The reason Apple isn't making inroads in business is they have no real integration with Active Directory, nor any replacement for it that will take over those tasks for Windows etc. Now, you can buy third party software at great expense to link Mac OS to AD and GPOs, but now the expensive Mac tax just went up 15%...
iOS has even less interest as far as I can tell in any management control.
Android is much the same. So Microsoft really did have a niche they could have leveraged here with Surface and WinRT. But instead they focused WinRT on consumers, just another Android / iOS but not clone from a business management perspective.
All of which means WinRT is a non-starter for business. They already have the headache and some workarounds from third parties in iOS, and all the exec love their iPads. Why would any IT dept put effort into WinRT then?
The Windows 8 Pro tablets on the other hand are not price competitive with *any* tablet as far as I can tell, they cost as much as mid-range laptops, but with lower specs. So you do get AD and GPO, but pay a lot for that hardware vs using a "real laptop". I suppose if volume deals from resellers gets the Win8 Pro Surface for $600, there might be something to talk about, but then that just kills the market in business for the $500 surface with WinRT. Then again, as I said, there wasn't really a market there anyway.
The big problem with the consumer focused $500 Surface tablet is it's a crappy iPad replacement. Everyone is focusing on 16GB more local storage, but so what? Isn't everyone (Apple, Google, MS) talking about Cloud Storage for these devices? And not to be that 640k is enough for anyone, but what do you do on a tablet that is going to eat 16+ GB of local storage? I suppose you could carry your video collection with you on it, but again, with Netflix, Cloud and the likely technical know how needed to move video files from your DVDs to the tablet - who's really doing this?
The one differentiator of Surface was, I thought, the built in cover / keyboard, but this apparently is a $100-$120 optional extra, or is only in the $600-$620 model, I'm really not sure. For that same money, there are nice 3rd party iPad covers with keyboards.
As far as I can see in the consumer space, there's the low price Nexus and Kindle Fires, and the high end iPad. There's also the ultra low price android tablets for people who want a really cheap tablet. I don't know anyone who wants to pay iPad prices for a very limited launch day Microsoft tablet.
Honestly, Microsoft was probably the only one who could price the same as the iPad and have an iPad killer, but that would have meant an x86 tablet at $600 with the case + keyboard running "real" Windows 8 Pro, with a launch day availability of good touch versions of the Microsoft applications plus probably a stylus for third party apps. Leave it to Microsoft to manage to make tablets and OSs that totally miss the mark in their price points.
That has the ports built in. For Office, you're running the free Kingsoft Office... Oh, and if you want more storage, plug in a microSD card for many GB more at much cheaper prices per GB.
All for $210. Surface is laughably bad for bang for buck, as is older refurb iPads... the only killer app IMO in the new iPad is the awesome resolution.
larger screen has more room for icons or other interface items.
Only insofar as you have sufficient resolution to display the icons. If you have a monitor at 19", but 800x600 (default Win7 resolution) you have a large display, but can only have maybe 15 icons across at the default size. Sure, you can make them smaller / blurrier icons, but you can't get more icons at the default settings. It'll look rather bad in my experience.
Well, merrimobiles has ICS tablets @ 10" screen size for ~$200, depending on specs that you want. Their resolution is close to the Surface, and multitouch capacitive. Nothing has the resolution of the iPad right now, but these exist. As far as I can tell, the 7" is much more usable / portable, but that may be because only Apple is doing 4:3 ratio screens, so these really long 10" 16:9 screens just seem clunky to me.
Well, it's not about the publishing format so much as the distribution format. LaTeX will let you have multiple size page templates etc, but if the journal only releases one size PDF say, that's all you get. It's quite similar to a recompile of portable code to another platform - a few minor setups and run it through the processor again.
I'm sorry, but this is impossible. What about headless servers? Or remote support where you need to reboot the PC? I can't see anyone who knows better buying these "secure boot" (Broken boot IMO) computers.
Yea, Newegg is too expensive now adays. I remember when they used to be, if not the cheapest on pricewatch?? (been awhile), then in the lowest 3 or so. Now they're matched with "general online retailers" like Amazon or Buy.com... That said, I do still save tax on Newegg to NY vs Amazon, but even there, Newegg often makes up any savings by charging shipping.
