If you think dealing with spammers and spam is easy, you are dead wrong. I work for a company that has to deal with spam all the time. When a spammer is rotating their IP address, account, dynamically changing post increments, and using natural text in the spam it's much harder to deal with (if not impossible).
Ummmm, we've known that google was working on autonomous cars LONG before this April fools day. The entire point of the joke was that they 1. Are working on this technology. 2. Joke being about Nascar having a driverless google car. I don't see the point of this post. If the joke was that they were going to be putting Google Glasses on penguins in the north pole, would this post been about how their Aprili fools joke is leading to Augmented reality glasses?
Recently Linux has come out with some amazing tools, quite similar to what you see on Windows:
Email.
Instant Messenger.
Web Browser.
VOIP.
Some advanced stuff here. I'm not sure you will be able to find any of these things in linux. If you get confused try the mouse input device next to you and click on "icons" that say things like "Firefox" or "Skype". Seriously dude?
Go back about 10-15 years in a time machine to when questions like this were relevant, or at very least, you couldn't easily Google this silly question from your smartphone.
More like a generation of kids getting really good at doing mundane, dumbed down tasks in a virtual space. The reason why things--shopping, dating, taxes, whatever--were ported from real world to virtual was because it made real life easier. If using computers to make real life easier has run it's course, then why do I care about a new generation innovating a bunch of useless crap on the internet that doesn't better my real life.
I assume you have tested that terrible vegan meat right? I would rather become a cannibal than eat that shit. And, once I became a canibal, I still wouldn't eat vegans.
This is the first thing you learn in Human Evolution 101. Modern Humans (Homo Sapien Sapien) have always eaten meat. Period. It's a fact. Get over it. They didn't chase the animals, the used LANGUAGE and TOOLS in the hunt to kill the Animals.
I would venture to say, if humans hadn't always eaten meat, they may never have needed larger brains for hunting and communication.
1. How can anyone hate splash screens? Really, hate? You HATE them? They are like the Terrorists of software? I have honestly never thought, even for 1 second, "Why does Netbeans / Photoshop / Whatever have a splash screen, I hate it... I want to murder that splash screen, because I hate it so much". I think at most, any normal person could go so far as very mildly disliking splash screens.
2. Fine, take out splash screens. Shut your face and don't program it into the application. BUT, if you application takes more than 5 seconds to load and I have to sit there wondering if anything is happening, then I hate you program and I miss you splash screen.
3. Is it me, or is the new design hip to try to mess with everything that works? What if industrial designers decided they HATED how doors open or how faucets work? Should they just skirt around the standard design procedures and pretend like they know better than how history has organized itself? In fact, I'm sure they do this in industrial design, but just like software design, I don't care and it doesn't matter until these ideas actually carry weight.
We are lucky that we have one that pays well! The grass is always greener. I bet your bosses deal with the same BS that you do, maybe a different day or different topic, same BS. The grocery kid at the store has the same problems, just a different set of glasses. Gotta make paper. I'd suggest that you go out and buy yourself a BMW, maybe that will cheer you up. At least you get to use your brain, unlike most of the rest of the working world.
I guess I'm confused because everyone I know that has a tablet has basically replaced their PC with it. I know exactly what you are saying, it's just from experience I can tell you that my Android 4.0 tablet is no toy. It's a powerful computer. I mean, I guess the perception of IPads is that they are kind of a speak and spell like toy (I don't know, but I get that), but you REALLY need to play around with a tablet for a few days.
Am I missing something in this article? Does Whitman try to explain WHY acquiring Motorola Mobility has anything to do with Android becoming close sourced? This just seams like a senseless out of nowhere statement. She might have well have said that Android was changing it's name to Mr. Poop OS, or Apple was going bankrupt. It seams like it would be pretty fun to just make stuff up to get people interested in your crap-happy OS.
Manage / Check Email (corporate or web based), VPN, Surf the internet (probably 90% of what the average users does on a PC these days), Edit / Take Photos / Communication (chat / skype), Gaming, Scheduling (calendars), Entertainment, As a peripheral device (Remote Controlling Hardware like tvs / lighsts / garage / audio workstations / computers), Word Processing (using a blutooth keyboard), storing multimedia...... And much much more.
