Desktop Windows? Impossible without re-writing some stuff. "Reboot with command line" just opens a command line window. Server? I think it's possible since 2008 R2, but I'm not sure about how far the GUI-free mode goes.
Oh, small confusion there then: I was talking about Compuser's wish for a 300 buck Surface Pro with 128GB and keyboard.
As for the regular surface, it's a nice device from a build quality standpoint, and that's about the extent of its advantages. A regular surface with Atom would make for an interesting device, though, like the low-end Samsung Ativ Smart PC.
Not netbooks, ultrabooks. It's mostly comparable to an ultrabook in the format of a tablet. From that point of view, it works. Netbooks were always intended for extra-lightweight content creation and consumption. Chromebooks seem to be an attempt at throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks. If you a look at the Surface Pro like something you can easily carrry around but still do some heavier (non-GPU) tasks if needed (the flexibility of full Windows helps a lot), it makes sense and is decently priced, considering its competitors. External connectivity is a bit more limited, but still workable - that's the major difference between it and ultrabooks, besides screen size.
The surface Pro will never drop to 300 bucks. It can't be done with a high-quality screen and an Intel Core i5. Just because you won't pay ~1000 bucks for it doesn't mean others won't - it's a very interesting device for certain niches and can easily be developed (Haswell would vastly improve battery life in many situations, for starters) into a strong ultraportable-competitor.
I firmly believe that the Surface Pro has, at the very least, a decent niche with only two competitors: Samsung Ativ Smart PC/Smart PC Pro and Sony Vaio duo 11/13. The former has atrocious build quality (keyboard connector has one pin covered by plastic) and shows signs of being rushed to market (Even the official screen protector film is labeled inside-out). The latter is heavy, has an inferior digitizer (Wacom on Surface Pro/Samsungs vs. N-Trig) and in my experience, Sony does its best to sneak out of paying for warranty repairs. Additionally, both have questionable software at best (Horrible Samsung drivers, traditional Sony bloatware).
Not quite. Hitler wasn't elected chancellor, he was appointed by the (mostly senile) president as the idiot chosen to be controlled from the backstage by a group of bigger idiots who thought it'd be a good idea.
(The Naxi party had been slowly rising in successive parliamentary elections - they happened every few months - at the time this happened. It had seen greater growth before.)
As for hugely popular, that is a matter that is still debated.
I'm pretty sure there's a way to disable it long-term, but I'll turst your expertise in the matter.
As for requiring signed drivers, it's meant to help avoid malware and very buggy drivers. Don't underestimate what a bad driver can do to the NT kernel, even with all the recent advances since Vista (Hell, a crashed graphics driver no longer crashes the OS in most cases - it happened all the time in XP)
Not if you warn them and force them to click a button that reads "I accept". They won't read it anyway and blindly click it, so they won't complain too much.
If someone asks, blame it on some distant entity, like Microsoft, Adobe, the NSA or whatever you think they'll fall for.
2D printers are the Devil's gift to computing. So useful, yet so fiendishly evil, failing at the worst opportunity for no reason and making you jump through hoops to start using them.
Microsoft supposedly started pressuring printer manufacturers to provide simpler, more universal drivers for Windows 8. The only thing in recent memory that Windows couldn't automagically find drivers for (besides my fingerprint reader) was a printer.
They will be niche household items soon enough. Besides, whoever uses them now will surely appreciate fewer hassles when printing. As will software developers who can target a single API and printer manufacturers who also only have to target that single API.
Standardization is a good thing, but since it's Microsoft, at lot of people here like to disagree.
It's amazing how Slashdot commenter can twist the creation of a standard API for 3D printing, like the one for regular 2D printing, into something bad.
At least be consistent and ask for the return of the "good ol' DOS days" where every application needed its own set of drivers to interface with anything beyond BIOS text mode.
Hard drives are definitely better than any of the other options. CD-R versus flash memory is open for debate, but I've had bad experiences with CD-R/DVD-R. As long as it isn't dropped, exposed to unusual magnetic fields or high temperatures, a hard drive won't randomly lose its stored data.
Print a human-readable copy and add a computer-readable format, like barcodes or a pen drive, a hard drive, SD card... (CDs might not survive very long if you're unlucky)
I did see that. "increasingly replaced by sophisticated electronics" is not the same as "With nearly no exceptions, no commercial airliner has a flight engineer".
The vast majority of landings is not automated - they are flown manually so that pilots have some experience actually flying aircraft instead of pressing buttons and turning knobs.
No, permission was indeed denied by a few, a couple more denied landing permission.
The French quickly apologized (let's keep the "all French == cheese-eating surrender monkeys" talk aside) because their president is a sort of idiotic cheese-eating surrender monkey who is afraid of upsetting his socialist "friends".
I know Portugal's parliament voted against an apology, but as far as I've read, nobody else has said anything along the lines of "We're sorry" or "We have nothing to be sorry for".
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Desktop Windows? Impossible without re-writing some stuff. "Reboot with command line" just opens a command line window.
Server? I think it's possible since 2008 R2, but I'm not sure about how far the GUI-free mode goes.
Oh, small confusion there then: I was talking about Compuser's wish for a 300 buck Surface Pro with 128GB and keyboard.
As for the regular surface, it's a nice device from a build quality standpoint, and that's about the extent of its advantages. A regular surface with Atom would make for an interesting device, though, like the low-end Samsung Ativ Smart PC.
