The hardware is OK. The issue is the software. I don't have a BlackBerry phone, and don't plan to get one, so I need a full experience without linkage to a phone. It seems there are a lot a missing/unimplemented features, and a lot of badly done ones.
This is the case for all tablets, including the iPad, but Apple seems to have both fewer features missing, and to be better at doing the really important ones, and doing them right. Too bad they do their best to neuter the connectivity/interoperability features (no SD Slot ? No USB ? Come on !)
I really really REALLY don't want to get myself locked into iTunes for apps and content, and it seems there's no real way to use an iPad without doing so, but I haven't yet seen another tablet I think I'd enjoy using. On the software side, Android will probably get mostly there within a year. On the hardware side.. I just spent some time messing around with a Xoom. It feels much bulkier then an iPad2. And the eeePad, which seems better than the Xoom an all counts (including price), is bulkier still....
I hope non-iOS tablet software, whether Android, BlackBerry, or WebOS, will be feature-complete by next year, and the competition will be on who supplies the best extras, be it hardware or software. We've just got to wait a bit.
The real reason is that, subconsciously, US citizens woe the day they left the British empire. They have a deep, age-old yearning to go back into the fold, and thus cherish this last remnant of britishness.
Last I heard, they are also starting to have those quaint tea parties, too. I'm holding out for the day they trade pancackes for scones!.
I mostly don't use 3G, since the tablet mainly stays at home/work/inbetween (public wifi). For those rare cases when I need 3G, tethering is enough.
I tend to pre-download content, including websites, a lot, though. My guess is people who don't plan ahead, or spend a lot of time in transport, can make good use of 3G.
In my appartment, I'm getting more than 20 wifi signals. My dumb-ish phone often tries to log into other people's network instead of mine because the signal is stronger.
I'd be happy for my signal not to parasite other peoples'... and reciprocally.
The human race as a whole != the handful of people who go top speed. Ever heard of averages ? I'm sure the millions of people in China and India and other countries who are getting their first taste of cars, air travel, underground... more thank make up for the disappearance of a few outliers.
Same as with money/health/culture/...: what counts in the end is not what the toppest top have/achieve, but what the masses do.
you do realize 1- windows' remote desktop works out of the box, is actually in the basic install. I never needed to do anything, it's there and just works. not so the linux version. 2- ditto network sharing 3- ditto volume synching via either xxcopy or ms's synctoy, which is all kinds of ugly and slow, but actually works.
so, in the end, on the ms side i got the tools, and they work, i never really needed any doc. on linux's side, the tools are not in the basic install, don't work intuitively, mostly don't work not intuitively either, and the location of the right doc, if it exists, is hidden in a riddle wrapped in a mystery behind posts calling out "stupid noob" such as yours ?
I don't think DIY tablets will arrive anytime soon. a standard port would be very nice though, so that we don't have to change docks everytime we change tablets. Actually, a standard port for phones would be nice too.
RD client is pre-installed on all Windows PC, which is handy, especially when I'm not an Admin. Also, RD looks and feels better than all VNC implementations I've seen.
I'm really having a hard time finding beginner-level doc, especially finding documentation that is relevant to my distro, and its precise version.
1st, there are so many possible places to scavenge for doc, that google is pretty much the only solution. 2nd, most doc is outdated 3rd, most doc assumes more linux knowledge than I have. Or a different distro. or a different version of the same distro. 4th, honestly, forum support is rarely very friendly or efficient, especially for badly-phrased newb questions.
Examples: I never could get the Remote Desktop (as in, MS's remoting protocol) client/server to run on my Ubuntu... 8.04 I think, at the time. I currently cannot access my Win7 PC's HD, unless I enable Everyone and disable the new sharing scheme Win7 offers (can't remember the name) I could never get rsynch to reliably synch my (NTFS) main drive to my (NTFS) backup drive, synching only the "changed since last time" files. an "xxcopy d: l:/clone" equivalent.
I can read docs. I can apply them. I *can't* guess that since the version has changed, such-and-such need to be changed into so-and-so.
