They are still testing something like this? Samsung's Galaxy Gear came out already. The capability to quickly bring attractive and reliable products to market is a key factor in modern electronics industry.
Why are they testing this iPod thing? I mean Creative Labs and others have come out with MP3 players already. The ability to quickly bring attractive and reliable products to market is a key factor in modern electronics industry (so there isn't a hope in hell this iPod thing will ever be a commercial success).
The thing is that first to market is not everything. You also have to design the stuff you bring to market well and Apple has a history of appealing to customers by successfully reinventing/redesigning stuff that others have implemented badly and Apple evidently believes they can do it again.
I leave the whole quote just to show how history is being slowly rewritten. The short version is Apple ripped off Creative Labs Menu and ended with Apple agreeing to pay Creative $100 million US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
The News here is that the Xbox is significantly crippled compared to the cheaper, less abusive opposition Sony!? Kinect is not the selling point to justify the Xbox's inflated Price. This is being reflected in the current sales numbers with worldwide sales being (almost) half that of that of the PS4 (or a little higher than the PS3) http://www.vgchartz.com/#This%.... The only other thing of note is software is no longer the significant factor it was in choosing a console. Personally though I have my eye on Android gaming.
Fact remains that even moderate PCs today outperform both the PS4 and Xbox One at a similar price point.
Not in your or mine wildest dreams
The PS4 from Wikipedia "The CPU consists of two quad-core Jaguar modules totaling 8 x86-64 cores. The GPU consists of 18 compute units to produce a theoretical peak performance of 1.84 TFLOPS. The system's GDDR5 memory is capable of running at a maximum clock frequency of 2.75 GHz (5500 MT/s) and has a maximum memory bandwidth of 176 GB/s. The console contains 8 GB of GDDR5 memory" for US$399.99, €399.99, £349.99
vs
For just the base unit of the PC for the same price http://www.amazon.com/Dell-Ins... Processor: Intel® Pentium® processor G2030 (3M Cache, 3.0 GHz), Memory (RAM): 4GB DDR3 SDRAM, 1600MHz-1X4GB, Storage (hard drive): 500GB Hard Drive, 3.5", 7200rpm, SATA, Optical Drive: DVD+/-RW Tray Load Drive, 16X, SATA Color: Black
I am a bit tired of these comments being modded up in the hope of PC gaming making a comeback.
Maybe because he doesn't like the idea of his private life being a product that is sold to the highest bidder? Just a guess.
Ironically a quick glance through your private posts, shows your continued subterfuge about Google *selling* your data. Google business model is to *NEVER* sell your data. Advertising is the product. If they sold your data they wouldn't have a product.
Almost everyone here understands the model, yet you persist in this transparent lie. Interestingly search Microsoft's and Apple EULA using the search for what they do with trusted *cough* third partys.
and Apple too, to powerful with its digital music and its (gasp) Walled Garden.
Abusive definitely, their behaviour in the disgusting Book caper where they raised the price of Ebooks for none Apple users is something they continue to act unapologetic . The Control they have with Carriers forcing none Apple users again to pay for Apples products. I would argue their control of Digital music is still too high...fortunately the trend for that has dropped. As for the Walled garden thing...I am not really sure how it is related; The FSF protected Apple users from Apple!? allowing jailbreak to be legal again. Personally though I think people should be made aware of Apple abuses and alternatives exist.
You should try it. nothing beats Clementine(okay maybe GMusicBrowser) if you have a decent internet connection, and you manage your own MP3's. That said Nightingale is still a three pane browser it always was, although it is looking slick. you can see the screenshot on the front page. If you haven't looked at it since songbird you are into a pleasant surprise its fast. I am running this on a old single core atom on a large collection. Initial import did take a while but it is quick. As for iTunes I would say its a better than iTunes drop in replacement.
The longevity of hardware purchases is the real culprit.
Why? Microsoft is Software company. If they spent less time producing *software* rather then protecting its old Duopoly and using it to enter other markets. Maybe I could install it on my current hardware...by buying it perhaps. We don't even have to walk to the shops anymore or deal with disks anymore.
