Now how many convertibles were there? Every big store I've been too have about as many convertible windows 8 machines as they do other 10" tablets. If you're charging $680 for Core i tablet, you may as well make it $700 and add a foldable or detachable keyboard.
From what I gather, the budget x86 Windows 8 tablets having been waiting on the new low power atoms
Why are you insisting that a laptop screen needs gorilla glass? Are you Edward Scissorhands or something? When a laptop isn't in use, it's folded and the screen's protected. When it is in use, you're not (or you shouldn't be) doing anything that's likely to scratch it.
If you are seriously worrying about how hard wearing the screen on a laptop is... you probably should take a good look at how you treat your laptop or consider buying a rugged laptop.
Sure it'll add extra cost, just like the bluetooth that most people don't use, the ethernet that most people don't use and probably dozens of other of ports and hardware features that add cost but aren't used by the majority of users.
To ignore statistics and customer feedback is to display an arrogance that can result in an awful experience for players.
The biggest example of this in recent times is FFXIV. Throughout the betas and previews they ignored feedback and imposed what they felt an MMO should be like on their users. The result? An incredibly bad, high budget MMO where design choices got in the way of the user at every turn (a server side UI that was slow and painful to use, limits on the amount of quests you could do, awful crafting, awful economy, unhelpful maps and quest descriptions).
There are more general exams when making genre games too. If you're making a colourful JRPG with a bunch of cute characters, the JRPG audience isn't likely to be turned away if you use a battle system based around AD&D and give it a dark, gritty plot with lots of violence and disturbing events.
Even for simple design choices it can be a big deal. Halo 2 has no brightness controls and has some very dark levels, I played it on an old TV with the brightness at max and could only play it for short periods before eyestrain kicked in. Kid Icarus on the 3DS requires use of a stylus and the control pad, this means you have to use the stylus in the right hand, making the game near impossible for lefties (thankfully you can use an add on control pad to make it playable). Ignore customers needs when designing something and even great games can be ruined for some or all.
"you might expect that the top selling consumer laptop would be based on Win8"
Looking for chromebooks on amazon.co.uk, I see 4 laptops, 2 by Acer (C7 and C7000, not sure what the differences are), 2 by Samsung (3g and non-3g). If I search for windows 8 laptops I get hundreds. It's obvious that a Chromebook would be higher selling simply because you're comparing a a range with an incredibly long tail to one with very little choice.
Also, "without any major advertising campaign"? What the hell? Does the submitter even watch TV? Over here we've been bombarded with that annoying "quirky" advert of youtube clips pretty much every single ad break. Google have spent a fortune on their ad campaign.
Budget ultrabooks, Chromebooks and convertible tablets are taking the netbook's place. They all offer higher profit margins and all cater far better to a specific need. Netbooks haven't died, they've just evolved in three directions.
If you want a ultra slim and light but cheap laptop with basic functionality, Chromebook, if you want a small light full featured laptop, ultrabook, if you want "pick up and use instantly", tablet.
Peaceful protests can turn violent in minutes if they're not well managed and controlled. An example of this was The Tottenham riots where the police decided a peaceful protest didn't need many officers. A few people turned violent, there weren't enough police to stem it quickly, large numbers of people realised the police couldn't cope and saw the chance to riot and loot.
Quite often these protests are peaceful seemingly without need for large numbers of police largely because, almost paradoxically, there are large numbers of police there.
You mean the FBI and police sat down with business owners to talk about a large-ish scale protest outside their premises directed at them? Screw that, if there's a mob outside your front door, why would you ever want advice and reassurances from police, it's not like it's their job or anything!
Police drawing up plans in case the OWS potentially resorted to criminal or terrorist behaviour ? How dare they! I demand a police service that doesn't prepare for any eventuality and is always taken by surprise!
It is rather shocking that the police didn't inform the leaders of an organisation that prided itself in having no leaders that they had vague threats of violence against them. Imaginary people have the right to information too!
