All Scully has to do is come out with an average-plus phone that runs Android and offers a robust security and upgrade service. The company that manages to do this could own the Android platform.
A company that made a serious concerted effort to do Android correctly could plow Apple under.
It would have to be a service oriented company intent on maintaining a secure and up to date Android distribution for users of it's phones. The app base is there waiting for somebody to roll out the right platform for it to run on.
And like with the 'computer engineers' who plug together PC clones, all you will need to be a 'cell phone engineer' is a tiny little phillips screwdriver.
That's a mighty big dongle you're tying down your tablet with. I like having a little wallet full of microSD cards and still having a highly portable tablet. Because it's a tablet, not effectively converting the tablet into a desktop monitor.
There is no SD card on a Nexus 7, which disqualifies it to me. I like having the freedom to plug in any 32 gb of storage that I choose. It's then instantly available to me. Micro SD cards are cheap now and a good way to have whole volumes of extra content ready at hand to plug in. I am not interested in storing my data on Google's cloud hardware.
I use my ISP provided modem/router only as a gateway. They have no access or control over my wifi network. They have no need to know which or how many devices I have connected to my network. They are only the gateway. If I used their router they would have a presence on my wifi's subnet.
My ISP supplied DSL modem is a 'wi-fi router' as it is. That doesn't mean that I use it for anything of the sort. There is no way in hell that I want a carrier-accessible wi-fi router in my house. So I disable the wifi on the DSL modem and just use the Ethernet jack to connect the wifi router that I own and have (hopefully, still) the sole access to.
I was sort of enthusiastic, back in the day, for the 'Visual' interface in Visual Basic, in the 3.0 era. Which kind of went away. Visual C? Where do I click? heh.
What visual design elements does Visual COBOL bring? You get drag and drop Punch Keypunch Machines, Verifiers*, and a High Speed Card Reader? It would modernize and simplify COBOL coding. No risk of dropped decks! Output formatting would be in the code hidden under the Chain Printer icon.
I suspect all the code in the Visual COBOL program resides beneath the Card Sorter icon. You double click on it and there's your code!
(*the 'Verifier' was an odd beast. A big piece of equipment hulking on the floor in the same room that looked almost identical to the Keypunch machine, that didn't actually punch cards. You would feed the previously-punched cards into it and pay a keypunch operator to type in the same lines of data again and all the verifier did was verify the cards had the same data as what was being typed in a second time)
Thermal design problems in Macs go all the way back to the beginning. There was an ideological opposition to 'fan noise' in the Mac from the very beginning. I remember the third-party fixes people used to use. There was a muffin fan in a thermo-formed plastic enclosure that slipped into the handhold of the Mac Plus. And it cost less than $300!
Any time there's an ideology involved with Apple products, be it 'ultra thin' designs at present, no-fan, one-button-mouse, 'RISCvsCISC', or that glorious Altivec unit the mac people were always carrying on about, common sense leaves the room.
It doesn't matter if the 'think different' is better or worse, or less reliable. Product differentiation is what matters, cuz Mac users are elite.
It was a bad deal for USSR soldiers who became POWs no matter what. After the war, they were considered 'disloyal' for having been captured or surrendering and most were sent to the camps.
Stuff that matters because it's news for nerds "wink" is the deal, actually.
I learned about the Twin Towers bombing first by reading about it on Slashdot early in the morning on 9/11. But I read it in an early off-topic comment. I quickly opened another browser window to 'mainstream news' to learn more.
We need more stories like the one about TIP (but nobody mentioned the TIP31 for some reason ??) transistors. That turned into what I classify as a nerd topic. We need more topics about things like grinding your own lens to make a telescope, and welding. Less articles that are links to 'astronomy' articles on the NYT and articles about Tesla that mainly dwell on the business side.
I played Wolfenstein 3D all the way through on my 386 and Doom too, and a lot of Quake. But I get sick feeling trying to play first person perspective games these days (with the exception of Minecraft, which just works somehow.
For me, now, it's about immersion in a virtual world that matters, mostly third person perspective. And open world. Velvet rope track games just bore me. If there's terrain visible I want to be able to step off the trail and interact with it.
FTP is obsolete. I used a torrent to download the WoW 3.5.5 install binaries. And Jeutie's Blizzlike Pack for a server. It has the MySQL server and the auth and world server bins all rolled up nice and easy to install.
Or were you talking about Free to play? I spent many hundreds paying Blizzard before I discovered the ftp version of WoW. (which is multiplayer, we do it on a LAN here sometimes.)
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All Scully has to do is come out with an average-plus phone that runs Android and offers a robust security and upgrade service. The company that manages to do this could own the Android platform.
A company that made a serious concerted effort to do Android correctly could plow Apple under.
It would have to be a service oriented company intent on maintaining a secure and up to date Android distribution for users of it's phones. The app base is there waiting for somebody to roll out the right platform for it to run on.
And like with the 'computer engineers' who plug together PC clones, all you will need to be a 'cell phone engineer' is a tiny little phillips screwdriver.
Asking "why" and getting an answer isn't how you learn critical thinking.
Ah, but frowning and asking 'why' a second time is the starting point to critical thinking.
