Please travel more. In my state clothing and prepared foods are taxed. Rent would include property tax, since that has to be paid by the landlord. Sales tax on cars here is the same as every other item.
Fair tax is a simple scheme to move taxation to the middle class. The rich would benefit greatly at my expense.
That hot coffee lawsuit was not frivolous. This is an urban legend, they had been cited many times since it was too hot to safely drink. She suffered serious burns and required skin grafts.
Personal health insurance mandates are personal responsibility. You not having insurance and using the ER then skipping on the bill costs me and other insured folks money.
Unemployment does not last forever, and employed folks are paying for it. I sure as hell expect to be able to collect from an insurance policy I buy.
RageAgainsttheCage was one it, used an adb setuid exhaustion attack, and there was a udev exploit. These were patched in AOSP a long time ago, but some devices never got updates that closed these holes.
The android app store keeps these things from being put in apps from there, but nothing stops them from ending up in alternative (read pirate) app stores.
Sure the fact that most people never enable third party apps and stick to the google store keeps them mostly safe. It simply would be better to go ahead and patch the devices as well.
Any APK could contain one and use that to do anything it likes. The only trick would be getting users to install it. Which for most users just means telling them their is a shiny bunny or sexy woman in the application.
I think Microsoft has a tablet product that does run those programs. No one really uses it though.
The point I was trying to make that you keep avoiding is that there is no line between tablet and computer. A tablet is a kind of computer and a normal PC can be used basically the same way as a tablet. For me the best part of that form factor is taking one machine everywhere. Ideally my smartphone would dock and be able to use my normal set of peripherals, then when I go to a meeting become a laptop by docking, and then when I go out to dinner and need driving directions I can just use it as it.
So the mere risk of something bad happening means you have to give up control to someone else? It's almost like personal responsibility is totally dead!
I more meant for vulnerabilities in the phones non-writeable partitions./system is normally mounted read only. So if you need to patch something more basic to the OS, I would assume a carrier would be standing in the way.
1. People seem to not care. This is why I only buy Nexus devices though. 2. Totally correct.
I wish google would use their leverage over the android trademarks, not the software, to force updates for X amount of time and a longer amount of time for security patches. The real issue here is the whole carrier model. If you bought your PC from your ISP and they provided all the software for it you would be in the same boat there.
I have a non-factory OS, I have a chroot and a nice terminal to use it with. I can install any software I like, since you know I installed the whole damn OS.
Some of use even have smartphone, multiple tablets, laptops and more than 1 PC. As it turns out the total cost for all this stuff is pretty amazingly low and it fits in pretty small part of the average human dwelling.
What else did I miss? You can use a mouse and keyboard over bluetooth, how is this much different than any other PC?
Android is now reinventing Desktop environments, they are all the way up to Tiling window managers! Next comes overlapping windows and then full compositing.
You forgot consoles. They are so woefully underpowered right now compared to desktop computers that it limits games since no big budget games will go PC only. The PS4 and and Xbone are not exactly sporting impressive specs either. I was pretty let down when their specs came out. You can be sure they will be around at least as long as the current generation, so that will stagnate gaming pretty seriously on the performance side of things.
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Please travel more.
In my state clothing and prepared foods are taxed. Rent would include property tax, since that has to be paid by the landlord. Sales tax on cars here is the same as every other item.
Fair tax is a simple scheme to move taxation to the middle class. The rich would benefit greatly at my expense.
I think the point was to meet the parameters of the contest. Why does this need to have any other application?
A proper helicopter can autorotate.
How is that not flying?
Go check out XenApp, they don't have to run it locally. With fast enough networks the latency is simply trivial.
960x540 has not been an acceptable phone nor tablet resolution for a quite a while.
That hot coffee lawsuit was not frivolous. This is an urban legend, they had been cited many times since it was too hot to safely drink. She suffered serious burns and required skin grafts.
Personal health insurance mandates are personal responsibility. You not having insurance and using the ER then skipping on the bill costs me and other insured folks money.
