Actually you do see this. Hyundai was making copies of luxury vehicles for several years (not sure if they still are or if they were successful enough that they were able to stop) - cars that to the casual glance would like BMW, Mercedes, etc.
Hyundai's tact was, "Hey you don't have to pay for a high-end luxury vehicle to get a high-end luxury vehicle." As far as the other manufacturers, there's nothing to gain from confusing customers.
The real reason is simple: insufficient numbers of people are interested in making the attempt. RT hardware is nothing special, and similar configurations can be hacked both more easily and more cheaply.
I imagine Microsoft may just release a patch that fixes everything into a "classic" view to gain more sales.
Indeed. Every day I spend with Win 8, I dislike it more. Tried to add a network printer, but it was not auto-detected in the new metro interface. However when I went the old route in the control panel to add a new printer, it was auto-detected immediately.
When such basic functionality is not working in the new interface (which one would assume is actually backed by the same underlying OS components), there's a real problem. This is aside from the unpleasantness of the interface itself, at least when using non-touch or wanting to actually multitask.
The only things going for it so far are the improvements to file transfer and the task manager program.
Do you perform extensive functional tests against third party software libraries before including them in your system? In most situations, no -- if it's established and proven. You trust that it does what it advertises, and only when it doesn't do you dig further.
But metro intrudes at annoying times for various routine tasks. Frustrating indeed. Showing how a child can perform cherry-picked tasks doesn't change this.
You may be right. They're still raking in massive profits - investors should be pleased.
On the other hand, eventually it'll go down - we may be seeing the beginning of that now or we may not. The current trend has certainly been continuing long enough to be worrisome - looks like a couple of months now, for the first time since it started its steady rise.
On the other hand, the Surface Pro has little to offer over an ultrabook - it includes a touchscreen. An ultrabook will have better battery life, and an increasing number are becoming available with touchscreens as well. All within the same price target as the Surface Pro. THis is a product looking for a market.
Oh, and ultrabooks all have keyboards - no extra charge.
Yeah, you deserve a ton of mod points. I despise how people on Slashdot look down at anybody who's not in 'the club', whatever they might imagine the club to be. Jon Katz was fuzzy headed, but didn't deserve the reception he got here at all. And neither does this anthropologist.
I really wonder why people are so xenophobic.
I think in this case, people are resistant to the notion that they can be so neatly studied and classified.
That's insurers' problem, and has no real effect on the state treasury. And having the cameras makes it easier to pin down blame and liability.
Also the problem of the people who - doing the correct thing - are getting rear-ended and likely injured. The fact that we know who's at-fault and who should be liable doesn't change this, nor does the fact that it's not funded by the taxpayer.
Please add blackberry playbook to the devices that are supported. It's the same webkit browser everyone else is using (though with better compliance scores in many cases), and it works just fine when I click 'let me in anyway'.
Does Blackberry 10 still take like 10 mins to boot up if you remove the battery. Seriously the boot times on pretty much all the past Blackberries is painful. I have seen some Berries loaded with some apps take 20 mins to load....
No, on the Dev Alpha B it's about 50 seconds. Every dev alpha software update we've received has decreased that time. This aside, realistically you almost never reboot the thing - unlike the old BB which needed a reboot for every 3rd party software upgrade.
So many people don't understand what that word means in a practical sense - resulting in decisions like this.
Diversity is not a quota system.
Diversity is not saying that every ethnicity, gender, sexual preference and age group must be represented.
Diversity is simply about ensuring that each individual's experience, background and perspective are a valued part of the whole - that background and perspective being inclusive of ethnicity, gender, sexual preference and age group, but not defined by it.
It is possible to have diversity with an all-white male led conference. It is even possible to have a diverse conference attended only by white males. This is because every single one of those white males brings his own unique experience, background and history to the table.
'course I mentioned this perspective to an HR drone at my last job and she just looked at me as if I were clearly not getting it.
We don't know what level of marijuana impairs a driver.
That's because it doesn't.
A bunch of handwaving and stating that it's not really a problem is not how to win this argument.
I have distinct memories of driving on a highway, and MAN was everything going so unfuckingbelievably FAST! Are all these people insane, they're going like LIGHT SPEED and shit! I'm just gonna tool along here and be mell-oh. Melll...oh.
The problem was that I was driving 15mph. Sure, I wasn't going to run into a tree or guard rail and I probably had reaction times close to normal - but I was most defintely a hazard and I was certainly impaired.
Fact is, I should have been pulled over for being a hazard. Driving impaired should not be a crime - driving in a way that endangers others should. And there are plenty of rules and punishments already on the books for that kind of driving.
I'm not suggesting that people should be driving around stoned. But let's have an intelligent discussion about it before throwing around these outlandish claims.
You mean we're going to have to actually punish people for criminal actions (driving recklessly and endangering others) and not for an arbitrary measure of at what point we think they *could* be a danger to others?
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D'oh. Need more coffee.
s/tact/tack
Actually you do see this. Hyundai was making copies of luxury vehicles for several years (not sure if they still are or if they were successful enough that they were able to stop) - cars that to the casual glance would like BMW, Mercedes, etc.
Hyundai's tact was, "Hey you don't have to pay for a high-end luxury vehicle to get a high-end luxury vehicle."
As far as the other manufacturers, there's nothing to gain from confusing customers.
Ugh, seriously? Nothing like forced non-failure of software instead of a failure that could prevent more serious consequences...
The real reason is simple: insufficient numbers of people are interested in making the attempt. RT hardware is nothing special, and similar configurations can be hacked both more easily and more cheaply.
