I bet more than 50% of the world has at least seen a smartphone. Or walked by an ATM. Or something. Maybe not a personal computer, but definitely a computer.
for the first time since the early '80s, the share of worldwide sales of DRAM chips consumed by PCs (desktop and laptop computers, but not tablets) has dropped below fifty percent.
50% of what? compared to what? where did it go? what's the other 50%? it seems to imply tablets (from the line: "desktop and laptop computers, but not tablets") so should I assume this doesn't include smartphones? dishwashers?
The point if mentioning the price is to point out that even if you do drop it, it's not the end of the world. You don't have to spend the $600+ off contract to buy a whole new device, you can simply replace the screen for a couple hundred dollars. But, you forgot to include the time you spend learning to replace the screen, and any tools and materials required. This will obviously depend on what your time is worth, but for me, I'd gladly pay someone else.
And what does the on-contract price have to do with anything?
I work for a company that deploys iPhones and iPads. We've given out hundreds of devices. So far we've had 3 broken (screen shattered). You can get a screen replaced for a couple hundred dollars. I've seen COUNTLESS iPhones/iPads dropped without suffering any damage, or just very minor scratching. The only time we see REAL damage is when it lands on a corner and all the force is concentrated in that one small area, and only happens on a very hard surface like concrete. As far as blackberrys, we replace about 3 a week. Usually trackballs and now the touchpads failing, keypads stop working randomly and of course the finish wears off all of them within 3-6 months, so they start flaking. Everyone knows when they inevitable freeze up you have to reboot them by removing the battery. The new problem now is speakers failing, we have people bring in Tours/Curves because their "ringer and speaker phone stopped working" -- tell tale sign every time. Basically we replace blackberrys at LEAST at a 5:1 rate as we do iPhones. No dropping required!
I agree, laptop is way better than an iPad for this use case. But a couple things bugged me. #1 using an AppleTV to send output to a TV is really obvious and nice, it uses a feature called AirPlay that mirrors the iPad or sends video via WiFi to the AppleTV. And #2, USB sticks to move files? Really, in 2012? Who still does this? I use filebrowser for local fileservers and Dropbox for everything else. Filebrowser is actually fantastic for quickly pulling up files.
Again, I absolutely think they made a poor choice and should stick with laptops, but some of these "problems" are not iPad problems. They are competency problems.
Oh, you mean a device that CAN'T be rebooted, not one that REQUIRES it. Like, my Android phone never needs to be rebooted, but if something happened I COULD, versus say Windows that REQUIRES regular reboots. Absolutely agree, of course.
Wow you really don't get it do you? This is about changing the image of a group of people who've typically considered boring. It was INTERESTING because it was DIFFERENT. Not sure how you don't understand that.
I'm seriously considering switching from Fedora to Debian because after all these years yum is still so absolutely embarassingly slow. Yes, I've installed presto and fastest-mirror, I've even manually specified mirrors. Short of building your own local repo and rsync'ing it regularly, you will never get a good yum experience, whereas apt is screaming fast right out of the box. And with Fedora continuing to stuff things like systemd and NetworkManager down my throat, I'm at my wits end.
Someone talk me down or push me off the ledge I'm ok either way.
How does that work when it decides to throw in a bunch of additional dependencies? I always assumed that's why the default for Fedora was to ask, admittedly it does seem redundant when you install a single package that required no dependency.
You probably half, what, a couple million lines of source? print it out and store it in a waterproof/fireproof safe(s). It wouldn't be fun but you could hire a team of people at like $10/hour to key it all back in the matter of a few weeks, tops.
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I bet more than 50% of the world has at least seen a smartphone. Or walked by an ATM. Or something. Maybe not a personal computer, but definitely a computer.
I agree, and I'd like to see the statistics. I think the vast majority of people aren't replacing their PCs, they're supplementing them.
for the first time since the early '80s, the share of worldwide sales of DRAM chips consumed by PCs (desktop and laptop computers, but not tablets) has dropped below fifty percent.
50% of what? compared to what? where did it go? what's the other 50%? it seems to imply tablets (from the line: "desktop and laptop computers, but not tablets") so should I assume this doesn't include smartphones? dishwashers?
