For most consumers, the tablet - if properly conceived and integrated - is a far better computer experience than the PC/Laptop.
Disagree 100%
Not sure what you mean by "properly conceived and integrated", but the simple fact that you have to hold the tablet with at least one hand, and control it using broad movements with your other hand make it mostly impractical for long term use.
If Microsoft can actually deliver a streamlined no-nonsense interface and solidly hit the midrange price point I think they'll find buyers.
And there is a good size of the market to be had in this space. I've had a iPhone and gave up on it, now have SGS2 and like it a lot, but still get a bit frustrated with unpolished nature of it (ie pretty much like Linux in general). I want a phone that has a solid user interface, but still a little bit of flexibility with hardware and what I'm allowed to do with it.
It's just like the PC battle all over again. Apple are too locked in, Linux/Android too loose and fragmented, MS can come in with the closest balance of both and win.
plus you are asking tax payers, many who make less money than you to subsidize an additional $10,000 or more of your auto purchase. that does not seem like much of a bargain to me.
The trillion dollars we spent in Iraq and Afghanistan doesn't seem like much of a bargain to me either. I know which one I'd prefer to my tax dollars being spent on..
Problem with being naked is the risks of dangley bits getting snagged on things and/or of staining the furniture (a hot sweaty arse on a fabric couch isn't a good mix:)
You know there's a lot of logic being thrown around about "socialised medicine", why you think it would or wouldn't work. What seems odd is that you don't need to speculate about what *might* happen, because the rest of the civilised world already has it and we know for a fact that it works better than the "freedom loving" system in the US. Take your bible and your constitution and whatever other excuse you need to not face reality. Medicine works better when it is socialised. This is a fact proven time and time again by every country that has implemented it.
I noticed that the person asking the question did not include any information to suggest what country (or even continent) they reside in. But let's assume he's in the continental US so we've got something to talk about
What if he's in Afghanistan, and the remote valleys he wishes to climb are to smuggle heroin and guns across the border? Or maybe to spy on foreign troop movements? Surely this would give us even more to talk about:)
No, the last line explicitly says "and resources don't go down as much". In your example resources went down more than people, but this is not always the case.
Not sure how old you are, but we run 99% of our 2500 machine fleet on Wyse with Vmware View and Windows and they work very well. Maybe your implementation wasn't so good? (although I can't see how you could screw up a simple thin client roll out).
Was there more or less famine and war at the time when earth had half the population it has now ? Shouldn't there have been much less, if your theory is correct ?
It's much more complex than that, technology for one is constantly changing, and for the first time ever in the history of humanity we have enough technology to sufficiently control our environment. No other civilisation has ever had this.
Take oil as one example. Oil is a scarce resource that we kill people over. if right now, today 90% of the population never woke up tomorrow, oil scarcity would cease to be a problem. So the problem is not too little oil, it's too many people.
Mod up!
Every time I hear someone moan about war, famine, peak oil, climate change, destruction of environment, electricity prices etc etc no-one ever mentions the root cause. Too many people.
Every major problem has the same root cause. The problems aren't so much bad human behaviour, it simply too many of us doing it.
Get the african nations to stop fighting each other
Impossible.
I was to going make some comments about the situation there but everything I wrote sounded racist. How do you address the fact that seems to be a clear pattern of behaviour in that continent that doesn't look like it will ever be solved while the locals are in charge?
Bullshit. You can pay top prices for these flights, and you're still on those same planes. Fact is, unless you rent a private jet, you can't buy your way to a pleasant flight any more.
Course you can. I used to fly business class throughout Asiapac as part of my job.
Some of the benefits I received as part of the ticket: Airline limo to the airport. Check-in in the car, delivered to the business class lounge with a chef cooked meal and free alcohol, preferential entry and exit on and off the plane, champagne in a glass on boarding, a large seat that folds to a fully flat bed, mid-flight massage by hot hostee, much higher hostee to passenger ratios in business, and the quality of service is much higher too.
Now when I travel on my own coin, it's back cattle class and it hurts even more now that I know what I'm missing out on.
This is what I always thought made sense. Treat a Rack like a vendor-independent Blade chassis. You'd have rack based DC power supplies, ethernet and fabric switching, all vendor neutral, with standardised connectors, and your 1U pizza boxes are effectively just modular CPU and RAM (ie just like a blade except without proprietary connectors) that you can add and remove as required with minimal extra parts. It could be implemented quite easily, just swap the existing hot plug power supplies for a standard power connector that connects to the Rack based transformer. While we're at it, lose the cable management arms and front bezels that come with servers these days (does anyone use these?).
