Apple is a terrible example of a company doing well due to R&D. Apple sells 70% on marketing and 30% on product. The fact that they made a tablet, just like lots of other companies have done, and Jobs said, "Lets make a small one like the Palm" followed by a realization years later that people might actually want a the large version, doesn't mean Apple is investing heavily in R&D. Apple doesn't wait until a product is "just right". The iPad isn't an example of Apple "taking several years to polish a product". The fact that you think that shows just how much of Apples success is in quality marketing.
Of course, a remote desktop application that can connect to your home desktop through the NAT would give you the same battery power as not running a full OS, and the power of running whatever OS you want.
The killer app for tablets will be a good vpn/remote desktop system that is simple for users to install, and works through NAT. This will give users all the power of their how desktop, and the convenience of a tablet. Something like GoToMyPC but without the monthly fee.
Exactly. Mine for example, goes on my kitchen wall. I put some Velcro on the back, and that is where it sits for charging. It makes a nice clock, is convenient for checking the weather, makes a nice recipe device, as the screen is flat glass, so getting a little flour or grease on it isn't a big deal. It plays music at the level that we would want in the kitchen, and since it is Velcro to the wall, it is simple to just rip it off the wall when we want to take it with us. It also works great for web surfing in the car by turning on the WiFi hotspot on our phones. Honestly, I surprised that large numbers of people don't keep them in their bathrooms.
You ask that like it isn't a completely valid thing to do. There are times that you want a laptop. There are times that you want a tablet. There is no technical reason not to make them the same device.
Just as many people buy laptops that they use both as a laptop and a desktop. We are destined to have many people buy a tablet that gets used as a tablet and a laptop AND a desktop.
I am in California, and I have personally been in meetings where law was made for the continence of a software system. It wasn't directly made. It was a certification to legally provide X service is provided by Y state agency. Y state agency will only issue certification if business Z performs some action that is only required to accommodate Y's software system.
The outcome for GE employees worked out about as well as a $100k college education worked out for Arther Anderson employees. So many people spend huge amounts of money on college and lose years of earnings because they can't do math. We have a cultural myth that college is a profitable endever. For some, it is. More often than not, the college graduate will never earn back the money they put into their education.
Since the connection is going out to the internet is only 100mb, it probably is plenty. At 10 drops, they are already saturated, even if the drops went to single rooms. This isn't a LAN situation. 100% of the traffic will be running across the 100mb internet connection. Wireless repeaters might give speeds, particularly if the signal is set up directionally, but saturating a 10mb line isn't really a major concern when your link to the outside world is already as anemic as they are planning.
No, it just means that we are not buying V!agra from the merchants selling their wares via email.
In the last 20 years, my wife and I have had only one fraudulent charge each. My wife's was done by her mother, who actually opened a credit card under her name. That was easily solved by showing that my wife was under the age of 18 when the card was opened, and thus could not have legally opened the card. The other was happening inside of Chase. We could tell this because new charges started showing up on it stolen card number even after Chase claimed to have locked the card to prevent new fraudulent charges. Then when they sent a new card, new charges showed up BEFORE Chase mailed the card out. To be clear, it had not yet left their facility when the first fraudulent charges showed up on the new card.
So, while we use our cards on line all the time, the only fraud we have had has been off-line.
You are correct about the card companies themselves making credit card fraud attractive. In both of my cases, the credit card company was uninterested in pursuing the fraud. In my wife's case, there was even a clear paper trail to show who had committed the crime. My theory is that they have some kind of accounting trickery that leads to them making money off of credit card fraud. The fact that it would be trivial for them to implement basic security like PIN numbers and one time "virtual card numbers", yet they are only used in rare cases, shows that they clearly actively want fraud to be committed.
You joke, but that is pretty much true, and that has value. I would rather a screen that is a tablet when I want a tablet, and plugs into a keyboard and becomes a netbook when I want a netbook. There is zero drawback to making tablets capable of being the top half of a clamshell laptop.
If your going to lock down PC, there is no point in the PC. The reason that those "toys" PCs (funny, that is what iPads are being called now) made it into the workplace is because people couldn't get their work down on the locked down mainframe, and the most productive people were the ones that bypassed the lock downs by using a PC.
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The whole point of the PC is to not be locked down. If it is totally locked down, it is the wrong tool for the job.
I'll take streaming video of a company Christmas party any day. Companies spend a huge amount of money trying to make employees happy with things the employees don't really want, and then spend more money making sure that the things the company has already paid for can't be used as a way to make work more enjoyable.
As much as I think computers are here to stay, tablets do have keyboards now. I have one for my Android tablet, and I know that they are available for iPads.
