In my experience, the problem isn't getting Linux onto the desktop. It's keeping it there after an update crashes everything and the user says, "Screw that, I'm going back to Windows because it works."
I have never had a CD "go bad" except for one cheap batch I got where the dye turned cloudy within a year. Every other CD-R in my possession still reads perfectly unless it is obviously damaged.
Not this tired argument again. I have burned CDs from 1995 that still work perfectly fine. Sure, they "estimated" that they would only last 7 years. Guess they were wrong, since unless I can see physical scratches or other damage, 99% of my discs from my life still work perfectly. The only ones that didn't last and had no physical damage were a cheap brand I got where the dye turned cloudy, but that happened within the first 2 years.
Well, unlike the last 50 years, most chemicals and combinations are well-known now. And very few new ones are being discovered. Formulas are simpler to create because the raw materials are more complex and sold for a purpose.
Actually, The Wizard of Oz really does have the heroine do things in feminine ways. She avoids conflict and cares more about her comrades than herself.
Works fine for me. My kids love "The Princess Bride", "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure", "Back to the Future", "Star Wars", etc. You just have to be sure to pick actual quality movies that kids can identify with instead of crap that you have nostalgia over. And when they tell you it's garbage and they don't want to watch it anymore (Star Trek II, for instance), turn it off. You've already seen it anyway.
Very much so. The stock in that first day alone would go crazy up, Gates could pump and dump himself to get even crazier richer for his other projects.
I get a feeling it just needs Gates (or someone with his power) to sit in meetings and yell out 'THAT'S STUPID' when people do demos, something that I feel hasn't happened for the last 10ish years.
"You want to dump backwards compatibility? Windows? Our core product we sell everything else on top of? THAT HAS TO BE THE WORST IDEA EVER"
"We've spent 20 years nearly getting people used to the Start Button, hired the Stones to sing 'start me up', tied everything to that in training/promotional material, and now you want to get rid of it? HOW ARE YOU ABLE TO BREATH WITHOUT CONCENTRATING"
"Our user studies for 30 years show to never use colour to denote function, too many people are colour blind/colours mean different things in different cultures (you remember we sell outside the US, right?). And now you show me something that looks like a kid who ate a pack of crayons has thrown up on the screen, and expect me to congratulate you? WHY ARE YOU EVEN IN THIS BUILDING?? WHO LET YOU IN?!??"
Seriously... How come when I have mod points, all the articles suck. Then, when there are good articles, I don't have any?
Surface RT offers nothing that mid and upper end iDevices and Androids do not.
Except for out-of-the-box integration with Remote Workplace is your office has Windows server. That was one of the big ones for me. I could just remote desktop in while on the road from my tablet instead of having to use a laptop.
Android and Apple have Remote Desktop clients.
It also supports multi-tasking which isn't a gimmick. Keeping skype open for chatting while browsing the web is way better than flipping back and forth. A few Samsung phones have that now which is a good step. It really really really is needed in android. I don't expect apple to ever add it just like two button mice.:P
I agree, but I think Google will get there soon.
Also the windows environment is super awkward with touch but it's way better than the alternative of not being able to use a real file browser. I was at a conference and was able to download a PDF, make a couple changes in word and copy it to a USB stick to be taken to a fedex shop for printing. I bought a USB adapter for my Galaxy Tab which was my previous tablet and I always forgot the adapter at home and even when I had it... apps didn't really support it very well and just moving files to it was a PITA.
I have done this easily on my Asus Transformer to a Micro SD card. Not sure why a USB stick is required.
But by and far the best feature of WindowsRT that no iDevice or Android tablet offers is an honest to god desktop browser. There are still tons of sites which just don't quite work with touch or touch centric browsers. Menus that you have to hover over. Websites whose forms don't work. That's true of MetroIE as well but you can always load up windows and real IE. That has saved my ass numerous times on airport check-ins etc which just never quite worked on my Galaxy Tab.
I have never experienced this problem using Dolphin set to Desktop Browser mode. Every site I have tried works just fine and one 1 site could even detect I am mobile in that configuration.
If you want to talk about something Android and Apple need, it's better printing support. Linux has drivers for virtually every printer under the sun. Google just needs to make it a first class part of the OS and they will catch up to Windows 3.1.
What they should have done is license Mono and change the default display DLLs to make existing.NET apps more tablet-friendly and able to run on ARM devices. Making yet another brand-new library that they can quickly ignore (CE, Win Phone 7, Silverlight, Zune) was a really dumb move.
That didn't stop a company from trying that on my co-worker in Denver. They wanted him to buy a battery out of his own pocket and change it out. Yeah, right. Then they were going to charge him a fee for not returning the car to the rental location. He said, "Go ahead and try it. I'll see you in court."
They lost 2 regular customers that day that rented with them every couple weeks.
My friend is a traffic cop and he says they don't even look at registrations until they are 6 months out of date. The reason is that it is almost invariably a DMV is late problem and not a driver is late problem.
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In my experience, the problem isn't getting Linux onto the desktop. It's keeping it there after an update crashes everything and the user says, "Screw that, I'm going back to Windows because it works."
Well, I don't have this problem, since I live in America where the 120V is extremely unlikely to kill me.
