This is the hardware manufacturers' bailiwick as much as Microsoft's, but if someone wants to sell tablets to the visual arts profession, a lightweight 17-inch device that can run apps such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and Manga Studio, with a precision pressure-sensitive stylus, would make a lot of them overlook the fact that it's Windows instead of OS X or iOS. When the iPad came out, I heard artist after artist who thought it was going to be a great productivity tool, only to be disappointed that it's limited to finger painting* and smaller than a letter-size sheet of paper. A lightweight 11x14 screen that you can draw on effectively would quickly become as ubiquitous in trendy coffee shops as MacBook Airs.
*Yes, there are styluses that work with it, but they're nothing more than very pointed fingers, because they don't register pressure or angle.
That was my point: Your message didn't correct anything or support any argument. It served no purpose but to show off that you know about three different kinds of "average". It might have been vaguely educational on some other message board, but on/. (where Stats 101 is common knowledge) it's just pedantic and pointless. Self-important even. You might want to tone that down.
Thank you for showing off what you learned in Math class; we're all very impressed.
Now for extra credit, demonstrate what this has to do with his rebuttal of the person who thought that his total annual water use was measured by the municipal utility company.
It's not just the showers and toilet flushes. In addition to the water that flows through the pipes into your house, there's the water that flows through the the grocery bags that come into it, filling the beverage containers, giving the fruits and vegetables their turgidity, and feeding the pounds of livestock.
All I know is that no matter what happens with the auto industry, I'm not leaving Michigan. With the world's largest supply of liquid nonsaline water, it may become difficult to defend militarily, but at least we won't ever go thirsty.
(You're focusing on content, not user experience.)
A good example of that is TiVo. I'm not sure why TiVos haven't become ubiquitous (indequate marketing, wrong price points, bad business model?), but the different "user experience" of a TV that allows efffortless time-shifting and commercial-skipping seriously altered my approach to television for the better, and I would never go back to the old way of sitting down to watch TV live. If the right company put together something with the same kind of game-changing user experience, and without the factors that have apparently held back TiVo, it could have a serious impact on the TV market.
Sometimes stopping casual misuse is all you need. Not all "lock downs" require safeguarding the device against Anonymous, Stuxnet, and the Great Successor.
I'm not a gamer, but as a comics reader and creator, I often see this sort of issue raised in terms of comics, which is another medium that sometimes tries to emulate other media (especially film). Gaming is its own thing. It's fine for it to borrow from other media (including film and comics), but it shouldn't try to be the same thing. Just as comics draws from the visual language of film, the narrative language of prose, the expressive language of art, and so on, so can games. But they should always be free to do things that other media cannot, because... that's the point of it being its own medium.
Rick Santorum is not a vulnerable child who needs to be protected from bullying. He is an adult demagogue who has chosen to put himself on a pedestal in the political arena. He is a bully, and standing up to him is perfectly consistent with Savage's opposition to bullying.
Only a retard or a Republican brownshirt (or both) believes that Al Gore claimed to have "invented" or taken any personal role in the technological development of the Internet.
Give yourself root on an OS X system (easy peasy) and see how "locked down" the OS is to you. You can delete stuff, you can compile programs, you can replace modules, you can install kernel extensions, etc. Are there some locks on the system? Obviously. Are they "total"? Only if you have the hacking skills of my mom.
Who said anything about running "old ARM apps"? (I'm not an idiot; I don't think that you can run old Newton apps on an iPad just because they both have ARM processors.) I was answering your question about why anyone would care whether OS X was running on ARM or Intel: because apps compiled for Intel processors wouldn't run on an ARM CPU (at least not without some performance-sucking battery-draining deal-killing emulation layer).
Um... the A4 and A5 are ARM chips. That's what they're talking about this hypothetical MacBook Air running on.
"A more likely scenario is a MacBook Air based upon iOS with a built-in touchscreen."
An iPad with a keyboard? Not likely. But what kind of processor would make most sense to put in such a device? How about one that iOS already runs on: ARM.
Did you by chance mean "McCarthy"? Gen. Douglas McArthur was no fan of Communists, but it was Sen. Joe McCarthy who is know for anti-Commie witch hunts.
Apparently my employer could be a terrorist organization, because we use PGP and VPN technology routinely. Sure, the boss says it's for HIPAA compliance, but that's what you'd expect a terrorist to say, isn't it?
The fact that there's a market of only 4000 for it is why the per-unit cost is so high. It isn't about the cost of manufacturing the drug (at least not primarily). It's because they need to charge enough to recoup their expenses developing and testing the drug. It's a necessary part of a profit-driven medical research system. (A possible solution is left as an exercise for the reader.)
The sovereignty (or not) of Sealand is, frankly, irrelevant. For all its claims to being "de facto" sovereign, if Her Majesty's armed forces sincerely attempted to take control of (or destroy) the platform, they would undoubtedly be successful. And there is no nation-state or supranational body (e.g. UN, NATO, EU) that would do anything to prevent that, nor take any effective action to restore the current status quo.
To actually relocate the Wikileaks servers to Sealand would be hazardous to both Wikileaks and Sealand.
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This is the hardware manufacturers' bailiwick as much as Microsoft's, but if someone wants to sell tablets to the visual arts profession, a lightweight 17-inch device that can run apps such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and Manga Studio, with a precision pressure-sensitive stylus, would make a lot of them overlook the fact that it's Windows instead of OS X or iOS. When the iPad came out, I heard artist after artist who thought it was going to be a great productivity tool, only to be disappointed that it's limited to finger painting* and smaller than a letter-size sheet of paper. A lightweight 11x14 screen that you can draw on effectively would quickly become as ubiquitous in trendy coffee shops as MacBook Airs.
