Maemo was not really a late entry, it was actually available a full 2 years before android, and if marketed and pushed correctly could have been where android is today... Instead, they restricted it to their niche "internet tablet" devices, and then stalled development by trying to transition to meego.
But while there's potentially 2^128 possible keys if correctly implemented... Who's to say that the individual implementation actually generates keys truly randomly? A flaw in the key generation algorithm can significantly weaken the system as a whole while still using a strong encryption algorithm.
Why use a firewall to block communication, instead of properly configuring your devices such that there is nothing to communicate with?
If you are in full control of your device (as you always should be), then the only things running on the network will be things that you explicitly want running so if you had a firewall you would have opened it up to allow these things anyway.
Apple are no different than AMD then... Both introduce consumer-friendly refinements of existing technology. There were touch screen phones before the iphone, they generally sucked quite badly. There were mobile web browsers before the iphone, but they were generally extremely crippled and unusable. There were tablets before the ipad but they tended to run software that wasnt suited to touch input, making them unusable. There were portable media players before the ipod.
Just like AMD, Apple took existing ideas and improved them.
An APU is just a logical step forwards... The FPU and MMU used to be implemented on separate chips too, and there are plenty of SoC implementations out there which already integrate a graphics core.
IBM, MIPS(SGI), HP also all had 64bit offerings, Intel/AMD were very late to the 64bit party, almost as late as ARM (which isnt unreasonable given that they target low power embedded devices).
Does that really matter, assuming it was even true?
Consumers are put off by the name, windows has a reputation for being unreliable, buggy and virus prone... Consumers put up with that on computers because they don't think any alternatives exist, but alternative phones are well known.
Some of us are put off by the fact that its from microsoft, a company well known to engage in underhanded tactics.. It doesn't matter how good their products are, some of us will never buy them because we remember the damage microsoft can do if they gain too much control in a market.
Personally i find it highly amusing to see microsoft getting a taste of what they've been dishing out all these years...
Mobile websites designed for webkit that are broken on windows phone... Google locking them out of youtube... Lack of applications, and developers unwilling to port to such a niche platform...
It's easily possible for morons to drive 150km/h through towns and kill children on their way to school... Even driving 40km/h is enough to kill children. You would also create a market for removal of such limiters
If you aren't keeping sufficient distance between you and the cars in front (relative to their speed and yours), or you aren't paying attention to whats going on ahead of you then you are driving dangerously, irrespective of what speed your doing. So if you drive faster, leave a bigger gap and pay attention to whats going on either way.
Speed is not the only cause of road accidents, and in many cases a crash would have occurred anyway. Also setting a maximum speed would do nothing to stop people speeding at 70mph down residential streets, which is far more dangerous than doing 90mph on a highway.
In fact many crashes are caused by lack of speed, or significant differences in speed. Someone driving well below the speed limit is often far more dangerous than someone driving way above it, especially on roads where its not easy to pass them because they will cause a queue of frustrated drivers to form behind them. Someone driving slowly on the highway is also extremely dangerous.
Also speed limits today were set many years ago, when cars were much slower and more dangerous... While lowend cars then would have struggled to reach 70mph if they could at all, today virtually any car is capable of 100mph. More importantly, while driving 70mph back then was noisy and resulted in a lot of vibration from the vehicle, today 70mph is a trivial cruising speed and you barely realise you're moving... This significantly increases the change of people falling asleep at the wheel.
Only SSL is generally based on trusting certificates, based on certificate authorities... There are several certificate authorities which are in the US and thus beholden to the NSA, who could therefore create their own trusted cert for mitm purposes. You'd have to negotiate your own certs between the parties you wanted to communicate with.
If he turns it off, then what will generate the alarm? Such a system relies on running software, if its not running then it can't work, and someone with admin privileges can easily kill it. Or the admin can access the data at a level below the os, ie directly from the physical drive without the os running.
And those dual login requirements are enforced in software... And the sysadmin installed that software, and has access to the underlying hardware... I've seen similar systems to, where such requirements are enforced by applications, even on users who have "admin" privilege to the application... But ultimately the application runs on top of an os, and it stores its data in a database which does too, so the sysadmin can access data irrespective of application security either at the database or filesystem level.
By doing this, you create a system that is extremely fragile, easily broken and difficult to fix... Basically extremely impractical and very expensive to maintain.
And let's not forget that ultimately one or more of the admins has physical access to the server, the OS can enforce whatever policies it wants, but only after its booted. Someone with physical access can always modify the system to behave in a different way.