There is a whole market XP is not supported soon...hold on!
Bill "My charity is better than yours" Gates "I Don't have to Pay Tax". Is looking increasingly unhinged. He needs to go back to what he does best, stabbing his fellow employee in the back...or the from in the case of Ballmer. Seriously "When a kid gets diarrhea,"...hold on, aren't these the sort of thing that your taxe....ahhh I see.
You are responsible for your own privacy. When Facebook or Google mine your data ('you are the product' as people say), you have nothing to fall back on.
Except this is not remotely true; it shows a astonishing naivete (I suspect subterfuge). With Google you are not the product...tailored (automated) advertising is. Ironically with Facebook although I find the claim somewhat astonishing (for business reasons; you can only sell data once)...is your private data is being sold to anyone with cash...your *private life* is the product. The difference between the two is enormous.
What is even more scary about social networks including Googles is individuals can be tracked without ever signing up to Facebook, If they cannot figure out my name; address; partners; friends; social occasions; jobs; sexual preference; lifestyle choices from the text; pictures and videos that I have without ever signing up to facebook...they will.
by Richard Adams. I truly believe it helps people build empathy, and sympathize with animals and understand how frail and exposed they really are.
I can't find a reference on the internet, but Richard Adams was requested to support for preventing rabbits being exterminated after damaging a football field. The response from Adams was "they sound like a bloody nuisance". Although really I wouldn't trust my memory on any facts.
What is sadly true and its even more clear in another of his books http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shardik (Seriously just read first chapter) which essentially describes a bear running through a burning wood. we actually care more *because* its an animal...and I say that as someone who likes natures, for a day trip. What you learn is human nature.
I have a big powerful laptop more of a mobile workstation, a smaller yet powerful laptop for carrying
My Phone is more powerful(sic) than my PC it has less storage and screen real estate, and my next phone will likely be several times more powerful(sic)
It might not replace jobs where a keyboard+mouse input is required for vast quantiles of text input or serious pointing nailed to a desk, but many jobs require you to walk around and consume information(or simple imput), and require you to have a similar device e.g doctor; teacher; pupil, warehouse worker etc etc.
Here is the wikipedia entry to quote "A tablet computer, or simply tablet, is a mobile computer with display, circuitry and battery in a single unit. Tablets are equipped with sensors, including cameras, microphone, accelerometer and touchscreen, with finger or stylus gestures replacing computer mouse and keyboard."
A tablet is a burden to do all but the basics such as reading books, web pages, etc. You can listen to music and videos on the go.
Tablets are NOT the future of computing. They are the future of on the go short term light weight computing.
So do you not see its because of the (fucking) internet (notice the correct use of swearword for emphasis), Books; Movies and Music..with the massive advantage of probability Tablets. In fact the reality is what they can't do that you need is kind of limited.
These are end of year sales figures in the American Market. What seems to be wining is Good Value. Overpriced Tablets and PC's from Apple/Microsoft are losing out to Android\Chromebooks, and still there is a shift(For many) toward tablets. I think we are seeing the overpriced Wintel/Apple computers(including iPads) being replaced with good value Chrome\Android with Tablets winning where ARM/Keyboard-less less of an issue over increased portability and price.
Until the Adobe Creative Suite runs reasonably well on a tablet, then no.
Very few actually care about adobe products, now flash is dead(WTF happened to Gnash). In fact going forward not Adobe is moving towards Web DRM. How many people will suddenly become Gimp advocates.
In fact with failing Apple and Windows Sales they are creating tablet versions of their software. If they had any sense they should have had a Linux versions forever ago.
Why is nobody mentioning the massive mark-up that Microsoft and Intel have, walking around with their 60-70% Profit Margins. The bottom line is PC's are poor value compared to Android tablets. The success of competing on price is the massive growth of Chromebooks...which have already overtaken Mac even without it being a mature platform.
