eyes. Any of the lasers at the research institute where I was working, was capable of permanently blinding. Most of them had a continuous power of "only" a few tens of W, while one was a 300 W IR laser which melted a computer's case placed 7 m away - only with the reflected light.
I could never imagine how fast will the "content industry" bring upon us a totalitarian, corporatist dystopia. The US is pushing for extradition of people who engaged in copying - not violent attacks, not murder, not kidnapping, not arms or drugs dealing, no, nothing but fucking COPYING copyrighted content.
The only thing more alarming is the great majority of sheeple, I mean people, watching all this and going "oh well, I guess Bono's got to buy food, too". Pathetic.
Well, that's a damn shame - I guess we'll have to switch to a different IT contractor company that is familiar with it. You know, supply and demand work for IT services, too.
4. IE not working on all websites
That can be a problem for some users/installations, but you'd be surprised how few they are, nowadays. At least in academia and research facilities, Chrome and Firefox are the norm.
If you can't deal with this then you are not worth my time and are incompetent.
And this is why I think your post is actually a great troll and nothing else. Or maybe you're an IT guy without a job, and your existence hinges on whether people are going to start furiously replacing Windows XP with the new shiny from Redmond, Mr. Billy Gates.
Eventually your business will get emails with docx 1.3 file formats in which OFfice 2003 can't read. Then what? Same with your marketing department. In the next 5 years all of these things will happen.
If anything, your post provides a good argument to move away from Microsoft altogether.
I believe the problem with IT getting in the way has to do with certain IT guys who make radical changes without considering or planning for the short term damage. If you do things in stages, where you try to virtualize services, decouple things, put in redundancy, etc. you can not only avoid a lot of problems but better protect the system from them popping up later.
That kind of approach is commendable and splendid. However, I have been in one kind of research (and development) or the other my entire life - in industry first, in academia now, for a total of 15 years. My experience has often been that often IT tries to justify their existence by doing unnecessary changes. And I don't only mean in-house IT, but also outsourced. And by "often" I certainly don't mean "always". In fact, it's because I experienced the opposite kind of IT, the non-invasive, the "if ain't broke don't fix it"-kind as well, that I recognize just what a money-hole and productivity-holes some of the IT departments have been.
At some point Windows XP will be upgraded or changed to something else, that's clear, but for once in the last 20 years, a better balance between IT business and actual productivity, is being struck. Because, quite frankly, both the OS and the hardware are more than good enough for any task we throw at them. We don't need faster CPUs, more RAM, more storage - or a new OS with more (or less, or different) bells and whistles.
Everyone knows it was the Atari 800 versus the Commodore 64 that was the holy war of the 80s!
It was the C-64 vs Speccy. Oh, how I miss the succulent, heated, at times intelligent but always funny flamewars on Usenet. I think at least 30% of the participants were in on the joke, and weren't actually serious in their flaming the opposite computer.
When I read those threads, I thought humanity was good.
It may have been a fad in the past, but these days the tablet is making headway and I seriously doubt the PC community will pull together anything that could compete with the tablet.
I'm not interested in the "tablets are a fad" discussion. I've not mentioned it in my post on purpose.
But just a quick remark: there is no "PC community".
...that SternisheFan is not being "hacked". I do get the impression that he's somewhat clueless, though, and could benefit from the wisdom of the/. community.
For one thing: do not keep BT on all the time - that's going to sap a bit of energy from your battery. Not terribly much, but since it's also a potential safety risk, there is absolutely no need to have Bluetooth on unless you need it.
It's when the wi-fi situation was mentioned, that I realized the poster is clueless.
Uhh, *you* may not be able to type on a tablet quickly, but I can bust out some verbage with decent speed. Certainly well enough that I don't feel the need to go hunting for a 'physical' keyboard.
For a very arbitrary definition of "decent". The fact remains that you will never be able to match the typing speed achieved on a keyboard, even with limited travel, when typing on a tablet's screen.
Not to mention that, when typing on a screen, you must keep your eyes on that "keyboard" like a fucking moron. I haven't looked at my keyboard in decades, because I clearly feel where the keys are.
