I know, I kinda find that pathetic myself. I know I wouldn't mind the alerts, as it's much more in-line with other payment systems such as Paypal or Google Wallet. It'd allow users to fight fraudulent charges in real-time so long as the notification also includes the name of who/what is generating the transation.
Agreed. Which is why I don't mind the concept of the tablet convertible laptop. Just make sure that it swaps to the appropriate UI depending on if the device is docked up or not. If Google figures this out, and builds up a release of Android that moves from the KitKat UI over to something similar to ChromeOS, MS can kiss their collective ass good-bye.
Sadly that isn't the case. Windows 8 sales and uptake are even worse than Windows Vista, all because Microsoft has alienated users by forcing this useless touch-oriented experience on systems where it doesn't belong. It comes as no surprise that when Win8 shipped, Stardock's most popular software package became Start8. It's because people using conventional laptops and desktops don't want Metro to be anywhere on their machines.
That's not a tablet convertible. I'm talking devices like the Asus Transformer T300, the Dell XPS 12, Dell Venue Pro 11, or Lenovo's Miix 2. Those are the sorts of devices where Windows 8 and the dual-UI design actually makes sense.
If MS is saying that laptops are nothing more than tablets with keyboards, then companies better start selling more tablet convertable devices. Then this vaunted touch UI utopia actually starts making sense and becomes useful, instead of a completely pointless feature that absolutely nobody with a standard laptop makes use of. Just remember to incorperate the UI toggle, so that when the device is undocked, it always presents Metro. While it's docked, it should always display the Win7 desktop. Now that actually makes sense.
The difference here being that mice, VGA graphics, and the shift in aspect ratio are actually useful to more than an extremely small sub-set of the PC using population. Just remember that pen input doesn't equal touch input, believe it or not, they're two completely different things with different use cases for each. But you're right, it's impossible to design a UI that does both mouse and touch. What I'm saying is don't even attempt it. Leave touch for devices that can actually make good use it, like tablets and tablet convertables. Just make sure that for every tablet convertable system, you make sure that when it's loaded into the keyboard dock, it presents a non-touch interface. Forcing something that has very little practical value on the end user makes the OEMs appear just as out of touch with their clients as Microsoft has shown they are in designing Windows 8.
No, touch doesn't work fine for laptops. We have so many of them because of the fact they're being forced on the end-user by both MS and the various OEMs. Artists for the record don't use Cintiq tablets for the use of a touch interface, they use them to mirror their primary display (or use them as the primary display) for the purposes of pen input, not to run a touch-orinted UI. So making touch-input 100% manditory is wasteful at best and rather moronic at worst. Leave touch as an option for notebooks/desktops/workstations. Anyone who actually needs it is more than free to have it added into their machines. But you'll find for the great majority of users, it's an option that's not going to be selected.
But you're using it on a device designed around the Metro experience. The same could be said for any of the Win8 tablets and tablet-convertibles. However the same can't be said of Win8 deployments on laptops, desktops, or workstations. The Metro interface tends to get in the way of doing anything, more often than not.
Yeah... Do that and you'll have every business, gamer, and professional abandon the platform so quick that Bill Gates will take back his company and fire everyone that thought that was a good idea. Touch doesn't work in every possible mode of use. It only makes sense for pure tablets or tablet-convertable hardware. Touch completely falls apart for laptops, desktops, and workstations. You really want to use a touch-only UI, without mouse/keyboard support, on a dual or triple screen workstation? You want to wreck your shoulders and get even more RSIs just to reach up to the screen over and over again? You wanna tell gamers that they'll be forced to abandon the most precice form of input gaming has to offer? All because the best method of input was arbitrarily redacted from their primary OS on a whim? Good luck with that. Gamers will move to MacOS, then Linux. Enterprise will move everything over to Linux servers and Mac OS clients. Creative professionals will go right back to Mac OS, where most of them started to begin with. If you're going to replace/remove keyboard and mouse, you've got to replace it with something viable enough to address the needs of the users, which touch input doesn't do at all. Touch for desktops and laptops should be 100% optional, as their use cases aren't condusive to using touch inputs.
Too bad they royally screwed the pooch in making that dual-purpose system and left us with Windows 8 in a barely functional state for either mode. My hopes for Windows 9 are thus:
*Dedicated environment modes: If Win9 detects that there's no touchscreen on a system, then it should default to the Win7 desktop experience. If a touchscreen is detected, ASK the user what they want during initial setup.
