I read the article, I watched the demo video from the website. Still not convinced he really knows what he's talking about. I for one don't want my touch-based interface married to a kb/m based interface to create some hybrid interface. I want a sleek kb/m ui that doesn't distract, and I want my touch-based device ui's to present content to me quickly, naturally, and contextually. The more buttons/tabs/windows/widgets I have to touch to get to my content, the worse I feel the UI is. I'm for simplicity with underlying complexity, not complexity with underlying simplicity.
but more importantly, a platform that will attract developers... Sadly, they neither have compelling hardware, compelling software, or an eco-system that would promote the platform off the ground... Sad really...
...the boxes that sit on the shelf do not "constantly remind us of the beauty within"... instead they constantly remind us that in a year, we will need those boxes to sell the apple product on ebay or craigslist in order for us to purchase the next apple product...
If they would make pc's that I would actually buy, this wouldn't happen. "Ultra-books" are not sleek looking, nor thin (in most cases). They don't hold a candle to the Macbook Air despite a lot of windows users wanting something that does. The PC Market is flat-lining because there really isn't much innovation happening on the pc hardware front-end... I still have a brick of a desktop, a brick of a laptop, and no one seems to care that Apple is killing PC makers with their sleek looking macbook pro's and their fresh hardware... Gimme a Laptop Air that runs Windows or hell, Linux, and I'll buy it in a heartbeat...
+500000 to this... Every time microsoft announces something "new" hardware wise that isn't revolved around the XBox brand... it fails... and fails hard... I'm not worried at all what microsoft does, or sells, or develops cause all of their past attempts have been garbage. XBox 360 + peripherals (Kinect) are the only good things coming from the hardware division as of late... Their software division and pc/tablet/notebook/ultrabook divisions are pure and utter retardation (opinion of course)...
sudo apt-get install gnome2? then switch shell in gdm login? the sudo apt-get remote unity, sudo apt-get purge unity, sudo apt-get never again request unity for the love of god? sudo aptitude block unity universe source so as to never check for it again!
I mean, sure, iTunes sucks, but not because of the infrastructure... but because of Apple's walled garden of robbery.
I don't get what the articles gripes are other than someone trying to troll over a network system and infrastructure they know nothing about...
I feel for those that work in IT in UK this summer... You guys are going to be up shits creek without a paddle. I can't imagine the kind of stress this would bring to people involved in web development / networking / hardware / infrastructure during the games.
But of course I'll be here across the pond enjoying not having to go through that...
Just remember, it takes about 90 hours without sleep to start hallucinations... about just enough to cover the opening ceremony and a few days of competition...
It's the epitome of how some of us feel about the bastardization of our beloved Nerd Alliance Science Administration... The fact that NASA once reached for the stars, sent men to the moon, developed reusable space vehicles, probes, robotic missions to mars, missions to saturn and jupiter moons, only to be reduced by our congress to sending shitty satellites into space. No more shuttles, No more US Space Program, no more NASA.
The only way to fundamentally understand ourselves is to understand our universe, and frankly I'm fucking tired of idiot t-baggers and their fucking congress of killing anything that means progress to man-kind...
While I do agree with some of the reasoning behind this, I don't think you can make that argument in totality. But I did love the reference to Issac Asimov...
+1 to this... they do that all the time, putting items on the "wrong" pricetag lane to make you think it's a good deal only to find out it's 3x more expensive at the counter.
A few years ago I bought a 39" LCD TV from them. Sticker said on sale for $599... I take it to the counter, ring it up, wife was chatting my ear off, I swiped the card. Only when I got home did I see the receipt (as I was looking for any RMA information)... $999!!!
Fuck a Best Buy!
I totally agree... but Intel is just milking the offerings by providing something now, then get the chips out, then offer something people wanted all along... so they get 3 transactions rather than 2...
Go with what you know to be ready for the show... They likely will come out with more "hardcore" MB's after launch when demand for the processors skyrockets
You are correct however one can look at past years dates to determine patterns and apply a deviation to that model (that's what meteorologists do sometimes). If the standard deviation grows year after year it's a suspicious factor which is what climatologists look for. It's no secret that these climatologists (of whom I reference in my post as "world scientists", should have said "world climatologists" instead) look at this data as well as past temperature/precipitation/drought/and wind patterns to effectively predict next decades worth of climate "patterns" and the patterns are getting more and more wild because the standard deviation is growing. Thus the reference to "weather patterns to be unpredictable" cause more often then not, if the deviation is greater than your standard, your predicate model is not accurate enough to predict real world outcomes.
The only scientists who disagree about this "theory" are most likely those who either are without the model "knowns" or are not specialized climatologists to begin with. Though I don't know their personal backgrounds to be sure but it seems that way. 99% of the worlds climatologists have agreed that there is climate change and that it will alter our weather patterns as well as ecosystems and biological makeup of the planet.
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In other words, "If you want something with laptop like power, just get a damned laptop!"
