In the US reselling licenses is not been held up as legal.
Really? Says who, Microsoft? Of course, not long ago they would claim you can't even donate the PC and trash the OS; look for " It is a legal requirement that pre-installed operating systems remain with a machine for the life of the machine. If a company or individual donates a machine to your school, it must be donated with the operating system that was installed on the PC. "
Not only it was buying OEM version (if you found a vendor) 100% legit all the time (even if presumably frown upon) but reselling+splitting the OEM license from the original hardware was uphold in courts already (look for OEM windows on German ebay for example). It's not that bad (for M$) because they still have a Microsoft tax on most retail laptops and now they probably won't repeat the "long-lived XP mistake" but I'm sure they were for quite a few years scared shitless by the spectre of a sane 2nd hand market for "used OEM Windows" flooded with all the licenses coming from broken PCs 3-4-5 years old.
No, not unless the device sells better than the iphone; they concentrate on round generic connectors. This "usb-like" power connector will be most likely patented to hell and back and even if you might find some adapter on ebay for sure you won't find it in any brick and mortar store.
What the heck is wrong with these companies? Are they really getting so much revenue in replacement power supplies that they have to screw everybody and their dog in the process? Not only you can't change the (non-removable) battery but you also can't easily use any existent "power pack" (like powergorilla, not that I recommend that one but it's easy to google for and see what I mean). You can't just grab a "generic" laptop power supply (the one that comes with multiple voltages and a bunch of rounded tips) from any shop if you forgot/lost yours. Also you can't consolidate on chargers/use your existent one, you can't efficiently charge it from an appropriate DC power supply without going via the inefficient route inverter->original power supply. It seems these devices are designed more for executives with more money than sense than for people who actually travel and need the advertised portability.
In the video it looks like the lid raises the laptop only when opened quite wide, at larger angles than would be possible on many similar devices. At "regular" angles the laptop sits on it's own feet and the lid moves freely, once you open it too much it will hit the desk and you need to slightly raise the laptop and let it sit on the lid.
I haven't seen even one Android phone where you couldn't enable "Unknown Sources". You don't have root, you have bootloader locked, etc but still you can enable "Unknown Sources"
30 EUR for a single license for "PDF-XChange Viewer" and you get only "1 year of product maintenance" (which probably means after one year you need to pay for security patches). For a freaking pdf reader? And with no real assurance that this one isn't again full of security holes. Get real.
There was at least Fujitsu LOOX F-07C. Not widely available but certainly not vaporware either. Frankly the "XP Phone" (and I don't mean the vaporware with this name) is long overdue. But if they delay more and Android gets even more and more apps it might come way too late to do any good.
Maybe one year ago isn't such a good benchmark. Less than one year ago prices here were 5x EUR for 2TB (that is between 50 and 60 eur). I'm talking good retailers, both online and brick mortar stores. Even after the flood (but not until the retailers got wind of the shortage) USB 2TB drives were going for 59EUR. Now the cheapest bare 2 TB drive I can find is 110 EUR. Something from a reputable retailer like amazon is 120-150. WD20EARS (entry-level WD 2TB) is on amazon marketplace (not amazon directly) between 350 and 9999 (!!!) eur.
Bottom line: - prices are still more than double - supply is still in shambles
Yea, that's true. Funny thing I've got a 24 inch to replace my aging 19 inch and guess what, it's less taller than the 19 inch!!! WTF. Visibly and in some rather important respect: the 19 inch is larger than A4 length, whilst the 24 inch is smaller. WTF?! I was saying for a long time that we'll end up with displays that are XXX inches long but have only one line, it seems that we're getting close to this!
To add insult to injury, there are still movies that are "too wide" for my 24 inch!
Huh, have you ever installed Ubuntu during the last years? It asks you if you want to encrypt (encfs) your home (and of course you can change the password later on, although it won't help you if an attacker had access to the machine in the meantime). "Whole-disk" encryption is also available in the alternate installer (and it looks and probably is identical with the one that exists by default in the debian installer). However for some reason the recent versions of the "alternate" are a mess, at least in my experience. Upgrades/reinstalls are also no problem (if all goes well) although I hope it's obvious that backups are a must.
Kudos to Apple for creating a need that doesn't exist really but what are people doing nowadays carrying both a tablet and laptop?! Now I somehow understand the "couch surfing" use for a tablet but really carrying a laptop and a tablet seems to be overkill (and still done by many people). You can check something quickly on your phone (which is easier to access than the tablet and most likely it runs precisely the same OS) and for anything serious you still need the laptop. So, why the tablet? And it's not some case of "why not if I can afford it". There's a big price to be paid in having an extra device apart from original cost and the extra weight: you need to take care of it, not to lose it, to recharge it, to install stuff on it, debug it if it doesn't work (even sending it back to manufacturer if it fails), etc. If you are very young (or very poor) and a little bit geeky you probably welcome anything that works on electricity, from a 1GB USB stick to a nice used laptop. But there is a point where it's just too much and even if it's free it's just not worth it for the extra complexity.
