I'll be honest. I've never been a fan of Apple products, But I have and will always be a fan of Steve Jobs.
The man was truly one of the last great manager's and CEO's of American Business. Competitive to the end, Dedicated to the end, and capable of pushing people to their absolute limits for better or for worse to the point that something insanely great gets produced.
I never thought HP would hire a CEO worse than Carly. After they proved me wrong I wondered how long Leo would last. Frankly they waited too long to can him, Especially after he canned the touchpad and sells them at a ridiculously low price to the point that everybody buys them up and sells them for twice as much on ebay. That first week after the fire sale should have been his no confidence vote right there.
Hopefully, the new CEO realized that this WebOS debacle was a huge mistake and starts working on bringing WebOS back from the dead, that is if he can.
Honestly, I think HP was the only place WebOS could have survived. The only hope WebOS has now is if Leo Gets canned and they get a CEO in there that has a brain. Considering that I though they couldn't hire a CEO worse than Carly and was proven wrong, Fat chance that is going to happen.
The other buyout options out there for WebOS didn't look much better.
Nokia: kills all OS'es and Bets the farm on Win7Mobile. Dies due to Idiot CEO. Google: Would cannibalize the platform and use it as a patent shield or adopt a few features. Only chance WebOS would have there is if Oracle kills android dead. Which is extremely unlikely. Motorola: see Google Microsoft: kills WebOS dead. Proclaims Linux is dead and Win7Mobile will rule them all. Oracle: Kills WebOS dead with the addition of patent Lawsuits to just about every phone maker. Apple: See Oracle Samsung: Too much like HP and too invested in android to care. Would get lost in the mix. LG: See Samsung Sony: See Samsung Kyocera: Bought by Sanyo. Bought By Panasonic. See Samsung. Dell: Gets crushed in the phone market and bails. Lenovo: Well, at least China would have WebOS phones. HTC: Too much android investment. Would cannibalize to make a newer SenseUI. HP: the best Printer OS Ever! Bails on Phone and PC hardware. Dies due to Idiot CEO. Garmin: the Best On Dash GPS OS Ever! Would try to sell the pixi at $399 subsidized cause it has a GPS receiver. Sonim: Doesn't fit with their strategy of rugged phones.
it looks like you can chuck the ribbon interface by using the Quick Access Toolbar. It's the second to the last pic on the msdn page. Although frankly I never used the top of the explorer window other than for going up one directory. (but clicking on the directory name in the vista/7 address bar is somewhat of a compromise fix)
speaking of which, the "Up one directory" arrow is back.
You know, the more I think about this, the more I swear this was a ploy to boost WebOS market share.
HP could have slowly dropped the price down in order to get more revenue from it, but instead drops the price way below anybody's expectations, and then proceeds to sell them out in hours in just about anywhere they were being sold.
Regardless of how much money HP lost today (and it had to be a ton considering the sales numbers) the market share they had to gain might just pay off if they decide to change their mind hardware wise.
What they need is a major manufacture like HP or HTC to sell $150 tablets with decent specs. But that will never happen because no manufacture wants to devalue their brand name by selling inexpensive merchandise
The above thinking is what's killing decent manufactures tablet hopes. All this strategy is doing is giving apple more money to build better IPads. They seriously need to throw this out and make a market first using cheap hardware, once you get the market in place then focus on competing with the Ipad. Look at what ASUS did with the Eee PC 701 if you want a good example of cheap hardware creating a market.
And I agree with you on the ultra cheap crap tablets out there, although I don't think Google is helping themselves by discouraging tablets before honeycomb was released, having honeycomb exclusive once it was released, or locking out the android market to certain devices and agreements.
Actually, I own one of these tablets. (and I just bought a touchpad for my cousin) it's good for the price. Biggest disappointment though is the software. but the android community got some seriously good replacements for it.
If a factory stock honeycomb or Ice cream sandwich ever happens on the G tablet, it would be a no brainier at $279. It practically a no brainier even with the lackluster TapnTap android on the device.
