I have no problem using my Nexus 7 with a mouse. It works well enough. But why would I want windows management on a 7" screen? I don't actually want windows at all. I'm content with a task switcher, which Android and iOS have.
Apart from the fact that the Babel story is nonsense, I often wonder if the underlying claim that all languages stem from an original is even true. I can imagine that the neural capacity for language was probably slightly ahead of the actual development of language, and that in some human populations (probably H. sapiens, but maybe earlier) full language was expressed independently, thus there was no original founder language that all modern spoken languages descend.
It doesn't make much difference at the end of the day because whether all languages descend from one language or from a dozen or whether modern families of languages descended from creoles, the fact remains that there is a huge amount of information loss in linguistic development. Even in one of the oldest attested language families; Afro-Asiatic, we cannot hope to reliably push back more than 10k years at most. We can create a hypothesized proto language for these families, but beyond that there's no linguistic telescope we can use. Even Nostratic, which is still very contested and a very long way from general acceptance, only gets us maybe 15k years.
Are there descendants of ice age words being spoken? Doubtless, but identifying them after 10 to 20 thousand years of linguistic change is likely to be made impossible by the sheer amount of language evolution in that period of time.
Linguists put a helluva lot of effort into weeding this out, and more than one linguist with a pet genetic language theory has been shamed by inattention to them.
There are some real reasons to expect that much past 10k years, trying to identify related languages becomes very very difficult. Even trying to link more recent presumed genetic relationships, like those between the Indo-European and Uralic languages, which is at least considered a possibility by many linguists, is a long long way from being accepted.
I've got Quickoffice on my Nexus 7 and have been monkeying around with using it in conjunction with a network aware file browser (ES File Explorer) and OpenVPN to give me access to our company's file server. It actually works reasonably well. Quickoffice is sufficiently useful that it opens most documents well enough. I'm still in the testing phase, and once I'm sure it works, we'll probably start rolling it out to the staff that have tablets.
I'm not trying to make any kind of a business justification. I'm telling what I'm seeing, and what's lots of other people will report to. The tablet is already in the enterprise. Clearly whoever has authorized the purchases of these devices has had a business case made. You can disagree with it, but you can't really argue that the decision hasn't been made.
Because what I use my PC for and what I use my tablet for are entirely different things, and by trying to merge them into a single experience you produce a laptop I don't want to use and a tablet I don't want to use. And apparently I'm not alone, judging by the incredible failure Microsoft's Surface offerings have been.
And yet you go to any business conference nowadays, and the place is littered with iPads and other tablets. How odd it is that, whatever your advice might be, businesses are buying tablets and they are being seen out in the field.
You can certainly argue that business are wrong, but you can't argue with the fact that the tablet has made major inroads into the enterprise world.
And Microsoft keeps demonstrating that they just don't get it, that no one seriously expect a tablet to be a PC, and that no one wants their PC to be a tablet.
How strange, seeing as I never mentioned religion or atheism. But I can see you fear science, and I rather pity you for that, to be that terrified of knowledge.
Close minded towards precisely the kind of fuzzy thinking based on anecdotal evidence that science was designed to avoid? Yes, I think sensible should be.
Welcome fellow Belgians. We at Sabam, being sociopaths, wish to tax your internet usage, your radio, and yes, even your libraries. You should be pleased that a group of malicious psychopaths like us have latched on to this particular game, because otherwise we'd probably be stalking playgrounds and public washrooms for victims that we could molest, beat and possibly even cannibalize to fulfill our obscene lusts.
So fork over lots of cash to us, or we'll be forced to start fulfilling our other fantasies, and you will never feel safe in a public space again.
Obviously there must be some credence to this idea for such an experiment to take place, but since my understanding is that gravity is an inherent effect of mass warping space, wouldn't anti-matter possess mass in the same way that matter does, so why would gravity act differently?
One of the big reasons I bought a Nexus 7 is because we get a helluva lot of PDFs where I work, and I don't want to print them all off or drag my notebook in to every meeting. I installed a VPN client and a file system browser on my Nexus that allows me to get on to the file server and directly access PDFs. The Adobe PDF android client is good enough for that purpose. I do quite a bit of email on it, have an ereader and do most of my leisure reading on it. It's a handy device with a long battery life. I like it quite a bit. It could be better, but I picked up a 32gb model for cheap, so can't complain. It's a nice device.
My Nexus 7 flashed up an update to the operating system about ten minutes after I bought it. My wife's Kobo Arc has had two system updates since Christmas.
From the company bleeding money for the last three years because it has absolutely no idea what customers want, comes the grand declaration "Customers won't want tablets."
Maybe if Blackberry had released a tablet that had full access to the Android market, they might have sold some. My daughter got a playbook from her boyfriend's parents a few months ago, and while the hardware is nothing to sneeze at, the fact that you couldn't even install the Netflix app was a revelation to me as to just how clueless RIM/Blackberry really is.
You know, twenty five years ago, everyone was convinced it would be computers built by the military-industrial complex that would become self-aware and take out the human race. Now I'm beginning to wonder if HFT algorithms will be the ones that do it.
Let the show die. The direct-to-video movies were by and large second rate, and the new season, while it had some high points, just didn't have the charm of the old seasons.
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I imagine the only real "cloud" part to this will be some sort of encryption key exchange that amounts to "if(productexpired) extort(money);"
Indeed. The proper question is how many Windows 8 units have actually sold, versus units still sitting in warehouses or on store shelves.
They do? My wife accepts that her Kobo Arc can't run Photoshop, nor does she have any desire for it to run Photoshop. We have a PC for that.