And the sysadmin has access to the disk on which the data is stored, so it doesn't matter what permissions or logging are implemented in the database since the admin can access the data at a lower level.
People often fail to understand this... Just because *you* access data in a particular way, doesn't mean that's the *only* way to get at that data.
They go based on what they see, not whats actually happening... On some systems you can set file permissions to that the admin can't access certain files or dirs in the usual way, which gives the false impression of security... Obviously being the admin, they can access those files just fine in a number of ways (impersonating users, changing the perms, accessing the raw drive, retrieving the data from backups etc)... But most users never consider this, they just see that they try to access the file in the way they're used to doing, it says no, and they assume it can't be done any other way.
New sales are faltering anyway, this is part of the reason why windows 8 is such a change - to give an incentive to buy it... Existing hardware is more than fast enough for all but certain niche users and has been for years, windows 7 and xp are more than adequate for most users too, there is very little reason to upgrade and ms are trying to promote touch support as the primary reason. Sooner or later older versions are dropped, application support for older windows versions are dropped, and new hardware will come with windows 8 wether users like it or not and may not even have drivers for older versions making it totally incompatible... If MS were to cut off 7 & xp today for all their bitching and moaning, people (including corporates) would use windows 8 anyway, and users running old windows versions are still locked in and are far preferable for ms than users defecting to osx or linux.
Users don't really have a choice, the users will switch to windows 8 or its successor sooner or later and ms knows that. Customers are not going anywhere, and if they threaten to their threats are empty so they have zero leverage over ms, and neither do the oems. If you have no leverage over a company, then they will treat you with absolute contempt because it's an entirely one sided relationship.
Do you honestly think that windows 8 is going to cause a mass migration to osx or linux? If not, then what possible incentive do MS have to improve it? Users will either buy it anyway and put up with it, or they will buy windows 7 instead, either way is fine for MS. Given that windows 8 isn't going to reduce the marketshare of windows, if it causes even a tiny number of users to buy windows tablets or phones then it's overall beneficial for MS.
MS cares solely about their own profits and dominance over any markets they can... Why should they listen to customers who are locked in and will be giving them their money anyway? The only customers they would ever listen to are ones that can and will walk to a competitor en masse.
Well most people don't need more than 1 day worth of battery, when you go to bed you take the device off and attach it to a charger next to your bed...
And how much software for other os is there that is no longer maintained? At least with the sourcecode you have the option of maintaining it yourself... If you choose not to take advantage of that option, then you are never any worse off than the alternative.
This idea that moving away from MS will cost millions in training is FUD spread by MS to discourage such migrations... There are many cases where upgrading to the latest MS offering is actually a more significant change than switching to an alternative, for instance moving from msoffice 2003 to 2007 is a bigger leap than going from 2003 to libreoffice as the user interface is entirely different.
In reality many such migrations have been performed, often with no training being provided whatsoever. Users are just expected to get on with it, and generally do.
The 2012 retina macbooks include an HDMI port (in addition to mini displayport)... I assume the 2013 ones do too.
Most projectors i've encountered recently only had VGA, with a small handful using HDMI. Chances are you will need adapters most of the time anyway, unless you want a laptop with lots of ports on it.. In that respect, mini displayport is good because the connector is small and doesnt take up too much space, and is easily adapted to several other formats.
How many people are regularly flashing firmware on network devices or configuring access points? These are niche requirements, the vast majority of apple customers will never be doing such things. And for a device like the macbook air, the case isn't even thick enough to put an ethernet or dvi socket on it...
I've encountered situations where someone with a non apple laptop was unable to connect to a projector too, for exactly the same reason. In fact, there's some laptops these days which don't include any video out capability whatsoever.
Here if you can afford even a very small deposit, then a mortgage is almost always cheaper month by month than renting, so you won't be saving anything by not buying. The only way to really save rent money is to continue living with your parents for years.
If it's open source software then chances are most of it has already been ported to linux (or is primarily designed for linux in the first place), and if not can probably be recompiled to link against winelib... And then there is a huge amount of open source software which has already been built for linux/arm but not for windows/arm.
Why would you want a windows tablet if you're going to run open source software on it? Might as well just use a linux device
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Maemo was not really a late entry, it was actually available a full 2 years before android, and if marketed and pushed correctly could have been where android is today...
Instead, they restricted it to their niche "internet tablet" devices, and then stalled development by trying to transition to meego.
