I suppose a workable alternative is to beat your face repeatedly on the desktop.
Or do what everyone sensible does:
Why I’m uninstalling Windows 8
As a cruel trick on myself, about a month ago I installed Windows 8 on my main PC to see what it was like.
The answer is: abysmal.
I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that Windows 8 is the worst computing experience I’ve ever had. As a desktop operating system, it’s annoying, frustrating, irritating, and baffling to use. I’ve tried on many occasions to explain exactly why it’s so awful to use day-to-day, and most of the time, smoke starts pouring out of my ears. I thought it would be better to get down exactly what the issues are and why you should avoid it.
It's astonishing how badly Microsoft has implimented this. For a long time I thought they were playing one of their "Queen's Duck" marketing tricks, and with a fanfare and a "We listen to our customers" comment, would switch to a sensible, if bland, UI at the last moment.
There's no shortage of 4g capable Android phones and tablets. Samsung devices (Galaxy SII, SIII etc) are all 4g multi-region capable, as are most recent phones from other vendors.
Who cares if Apple can't get their act together with a multi-region chipset?
1. It would NOT collapse. All those computers would not suddenly stop working.
That's (possibly) true for now, but the path being trodden by Microsoft and Apple means its likely they will be or are building their OSs with remote kill switches - call it WGA+. Add that to the proliferation of rented services, cloud and otherwise and the world might find its infrastructure held to ransom
If there's any significant prosecution: Sorry, services withdrawn...
The closest study from Denver I could find suggests "The incidence of thyroid nodules in children before the onset of puberty is less than two percent" as opposed to the 36% of children from Fukishima affected.
After confirming the validity of the report, Caldicott (pediatrician) reinforced the alarming nature of the findings:
1. "It is extremely rare to find cysts and thyroid nodules in children."
2. "This is an extremely large number of abnormalities to find in children."
3. "You would not expect abnormalities to appear so early — within the first year or so — therefore one can assume that they must have received a high dose of [radiation]."
4. "It is impossible to know, from what [officials in Japan] are saying, what these lesions are."
It doesn't help when the industry involved refuses to collect real data and has massive social media presence dismissive of real evidence.
Children in Fukushima are just getting lymph abnormalities and diabetes. That's why nuclear Pollyannas are talking about "natural background in Denver".
We do have hotspots in Tokyo Metropolitan Area that have led to these physiological disorders — some of the disorders that have been observed are as shown here. Things like diarrhea, nasal bleeding, headache, eczema and so forth. We are expecting thyroid disorders in children, but also cancers (bladder, leukemia, lung), diabetes.”
Hopefully the pies that hit Oracle's lawyers will have hand grenades in them.
Fire one at the submitter and "editor" of TFA. That's a deceptive headline.
Oracle was forced to acknowledge paying Florian Mueller, and also stated:
"Certain Oracle employees may have blogged about issues relating to the case. See, e.g., https://blogs.oracle.com/hinkmond/ (blogging about Java ME). Oracle did not ask or approve any of its employees to write about the case and does not track employee bloggers."
Note that Oracle's Social Media policy contradicts the statement:
Make Sure Your Management Approves
Please be aware that Oracle may choose to restrict social media activities that relate to your employment or Oracle’s business.
Remember that you are not an official spokesperson for Oracle. Make it clear that your opinions are your own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the corporation. See Policy Regarding Communications with Press and Analysts.
For this reason, Oracle employees with personal blogs that discuss Oracle’s business, products, employees, customers, partners, or competitors should include the following disclaimer in a visually prominent place on their blog:
"The views expressed on this [blog; Web site] are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Oracle."
By contrast, this is Google's statement:
“Our reply to the court is clear,” Google said, “no one on our side paid journalists, bloggers, or other commentators to write about this case.”
Windows phones will not be bundled with network deals and to this point they do not have enough features for people to want to buy them outright instead of on a plan.
That's only in the US.
You can get them on a plan here, but nobody does. They don't bring anything to the table except an odd kindergarten-corporate interface, and that's not a good enticement to waste money on.
The original University of Queensland's HyShot hypersonic tests were done for less than $2 million. Even better well-funded followup flights were around $4.5 million.
Here in Australia virtually every phone is locked to the carrier you get it from and the carriers do everything they can to get exclusive rights to particular models.
I'm in Australia, and only a few pre-paid mobiles are SIM-locked, as far as I'm aware. I routinely use phones and SIMs from Telstra and Optus interchangeably. Even for the pre-paid phones, I believe current trade pratcices laws mean carriers have to unlock phones at the end of the contract period.
