of your a$$. This is Asus' pricing, not Microsoft. If you RTFA you would see that the linked source is also incorrectly stating this is Microsoft's pricing. ASUS =/= Microsoft.
Yet again, Windows is likely to be one of the biggest single costs in these tablets. If they charge $100 for Windows, the retail price is going to end up about $200 more than the same hardware with Android.
Remember that these are Asus device, MS doesn't set the price on an Asus product.
Again, Windows is likely to be one of the biggest single costs in these tablets. If they charge $100 for Windows, the retail price is going to end up about $200 more than the same hardware with Android.
I wonder if Microsoft has failed to realize that in terms of profit the OS is essentially a front-end for the app store and plans to make money on both the OS and on app sales, analogous to a mall owner charging entrance.
They'd need apps in order to make money from app sales.
Did you look at the pretty picture in the article?
Yes. Was there a point to your comment?
Hint: if you mean the docking keyboard, who's going to pay yet another $200 on top of the enormous tablet cost in order to turn it into a crappy laptop?
Because I really want to have to lug an external drive everywhere I take my laptop just so it will boot a few seconds faster the one time a day I boot it up.
With the north sea fields, you used to be an exporter, but they peaked and declined a couple years ago so you're an importer. Its only going to get more costly in the future, plus or minus economic decline.
Only so long as the Greenies In Government prevent them from using the massive amounts of shale gas that's just waiting to be tapped.
The customers are so dumb they'd rather have 10 hours of outage per decade due to x-fer switch issues than 1 hour of outage per decade due to power failures.
Guess I must live in the third world, because we've had far more than 10 hours of power outages in the last decade. We had about eight hours a couple of months ago due to tree branches taking out power lines in a thunderstorm.
And the F-35 pretty much has to have one engine due to the VTOL requirement. If a single engine VTOL fails you just eject. If a single engine in a twin engine VTOL fails you may not get a chance to eject before the unbalanced thrust causes a catastrophic rotation. You can work around that so a single failure just causes the plane to fall out of the sky (e.g. using fans driven by both engines), but that adds more complexity which is likely to cause more crashes.
You must have missed the Intel 320 (I think?) debacle where you'd boot the machine up and the SSD would claim to be 8MB and require a complete secure erase to recover. Supposedly fixed, but SSD firmware is still flaky compared to any HDD I've ever owned.
I bought an SSD for my netbook about two years ago. Last I looked, the 'wear indicator' in the SMART data had reached 1%, so in theory it has a couple more centuries to go. That's running Linux with no swap and/tmp and the Firefox cache in RAM.
At the other end of the scale, people who bought SSDs to improve compilation speed have reported burning through them in less than a year. But the programmer time saved easily pays for buying a new SSD every year.
Upgrading your HDD to a SSD is the single biggest performance upgrade you can do to increase speed in your desktop or laptop.
How many more FPS will I get in Guild Wars 2 if I replace my HDD with an SSD?
They care more about how many TB's they can get than on how fast the computer can actually access the data.
Yeah, because a disk that's not big enough to hold my games and data is useless to me.
Installing a SSD is like blowing a hole in a dam and letting the water just flow freely.
Oh, please.
This kind of nonsense might have been justifiable in the 90s, but all an SSD does is lets you access the disk faster. 99% of the things average users do are not disk bound, so they'll see their computer boot faster, start their web browser faster and start games faster. That's it.
I'm pretty sure Ben Rich said that Lockheed's original stealth designs were based on Soviet research for modelling radar cross sections in his 'Skunkworks' book.
The first practical integrated circuit was developed on the order of NASA for the use on the Apollo guidance computer.
Uh, no, it wasn't. ICs existed before Apollo and were being used in missile guidance before they were used in the AGC. NASA was one of the largest users for a few years (possibly the largest, I forget) and helped them improve quality control, but the idea that we wouldn't have ICs without Apollo is just plain silly.
At worst, we might be a few years behind current tech, so we'd be buying Core 2s instead of i5s. Most people wouldn't even notice.
People emigrated to the US because the US was a rich country, which could pay much more than any other place in the world post WWII -- a circumstance that is largely due to the excellent way FDR lead the country into and out of WWII.
Good one.
