With some things, they just never learn. And sadly, this march is being led by Microsoft and the OEMs are beholden to their power. We had touchscreen in the 80s. Nobody wanted it then either.
At first I thought it sounded like a good idea. But let's think this through. How would they enforce it? The trolls will just use fake names. It would take an army of people just to verify the IDs. And even if they automated it, who would be willing to go to all that trouble to make a comment? Likely not many. Let's take it a step further and require ID to get online. Say goodbye to liberty and political dissent. It's the NSA's wet dream!
Seriously, what the fuck?! Companies that do shit like this are only going to hurt themselves in the PR department. Just STOP. You don't need to know every fucking thing about me. It's none of your fucking business.
Interesting idea, I like it. The problem I've seen with errors is that they are sensible to programmers but cryptic and meaningless to users. If you are writing errors, put them in plain English (or whatever language you're programming for).
True to a point, but I do very much like my 24" dual monitor setup with each at 16:9, 1920 x 1800 resolution. If I could get all that into one monitor, I'd still probably get 2 of 'em!
I'd like to see some real, hard facts to back up these assertions. The constant rhetoric from the "I'm the real geek" crowd on/. is that "most people" (grandma, sister, uncle Jim...) only care about looking at Facebook and YouTube and other than the occasional Word document, they can barely operate a computer. I think this meme is condescending and inaccurate. Sure, there are such folks, but I highly doubt they constitute the majority of PC users.
...which is why Apple's not advertising the capacity. It's probably only 128 or 256 GB. Spinning platters also last longer (I have a few going on 10+ years). Flash has that nasty problem where it can only take so many write cycles before it starts losing capacity. I have high hopes for flash but they've got some hurdles to overcome.
From my daily interactions with lots of customers, I venture to say that most people under the age of 50 don't even have a landline phone at home.Most people are using cellphones exclusively and it's illegal for pollsters to call them. This leaves out vast numbers of people that will never be asked their opinion on anything. Therefore, I don't give polls much credibility.
TFA contends that all smartphones & tablets sold are still in use. If you buy a new smartphone and throw away / recycle the old one, you don't get to count this as 2 smartphones in use.
Small stuff? Dell is America's #1 PC maker. They're #3 worldwide, behind HP and Lenovo. Granted, PCs aren't selling like they did 10 years ago because the market has matured (except in developing countries) and computers are so powerful that there is less incentive to replace them every 3-5 years like there was years back. Nevertheless, they still sell a LOT of PCs and I highly doubt they'd just throw that business away.
You'd be amazed by how many people still use AOL for their primary email account. They may be all they use it for but it ranks up there with yahoo, gmail, and hotmail.
People are waaaaay too paranoid these days. There is nothing sacred about your name and address. No one can steal your identity with it. If the email had your SSN or DOB in it, that would be different. But your name and address? If you have a landline phone, it's probably in a phone book and on numerous telephone directory websites and has been for years. Public court records have your name and address too. Nobody cares.
This AC needs to be modded up. WAY up. I once worked at a company that in 2004 was still using a DOS-based application for many of their core functions. Why? It was easy to maintain and modify and it got the job done - very well in fact. There's a lot to be learned from the old adage, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
Sounds like a lot of trouble for something that can be easily and more securely done with any several of free services like Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, Windows SkyDrive, Ubuntu One, etc.
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With some things, they just never learn. And sadly, this march is being led by Microsoft and the OEMs are beholden to their power. We had touchscreen in the 80s. Nobody wanted it then either.
At first I thought it sounded like a good idea. But let's think this through. How would they enforce it? The trolls will just use fake names. It would take an army of people just to verify the IDs. And even if they automated it, who would be willing to go to all that trouble to make a comment? Likely not many. Let's take it a step further and require ID to get online. Say goodbye to liberty and political dissent. It's the NSA's wet dream!
This. 100 times.
Seriously, what the fuck?! Companies that do shit like this are only going to hurt themselves in the PR department. Just STOP. You don't need to know every fucking thing about me. It's none of your fucking business.
I think this is what MS should have done in the first place. Make the damned thing capable of running Android applications. How hard can that be?
They've been quite busy destroying Windows so they will no longer be needed. Tearing down walls is just the next logical step.
Interesting idea, I like it. The problem I've seen with errors is that they are sensible to programmers but cryptic and meaningless to users. If you are writing errors, put them in plain English (or whatever language you're programming for).
True to a point, but I do very much like my 24" dual monitor setup with each at 16:9, 1920 x 1800 resolution. If I could get all that into one monitor, I'd still probably get 2 of 'em!
I'd like to see some real, hard facts to back up these assertions. The constant rhetoric from the "I'm the real geek" crowd on /. is that "most people" (grandma, sister, uncle Jim...) only care about looking at Facebook and YouTube and other than the occasional Word document, they can barely operate a computer. I think this meme is condescending and inaccurate. Sure, there are such folks, but I highly doubt they constitute the majority of PC users.
...which is why Apple's not advertising the capacity. It's probably only 128 or 256 GB. Spinning platters also last longer (I have a few going on 10+ years). Flash has that nasty problem where it can only take so many write cycles before it starts losing capacity. I have high hopes for flash but they've got some hurdles to overcome.
From my daily interactions with lots of customers, I venture to say that most people under the age of 50 don't even have a landline phone at home.Most people are using cellphones exclusively and it's illegal for pollsters to call them. This leaves out vast numbers of people that will never be asked their opinion on anything. Therefore, I don't give polls much credibility.
TFA contends that all smartphones & tablets sold are still in use. If you buy a new smartphone and throw away / recycle the old one, you don't get to count this as 2 smartphones in use.
This dude has balls of steel and I think deserves our help. If a fund is established, I'll gladly chip in a few bucks.
From TFA:
Dropbox, the cloud storage and synchronization service, is described as “coming soon.”
I'm very dependent on Dropbox but I just might have to cancel it. As I type this, I'm already cancelling GoogleDrive, and MS SkyDrive.
Small stuff? Dell is America's #1 PC maker. They're #3 worldwide, behind HP and Lenovo. Granted, PCs aren't selling like they did 10 years ago because the market has matured (except in developing countries) and computers are so powerful that there is less incentive to replace them every 3-5 years like there was years back. Nevertheless, they still sell a LOT of PCs and I highly doubt they'd just throw that business away.
So you'd shut down the #1 PC maker in the US (#3 worldwide) because.....?
I almost never agree with anything the Obama admin. does but when I do, I'm happy to give kudos.
You'd be amazed by how many people still use AOL for their primary email account. They may be all they use it for but it ranks up there with yahoo, gmail, and hotmail.
Actually they're still the #3 maker of PCs so I wouldn't be so quick to write their obit. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_share_of_personal_computer_vendors
I wonder how big, in terms of storage, is the server farm to maintain this monstrosity.
People are waaaaay too paranoid these days. There is nothing sacred about your name and address. No one can steal your identity with it. If the email had your SSN or DOB in it, that would be different. But your name and address? If you have a landline phone, it's probably in a phone book and on numerous telephone directory websites and has been for years. Public court records have your name and address too. Nobody cares.
Maybe that's one of the reasons why it flopped?
This AC needs to be modded up. WAY up. I once worked at a company that in 2004 was still using a DOS-based application for many of their core functions. Why? It was easy to maintain and modify and it got the job done - very well in fact. There's a lot to be learned from the old adage, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
Sounds like a lot of trouble for something that can be easily and more securely done with any several of free services like Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, Windows SkyDrive, Ubuntu One, etc.
True this. Wish I had some mod points right now, AC or not.