Basically any UI is easy once one learn it. In that way it is easier to adapt the human to the UI then the UI to the human. This is also why the real issue with going from MS Office to Libreoffice, or Photoshop to Gimp, are not the features but the keyboard shortcuts and menu entries.
Makes one wonder if there should be some kind of time limit between becoming aware of the patent breach and the litigation or on forfeit the patent. Then again, that allows the big ones to bully the smaller ones. But then that seems to be a very generic problem as long as one can stall a court process until the smaller party runs out money to pay lawyers.
Indeed. MS Office is a godzilla sized swiss army knife of features, any of which may only be used by a small subset of Office users. Hell, with the introduction of VBscript it basically became a RAD. VBS and Excel has probably bootstrapped quite a number of company process and report tools over the years.
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More like a failure to demonstrate restraint, just like how abstinence before marriage is all that it takes to avoid sexually transmitted diseases...
Nothing. But that still registers as a license sale at Microsoft and Asus, unless i attempt the rigamarole of getting a refund on the Windows i am not using...
The "real software" claim is neither here nor there, as apps are software. The biggest difference is that they do not share the decade long legacy that wintel software do. If you could install and run open/libre-office, would you then consider Android running "real" software?
As for local storage, consider the Archos products that has the option of a HDD.
All in all tho, i guess the option to replace depends on the expect work to be performed. Looking back, it seems your management jumped on a fad. This in much the same way as it seems in hindsight that a lot of companies outsourced when there was little real benefit to be gained, because some big names had done so and it had become something of a finance market fad.
A better solution would probably have been to distribute a small number of ipads or Android tablets, collect experiences and refined apps loadout etc based on that.
Do one curse the river or the diver if he jumps without checking the depth first?
I suspect that is the way to go for printing on Android. This because the app can tie into the intent system, so that there is no requirement for print support in Android as a whole.
Well that was a large part thanks to netbooks and that Vista was a system hog like no other.
End result was that MS had to keep XP on life support to avoid customers getting to know alternatives like Ubuntu.
It may not have helped that Longhorn got restarted 2-3 times, resulting in XP getting SP2 that provided a software firewall and some other security upgrades, either.
All in all XP ended up as "good enough" for quite a few. Then again, it was also the first NT based Windows that was sold to the mass market...
Yep. There was a Torvalds rant about this in relation to the ARM branch of the Linux kernel. There is no real standard way for the kernel to reach out and check what hardware is out there like one have on PCI. Some of the parts are initiated more or less blindly as a result, and the ARM branch have bunch of sub-branches that walk all over each other because of small variations between the SoCs. I think this is what Linaro has been set up to tackle.
Yea, Android was designed to have its basic UI replaced. The problem as i understand it, is that Samsung, and perhaps others, go deeper then just a UI swap.
Why liberate when one browbeat into obedience? Sadly a lot of the old guard on the Norwegian left considered it repaying a debt to dance to the US flute in international politics, a debt from WW2 and the Marshall plan.
And now a rising right have some elements that are avowed Randian libertarians, pushing populist promises and islamic fearmongering for all it is worth. to paraphrase the supposed Chinese proverb, there be interesting times ahead...
And this has been basically the status quo in Russia since day one. Russian communism basically replaced one despot with another, and even Yeltsin ran the place like some fiefdom.
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Basically any UI is easy once one learn it. In that way it is easier to adapt the human to the UI then the UI to the human. This is also why the real issue with going from MS Office to Libreoffice, or Photoshop to Gimp, are not the features but the keyboard shortcuts and menu entries.
Going with the W series may be easier, if one do not mind paying Microsoft for the accompanying Windows license.
Convert the document to a gif and print it that way?
Yea, Apple barked up the wrong tree in the 80s by targeting IBM when the fight was shifting to software.
Makes one wonder if there should be some kind of time limit between becoming aware of the patent breach and the litigation or on forfeit the patent. Then again, that allows the big ones to bully the smaller ones. But then that seems to be a very generic problem as long as one can stall a court process until the smaller party runs out money to pay lawyers.
Indeed. MS Office is a godzilla sized swiss army knife of features, any of which may only be used by a small subset of Office users. Hell, with the introduction of VBscript it basically became a RAD. VBS and Excel has probably bootstrapped quite a number of company process and report tools over the years.
More like a failure to demonstrate restraint, just like how abstinence before marriage is all that it takes to avoid sexually transmitted diseases...
These days the criminal is the hero and the law is the villain...
Nothing. But that still registers as a license sale at Microsoft and Asus, unless i attempt the rigamarole of getting a refund on the Windows i am not using...
The "real software" claim is neither here nor there, as apps are software. The biggest difference is that they do not share the decade long legacy that wintel software do. If you could install and run open/libre-office, would you then consider Android running "real" software?
As for local storage, consider the Archos products that has the option of a HDD.
All in all tho, i guess the option to replace depends on the expect work to be performed. Looking back, it seems your management jumped on a fad. This in much the same way as it seems in hindsight that a lot of companies outsourced when there was little real benefit to be gained, because some big names had done so and it had become something of a finance market fad.
A better solution would probably have been to distribute a small number of ipads or Android tablets, collect experiences and refined apps loadout etc based on that.
Do one curse the river or the diver if he jumps without checking the depth first?
Heh, i had forgotten that the smaller Archos tablets had video out.
http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=12351154 They say 6 year old and up tho...
iOS != Android? Still, the choice of office related apps on Android tablets may be limited at this time.
I suspect that is the way to go for printing on Android. This because the app can tie into the intent system, so that there is no requirement for print support in Android as a whole.
http://www.newlaunches.com/entry_images/0911/15/Samsung-DROID-Prime-Android-4-0-device-1.jpg
Asus still sells EEE PC with Linux pre-installed?
Makes one wonder about mind copying.
I do wonder how many iOS users have never updated their device. Or perhaps having itunes remind them ever so often helps in that regard...
Well that was a large part thanks to netbooks and that Vista was a system hog like no other.
End result was that MS had to keep XP on life support to avoid customers getting to know alternatives like Ubuntu.
It may not have helped that Longhorn got restarted 2-3 times, resulting in XP getting SP2 that provided a software firewall and some other security upgrades, either.
All in all XP ended up as "good enough" for quite a few. Then again, it was also the first NT based Windows that was sold to the mass market...
Yep. There was a Torvalds rant about this in relation to the ARM branch of the Linux kernel. There is no real standard way for the kernel to reach out and check what hardware is out there like one have on PCI. Some of the parts are initiated more or less blindly as a result, and the ARM branch have bunch of sub-branches that walk all over each other because of small variations between the SoCs. I think this is what Linaro has been set up to tackle.
I guess then as 4 carries forward from 3, any tablet or phone running 4 or later should get full device encryption.
Yea, Android was designed to have its basic UI replaced. The problem as i understand it, is that Samsung, and perhaps others, go deeper then just a UI swap.
Did anything meaningful come out of the olive branch that Samsung reached out to XDA?
Why liberate when one browbeat into obedience? Sadly a lot of the old guard on the Norwegian left considered it repaying a debt to dance to the US flute in international politics, a debt from WW2 and the Marshall plan.
And now a rising right have some elements that are avowed Randian libertarians, pushing populist promises and islamic fearmongering for all it is worth. to paraphrase the supposed Chinese proverb, there be interesting times ahead...
And this has been basically the status quo in Russia since day one. Russian communism basically replaced one despot with another, and even Yeltsin ran the place like some fiefdom.