That start menu will run anything I can run from the run dialogue, so I'm not sure what you mean by explicit. However, you're right about the actual run dialog caching recent entries - I didin't know about it and it's quite useful.
The Windows 7 start menu no longer has a "run" entry box, it now functions as a "Search/run". It is, in effect, launchy: Hit the windows key and start typing, and documents (matching filenames and contents), applications, or email all come up. It's very well done.
I think you're confused. The start menu is the same as spotlight, not the dock. On windows or ubuntu, hit the windows key and type what you're looking for to start a search, on OSX, it's command-spacebar. This is my primary mode of using any OS now.
Do you have data to back up that claim? Everything I've seen shows that desktop growth is slowing, but I'd expect that since it's been a fairly saturated market for quite some time.
PCs aren't going anywhere. First off, thanks to their high price, there is no tablet market. None. Just an iPad market. When tablets come down in price, to around $200 or less, THEN you can expect to see a tablet market. However, I guarantee that almost all tablet owners will also own a PC. Those who don't will tend to be elderly.
> Want to run emacs on an ARM variant of Linux, well, just bloody well compile it for that ARM processor.
Just don't compile it on an ARM processor or you'll be waiting forever, or at least until intel releases something that will beat arm down in power usage or when an ARM-based processor comes out that can push 200x more FLOPs.
Apple is great if you can afford $500 to $1750 more for the identical hardware. Otherwise, you can just go get a Asus/Dell/Lenovo/whatever and install Linux on it. Lenovo, in particular, will probably continue to offer systems you can install Linux on, because enterprise will drive it. There is no danger here.
Just FYI, the POD doesn't affect any modern OSes. It used to bring down Windows NT (and earlier), early linux kernels, as well as Mac OS 7 back in the day.
It's a pretty big niche. In fact, far more teens/twenties play games than not. Besides, there is a real trend where they treat apple like a college fling.
Actually, the OP has linked to something that is being discussed on a blog at symantec, but it's not claimed to be new.
A user actually has to download and execute the trojan. It doesn't exploit the system. In this case, as is often the case these days, the problem is between the keyboard and chair.
Everyone is using OSS, even MS. It's good to see they are at least trying to show some goodwill. Though VB may not be the best addition to the OSS community, it is at least showing that MS is willing to contribute something. It would also be nice to see more cool OSS things come out of MS Reserach...
I don't think that is anywhere near fair. Some kids tackle their projects with zeal, going well above and beyond what was expected and required. I've hired and continue to hire such students when they graduate, and they are *always* very successful.
Cool, I didn't realize they have that. I don't remember seeing it in the past. 2 GB is good. MS Live gives you 5 GB you can sync between your devices, and 25 GB online.
I said Android phone sales alone are overtaking iPhone + iPad sales. I didn't factor in Tab sales at all, because we all know they're a flop.
You, however, decided to add an extra product category, mp3 players, just to make apple look like it's somehow trouncing Android. There is no Android mp3 player, and for good reason: Mp3 players are obsolete, as their function is now provided by our smartphones anyway.
That site renders fine in IE 9, FF 4, and Chrome 10.
What problem are you having?
Also, XP is 10 (yes TEN) years old now. Think about that: You're using an OS from the last decade, and complaining about how much you have to install to use modern software.
FFS, if you must use Microsoft, at least try to keep up to date before you go on criticizing them. They've supported your OS for a full decade, and they're still patching it. Hell, they even release MSE for it, so you have free antivirus. For all the things they're doing wrong, which many seem so apt to point out, they are actually doing several things very well: Legacy support, free lightweight AV, free cloud/sync. Not even Linux gives you free cloud storage. Do their products work perfectly in every way? No. Do they work well enough? Yes, absolutely. They're also improving, and not too slowly.
> Not really, Apple sells more iOS devices than all Android devices combined (iPhone,Touch, iPad) and makes close to 50% of all the profit in the mobile phone industry.
Ah yes, because Android phones alone are catching up to the iPhone + iPad combined sales, so it makes sense to inject the apple mp3 player in there just to bring the numbers up. Stop comparing Oranges to Apples: Android phones have surpassed iPhone sales, and are taking a stronger lead by the week.
>> Even if you do believe that someone can magically predict the future, MS makes a whopping $12 on each WinMo license sold. Apple makes a $265 profit on each iPhone sold.
It's well known you get less for your money hardware-wise with Apple. It applies to the phones as well.
Tab have limited use, and will always have limited use by the very nature. They will be great for checking email, browsing, using simple, low-power, touch-based applications. They will also make good front-ends for some workflow management systems and POS systems. I can't see how they would ever be able to fully replace an actual laptop. Laptops are just as compact (Air), more powerful, and many models offer equivalent battery life and vastly increased utility. Laptops run a full OS, with a host of legacy and professional applications available. The physical keyboard is very very important, because it actually provides shape, which improves your typing speed - you can touch type on a keyboard, you'll never touch type as fast on a surface that doesn't provide a tactile way of determining where the boundaries are.
What we need is a click implementation of a touch-screen, compact laptop. Tablet PCs don't do too badly, but they are often running Windows which has a mouse-based interface. MS should have a gesture mode in their interface that is fully designed with mutlitouch in mind, and then we should start seeing come compelling uses for tablets and touch-screen laptops.
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That start menu will run anything I can run from the run dialogue, so I'm not sure what you mean by explicit. However, you're right about the actual run dialog caching recent entries - I didin't know about it and it's quite useful.
The Windows 7 start menu no longer has a "run" entry box, it now functions as a "Search/run". It is, in effect, launchy: Hit the windows key and start typing, and documents (matching filenames and contents), applications, or email all come up. It's very well done.
