Seriously, how many people are going to switch to Linux over this? Nobody.
Except a whole bunch of OEMs who used to be staunch Microsoft partners.
"HP shows off 21-inch all-in-one Android desktop PC makers are experimenting with Android given that Microsoft's Windows 8 devices have struggled to attract consumers"
CoolShip,an android desktop computer that looks like a keyboard CoolShip has a 1.5Ghz dualcore ARM processor inside.It is a low cost home PC,PC for elderly and children,also a solution of hotel PC for guests,educational PC.
Acer shows 21-inch Android desktop Taiwan's Acer is breaking Android out of its comfort zone and has installed the operating system on a 21.5-inch all-in-one desktop PC that is expected on sale in the U.S. later this year.
Not a chance. I'm really enjoying the innovation and competition that's coming our way now the Windows monopoly's tumbling. Can't wait until Office is usurped as well!
Actually I travel to East Timor (Dili) quite frequently, and since I know that Darwin airport has tag-readers, I can say quite confidently that the nearest reader would be no more than 450 miles away.
Or maybe not you, but most people who just want to get on with using their computers instead of tinkering with them.
Android invades the desktop
Summary: Computer makers are suddenly obsessed with putting a smartphone operating system on PCs. Here’s why it may not be such a crazy idea. John Morris
Microsoft has spent a lot of time and effort trying to get Windows onto smartphones and tablets--so far without a whole lot to show for it. Now several PC companies are trying the opposite approach, taking the Android operating system and porting it to PCs.
Lets's face it, whether Slashdot likes MS or not is irrelevant.
What's important is that customers hate most of Microsoft's recent ventures. Surface is dead in the water. WP8 phones are being price-dumped in every market they're sold in, Bing survives solely on Corps who set it as default, Windows use is dropping more than 10% every year.
This is a company that does not produce products people want any more.
Microsoft can sell all kinds of stuff after using this as a promotional tool.
It doesn't look like they'll be making money any time soon.
"Microsoft To Start Dumping Surface RT To Schools
It’s fair to say that Microsoft’s Surface didn’t get the reception the company was hoping for. The tablet debuted last October and tanked shortly thereafter, thanks to an overly ambitious price point, poor software selection, and the myriad issues surrounding Windows 8. "
About a year after Facebook reportedly joined PRISM, Max Kelly, the social network's chief security officer left for a job at the National Security Agency,
That way the madness doesn't start. Or if you have already installed it, you could, just maybe, uninstall it?
Qantas wants frequent flyers to install a toolbar on their web browser that records their internet searches and web browsing activity for "marketing targeted and relevant products, services and offers".
In return for surrendering personal search data, which Qantas will tie to its customers' frequent flyer membership, it plans to award users up to 150 Qantas frequent flyer points a month.
Nah, that's not why. They're following in the footsteps of ARM - license out your key strengths to strategic partners, and you're sure to succeed.
Right?!?
FTFY.
]t's not practical to build silicon or systems to address every part of the expanding market.
citing the 'explosion of Android devices' as one of the prime reasons for this decision.
'This opportunity simply didn't exist several years ago because there was really just one computing device – the PC. But the swirling universe of new computing devices provides new opportunities to license our GPU core or visual computing portfolio.'
So breaking a long-held monopoly and opening a market to competition has lead to vastly increased opportunity and innovation. Gee, who'd have thought it?
Actually the English spoken in the US is much closer to the "original", meaning the common dialect spoken on both sides of the Atlantic in the Colonial Era.
This is a furphy. There was no "original" English in the colonial era, there were dozens, possily hundreds of them. How you spoke depended on which part of England (or Ireland, Scotland, Wales etc) you came from.
American English (and modern "English" English, for that matter) is a homogenised version of all the contributing dialects and accents, as most modern languages are.
That's part of the problem with massive caches of data -- it's hard to secure.
There was no intention to secure the data. Each country's intelligence service shares with their counterparts so they have plausible deniability regarding spying on their own citizens.
The Brits can say they got info from the Americans or Australians NZ, etc and vice versa.
These people in their surveillance communities have far more in common with each other, and more loyalty to each other than to the nations that hire them.
iPads and androids I won't because they really are just large screen cellphones,
Then you'd be making a mistake.
