Microsoft has snared another victim with its proprietary formats.
Congratulations, TheRealMindChild. You no longer have control of your data, and you'll be running in the Microsoft upgrade hamster wheel from now on, shedding $$ every few turns.
this is the guy that thought the greatest thing he could do for an internet connection was move to Australia. The guy is a bit of a muppet.
He's wanted to be Australian even before the NBN. The faster internet connection would just be icing on the cake for him.
Wozniak said: “I intend to call myself an Australian and feel an Australian, and study the history and become as much of a real citizen here as I can,” adding: “For 30 years I’ve had a desire to live in Australia. I’m going to live and die as an Australian.
His desire to become Australian is just another example of how sane, sensible and grounded the man is.
Once you grow to a certain large size, you become even worse. That is just how it is.
There's been a concerted effort to make it appear that way, but it's not true. Companies like Microsoft, Apple, Oracle etc have been far more predatory than most.
Not every company is a bad corporate citizen, and we should recognise that with our purchasing choices. You do us all a disfavour by pretending they are.
A study of cost-effectiveness in reducing mortality rates shows that the countries with the top 10 most efficient systems are:
1 Ireland
2 UK
3 New Zealand
4 Austria
5 Australia
6 Italy
7 Finland
8 Japan
9 Spain
10 Sweden
Note that most of those countries have predominately public healthcare systems, compared to the mainly private healthcare system used in the USA.
The USA was 23rd out of 24 countries surveyed, and according to the authors of the study "The USA results are perhaps not a surprise as a recent UNICEF report showed that in terms of material wellbeing the USA general population was below OECD inequality average, being 23rd out of 24 countries reviewed; were 19th, with regard to educational wellbeing, and for health and wellbeing 22nd, and currently the USA child (0 – 14) mortality is the highest among Western countries. Consequently, on these measures the US healthcare system is the least effective and efficient of Western countries"
the following things being quite bad when the US government does them:
FTFY
Many other governments around the world manage these things reasonably effectively. Your government seems more ideological/theological/tribally driven than most, which makes practical approaches to service provision less likely.
Even Microsoft knows Windows 8 is shit. They've just sacked Sinofsky over it.
"REDMOND, Wash. — Nov. 12, 2012 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that Windows and Windows Live President Steven Sinofsky will be leaving the company and that Julie Larson-Green will be promoted to lead all Windows software and hardware engineering."
The people on the forum are trying to use the classic Linux excuses and make the user feel stupid and blame him for Linux shortcomings.
No, the people in this forum are using a classic FUD technique of finding one nasty datum and pretending it's the whole world.
They're also lying about KDE, and being deceptive about the DE which will be used on this tablet. If you're genuinely interested in the system and have read past the mess of disinformation and proprietary propaganda that is today's Slashdot, go to the KDE Plasma-active site and test it yourself for free.
a lot of people assume that we're a lot more special than we actually are.
That's an interesting thought, particularly in the light of the other tool-maker in the news.
"The use and fashioning of objects as tools has rarely been seen in the animal kingdom. Alice Auersperg and Birgit Szabo, both cognitive biologists at the University of Vienna, have for the first time observed this skill in a Goffin’s Cockatoo: It makes and uses wooden tools to retrieve toys and food."
That suggest the ability to visualise and create tools isn't the hard bit. Communicating and retaining the knowledge across generations is where the real challenge lies.
The Portuguese Open Source Business Association (ESOP) published a white paper (PDF) which explains the problems laptop manufacturers are facing when trying to introduce systems preloaded with Linux to the market.
The report analyses the current laptop market with the help of game theory and concludes that it is "bound to a configuration which is not efficient" and does not benefit consumers.
Microsoft is using thousands of Linux boxes as Skype supernodes so they can fulfill the US government's wiretapping requests. It was reported and discussed here on Slashdot.
Slashdot Mirror
And bingo!
Microsoft has snared another victim with its proprietary formats.
Congratulations, TheRealMindChild. You no longer have control of your data, and you'll be running in the Microsoft upgrade hamster wheel from now on, shedding $$ every few turns.
Welcome to eternal mediocrity.
IIRC, didn't he want to live in Queensland? Not an example of sane, sensible and grounded.
Almost as bad. "I am underway to become an Australian citizen. That’s a little known fact. Probably Melbourne."
I can understand that - even if Vic doesn't have WA climate and beaches, at least they play real football there.
this is the guy that thought the greatest thing he could do for an internet connection was move to Australia. The guy is a bit of a muppet.
He's wanted to be Australian even before the NBN. The faster internet connection would just be icing on the cake for him.
Wozniak said: “I intend to call myself an Australian and feel an Australian, and study the history and become as much of a real citizen here as I can,” adding: “For 30 years I’ve had a desire to live in Australia. I’m going to live and die as an Australian.
His desire to become Australian is just another example of how sane, sensible and grounded the man is.
only if saltwater got into the core
If?
Once you grow to a certain large size, you become even worse. That is just how it is.