Two different tools for two different tasks. Tablets are consumption tools. Computers are production tools.
The end.
Ironically its not true, we suddenly have Devices that people are comfortable creating in creating twitter; taking pictures and editing them, discussing *everything*. I notice the latest craze is creating comics.
This article is weird, for every consumer that catches a break(in this instance because of a mass consumer backlash), there are thousands treated badly. I cannot remember the last time. I had good (real) customer service. Every company seems to rely on the fact that you have little free time, and takes the piss. Internet\Mobile(sales and carriers)\Computer(Electronics) Companies treat you like parasites after you make the sale; returning\replacing items and and Cancelling a service\subscription is near impossible. There are no exceptions, it has become profitable to treat the consumer badly; breaking\circumventing standard consumer legal rights is routine.
Another Desktop??? Can't we focus on getting ONE right?
If only Windows 8 users had that option; how many would have taken it? I have moved from a full time Gnome User(Driven away by Gnome Shell) to KDE(Great Applications\Themeing....Poor Desktop) to XFCE(Like Gnome 2 at its best, with some cravats/advantages).
The bottom line is there may not be One right, maybe many rights and many wrongs. Android is a great Phone OS but I would not like to use it full time as my Desktop...but to have access to its large catalogue of touchscreen games on GNU/Linux I would kill for, and there is no reason they can't run in a tradition WIMP environment.
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They are still testing something like this? Samsung's Galaxy Gear came out already. The capability to quickly bring attractive and reliable products to market is a key factor in modern electronics industry.
Why are they testing this iPod thing? I mean Creative Labs and others have come out with MP3 players already. The ability to quickly bring attractive and reliable products to market is a key factor in modern electronics industry (so there isn't a hope in hell this iPod thing will ever be a commercial success).
The thing is that first to market is not everything. You also have to design the stuff you bring to market well and Apple has a history of appealing to customers by successfully reinventing/redesigning stuff that others have implemented badly and Apple evidently believes they can do it again.
I leave the whole quote just to show how history is being slowly rewritten. The short version is Apple ripped off Creative Labs Menu and ended with Apple agreeing to pay Creative $100 million US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
The News here is that the Xbox is significantly crippled compared to the cheaper, less abusive opposition Sony!? Kinect is not the selling point to justify the Xbox's inflated Price. This is being reflected in the current sales numbers with worldwide sales being (almost) half that of that of the PS4 (or a little higher than the PS3) http://www.vgchartz.com/#This%.... The only other thing of note is software is no longer the significant factor it was in choosing a console. Personally though I have my eye on Android gaming.
Fact remains that even moderate PCs today outperform both the PS4 and Xbox One at a similar price point.
Not in your or mine wildest dreams
The PS4 from Wikipedia "The CPU consists of two quad-core Jaguar modules totaling 8 x86-64 cores. The GPU consists of 18 compute units to produce a theoretical peak performance of 1.84 TFLOPS. The system's GDDR5 memory is capable of running at a maximum clock frequency of 2.75 GHz (5500 MT/s) and has a maximum memory bandwidth of 176 GB/s. The console contains 8 GB of GDDR5 memory" for US$399.99, €399.99, £349.99
vs
For just the base unit of the PC for the same price http://www.amazon.com/Dell-Ins... Processor: Intel® Pentium® processor G2030 (3M Cache, 3.0 GHz), Memory (RAM): 4GB DDR3 SDRAM, 1600MHz-1X4GB, Storage (hard drive): 500GB Hard Drive, 3.5", 7200rpm, SATA, Optical Drive: DVD+/-RW Tray Load Drive, 16X, SATA Color: Black
I am a bit tired of these comments being modded up in the hope of PC gaming making a comeback.
Maybe because he doesn't like the idea of his private life being a product that is sold to the highest bidder? Just a guess.
Ironically a quick glance through your private posts, shows your continued subterfuge about Google *selling* your data. Google business model is to *NEVER* sell your data. Advertising is the product. If they sold your data they wouldn't have a product.