The piece that seems to be missing is that the difference between a PC and a table it that they are points on a line. What is the difference between a locked down computing device with a keyboard mouse and display, and a locked down computing device between a locked down computing device with a keyboard mouse and display?
He wasn't a random citizen. He wasn't just a passerby. He was acting in concert with the person that was directly committing the crime. He was actively protecting the person doing the beating. Happening by a crime scene and not jumping in as a hero is not being an accessory. Standing guard while the person you arrived at the scene with commits a crime IS being an accessory.
I for one am not comfortable with a law that says standing guard, armed with a gun preventing anyone else from stopping a severe crime from being committed, only deserves a 45 day suspension from a job in law enforcement. The accessory committed a crime while on duty and armed. He cannot be trusted to be armed and in uniform. This is one of the reasons that people hate cops. It isn't just the cops that directly commit the crimes that are the "bad cops". It is also the ones that provide support for those crimes. The ones that turn a blind eye to their "brothers" that commit crimes. The fact that they play victim while committing atrocious crimes is just adding insult to injury.
Don't worry. I'm sure the phone companies and the government can come to an arrangement where data they retrieve from your phone doesn't show up in the bill or logs.
That is a poor rationalization. If everyone rode bikes, it certainly would not be safe to walk on the same infrastructure. In fact, if half the people just decide to run everywhere, it would not be particularly safe for people to walk on the same infrastructure. Of course, you are still going to need a majority of the infrastructure for the cars, as delivering all the things needed for society to continue isn't really feasible for bicycle delivery.
If anything, the cyclists are not paying their fair share as it is.
Notes predates proper security on the desktop. That is why it has a lock key. The F5 being the refresh key is a MS thing, while Lotus has always been cross platform. On top of that, even MS doesn't stay consistent with F5. So, your complaints boil down to "I don't understand it, so it sucks". I didn't misunderstand your statement. You pressed a key, and it did what it was supposed to do. Blaming the software for that is stupid.
Says the guy bagging on software for doing exactly what he told it to do. Heck he even used the key with the instructions printed right on it, and he still blames the software.
There is no truly sustainable tech for harvesting power. What you want is a source that will get us through until we can find another source that can get us through until we find another source, etc, etc, etc....
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Apple is a terrible example of a company doing well due to R&D. Apple sells 70% on marketing and 30% on product. The fact that they made a tablet, just like lots of other companies have done, and Jobs said, "Lets make a small one like the Palm" followed by a realization years later that people might actually want a the large version, doesn't mean Apple is investing heavily in R&D. Apple doesn't wait until a product is "just right". The iPad isn't an example of Apple "taking several years to polish a product". The fact that you think that shows just how much of Apples success is in quality marketing.
Of course, a remote desktop application that can connect to your home desktop through the NAT would give you the same battery power as not running a full OS, and the power of running whatever OS you want.
The killer app for tablets will be a good vpn/remote desktop system that is simple for users to install, and works through NAT. This will give users all the power of their how desktop, and the convenience of a tablet. Something like GoToMyPC but without the monthly fee.
Exactly. Mine for example, goes on my kitchen wall. I put some Velcro on the back, and that is where it sits for charging. It makes a nice clock, is convenient for checking the weather, makes a nice recipe device, as the screen is flat glass, so getting a little flour or grease on it isn't a big deal. It plays music at the level that we would want in the kitchen, and since it is Velcro to the wall, it is simple to just rip it off the wall when we want to take it with us. It also works great for web surfing in the car by turning on the WiFi hotspot on our phones. Honestly, I surprised that large numbers of people don't keep them in their bathrooms.
You ask that like it isn't a completely valid thing to do. There are times that you want a laptop. There are times that you want a tablet. There is no technical reason not to make them the same device.
Just as many people buy laptops that they use both as a laptop and a desktop. We are destined to have many people buy a tablet that gets used as a tablet and a laptop AND a desktop.
I am in California, and I have personally been in meetings where law was made for the continence of a software system. It wasn't directly made. It was a certification to legally provide X service is provided by Y state agency. Y state agency will only issue certification if business Z performs some action that is only required to accommodate Y's software system.
And people starved to death for thousands of years.
The outcome for GE employees worked out about as well as a $100k college education worked out for Arther Anderson employees. So many people spend huge amounts of money on college and lose years of earnings because they can't do math. We have a cultural myth that college is a profitable endever. For some, it is. More often than not, the college graduate will never earn back the money they put into their education.
Since the connection is going out to the internet is only 100mb, it probably is plenty. At 10 drops, they are already saturated, even if the drops went to single rooms. This isn't a LAN situation. 100% of the traffic will be running across the 100mb internet connection. Wireless repeaters might give speeds, particularly if the signal is set up directionally, but saturating a 10mb line isn't really a major concern when your link to the outside world is already as anemic as they are planning.