Unemployment does not last forever, and employed folks are paying for it. I sure as hell expect to be able to collect from an insurance policy I buy.
You are basing this on what exactly?
What OS version are you running?
Which is why you can add a mouse and keyboard to them.
There are already devices that ship with them. Even some that dock a smartphone.
RageAgainsttheCage was one it, used an adb setuid exhaustion attack, and there was a udev exploit. These were patched in AOSP a long time ago, but some devices never got updates that closed these holes.
The android app store keeps these things from being put in apps from there, but nothing stops them from ending up in alternative (read pirate) app stores.
Sure the fact that most people never enable third party apps and stick to the google store keeps them mostly safe. It simply would be better to go ahead and patch the devices as well.
That would be a big one too.
A nice cheap SSD + graphics card and you are looking at $150 and what to most users will be like a new computer.
What do you think root exploits often are?
Any APK could contain one and use that to do anything it likes. The only trick would be getting users to install it. Which for most users just means telling them their is a shiny bunny or sexy woman in the application.
Ballmer wants this 'one company' approach to extend how Microsoft handles its advertising, marketing and consumer-service operations.
Ballmer showing what parts of the company he thinks are important is what this looks like to me.
I rag on MS a ton, sometimes unfairly, but even they don't deserve to be stuck with Ballmer.
How so?
BSD could be ported, and likely already is.
What you means is because iOS and Windows are closed I can't run them. To which I say good riddance.
I think Microsoft has a tablet product that does run those programs. No one really uses it though.
The point I was trying to make that you keep avoiding is that there is no line between tablet and computer. A tablet is a kind of computer and a normal PC can be used basically the same way as a tablet. For me the best part of that form factor is taking one machine everywhere. Ideally my smartphone would dock and be able to use my normal set of peripherals, then when I go to a meeting become a laptop by docking, and then when I go out to dinner and need driving directions I can just use it as it.
So the mere risk of something bad happening means you have to give up control to someone else? It's almost like personal responsibility is totally dead!
I more meant for vulnerabilities in the phones non-writeable partitions. /system is normally mounted read only. So if you need to patch something more basic to the OS, I would assume a carrier would be standing in the way.
You really should look more into the wonders of bluetooth.
Mice, headphones, speakers, all kinds of fun stuff. You can even get some pretty massive tablets with great screen resolution.
1. People seem to not care. This is why I only buy Nexus devices though.
2. Totally correct.
I wish google would use their leverage over the android trademarks, not the software, to force updates for X amount of time and a longer amount of time for security patches. The real issue here is the whole carrier model. If you bought your PC from your ISP and they provided all the software for it you would be in the same boat there.
What vendor lockin do I have on my Nexus devices?
I have a non-factory OS, I have a chroot and a nice terminal to use it with. I can install any software I like, since you know I installed the whole damn OS.
Some of use even have smartphone, multiple tablets, laptops and more than 1 PC. As it turns out the total cost for all this stuff is pretty amazingly low and it fits in pretty small part of the average human dwelling.
Get an SSD.
Dropping an SSD into a 4 year old machine will make a bigger difference than getting a new CPU for 90% of people.
Works fine for me.
Heck, it saves a lot of screen real-estate if you turn off the onscreen one.
Android is reinventing window management, they are up to tiling and this rate we may have full compositing in a couple years.
What else did I miss?
You can use a mouse and keyboard over bluetooth, how is this much different than any other PC?
Android is now reinventing Desktop environments, they are all the way up to Tiling window managers!
Next comes overlapping windows and then full compositing.
You forgot consoles. They are so woefully underpowered right now compared to desktop computers that it limits games since no big budget games will go PC only. The PS4 and and Xbone are not exactly sporting impressive specs either. I was pretty let down when their specs came out. You can be sure they will be around at least as long as the current generation, so that will stagnate gaming pretty seriously on the performance side of things.
Fun fact, you can use a keyboard with a tablet that has a touch screen. You really should look into the wonders of bluetooth.
84" is not that large for a wall, and you will only need to sit a few feet away. I think you are crazy.