I don't care about choice per se, I care about getting the desktop environment I want. Having choice kinda betters the odds I will, but, on the other hand, between an OS with a single good desktop, and another OS with 5 sucky ones, I'd choose the first.
Honestly, as a non-tech person, I'm a bit lost when it comes to Linux Desktops. I've installed a few VMs, and frankly, I don't see much difference to care about. There's a menu somewhere, you click it, a list pops up (or down), you click your a pp to launch it, and then you start working. There's usually a keyboard shortcut to siwtch between apps, and sometimes desktops, though I rarely use that.
I'm kinda wondering what the fuss is about. I guess that means I should try xfce ^^
the summary says it all: people flocked to Android phones because they were getting an essentially similar product for a lower price. Current android tablets are far from equivalent (especially screen size and quality, build quality...), and/or rather more expensive.
We'll see when other major players enter the market if they can be both cheaper and "equivalent". Apple has the scale, and the purchasing clout and lock-in, to make competing on price, or even finding parts to build tablets with (esp. screens), challenging.
Happy smily kids eating at Mickey D are, in truth, a bunch of bratty whiners. Continental doesn't really Love to Fly, they much prefer counting their money while laughing at stranded customers Dell never really cared about customer satisfaction, but, at best, about being a bit less unsatisfactory than the competition, and cheaper.
I can't understand why tablets are so much more expensive than netbooks, while at the same time so devoid of most of their features: no keyboard, HD, fewer ports, cheaper CPU and GPU... Even if lacking these things is normal for a tablet, these are all parts that a netbook has, and a tablet lacks.
Their one more expensive feature is the screen, and it can't be that much more expensive to justify the x2-x3 in price.
How can they be more expensive than a netbook ? I'm holding out until sanity returns.
Please do apply the same stringent criteria to several words you're using: incomplete, meaningless, intellectual... Are you sure they're clearly defined and you can use them ?
or may be the OP is just French, and slipped back to his/hers native tongue, which has a few very handy words in our field: performant (speedy, efficient), informatique (computer science, computers...), telematique (want out of fashion, was kinda a text-only internet before internet);
Actually, telematique kinda means telecomputing. And 'im wondering what the difference is between those very passé words, and cloud computing ? The rainbow ?
Motorola have never been very strong in Europe. I personally tried them once (E398), and won't buy from them again in a long time: bad industrial design (the connectors kept getting disconnected, both headset and charger, which is a pain), bad software (USB synch never worked), and bad support (never could get someone to actually try and fix my problems). Such a "perfect" trifecta requires not only a bad product, but a bad company company.
I hope for them they changed since, but I'm trying out pretty much everyone else before coming back to them, and I'll keep my invoices handy for a refund.
My current HTC HD2 is very fine and reliable, both the hardware and software sides.
Yep. Also, please take the elevator up when there's power, so that you only have to go down by foot. Same with breathing-assist apparatus: take big gulps of air while you can, then try for that apnea world record.
Thank you for your wonderful example also of over-generalizing, and utterly failing to look at facts.
1- There may be a good reason why the help offered (which is what ?) does not help with the issue at hand (which is what ?). Any help from any one does not help with any and all problems.
2- This has nothing to do with genital mutilation and such, but please don't let that derail your rant.
3- If you want to talk multiculturalism, you may want to try and weight both sides of the issue. I think the gist is that there's "good" stuff in all cultures, and "bad" stuff too, so one culture should not be allowed to wipe out all the others. You're good with examples of bad stuff from other cultures... know of any good ones from them ? or bad stuff from yours ?
I personally, think your post is worthless. And destructive.
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The hardware is OK. The issue is the software. I don't have a BlackBerry phone, and don't plan to get one, so I need a full experience without linkage to a phone. It seems there are a lot a missing/unimplemented features, and a lot of badly done ones.
This is the case for all tablets, including the iPad, but Apple seems to have both fewer features missing, and to be better at doing the really important ones, and doing them right. Too bad they do their best to neuter the connectivity/interoperability features (no SD Slot ? No USB ? Come on !)
