Android devices can back up everything to Google's cloud now. And I said "upgrade" not "update". Windows upgrades are faced with fear and trembling by anybody who's ever done one. Professionals never would as the result is reliably unsatisfactory.
Neil Macbride, former Business Software Alliance general counsel and vice president was appointed US Attorney shortly after President Obama's first inauguration - probably at the behest of his former boss Vice President Joe Biden. Since then he has been a tireless bulldog as the US Government's enforcement arm of the MPAA and RIAA - notably in the case of Kim Dotcom's Megaupload in New Zealand, which is now bordering on an international incident.
My transformer: I have used it to do slideshows, show video clips, spreadsheets, scan barcodes into various things, watch Hulu and Netflix, SFTP down, edit and SFTP up web code, manage servers, remote to my PC/Citrix for some Windows/Office work or stuff that absolutely requires IE. Also edit word processing documents, presentations, preview/crop pictures from my Nikon D90 in the field, take brief videos and pictures of field conditions. Browse the Internet - a LOT. Online documentation reference (thousands of PDFs/hundreds of videos and images).
The three $100 tablets I got the kids: game apps - notably Minecraft, Netflix, Roku Remote, YouTube mostly. Keeps the kids away from my Transformer.
The Kindle Fire HDs: Read books and buy stuff on Amazon.
Updates for legacy Android devices are handled by the Cyanogen team, and others in the modding community. It's a nuisance, but less of a nuisance than installing Windows upgrades. Here is your list of supported devices.
BTW: Android for tablets is barely over two years old. The pace of change in tablet devices is so swift that you're unlikely to be able to run any device longer than that before it's hopelessly obsolete. The first few tablets were pretty bad. The top end this year will have 8-core 64bit processors with better than PS3 graphics and ~300 dpi displays. Five more years of such progress will bring, well, I don't know what - but I'm sure it will be amazing.
Yesterday the Conficker Working Group saw 634 million HTTP hits on Conficker domains from 1.7 million unique IP addresses. This is seems to be a fairly static figure going on three years now.
Part of the problem is thinking there is only one problem here. Not is there only more than one problem: the problems are multidimensional, dire, and insoluble in the context of "what Microsoft product rescues us"? Certailnly there's a Microsoft guy well placed to guide: but why?
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If Windows was free then $200 would be about enough to put the Windows OS devices over Android devices.. That makes the real value of a Windows install equal -$200. Make your own inferences from there.
1) You have a competing platform like iOS, and porting your apps to that platform validates and supports that platform, contrary to your interests.
2) You have a competing platform like Windows/Office and can't figure out how to leverage mobile.
I like the desktop UI of Linux systems so I buy Android gear and put Linux (usually but not always Ubuntu) on it. It's gear. It does what I say. If you select gear that does what you demand it is that simple. Sometimes I like the wider Linux ecosystem better. Having the choice is nice.
Minimum install base for W8 is 16GB and 1GB RAM. We all know that means to be useful it needs 32GB storage and 2GB RAM. Just those two things put them out of the $200 market already. We don't even have to look at their poor showing in developers and app ecosystems.
Not really. The executive suite can dismiss this as a fad, like they did iOS and Android. They can pretend this is not happening, put their fingers in their ears and sing "la la la".
It won't end well for them, but they can and will do that.
Regular desktop Linux has the familiar multiwindow interface. Android is a full-screen app switching interface. These devices can run the full screen OS with multiple windows through multitasking. The answer to your question is that Android will soon support multiwindows, and do away with the need for your question.
I posted that to encourage right minded Muslims to police their own community. Islam has been perverted to be a cause for violence, as Catholicism had once upon a time (and some say, still).
For myself I don't really give a damn. I'm not going to subscribe to either aphorism. The longer these fools expend their resources fighting against each other the better is it for those of us who attend neither school.
Look, let me nip this in the bud. When I posted that I knew it was going to attract racist, nationalist and just plain idiotic fucktards like you. I wish it weren't so, but it is. When grownups dare to approach the borders of permissible discourse the jerks come out to grind their axes as if that was permission to be stupid. It's not. You are still a stupid, misogynistic misanthrope whose euthanasia would improve the gene pool.
In Europe immigration is a problem because invasion and subversion by immigration and reproduction is an actual thing there. In the US it's a strawman for now, but in Europe it is a real and present danger. France is having issues dealing with a large fraction of the populace that demands Sharia [Muslim jurisprudence] be law, and uses Sharia in practice as law despite the official secular legal process.
I wouldn't have a problem with this but that the Muslim community doesn't seem to have a mechanism in place to moderate their non-secular idiots who feel it is their manifest destiny to kill everybody who doesn't agree with them, and their nonfriendly positions on gays, women, liquor and civil rights.
If only there were some sort of device the size of a USB stick drive that plugged directly into the HDMI port, and ran full Android, XBMC, or a full desktop OS. Oh wait. There is. I just bought one off the shelf at the legendary cutting edge technology powerhouse Walmart, for $79. Are we supposed to pretend these don't exist?
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Android devices can back up everything to Google's cloud now. And I said "upgrade" not "update". Windows upgrades are faced with fear and trembling by anybody who's ever done one. Professionals never would as the result is reliably unsatisfactory.
No doubt he can be counted upon to be reasonable with this startup that's challenging his former employers.
