RT will be out in a few weeks. As such, it's kind of stupid to discount them.
And yes, Windows Embedded *IS* the same OS as the desktop, phone, rt, etc.. You're talking about Windows CE, which is effectively dead other than for legacy devices.
Windows Embedded has been based on the desktop OS since about 2003.
It would seem that Negative Kelvin is really more like signed integer overflow. That is, if you are using an 8 byte signed integer, and you add 1 to 127, you get -127 (in 1's complement, or -128 in 2's complement)
Actually, no. In fact, the supreme court found that the rules that were in place before the election were unconstitutional. In particular, the rules regarding recounts were unconstitutional because there was no statewide standard for counting ballots, and thus ballots could be counted differently in different counties. This, the Supremes ruled, was a violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment.
Those counting rules were in place prior to the election, but the SCOTUS ruled that the recount had to be stopped because (in part) of this violation. The other part was that putting a statewide standard in place would take too long, and would prevent certification of the vote in time to meet the mandated date that certification was required (December 12th, which was also the date of the decision).
Basically, it was all a huge cluster fuck, with conflicting rulings, laws, standards, etc.. In fact, because the counting process was ruled to be in violation of the 14th amendment, SCOTUS should have ruled that the original count was not valid as well, and forced the SCOFL to mandate a standard and then do a full recount by that standard. That way, the rules in effect prior to the legitimate count would have been the same as after the legitimate count.
I'm not sure what your point is. You aren't creating a word document in the start menu. You have a keyboard. It works whether you have metro or not. What is your point?
It's not "pointless". There is very much a point to it. The point is that the old UI was not touch friendly, while the new UI is.
The way they see it, desktop users can use the new UI, while tablet users can't use the old... so make the new UI standard and everyone has the same interface.
I can get to anything I want in exactly the same amount of time in both 7 and 8. I hit the start button on the keyboard and type the first 2 or 3 letters of the name of the app, and hit enter. Literally, it takes less than 1 second, and my hand doesn't leave the keyboard.
Yeah, and those people that revert are the same people that were using the Windows 98 style menu in Vista.
When 7 dropped support for the classic menu, there was much complaining.. it was deafening... everyone was going to move to Linux, just you wait and see... 3 years later "Windows 7's start menu was perfect!"
20 years of refined mouse-based UI doesn't work with touch based devices. Microsoft has tried, numerous times to make this work with the existing UI (remember XP Tablet? Remember Origami?) and failed.
The new UI is to make Windows touch friendly, while still be usable by mouse actions...
Windows ME was never intended to exist. It was only created as a stopgap.
Microsoft had initially intended to move consumers to the NT architecture with Windows 2000, but Win2k fell behind and they cut most of the consumer features to get it out.
So now Microsoft needed a new consumer OS that would support the latest OEM hardware, and ME was the short term stopgap solution. They just grafted stuff they had been developing for 2000 onto it and hoped for the best.
The next year, MS released XP and there was much gnashing of teeth and rending of garments about the new UI... wait.. why does that sound familiar?
Which businesses are still using Win2k? I want to avoid them.
Seriously, Win2k has been out of support for years and doesn't get any security patches. Unless that server is not connected to a network, it's irresponsible to still be using Win2k.
You wouldn't want something that completely blocks out all light, you only want to localize it around the beam.
Otherwise, you're effectively creating a denial of service attack against the pilot.. so long as you shine the laser, they can't see where they're going.
How about a technology similar to transitions lenses where a powerful light will cause immediate tinting of the window around the beam (not the entire window, just the area where the beam is shining through). It may still cause a temporary problem, but it would prevent extended problems.
There's no profit in helping the poor. They have no money, and what little they have is spent on luxuries like clothing, food, and shelter. That leaves them no left to pay anyone back for helping them.
Simple fact is, nobody becomes rich by giving stuff away. You only become rich by ensuring you get a healthy profit on anything you do.
Even people like Bill & Melinda Gates, who have setup foundations to help the poor have structured them in such a way that they only give out money that is essentially profit on the foundations investments. This keeps the foundation solvent and going for years after the donations stop coming in.