Even if the pretended documentary would be close to the truth for the sake of whatever technique this still wouldn't say anything about Romania; you can gather as much if you knew at least the full title of the movie, which is "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan".
What the heck is going on? You can't even preorder one and the ones ordered already are delayed. In the meantime there are about as many distributions for it as devices out there "in the wild". We sold only like 10 devices on ebay (and yes, they fetched good money) and now there are thousands of seeds in the torrent for distribution X. And we need even more seeds! And today we repackaged distribution Y, go and download that as well! Just take the buzz down a bit and start freakin' shipping!
Funny thing actually with this ipad craze: I've had during the last week TWICE people telling me ON THE PHONE "you know, I have skype on my ipad let's use that". The call was anyway on company phone and even then probably free/included in the plan/minutes. Apart from the fact that they didn't want to actually use the phone (which after all is designed for calls) the funny part is that marketing is sometimes strange: I haven't heard people using skype with iphones (or even with windows mobile 2003, although I did for years, years ago) but somehow the perception is that the ipad just does it much better.
... why wouldn't work for email as well? You pay the levy/tax or whatever is called for CD-Rs as well even if you just use them to back-up your own pictures (or even if you want to use them as coasters). Why not tax email as well, even if you don't use it for copyright infringement, even if you don't use it at all.
+1 for ScanSnap 1500 or similar. OCR on "normal", modern printouts/paper (like bills and such) is spooky, as opposed for old magazines where it's so-so. Software is a bunch of closed spaghetti-commercial software you can't use for much more than getting searchable PDFs from your boxes of paper but oh, it does work for this purpose. Also it's about the only software where I'm satisfied with default settings. Tried to play with resolution, color, compression (space is cheap, I know how to handle a couple odd hundred megs, etc). No real improvement and everything gets slower. In short: yes, it does work.
I don't know about the "new" "Smarts" but the usual one in Europe is the 2-seater while the US is the 4-seater. The engines surely aren't the same as well.
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Really? Says who, Microsoft? Of course, not long ago they would claim you can't even donate the PC and trash the OS; look for " It is a legal requirement that pre-installed operating systems remain with a machine for the life of the machine. If a company or individual donates a machine to your school, it must be donated with the operating system that was installed on the PC. "
Not only it was buying OEM version (if you found a vendor) 100% legit all the time (even if presumably frown upon) but reselling+splitting the OEM license from the original hardware was uphold in courts already (look for OEM windows on German ebay for example).
It's not that bad (for M$) because they still have a Microsoft tax on most retail laptops and now they probably won't repeat the "long-lived XP mistake" but I'm sure they were for quite a few years scared shitless by the spectre of a sane 2nd hand market for "used OEM Windows" flooded with all the licenses coming from broken PCs 3-4-5 years old.
No, not unless the device sells better than the iphone; they concentrate on round generic connectors.
This "usb-like" power connector will be most likely patented to hell and back and even if you might find some adapter on ebay for sure you won't find it in any brick and mortar store.
And it doesn't?!
Even netbooks from 2008 have LED backlit screen, possibly by now it isn't even worth mentioning.
What the heck is wrong with these companies? Are they really getting so much revenue in replacement power supplies that they have to screw everybody and their dog in the process?
Not only you can't change the (non-removable) battery but you also can't easily use any existent "power pack" (like powergorilla, not that I recommend that one but it's easy to google for and see what I mean). You can't just grab a "generic" laptop power supply (the one that comes with multiple voltages and a bunch of rounded tips) from any shop if you forgot/lost yours.
Also you can't consolidate on chargers/use your existent one, you can't efficiently charge it from an appropriate DC power supply without going via the inefficient route inverter->original power supply.
It seems these devices are designed more for executives with more money than sense than for people who actually travel and need the advertised portability.
In the video it looks like the lid raises the laptop only when opened quite wide, at larger angles than would be possible on many similar devices. At "regular" angles the laptop sits on it's own feet and the lid moves freely, once you open it too much it will hit the desk and you need to slightly raise the laptop and let it sit on the lid.
I haven't seen even one Android phone where you couldn't enable "Unknown Sources".
You don't have root, you have bootloader locked, etc but still you can enable "Unknown Sources"
30 EUR for a single license for "PDF-XChange Viewer" and you get only "1 year of product maintenance" (which probably means after one year you need to pay for security patches).
For a freaking pdf reader? And with no real assurance that this one isn't again full of security holes. Get real.
I think he means he got to pay upfront a large amount of money upfront (original cost).
Where else would you store them? In your head?
Wait, lost has "continuing story lines" now? I see, probably the emphasis is on the plural rather than on "continuing".
There was at least Fujitsu LOOX F-07C.
