Or not. Trying to reason with someone either not interested in reason, or who can't understand it, is bound to fail.
Usually, they're one of the semi-paranoid "the government is after us" type... show them that what's after them are the Big Corps and the secret billionaires.
I'm on Android, which offers several quite good Office suites as well, and use MS Office for work. 2 main issues with the Android office suites, probably the same as on iOS:
1- Features. I'm always missing something such as style sheets, smart headers/footers, outline mode,... let alone macros which I don't use that much 2- Compatibility. Importing/exporting files always results in a few issues, not only for unsupported features of course, but also for supported ones that are just a bit off. As soon as you need to shuttle docs back and fort between true MS Office and some clone, headaches happen. Unluckily, the clones don't have a Windows version.
I'm wondering if the solution would not be for OS updates to be on sale, at a low-ish-price, ie 5 or 10 bucks. That way, OEMs can recoup part of their investment, and users can put their money were their mouth is. I personally don't care that much about OS updates, my Xoom has gone from 3.x to 4.0 to 4.1 and I really didn't notice any difference.
- If you don't like Win8's UI, just add ClassicShell (or a competitor, but ClassicShell is good and free) to Win8, it will make it look just like Win7 - is it about cost ? - is it about philosophy ?
Double check if your courses require some software that only runs under Windows. Or Linux.
Instead of focusing on the OS, you should focus on sturdiness and battery life, though.
Define pornography then. It's easy to slide from repulsive stuff to weird stuff to kinky stuff to vanilla stuff to any sex stuff to nudity to romance to clothing and social situations.
IMHO, if it is between consenting adults, it should be allowed to happen, and to be filmed. That does rule out child porn, and I'm not sure about animals (I'm not a fan of that kind of porn, but then, animals probably prefer doing that to going to the slaughterhouse). As for violent porn, what I've seen was very obviously fake and consensual. I'm assuming anything really hurtful would fall in the "non-consensual" category ?
I installed a Chrome OS VM just yesterday to see what all the fuss was about.
It seems nice enough to surf and use web apps. I haven't really tried offline yet, but if they say it works, it probably does.
Were it does come apart is in any old-school scenario: I could find no way to access my network shares, to play non-local media content (except running a web server and presenting the content as Flash or HTML5), no DLNA client nor server.
I don't really see how Chrome OS is superior to Android. Is there anything Chrome OS does that Android doesn't ? 'coz there's sure plenty that Android does but Chrome OS doesn't !
The playbook was released as an unfinished product, and they pretty much gave up trying to fix it.
It's getting BB10 though, which by the way is a whole new OS. I'm not sure your experiences are applicable to BB10, though they do show a disappointing disregard for customers. With RIM in such dire straits, I've got a mind to give them a pass on that one though. MS has done pretty much the same crap (my HD2 *couldn't* synch with Win7, and both were the current MS OSes at the time...), and MS never had any excuses.
Also, Linux has huge quality and documentation issues. I tried out Ubuntu on 3 very vanilla PCs around Vista time, one never got past grub2; one wouldn't play video nicely (yes, I tried the proprietary drivers too); and on the one that made it thorough the install and drivers, I never could figure out Upstart nor RDP remoting (VNC is slooooow and ugly) nor tweak my dual screen layout the way I want it (menu bar on the right of the rightmost screen; different resolutions).
Chrome OS and Android are succeeding, with little software to start with, and a Linux codebase. Because, as opposed to Linux, they work for non-nerds. Linux by itself is not failing because of apps, but because it sucks.
I'm sure MS and Google, who are software guys, are convinced that their difficulties with mobile (phones and/or tablets) are/were due to their hardware partners slacking off. They're both wrong though: Android tablets pre 3.x (arguable, pre 4.x) didn't have much success because *android*, not the hardware, was not up to snuff. And today, Windows RT and Windows Phone are having a hard time getting traction because the *software* is not very good, probably a bit bad actually, in terms of features, reliability, and apps.
The likes of Samsung, Asus, Acer, just have to port Windows RT/Phone to some of their *existing* Android hardware for Windows to have first-rate hardware to run on. But they can't do it, because Windows RT/Mobile doesn't support much hardware, can't use regular- or high-rez screens, doesn't run on all SoCs... And they don't even *want* to do it, because Windows Mobile sucks and very few people want it: it doesn't even have an all-terrain video player that can read anything you throw at it, it has a confusing/undiscoverable touch UI, and on tablets a second, a even more confusing, Desktop UI that's only for *ONE* app (Office). And it crashes. A lot.
Again, unless MS can clean up their code, finish up their UI, get some apps, and get market traction, they're better off doing the hardware too, because if I were a OEM right now, I wouldn't bother spending R&D on Windows Phone/RT.
