Tablets are definitely for working on. They are practically ideal for purpose-built applications. You just need to use them appropriately and design the apps appropriately.
If your task has predictable input and workflow, they work great. For doing extensive word processing, they dont. For checking in inventory or booking appointments, they'd be fine.
You can still have social functions, they just have to be stupid, like everyone riding go-karts or playing laser tag in the hopes that this will make our product better.
In a way, this could set their cause back further than it was before they came to international prominence.
If sources can't be confident they can "leak" information anonymously, they won't have any sources. People are more afraid to leak than they were before.
One reason would be that someone who is disruptive at age 13 might still be able to become a productive member of society if given a little guidance and education.
If the anarchist tendencies among us said "hey if they don't want to go to school, don't make 'em" we're going to end up with half filled schools, and an even greater dependency class than we already have in society - because of course, the fact that you have achieved less or worked less doesn't mean you should receive less, the government should rob from the rich to help you.
The social harm done could hardly be underestimated.
AT&T also just announced that they will begin throttling mobile users on Oct. 1 who use some unspecified amount of bandwidth per month, until the next month's billing cycle begins - even if they are on one of the old (grandfathered) unlimited plans.
Until customers punish them with defection, AT&T will continue to do whatever they can to provide less for the same price, or a higher price, to make up for their lack of foresight in developing their data network.
Game developers are pushing everyone to the online multiplayer model on purpose - it means they don't have to bother developing much of a campaign, spending on writing and voice talent, etc.
1. Develop on the cheap, charge everyone $60. Herd them into online servers you don't even bother to host yourself. 2. If they want to keep playing with everyone else, at some point they have to pay $20 more for the new map pack 3. ??? 4. Profit
This phrase should be banned from article summaries. It may as well read, "Here is where the news ends and my editorializing begins, whilst trying to maintain an aire of impartiality that only dumbasses will fall for"
But nobody bangs out very long letters on a laptop today, really. People communicate in short bursts. Even email is going the way of the dodo, for home users - people are using social networking for personal messaging.
The meme has always meant, this is the year that some new innovation will make Linux palatable to novice users, and we'll start seeing widespread adoption on home desktops by novice users.
Linophiles pining after the fabled "Year of Linux on the Desktop" are missing the point by 10 years. The desktop is over. The future in the consumer computing space lies in Android/iOS types of applications.
In a decade people won't have bulky desktops taking up space in their house, they'll either be using sleek and instant-fast tablets, or portable devices that they take everywhere with them, plugging up to home entertainment centers if needed, but mostly being mobile.
It's a silly argument. Linux failed in the consumer desktop space. The battle is over and it doesn't matter anymore.
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Tablets are definitely for working on. They are practically ideal for purpose-built applications. You just need to use them appropriately and design the apps appropriately.
If your task has predictable input and workflow, they work great. For doing extensive word processing, they dont. For checking in inventory or booking appointments, they'd be fine.
You can still have social functions, they just have to be stupid, like everyone riding go-karts or playing laser tag in the hopes that this will make our product better.
In a way, this could set their cause back further than it was before they came to international prominence.
If sources can't be confident they can "leak" information anonymously, they won't have any sources. People are more afraid to leak than they were before.
I don't think so. Sprint and MCI Worldcom never got their merger through the DOJ, and this is a very similar case.
In Soviet Russia, pants complain you!
This is hardly unprecedented.
Throttling bandwidth, stripping out cost savings opportunities from service plans, locking down phones... that's a lot of work.
Does SCO even exist now? Do they have an office or any employees? Or is SCO the same as it ever was, a legal instrument for patent trolling?
I guess they were fairly innovative in their field (patent trolling), you can give them that much. Even evil can be exquisite.
The genius of that! The genius! The will to do that! Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure.
Most millionaires are self-made, and most are entrepreneurs.
Not sure if Brave New World-ish genuis post... or... sheer madness
Global warming emergency flash!!
I used to love download.com.
Once a company steps down the RealPlayer path, though... I am done with them.
One reason would be that someone who is disruptive at age 13 might still be able to become a productive member of society if given a little guidance and education.
If the anarchist tendencies among us said "hey if they don't want to go to school, don't make 'em" we're going to end up with half filled schools, and an even greater dependency class than we already have in society - because of course, the fact that you have achieved less or worked less doesn't mean you should receive less, the government should rob from the rich to help you.
The social harm done could hardly be underestimated.
12?
POLICE SCHOOL!
In Soviet Russia, TV watches you!
We should definitely outlaw AT&T sending those thugs over to your house and holding a gun to your head and making you sign that contract.
That should be illegal.
AT&T also just announced that they will begin throttling mobile users on Oct. 1 who use some unspecified amount of bandwidth per month, until the next month's billing cycle begins - even if they are on one of the old (grandfathered) unlimited plans.
Until customers punish them with defection, AT&T will continue to do whatever they can to provide less for the same price, or a higher price, to make up for their lack of foresight in developing their data network.
Game developers are pushing everyone to the online multiplayer model on purpose - it means they don't have to bother developing much of a campaign, spending on writing and voice talent, etc.
1. Develop on the cheap, charge everyone $60. Herd them into online servers you don't even bother to host yourself.
2. If they want to keep playing with everyone else, at some point they have to pay $20 more for the new map pack
3. ???
4. Profit
This phrase should be banned from article summaries. It may as well read, "Here is where the news ends and my editorializing begins, whilst trying to maintain an aire of impartiality that only dumbasses will fall for"
The question was not whether neckbeards trolling around /. will go that way, it's whether the mainstream of society will
But nobody bangs out very long letters on a laptop today, really. People communicate in short bursts. Even email is going the way of the dodo, for home users - people are using social networking for personal messaging.
The meme has always meant, this is the year that some new innovation will make Linux palatable to novice users, and we'll start seeing widespread adoption on home desktops by novice users.
Ooh, I didn't even notice the slashdot meme, "It's been on MY desktop since..."
mod +1 - qualifying cliche usage
Precisely.
Linophiles pining after the fabled "Year of Linux on the Desktop" are missing the point by 10 years. The desktop is over. The future in the consumer computing space lies in Android/iOS types of applications.
In a decade people won't have bulky desktops taking up space in their house, they'll either be using sleek and instant-fast tablets, or portable devices that they take everywhere with them, plugging up to home entertainment centers if needed, but mostly being mobile.
It's a silly argument. Linux failed in the consumer desktop space. The battle is over and it doesn't matter anymore.