I think you nailed it. "Welp, we expected a huge backlash for running ads on our paid service that Sony gives away for free... but somehow we got away with it! Let's do the bait and switch with our desktop market and see how well it works there"
I'm sure there'll be a third party plugin to disable it on the PC side, but if even 1% of users don't install said plugin, Microsoft comes out way ahead. Not that I agree with this idea...
A strong case for this would be the "docking station port" found on the bottom of many business class laptops today from Lenovo, Dell and HP. It's also found on the bottom of the SNES, N64 and Gamecube. The one on the gamecube in particular is used to connect GBAs to the Gamecube as a gamepad.
Gou and Foxcon might be using the word robot but in the majority of instances it is not what most people would consider a robot. Simply an electro-mechanical device design to complete a pre-defined task, rather than be multitasking to complete a range of variable actions.
I think you're confusing Android with Robot. C-3P0 would not be the ideal device to assemble iPods and iPads; you need specialized grip tools for the glass, frame, wires and everything else. They're also not moving from the assembly line, except to rotate and swap out tool bits, grip tools etc as products coming down the line change. Welding robots in car factories are larger versions of what will be assembling your motherboard or flat panel display in the future, and there's hundreds of models available and more in development with anywhere from one to four arms.
The Win8 start screen is a tectonic shift, it's not even a menu, it's dual booting in to Windows RT world. People doing real work don't want their workflow interrupted by going to another screen just to open a new instance of notepad or the command line, they want a menu they can access, preferably without looking at.
The difference between the w2k and xp start menu is minimal in comparison.
I use google docs for all my personal documents, and save local copies for anything important. RDPing in to my work machine is easier than maintaining two sets of work documents on two machines. If you work in a regulated industry or for the government any files stored on the machine are cannidates for auditing by the government, I don't reccomend mixing work and home documents.
A lot of people remote desktop in from home to their work machine. It's not commonplace now, but about 1 in 10 people I know (friends, parents etc) have had that capability in at least one previous job, generally larger corporations.
Why install office when you can just access it from your work machine at home? My job gave me a full copy of Office, but I've never installed it because it's faster to just RDP in to work rather than clutter up my PC with 12GB of office crap just to be able to use Word and Excel three times a year.
Most people just need a thin client to access Facebook/Gmail/Amazon.com/Pintrest, Youtube and the 2-3 specialty sites, pay bills and let junior type up his book report. The needs of people who post here are vastly different from 95% of the population.
An Android device the size of a thumb drive that plugs in to the back of their living room TV and works with their bluetooth keyboard/mouse is more powerful than many people will ever need.
Perhaps it's a rebranded copy of FRAPS, out whatever third part equivalent? If it is driver level, it'll be nice to see a standard way to output video for services like ustream or corporate users like webex out gotomeeting instead of some goofy Java setup through the browser.
Now that AMD powers all three consoles, it's likely that windows and BSD drivers will improve. Recompiling a BSD ps4 game for the Linux stream console probably will be less difficult than it has been in the past.
Are the Koch brothers secretly bankrolling Linus Torvalds??? I submitted several patches to the linux kernel, where do I apply for my Open Source payout? Is there a form?
Pretty much every app has 2.2.x support simply due to the massive installed base, and the fact that they keep rolling out 2.x.x phones in emerging markets.
Google "lenovo thinkpad t430s" and see what comes up. It's not common, but they exist on the high end. I don't think you're going to see a low end laptop with an expensive to implement port on it.
Many laptops have standardized on a 20v power input, HP Dell and Lenovo all run on 20V DC, 3.5-6A generally for a 15" workstation. I think HP and Lenovo use a standard Barrel connector, but Dell changes every so often. The actual brick is compatible however. Some netbooks were 19v (HP mini in particular) but generally they will take 20v as well.
Aftermarket laptop power adapters are cheeeeeeap. Like, $10 for commodity, $20 for name brand. I picked up a 12v car adapter for my Thinkpad for $20 shipped.
So if Slashdot posts a link to hardcore porn, it's my fault that I clicked on it thinking that link would be work safe? Slashdot is dominated by people who work in IT, if it's users can't trust the site to post only work safe links, they're going to lose a lot of traffic that their paying advertisers are targeting. Other "work safe" news sites avoid directly linking to social websites without explicitly saying so for this exact reason.
Great, I unwittingly clicked on a link to facebook from the office. I can't wait to explain this in triplicate to IT Security. Can we label these links better?
You can't even log off Windows 8 from the desktop without resorting to the command line. It's a very different OS and they've moved quite a bit of core functionality around.
