Vaccinations are haram, that is, against sharia. Every year following the annual Hajj, the Muslim world sees an uptick in polio as a result. With the largest Muslim population in the world, India is bound to always have polio.
So no harm no foul. The F-35 JSF program is so absurdly over budget, late and has so many profoundly crucial problems with basic technology it will never see active service. The next President will kill it off.
I have a house full of laptops including a Lenovo Yoga with Win8. I sort of get what they were going for - a machine that's more 'live' in response to a very limited suite of core functions that people use tablets for. The problem is that all the underlying apps don't see the world that way - they work the old way. So you have to re learn a new way to access your old apps which still work more or less the same old way - except where they don't. Or where they for no reason left off basic apps like a DVD player. Or the security suite doesn't really start all the time and you have to jump through enormous hoops to get it running.
I guess from a human factors standpoint they were going for making the machine more transparent to the function. The problem is that they only got part-way. It's analogous to using a GPS but having to tell it the name of the street you're on after every turn. Or alternatively, it's like owning a driverless car which works sort of ok until it doesn't and then you discover that you have to replace the ignition key to open the door - once you're already inside if something goes wrong.
If they were going for a user experience that made the computer invisible then they really failed. In some ways they made it worse because just as many things need user attention as before but it's harder to do them.
Chromebooks point out one crucial thing - people don't use their computers for very much. If you have a browser and some apps that are browser like, such as social media then you can cover 99% of what people actually buy computers for.
I've been dicking around with Chrome and lightweight Linux on a netbook for months - looking for something to replace XP when it goes away. All these systems and distros are, at a high level, more or less the same thing. From "Cloud Based OS's" to Mint to Xubuntu to all the others. And while they purport to have about 40-45 thousand apps to install among them, it's like the apps catalog on Google Play albeit with fewer games. Once you get past the media players, the DVD burners, the office apps you hit the bottom of the barrel or the wall or whatever you call it. About all that's really missing is a good suite of 4G drivers and the ability to make your machine a wireless access point. So if you're a PC application maker you should be seriously looking to change your business or sell your company because in a year you will be a niche business, a corporate provider or dead.
SIX seconds? Are you kidding me? I've forgotten what I was doing after 3. A hundred and 40 chars? Get real. The next twitter will be 30 chars or less or just a weird sonar-like animal noise.
Smarter Motherfucking Planet, My Ass. Company is run by executive pirates who work for themselves and only themselves. Ginni Rometty is this century's John Akers.
Problem solved. France is now in that elite group of evolved countries of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran, China, North Korea, Malaysia, Zimbabwe and Belarus.
It's impossible. Great for dealerships though as you will be required to have all the 'work' done by them, and by 'work' we mean large scale replacement of body panels replete with specialized welding equipment that none of the slacktards know how to use.
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Because there's no jobs.
A great niche application for the venerable old girl.
Vaccinations are haram, that is, against sharia. Every year following the annual Hajj, the Muslim world sees an uptick in polio as a result. With the largest Muslim population in the world, India is bound to always have polio.
It will create the world's first synthetic lawyer.
Give or take an epoch.
The truth is out there.
So no harm no foul. The F-35 JSF program is so absurdly over budget, late and has so many profoundly crucial problems with basic technology it will never see active service. The next President will kill it off.
Because the last 14 committees weren't enough.
Not that we need another space race but it's tragic that Americans don't even notice that it's something we no longer do.
I have a house full of laptops including a Lenovo Yoga with Win8. I sort of get what they were going for - a machine that's more 'live' in response to a very limited suite of core functions that people use tablets for. The problem is that all the underlying apps don't see the world that way - they work the old way. So you have to re learn a new way to access your old apps which still work more or less the same old way - except where they don't. Or where they for no reason left off basic apps like a DVD player. Or the security suite doesn't really start all the time and you have to jump through enormous hoops to get it running.
I guess from a human factors standpoint they were going for making the machine more transparent to the function. The problem is that they only got part-way. It's analogous to using a GPS but having to tell it the name of the street you're on after every turn. Or alternatively, it's like owning a driverless car which works sort of ok until it doesn't and then you discover that you have to replace the ignition key to open the door - once you're already inside if something goes wrong.
If they were going for a user experience that made the computer invisible then they really failed. In some ways they made it worse because just as many things need user attention as before but it's harder to do them.
Chromebooks point out one crucial thing - people don't use their computers for very much. If you have a browser and some apps that are browser like, such as social media then you can cover 99% of what people actually buy computers for.
I've been dicking around with Chrome and lightweight Linux on a netbook for months - looking for something to replace XP when it goes away. All these systems and distros are, at a high level, more or less the same thing. From "Cloud Based OS's" to Mint to Xubuntu to all the others. And while they purport to have about 40-45 thousand apps to install among them, it's like the apps catalog on Google Play albeit with fewer games. Once you get past the media players, the DVD burners, the office apps you hit the bottom of the barrel or the wall or whatever you call it. About all that's really missing is a good suite of 4G drivers and the ability to make your machine a wireless access point. So if you're a PC application maker you should be seriously looking to change your business or sell your company because in a year you will be a niche business, a corporate provider or dead.
SIX seconds? Are you kidding me? I've forgotten what I was doing after 3. A hundred and 40 chars? Get real. The next twitter will be 30 chars or less or just a weird sonar-like animal noise.
Smarter Motherfucking Planet, My Ass. Company is run by executive pirates who work for themselves and only themselves. Ginni Rometty is this century's John Akers.
Problem solved. France is now in that elite group of evolved countries of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran, China, North Korea, Malaysia, Zimbabwe and Belarus.
Kiss Noise.
Sorry but in the real world if your cashier rings up the wrong price it's your loss. Suck it. Suck it hard. Deeply. With commitment.
I am shocked, shocked I tell you.
Fire all the engineers and make Apple a patent troll!
That is all.
It's impossible. Great for dealerships though as you will be required to have all the 'work' done by them, and by 'work' we mean large scale replacement of body panels replete with specialized welding equipment that none of the slacktards know how to use.
They've had years of advanced notice. Do something or don't do something. But stop whining about it.
Here's an idea, just stay out of my way, State of California, thanks.
It's not really needed anymore. Just make sure you run MSE or something similar.
Or some kind of VM genn'd off a server image and transported to a thin client.
for the oil and blubber. then harvest them with wind and solar powered whaling vessels. it's the only answer.
What about encryption, key management, reliability, uptime, consistent throughput and 20 or 30 other things?