I've never questioned your workload or choices. I was merely presenting the fact that I find a tablet useful during my day-to-day work for my job. Each person should make the decisions best for themselves. I was simply stating that a laptop is not always better than a tablet.
Farmville, minecraft, animal crossing, roller coaster tycoon, the sims, sim city, chess and other board games, and alpha centauri and other turn based games would all work well. And there is a growing class of causal gamers that play those style games.
If everyone is affected by the latency, then it's a bit more of a level playing field. Like the days of dial-up quake team fortress. When I started there were almost no LPBs on broadband. So everyone had a 300ms ping time. It was difficult. It was challenging. It was sometimes frustrating. Then the first LPBs started really rolling in with their 30-60 ms times, and they really got a benefit. But the point here is that if the latency is large, but even, then it doesn't provide a benefit for some.
I take it home at night. Work from home sometimes. Travel to remote offices. The laptop has superior flexibility as a main work station. Believe it or not, I am familiar with my work load and computational options. It is, after all, my job.
No, not really. If I had another laptop, it would end up on my desk with stuff open on it all that time, too, and I wouldn't want to take it to meetings either. The tablet works for me because it fills the niche that a paper planner used to, with the additional ability to also serve up email, calendar updates, look at the corporate map if I get lost, handle emergency work that might come up during the meeting, and play angry birds if it turns out I didn't really need to be there anyway.
I have a laptop, when I need a laptop. Most of the time I leave it hooked up at my desk, so I don't have to end SSH sessions and the like. I use the tablet for meetings, travel and convenience. The keyboard / case (one device) turns the tablet into something that I can easily work effectively from temporarily if needed, and take notes during extended meetings. Honestly, it having a "desktop OS" would be a detraction for me, since it would take up space that I'd like to use for music and videos. As for a pressure-sensitive digitizer, I don't miss not having one. It wouldn't make my tablet more effective for any purpose I use it.
So improving hand-eye coordination, understanding the machinations of a large and viable economy, taking part in a team and working on tactics of the team dynamic don't improve people? Because the first and the third are shared by sports, and the 2nd is a strong mental whetstone. I'd go so far as to say that I've gotten a lot more out of my social interactions in MMOs than I do from anywhere else, since it helped me to learn to accept constructive criticism as a vector of advice instead of an attack on my personality. I'd wager that MMOs have helped a lot of people in a social aspect.
I've had my case/keyboard for about 6 months. I've charged it twice. I use it all the time. It lasts about 3 months per charge for me, and it lets me know about 3 days before the battery runs out I should charge it. And it uses micro-usb. And takes about an hour to charge using my cell phone's charger.
I have a logitech keyboard case for my ipad. I use it in all my meetings to take notes, send emails, etc. Much easier than ending all my SSH sessions, closing out IRC and other comms systems, unhooking my extra monitors and dragging along the laptop. The tablet with the keyboard is like a 10" laptop, and it types fine, even with my large hands. It's a little cramped, but not much worse than the laptop keyboard.
Where did the Earth's Aluminum come from? Remember: it's an element, not a naturally occurring alloy. That means that it all came from the same stellar dust cloud that made the earth, mars, and all the asteroids. Aluminum will be as common among asteroids. Just because we haven't seen it yet doesn't mean it's not there.
I'm pretty sure that a manager's speech doesn't equate to "forensic evidence" which gives a number and method for the documents. Also, these were managers and a VP that left. Not developers.
About 100,000 of them. Using USB drives. Over a period of 6 months. There's definitely some intentional shenanigans and possibly corporate espionage going on here.
They're reneging on the promise to make the content by making the content? There's no magic content wand. This stuff takes time. A lot of it. And money. A lot of that, too. They're trying to get people to stick around and play. The majority of people leaving said they didn't want to pay a monthly sub, so they changed to add a F2P model. That took the majority of the resources, since that was a majority of the complaints. Now that that is done, they have additional resources to work on adding and changing other things. And they are. The game's only been out for a year. Breathe a bit, and give them some time to work out the kinks. They said they'll do it, and if you don't drive them under with the cries of IT WILL NEVER BE ENOUGH, then it'll get there. In the meantime, I suppose you should go play the multitude of other MMOs with a rich storyline, involved relationships, voice acting, *and* built in SGR. I'm sure you'll be able to provide me a long list of those, since you're so aghast that Bioware missed one.
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I think you underestimate how much some people don't want to leave the couch.
Are you using the RAID class drives designed for that type of usage? And making sure that you're giving plenty of cool air across them?
Internal heat is going to be a problem.
I've never questioned your workload or choices. I was merely presenting the fact that I find a tablet useful during my day-to-day work for my job. Each person should make the decisions best for themselves. I was simply stating that a laptop is not always better than a tablet.