I can't believe that the 16gb Touchpad couldn't sell at $249 or ever $299. At $399 is was doom and at $499 someone at HP was on drugs to think it would sell.
This HP Touchpad Fire sale is the best lesson any Non Apple tablet manufacture should learn when it comes to tablet sales. The current Android tablet market is trying to command IPad pricing without being an Apple product. ICultists wont touch it with a 10 foot pole at any price because it's not made by Apple and everyone else that's on the fence is going to see the identical price and buy the Ipad because either they saw it on TV more / their ICult buddy recommended it and since they're priced the same might as well get what everyone else is talking about...
HP goes out and announces that WebOS hardware is dead, lets it sink in for a day or two, then cuts the price down from $399 and $499 to $99 and $149 respectfully and sells out in hours even though everyone knows they're discontinued and WebOS has a shaky future if any. If that doesn't scream that the tablet was overpriced than nothing on earth will.
Non Apple Tables are priced roughly $200-300 too expensive. Get them around $199-$299 and they'll sell like gangbusters just like it did for Android phones in the mobile market.
The main reason MS tablets never sold was one reason.
Price.
Who was going to by a Tablet PC when they were priced equal or more (sometimes twice as more) to a laptop offering. Even Origami UMPC's when they came out were one of the cheapest tablets out there, but at over $700 with only 1 hour battery life and laptops hovering around or below that price, it was doomed. The only saving grace that came out of UMPC's were netbooks, and they sold primarily on price, with most of them priced well under $400.
What really gets me is that the current Android tablet market is making the same mistake. They're trying to command IPad pricing without being an Apple product. ICultists wont touch it with a 10 foot pole at any price because it's not made by Apple and everyone else that's on the fence is going to see the identical price and buy the Ipad because either they saw it on TV more / their ICult buddy recommended it and since they're priced the same might as well get what everyone else is talking about. This HP Touchpad Fire sale is the best lesson any tablet manufacture should learn when it comes to tablet sales. HP goes out and announces that WebOS hardware is dead, lets it sink in for a day or two, then cuts the price down from $399 and $499 to $99 and $149 respectfully and sells out in hours even though everyone knows they're discontinued and WebOS has a shaky future if any. If that doesn't scream that the tablet was overpriced than nothing on earth will.
Non Apple Tables are priced roughly $200-300 too expensive. Get them around $199-$299 and they'll sell like gangbusters just like it did for Android phones in the mobile market. The same goes for Windows 8. If they can't get a Windows 8 Tablet at least under $299 at launch then Microsoft is just wasting their resources and time on something that will never be more than an niche product.
Not to take this thread off course a little, but malware is the #1 reason we're stripping Java off of our systems this year.
From what I can tell, Java 1.7 is no different then 1.6 when it comes to updating. It still doesn't have an option to automatically install updates without prompting. And since nobody ever clicks on the taskbar icon to update Java and are usually 2-5 updates behind, Malware authors have a field day infecting systems with Java left and right.
On Windows, You have no idea what the rootkit did while it was active on your system. It probably messed with your registry and opened up back doors for either reinfection or eavesdropping. And I'll guarantee it nuked your system restore so you can't roll the settings back.
External Hard drives are cheap. Windows 7 has a good and easy to set up backup. Back it up with a system image at least once a month and keep it disconnected once you backup. If you get infected, wipe drive, boot from windows recovery CD and recover from the backup.
Pet stores will just open up a "PETA" (People Eating Tasty Animals) store and sell live pigs, chickens and whatever else that you could claim you are buying to eat, but want as a pet.
Go to Store, Choose Pig, Sign city form saying you're buying pig to eat, and off you go. So what if it takes 10-15 years for your bacon to be "mature" enough to eat.
Hell why wait! If you own a pet store and are threatened by this law, Do the above. I guarantee you'll be on every newscast and newspaper in the city within days.
