I wouldn't be so sure - those assembly lines are already full to bursting making iPads, iPhones and Galaxy S3s. To fit another less-profitable table in there would mean reducing the number of more-profitable devices, so Microsoft may find difficulty in sourcing enough assembly line time to build their tablets.
No, they're more than willing to build another table for whoever wants it if the company has the money to pony up for it. Microsoft probably is the company that can get another table built and building their own devices without worrying about the others.
The tablet bit is risky as there is no real Windows tablet market so trying to create one is hazardous. There is however an established Windows tablet market. If they can undercut other ultrabook sellers (and they have almost a $100 head start if we count their own OS as free to themselves), then they could easily take it over. Even easier if they can pull something underhanded like a non-compete clause in their OEM agreements or otherwise simply strangle competing ultrabooks and thus free up those tables that the other ultrabook makers were using. The big news here is not that MS is trying to create a new market like Apple with the tablet, but that MS is trying to take over already existing (hardware) markets that they already control via their OS.
If all those galaxies were made of anti-matter, then the light would be anti-light and we couldn't see them because anti-light would be invisible.
Just in case you were not trying to be funny or for people who don't realize you are, light is its own anti-particle, so there isn't really any anti-light.
Discussing the ethics of music piracy is like discussing the ethics of speeding over the speed limit. In the end, there probably is no real ethics to do it in the light of society, yet lots of people, possibly the majority to everybody are still going to do it. Hell, like speeding, it's quite possible that people end up doing it without even knowing they are doing anything wrong. In the end, the chances of being caught no matter what the punishment are next to nil, so people are going to continue to do it. There's not much society will ever be able to do but police it, hit people who get caught with some sort of fine, and hit those repeat offenders with increasingly large fines or other punishments.
But the low-resolution display (1366x768) on the ARM version is going to compare badly against the iPad 3 and upcoming Android tablets, and the pricing will have to reflect that.
Never mind that assuming this thing comes out in time for Christmas, that the iPad 4 will probably just be a few months away. About the time it starts to gain market momentum, it will be another gen behind.
With Zune, MSFT's front-running competitor was Apple. With Xbox, it was Sony and Nintendo. Now, it's Apple again.
No, it's Apple, and HP, Toshiba, Lenovo, or whomever. They are not only competing against Apple in the tablet market but also with their own resellers with an ultrabook in the same form factor. Maybe between the two markets, they might be able to carve out one however.
Outside of all copyright and fair use claims, valid or not, there is a certain shock to find out something of yours, that you thought you had control over, it out in the wild be spread around without your control. It could be original work, photos, forum posts, or whatever. Even if used in a reverent manner, it can seem like a violation and wrong. Indeed, if used in a parody or joking manner making fun of your work is probably a better fair use case than not. Sure, we should all realize that once we put stuff out on the web, its out there and essentially out of your control and there are certainly fair use cases where it can be reposted legally, but it probably is always a shock if unexpected. Let him rant and get it out of his system (and hope nobody finds stuff on the web that you've put out there that pushes your buttons).
I don't frankly care if something is 2 inches or 2.5 inches thick. Nor wether it has 800 resolution which I won't be using anyway. What I do care about is a floppy disk drive, plenty of serial ports and an a dial-up modem so I don't have to rely on shit dongles when in an office or at home.
Oh , but it doesn't have that.
Laptops in general are nothing more than vanity machines for people with more money than sense.
Mod me down fanboys, I care not and I have karma to burn.
Ah, I see. You're a server admin. I've had quite a few of those come in (I do corporate desktop support.) and trade me their brand new laptop for a much, much older one with serial ports as that's the only way to admin many of their servers and other equipment. So long as it runs a command shell and has serial ports, they're all good.
I think that was his point. There is nothing that is "pure" CISC or pure RISC these days as they have been borrowing tech from each other for years now.
Or you could just build a set of recovery disks like the manufacturer tells you to (you know, RTM...) If you have a problem, then you can use the recovery disks to restore to factory settings and then return the thing.
Easier said than done sometimes. I do corporate desktop support and use our own image/build on lots of different types of laptops from Lenovo, HP, Toshiba, etc but still create those disk just in case of something like this. FIrst off, sometimes there is no manual to read. If you're lucky, there's a link on the desktop to make the backup disks. Other times, they hide that feature buried in some other software with no guide as to how to get to it. Once, I just had it fail to create the disks straight out of the box (but luckily, I had two of the same model and the other one worked). That is to say, i do it professionally and I sometimes find it hard, confusing, or even impossible to do, so I can only imagine what a normal user would normally go through.