I talking about UI breakages, and underlying driver breakages. From my way of thinking, in the last.. OK 11 years:
1) 95 style to XP Luna, especially control panel and start menu changes. Oh and all the drivers broke from 9x to XP. Introduced filesystem permissions, multiple users. Traditional exe installers (which were a mess) to MSIs (which were a different but equally big mess for a LOOONG Time, and still perform slower than an EXE installer - unless the EXE installer just wraps an MSI in which case...)
2) XP to Vista - again, start menu very different, taskbar changes to big icons w/out text, all the drivers broke. Oh and again with the control panel entirely different. Oh, and user directories change from Documents and Settings to Users...
3) Menus to Ribbons - huge UI change, much yelling on retraining / re-learning
4) Windows 8 - biggest UI change yet with much relearning (again), drivers broke (again), installer changes (again)... I'm tired of it. I'm an IT person, and I want a stable base to let me get on with just using the platform to get stuff done rather than re-inventing the deployment, GPOs, packaging, whatever to *get back to where I am today*. That's why my work skipped Vista and is skipping Win8. We don't need the multiple steps back - we're tired of running just to stay in place.
It just feels like they change up the UI on parts of the OS for the hell of it, just to force people to re-learn where on this OS they decided to hide the default start menu or desktop or adapter settings.
Really? I guess google maps on my Droid III just suck horribly then for driving. Don't know if it's my phone or what, but my Garmin Nuvii 755 wins hands down for nav (for me anyway).
I use Google occasionally to double check an address, but other than that, the garmin gets my location far faster, generates the route about 50 times faster, gives equally good or better routes, and doesn't end up fighting with my podcast app or phone calls.
Oh, and the Garmin isn't eating my data allotment the whole time I'm using it.
Or, you know, if you want more monitors than the integrated supports. Or if you, IDK, work in graphics, CAD, etc. Or if you need to support some new monitor resolutions....
Remember when integrated video didn't support over 1280 x 1024, or didn't support wide screen? Now it doesn't support Dual-Link DVI and some of the newer 2650 x 1440 or higher monitors out (think Catleap)...
Yea, it's more than gamers. Then again, if you use a single 1920 x 1080 monitor, for spreadsheets and windows, sure, integrated is fine.
Much of the "hate" of Windows 8 can be attributed to 1) not liking change 2) having to relearn a new system 3) immaturity of third party drivers and apps, and 4) misinformation spread by people (which was at least 50% of Vista's problem, not that it also didn't have real problems as well at first).
Well, yes, but 1-3 are pretty much valid reasons to dislike a product. It's demonstrably worse than the predecessor. Why would anyone "like" that?
Why does dislike turn into hate here? Because the people are hating MS for doing this again and again and fricken *every* time they update the OS. And they keep pushing it *all the damn time*. If it was every 10 years, people would be less frothy than every 3 years or less. We're spending all our time running to stay in place over the forced MS breakages rather than moving ahead on a stable platform (I mean UI and methods)...
Casual users who have never used a computer before maybe. I'll see your anecdote and raise you one with more datapoints. NO ONE I know, casual or not, likes a UI change that doesn't address *any* issues they've ever had.
The casual users I know work like a basic AutoIt script - by knowing what pixels to click on or look at to do a task. When those pixels change - even to the "minor extent" of Win XP to Win 7, they freak out and don't know where to click because the button moved 1/2 an inch.
These are the same people who cannot handle an icon change on the desktop - if it moves, they can't find it, if it changes color or whatever, even though the text is the same, they don't know what to do.
These are the vast swath of non computer people who had to have the "intelligent menus" disabled, and who still can't use the ribbon because the icons change based on what they click on, and they don't understand that (say in outlook) that a Search is a different context from browsing mail for the ribbon icons. Heck, it messes me up, but I know what to do to get back.
These people look at a different UI and do their best to stay away.
Can people eventually re-memorize the new locations of stuff? Maybe - but with the easter egg interface of Win 8 (stuff doesn't appear until you move your mouse over the edge - or stuff randomly appears when you don't expect when you hit a "charm" or whatever they're calling it)... But many users don't use a PC every day, and they forget that they had to do something to get an option, so they feel like somehow the option disappeared.
I don't see anyone rushing to pay MS for the privilege of that trauma. I'm already hearing people say, "Well I was going to maybe get a new computer sometime in the next year to get off of XP, but... with the Win 8 I see, I guess I'll wait for Win 9 and hope my old XP PC doesn't die".
Win2k was great for Corporate, but totally useless for a home user - most all programs home users wanted (like games) didn't work because they were still 9x and ME focused...
