Companies do to, but unlike people, when the suggestion of incarcerating a company comes up, too many people start complaining that there are innocent people relying on them.
That is actually the key. Is there a way to make this device deliver the speed that it promises. "Up to" does have a meaning. It means that in an absolute best case scenario. It does not mean "less than". So, is there any configuration or use case that can produce the "Up to" speed. Even if the use case is useless. If there isn't, then the "Up To" is fraudulent.
While many people will want to boot directly to the desktop, I think it is probably a lot fewer than you think. This will be particularly true if/when touch screen monitors become popular. If I work in Eclipse all day, I don't necessarily need a full desktop, even though I am doing real programming. For most people, they would be happy to use their desktop as a fixed place tablet but wouldn't normally do that since they don't want to give up the occasional full desktop usability.
Perform the following experience: Give a Samsung Tablet and an iPad to your Average Idiot, you know, the MARKET for these bright shiny toys. Ask them if they come from the same company. Easily 99% yes, right?
That is the case with virtually ALL tech. Without looking for a label that says who the manufacturer is, your Average Idiot couldn't tell you if an two TVs, Monitors, computers, thumb drives, SD cards, keyboards, mice, hard drives, DVD drives, PVR, or digital camera was made by the same company or not. If I removed the company logo off a selection of MS and Logitech mice, do YOU think you could accurately tell me which ones where made by which company? Presumably, you consider yourself smarter than an 'Average Idiot'. Yet you couldn't tell which mouse was made by which company.
So, the "Innovative" Apple is expecting to be sued by "less innovative" companies over patents on technology that the "less innovative" company came up with first?
Seriously. Even when it is spelled out to you, are you really so set on wanting tablets not to work that you will be aggressively ignorant? When someone points out to you that both Android and iOS have real live physical keyboards with springs and wires and plastic, you plug your ears and keep whining about on screen keyboards?
Let me repeat, since you didn't seem to comprehend it the first time...
Android didn't even have an onscreen keyboard until version 1.5. All typing could ONLY be done on a physical keyboard.
That's right. It didn't support on screen virtual keyboards. Only real live physical keyboards.
Heck, I can take the keyboard off my desktop and use it on my Android and iPhone. They can use the EXACT SAME KEYBOARD.
It isn't MY lack of understand that makes it rely on magic. I am fully aware that in most cases it works. It is that when you dig far enough down, the people studying it tend to start relying on hand waving instead of just saying "We don't know that yet". It is very clear that entropy can be overcome. If it couldn't, we wouldn't exist. Claiming that it can't happen because we don't understand it, yet our very conversation about it shows that it has is just hand wavy appeals to magic.
You sound like the guy that was behind me in line when I bought my first 2GB drive. He gasped "What are you going to use that for. You will NEVER fill that up!" I looked at him and told him that the first thing I was going to put on it was the 2 CD game I had at home that doesn't play great because of CD drive speeds. That would fill up 3/4 of the drive that day. In fact, I wasn't going to keep the game on the HD because the drive was too small for that and the rest of my data.
The basic principle you quote is wrong. It is only said because people don't realize how far behind our needs we were with availability. They said the same thing about processor speed. Look at us now. The vast majority of people don't care how fast their processor is because they would have to go out of their way to find one that was too slow for them. That is if the could find one.
That is like saying that a safe, responsible, aware gun shooter firing their gun around town enjoying the envisioning breeze is safe. There are approx. 31k gun deaths a year. There are approx. 40k auto deaths a year. To get to 31k gun deaths people have to be trying to actual cause death. Very few of the auto deaths are on purpose. So, yeah. Your right. It is absurd to compare guns to the absurdly more dangers activity of driving cars.
You go ahead and keep telling yourself that YOU are the safe one. And YOUR dangerous activity isn't as bad as other peoples. The current public opinion is on your side, even if math isn't.
Oops. I accedently thanked the anonymous cowered when I should have thanked you. No, I wouldn't rather complain. That solves my single biggest complaint with Windows 7. Yes. That really was my biggest complain with Windows 7.
Now I can go back to complaining that Windows 7 Home doesn't come with VirtualPC and Remote Desktop by default.
Unfortunately, they have already started breaking the UI of the task bar. Not having text to let you know what the icons are, just isn't helpful. I assume they were copying OSX on the pretty but functionally poor UI design.
No more than people who like to shoot being maniacs. There are places that these otherwise dangerous activities can be done that improve the safety of the participants, and totally remove the danger for innocent bystanders. The only excuse we have for driving is that it is a necessity for living in our current environment.
Claiming that you should be able to continue to do an extremely dangerous activity around innocent bystanders when it is not a necessity because you think it is fun makes you just as much of a maniac as the guy who thinks he should be able to use his gun to do target practice in the middle of town because he thinks his hobby is fun.
I cannot speak for your particular city, and I have seen a few roads that are set up to help traffic, but this does not seem to be the norm, and it is verifiable not universal.
I would say that there is even less consistency in OSX. Even the core buttons don't always do the same thing, and the fact that the red x in the corner SOMETIMES closes the application, and SOMETIMES leaves it running, only closing the UI is truly hideous.