I'd be more inclined to given them credit were it not for the fact that iphones and a large portion of android phones put heavy restrictions on what you can boot.
To me this is just another hysterical over-reaction by them.
Remember how trusted computing would destroy all our freedoms? Remember how MS put so much DRM into Vista that you had all sorts of restrictions preventing you from doing anything and if you tried to get around it, MS would remote into your PC and delete all your files?
One important thing worth noting was that Turing's clearance would've been removed even if homosexuality hadn't been a crime at the time. As the Enigma was still being used by the soviets and there were big examples of blackmail being used to get information. People who'd had affairs or held other secrets that would publicly embarrass or shame them also had their clearance removed.
There's also not terribly good evidence he committed suicide. He was known for handling toxic chemicals in a dangerous manner, didn't seem to be suicidal (his life was improving and getting back on track), didn't leave a note and chose a rather odd method for suicide. His family members are all convinced it was an accident.
When I was at uni (middlesex university), every lecture and class had a register you had to sign. If you didn't sign most registers, you'd fail the course (regardless of how you did in exams or coursework).
People throw around "scary" buzzwords like biometrics but in practice this is no different from something a lot of British unis have had in place for a long time. It's just a harder system to cheat.
Because they're here to get an education, not to work or otherwise take advantage of living in the UK. If they're not attending the courses, they're not being educated, regardless of if they pass it or not.
The problem isn't that they can't handle a small woman, it's that they can't subdue her in a way that doesn't risk injuring her. Couldn't hear the video but it looks like she was thrashing around even when held on the floor. Very easy for her to slam her head against the floor when struggling or to twist around in a way that puts her arm at risk of dislocating or breaking.
Assange cannot be granted diplomatic immunity whilst bunkering down in an embassy. It wouldn't be recognised under international or British law (which was tightened up after a Libyan diplomat shot a British police woman from their embassy).
Diplomatic immunity is not a get out of jail free card.
Evolution is part of the national curriculum and there really hasn't been any issue with it not being taught. I was taught about Intelligent design in science but only from a historical PoV and as evidence of how scientific theories change based on evidence (was also taught about elemental theory).
Thanks to Dawkins drumming up hysteria in tabloids about how evil faith schools are (despite between 1/3rd and 1/2 of people in the UK having attended a CofE school) we've these waste of time legislation being put in place. Sure it wasn't enshrined in law it had to be taught but given that it would cause pretty much everyone to fail their GCSEs if it wasn't taught (and probably affect SAT scores too), kids are pretty unlikely not to be taught it.
"But this belief that bacteria just magically eat oil and in turn leave behind no deleterious side effects is pretty much akin to claiming that women's reproductive systems magically expunge rapists' sperm."
Making connections between two completely unconnected, controversial events in order to do an ad hominem is pretty much akin to saying that to saying that babies taste good with bbq sauce. You sick baby eater!
I'd rather have a 3 year one where they didn't make me spend a fortune shipping it insured internationally to return (live in the UK, RMA centre is in the Netherlands).
I'm never going to buy another OCZ drive. Had a vertex 2, worked well for a few months then, without any warning, it died completely. Couldn't be read by any OS, wouldn't even be recognised by the bios.
As bad as losing data and RMA-ing a drive which potentially still had all my files on them, I also had to pay £20 to ship it insured to the Netherlands due to their awful returns policy.
Fine a multinational company too much and eventually it'll be cheaper for them to abandon the country and skip on the fine.
40,000 people out of a job and the 2nd largest source of oil and gas for the US being shut down (even if the assets were seized, it would take a long time for production to start up again).
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Now how many convertibles were there? Every big store I've been too have about as many convertible windows 8 machines as they do other 10" tablets. If you're charging $680 for Core i tablet, you may as well make it $700 and add a foldable or detachable keyboard.