Just because Google puts out a major revision number every 2 months doesn't mean everyone should. In fact I'm getting really sick of every browser on earth copying Google Chrome. Minimalistic doesn't always mean Functional.
I pre-ordered it on steam and I'm going to play it. I figured its better than me seeing all of the videos of DNF post 3D realms shutdown and wishing I was playing it good bad or otherwise.
I'm positive it's a cash grab to try to recuperate the loss from the 12 year DEV cycle especially since it's wasn't finished by 3D Realms, but even if this game was groundbreaking and absolutely gorgeous, reviewers would be slamming it because that's all they got after it took 12 years to make.
The US hasn't built a new plant since TMI. As plants are decommissioned they're being replaced with coal and Natural gas plants.
What really needs to happen is a complete phase out of the older generation nuclear power plants and a phase in of the next generation of nuclear power. From there, we use the knowledge gained from the reactor replacements to build the future generation plants.
Sitting back and letting our plants get older and older instead of replacing them on schedule is like sitting on a time bomb.
I posted this and this a few weeks ago here and got bashed left and right about how Apple would never do this, that the Post PC era and Steve Jobs "sent from my IPad" sig is a marketing ploy, and OS X would live forever.
It's amazing how much just one keynote changes everything.
Haven't used the home version yet, but we use Sophos Endpoint Security on campus here and so far it's been working well on our PC and Macs. We've already seen MacDefender show up on a few student macs and it's cleaned them up so far.
The only thing root access gives malware authors is rootkit installation and removal hardening. They can still read and write user files, which could lead to either ID theft, or ransomware by proprietary file encryption.
On the one hand, pulling out the dead horse that is "X seconds to XP infection" and beating on it in 2011 is a new low. Even for Slashdot. On the other hand, I wouldn't be caught dead with Windows XP in this day and age even with all the patches.
Malware authors know the insides of XP so well that you have to do so many things to make a secure windows XP build that it isn't worth the time, Especially since you can install Win 7 64bit and its pretty much secure out of the box. It's much harder to root due to UAC (when turned up to full) and 64bit driver protection, it's got limited malware protection from Defender out of the box and it can run IE9, which has a lot more features in stopping malware from downloading payloads or even getting a payload in the first place if TPL's and file reputation are used. Also the system restore actually works so most non rootkit damage can be rolled back reliably.
As for the safety scanner Microsoft has, If you're running that scanner, chances are you think your system is infected. I'd be more concerned that it's that low, which tells me that the scanner is missing key virus infections. Actually my experience with it, it missed a key infection on a virus laden PC. (to be fair, it was rootkitted). MS seriously needs to release a bootable scanner similar to their system sweeper found in the Diagnostics and recovery Toolset (which found the rootkit that safety scanner missed). That and actually make a tool that reliably removes Alureon (AKA TDSS)
I give it 5 years tops. Lion is not only a step towards that direction, but also a test. If apps on macs start selling faster than expected, kiss the Mac as you know it goodbye and replaced with a desktop sized IPad. As for them updating macs, yes they're upgrading them now. Now how about a year from now? Two Years? throughout their current presentations you keep hearing the "Post PC" era. What do you think that means to Apple. Why do you think there's already rumors of Apple dumping Intel for their own in house Arm Chip? And as for Thunderbolt, there's talk that Thunderbolt is DOA
As for the people wanting Mac's, that easy. You get Steve Jobs on a stage and say that "OSX is dead" and "IDesk" is the future of Apple" and problem solved. The people want what Apple Tells them to want.
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I'll be honest. I've never been a fan of Apple products, But I have and will always be a fan of Steve Jobs.
The man was truly one of the last great manager's and CEO's of American Business. Competitive to the end, Dedicated to the end, and capable of pushing people to their absolute limits for better or for worse to the point that something insanely great gets produced.
Exactly.