No, it just means that we are not buying V!agra from the merchants selling their wares via email.
In the last 20 years, my wife and I have had only one fraudulent charge each. My wife's was done by her mother, who actually opened a credit card under her name. That was easily solved by showing that my wife was under the age of 18 when the card was opened, and thus could not have legally opened the card. The other was happening inside of Chase. We could tell this because new charges started showing up on it stolen card number even after Chase claimed to have locked the card to prevent new fraudulent charges. Then when they sent a new card, new charges showed up BEFORE Chase mailed the card out. To be clear, it had not yet left their facility when the first fraudulent charges showed up on the new card.
So, while we use our cards on line all the time, the only fraud we have had has been off-line.
You are correct about the card companies themselves making credit card fraud attractive. In both of my cases, the credit card company was uninterested in pursuing the fraud. In my wife's case, there was even a clear paper trail to show who had committed the crime. My theory is that they have some kind of accounting trickery that leads to them making money off of credit card fraud. The fact that it would be trivial for them to implement basic security like PIN numbers and one time "virtual card numbers", yet they are only used in rare cases, shows that they clearly actively want fraud to be committed.
You joke, but that is pretty much true, and that has value. I would rather a screen that is a tablet when I want a tablet, and plugs into a keyboard and becomes a netbook when I want a netbook. There is zero drawback to making tablets capable of being the top half of a clamshell laptop.
And hopefully by the time it runs out, we will have another source of power.
If your going to lock down PC, there is no point in the PC. The reason that those "toys" PCs (funny, that is what iPads are being called now) made it into the workplace is because people couldn't get their work down on the locked down mainframe, and the most productive people were the ones that bypassed the lock downs by using a PC.
br. The whole point of the PC is to not be locked down. If it is totally locked down, it is the wrong tool for the job.
I'll take streaming video of a company Christmas party any day. Companies spend a huge amount of money trying to make employees happy with things the employees don't really want, and then spend more money making sure that the things the company has already paid for can't be used as a way to make work more enjoyable.
As much as I think computers are here to stay, tablets do have keyboards now. I have one for my Android tablet, and I know that they are available for iPads.
The piece that seems to be missing is that the difference between a PC and a table it that they are points on a line. What is the difference between a locked down computing device with a keyboard mouse and display, and a locked down computing device between a locked down computing device with a keyboard mouse and display?
He wasn't a random citizen. He wasn't just a passerby. He was acting in concert with the person that was directly committing the crime. He was actively protecting the person doing the beating. Happening by a crime scene and not jumping in as a hero is not being an accessory. Standing guard while the person you arrived at the scene with commits a crime IS being an accessory.
I for one am not comfortable with a law that says standing guard, armed with a gun preventing anyone else from stopping a severe crime from being committed, only deserves a 45 day suspension from a job in law enforcement. The accessory committed a crime while on duty and armed. He cannot be trusted to be armed and in uniform. This is one of the reasons that people hate cops. It isn't just the cops that directly commit the crimes that are the "bad cops". It is also the ones that provide support for those crimes. The ones that turn a blind eye to their "brothers" that commit crimes. The fact that they play victim while committing atrocious crimes is just adding insult to injury.
A 45 day suspension for being an accessory to a beating under the color of law seems like a pretty petty punishment.
You mean the accessory?
Don't worry. I'm sure the phone companies and the government can come to an arrangement where data they retrieve from your phone doesn't show up in the bill or logs.
That is a poor rationalization. If everyone rode bikes, it certainly would not be safe to walk on the same infrastructure. In fact, if half the people just decide to run everywhere, it would not be particularly safe for people to walk on the same infrastructure. Of course, you are still going to need a majority of the infrastructure for the cars, as delivering all the things needed for society to continue isn't really feasible for bicycle delivery.
If anything, the cyclists are not paying their fair share as it is.
Notes predates proper security on the desktop. That is why it has a lock key. The F5 being the refresh key is a MS thing, while Lotus has always been cross platform. On top of that, even MS doesn't stay consistent with F5. So, your complaints boil down to "I don't understand it, so it sucks". I didn't misunderstand your statement. You pressed a key, and it did what it was supposed to do. Blaming the software for that is stupid.
Says the guy bagging on software for doing exactly what he told it to do. Heck he even used the key with the instructions printed right on it, and he still blames the software.
There is no truly sustainable tech for harvesting power. What you want is a source that will get us through until we can find another source that can get us through until we find another source, etc, etc, etc....
I have found chocolate to be similar to perfume. People find it tastes better if they believe it costs more.
An energy dense battery would be cool in it's own right though.