If this works on tattoos, then there's a hundred of million dollar industry about to erupt.
The tattoo industry is exploding right now, which means that in about 5-10 years, tattoo removal will be almost as big. Where can I license this technology?
Hotmail's spam protection is awful! I get about 15-20 spam messages/day and about one every couple of months on my gmail account.
Hotmail's spam protection doesn't stop the spam, it simply filters it into your junk mail folder. If you get 15-20 spam email and it all goes into you junk mail folder then the spam filter is working correctly.
I've had my hotmail account since before MS bought them and never had any issues (15years?). Perhaps it's something you were doing wrong?
Although I do admit I get more spam on that account (prob about 3 or 4 a day), but all of it goes to junk mail.
The clothing style of British peasants of the 19th century, i.e. suit & tie, should be strictly limited or banned as an anti-ecological one. The new style of business clothing, light, elegant, ecology friendly, suitable for walking and cycling should be developed and promoted instead.
No-one wears a tie anymore, that was a 20th century thing. I wear a suit and walk 15 minutes each way to work and it's fine. I keep the fancy shoes at work, and wear runners on my commute.
I'm having the flu right now, and yet, my buddies and I just had an intense workout out for over an hour at the gym, and I didn't even feel tired.
So you don't have the flu then. Flu resiliency has nothing to with your fitness or what you eat, it has to do with the type of flu you've contracted, and whether or not you've been exposed it previously (although a certain level of health will help you recover rather than die from it). If you'd like to test this go get yourself a new strain of H5N1 and see how well you do against that.
I always remember being told to do those stretches at school and never did (faked it because I was too lazy). I played Rugby to a reasonably competitive level into my 30's and never suffered any major muscle injuries (a few broken bones and a concussion or two, but these were all impact related). Now I'm 40 and run 5km five times a week and still never stretch and still haven't had any muscle issues. Stretching is a con.
Note: I run more for the mental relief more than physical fitness. I also love a good walk. A 2 hour walk will work wonders to clear your head.
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Really? Are we this blatant about advertising now? Pull your fucking head in Slashdot editors...
For most consumers, the tablet - if properly conceived and integrated - is a far better computer experience than the PC/Laptop.
Disagree 100% Not sure what you mean by "properly conceived and integrated", but the simple fact that you have to hold the tablet with at least one hand, and control it using broad movements with your other hand make it mostly impractical for long term use.
If Microsoft can actually deliver a streamlined no-nonsense interface and solidly hit the midrange price point I think they'll find buyers.
And there is a good size of the market to be had in this space. I've had a iPhone and gave up on it, now have SGS2 and like it a lot, but still get a bit frustrated with unpolished nature of it (ie pretty much like Linux in general). I want a phone that has a solid user interface, but still a little bit of flexibility with hardware and what I'm allowed to do with it. It's just like the PC battle all over again. Apple are too locked in, Linux/Android too loose and fragmented, MS can come in with the closest balance of both and win.
plus you are asking tax payers, many who make less money than you to subsidize an additional $10,000 or more of your auto purchase. that does not seem like much of a bargain to me.
The trillion dollars we spent in Iraq and Afghanistan doesn't seem like much of a bargain to me either. I know which one I'd prefer to my tax dollars being spent on..
Problem with being naked is the risks of dangley bits getting snagged on things and/or of staining the furniture (a hot sweaty arse on a fabric couch isn't a good mix :)
You know there's a lot of logic being thrown around about "socialised medicine", why you think it would or wouldn't work. What seems odd is that you don't need to speculate about what *might* happen, because the rest of the civilised world already has it and we know for a fact that it works better than the "freedom loving" system in the US. Take your bible and your constitution and whatever other excuse you need to not face reality. Medicine works better when it is socialised. This is a fact proven time and time again by every country that has implemented it.
I noticed that the person asking the question did not include any information to suggest what country (or even continent) they reside in. But let's assume he's in the continental US so we've got something to talk about
What if he's in Afghanistan, and the remote valleys he wishes to climb are to smuggle heroin and guns across the border? Or maybe to spy on foreign troop movements? Surely this would give us even more to talk about :)
No, the last line explicitly says "and resources don't go down as much". In your example resources went down more than people, but this is not always the case.
Not sure how old you are, but we run 99% of our 2500 machine fleet on Wyse with Vmware View and Windows and they work very well. Maybe your implementation wasn't so good? (although I can't see how you could screw up a simple thin client roll out).
Find me any public speaker who doesn't stumble on a line occasionally.
George W. Bush. He didn't stumble occasionally, he stumbled a lot. A lot more than a person in his position should which I think was the point.