Almost everyone here understands the model, yet you persist in this transparent lie. Interestingly search Microsoft's and Apple EULA using the search for what they do with trusted *cough* third partys.
and Apple too, to powerful with its digital music and its (gasp) Walled Garden.
Abusive definitely, their behaviour in the disgusting Book caper where they raised the price of Ebooks for none Apple users is something they continue to act unapologetic . The Control they have with Carriers forcing none Apple users again to pay for Apples products. I would argue their control of Digital music is still too high...fortunately the trend for that has dropped. As for the Walled garden thing...I am not really sure how it is related; The FSF protected Apple users from Apple!? allowing jailbreak to be legal again. Personally though I think people should be made aware of Apple abuses and alternatives exist.
Isn't this a Google Article?
You should try it. nothing beats Clementine(okay maybe GMusicBrowser) if you have a decent internet connection, and you manage your own MP3's. That said Nightingale is still a three pane browser it always was, although it is looking slick. you can see the screenshot on the front page. If you haven't looked at it since songbird you are into a pleasant surprise its fast. I am running this on a old single core atom on a large collection. Initial import did take a while but it is quick. As for iTunes I would say its a better than iTunes drop in replacement.
Still sticking with iTunes for now.
I hurt myself laughing. iTunes is an abomination of a bygone age. Every music player is better than iTunes.
FooBar2000 clone with extra crap added.
Why should I leave Foobar2000?
Never heard of FooBar2000 but it looks another Freeware 3-Pane Window-95 Player, built on sound open source libraries...but then what isn't.
I am rocking Clementine at the moment..but I am giving Nightingale a try, it was a download away. I have and a quick glance I am impressed.
The longevity of hardware purchases is the real culprit.
Why? Microsoft is Software company. If they spent less time producing *software* rather then protecting its old Duopoly and using it to enter other markets. Maybe I could install it on my current hardware...by buying it perhaps. We don't even have to walk to the shops anymore or deal with disks anymore.
There is a whole market XP is not supported soon...hold on!
Bill "My charity is better than yours" Gates "I Don't have to Pay Tax". Is looking increasingly unhinged. He needs to go back to what he does best, stabbing his fellow employee in the back...or the from in the case of Ballmer. Seriously "When a kid gets diarrhea,"...hold on, aren't these the sort of thing that your taxe....ahhh I see.
You are responsible for your own privacy. When Facebook or Google mine your data ('you are the product' as people say), you have nothing to fall back on.
Except this is not remotely true; it shows a astonishing naivete (I suspect subterfuge). With Google you are not the product...tailored (automated) advertising is. Ironically with Facebook although I find the claim somewhat astonishing (for business reasons; you can only sell data once)...is your private data is being sold to anyone with cash...your *private life* is the product. The difference between the two is enormous.
What is even more scary about social networks including Googles is individuals can be tracked without ever signing up to Facebook, If they cannot figure out my name; address; partners; friends; social occasions; jobs; sexual preference; lifestyle choices from the text; pictures and videos that I have without ever signing up to facebook...they will.
by Richard Adams. I truly believe it helps people build empathy, and sympathize with animals and understand how frail and exposed they really are.
I can't find a reference on the internet, but Richard Adams was requested to support for preventing rabbits being exterminated after damaging a football field. The response from Adams was "they sound like a bloody nuisance". Although really I wouldn't trust my memory on any facts.
What is sadly true and its even more clear in another of his books http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shardik (Seriously just read first chapter) which essentially describes a bear running through a burning wood. we actually care more *because* its an animal...and I say that as someone who likes natures, for a day trip. What you learn is human nature.
Until they start producing devices with matte screens, I'm absolutely not interested in tablets.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/09/hands-on-with-panasonics-toughpad-tablet/ a quick search produces a matt screen. google is quite easy to use.