I remember trying XP when it first came out and quickly going back to 98SE, and waiting about 2 years before trying again. Either it was SP1 or faster processors, but at that point I really liked it - through 2010 or so.
I think it's more like MS does OK with every other OS, after a Service Pack or so. XP didn't become "awesome" till SP2 after all. At work, Win 7 didn't get great till SP1 either.
To be fair, in the Win 7 case, I think the SP1 date had less to do with MS fixing Win 7 and more to do with the vast majority of developers finally getting dragged, kicking and screaming, into the "Post-XP" world.
This all also ties back into the fact that most people running Windows have NO desire to upgrade their OS (which is usually a complete wipe and re-install) every 3 years. They liked the 10 year XP cycle.
OT a bit - I think there are 3 paths MS could take here. They might be working on all three (which of course is so like MS, to not really have a vision and sort of flail around with pretty different strategies at the same time).
1) Status quo - Good release > Bad Release > Good Release with people begrudgingly changing OSs every 6 years in an every other method. 2) Subscription OSs. The OS stays for 10 years, and MS can afford that because you're paying yearly anyway. MS fails at consumer acceptable subscription pricing though if the Office price points are any guide. 3) MS fixes Windows so upgrades go MUCH easier than currently. The Win8 App store + cloud stuff is probably MSs plan for this. I think fixing applications so they store things in users directories so a simple copy paste in to the new OS gets the app settings back, oh and a simple software install method a la linux / apple so your full upgrade is a day or less - back to your data, apps and settings on a new base, rather than weeks of installing apps as the need comes up and re-configuring stuff differently for each app.
I personally don't love any of the above strategies MS is planning, especially as they try to do all 3 at once when they should be *different* strategies (I don't think they're synergistic myself)...
But as a e-book reader, is there really much call for 4G data? I mean, wouldn't you generally load your books wherever you have wifi and (like with physical books) just bring them with you out and about? If you already have a smartphone, you're not using it for net access really...
If you care mostly about viewing angle (vs, IDK, sitting in front of the TV you want to watch), then this may be useful. But there are many axis of quality, and when I went shopping for TVs for the first time after 18 years about 2 years ago, the Quattron had by far the best color quality, look, and subjective fulid motion of LCDs. It was almost as good in store displays as many plasmas, without the price premium (at the time, in my local stores).
I was and remain quite impressed with the video quality and upscaling from modest video sources.
That said, once you're over 120hz refresh rate with 2d, I'm not sure there still is an appreciable difference for me or people I know with any current flatscreen TV. They're all about the same now, though I still would take a close look at a Sharp vs a Samsung vs a Sony... I.e. the sort of "name" brands vs Vizio and Dynex I see on sale all the time at Sams Club or Best Buy.
I personally think, if you're wading into licensing of works, you should either learn how the system works or preferably have a lawyer tell you... Just stomping around is asking for lots of liability...
I mean, really, how much does an e-mail or letter cost? Worst case they don't respond, and then you follow the posted license. I think most licensors would respond if they're alive, but what do I know?
I think it's part of the point. If we want to make a blastocyst a person, we need to think through all the implications. Such as something like drinking or smoking as a mother could make you criminally culpable for assault.
I get it - some people want to make abortion illegal, but instead of continuing that fight, want to try and have that happen as a side effect of making a zygote a person.
Making some entity a person has all sorts of effects - see what happened with Corporations... things maybe people didn't forsee like Citizens United etc...
I think if the "zygote is a person" side wants to push that agenda, they should be willing to talk about the side effects - otherwise, drop that as a goal, and instead focus on just outlawing abortion.
I think you missed my point. I'm agreeing with you that it's unlikely you could get a murder charge without criminal intent (in any situation). That doesn't mean there aren't criminal charges for killing (note - not all killing is murder in the legal system) that do not require any intent at all.
Note: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manslaughter and specifically involuntary manslaughter on that page. Of course, it's probably not going to apply to miscarriages that "just happen" under these somewhat tortured interpretations of the law, but if an involuntary mother (IDK - what would we call someone who doesn't want to be pregnant?) cannot have an abortion, it seems she would have a duty to the child under the Criminally negligent manslaughter heading.
So in that case, if the mother isn't doing everything possible to ensure a healthy and safe birth - is she criminally liable? What if she's a drug addict? Is it then Constructive manslaughter?