The Asus Transformer range showed that Android was excellent as a convertible netbook/mini notebook. Now Acer is releasing a full-sized ( 21.5-inch) Android All-in-One pc, and there's rumours of many more in the pipeline. http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/24/acer-Smart%20Display-DA220HQL-hands-on/
There's still gaps in applications and perpiherals that'll keep some businesses on Wintel for a little longer. Unless MS can pull something a LOT better than W8 out of it's hat, though, I'd say the trickle will very quickly become a landslide.
Very true. I think it should be important to anyone who's concerned about the future of computing and the future generally, but a 14 year old is just starting their life. They'll have a lot longer to look forward to than the old, jaded people who're running Microsoft and Prism.
If I was 14 again, I'd sure as hell be hunting around frantically looking for a way out of this cage. And I'd sure as hell not be using any Microsoft products.
That silly light sensor is connected to a box filled with highly complex AI developed by some of the brightest minds in software development, all bent to s single purpose: Killing people.
Oh sure, it's all virtual NOW, and all for fun NOW, but how long until someone at MRDS "borrows" some Bungie AI code and pastes the wrong bit?
Sure, we'll have a cadre of highly trained specialists with a long history of beating these bots, but they're all flabby and basement-tanned. They'll tire even faster than the batteries on the bots' Surface Pro-powered brains! Cancel your credit-card payments now, or we're all lost!
As for this specific case? As somebody who works on systems 6 days a week? Yeah...smells like he has an infection.
I doubt it. You're just too used to Windows.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority's statistics breakdown shows of about infected 16,500 devices online at any one time, 20 Windows viruses make up more than 16,400 of the active IPs. Rarer Windows viruses, and Mac, iOS, Linux and Android infections all total less than 100 infections.
If the OP's computer IS actually compromised, it's far more likely to be a targeted attack or insider job than a random infection. My money's on a friend, family or associate with access to the machine.
no matter what they do with their money they will keep losing market share if they keep making stupid decisions.
Even if they make good decisions, they'll still lose market share. Their problem isn't that they're getting stupid, it's that everyone else is getting smart.
Phones like the HTC One are beautifully made and elegantly designed. Jelly Bean is slick, comfortable and easy to use. Other manufacturers are leapfrogging a long way past Apple's current standards, and doing it at a lower cost. Look at Lenovo's latest:
The [Lenovo K900] sports a 5.5-inch display with a 1080 x 1920p resolution with a pixel density of 400ppi. Lenovo K900 is powered by the latest Intel Atom Clover Trail+ processor clocked at 2 GHz, alongside 2 GB of RAM. Furthermore, the device comes with a 13 megapixel Sony Exmor BSI rear camera and a 2 megapixel front-facing shooter.
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Seriously, how many people are going to switch to Linux over this? Nobody.
Except a whole bunch of OEMs who used to be staunch Microsoft partners.
"HP shows off 21-inch all-in-one Android desktop
PC makers are experimenting with Android given that Microsoft's Windows 8 devices have struggled to attract consumers"
http://www.infoworld.com/d/computer-hardware/update-hp-shows-21-inch-all-in-one-android-desktop-221316
CoolShip,an android desktop computer that looks like a keyboard
CoolShip has a 1.5Ghz dualcore ARM processor inside.It is a low cost home PC,PC for elderly and children,also a solution of hotel PC for guests,educational PC.
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/coolship-an-android-desktop-computer-that-looks-like-a-keyboard
Acer shows 21-inch Android desktop
Taiwan's Acer is breaking Android out of its comfort zone and has installed the operating system on a 21.5-inch all-in-one desktop PC that is expected on sale in the U.S. later this year.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2040886/acer-shows-21inch-android-desktop.html
Get used to it.
Not a chance. I'm really enjoying the innovation and competition that's coming our way now the Windows monopoly's tumbling. Can't wait until Office is usurped as well!
Actually I travel to East Timor (Dili) quite frequently, and since I know that Darwin airport has tag-readers, I can say quite confidently that the nearest reader would be no more than 450 miles away.
"Yes, I work in an Airport."
You may work in an airport, but your appeal to authority is not helping you now. Parent AC is right.