Was there more or less famine and war at the time when earth had half the population it has now ? Shouldn't there have been much less, if your theory is correct ?
It's much more complex than that, technology for one is constantly changing, and for the first time ever in the history of humanity we have enough technology to sufficiently control our environment. No other civilisation has ever had this. Take oil as one example. Oil is a scarce resource that we kill people over. if right now, today 90% of the population never woke up tomorrow, oil scarcity would cease to be a problem. So the problem is not too little oil, it's too many people.
Linux is better, faster, and more stable. Just the savings on support calls alone would be enormous.
yeah yeah if you say so... You should start a religion. Wait too late....
Mod up! Every time I hear someone moan about war, famine, peak oil, climate change, destruction of environment, electricity prices etc etc no-one ever mentions the root cause. Too many people. Every major problem has the same root cause. The problems aren't so much bad human behaviour, it simply too many of us doing it.
Get the african nations to stop fighting each other
Impossible. I was to going make some comments about the situation there but everything I wrote sounded racist. How do you address the fact that seems to be a clear pattern of behaviour in that continent that doesn't look like it will ever be solved while the locals are in charge?
Bullshit. You can pay top prices for these flights, and you're still on those same planes. Fact is, unless you rent a private jet, you can't buy your way to a pleasant flight any more.
Course you can. I used to fly business class throughout Asiapac as part of my job. Some of the benefits I received as part of the ticket: Airline limo to the airport. Check-in in the car, delivered to the business class lounge with a chef cooked meal and free alcohol, preferential entry and exit on and off the plane, champagne in a glass on boarding, a large seat that folds to a fully flat bed, mid-flight massage by hot hostee, much higher hostee to passenger ratios in business, and the quality of service is much higher too. Now when I travel on my own coin, it's back cattle class and it hurts even more now that I know what I'm missing out on.
News at 11....
But are the consumers being properly informed about the ramifications of the vendor having that information?
And what are those ramifications exactly? Without getting into FUD territory, what is likely bad case scenario?
This is what I always thought made sense. Treat a Rack like a vendor-independent Blade chassis. You'd have rack based DC power supplies, ethernet and fabric switching, all vendor neutral, with standardised connectors, and your 1U pizza boxes are effectively just modular CPU and RAM (ie just like a blade except without proprietary connectors) that you can add and remove as required with minimal extra parts. It could be implemented quite easily, just swap the existing hot plug power supplies for a standard power connector that connects to the Rack based transformer. While we're at it, lose the cable management arms and front bezels that come with servers these days (does anyone use these?).
If this works on tattoos, then there's a hundred of million dollar industry about to erupt. The tattoo industry is exploding right now, which means that in about 5-10 years, tattoo removal will be almost as big. Where can I license this technology?
Hotmail's spam protection is awful! I get about 15-20 spam messages/day and about one every couple of months on my gmail account.
Hotmail's spam protection doesn't stop the spam, it simply filters it into your junk mail folder. If you get 15-20 spam email and it all goes into you junk mail folder then the spam filter is working correctly.
I've had my hotmail account since before MS bought them and never had any issues (15years?). Perhaps it's something you were doing wrong? Although I do admit I get more spam on that account (prob about 3 or 4 a day), but all of it goes to junk mail.
The clothing style of British peasants of the 19th century, i.e. suit & tie, should be strictly limited or banned as an anti-ecological one. The new style of business clothing, light, elegant, ecology friendly, suitable for walking and cycling should be developed and promoted instead.
No-one wears a tie anymore, that was a 20th century thing. I wear a suit and walk 15 minutes each way to work and it's fine. I keep the fancy shoes at work, and wear runners on my commute.
I'm having the flu right now, and yet, my buddies and I just had an intense workout out for over an hour at the gym, and I didn't even feel tired.
So you don't have the flu then. Flu resiliency has nothing to with your fitness or what you eat, it has to do with the type of flu you've contracted, and whether or not you've been exposed it previously (although a certain level of health will help you recover rather than die from it). If you'd like to test this go get yourself a new strain of H5N1 and see how well you do against that.
I always remember being told to do those stretches at school and never did (faked it because I was too lazy). I played Rugby to a reasonably competitive level into my 30's and never suffered any major muscle injuries (a few broken bones and a concussion or two, but these were all impact related). Now I'm 40 and run 5km five times a week and still never stretch and still haven't had any muscle issues. Stretching is a con. Note: I run more for the mental relief more than physical fitness. I also love a good walk. A 2 hour walk will work wonders to clear your head.
Wow. If ever a post need to modded to 6 this is it :)