You might want to do some extra research. I don't know what state you live in, but here in California, it is common for schools to tell parents that they cannot enroll their children in school if they are not vaccinated. Some are lying. Some just believe a lie told to them by someone else. You do have to sign a waiver stating that you understand you did not vaccinate your child, but it is not required, and they cannot legally deny you access to the public schools over vaccination. I would assume that private schools can, but I don't know.
No more or less fair than penalizing my wife and child by preventing me from earning money if I commit a crime. "Think of the Shareholders." is an even worse reason to let people commit crimes than "Think of the children."
What small market area are you talking about? Last summer, I traveled in big loop around the US between California and Wisconsin. Wyoming was the only state that I did not get good signal in. I spent 6 weeks working from the back of a mini-van with no problems.
I made a bone head configuration setting on my phone in Minisotta, and the customer service in the T-Mobile store in Minisotta was just as good as that here in California.
I know that I also wouldn't want to have to carry two phones. I telecommute, so it isn't really a problem for me, as leaving an extra phone on my desk isn't a huge deal, but if I was more on the move, it would be a hassle. I wouldn't want another PC on my desk tough.
What often gets missed by the "work and home are separate and never two shall meet" folks is that there huge opportunities for life that they miss because of it. Last summer I was able to take a 6 week road trip with my family because I don't draw that line. I simply could not have rationalized the cost of 6 weeks of lost pay, the expense of the trip itself, and the lowered value I would bring to my work by having a 6 week absence that could leave them inconvenienced for weeks while I was gone.
Would it have been physically possible to take the trip without working during it? Sure. Would it have happened? Would I be able to do thing like that as often? Definitely not.
On top of not having to take the 6 weeks off, I was able to tether my phone to my laptop and work from the back of the mini-van during the long stretch between interesting sites. There is no way that the company would have set me up for that. I need all new equipment because I want to take a 6 week road trip with my wife and kid just isn't the kind of argument that tends to work on most employers. If I didn't use my own equipment, not only would I have not taken the trip, the idea that the trip was even possible would not have even come up.
Which is exactly why we have PCs in the workplace at all. If it were not for stories like that, we would all still be running on mainframe green screens. Whether that would be a good thing or a bad thing depends on who you ask.
Sure. Tablets predated the current boom too. One of the big problems with the old 'convertibles' was the same problem with the old tablets. They were generally laptops with a touch screen bolted on. This meant they were running OSes that didn't really work great for a tablet. And, as you said, they were expensive.
Turning a Laptop into a convertible was not common, and did not impact the netbook market. Turning a tablet into a convertible will be common and will be the future of the netbook market.
For what it's worth, I do recognize that a convertible is a PC (generic use of PC), as is a netbook, laptop, and yes even a tablet. It is just a question of what peripherals get included.
That part can even be handled by a third party. A clamshell that has the keyboard built in, and has a space for the screen to snap in, and the iPad becomes a small laptop. install a VNC client, and you could even use OSX, Linux or Windows 7 from it.
The "you get what you pay for" meme is simply wrong. I am regularly amazed at how things that are far simpler, cheaper in quality and material cost can have a purchase price that are so much higher than things that are far more complex, better quality and have more expensive material costs.
The problem with netbooks is not that you get what you pay for. The problem is that you are getting a $150 computer at a $300 price. You are NOT getting what you pay for. I don't think that most people are expecting the quality of a $1000 laptop. They just have a tendency to be disappointed when their $350 10" screen/1gb RAM/120gb HDD laptop (a netbook is a laptop) doesn't perform as well as their $350 17" screen/4gb RAM/500gb HDD laptop.
One deal with GoToMyPC and the tablet would not only be just as powerful for applications as your desktop, the applications would be the ones on your desktop.
Give it a few years, and the tablets will be attached to a keyboard. Thus it will be a laptop/netbook that can be turned sideways and used for taking notes like a tablet. Then it can be set on keyboad side and used as a notebook.
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I disagree. Tablets serve a purpose. On the other hand, tables are also a netbook that generally haven't been manufactured with a connector on the bottom that allows a keyboard to be added that makes it a netbook.
It isn't so much of a debate of which will win in the long run, but how long it will take for the inevitable convergence.
That is so wrong as to be laughable. MS gave Apple a bailout. Both in money AND in product support. If it was about stolen code, MS would have just done the same thing that they did with Stacker. They would have just litigated Apple out of business.
Sure Apple was being mismanaged. The primary way they were being mismanaged was by thinking that they thought that people would like their product so much that they would buy their products no matter what they did. At that time, they are least had a better product than the Windows PC. Today, they are taking the same stance, but they do not have a better product. No, consumers were not rejecting the product outright. They were choosing a rival product that gave them a better value.
So, if you twist the numbers right it sounds good? Market growth is not in indicator of popularity. If I open a store tomorrow, I will have infinate market growth over previous years. Apple is not the best selling brand in the US. It is not the best selling brand in the World, and OSX is only at 6% market share. It is barely above Linux on the desktop, and WAY below Linux overall.
That would be a reasonable piece of advice if he had said that he already had a Wii. Since he did say that he purchased the Wii for streaming, $50 for a Roku would have been a better deal than $150 for a Wii.
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You might want to do some extra research. I don't know what state you live in, but here in California, it is common for schools to tell parents that they cannot enroll their children in school if they are not vaccinated. Some are lying. Some just believe a lie told to them by someone else. You do have to sign a waiver stating that you understand you did not vaccinate your child, but it is not required, and they cannot legally deny you access to the public schools over vaccination. I would assume that private schools can, but I don't know.