Sometimes, the best thing IT can do is stay the fuck out of the way. Sometimes it's not laziness but on purpose, a decision to not disrupt productivity.
But what would you know about it. You felt the need to hammer a nail in each and every statement of GP. That screams shill or clueless.
And what will you exactly do once the last XP machine breaks and newer hardware won't have XP drivers?
There will be enough XP-compatible new hardware. Or "NOS" hardware. OEMs understand that, this time, there's a gigantic demand for WinXP-compatible hardware, and some of those OEMs have been burned by Microsoft (who sells itself Windows 8).
I am guessing that there is a significant likelihood that WinXP-compatible computers will be available in the foreseeable future. Actually, because of the large number of existing XP installations, it's a default assumption of a non-negligible amount of people. And such a massive expectation creates a specific reality, with which not even Microsoft can fuck.
All our research and analysis software works fine with XP, all the office, design (CAE/CAD etc.), editors, image manipulation, diagram plotting etc. etc. etc. works fine. No fucking need to upgrade means no upgrade happens. I know, this is shocking to many people on the MS Windows upgrade treadmill, but sometimes, you know, common sense prevails.
The article summary is deliberately inflammatory. It's not "stealing" - it's exactly the sort of sharing which I assume a "pirate" would support. The original DivX site hasn't lost the use of these subtitles. Indeed, it's been given free advertising. The best thing it could do is issue a press release congratulating Netflix for acting in the spirit of cooperation and free dissemination. Everyone wins.
Of course it's not stealing - but it is according to NetFlix (when others do it).
Do you see thousands of Jews protesting Sacha Baron Cohen's works or those of Mel Brooks because they can be considered insulting to Judaism? No. A few complain, but no massive outpourings of rage and no one was murdered.
Do you see people rioiting and murdering people because of Piss Christ or South Park Jesus? Nope.
Add "Life of Brian" to the list of offending things - one that fiercely mocked both Jews and Christians. Nobody gave or gives a flying fuck about Life of Brian - apart from the good fun that we all had watching it.
Yeah, I live and work in the Helsinki metro area, too - commuting between Helsinki and Espoo. At least for me, the snow is a problem. there are just too many parts with mountain-like snow deposits that I don't have enough skill to negotiate.
Yes, people get greedy or manipulative, it's true... but that's the exception, not the rule.
In the corporate world, especially in publicly traded companies, greed is the rule. Anyone who has been in touch with middle and top management in publicly traded corporations knows full well that greed trumps everything - personal greed, to be quite precise.
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It could happen, too, if someone with lots of clout truly endorsed it. For example Google - they have clout and muscle, and the brains to do it right. Also, they still have that star-studded mantle of a visionary company about them (which IBM for instance, hasn't got).
Nobody cares about tablet specs outside of screen size, battery life, and price.
I hear that a lot, since yesterday, mostly from Apple fanbois. I'm not saying you're one of them, just that this "nobody cares about tablet specs" has become an awfully popular phrase as of very recently.
Thanks for the warning. IPS is super-important to me, as viewing angle limits can cause headaches, to me. So only IPS for me.
I've not seen the Archos XS IRL, yet, only a couple of reviews. Your friend's account is very useful!
I'm digging it. A cover that doubles as a keyboard is nice to have. Sure, it's a crappy keyboard, but for the thickness and the price, it can't be beat. Also, comes with ICS, has decent power under the hood, and the screen is OK. And comes at a very competitive price.
What hurts the people more? Not being able to choose a browser, or not being able to buy Windows at all? As much as we like to think that Linux is a good OS, it's not a drop in replacement for Windows. You can't just tell MS that they can no longer do business at all in your country/continent. That would annoy a fair number of your citizens and cripple many businesses.
So, you seem to agree with the GP that Microsoft's copyrights should be invalidated in the EU, so everyone who wants can take any copy of Windows and install it on any computer they like. I agree with you, that's indeed a good and useful punishment.