Hardly. This is just them playing their cards to see who has the strongest case before settling in or out of court. Eventually, things will all be dealt, a sum will be decided upon, and somebody will pay up and might even get something for it. I'll be surprised if this actually affects either companies bottom line much in the end, let alone be detectable by any consumer not paying attention to tech site news.
People who quote the 225-year-old US constitution as gospel, are equally stupid as people who quote the bible or torah or koran as the literal truth of humanity.
Whenever this happens, Thomas Jefferson is rolling over in his grave.
Adapt or die.
It's not gospel, it's the law of the land. If we were to adapt the way Jefferson expected, we'd weigh new ideas and needs and pass proper legislation to amend the constitution so that the law was now relevant. I doubt he really expected us to ignore it whenever convenient.
You should also remember that Galileo was trying to fit his scientific models to the biblical accounts of how things should be in order to appease his Christian overlords.
He would have done a much better job of appeasing his Christian overlords had he simply not written those models in a way to make fun of them.
> I am sure the Doctor treating that heart problem thinks they are so dumb.
I had to teach one of these about "right clicking" once.
When it comes to computing they are in fact dumb as rocks and totally helpless.
Doctors are a weird crowd. I do desktop support at a hospital and have for a long time. When helping a doctor you don't know, there is no what to know what level of expertise they will have. I have also taught some doctors about right clicking, and I have also been called into a doctor's office where he started to ask me all sorts of esoteric questions about network protocols that I didn't even understand because he was trying to get the client for the DICOM image server application he wrote in his spare time to work a little faster. Then you can run the gamut of everything in between. Of course, I have also done desktop support for programmers and can say the same thing having taught programmer how to change the screen resolution on their windows computer. Sometimes it's ignorance, and sometimes it's simply a case of not wanting to learn. I have met both doctors and programmers who are in the mind set that they do their job and that's itso there is no need to know other stuff since there will always be somebody like me around.
I was under the impression that medical records were going electronic, but she tells me she still generates at least a ream of paper a week, and she works alongside hundreds of people. I can't even imagine what they were using before...
Yes, medical records are going electronic. All they have to do is get hundreds of independent hospitals all running multiple systems and at different levels of connectivity to communicate with each other, sign proper HIPAA forms, make multi-million dollar capital upgrades to their vendor systems, set up vpns, agree to the same workflows, and then implement them. Then you have the admin people who are still stuck with faxing (and complaining about it) because faxes spit out a receipt showing that the other end got their message while electronic methods do not, at least not that will satisfy legal requirements where faxes will.
Actually it's funny this is right out of Marxist philosophy which says whoever controls the means of the production are the rulers of that society. Well, over the last 20 years China has pulled in all of the world production so guess what that means? Haha, the Chinese are pretty crafty. If only Americans had read Marx instead of burning it they might have seen it coming.
Except China does not control the means of production. Apple as well as other have all said they could build stuff in the US, but it isn't as cheap or convenient as doing it in China. Nations such as Korea, Taiwan, and Japan who actually make the parts that China assembles that require skilled workers and much more expensive and long term factories to manufacture are much more in charge of the means of production than the Chinese. Hell, most things made in China we care about are built by Foxconn which is a Taiwanese company. Marx lived in a much simpler time. You have to ask who controls the means of production these days, the people assemble the parts, the people who build the parts, or the people who design the parts? The USSR failed because they couldn't see that the steel manufacturing economy had transitioned to the electronic manufacturing economy and couldn't keep up.
Of course, Marx also said that capitalist countries would always end up going to war with each other over resources, but since WW2, the actual trend is that capitalist countries make more money just making sure that 3rd world nations join the capitalist economy and sell their resources at market prices so that all countries in a single market end up wining because it's not a zero sum game.
FB is a fad. It's too closed. Too constrained. Too inconvenient. Email and blogs are better.
Ah, for mod points to mod you funny. FB is more of a trend than a fad. It started small and grew rather than just let everybody on at once and exploded. Trends last longer than fads (which would already be played out anyway if that was the case). MySpace was open and unconstrained. Facebook tends to put all your blogging and messaging in one place with everybody you know which seems to be fairly convenient for most people. Email has too much spam and people were tired of changing them all the time and losing other people's emails that had changed. I do think that Facebook fails with blogging, however most people seem to just look at well thought out and written blogs as tldr.
That being said, social stuff is somewhat fickle and FB may go away, but will only do so if something better goes away. Breaking everything back up into multiple apps and protocols such as email and messaging isn't going to happen or people never would have left them to begin with. Google+ really isn't making any headway and doesn't even seem to be trying. Until they can at least tie in their calendar to G+, I really don't see anybody leaving FB for it. As much as some people hate FB, most people tend to like it and it isn't going anywhere till those people who like and use it find something better.