But while there's potentially 2^128 possible keys if correctly implemented... Who's to say that the individual implementation actually generates keys truly randomly? A flaw in the key generation algorithm can significantly weaken the system as a whole while still using a strong encryption algorithm.
Why use a firewall to block communication, instead of properly configuring your devices such that there is nothing to communicate with?
If you are in full control of your device (as you always should be), then the only things running on the network will be things that you explicitly want running so if you had a firewall you would have opened it up to allow these things anyway.
Apple are no different than AMD then... Both introduce consumer-friendly refinements of existing technology.
There were touch screen phones before the iphone, they generally sucked quite badly.
There were mobile web browsers before the iphone, but they were generally extremely crippled and unusable.
There were tablets before the ipad but they tended to run software that wasnt suited to touch input, making them unusable.
There were portable media players before the ipod.
Just like AMD, Apple took existing ideas and improved them.
An APU is just a logical step forwards... The FPU and MMU used to be implemented on separate chips too, and there are plenty of SoC implementations out there which already integrate a graphics core.
IBM, MIPS(SGI), HP also all had 64bit offerings, Intel/AMD were very late to the 64bit party, almost as late as ARM (which isnt unreasonable given that they target low power embedded devices).
Does that really matter, assuming it was even true?
Consumers are put off by the name, windows has a reputation for being unreliable, buggy and virus prone... Consumers put up with that on computers because they don't think any alternatives exist, but alternative phones are well known.
Some of us are put off by the fact that its from microsoft, a company well known to engage in underhanded tactics.. It doesn't matter how good their products are, some of us will never buy them because we remember the damage microsoft can do if they gain too much control in a market.
Personally i find it highly amusing to see microsoft getting a taste of what they've been dishing out all these years...
Mobile websites designed for webkit that are broken on windows phone...
Google locking them out of youtube...
Lack of applications, and developers unwilling to port to such a niche platform...
The xbox had that advantage to a degree, as it made it easier to port games to or from windows...
Being big in business hasn't really helped blackberry, work devices are considered boring and people don't want to use the same thing at home.
It's easily possible for morons to drive 150km/h through towns and kill children on their way to school...
Even driving 40km/h is enough to kill children.
You would also create a market for removal of such limiters
Something very similar happened in the UK just recently too, and resulted in a motorcycle rider being killed.
If you aren't keeping sufficient distance between you and the cars in front (relative to their speed and yours), or you aren't paying attention to whats going on ahead of you then you are driving dangerously, irrespective of what speed your doing.
So if you drive faster, leave a bigger gap and pay attention to whats going on either way.
Speed is not the only cause of road accidents, and in many cases a crash would have occurred anyway. Also setting a maximum speed would do nothing to stop people speeding at 70mph down residential streets, which is far more dangerous than doing 90mph on a highway.
In fact many crashes are caused by lack of speed, or significant differences in speed. Someone driving well below the speed limit is often far more dangerous than someone driving way above it, especially on roads where its not easy to pass them because they will cause a queue of frustrated drivers to form behind them. Someone driving slowly on the highway is also extremely dangerous.
Also speed limits today were set many years ago, when cars were much slower and more dangerous... While lowend cars then would have struggled to reach 70mph if they could at all, today virtually any car is capable of 100mph. More importantly, while driving 70mph back then was noisy and resulted in a lot of vibration from the vehicle, today 70mph is a trivial cruising speed and you barely realise you're moving... This significantly increases the change of people falling asleep at the wheel.
Only SSL is generally based on trusting certificates, based on certificate authorities... There are several certificate authorities which are in the US and thus beholden to the NSA, who could therefore create their own trusted cert for mitm purposes.
You'd have to negotiate your own certs between the parties you wanted to communicate with.
If he turns it off, then what will generate the alarm?
Such a system relies on running software, if its not running then it can't work, and someone with admin privileges can easily kill it.
Or the admin can access the data at a level below the os, ie directly from the physical drive without the os running.
And those dual login requirements are enforced in software... And the sysadmin installed that software, and has access to the underlying hardware...
I've seen similar systems to, where such requirements are enforced by applications, even on users who have "admin" privilege to the application... But ultimately the application runs on top of an os, and it stores its data in a database which does too, so the sysadmin can access data irrespective of application security either at the database or filesystem level.
By doing this, you create a system that is extremely fragile, easily broken and difficult to fix... Basically extremely impractical and very expensive to maintain.
And let's not forget that ultimately one or more of the admins has physical access to the server, the OS can enforce whatever policies it wants, but only after its booted. Someone with physical access can always modify the system to behave in a different way.