Here's a hint. If you don't want to be sidelined as you get older, you must take all those years of experience and make them valuable.
People will hire you, at good rates, if you provide value. If they can get the same from a 20 year old, then they're not going to pay you enough to make it worth it. You have to give them something they can't get from a 20 year old.
Experience.
That means being better at your job than a 20 year old. Knowing when to make the right moves and when to mea culpa. Knowing what NOT to do. Becoming good at your job.
The original poster seems to have made the mistake that he didn't stay on top of things. And now he has a long hard haul to get back up to speed, plus he needs go the extra mile that makes him worth paying for.
If you didn't actually gain experience... that is, you just did the same things over and over without really thinking about it... then you might as well go flip burgers.
What are you talking about? Asus has been shipping Zenbooks with i7 processors for the last year, and for quite a few months have had very high quality screens (1920x1080).
I'll grant you on the price, but if you want performance you have to pay for it.
Really, so what you're saying is that a $1500 13.3" i5 MacBook Air, with a screen resolution of 1440x900 is way better than a $1500 i7 Zenbook EX31A-DB71 with a 1920x1080 screen? They're basically equivalent in every other way (other than magsafe and thunderbolt, which I will admit are nice.. but I don't need either of them), but the Zenbook has significantly better performance and much higher quality screen.
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RT will be out in a few weeks. As such, it's kind of stupid to discount them.
And yes, Windows Embedded *IS* the same OS as the desktop, phone, rt, etc.. You're talking about Windows CE, which is effectively dead other than for legacy devices.
Windows Embedded has been based on the desktop OS since about 2003.
Er.. I meant 8 BIT signed integer
It would seem that Negative Kelvin is really more like signed integer overflow. That is, if you are using an 8 byte signed integer, and you add 1 to 127, you get -127 (in 1's complement, or -128 in 2's complement)
Actually, no. In fact, the supreme court found that the rules that were in place before the election were unconstitutional. In particular, the rules regarding recounts were unconstitutional because there was no statewide standard for counting ballots, and thus ballots could be counted differently in different counties. This, the Supremes ruled, was a violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment.
Those counting rules were in place prior to the election, but the SCOTUS ruled that the recount had to be stopped because (in part) of this violation. The other part was that putting a statewide standard in place would take too long, and would prevent certification of the vote in time to meet the mandated date that certification was required (December 12th, which was also the date of the decision).
Basically, it was all a huge cluster fuck, with conflicting rulings, laws, standards, etc.. In fact, because the counting process was ruled to be in violation of the 14th amendment, SCOTUS should have ruled that the original count was not valid as well, and forced the SCOFL to mandate a standard and then do a full recount by that standard. That way, the rules in effect prior to the legitimate count would have been the same as after the legitimate count.
This is sort of like the idea that there are temperatures less than absolute zero. These would be negative kelvin temperatures.
The idea being that 0k means 0 energy, you would then have anti-energy, possibly anti-matter, and anti-physics.
Of course it's all just hokum, but hey, it's fun to theorize.
You mean this?
http://w3fools.com/
I'm not sure what your point is. You aren't creating a word document in the start menu. You have a keyboard. It works whether you have metro or not. What is your point?
It's not "pointless". There is very much a point to it. The point is that the old UI was not touch friendly, while the new UI is.
The way they see it, desktop users can use the new UI, while tablet users can't use the old... so make the new UI standard and everyone has the same interface.
What extra step are you talking about? Alt-tab still works fine for me to switch between apps. Win-tab switches between metro apps.
What is it, exactly that you find "unusable" about Windows 8's UI for desktops?
You're absolutely right that the old UI was unusable with tablets and phones. Microsoft tried to make that work numerous times, but failed.
The new UI, IMO, Is usable in every environment.
It's not that it's unusable on the desktop, people just don't want to change.
I can get to anything I want in exactly the same amount of time in both 7 and 8. I hit the start button on the keyboard and type the first 2 or 3 letters of the name of the app, and hit enter. Literally, it takes less than 1 second, and my hand doesn't leave the keyboard.