Myspace died and Facebook took over because customers wanted games, a decent scheduling module, and a walled garden where people couldn't put up their own horrible html pages filled with malware (while catering to the people that like to post a hundred times a day and read other people's hundred posts a day). The only thing Myspace really had was lots of music and bands, and they pretty much failed to take advantage of that.
Are you kidding? How many times did Spock die? Hell, even McCoy died in one episode. Who loses more patients, McCoy or Crusher? McCoy probably lost more and NG was on the air more than twice as long as OS. Somebody (usually more than one somebody) died every damned week under Kirk.
And hey, those red shirts' mothers probably disagree with you. A good captain keeps ALL of his crew alive, not just the senior officers.
But these were much different times. Kirk was exploring new and dangerous territories. Picard's mission was more of patrolling surveyed territories. IIRC, Kirk was the only one to bring one of the original twelves starships of that class on the same mission home at all. The other eleven of Starfleet's pride and joy, captained by the best they could muster, all met obstacles they couldn't handle and failed to return. Space was much more dangerous then especially when exploring with lower tech.
Now, for now, their friends are not on Google+ -- but that can turn on a dime. All it needs it Google to care about taking that top spot from Facebook. A good six month marketing strategy, some high profile users, and Facebook is a dead as MySpace.
No, it will take much more than that. Until Google+ ties into Google Calendar for events planning, they lack one of the killer apps that people use FB for. They can do it, but it's not a matter of just "marketing" (for which you seem to mean advertising) and some high profile users. They need to come up with a comparable set of features and then add a few others that FB doesn't have. Their circles bit would be such an additional feature, but they need to catch up to FB in other areas before FB catches up to G+.
It was Apple's product, but once you purchase it, it becomes your product.
In that case, I'm going to buy a copy of Linux, fork the source code, sell it, and not make those changes public. After all, I bought it, it has become my product.
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My Navy brother yells at us when we use boat to refer to a non-submarine, too. Boat = underwater, ship = above water.
The way my navy friend explained it to me is that ships carry boats. If what you are on has lifeboats, then it's a ship.
I wouldn't be so sure - those assembly lines are already full to bursting making iPads, iPhones and Galaxy S3s. To fit another less-profitable table in there would mean reducing the number of more-profitable devices, so Microsoft may find difficulty in sourcing enough assembly line time to build their tablets.
No, they're more than willing to build another table for whoever wants it if the company has the money to pony up for it. Microsoft probably is the company that can get another table built and building their own devices without worrying about the others.
The tablet bit is risky as there is no real Windows tablet market so trying to create one is hazardous. There is however an established Windows tablet market. If they can undercut other ultrabook sellers (and they have almost a $100 head start if we count their own OS as free to themselves), then they could easily take it over. Even easier if they can pull something underhanded like a non-compete clause in their OEM agreements or otherwise simply strangle competing ultrabooks and thus free up those tables that the other ultrabook makers were using. The big news here is not that MS is trying to create a new market like Apple with the tablet, but that MS is trying to take over already existing (hardware) markets that they already control via their OS.
If all those galaxies were made of anti-matter, then the light would be anti-light and we couldn't see them because anti-light would be invisible.
Just in case you were not trying to be funny or for people who don't realize you are, light is its own anti-particle, so there isn't really any anti-light.
Discussing the ethics of music piracy is like discussing the ethics of speeding over the speed limit. In the end, there probably is no real ethics to do it in the light of society, yet lots of people, possibly the majority to everybody are still going to do it. Hell, like speeding, it's quite possible that people end up doing it without even knowing they are doing anything wrong. In the end, the chances of being caught no matter what the punishment are next to nil, so people are going to continue to do it. There's not much society will ever be able to do but police it, hit people who get caught with some sort of fine, and hit those repeat offenders with increasingly large fines or other punishments.
But the low-resolution display (1366x768) on the ARM version is going to compare badly against the iPad 3 and upcoming Android tablets, and the pricing will have to reflect that.
Never mind that assuming this thing comes out in time for Christmas, that the iPad 4 will probably just be a few months away. About the time it starts to gain market momentum, it will be another gen behind.
With Zune, MSFT's front-running competitor was Apple. With Xbox, it was Sony and Nintendo. Now, it's Apple again.
No, it's Apple, and HP, Toshiba, Lenovo, or whomever. They are not only competing against Apple in the tablet market but also with their own resellers with an ultrabook in the same form factor. Maybe between the two markets, they might be able to carve out one however.
