Absolutely nobody here gives a shit about Microsoft's "partners". They came here looking to read about Microsoft's new hardware. They're going up against the industry leader (you know, the ones who's products people queue up to buy) and charge similar amounts. What might happen if Microsoft sells stuff for less than manufacturers who make other Microsoft sell stuff for is dull and irrelevant.
Nobody cares what Dell might charge for a Microsoft-based tablet. We'll talk about that if/when it turns up.
Android tablets pre-Nexus 7 were also at around iPad level, and they failed too. You don't get to charge £50 for an Elvis impersonation competition when you can see Elvis for £40. And you just know that Microsoft's first Elvis clone is going to sing badly and look embarassing.
But you're right - it'll run Office - that mobile killer-app everyone has always bought Windows Mobile devices for. Remember that - the HTC Diamond with the little dinky stylus so you can clicky click on the little drop down menus? Hiliarious. They just don't get mobile at all.
And this thing's going to ship with Windows 8? Let's just hope that they pre-load it with some bookmarks so people know how to shut it down, load apps, get to the `normal desktop view` etc without having to google for it first.
Chrome still doesn't have that. And it doesn't have a working mouse gestures add on, either. The half-decent one was pulled because it was sending all your visited pages back to its server, and the currents ones aren't very configurable and you either have the context menu pop up when you right click, or you have to double right click on links to open them. What a piece of crap. I don't care how fast it is - it's not as safe or as comfortable an experience as FF. Oh, and i'm not sure if you've checked lately but Chrome is now about 35 megs and that's a compressed download.
> Am I the only one who thinks that we need LESS social networking as opposed to oh say, actually meeting > and talking to people in person?
No, because it would be expensive, environmentally damaging and logisitically impossible to perform all the conversations I have with friends, family and colleagues around the world in person rather than from my phone on the bus to work, train home from work or during adverts on tv shows.
I mean, I could talk to people online less, so that my real-life meetings try and catch up, but what would be the point of that?
> I had an old Nokia 6160 more then a decade ago, and the thing was virtually indestructible.
Meh. I'm from the UK - their phones lasted forever because they did fuck all. I never understood why people went on about the menu system and how it was untuitive blah blah blah. It was the same as all the others. Shitty non smartphone which lasted forever because no-one fiddles with/drops phones which don't do anything which just take/make phone calls.
I think that updating Adobe's PDF reader every minute means you'll still be behind the curve. The amount of effort they put into updating that thing is amazing. My ability to read textual documents using it has come a long way in the last 5 years - there's just no comparison between reading pdf documents then and now.
Heard about it. Sounded interesting. Signed up for news. Waited - it was like a year late. Tried to order. Sold out within seconds. Signed up for the next batch. Heard nothing. Apparently you still can't just surf up, order and get one a few days later.
And yet, you can hardly move without Slashdot or Hackaday posting this or that insignificant story about them. I don't get it. If you want to learn to code, buy a computer. Get a second hand laptop or something. With this little crappy circuit board you have to then buy a bunch of stuff (monitor, power, keyboard, mouse, sd card, ethernet etc etc) as well. Go for the laptop!
No! No Facebook users are upset about the privacy. They're on there, sharing photos, and details of what they're up to. They couldn't care less about privacy.
> They should have a pretty decent Win8 phone by the time this all shakes out and those consumers who don't > go for high drama will just buy that because it's less of a hassle.
How is patent battles in other counties hassle for consumers of mobile phones? I don't care what lawyers in the States, Korea etc are doing. Samsung can't be that bothered about the lawsuits given that they're spending many times what they've "lost" in this case on a new fab plant in Texas primarily to make stuff for Apple!
Is creating an alternative to Facebook a technical problem, or is it more the non-technical side which is more important? Such as making people aware it exists, encouraging people to use it etc. This thing may be great, but nobodys heard of it. What are its supporters doing to make people hear about it? There are people who use facebook who never email, hardly ever surf the web etc.
> since Minecraft's enormous success with essentially zero advertizing through mainstream channels, the > innovative way Mojang is run and his 33 years of age has made him one of the most closely monitored players > in the field.
No, it's just the success of the game that matters. If it had been as successful bu thad advertising, was run differently and the guy was older/younger and there'd be no difference. If the game had bombed then all that other stuff wouldn't have made it any more interesting.
> Why not give the password to the neighbors you want to allow on your network?
He might want to let *anyone* onto the network. What's he going to do, paint his password on the front of his house?
If he wants to let people use his internet connection, that's his business. And if that makes it harder for people to figure out who has done what online, tough shit! If you're serious about freedom you have to make difficult choices* like `what if me letting people use my house as a TOR exit node or free wifi point makes it easier for person one to get information from person two`.
* I was just kidding - that's not a difficult choice.
You know, before the American Republican party, headed by that fucking idiot Bush, was first elected into power, America was pretty much universally seen as a positive beacon of freedom and justice. It's almost amusing how quickly all that was pissed away to make the ruling classes a little more cash.
