The reason why tablets these days are iPad knockoffs is obvious. Just look at what the tablet landscape looked like before the iPad, and after.
Same with the iPhone knockoffs. Just look at Droid before and after the iPhone, and unless you're totally blinded by your GoogleGoggles you'll immediately notice the truth of these statements.
Since when has MS supposed to be an innovator? They innovate a lot, in MS Research, but MS is completely unable or unwilling to take any tech from MS Research and put it into consumers' hands.
Microsoft doesn't need anything to succeed - at this point, they are a few years away from a "too big to fail" bailout. The only thing keeping them going at this point is their barely profitable Xbox division, and the fact that a lot of very low-functioning office droids only know how to use Windows. However, with OpenOffice being a better Office than Office, and with a new generation of people abandoning consoles for phone gaming (yeah, it's true!) even these last holdouts are under attack.
No, managers are not fired by investors. The board has clearly been more than content to sit back and watch MS fritter its resources away engaging in Zunes and Kins and other completely inexplicable bullshittery.
Of course the managers believe in their own bullshit. They ultimately made it happen, and to look at your pile of shit and actually see the pile of shit as what it is, a pile of shit, requires that you not be delusional.
MS managers are clearly delusional, because they keep offering the general public little curled up smears of poop on the end of a stick, insisting that it's the best s'more ever, and then the public says to them "HEY DUMMY THAT'S SHIT!" and despite this, the stupid deluded managers still can't see the actual shit for what it is.
It's crazy, and it'd be sad if MS wasn't evil and didn't deserve to die this kind of lingering, pathetic death anyway.
Enjoy your s'mores. I'll be at a different campfire.
Good move posting AC, because the Kin, the Zune, and many other blunders pretty much prove you're not only wrong but mentally retarded as well.
MS engages in magic shows for the benefit of its investors and industry pundits. They are not really interested in actually competing, just in creating the appearance that they compete.
I guess you should have been watching the magician's hands more closely.
Of course, at least Apple can come up with a stable ABI and driver model. Linus is too interested in playing around with little fiddly bits to worry about important stuff, like making sure software written a few months ago still works.
The purpose of Surface is not to sell, it's to convince MS's investors that they are keeping up with the rest of the market. I don't think anybody seriously thinks it is a competitor to the iPad, or even to the Droid-based iPad knockoffs out there. It's just this thing, you know?
You're the one who is confused. You are bitterly clinging to this idea that justice is meted out fairly.
Corporations are, and always have been, intended to be a shield that allows the owners and officers to conduct themselves in potentially illegal ways while minimizing their own personal risks.
When your views of how the law works are at odds with reality, you have to adjust your views.
You seem to have confused Windows RT with Surface's OS. Do you really think you'll be able to just burrow around in the file system on a Surface? If so, please turn in your geek credentials at the door.
Surface is "based on" Windows RT, but this does not mean that it "IS" Windows RT. Nobody has any idea (outside MS anyway) what this thing will ultimately be like.
Samsung shipped a lot of S3s to retailers but they aren't actually saying how many of them sold. I have only seen three in the wild, approximately one for every seven hundred iPhones I have seen.
I'll bet you $100 that they cancel Surface within 18 months. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if they pull a Kin and cancel it mere weeks after it debuts.
Enterprise-grade tablet indeed. It doesn't even work with AD, who the hell is this customer with an Enterprise-grade tablet requirement that doesn't care about that?
Wait, the most active troll on Apple stories has an iPad (to give us the idea of credibility) and it's collecting dust? Please regale us with more tales about how you own all kinds of Apple products but don't use them because they don't tickle your fancy. I wish you'd tell us the one about how long that file copy took again.
The professors want you to do their research for them, so they can publish it in a journal. So they come up with these requirements that you sit around and do their menial labor for them.
Here's an idea - either accept that in grad school, you're your professor's bitch, or get out there and get a real job, and confine your research to your free time. Of course, if you aren't attached to a university no journal will publish your findings (no matter how interesting) but no longer do researchers have to lick the right asshole and get published in a $180 / issue journal that's only actually read by a couple dozen people. Just throw your data up on the web.
I hope you all learned something about academia today.
Listen to this parasitic fuck's arrogance: "Donâ(TM)t trust us? Erm, we have root. You do trust us with your data already. You trust us not to screw up on your machine with every update."