*Dynamic environment swapping: This is more for the newer Tablet/Laptop convertable/dockable machines. If the system detects that it's undocked or in a tablet mode, ask the user what they want the first time and offer the option to default to it from then on. That way if you want Metro while undocked, you've got it. The moment you dock up, revert to the Win7 desktop immediately.
*Finish the Metro UI: It's confusing, incomplete, and still needs a lot of work before it's ready for everyday usage.
Yeah, which is sadly meaningess when the snow hits. They're fine for mud, useless in the snow. Proper studded snow tires are the only thing that are going to get you anywhere when the flakes fall.
It's called running your hardware in an exclusive mode. I'm not sure what other crappy access points everyone there is using, but my Linksys E2500 in it's Wifi settings has an option for operating solely in an 802.11N mode while throwing legacy compatibility to the wind. I've never enabled it due to compatibility reasons, but the option is very much there. So if Cisco is complaining about A/B/G revisions of wireless slowing down networks, then start selling hardware that's N or AC-only by default and make sure it's clearly listed on the box, the product listing, and the instruction manuals. Cisco's trying to create a problem that doesn't exist if you know what you're doing.
And Dropbox is on Linux. OneDrive and even Google's vaunted Drive services aren't. That's why Dropbox is the good service, OneDrive and GDrive can all continue to be irrelevant.
System integration, plain and simple. Install a client, set a directory, and you never have to think about it ever again. Everything in that directory is automaticly uploaded to the service. Can't do that with an FTP server, you've got to deal with an FTP client or some web interface to get your files on there.
I'd say they should get out of the console market. Handhelds are where their greatest strength are now. Meanwhile their consoles have been continually floundering. For Nintendo's console offerings, I say license things out for the XOne/PS4 since it's hardware developers know and the tools are actually mature.
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Never rate an app from within the app itself. We all know it's super convienent, but at the same time it's subject to this kind of trickery.
I know, I kinda find that pathetic myself. I know I wouldn't mind the alerts, as it's much more in-line with other payment systems such as Paypal or Google Wallet. It'd allow users to fight fraudulent charges in real-time so long as the notification also includes the name of who/what is generating the transation.
The real problem being the fact the US still moronicly uses MagStripe/Pin for payment cards instead of a Chip/Pin system.
Nobody. Nobody is going to get the messages.
Agreed. Which is why I don't mind the concept of the tablet convertible laptop. Just make sure that it swaps to the appropriate UI depending on if the device is docked up or not. If Google figures this out, and builds up a release of Android that moves from the KitKat UI over to something similar to ChromeOS, MS can kiss their collective ass good-bye.
Sadly that isn't the case. Windows 8 sales and uptake are even worse than Windows Vista, all because Microsoft has alienated users by forcing this useless touch-oriented experience on systems where it doesn't belong. It comes as no surprise that when Win8 shipped, Stardock's most popular software package became Start8. It's because people using conventional laptops and desktops don't want Metro to be anywhere on their machines.
That's not a tablet convertible. I'm talking devices like the Asus Transformer T300, the Dell XPS 12, Dell Venue Pro 11, or Lenovo's Miix 2. Those are the sorts of devices where Windows 8 and the dual-UI design actually makes sense.
If MS is saying that laptops are nothing more than tablets with keyboards, then companies better start selling more tablet convertable devices. Then this vaunted touch UI utopia actually starts making sense and becomes useful, instead of a completely pointless feature that absolutely nobody with a standard laptop makes use of. Just remember to incorperate the UI toggle, so that when the device is undocked, it always presents Metro. While it's docked, it should always display the Win7 desktop. Now that actually makes sense.
The difference here being that mice, VGA graphics, and the shift in aspect ratio are actually useful to more than an extremely small sub-set of the PC using population. Just remember that pen input doesn't equal touch input, believe it or not, they're two completely different things with different use cases for each. But you're right, it's impossible to design a UI that does both mouse and touch. What I'm saying is don't even attempt it. Leave touch for devices that can actually make good use it, like tablets and tablet convertables. Just make sure that for every tablet convertable system, you make sure that when it's loaded into the keyboard dock, it presents a non-touch interface. Forcing something that has very little practical value on the end user makes the OEMs appear just as out of touch with their clients as Microsoft has shown they are in designing Windows 8.
