Because it doesn't work any more. It is insecure and no longer patched. If you want to run the gauntlet and put the security of your machine and personal info down to decreasingly attractive chances, go for it.
+1 this. This is exactly what people want to do, so stop passing judgment and trying to force them to switch.
My advice to anyone still running XP is generally to upgrade to Linux + WINE. It's free, faster on the same ancient hardware (with the right distro), more secure
Yeah but who will do this upgrade and how much will it cost to install and maintain? Prolly more than for a new win7 box and certainly more than doing nothing.
Give it 3 months after the currently hoarded exploits for Windows XP are put out (awaiting end of support announcement) and they will not work any more.
At least then you'll be giving peeps an actual reason to upgrade rather than the bs in the summary and article.
I don't understand... If they know the address where the bit coins went, why don't they just get them back? If someone took my iphone but I know where it went I would go get it.
right, but it has to be a faceless horde. 31% of the total. if you have a long tail of 2%, 1%, 0.5% share, that's going to be a lot of faceless horde. They should separate into brand name tablets and white label tablets.
\ And the best hardware for music production on iOS doesn't even work on the latest rev of the iPad. Take a look at the Mackie mixers or Apogee dongles. Some of them still want you to have a "Apple Camera Adapter" in order to use them. Even the $99 Launchpad from Ableton is a flimsy toy. A full-blown Launchpad or Ableton's new Push won't talk to your "premiere tablet platform".
The real indicator is that my wife is finally starting to tire of being constrained by her iDevices and to make noises about getting Android goodies like mine that you can actually do stuff with
such as? what cool things are you doing on your android that make your wife jealous? do tell.
if we're talking about a software ecosystem then iOS is the dominant software ecosystem if you want to buy quality apps or if you are a developer looking for benjamins.
everything you say is contradicted elsewhere on this thread. All reports say that these white box tablets are cheap, with bad screens and slow guts. that does NOT provide a "better" android experience.
The point is that there's a good size portion of the android market that are crap and junk.
+1 tradeoff. The itunes+ipod ecosystem works really well and is really intuitive, but you have to delegate all responsibility to it. It's like hiring someone to come in and manage your music collection. I can only imagine the disasters if you tried to maintain control.
Who is making all these tablets? Here's the rough breakdown of 2013 unit volume from Gartner for worldwide: * Apple 36% * Samsung 19% * ASUS 6% * Amazon 5% * Lenovo 3% * All others 31%
the first notable thing is that Apple sells more than Samsung, Asus, Amazon, and Lenovo combined. The second notable thing, who is the "all others"? All sort of white-label chinese makers? Who is buying these? And can you say that these are truly Android tablets if they have some sort of modified android 2.3?
Here are the categories that I see in this market:
* iOS * "Premium" Android. The Galaxy Tabs, the Nexus tablets, etc. Sold in US, EU, etc. The ones we are familiar with * Kindle * MS Surface * white label tablets. Presumably built and sold in China, elsewhere.
We need to recognize that premium android might as well be a different OS than white label android. The apps will be different, the languages will be different, the monetization will be different, the fragmentation will be different. For all intensive purposes premium android is as removed from white label android as it is from kindle.
jebus there's a difference between defying an order and accomodating a request. If you and your friends were being loud at a bar, and somebody asked you to keep it down, would you try to lower your voices or tell him to fuck off?
I would say, "sorry about that, no problem," and then continue to have fun with my friends without being as loud. Not everything is a challenge to your manhood, and not everything is a fight. Unless you're in florida then it's illegal to kill people because they're texting in a theater or listening to rap music. Maybe you should move there?
to be fair, if you punished them so hard that they went out of business, then they wouldn't be able to clean up. ideally you punish them enough so they pay a lot while remaining in business a long time to continue to pay a lot.
the problem is the military-industrial complex that basically makes war decisions based on benjamins, not based on saving troop lives. M16, M60, F27. the osprey. All acknowledged to be problematic. eisenhower called it 60 years ago.
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Because it doesn't work any more. It is insecure and no longer patched. If you want to run the gauntlet and put the security of your machine and personal info down to decreasingly attractive chances, go for it.