Until about 2005 my mother (bless her heart) thought that the CRT* was the "computer" and the computer case was simply an extension, or power supply, or just a hub to plug everything in to. The "computer" had the start button on it, which she could use to access AOL and that was really her entire concern. If Intel or ExxonMobile or Microsoft was the company in charge of her Start Button, that didn't really matter to her as long as she could use it to reliably launch AOL. If you'd given her Windows 8 with AOL preinstalled she would have given it back to you saying it was broken or unusable, and the salesperson at Best Buy certainly couldn't sell her one loaded with Win8.
*legacy hardware at the dawn of the flat panel era
Agricultural and industrial processes use freshwater on a scale that dwarfs direct human consumption. The Americans shipped Ice to the Caribbean in the 1800s and 1900s and water is supplied on relief ships for disaster areas but I don't think water is shipped in large scale regularly. Many places run a reverse osmosis plant instead.
Most countries don't have paved roads (certainly not larger than a 2 lane country road) that run their length or width. Manaus, a major Brazilian port is only accessible by air and sea for most of the year (rainy season). The concept of a national highway system outside of the US and Europe is virtually unknown.
I missed my plane out of Colombia last year due to a mudslide on the largest road between the two largest cities (8 million and 3 million) in the country, it was one lane in each direction. This is pretty common...
It's a lot easier to fence a laptop, cell phone, digital projector, petty cash, company credit card or whatever other sales materials/samples a business traveler might have in their car, than driving an entire car (and it's easily traceable serial numbers) back to a chop shop. Plus you have to go back (taxi?) to the scene of the crime to get your car. The logistics just don't make sense.
SpaceX was founded in 2002. In 10 years they had designed and built two different rockets (Falcon 1, Falcon 9) and three (soon to be four) different production revisions of their engine. Their total R&D cost was under a billion dollars.
Given what's known about SpaceX's manufacturing techniques it's not at all implausible that Mexico or Brazil would start up their own state sponsored orbital company. The rest of BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) already have their own highly active space programs. India should have a man in space no later than 2020.
Access to space, and the plans to get there, are getting cheaper and more accessible.
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I think you nailed it. "Welp, we expected a huge backlash for running ads on our paid service that Sony gives away for free... but somehow we got away with it! Let's do the bait and switch with our desktop market and see how well it works there"
I'm sure there'll be a third party plugin to disable it on the PC side, but if even 1% of users don't install said plugin, Microsoft comes out way ahead. Not that I agree with this idea...
A strong case for this would be the "docking station port" found on the bottom of many business class laptops today from Lenovo, Dell and HP. It's also found on the bottom of the SNES, N64 and Gamecube. The one on the gamecube in particular is used to connect GBAs to the Gamecube as a gamepad.
The downside to this is that it creates a permanent underclass of welfare recipients. Britain is a prime example of this emerging trend.
I think you're confusing Android with Robot. C-3P0 would not be the ideal device to assemble iPods and iPads; you need specialized grip tools for the glass, frame, wires and everything else. They're also not moving from the assembly line, except to rotate and swap out tool bits, grip tools etc as products coming down the line change. Welding robots in car factories are larger versions of what will be assembling your motherboard or flat panel display in the future, and there's hundreds of models available and more in development with anywhere from one to four arms.
The Win8 start screen is a tectonic shift, it's not even a menu, it's dual booting in to Windows RT world. People doing real work don't want their workflow interrupted by going to another screen just to open a new instance of notepad or the command line, they want a menu they can access, preferably without looking at.
The difference between the w2k and xp start menu is minimal in comparison.
Of there's a commercial need, generally there's an app for viewing it as an end user.
I use google docs for all my personal documents, and save local copies for anything important. RDPing in to my work machine is easier than maintaining two sets of work documents on two machines. If you work in a regulated industry or for the government any files stored on the machine are cannidates for auditing by the government, I don't reccomend mixing work and home documents.
A lot of people remote desktop in from home to their work machine. It's not commonplace now, but about 1 in 10 people I know (friends, parents etc) have had that capability in at least one previous job, generally larger corporations.
Why install office when you can just access it from your work machine at home? My job gave me a full copy of Office, but I've never installed it because it's faster to just RDP in to work rather than clutter up my PC with 12GB of office crap just to be able to use Word and Excel three times a year.
Most people just need a thin client to access Facebook/Gmail/Amazon.com/Pintrest, Youtube and the 2-3 specialty sites, pay bills and let junior type up his book report. The needs of people who post here are vastly different from 95% of the population.