No, no I don't. In fact, I don't know anybody who simply trusts Ubuntu's update feature - all the Ubuntu users I know have been burned to a lesser or greater extent on EVERY update.
Sorry, Shuttleworth, I don't trust you, you don't have root, and I'm not going to fund your private Isle of Man party by allowing you to affiliate-scam every Amazon purchase I make.
Android may have 4x the monthly sales figures (not market share, which is total devices deployed) but that's because carriers live Android, as the phones cost a nickel and can be billed for hundreds over the course of the contract.
Now, even if Android has 4x the monthly sales totals, it doesn't matter because 1) Android users are cheap and don't buy apps, 2) Android phones are cheap and rarely get OS upgrades, and 3) Profits on Android phones can be measured in the $5-10 per unit range, not the $150-350 *PROFIT* per device that the iPhone has.
Who cares what the monthly sales figures of Android are? You could fling them out the cargo door of a C-130 over Somalia and it'd be no less profitable for the phone manufacturers.
That old proverb no longer applies, if it ever did. It's a proverb for sheep, people content to just lie back and get fucked in the ass by anybody who wants, all the while lamenting that it's "nobody's fault" because it's just stupidity instead of malice that is driving these ass-fuckers.
Seriously, wake up. Never attribute anything to stupidity that could be attributed to malice.
There is no real malware in the wild on OS X. Every year or two a proof-of-concept trojan gets trotted out as proof that OS X is insecure, or somebody brings up the PWN2OWN competitions, but by and large there is very little to worry about security-wise on OS X.
On Windows, though, you're totally fucked by malware at every opportunity. The only way to avoid it is to unplug the internet.
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The reason why tablets these days are iPad knockoffs is obvious. Just look at what the tablet landscape looked like before the iPad, and after.
Same with the iPhone knockoffs. Just look at Droid before and after the iPhone, and unless you're totally blinded by your GoogleGoggles you'll immediately notice the truth of these statements.
Since when has MS supposed to be an innovator? They innovate a lot, in MS Research, but MS is completely unable or unwilling to take any tech from MS Research and put it into consumers' hands.
Microsoft doesn't need anything to succeed - at this point, they are a few years away from a "too big to fail" bailout. The only thing keeping them going at this point is their barely profitable Xbox division, and the fact that a lot of very low-functioning office droids only know how to use Windows. However, with OpenOffice being a better Office than Office, and with a new generation of people abandoning consoles for phone gaming (yeah, it's true!) even these last holdouts are under attack.
Yeah, you sure are. It's amazing that you were even able to operate a web browser.
No, managers are not fired by investors. The board has clearly been more than content to sit back and watch MS fritter its resources away engaging in Zunes and Kins and other completely inexplicable bullshittery.
Of course the managers believe in their own bullshit. They ultimately made it happen, and to look at your pile of shit and actually see the pile of shit as what it is, a pile of shit, requires that you not be delusional.
MS managers are clearly delusional, because they keep offering the general public little curled up smears of poop on the end of a stick, insisting that it's the best s'more ever, and then the public says to them "HEY DUMMY THAT'S SHIT!" and despite this, the stupid deluded managers still can't see the actual shit for what it is.
It's crazy, and it'd be sad if MS wasn't evil and didn't deserve to die this kind of lingering, pathetic death anyway.
Enjoy your s'mores. I'll be at a different campfire.
Good move posting AC, because the Kin, the Zune, and many other blunders pretty much prove you're not only wrong but mentally retarded as well.
MS engages in magic shows for the benefit of its investors and industry pundits. They are not really interested in actually competing, just in creating the appearance that they compete.
I guess you should have been watching the magician's hands more closely.
Of course, at least Apple can come up with a stable ABI and driver model. Linus is too interested in playing around with little fiddly bits to worry about important stuff, like making sure software written a few months ago still works.
Darwin is based on the *FreeBSD* userland stack, but it has a Mach-based kernel. I don't believe there is really ,inch NetBSD stuff in there at all...
The purpose of Surface is not to sell, it's to convince MS's investors that they are keeping up with the rest of the market. I don't think anybody seriously thinks it is a competitor to the iPad, or even to the Droid-based iPad knockoffs out there. It's just this thing, you know?
You're the one who is confused. You are bitterly clinging to this idea that justice is meted out fairly.