Not widely available but certainly not vaporware either.
Frankly the "XP Phone" (and I don't mean the vaporware with this name) is long overdue. But if they delay more and Android gets even more and more apps it might come way too late to do any good.
Maybe one year ago isn't such a good benchmark. Less than one year ago prices here were 5x EUR for 2TB (that is between 50 and 60 eur). I'm talking good retailers, both online and brick mortar stores.
Even after the flood (but not until the retailers got wind of the shortage) USB 2TB drives were going for 59EUR.
Now the cheapest bare 2 TB drive I can find is 110 EUR. Something from a reputable retailer like amazon is 120-150.
WD20EARS (entry-level WD 2TB) is on amazon marketplace (not amazon directly) between 350 and 9999 (!!!) eur.
Bottom line:
- prices are still more than double
- supply is still in shambles
Yea, that's true. Funny thing I've got a 24 inch to replace my aging 19 inch and guess what, it's less taller than the 19 inch!!! WTF. Visibly and in some rather important respect: the 19 inch is larger than A4 length, whilst the 24 inch is smaller. WTF?!
I was saying for a long time that we'll end up with displays that are XXX inches long but have only one line, it seems that we're getting close to this!
To add insult to injury, there are still movies that are "too wide" for my 24 inch!
The guy has a kindle as well, apart from laptop and tablet.
Huh, have you ever installed Ubuntu during the last years? It asks you if you want to encrypt (encfs) your home (and of course you can change the password later on, although it won't help you if an attacker had access to the machine in the meantime).
"Whole-disk" encryption is also available in the alternate installer (and it looks and probably is identical with the one that exists by default in the debian installer). However for some reason the recent versions of the "alternate" are a mess, at least in my experience.
Upgrades/reinstalls are also no problem (if all goes well) although I hope it's obvious that backups are a must.
Kudos to Apple for creating a need that doesn't exist really but what are people doing nowadays carrying both a tablet and laptop?!
Now I somehow understand the "couch surfing" use for a tablet but really carrying a laptop and a tablet seems to be overkill (and still done by many people).
You can check something quickly on your phone (which is easier to access than the tablet and most likely it runs precisely the same OS) and for anything serious you still need the laptop. So, why the tablet?
And it's not some case of "why not if I can afford it". There's a big price to be paid in having an extra device apart from original cost and the extra weight: you need to take care of it, not to lose it, to recharge it, to install stuff on it, debug it if it doesn't work (even sending it back to manufacturer if it fails), etc.
If you are very young (or very poor) and a little bit geeky you probably welcome anything that works on electricity, from a 1GB USB stick to a nice used laptop. But there is a point where it's just too much and even if it's free it's just not worth it for the extra complexity.
Even if the pretended documentary would be close to the truth for the sake of whatever technique this still wouldn't say anything about Romania; you can gather as much if you knew at least the full title of the movie, which is "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan".
"Borat" wasn't a documentary, if you can't make the difference please don't watch "Zombie Apocalypse" or anything similar. For your own good.
What the heck is going on? You can't even preorder one and the ones ordered already are delayed. In the meantime there are about as many distributions for it as devices out there "in the wild".
We sold only like 10 devices on ebay (and yes, they fetched good money) and now there are thousands of seeds in the torrent for distribution X. And we need even more seeds! And today we repackaged distribution Y, go and download that as well!
Just take the buzz down a bit and start freakin' shipping!
Funny thing actually with this ipad craze: I've had during the last week TWICE people telling me ON THE PHONE "you know, I have skype on my ipad let's use that". The call was anyway on company phone and even then probably free/included in the plan/minutes.
Apart from the fact that they didn't want to actually use the phone (which after all is designed for calls) the funny part is that marketing is sometimes strange: I haven't heard people using skype with iphones (or even with windows mobile 2003, although I did for years, years ago) but somehow the perception is that the ipad just does it much better.
Each day you learn something, had to google "doobie" - wrong birth year and wrong continent I guess.
... why wouldn't work for email as well?
You pay the levy/tax or whatever is called for CD-Rs as well even if you just use them to back-up your own pictures (or even if you want to use them as coasters).
Why not tax email as well, even if you don't use it for copyright infringement, even if you don't use it at all.
+1 for ScanSnap 1500 or similar.
OCR on "normal", modern printouts/paper (like bills and such) is spooky, as opposed for old magazines where it's so-so.
Software is a bunch of closed spaghetti-commercial software you can't use for much more than getting searchable PDFs from your boxes of paper but oh, it does work for this purpose. Also it's about the only software where I'm satisfied with default settings. Tried to play with resolution, color, compression (space is cheap, I know how to handle a couple odd hundred megs, etc). No real improvement and everything gets slower.
In short: yes, it does work.
I don't know about the "new" "Smarts" but the usual one in Europe is the 2-seater while the US is the 4-seater. The engines surely aren't the same as well.