I read the article, I watched the demo video from the website. Still not convinced he really knows what he's talking about. I for one don't want my touch-based interface married to a kb/m based interface to create some hybrid interface. I want a sleek kb/m ui that doesn't distract, and I want my touch-based device ui's to present content to me quickly, naturally, and contextually. The more buttons/tabs/windows/widgets I have to touch to get to my content, the worse I feel the UI is. I'm for simplicity with underlying complexity, not complexity with underlying simplicity.
but more importantly, a platform that will attract developers... Sadly, they neither have compelling hardware, compelling software, or an eco-system that would promote the platform off the ground... Sad really...
+1 and seconded...
...the boxes that sit on the shelf do not "constantly remind us of the beauty within"... instead they constantly remind us that in a year, we will need those boxes to sell the apple product on ebay or craigslist in order for us to purchase the next apple product...
...nothing says 'I Quit!' like getting your dick sucked...
If they would make pc's that I would actually buy, this wouldn't happen. "Ultra-books" are not sleek looking, nor thin (in most cases). They don't hold a candle to the Macbook Air despite a lot of windows users wanting something that does. The PC Market is flat-lining because there really isn't much innovation happening on the pc hardware front-end... I still have a brick of a desktop, a brick of a laptop, and no one seems to care that Apple is killing PC makers with their sleek looking macbook pro's and their fresh hardware... Gimme a Laptop Air that runs Windows or hell, Linux, and I'll buy it in a heartbeat...
+500000 to this... Every time microsoft announces something "new" hardware wise that isn't revolved around the XBox brand... it fails... and fails hard... I'm not worried at all what microsoft does, or sells, or develops cause all of their past attempts have been garbage. XBox 360 + peripherals (Kinect) are the only good things coming from the hardware division as of late... Their software division and pc/tablet/notebook/ultrabook divisions are pure and utter retardation (opinion of course)...
Source?
marketing speak for "shit we fucked up"
sudo apt-get install gnome2? then switch shell in gdm login? the sudo apt-get remote unity, sudo apt-get purge unity, sudo apt-get never again request unity for the love of god? sudo aptitude block unity universe source so as to never check for it again!
I just got schooled....
"What America WAS capable of." Keyword there is was.
I mean, sure, iTunes sucks, but not because of the infrastructure... but because of Apple's walled garden of robbery. I don't get what the articles gripes are other than someone trying to troll over a network system and infrastructure they know nothing about...
I feel for those that work in IT in UK this summer... You guys are going to be up shits creek without a paddle. I can't imagine the kind of stress this would bring to people involved in web development / networking / hardware / infrastructure during the games. But of course I'll be here across the pond enjoying not having to go through that... Just remember, it takes about 90 hours without sleep to start hallucinations... about just enough to cover the opening ceremony and a few days of competition...
iDesigned iRobots for the iFuture of iAmerica...
It's the epitome of how some of us feel about the bastardization of our beloved Nerd Alliance Science Administration... The fact that NASA once reached for the stars, sent men to the moon, developed reusable space vehicles, probes, robotic missions to mars, missions to saturn and jupiter moons, only to be reduced by our congress to sending shitty satellites into space. No more shuttles, No more US Space Program, no more NASA. The only way to fundamentally understand ourselves is to understand our universe, and frankly I'm fucking tired of idiot t-baggers and their fucking congress of killing anything that means progress to man-kind...
While I do agree with some of the reasoning behind this, I don't think you can make that argument in totality. But I did love the reference to Issac Asimov...
Intelligence is really a socially directed kd-tree...
+1 to this... they do that all the time, putting items on the "wrong" pricetag lane to make you think it's a good deal only to find out it's 3x more expensive at the counter. A few years ago I bought a 39" LCD TV from them. Sticker said on sale for $599... I take it to the counter, ring it up, wife was chatting my ear off, I swiped the card. Only when I got home did I see the receipt (as I was looking for any RMA information)... $999!!! Fuck a Best Buy!
I totally agree... but Intel is just milking the offerings by providing something now, then get the chips out, then offer something people wanted all along... so they get 3 transactions rather than 2...
Go with what you know to be ready for the show... They likely will come out with more "hardcore" MB's after launch when demand for the processors skyrockets
Thought the same thing... had my first audible chuckle of the day...
You are correct however one can look at past years dates to determine patterns and apply a deviation to that model (that's what meteorologists do sometimes). If the standard deviation grows year after year it's a suspicious factor which is what climatologists look for. It's no secret that these climatologists (of whom I reference in my post as "world scientists", should have said "world climatologists" instead) look at this data as well as past temperature/precipitation/drought/and wind patterns to effectively predict next decades worth of climate "patterns" and the patterns are getting more and more wild because the standard deviation is growing. Thus the reference to "weather patterns to be unpredictable" cause more often then not, if the deviation is greater than your standard, your predicate model is not accurate enough to predict real world outcomes. The only scientists who disagree about this "theory" are most likely those who either are without the model "knowns" or are not specialized climatologists to begin with. Though I don't know their personal backgrounds to be sure but it seems that way. 99% of the worlds climatologists have agreed that there is climate change and that it will alter our weather patterns as well as ecosystems and biological makeup of the planet.