I'm just wondering why he's using a $99 AppleTV and pushing the video over a network, rather than cabling up with HDMI and a $40 adapter (which is still too expensive.)
There's other Windows tablets of roughly the same form factor out there, they just don't have Windows 8 on them yet. That can be remedied.
It's entirely possible that he's put the Win8 preview on a Samsung atom-based tablet in order to try it out, and that's the experience he's speaking of.
Clearly you don't understand the difference between an airport, where you maybe have 100 radios at maximum within distance of your antenna, and having over 5000 radios active in the Moscone West theater.
The first commercial break I can't fast forward through, will be the commercial break I use to call Time Warner and inform them that they are fired, and that they need to come pack up their shitty DVR and GTFO.
Seriously, their DVR is practically unusable as it is. This new "feature" will completely defeat the purpose of using it versus using some antique like a VCR.
Yep, [endpoint management] sounds just great. I can cough up a pile of money for buggy software full of security holes, learn a new and non-intuitive interface, trust that [Microsoft] is suddenly going to reform its ways for no discernible reason and NOT send out untested updates, allow our users to deposit proprietary and confidential data on someone else's server or else break all of our folder permissions to allow the [laptops] to save to the network, and essentially abandon the prove Active Directory/Group Policy security model. Gee, can't wait to get started!
You see what I did there? This is different from a PC how? Microsoft SCCM, Altiris / Symantec Management, Novell ZenWorks, etc. all have the exact same issues you're citing above, and you won't find a large enterprise that isn't running some form of endpoint management today.
I don't know why you expect everything to miraculously get better just because it's a tablet.
3) Terrible to administer in the enterprise - iPads sync to only one computer. iPad storage cannot be backed up & mirrored. Apps and iOS updates must be done one-at-a-time. Apps / software must be Apple-approved and Apple-distributed. iPads were not built for the enterprise, and the enterprise has had to bend over backwards for Apple just to make the iPad work for their business.
Clearly, someone has never looked into the MDM solutions that are available for iPad, nor the ability to sign your own apps and distribute them to your MDM-deployed iDevices without Apple saying a peep about it.
Neither does anyone else, which is why the forthcoming release of Mountain Lion, for the most part, has a UI that isn't appreciably different from the Mac OS X of 10 years ago.
Sure, there's the Launchpad thing which is kinda iOS-esque, but it's an application that you can ignore, rather than it being shoved down your throat like Metro.
The US Navy (and the Marines along with them) are covered by a DOD directive which aligns with Posse Comitatus. However, it's self-regulation and could be rescinded at any time, with massive political backlash.
Actually, that only effects certain branches of the military. Read the Posse Comitatus Act. It directly affects the Army and Air Force, but doesn't restrict Navy (Marines), Coast Guard (who have a law enforcement directive to begin with) or National Guard. The Navy is self-regulated by a DOD directive, which could be retracted at any time.
Oh, and it doesn't deny the ability to use federal troops for law enforcement, it only requires Congressional approval; which if you look at how the authorization of force in Iraq went, doesn't mean much.
Yeah, I hate it when they land those drones on my couch, and don't let me move them. Makes my dog angry too since she can't nap there anymore, and she doesn't even have inalienable human rights. Where's the canine rights?!
No wait, the 3rd amendment doesn't apply, and you're a fucking idiot who enforces the conservative stereotype.
Oh, and "this is the kind of fascism you get when you elect a socialist" is an awesome statement, since fascism and socialism are polar opposites...
How? By doing what they've done for 30 years - making hardware and software actually work together without massive end-user hassle. They don't invent ground breaking technologies (for the most part, there have been a few exceptions), but they make available technologies actually useable.
Turns out that there's a shedload of money in doing that.
Discrimination is a civil action, and only if it runs afoul of anti-discrimination law; such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which explicitly names religion, race, sex, nationality, and color. There are other laws, but that's the big one.
And what the article (and you) miss, is that you are not compelled by anything to actually install those updates, other than the "update" button in iTunes, or general settings as of iOS 5.
Don't want it to break due to a future update? Don't install any future updates.
Wouldn't any increase in legitimacy be a boost? I mean, when you have zero legitimacy to begin with, having even the smallest of rounding errors that usually falls into the noise defined by calculus's Theory of Limits would be a "boost."
Especially since the subcontractors that actually made the important bits inside of a Saturn V (Rocketdyne, Boeing, Northrup Grumman, Lockheed) are still around, and probably still have their plans for those bits. Maybe even newer versions of those bits that work on better cheaper stuff, constructed of lighter materials, as moon missions are 100% about weight first.
Bombers used to have 40-litre V-12 engines in them, but nobody other than nostalgists and collectors pine for the pre-jet era...
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I'm just wondering why he's using a $99 AppleTV and pushing the video over a network, rather than cabling up with HDMI and a $40 adapter (which is still too expensive.)
There's other Windows tablets of roughly the same form factor out there, they just don't have Windows 8 on them yet. That can be remedied.
It's entirely possible that he's put the Win8 preview on a Samsung atom-based tablet in order to try it out, and that's the experience he's speaking of.
Clearly you don't understand the difference between an airport, where you maybe have 100 radios at maximum within distance of your antenna, and having over 5000 radios active in the Moscone West theater.