> Thanks a lot, every-bank-on-the-planet (cause really, it's not just that one bank, they're all like this now.)
I'd still leave them and get another bank. Maybe you're right and they're all like that. But maybe not, and you'll be sending a message. They might offer you something to make you stay.
I'll do what I want. I don't care what you used to do in the olden days. If you want to be bored, go for it.
It's like people whining about magazines closing. Apparently one is closing now, in the UK. Some people are signing a petition. Who are they going to present it to? I bet hardly any of them actually bought it.
Yeah, you can protect them with MSC, or you can protect them with something else, or you can leave them unprotected.
You can also use MSC if you have 5 PCs, or 1, or some frogs but no PCs if you want to pretend you have some PCs. In fact, you probably don't have to pretend you have some PCs - you probably just need a credit card.
But you cannot use MSE. Not if you have more than 10 PCs.
You don't need "expertise" in religion (whatever that means) to know that religions are `the stupid virus`, and that Mormonism in particular is really fucking stupid.
Seriously, if I started a religion today and said that you have to hit your hand with a hammer every morning, does it make hitting your hand with a hammer not stupid? If not, what test have these other, stupid, religions passed which makes them not-stupid but my one stupid?
Why is this on Slashdot? Is there a tech/science/maths/nerd angle I'm missing. The guys a dick, and he runs a relatively unimportant country with the spending power of Spain or something.
The obvious conclusion to all this is the likes of Mint - already sucking up millions of disaffected Unity victims - becoming the only way people actually use Ubuntu, leaving them with no choice but to try and prevent other distros from using Ubuntu as a base OS.
Microsoft Security Essentials is available for small businesses with up to 10 PCs. If your business has more than 10 PCs, you can protect them with Microsoft System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection. ------
Heh. I live in the next country along to France, and I find that any French-related difficulties I might be concerned with can be avoided completely by simply not going to France!
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Absolutely nobody here gives a shit about Microsoft's "partners". They came here looking to read about Microsoft's new hardware. They're going up against the industry leader (you know, the ones who's products people queue up to buy) and charge similar amounts. What might happen if Microsoft sells stuff for less than manufacturers who make other Microsoft sell stuff for is dull and irrelevant.
Nobody cares what Dell might charge for a Microsoft-based tablet. We'll talk about that if/when it turns up.
Android tablets pre-Nexus 7 were also at around iPad level, and they failed too. You don't get to charge £50 for an Elvis impersonation competition when you can see Elvis for £40. And you just know that Microsoft's first Elvis clone is going to sing badly and look embarassing.
But you're right - it'll run Office - that mobile killer-app everyone has always bought Windows Mobile devices for. Remember that - the HTC Diamond with the little dinky stylus so you can clicky click on the little drop down menus? Hiliarious. They just don't get mobile at all.
And this thing's going to ship with Windows 8? Let's just hope that they pre-load it with some bookmarks so people know how to shut it down, load apps, get to the `normal desktop view` etc without having to google for it first.
http://www.slashgear.com/apple-quietly-turns-on-ios-6-iphone-advert-tracking-12251611/
What was hard about it? It's easier to install than many programs.
Chrome still doesn't have that. And it doesn't have a working mouse gestures add on, either. The half-decent one was pulled because it was sending all your visited pages back to its server, and the currents ones aren't very configurable and you either have the context menu pop up when you right click, or you have to double right click on links to open them. What a piece of crap. I don't care how fast it is - it's not as safe or as comfortable an experience as FF. Oh, and i'm not sure if you've checked lately but Chrome is now about 35 megs and that's a compressed download.
> Am I the only one who thinks that we need LESS social networking as opposed to oh say, actually meeting
> and talking to people in person?
No, because it would be expensive, environmentally damaging and logisitically impossible to perform all the conversations I have with friends, family and colleagues around the world in person rather than from my phone on the bus to work, train home from work or during adverts on tv shows.
I mean, I could talk to people online less, so that my real-life meetings try and catch up, but what would be the point of that?
> I had an old Nokia 6160 more then a decade ago, and the thing was virtually indestructible.
Meh. I'm from the UK - their phones lasted forever because they did fuck all. I never understood why people went on about the menu system and how it was untuitive blah blah blah. It was the same as all the others. Shitty non smartphone which lasted forever because no-one fiddles with/drops phones which don't do anything which just take/make phone calls.
I think that updating Adobe's PDF reader every minute means you'll still be behind the curve. The amount of effort they put into updating that thing is amazing. My ability to read textual documents using it has come a long way in the last 5 years - there's just no comparison between reading pdf documents then and now.
Heard about it.
Sounded interesting.
Signed up for news.
Waited - it was like a year late.
Tried to order.
Sold out within seconds.
Signed up for the next batch.
Heard nothing.