The $199 in the US is a price to buy, contingent on staying on a contract. It's much the same as our monthly plans here, but with the addition of an up-front fee, and the requirement to pay for calls received as well.
I have one in my hands right now. It's a reasonable machine, certainly usable for web browsing, Facebook, email, Skype etc. Pretty much what most people use their computers for.
This is exactly what Microsoft do. They have always tried to make subtle incompatibilities for competitors products.
Java, Secure Boot, OOXML, H264, their ACPI trickery, Mono/Silverlight and so on ad nauseum.
Even Microsoft knows they're an unreliable business partner. This is from their SEC filing: "...our Surface devices will compete with products made by our OEM partners, which may affect their commitment to our platform." "Users may increasingly turn to these [mobile] devices to perform functions that would have been performed by personal computers in the past," "Even if many users view these devices as complementary to a personal computer, the prevalence of these devices may make it more difficult to attract applications developers to our platforms."
Stories, including this one, have links to sources.
There, I've clicked one for you:
1) Thyroid cysts found in 35% of Fukushima children examined with an average age of 10.
Thyroid examinations of Fukushima children have been implemented as part of the “Fukushima Prefecture Health Management Survey” to monitor the health effects of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant nuclear accident. The results of the thyroid examinations released on April 26, 2012 are summarized here.
"There was a huge earthquake on March 11, and the nuclear accident began that day. On March 20, Fukushima prefecture welcomed a person called Shunichi Yamashita from Nagasaki University as a Radiation Health Risk Management Advisor. The next day Yamashita began a campaign to “declare safety.” Then in April, Kenji Kamiya from Hiroshima University and Noboru Takamura from Hiroshima University joined him as Radiation Health Risk Management Advisors. These three men kept repeating that radiation levels less than 100 mSv were safe, forcing children to be exposed to radiation. They have been criticized by the whole nation about this, and I would really like to clarify if this is a crime or not.
In Fukushima prefecture, fathers and mothers who have higher awareness about radiation would tell their children, “Don’t eat shiitake mushrooms or bamboo shoots if they are in your school lunches.” If the children put those things aside from their plates, teachers would come over and say, “Eat them!” and they force the children to eat them. Is this scary or what, everyone?
and would marginalize what they're attempting to do with Skype.
Why?
Skype is the market and mindset leader in online voice and video communication right now. Microsoft is trying to leverage that market presence to get their own web communication standard adopted, whether officially or as a defacto.
If they manage it, they'll be able to block out competitors, particularly free ones like Mozilla and Linux, who aren't able to pay a per-client licensing fee.
So tell me, is your claim bullshit or are they building a mountain of contaminated material?
Not unless they freeze it and stack up the blocks. You missed the "soil, sludge, and groundwater".
In practice, they're drying the sludge and disposing of low-level radioactive waste by spraying it on 9,000 acres of company-owned grazing land.
In 1999, a total of 5.53 million gallons (20.9 million litres) of ammonium nitrate fertilizer was applied to 80 acres (32 hectares) of a control plot which is located within the facility boundary. Forage samples collected from the first cutting had excess molybdenum concentrations of 47 mg/kg, while the caution level is 20 mg/kg. (Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizer Application Program, 1999 Completion Report, Sequoyah Fuels Corporation, April 28, 2000)
In 2006, a total of 7.4 million gallons (28 million litres) of ammonium nitrate fertilizer was applied. The forage sample collected for the first cutting during 2006 had elevated molybdenum concentrations of 53.8 mg/kg. SFC determined that use of the hay should be restricted. (Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizer Application Program, 2006 Completion Report, Sequoyah Fuels Corporation, April 25, 2007)
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I suppose a workable alternative is to beat your face repeatedly on the desktop.
Or do what everyone sensible does:
Why I’m uninstalling Windows 8
As a cruel trick on myself, about a month ago I installed Windows 8 on my main PC to see what it was like.
The answer is: abysmal.
I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that Windows 8 is the worst computing experience I’ve ever had. As a desktop operating system, it’s annoying, frustrating, irritating, and baffling to use. I’ve tried on many occasions to explain exactly why it’s so awful to use day-to-day, and most of the time, smoke starts pouring out of my ears. I thought it would be better to get down exactly what the issues are and why you should avoid it.
http://www.pcgamesn.com/article/why-i-m-uninstalling-windows-8
It's astonishing how badly Microsoft has implimented this. For a long time I thought they were playing one of their "Queen's Duck" marketing tricks, and with a fanfare and a "We listen to our customers" comment, would switch to a sensible, if bland, UI at the last moment.
They didn't.
Pretty, but real men prefer the meg-1x .
Exactly.