I think you're confused. The start menu is the same as spotlight, not the dock. On windows or ubuntu, hit the windows key and type what you're looking for to start a search, on OSX, it's command-spacebar. This is my primary mode of using any OS now.
Do you have data to back up that claim? Everything I've seen shows that desktop growth is slowing, but I'd expect that since it's been a fairly saturated market for quite some time.
More of this "Post-PC" idiocy.
PCs aren't going anywhere. First off, thanks to their high price, there is no tablet market. None. Just an iPad market. When tablets come down in price, to around $200 or less, THEN you can expect to see a tablet market. However, I guarantee that almost all tablet owners will also own a PC. Those who don't will tend to be elderly.
> Want to run emacs on an ARM variant of Linux, well, just bloody well compile it for that ARM processor.
Just don't compile it on an ARM processor or you'll be waiting forever, or at least until intel releases something that will beat arm down in power usage or when an ARM-based processor comes out that can push 200x more FLOPs.
Apple is great if you can afford $500 to $1750 more for the identical hardware. Otherwise, you can just go get a Asus/Dell/Lenovo/whatever and install Linux on it. Lenovo, in particular, will probably continue to offer systems you can install Linux on, because enterprise will drive it. There is no danger here.
Careful when using reason in the same context as microsoft on /.
I'm pretty sure the MS-bashing is now a purely reflexive behavior.
Just FYI, the POD doesn't affect any modern OSes. It used to bring down Windows NT (and earlier), early linux kernels, as well as Mac OS 7 back in the day.
OP, did you even read the article past the title before going on your little monologue?
It seems he's not the one who missed the irony.
It's a pretty big niche. In fact, far more teens/twenties play games than not. Besides, there is a real trend where they treat apple like a college fling.
Actually, the OP has linked to something that is being discussed on a blog at symantec, but it's not claimed to be new.
A user actually has to download and execute the trojan. It doesn't exploit the system. In this case, as is often the case these days, the problem is between the keyboard and chair.
Everyone is using OSS, even MS. It's good to see they are at least trying to show some goodwill. Though VB may not be the best addition to the OSS community, it is at least showing that MS is willing to contribute something. It would also be nice to see more cool OSS things come out of MS Reserach...
I don't think that is anywhere near fair. Some kids tackle their projects with zeal, going well above and beyond what was expected and required. I've hired and continue to hire such students when they graduate, and they are *always* very successful.
Cool, I didn't realize they have that. I don't remember seeing it in the past. 2 GB is good. MS Live gives you 5 GB you can sync between your devices, and 25 GB online.
I said Android phone sales alone are overtaking iPhone + iPad sales. I didn't factor in Tab sales at all, because we all know they're a flop.
You, however, decided to add an extra product category, mp3 players, just to make apple look like it's somehow trouncing Android. There is no Android mp3 player, and for good reason: Mp3 players are obsolete, as their function is now provided by our smartphones anyway.
That site renders fine in IE 9, FF 4, and Chrome 10.
What problem are you having?
Also, XP is 10 (yes TEN) years old now. Think about that: You're using an OS from the last decade, and complaining about how much you have to install to use modern software.
FFS, if you must use Microsoft, at least try to keep up to date before you go on criticizing them. They've supported your OS for a full decade, and they're still patching it. Hell, they even release MSE for it, so you have free antivirus. For all the things they're doing wrong, which many seem so apt to point out, they are actually doing several things very well: Legacy support, free lightweight AV, free cloud/sync. Not even Linux gives you free cloud storage. Do their products work perfectly in every way? No. Do they work well enough? Yes, absolutely. They're also improving, and not too slowly.
> Not really, Apple sells more iOS devices than all Android devices combined (iPhone,Touch, iPad) and makes close to 50% of all the profit in the mobile phone industry.
Ah yes, because Android phones alone are catching up to the iPhone + iPad combined sales, so it makes sense to inject the apple mp3 player in there just to bring the numbers up. Stop comparing Oranges to Apples: Android phones have surpassed iPhone sales, and are taking a stronger lead by the week.
>> Even if you do believe that someone can magically predict the future, MS makes a whopping $12 on each WinMo license sold. Apple makes a $265 profit on each iPhone sold.
It's well known you get less for your money hardware-wise with Apple. It applies to the phones as well.
Tab have limited use, and will always have limited use by the very nature. They will be great for checking email, browsing, using simple, low-power, touch-based applications. They will also make good front-ends for some workflow management systems and POS systems. I can't see how they would ever be able to fully replace an actual laptop. Laptops are just as compact (Air), more powerful, and many models offer equivalent battery life and vastly increased utility. Laptops run a full OS, with a host of legacy and professional applications available. The physical keyboard is very very important, because it actually provides shape, which improves your typing speed - you can touch type on a keyboard, you'll never touch type as fast on a surface that doesn't provide a tactile way of determining where the boundaries are.
What we need is a click implementation of a touch-screen, compact laptop. Tablet PCs don't do too badly, but they are often running Windows which has a mouse-based interface. MS should have a gesture mode in their interface that is fully designed with mutlitouch in mind, and then we should start seeing come compelling uses for tablets and touch-screen laptops.
I'd go with a lenovo thinkpad, asus bamboo, or high-end toshiba. The OP should just sell the superfluous macbook.
The new standard is very function-style friendly. C is dead meat.
But would have system have grown to the degree is has without Linus's (and IBM's) support.
I, for one, welcome our new linux overlords (too soon?).
Well, it certainly has learned from 1984. It is a scary, orpressive sandbox indeed, that apple one...