I think I've gotten one BSOD in the last 2 years, and that was a graphics driver failure while running 2 games at once. I find Windows to be a lot more reliable than all versions of Linux I've tried out (and a lot easier to get running, too).
Ditto for bugs: I'm not sure I've seen any recently, and, again I have seen plenty on Linux. Apps do have bugs, sometimes drivers (Wifi out of hibernation is still iffy on one of my 4 machines, and often requires disable/enable)
As for forced upgrades, I have no clue what you're talking about. XP has been supported for 10+ years, Vista and 7 still are...
IMHO, Windows on the desktop is a rock-solid consumer OS, with excellent drivers and plentiful apps. If only they stopped messing with the UI:-p
Windows on mobile platforms (Phone or RT) is none of the above though: it is riddled with bugs and limitations, lacks features, lacks apps, supports ridiculously little hardware variations (screen sizes...). That doesn't prevent MS from trying to catch up. Since MS's "partners" seem disinclined to put much collateral effort (for good reason IMHO: chances of success are low, and rewards for succeeding are low, too, for them), I think MS would be better off putting their money where their mouth is.
I was not talking about targeting the same market segment as Apple, but of using the same vertically-integrated approach to target another segment. Right now, MS OEMs aren't ready to invest a dime in a 2% business with lower margins and worse perpectives than Android; heance they just put out handsets that are cut-down variants of their Android ones, with little marketing support. MS can't do a worse job if they do it by themselves.
Should Windows on the consumer or mobile side go integrated the way Apple is ? MS has the means to buy Nokia and either Dell or HP. Should they do so before Winphone and RT fail completely, investing with the sort of long-term commitment that made the xbox successful in the end ? All of MS's OEMs are looking for a way to get a bigger share of the profits, and to meet customer expectations. Free (as in beer) Android and Chrome OS seem to be good ways to achieve that, instead of handing out the bigger part of each sales' profit to MS as Windows licensing costs.
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And this is relevant how ?
What percentage of guns do you think are securely locked AND not bought w/o background checks ? Judging from recent events: very few.
what difference does it make though ?
easy: IP addresses are mentioned neither in the constitution nor in the bible, which clearly mean the state can do whatever with them.
But.. IPs are corporations, and corporations are people, so.....
Or not. Trying to reason with someone either not interested in reason, or who can't understand it, is bound to fail.
Usually, they're one of the semi-paranoid "the government is after us" type... show them that what's after them are the Big Corps and the secret billionaires.
I'm on Android, which offers several quite good Office suites as well, and use MS Office for work. 2 main issues with the Android office suites, probably the same as on iOS:
1- Features. I'm always missing something such as style sheets, smart headers/footers, outline mode, ... let alone macros which I don't use that much
2- Compatibility. Importing/exporting files always results in a few issues, not only for unsupported features of course, but also for supported ones that are just a bit off. As soon as you need to shuttle docs back and fort between true MS Office and some clone, headaches happen. Unluckily, the clones don't have a Windows version.
I find the best breaks are alone, but some like the coffee machine chit chat.
A quick walk around the block is great. Greet people and animals, buy knick-knacks (like your next meal ^^).
You can choose to remain seated, though that's less of a breather. Music maybe ?
No hardware costs
No bandwidth costs
No time costs
No backups (data, PC, bandwidth)
Going by what most people use the internet: Yeah ! spANDEX !
Please don't insult tabloids.
I'm wondering if the solution would not be for OS updates to be on sale, at a low-ish-price, ie 5 or 10 bucks. That way, OEMs can recoup part of their investment, and users can put their money were their mouth is. I personally don't care that much about OS updates, my Xoom has gone from 3.x to 4.0 to 4.1 and I really didn't notice any difference.
Does your car vendor update your engine when they come out with a new one ?
- If you don't like Win8's UI, just add ClassicShell (or a competitor, but ClassicShell is good and free) to Win8, it will make it look just like Win7
- is it about cost ?
- is it about philosophy ?
Double check if your courses require some software that only runs under Windows. Or Linux.
Instead of focusing on the OS, you should focus on sturdiness and battery life, though.
Define pornography then. It's easy to slide from repulsive stuff to weird stuff to kinky stuff to vanilla stuff to any sex stuff to nudity to romance to clothing and social situations.
IMHO, if it is between consenting adults, it should be allowed to happen, and to be filmed. That does rule out child porn, and I'm not sure about animals (I'm not a fan of that kind of porn, but then, animals probably prefer doing that to going to the slaughterhouse). As for violent porn, what I've seen was very obviously fake and consensual. I'm assuming anything really hurtful would fall in the "non-consensual" category ?
I installed a Chrome OS VM just yesterday to see what all the fuss was about.
It seems nice enough to surf and use web apps. I haven't really tried offline yet, but if they say it works, it probably does.