So yes - miscarrage would be difficult to pursue as murder - but as a layman, it sounds like cases could be made for multiple forms of manslaughter if the mother cannot prove she did everything the court determines she had a duty to do, and was not unintentionally negligent etc.
I would further argue that going down this path leads to other issues such as culpability for assult, and more if the mother drinks, smokes, does anything hazardous to the potential baby *even before she know's she's pregnant* for the "full human life at conception" school of thought. And if there are exceptions, I would have to immediately ask *why* (if a zygote is a human with all the rights thereto - you can't exclude some because they turn out impractical!).
Somehow I expect it had to do with a judge seeing an HTML link like technical mumbo jumbo which has often been blocked as infringing, whereas plain text has long be held to be protected under the first amendment, however much someone powerful may dislike it - and so when printed, cannot be infringement or something as it's not a fixed copy in any way of the actual art. IDK - not a lawyer, but they come up with some strange stuff.
We are talking about "you didn't do that" mentality from the President OT: Other than the specially edited clip, can you point to or describe better for me what you mean here?
Because the "famous" clip is editing out the main point of the Presidents quote - that when you have a successful business in the United States, you do so on top of an existing infrastructure - "you didn't" build the roads, bridges, power lines, universities, Internet, etc that were likely *necessary* for your business to operate.
The other problem is that just writing something in your own words can still be plagiarism. It has to be your own ideas as well, or (as I was taught anyway) you have to cite the source of the idea that you paraphrased.
Then again, on most school work - every idea has already been had anyway - and many of them are rather basic and obvious so you would come up with the *same* idea without any plagiarism.
I'm sorry, really? Businesses are hiring people who cannot submit a resume in the proper format? (Really, show me a youtube of someone making a resume in text, PDF, doc and docx on iOS).
Show me someone who hasn't had to type a paper who has never used Word on either Windows or Mac OSX.
You're basically claiming "businesses" (who are these businesses? What field are they in? What are these workers expected to do?) are hiring people *who have never used a computer*...
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The reason Apple isn't making inroads in business is they have no real integration with Active Directory, nor any replacement for it that will take over those tasks for Windows etc. Now, you can buy third party software at great expense to link Mac OS to AD and GPOs, but now the expensive Mac tax just went up 15%...
iOS has even less interest as far as I can tell in any management control.
Android is much the same. So Microsoft really did have a niche they could have leveraged here with Surface and WinRT. But instead they focused WinRT on consumers, just another Android / iOS but not clone from a business management perspective.
All of which means WinRT is a non-starter for business. They already have the headache and some workarounds from third parties in iOS, and all the exec love their iPads. Why would any IT dept put effort into WinRT then?
The Windows 8 Pro tablets on the other hand are not price competitive with *any* tablet as far as I can tell, they cost as much as mid-range laptops, but with lower specs. So you do get AD and GPO, but pay a lot for that hardware vs using a "real laptop". I suppose if volume deals from resellers gets the Win8 Pro Surface for $600, there might be something to talk about, but then that just kills the market in business for the $500 surface with WinRT. Then again, as I said, there wasn't really a market there anyway.
The big problem with the consumer focused $500 Surface tablet is it's a crappy iPad replacement. Everyone is focusing on 16GB more local storage, but so what? Isn't everyone (Apple, Google, MS) talking about Cloud Storage for these devices? And not to be that 640k is enough for anyone, but what do you do on a tablet that is going to eat 16+ GB of local storage? I suppose you could carry your video collection with you on it, but again, with Netflix, Cloud and the likely technical know how needed to move video files from your DVDs to the tablet - who's really doing this?
The one differentiator of Surface was, I thought, the built in cover / keyboard, but this apparently is a $100-$120 optional extra, or is only in the $600-$620 model, I'm really not sure. For that same money, there are nice 3rd party iPad covers with keyboards.
As far as I can see in the consumer space, there's the low price Nexus and Kindle Fires, and the high end iPad. There's also the ultra low price android tablets for people who want a really cheap tablet. I don't know anyone who wants to pay iPad prices for a very limited launch day Microsoft tablet.
Honestly, Microsoft was probably the only one who could price the same as the iPad and have an iPad killer, but that would have meant an x86 tablet at $600 with the case + keyboard running "real" Windows 8 Pro, with a launch day availability of good touch versions of the Microsoft applications plus probably a stylus for third party apps. Leave it to Microsoft to manage to make tablets and OSs that totally miss the mark in their price points.