Not netbooks, ultrabooks. It's mostly comparable to an ultrabook in the format of a tablet. From that point of view, it works. Netbooks were always intended for extra-lightweight content creation and consumption. Chromebooks seem to be an attempt at throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks. If you a look at the Surface Pro like something you can easily carrry around but still do some heavier (non-GPU) tasks if needed (the flexibility of full Windows helps a lot), it makes sense and is decently priced, considering its competitors.
External connectivity is a bit more limited, but still workable - that's the major difference between it and ultrabooks, besides screen size.
The surface Pro will never drop to 300 bucks. It can't be done with a high-quality screen and an Intel Core i5. Just because you won't pay ~1000 bucks for it doesn't mean others won't - it's a very interesting device for certain niches and can easily be developed (Haswell would vastly improve battery life in many situations, for starters) into a strong ultraportable-competitor.
300 bucks pays for the processor and the screen, maybe. Your expectations are unreasonable.
I firmly believe that the Surface Pro has, at the very least, a decent niche with only two competitors: Samsung Ativ Smart PC/Smart PC Pro and Sony Vaio duo 11/13. The former has atrocious build quality (keyboard connector has one pin covered by plastic) and shows signs of being rushed to market (Even the official screen protector film is labeled inside-out). The latter is heavy, has an inferior digitizer (Wacom on Surface Pro/Samsungs vs. N-Trig) and in my experience, Sony does its best to sneak out of paying for warranty repairs. Additionally, both have questionable software at best (Horrible Samsung drivers, traditional Sony bloatware).
Where's the "-1: conspiracy theorist" option?
Last time I checked, the Korean war was the result of a North Korean invasion of South Korea, not some random US expansionist move.
Not quite. Hitler wasn't elected chancellor, he was appointed by the (mostly senile) president as the idiot chosen to be controlled from the backstage by a group of bigger idiots who thought it'd be a good idea.
(The Naxi party had been slowly rising in successive parliamentary elections - they happened every few months - at the time this happened. It had seen greater growth before.)
As for hugely popular, that is a matter that is still debated.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
I'm pretty sure there's a way to disable it long-term, but I'll turst your expertise in the matter.
As for requiring signed drivers, it's meant to help avoid malware and very buggy drivers. Don't underestimate what a bad driver can do to the NT kernel, even with all the recent advances since Vista (Hell, a crashed graphics driver no longer crashes the OS in most cases - it happened all the time in XP)
Not if you warn them and force them to click a button that reads "I accept". They won't read it anyway and blindly click it, so they won't complain too much.
If someone asks, blame it on some distant entity, like Microsoft, Adobe, the NSA or whatever you think they'll fall for.
Yeah, because that totally happened with 2D printers. Or CD/DVD burners.
2D printers are the Devil's gift to computing. So useful, yet so fiendishly evil, failing at the worst opportunity for no reason and making you jump through hoops to start using them.
Microsoft supposedly started pressuring printer manufacturers to provide simpler, more universal drivers for Windows 8. The only thing in recent memory that Windows couldn't automagically find drivers for (besides my fingerprint reader) was a printer.
They will be niche household items soon enough. Besides, whoever uses them now will surely appreciate fewer hassles when printing. As will software developers who can target a single API and printer manufacturers who also only have to target that single API.
Standardization is a good thing, but since it's Microsoft, at lot of people here like to disagree.
You can disable that. For 99% of users, requiring extra work to install non-signed drivers is a very good thing.
It's amazing how Slashdot commenter can twist the creation of a standard API for 3D printing, like the one for regular 2D printing, into something bad.
At least be consistent and ask for the return of the "good ol' DOS days" where every application needed its own set of drivers to interface with anything beyond BIOS text mode.
100% safety is impossible anywhere.
Fukushima would've been a non-issue as well if the backup generators had actually been logically placed.
I have never heard of CD+R, and as far as I know, it does not officially exist. DVD-R vs. DVD+R is a whole different story, though.
Hard drives are definitely better than any of the other options. CD-R versus flash memory is open for debate, but I've had bad experiences with CD-R/DVD-R. As long as it isn't dropped, exposed to unusual magnetic fields or high temperatures, a hard drive won't randomly lose its stored data.
Print a human-readable copy and add a computer-readable format, like barcodes or a pen drive, a hard drive, SD card... (CDs might not survive very long if you're unlucky)
I did see that. "increasingly replaced by sophisticated electronics" is not the same as "With nearly no exceptions, no commercial airliner has a flight engineer".
Flight engineer? Good luck finding one. Even FedEx and UPS got rid of theirs on their DC-10s by converting them to MD-10s.
Also, any recent aircraft can do auto-landings, that option is just very rarely used.
The vast majority of landings is not automated - they are flown manually so that pilots have some experience actually flying aircraft instead of pressing buttons and turning knobs.
No, permission was indeed denied by a few, a couple more denied landing permission.
The French quickly apologized (let's keep the "all French == cheese-eating surrender monkeys" talk aside) because their president is a sort of idiotic cheese-eating surrender monkey who is afraid of upsetting his socialist "friends".
I know Portugal's parliament voted against an apology, but as far as I've read, nobody else has said anything along the lines of "We're sorry" or "We have nothing to be sorry for".