There's no shortage of 4g capable Android phones and tablets. Samsung devices (Galaxy SII, SIII etc) are all 4g multi-region capable, as are most recent phones from other vendors.
Who cares if Apple can't get their act together with a multi-region chipset?
So why is downloaded software marked up by similar or greater amounts?
And how come I can get a camera from the US cheaper than a vendor who would presumably have access to cheaper shipping than individuals?
1. It would NOT collapse. All those computers would not suddenly stop working.
That's (possibly) true for now, but the path being trodden by Microsoft and Apple means its likely they will be or are building their OSs with remote kill switches - call it WGA+. Add that to the proliferation of rented services, cloud and otherwise and the world might find its infrastructure held to ransom
If there's any significant prosecution: Sorry, services withdrawn...
We have those issues all the time here in Denver.
The closest study from Denver I could find suggests "The incidence of thyroid nodules in children before the onset of puberty is less than two percent" as opposed to the 36% of children from Fukishima affected.
After confirming the validity of the report, Caldicott (pediatrician) reinforced the alarming nature of the findings:
1. "It is extremely rare to find cysts and thyroid nodules in children."
2. "This is an extremely large number of abnormalities to find in children."
3. "You would not expect abnormalities to appear so early — within the first year or so — therefore one can assume that they must have received a high dose of [radiation]."
4. "It is impossible to know, from what [officials in Japan] are saying, what these lesions are."
http://www.jmedicalcasereports.com/content/1/1/29
It doesn't help when the industry involved refuses to collect real data and has massive social media presence dismissive of real evidence.
Children in Fukushima are just getting lymph abnormalities and diabetes. That's why nuclear Pollyannas are talking about "natural background in Denver".
We do have hotspots in Tokyo Metropolitan Area that have led to these physiological disorders — some of the disorders that have been observed are as shown here. Things like diarrhea, nasal bleeding, headache, eczema and so forth. We are expecting thyroid disorders in children, but also cancers (bladder, leukemia, lung), diabetes.”
http://midnightwatcher.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/japan-physician-radiation-levels-are-4000-higher-than-reported-by-the-japanese-government-radiation-already-causing-health-problems-around-tokyo/
http://www.businessinsider.com/fukushima-children-have-abnormal-thyroid-growths-2012-7
Hopefully the pies that hit Oracle's lawyers will have hand grenades in them.
Fire one at the submitter and "editor" of TFA. That's a deceptive headline.
Oracle was forced to acknowledge paying Florian Mueller, and also stated:
"Certain Oracle employees may have blogged about issues relating to the case. See, e.g., https://blogs.oracle.com/hinkmond/ (blogging about Java ME). Oracle did not ask or approve any of its employees to write about the case and does not track employee bloggers."
Note that Oracle's Social Media policy contradicts the statement:
Make Sure Your Management Approves
Please be aware that Oracle may choose to restrict social media activities that relate to your employment or Oracle’s business.
Remember that you are not an official spokesperson for Oracle. Make it clear that your opinions are your own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the corporation. See Policy Regarding Communications with Press and Analysts.
For this reason, Oracle employees with personal blogs that discuss Oracle’s business, products, employees, customers, partners, or competitors should include the following disclaimer in a visually prominent place on their blog:
"The views expressed on this [blog; Web site] are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Oracle."
By contrast, this is Google's statement:
“Our reply to the court is clear,” Google said, “no one on our side paid journalists, bloggers, or other commentators to write about this case.”
Lots of other sites are running reviews including: Infoworld, CNET, Computerworld, and Gizmodo, with very mixed opinions.
You mean they're mixing the real opinions with the bought ones?
Windows phones will not be bundled with network deals and to this point they do not have enough features for people to want to buy them outright instead of on a plan.
That's only in the US.
You can get them on a plan here, but nobody does. They don't bring anything to the table except an odd kindergarten-corporate interface, and that's not a good enticement to waste money on.
Or you could compare it to something similar:
The original University of Queensland's HyShot hypersonic tests were done for less than $2 million. Even better well-funded followup flights were around $4.5 million.
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2004/s1127540.htm
There are some theories... http://deathrock.org/content/159-oglaf-fountain-of-death
Melons are fine, but whatever you do, don't grow touch-sensitive Apples.
You'll be sued into oblivion.
Here in Australia virtually every phone is locked to the carrier you get it from and the carriers do everything they can to get exclusive rights to particular models.
I'm in Australia, and only a few pre-paid mobiles are SIM-locked, as far as I'm aware. I routinely use phones and SIMs from Telstra and Optus interchangeably. Even for the pre-paid phones, I believe current trade pratcices laws mean carriers have to unlock phones at the end of the contract period.
