It not only has to be built in, it has to be automatic. I figure that the solution would need designing email clients to insert public keys into the headers on out going email. And, to scan incoming email headers for public keys that it can harvest to build a list of recipients that can receive encrypted mail.
This way you would not break existing email, but once you have made contact with another person via email, all future email would be encrypted with no action on the users part.
As a happy Android user, I have to concede that your point is valid. Fragmentation complaints are pure FUD. It is the lack of updates that is the problem. Apple did good in their negotiations with the carriers that allows them to update the phones directly. I would like to see Google move to a 3 tier setup for Android. 1 tier would be all of the drivers for the specific hardware. The second tier would be the OS itself. The third tier would be the carrier/manufacturer customizations. At any time, Google should be able to update the base OS whether the carrier likes it or not. Since the third tier would be apps installed over the OS, they should be no less compatible with the OS update than any other software. There is no reason that the carrier/manufacturer customizations should be anything more than apps that are installed by default.
I don't know. I'm thinking that IBM may have sold more PCs due to the fact that they were cloned than they would have sold if they were never cloned. The would have had 100% of the "IBM PC Compatible" market, but I'm not convinced that that market would have gained the dominance that it did.
What are you talking about? Most tablets will let you connect a standard Bluetooth keyboard. Many will let you plug in a USB keyboard. They let you touch the hardware just as much as a C64 did. While iOS locks you out of arbitrary binaries, Android most certainly does not, and both have built in programming languages that let you run arbitrary software in an interpreted mode.
In fact, you can run the same arbitrary binaries on Android that you can run on a IBM PC. No working around necessary.
I would go the opposite direction. From the title, I expected that the definition was going to be that they had one model of computer that was a better seller than the 20 models offered by any other vendor. Defining smartphones and tablets as PCs is perfectly valid. Most computers have been sold primarily as consumption devices, and that trend only accelerated over the last decade. There is nothing that could be done on an original IBM PC that cannot be done on tablets and smartphones today. If you presented a tablet with a Bluetooth keyboard to a person in 1982 they most certainly would have identified it as a PC. A freaking awesome PC, but a PC none the less. It is those that claim tablets are not personal computers that are twisting the definition to meet their needs
Just look at some of the comments here. "A PC is a device you can do 'real work' on." "Real work mean photo retouching, complex Excel spreadsheets, multiple windows". Pretty much a large portion of the people arguing that a tablet isn't a PC are also arguing that the IBM PC is not a PC.
There is nothing you could do on an IBM brand 286 PC that you cannot do on an Android tablet. You can literally run the very same binaries files for the same software. So, if an IBM PC was a PC, then an Android tablet is a PC.
Cost and Super Mario Brothers. Besides, one product supplanting another doesn't make a market segment crash. The 2600 being supplanted by teh C64 does not make a video game industry crash, and the C64 being supplanted by the Nes does not make a video game industry crash.
I realize that many women tend to be overly violent, but it isn't fair to lump all women into that category just because some of them don't know how to control their behavior.
Support. If these really are sold by Amazon, Best Buy, GameStop, and Target, then they will be seen as legit by a much wider audience. This can lead to a network effect for games being properly tuned for the system and people buying the system. There is an issue of critical mass. Since it is Android and they have partnered with Amazon, it will likely support the Amazon Android Market. This means, Netflix, Hulu and Crackle will be running on it. That means it starts out day one as a real competitor for Roku and the other streaming boxes. Add in XBMC and it beats the streaming boxes before you even look at the rest of the Android ecosystem.
The 2600 crashed because everyone was moving to C64s and Apple IIs. The Atari was just way out of it's league. Given the huge amount of crap, and complete lack of lock down on the C64 and Apple II, I cannot believe that it was low quality software that was the Atari's undoing.
As much as taking joy in other people failing makes him an ass, he did not say that the nature of funding determines the quality of a venture. He said that the quality of the venture determines funding.
It is a question of how quickly it catches on. If RoadRunner tried blocking Facebook tomorrow, they would have a riot on their hands. On the other hand, if they had blocked access to Facebook from day one, people complaining would have been called whiners. The same for this. If they were to block it from day one, anyone complaining would be told that they were whining because no one uses it anyway. If it got critical mass, the situation changes drastically. It becomes CEOs, TV personalities, grandmas and lawmakers that are the ones complaining. You don't want to be the company that blocks Oprah from calling Martha Stuart on their platform of choice.
it's worth noting that standardized testing may not be required in YOUR state, but the laws vary wildly from state to state.
Fair enough. The point was that most people seem to think that the standardized testing that the federal government pushes is a legal requirement. The federal government doesn't have the authority to require testing, so they take money from the local economies, and only give it back if the public schools 'voluntarily' do the standardized testing.
Legal requirements are a state issue, so the feds can only 'suggest' requirements.
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Yes, it is usually used when someone is trying to deceive you.
It not only has to be built in, it has to be automatic. I figure that the solution would need designing email clients to insert public keys into the headers on out going email. And, to scan incoming email headers for public keys that it can harvest to build a list of recipients that can receive encrypted mail.
This way you would not break existing email, but once you have made contact with another person via email, all future email would be encrypted with no action on the users part.
I can honestly say that I have never made a single grammatical error in Portuguese. Not once.