From what I gather, the budget x86 Windows 8 tablets having been waiting on the new low power atoms
Why are you insisting that a laptop screen needs gorilla glass? Are you Edward Scissorhands or something? When a laptop isn't in use, it's folded and the screen's protected. When it is in use, you're not (or you shouldn't be) doing anything that's likely to scratch it.
If you are seriously worrying about how hard wearing the screen on a laptop is... you probably should take a good look at how you treat your laptop or consider buying a rugged laptop.
Sure it'll add extra cost, just like the bluetooth that most people don't use, the ethernet that most people don't use and probably dozens of other of ports and hardware features that add cost but aren't used by the majority of users.
To ignore statistics and customer feedback is to display an arrogance that can result in an awful experience for players.
The biggest example of this in recent times is FFXIV. Throughout the betas and previews they ignored feedback and imposed what they felt an MMO should be like on their users. The result? An incredibly bad, high budget MMO where design choices got in the way of the user at every turn (a server side UI that was slow and painful to use, limits on the amount of quests you could do, awful crafting, awful economy, unhelpful maps and quest descriptions).
There are more general exams when making genre games too. If you're making a colourful JRPG with a bunch of cute characters, the JRPG audience isn't likely to be turned away if you use a battle system based around AD&D and give it a dark, gritty plot with lots of violence and disturbing events.
Even for simple design choices it can be a big deal. Halo 2 has no brightness controls and has some very dark levels, I played it on an old TV with the brightness at max and could only play it for short periods before eyestrain kicked in. Kid Icarus on the 3DS requires use of a stylus and the control pad, this means you have to use the stylus in the right hand, making the game near impossible for lefties (thankfully you can use an add on control pad to make it playable). Ignore customers needs when designing something and even great games can be ruined for some or all.
"you might expect that the top selling consumer laptop would be based on Win8"
Looking for chromebooks on amazon.co.uk, I see 4 laptops, 2 by Acer (C7 and C7000, not sure what the differences are), 2 by Samsung (3g and non-3g). If I search for windows 8 laptops I get hundreds. It's obvious that a Chromebook would be higher selling simply because you're comparing a a range with an incredibly long tail to one with very little choice.
Also, "without any major advertising campaign"? What the hell? Does the submitter even watch TV? Over here we've been bombarded with that annoying "quirky" advert of youtube clips pretty much every single ad break. Google have spent a fortune on their ad campaign.
Budget ultrabooks, Chromebooks and convertible tablets are taking the netbook's place. They all offer higher profit margins and all cater far better to a specific need. Netbooks haven't died, they've just evolved in three directions.
If you want a ultra slim and light but cheap laptop with basic functionality, Chromebook, if you want a small light full featured laptop, ultrabook, if you want "pick up and use instantly", tablet.
irony: accusing someone of denial when they're actually saying there was collusion and that you'd expect collusion.
Peaceful protests can turn violent in minutes if they're not well managed and controlled. An example of this was The Tottenham riots where the police decided a peaceful protest didn't need many officers. A few people turned violent, there weren't enough police to stem it quickly, large numbers of people realised the police couldn't cope and saw the chance to riot and loot.
Quite often these protests are peaceful seemingly without need for large numbers of police largely because, almost paradoxically, there are large numbers of police there.
That attitude was great until the mob used it to control the unions...
You mean the FBI and police sat down with business owners to talk about a large-ish scale protest outside their premises directed at them? Screw that, if there's a mob outside your front door, why would you ever want advice and reassurances from police, it's not like it's their job or anything!
Police drawing up plans in case the OWS potentially resorted to criminal or terrorist behaviour ? How dare they! I demand a police service that doesn't prepare for any eventuality and is always taken by surprise!
It is rather shocking that the police didn't inform the leaders of an organisation that prided itself in having no leaders that they had vague threats of violence against them. Imaginary people have the right to information too!
