I'm a happy owner of ASUS EEE Pad Transformer 32 GB with keyboard dock. Let me make several points: - no dock keyboard means painful typing experience whether you use iPad or any other on-screen keyboard tablet - a colleague of mine tested Samsung Tab keyboard and found out Transformer's to be superior by a large margin, mostly due to responsiveness and stability - the Prime version screen is of great quality, allowing you to work in brighter environments (you're still out of luck in bright daylight, of course) - running time (with Keyboard) is at least 12 hours (more if you avoid flash and films or certain games) - if you like to haul large PDF library, you need at least 32 GB version - tablets, contrary to expectations are not easy on your wrists - keyboard dock stabilizes them and let's you comfortably work for a few hours straight - supports most VPN standards decently
The key difference lies in applications installed - apart from decent Office suite (Polaris Office, compatible to certain degree with MS Office), you are strongly recommended to visit XDA Developers and peruse list of compatible applications. Personally I'd suggest: - Astro File Manager with SMB share - Hacker Keyboard for a free on-screen keyboard mimicking normal PC one - ezPDF reader for handling more complex PDFs - Jota text editor - Beautiful Widgets to get nice forecasts
What software is actually affected? What phone models? What platforms? What applications? If it's just AT&T and its victims, well, it's their own private little hell. Otherwise, some facts would be nice.
For now, (quoting from the article), phrase of "millions of Android, BlackBerry and Nokia phones" smacks of cheap propaganda and scaremongering.
That and make everyone integrate socially. Folks who used to chat informally with each other are more likely to help each other, as opposed to making a call to a distinctly alien entity in foreign country whose sole capability is limited to following faulty protocols.
Regards, Ruemere
PS. To me, outsourcing and cloud are not at odds with existence of local IT department. Relying on the former tends to produce huge technological inertia (IE6 throughout thousands of desktops, anyone?), relying too much on the latter may produce star syndrome and lead to hostage situations. Best way would be to tread carefully forward with responsibility in hands of competent management liaisons. PS2. Based on personal experiences in several different international companies.
There were _some_ improvements. In general, Unity is stable, fast and adjustable, but it lacks polish. Its size, inability to provide decent management for absolute paths (I have more favored applications than allowed by Unity default space, and I like them in groups, just fine) make for quite bad user experience, even with improved System Settings menu. I wish I could access my little app park the same way I can do that with System Settings...
Anyway, there are fallback options, without Unity. They work fine and provide missing functionality.
In general, system feels a little faster than 10.10.
Thank you for clearing this up. Additionally, it looks like Banshee, by becoming default Ubuntu player, is getting more audience already. That's a win for Banshee developers, too.
Or, if I really have to manage your private computer, you need to hand all your user access rights to me, including ALL administrative privileges. And agree for standard set of services preconfigured to comply with company regulations.
Disclaimer: I work with both Win7 and WinXp on everyday basis.
"You have unused icons on your desktop" == "You really need to learn to organize your desktop" OR == "Google for 'win turn off notification balloons'"
The rebooting policy can be managed centrally by competent IT staff, locally by users (requires certain permissions or simply users who can be trusted to do stuff reliably). Nagging is relative... and when compared to bothersome and unnecessarily obfuscated wireless management menus (or network options), Windows 7's "friendliness" loses to Windows Xp's simplicity. Not to mention that in centrally managed environment Win7 is only a tiny bit any better than WinXp (or worse, as the enforcement of GPOs is almost as bad as under WinXp).
Depends on the number of items or how unambiguously they are presented.
Examples: Calc vs Scalc is easy. OpenOffice Scalc vs LibreOffice Scalc vs Go-OO Scalc are not.
Additionally, Windows7 menu does not integrate well with applications using their own menu system, and so the benefits of integrated search are lost as you still need to jump through several hoops.
In short, instant search is nice as long you don't need to look too deeply (just like with KDE). And for basic stuff, I still have my Quick Launch Bar... (Windows 7's " + type + select and run" VS "standard run from shortcut").
I do feel your pain (similar issues with Win7 here). On the other hand, your method of typing posts, that of MUD spelunker, is not helping you to state your point.
Precisely. Besides, I like my desktops to be quiet, peaceful, snappy - calming colors/graphics, zero animations, important elements grouped thematically together and available via a single click or key combination.
Why leave Quick Launch on the left then? Both Show Desktop and Quick Launch are essential for management of applications cluttering desktop... and now I need to jump left-right-left-right to find stuff. It's like the ribbon interface - good premise, terrible execution.
A guy wakes up in a middle of a night, looks at his wife sleeping next to him and reflects that the very next day it is their twenty fifth anniversary... and that if he committed a murder twenty five years ago, he would be a free man at dawn.
Consider that while there is no pleasing some people, there is always a way to find something to be depressed over. [1]
Regards, Ruemere
[1] For some reason, I am really partial to standard desktop PCs.
