Took me all of 5 minutes to find an app to give me a start menu in windows 8, and I use it purely in desktop mode on my laptop.
So every time you use a Windows 8 PC at work, or while traveling, or at a friend's house, you're going to download new start menu software and install it on their PC to make it work something like it should have worked to begin with?
Asus netbooks were awesome; the build quality on our Eee PC netbook is better than my laptop that cost nearly 4x the price. But the Android Transformers feel very delicate in comparison -- I've seen a number of people on web forums complaining that they cracked the screen when removing the tablet from the keyboard dock -- and this just looks like a Transformer with an Atom CPU instead of ARM.
And, of course, it will probably be even more horribly out of balance than the ARM Transformer as I'm guessing there'll be even more heavy stuff behind the screen where you don't want it.
Ditto. If this wasn't a crappy 'Transformer' with a touch screen I'd buy one to replace our old netbook, but I don't want something that's a crappy tablet that also tries to be a crappy netbook.
Linux systems are absurdly unmaintainable if you stray outside of the controlled environment of a well-managed distribution, and this is a direct result of the architectural foundations and established standards of Linux itself.
That's like saying 'Windows is absurdly unmaintainable if you start randomly deleting system files you don't think you need'.
BTW, maybe you could explain how to fix my old XP machine which refuses to install any.Net framework updates: nothing works, including downloading the 'uinstall all this.Net crap and start over' program from Microsoft.
The Z3770 is the fastest Silvermont at 2.4 Ghz, I think they should be really comparing with the fastest Jaguar which is A6 5200 (at 2.0 Ghz), not the A4 5000 (1.5 GHz).
So they should be comparing a 4W CPU to a 25W CPU?
C++ lost the language war because it runs in an unmanaged environment without garbage collection.
C++ lost the language war because it takes two hours to compile something that takes two minutes in Java.
Managed environments and garbage collection are not benefits to programmers who know what they're doing, and are huge sources of bugs from programmers who don't. Like not bothering to close files when you're done because 'the garbage collector will handle it', and then running out of file handles. And let's not forget the joys of writing everything as XML files that use reflection to hook in classes at runtime so you have no idea what the code does when you look at it.
Not really. Bay Trail can also run Android and should run Linux (unlike the last generation of Atoms with the PowerVR GPU), so it gives Intel a decently performing mobile chip that isn't reliant on Windows.
You can't really prove that something doesn't have a back door without putting in enough resources to find all the back doors there could possibly be.. so that doesn't make much sense either.
But, as pointed out, you can ensure your constants come from a well-defined source, not just random numbers picked out of nowhere. It's far less likely that the first 64 digits of pi would create a back door than some number the NSA gave you.
As someone who owns an RT I can tell you the thing works well. It doesn't get hot, I have no problems with the screen, the battery life is manageable at 6+ hours of constant use.
Like an Android tablet.
For me it works to store manuals, and numerous pdfs. I take notes with it while in meetings.
Which you could do on an Android tablet for much less, and have access to more apps, and have a less locked down operating system.
I think that's what tablets should be designed for...thin client terminals for operating other more powerful systems.
Then why do you need to run Windows on it?
What microsoft needs is better PR and marketing.
What Microsoft needs is a better product at lower cost. No amount of marketing will make people queue up to buy an expensive Windows tablet which doesn't run Windows in any form people are used to.
Basically, if you aren't a developer, you wont care.
I think you mean: if you don't use the features of X that many of us use X for (like being able to efficiently remote display over a LAN), you won't care.
Yeah, I looked at replacing our netbook recently, but all the current generation of Atom netbooks have unsupported PowerVR chipsets so they can't run Linux.
Yes, obviously EVIL CORPORATIONS making anti-aging drugs will refuse to sell them to poor people, because EVIL CORPORATIONS like not making money where they can.
Just want to point out here that "Libertarian" is not at all the same as "Liberal." In fact, it's pretty much the exact opposite: conservative on both economic and social axes.
No, that would, rather by definition, be conservative.
Though it's even more confusing when you realise that 'liberals' are now conservatives trying to maintain all the 'progressive' nonsense they've pushed on the West in the last century, while 'conservatives' are trying to eliminate it.
So we live in a world where 'liberals' are conservatives, 'conservatives' are radicals and 'libertarians' are... something else entirely, I guess.
IPSEC is an abomination, regardless of whether that's because it was sabotaged or the product of a commitee who wanted to throw the kitchen sink into the design. It's so insanely configurable that there are trillions more ways to configure it not to work than to configure it to work, and many of those are insanely insecure.
I'm aware of that. What I was intending to convey was that they were responding to an anticompetitive threat posed by Amazon's monopsony, and as such, it's strange that they're being punished for taking necessary steps to protect their businesses against that threat.
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Took me all of 5 minutes to find an app to give me a start menu in windows 8, and I use it purely in desktop mode on my laptop.
So every time you use a Windows 8 PC at work, or while traveling, or at a friend's house, you're going to download new start menu software and install it on their PC to make it work something like it should have worked to begin with?
Asus netbooks were awesome; the build quality on our Eee PC netbook is better than my laptop that cost nearly 4x the price. But the Android Transformers feel very delicate in comparison -- I've seen a number of people on web forums complaining that they cracked the screen when removing the tablet from the keyboard dock -- and this just looks like a Transformer with an Atom CPU instead of ARM.
And, of course, it will probably be even more horribly out of balance than the ARM Transformer as I'm guessing there'll be even more heavy stuff behind the screen where you don't want it.
