I don't fully agree: 1- keyboard typing is handled, but not keyboard shortcuts, and we need them handled in a standard way. 2- same for the mouse: right-clicking, drag and drop... are missing 3- multitasking is not really handled, in that the user has no control on what keeps running or not. I need to be able to "sticky" an app. 4- maybe windowing as such is not needed, but at least a quick way to alt-tab between active, full-screen apps.
this is only part of the equation. ARM have a simpler, more efficient architecture, a licensing model, an ecosystem (radios, OSes...) that Intel lacks.
Built myself a PC to play WoW 3 months ago. Went with the high-end Llano, no discrete graphics required. An Intel setup would have required a graphics card, larger base (mini-itx MB), and more money. For most users that are also *casual* gamers (not hard-core), AMD's CPU/GPU balance saves a graphics cards while providing sufficient CPU power.
I honestly wouldn't bother with a complicated setup, just buy a cheap or second-tablet tablet (double-check it supports Skype though), and wall-mount it. Lots of secondary uses, too.
I used to have both Mini and Mobile on my phone, back when data contracts were expensive (I pay $40 for 3GB these days). On O.Mini, most "desktop version" sites are at least not fully functional, often plain unusable. On O.Mobile, most "desktop" sites are fine.
Opera Mini is not a full browser. It uses Opera's servers which send it a simplified HTML-like page, but not a fll one. Pugins and Javascript don't really work. The true Opera browser for mobile devices is Opera Mobile.
No they don't. If you don't have an off-line, off-site backup of your data, you'll lose it. It's not a matter of "if", but of "when". Causes of loss can be software (bugs, viruses), hardware (drive failure), user (error or sabotage), environmental (fire, flood, over-current...). Only an off-line, off-site, backup protects you from all that.
Another one: sexy studs with an artificial V shape and padded muscles, crotch-highlighting pants, and bum-lifting underwear (the equivalent of womens' high heels).
I'm kinda the I guy for family and friends, recommending, installing, building, fixing... PCs I've been trying out Linux every year or so for the past 10 years, and here's why I still can't use it and wont recommend it: - Install not reliable. Only last year, Ubuntu's Grub2 couldn't handle being the only bootloader on a 100% linux AMD-chipset PC. I'm sure I ran into a weird bug yadda-yadda, except same PC was perfectly OK in Windows. Spent 4 week ends discussing the issue with the dev, who seemed nice enough, but in the end I wanted to actually use that machine, so I reinstalled WIndows. Also, configuring 2 different-size monitors doesn't seem to be easy. - Missing apps. Sorry, but about 2/3rds of users need MS Office. Not Libre, not anything else. Import-export filters just aren't good enough yet. - Broken stuff. As my own personnal PC, I use a dual-screen setup, with the best monitor on the right, and a junk one on the left. I need the menu bar on the right side of the rightmost screen. Ubuntu won't let me do that. Switching their wierd new UI off, I can get a right-side menu.. but it's written sideways. - no docs. In the end, I just have one ARM nettop running linux right now. Took me about a month to set it up, helped by a guy who knew how to recompile kernels and apps. And it's still not 100% to my taste, because man pages are out of synch with what's actually delivered with the PC, and looking for info online usually returns results not relevants to my version (got me to set "screens" instead of "tmux", nowhere showing how to autolaunch a daemon in a foreground screen in Upstart... etc, etc..). Cnfig files are all over the place, sometimes litterally in several places at once, gonna guess which one is actually used. - not reliable. This one gonna hurt most, but my Linux PC segfaults several times a week, while my Windows 7 PCs have crashed I think twice since 7's release, and I have 3 of them. - battery life on laptops. for some reason, my nettop lasts several hours less under Linux (I think it has debian), than under Windows.
First, Depends on where you choose to place your standards. Mine include standard ports, extensible/removable storage, and USB device/host mode. As you said, the Xoom is great at $299, especially with 64GB total, a dock, and a sleeve. An equivalent iPad would have set me back about 3x more, not including all proprietary cables and doodads, and extra Apps I've already purchased on Android.. I'm not sure what functionality you're thinking of.. it's sure harder and more expensive to connect an Ipad to/from stuff than a Xoom, with its standard ports, free UPnP/DLNA, cheap SDs, USB or Wifi keyboard and mouse and gamepad...
I'm really curious about what functionality you're thinking of, if you care to expand ?
Second, I don't really care about performance. I don't game in my tablet, mainly browse/read and watch video, so performance has been "good enough" for me for a while. I still have an original Nook Color, which I find OK too, though too small for at-home use.
Lastly, you overgeneralize: some Android phones have clearly superior features: my Note's AMOLED screen is both bigger, more contrasted, less tiring on the eyes, and more beautiful than the iPhone's unusable (to my old eyes), stamp-size, glow-in-the-dark LCD screen. Also, you seem to forget that Asus is also pushing keyboard docks that some people seem to love, and that quad-core is not only about performance, but also about battery life.