The Q Bag Tag is a permanent electronic bag tag designed to facilitate a faster and easier baggage check-in at domestic airports.*
There's no longer a need to attach a temporary bag tag each time you fly domestically - just drop your bags and go.
http://www.qantas.com.au/travel/airlines/q-bag-tag/global/en
They work fine, I've been using them for the past year or so.
Yes...
And incidentally, does the OS release kill the cat just as well as a particle?
Well, correlation ain't causation, but I haven't seen any pussy since I started using it.
Quietly, suppliers start selling direct to customers to make more money.
Samsung was making and selling phones long before Apple employed them to make iPhones.
You will soon though.
Or maybe not you, but most people who just want to get on with using their computers instead of tinkering with them.
Android invades the desktop
Summary: Computer makers are suddenly obsessed with putting a smartphone operating system on PCs. Here’s why it may not be such a crazy idea.
John Morris
Microsoft has spent a lot of time and effort trying to get Windows onto smartphones and tablets--so far without a whole lot to show for it. Now several PC companies are trying the opposite approach, taking the Android operating system and porting it to PCs.
http://www.zdnet.com/android-invades-the-desktop-7000017286/
Xbox 360 sold over 44 million units.
So less than a month of Android sales?
Lets's face it, whether Slashdot likes MS or not is irrelevant.
What's important is that customers hate most of Microsoft's recent ventures. Surface is dead in the water. WP8 phones are being price-dumped in every market they're sold in, Bing survives solely on Corps who set it as default, Windows use is dropping more than 10% every year.
This is a company that does not produce products people want any more.
Why would their game console be any different?
Microsoft can sell all kinds of stuff after using this as a promotional tool.
It doesn't look like they'll be making money any time soon.
"Microsoft To Start Dumping Surface RT To Schools
It’s fair to say that Microsoft’s Surface didn’t get the reception the company was hoping for. The tablet debuted last October and tanked shortly thereafter, thanks to an overly ambitious price point, poor software selection, and the myriad issues surrounding Windows 8. "
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/159034-microsoft-unloading-surface-rt-units-at-199-offering-schools-major-discount
Those poor schoolkids - first they get Surface RTs dumped on them, now Bing? Microsoft should be prosecuted for child abuse!
I've seen her on TV. I think she stars in some kind of "Judge Judy" style sitcom/reality show.
It doesn't seem very funny, but then again I've never really got American humour.
Very little doubt about that.
About a year after Facebook reportedly joined PRISM, Max Kelly, the social network's chief security officer left for a job at the National Security Agency,
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2013/06/facebooks-former-security-chief-now-works-nsa/66432/
The madness must stop.
Have you considered not installing the toolbar?
That way the madness doesn't start. Or if you have already installed it, you could, just maybe, uninstall it?
Qantas wants frequent flyers to install a toolbar on their web browser that records their internet searches and web browsing activity for "marketing targeted and relevant products, services and offers".
In return for surrendering personal search data, which Qantas will tie to its customers' frequent flyer membership, it plans to award users up to 150 Qantas frequent flyer points a month.
http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/consumer-security/qantas-toolbar-to-monitor-your-web-activity-20130621-2omfa.html
Nah, that's not why. They're following in the footsteps of ARM - license out your key strengths to strategic partners, and you're sure to succeed.
Right?!?
FTFY.
]t's not practical to build silicon or systems to address every part of the expanding market.
citing the 'explosion of Android devices' as one of the prime reasons for this decision.
'This opportunity simply didn't exist several years ago because there was really just one computing device – the PC. But the swirling universe of new computing devices provides new opportunities to license our GPU core or visual computing portfolio.'
So breaking a long-held monopoly and opening a market to competition has lead to vastly increased opportunity and innovation. Gee, who'd have thought it?
Actually the English spoken in the US is much closer to the "original", meaning the common dialect spoken on both sides of the Atlantic in the Colonial Era.
This is a furphy. There was no "original" English in the colonial era, there were dozens, possily hundreds of them. How you spoke depended on which part of England (or Ireland, Scotland, Wales etc) you came from.
American English (and modern "English" English, for that matter) is a homogenised version of all the contributing dialects and accents, as most modern languages are.