Ditto. If this wasn't a crappy 'Transformer' with a touch screen I'd buy one to replace our old netbook, but I don't want something that's a crappy tablet that also tries to be a crappy netbook.
Linux systems are absurdly unmaintainable if you stray outside of the controlled environment of a well-managed distribution, and this is a direct result of the architectural foundations and established standards of Linux itself.
That's like saying 'Windows is absurdly unmaintainable if you start randomly deleting system files you don't think you need'.
BTW, maybe you could explain how to fix my old XP machine which refuses to install any .Net framework updates: nothing works, including downloading the 'uinstall all this .Net crap and start over' program from Microsoft.
The Z3770 is the fastest Silvermont at 2.4 Ghz, I think they should be really comparing with the fastest Jaguar which is A6 5200 (at 2.0 Ghz), not the A4 5000 (1.5 GHz).
So they should be comparing a 4W CPU to a 25W CPU?
Isn't Intel's R&D budget greater than AMD's entire revenue?
I think they can afford to keep pushing high-end CPUs as well as low-end.
C++ lost the language war because it runs in an unmanaged environment without garbage collection.
C++ lost the language war because it takes two hours to compile something that takes two minutes in Java.
Managed environments and garbage collection are not benefits to programmers who know what they're doing, and are huge sources of bugs from programmers who don't. Like not bothering to close files when you're done because 'the garbage collector will handle it', and then running out of file handles. And let's not forget the joys of writing everything as XML files that use reflection to hook in classes at runtime so you have no idea what the code does when you look at it.
Not really. Bay Trail can also run Android and should run Linux (unlike the last generation of Atoms with the PowerVR GPU), so it gives Intel a decently performing mobile chip that isn't reliant on Windows.
Should work great in netbooks. Sorry, Atom-based ultrabooks.
You can't really prove that something doesn't have a back door without putting in enough resources to find all the back doors there could possibly be.. so that doesn't make much sense either.
But, as pointed out, you can ensure your constants come from a well-defined source, not just random numbers picked out of nowhere. It's far less likely that the first 64 digits of pi would create a back door than some number the NSA gave you.
Actually, $350 compares quite favorably to 10" Android tablets, pricewise.
That's the fire-sale price on the low-end model without the keyboard, isn't it?
You'd have full PC functionality in a laptop.
I already have full PC functionality in a laptop.
As someone who owns an RT I can tell you the thing works well. It doesn't get hot, I have no problems with the screen, the battery life is manageable at 6+ hours of constant use.
Like an Android tablet.
For me it works to store manuals, and numerous pdfs. I take notes with it while in meetings.
Which you could do on an Android tablet for much less, and have access to more apps, and have a less locked down operating system.
I think that's what tablets should be designed for...thin client terminals for operating other more powerful systems.
Then why do you need to run Windows on it?
What microsoft needs is better PR and marketing.
What Microsoft needs is a better product at lower cost. No amount of marketing will make people queue up to buy an expensive Windows tablet which doesn't run Windows in any form people are used to.
Using legacy apps designed for a mouse environment on a touch interface is a huge compromise of pain.
But if you can't run your legacy apps, why buy a Windows tablet?
That's the bind Microsoft are in.
Basically, if you aren't a developer, you wont care.
I think you mean: if you don't use the features of X that many of us use X for (like being able to efficiently remote display over a LAN), you won't care.
I've read the article on Wayland at Wikipedia, but I still don't know why they want to replace X.
'Cause writing new code is cool, while supporting and debugging old code is boring.
Yeah, I looked at replacing our netbook recently, but all the current generation of Atom netbooks have unsupported PowerVR chipsets so they can't run Linux.
Aside from codename coincidence is there objective evidence RdRand is compromised?
Doesn't matter. No US hardware or software can be trusted any more... particularly when it's just a black box.
The Athlon II machine uses less power in toto (i.e. monitor included) than the Atom desktop, just the computer (i.e. monitor excluded).
That's because the standard Intel north bridge sucks, and takes about 4x as much power as the CPU (which is why it needs the fan).
My dual-core Ion system with the same CPU and a more powerful north bridge takes about 25W from the wall when playing HD video.
Yes, obviously EVIL CORPORATIONS making anti-aging drugs will refuse to sell them to poor people, because EVIL CORPORATIONS like not making money where they can.
Just want to point out here that "Libertarian" is not at all the same as "Liberal." In fact, it's pretty much the exact opposite: conservative on both economic and social axes.
No, that would, rather by definition, be conservative.
Though it's even more confusing when you realise that 'liberals' are now conservatives trying to maintain all the 'progressive' nonsense they've pushed on the West in the last century, while 'conservatives' are trying to eliminate it.
So we live in a world where 'liberals' are conservatives, 'conservatives' are radicals and 'libertarians' are... something else entirely, I guess.
How does the libertarian who doesn't want second hand nicotine react?
Ask people not to smoke on his property?
When was the last time the Fukushima site was hit by flooding of that level?
Everyone who uses it?
IPSEC is an abomination, regardless of whether that's because it was sabotaged or the product of a commitee who wanted to throw the kitchen sink into the design. It's so insanely configurable that there are trillions more ways to configure it not to work than to configure it to work, and many of those are insanely insecure.
I'm aware of that. What I was intending to convey was that they were responding to an anticompetitive threat posed by Amazon's monopsony, and as such, it's strange that they're being punished for taking necessary steps to protect their businesses against that threat.
You don't get this whole 'law' thing, do you?