Except you can't, quite. You can run *metro* applications on phone, tablet or PC (Subject to some slight modifications for the different versions), but not the windows software of today. Eventually users are going to figure out that there is a difference, but until that happens there will be a lot of angry users who just spent hundreds of dollars on a tablet only to find that all the software they have purchased over the last few years is no use on it and they'll have to buy it all over again, or as close as they can manage in a not-yet-mature store.
My mother has an iPhone. Every few weeks she comes to me so I can put more music on it for her. The use of iTunes remains far beyond her technological skill. A USB storage device she can manage, but iTunes? Hah, I'm a professional IT technician and I can't figure out how it works half the time!
They also like their propaganda, and beating the US to something this prestigious would do great things for national pride. Remember why the US went into the space race in the first place - because they couldn't let some bunch of dirty commies get there first.
Obama at least tried to find a way to hamper the program without an all-out war. Bush, in the same position, would probably have just ordered a bombing raid on any suspected facility.
The ARM one will certainly be locked - MS requires that as a condition of other manufacturers of Windows RT devices, and I can imagine no reason they wouldn't do so themselves. The x86... maybe, maybe not. I don't know.
Close. Surface is their multi-touch-for-high-values-of-'multi' large-display technology, but yes, it is rather silly of them to use one name for two unrelated products.
Yes. We're moving into a new building now, and we were supposed to be going paperless: No printers, except for a big A3 MFD for posters and such. There aren't many departments left that haven't asked to be made an exception and granted a printer or five, and I know that a few more will be asking after the move.
Specifically 10^18 floating point operators per second. Floating point math doesn't get much use in games or most things a home user would do, but in HPC work - overwhelmingly scientific and engineering simulations - floating point performance is everything.
I don't know about the Ivy chips, but some of the Atoms boast power usage as good as an equal-performance ARM... for the processor. They still lose overall though, because the northbridge and rest of the chipset for an atom can consume as much power as the processor or more, while the ARM processors do almost everything on one chip.
I've written a nifty inpainter that can do an excellent job of removing TV-channel logos from animation... at about one frame per day. With this thing, I might actually be able to run it!
That sounds a lot like how firefox looks when I press F11, or the android browser. It doesn't take a visionary genius to realise that if you really need to maximise useable screen space you need to conceal controls until needed.
And it'll only cost you a couple of hundred quid extra to even have a choice of more than one market. It is cost-prohibitive for most users to own both an iPad and an Android, as well as awkward with media purchased for one device being unplayable on the other due to DRM (Pirates excepted, of course) and compatibility issues. Vendor lock-in is an important factor to consider.
Do you really want this decision put in the hands of individuals with no oversight? Remember the old expression: One man's terrorist is another's freedom-fighter. A lot of Anonymous's actions have been justified as counterattacks against those who threaten the freedom of the internet.
So, stopping one type of crime just displaces into another? In that case, guns are a good way to protect an individual citizens, but a useless ways to protect a population - the most you can hope for is that some criminal will be foolish and some victim lucky enough, and the criminal end up dead. The real solution should be an effective police force - not encouraging what amounts to spontanious vigilante action. Let the muggers mug, once... and make sure they get caught quickly.
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I use mine in a watertight plastic bag to read in the bath.
Except you can't, quite. You can run *metro* applications on phone, tablet or PC (Subject to some slight modifications for the different versions), but not the windows software of today. Eventually users are going to figure out that there is a difference, but until that happens there will be a lot of angry users who just spent hundreds of dollars on a tablet only to find that all the software they have purchased over the last few years is no use on it and they'll have to buy it all over again, or as close as they can manage in a not-yet-mature store.
My mother has an iPhone. Every few weeks she comes to me so I can put more music on it for her. The use of iTunes remains far beyond her technological skill. A USB storage device she can manage, but iTunes? Hah, I'm a professional IT technician and I can't figure out how it works half the time!
They also like their propaganda, and beating the US to something this prestigious would do great things for national pride. Remember why the US went into the space race in the first place - because they couldn't let some bunch of dirty commies get there first.
I do wonder if this might be intentional though.
Obama at least tried to find a way to hamper the program without an all-out war. Bush, in the same position, would probably have just ordered a bombing raid on any suspected facility.
The ARM one will, no doubt. The x86 one... well, based on Microsoft's track record on this type of thing, probably.
Joke or not, you can't use windows without ctrl-alt-del. It's required to unlock the screen.
The ARM one will certainly be locked - MS requires that as a condition of other manufacturers of Windows RT devices, and I can imagine no reason they wouldn't do so themselves. The x86... maybe, maybe not. I don't know.
Close. Surface is their multi-touch-for-high-values-of-'multi' large-display technology, but yes, it is rather silly of them to use one name for two unrelated products.
Yes. We're moving into a new building now, and we were supposed to be going paperless: No printers, except for a big A3 MFD for posters and such. There aren't many departments left that haven't asked to be made an exception and granted a printer or five, and I know that a few more will be asking after the move.
Specifically 10^18 floating point operators per second. Floating point math doesn't get much use in games or most things a home user would do, but in HPC work - overwhelmingly scientific and engineering simulations - floating point performance is everything.
Want.
I don't know about the Ivy chips, but some of the Atoms boast power usage as good as an equal-performance ARM... for the processor. They still lose overall though, because the northbridge and rest of the chipset for an atom can consume as much power as the processor or more, while the ARM processors do almost everything on one chip.
I've written a nifty inpainter that can do an excellent job of removing TV-channel logos from animation... at about one frame per day. With this thing, I might actually be able to run it!
I'm a lowly technician. So long as there are printers, someone has to go around the rooms clearing paper jams and putting new cartridges in.
You want a car analogy? How about if Ford modified their engines only to accept Ford-branded petrol, identified by a patented additive marker?
I think it's safe to assume that the Kindle processor is Turing-complete, even if there is no ability to install new code for it to execute.
That sounds a lot like how firefox looks when I press F11, or the android browser. It doesn't take a visionary genius to realise that if you really need to maximise useable screen space you need to conceal controls until needed.
And it'll only cost you a couple of hundred quid extra to even have a choice of more than one market. It is cost-prohibitive for most users to own both an iPad and an Android, as well as awkward with media purchased for one device being unplayable on the other due to DRM (Pirates excepted, of course) and compatibility issues. Vendor lock-in is an important factor to consider.
Do you really want this decision put in the hands of individuals with no oversight? Remember the old expression: One man's terrorist is another's freedom-fighter. A lot of Anonymous's actions have been justified as counterattacks against those who threaten the freedom of the internet.
The law is only for those who commit really serious crimes, like copyright infringement.
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Or maybe I just don't believe it is an effective policy to protect one citizen at the expense of another.
So, stopping one type of crime just displaces into another? In that case, guns are a good way to protect an individual citizens, but a useless ways to protect a population - the most you can hope for is that some criminal will be foolish and some victim lucky enough, and the criminal end up dead. The real solution should be an effective police force - not encouraging what amounts to spontanious vigilante action. Let the muggers mug, once... and make sure they get caught quickly.