Dude, chill. Seriously. It's not that big a deal.
No, it's just not that big a deal to you.
Outside of all copyright and fair use claims, valid or not, there is a certain shock to find out something of yours, that you thought you had control over, it out in the wild be spread around without your control. It could be original work, photos, forum posts, or whatever. Even if used in a reverent manner, it can seem like a violation and wrong. Indeed, if used in a parody or joking manner making fun of your work is probably a better fair use case than not. Sure, we should all realize that once we put stuff out on the web, its out there and essentially out of your control and there are certainly fair use cases where it can be reposted legally, but it probably is always a shock if unexpected. Let him rant and get it out of his system (and hope nobody finds stuff on the web that you've put out there that pushes your buttons).
I don't frankly care if something is 2 inches or 2.5 inches thick. Nor wether it has 800 resolution which I won't be using anyway. What I do care about is a floppy disk drive, plenty of serial ports and an a dial-up modem so I don't have to rely on shit dongles when in an office or at home.
Oh , but it doesn't have that.
Laptops in general are nothing more than vanity machines for people with more money than sense.
Mod me down fanboys, I care not and I have karma to burn.
Ah, I see. You're a server admin. I've had quite a few of those come in (I do corporate desktop support.) and trade me their brand new laptop for a much, much older one with serial ports as that's the only way to admin many of their servers and other equipment. So long as it runs a command shell and has serial ports, they're all good.
FWIW, ARM isn't a pure RISC instruction set.
I think that was his point. There is nothing that is "pure" CISC or pure RISC these days as they have been borrowing tech from each other for years now.
Or you could just build a set of recovery disks like the manufacturer tells you to (you know, RTM...) If you have a problem, then you can use the recovery disks to restore to factory settings and then return the thing.
Easier said than done sometimes. I do corporate desktop support and use our own image/build on lots of different types of laptops from Lenovo, HP, Toshiba, etc but still create those disk just in case of something like this. FIrst off, sometimes there is no manual to read. If you're lucky, there's a link on the desktop to make the backup disks. Other times, they hide that feature buried in some other software with no guide as to how to get to it. Once, I just had it fail to create the disks straight out of the box (but luckily, I had two of the same model and the other one worked). That is to say, i do it professionally and I sometimes find it hard, confusing, or even impossible to do, so I can only imagine what a normal user would normally go through.
Mutually Assured Destruction:
Hardly. This is just them playing their cards to see who has the strongest case before settling in or out of court. Eventually, things will all be dealt, a sum will be decided upon, and somebody will pay up and might even get something for it. I'll be surprised if this actually affects either companies bottom line much in the end, let alone be detectable by any consumer not paying attention to tech site news.
People who quote the 225-year-old US constitution as gospel, are equally stupid as people who quote the bible or torah or koran as the literal truth of humanity.
Whenever this happens, Thomas Jefferson is rolling over in his grave.
Adapt or die.
It's not gospel, it's the law of the land. If we were to adapt the way Jefferson expected, we'd weigh new ideas and needs and pass proper legislation to amend the constitution so that the law was now relevant. I doubt he really expected us to ignore it whenever convenient.
You should also remember that Galileo was trying to fit his scientific models to the biblical accounts of how things should be in order to appease his Christian overlords.
He would have done a much better job of appeasing his Christian overlords had he simply not written those models in a way to make fun of them.
We did this a lot in AD&D. DISBELIEVE!
Roll!
> I am sure the Doctor treating that heart problem thinks they are so dumb.
I had to teach one of these about "right clicking" once.
When it comes to computing they are in fact dumb as rocks and totally helpless.
Doctors are a weird crowd. I do desktop support at a hospital and have for a long time. When helping a doctor you don't know, there is no what to know what level of expertise they will have. I have also taught some doctors about right clicking, and I have also been called into a doctor's office where he started to ask me all sorts of esoteric questions about network protocols that I didn't even understand because he was trying to get the client for the DICOM image server application he wrote in his spare time to work a little faster. Then you can run the gamut of everything in between. Of course, I have also done desktop support for programmers and can say the same thing having taught programmer how to change the screen resolution on their windows computer. Sometimes it's ignorance, and sometimes it's simply a case of not wanting to learn. I have met both doctors and programmers who are in the mind set that they do their job and that's itso there is no need to know other stuff since there will always be somebody like me around.
I was under the impression that medical records were going electronic, but she tells me she still generates at least a ream of paper a week, and she works alongside hundreds of people. I can't even imagine what they were using before...