As a happy Android user, I have to concede that your point is valid. Fragmentation complaints are pure FUD. It is the lack of updates that is the problem. Apple did good in their negotiations with the carriers that allows them to update the phones directly. I would like to see Google move to a 3 tier setup for Android. 1 tier would be all of the drivers for the specific hardware. The second tier would be the OS itself. The third tier would be the carrier/manufacturer customizations. At any time, Google should be able to update the base OS whether the carrier likes it or not. Since the third tier would be apps installed over the OS, they should be no less compatible with the OS update than any other software. There is no reason that the carrier/manufacturer customizations should be anything more than apps that are installed by default.
Fragmentation is a problem as it undeniably results in a subpar experience:
I'm confused. You are implying that Android is 'Fragmented' and that Fragmentation causes a subpar experience. Those to ideas don't add up.
I don't know. I'm thinking that IBM may have sold more PCs due to the fact that they were cloned than they would have sold if they were never cloned. The would have had 100% of the "IBM PC Compatible" market, but I'm not convinced that that market would have gained the dominance that it did.
Only in the snow.
What are you talking about? Most tablets will let you connect a standard Bluetooth keyboard. Many will let you plug in a USB keyboard. They let you touch the hardware just as much as a C64 did. While iOS locks you out of arbitrary binaries, Android most certainly does not, and both have built in programming languages that let you run arbitrary software in an interpreted mode.
In fact, you can run the same arbitrary binaries on Android that you can run on a IBM PC. No working around necessary.
It is worse than that. The original IBM PC does not pass the test for being a PC since it didn't have a mouse.
I submit http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/consoles/2600/atari2600.JPG.
And yes, you could write programs directly on the 2600
I would go the opposite direction. From the title, I expected that the definition was going to be that they had one model of computer that was a better seller than the 20 models offered by any other vendor. Defining smartphones and tablets as PCs is perfectly valid. Most computers have been sold primarily as consumption devices, and that trend only accelerated over the last decade. There is nothing that could be done on an original IBM PC that cannot be done on tablets and smartphones today. If you presented a tablet with a Bluetooth keyboard to a person in 1982 they most certainly would have identified it as a PC. A freaking awesome PC, but a PC none the less. It is those that claim tablets are not personal computers that are twisting the definition to meet their needs
Just look at some of the comments here. "A PC is a device you can do 'real work' on." "Real work mean photo retouching, complex Excel spreadsheets, multiple windows". Pretty much a large portion of the people arguing that a tablet isn't a PC are also arguing that the IBM PC is not a PC.
I have to ask, what "real work" can't be done on a tablet that could be done on an IBM PC (model 5150) which by any sane definition is a PC?
There is nothing you could do on an IBM brand 286 PC that you cannot do on an Android tablet. You can literally run the very same binaries files for the same software. So, if an IBM PC was a PC, then an Android tablet is a PC.
But, in the end, the "Quality Assurance" did not prevent complete crap from being officially licensed and sold on the NES.
You mean, once it is bought it is rented.
Cost and Super Mario Brothers. Besides, one product supplanting another doesn't make a market segment crash. The 2600 being supplanted by teh C64 does not make a video game industry crash, and the C64 being supplanted by the Nes does not make a video game industry crash.
Car shows, tech shows and women's magazines.
I realize that many women tend to be overly violent, but it isn't fair to lump all women into that category just because some of them don't know how to control their behavior.
Support. If these really are sold by Amazon, Best Buy, GameStop, and Target, then they will be seen as legit by a much wider audience. This can lead to a network effect for games being properly tuned for the system and people buying the system. There is an issue of critical mass. Since it is Android and they have partnered with Amazon, it will likely support the Amazon Android Market. This means, Netflix, Hulu and Crackle will be running on it. That means it starts out day one as a real competitor for Roku and the other streaming boxes. Add in XBMC and it beats the streaming boxes before you even look at the rest of the Android ecosystem.
The 2600 crashed because everyone was moving to C64s and Apple IIs. The Atari was just way out of it's league. Given the huge amount of crap, and complete lack of lock down on the C64 and Apple II, I cannot believe that it was low quality software that was the Atari's undoing.
As much as taking joy in other people failing makes him an ass, he did not say that the nature of funding determines the quality of a venture. He said that the quality of the venture determines funding.
It is a small vocal set of women that don't like scantily clad women almost as much as men do. By using booth babes, you attract both genders.
You mean like Czar?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._executive_branch_czars
It is a question of how quickly it catches on. If RoadRunner tried blocking Facebook tomorrow, they would have a riot on their hands. On the other hand, if they had blocked access to Facebook from day one, people complaining would have been called whiners. The same for this. If they were to block it from day one, anyone complaining would be told that they were whining because no one uses it anyway. If it got critical mass, the situation changes drastically. It becomes CEOs, TV personalities, grandmas and lawmakers that are the ones complaining. You don't want to be the company that blocks Oprah from calling Martha Stuart on their platform of choice.
it's worth noting that standardized testing may not be required in YOUR state, but the laws vary wildly from state to state.
Fair enough. The point was that most people seem to think that the standardized testing that the federal government pushes is a legal requirement. The federal government doesn't have the authority to require testing, so they take money from the local economies, and only give it back if the public schools 'voluntarily' do the standardized testing.
Legal requirements are a state issue, so the feds can only 'suggest' requirements.