No. It doesn't. There is nothing about having a hodge podge of different UI elements slapped on the screen that makes the tasks faster. You are probably confusing the horrible ribbon with the idea of putting more frequently used commands closer to the top of the menu.
There is also no reason that the most used functions can't be moved to a more visible area of a classic menu bar. The % used excuse just doesn't fly as a valid reason to have the ribbon.
Absolute BS. This is the same garbage that Apple fanboys spout. "Oh, it's because you resist change! You only hate it because it's different and your stuck in a rut!". I have use just about every UI that has been available since my first computer the Commodore KIM. I have enjoyed the steady improvement that we have seen through the decades. I have welcomed change, and look forward to new improvements when they come. The ribbon is not one of those.
Sure, I can learn to use it. In fact I can guarantee that I will "get used to it". That doesn't mean it is good. I don't see anyone complaining about Windows 7's snap to the boarder feature. That is new, but it is also a good improvement. I didn't hear anyone complain when quick launch buttons were added to the task bar. In fact, I didn't hear anyone complain about the task bar at all when it was added. These were good IMPROVEMENTS to the UI, so while they were different, no one complained.
The ribbon is bad UI, and the sooner MS admits it, the sooner we can start moving in a positive direction.
Absolute BS. What makes the ribbon the ribbon does not speed anything up. The ribbon is just a crappy version of the menu bar where the structure has been decimated under the misguided idea that the buttons you use most should be the biggest. Any reduction in the number of clicks has nothing to do with the random structuring that the ribbon brings. If you can style a table in 5 seconds instead of clicking 180 times, that isn't because the classic menu bar is a poor design. It is because the buttons you press are not properly placed in the menu bar. You could have gotten the exact same speedup by just putting a "Most Used" entry after "Help".
I suspect that it the same for the Chinese as it is for everyone else. For example certain groups found that the people who at pigs tended to get sick and die. So they made to conclusions. One is that their is a magical being that didn't want you to eat pigs, and the other is that you can avoid certain illness by not eating pigs.
It is pretty common for humans to notice a trend that they don't understand, and explain their lack of understanding away as magic. We see that even in the highest reaches of science. Just look something as simple as the law of thermodynamics. It pretty much relies on a base explanation of "Magic Happened". That doesn't mean that there isn't a lot of good information. It just means that we need to be aware of when the person giving the explanation has stopped using science, and has started had waving.
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Companies do to, but unlike people, when the suggestion of incarcerating a company comes up, too many people start complaining that there are innocent people relying on them.
That is actually the key. Is there a way to make this device deliver the speed that it promises. "Up to" does have a meaning. It means that in an absolute best case scenario. It does not mean "less than". So, is there any configuration or use case that can produce the "Up to" speed. Even if the use case is useless. If there isn't, then the "Up To" is fraudulent.
While many people will want to boot directly to the desktop, I think it is probably a lot fewer than you think. This will be particularly true if/when touch screen monitors become popular. If I work in Eclipse all day, I don't necessarily need a full desktop, even though I am doing real programming. For most people, they would be happy to use their desktop as a fixed place tablet but wouldn't normally do that since they don't want to give up the occasional full desktop usability.
Perform the following experience: Give a Samsung Tablet and an iPad to your Average Idiot, you know, the MARKET for these bright shiny toys. Ask them if they come from the same company. Easily 99% yes, right?
That is the case with virtually ALL tech. Without looking for a label that says who the manufacturer is, your Average Idiot couldn't tell you if an two TVs, Monitors, computers, thumb drives, SD cards, keyboards, mice, hard drives, DVD drives, PVR, or digital camera was made by the same company or not. If I removed the company logo off a selection of MS and Logitech mice, do YOU think you could accurately tell me which ones where made by which company? Presumably, you consider yourself smarter than an 'Average Idiot'. Yet you couldn't tell which mouse was made by which company.
Did you really just say to look at all the products that came after Apple's, and not to look at the ones that came before it? Really???
So, the "Innovative" Apple is expecting to be sued by "less innovative" companies over patents on technology that the "less innovative" company came up with first?
That makes no sense at all.
The TV Hat looks like a good product. A simple inexpensive solution.
Let me repeat, since you didn't seem to comprehend it the first time...
Android didn't even have an onscreen keyboard until version 1.5. All typing could ONLY be done on a physical keyboard.
That's right. It didn't support on screen virtual keyboards. Only real live physical keyboards.
Heck, I can take the keyboard off my desktop and use it on my Android and iPhone. They can use the EXACT SAME KEYBOARD.
Yes. Yes I do.
It isn't MY lack of understand that makes it rely on magic. I am fully aware that in most cases it works. It is that when you dig far enough down, the people studying it tend to start relying on hand waving instead of just saying "We don't know that yet". It is very clear that entropy can be overcome. If it couldn't, we wouldn't exist. Claiming that it can't happen because we don't understand it, yet our very conversation about it shows that it has is just hand wavy appeals to magic.