If you're price conscious, you're picking up something like this:
http://www.merimobiles.com/Cube_U30GT_1_6GHz_Dual_Core_10_1_inch_IPS_1280_800_p/meri4701.htm
That has the ports built in. For Office, you're running the free Kingsoft Office... Oh, and if you want more storage, plug in a microSD card for many GB more at much cheaper prices per GB.
All for $210. Surface is laughably bad for bang for buck, as is older refurb iPads ... the only killer app IMO in the new iPad is the awesome resolution.
larger screen has more room for icons or other interface items.
Only insofar as you have sufficient resolution to display the icons. If you have a monitor at 19", but 800x600 (default Win7 resolution) you have a large display, but can only have maybe 15 icons across at the default size. Sure, you can make them smaller / blurrier icons, but you can't get more icons at the default settings. It'll look rather bad in my experience.
Well, merrimobiles has ICS tablets @ 10" screen size for ~$200, depending on specs that you want. Their resolution is close to the Surface, and multitouch capacitive. Nothing has the resolution of the iPad right now, but these exist. As far as I can tell, the 7" is much more usable / portable, but that may be because only Apple is doing 4:3 ratio screens, so these really long 10" 16:9 screens just seem clunky to me.
Well, it's not about the publishing format so much as the distribution format. LaTeX will let you have multiple size page templates etc, but if the journal only releases one size PDF say, that's all you get. It's quite similar to a recompile of portable code to another platform - a few minor setups and run it through the processor again.
I'm sorry, but this is impossible. What about headless servers? Or remote support where you need to reboot the PC? I can't see anyone who knows better buying these "secure boot" (Broken boot IMO) computers.
Yea, Newegg is too expensive now adays. I remember when they used to be, if not the cheapest on pricewatch?? (been awhile), then in the lowest 3 or so. Now they're matched with "general online retailers" like Amazon or Buy.com... That said, I do still save tax on Newegg to NY vs Amazon, but even there, Newegg often makes up any savings by charging shipping.
In the world of pay for proprietary software that is Windows, ditch explorer on Win7 and install Directory Opus. Problem solved IMO.
I talking about UI breakages, and underlying driver breakages. From my way of thinking, in the last .. OK 11 years:
1) 95 style to XP Luna, especially control panel and start menu changes. Oh and all the drivers broke from 9x to XP. Introduced filesystem permissions, multiple users. Traditional exe installers (which were a mess) to MSIs (which were a different but equally big mess for a LOOONG Time, and still perform slower than an EXE installer - unless the EXE installer just wraps an MSI in which case...)
2) XP to Vista - again, start menu very different, taskbar changes to big icons w/out text, all the drivers broke. Oh and again with the control panel entirely different. Oh, and user directories change from Documents and Settings to Users...
3) Menus to Ribbons - huge UI change, much yelling on retraining / re-learning
4) Windows 8 - biggest UI change yet with much relearning (again), drivers broke (again), installer changes (again)... I'm tired of it. I'm an IT person, and I want a stable base to let me get on with just using the platform to get stuff done rather than re-inventing the deployment, GPOs, packaging, whatever to *get back to where I am today*. That's why my work skipped Vista and is skipping Win8. We don't need the multiple steps back - we're tired of running just to stay in place.
It just feels like they change up the UI on parts of the OS for the hell of it, just to force people to re-learn where on this OS they decided to hide the default start menu or desktop or adapter settings.
Maps are a critical app on a smartphone
Really? I guess google maps on my Droid III just suck horribly then for driving. Don't know if it's my phone or what, but my Garmin Nuvii 755 wins hands down for nav (for me anyway).
I use Google occasionally to double check an address, but other than that, the garmin gets my location far faster, generates the route about 50 times faster, gives equally good or better routes, and doesn't end up fighting with my podcast app or phone calls.
Oh, and the Garmin isn't eating my data allotment the whole time I'm using it.
Or, you know, if you want more monitors than the integrated supports. Or if you, IDK, work in graphics, CAD, etc. Or if you need to support some new monitor resolutions....
Remember when integrated video didn't support over 1280 x 1024, or didn't support wide screen? Now it doesn't support Dual-Link DVI and some of the newer 2650 x 1440 or higher monitors out (think Catleap)...
Yea, it's more than gamers. Then again, if you use a single 1920 x 1080 monitor, for spreadsheets and windows, sure, integrated is fine.