Yes, medical records are going electronic. All they have to do is get hundreds of independent hospitals all running multiple systems and at different levels of connectivity to communicate with each other, sign proper HIPAA forms, make multi-million dollar capital upgrades to their vendor systems, set up vpns, agree to the same workflows, and then implement them. Then you have the admin people who are still stuck with faxing (and complaining about it) because faxes spit out a receipt showing that the other end got their message while electronic methods do not, at least not that will satisfy legal requirements where faxes will.
Actually it's funny this is right out of Marxist philosophy which says whoever controls the means of the production are the rulers of that society. Well, over the last 20 years China has pulled in all of the world production so guess what that means? Haha, the Chinese are pretty crafty. If only Americans had read Marx instead of burning it they might have seen it coming.
Except China does not control the means of production. Apple as well as other have all said they could build stuff in the US, but it isn't as cheap or convenient as doing it in China. Nations such as Korea, Taiwan, and Japan who actually make the parts that China assembles that require skilled workers and much more expensive and long term factories to manufacture are much more in charge of the means of production than the Chinese. Hell, most things made in China we care about are built by Foxconn which is a Taiwanese company. Marx lived in a much simpler time. You have to ask who controls the means of production these days, the people assemble the parts, the people who build the parts, or the people who design the parts? The USSR failed because they couldn't see that the steel manufacturing economy had transitioned to the electronic manufacturing economy and couldn't keep up.
Of course, Marx also said that capitalist countries would always end up going to war with each other over resources, but since WW2, the actual trend is that capitalist countries make more money just making sure that 3rd world nations join the capitalist economy and sell their resources at market prices so that all countries in a single market end up wining because it's not a zero sum game.
FB is a fad. It's too closed. Too constrained. Too inconvenient. Email and blogs are better.
Ah, for mod points to mod you funny. FB is more of a trend than a fad. It started small and grew rather than just let everybody on at once and exploded. Trends last longer than fads (which would already be played out anyway if that was the case). MySpace was open and unconstrained. Facebook tends to put all your blogging and messaging in one place with everybody you know which seems to be fairly convenient for most people. Email has too much spam and people were tired of changing them all the time and losing other people's emails that had changed. I do think that Facebook fails with blogging, however most people seem to just look at well thought out and written blogs as tldr.
That being said, social stuff is somewhat fickle and FB may go away, but will only do so if something better goes away. Breaking everything back up into multiple apps and protocols such as email and messaging isn't going to happen or people never would have left them to begin with. Google+ really isn't making any headway and doesn't even seem to be trying. Until they can at least tie in their calendar to G+, I really don't see anybody leaving FB for it. As much as some people hate FB, most people tend to like it and it isn't going anywhere till those people who like and use it find something better.
Myspace died and Facebook took over because customers wanted games, a decent scheduling module, and a walled garden where people couldn't put up their own horrible html pages filled with malware (while catering to the people that like to post a hundred times a day and read other people's hundred posts a day). The only thing Myspace really had was lots of music and bands, and they pretty much failed to take advantage of that.
Are you kidding? How many times did Spock die? Hell, even McCoy died in one episode. Who loses more patients, McCoy or Crusher? McCoy probably lost more and NG was on the air more than twice as long as OS. Somebody (usually more than one somebody) died every damned week under Kirk.
And hey, those red shirts' mothers probably disagree with you. A good captain keeps ALL of his crew alive, not just the senior officers.
But these were much different times. Kirk was exploring new and dangerous territories. Picard's mission was more of patrolling surveyed territories. IIRC, Kirk was the only one to bring one of the original twelves starships of that class on the same mission home at all. The other eleven of Starfleet's pride and joy, captained by the best they could muster, all met obstacles they couldn't handle and failed to return. Space was much more dangerous then especially when exploring with lower tech.
Now, for now, their friends are not on Google+ -- but that can turn on a dime. All it needs it Google to care about taking that top spot from Facebook. A good six month marketing strategy, some high profile users, and Facebook is a dead as MySpace.
No, it will take much more than that. Until Google+ ties into Google Calendar for events planning, they lack one of the killer apps that people use FB for. They can do it, but it's not a matter of just "marketing" (for which you seem to mean advertising) and some high profile users. They need to come up with a comparable set of features and then add a few others that FB doesn't have. Their circles bit would be such an additional feature, but they need to catch up to FB in other areas before FB catches up to G+.
Smoking (nicotine) is an appetite suppressant.
I'd like the licensability of software to be outlawed personally.
Me too. I hate the GPL.
It was Apple's product, but once you purchase it, it becomes your product.
In that case, I'm going to buy a copy of Linux, fork the source code, sell it, and not make those changes public. After all, I bought it, it has become my product.
Oops, looks like they finally got around to building the dome on the capitol.