...I think Android will end up losing the tablet war. The reason is that windows 8 will be able to leverage its existing base of "software capital", and bulldoze its way into the tablet market. Android simply does not have certain critical software (e.g. - MS Word) running on it.
What's to stop anyone from using all the existing FOSS? Is there something I missed about it being especially difficult to port (e.g.) OpenOffice from Linux to Android? And this is something of a strawman in any case. See below.
Think of it this way. The mass market desktop pc will die. For the vast majority of users, a simple tablet like device, with word processing capabilities, and media/internet capabilities, is all that's needed. Bulky laptops will disappear too, turning into tablets with Asus "transformer" like capabilities. Eventually, a multitude of device will be consolidated into one single tablet device - a single personal computer. People will want to do everything they did with their desktops, on their tablets. This will include word processing.
Hello there. I'm a writer. Writing is what I do. I do it 8-10 hours a day. I am going to do it with a separate, horizontal, *physical* keyboard and a vertical monitor. I am NOT going to do it using a virtual keyboard on the same 10" touchscreen I'm trying to read my work on. Ain't gonna happen.
Sure, you can modularise it--I can see having a tablet that one could drop into a dock/stand/whatever with a keyboard (and possibly a larger monitor and other peripherals)--but at the end of the day, see above: for any serious work involving manual entry of complex, nonrepeating alphanumeric data, you're still looking at a laptop/desktop configuration of some sort.
But what am I talking here... tablets have no point, other than being an e-penis, anyway. Same as SUVs. They are expensive, impractical, slow, and basically all the bad things in one, and the best in none. ^^ In the long run, they will be replaced by mobile phones. Or from my p.o.v., they never found a place that a real computer or a proper smart phone (one at least offering what S60 offered 10 years ago, like a file manager, communications tools, media playback, Internet surfing, install whatever you like, 3d and video acceleration, big display, full-featured hardware) hadn't already taken.
You're entitled to your opinion, but I think trying to read in bed with my mobile or my laptop is kinda sucky, and I think a tablet might work much better for this. I don't see it replacing either of them anytime soon, but that doesn't mean it's not a good form factor for some use cases.
It same for most software. You don't own your copy of Ubuntu. You don't own the copyright.
Ubuntu grants you a license that says you can do with it pretty much whatever you like (as long as you make source available for any binaries you've modified and distributed). They don't charge you for the OS, and they don't charge you extra just to be able to run "gcc hello_world.c".
That's a hella better "ownership" deal than you're ever going to get out of Apple.
And you get to explain to your unhappy daughter why can't they sing me the REAL Happy Birthday Song, Daddy?!?!
Did I take a position either way?
Short version: Huh?
Longer version: 1. I was *agreeing* with your post. 2. I was using "you"--as is often done in informal English--in the general sense, i.e. as a stand-in for "one". 3. A response != a rebuttal, if that's what you think I was doing.
"I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another and I know there are people in the world that do not love their fellow human beings... and I hate people like that!"
As Ray Kurzweil has pointed out, if Moore's law holds for another 30 years, a machine intelligence a billion times more powerful than all of humanity can emerge. Ambitious projects to emulate more and more complex biological intelligence in silicon are well underway.
What would such a thing need us for?
Someone's gotta pedal those generator bikes after all the oil's gone...
He never implied that he has a problem with Jews, but I have to wonder the same thing.
You are not fooling anyone other than yourself. The original question was:
Why is a Jew in such a powerful position?
The very asking of this question implies that it is somehow remarkable or out of place for a Jew to hold elected office. It is not.
How about Cantor's counterpart on the Democratic side of the aisle, Rep. Nancy Pelosi?
Why is a woman in such a powerful position?
Let's go higher up... to the Oval office:
Why is a Black in such a powerful position?
Same-same but different. (Yawn.)
Jews have entirely too much power and influence in the entire world, and people would do well to stop giving them more power.
No-one has power over you that you don't give them.
Now, armed with this knowledge, you may proceed to grow up and start accepting some responsibility for your condition. The Jews didn't put you in it, and they ain't gonna get you out of it.
I think you've managed to miss my point pretty completely, which can be summed up as, "AC breathlessly posts 12-years-old press release as if it were hot off the wire".
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Get back to us when you can be put to death in the US for making a porno in Canada and we'll talk.
(Who the fuck modded this Insightful?)
Obvious troll is obvious.
Go die in a fire.
...I think Android will end up losing the tablet war. The reason is that windows 8 will be able to leverage its existing base of "software capital", and bulldoze its way into the tablet market. Android simply does not have certain critical software (e.g. - MS Word) running on it.
What's to stop anyone from using all the existing FOSS? Is there something I missed about it being especially difficult to port (e.g.) OpenOffice from Linux to Android? And this is something of a strawman in any case. See below.
Think of it this way. The mass market desktop pc will die. For the vast majority of users, a simple tablet like device, with word processing capabilities, and media/internet capabilities, is all that's needed. Bulky laptops will disappear too, turning into tablets with Asus "transformer" like capabilities. Eventually, a multitude of device will be consolidated into one single tablet device - a single personal computer. People will want to do everything they did with their desktops, on their tablets. This will include word processing.
