I am absolutely not implying this is a desirable device, just that it's not really comparable to a Nexus 7 and that the similar priced Nexus 10 is more comparable. For Me Win RT is not a viable option. If this was a "Surface Pro" sort of devie where I could use it as a touch enabled PC/Netbook/tablet it would be different but I'd get the Surface Pro or Nexus 10 as it is now.
I have to agree here, RT seems to me to be one of the really remarkably bad ideas in tech recently. We have Windows (fine) and Windows Phone (OK whatever). One (or both) of those should be used for the tablets, but the concept of creating a third platform that's incompatible with the other two is just astonishing to me.
Well I can only speak for myself, but for me those sizes solve two very different issues and have very different but slightly overlapping use cases. If I have to choose, I want a 10" because it has (based on the Xoom vs the Nexus 7) vastly better usability and somewhat better battery life (probably bigger battery) but if I can have both (I do) then the 7" will fit in some of my pockets and is nicer to carry day to day. Which looks a lot like different but overlapping markets, buddy.;) In any case, Google sells a model that more closely approximates the specs of the Nokia, and that model is the $499 Nexus 10. You can argue that all people seem to want is a Ford Focus and there is "one car market", but when Ferrari makes the 458 it's silly to insist on comparing them rather than comparing the Ferrari and maybe an Aston Martin.
There were in fact mods and modes that would allow a user to make WInXP look like 9x/NT/2K because a lot of people disliked the "cartoonish" look, yes, absolutely. It's always the same, people with short attention spans repeat the same old shtick every time. The reference to Me is a red herring.
The fact is is 3 times as expensive as new Nexus 7....
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to compare it with a Nexus 10 at $499 than with a 7" tablet? I have a Nexus 7 and I like it fine but it's not a 10" tablet (Also have a Xoom) by any stretch.
I bet it's a close thing but I have no hard numbers, for SPEAKS 2 or more. Reads 2 or more I would be more skeptical, but India has an assload of both people and languages, for instance. Places like that would skew the number upwards just like rural China would skew it down.
But I hated Windows 7 when I first started with it, it seemed that stuff (especially in Control Panel) had been moved around for no readily apparent reason and a couple of months to comfortably find everything I wanted to as quickly as I could in XP.
About 4 years from now people will be complaining about Windows and saying this about Windows 8.1. People complained about Win2k, WinXP, Win7, and now Win8.1 - and eventually they discover the new is actually fine. I have been using Windows 8 on my dev VMs from within a few weeks after it was out; it's fine, even though stuff has been moved around for no readily apparent reason.
Facebook's TOS and developer EULA states (in layman's terms) that you can't make any changes to how the site is presented to the user.
So based on that the browser makers should be banned from FB since they are changing the presentation from raw HTML to rendered, and anyone who works in display technologies too, if they include controls like color corrections and so on.... or since it's a plugin maybe instead of the plugin author, FB should ban each individual plugin USER. Lame.
If money is not an object then I guess so, but if I was actually BUYING it, I'd look at one of the snazzy new Lenovo 13" or so touch enabled ultrabook things.
That would likely be the reason I said the high price was a huge issue then huh? The device itself is nice, and I don't have to carry a tablet and a notebook PC, the Surface Pro does both. Credit where it's due, what it does it does really well, including the touchscreen and pen; however the keyboard thinger shouldn't be optional IMO, and as you note it's really way too expensive.
I actually have and use a Surface Pro, and it's a pretty nice machine. It's not a replacement for my Xoom but it is a better netbook than any netbook I've ever used. The only real issue, and it's huge, is the price. No way in hell it's worth what they are asking for it, I got "mine" at//build so I love it but I would NEVER pay $1100 or whatever they want tof the thing + the KB (seperate, really?) + the case thinger I put on it.
What we seem to be having is a confusion between the concepts of privacy and anonymity. Things that occur in public are by definition not private, but we have become accustomed to assuming most of our actions are nearly anonymous. This is quickly becoming a poor assumption.
I've been using fingerprint and face recognition to log into my PC for years. The software always allows a person to register one or more (upper limit so far always 10) prints in the database per user. The face recognition requires the user to sit in front of the cam for a while and sort of bobble around so it can get a good look. I assume they are detecting features and relating them and constructing a LSH value from this, since this is how this sort of thing is generally done.
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I see a new market for Google self driving cars.
In my experience people are very organized and polite at shooting ranges.
I am absolutely not implying this is a desirable device, just that it's not really comparable to a Nexus 7 and that the similar priced Nexus 10 is more comparable. For Me Win RT is not a viable option. If this was a "Surface Pro" sort of devie where I could use it as a touch enabled PC/Netbook/tablet it would be different but I'd get the Surface Pro or Nexus 10 as it is now.
