Nerds used to run/. The sort of nerd that would have a 1080p smartphone or tablet on the first day that was available and fix this shit because it was fucking up HIS/. experience.
The first MBA I ever saw in business was with a presenter for a hardware firewall company. It was running BSD. Apparently you can run other stuff on them.
Microsoft has been selling Windows for Tablets since... 1995. In all this time it has been the ideal product to sell to the customer you never want to darken your doorstep again. It is a Farewell product. A grudge product. The kind of thing you sell to people who mention their lawyer in the first minute.
Sony sold their PC biz. HP is firing. IBM, who with a fit of prescience sold off their PC biz to Lenovo during the runup to Vista has now sold off their X86 server biz as well. Change is in the wind.
Not every website has slashdot's godforsaken insistence on re-feeding you the mobile version every five damn minutes. Some of them take a hint and if you are logged in take you to your preferred version and don't eat up your mobile cap serving the same fucking mobile page you already told it a thousand times you don't want.
I already do this with my Nexus 7 2013, and sometimes my Nexus 5. The N7 needs an HD monitor as the res is too high for the big screen TV but the N5 works great at 55". Bluetooth Keyboard, laser airmouse, wirelesss stereo headset with boom mic or phone style phone earpiece. Plenty of CPU, GPU, storage and network. Works great for teleconferencing, documents, light video editing, remoting to various desktops and servers - even cloud desktops and servers - using a variety of methods and tools. I can even SSH and VPN, FTP and whatnot. The future is now.
It would be nice if we could get a Nexus 10 or 12 with this kind of display quality and performance. People would buy that. I don't know what the holdup on the next N10 is.
Google owns a number of peering centers, including the world's largest one in Manhattan. Nobody in their right mind would refuse Google's free peering.
They are selling it as a laptop. If Microsoft wants to sell laptops they should tell HP, Lenovo, Acer, Asus, Dell, Fujitsu, Toshiba, Samsung et.al. to piss off and sell an actual laptop. Not sell a tablet as a laptop. That is not going to save them any points with their hardware "partners". May as well start selling servers now too.
This seems to be the product positioning strategy. It is going to take a lot more than waving your hand and saying "this is the Macbook and iPad you are looking for." Mainly because it isn't.
Then there's the rest of us. As the campfire turns to embers on our Amazon trek we like to whip out a PC and do some intense architectural design way out beyond cellular range.
What they do is use their total information awareness to find some excuse to put the executives in prison for a completely different reason. The difference matters little to the executive.
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Nerds used to run /. The sort of nerd that would have a 1080p smartphone or tablet on the first day that was available and fix this shit because it was fucking up HIS /. experience.
There are guys in Microsoft who have a strategy. Lots of them. Lately they are seldom in place long enough to execute it and see if it worked.
The first MBA I ever saw in business was with a presenter for a hardware firewall company. It was running BSD. Apparently you can run other stuff on them.
Me. 10 years running now. The special arrangements I have to make to do it are almost gone.
Microsoft has been selling Windows for Tablets since... 1995. In all this time it has been the ideal product to sell to the customer you never want to darken your doorstep again. It is a Farewell product. A grudge product. The kind of thing you sell to people who mention their lawyer in the first minute.
Blackberry is beating Blackberry. It is no great feat to walk past a Samurai as he bleeds out from committing Hara-kiri.
Sony sold their PC biz. HP is firing. IBM, who with a fit of prescience sold off their PC biz to Lenovo during the runup to Vista has now sold off their X86 server biz as well. Change is in the wind.
Not every website has slashdot's godforsaken insistence on re-feeding you the mobile version every five damn minutes. Some of them take a hint and if you are logged in take you to your preferred version and don't eat up your mobile cap serving the same fucking mobile page you already told it a thousand times you don't want.
I already do this with my Nexus 7 2013, and sometimes my Nexus 5. The N7 needs an HD monitor as the res is too high for the big screen TV but the N5 works great at 55". Bluetooth Keyboard, laser airmouse, wirelesss stereo headset with boom mic or phone style phone earpiece. Plenty of CPU, GPU, storage and network. Works great for teleconferencing, documents, light video editing, remoting to various desktops and servers - even cloud desktops and servers - using a variety of methods and tools. I can even SSH and VPN, FTP and whatnot. The future is now.
It would be nice if we could get a Nexus 10 or 12 with this kind of display quality and performance. People would buy that. I don't know what the holdup on the next N10 is.
I recall Unix purists in the 80's saying that XServer users were heathens too.
Money can buy.
Good thing Google makes their own switches and routers to be nonblocking.
There is nothing draconian about "you can't sell shared services on your home network connection.". It is standard.
Google owns a number of peering centers, including the world's largest one in Manhattan. Nobody in their right mind would refuse Google's free peering.
Keep pitching that "Windows is for real work" idea. It is destroying the Mobile/CE business.
They are selling it as a laptop. If Microsoft wants to sell laptops they should tell HP, Lenovo, Acer, Asus, Dell, Fujitsu, Toshiba, Samsung et.al. to piss off and sell an actual laptop. Not sell a tablet as a laptop. That is not going to save them any points with their hardware "partners". May as well start selling servers now too.
This seems to be the product positioning strategy. It is going to take a lot more than waving your hand and saying "this is the Macbook and iPad you are looking for." Mainly because it isn't.
Meaning it is best at neither. Just muddled enough to offend everyone.
I wonder how HP, Lenovo, Acer, ASUS, Samsung and Dell are going to feel about their software vendor going after their laptop business.
Then there's the rest of us. As the campfire turns to embers on our Amazon trek we like to whip out a PC and do some intense architectural design way out beyond cellular range.
What they do is use their total information awareness to find some excuse to put the executives in prison for a completely different reason. The difference matters little to the executive.
There was also the N-reactor which produced both plutonium and civilian electrical power.
They will keep doing that.
Hanford did generate a lot of power, and still does. Columbia Generating Station is a commercial nuclear plant.
Water. You know what a pain it is to replace the roof every 50 years? Now imagine you have to keep the rain off for 100,000 years.