I'm using my Xoom quite a lot: during the day next to my PC to check up on RSS feeds and click though if the news looks interesting, at night in bed to watch movies from my home server via UPnP/DLNA; plus my phone company authorizes tethering and I've got a $30, 3GB plan, though I use it a fair bit to brose the web while travelling. For reading, my Galaxy Note in more pleasant since I can use it one-handed and the AMOLED screen is much less tiring.
I have a Xoom and find nothing horrendously wrong with it. The price was right ($300 for tablet + 32GB + sleeve + multimedia charging dock w/ loudspeakers); it runs gReader, UPnP, Chrome, K9 Mail... perfectly well, and reads all SD videos with no issues which, given the size of the screen, is sufficient. HD videos don't work though. I'm trying to find a reason to discard it and get a newer one, but can't really imagine what more I could be doing with a more recent tablet. Even on my 22" desktop, I'm watching SD videos, so that alone is not enough to warrant an upgrade.
Yep. Politicians are not sufficiently enthralled to corporations by having to fund expensive campaigns every few years. Let's make them have to fund a permanent campaign, that way they'll be.. less enthralled ?
1- People can have faith and not be bigots. You don't seem to make a difference between an Obama christian and a Santorum christian ? Or, to stay on the supposedly same side of the spectrum, a Reagan christian and a Santorum christian ?
2- There's a wide gap between being an atheist, and insisting on a atheist president.
3- as a libertarian, which libertarian candidate will you vote for this coming election ? Or will you "compromise your values", too ? Or give up and not vote at all ?
4- I'm not sure libertarianism and atheism are quite on the same level. One is on an economical/social level, the other on a religious level. In my experience, religion works with all sorts of highly-specific mechanisms.
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I don't fully agree:
1- keyboard typing is handled, but not keyboard shortcuts, and we need them handled in a standard way.
2- same for the mouse: right-clicking, drag and drop... are missing
3- multitasking is not really handled, in that the user has no control on what keeps running or not. I need to be able to "sticky" an app.
4- maybe windowing as such is not needed, but at least a quick way to alt-tab between active, full-screen apps.
Reciprocally, Intel has 0% phone and tablet share, so I don't see how the initial statement is "idiot math" (sic). Yours on the other end...
This assumes Android finds a way to handle keyboard and mouse (and probably windowing+multitasking), and to dock, nicely and cheaply.
this is only part of the equation. ARM have a simpler, more efficient architecture, a licensing model, an ecosystem (radios, OSes...) that Intel lacks.
Go Intel in that case.
Built myself a PC to play WoW 3 months ago. Went with the high-end Llano, no discrete graphics required. An Intel setup would have required a graphics card, larger base (mini-itx MB), and more money. For most users that are also *casual* gamers (not hard-core), AMD's CPU/GPU balance saves a graphics cards while providing sufficient CPU power.
Sorry, missed the part about it being a laptop. Googling "windows keyboard lock" returns http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/11570/disable-the-keyboard-with-a-keyboard-shortcut-in-windows/
There's one built into all USB keyboard. follow the USB cable ot its end, unplug it.
I honestly wouldn't bother with a complicated setup, just buy a cheap or second-tablet tablet (double-check it supports Skype though), and wall-mount it. Lots of secondary uses, too.
I used to have both Mini and Mobile on my phone, back when data contracts were expensive (I pay $40 for 3GB these days). On O.Mini, most "desktop version" sites are at least not fully functional, often plain unusable. On O.Mobile, most "desktop" sites are fine.
Opera Mini is not a full browser. It uses Opera's servers which send it a simplified HTML-like page, but not a fll one. Pugins and Javascript don't really work.
The true Opera browser for mobile devices is Opera Mobile.
No they don't. If you don't have an off-line, off-site backup of your data, you'll lose it. It's not a matter of "if", but of "when". Causes of loss can be software (bugs, viruses), hardware (drive failure), user (error or sabotage), environmental (fire, flood, over-current...). Only an off-line, off-site, backup protects you from all that.
Another one: sexy studs with an artificial V shape and padded muscles, crotch-highlighting pants, and bum-lifting underwear (the equivalent of womens' high heels).
I'm kinda the I guy for family and friends, recommending, installing, building, fixing... PCs I've been trying out Linux every year or so for the past 10 years, and here's why I still can't use it and wont recommend it:
- Install not reliable. Only last year, Ubuntu's Grub2 couldn't handle being the only bootloader on a 100% linux AMD-chipset PC. I'm sure I ran into a weird bug yadda-yadda, except same PC was perfectly OK in Windows. Spent 4 week ends discussing the issue with the dev, who seemed nice enough, but in the end I wanted to actually use that machine, so I reinstalled WIndows. Also, configuring 2 different-size monitors doesn't seem to be easy.