Apparently you still can't just surf up, order and get one a few days later.
And yet, you can hardly move without Slashdot or Hackaday posting this or that insignificant story about them. I don't get it. If you want to learn to code, buy a computer. Get a second hand laptop or something. With this little crappy circuit board you have to then buy a bunch of stuff (monitor, power, keyboard, mouse, sd card, ethernet etc etc) as well. Go for the laptop!
> No! People are upset about Facebook's privacy!
No! No Facebook users are upset about the privacy. They're on there, sharing photos, and details of what they're up to. They couldn't care less about privacy.
> Why are 14" laptops cheaper than 12" netbooks and 15" is sometimes even cheaper
> yet?
Same reason the Nexus 7 is £200 and the Galaxy S3 is £500. Size.
> They should have a pretty decent Win8 phone by the time this all shakes out and those consumers who don't
> go for high drama will just buy that because it's less of a hassle.
How is patent battles in other counties hassle for consumers of mobile phones? I don't care what lawyers in the States, Korea etc are doing. Samsung can't be that bothered about the lawsuits given that they're spending many times what they've "lost" in this case on a new fab plant in Texas primarily to make stuff for Apple!
Is creating an alternative to Facebook a technical problem, or is it more the non-technical side which is more important? Such as making people aware it exists, encouraging people to use it etc. This thing may be great, but nobodys heard of it. What are its supporters doing to make people hear about it? There are people who use facebook who never email, hardly ever surf the web etc.
> Agreed. Plus as someone elsewhere posted, anyone who wants an iPad, has one.
So tomorrow iPad sales will be zero? How about the day after that? Next year?
> since Minecraft's enormous success with essentially zero advertizing through mainstream channels, the
> innovative way Mojang is run and his 33 years of age has made him one of the most closely monitored players
> in the field.
No, it's just the success of the game that matters. If it had been as successful bu thad advertising, was run differently and the guy was older/younger and there'd be no difference. If the game had bombed then all that other stuff wouldn't have made it any more interesting.
> Why not give the password to the neighbors you want to allow on your network?
He might want to let *anyone* onto the network. What's he going to do, paint his password on the front of his house?
If he wants to let people use his internet connection, that's his business. And if that makes it harder for people to figure out who has done what online, tough shit! If you're serious about freedom you have to make difficult choices* like `what if me letting people use my house as a TOR exit node or free wifi point makes it easier for person one to get information from person two`.
* I was just kidding - that's not a difficult choice.
You know, before the American Republican party, headed by that fucking idiot Bush, was first elected into power, America was pretty much universally seen as a positive beacon of freedom and justice. It's almost amusing how quickly all that was pissed away to make the ruling classes a little more cash.
> Thanks a lot, every-bank-on-the-planet (cause really, it's not just that one bank, they're all like this now.)
I'd still leave them and get another bank. Maybe you're right and they're all like that. But maybe not, and you'll be sending a message. They might offer you something to make you stay.
I'll do what I want. I don't care what you used to do in the olden days. If you want to be bored, go for it.
It's like people whining about magazines closing. Apparently one is closing now, in the UK. Some people are signing a petition. Who are they going to present it to? I bet hardly any of them actually bought it.
Yeah, you can protect them with MSC, or you can protect them with something else, or you can leave them unprotected.
You can also use MSC if you have 5 PCs, or 1, or some frogs but no PCs if you want to pretend you have some PCs. In fact, you probably don't have to pretend you have some PCs - you probably just need a credit card.
But you cannot use MSE. Not if you have more than 10 PCs.
You don't need "expertise" in religion (whatever that means) to know that religions are `the stupid virus`, and that Mormonism in particular is really fucking stupid.
Seriously, if I started a religion today and said that you have to hit your hand with a hammer every morning, does it make hitting your hand with a hammer not stupid? If not, what test have these other, stupid, religions passed which makes them not-stupid but my one stupid?
Why is this on Slashdot? Is there a tech/science/maths/nerd angle I'm missing. The guys a dick, and he runs a relatively unimportant country with the spending power of Spain or something.
The obvious conclusion to all this is the likes of Mint - already sucking up millions of disaffected Unity victims - becoming the only way people actually use Ubuntu, leaving them with no choice but to try and prevent other distros from using Ubuntu as a base OS.
I read it:
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http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/products/security-essentials
Microsoft Security Essentials is available for small businesses with up to 10 PCs. If your business has more than 10 PCs, you can protect them with Microsoft System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection.
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And that latter product is very expensive.
It's not that bad, because it'll just complete the exodus of users over to Linux Mint that started with the ridiculous Unity experiment.
Linux Mint's slogan should be "Ubuntu...without the bullshit".
Heh. I live in the next country along to France, and I find that any French-related difficulties I might be concerned with can be avoided completely by simply not going to France!
Any chance of a promotion to track down the parents of kids who've died in the third world due to the heavy, illegal promition of powdered milk there?