In debate or rhetoric, a slippery slope (also known as thin end of the wedge - or sometimes "edge" in US English - or the camel's nose) is a classic form of argument, arguably an informal fallacy.
What's more, when Windows pukes on itself and the non-power user takes it to "my computer friend" who proceeds to want nothing more to do with it since no rescue discs will work
There should be less need for a "rescue disc" with the "refresh" feature of Windows 8. It wipes the Windows folder and reinstalls any Metro style applications obtained from the Windows Store.
When Windows pukes on itself, it's often not bootable so accessing the "refresh" feature may not always be possible.
No-one wants to pay the Apple tax so they can run Linux on an iPad. Windows tablets would be the cheap end of the market where installing another OS is a sane option... except Microsoft are prohibiting that.
Except that Android tablets are the cheap end of the market (well, some of them are), and already ARE Linux.
Metro apps are allowed to be native code. I can't imagine anyone deciding to make a native Metro app and only compile an ARM version, but it is allowed.
Copyright is simple. Do you have permission to copy it? Maybe, I'm not sure... then you possibly can't copy it. It isn't complicated. Does it last too long? yes, but it isn't complicated.
Because slashdotters have an irrational hatred of all things sony.
Please don't assume that just because somebody hates Sony it's irrational. For example, let's talk about Lik Sang
That's a poor example, Sony had every right to target mod chips that circumvented their DRM. OtherOS removal via firmware update on the other hand even though it was an advertised feature was completely inappropriate.
OMFG, how many times do I have to hear this shit? You fanboys have been bleating this shit for the entire 2 years of windows phone's existence. Just need marketing, just need Mango, Just need Nokia.
Yeah WP is a flop, because Nokia was selling so awesome in the US before that.
Are you retarded? I didn't say the word Nokia one single time in my post.
Except Intel doesn't support VT-d on their flagship K series chips... you need the lower end chips to get it. Intels product differentiation makes little to no sense, and their inconsistent support for VT-x caused a hell of a lot of problems with XP mode on Windows 7 when it was released.
That's good news for the customers, because in order to penetrate the market Microsoft will throw shitloads of money at the development of their new hardware toys and essentially give them away underpriced and possibly at a loss.
If this occurs, then Microsoft has every reason to properly secure the bootloader, so that running other OSs is absolutely impossible.
No device can ever be "secure", and running your own code can never be "absolutely impossible" so long as it is in the hands of consumers...
Besides, Microsoft already made money on the tablet even if you do use it for Linux so it's still a profit for them.
The premise in this thread is that Microsoft may happily make a loss on the hardware to get more marketshare (they did so with the Xbox) so they'd be losing money with minimal benefit if people were buying it to run Linux.
Seriously, there is no reason at all to go amd right now.
I went AMD very recently when building a cheap home server, because AMD motherboards tend to have higher SATA port counts on consumer level hardware. They also don't make a habit of over-zealously disabling key features from the CPU like Intel does to differentiate their pricing structure (the lack of VT-X bit me pretty hard when my P7450 laptop arrived, and Intel documentation hadn't been released indicating the lack of VT-X at the time I purchased it). The Intel CPUs are faster, but that didn't mean much to me when the motherboard only has 2 SATA3 ports, and 2 maybe 4 SATA2 ports.
That may have been the original point, but these days RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks as they're most commonly used for uptime and performance using expensive equipment.
Spinrite doesn't appear to work on drives larger than 500GB as it uses a 16bit integer to count the number of cylinders. I'm in the process right now of trying to get data off one of my dying WD15EARS drives, and have confirmed that crash right when the cylinder count rolls over. HDD Regenerator seems to run, but has wrong numbers in the sector counts because it (apparently) uses signed 32bit integers.
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here's their ad: (in giant letters) "IT'S JUST NOT AS COOL."
"directly contrary to our previous position that they were basically identical" ...but hey if a judge says they aren't as cool...
"Some guy in a fancy wig just ruled that Samsung didn't copy the iPad, because the iPad is cooler. Guilty as charged!
Guilty as charged? Lol, you idiot, Apple are the ones complaining Samsung products look like theirs and have been saying it for years.
They were suggesting that Apple are claiming to be guilty of being cooler than Samsung.
Other than some specific OneNote and Lync ports, I'm pretty sure that it is not compatible with Metro.
Except it doesn't work with the Metro interface.
In debate or rhetoric, a slippery slope (also known as thin end of the wedge - or sometimes "edge" in US English - or the camel's nose) is a classic form of argument, arguably an informal fallacy.
Since when was that argument settled?