I really really REALLY don't want to get myself locked into iTunes for apps and content, and it seems there's no real way to use an iPad without doing so, but I haven't yet seen another tablet I think I'd enjoy using. On the software side, Android will probably get mostly there within a year. On the hardware side.. I just spent some time messing around with a Xoom. It feels much bulkier then an iPad2. And the eeePad, which seems better than the Xoom an all counts (including price), is bulkier still....
I hope non-iOS tablet software, whether Android, BlackBerry, or WebOS, will be feature-complete by next year, and the competition will be on who supplies the best extras, be it hardware or software. We've just got to wait a bit.
The real reason is that, subconsciously, US citizens woe the day they left the British empire. They have a deep, age-old yearning to go back into the fold, and thus cherish this last remnant of britishness.
Last I heard, they are also starting to have those quaint tea parties, too. I'm holding out for the day they trade pancackes for scones!.
train, bus, tube, even car if not driving ?
I mostly don't use 3G, since the tablet mainly stays at home/work/inbetween (public wifi). For those rare cases when I need 3G, tethering is enough.
I tend to pre-download content, including websites, a lot, though. My guess is people who don't plan ahead, or spend a lot of time in transport, can make good use of 3G.
Etch-a-sketch is going to make millions of all those knock-off "tablets"
In my appartment, I'm getting more than 20 wifi signals. My dumb-ish phone often tries to log into other people's network instead of mine because the signal is stronger.
I'd be happy for my signal not to parasite other peoples'... and reciprocally.
In soviet russia, the tinfoil spies on you !
The human race as a whole != the handful of people who go top speed. Ever heard of averages ? I'm sure the millions of people in China and India and other countries who are getting their first taste of cars, air travel, underground... more thank make up for the disappearance of a few outliers.
Same as with money/health/culture/...: what counts in the end is not what the toppest top have/achieve, but what the masses do.
you do realize
1- windows' remote desktop works out of the box, is actually in the basic install. I never needed to do anything, it's there and just works. not so the linux version.
2- ditto network sharing
3- ditto volume synching via either xxcopy or ms's synctoy, which is all kinds of ugly and slow, but actually works.
so, in the end, on the ms side i got the tools, and they work, i never really needed any doc. on linux's side, the tools are not in the basic install, don't work intuitively, mostly don't work not intuitively either, and the location of the right doc, if it exists, is hidden in a riddle wrapped in a mystery behind posts calling out "stupid noob" such as yours ?
you do still need laws to litigate if an angry ex, an employer ... find a way (keyloggers...) to get your keys.
I don't think DIY tablets will arrive anytime soon. a standard port would be very nice though, so that we don't have to change docks everytime we change tablets. Actually, a standard port for phones would be nice too.
RD client is pre-installed on all Windows PC, which is handy, especially when I'm not an Admin. Also, RD looks and feels better than all VNC implementations I've seen.
I'm really having a hard time finding beginner-level doc, especially finding documentation that is relevant to my distro, and its precise version.
1st, there are so many possible places to scavenge for doc, that google is pretty much the only solution.
2nd, most doc is outdated
3rd, most doc assumes more linux knowledge than I have. Or a different distro. or a different version of the same distro.
4th, honestly, forum support is rarely very friendly or efficient, especially for badly-phrased newb questions.
Examples: /clone" equivalent.
I never could get the Remote Desktop (as in, MS's remoting protocol) client/server to run on my Ubuntu... 8.04 I think, at the time.
I currently cannot access my Win7 PC's HD, unless I enable Everyone and disable the new sharing scheme Win7 offers (can't remember the name)
I could never get rsynch to reliably synch my (NTFS) main drive to my (NTFS) backup drive, synching only the "changed since last time" files. an "xxcopy d: l:
I can read docs. I can apply them. I *can't* guess that since the version has changed, such-and-such need to be changed into so-and-so.
drivers
documentation
ease of use
I don't care about choice per se, I care about getting the desktop environment I want. Having choice kinda betters the odds I will, but, on the other hand, between an OS with a single good desktop, and another OS with 5 sucky ones, I'd choose the first.
