I don't want the iPad to fail, I just get tired of hearing how it's a laptop replacement. No it isn't, not even close. My laptop cost me £199. For that I get a 11in screen that doesn't have to share any real estate with an on screen keyboard. It has a general purpose OS that I can install what I please on it and I can use it for remote working. Its battery life is about 7 hours which isn't quite as good as the iPad but is still fine for daily use. Yes, yes I can carry a bluetooth keyboard and mouse around with me which suggests to me that you have more money than sense, given that the iPad costs at least £449 and the peripherals cost another £20 each on top of that. If I wanted something more than a netbook I could get a decent sized laptop for the same price as the iPad 2 that absolutely wipes the floor with it on performance and flexibility. I could also buy the eeePad Transformer and get the best of both worlds, not that I'd be prepared to pay that much for something only slightly more powerful than my Aspire One.
The iPad is cool. It's great for simple games and content consumption, and there are plenty of single purpose business tasks it's ideal for, but as a laptop replacement - don't be fucking stupid.
I see plenty of "odd duck luzers" on the train typing easily on their full sized tactile keyboard that doesn't wipe out part of the screen real estate when it's used. I see very few iPad owners doing anything except reading an iBook or watching a video. I have seen someone typing on one. He wasn't doing it very quickly and was probably thinking "I wish I had a real keyboard".
My laptop has all those things and cost less than your tablet. I can do everything on it that I can with your tablet without having to carry around an extra keyboard and decent sized screen. I have 500GB of built-in SATA storage not slow ass USB2, a dual core processor running at 1.66Ghz, 2GB of RAM, the ability to burn DVDs, the ability to connect to another screen and an ability to play much more demanding games than Angry Birds or some Doom clone. It's 3.5 years old. I can also get a new laptop for the same price as I paid for this one which will wipe the floor with your yuppie toy. So why would I want a giant iPod that is massively inconvenient for doing anything other than playing touchscreen games and consuming content when I can have a computer for the same money.
I thought it was slang for wearing something in a cool way (which I don't like either) that's why I asked. I'm old, I don't get what these young folk are talking about, usually because I don't hear them properly.
Because the more we know about everything, the easier it is to make things that do benefit us. It's impossible to say how this benefits us now but knowing more about how our universe works is always useful. Trying to put a dollar value on knowledge means we'll move more slowly than if we just try and understand it all and let genuises take the bits they need to make things better for all of us.
It is sarcasm but still believable. The gullibility of IT illiterate decision makers when schmoozed by weasels in an Armani suits is the stuff of legends. The scariest words you'll ever hear in IT are "that will take too long we'll buy a package". Run away screaming the second the words are uttered.
I'm an ex-COBOL man myself and although I have come across "that's the way we've always done it", the majority of places (13 I think) that I worked in wanted to try new stuff as much as possible, especially after Y2K. I never worked anywhere where there wasn't online terminal based software where a batch approach would be impossible to do and the last place I worked had a website that used MQSeries to get information from the CICS backend.
Speaking personally I've gone from COBOL to VBA to C# and ASP.NET at the grand old age of 40 without too much trouble, and although some people might pretend that there's some similarities, there really is no comparison beyond standard language features between batch and CICS COBOL and web development.
A picture, an MP3 or a video from the net perhaps. Like I do all the time on my £300 cheaper netbook. I'm sure there's lots of uses for tablets but not one where someone else tells me what I can put on it.
The mainframe hasn't been all batch since about 1973 when CICS was released and I've worked in several places that used MQSeries. You must have worked at some odd places. I hear you on the spaghetti code front, but if any of the systems written now survives 30 years I bet they'll be just as bad.
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Jesus, just what we don't need - an interstellar version of Sarah Palin.
