They're not new tech, no more than Apple's "retina" brand is. It's new that they're becoming mainstream. Mann has had similar (and better) tech for the better part of the last thirty years.
Sure, but I think saying that they're "Anonymous" lends them some credibility in the eyes of the mainstream media or consumers, when it's really undue.
Facebook/Twitter doesn't sound like Anonymous, it sounds like scriptkiddies and armchair activists who just want to look like the coolest kid in middle school.
"The loss stems from Microsoft's continued struggles with the online services division."
That's a flat-out deception! The loss stems from the fact that they made a 6 billion dollar write-off. The summary makes it seem like their online division is just naturally bleeding billions. Millions, maybe, but not billions.
I don't think it's the version going to be included in gold, is it? Besides, who gives a fuck? It's a god damn Microsoft mail client, if you're at that level, you probably don't need much more than "hurr press button it sends email".
They're trying to position the Nexus Q as a high-end device, the 'cool, expensive thing' at the party. It's the same business model Apple and Sony have had for years. Taking cheap product and making it seem high-end does make it high end-- at least to the average consumer. I'd wager that they're also trying to make up some of the margins they slashed on the Kal-El Nexus 7.
The Apple smartphone will finally have feature-parity with other smartphones one-to-two generations after the fact? This must have never happened before!
Yes, that's pretty likely. If Norton can mark critical system files as collections of viruses and delete them, I believe that someone at MS can mark a website incorrectly. This doesn't seem deliberate at all, given the gambling tag. It might have even been an automatic move, if MS is too cheap to hire someone to do the work.
It's upgradeable to Windows Phone 7.8, AC. Plus, a Windows Phone on Virgin Mobile would be a lot better than the cheap, often laggy Android devices they have.
The conference was for developers, mostly. They said they weren't gonna unveil the end-user featureset that they have until closer to launch, probably to avoid what happened last time: all of the Mango features they unveiled were promptly implemented by Apple.
I recommended it simply because it's one of the best on the market. It was still a terrible design choice.
Aluminum isn't as much of a problem on devices like phones and tablets because they're nowhere near producing as much heat under load as x86 notebooks (New iPad excluded;3). Most of the antennas are in the display-segment of these modern notebooks, anyway. They've usually got some kind of border that's not aluminum to work with.
I was referencing the magnesium-alloy equipped ultrabooks. Aluminum is terrible in laptops because of the way it moves heat along its chassis. It also dents really easily.
Yeah, because the hard plastics that have been traditionally used are so much better. And you of course don't mention WHY Aluminum is the WORST (not just a bad, but the WORST) material to use in a laptop.
Actually, the heat transference rate basically makes Aluminum laptops a toaster under medium load. The answer is advanced polycarbonates, magnesium-alloy shells, and other materials such as carbon fiber. At least they don't dent when you drop a feather on them.
And I don't know what you call "better build quality". Unibody Apple laptops are pretty much universally accepted as having the best build quality in the industry.
And ASUS having better build quality that Apple?!? That's a laugh riot!
No, Apple laptops are lauded by amateur review sites as having "good build quality" because these sites and journalists measure build quality by how much something flexes when you squeeze it. Asus is well known for making high-quality hardware.
From what I can tell, it's a Macbook Air ripoff through and through, but with a shitty TN panel (except for the one that costs as much, or MORE THAN an Air), and a dodgy trackpad, for not a whole lot less than an Air, and in the case of the one with an IPS panel, MORE. And as far as build quality goes, ask anyone who has owned an Asus laptop. By the way, if not Aluminum, what exactly is the Zenbook made of? Asus seems to think it's made of... wait for it...
As I said, Asus usually makes great, quality products.
Re-read my damn comment; I recommended one of the magnesium-alloy notebooks, while detracting the deluded manufacturers who use it in their products. The only reason it's used in that way is because Apple, in their infinite margin-building exercise, was able to convince the world that abundant, shiny materials are 'high-end". They realized that they didn't really need to put good components in the box, because that's not what people look at. That's not what gets shown off in a coffee shop.
But unlike Apple, who MILLS the case out of a SOLID BLOCK of aluminum (a quite time-consuming and expensive process compared with stamping a body out of SHEET aluminum like Asus does), the Zenbook uses only enough aluminum to make it LOOK like a Macbook; but without the structural integrity of a one-piece chassis.
Is the Zenbook's aluminum any thinner or thicker than the Macbook's?
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I accidentally modded you down, so I'm using this comment to negate it.
This is the "Businesses" icon, not the Microsoft one.
Funny how Slashdot as a whole can immediately recognize this crap as trolling, but falls for the first-post MS messages every single time.
They're not new tech, no more than Apple's "retina" brand is. It's new that they're becoming mainstream. Mann has had similar (and better) tech for the better part of the last thirty years.
Sure, but I think saying that they're "Anonymous" lends them some credibility in the eyes of the mainstream media or consumers, when it's really undue.