Now I've stopped laughing, I'll point out that in and shortly after WWII, America bankrupt or bombed its main competitors, or assisted them in a transition to communism that kept their workers out of the global market for decades. Of course everyone living in a bombed-out shit-hole in Europe where food and other essentials were rationed wanted to move to America, where the factories were booming with little competition and they could actually buy what they wanted with the money they earned.
There is no such thing as "working" hard when you make more in a year than a middle class person makes in their entire lifetime. Human performance doesn't scale up that far, we're talking multiple orders of magnitude.
Who do you think employs those middle class people?
You're forgetting that PCs are now so cheap that you can dedicate them to different tasks. I think I have nine that are used at least intermittently, from my old Pentium-4 box that's booted up every few months to my laptop to my netbook to my HTPC to my home server to the Windows box we keep around so my girlfriend can run iTunes.
Oh, you're right. A company the size of Intel couldn't possibly spare one or two people for a few weeks to get support for their new power management into Linux.
a. If it were so great, then Nomachine would never have come into existence and NX would not exist.
X11 was designed for LAN use, hence the excessive reliance on round-trip messaging. As NX and other proxies have proved, there's nothing particularly difficult about fixing the protocol for WAN use.
People who seem to despise any OS other than Linux for "not innovating" really tick me off when they try to kill the first real piece of innovation in the Linux graphics stack that we have seen in this century.
X11 was innovative. There's nothing innovative about Wayland, it's throwing away everything that separates Unix graphics from the rest of the world.
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of your a$$. This is Asus' pricing, not Microsoft. If you RTFA you would see that the linked source is also incorrectly stating this is Microsoft's pricing. ASUS =/= Microsoft.
Yet again, Windows is likely to be one of the biggest single costs in these tablets. If they charge $100 for Windows, the retail price is going to end up about $200 more than the same hardware with Android.
Remember that these are Asus device, MS doesn't set the price on an Asus product.
Again, Windows is likely to be one of the biggest single costs in these tablets. If they charge $100 for Windows, the retail price is going to end up about $200 more than the same hardware with Android.
I wonder if Microsoft has failed to realize that in terms of profit the OS is essentially a front-end for the app store and plans to make money on both the OS and on app sales, analogous to a mall owner charging entrance.
They'd need apps in order to make money from app sales.
Did you look at the pretty picture in the article?
Yes. Was there a point to your comment?
Hint: if you mean the docking keyboard, who's going to pay yet another $200 on top of the enormous tablet cost in order to turn it into a crappy laptop?
How else do you explain the price difference?
Everyone knows people are happy to pay $200 more for hardware with a Microsoft logo on the front.
I'm totally looking forward to creating Excel spreadsheets on a touch screen.
Because I really want to have to lug an external drive everywhere I take my laptop just so it will boot a few seconds faster the one time a day I boot it up.
With the north sea fields, you used to be an exporter, but they peaked and declined a couple years ago so you're an importer. Its only going to get more costly in the future, plus or minus economic decline.
Only so long as the Greenies In Government prevent them from using the massive amounts of shale gas that's just waiting to be tapped.
The customers are so dumb they'd rather have 10 hours of outage per decade due to x-fer switch issues than 1 hour of outage per decade due to power failures.
Guess I must live in the third world, because we've had far more than 10 hours of power outages in the last decade. We had about eight hours a couple of months ago due to tree branches taking out power lines in a thunderstorm.
And the F-35 pretty much has to have one engine due to the VTOL requirement. If a single engine VTOL fails you just eject. If a single engine in a twin engine VTOL fails you may not get a chance to eject before the unbalanced thrust causes a catastrophic rotation. You can work around that so a single failure just causes the plane to fall out of the sky (e.g. using fans driven by both engines), but that adds more complexity which is likely to cause more crashes.
You must have missed the Intel 320 (I think?) debacle where you'd boot the machine up and the SSD would claim to be 8MB and require a complete secure erase to recover. Supposedly fixed, but SSD firmware is still flaky compared to any HDD I've ever owned.
I bought an SSD for my netbook about two years ago. Last I looked, the 'wear indicator' in the SMART data had reached 1%, so in theory it has a couple more centuries to go. That's running Linux with no swap and /tmp and the Firefox cache in RAM.