What's more, when Windows pukes on itself and the non-power user takes it to "my computer friend" who proceeds to want nothing more to do with it since no rescue discs will work
There should be less need for a "rescue disc" with the "refresh" feature of Windows 8. It wipes the Windows folder and reinstalls any Metro style applications obtained from the Windows Store.
When Windows pukes on itself, it's often not bootable so accessing the "refresh" feature may not always be possible.
No-one wants to pay the Apple tax so they can run Linux on an iPad. Windows tablets would be the cheap end of the market where installing another OS is a sane option... except Microsoft are prohibiting that.
Except that Android tablets are the cheap end of the market (well, some of them are), and already ARE Linux.
Metro apps are allowed to be native code. I can't imagine anyone deciding to make a native Metro app and only compile an ARM version, but it is allowed.
Copyright is simple. Do you have permission to copy it? Maybe, I'm not sure... then you possibly can't copy it. It isn't complicated. Does it last too long? yes, but it isn't complicated.
FTFY
How is any leveraging occurring? The ARM version of Windows 8 won't run anything written for x86.
Metro. They're leveraging the desktop install base to get some momentum for Metro developers so the tablets actually have stuff worth installing.
It's mostly true for the ARM versions. The x86 versions however are allowed to be unlocked by the user.
Because slashdotters have an irrational hatred of all things sony.
Please don't assume that just because somebody hates Sony it's irrational. For example, let's talk about Lik Sang
That's a poor example, Sony had every right to target mod chips that circumvented their DRM. OtherOS removal via firmware update on the other hand even though it was an advertised feature was completely inappropriate.
I think they were talking about hardware upgrades.
OMFG, how many times do I have to hear this shit? You fanboys have been bleating this shit for the entire 2 years of windows phone's existence. Just need marketing, just need Mango, Just need Nokia.
Yeah WP is a flop, because Nokia was selling so awesome in the US before that.
Are you retarded? I didn't say the word Nokia one single time in my post.
Uh... yeah you did.
Would you be ok with windows 7 ONLY working on 1080P screens?
If it means the death of the crappy 1366x768 LCD panels, 1000 times YES!
I've never heard of either of these guys or their shitty sites, before all this, so I really couldn't care less.
If you've never heard of them how do you know they're shitty?
They've heard of them now.
It probably runs on OS X too since AutoCAD runs there.
Well in manufacturing you may be correct but in construction AutoDesk is still a top dog.
AutoCad is far from top dog. Compared to tools like Revit, it is just a dog. I'll never go back.
Revit is made by Autodesk.
Except Intel doesn't support VT-d on their flagship K series chips... you need the lower end chips to get it. Intels product differentiation makes little to no sense, and their inconsistent support for VT-x caused a hell of a lot of problems with XP mode on Windows 7 when it was released.
No, but if there's a race condition that occurs once in a blue moon, the cumulative probability of trouble can increase monotonically with time.
And how is an upgrade supposed to fix that?
In an ideal world, updates fix bugs such as race conditions.
That's good news for the customers, because in order to penetrate the market Microsoft will throw shitloads of money at the development of their new hardware toys and essentially give them away underpriced and possibly at a loss.
If this occurs, then Microsoft has every reason to properly secure the bootloader, so that running other OSs is absolutely impossible.
No device can ever be "secure", and running your own code can never be "absolutely impossible" so long as it is in the hands of consumers...
Besides, Microsoft already made money on the tablet even if you do use it for Linux so it's still a profit for them.
The premise in this thread is that Microsoft may happily make a loss on the hardware to get more marketshare (they did so with the Xbox) so they'd be losing money with minimal benefit if people were buying it to run Linux.
There is not and never has been a "silver bullet" for anything much less security.
Except, of course, for an actual bullet made of silver.
Seriously, there is no reason at all to go amd right now.
I went AMD very recently when building a cheap home server, because AMD motherboards tend to have higher SATA port counts on consumer level hardware. They also don't make a habit of over-zealously disabling key features from the CPU like Intel does to differentiate their pricing structure (the lack of VT-X bit me pretty hard when my P7450 laptop arrived, and Intel documentation hadn't been released indicating the lack of VT-X at the time I purchased it). The Intel CPUs are faster, but that didn't mean much to me when the motherboard only has 2 SATA3 ports, and 2 maybe 4 SATA2 ports.
You should check out the Vaio Z with the Power Media Dock.
That may have been the original point, but these days RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks as they're most commonly used for uptime and performance using expensive equipment.
Spinrite doesn't appear to work on drives larger than 500GB as it uses a 16bit integer to count the number of cylinders. I'm in the process right now of trying to get data off one of my dying WD15EARS drives, and have confirmed that crash right when the cylinder count rolls over. HDD Regenerator seems to run, but has wrong numbers in the sector counts because it (apparently) uses signed 32bit integers.