I have no problem using my Nexus 7 with a mouse. It works well enough. But why would I want windows management on a 7" screen? I don't actually want windows at all. I'm content with a task switcher, which Android and iOS have.
Apart from the fact that the Babel story is nonsense, I often wonder if the underlying claim that all languages stem from an original is even true. I can imagine that the neural capacity for language was probably slightly ahead of the actual development of language, and that in some human populations (probably H. sapiens, but maybe earlier) full language was expressed independently, thus there was no original founder language that all modern spoken languages descend.
It doesn't make much difference at the end of the day because whether all languages descend from one language or from a dozen or whether modern families of languages descended from creoles, the fact remains that there is a huge amount of information loss in linguistic development. Even in one of the oldest attested language families; Afro-Asiatic, we cannot hope to reliably push back more than 10k years at most. We can create a hypothesized proto language for these families, but beyond that there's no linguistic telescope we can use. Even Nostratic, which is still very contested and a very long way from general acceptance, only gets us maybe 15k years.
Are there descendants of ice age words being spoken? Doubtless, but identifying them after 10 to 20 thousand years of linguistic change is likely to be made impossible by the sheer amount of language evolution in that period of time.
Time for a lesson in linguistics:
False Cognates
Linguists put a helluva lot of effort into weeding this out, and more than one linguist with a pet genetic language theory has been shamed by inattention to them.
There are some real reasons to expect that much past 10k years, trying to identify related languages becomes very very difficult. Even trying to link more recent presumed genetic relationships, like those between the Indo-European and Uralic languages, which is at least considered a possibility by many linguists, is a long long way from being accepted.
I've got Quickoffice on my Nexus 7 and have been monkeying around with using it in conjunction with a network aware file browser (ES File Explorer) and OpenVPN to give me access to our company's file server. It actually works reasonably well. Quickoffice is sufficiently useful that it opens most documents well enough. I'm still in the testing phase, and once I'm sure it works, we'll probably start rolling it out to the staff that have tablets.
I'm not trying to make any kind of a business justification. I'm telling what I'm seeing, and what's lots of other people will report to. The tablet is already in the enterprise. Clearly whoever has authorized the purchases of these devices has had a business case made. You can disagree with it, but you can't really argue that the decision hasn't been made.
I can't imagine anybody seriously believes tablets will completely replace PCs. But I think they'll make a helluva dent (if they haven't already).
Because what I use my PC for and what I use my tablet for are entirely different things, and by trying to merge them into a single experience you produce a laptop I don't want to use and a tablet I don't want to use. And apparently I'm not alone, judging by the incredible failure Microsoft's Surface offerings have been.
And yet you go to any business conference nowadays, and the place is littered with iPads and other tablets. How odd it is that, whatever your advice might be, businesses are buying tablets and they are being seen out in the field.
You can certainly argue that business are wrong, but you can't argue with the fact that the tablet has made major inroads into the enterprise world.
And Microsoft keeps demonstrating that they just don't get it, that no one seriously expect a tablet to be a PC, and that no one wants their PC to be a tablet.
How strange, seeing as I never mentioned religion or atheism. But I can see you fear science, and I rather pity you for that, to be that terrified of knowledge.
Good luck to you sir.
Close minded towards precisely the kind of fuzzy thinking based on anecdotal evidence that science was designed to avoid? Yes, I think sensible should be.
Welcome fellow Belgians. We at Sabam, being sociopaths, wish to tax your internet usage, your radio, and yes, even your libraries. You should be pleased that a group of malicious psychopaths like us have latched on to this particular game, because otherwise we'd probably be stalking playgrounds and public washrooms for victims that we could molest, beat and possibly even cannibalize to fulfill our obscene lusts.
So fork over lots of cash to us, or we'll be forced to start fulfilling our other fantasies, and you will never feel safe in a public space again.
Obviously there must be some credence to this idea for such an experiment to take place, but since my understanding is that gravity is an inherent effect of mass warping space, wouldn't anti-matter possess mass in the same way that matter does, so why would gravity act differently?
Just asking. Not trying to claim anything.
One of the big reasons I bought a Nexus 7 is because we get a helluva lot of PDFs where I work, and I don't want to print them all off or drag my notebook in to every meeting. I installed a VPN client and a file system browser on my Nexus that allows me to get on to the file server and directly access PDFs. The Adobe PDF android client is good enough for that purpose. I do quite a bit of email on it, have an ereader and do most of my leisure reading on it. It's a handy device with a long battery life. I like it quite a bit. It could be better, but I picked up a 32gb model for cheap, so can't complain. It's a nice device.
My Nexus 7 flashed up an update to the operating system about ten minutes after I bought it. My wife's Kobo Arc has had two system updates since Christmas.
From the company bleeding money for the last three years because it has absolutely no idea what customers want, comes the grand declaration "Customers won't want tablets."
Maybe if Blackberry had released a tablet that had full access to the Android market, they might have sold some. My daughter got a playbook from her boyfriend's parents a few months ago, and while the hardware is nothing to sneeze at, the fact that you couldn't even install the Netflix app was a revelation to me as to just how clueless RIM/Blackberry really is.
Not to worry. A DMCA complaint against all news agencies and websites reporting this is being filed as we speak.
I think a car analogy is in order.
Or legislation for Congress!
You know, twenty five years ago, everyone was convinced it would be computers built by the military-industrial complex that would become self-aware and take out the human race. Now I'm beginning to wonder if HFT algorithms will be the ones that do it.
Let the show die. The direct-to-video movies were by and large second rate, and the new season, while it had some high points, just didn't have the charm of the old seasons.
True enough in the lab. This is industrial robotics, where reliability is key.