How is that bad news?
a market is only free if it is heavily regulated.
Two plus two equals five.
That's from 'Satisfaction.' The Rolling Stones did an ok cover version of that DEVO song. Passable, but not great.
Win32 was poised and ready to run your OS/2 down.
IBM would go on to say: "Buhwhat was that!?!"
That's a mighty big dongle you're tying down your tablet with. I like having a little wallet full of microSD cards and still having a highly portable tablet. Because it's a tablet, not effectively converting the tablet into a desktop monitor.
There is no SD card on a Nexus 7, which disqualifies it to me. I like having the freedom to plug in any 32 gb of storage that I choose. It's then instantly available to me. Micro SD cards are cheap now and a good way to have whole volumes of extra content ready at hand to plug in. I am not interested in storing my data on Google's cloud hardware.
I use my ISP provided modem/router only as a gateway. They have no access or control over my wifi network. They have no need to know which or how many devices I have connected to my network. They are only the gateway. If I used their router they would have a presence on my wifi's subnet.
I paid for Opera, back when one of their marketing bullet points was that the Opera installer would fit on a 1.44M floppy diskette.
How do you concentrate on the rest of the transaction with all the hysterical laughter distracting you?
My ISP supplied DSL modem is a 'wi-fi router' as it is. That doesn't mean that I use it for anything of the sort. There is no way in hell that I want a carrier-accessible wi-fi router in my house. So I disable the wifi on the DSL modem and just use the Ethernet jack to connect the wifi router that I own and have (hopefully, still) the sole access to.
I was sort of enthusiastic, back in the day, for the 'Visual' interface in Visual Basic, in the 3.0 era. Which kind of went away. Visual C? Where do I click? heh.
What visual design elements does Visual COBOL bring? You get drag and drop Punch Keypunch Machines, Verifiers*, and a High Speed Card Reader? It would modernize and simplify COBOL coding. No risk of dropped decks! Output formatting would be in the code hidden under the Chain Printer icon.
I suspect all the code in the Visual COBOL program resides beneath the Card Sorter icon. You double click on it and there's your code!
(*the 'Verifier' was an odd beast. A big piece of equipment hulking on the floor in the same room that looked almost identical to the Keypunch machine, that didn't actually punch cards. You would feed the previously-punched cards into it and pay a keypunch operator to type in the same lines of data again and all the verifier did was verify the cards had the same data as what was being typed in a second time)
My battery isn't glued into my laptop. What are you getting at?
We come here on our breaks to pick on Apple. You live here.
Don't talk to us about pathetic.
Thermal design problems in Macs go all the way back to the beginning. There was an ideological opposition to 'fan noise' in the Mac from the very beginning. I remember the third-party fixes people used to use. There was a muffin fan in a thermo-formed plastic enclosure that slipped into the handhold of the Mac Plus. And it cost less than $300!
Any time there's an ideology involved with Apple products, be it 'ultra thin' designs at present, no-fan, one-button-mouse, 'RISCvsCISC', or that glorious Altivec unit the mac people were always carrying on about, common sense leaves the room.
It doesn't matter if the 'think different' is better or worse, or less reliable. Product differentiation is what matters, cuz Mac users are elite.
Hating Apple doesn't dominate our lives. Though, us hating Apple seems to dominate yours.
It was a bad deal for USSR soldiers who became POWs no matter what. After the war, they were considered 'disloyal' for having been captured or surrendering and most were sent to the camps.
Stuff that matters because it's news for nerds "wink" is the deal, actually.
I learned about the Twin Towers bombing first by reading about it on Slashdot early in the morning on 9/11. But I read it in an early off-topic comment. I quickly opened another browser window to 'mainstream news' to learn more.
We need more stories like the one about TIP (but nobody mentioned the TIP31 for some reason ??) transistors. That turned into what I classify as a nerd topic. We need more topics about things like grinding your own lens to make a telescope, and welding. Less articles that are links to 'astronomy' articles on the NYT and articles about Tesla that mainly dwell on the business side.
Morally corrupt hedonists.
I would like a modern reskinning of Daggarfall. They don't need to add any new content. Just a modern graphical layer to wrap it all in.
I played Wolfenstein 3D all the way through on my 386 and Doom too, and a lot of Quake. But I get sick feeling trying to play first person perspective games these days (with the exception of Minecraft, which just works somehow.
For me, now, it's about immersion in a virtual world that matters, mostly third person perspective. And open world. Velvet rope track games just bore me. If there's terrain visible I want to be able to step off the trail and interact with it.
They're trying to turn MOBA into a spectator sport. Which is kinda weird. I guess there's money in that, out in tee vee land.
It's sort of gross, trying to turn video gaming into something vulgar like football. With hero 'jocks' and all.
FTP is obsolete. I used a torrent to download the WoW 3.5.5 install binaries. And Jeutie's Blizzlike Pack for a server. It has the MySQL server and the auth and world server bins all rolled up nice and easy to install.
Or were you talking about Free to play? I spent many hundreds paying Blizzard before I discovered the ftp version of WoW. (which is multiplayer, we do it on a LAN here sometimes.)