Honestly, as a non-tech person, I'm a bit lost when it comes to Linux Desktops. I've installed a few VMs, and frankly, I don't see much difference to care about. There's a menu somewhere, you click it, a list pops up (or down), you click your a pp to launch it, and then you start working. There's usually a keyboard shortcut to siwtch between apps, and sometimes desktops, though I rarely use that.
I'm kinda wondering what the fuss is about. I guess that means I should try xfce ^^
the summary says it all: people flocked to Android phones because they were getting an essentially similar product for a lower price. Current android tablets are far from equivalent (especially screen size and quality, build quality...), and/or rather more expensive.
We'll see when other major players enter the market if they can be both cheaper and "equivalent". Apple has the scale, and the purchasing clout and lock-in, to make competing on price, or even finding parts to build tablets with (esp. screens), challenging.
i'd be glad to come up with a product that "goes the way of the netbook".
buzz sales. Netbooks sell a lot. I'm not even sure sales are actually down.
Happy smily kids eating at Mickey D are, in truth, a bunch of bratty whiners.
Continental doesn't really Love to Fly, they much prefer counting their money while laughing at stranded customers
Dell never really cared about customer satisfaction, but, at best, about being a bit less unsatisfactory than the competition, and cheaper.
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No, we can't. Not really.
I can't understand why tablets are so much more expensive than netbooks, while at the same time so devoid of most of their features: no keyboard, HD, fewer ports, cheaper CPU and GPU... Even if lacking these things is normal for a tablet, these are all parts that a netbook has, and a tablet lacks.
Their one more expensive feature is the screen, and it can't be that much more expensive to justify the x2-x3 in price.
How can they be more expensive than a netbook ? I'm holding out until sanity returns.
Please do apply the same stringent criteria to several words you're using: incomplete, meaningless, intellectual... Are you sure they're clearly defined and you can use them ?
This should be fun. Though a little long.
or may be the OP is just French, and slipped back to his/hers native tongue, which has a few very handy words in our field: performant (speedy, efficient), informatique (computer science, computers...), telematique (want out of fashion, was kinda a text-only internet before internet);
Actually, telematique kinda means telecomputing. And 'im wondering what the difference is between those very passé words, and cloud computing ? The rainbow ?
Motorola have never been very strong in Europe. I personally tried them once (E398), and won't buy from them again in a long time: bad industrial design (the connectors kept getting disconnected, both headset and charger, which is a pain), bad software (USB synch never worked), and bad support (never could get someone to actually try and fix my problems). Such a "perfect" trifecta requires not only a bad product, but a bad company company.
I hope for them they changed since, but I'm trying out pretty much everyone else before coming back to them, and I'll keep my invoices handy for a refund.
My current HTC HD2 is very fine and reliable, both the hardware and software sides.
You're free to get a dumbphone. And/or an ereader. And/or a portable game console. And/or an MP3 player. And/or a PDA. And/or a portable radio.
I'd personally rather carry around a single gizmo + cable though. Certainly not best at any of those functions, but good enough at all for me.
Yep. Also, please take the elevator up when there's power, so that you only have to go down by foot. Same with breathing-assist apparatus: take big gulps of air while you can, then try for that apnea world record.
Thank you for your wonderful example also of over-generalizing, and utterly failing to look at facts.
1- There may be a good reason why the help offered (which is what ?) does not help with the issue at hand (which is what ?). Any help from any one does not help with any and all problems.
2- This has nothing to do with genital mutilation and such, but please don't let that derail your rant.
3- If you want to talk multiculturalism, you may want to try and weight both sides of the issue. I think the gist is that there's "good" stuff in all cultures, and "bad" stuff too, so one culture should not be allowed to wipe out all the others. You're good with examples of bad stuff from other cultures... know of any good ones from them ? or bad stuff from yours ?
I personally, think your post is worthless. And destructive.