Farmville, minecraft, animal crossing, roller coaster tycoon, the sims, sim city, chess and other board games, and alpha centauri and other turn based games would all work well. And there is a growing class of causal gamers that play those style games.
If everyone is affected by the latency, then it's a bit more of a level playing field. Like the days of dial-up quake team fortress. When I started there were almost no LPBs on broadband. So everyone had a 300ms ping time. It was difficult. It was challenging. It was sometimes frustrating. Then the first LPBs started really rolling in with their 30-60 ms times, and they really got a benefit. But the point here is that if the latency is large, but even, then it doesn't provide a benefit for some.
Strap a google maps car to the bottom.
Who indeed? Http://www.redhat.com
I take it home at night. Work from home sometimes. Travel to remote offices. The laptop has superior flexibility as a main work station. Believe it or not, I am familiar with my work load and computational options. It is, after all, my job.
No, not really. If I had another laptop, it would end up on my desk with stuff open on it all that time, too, and I wouldn't want to take it to meetings either. The tablet works for me because it fills the niche that a paper planner used to, with the additional ability to also serve up email, calendar updates, look at the corporate map if I get lost, handle emergency work that might come up during the meeting, and play angry birds if it turns out I didn't really need to be there anyway.
I have a laptop, when I need a laptop. Most of the time I leave it hooked up at my desk, so I don't have to end SSH sessions and the like. I use the tablet for meetings, travel and convenience. The keyboard / case (one device) turns the tablet into something that I can easily work effectively from temporarily if needed, and take notes during extended meetings. Honestly, it having a "desktop OS" would be a detraction for me, since it would take up space that I'd like to use for music and videos. As for a pressure-sensitive digitizer, I don't miss not having one. It wouldn't make my tablet more effective for any purpose I use it.
So improving hand-eye coordination, understanding the machinations of a large and viable economy, taking part in a team and working on tactics of the team dynamic don't improve people? Because the first and the third are shared by sports, and the 2nd is a strong mental whetstone. I'd go so far as to say that I've gotten a lot more out of my social interactions in MMOs than I do from anywhere else, since it helped me to learn to accept constructive criticism as a vector of advice instead of an attack on my personality. I'd wager that MMOs have helped a lot of people in a social aspect.
I've had my case/keyboard for about 6 months. I've charged it twice. I use it all the time. It lasts about 3 months per charge for me, and it lets me know about 3 days before the battery runs out I should charge it. And it uses micro-usb. And takes about an hour to charge using my cell phone's charger.
I have a logitech keyboard case for my ipad. I use it in all my meetings to take notes, send emails, etc. Much easier than ending all my SSH sessions, closing out IRC and other comms systems, unhooking my extra monitors and dragging along the laptop. The tablet with the keyboard is like a 10" laptop, and it types fine, even with my large hands. It's a little cramped, but not much worse than the laptop keyboard.
It operates off copyright, so one would assume that they can.
Hour+ commuters. And it's not 3k, it's more like 1500-2000/mo. Most have roommates or dual incomes to make it.
Much like the debt cap and the migrant worker caps. Those exist and get moved when it benefits those in office, just like the credibility cap would.
This is the actual purpose of bittorrent. They all get it at (roughly) the same time.
It's not about landing it. It's about using it up there, where it's more valuable and they don't have to pay to send it up.
Where did the Earth's Aluminum come from? Remember: it's an element, not a naturally occurring alloy. That means that it all came from the same stellar dust cloud that made the earth, mars, and all the asteroids. Aluminum will be as common among asteroids. Just because we haven't seen it yet doesn't mean it's not there.
Or pay someone to do it. When bought in bulk, remote desktop services aren't that expensive, and the marketplace is growing for it.
I'm pretty sure that a manager's speech doesn't equate to "forensic evidence" which gives a number and method for the documents. Also, these were managers and a VP that left. Not developers.
About 100,000 of them. Using USB drives. Over a period of 6 months. There's definitely some intentional shenanigans and possibly corporate espionage going on here.
Or they have an unrealistic skill / compensation ratio.
They're reneging on the promise to make the content by making the content? There's no magic content wand. This stuff takes time. A lot of it. And money. A lot of that, too. They're trying to get people to stick around and play. The majority of people leaving said they didn't want to pay a monthly sub, so they changed to add a F2P model. That took the majority of the resources, since that was a majority of the complaints. Now that that is done, they have additional resources to work on adding and changing other things. And they are. The game's only been out for a year. Breathe a bit, and give them some time to work out the kinks. They said they'll do it, and if you don't drive them under with the cries of IT WILL NEVER BE ENOUGH, then it'll get there. In the meantime, I suppose you should go play the multitude of other MMOs with a rich storyline, involved relationships, voice acting, *and* built in SGR. I'm sure you'll be able to provide me a long list of those, since you're so aghast that Bioware missed one.