Much of the "hate" of Windows 8 can be attributed to 1) not liking change 2) having to relearn a new system 3) immaturity of third party drivers and apps, and 4) misinformation spread by people (which was at least 50% of Vista's problem, not that it also didn't have real problems as well at first).
Well, yes, but 1-3 are pretty much valid reasons to dislike a product. It's demonstrably worse than the predecessor. Why would anyone "like" that?
Why does dislike turn into hate here? Because the people are hating MS for doing this again and again and fricken *every* time they update the OS. And they keep pushing it *all the damn time*. If it was every 10 years, people would be less frothy than every 3 years or less. We're spending all our time running to stay in place over the forced MS breakages rather than moving ahead on a stable platform (I mean UI and methods)...
Casual users who have never used a computer before maybe. I'll see your anecdote and raise you one with more datapoints. NO ONE I know, casual or not, likes a UI change that doesn't address *any* issues they've ever had.
The casual users I know work like a basic AutoIt script - by knowing what pixels to click on or look at to do a task. When those pixels change - even to the "minor extent" of Win XP to Win 7, they freak out and don't know where to click because the button moved 1/2 an inch.
These are the same people who cannot handle an icon change on the desktop - if it moves, they can't find it, if it changes color or whatever, even though the text is the same, they don't know what to do.
These are the vast swath of non computer people who had to have the "intelligent menus" disabled, and who still can't use the ribbon because the icons change based on what they click on, and they don't understand that (say in outlook) that a Search is a different context from browsing mail for the ribbon icons. Heck, it messes me up, but I know what to do to get back.
These people look at a different UI and do their best to stay away.
Can people eventually re-memorize the new locations of stuff? Maybe - but with the easter egg interface of Win 8 (stuff doesn't appear until you move your mouse over the edge - or stuff randomly appears when you don't expect when you hit a "charm" or whatever they're calling it)... But many users don't use a PC every day, and they forget that they had to do something to get an option, so they feel like somehow the option disappeared.
I don't see anyone rushing to pay MS for the privilege of that trauma. I'm already hearing people say, "Well I was going to maybe get a new computer sometime in the next year to get off of XP, but ... with the Win 8 I see, I guess I'll wait for Win 9 and hope my old XP PC doesn't die".
Win2k was great for Corporate, but totally useless for a home user - most all programs home users wanted (like games) didn't work because they were still 9x and ME focused...
I remember trying XP when it first came out and quickly going back to 98SE, and waiting about 2 years before trying again. Either it was SP1 or faster processors, but at that point I really liked it - through 2010 or so.
I think it's more like MS does OK with every other OS, after a Service Pack or so. XP didn't become "awesome" till SP2 after all. At work, Win 7 didn't get great till SP1 either.
To be fair, in the Win 7 case, I think the SP1 date had less to do with MS fixing Win 7 and more to do with the vast majority of developers finally getting dragged, kicking and screaming, into the "Post-XP" world.
This all also ties back into the fact that most people running Windows have NO desire to upgrade their OS (which is usually a complete wipe and re-install) every 3 years. They liked the 10 year XP cycle.
OT a bit - I think there are 3 paths MS could take here. They might be working on all three (which of course is so like MS, to not really have a vision and sort of flail around with pretty different strategies at the same time).
1) Status quo - Good release > Bad Release > Good Release with people begrudgingly changing OSs every 6 years in an every other method.
2) Subscription OSs. The OS stays for 10 years, and MS can afford that because you're paying yearly anyway. MS fails at consumer acceptable subscription pricing though if the Office price points are any guide.
3) MS fixes Windows so upgrades go MUCH easier than currently. The Win8 App store + cloud stuff is probably MSs plan for this. I think fixing applications so they store things in users directories so a simple copy paste in to the new OS gets the app settings back, oh and a simple software install method a la linux / apple so your full upgrade is a day or less - back to your data, apps and settings on a new base, rather than weeks of installing apps as the need comes up and re-configuring stuff differently for each app.
I personally don't love any of the above strategies MS is planning, especially as they try to do all 3 at once when they should be *different* strategies (I don't think they're synergistic myself)...
But as a e-book reader, is there really much call for 4G data? I mean, wouldn't you generally load your books wherever you have wifi and (like with physical books) just bring them with you out and about? If you already have a smartphone, you're not using it for net access really...
If you care mostly about viewing angle (vs, IDK, sitting in front of the TV you want to watch), then this may be useful. But there are many axis of quality, and when I went shopping for TVs for the first time after 18 years about 2 years ago, the Quattron had by far the best color quality, look, and subjective fulid motion of LCDs. It was almost as good in store displays as many plasmas, without the price premium (at the time, in my local stores).