I have to agree here, RT seems to me to be one of the really remarkably bad ideas in tech recently. We have Windows (fine) and Windows Phone (OK whatever). One (or both) of those should be used for the tablets, but the concept of creating a third platform that's incompatible with the other two is just astonishing to me.
Well I can only speak for myself, but for me those sizes solve two very different issues and have very different but slightly overlapping use cases. If I have to choose, I want a 10" because it has (based on the Xoom vs the Nexus 7) vastly better usability and somewhat better battery life (probably bigger battery) but if I can have both (I do) then the 7" will fit in some of my pockets and is nicer to carry day to day. Which looks a lot like different but overlapping markets, buddy. ;) In any case, Google sells a model that more closely approximates the specs of the Nokia, and that model is the $499 Nexus 10. You can argue that all people seem to want is a Ford Focus and there is "one car market", but when Ferrari makes the 458 it's silly to insist on comparing them rather than comparing the Ferrari and maybe an Aston Martin.
There were in fact mods and modes that would allow a user to make WInXP look like 9x/NT/2K because a lot of people disliked the "cartoonish" look, yes, absolutely. It's always the same, people with short attention spans repeat the same old shtick every time. The reference to Me is a red herring.
The fact is is 3 times as expensive as new Nexus 7 ....
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to compare it with a Nexus 10 at $499 than with a 7" tablet? I have a Nexus 7 and I like it fine but it's not a 10" tablet (Also have a Xoom) by any stretch.
I bet it's a close thing but I have no hard numbers, for SPEAKS 2 or more. Reads 2 or more I would be more skeptical, but India has an assload of both people and languages, for instance. Places like that would skew the number upwards just like rural China would skew it down.
But I hated Windows 7 when I first started with it, it seemed that stuff (especially in Control Panel) had been moved around for no readily apparent reason and a couple of months to comfortably find everything I wanted to as quickly as I could in XP.
About 4 years from now people will be complaining about Windows and saying this about Windows 8.1. People complained about Win2k, WinXP, Win7, and now Win8.1 - and eventually they discover the new is actually fine. I have been using Windows 8 on my dev VMs from within a few weeks after it was out; it's fine, even though stuff has been moved around for no readily apparent reason.
If they can't run Windows 7, gaming support isn't really an issue.
Facebook's TOS and developer EULA states (in layman's terms) that you can't make any changes to how the site is presented to the user.
So based on that the browser makers should be banned from FB since they are changing the presentation from raw HTML to rendered, and anyone who works in display technologies too, if they include controls like color corrections and so on .... or since it's a plugin maybe instead of the plugin author, FB should ban each individual plugin USER. Lame.
You would probably find "The Righteous Mind" interesting.
Other than a defective run of 7 speed gearboxes, the "issues" seem to only crop up if one is actually Chinese and living in China. I feel pretty safe.
Well hipsters and people who like good cars that don't cost too much. ;)
For many people, most of the time both hands are non-mouse hands, and the more time that could stay so the better.
If money is not an object then I guess so, but if I was actually BUYING it, I'd look at one of the snazzy new Lenovo 13" or so touch enabled ultrabook things.
Cars with DSG are IMO pretty damn good. Get a VW.
That would likely be the reason I said the high price was a huge issue then huh? The device itself is nice, and I don't have to carry a tablet and a notebook PC, the Surface Pro does both. Credit where it's due, what it does it does really well, including the touchscreen and pen; however the keyboard thinger shouldn't be optional IMO, and as you note it's really way too expensive.
I actually have and use a Surface Pro, and it's a pretty nice machine. It's not a replacement for my Xoom but it is a better netbook than any netbook I've ever used. The only real issue, and it's huge, is the price. No way in hell it's worth what they are asking for it, I got "mine" at //build so I love it but I would NEVER pay $1100 or whatever they want tof the thing + the KB (seperate, really?) + the case thinger I put on it.
What we seem to be having is a confusion between the concepts of privacy and anonymity. Things that occur in public are by definition not private, but we have become accustomed to assuming most of our actions are nearly anonymous. This is quickly becoming a poor assumption.
In fairness, everything Windows PC since XP is NT 6.x, so moving from 5.x to 6.x isn't a completely silly thing to track.
I thank the sysop for allowing all you bots to run with me in my dedicated simulation.
McAfee, although he did leave the company for almost 20 years BEFORE becoming infamous.
I've been using fingerprint and face recognition to log into my PC for years. The software always allows a person to register one or more (upper limit so far always 10) prints in the database per user. The face recognition requires the user to sit in front of the cam for a while and sort of bobble around so it can get a good look. I assume they are detecting features and relating them and constructing a LSH value from this, since this is how this sort of thing is generally done.
One technique that is commonly used is LSH. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locality-sensitive_hashing