I imagine Microsoft may just release a patch that fixes everything into a "classic" view to gain more sales.
Indeed. Every day I spend with Win 8, I dislike it more. Tried to add a network printer, but it was not auto-detected in the new metro interface. However when I went the old route in the control panel to add a new printer, it was auto-detected immediately.
When such basic functionality is not working in the new interface (which one would assume is actually backed by the same underlying OS components), there's a real problem. This is aside from the unpleasantness of the interface itself, at least when using non-touch or wanting to actually multitask.
The only things going for it so far are the improvements to file transfer and the task manager program.
Do you perform extensive functional tests against third party software libraries before including them in your system? In most situations, no -- if it's established and proven. You trust that it does what it advertises, and only when it doesn't do you dig further.
Same goes for hard drives.
If you can avoid metro, it's pretty usable.
But metro intrudes at annoying times for various routine tasks. Frustrating indeed. Showing how a child can perform cherry-picked tasks doesn't change this.
You may be right. They're still raking in massive profits - investors should be pleased.
On the other hand, eventually it'll go down - we may be seeing the beginning of that now or we may not. The current trend has certainly been continuing long enough to be worrisome - looks like a couple of months now, for the first time since it started its steady rise.
Me, I wouldn't bet on a stock rising forever.
The stock went up, but only enough to make up for morning losses - normal fluctuations, but not reversing the downward trend...
Oh really?
Was it your intention to point out the 7% decline since Monday?
consensus is they can make one hell of a keyboard though! :D
Yeah, too bad they forgot to include one with the Pro.
On the other hand, the Surface Pro has little to offer over an ultrabook - it includes a touchscreen. An ultrabook will have better battery life, and an increasing number are becoming available with touchscreens as well. All within the same price target as the Surface Pro. THis is a product looking for a market.
Oh, and ultrabooks all have keyboards - no extra charge.
Yeah, you deserve a ton of mod points. I despise how people on Slashdot look down at anybody who's not in 'the club', whatever they might imagine the club to be. Jon Katz was fuzzy headed, but didn't deserve the reception he got here at all. And neither does this anthropologist.
I really wonder why people are so xenophobic.
I think in this case, people are resistant to the notion that they can be so neatly studied and classified.
As the sibling posts also say, you wrote a really bad summary. I think you just wanted to be cynical, or troll.
Well of COURSE I wrote a bad summary. I said it right there - it was too long, and I didn't read it!
TL;DR - she's writing a book and wants us all to know, and Wired is cooperating. It's a fluff piece. Apparently we should buy it when it comes out.
That's insurers' problem, and has no real effect on the state treasury. And having the cameras makes it easier to pin down blame and liability.
Also the problem of the people who - doing the correct thing - are getting rear-ended and likely injured. The fact that we know who's at-fault and who should be liable doesn't change this, nor does the fact that it's not funded by the taxpayer.
Please add blackberry playbook to the devices that are supported. It's the same webkit browser everyone else is using (though with better compliance scores in many cases), and it works just fine when I click 'let me in anyway'.
Entirely unlike the shoddy work you have remained silent on
Have I remained silent? Maybe you should look at my comment history before making assumptions/looking like an trolling asshat?
The proof is far more solid than any proofs given of the damage caused by piracy.
Yet you've never once whined about that, have you.
Shoddy research is shoddy research. No matter if you agree with the premise or not.
Does Blackberry 10 still take like 10 mins to boot up if you remove the battery. Seriously the boot times on pretty much all the past Blackberries is painful. I have seen some Berries loaded with some apps take 20 mins to load....
No, on the Dev Alpha B it's about 50 seconds. Every dev alpha software update we've received has decreased that time. This aside, realistically you almost never reboot the thing - unlike the old BB which needed a reboot for every 3rd party software upgrade.
Did you intend to insult your spouse, or was s/he just incidental damage?
So many people don't understand what that word means in a practical sense - resulting in decisions like this.
Diversity is not a quota system.
Diversity is not saying that every ethnicity, gender, sexual preference and age group must be represented.
Diversity is simply about ensuring that each individual's experience, background and perspective are a valued part of the whole - that background and perspective being inclusive of ethnicity, gender, sexual preference and age group, but not defined by it.
It is possible to have diversity with an all-white male led conference. It is even possible to have a diverse conference attended only by white males. This is because every single one of those white males brings his own unique experience, background and history to the table.
'course I mentioned this perspective to an HR drone at my last job and she just looked at me as if I were clearly not getting it.
We don't know what level of marijuana impairs a driver.
That's because it doesn't.
A bunch of handwaving and stating that it's not really a problem is not how to win this argument.
I have distinct memories of driving on a highway, and MAN was everything going so unfuckingbelievably FAST! Are all these people insane, they're going like LIGHT SPEED and shit! I'm just gonna tool along here and be mell-oh. Melll...oh.
The problem was that I was driving 15mph. Sure, I wasn't going to run into a tree or guard rail and I probably had reaction times close to normal - but I was most defintely a hazard and I was certainly impaired.
Fact is, I should have been pulled over for being a hazard. Driving impaired should not be a crime - driving in a way that endangers others should. And there are plenty of rules and punishments already on the books for that kind of driving.
I'm not suggesting that people should be driving around stoned. But let's have an intelligent discussion about it before throwing around these outlandish claims.
It's madness, man.
Reefer madness.
You mean we're going to have to actually punish people for criminal actions (driving recklessly and endangering others) and not for an arbitrary measure of at what point we think they *could* be a danger to others?
Oh, the horror!