I'm sure that doesn't make a difference at all.
You do realize there is lots of machinery at nuclear facilities that aren't containing an active nuclear criticality, right?
The first commercial break I can't fast forward through, will be the commercial break I use to call Time Warner and inform them that they are fired, and that they need to come pack up their shitty DVR and GTFO.
Seriously, their DVR is practically unusable as it is. This new "feature" will completely defeat the purpose of using it versus using some antique like a VCR.
Yep, [endpoint management] sounds just great. I can cough up a pile of money for buggy software full of security holes, learn a new and non-intuitive interface, trust that [Microsoft] is suddenly going to reform its ways for no discernible reason and NOT send out untested updates, allow our users to deposit proprietary and confidential data on someone else's server or else break all of our folder permissions to allow the [laptops] to save to the network, and essentially abandon the prove Active Directory/Group Policy security model. Gee, can't wait to get started!
You see what I did there? This is different from a PC how? Microsoft SCCM, Altiris / Symantec Management, Novell ZenWorks, etc. all have the exact same issues you're citing above, and you won't find a large enterprise that isn't running some form of endpoint management today.
I don't know why you expect everything to miraculously get better just because it's a tablet.
3) Terrible to administer in the enterprise - iPads sync to only one computer. iPad storage cannot be backed up & mirrored. Apps and iOS updates must be done one-at-a-time. Apps / software must be Apple-approved and Apple-distributed. iPads were not built for the enterprise, and the enterprise has had to bend over backwards for Apple just to make the iPad work for their business.
Clearly, someone has never looked into the MDM solutions that are available for iPad, nor the ability to sign your own apps and distribute them to your MDM-deployed iDevices without Apple saying a peep about it.
Where's the -1 Wrong moderation again?
If Apple decided to take the iPad / iPhone / iPod to x86, it wouldn't be their first barbecue. They've done that twice before (MC680x0 -> PPC -> x86).
You forgot NT 3.51.
only if you have every single directory on your disk in the path, which would be fantastically stupid.
Neither does anyone else, which is why the forthcoming release of Mountain Lion, for the most part, has a UI that isn't appreciably different from the Mac OS X of 10 years ago.
Sure, there's the Launchpad thing which is kinda iOS-esque, but it's an application that you can ignore, rather than it being shoved down your throat like Metro.
Because Apple puts out a new version of software, and all previous versions start to pout and take their ball and go home?
Who's the dipshit again? iOS updates are not compulsory. They never have been in 5+ years, and no update to Mac OS has been in 28 years.
The US Navy (and the Marines along with them) are covered by a DOD directive which aligns with Posse Comitatus. However, it's self-regulation and could be rescinded at any time, with massive political backlash.
Actually, that only effects certain branches of the military. Read the Posse Comitatus Act. It directly affects the Army and Air Force, but doesn't restrict Navy (Marines), Coast Guard (who have a law enforcement directive to begin with) or National Guard. The Navy is self-regulated by a DOD directive, which could be retracted at any time.
Oh, and it doesn't deny the ability to use federal troops for law enforcement, it only requires Congressional approval; which if you look at how the authorization of force in Iraq went, doesn't mean much.
Next we'll hear that there are nuclear weapons in North Dakota, like that's some kind of privileged informat...
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Yeah, I hate it when they land those drones on my couch, and don't let me move them. Makes my dog angry too since she can't nap there anymore, and she doesn't even have inalienable human rights. Where's the canine rights?!
No wait, the 3rd amendment doesn't apply, and you're a fucking idiot who enforces the conservative stereotype.
Oh, and "this is the kind of fascism you get when you elect a socialist" is an awesome statement, since fascism and socialism are polar opposites...
How? By doing what they've done for 30 years - making hardware and software actually work together without massive end-user hassle. They don't invent ground breaking technologies (for the most part, there have been a few exceptions), but they make available technologies actually useable.
Turns out that there's a shedload of money in doing that.
Sometimes representing your constituents actually does align with doing The Right Thing.
It's getting unfortunately more rare, but it is nice when it happens.
Discrimination is a civil action, and only if it runs afoul of anti-discrimination law; such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which explicitly names religion, race, sex, nationality, and color. There are other laws, but that's the big one.
So don't apply the optional iOS updates. Fixed!
And what the article (and you) miss, is that you are not compelled by anything to actually install those updates, other than the "update" button in iTunes, or general settings as of iOS 5.
Don't want it to break due to a future update? Don't install any future updates.
Please point me to anything in the Bitcoin universe that is insured by FDIC. Oh, wait...
Never heard of getting jerked off? A "jack shack"?
Never underestimate the Internet's capacity for depravity.
Wouldn't any increase in legitimacy be a boost? I mean, when you have zero legitimacy to begin with, having even the smallest of rounding errors that usually falls into the noise defined by calculus's Theory of Limits would be a "boost."
Especially since the subcontractors that actually made the important bits inside of a Saturn V (Rocketdyne, Boeing, Northrup Grumman, Lockheed) are still around, and probably still have their plans for those bits. Maybe even newer versions of those bits that work on better cheaper stuff, constructed of lighter materials, as moon missions are 100% about weight first.
Bombers used to have 40-litre V-12 engines in them, but nobody other than nostalgists and collectors pine for the pre-jet era...