I paid $25 for mine. It makes phone calls and sends and receives texts. I'm still trying to figure out what else would be worth paying hundreds of dollars more for a bigger phone with a shorter battery life.
Oh, I guess I could post Facebook status updates from the bus. Yeah.
"According to an IDC press release issued just last week, Samsung sold 2,391,000 tablet computers worldwide in Q2 2012, up 117.6% from the same quarter last year. According to Samsung’s court filing, it sold a total of 37,000 tablets in the U.S. last quarter, down 86% year over year."
You do realise that America is not actually the whole world, right?
What I don't understand is why anyone thinks that people want to trade control of a TV or computer by a simple twitch of a single finger for dancing around and wild gesticulations.
'Cause they grew up watching CSI and thought 'wow, that's really cool' without ever realising that CSI is a TV show.
They probably also say 'enhance, enhance' to their PC when they download a grainy pr0n picture.
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Why not just continue using Windows 7?
Because Microsoft have just announced that Windows 7 is officially obsolete and the next version of DirectX won't be back-ported?
No-one would care how bad Windows 8 was if Microsoft wasn't trying to force the entire world onto it.
No one expected MSFT to do Apple-like business on their tablets. Not like they're going to have people camping out overnight for a Surface. No one, including Microsoft.
Really? You have a source for that?
Because from the pre-release hype, I would say it was expect to be at least the Second Coming Of Android. I didn't see any articles before the release saying 'look, we've got this new tablet, but it we don't really expect to sell many'.
When even Ballmer is calling sales 'modest', it's clearly a failure. He wouldn't say that if the sales had met expectations.
Trying to use Linux on a laptop or desktop in a real work environment is a deadend, and Macs are a niche - so what's left?
Weird. I use Linux for real work and I use Linux at home. I only use Windows for games and video editing, since my Linux laptop is much slower than my Windows gaming PC.
And, as the articles pointed out, if you switch to 'cloud' apps then you don't need Windows at all.
Hyperthreading is not the equal of a full-fledged core.
Which is why I said sixteen threads, not sixteen cores. The original claim was that Intel had no CPUs with 8 or more cores, which merely proves the poster has no clue about current CPUs.
And the terrible thing about that is that if you want a high density server, 16 cores per socket for instance, your choices are AMD for a reasonableish price, or Intel... oh.. wait... no.. no you can't. Because there don't seem to be any 8+ core Intel CPUs.
That's a shock, because I have a bunch of them here, bought over the counter from a server OEM. They run sixteen threads per CPU and they're stonkingly fast.
China isn't communist. If it were, the government wouldn't be allowing a mega-corporation from their capitalist arch-nemesis to exploit their workers on their own soil to the point that guards have been placed on 24 hour watch to prevent suicides and installed netting to catch would-be suicide jumpers.
Yes. If it was, they'd be working in slave labor camps until they died of starvation, the way the Chinese used to do it.
I'll have egg on my face when the robot army builds massive floating cities.
More like space habitats, which can easily provide many times as much land area as every planet in the solar system. Land on Earth won't have much value in a century or two.
There's no way that MS will kill their business operating system to promote their experimental OS.
Businesses will just wipe the Windows 8 PC and install Windows 7 or XP. It's consumers who will be forced to 8 whether they like it or not.
Microsoft really don't want computer store staff telling everyone 'don't buy the new Windows OS, it sucks, buy the old one' again the way they did with Vista. They could afford that with Vista, but not when they're playing catchup with Android and iPad.
Some Windows apps do stupid things and crash when they see a 'negative' memory address (i.e. > 2GB). But they're pretty rare these days since so many people run 32-bit apps on 64-bit Windows.
No, Windows 3.x could also run 32-bit apps. Windows 95 just replaced some of the 16-bit layer with 32-bit code, for example display drivers were still 16-bit.
NT was the first fully 32-bit Windows, and the biggest issue with Windows 95 programs is that many of them were 32-bit but used 16-bit installers; you can run them on 64-bit Windows 7, but you can't install them.
While I personally think Win8 is going to be a Vista-level disaster, I think two weeks is a wee bit premature to be hanging any forecasts on.
Nah, they learned from Vista. Last time they let OEMs keep shipping XP machines so people didn't have to buy Vista, this time I'm sure they'll kill Windows 7 ASAP.
True. I only have one DX10 game on my laptop, and turning DX10 on means a 30-50% drop in frame rate compared to the DX9 engine with no glaring difference in graphics.
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MS makes a ton of money off of Android through patent licenses.
Cool. So they can lay off all the Windows developers and just become a patent troll.
Get what right? Nothing in that post said anything about how many tablets the analysts claimed they'd sold in America.
Android is orders of magnitude better now than just a few years ago.
The nice thing about Android is that I can expect every new release to be better than the last, unlike Ubuntu and Windows.
The bad thing about Android is that there are so many things they can still improve.
You could also post shitty Slashdot comments from the bus.
That is a tempting argument.
