Desktop, laptop, and tablet sales are all in decline. Hybrid tablets are nowhere near enough to offset the decline. Most people don't need more than a phone any more. We are in the day of the "computer in your palm" and it has kicked everything else into the trash.
So to answer your question, desktops, laptops and tablets are all declining in favour of smartphones, and this trend isn't going to change.
Wrong - it's the perfect analogy - the original marriage doesn't always cease to exist when someone cheats. Plenty of forks DO see the eventual demise of the parent project. Where's SLS linux? Slackware killed it, and now it's moribund in turn.
Of course you can fork up a marriage. People do it all the time. That doesn't mean that the original people involved cease to exist when the marriage bombs - they each create their own forks of life.
That's just it... they are backporting all the bad parts of 10 to 7 and 8x. This is the whole "frog in a bucket of slowly heating water" approach. Fortunately for many (most?) users, their phones and tablets are now replacing the need for a desktop or laptop computer. Not so fortunate for Microsoft. After all, most users think of computers as "the internet", and they can do all their "internet stuff", and since they need a phone anyway...
Pushing a commit to github isn't the same as committing to a life partner. There is no forking this project," Red Hat EVP Paul Cormier told a Texas couple
Aside from the obvious joke, that there definitely will be lots of "forking" going on in the bedroom, it's easy to fork a github project.
Windows 10, according to Microsoft, has always had mainstream support ending October 13, 2020, and extended support ending October 14, 2025. Various sites reported this a year ago, but people forgot, I guess.
Since this was the "last windows you'll ever buy", that meant that the next one would have to be a "rental-only" version.
I wouldn't be surprised if 10 includes a time bomb to deactivate at it after it goes out of support.
Fortunately, we'll always have Star Wreck - In the Pirkining. Watch it or full downloads in various formats from archive.org. It's funny, lots of poking fun at star trek, and CBS can't do squat about it since it's a parody, doesn't use their characters or their universe.
"Belgian courts don't have international jurisdiction over Facebook Ireland, where the data concerning Europe is processed,
So to all the idiots who were saying I was wrong and that EU member state laws regarding data protection can span data stored on servers anywhere in the world, bite me.
The EU economy is 5x larger than the UK economy. Also, some of the financial services are required by EU law to have their operations in the EU, so once the UK leaves, too damn bad, since everyone else will follow suit to be closer to those offices. The big banks are already looking at properties in Milan, Frankfurt, etc.
Never going to happen. The younger generation doesn't give 2 shits about the old farts complaining about some fat woman working at Eaton's speaking to them in English more than half a century ago.
Don't be so smug. We came damn close in the first separation referendum. After the second one, it's obviously not going to happen, but now we've got the old WCC (Western Canada Concept) separatists starting to come out of the woodwork.
Last I looked, the 751 members of the European Parliament are elected. Under the treaty of Lisbon, parliament votes on the EU budget, and individual EU members have the right to secede. How is that undemocratic?
It's also the same as giving a 10% cut to all purchases of goods and services from the UK...
You seem to forget that the EU can impose tariffs and other restrictions on imports from the UK so they can grow their own industries. And the UK imports a lot more from the EU than it exports.
Also, on services... not really. Financial services are going to move to the continent, so there goes "the city" and London's over-inflated property prices.
Yes, but it means that our exports are more attractive.
Not really. After all, you won't have free access to the EU market. And Scotland and Wales are grumbling about leaving and joining the EU.
Great Britain = England, Scotland, and Wales.- so no more Great Britain
UK = England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland (and the full name is the “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”) - so much for the UK
England = Just the part of the island that is England
So it'll be the kingdom of England and Northern Ireland.
And the queen will have her summer castle in a foreign country (Balmoral, in Scotland). That's going to be kind of weird.
Greece would have been in the shitter either way. Corruption costs money, and big-time corruption costs big-time money. They only got into the EU by lying in the first place. They should have been kicked to the curb after the first bail-out.
They forced themselves into that position. It was GREEK corruption that brought them to where they are today. They've been bailed out 3 times, each time promising change. Austerity would have been inevitable, either in our out of the EU.
The real split was by age. The old farts voted leave, the young'uns voted stay. Now the young'uns will have to pay the penalty for the baby boomer's stupidity.
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Desktop, laptop, and tablet sales are all in decline. Hybrid tablets are nowhere near enough to offset the decline. Most people don't need more than a phone any more. We are in the day of the "computer in your palm" and it has kicked everything else into the trash.
So to answer your question, desktops, laptops and tablets are all declining in favour of smartphones, and this trend isn't going to change.
Too bad that desktops represent both a dwindling share of the market and a decline in absolute terms.