I think this whole thing is a little stupid. You've always been able to install whatever browser you wanted to on your Windows machine with absolutely no trouble. They shouldn't need to present you with a nice little screen asking which one you want to install.
They shouldn't, but it doesn't hurt. It helps those that aren't able, because of lack of training and/or skills, to download an alternative browser by themselves.
Besides, Microsoft agreed previously with the EU that they will have that "nice little screen" in Windows, or else they get bitchslapped. Now they broke that agreement, and logically and consequentially, are going to be bitchslapped. I really don't get what's so confusing for you, in this trivially straightforward matter.
I hate bullies. That's why this video always puts a little smile on my face
Microsoft gets body-slammed by the EU!
From apple.com's event page:
Live streaming video requires Safari 4 or later on Mac OS X v10.6 or later; Safari on iOS 4.2 or later. Streaming via Apple TV requires second- or third-generation Apple TV with software 5.0.2 or later.
I've worked with three different laser ablation systems last year. For that, I had to go through a one-day training session, to prepare me for all the safety issues involved. Most notable is protection of your eyes. Any of the lasers at the research institute where I was working, was capable of permanently blinding. Most of them had a continuous power of "only" a few tens of W, while one was a 300 W IR laser which melted a computer's case placed 7 m away - only with the reflected light.
I could never imagine how fast will the "content industry" bring upon us a totalitarian, corporatist dystopia. The US is pushing for extradition of people who engaged in copying - not violent attacks, not murder, not kidnapping, not arms or drugs dealing, no, nothing but fucking COPYING copyrighted content.
The only thing more alarming is the great majority of sheeple, I mean people, watching all this and going "oh well, I guess Bono's got to buy food, too". Pathetic.
3. IT not familiar with it anymore
Well, that's a damn shame - I guess we'll have to switch to a different IT contractor company that is familiar with it. You know, supply and demand work for IT services, too.
4. IE not working on all websites
That can be a problem for some users/installations, but you'd be surprised how few they are, nowadays. At least in academia and research facilities, Chrome and Firefox are the norm.
If you can't deal with this then you are not worth my time and are incompetent.
And this is why I think your post is actually a great troll and nothing else. Or maybe you're an IT guy without a job, and your existence hinges on whether people are going to start furiously replacing Windows XP with the new shiny from Redmond, Mr. Billy Gates.
Eventually your business will get emails with docx 1.3 file formats in which OFfice 2003 can't read. Then what? Same with your marketing department. In the next 5 years all of these things will happen.
If anything, your post provides a good argument to move away from Microsoft altogether.
I believe the problem with IT getting in the way has to do with certain IT guys who make radical changes without considering or planning for the short term damage. If you do things in stages, where you try to virtualize services, decouple things, put in redundancy, etc. you can not only avoid a lot of problems but better protect the system from them popping up later.
That kind of approach is commendable and splendid. However, I have been in one kind of research (and development) or the other my entire life - in industry first, in academia now, for a total of 15 years. My experience has often been that often IT tries to justify their existence by doing unnecessary changes. And I don't only mean in-house IT, but also outsourced. And by "often" I certainly don't mean "always". In fact, it's because I experienced the opposite kind of IT, the non-invasive, the "if ain't broke don't fix it"-kind as well, that I recognize just what a money-hole and productivity-holes some of the IT departments have been.
At some point Windows XP will be upgraded or changed to something else, that's clear, but for once in the last 20 years, a better balance between IT business and actual productivity, is being struck. Because, quite frankly, both the OS and the hardware are more than good enough for any task we throw at them. We don't need faster CPUs, more RAM, more storage - or a new OS with more (or less, or different) bells and whistles.
Everyone knows it was the Atari 800 versus the Commodore 64 that was the holy war of the 80s!
It was the C-64 vs Speccy. Oh, how I miss the succulent, heated, at times intelligent but always funny flamewars on Usenet. I think at least 30% of the participants were in on the joke, and weren't actually serious in their flaming the opposite computer.
When I read those threads, I thought humanity was good.
It may have been a fad in the past, but these days the tablet is making headway and I seriously doubt the PC community will pull together anything that could compete with the tablet.