Were it does come apart is in any old-school scenario: I could find no way to access my network shares, to play non-local media content (except running a web server and presenting the content as Flash or HTML5), no DLNA client nor server.
I don't really see how Chrome OS is superior to Android. Is there anything Chrome OS does that Android doesn't ? 'coz there's sure plenty that Android does but Chrome OS doesn't !
Android ? Chrome OS ?
The playbook was released as an unfinished product, and they pretty much gave up trying to fix it.
It's getting BB10 though, which by the way is a whole new OS. I'm not sure your experiences are applicable to BB10, though they do show a disappointing disregard for customers. With RIM in such dire straits, I've got a mind to give them a pass on that one though. MS has done pretty much the same crap (my HD2 *couldn't* synch with Win7, and both were the current MS OSes at the time...), and MS never had any excuses.
Also, Linux has huge quality and documentation issues. I tried out Ubuntu on 3 very vanilla PCs around Vista time, one never got past grub2; one wouldn't play video nicely (yes, I tried the proprietary drivers too); and on the one that made it thorough the install and drivers, I never could figure out Upstart nor RDP remoting (VNC is slooooow and ugly) nor tweak my dual screen layout the way I want it (menu bar on the right of the rightmost screen; different resolutions).
Chrome OS and Android are succeeding, with little software to start with, and a Linux codebase. Because, as opposed to Linux, they work for non-nerds. Linux by itself is not failing because of apps, but because it sucks.
I'm sure MS and Google, who are software guys, are convinced that their difficulties with mobile (phones and/or tablets) are/were due to their hardware partners slacking off. They're both wrong though: Android tablets pre 3.x (arguable, pre 4.x) didn't have much success because *android*, not the hardware, was not up to snuff. And today, Windows RT and Windows Phone are having a hard time getting traction because the *software* is not very good, probably a bit bad actually, in terms of features, reliability, and apps.
The likes of Samsung, Asus, Acer, just have to port Windows RT/Phone to some of their *existing* Android hardware for Windows to have first-rate hardware to run on. But they can't do it, because Windows RT/Mobile doesn't support much hardware, can't use regular- or high-rez screens, doesn't run on all SoCs... And they don't even *want* to do it, because Windows Mobile sucks and very few people want it: it doesn't even have an all-terrain video player that can read anything you throw at it, it has a confusing/undiscoverable touch UI, and on tablets a second, a even more confusing, Desktop UI that's only for *ONE* app (Office). And it crashes. A lot.
Again, unless MS can clean up their code, finish up their UI, get some apps, and get market traction, they're better off doing the hardware too, because if I were a OEM right now, I wouldn't bother spending R&D on Windows Phone/RT.
I think I've gotten one BSOD in the last 2 years, and that was a graphics driver failure while running 2 games at once. I find Windows to be a lot more reliable than all versions of Linux I've tried out (and a lot easier to get running, too).
Ditto for bugs: I'm not sure I've seen any recently, and, again I have seen plenty on Linux. Apps do have bugs, sometimes drivers (Wifi out of hibernation is still iffy on one of my 4 machines, and often requires disable/enable)
As for forced upgrades, I have no clue what you're talking about. XP has been supported for 10+ years, Vista and 7 still are...
IMHO, Windows on the desktop is a rock-solid consumer OS, with excellent drivers and plentiful apps. If only they stopped messing with the UI :-p
Windows on mobile platforms (Phone or RT) is none of the above though: it is riddled with bugs and limitations, lacks features, lacks apps, supports ridiculously little hardware variations (screen sizes...). That doesn't prevent MS from trying to catch up. Since MS's "partners" seem disinclined to put much collateral effort (for good reason IMHO: chances of success are low, and rewards for succeeding are low, too, for them), I think MS would be better off putting their money where their mouth is.
There's a key difference: Google devices are built by partners, though they are marketed (badly) by Google. Surface devices are built directly by MS.
I was not talking about targeting the same market segment as Apple, but of using the same vertically-integrated approach to target another segment. Right now, MS OEMs aren't ready to invest a dime in a 2% business with lower margins and worse perpectives than Android; heance they just put out handsets that are cut-down variants of their Android ones, with little marketing support. MS can't do a worse job if they do it by themselves.
Should Windows on the consumer or mobile side go integrated the way Apple is ? MS has the means to buy Nokia and either Dell or HP. Should they do so before Winphone and RT fail completely, investing with the sort of long-term commitment that made the xbox successful in the end ? All of MS's OEMs are looking for a way to get a bigger share of the profits, and to meet customer expectations. Free (as in beer) Android and Chrome OS seem to be good ways to achieve that, instead of handing out the bigger part of each sales' profit to MS as Windows licensing costs.
There is even an xxcopy community :-p I've tried time and again to stop using it, but I just can't find a GUI way to do the same things.