If someone broke into your house and stole $10,000 worth of items, should that be considered a felony? I'm sure you would say that it should. I don't know what the monetary value of the JSTOR catalog is but I'm guessing it's worth well north of that number and he basically robbed the joint. Now, in his case, he had no evil intent but the cops don't care if you steal $10,000 from somebody's house and give it to the poor either. You're gonna get prosecuted.
It's pretty much always been this way. I know people think it's a new phenomenon but it's not. The severity of it ebbs and flows a bit but it's always there. The rich and powerful work very hard to make sure they have a lot of influence in affairs of state. Consequently, short of a revolution, you will never see laws of any significance that challenges that influence.
lol, now show a list of all the hybrid concepts that have utterly failed. It's miles long. And keep in mind that some of your examples are pretty damn weak:
Hammer + crowbar: It's a mediocre crowbar. I've done a lot of demo work and a single purpose crowbar works much, much better. MP3+Video player: It's just a media player. It's still serving one purpose. Camera w/interchangeable lens: It's still designed for a single purpose: taking good pictures. Interchangeable lenses enable that.
The pry bar on a hammer is really only good for removing nails and minor demo work. You need a true pry/crow bar to get real work done. I say this as someone who has spent a lot of time doing demo work.
Yeah, I get what you're saying with the corporate angle but most corps don't bother getting people iPads (unless they are salesmen or execs), so they can just issue a standard Windows laptop and call it done.
I agree but I think the presentation needs a lot of concrete examples of wasted money. Technical debt is very expensive but most managers don't really understand it and how it impacts their schedules, competitiveness, and the bottom line. All they know how to do is count features but they really need to understand software development more so they can make more informed decisions.
Skeletools (and the like) actually have a primary function: to be a portable tool kit and it does a good job of it. Would you try to fix your car with it? Fuck no. But it can be a nice tool on a camping trip where you cannot cart around 100lbs of tools with you (and would be overkill anyway).
I have played with the RT. I don't want to get into the RT because that's not what this thread is about. I'm glad that your happy with your new device.
As for your last statement, I guess we'll see what the market has to say about it soon enough.
Surface Pro is the best tablet that can run x86 applications.
I don't need a tablet that can run x86 apps. Users don't give a flying shit about "x86" they just give a shit about having good apps to run. iOS and Android already offer that in spades. And the Samsung Galaxy Note supports the stylus in ALL apps, not just specially written ones.
Show me another machine that is as thin, light, and powerful with a stylus. You can't.
It's thinner, lighter, cheaper, has longer battery life, 3G, and is designed for use with a stylus, etc.
You might say a tablet is defined by being thin and light and having all day battery life, but that's different from what I want in a tablet. I want a stylus for writing. Surface Pro has this, 90% of tablets today don't.
I think I already covered this argument.
I want ports for USB drives, portable harddrives, video out. Surface Pro has this, 90% of tablets today don't.
USB drives and hard drives? What fucking century do you live in?? And pretty much everyone has a video out capability now (not that I've seen anyone ever use that feature before other than fucking around).
want an SD card slot for expansion and swapping cards. Surface Pro has this, 90% of tablets today don't.
lol, lots of tablets have SD card slots dude. Have you ever googled an android tablet before?
The Surface pro is a little thicker and heavier than iPad (.5 lbs and.5") but the tradeoff is more power with an i5 and compatibility with millions of applications and devices. So great for you if your iPad or Android tablet is thinner and lighter and lasts all day. I don't care because they are as useless as rocks for my needs, and I'll gladly pay $899 for a tablet that does what I want.
And what are your needs? You mention all these features you want that the Surface Pro just happens to have but seriously, what is your job or hobby that requires these features? I'm having trouble envisioning it. I'm willing to say that it's possible that there's a small group of people the Surface Pro would be a good match for but I think it's a very, very small group. Congrats to you if you're one of them.
And FYI, that $899 does not include a keyboard. Feel free to tack on another $130.
Honestly, based on everything you've said, I find it hard to imagine how the the average consumer would choose a Surface Pro over a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1. Keep in mind, I'm not any kind of Samsung fanboy.
Oh, you think I'm just spewing what everyone else is saying? That's true but only because it is true. Here's why...
It's design sucks. A device can only be really good at one thing. This is not a new principle to design but pretty much the fucking foundation of industrial design.
Want more?
It's too heavy, expensive and crappy on battery power to be a good tablet, and it doesn't have a real keyboard or adequate screen size to make it a good laptop. Basically, they've built a "laplet" (or "tabtop", if you prefer). Unfortunately for Microsoft, nobody has ever asked for a laplet. This thing will fail even bigger than the Surface RT.