At the other end of the scale, people who bought SSDs to improve compilation speed have reported burning through them in less than a year. But the programmer time saved easily pays for buying a new SSD every year.
Upgrading your HDD to a SSD is the single biggest performance upgrade you can do to increase speed in your desktop or laptop.
How many more FPS will I get in Guild Wars 2 if I replace my HDD with an SSD?
They care more about how many TB's they can get than on how fast the computer can actually access the data.
Yeah, because a disk that's not big enough to hold my games and data is useless to me.
Installing a SSD is like blowing a hole in a dam and letting the water just flow freely.
Oh, please.
This kind of nonsense might have been justifiable in the 90s, but all an SSD does is lets you access the disk faster. 99% of the things average users do are not disk bound, so they'll see their computer boot faster, start their web browser faster and start games faster. That's it.
I'm pretty sure Ben Rich said that Lockheed's original stealth designs were based on Soviet research for modelling radar cross sections in his 'Skunkworks' book.
The first practical integrated circuit was developed on the order of NASA for the use on the Apollo guidance computer.
Uh, no, it wasn't. ICs existed before Apollo and were being used in missile guidance before they were used in the AGC. NASA was one of the largest users for a few years (possibly the largest, I forget) and helped them improve quality control, but the idea that we wouldn't have ICs without Apollo is just plain silly.
At worst, we might be a few years behind current tech, so we'd be buying Core 2s instead of i5s. Most people wouldn't even notice.
People emigrated to the US because the US was a rich country, which could pay much more than any other place in the world post WWII -- a circumstance that is largely due to the excellent way FDR lead the country into and out of WWII.
Good one.
Now I've stopped laughing, I'll point out that in and shortly after WWII, America bankrupt or bombed its main competitors, or assisted them in a transition to communism that kept their workers out of the global market for decades. Of course everyone living in a bombed-out shit-hole in Europe where food and other essentials were rationed wanted to move to America, where the factories were booming with little competition and they could actually buy what they wanted with the money they earned.
NASA is being defunded because, like every single government program, it has grown like a cancer.
To be fair, NASA's biggest problem is that it's used as a pork trough for Congressentities to funnel money to their mates.
Scrap the Senate Launch System and NASA would have plenty of money to spend on useful things even after a budget cut.
There is no such thing as "working" hard when you make more in a year than a middle class person makes in their entire lifetime. Human performance doesn't scale up that far, we're talking multiple orders of magnitude.
Who do you think employs those middle class people?
The system requirements of Windows 7 are all but identical to those of Windows Vista.
That's because Windows 7 is just Vista with some of the suck removed.
You're forgetting that PCs are now so cheap that you can dedicate them to different tasks. I think I have nine that are used at least intermittently, from my old Pentium-4 box that's booted up every few months to my laptop to my netbook to my HTPC to my home server to the Windows box we keep around so my girlfriend can run iTunes.
Oh, you're right. A company the size of Intel couldn't possibly spare one or two people for a few weeks to get support for their new power management into Linux.
This is basically the "Evil Bit" all over again. It's completely non-binding and ineffective.
While I agree that the solution is to block the sites, your claim is only true for companies that don't claim not to be evil.
Ad companies who ignore 'do no track' look evil. Google doesn't want to look evil.
a. If it were so great, then Nomachine would never have come into existence and NX would not exist.
X11 was designed for LAN use, hence the excessive reliance on round-trip messaging. As NX and other proxies have proved, there's nothing particularly difficult about fixing the protocol for WAN use.
People who seem to despise any OS other than Linux for "not innovating" really tick me off when they try to kill the first real piece of innovation in the Linux graphics stack that we have seen in this century.
X11 was innovative. There's nothing innovative about Wayland, it's throwing away everything that separates Unix graphics from the rest of the world.
Hint: who do you think made up most of Gnome's user base?
Remote display protocols, like X11, VNC, etc., will still be able to render to Wayland displays.
And Wayland will not be able to display efficiently to any other machine. It will require some shitty pixel-scraping technology like VNC.
As the world becomes more networked, the Wayland fanboys are trying to copy Windows by throwing away X11's separation of display and execution.