Sure it does, thats why it has a keyboard connector on the bottom.
I only got to try it briefly in a store, but what youre describing makes it sound like youve never used the thing. It is a tad heavy, sure, but not overwhelmingly so, and the keyboards were actually quite good.
Unfortunately for Microsoft, nobody has ever asked for a laplet.
I mean, its not like theres a market for iPads with keyboards, right?
Surface isnt a laplet, its in the same market as iPads are, and its quite a large market.
Don't vote... please. If only the people that actually cared about this country, and the people having hellfire missles landing in their livingrooms got to vote, then maybe we'd get somewhere
Has it occurred to you that in the 200+ years of only having US citizens vote (mostly), we HAVENT had a major revolution, we havent had a substantial invasion (excepting the War of 1812), we havent had any dictators, and we generally have been pretty stable compared to almost everywhere else (along with perhaps the UK).
But no, our system is flawed and clearly the solution is to throw out what has been working remarkably well given how messed up people generally are. Lets go with anarchy, thats always a great fallback, right?
If you ask me, I would go with "lets address the problems we have" rather than "lets throw it all away and hope things dont get substantially worse".
Theres grant money to be had if you can show the truth of your words; that youre on slashdot rather than applying for it indicates that there is no substance behind them.
You got modded down I believe because you made the ridiculous assertion that there is already a cure for ALS-- legalizing marijuana! And that people just refuse to accept it. I assure you that if cannabis was the cure for ALS that so much money would not have been spent helping Hawking cope with ALS rather than just curing him.
One might ask where exactly you got your PHD, and why you havent gotten a government grant yet.
Home AV != business AV. Avast for example has been very good over the years with their free suite, but their business software historically has, honestly, been pretty bad. (I believe they were working on a rewritten management suite, so dont know if theyve gotten their act together)
They actually do test for performance under the usability category, and their results (bitdefender as top pick) matches the results from the well respected AV Comparatives, and the rest of their results arent much different-- those top 3 you mention are all AV Comparatives top picks ( http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/docs/avc_sum_201212_en.pdf )
Might have been nice if you actually did some research before spouting off.
That was my point, but its now irrelevant as MS has just made their own software useless. What idiot would release a virus that gets caught by the built in AV of its target OS?
It wont matter is MS improves, before the new daily compile of TDSS or whatever malware is released, it will be scanned with latest MSSE defs and heuristics. The malware will then be tweaked to get around it.
This isnt new, whats new is that whereas before the malware author had to try to bypass 5-10 different heuristics and defs lists, now it goes for one and hits 80% of the market.
The point is that MSSE was basically the best AV because it has no financial interest in bugging the user to upgrade to a pro version or to use scare tactics. Now that MSSE is out of the race, we're back to "OK" avs with complicated interfaces and upgrade prompts all over the place.
Users tended to love MSSE because it shut up and did its job, unlike most of the alternatives.
For anyone who didnt get why bundling MSSE with Win8 was a terrible idea, this is it. I guarentee it is now the very first thing malware authors test against prior to release, and the number one target for circumvension. Previously McAfee and Norton were heavily targetted for circumvention, and had correspondingly bad scores; now its MSSEs turn.
Really, its eerie how perfectly the timing corresponds with Win8's release.
Hooray monoculture! Hooray killing off a previously viable AV option!
Symantec Endpoint Management uses Tomcat / Java / Windows, as does CrashPlan, Blackberry Enterprise, and probably scores of others. It seems like any time Im dealing with an "enterprisey" service that has some kind of "shiney" web interface, its got tomcat on the backend.
For the record, BES has been tomcat basically forever.
you cannot fix the world. you can, at best, try to make things better where you currently are.
Ive struggled with the concept of why a guy on this side of the ocean deserves jobs on this side of the ocean more than the starving, harder working guy on the other side of the ocean-- simply by virtue of which side he is on.
Machines dont come with knowledge included. Someone has to operate the medical robot, someone has to program the factory robots, someone has to network them.
Look at it this way; IT is a profession built around automation and technology, but we havent yet found a way to make self-programming network or a self-maintaining network or even computers that set themselves up.