There's been a concerted effort to make it appear that way, but it's not true. Companies like Microsoft, Apple, Oracle etc have been far more predatory than most.
Not every company is a bad corporate citizen, and we should recognise that with our purchasing choices. You do us all a disfavour by pretending they are.
A study of cost-effectiveness in reducing mortality rates shows that the countries with the top 10 most efficient systems are:
1 Ireland
2 UK
3 New Zealand
4 Austria
5 Australia
6 Italy
7 Finland
8 Japan
9 Spain
10 Sweden
Note that most of those countries have predominately public healthcare systems, compared to the mainly private healthcare system used in the USA.
The USA was 23rd out of 24 countries surveyed, and according to the authors of the study "The USA results are perhaps not a surprise as a recent UNICEF report showed that in terms of material wellbeing the USA general population was below OECD inequality average, being 23rd out of 24 countries reviewed; were 19th, with regard to educational wellbeing, and for health and wellbeing 22nd, and currently the USA child (0 – 14) mortality is the highest among Western countries.
Consequently, on these measures the US healthcare system is the least effective and efficient of Western countries"
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2011/08/07/JRSMpaperPritWall.pdf
To summarise: Stop doing what you're doing and look at what the countries above are doing.
the following things being quite bad when the US government does them:
FTFY
Many other governments around the world manage these things reasonably effectively. Your government seems more ideological/theological/tribally driven than most, which makes practical approaches to service provision less likely.
with that specialization comes the consumer hostile lockdown.
You mean, as opposed to the consumer-hostile lockin we already have to deal with?
Stick with being a prisoner of Microsoft.
A lot more people are choosing not to do that.
Even Microsoft knows Windows 8 is shit. They've just sacked Sinofsky over it.
"REDMOND, Wash. — Nov. 12, 2012 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that Windows and Windows Live President Steven Sinofsky will be leaving the company and that Julie Larson-Green will be promoted to lead all Windows software and hardware engineering."
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/Press/2012/Nov12/11-12AnnouncementPR.aspx
The people on the forum are trying to use the classic Linux excuses and make the user feel stupid and blame him for Linux shortcomings.
No, the people in this forum are using a classic FUD technique of finding one nasty datum and pretending it's the whole world.
They're also lying about KDE, and being deceptive about the DE which will be used on this tablet. If you're genuinely interested in the system and have read past the mess of disinformation and proprietary propaganda that is today's Slashdot, go to the KDE Plasma-active site and test it yourself for free.
I understand iSurgery is very good, though overpriced. You should consider it.
Here: http://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?fsb=y&IndexArea=product_en&CatId=&SearchText=android
If this is über-sarcasm, kudos.
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
a lot of people assume that we're a lot more special than we actually are.
That's an interesting thought, particularly in the light of the other tool-maker in the news.
"The use and fashioning of objects as tools has rarely been seen in the animal kingdom. Alice Auersperg and Birgit Szabo, both cognitive biologists at the University of Vienna, have for the first time observed this skill in a Goffin’s Cockatoo: It makes and uses wooden tools to retrieve toys and food."
http://scienceblog.com/57536/clever-cockatoo-with-skilled-craftmanship/
That suggest the ability to visualise and create tools isn't the hard bit. Communicating and retaining the knowledge across generations is where the real challenge lies.
Yes.
You think delusional politicians are a scarce resource?
Or are you just a baseball recruiter trying to get a bit more practice for your candidates?
The Portuguese Open Source Business Association (ESOP) published a white paper (PDF) which explains the problems laptop manufacturers are facing when trying to introduce systems preloaded with Linux to the market.
The report analyses the current laptop market with the help of game theory and concludes that it is "bound to a configuration which is not efficient" and does not benefit consumers.
No.
Microsoft is using thousands of Linux boxes as Skype supernodes so they can fulfill the US government's wiretapping requests. It was reported and discussed here on Slashdot.
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/05/03/2225234/microsoft-using-linux-to-optimize-skype-traffic
Good point, though I've just picked up one of the early Yuando N90FHD tablets, and it has an aluminium frame and back, not plastic.
It also has a 9.7" 2048x1152 screen, 1GB DDR3 RAM, 32GB Nand Flash, 10000mAh battery, runs Android 4.1, weighs just 674g and costs just over $220.
So yeah, you're partly right. It's not plastic, and it's not junk, but compared to Apple, it IS cheap.
Why would Apple give Google any face on this?
Because they care about their customers and want them to be able to choose the best map application for their own use?
Nah, just kidding.
So format lockin is the main reason for using MS Office? And if that's not a problem for me, I'm fine?
Good to know, thanks.
Why use Microsoft Office on a tablet?
Kingsoft, Polaris and many other Office suites are available for Android. Being tablet optimised, they work well on the tablet form-factor.
Kingsoft Office for Android is a 12Mb download...
Android tablets have USB ports.
The Surface comes partitioned with a 3.5GB recovery partition, which can fully reset the device including drivers,
So basically a copy of Android's CWM partition, except an order of magnitude larger?