I never thought HP would hire a CEO worse than Carly. After they proved me wrong I wondered how long Leo would last. Frankly they waited too long to can him, Especially after he canned the touchpad and sells them at a ridiculously low price to the point that everybody buys them up and sells them for twice as much on ebay. That first week after the fire sale should have been his no confidence vote right there.
Hopefully, the new CEO realized that this WebOS debacle was a huge mistake and starts working on bringing WebOS back from the dead, that is if he can.
What about the bionic hearing aid that Lee Majors is selling on TV.
https://www.hearingaidtv.com/
I have no idea how well it works, but $15 is a far cry from $4000
Honestly, I think HP was the only place WebOS could have survived. The only hope WebOS has now is if Leo Gets canned and they get a CEO in there that has a brain. Considering that I though they couldn't hire a CEO worse than Carly and was proven wrong, Fat chance that is going to happen.
The other buyout options out there for WebOS didn't look much better.
Nokia: kills all OS'es and Bets the farm on Win7Mobile. Dies due to Idiot CEO.
Google: Would cannibalize the platform and use it as a patent shield or adopt a few features. Only chance WebOS would have there is if Oracle kills android dead. Which is extremely unlikely.
Motorola: see Google
Microsoft: kills WebOS dead. Proclaims Linux is dead and Win7Mobile will rule them all.
Oracle: Kills WebOS dead with the addition of patent Lawsuits to just about every phone maker.
Apple: See Oracle
Samsung: Too much like HP and too invested in android to care. Would get lost in the mix.
LG: See Samsung
Sony: See Samsung
Kyocera: Bought by Sanyo. Bought By Panasonic. See Samsung.
Dell: Gets crushed in the phone market and bails.
Lenovo: Well, at least China would have WebOS phones.
HTC: Too much android investment. Would cannibalize to make a newer SenseUI.
HP: the best Printer OS Ever! Bails on Phone and PC hardware. Dies due to Idiot CEO.
Garmin: the Best On Dash GPS OS Ever! Would try to sell the pixi at $399 subsidized cause it has a GPS receiver.
Sonim: Doesn't fit with their strategy of rugged phones.
it looks like you can chuck the ribbon interface by using the Quick Access Toolbar. It's the second to the last pic on the msdn page. Although frankly I never used the top of the explorer window other than for going up one directory. (but clicking on the directory name in the vista/7 address bar is somewhat of a compromise fix)
speaking of which, the "Up one directory" arrow is back.
You know, the more I think about this, the more I swear this was a ploy to boost WebOS market share.
HP could have slowly dropped the price down in order to get more revenue from it, but instead drops the price way below anybody's expectations, and then proceeds to sell them out in hours in just about anywhere they were being sold.
Regardless of how much money HP lost today (and it had to be a ton considering the sales numbers) the market share they had to gain might just pay off if they decide to change their mind hardware wise.
What they need is a major manufacture like HP or HTC to sell $150 tablets with decent specs. But that will never happen because no manufacture wants to devalue their brand name by selling inexpensive merchandise
The above thinking is what's killing decent manufactures tablet hopes. All this strategy is doing is giving apple more money to build better IPads. They seriously need to throw this out and make a market first using cheap hardware, once you get the market in place then focus on competing with the Ipad. Look at what ASUS did with the Eee PC 701 if you want a good example of cheap hardware creating a market.
And I agree with you on the ultra cheap crap tablets out there, although I don't think Google is helping themselves by discouraging tablets before honeycomb was released, having honeycomb exclusive once it was released, or locking out the android market to certain devices and agreements.
Actually, I own one of these tablets. (and I just bought a touchpad for my cousin) it's good for the price. Biggest disappointment though is the software. but the android community got some seriously good replacements for it.
If a factory stock honeycomb or Ice cream sandwich ever happens on the G tablet, it would be a no brainier at $279. It practically a no brainier even with the lackluster TapnTap android on the device.