And if you haven't had an iPad, you would probably have assumed a healthier position in a comfortable chair. And your wife wouldn't have had to learn to sleep with you doing weird things in bed.
In other words, it's quite likely that his arguments are more suited to general public than yours.
I'm referring to "special" folders, like Fonts, Temporary Internet Files, redirection between x32 and x64 folders . In a way, these folders are subject to special folder policies which are somewhat similar to the way.htaccess operates.
Unfortunately, Microsoft developers love to overcomplicate things (I'm still miffed after all these years at the way you need to alter ACLS for traversing folders, while under Novell Netware it was just a matter of making one change).
Two more thingies: - Vista's administrator actual access rights may differ depending on whether it is Administrator, member of Administrators (local), member of domain group which in turn belongs to Administrators (local). - several folders (or applications) may be governed by Vista's equivalent of.htaccess and subsequently may be not accessible as per standard security
All of the above may be further complicated by attempting to run a 32bit application to access 64bit content in a system folder (transparent redirection of call may result in serious weirdness).
Separate vlan, virtualized or build with premade images. Contains independent management structure which assumes admin level rights for priviledged users. Remote access via client software (it's pretty easy with virtualized vlan, however for many purposes RDP is sufficient). The vlan is separate from company environment apart from remote access. Hosts located within VLAN can be reimagined at moment's notice. Snapshots can be taken at developer's request.
It's not that difficult to set up, but you need to do some preparations in order to have fully functional disaster recovery for this vlan, along with snapshot capabilities and consistent monitoring. You may also want to have update procedure to ensure that development environment (and its base images) is not out of touch with real world. Also, you need to cover your bases with regard to licensing and activiation (some O/S requires special provisioning).
I'd like to say that I really loved Omikron. Yes, there were various design issues with further levels, but getting concerts, following plot and generally walking around made up for that.
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I'm a happy owner of ASUS EEE Pad Transformer 32 GB with keyboard dock. Let me make several points:
- no dock keyboard means painful typing experience whether you use iPad or any other on-screen keyboard tablet
- a colleague of mine tested Samsung Tab keyboard and found out Transformer's to be superior by a large margin, mostly due to responsiveness and stability
- the Prime version screen is of great quality, allowing you to work in brighter environments (you're still out of luck in bright daylight, of course)
- running time (with Keyboard) is at least 12 hours (more if you avoid flash and films or certain games)
- if you like to haul large PDF library, you need at least 32 GB version
- tablets, contrary to expectations are not easy on your wrists - keyboard dock stabilizes them and let's you comfortably work for a few hours straight
- supports most VPN standards decently
The key difference lies in applications installed - apart from decent Office suite (Polaris Office, compatible to certain degree with MS Office), you are strongly recommended to visit XDA Developers and peruse list of compatible applications. Personally I'd suggest:
- Astro File Manager with SMB share
- Hacker Keyboard for a free on-screen keyboard mimicking normal PC one
- ezPDF reader for handling more complex PDFs
- Jota text editor
- Beautiful Widgets to get nice forecasts
Regards,
Ruemere
Try: millions of deaths. Three orders of magnitude higher.
Otherwise, I totally agree with you.
Regards,
Ruemere
People who remember Tiananmen and Tibet would like to have a word with you.
Regards,
Ruemere
He was a man of thought. Something most aspiring geeks would love to be, nevermind the field of study or convictions.
Have a cup of tea. And a cigar. It's on me.
Regards,
Ruemere
What software is actually affected? What phone models? What platforms? What applications?
If it's just AT&T and its victims, well, it's their own private little hell. Otherwise, some facts would be nice.
For now, (quoting from the article), phrase of "millions of Android, BlackBerry and Nokia phones" smacks of cheap propaganda and scaremongering.
Regards,
Ruemere
That and make everyone integrate socially. Folks who used to chat informally with each other are more likely to help each other, as opposed to making a call to a distinctly alien entity in foreign country whose sole capability is limited to following faulty protocols.
Regards,
Ruemere
PS. To me, outsourcing and cloud are not at odds with existence of local IT department. Relying on the former tends to produce huge technological inertia (IE6 throughout thousands of desktops, anyone?), relying too much on the latter may produce star syndrome and lead to hostage situations. Best way would be to tread carefully forward with responsibility in hands of competent management liaisons.
PS2. Based on personal experiences in several different international companies.
There were _some_ improvements. In general, Unity is stable, fast and adjustable, but it lacks polish. Its size, inability to provide decent management for absolute paths (I have more favored applications than allowed by Unity default space, and I like them in groups, just fine) make for quite bad user experience, even with improved System Settings menu.
I wish I could access my little app park the same way I can do that with System Settings...
Anyway, there are fallback options, without Unity. They work fine and provide missing functionality.
In general, system feels a little faster than 10.10.
Regards,
Ruemere
Thank you for clearing this up. Additionally, it looks like Banshee, by becoming default Ubuntu player, is getting more audience already. That's a win for Banshee developers, too.
Regards,
Ruemere
Amen.