Tablets are actually pretty amazing. I really only use my home laptop for dev and my htpc (which I almost replaced with the tablet if only it streamed a little cleaner) for stuff on the TV. I think the idea of a tablet is so new that people haven't even realized how incredibly useful they are (and will become).
It kind of sounds more like you are saying an SUV is not a CAR or something like that.
Tablets can do most things a "PC" can do. I guess I don't understand the point here. Obviously PC's will serve niche applications until technology surpasses it, but in general, the only real differance is how you input data.
I mean, my phone is faster than my college computer from 10 years ago. I'm also very confused at what you consider an OS.
Wow. What if this is me? Some crazy other dimension, or I'm blacking out and writing uselessly crazy comments to annoy myself. You bring up a really interesting point Anonymous Coward (or me, who knows).
Oh, I thought it meant a computer based on the IBM x86 infrastructure..... I was being sardonic. This is kind of like Kodak selling "elite" film based cameras.
I don't own a single apple product (I do however own a linux based laptop / android tablet / small windows htpc). I don't understand your point. Furthermore, I don't see any difference in apple, mac, or unix based desktops... they are all "personal computers" as far as I am concerned. I do however believe that non-niche use (Programming, Graphics, Recording Audio / Video, Hardcore Gamers) of "PC's" is going to fade away quickly. What's the point of a clunky old-fashion PC with "Elite" support, if you can get a tablet or laptop that does everything the computer does with more convenience and portability?
The only time I use my laptop is for programming. Since I work at an office, I hardly ever touch it. I find daily computation tasks to be much easier with a tablet.
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If you think dealing with spammers and spam is easy, you are dead wrong. I work for a company that has to deal with spam all the time. When a spammer is rotating their IP address, account, dynamically changing post increments, and using natural text in the spam it's much harder to deal with (if not impossible).
Ummmm, we've known that google was working on autonomous cars LONG before this April fools day. The entire point of the joke was that they 1. Are working on this technology. 2. Joke being about Nascar having a driverless google car. I don't see the point of this post. If the joke was that they were going to be putting Google Glasses on penguins in the north pole, would this post been about how their Aprili fools joke is leading to Augmented reality glasses?
Recently Linux has come out with some amazing tools, quite similar to what you see on Windows: Email. Instant Messenger. Web Browser. VOIP. Some advanced stuff here. I'm not sure you will be able to find any of these things in linux. If you get confused try the mouse input device next to you and click on "icons" that say things like "Firefox" or "Skype". Seriously dude?
I like that someone actually used a brain and fingers and time to write this.
Total whack city bro... total whack city. Insightful question though!
Brilliant! Nothing is safer than surfing the web and doing some very portable computing while zooming around on your bike!
Go back about 10-15 years in a time machine to when questions like this were relevant, or at very least, you couldn't easily Google this silly question from your smartphone.
More like a generation of kids getting really good at doing mundane, dumbed down tasks in a virtual space. The reason why things--shopping, dating, taxes, whatever--were ported from real world to virtual was because it made real life easier. If using computers to make real life easier has run it's course, then why do I care about a new generation innovating a bunch of useless crap on the internet that doesn't better my real life.
I assume you have tested that terrible vegan meat right? I would rather become a cannibal than eat that shit. And, once I became a canibal, I still wouldn't eat vegans.
This is the first thing you learn in Human Evolution 101. Modern Humans (Homo Sapien Sapien) have always eaten meat. Period. It's a fact. Get over it. They didn't chase the animals, the used LANGUAGE and TOOLS in the hunt to kill the Animals.
I would venture to say, if humans hadn't always eaten meat, they may never have needed larger brains for hunting and communication.
1. How can anyone hate splash screens? Really, hate? You HATE them? They are like the Terrorists of software? I have honestly never thought, even for 1 second, "Why does Netbeans / Photoshop / Whatever have a splash screen, I hate it... I want to murder that splash screen, because I hate it so much". I think at most, any normal person could go so far as very mildly disliking splash screens.