- Missing apps. Sorry, but about 2/3rds of users need MS Office. Not Libre, not anything else. Import-export filters just aren't good enough yet.
- Broken stuff. As my own personnal PC, I use a dual-screen setup, with the best monitor on the right, and a junk one on the left. I need the menu bar on the right side of the rightmost screen. Ubuntu won't let me do that. Switching their wierd new UI off, I can get a right-side menu.. but it's written sideways.
- no docs. In the end, I just have one ARM nettop running linux right now. Took me about a month to set it up, helped by a guy who knew how to recompile kernels and apps. And it's still not 100% to my taste, because man pages are out of synch with what's actually delivered with the PC, and looking for info online usually returns results not relevants to my version (got me to set "screens" instead of "tmux", nowhere showing how to autolaunch a daemon in a foreground screen in Upstart... etc, etc..). Cnfig files are all over the place, sometimes litterally in several places at once, gonna guess which one is actually used.
- not reliable. This one gonna hurt most, but my Linux PC segfaults several times a week, while my Windows 7 PCs have crashed I think twice since 7's release, and I have 3 of them.
- battery life on laptops. for some reason, my nettop lasts several hours less under Linux (I think it has debian), than under Windows.
First, Depends on where you choose to place your standards. Mine include standard ports, extensible/removable storage, and USB device/host mode. As you said, the Xoom is great at $299, especially with 64GB total, a dock, and a sleeve. An equivalent iPad would have set me back about 3x more, not including all proprietary cables and doodads, and extra Apps I've already purchased on Android.. I'm not sure what functionality you're thinking of.. it's sure harder and more expensive to connect an Ipad to/from stuff than a Xoom, with its standard ports, free UPnP/DLNA, cheap SDs, USB or Wifi keyboard and mouse and gamepad...
I'm really curious about what functionality you're thinking of, if you care to expand ?
Second, I don't really care about performance. I don't game in my tablet, mainly browse/read and watch video, so performance has been "good enough" for me for a while. I still have an original Nook Color, which I find OK too, though too small for at-home use.
Lastly, you overgeneralize: some Android phones have clearly superior features: my Note's AMOLED screen is both bigger, more contrasted, less tiring on the eyes, and more beautiful than the iPhone's unusable (to my old eyes), stamp-size, glow-in-the-dark LCD screen. Also, you seem to forget that Asus is also pushing keyboard docks that some people seem to love, and that quad-core is not only about performance, but also about battery life.
I'm using my Xoom quite a lot: during the day next to my PC to check up on RSS feeds and click though if the news looks interesting, at night in bed to watch movies from my home server via UPnP/DLNA; plus my phone company authorizes tethering and I've got a $30, 3GB plan, though I use it a fair bit to brose the web while travelling. For reading, my Galaxy Note in more pleasant since I can use it one-handed and the AMOLED screen is much less tiring.
I have a Xoom and find nothing horrendously wrong with it. The price was right ($300 for tablet + 32GB + sleeve + multimedia charging dock w/ loudspeakers); it runs gReader, UPnP, Chrome, K9 Mail... perfectly well, and reads all SD videos with no issues which, given the size of the screen, is sufficient. HD videos don't work though.
I'm trying to find a reason to discard it and get a newer one, but can't really imagine what more I could be doing with a more recent tablet. Even on my 22" desktop, I'm watching SD videos, so that alone is not enough to warrant an upgrade.
There was a chinese wall ! One twin was handling commission for firms, the other one recommendations to clients.
Oh wait, that's only good if you're Goldman Sachs.
Yep. Politicians are not sufficiently enthralled to corporations by having to fund expensive campaigns every few years. Let's make them have to fund a permanent campaign, that way they'll be.. less enthralled ?
1- People can have faith and not be bigots. You don't seem to make a difference between an Obama christian and a Santorum christian ? Or, to stay on the supposedly same side of the spectrum, a Reagan christian and a Santorum christian ?
2- There's a wide gap between being an atheist, and insisting on a atheist president.
3- as a libertarian, which libertarian candidate will you vote for this coming election ? Or will you "compromise your values", too ? Or give up and not vote at all ?
4- I'm not sure libertarianism and atheism are quite on the same level. One is on an economical/social level, the other on a religious level. In my experience, religion works with all sorts of highly-specific mechanisms.
It doesn't even include a study of productivity. The report seems to be done from a pure IT angle, as if IT weren't a tool to achieve goals.
Or this might mean that an Atom or E-450 based PC will suffice, where Windows would require a (Core) Celeron/Pentium or better, and more RAM.
The point is that the US and China, respectively, are certainly misreporting their colonial and resource-grab wars the same way.
Yep. pointing out where performance issues come from is soooooooooo useless.
but there was competition between appstores and no built-in device lock-in.