Or, if I really have to manage your private computer, you need to hand all your user access rights to me, including ALL administrative privileges. And agree for standard set of services preconfigured to comply with company regulations.
Regards,
Ruemere
Server != Workstation.
Quite a lot of additional work (at least according to the article).
Regards,
Ruemere
Depends on the number of documents you have. I've reached several tens of thousands... so searching their content does not work for me.
Regards,
Ruemere
Disclaimer: I work with both Win7 and WinXp on everyday basis.
"You have unused icons on your desktop"
== "You really need to learn to organize your desktop"
OR
== "Google for 'win turn off notification balloons'"
The rebooting policy can be managed centrally by competent IT staff, locally by users (requires certain permissions or simply users who can be trusted to do stuff reliably).
Nagging is relative... and when compared to bothersome and unnecessarily obfuscated wireless management menus (or network options), Windows 7's "friendliness" loses to Windows Xp's simplicity. Not to mention that in centrally managed environment Win7 is only a tiny bit any better than WinXp (or worse, as the enforcement of GPOs is almost as bad as under WinXp).
Regards,
Ruemere
Depends on the number of items or how unambiguously they are presented.
Examples:
Calc vs Scalc is easy. OpenOffice Scalc vs LibreOffice Scalc vs Go-OO Scalc are not.
Additionally, Windows7 menu does not integrate well with applications using their own menu system, and so the benefits of integrated search are lost as you still need to jump through several hoops.
In short, instant search is nice as long you don't need to look too deeply (just like with KDE). And for basic stuff, I still have my Quick Launch Bar... (Windows 7's " + type + select and run" VS "standard run from shortcut").
Regards,
Ruemere
Dear Sir,
I do feel your pain (similar issues with Win7 here). On the other hand, your method of typing posts, that of MUD spelunker, is not helping you to state your point.
Kindly reconsider your style.
Regards,
Ruemere
Precisely. Besides, I like my desktops to be quiet, peaceful, snappy - calming colors/graphics, zero animations, important elements grouped thematically together and available via a single click or key combination.
Regards,
Ruemere
My mistake. Taskbar, obviously. I'm sorry to admit that I am not that well versed in Windows 7 terminology yet... I keep using Windows Xp terms :)
Regards,
Ruemere
Why leave Quick Launch on the left then? Both Show Desktop and Quick Launch are essential for management of applications cluttering desktop... and now I need to jump left-right-left-right to find stuff. It's like the ribbon interface - good premise, terrible execution.
Regards,
Ruemere
Please mod parent up.
A guy wakes up in a middle of a night, looks at his wife sleeping next to him and reflects that the very next day it is their twenty fifth anniversary... and that if he committed a murder twenty five years ago, he would be a free man at dawn.
Consider that while there is no pleasing some people, there is always a way to find something to be depressed over. [1]
Regards,
Ruemere
[1] For some reason, I am really partial to standard desktop PCs.
And if you haven't had an iPad, you would probably have assumed a healthier position in a comfortable chair. And your wife wouldn't have had to learn to sleep with you doing weird things in bed.
In other words, it's quite likely that his arguments are more suited to general public than yours.
Regards,
Ruemere
This should be marked funny, possibly sarcastic, not interesting.
Regards,
Ruemere
I'm referring to "special" folders, like Fonts, Temporary Internet Files, redirection between x32 and x64 folders . .htaccess operates.
In a way, these folders are subject to special folder policies which are somewhat similar to the way
Unfortunately, Microsoft developers love to overcomplicate things (I'm still miffed after all these years at the way you need to alter ACLS for traversing folders, while under Novell Netware it was just a matter of making one change).
Regards,
Ruemere
Two more thingies: .htaccess and subsequently may be not accessible as per standard security
- Vista's administrator actual access rights may differ depending on whether it is Administrator, member of Administrators (local), member of domain group which in turn belongs to Administrators (local).
- several folders (or applications) may be governed by Vista's equivalent of
All of the above may be further complicated by attempting to run a 32bit application to access 64bit content in a system folder (transparent redirection of call may result in serious weirdness).
Regards,
Ruemere
Separate vlan, virtualized or build with premade images. Contains independent management structure which assumes admin level rights for priviledged users. Remote access via client software (it's pretty easy with virtualized vlan, however for many purposes RDP is sufficient).
The vlan is separate from company environment apart from remote access. Hosts located within VLAN can be reimagined at moment's notice. Snapshots can be taken at developer's request.
It's not that difficult to set up, but you need to do some preparations in order to have fully functional disaster recovery for this vlan, along with snapshot capabilities and consistent monitoring.
You may also want to have update procedure to ensure that development environment (and its base images) is not out of touch with real world.
Also, you need to cover your bases with regard to licensing and activiation (some O/S requires special provisioning).
Regards,
Ruemere
I'd like to say that I really loved Omikron. Yes, there were various design issues with further levels, but getting concerts, following plot and generally walking around made up for that.
Regards,
Ruemere