Yeah, and those people that revert are the same people that were using the Windows 98 style menu in Vista.
When 7 dropped support for the classic menu, there was much complaining.. it was deafening... everyone was going to move to Linux, just you wait and see... 3 years later "Windows 7's start menu was perfect!"
Let's see you use Libre Office menus on a touch based tablet. It's a huge pain.
20 years of refined mouse-based UI doesn't work with touch based devices. Microsoft has tried, numerous times to make this work with the existing UI (remember XP Tablet? Remember Origami?) and failed.
The new UI is to make Windows touch friendly, while still be usable by mouse actions...
Windows ME was never intended to exist. It was only created as a stopgap.
Microsoft had initially intended to move consumers to the NT architecture with Windows 2000, but Win2k fell behind and they cut most of the consumer features to get it out.
So now Microsoft needed a new consumer OS that would support the latest OEM hardware, and ME was the short term stopgap solution. They just grafted stuff they had been developing for 2000 onto it and hoped for the best.
The next year, MS released XP and there was much gnashing of teeth and rending of garments about the new UI... wait.. why does that sound familiar?
Which businesses are still using Win2k? I want to avoid them.
Seriously, Win2k has been out of support for years and doesn't get any security patches. Unless that server is not connected to a network, it's irresponsible to still be using Win2k.
You wouldn't want something that completely blocks out all light, you only want to localize it around the beam.
Otherwise, you're effectively creating a denial of service attack against the pilot.. so long as you shine the laser, they can't see where they're going.
How about a technology similar to transitions lenses where a powerful light will cause immediate tinting of the window around the beam (not the entire window, just the area where the beam is shining through). It may still cause a temporary problem, but it would prevent extended problems.
The simple answer is:
There's no profit in helping the poor. They have no money, and what little they have is spent on luxuries like clothing, food, and shelter. That leaves them no left to pay anyone back for helping them.
Simple fact is, nobody becomes rich by giving stuff away. You only become rich by ensuring you get a healthy profit on anything you do.
Even people like Bill & Melinda Gates, who have setup foundations to help the poor have structured them in such a way that they only give out money that is essentially profit on the foundations investments. This keeps the foundation solvent and going for years after the donations stop coming in.
Here's a hint. If you don't want to be sidelined as you get older, you must take all those years of experience and make them valuable.
People will hire you, at good rates, if you provide value. If they can get the same from a 20 year old, then they're not going to pay you enough to make it worth it. You have to give them something they can't get from a 20 year old.
Experience.
That means being better at your job than a 20 year old. Knowing when to make the right moves and when to mea culpa. Knowing what NOT to do. Becoming good at your job.
The original poster seems to have made the mistake that he didn't stay on top of things. And now he has a long hard haul to get back up to speed, plus he needs go the extra mile that makes him worth paying for.
If you didn't actually gain experience... that is, you just did the same things over and over without really thinking about it... then you might as well go flip burgers.
Otherwise, take control over your future.
The way the response was worded, he was talking about standard features, not what you can upgrade it to.
What are you talking about? Asus has been shipping Zenbooks with i7 processors for the last year, and for quite a few months have had very high quality screens (1920x1080).
I'll grant you on the price, but if you want performance you have to pay for it.
Really, so what you're saying is that a $1500 13.3" i5 MacBook Air, with a screen resolution of 1440x900 is way better than a $1500 i7 Zenbook EX31A-DB71 with a 1920x1080 screen? They're basically equivalent in every other way (other than magsafe and thunderbolt, which I will admit are nice.. but I don't need either of them), but the Zenbook has significantly better performance and much higher quality screen.
The Zenbooks construction is at least as good as the Airs. Possibly slightly better, depending on who you talk to.
The Trackpad issue was only in the first models they produced. The current trackpad is actually significantly better than the Air's.
Uhh... 1 MacBook Pro model. Only the $2800 Retina MacBook Pro has 512GB of ssd. And the only other model to offer an SSD has 256GB.
The airs are 64GB, 2 models with 128GB and 1 model with 256GB.
And Windows 7 and office 2010 will at most take about 15GB, leaving you with 85% of your disk space left on a 128GB model.