Like I said, it sucks. Even Microsoft is starting to realize it so they've already decided to drop the price by $100.
Except the MBA fucking rocks. It doesn't try to be a tablet and a laptop. It's a very light laptop, that's all it cares to be, and it's damn good at it.
2) Fine, don't trust Fiddler either. Use Wireshark or similar tools. There's no rocket science involved here.
3) Blob? Are you referring to some encrypted transmission? It's pretty damn easy to detect adsense transmissions. There could just as easily be secret transmissions in any Firefox build as well since whoever is doing the build can inject anything they want in there. At the end of the day, you're still putting trust in some third-party to not steal your keystrokes or do whatever the hell they want. There's nothing unique to Chrome about this.
4) Same deal as 3. Of course, you can always just use Chromium if you don't trust RLZ.
Finally, I completely disagree with your assertion that we cannot know whether it's spyware. Keep in mind, I can easily make the same argument that we can never know whether Firefox is spyware. If someone really cares to research it and has a clue, they can figure it out. In short, it's unfair to declare that Chrome is some potentially evil spyware project while also questioning Firefox, or any other browser, or any other damn program for that matter.
Thanks for the FUD with absolutely no evidence to back it up.
So I guess Amazon, Mint, Netflix, and eBay are all slow, bloated POS? Yes, some of the largest websites in the world run on Java. Fucking deal with it. At minimum, don't be such a fucking pussy and state what language you think should be used by these large companies.
"That's right, the problem is the plugin that virtually no one uses which, according to Kaspersky, is responsible for at least 50% of infections on Windows..."
Do you have a source for that because I can't find anything to back it up other than your post.
It's a fair question. Java applets are similar to ActiveX plugins in that they have web apps access to system resources they would ordinarily not ever have access to but I don't hear anyone whining about ActiveX (which can do some seriously evil shit).
Like what? I'm curious what you're superior, unflawed language of choice is.
You are also clearly not a Java developer. I can state unequivocally that Java is very fast and reliable. I won't vouch for Java applets because like 99% of all Java developers, I write server-side Java. FYI...a good portion of the web runs on Java.
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I'm going to play devil's advocate here...
If someone broke into your house and stole $10,000 worth of items, should that be considered a felony? I'm sure you would say that it should. I don't know what the monetary value of the JSTOR catalog is but I'm guessing it's worth well north of that number and he basically robbed the joint. Now, in his case, he had no evil intent but the cops don't care if you steal $10,000 from somebody's house and give it to the poor either. You're gonna get prosecuted.
That said, the law could use some tweaking.
It's pretty much always been this way. I know people think it's a new phenomenon but it's not. The severity of it ebbs and flows a bit but it's always there. The rich and powerful work very hard to make sure they have a lot of influence in affairs of state. Consequently, short of a revolution, you will never see laws of any significance that challenges that influence.
Good point, because we all know the Republicans were totally not in the back pockets of the copyright industry.
Thank you for your well reasoned response. Well done, sir.
Try not to create any robots that are going to take over the world.
lol, now show a list of all the hybrid concepts that have utterly failed. It's miles long. And keep in mind that some of your examples are pretty damn weak:
Hammer + crowbar: It's a mediocre crowbar. I've done a lot of demo work and a single purpose crowbar works much, much better.
MP3+Video player: It's just a media player. It's still serving one purpose.
Camera w/interchangeable lens: It's still designed for a single purpose: taking good pictures. Interchangeable lenses enable that.
Need I go on?
Wow, you may have actually found a useful niche for the Surface Pro. Thanks for the info.
The pry bar on a hammer is really only good for removing nails and minor demo work. You need a true pry/crow bar to get real work done. I say this as someone who has spent a lot of time doing demo work.
I've tried the Surface RT but not the Pro. The keyboard on the RT is good for what it is but it doesn't compare to a real keyboard.
The Surface Pro IS a laplet. The RT is a tablet.
Yeah, I get what you're saying with the corporate angle but most corps don't bother getting people iPads (unless they are salesmen or execs), so they can just issue a standard Windows laptop and call it done.
I agree but I think the presentation needs a lot of concrete examples of wasted money. Technical debt is very expensive but most managers don't really understand it and how it impacts their schedules, competitiveness, and the bottom line. All they know how to do is count features but they really need to understand software development more so they can make more informed decisions.
Hah...I guess we'll see.
Good points. Honestly, I wish them well because I think the more competition the better.
Skeletools (and the like) actually have a primary function: to be a portable tool kit and it does a good job of it. Would you try to fix your car with it? Fuck no. But it can be a nice tool on a camping trip where you cannot cart around 100lbs of tools with you (and would be overkill anyway).
