And what ads are these? I use the Kobo and Kindle apps, and the only ads I see are in their home/library screens, where they have book recommendations (most of the time having nothing to do with anything I actually read). Once I select an ebook I don't see ads at all.
If all I'm doing is reading, my battery life is pretty damned long. As with any tablet, it's about all the other crap you might have running. I do agree that e-ink has its advantages depending on lighting conditions, but the first thing I learned was to switch to black background with white text, which solved some of the problems.
No kidding. I use both the Kobo and Kindle apps, and while they bring up recommendations if you are in their "home" screens, I never see them while actually reading the book.
For reading books, I'm not going to get a full blown Windows device that costs several hundred dollars. Heck, for just reading, I think my Nexus 7 is way overpriced, but because I use it for other things like remote administration, it serves multiple purposes.
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That's odd. Since in the last year I've read several novels, not to mention technical papers, essays and a few non-fiction books... all on my Nexus 7. Don't install much in the way of apps, and see no more ads on it than I do on my notebook or desktop.
Oh, I get it. You had this incredible attack against tablets, and you're not actually interested how they may be used on the ground. Do carry on with your biased and self-serving arguments.
Well, I guess it's no fucking good at all, we should kill the site, eradicate the errors and force everyone to pay bazillions for equally dubious mainstream encyclopedias or megabazillions for medical references.
I don't know. I'm running KVM on Debian 7 with DRBD replicating all my guests to a backup VM host server. When I looked at Hyper-V, I found out that to replicate my set up would cost me roughly $10,000, and that's before I even buy the actual physical servers.
If I'm going to be using the CLI to manage virtual machines, I stick with libvirt's toolset.
No, it's sociopathy to tell someone looking for help for a loved one to simply let that loved one die. It shows callousness, both towards the submitter, and towards the family member. The kind of callousness I expect from Libertarian sociopaths.
Fuck man! I'd pay a goodly amount of money for one I could plant at staff meetings. Perhaps it could come with an audio board that would sporadically spout out phrases like "Way to go, team!" and "I will reprioritize to make sure your issue is at the top of the list."
It's the way I work. I have no interest in 10" or larger tablets. The 7" tablet seems the absolutely perfect size for me. I had a chance to play with an iPad 2 and I just thought it was way too large.
By the same token, when I use a laptop, I feel 15" is absolute perfect. Big enough screen to do serious work, and providing it has a decent keyboard, I'm a happy guy.
The Surface Pro 3 doesn't hit any of my buttons. Too big for what I use a tablet for. Too small for what I use a notebook for. Worst of all, it's price so high I can buy a 7" tablet AND a 15" notebook and still be ahead money wise at the end of the day.
My work email is through Exchange. Whether I access it through an Android, a Windows or an iOS device seems pretty irrelevant. I tend to avoid putting much in the way of business data on any portable device, using remote desktop to access business data.
And yes, GMail and Google Drive are on the cloud, and I use them, but then again, that's the way Microsoft is moving as well, so I ask "So what?"
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How about "I'm the president of the Andrew Tanenbaum Fan Club, and we wondered why you're such an asswiped for choosing a monolithic kernel."
A Theo de Raadt episode would be a lot more fun.
But seriously, I miss the Friday Star Wars and/or evolution stories.
Yes, ARM sees to have become what Java promised to be.
Which is the technical equivalent of allowing only researchers in the employ of the tobacco industry to research the risks of smoking.
Remember the old days when motive was a substantial part of a court's consideration of an alleged illegal act.
But that was in the days before lawyers became gods on earth.
And what ads are these? I use the Kobo and Kindle apps, and the only ads I see are in their home/library screens, where they have book recommendations (most of the time having nothing to do with anything I actually read). Once I select an ebook I don't see ads at all.
You must be using some weird hardware.
If all I'm doing is reading, my battery life is pretty damned long. As with any tablet, it's about all the other crap you might have running. I do agree that e-ink has its advantages depending on lighting conditions, but the first thing I learned was to switch to black background with white text, which solved some of the problems.
No kidding. I use both the Kobo and Kindle apps, and while they bring up recommendations if you are in their "home" screens, I never see them while actually reading the book.
For reading books, I'm not going to get a full blown Windows device that costs several hundred dollars. Heck, for just reading, I think my Nexus 7 is way overpriced, but because I use it for other things like remote administration, it serves multiple purposes.
That's odd. Since in the last year I've read several novels, not to mention technical papers, essays and a few non-fiction books... all on my Nexus 7. Don't install much in the way of apps, and see no more ads on it than I do on my notebook or desktop.
Oh, I get it. You had this incredible attack against tablets, and you're not actually interested how they may be used on the ground. Do carry on with your biased and self-serving arguments.
Because Kindles are cheap and Surface is not.
Well, I guess it's no fucking good at all, we should kill the site, eradicate the errors and force everyone to pay bazillions for equally dubious mainstream encyclopedias or megabazillions for medical references.
The summary basically amounts to "Do you answer leading question in the way writer of leading question wants you to answer?"
Not that I think ethanol is the answer, but this summary is your typical echo chamber nonsense.
We prefer the teracrap measurement.
I don't know. I'm running KVM on Debian 7 with DRBD replicating all my guests to a backup VM host server. When I looked at Hyper-V, I found out that to replicate my set up would cost me roughly $10,000, and that's before I even buy the actual physical servers.
If I'm going to be using the CLI to manage virtual machines, I stick with libvirt's toolset.
No, it's sociopathy to tell someone looking for help for a loved one to simply let that loved one die. It shows callousness, both towards the submitter, and towards the family member. The kind of callousness I expect from Libertarian sociopaths.
We could always ask your parents.
I'd agree with this. This is very early days, and while the road ahead is difficult, she could recover far more than is immediately obvious.
What did you expect from a bunch of Ron Paulite sociopaths?
As long law schools are allowed to pump out vast numbers of lawyers, this problem will continue.
Laney and Randy are greasy bastards.
Fuck man! I'd pay a goodly amount of money for one I could plant at staff meetings. Perhaps it could come with an audio board that would sporadically spout out phrases like "Way to go, team!" and "I will reprioritize to make sure your issue is at the top of the list."
"Mr. President, are you feeling okay today? You look all waxy and resinous."
It's the way I work. I have no interest in 10" or larger tablets. The 7" tablet seems the absolutely perfect size for me. I had a chance to play with an iPad 2 and I just thought it was way too large.
By the same token, when I use a laptop, I feel 15" is absolute perfect. Big enough screen to do serious work, and providing it has a decent keyboard, I'm a happy guy.
The Surface Pro 3 doesn't hit any of my buttons. Too big for what I use a tablet for. Too small for what I use a notebook for. Worst of all, it's price so high I can buy a 7" tablet AND a 15" notebook and still be ahead money wise at the end of the day.
My work email is through Exchange. Whether I access it through an Android, a Windows or an iOS device seems pretty irrelevant. I tend to avoid putting much in the way of business data on any portable device, using remote desktop to access business data.
And yes, GMail and Google Drive are on the cloud, and I use them, but then again, that's the way Microsoft is moving as well, so I ask "So what?"