We have recently purchased a Surface to test with some LIMS software we use, which currently runs fine on W7. We were told it wouldn't run on 8. It has been discovered that it does in fact run on 8 and runs fine on our Surface. We are going to to test using Surface tablets running 8.1 in our environment. So far so good.
Are we running this on iPads or Android tablets? No.
Why?
Because the software in question, along with pretty much everything else we use is designed to run on either Windows or Linux.
I could draw a conclusion here that Surface tablets will make in roads into the Enterprise for exactly this reason. Yes, yes, I know there are thousands of iPads in Enterprises right now, with all manner of executive and administrative staffers trying to look important at work with their tablet, while busily updating their FB status. However, I feel that because of MS's entrenched position in the Enterprise the Surface is more of a "work" device than an iPad or Android tablet.
You've never experienced heated tile/radiant heat I see... No forced air "whooshing" sound constantly as your poorly insulated house has to constantly kick the thermostat on. Just quiet... No more replacing furnace filters, having the gas company people come over and check your furnace every fall...
I hate to break it to you, but current home building technologies aren't designed to save energy very well. Since gas is cheap homes aren't designed well and people just crank the heat in the winter and the ac in the summer. Convenient and very inefficient.
The Wright brothers first flight was in 1903.
By WWI aircraft were used extensively.
By WWII air superiority determined the outcome of the war, and the jet engine aircraft was invented.
40 years for those advances...
Your analogy doesn't work.
I've got geothermal for heating/cooling, AKA a "heat pump" as my HVAC friends call it... Yes, it is powered by electricity from a coal burning power plant. I've fantasized about the day I could get enough solar power from panels to run my geothermal. I have no trees blocking sun onto my home.
Once this solar threshold is crossed to make the ROI "quicker" on roof panels I'm doing it. I just can't wait for 20 years or whatever it is for the payback versus the up front costs. My power bills aren't that high, even with the geothermal.
A few years ago I read something about running a debit card as credit, so that the pin wouldn't be logged. I've been doing that since then and have always told people I know to do the same. I understand this isn't perfect, but it is one less thing that can be accessed by some dickhead in Russia.
On the flipside, since this thing with Target has happened, and having read these/. submissions on it and other breaches, I've gone back to using cash. Yes, cash. I now hit my ATM and get what I need for the week and use that instead of using my debit card. I honestly hope more people do this so that it shows there is a major trust issue with using cards in transactions at POS like Target.
I first started playing in '79, with the old "Blue Box" my friends big brother had. Then I saw the first AD&D books and they blew my mind... When I was in HS I played with guys who were older, college aged. The D&D scene was totally different back then, more DIY and less conforming than it is now that everything is instantly at your fingertips. Players and DM's HAD to be more creative as there was much less to draw on.
I played(DM'd mostly) regularly from then to the mid 90's. Then, for various reasons, I stopped. In '08 I got a wild hair and decide to start again, and have been back at it with a good group where three of the players each take turns DM'ing their own campaigns. All three are on Greyhawk, and we have a blast. This is AD&D 2nd Ed. Were old skull gamers and the WOTC "versions"(excuse me while I clear my throat...) of D&D don't sit well with us, as they are more tuned towards players who want their table top RPG's to be more like video games.
The key thing a lot of people don't realize about table top RPG's is how much laughing and smack talking goes on. That is a big part of why people play it. It really is fun, IF you have a decent DM and players who aren't power-gamer deuchebags. Sitting around a table with people and playing this game is fun as hell, and can be funny too.
"The NSA problem ruined it for the Americans," a Brazilian government source said on condition of anonymity.
A U.S. source close to the negotiations said that whatever intelligence the spying had delivered for the American government was unlikely to outweigh the commercial cost of the revelations.
"Was that worth 4 billion dollars?" the source asked.
This is a public service announcement
With guitars!
Know your rights all three of them
Number 1
You have the right not to be killed
Murder is a CRIME!
Unless it was done by a Policeman !
Or aristocrat...
Know your rights
And Number 2
You have the right to food money
Providing of course you don't mind a little
Investigation...
humiliation
And if you cross your fingers...
Rehabilitation!
Know your rights!
These are your rights!
Number 3
You have the right to Free Speech
As long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it...