No more or less fair than penalizing my wife and child by preventing me from earning money if I commit a crime. "Think of the Shareholders." is an even worse reason to let people commit crimes than "Think of the children."
I'm not sure if you are serious or mocking people that rant about being "defensive drivers".....
The idea that anyone believes mass transit will every service anyone but the most profitable boggles the mind.
That same could be said for every other part of the plane. The story sounds made up. By you, your lecturer, or the engineers themselves, who knows.
Yep, my wife got hit by a semi while sitting stopped at a red light.
Yes, you got me, but I bet I can learn to spell two in less than two years. ;)
Hint: My phone tells me what network I am on. No. I wasn't roaming most of the time.
Now, if only I didn't have more trouble getting apps to run on my iPhone than I don on my Android.
You misunderstood those people. They just meant that the person was showing a 70's attitude.
What small market area are you talking about? Last summer, I traveled in big loop around the US between California and Wisconsin. Wyoming was the only state that I did not get good signal in. I spent 6 weeks working from the back of a mini-van with no problems.
I made a bone head configuration setting on my phone in Minisotta, and the customer service in the T-Mobile store in Minisotta was just as good as that here in California.
There are. I have one for my android tablet also. They just haven't caught on yet. They will.
I know that I also wouldn't want to have to carry two phones. I telecommute, so it isn't really a problem for me, as leaving an extra phone on my desk isn't a huge deal, but if I was more on the move, it would be a hassle. I wouldn't want another PC on my desk tough.
What often gets missed by the "work and home are separate and never two shall meet" folks is that there huge opportunities for life that they miss because of it. Last summer I was able to take a 6 week road trip with my family because I don't draw that line. I simply could not have rationalized the cost of 6 weeks of lost pay, the expense of the trip itself, and the lowered value I would bring to my work by having a 6 week absence that could leave them inconvenienced for weeks while I was gone.
Would it have been physically possible to take the trip without working during it? Sure. Would it have happened? Would I be able to do thing like that as often? Definitely not.
On top of not having to take the 6 weeks off, I was able to tether my phone to my laptop and work from the back of the mini-van during the long stretch between interesting sites. There is no way that the company would have set me up for that. I need all new equipment because I want to take a 6 week road trip with my wife and kid just isn't the kind of argument that tends to work on most employers. If I didn't use my own equipment, not only would I have not taken the trip, the idea that the trip was even possible would not have even come up.
Which is exactly why we have PCs in the workplace at all. If it were not for stories like that, we would all still be running on mainframe green screens. Whether that would be a good thing or a bad thing depends on who you ask.
Which is why we should all ditch our PCs and go back to green screens on the mainframe?
Sure. Tablets predated the current boom too. One of the big problems with the old 'convertibles' was the same problem with the old tablets. They were generally laptops with a touch screen bolted on. This meant they were running OSes that didn't really work great for a tablet. And, as you said, they were expensive.
Turning a Laptop into a convertible was not common, and did not impact the netbook market. Turning a tablet into a convertible will be common and will be the future of the netbook market.
For what it's worth, I do recognize that a convertible is a PC (generic use of PC), as is a netbook, laptop, and yes even a tablet. It is just a question of what peripherals get included.
That part can even be handled by a third party. A clamshell that has the keyboard built in, and has a space for the screen to snap in, and the iPad becomes a small laptop. install a VNC client, and you could even use OSX, Linux or Windows 7 from it.
The "you get what you pay for" meme is simply wrong. I am regularly amazed at how things that are far simpler, cheaper in quality and material cost can have a purchase price that are so much higher than things that are far more complex, better quality and have more expensive material costs.
The problem with netbooks is not that you get what you pay for. The problem is that you are getting a $150 computer at a $300 price. You are NOT getting what you pay for. I don't think that most people are expecting the quality of a $1000 laptop. They just have a tendency to be disappointed when their $350 10" screen/1gb RAM/120gb HDD laptop (a netbook is a laptop) doesn't perform as well as their $350 17" screen/4gb RAM/500gb HDD laptop.
One deal with GoToMyPC and the tablet would not only be just as powerful for applications as your desktop, the applications would be the ones on your desktop.
Give it a few years, and the tablets will be attached to a keyboard. Thus it will be a laptop/netbook that can be turned sideways and used for taking notes like a tablet. Then it can be set on keyboad side and used as a notebook.
I disagree. Tablets serve a purpose. On the other hand, tables are also a netbook that generally haven't been manufactured with a connector on the bottom that allows a keyboard to be added that makes it a netbook.
It isn't so much of a debate of which will win in the long run, but how long it will take for the inevitable convergence.
That is so wrong as to be laughable. MS gave Apple a bailout. Both in money AND in product support. If it was about stolen code, MS would have just done the same thing that they did with Stacker. They would have just litigated Apple out of business.
Sure Apple was being mismanaged. The primary way they were being mismanaged was by thinking that they thought that people would like their product so much that they would buy their products no matter what they did. At that time, they are least had a better product than the Windows PC. Today, they are taking the same stance, but they do not have a better product. No, consumers were not rejecting the product outright. They were choosing a rival product that gave them a better value.
So, if you twist the numbers right it sounds good? Market growth is not in indicator of popularity. If I open a store tomorrow, I will have infinate market growth over previous years. Apple is not the best selling brand in the US. It is not the best selling brand in the World, and OSX is only at 6% market share. It is barely above Linux on the desktop, and WAY below Linux overall.
Ahhh yes. I just needed a refresher. I always counted the ADP. I just counted it as a G1.
That would be a reasonable piece of advice if he had said that he already had a Wii. Since he did say that he purchased the Wii for streaming, $50 for a Roku would have been a better deal than $150 for a Wii.