Facebook/Twitter doesn't sound like Anonymous, it sounds like scriptkiddies and armchair activists who just want to look like the coolest kid in middle school.
Just be sure you jailbreak it before Apple sends out an update to make it slower.
aQuantive.
"The loss stems from Microsoft's continued struggles with the online services division."
That's a flat-out deception! The loss stems from the fact that they made a 6 billion dollar write-off. The summary makes it seem like their online division is just naturally bleeding billions.
Millions, maybe, but not billions.
I think he's got a petawatt laser planned for the next iteration.
I don't think it's the version going to be included in gold, is it? Besides, who gives a fuck?
It's a god damn Microsoft mail client, if you're at that level, you probably don't need much more than "hurr press button it sends email".
They're trying to position the Nexus Q as a high-end device, the 'cool, expensive thing' at the party.
It's the same business model Apple and Sony have had for years. Taking cheap product and making it seem high-end does make it high end-- at least to the average consumer.
I'd wager that they're also trying to make up some of the margins they slashed on the Kal-El Nexus 7.
The Apple smartphone will finally have feature-parity with other smartphones one-to-two generations after the fact? This must have never happened before!
Yes, that's pretty likely.
If Norton can mark critical system files as collections of viruses and delete them, I believe that someone at MS can mark a website incorrectly. This doesn't seem deliberate at all, given the gambling tag. It might have even been an automatic move, if MS is too cheap to hire someone to do the work.
Only native code won't be compatible.
Looks like they've got 720p, too.
It's upgradeable to Windows Phone 7.8, AC. Plus, a Windows Phone on Virgin Mobile would be a lot better than the cheap, often laggy Android devices they have.
The single-core stuff will still get Windows Phone 7.8
The conference was for developers, mostly. They said they weren't gonna unveil the end-user featureset that they have until closer to launch, probably to avoid what happened last time: all of the Mango features they unveiled were promptly implemented by Apple.
It will run 7.8, an update that has most (if not all) of the non-hardware-specific features. The summary is incorrect.
Actually, all 1st gen devices will be getting Windows Phone 7.8, an update without all of the hardware-specific stuff.
I recommended it simply because it's one of the best on the market. It was still a terrible design choice.
Aluminum isn't as much of a problem on devices like phones and tablets because they're nowhere near producing as much heat under load as x86 notebooks (New iPad excluded ;3).
Most of the antennas are in the display-segment of these modern notebooks, anyway. They've usually got some kind of border that's not aluminum to work with.
Heat transference, dent-prone shell over rigid components, etc.
I was referencing the magnesium-alloy equipped ultrabooks.
Aluminum is terrible in laptops because of the way it moves heat along its chassis. It also dents really easily.
Yeah, because the hard plastics that have been traditionally used are so much better. And you of course don't mention WHY Aluminum is the WORST (not just a bad, but the WORST) material to use in a laptop.
Actually, the heat transference rate basically makes Aluminum laptops a toaster under medium load. The answer is advanced polycarbonates, magnesium-alloy shells, and other materials such as carbon fiber. At least they don't dent when you drop a feather on them.
And I don't know what you call "better build quality". Unibody Apple laptops are pretty much universally accepted as having the best build quality in the industry.
And ASUS having better build quality that Apple?!? That's a laugh riot!
No, Apple laptops are lauded by amateur review sites as having "good build quality" because these sites and journalists measure build quality by how much something flexes when you squeeze it.
Asus is well known for making high-quality hardware.
From what I can tell, it's a Macbook Air ripoff through and through, but with a shitty TN panel (except for the one that costs as much, or MORE THAN an Air), and a dodgy trackpad, for not a whole lot less than an Air, and in the case of the one with an IPS panel, MORE. And as far as build quality goes, ask anyone who has owned an Asus laptop. By the way, if not Aluminum, what exactly is the Zenbook made of? Asus seems to think it's made of... wait for it...
ALUMINUM Which they explicitly say was the best material out of the many that they tried.
As I said, Asus usually makes great, quality products.
Re-read my damn comment; I recommended one of the magnesium-alloy notebooks, while detracting the deluded manufacturers who use it in their products. The only reason it's used in that way is because Apple, in their infinite margin-building exercise, was able to convince the world that abundant, shiny materials are 'high-end". They realized that they didn't really need to put good components in the box, because that's not what people look at. That's not what gets shown off in a coffee shop.
But unlike Apple, who MILLS the case out of a SOLID BLOCK of aluminum (a quite time-consuming and expensive process compared with stamping a body out of SHEET aluminum like Asus does), the Zenbook uses only enough aluminum to make it LOOK like a Macbook; but without the structural integrity of a one-piece chassis.
Is the Zenbook's aluminum any thinner or thicker than the Macbook's?
Idiot. Try not to LIE so badly next time.
Typical macfag.