Because unless you own land and the ability to make a living on your land, you are at the mercy of someone else
This isnt what slavery is. You could probably move to alaska or northern Canada or some such and try to survive off the land, but most people choose to live in our modern, interconnected society because there are a lot of benefits in you not having to worry about the specifics of getting meat and the specifics of getting grain. As our society gets increasingly complex, people must become increasingly specialized to take part in it.
and where only individuals have the right to own intelligent robots, not the corporations.
I would be interested to see how such a thing could be practically enforced.
And since robots will make robots, robots will be dirt cheap or, at least, as cheap as the energy supply will allow.
We already have robot manufactured cars, theyre not "dirt cheap". Supplies, shipping, profit, labor to engineer, etc still affect the price.
If you do the math, copper is actually around 10-25% lower transit latency. As has been pointed out, fiber wins because it suffers less interference and can go longer distances; that means fewer hops, higher frequencies, etc.
How is this different from the argument that we should use spoons rather than shovels to dig ditches, because that requires more workers and hence creates jobs?
And yet everyone (i hope?) agrees that it would be ridiculous to complain that automation kills jobs or that we should eliminate automation.... (for those who dont, perhaps we should use spoons instead of shovels for ditch digging)
I have to ask how much sense it makes to complain about where the job gets done, unless the angle is "are the conditions humane". Spending more money to do the same job seems to make more sense, and honestly the guy in China hoping for $100 a month seems to deserve the labor more than the guy in the US coasting off of his (relatively) large unemployment check.
Not trolling, would be interested if someone could make a case for where Im going wrong here.
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and it doesn't have a real keyboard
Sure it does, thats why it has a keyboard connector on the bottom.
I only got to try it briefly in a store, but what youre describing makes it sound like youve never used the thing. It is a tad heavy, sure, but not overwhelmingly so, and the keyboards were actually quite good.
Unfortunately for Microsoft, nobody has ever asked for a laplet.
I mean, its not like theres a market for iPads with keyboards, right?
Surface isnt a laplet, its in the same market as iPads are, and its quite a large market.
Don't vote... please. If only the people that actually cared about this country, and the people having hellfire missles landing in their livingrooms got to vote, then maybe we'd get somewhere
Has it occurred to you that in the 200+ years of only having US citizens vote (mostly), we HAVENT had a major revolution, we havent had a substantial invasion (excepting the War of 1812), we havent had any dictators, and we generally have been pretty stable compared to almost everywhere else (along with perhaps the UK).
But no, our system is flawed and clearly the solution is to throw out what has been working remarkably well given how messed up people generally are. Lets go with anarchy, thats always a great fallback, right?
If you ask me, I would go with "lets address the problems we have" rather than "lets throw it all away and hope things dont get substantially worse".
It was a proposed switch from Sharepoint running on Windows Server to Sharepoint running on Sharepoint.
Theres grant money to be had if you can show the truth of your words; that youre on slashdot rather than applying for it indicates that there is no substance behind them.
You got modded down I believe because you made the ridiculous assertion that there is already a cure for ALS-- legalizing marijuana! And that people just refuse to accept it. I assure you that if cannabis was the cure for ALS that so much money would not have been spent helping Hawking cope with ALS rather than just curing him.
One might ask where exactly you got your PHD, and why you havent gotten a government grant yet.
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Youre either a genius troll or havent had your morning coffee.
This is what we call an infinite regress. WHO put the information on the hard drive? At some point you end up with a human with a PhD.
To continue this useless debate, if the word were latin, wikipedia indicates that whatever it would be it wouldnt be an "i" ending:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_form_of_words_ending_in_-us#Mass_noun_in_Latin
Home AV != business AV. Avast for example has been very good over the years with their free suite, but their business software historically has, honestly, been pretty bad. (I believe they were working on a rewritten management suite, so dont know if theyve gotten their act together)
They actually do test for performance under the usability category, and their results (bitdefender as top pick) matches the results from the well respected AV Comparatives, and the rest of their results arent much different-- those top 3 you mention are all AV Comparatives top picks ( http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/docs/avc_sum_201212_en.pdf )
Might have been nice if you actually did some research before spouting off.
We seceded, because we were tired of having to put up with everyone elses crap.