I can't believe that the 16gb Touchpad couldn't sell at $249 or ever $299. At $399 is was doom and at $499 someone at HP was on drugs to think it would sell.
This HP Touchpad Fire sale is the best lesson any Non Apple tablet manufacture should learn when it comes to tablet sales. The current Android tablet market is trying to command IPad pricing without being an Apple product. ICultists wont touch it with a 10 foot pole at any price because it's not made by Apple and everyone else that's on the fence is going to see the identical price and buy the Ipad because either they saw it on TV more / their ICult buddy recommended it and since they're priced the same might as well get what everyone else is talking about...
HP goes out and announces that WebOS hardware is dead, lets it sink in for a day or two, then cuts the price down from $399 and $499 to $99 and $149 respectfully and sells out in hours even though everyone knows they're discontinued and WebOS has a shaky future if any. If that doesn't scream that the tablet was overpriced than nothing on earth will.
Non Apple Tables are priced roughly $200-300 too expensive. Get them around $199-$299 and they'll sell like gangbusters just like it did for Android phones in the mobile market.
The main reason MS tablets never sold was one reason.
Price.
Who was going to by a Tablet PC when they were priced equal or more (sometimes twice as more) to a laptop offering. Even Origami UMPC's when they came out were one of the cheapest tablets out there, but at over $700 with only 1 hour battery life and laptops hovering around or below that price, it was doomed. The only saving grace that came out of UMPC's were netbooks, and they sold primarily on price, with most of them priced well under $400.
What really gets me is that the current Android tablet market is making the same mistake. They're trying to command IPad pricing without being an Apple product. ICultists wont touch it with a 10 foot pole at any price because it's not made by Apple and everyone else that's on the fence is going to see the identical price and buy the Ipad because either they saw it on TV more / their ICult buddy recommended it and since they're priced the same might as well get what everyone else is talking about. This HP Touchpad Fire sale is the best lesson any tablet manufacture should learn when it comes to tablet sales. HP goes out and announces that WebOS hardware is dead, lets it sink in for a day or two, then cuts the price down from $399 and $499 to $99 and $149 respectfully and sells out in hours even though everyone knows they're discontinued and WebOS has a shaky future if any. If that doesn't scream that the tablet was overpriced than nothing on earth will.
Non Apple Tables are priced roughly $200-300 too expensive. Get them around $199-$299 and they'll sell like gangbusters just like it did for Android phones in the mobile market. The same goes for Windows 8. If they can't get a Windows 8 Tablet at least under $299 at launch then Microsoft is just wasting their resources and time on something that will never be more than an niche product.
All I know is there better be a Bag of Crap sale to celebrate.
Not to take this thread off course a little, but malware is the #1 reason we're stripping Java off of our systems this year.
From what I can tell, Java 1.7 is no different then 1.6 when it comes to updating. It still doesn't have an option to automatically install updates without prompting. And since nobody ever clicks on the taskbar icon to update Java and are usually 2-5 updates behind, Malware authors have a field day infecting systems with Java left and right.
If they need Java they can install it.
Is a web browser worth $350-$500
they'll just add another word to it. such as ilovelasercats
Full Disk Erase is exactly what you do.
On Windows, You have no idea what the rootkit did while it was active on your system. It probably messed with your registry and opened up back doors for either reinfection or eavesdropping. And I'll guarantee it nuked your system restore so you can't roll the settings back.
External Hard drives are cheap. Windows 7 has a good and easy to set up backup. Back it up with a system image at least once a month and keep it disconnected once you backup. If you get infected, wipe drive, boot from windows recovery CD and recover from the backup.
Pet stores will just open up a "PETA" (People Eating Tasty Animals) store and sell live pigs, chickens and whatever else that you could claim you are buying to eat, but want as a pet.
Go to Store, Choose Pig, Sign city form saying you're buying pig to eat, and off you go. So what if it takes 10-15 years for your bacon to be "mature" enough to eat.
