I've had 10 installed since early beta days, and it has not slowed down one bit here. Using it on a mac via Parallels, and it's a bolt of lightning for anything thrown at it.
You raise an important point. The fact that if you live in Asia (as I do) and buy ANYTHING hardware-wise, you own it and can do whatever the hell you want with it (outside of converting a vehicle into a tank). So this issue has more to do with the power that manufactures have over consumers in America and Europe.... a power over what we do with a product that we buy. For example, I bought a 3-year warranty for an iMac, but if I want to replace the crap HDD that came with it - with an SSD of my own choosing. No, that voids the warranty, even though I would take far better care when replacing the part than anyone at the genius bar would, and the machine would be perfectly functional afterwards. We've gone down a rabbit hole, and I don't think those companies are ever going to back off.
I grew up reading Popular Science and felt no need then to comment on any of the articles then, and feel no need to do so now. Our obsession with commenting is just crazy, and here I am commenting on commenting, on a site made for doing one thing: commenting. What happened to the world?
The new start menu was enough for me to flush Classic Shell, and be "trained" into the new way, the metro way. All it means is that you are now farther away from a bigger start menu, if you just boot straight to the desktop, as you do. I run it on an iMac with dual monitors, and it's blazing fast as a VMWare image. The only thing is that some frameworks are not supported yet, so apps like Mindjet 2012 won't install. Besides that, a nice update. love it.
just to add to all of the above: surge protected power strip, and no worries. all the talk about theft is just that. protect yourself and your stuff. been on the road for 13 years now, and no problems but blown apple power adapters (sensitive to voltage surges in places with 240 and poor wiring). but even in someplace like Nepal, you can get parts. happy trails...
Ten years ago I was overnighting in a Starbucks parking lot to send my work in. I was one of many living in vehicles and roaming the US, doing a bit of work here or there. Most of the venues mentioned here were our links to the internet - to our bread and butter. But that's nothing new around the globe, most of the under-developing part of the world has been going to community wifi centers for a long time. I'm in Nepal now, and there is a cybercenter on almost every block within the Kathmandu valley (mostly filled with students). But the sad thing is this: America has not progressed to this point: where even the poor can afford an internet connection in the home, and can certainly find an affordable cyber center within walking distance.
Exactly - in fact, I am typing this on my Galaxy Note II docked to a BT keyboard and mouse + a cheap HD monitor - love it, and with all costing less than a new 128gb iPad. Great for email and reading/.
Have not seen this problem, but I have a problem with external mouse not scrolling. It's a registered bug in the database, closed, with a patch - but I have no idea what that means or when/if Samsung will roll that out - ha!
I'm using my Galaxy Note 2 as a desktop computer in the den, and if there were a cheaper chinese version with like specs, I'd put one in every room that has a HDMI monitor sitting idly by - but what I gather from this experiment is that Apple needs to build in telephony to all its computers, or I'm going to replace my MBs and Airs with cheaper phones, and use android devices for everything but 'real' work.
The World Bank has already rolled out Win8 to enterprise machines, via Dell hardware, and the machines boot into the desktop. So learning curve is near 0. Based on that, I doubt much trouble in the enterprise over this.
Disease, weather, and lack of energy have plagued humanity since we all crawled from the slime, or peeked from the cave, or evolved however we did. I think we can deal with it.
agreed, in fact perhaps this is mentioned: iPhone 4s DOES NOT = siri. my phone consumes more data now because of iCloud pumping larger photos and videos which I could never do with my old 3g.
As a retired IT manager of 25 years... albeit I was a dino even a decade ago, I don't agree with this assessment. 1) I was never aloof, always super friendly to all, and made my mark by being open with non-IT folks, going the entire 9 yards to explain and communicate - YET- 2) I don't think I was all that successful. I am not sure non-IT folks ever understood (or could) no matter what the effort, and 3) this gained me no respect within the IT community, which would have rather had me keep my mouth shut and spend my time helping them get ahead instead. It was a rough situation.
All of this talk of the space shuttle being dead is pretty silly considering there is a space shuttle (unmanned) orbiting the globe spying on everyone and their brother, and run by the US Gov't. And who is paying for that? That's right, US taxpayers.
This is so true, take last week's GB vs. Oakland: where there was a challenge - but the instant reply gizmo was broken - so the ruling on the field had to stand, even though it was clear from the audience camera that the ruling was wrong. Something has been lost, re: officiating in the electronics age, and adding more gadgets to the mix will only make it worse...
Thx for pointing this out. It's rare folks here on/. speak from fact, so that was refreshing. As a retiree from IBMs software division, it seems to me that Kodak could re-invent itself just as IBM has done so many times over the course of their business career. IBM is great at cultivating and milking a technology until the teet runs dry, and then selling it off. The proof of this strategic success is in the stock - very nice.
OR are they just a way to get another Windows vs. Linux vs. Whatever conversation going? In reality, what does it matter? The schools will distribute the PCs depending on what some admin thinks is best, and they will end up on the coaches desk or in the computer lab, who knows? These questions belong on Yahoo Answers, and not/.
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I've had 10 installed since early beta days, and it has not slowed down one bit here. Using it on a mac via Parallels, and it's a bolt of lightning for anything thrown at it.
well said.