That was my point, but its now irrelevant as MS has just made their own software useless. What idiot would release a virus that gets caught by the built in AV of its target OS?
It wont matter is MS improves, before the new daily compile of TDSS or whatever malware is released, it will be scanned with latest MSSE defs and heuristics. The malware will then be tweaked to get around it.
This isnt new, whats new is that whereas before the malware author had to try to bypass 5-10 different heuristics and defs lists, now it goes for one and hits 80% of the market.
The point is that MSSE was basically the best AV because it has no financial interest in bugging the user to upgrade to a pro version or to use scare tactics. Now that MSSE is out of the race, we're back to "OK" avs with complicated interfaces and upgrade prompts all over the place.
Users tended to love MSSE because it shut up and did its job, unlike most of the alternatives.
For anyone who didnt get why bundling MSSE with Win8 was a terrible idea, this is it. I guarentee it is now the very first thing malware authors test against prior to release, and the number one target for circumvension. Previously McAfee and Norton were heavily targetted for circumvention, and had correspondingly bad scores; now its MSSEs turn.
Really, its eerie how perfectly the timing corresponds with Win8's release.
Hooray monoculture! Hooray killing off a previously viable AV option!
Symantec Endpoint Management uses Tomcat / Java / Windows, as does CrashPlan, Blackberry Enterprise, and probably scores of others. It seems like any time Im dealing with an "enterprisey" service that has some kind of "shiney" web interface, its got tomcat on the backend.
For the record, BES has been tomcat basically forever.
You mean that sometimes you cant tackle the problem by trying to increase income, until you address the usage problem first?
Someone elect this man to congress.
you cannot fix the world. you can, at best, try to make things better where you currently are.
Ive struggled with the concept of why a guy on this side of the ocean deserves jobs on this side of the ocean more than the starving, harder working guy on the other side of the ocean-- simply by virtue of which side he is on.
Your PhD won't mean diddly squat
Machines dont come with knowledge included. Someone has to operate the medical robot, someone has to program the factory robots, someone has to network them.
Look at it this way; IT is a profession built around automation and technology, but we havent yet found a way to make self-programming network or a self-maintaining network or even computers that set themselves up.
Because unless you own land and the ability to make a living on your land, you are at the mercy of someone else
This isnt what slavery is. You could probably move to alaska or northern Canada or some such and try to survive off the land, but most people choose to live in our modern, interconnected society because there are a lot of benefits in you not having to worry about the specifics of getting meat and the specifics of getting grain. As our society gets increasingly complex, people must become increasingly specialized to take part in it.
and where only individuals have the right to own intelligent robots, not the corporations.
I would be interested to see how such a thing could be practically enforced.
And since robots will make robots, robots will be dirt cheap or, at least, as cheap as the energy supply will allow.
We already have robot manufactured cars, theyre not "dirt cheap". Supplies, shipping, profit, labor to engineer, etc still affect the price.
So are pulses of light in a fiber medium.
If you do the math, copper is actually around 10-25% lower transit latency. As has been pointed out, fiber wins because it suffers less interference and can go longer distances; that means fewer hops, higher frequencies, etc.
How is this different from the argument that we should use spoons rather than shovels to dig ditches, because that requires more workers and hence creates jobs?
I have yet to see an HTML5 exploit that can root your machine.
JRE on the other hand....
^^^ This one factor outweighs basically everything else.
Make an official Java(TM) / Corporate GunkWare(TM) browser that works with whatever stupid crap companies want to use. Problem solved.
And yet everyone (i hope?) agrees that it would be ridiculous to complain that automation kills jobs or that we should eliminate automation....
(for those who dont, perhaps we should use spoons instead of shovels for ditch digging)
I have to ask how much sense it makes to complain about where the job gets done, unless the angle is "are the conditions humane". Spending more money to do the same job seems to make more sense, and honestly the guy in China hoping for $100 a month seems to deserve the labor more than the guy in the US coasting off of his (relatively) large unemployment check.
Not trolling, would be interested if someone could make a case for where Im going wrong here.
Because a square is a particular kind of rectangle does not mean that it isnt a rectangle at all.
Replace "square" with "our country", etc.