*Yes, there are styluses that work with it, but they're nothing more than very pointed fingers, because they don't register pressure or angle.
That was my point: Your message didn't correct anything or support any argument. It served no purpose but to show off that you know about three different kinds of "average". It might have been vaguely educational on some other message board, but on /. (where Stats 101 is common knowledge) it's just pedantic and pointless. Self-important even. You might want to tone that down.
Thank you for showing off what you learned in Math class; we're all very impressed.
Now for extra credit, demonstrate what this has to do with his rebuttal of the person who thought that his total annual water use was measured by the municipal utility company.
It's not just the showers and toilet flushes. In addition to the water that flows through the pipes into your house, there's the water that flows through the the grocery bags that come into it, filling the beverage containers, giving the fruits and vegetables their turgidity, and feeding the pounds of livestock.
All I know is that no matter what happens with the auto industry, I'm not leaving Michigan. With the world's largest supply of liquid nonsaline water, it may become difficult to defend militarily, but at least we won't ever go thirsty.
(You're focusing on content, not user experience.)
A good example of that is TiVo. I'm not sure why TiVos haven't become ubiquitous (indequate marketing, wrong price points, bad business model?), but the different "user experience" of a TV that allows efffortless time-shifting and commercial-skipping seriously altered my approach to television for the better, and I would never go back to the old way of sitting down to watch TV live. If the right company put together something with the same kind of game-changing user experience, and without the factors that have apparently held back TiVo, it could have a serious impact on the TV market.
"It's not about technology; it is about user experience, again."
We know he was working on it, and this sounds like a cue for Steve Jobs' final "one more thing..."
Sometimes stopping casual misuse is all you need. Not all "lock downs" require safeguarding the device against Anonymous, Stuxnet, and the Great Successor.
Have there been enough major releases of LibreOffice to say what's "typical" of them?
I'm not a gamer, but as a comics reader and creator, I often see this sort of issue raised in terms of comics, which is another medium that sometimes tries to emulate other media (especially film). Gaming is its own thing. It's fine for it to borrow from other media (including film and comics), but it shouldn't try to be the same thing. Just as comics draws from the visual language of film, the narrative language of prose, the expressive language of art, and so on, so can games. But they should always be free to do things that other media cannot, because... that's the point of it being its own medium.
Rick Santorum is not a vulnerable child who needs to be protected from bullying. He is an adult demagogue who has chosen to put himself on a pedestal in the political arena. He is a bully, and standing up to him is perfectly consistent with Savage's opposition to bullying.
Only a retard or a Republican brownshirt (or both) believes that Al Gore claimed to have "invented" or taken any personal role in the technological development of the Internet.
Al Gore would probably have a better claim than this guy (if he actually made such a claim, which he didn't).
Give yourself root on an OS X system (easy peasy) and see how "locked down" the OS is to you. You can delete stuff, you can compile programs, you can replace modules, you can install kernel extensions, etc. Are there some locks on the system? Obviously. Are they "total"? Only if you have the hacking skills of my mom.
Microsoft is actively developing Windows 8 for ARM.
Also, the current MacBook Airs (with SSD boot devices) are already darn close to your description of an instant-on laptop.
Who said anything about running "old ARM apps"? (I'm not an idiot; I don't think that you can run old Newton apps on an iPad just because they both have ARM processors.) I was answering your question about why anyone would care whether OS X was running on ARM or Intel: because apps compiled for Intel processors wouldn't run on an ARM CPU (at least not without some performance-sucking battery-draining deal-killing emulation layer).
OS X is nowhere near "totally locked down".
But to answer your question, it matters to anyone who wants to be able to run apps written and compiled for a different CPU.
Um... the A4 and A5 are ARM chips. That's what they're talking about this hypothetical MacBook Air running on.
"A more likely scenario is a MacBook Air based upon iOS with a built-in touchscreen."
An iPad with a keyboard? Not likely. But what kind of processor would make most sense to put in such a device? How about one that iOS already runs on: ARM.
Did you by chance mean "McCarthy"? Gen. Douglas McArthur was no fan of Communists, but it was Sen. Joe McCarthy who is know for anti-Commie witch hunts.
Apparently my employer could be a terrorist organization, because we use PGP and VPN technology routinely. Sure, the boss says it's for HIPAA compliance, but that's what you'd expect a terrorist to say, isn't it?
The fact that there's a market of only 4000 for it is why the per-unit cost is so high. It isn't about the cost of manufacturing the drug (at least not primarily). It's because they need to charge enough to recoup their expenses developing and testing the drug. It's a necessary part of a profit-driven medical research system. (A possible solution is left as an exercise for the reader.)
They would be ignored, I'm sure.
The sovereignty (or not) of Sealand is, frankly, irrelevant. For all its claims to being "de facto" sovereign, if Her Majesty's armed forces sincerely attempted to take control of (or destroy) the platform, they would undoubtedly be successful. And there is no nation-state or supranational body (e.g. UN, NATO, EU) that would do anything to prevent that, nor take any effective action to restore the current status quo.
To actually relocate the Wikileaks servers to Sealand would be hazardous to both Wikileaks and Sealand.
But it's not an $EXCUSE for $THING.
They should have done another backup (through some other means) the day after MU went offline. Stupid/lazy users deserve what they get.