Wrong - it's the perfect analogy - the original marriage doesn't always cease to exist when someone cheats. Plenty of forks DO see the eventual demise of the parent project. Where's SLS linux? Slackware killed it, and now it's moribund in turn.
Nobody (except probably the parents) is thinking that a marriage may be a disaster. Same as nobody thought the Titanic could sink.
Reality - it bites. Hard.
Of course you can fork up a marriage. People do it all the time. That doesn't mean that the original people involved cease to exist when the marriage bombs - they each create their own forks of life.
That's just it ... they are backporting all the bad parts of 10 to 7 and 8x. This is the whole "frog in a bucket of slowly heating water" approach. Fortunately for many (most?) users, their phones and tablets are now replacing the need for a desktop or laptop computer. Not so fortunate for Microsoft. After all, most users think of computers as "the internet", and they can do all their "internet stuff", and since they need a phone anyway ...
I think that if all people want to do is Facebook and Email, they don't need a "real computer." Phones do this just fine and are mostly cheaper.
Pushing a commit to github isn't the same as committing to a life partner. There is no forking this project," Red Hat EVP Paul Cormier told a Texas couple
Aside from the obvious joke, that there definitely will be lots of "forking" going on in the bedroom, it's easy to fork a github project.
Windows 10, according to Microsoft, has always had mainstream support ending October 13, 2020, and extended support ending October 14, 2025. Various sites reported this a year ago, but people forgot, I guess.
Since this was the "last windows you'll ever buy", that meant that the next one would have to be a "rental-only" version.
I wouldn't be surprised if 10 includes a time bomb to deactivate at it after it goes out of support.
Fortunately, we'll always have Star Wreck - In the Pirkining. Watch it or full downloads in various formats from archive.org. It's funny, lots of poking fun at star trek, and CBS can't do squat about it since it's a parody, doesn't use their characters or their universe.
"Belgian courts don't have international jurisdiction over Facebook Ireland, where the data concerning Europe is processed,
So to all the idiots who were saying I was wrong and that EU member state laws regarding data protection can span data stored on servers anywhere in the world, bite me.
Brexit is an object lesson in what happens when you vote for stupid.
Conveniently, the older generation of separatists is dying off, in part because they were heavy smokers. They are not missed.
The EU economy is 5x larger than the UK economy. Also, some of the financial services are required by EU law to have their operations in the EU, so once the UK leaves, too damn bad, since everyone else will follow suit to be closer to those offices. The big banks are already looking at properties in Milan, Frankfurt, etc.
What's baffling to me is that Microsoft took what should have been a golden PR opportunity (free Windows upgrade), and turned it into a PR disaster.
You really believe it's free? How naive. There's always a price to pay. Ask the greeks about that "free" trojan horse.
Never going to happen. The younger generation doesn't give 2 shits about the old farts complaining about some fat woman working at Eaton's speaking to them in English more than half a century ago.
Don't be so smug. We came damn close in the first separation referendum. After the second one, it's obviously not going to happen, but now we've got the old WCC (Western Canada Concept) separatists starting to come out of the woodwork.
Last I looked, the 751 members of the European Parliament are elected. Under the treaty of Lisbon, parliament votes on the EU budget, and individual EU members have the right to secede. How is that undemocratic?
It's also the same as giving a 10% cut to all purchases of goods and services from the UK...
You seem to forget that the EU can impose tariffs and other restrictions on imports from the UK so they can grow their own industries. And the UK imports a lot more from the EU than it exports.
Also, on services ... not really. Financial services are going to move to the continent, so there goes "the city" and London's over-inflated property prices.
Yes, but it means that our exports are more attractive.
Not really. After all, you won't have free access to the EU market. And Scotland and Wales are grumbling about leaving and joining the EU.
Great Britain = England, Scotland, and Wales.- so no more Great Britain
UK = England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland (and the full name is the “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”) - so much for the UK
England = Just the part of the island that is England
So it'll be the kingdom of England and Northern Ireland.
And the queen will have her summer castle in a foreign country (Balmoral, in Scotland). That's going to be kind of weird.
No it won't. Brexit pretty much guarantees a Trump defeat.
The US has already said that the UK goes to the back of the queue when it comes to trade negotiations.
Greece would have been in the shitter either way. Corruption costs money, and big-time corruption costs big-time money. They only got into the EU by lying in the first place. They should have been kicked to the curb after the first bail-out.
They forced themselves into that position. It was GREEK corruption that brought them to where they are today. They've been bailed out 3 times, each time promising change. Austerity would have been inevitable, either in our out of the EU.
The real split was by age. The old farts voted leave, the young'uns voted stay. Now the young'uns will have to pay the penalty for the baby boomer's stupidity.