Hell why wait! If you own a pet store and are threatened by this law, Do the above. I guarantee you'll be on every newscast and newspaper in the city within days.
Then Number it that way.
Just because Google puts out a major revision number every 2 months doesn't mean everyone should. In fact I'm getting really sick of every browser on earth copying Google Chrome. Minimalistic doesn't always mean Functional.
I'm surprised that no one (not even IBM) has mentioned the IBM 5100
By no means is it the first Personal Computer, but it is IBM's first PC. and its arguably the first portable computer as well.
I pre-ordered it on steam and I'm going to play it. I figured its better than me seeing all of the videos of DNF post 3D realms shutdown and wishing I was playing it good bad or otherwise.
I'm positive it's a cash grab to try to recuperate the loss from the 12 year DEV cycle especially since it's wasn't finished by 3D Realms, but even if this game was groundbreaking and absolutely gorgeous, reviewers would be slamming it because that's all they got after it took 12 years to make.
The US hasn't built a new plant since TMI. As plants are decommissioned they're being replaced with coal and Natural gas plants.
What really needs to happen is a complete phase out of the older generation nuclear power plants and a phase in of the next generation of nuclear power. From there, we use the knowledge gained from the reactor replacements to build the future generation plants.
Sitting back and letting our plants get older and older instead of replacing them on schedule is like sitting on a time bomb.
I posted this and this a few weeks ago here and got bashed left and right about how Apple would never do this, that the Post PC era and Steve Jobs "sent from my IPad" sig is a marketing ploy, and OS X would live forever.
It's amazing how much just one keynote changes everything.
Sophos For Mac Home Edition: (free for home use)
http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-antivirus-for-mac-home-edition.aspx
Haven't used the home version yet, but we use Sophos Endpoint Security on campus here and so far it's been working well on our PC and Macs. We've already seen MacDefender show up on a few student macs and it's cleaned them up so far.
The only thing root access gives malware authors is rootkit installation and removal hardening. They can still read and write user files, which could lead to either ID theft, or ransomware by proprietary file encryption.
On the one hand, pulling out the dead horse that is "X seconds to XP infection" and beating on it in 2011 is a new low. Even for Slashdot. On the other hand, I wouldn't be caught dead with Windows XP in this day and age even with all the patches.
Malware authors know the insides of XP so well that you have to do so many things to make a secure windows XP build that it isn't worth the time, Especially since you can install Win 7 64bit and its pretty much secure out of the box. It's much harder to root due to UAC (when turned up to full) and 64bit driver protection, it's got limited malware protection from Defender out of the box and it can run IE9, which has a lot more features in stopping malware from downloading payloads or even getting a payload in the first place if TPL's and file reputation are used. Also the system restore actually works so most non rootkit damage can be rolled back reliably.
As for the safety scanner Microsoft has, If you're running that scanner, chances are you think your system is infected. I'd be more concerned that it's that low, which tells me that the scanner is missing key virus infections. Actually my experience with it, it missed a key infection on a virus laden PC. (to be fair, it was rootkitted). MS seriously needs to release a bootable scanner similar to their system sweeper found in the Diagnostics and recovery Toolset (which found the rootkit that safety scanner missed). That and actually make a tool that reliably removes Alureon (AKA TDSS)
I give it 5 years tops. Lion is not only a step towards that direction, but also a test. If apps on macs start selling faster than expected, kiss the Mac as you know it goodbye and replaced with a desktop sized IPad. As for them updating macs, yes they're upgrading them now. Now how about a year from now? Two Years? throughout their current presentations you keep hearing the "Post PC" era. What do you think that means to Apple. Why do you think there's already rumors of Apple dumping Intel for their own in house Arm Chip? And as for Thunderbolt, there's talk that Thunderbolt is DOA
As for the people wanting Mac's, that easy. You get Steve Jobs on a stage and say that "OSX is dead" and "IDesk" is the future of Apple" and problem solved. The people want what Apple Tells them to want.