I'd be more inclined to given them credit were it not for the fact that iphones and a large portion of android phones put heavy restrictions on what you can boot.
To me this is just another hysterical over-reaction by them.
Remember how trusted computing would destroy all our freedoms? Remember how MS put so much DRM into Vista that you had all sorts of restrictions preventing you from doing anything and if you tried to get around it, MS would remote into your PC and delete all your files?
One important thing worth noting was that Turing's clearance would've been removed even if homosexuality hadn't been a crime at the time. As the Enigma was still being used by the soviets and there were big examples of blackmail being used to get information. People who'd had affairs or held other secrets that would publicly embarrass or shame them also had their clearance removed.
There's also not terribly good evidence he committed suicide. He was known for handling toxic chemicals in a dangerous manner, didn't seem to be suicidal (his life was improving and getting back on track), didn't leave a note and chose a rather odd method for suicide. His family members are all convinced it was an accident.
Fingerprint information is probably much less harmful than your signature or even an employee ID number getting leaked out.
When I was at uni (middlesex university), every lecture and class had a register you had to sign. If you didn't sign most registers, you'd fail the course (regardless of how you did in exams or coursework).
People throw around "scary" buzzwords like biometrics but in practice this is no different from something a lot of British unis have had in place for a long time. It's just a harder system to cheat.
Because they're here to get an education, not to work or otherwise take advantage of living in the UK. If they're not attending the courses, they're not being educated, regardless of if they pass it or not.
The problem isn't that they can't handle a small woman, it's that they can't subdue her in a way that doesn't risk injuring her. Couldn't hear the video but it looks like she was thrashing around even when held on the floor. Very easy for her to slam her head against the floor when struggling or to twist around in a way that puts her arm at risk of dislocating or breaking.
It's surprising just how much much history I learnt from Asterix.
And I learnt about Orgies, very messy orgies.
Assange cannot be granted diplomatic immunity whilst bunkering down in an embassy. It wouldn't be recognised under international or British law (which was tightened up after a Libyan diplomat shot a British police woman from their embassy).
Diplomatic immunity is not a get out of jail free card.
Not a statistical average? Are you telling me I'm not normal?
It also has a TDP almost 4 times the maximum power consumption of the whole Wii U under load and is pretty costly.
Evolution is part of the national curriculum and there really hasn't been any issue with it not being taught. I was taught about Intelligent design in science but only from a historical PoV and as evidence of how scientific theories change based on evidence (was also taught about elemental theory).
Thanks to Dawkins drumming up hysteria in tabloids about how evil faith schools are (despite between 1/3rd and 1/2 of people in the UK having attended a CofE school) we've these waste of time legislation being put in place. Sure it wasn't enshrined in law it had to be taught but given that it would cause pretty much everyone to fail their GCSEs if it wasn't taught (and probably affect SAT scores too), kids are pretty unlikely not to be taught it.
"But this belief that bacteria just magically eat oil and in turn leave behind no deleterious side effects is pretty much akin to claiming that women's reproductive systems magically expunge rapists' sperm."
Making connections between two completely unconnected, controversial events in order to do an ad hominem is pretty much akin to saying that to saying that babies taste good with bbq sauce. You sick baby eater!
I'd rather have a 3 year one where they didn't make me spend a fortune shipping it insured internationally to return (live in the UK, RMA centre is in the Netherlands).
I'm never going to buy another OCZ drive. Had a vertex 2, worked well for a few months then, without any warning, it died completely. Couldn't be read by any OS, wouldn't even be recognised by the bios.
As bad as losing data and RMA-ing a drive which potentially still had all my files on them, I also had to pay £20 to ship it insured to the Netherlands due to their awful returns policy.
Fine a multinational company too much and eventually it'll be cheaper for them to abandon the country and skip on the fine.
40,000 people out of a job and the 2nd largest source of oil and gas for the US being shut down (even if the assets were seized, it would take a long time for production to start up again).