I have a big powerful laptop more of a mobile workstation, a smaller yet powerful laptop for carrying
My Phone is more powerful(sic) than my PC it has less storage and screen real estate, and my next phone will likely be several times more powerful(sic)
It might not replace jobs where a keyboard+mouse input is required for vast quantiles of text input or serious pointing nailed to a desk, but many jobs require you to walk around and consume information(or simple imput), and require you to have a similar device e.g doctor; teacher; pupil, warehouse worker etc etc.
Well yeah, plus, anyone who has used Windows XP Tablet Edition will tell you, it really didn't have tablet support.
Having used one myself the biggest drawback was battery life...ans the solution to this was ARM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablet_computer
Here is the wikipedia entry to quote "A tablet computer, or simply tablet, is a mobile computer with display, circuitry and battery in a single unit. Tablets are equipped with sensors, including cameras, microphone, accelerometer and touchscreen, with finger or stylus gestures replacing computer mouse and keyboard."
A tablet is a burden to do all but the basics such as reading books, web pages, etc. You can listen to music and videos on the go.
Tablets are NOT the future of computing. They are the future of on the go short term light weight computing.
So do you not see its because of the (fucking) internet (notice the correct use of swearword for emphasis), Books; Movies and Music..with the massive advantage of probability Tablets. In fact the reality is what they can't do that you need is kind of limited.
https://www.npd.com/wps/portal/npd/us/news/press-releases/u-s-commercial-channel-computing-device-sales-set-to-end-2013-with-double-digit-growth-according-to-npd/
These are end of year sales figures in the American Market. What seems to be wining is Good Value. Overpriced Tablets and PC's from Apple/Microsoft are losing out to Android\Chromebooks, and still there is a shift(For many) toward tablets. I think we are seeing the overpriced Wintel/Apple computers(including iPads) being replaced with good value Chrome\Android with Tablets winning where ARM/Keyboard-less less of an issue over increased portability and price.
Of course we can ignore sales figures.
Until the Adobe Creative Suite runs reasonably well on a tablet, then no.
Very few actually care about adobe products, now flash is dead(WTF happened to Gnash). In fact going forward not Adobe is moving towards Web DRM. How many people will suddenly become Gimp advocates.
In fact with failing Apple and Windows Sales they are creating tablet versions of their software. If they had any sense they should have had a Linux versions forever ago.
Why is nobody mentioning the massive mark-up that Microsoft and Intel have, walking around with their 60-70% Profit Margins. The bottom line is PC's are poor value compared to Android tablets. The success of competing on price is the massive growth of Chromebooks...which have already overtaken Mac even without it being a mature platform.
Two different tools for two different tasks. Tablets are consumption tools. Computers are production tools.
The end.
Ironically its not true, we suddenly have Devices that people are comfortable creating in creating twitter; taking pictures and editing them, discussing *everything*. I notice the latest craze is creating comics.
This article is weird, for every consumer that catches a break(in this instance because of a mass consumer backlash), there are thousands treated badly. I cannot remember the last time. I had good (real) customer service. Every company seems to rely on the fact that you have little free time, and takes the piss. Internet\Mobile(sales and carriers)\Computer(Electronics) Companies treat you like parasites after you make the sale; returning\replacing items and and Cancelling a service\subscription is near impossible. There are no exceptions, it has become profitable to treat the consumer badly; breaking\circumventing standard consumer legal rights is routine.
No its good old fashioned WIMP. The menu button shows large icons which is rubbish, but this is definitely a Desktop not a tablet interface.
They have pictures and everything.
Another Desktop??? Can't we focus on getting ONE right?
If only Windows 8 users had that option; how many would have taken it? I have moved from a full time Gnome User(Driven away by Gnome Shell) to KDE(Great Applications\Themeing....Poor Desktop) to XFCE(Like Gnome 2 at its best, with some cravats/advantages).
The bottom line is there may not be One right, maybe many rights and many wrongs. Android is a great Phone OS but I would not like to use it full time as my Desktop...but to have access to its large catalogue of touchscreen games on GNU/Linux I would kill for, and there is no reason they can't run in a tradition WIMP environment.