I don't want the iPad to fail, I just get tired of hearing how it's a laptop replacement. No it isn't, not even close. My laptop cost me £199. For that I get a 11in screen that doesn't have to share any real estate with an on screen keyboard. It has a general purpose OS that I can install what I please on it and I can use it for remote working. Its battery life is about 7 hours which isn't quite as good as the iPad but is still fine for daily use. Yes, yes I can carry a bluetooth keyboard and mouse around with me which suggests to me that you have more money than sense, given that the iPad costs at least £449 and the peripherals cost another £20 each on top of that. If I wanted something more than a netbook I could get a decent sized laptop for the same price as the iPad 2 that absolutely wipes the floor with it on performance and flexibility. I could also buy the eeePad Transformer and get the best of both worlds, not that I'd be prepared to pay that much for something only slightly more powerful than my Aspire One.
The iPad is cool. It's great for simple games and content consumption, and there are plenty of single purpose business tasks it's ideal for, but as a laptop replacement - don't be fucking stupid.
I see plenty of "odd duck luzers" on the train typing easily on their full sized tactile keyboard that doesn't wipe out part of the screen real estate when it's used. I see very few iPad owners doing anything except reading an iBook or watching a video. I have seen someone typing on one. He wasn't doing it very quickly and was probably thinking "I wish I had a real keyboard".
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Like this you mean?
My laptop has all those things and cost less than your tablet. I can do everything on it that I can with your tablet without having to carry around an extra keyboard and decent sized screen. I have 500GB of built-in SATA storage not slow ass USB2, a dual core processor running at 1.66Ghz, 2GB of RAM, the ability to burn DVDs, the ability to connect to another screen and an ability to play much more demanding games than Angry Birds or some Doom clone. It's 3.5 years old. I can also get a new laptop for the same price as I paid for this one which will wipe the floor with your yuppie toy. So why would I want a giant iPod that is massively inconvenient for doing anything other than playing touchscreen games and consuming content when I can have a computer for the same money.
So I would have to pay more for two devices that are less capable than my laptop. Where do I sign?
Try reading the post above mine - it might give you a hint.
And yet somehow this guy managed to obtain several firearms legally. I'd say our gun rights are still there.
When were our "gun rights" taken away?
If units sold means a better product then Britney Spears is one of the best musicians in the world.
An Australian once summed it up perfectly: "Thank God we got the criminals and not the puritans".
I thought it was slang for wearing something in a cool way (which I don't like either) that's why I asked. I'm old, I don't get what these young folk are talking about, usually because I don't hear them properly.
Rocking? What does that even mean?
Because the more we know about everything, the easier it is to make things that do benefit us. It's impossible to say how this benefits us now but knowing more about how our universe works is always useful. Trying to put a dollar value on knowledge means we'll move more slowly than if we just try and understand it all and let genuises take the bits they need to make things better for all of us.
Performant isn't a real word.
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It is sarcasm but still believable. The gullibility of IT illiterate decision makers when schmoozed by weasels in an Armani suits is the stuff of legends. The scariest words you'll ever hear in IT are "that will take too long we'll buy a package". Run away screaming the second the words are uttered.
No-one supports Linux commercially? When did that happen?
Because of course people like that care where the money comes from.
Imagine expecting businesses to give a shit about their customers' personal information.
I'm an ex-COBOL man myself and although I have come across "that's the way we've always done it", the majority of places (13 I think) that I worked in wanted to try new stuff as much as possible, especially after Y2K. I never worked anywhere where there wasn't online terminal based software where a batch approach would be impossible to do and the last place I worked had a website that used MQSeries to get information from the CICS backend.
Speaking personally I've gone from COBOL to VBA to C# and ASP.NET at the grand old age of 40 without too much trouble, and although some people might pretend that there's some similarities, there really is no comparison beyond standard language features between batch and CICS COBOL and web development.
Lack of sex, even meaningless sex, is very bad for someone's mental health too.
A picture, an MP3 or a video from the net perhaps. Like I do all the time on my £300 cheaper netbook. I'm sure there's lots of uses for tablets but not one where someone else tells me what I can put on it.
The mainframe hasn't been all batch since about 1973 when CICS was released and I've worked in several places that used MQSeries. You must have worked at some odd places. I hear you on the spaghetti code front, but if any of the systems written now survives 30 years I bet they'll be just as bad.