You sound like the guy that was behind me in line when I bought my first 2GB drive. He gasped "What are you going to use that for. You will NEVER fill that up!" I looked at him and told him that the first thing I was going to put on it was the 2 CD game I had at home that doesn't play great because of CD drive speeds. That would fill up 3/4 of the drive that day. In fact, I wasn't going to keep the game on the HD because the drive was too small for that and the rest of my data.
The basic principle you quote is wrong. It is only said because people don't realize how far behind our needs we were with availability. They said the same thing about processor speed. Look at us now. The vast majority of people don't care how fast their processor is because they would have to go out of their way to find one that was too slow for them. That is if the could find one.
That is like saying that a safe, responsible, aware gun shooter firing their gun around town enjoying the envisioning breeze is safe. There are approx. 31k gun deaths a year. There are approx. 40k auto deaths a year. To get to 31k gun deaths people have to be trying to actual cause death. Very few of the auto deaths are on purpose. So, yeah. Your right. It is absurd to compare guns to the absurdly more dangers activity of driving cars.
You go ahead and keep telling yourself that YOU are the safe one. And YOUR dangerous activity isn't as bad as other peoples. The current public opinion is on your side, even if math isn't.
Oops. I accedently thanked the anonymous cowered when I should have thanked you. No, I wouldn't rather complain. That solves my single biggest complaint with Windows 7. Yes. That really was my biggest complain with Windows 7.
Now I can go back to complaining that Windows 7 Home doesn't come with VirtualPC and Remote Desktop by default.
I have to give you a thank you. The lack of text labels was my single biggest complaint with Windows 7.
Unfortunately, they have already started breaking the UI of the task bar. Not having text to let you know what the icons are, just isn't helpful. I assume they were copying OSX on the pretty but functionally poor UI design.
So, totally inconsistent, and the the way that Apple will handle it is to hide its inconsistencies.
No more than people who like to shoot being maniacs. There are places that these otherwise dangerous activities can be done that improve the safety of the participants, and totally remove the danger for innocent bystanders. The only excuse we have for driving is that it is a necessity for living in our current environment.
Claiming that you should be able to continue to do an extremely dangerous activity around innocent bystanders when it is not a necessity because you think it is fun makes you just as much of a maniac as the guy who thinks he should be able to use his gun to do target practice in the middle of town because he thinks his hobby is fun.
I cannot speak for your particular city, and I have seen a few roads that are set up to help traffic, but this does not seem to be the norm, and it is verifiable not universal.
You don't seem to understand what the word natural means.
I would say that there is even less consistency in OSX. Even the core buttons don't always do the same thing, and the fact that the red x in the corner SOMETIMES closes the application, and SOMETIMES leaves it running, only closing the UI is truly hideous.
No. It doesn't. There is nothing about having a hodge podge of different UI elements slapped on the screen that makes the tasks faster. You are probably confusing the horrible ribbon with the idea of putting more frequently used commands closer to the top of the menu.
There is also no reason that the most used functions can't be moved to a more visible area of a classic menu bar. The % used excuse just doesn't fly as a valid reason to have the ribbon.
Absolute BS. This is the same garbage that Apple fanboys spout. "Oh, it's because you resist change! You only hate it because it's different and your stuck in a rut!". I have use just about every UI that has been available since my first computer the Commodore KIM. I have enjoyed the steady improvement that we have seen through the decades. I have welcomed change, and look forward to new improvements when they come. The ribbon is not one of those.
Sure, I can learn to use it. In fact I can guarantee that I will "get used to it". That doesn't mean it is good. I don't see anyone complaining about Windows 7's snap to the boarder feature. That is new, but it is also a good improvement. I didn't hear anyone complain when quick launch buttons were added to the task bar. In fact, I didn't hear anyone complain about the task bar at all when it was added. These were good IMPROVEMENTS to the UI, so while they were different, no one complained.
The ribbon is bad UI, and the sooner MS admits it, the sooner we can start moving in a positive direction.
Absolute BS. What makes the ribbon the ribbon does not speed anything up. The ribbon is just a crappy version of the menu bar where the structure has been decimated under the misguided idea that the buttons you use most should be the biggest. Any reduction in the number of clicks has nothing to do with the random structuring that the ribbon brings. If you can style a table in 5 seconds instead of clicking 180 times, that isn't because the classic menu bar is a poor design. It is because the buttons you press are not properly placed in the menu bar. You could have gotten the exact same speedup by just putting a "Most Used" entry after "Help".
I suspect that it the same for the Chinese as it is for everyone else. For example certain groups found that the people who at pigs tended to get sick and die. So they made to conclusions. One is that their is a magical being that didn't want you to eat pigs, and the other is that you can avoid certain illness by not eating pigs.
It is pretty common for humans to notice a trend that they don't understand, and explain their lack of understanding away as magic. We see that even in the highest reaches of science. Just look something as simple as the law of thermodynamics. It pretty much relies on a base explanation of "Magic Happened". That doesn't mean that there isn't a lot of good information. It just means that we need to be aware of when the person giving the explanation has stopped using science, and has started had waving.