Neil Macbride, former Business Software Alliance general counsel and vice president was appointed US Attorney shortly after President Obama's first inauguration - probably at the behest of his former boss Vice President Joe Biden. Since then he has been a tireless bulldog as the US Government's enforcement arm of the MPAA and RIAA - notably in the case of Kim Dotcom's Megaupload in New Zealand, which is now bordering on an international incident.
Darned right it doesn't pass the sniff test.
The suggested solution to this problem is blindingly obvious: the app developers should buy ads from each other! Then everybody will have ad income.
My transformer: I have used it to do slideshows, show video clips, spreadsheets, scan barcodes into various things, watch Hulu and Netflix, SFTP down, edit and SFTP up web code, manage servers, remote to my PC/Citrix for some Windows/Office work or stuff that absolutely requires IE. Also edit word processing documents, presentations, preview/crop pictures from my Nikon D90 in the field, take brief videos and pictures of field conditions. Browse the Internet - a LOT. Online documentation reference (thousands of PDFs/hundreds of videos and images).
The three $100 tablets I got the kids: game apps - notably Minecraft, Netflix, Roku Remote, YouTube mostly. Keeps the kids away from my Transformer.
The Kindle Fire HDs: Read books and buy stuff on Amazon.
Azure.
Updates for legacy Android devices are handled by the Cyanogen team, and others in the modding community. It's a nuisance, but less of a nuisance than installing Windows upgrades. Here is your list of supported devices.
BTW: Android for tablets is barely over two years old. The pace of change in tablet devices is so swift that you're unlikely to be able to run any device longer than that before it's hopelessly obsolete. The first few tablets were pretty bad. The top end this year will have 8-core 64bit processors with better than PS3 graphics and ~300 dpi displays. Five more years of such progress will bring, well, I don't know what - but I'm sure it will be amazing.
Yesterday the Conficker Working Group saw 634 million HTTP hits on Conficker domains from 1.7 million unique IP addresses. This is seems to be a fairly static figure going on three years now.
Part of the problem is thinking there is only one problem here. Not is there only more than one problem: the problems are multidimensional, dire, and insoluble in the context of "what Microsoft product rescues us"? Certailnly there's a Microsoft guy well placed to guide: but why? .
I was the submitter and barely half those words were mine.
If Windows was free then $200 would be about enough to put the Windows OS devices over Android devices.. That makes the real value of a Windows install equal -$200. Make your own inferences from there.
1) You have a competing platform like iOS, and porting your apps to that platform validates and supports that platform, contrary to your interests. 2) You have a competing platform like Windows/Office and can't figure out how to leverage mobile.
I like the desktop UI of Linux systems so I buy Android gear and put Linux (usually but not always Ubuntu) on it. It's gear. It does what I say. If you select gear that does what you demand it is that simple. Sometimes I like the wider Linux ecosystem better. Having the choice is nice.
Minimum install base for W8 is 16GB and 1GB RAM. We all know that means to be useful it needs 32GB storage and 2GB RAM. Just those two things put them out of the $200 market already. We don't even have to look at their poor showing in developers and app ecosystems.
Not really. The executive suite can dismiss this as a fad, like they did iOS and Android. They can pretend this is not happening, put their fingers in their ears and sing "la la la".
It won't end well for them, but they can and will do that.
You think you understand. Really you're close. But the difference between close and solid is everything.
Regular desktop Linux has the familiar multiwindow interface. Android is a full-screen app switching interface. These devices can run the full screen OS with multiple windows through multitasking. The answer to your question is that Android will soon support multiwindows, and do away with the need for your question.
I posted that to encourage right minded Muslims to police their own community. Islam has been perverted to be a cause for violence, as Catholicism had once upon a time (and some say, still). For myself I don't really give a damn. I'm not going to subscribe to either aphorism. The longer these fools expend their resources fighting against each other the better is it for those of us who attend neither school.
Please point to a documented case of climate stasis, ever in the history of the Earth.
Look, let me nip this in the bud. When I posted that I knew it was going to attract racist, nationalist and just plain idiotic fucktards like you. I wish it weren't so, but it is. When grownups dare to approach the borders of permissible discourse the jerks come out to grind their axes as if that was permission to be stupid. It's not. You are still a stupid, misogynistic misanthrope whose euthanasia would improve the gene pool.
In Europe immigration is a problem because invasion and subversion by immigration and reproduction is an actual thing there. In the US it's a strawman for now, but in Europe it is a real and present danger. France is having issues dealing with a large fraction of the populace that demands Sharia [Muslim jurisprudence] be law, and uses Sharia in practice as law despite the official secular legal process.
I wouldn't have a problem with this but that the Muslim community doesn't seem to have a mechanism in place to moderate their non-secular idiots who feel it is their manifest destiny to kill everybody who doesn't agree with them, and their nonfriendly positions on gays, women, liquor and civil rights.
Though frankly climate change means better weather for crops for Europe, Canada, Russia, Iceland and so on, so: meh.
"Scientists claim Europe must surrender to Monsanto or starve."
To surrender to a corporate tyrant is just as bad as to surrender to any other sort of tyrant.
If only there were some sort of device the size of a USB stick drive that plugged directly into the HDMI port, and ran full Android, XBMC, or a full desktop OS. Oh wait. There is. I just bought one off the shelf at the legendary cutting edge technology powerhouse Walmart, for $79. Are we supposed to pretend these don't exist?
Can you imagine trying to run a "reelect me because I voted to turn away Google Fiber" campaign? That would be epic.