And the sysadmin has access to the disk on which the data is stored, so it doesn't matter what permissions or logging are implemented in the database since the admin can access the data at a lower level.
People often fail to understand this... Just because *you* access data in a particular way, doesn't mean that's the *only* way to get at that data.
They go based on what they see, not whats actually happening...
On some systems you can set file permissions to that the admin can't access certain files or dirs in the usual way, which gives the false impression of security... Obviously being the admin, they can access those files just fine in a number of ways (impersonating users, changing the perms, accessing the raw drive, retrieving the data from backups etc)...
But most users never consider this, they just see that they try to access the file in the way they're used to doing, it says no, and they assume it can't be done any other way.
New sales are faltering anyway, this is part of the reason why windows 8 is such a change - to give an incentive to buy it...
Existing hardware is more than fast enough for all but certain niche users and has been for years, windows 7 and xp are more than adequate for most users too, there is very little reason to upgrade and ms are trying to promote touch support as the primary reason.
Sooner or later older versions are dropped, application support for older windows versions are dropped, and new hardware will come with windows 8 wether users like it or not and may not even have drivers for older versions making it totally incompatible... If MS were to cut off 7 & xp today for all their bitching and moaning, people (including corporates) would use windows 8 anyway, and users running old windows versions are still locked in and are far preferable for ms than users defecting to osx or linux.
Users don't really have a choice, the users will switch to windows 8 or its successor sooner or later and ms knows that. Customers are not going anywhere, and if they threaten to their threats are empty so they have zero leverage over ms, and neither do the oems. If you have no leverage over a company, then they will treat you with absolute contempt because it's an entirely one sided relationship.
Do you honestly think that windows 8 is going to cause a mass migration to osx or linux? If not, then what possible incentive do MS have to improve it? Users will either buy it anyway and put up with it, or they will buy windows 7 instead, either way is fine for MS. Given that windows 8 isn't going to reduce the marketshare of windows, if it causes even a tiny number of users to buy windows tablets or phones then it's overall beneficial for MS.
MS cares solely about their own profits and dominance over any markets they can... Why should they listen to customers who are locked in and will be giving them their money anyway? The only customers they would ever listen to are ones that can and will walk to a competitor en masse.
Well most people don't need more than 1 day worth of battery, when you go to bed you take the device off and attach it to a charger next to your bed...
And how much software for other os is there that is no longer maintained?
At least with the sourcecode you have the option of maintaining it yourself... If you choose not to take advantage of that option, then you are never any worse off than the alternative.
This idea that moving away from MS will cost millions in training is FUD spread by MS to discourage such migrations...
There are many cases where upgrading to the latest MS offering is actually a more significant change than switching to an alternative, for instance moving from msoffice 2003 to 2007 is a bigger leap than going from 2003 to libreoffice as the user interface is entirely different.
In reality many such migrations have been performed, often with no training being provided whatsoever. Users are just expected to get on with it, and generally do.
The 2012 retina macbooks include an HDMI port (in addition to mini displayport)... I assume the 2013 ones do too.
Most projectors i've encountered recently only had VGA, with a small handful using HDMI. Chances are you will need adapters most of the time anyway, unless you want a laptop with lots of ports on it.. In that respect, mini displayport is good because the connector is small and doesnt take up too much space, and is easily adapted to several other formats.
How many people are regularly flashing firmware on network devices or configuring access points? These are niche requirements, the vast majority of apple customers will never be doing such things. And for a device like the macbook air, the case isn't even thick enough to put an ethernet or dvi socket on it...
I've encountered situations where someone with a non apple laptop was unable to connect to a projector too, for exactly the same reason. In fact, there's some laptops these days which don't include any video out capability whatsoever.
Here if you can afford even a very small deposit, then a mortgage is almost always cheaper month by month than renting, so you won't be saving anything by not buying. The only way to really save rent money is to continue living with your parents for years.
If it's open source software then chances are most of it has already been ported to linux (or is primarily designed for linux in the first place), and if not can probably be recompiled to link against winelib... And then there is a huge amount of open source software which has already been built for linux/arm but not for windows/arm.
Why would you want a windows tablet if you're going to run open source software on it? Might as well just use a linux device
If you're going to be using the device primarily with a keyboard, why bother with a tablet at all?
So you can pay $479 for a "tablet" thats only usable with a keyboard making it basically a very poor laptop, or you can pay $350 for a laptop:
http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-15-3521/pd