+1 this. This is exactly what people want to do, so stop passing judgment and trying to force them to switch.
My advice to anyone still running XP is generally to upgrade to Linux + WINE. It's free, faster on the same ancient hardware (with the right distro), more secure
Yeah but who will do this upgrade and how much will it cost to install and maintain? Prolly more than for a new win7 box and certainly more than doing nothing.
Give it 3 months after the currently hoarded exploits for Windows XP are put out (awaiting end of support announcement) and they will not work any more.
At least then you'll be giving peeps an actual reason to upgrade rather than the bs in the summary and article.
To be fair, I know the one she's talking about and it's a pretty effing sweet greeting card solution.
what is rebirth. deets plz.
Because if they were, the headline would have been zOMG mac and iOS not safe !!!!!!!11!!!!
well that's fine, you just steal their wallet and transfer it back. or "persuade them".
If it were my money I would get a bounty hunter and tell him I'll share any proceeds that he's able to collect
I would fund it if someone had taken $600k! Then I would eff them!
Then you know who took it, right? Why don't you go get them back?
I don't understand... If they know the address where the bit coins went, why don't they just get them back? If someone took my iphone but I know where it went I would go get it.
right, but it has to be a faceless horde. 31% of the total. if you have a long tail of 2%, 1%, 0.5% share, that's going to be a lot of faceless horde. They should separate into brand name tablets and white label tablets.
why? you have something against innocent girls accused of murder? or maybe you're pro-witchhunt?
The real indicator is that my wife is finally starting to tire of being constrained by her iDevices and to make noises about getting Android goodies like mine that you can actually do stuff with
such as? what cool things are you doing on your android that make your wife jealous? do tell.
if we're talking about a software ecosystem then iOS is the dominant software ecosystem if you want to buy quality apps or if you are a developer looking for benjamins.
everything you say is contradicted elsewhere on this thread. All reports say that these white box tablets are cheap, with bad screens and slow guts. that does NOT provide a "better" android experience.
The point is that there's a good size portion of the android market that are crap and junk.
hate much?
+1 awkward configuration is awkward.
+1 tradeoff. The itunes+ipod ecosystem works really well and is really intuitive, but you have to delegate all responsibility to it. It's like hiring someone to come in and manage your music collection. I can only imagine the disasters if you tried to maintain control.
Who is making all these tablets? Here's the rough breakdown of 2013 unit volume from Gartner for worldwide:
* Apple 36%
* Samsung 19%
* ASUS 6%
* Amazon 5%
* Lenovo 3%
* All others 31%
the first notable thing is that Apple sells more than Samsung, Asus, Amazon, and Lenovo combined. The second notable thing, who is the "all others"? All sort of white-label chinese makers? Who is buying these? And can you say that these are truly Android tablets if they have some sort of modified android 2.3?
Here are the categories that I see in this market:
* iOS
* "Premium" Android. The Galaxy Tabs, the Nexus tablets, etc. Sold in US, EU, etc. The ones we are familiar with
* Kindle
* MS Surface
* white label tablets. Presumably built and sold in China, elsewhere.
We need to recognize that premium android might as well be a different OS than white label android. The apps will be different, the languages will be different, the monetization will be different, the fragmentation will be different. For all intensive purposes premium android is as removed from white label android as it is from kindle.
jebus there's a difference between defying an order and accomodating a request. If you and your friends were being loud at a bar, and somebody asked you to keep it down, would you try to lower your voices or tell him to fuck off?
I would say, "sorry about that, no problem," and then continue to have fun with my friends without being as loud. Not everything is a challenge to your manhood, and not everything is a fight. Unless you're in florida then it's illegal to kill people because they're texting in a theater or listening to rap music. Maybe you should move there?
Sentenced to death, so what? Is it better to get some cash see you can try to prove the situation?
to be fair, if you punished them so hard that they went out of business, then they wouldn't be able to clean up. ideally you punish them enough so they pay a lot while remaining in business a long time to continue to pay a lot.
the problem is the military-industrial complex that basically makes war decisions based on benjamins, not based on saving troop lives. M16, M60, F27. the osprey. All acknowledged to be problematic. eisenhower called it 60 years ago.