2. Fine, take out splash screens. Shut your face and don't program it into the application. BUT, if you application takes more than 5 seconds to load and I have to sit there wondering if anything is happening, then I hate you program and I miss you splash screen.
3. Is it me, or is the new design hip to try to mess with everything that works? What if industrial designers decided they HATED how doors open or how faucets work? Should they just skirt around the standard design procedures and pretend like they know better than how history has organized itself? In fact, I'm sure they do this in industrial design, but just like software design, I don't care and it doesn't matter until these ideas actually carry weight.
most..... depressing... post..... EVER. (Dude needs a BJ)
We are lucky that we have one that pays well! The grass is always greener. I bet your bosses deal with the same BS that you do, maybe a different day or different topic, same BS. The grocery kid at the store has the same problems, just a different set of glasses. Gotta make paper. I'd suggest that you go out and buy yourself a BMW, maybe that will cheer you up. At least you get to use your brain, unlike most of the rest of the working world.
What the frack could possibly go wrong? Let's just pray for a cute Short Circuit type meltdown, and not the other way around.
I guess I'm confused because everyone I know that has a tablet has basically replaced their PC with it. I know exactly what you are saying, it's just from experience I can tell you that my Android 4.0 tablet is no toy. It's a powerful computer. I mean, I guess the perception of IPads is that they are kind of a speak and spell like toy (I don't know, but I get that), but you REALLY need to play around with a tablet for a few days.
Am I missing something in this article? Does Whitman try to explain WHY acquiring Motorola Mobility has anything to do with Android becoming close sourced? This just seams like a senseless out of nowhere statement. She might have well have said that Android was changing it's name to Mr. Poop OS, or Apple was going bankrupt. It seams like it would be pretty fun to just make stuff up to get people interested in your crap-happy OS.
I'm excited about the Whitney Houston drug-inspired trance remix album that Sony will come up with next.
Manage / Check Email (corporate or web based), VPN, Surf the internet (probably 90% of what the average users does on a PC these days), Edit / Take Photos / Communication (chat / skype), Gaming, Scheduling (calendars), Entertainment, As a peripheral device (Remote Controlling Hardware like tvs / lighsts / garage / audio workstations / computers), Word Processing (using a blutooth keyboard), storing multimedia...... And much much more.
Tablets are actually pretty amazing. I really only use my home laptop for dev and my htpc (which I almost replaced with the tablet if only it streamed a little cleaner) for stuff on the TV. I think the idea of a tablet is so new that people haven't even realized how incredibly useful they are (and will become).
You lost me.
It kind of sounds more like you are saying an SUV is not a CAR or something like that.
Tablets can do most things a "PC" can do. I guess I don't understand the point here. Obviously PC's will serve niche applications until technology surpasses it, but in general, the only real differance is how you input data.
I mean, my phone is faster than my college computer from 10 years ago. I'm also very confused at what you consider an OS.
Wow. What if this is me? Some crazy other dimension, or I'm blacking out and writing uselessly crazy comments to annoy myself. You bring up a really interesting point Anonymous Coward (or me, who knows).
Are you 5? Wow.
Oh, I thought it meant a computer based on the IBM x86 infrastructure..... I was being sardonic. This is kind of like Kodak selling "elite" film based cameras.
I don't own a single apple product (I do however own a linux based laptop / android tablet / small windows htpc). I don't understand your point. Furthermore, I don't see any difference in apple, mac, or unix based desktops... they are all "personal computers" as far as I am concerned. I do however believe that non-niche use (Programming, Graphics, Recording Audio / Video, Hardcore Gamers) of "PC's" is going to fade away quickly. What's the point of a clunky old-fashion PC with "Elite" support, if you can get a tablet or laptop that does everything the computer does with more convenience and portability?
The only time I use my laptop is for programming. Since I work at an office, I hardly ever touch it. I find daily computation tasks to be much easier with a tablet.
What the hell is a PC?