I'm not interested in the "tablets are a fad" discussion. I've not mentioned it in my post on purpose.
But just a quick remark: there is no "PC community".
...that SternisheFan is not being "hacked". I do get the impression that he's somewhat clueless, though, and could benefit from the wisdom of the /. community.
For one thing: do not keep BT on all the time - that's going to sap a bit of energy from your battery. Not terribly much, but since it's also a potential safety risk, there is absolutely no need to have Bluetooth on unless you need it.
It's when the wi-fi situation was mentioned, that I realized the poster is clueless.
Uhh, *you* may not be able to type on a tablet quickly, but I can bust out some verbage with decent speed. Certainly well enough that I don't feel the need to go hunting for a 'physical' keyboard.
For a very arbitrary definition of "decent". The fact remains that you will never be able to match the typing speed achieved on a keyboard, even with limited travel, when typing on a tablet's screen.
Not to mention that, when typing on a screen, you must keep your eyes on that "keyboard" like a fucking moron. I haven't looked at my keyboard in decades, because I clearly feel where the keys are.
d) upgrading == (pain + time) && (upgrading != c)
Lazy ass IT.
Sometimes, the best thing IT can do is stay the fuck out of the way. Sometimes it's not laziness but on purpose, a decision to not disrupt productivity.
But what would you know about it. You felt the need to hammer a nail in each and every statement of GP. That screams shill or clueless.
And what will you exactly do once the last XP machine breaks and newer hardware won't have XP drivers?
There will be enough XP-compatible new hardware. Or "NOS" hardware. OEMs understand that, this time, there's a gigantic demand for WinXP-compatible hardware, and some of those OEMs have been burned by Microsoft (who sells itself Windows 8).
I am guessing that there is a significant likelihood that WinXP-compatible computers will be available in the foreseeable future. Actually, because of the large number of existing XP installations, it's a default assumption of a non-negligible amount of people. And such a massive expectation creates a specific reality, with which not even Microsoft can fuck.
All our research and analysis software works fine with XP, all the office, design (CAE/CAD etc.), editors, image manipulation, diagram plotting etc. etc. etc. works fine. No fucking need to upgrade means no upgrade happens. I know, this is shocking to many people on the MS Windows upgrade treadmill, but sometimes, you know, common sense prevails.
I know, I know, awfully shocking.
The article summary is deliberately inflammatory. It's not "stealing" - it's exactly the sort of sharing which I assume a "pirate" would support. The original DivX site hasn't lost the use of these subtitles. Indeed, it's been given free advertising. The best thing it could do is issue a press release congratulating Netflix for acting in the spirit of cooperation and free dissemination. Everyone wins.
Of course it's not stealing - but it is according to NetFlix (when others do it).
They banned "The meaning of life"? Holy fuck...
Dirac once said that "no one can work hard on a serious intellectual problem for more than 4 hours a day."
Your argument is invalid.
Do you see thousands of Jews protesting Sacha Baron Cohen's works or those of Mel Brooks because they can be considered insulting to Judaism? No. A few complain, but no massive outpourings of rage and no one was murdered.
Do you see people rioiting and murdering people because of Piss Christ or South Park Jesus? Nope.
Add "Life of Brian" to the list of offending things - one that fiercely mocked both Jews and Christians. Nobody gave or gives a flying fuck about Life of Brian - apart from the good fun that we all had watching it.
Yeah, I live and work in the Helsinki metro area, too - commuting between Helsinki and Espoo. At least for me, the snow is a problem. there are just too many parts with mountain-like snow deposits that I don't have enough skill to negotiate.
Terveiset Malminkartanosta.
Yes, people get greedy or manipulative, it's true... but that's the exception, not the rule.
In the corporate world, especially in publicly traded companies, greed is the rule. Anyone who has been in touch with middle and top management in publicly traded corporations knows full well that greed trumps everything - personal greed, to be quite precise.
I've used Visual Studio. I've also used NetBeans. I think NetBeans is pretty sweet.