I have played with the RT. I don't want to get into the RT because that's not what this thread is about. I'm glad that your happy with your new device.
As for your last statement, I guess we'll see what the market has to say about it soon enough.
I don't need a tablet that can run x86 apps. Users don't give a flying shit about "x86" they just give a shit about having good apps to run. iOS and Android already offer that in spades. And the Samsung Galaxy Note supports the stylus in ALL apps, not just specially written ones.
Apparently, you're not too hip on the tablet scene: http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/galaxynote/note_10.1/index.html?type=find
It's thinner, lighter, cheaper, has longer battery life, 3G, and is designed for use with a stylus, etc.
I think I already covered this argument.
USB drives and hard drives? What fucking century do you live in?? And pretty much everyone has a video out capability now (not that I've seen anyone ever use that feature before other than fucking around).
lol, lots of tablets have SD card slots dude. Have you ever googled an android tablet before?
And what are your needs? You mention all these features you want that the Surface Pro just happens to have but seriously, what is your job or hobby that requires these features? I'm having trouble envisioning it. I'm willing to say that it's possible that there's a small group of people the Surface Pro would be a good match for but I think it's a very, very small group. Congrats to you if you're one of them.
And FYI, that $899 does not include a keyboard. Feel free to tack on another $130.
Honestly, based on everything you've said, I find it hard to imagine how the the average consumer would choose a Surface Pro over a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1. Keep in mind, I'm not any kind of Samsung fanboy.
Oh, you think I'm just spewing what everyone else is saying? That's true but only because it is true. Here's why...
It's design sucks. A device can only be really good at one thing. This is not a new principle to design but pretty much the fucking foundation of industrial design.
Want more?
It's too heavy, expensive and crappy on battery power to be a good tablet, and it doesn't have a real keyboard or adequate screen size to make it a good laptop. Basically, they've built a "laplet" (or "tabtop", if you prefer). Unfortunately for Microsoft, nobody has ever asked for a laplet. This thing will fail even bigger than the Surface RT.
Like I said, it sucks. Even Microsoft is starting to realize it so they've already decided to drop the price by $100.
Except the MBA fucking rocks. It doesn't try to be a tablet and a laptop. It's a very light laptop, that's all it cares to be, and it's damn good at it.
The Surface Pro isn't good at anything.
This is why I will never write code at a bank. The dullest environment ever.
Holy shit! There's someone on the internet who actually gets it.
Wow, you're so fucking smart and knowledgeable that I'm too intimidated to respond. lol
How much client-side C++ is out there, you fucking moron? Argument over, you lose.
1) Fair point.
2) Fine, don't trust Fiddler either. Use Wireshark or similar tools. There's no rocket science involved here.
3) Blob? Are you referring to some encrypted transmission? It's pretty damn easy to detect adsense transmissions. There could just as easily be secret transmissions in any Firefox build as well since whoever is doing the build can inject anything they want in there. At the end of the day, you're still putting trust in some third-party to not steal your keystrokes or do whatever the hell they want. There's nothing unique to Chrome about this.
4) Same deal as 3. Of course, you can always just use Chromium if you don't trust RLZ.
Finally, I completely disagree with your assertion that we cannot know whether it's spyware. Keep in mind, I can easily make the same argument that we can never know whether Firefox is spyware. If someone really cares to research it and has a clue, they can figure it out. In short, it's unfair to declare that Chrome is some potentially evil spyware project while also questioning Firefox, or any other browser, or any other damn program for that matter.
Thanks for the FUD with absolutely no evidence to back it up.
So I guess Amazon, Mint, Netflix, and eBay are all slow, bloated POS? Yes, some of the largest websites in the world run on Java. Fucking deal with it. At minimum, don't be such a fucking pussy and state what language you think should be used by these large companies.
"That's right, the problem is the plugin that virtually no one uses which, according to Kaspersky, is responsible for at least 50% of infections on Windows..."
Do you have a source for that because I can't find anything to back it up other than your post.
It's a fair question. Java applets are similar to ActiveX plugins in that they have web apps access to system resources they would ordinarily not ever have access to but I don't hear anyone whining about ActiveX (which can do some seriously evil shit).
Like what? I'm curious what you're superior, unflawed language of choice is.
You are also clearly not a Java developer. I can state unequivocally that Java is very fast and reliable. I won't vouch for Java applets because like 99% of all Java developers, I write server-side Java. FYI...a good portion of the web runs on Java.
Good point because we all know that C++ is immune to security holes.