Know your rights
These are your rights!
All three of 'em
It has been suggested in some quarters
that this is not enough!
Well!
The problem is there is no balance with privacy or "consumer" rights. Every year that goes by the larger corporations call more and more of the shots. Just look at what they want with their free trade agreements like the TPP, etc; Your average citizen gets shite upon daily by the corporations, and we are so used to it no one cares or notices anymore. People complain about the government, yet if you look behind the curtain, it is the corporations that really run the show.
I would wager that the world will be completely run by corporations in the next 30-50 years or so.
Yet, with all the advances in robotics, etc putting more and more people out of work, how will the corporations, using our current pseudo-capitalist system, remain afloat? That is the real question moving forward. Once unemployment hits 15-20% or higher I foresee Martial Law kicking in to control the millions of unemployed. Controlling the population will be easy with all these tracking systems in place. That is why this(the tracking) is taking place, to give them the control they need when they need it.
Right now we are all "skating" in the new United Police States of America.
However, there is a conundrum: With less consumers and tighter control of the populous, that would mean lower profits. I think right now they are brainstorming on this, trying to find a way to keep the new Police State in effect while keeping the revenue flowing, sort of like China. What a conundrum.
Even though we "hide" behind our slashdot aliases, I'm sure the Corpse(ahem...) NSA knows exactly who we all are on here...
Slashdot Mirror
We have recently purchased a Surface to test with some LIMS software we use, which currently runs fine on W7. We were told it wouldn't run on 8. It has been discovered that it does in fact run on 8 and runs fine on our Surface. We are going to to test using Surface tablets running 8.1 in our environment. So far so good.
Are we running this on iPads or Android tablets? No.
Why?
Because the software in question, along with pretty much everything else we use is designed to run on either Windows or Linux.
I could draw a conclusion here that Surface tablets will make in roads into the Enterprise for exactly this reason. Yes, yes, I know there are thousands of iPads in Enterprises right now, with all manner of executive and administrative staffers trying to look important at work with their tablet, while busily updating their FB status. However, I feel that because of MS's entrenched position in the Enterprise the Surface is more of a "work" device than an iPad or Android tablet.
Labor cost is always the issue.
Right.
Thats why roofers, electricians, plumbers, mechanics and lawyers never get any work...
Nice!
Tell that to Kurzweil.
You've never experienced heated tile/radiant heat I see... No forced air "whooshing" sound constantly as your poorly insulated house has to constantly kick the thermostat on. Just quiet... No more replacing furnace filters, having the gas company people come over and check your furnace every fall...
I hate to break it to you, but current home building technologies aren't designed to save energy very well. Since gas is cheap homes aren't designed well and people just crank the heat in the winter and the ac in the summer. Convenient and very inefficient.
You should try using this thing called the internet, and particularly Google and Wikipedia. Go ahead, it won't hurt.
The Wright brothers first flight was in 1903.
By WWI aircraft were used extensively.
By WWII air superiority determined the outcome of the war, and the jet engine aircraft was invented.
40 years for those advances...
Your analogy doesn't work.
I've got geothermal for heating/cooling, AKA a "heat pump" as my HVAC friends call it... Yes, it is powered by electricity from a coal burning power plant. I've fantasized about the day I could get enough solar power from panels to run my geothermal. I have no trees blocking sun onto my home.
Once this solar threshold is crossed to make the ROI "quicker" on roof panels I'm doing it. I just can't wait for 20 years or whatever it is for the payback versus the up front costs. My power bills aren't that high, even with the geothermal.
I think you need to reply to TwitFan above, who thinks:
This whole topic sounds like some sort of acid-induced hippie fantasy
A few years ago I read something about running a debit card as credit, so that the pin wouldn't be logged. I've been doing that since then and have always told people I know to do the same. I understand this isn't perfect, but it is one less thing that can be accessed by some dickhead in Russia.
/. submissions on it and other breaches, I've gone back to using cash. Yes, cash. I now hit my ATM and get what I need for the week and use that instead of using my debit card. I honestly hope more people do this so that it shows there is a major trust issue with using cards in transactions at POS like Target.