That's part of the problem with massive caches of data -- it's hard to secure.
There was no intention to secure the data. Each country's intelligence service shares with their counterparts so they have plausible deniability regarding spying on their own citizens.
The Brits can say they got info from the Americans or Australians NZ, etc and vice versa.
These people in their surveillance communities have far more in common with each other, and more loyalty to each other than to the nations that hire them.
More than that, this hack only takes a few minutes to do. TFA links to an advert-ridden blog, but Tom's own page has more details
http://tomantosfilms.com/?p=474
It's basically a model helicopter gimbal velcroed to an ordinary camera shoulder mount. Clever, and unchallenging to build.
iPads and androids I won't because they really are just large screen cellphones,
Then you'd be making a mistake.
The Asus Transformer range showed that Android was excellent as a convertible netbook/mini notebook. Now Acer is releasing a full-sized ( 21.5-inch) Android All-in-One pc, and there's rumours of many more in the pipeline. http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/24/acer-Smart%20Display-DA220HQL-hands-on/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57581500-92/android-notebooks-yep-intel-says-and-theyll-only-cost-$200/
http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/14/motorola-mobility-launches-hmc3260-cloud-streamer/
There's still gaps in applications and perpiherals that'll keep some businesses on Wintel for a little longer. Unless MS can pull something a LOT better than W8 out of it's hat, though, I'd say the trickle will very quickly become a landslide.
This is important.
To 14-year-olds everywhere!
Very true. I think it should be important to anyone who's concerned about the future of computing and the future generally, but a 14 year old is just starting their life. They'll have a lot longer to look forward to than the old, jaded people who're running Microsoft and Prism.
If I was 14 again, I'd sure as hell be hunting around frantically looking for a way out of this cage. And I'd sure as hell not be using any Microsoft products.
Thanks for the tip on the Odroid-U2, that looks interesting. I'll check it out for sure.
But this UDOO board sounds like it's for me, not you...
I'm currently experimenting with IOIO boards and Android phones/tablets, so something like this would be a nice option.
But DOSBox is itself an application and does not have to output the same stream as the applications it contains.
Not a silly light sensor.
That silly light sensor is connected to a box filled with highly complex AI developed by some of the brightest minds in software development, all bent to s single purpose: Killing people.
Oh sure, it's all virtual NOW, and all for fun NOW, but how long until someone at MRDS "borrows" some Bungie AI code and pastes the wrong bit?
Sure, we'll have a cadre of highly trained specialists with a long history of beating these bots, but they're all flabby and basement-tanned. They'll tire even faster than the batteries on the bots' Surface Pro-powered brains! Cancel your credit-card payments now, or we're all lost!
As for this specific case? As somebody who works on systems 6 days a week? Yeah...smells like he has an infection.
I doubt it. You're just too used to Windows.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority's statistics breakdown shows of about infected 16,500 devices online at any one time, 20 Windows viruses make up more than 16,400 of the active IPs. Rarer Windows viruses, and Mac, iOS, Linux and Android infections all total less than 100 infections.
http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD..PC/pc=PC_600121
If the OP's computer IS actually compromised, it's far more likely to be a targeted attack or insider job than a random infection. My money's on a friend, family or associate with access to the machine.
Marvin? Is that you?
no matter what they do with their money they will keep losing market share if they keep making stupid decisions.
Even if they make good decisions, they'll still lose market share. Their problem isn't that they're getting stupid, it's that everyone else is getting smart.
Phones like the HTC One are beautifully made and elegantly designed. Jelly Bean is slick, comfortable and easy to use. Other manufacturers are leapfrogging a long way past Apple's current standards, and doing it at a lower cost. Look at Lenovo's latest:
The [Lenovo K900] sports a 5.5-inch display with a 1080 x 1920p resolution with a pixel density of 400ppi. Lenovo K900 is powered by the latest Intel Atom Clover Trail+ processor clocked at 2 GHz, alongside 2 GB of RAM. Furthermore, the device comes with a 13 megapixel Sony Exmor BSI rear camera and a 2 megapixel front-facing shooter.
http://www.gsmarena.com/lenovo_k900_now_available_in_china_priced_at_536-news-6062.php