No, touch doesn't work fine for laptops. We have so many of them because of the fact they're being forced on the end-user by both MS and the various OEMs. Artists for the record don't use Cintiq tablets for the use of a touch interface, they use them to mirror their primary display (or use them as the primary display) for the purposes of pen input, not to run a touch-orinted UI. So making touch-input 100% manditory is wasteful at best and rather moronic at worst. Leave touch as an option for notebooks/desktops/workstations. Anyone who actually needs it is more than free to have it added into their machines. But you'll find for the great majority of users, it's an option that's not going to be selected.
But you're using it on a device designed around the Metro experience. The same could be said for any of the Win8 tablets and tablet-convertibles. However the same can't be said of Win8 deployments on laptops, desktops, or workstations. The Metro interface tends to get in the way of doing anything, more often than not.
Yeah... Do that and you'll have every business, gamer, and professional abandon the platform so quick that Bill Gates will take back his company and fire everyone that thought that was a good idea. Touch doesn't work in every possible mode of use. It only makes sense for pure tablets or tablet-convertable hardware. Touch completely falls apart for laptops, desktops, and workstations. You really want to use a touch-only UI, without mouse/keyboard support, on a dual or triple screen workstation? You want to wreck your shoulders and get even more RSIs just to reach up to the screen over and over again? You wanna tell gamers that they'll be forced to abandon the most precice form of input gaming has to offer? All because the best method of input was arbitrarily redacted from their primary OS on a whim? Good luck with that. Gamers will move to MacOS, then Linux. Enterprise will move everything over to Linux servers and Mac OS clients. Creative professionals will go right back to Mac OS, where most of them started to begin with. If you're going to replace/remove keyboard and mouse, you've got to replace it with something viable enough to address the needs of the users, which touch input doesn't do at all. Touch for desktops and laptops should be 100% optional, as their use cases aren't condusive to using touch inputs.
Too bad they royally screwed the pooch in making that dual-purpose system and left us with Windows 8 in a barely functional state for either mode. My hopes for Windows 9 are thus: *Dedicated environment modes: If Win9 detects that there's no touchscreen on a system, then it should default to the Win7 desktop experience. If a touchscreen is detected, ASK the user what they want during initial setup. *Dynamic environment swapping: This is more for the newer Tablet/Laptop convertable/dockable machines. If the system detects that it's undocked or in a tablet mode, ask the user what they want the first time and offer the option to default to it from then on. That way if you want Metro while undocked, you've got it. The moment you dock up, revert to the Win7 desktop immediately. *Finish the Metro UI: It's confusing, incomplete, and still needs a lot of work before it's ready for everyday usage.
Yeah, which is sadly meaningess when the snow hits. They're fine for mud, useless in the snow. Proper studded snow tires are the only thing that are going to get you anywhere when the flakes fall.
Well.. It is Russia. They probably look at the Northeast US and think 'Pussies... suck it up.'.
But doing that won't stop A traffic if the hardware is supporting 5GHz. Just put it into N-only and ALL the legacy traffic is gone.
It's called running your hardware in an exclusive mode. I'm not sure what other crappy access points everyone there is using, but my Linksys E2500 in it's Wifi settings has an option for operating solely in an 802.11N mode while throwing legacy compatibility to the wind. I've never enabled it due to compatibility reasons, but the option is very much there. So if Cisco is complaining about A/B/G revisions of wireless slowing down networks, then start selling hardware that's N or AC-only by default and make sure it's clearly listed on the box, the product listing, and the instruction manuals. Cisco's trying to create a problem that doesn't exist if you know what you're doing.
I'll believe that when I see it. But until that day, Dropbox is going to be the better service.
And Dropbox is on Linux. OneDrive and even Google's vaunted Drive services aren't. That's why Dropbox is the good service, OneDrive and GDrive can all continue to be irrelevant.
System integration, plain and simple. Install a client, set a directory, and you never have to think about it ever again. Everything in that directory is automaticly uploaded to the service. Can't do that with an FTP server, you've got to deal with an FTP client or some web interface to get your files on there.
Any people should use this over Dropbox why? I'll take a service that works on all relevant platforms over Microsoft's Windows/WP only crap any day.
Dell doesn't really count. They weren't around back when Apple was founded. If you're curious, Apple was founded in 1976, Dell in 1984.
I'd say they should get out of the console market. Handhelds are where their greatest strength are now. Meanwhile their consoles have been continually floundering. For Nintendo's console offerings, I say license things out for the XOne/PS4 since it's hardware developers know and the tools are actually mature.
Go home Patrick O' Donovan, it's obvioius that you're drunk.
This is yet another reason why nobody should be using Windows for their point of sale systems.