On the flipside, since this thing with Target has happened, and having read these
I first started playing in '79, with the old "Blue Box" my friends big brother had. Then I saw the first AD&D books and they blew my mind... When I was in HS I played with guys who were older, college aged. The D&D scene was totally different back then, more DIY and less conforming than it is now that everything is instantly at your fingertips. Players and DM's HAD to be more creative as there was much less to draw on.
I played(DM'd mostly) regularly from then to the mid 90's. Then, for various reasons, I stopped. In '08 I got a wild hair and decide to start again, and have been back at it with a good group where three of the players each take turns DM'ing their own campaigns. All three are on Greyhawk, and we have a blast. This is AD&D 2nd Ed. Were old skull gamers and the WOTC "versions"(excuse me while I clear my throat...) of D&D don't sit well with us, as they are more tuned towards players who want their table top RPG's to be more like video games.
The key thing a lot of people don't realize about table top RPG's is how much laughing and smack talking goes on. That is a big part of why people play it. It really is fun, IF you have a decent DM and players who aren't power-gamer deuchebags. Sitting around a table with people and playing this game is fun as hell, and can be funny too.
Don't put the moon in a bad mood.
playing Mass Effect 2?
It's the same thing as 9/11.
Insightful...?
I've seen some cheezdick comparisons on Slashdot before, but this one takes the cake.
the 49ers Defense.
but this may be the final nail in the coffin for any hope of avoiding becoming another despotic socialist state.
This pablum gets modded Insightful?
"Despotic Socialist state"...
What John Birch Society pamphlet have you been smoking?
"The NSA problem ruined it for the Americans," a Brazilian government source said on condition of anonymity.
A U.S. source close to the negotiations said that whatever intelligence the spying had delivered for the American government was unlikely to outweigh the commercial cost of the revelations.
"Was that worth 4 billion dollars?" the source asked.
Apple Fan Boys are the Rajneeshees of the tech world.
This is a public service announcement
With guitars!
Know your rights all three of them
Number 1
You have the right not to be killed
Murder is a CRIME!
Unless it was done by a Policeman !
Or aristocrat...
Know your rights
And Number 2
You have the right to food money
Providing of course you don't mind a little
Investigation...
humiliation
And if you cross your fingers...
Rehabilitation!
Know your rights!
These are your rights!
Number 3
You have the right to Free Speech
As long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it...
Know your rights
These are your rights!
All three of 'em
It has been suggested in some quarters
that this is not enough!
Well!
Get off the streets
Get off the streets!
It is the eternal excuse of the asshole: Everyone does it.
You mean like Facebook, texting/surfing while driving, spying on allies and watching porn?
That doesn't change the fact that most likely he would be better of consulting a lawyer and not saying anything to the police/FB/whoever.
There, fixed that for you.
I'm thinking that the Swiss are more of the Dwarf miner flavor, don't you think? Tunnels, tunnels everywhere, filled with gold.
Gold...? Really?
Surely you jest.
Mithril is what they are after.
The problem is there is no balance with privacy or "consumer" rights. Every year that goes by the larger corporations call more and more of the shots. Just look at what they want with their free trade agreements like the TPP, etc; Your average citizen gets shite upon daily by the corporations, and we are so used to it no one cares or notices anymore. People complain about the government, yet if you look behind the curtain, it is the corporations that really run the show.
I would wager that the world will be completely run by corporations in the next 30-50 years or so.
Yet, with all the advances in robotics, etc putting more and more people out of work, how will the corporations, using our current pseudo-capitalist system, remain afloat? That is the real question moving forward. Once unemployment hits 15-20% or higher I foresee Martial Law kicking in to control the millions of unemployed. Controlling the population will be easy with all these tracking systems in place. That is why this(the tracking) is taking place, to give them the control they need when they need it.
Right now we are all "skating" in the new United Police States of America.
However, there is a conundrum: With less consumers and tighter control of the populous, that would mean lower profits. I think right now they are brainstorming on this, trying to find a way to keep the new Police State in effect while keeping the revenue flowing, sort of like China. What a conundrum.
Even though we "hide" behind our slashdot aliases, I'm sure the Corpse(ahem...) NSA knows exactly who we all are on here...
I'm going to go bonker.
Please....
It's bonkers
or you are locked into industry software packages which are platform locked.
The reason behind Microsoft's hegemoney.