The point if mentioning the price is to point out that even if you do drop it, it's not the end of the world. You don't have to spend the $600+ off contract to buy a whole new device, you can simply replace the screen for a couple hundred dollars. But, you forgot to include the time you spend learning to replace the screen, and any tools and materials required. This will obviously depend on what your time is worth, but for me, I'd gladly pay someone else.
And what does the on-contract price have to do with anything?
I work for a company that deploys iPhones and iPads. We've given out hundreds of devices. So far we've had 3 broken (screen shattered). You can get a screen replaced for a couple hundred dollars. I've seen COUNTLESS iPhones/iPads dropped without suffering any damage, or just very minor scratching. The only time we see REAL damage is when it lands on a corner and all the force is concentrated in that one small area, and only happens on a very hard surface like concrete. As far as blackberrys, we replace about 3 a week. Usually trackballs and now the touchpads failing, keypads stop working randomly and of course the finish wears off all of them within 3-6 months, so they start flaking. Everyone knows when they inevitable freeze up you have to reboot them by removing the battery. The new problem now is speakers failing, we have people bring in Tours/Curves because their "ringer and speaker phone stopped working" -- tell tale sign every time. Basically we replace blackberrys at LEAST at a 5:1 rate as we do iPhones. No dropping required!
I would love to hear how the Galaxy Note is far superior to the iPhone 5.
Hopefully not, so we can accelerate the development of HTML5 applications.
I agree, laptop is way better than an iPad for this use case. But a couple things bugged me. #1 using an AppleTV to send output to a TV is really obvious and nice, it uses a feature called AirPlay that mirrors the iPad or sends video via WiFi to the AppleTV. And #2, USB sticks to move files? Really, in 2012? Who still does this? I use filebrowser for local fileservers and Dropbox for everything else. Filebrowser is actually fantastic for quickly pulling up files.
Again, I absolutely think they made a poor choice and should stick with laptops, but some of these "problems" are not iPad problems. They are competency problems.
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That's a lot of porn, good luck!
Oh, you mean a device that CAN'T be rebooted, not one that REQUIRES it. Like, my Android phone never needs to be rebooted, but if something happened I COULD, versus say Windows that REQUIRES regular reboots. Absolutely agree, of course.
so they are forced to spend a hundred times as much to get a full on UPS.
You mean tens of dollars. Which I will choose buying a UPS over fiddling around with capacitors. Not worth my time.
ok I'll bite, why would I not want a "never reboot" PC?
Holy shit you let women on the internet????? Does the Internet High Council know about this???????
Wow you really don't get it do you? This is about changing the image of a group of people who've typically considered boring. It was INTERESTING because it was DIFFERENT. Not sure how you don't understand that.
Scalability, availability, management, power, cooling, etc. I don't disagree that $175 seems steep, but you're comparing apples and oranges.
People can lie, (hundreds of) tests cannot. It's really that simple.
It's sad because the assholes at the top made a killing pumping and dumping the stock, no doubt.
You're missing the point entirely. He's asking why the furor over the radiation LEVEL. Obviously the incident shouldn't have happened.
I'm seriously considering switching from Fedora to Debian because after all these years yum is still so absolutely embarassingly slow. Yes, I've installed presto and fastest-mirror, I've even manually specified mirrors. Short of building your own local repo and rsync'ing it regularly, you will never get a good yum experience, whereas apt is screaming fast right out of the box. And with Fedora continuing to stuff things like systemd and NetworkManager down my throat, I'm at my wits end.
Someone talk me down or push me off the ledge I'm ok either way.
How does that work when it decides to throw in a bunch of additional dependencies? I always assumed that's why the default for Fedora was to ask, admittedly it does seem redundant when you install a single package that required no dependency.
You probably half, what, a couple million lines of source? print it out and store it in a waterproof/fireproof safe(s). It wouldn't be fun but you could hire a team of people at like $10/hour to key it all back in the matter of a few weeks, tops.
No it just runs vxworks
There were 11 million illegal immigrants in the US in 2008. Try again.
Just the opposite, the point of Wayland is to do LESS.
Start here: http://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html#heading_toc_j_8