You raise an important point. The fact that if you live in Asia (as I do) and buy ANYTHING hardware-wise, you own it and can do whatever the hell you want with it (outside of converting a vehicle into a tank). So this issue has more to do with the power that manufactures have over consumers in America and Europe. ... a power over what we do with a product that we buy. For example, I bought a 3-year warranty for an iMac, but if I want to replace the crap HDD that came with it - with an SSD of my own choosing. No, that voids the warranty, even though I would take far better care when replacing the part than anyone at the genius bar would, and the machine would be perfectly functional afterwards. We've gone down a rabbit hole, and I don't think those companies are ever going to back off.
or the headphone jack...
I grew up reading Popular Science and felt no need then to comment on any of the articles then, and feel no need to do so now. Our obsession with commenting is just crazy, and here I am commenting on commenting, on a site made for doing one thing: commenting. What happened to the world?
The new start menu was enough for me to flush Classic Shell, and be "trained" into the new way, the metro way. All it means is that you are now farther away from a bigger start menu, if you just boot straight to the desktop, as you do. I run it on an iMac with dual monitors, and it's blazing fast as a VMWare image. The only thing is that some frameworks are not supported yet, so apps like Mindjet 2012 won't install. Besides that, a nice update. love it.
just to add to all of the above: surge protected power strip, and no worries. all the talk about theft is just that. protect yourself and your stuff. been on the road for 13 years now, and no problems but blown apple power adapters (sensitive to voltage surges in places with 240 and poor wiring). but even in someplace like Nepal, you can get parts. happy trails...
A manufacture did! The S4 that's docked in my living room is the desktop for that area.
My Galaxy S4 replaced a desktop, and when not used that way I can put it my bag. Come on Bill, there's an elephant in the room!
Syncmate.
just buy syncmate and get over it.
Ten years ago I was overnighting in a Starbucks parking lot to send my work in. I was one of many living in vehicles and roaming the US, doing a bit of work here or there. Most of the venues mentioned here were our links to the internet - to our bread and butter. But that's nothing new around the globe, most of the under-developing part of the world has been going to community wifi centers for a long time. I'm in Nepal now, and there is a cybercenter on almost every block within the Kathmandu valley (mostly filled with students). But the sad thing is this: America has not progressed to this point: where even the poor can afford an internet connection in the home, and can certainly find an affordable cyber center within walking distance.
Exactly - in fact, I am typing this on my Galaxy Note II docked to a BT keyboard and mouse + a cheap HD monitor - love it, and with all costing less than a new 128gb iPad. Great for email and reading /.
Have not seen this problem, but I have a problem with external mouse not scrolling. It's a registered bug in the database, closed, with a patch - but I have no idea what that means or when/if Samsung will roll that out - ha!
I'm using my Galaxy Note 2 as a desktop computer in the den, and if there were a cheaper chinese version with like specs, I'd put one in every room that has a HDMI monitor sitting idly by - but what I gather from this experiment is that Apple needs to build in telephony to all its computers, or I'm going to replace my MBs and Airs with cheaper phones, and use android devices for everything but 'real' work.
near 0 proof: my wife, an employee, did not even know she was using windows 8 after they rolled it out.
The World Bank has already rolled out Win8 to enterprise machines, via Dell hardware, and the machines boot into the desktop. So learning curve is near 0. Based on that, I doubt much trouble in the enterprise over this.
Disease, weather, and lack of energy have plagued humanity since we all crawled from the slime, or peeked from the cave, or evolved however we did. I think we can deal with it.
Hardly channel surf at all these days, the content in "channels" rots. But for gaming, see the new Wii U interface; it's a tablet.
agreed, in fact perhaps this is mentioned: iPhone 4s DOES NOT = siri. my phone consumes more data now because of iCloud pumping larger photos and videos which I could never do with my old 3g.
As a retired IT manager of 25 years... albeit I was a dino even a decade ago, I don't agree with this assessment. 1) I was never aloof, always super friendly to all, and made my mark by being open with non-IT folks, going the entire 9 yards to explain and communicate - YET- 2) I don't think I was all that successful. I am not sure non-IT folks ever understood (or could) no matter what the effort, and 3) this gained me no respect within the IT community, which would have rather had me keep my mouth shut and spend my time helping them get ahead instead. It was a rough situation.
All of this talk of the space shuttle being dead is pretty silly considering there is a space shuttle (unmanned) orbiting the globe spying on everyone and their brother, and run by the US Gov't. And who is paying for that? That's right, US taxpayers.
This is so true, take last week's GB vs. Oakland: where there was a challenge - but the instant reply gizmo was broken - so the ruling on the field had to stand, even though it was clear from the audience camera that the ruling was wrong. Something has been lost, re: officiating in the electronics age, and adding more gadgets to the mix will only make it worse...
Thx for pointing this out. It's rare folks here on /. speak from fact, so that was refreshing. As a retiree from IBMs software division, it seems to me that Kodak could re-invent itself just as IBM has done so many times over the course of their business career. IBM is great at cultivating and milking a technology until the teet runs dry, and then selling it off. The proof of this strategic success is in the stock - very nice.
OR are they just a way to get another Windows vs. Linux vs. Whatever conversation going? In reality, what does it matter? The schools will distribute the PCs depending on what some admin thinks is best, and they will end up on the coaches desk or in the computer lab, who knows? These questions belong on Yahoo Answers, and not /.