The $199 in the US is a price to buy, contingent on staying on a contract. It's much the same as our monthly plans here, but with the addition of an up-front fee, and the requirement to pay for calls received as well.
How much are MySpace and Digg worth now?
I have one in my hands right now. It's a reasonable machine, certainly usable for web browsing, Facebook, email, Skype etc. Pretty much what most people use their computers for.
No, but if they make a nice dramatic price drop, it might do the trick.
This is what kind of tablet $41 buys you right now in China:
7" 1.2GHz Allwinner A13 Q88 tablet, 5 point capacitive Screen, Android 4.0, 512MB RAM, 4GB Storage, Webcam, Wifi
http://www.aliexpress.com/product-fm/611000195-7-Allwinner-A13-Q88-tablet-pc-5-point-capacitive-Screen-android-4-0-Multi-Touch-1-wholesalers.html
How much margin do you think there'd be for Windows OS on hardware like that?
Why is this being moderated Troll?
This is exactly what Microsoft do. They have always tried to make subtle incompatibilities for competitors products.
Java, Secure Boot, OOXML, H264, their ACPI trickery, Mono/Silverlight and so on ad nauseum.
Even Microsoft knows they're an unreliable business partner. This is from their SEC filing: "...our Surface devices will compete with products made by our OEM partners, which may affect their commitment to our platform." "Users may increasingly turn to these [mobile] devices to perform functions that would have been performed by personal computers in the past," "Even if many users view these devices as complementary to a personal computer, the prevalence of these devices may make it more difficult to attract applications developers to our platforms."
Stories, including this one, have links to sources.
There, I've clicked one for you:
1) Thyroid cysts found in 35% of Fukushima children examined with an average age of 10.
Thyroid examinations of Fukushima children have been implemented as part of the “Fukushima Prefecture Health Management Survey” to monitor the health effects of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant nuclear accident. The results of the thyroid examinations released on April 26, 2012 are summarized here.
http://www.pref.fukushima.jp/imu/kenkoukanri/240125shiryou.pdf
This is interesting too:
"There was a huge earthquake on March 11, and the nuclear accident began that day. On March 20, Fukushima prefecture welcomed a person called Shunichi Yamashita from Nagasaki University as a Radiation Health Risk Management Advisor. The next day Yamashita began a campaign to “declare safety.” Then in April, Kenji Kamiya from Hiroshima University and Noboru Takamura from Hiroshima University joined him as Radiation Health Risk Management Advisors. These three men kept repeating that radiation levels less than 100 mSv were safe, forcing children to be exposed to radiation. They have been criticized by the whole nation about this, and I would really like to clarify if this is a crime or not.
In Fukushima prefecture, fathers and mothers who have higher awareness about radiation would tell their children, “Don’t eat shiitake mushrooms or bamboo shoots if they are in your school lunches.” If the children put those things aside from their plates, teachers would come over and say, “Eat them!” and they force the children to eat them. Is this scary or what, everyone?
Takashi Hirose
Silverlight is dead. Microsofties have even been told not to talk about it.
why would microsoft want skype to talk to any other software other than skype?
They're trying to build it into their web client.
and would marginalize what they're attempting to do with Skype.
Why?
Skype is the market and mindset leader in online voice and video communication right now. Microsoft is trying to leverage that market presence to get their own web communication standard adopted, whether officially or as a defacto.
If they manage it, they'll be able to block out competitors, particularly free ones like Mozilla and Linux, who aren't able to pay a per-client licensing fee.
https://www.google.com/search?q=widespread+thyroid+cysts+in+children
As of now, it's a slang phrase for a Microsoft proxy.
So tell me, is your claim bullshit or are they building a mountain of contaminated material?
Not unless they freeze it and stack up the blocks. You missed the "soil, sludge, and groundwater".
In practice, they're drying the sludge and disposing of low-level radioactive waste by spraying it on 9,000 acres of company-owned grazing land.
In 1999, a total of 5.53 million gallons (20.9 million litres) of ammonium nitrate fertilizer was applied to 80 acres (32 hectares) of a control plot which is located within the facility boundary. Forage samples collected from the first cutting had excess molybdenum concentrations of 47 mg/kg, while the caution level is 20 mg/kg. (Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizer Application Program, 1999 Completion Report, Sequoyah Fuels Corporation, April 28, 2000)
In 2006, a total of 7.4 million gallons (28 million litres) of ammonium nitrate fertilizer was applied. The forage sample collected for the first cutting during 2006 had elevated molybdenum concentrations of 53.8 mg/kg. SFC determined that use of the hay should be restricted. (Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizer Application Program, 2006 Completion Report, Sequoyah Fuels Corporation, April 25, 2007)