I was and remain quite impressed with the video quality and upscaling from modest video sources.
That said, once you're over 120hz refresh rate with 2d, I'm not sure there still is an appreciable difference for me or people I know with any current flatscreen TV. They're all about the same now, though I still would take a close look at a Sharp vs a Samsung vs a Sony ... I.e. the sort of "name" brands vs Vizio and Dynex I see on sale all the time at Sams Club or Best Buy.
I personally think, if you're wading into licensing of works, you should either learn how the system works or preferably have a lawyer tell you... Just stomping around is asking for lots of liability...
I mean, really, how much does an e-mail or letter cost? Worst case they don't respond, and then you follow the posted license. I think most licensors would respond if they're alive, but what do I know?
I think it's part of the point. If we want to make a blastocyst a person, we need to think through all the implications. Such as something like drinking or smoking as a mother could make you criminally culpable for assault.
I get it - some people want to make abortion illegal, but instead of continuing that fight, want to try and have that happen as a side effect of making a zygote a person.
Making some entity a person has all sorts of effects - see what happened with Corporations ... things maybe people didn't forsee like Citizens United etc...
I think if the "zygote is a person" side wants to push that agenda, they should be willing to talk about the side effects - otherwise, drop that as a goal, and instead focus on just outlawing abortion.
I think you missed my point. I'm agreeing with you that it's unlikely you could get a murder charge without criminal intent (in any situation). That doesn't mean there aren't criminal charges for killing (note - not all killing is murder in the legal system) that do not require any intent at all.
Note: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manslaughter and specifically involuntary manslaughter on that page. Of course, it's probably not going to apply to miscarriages that "just happen" under these somewhat tortured interpretations of the law, but if an involuntary mother (IDK - what would we call someone who doesn't want to be pregnant?) cannot have an abortion, it seems she would have a duty to the child under the Criminally negligent manslaughter heading.
So in that case, if the mother isn't doing everything possible to ensure a healthy and safe birth - is she criminally liable? What if she's a drug addict? Is it then Constructive manslaughter?
So yes - miscarrage would be difficult to pursue as murder - but as a layman, it sounds like cases could be made for multiple forms of manslaughter if the mother cannot prove she did everything the court determines she had a duty to do, and was not unintentionally negligent etc.
I would further argue that going down this path leads to other issues such as culpability for assult, and more if the mother drinks, smokes, does anything hazardous to the potential baby *even before she know's she's pregnant* for the "full human life at conception" school of thought. And if there are exceptions, I would have to immediately ask *why* (if a zygote is a human with all the rights thereto - you can't exclude some because they turn out impractical!).
Somehow I expect it had to do with a judge seeing an HTML link like technical mumbo jumbo which has often been blocked as infringing, whereas plain text has long be held to be protected under the first amendment, however much someone powerful may dislike it - and so when printed, cannot be infringement or something as it's not a fixed copy in any way of the actual art. IDK - not a lawyer, but they come up with some strange stuff.
Ok, so not murder, but I'll bet manslaughter applies w/out criminal intent...
Maybe not something that would cause you to face execution, but certainly jail time.
We are talking about "you didn't do that" mentality from the President
OT: Other than the specially edited clip, can you point to or describe better for me what you mean here?
Because the "famous" clip is editing out the main point of the Presidents quote - that when you have a successful business in the United States, you do so on top of an existing infrastructure - "you didn't" build the roads, bridges, power lines, universities, Internet, etc that were likely *necessary* for your business to operate.
The other problem is that just writing something in your own words can still be plagiarism. It has to be your own ideas as well, or (as I was taught anyway) you have to cite the source of the idea that you paraphrased.
Then again, on most school work - every idea has already been had anyway - and many of them are rather basic and obvious so you would come up with the *same* idea without any plagiarism.
Ubuntu based or Debian based? Any decent red hat distros with easy KDE by default?
I'm sorry, really? Businesses are hiring people who cannot submit a resume in the proper format? (Really, show me a youtube of someone making a resume in text, PDF, doc and docx on iOS).
Show me someone who hasn't had to type a paper who has never used Word on either Windows or Mac OSX.
You're basically claiming "businesses" (who are these businesses? What field are they in? What are these workers expected to do?) are hiring people *who have never used a computer*...
I don't buy it.