Hello there. I'm a writer. Writing is what I do. I do it 8-10 hours a day. I am going to do it with a separate, horizontal, *physical* keyboard and a vertical monitor. I am NOT going to do it using a virtual keyboard on the same 10" touchscreen I'm trying to read my work on. Ain't gonna happen.
Sure, you can modularise it--I can see having a tablet that one could drop into a dock/stand/whatever with a keyboard (and possibly a larger monitor and other peripherals)--but at the end of the day, see above: for any serious work involving manual entry of complex, nonrepeating alphanumeric data, you're still looking at a laptop/desktop configuration of some sort.
But what am I talking here... tablets have no point, other than being an e-penis, anyway. Same as SUVs. They are expensive, impractical, slow, and basically all the bad things in one, and the best in none. ^^
In the long run, they will be replaced by mobile phones. Or from my p.o.v., they never found a place that a real computer or a proper smart phone (one at least offering what S60 offered 10 years ago, like a file manager, communications tools, media playback, Internet surfing, install whatever you like, 3d and video acceleration, big display, full-featured hardware) hadn't already taken.
You're entitled to your opinion, but I think trying to read in bed with my mobile or my laptop is kinda sucky, and I think a tablet might work much better for this. I don't see it replacing either of them anytime soon, but that doesn't mean it's not a good form factor for some use cases.
Google Translate be thataway.
My Samsung Galaxy came with a USB charging cable included. Guess some vendors really need that extra 5 bucks.
It same for most software. You don't own your copy of Ubuntu. You don't own the copyright.
Ubuntu grants you a license that says you can do with it pretty much whatever you like (as long as you make source available for any binaries you've modified and distributed). They don't charge you for the OS, and they don't charge you extra just to be able to run "gcc hello_world.c".
That's a hella better "ownership" deal than you're ever going to get out of Apple.
Numb3rs already. Yawn.
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Many of us reside outside the US and/or have lives.
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What is important is the product, not the process, even if it is different.
This sounds uncomfortably like, "The ends justify the means".
And you get to explain to your unhappy daughter why can't they sing me the REAL Happy Birthday Song, Daddy?!?!
Did I take a position either way?
Short version: Huh?
Longer version: 1. I was *agreeing* with your post. 2. I was using "you"--as is often done in informal English--in the general sense, i.e. as a stand-in for "one". 3. A response != a rebuttal, if that's what you think I was doing.
...anyone know hows anything about programming can tell you why setting everything in stone and then writing the software is a terrible idea.
Okay, pretend I know nothing of programming and explain to me why this is a bad idea.
I really wish people who've obviously been to neither place would quit lumping together China and North Korea without even thinking about it.
"I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another and I know there are people in the world that do not love their fellow human beings... and I hate people like that!"
Korean War(War on Communism)-we got run out
Pardon me, the fact that the Republic of Korea still exists some 60 years later would like to have a word with you.
Anyone got any suggestions, since I know this is not going to get better?
How about, "Don't let the door hit your ass on your way out"?
I've quite possibly been around here longer than you have. Know what I think is screwing up this site?
People who continually insist that everyone else adopt their narrow-minded view that technology exists in some sort of social/ethical vacuum.
Humans have been growing GMO for milenia, and even have GM themselves ... if you're an adult and can metabolize milk, you're it.
Someone's trotting out this nonsense again?
There's a world of difference between selective breeding and playing mix-n-match genomes hands-on via gene-splicing.
P.S. It's "millennia".
Bite your tongue. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is Burger King!
p0wned.
McDonald's in Guangzhou delivers 24/7, baby.
As Ray Kurzweil has pointed out, if Moore's law holds for another 30 years, a machine intelligence a billion times more powerful than all of humanity can emerge. Ambitious projects to emulate more and more complex biological intelligence in silicon are well underway.
What would such a thing need us for?
Someone's gotta pedal those generator bikes after all the oil's gone...
In 2112, we will most likely be early into the First Turning of the saeculum after the next one.
I'm probably going to regret asking... but what the Sam Hill are you going on about?
China is not exactly a "backwater". They even have Starbucks there now.
He never implied that he has a problem with Jews, but I have to wonder the same thing.
You are not fooling anyone other than yourself. The original question was:
Why is a Jew in such a powerful position?
The very asking of this question implies that it is somehow remarkable or out of place for a Jew to hold elected office. It is not.
How about Cantor's counterpart on the Democratic side of the aisle, Rep. Nancy Pelosi?
Why is a woman in such a powerful position?
Let's go higher up... to the Oval office:
Why is a Black in such a powerful position?
Same-same but different. (Yawn.)
Jews have entirely too much power and influence in the entire world, and people would do well to stop giving them more power.
No-one has power over you that you don't give them.
Now, armed with this knowledge, you may proceed to grow up and start accepting some responsibility for your condition. The Jews didn't put you in it, and they ain't gonna get you out of it.
I think you've managed to miss my point pretty completely, which can be summed up as, "AC breathlessly posts 12-years-old press release as if it were hot off the wire".
Oy! I was here first by a long shot! Bugger off! :D