An Android device the size of a thumb drive that plugs in to the back of their living room TV and works with their bluetooth keyboard/mouse is more powerful than many people will ever need.
Perhaps it's a rebranded copy of FRAPS, out whatever third part equivalent? If it is driver level, it'll be nice to see a standard way to output video for services like ustream or corporate users like webex out gotomeeting instead of some goofy Java setup through the browser.
Now that AMD powers all three consoles, it's likely that windows and BSD drivers will improve. Recompiling a BSD ps4 game for the Linux stream console probably will be less difficult than it has been in the past.
I'll still be buying NVidia this round as well.
Are the Koch brothers secretly bankrolling Linus Torvalds??? I submitted several patches to the linux kernel, where do I apply for my Open Source payout? Is there a form?
Pretty much every app has 2.2.x support simply due to the massive installed base, and the fact that they keep rolling out 2.x.x phones in emerging markets.
It's the Windows XP of the mobile world.
Google "lenovo thinkpad t430s" and see what comes up. It's not common, but they exist on the high end. I don't think you're going to see a low end laptop with an expensive to implement port on it.
Many laptops have standardized on a 20v power input, HP Dell and Lenovo all run on 20V DC, 3.5-6A generally for a 15" workstation. I think HP and Lenovo use a standard Barrel connector, but Dell changes every so often. The actual brick is compatible however. Some netbooks were 19v (HP mini in particular) but generally they will take 20v as well.
Aftermarket laptop power adapters are cheeeeeeap. Like, $10 for commodity, $20 for name brand. I picked up a 12v car adapter for my Thinkpad for $20 shipped.
So if Slashdot posts a link to hardcore porn, it's my fault that I clicked on it thinking that link would be work safe? Slashdot is dominated by people who work in IT, if it's users can't trust the site to post only work safe links, they're going to lose a lot of traffic that their paying advertisers are targeting. Other "work safe" news sites avoid directly linking to social websites without explicitly saying so for this exact reason.
Great, I unwittingly clicked on a link to facebook from the office. I can't wait to explain this in triplicate to IT Security. Can we label these links better?
I think the Iranians have the beat on wine beat by a couple hundred years at least
You can't even log off Windows 8 from the desktop without resorting to the command line. It's a very different OS and they've moved quite a bit of core functionality around.
Until about 2005 my mother (bless her heart) thought that the CRT* was the "computer" and the computer case was simply an extension, or power supply, or just a hub to plug everything in to. The "computer" had the start button on it, which she could use to access AOL and that was really her entire concern. If Intel or ExxonMobile or Microsoft was the company in charge of her Start Button, that didn't really matter to her as long as she could use it to reliably launch AOL. If you'd given her Windows 8 with AOL preinstalled she would have given it back to you saying it was broken or unusable, and the salesperson at Best Buy certainly couldn't sell her one loaded with Win8.
*legacy hardware at the dawn of the flat panel era
Agricultural and industrial processes use freshwater on a scale that dwarfs direct human consumption. The Americans shipped Ice to the Caribbean in the 1800s and 1900s and water is supplied on relief ships for disaster areas but I don't think water is shipped in large scale regularly. Many places run a reverse osmosis plant instead.
Most countries don't have paved roads (certainly not larger than a 2 lane country road) that run their length or width. Manaus, a major Brazilian port is only accessible by air and sea for most of the year (rainy season). The concept of a national highway system outside of the US and Europe is virtually unknown.
I missed my plane out of Colombia last year due to a mudslide on the largest road between the two largest cities (8 million and 3 million) in the country, it was one lane in each direction. This is pretty common...
You still need to physically open the door? Presumably the device can be activated with the off hand.
It's a lot easier to fence a laptop, cell phone, digital projector, petty cash, company credit card or whatever other sales materials/samples a business traveler might have in their car, than driving an entire car (and it's easily traceable serial numbers) back to a chop shop. Plus you have to go back (taxi?) to the scene of the crime to get your car. The logistics just don't make sense.
SpaceX was founded in 2002. In 10 years they had designed and built two different rockets (Falcon 1, Falcon 9) and three (soon to be four) different production revisions of their engine. Their total R&D cost was under a billion dollars.
Given what's known about SpaceX's manufacturing techniques it's not at all implausible that Mexico or Brazil would start up their own state sponsored orbital company. The rest of BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) already have their own highly active space programs. India should have a man in space no later than 2020.
Access to space, and the plans to get there, are getting cheaper and more accessible.