I paid $25 for mine. It makes phone calls and sends and receives texts. I'm still trying to figure out what else would be worth paying hundreds of dollars more for a bigger phone with a shorter battery life.
Oh, I guess I could post Facebook status updates from the bus. Yeah.
"According to an IDC press release issued just last week, Samsung sold 2,391,000 tablet computers worldwide in Q2 2012, up 117.6% from the same quarter last year. According to Samsung’s court filing, it sold a total of 37,000 tablets in the U.S. last quarter, down 86% year over year."
You do realise that America is not actually the whole world, right?
What I don't understand is why anyone thinks that people want to trade control of a TV or computer by a simple twitch of a single finger for dancing around and wild gesticulations.
'Cause they grew up watching CSI and thought 'wow, that's really cool' without ever realising that CSI is a TV show.
They probably also say 'enhance, enhance' to their PC when they download a grainy pr0n picture.
Why not just continue using Windows 7?
Because Microsoft have just announced that Windows 7 is officially obsolete and the next version of DirectX won't be back-ported?
No-one would care how bad Windows 8 was if Microsoft wasn't trying to force the entire world onto it.
No one expected MSFT to do Apple-like business on their tablets. Not like they're going to have people camping out overnight for a Surface. No one, including Microsoft.
Really? You have a source for that?
Because from the pre-release hype, I would say it was expect to be at least the Second Coming Of Android. I didn't see any articles before the release saying 'look, we've got this new tablet, but it we don't really expect to sell many'.
When even Ballmer is calling sales 'modest', it's clearly a failure. He wouldn't say that if the sales had met expectations.
Trying to use Linux on a laptop or desktop in a real work environment is a deadend, and Macs are a niche - so what's left?
Weird. I use Linux for real work and I use Linux at home. I only use Windows for games and video editing, since my Linux laptop is much slower than my Windows gaming PC.
And, as the articles pointed out, if you switch to 'cloud' apps then you don't need Windows at all.
Hyperthreading is not the equal of a full-fledged core.
Which is why I said sixteen threads, not sixteen cores. The original claim was that Intel had no CPUs with 8 or more cores, which merely proves the poster has no clue about current CPUs.
Except when you say 'AMD', you really mean 'ATI'. High GPU profits won't much help if the CPU side keeps burning money.
And the terrible thing about that is that if you want a high density server, 16 cores per socket for instance, your choices are AMD for a reasonableish price, or Intel... oh.. wait... no.. no you can't. Because there don't seem to be any 8+ core Intel CPUs.
That's a shock, because I have a bunch of them here, bought over the counter from a server OEM. They run sixteen threads per CPU and they're stonkingly fast.
Indeed. ARM is Intel's biggest competitor these days, not AMD.
China isn't communist. If it were, the government wouldn't be allowing a mega-corporation from their capitalist arch-nemesis to exploit their workers on their own soil to the point that guards have been placed on 24 hour watch to prevent suicides and installed netting to catch would-be suicide jumpers.
Yes. If it was, they'd be working in slave labor camps until they died of starvation, the way the Chinese used to do it.
WoW graphics looked old when it was first released. If you think Everquest graphics look old, you haven't seen what the original graphics looked like.
I'll have egg on my face when the robot army builds massive floating cities.
More like space habitats, which can easily provide many times as much land area as every planet in the solar system. Land on Earth won't have much value in a century or two.
In a communist country, is working really necessary though?
No. The Chinese government will allow you to starve, if you prefer not working.
There's no way that MS will kill their business operating system to promote their experimental OS.
Businesses will just wipe the Windows 8 PC and install Windows 7 or XP. It's consumers who will be forced to 8 whether they like it or not.
Microsoft really don't want computer store staff telling everyone 'don't buy the new Windows OS, it sucks, buy the old one' again the way they did with Vista. They could afford that with Vista, but not when they're playing catchup with Android and iPad.
16-bit apps can run in protected mode as well as real mode, but there's no segmentation support in long mode, so 16-bit code can't run there.
Some Windows apps do stupid things and crash when they see a 'negative' memory address (i.e. > 2GB). But they're pretty rare these days since so many people run 32-bit apps on 64-bit Windows.
No, Windows 3.x could also run 32-bit apps. Windows 95 just replaced some of the 16-bit layer with 32-bit code, for example display drivers were still 16-bit.
NT was the first fully 32-bit Windows, and the biggest issue with Windows 95 programs is that many of them were 32-bit but used 16-bit installers; you can run them on 64-bit Windows 7, but you can't install them.
While I personally think Win8 is going to be a Vista-level disaster, I think two weeks is a wee bit premature to be hanging any forecasts on.
Nah, they learned from Vista. Last time they let OEMs keep shipping XP machines so people didn't have to buy Vista, this time I'm sure they'll kill Windows 7 ASAP.
Why do you expect Microsoft to give away one of the more attractive new features of the OS?
It's called 'customer service'.
Oh, sorry, I forgot we were talking about Microsoft.
True. I only have one DX10 game on my laptop, and turning DX10 on means a 30-50% drop in frame rate compared to the DX9 engine with no glaring difference in graphics.