Corporations are, and always have been, intended to be a shield that allows the owners and officers to conduct themselves in potentially illegal ways while minimizing their own personal risks.
When your views of how the law works are at odds with reality, you have to adjust your views.
You seem to have confused Windows RT with Surface's OS. Do you really think you'll be able to just burrow around in the file system on a Surface? If so, please turn in your geek credentials at the door.
That's what people have been telling me for 3 years. They always end up slinking away for a while, before they spit up a new prediction.
I'm sure you feel pretty good about yourself, which is fine.
Anyway you have no idea about my level of involvement, past or present, with academia.
My points all stand. Interesting that you claim to have a PHD - a claim that is hardly believable.
Surface is "based on" Windows RT, but this does not mean that it "IS" Windows RT. Nobody has any idea (outside MS anyway) what this thing will ultimately be like.
Apple will not be coming out with an iPad mini. I have to repeat this every year to people who fall for these lies.
The iPad Mini is called the iPod Touch.
Oddly enough if you do enough typing you will switch to one of those eventually. They are excellent for relieving RSI.
Yeah I know it's not as much fun, but you will switch sooner or later.
Samsung shipped a lot of S3s to retailers but they aren't actually saying how many of them sold. I have only seen three in the wild, approximately one for every seven hundred iPhones I have seen.
I'll bet you $100 that they cancel Surface within 18 months. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if they pull a Kin and cancel it mere weeks after it debuts.
Enterprise-grade tablet indeed. It doesn't even work with AD, who the hell is this customer with an Enterprise-grade tablet requirement that doesn't care about that?
Derp.
Wait, the most active troll on Apple stories has an iPad (to give us the idea of credibility) and it's collecting dust? Please regale us with more tales about how you own all kinds of Apple products but don't use them because they don't tickle your fancy. I wish you'd tell us the one about how long that file copy took again.
The professors want you to do their research for them, so they can publish it in a journal. So they come up with these requirements that you sit around and do their menial labor for them.
Here's an idea - either accept that in grad school, you're your professor's bitch, or get out there and get a real job, and confine your research to your free time. Of course, if you aren't attached to a university no journal will publish your findings (no matter how interesting) but no longer do researchers have to lick the right asshole and get published in a $180 / issue journal that's only actually read by a couple dozen people. Just throw your data up on the web.
I hope you all learned something about academia today.
Apple does not heavily promote the CPUs it uses. They are mere details and the user shouldn't have to care or know about that.
Listen to this parasitic fuck's arrogance: "Donâ(TM)t trust us? Erm, we have root. You do trust us with your data already. You trust us not to screw up on your machine with every update."
No, no I don't. In fact, I don't know anybody who simply trusts Ubuntu's update feature - all the Ubuntu users I know have been burned to a lesser or greater extent on EVERY update.
Sorry, Shuttleworth, I don't trust you, you don't have root, and I'm not going to fund your private Isle of Man party by allowing you to affiliate-scam every Amazon purchase I make.
Android may have 4x the monthly sales figures (not market share, which is total devices deployed) but that's because carriers live Android, as the phones cost a nickel and can be billed for hundreds over the course of the contract.
Now, even if Android has 4x the monthly sales totals, it doesn't matter because 1) Android users are cheap and don't buy apps, 2) Android phones are cheap and rarely get OS upgrades, and 3) Profits on Android phones can be measured in the $5-10 per unit range, not the $150-350 *PROFIT* per device that the iPhone has.
Who cares what the monthly sales figures of Android are? You could fling them out the cargo door of a C-130 over Somalia and it'd be no less profitable for the phone manufacturers.
I heard that it infected 8 computers, not 8% of the Macs out there.
Besodes, nobody thinks the Macs are immune to viruses - merely that there aren't any worth talking about.
That old proverb no longer applies, if it ever did. It's a proverb for sheep, people content to just lie back and get fucked in the ass by anybody who wants, all the while lamenting that it's "nobody's fault" because it's just stupidity instead of malice that is driving these ass-fuckers.
Seriously, wake up. Never attribute anything to stupidity that could be attributed to malice.
There is no real malware in the wild on OS X. Every year or two a proof-of-concept trojan gets trotted out as proof that OS X is insecure, or somebody brings up the PWN2OWN competitions, but by and large there is very little to worry about security-wise on OS X.
On Windows, though, you're totally fucked by malware at every opportunity. The only way to avoid it is to unplug the internet.