I'm pretty sure that making fake traffic signs is illegal, probably a felony.
The road on my way home has that sign, and cops hide out and write tickets occasionally. They are not necessarily exclusive.
I have never had a CD "go bad" except for one cheap batch I got where the dye turned cloudy within a year. Every other CD-R in my possession still reads perfectly unless it is obviously damaged.
Not this tired argument again. I have burned CDs from 1995 that still work perfectly fine. Sure, they "estimated" that they would only last 7 years. Guess they were wrong, since unless I can see physical scratches or other damage, 99% of my discs from my life still work perfectly. The only ones that didn't last and had no physical damage were a cheap brand I got where the dye turned cloudy, but that happened within the first 2 years.
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Report them to the FCC and your local PUC. It has done wonders for me in dealing with AT&T, twice.
10 mbit is pretty slow. I get 35 where I live, although it costs about $65/month.
Well, unlike the last 50 years, most chemicals and combinations are well-known now. And very few new ones are being discovered. Formulas are simpler to create because the raw materials are more complex and sold for a purpose.
Actually, The Wizard of Oz really does have the heroine do things in feminine ways. She avoids conflict and cares more about her comrades than herself.
Works fine for me. My kids love "The Princess Bride", "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure", "Back to the Future", "Star Wars", etc. You just have to be sure to pick actual quality movies that kids can identify with instead of crap that you have nostalgia over. And when they tell you it's garbage and they don't want to watch it anymore (Star Trek II, for instance), turn it off. You've already seen it anyway.
Transformers was always devoid of plot. What made you think the movie would be any different?
(In fact, the movie had more plot than a whole season of cartoon episodes.)
Again, I wish I had mod points today.
Exactly. Which is why a rushed RT was suicide compared to sticking with .NET and making their whole back catalog work on cheap ARM tablets.
Mod this up.
Because they would have had to eat some humble pie and use Mono. But it works just fine.
Very much so. The stock in that first day alone would go crazy up, Gates could pump and dump himself to get even crazier richer for his other projects. I get a feeling it just needs Gates (or someone with his power) to sit in meetings and yell out 'THAT'S STUPID' when people do demos, something that I feel hasn't happened for the last 10ish years. "You want to dump backwards compatibility? Windows? Our core product we sell everything else on top of? THAT HAS TO BE THE WORST IDEA EVER" "We've spent 20 years nearly getting people used to the Start Button, hired the Stones to sing 'start me up', tied everything to that in training/promotional material, and now you want to get rid of it? HOW ARE YOU ABLE TO BREATH WITHOUT CONCENTRATING" "Our user studies for 30 years show to never use colour to denote function, too many people are colour blind/colours mean different things in different cultures (you remember we sell outside the US, right?). And now you show me something that looks like a kid who ate a pack of crayons has thrown up on the screen, and expect me to congratulate you? WHY ARE YOU EVEN IN THIS BUILDING?? WHO LET YOU IN?!??"
Seriously... How come when I have mod points, all the articles suck. Then, when there are good articles, I don't have any?
Right so they half-assed RT instead of going with the tried-and-true .Net Framework (which would have involved the humble pie of using Mono on ARM).
Surface RT offers nothing that mid and upper end iDevices and Androids do not.
Except for out-of-the-box integration with Remote Workplace is your office has Windows server. That was one of the big ones for me. I could just remote desktop in while on the road from my tablet instead of having to use a laptop.
Android and Apple have Remote Desktop clients.
It also supports multi-tasking which isn't a gimmick. Keeping skype open for chatting while browsing the web is way better than flipping back and forth. A few Samsung phones have that now which is a good step. It really really really is needed in android. I don't expect apple to ever add it just like two button mice. :P
I agree, but I think Google will get there soon.
Also the windows environment is super awkward with touch but it's way better than the alternative of not being able to use a real file browser. I was at a conference and was able to download a PDF, make a couple changes in word and copy it to a USB stick to be taken to a fedex shop for printing. I bought a USB adapter for my Galaxy Tab which was my previous tablet and I always forgot the adapter at home and even when I had it... apps didn't really support it very well and just moving files to it was a PITA.
I have done this easily on my Asus Transformer to a Micro SD card. Not sure why a USB stick is required.
But by and far the best feature of WindowsRT that no iDevice or Android tablet offers is an honest to god desktop browser. There are still tons of sites which just don't quite work with touch or touch centric browsers. Menus that you have to hover over. Websites whose forms don't work. That's true of MetroIE as well but you can always load up windows and real IE. That has saved my ass numerous times on airport check-ins etc which just never quite worked on my Galaxy Tab.
I have never experienced this problem using Dolphin set to Desktop Browser mode. Every site I have tried works just fine and one 1 site could even detect I am mobile in that configuration.
If you want to talk about something Android and Apple need, it's better printing support. Linux has drivers for virtually every printer under the sun. Google just needs to make it a first class part of the OS and they will catch up to Windows 3.1.
Or make them run .NET apps natively on ARM tablets. THAT would have been a killer feature that Android and Apple couldn't have duplicated.
What they should have done is license Mono and change the default display DLLs to make existing .NET apps more tablet-friendly and able to run on ARM devices. Making yet another brand-new library that they can quickly ignore (CE, Win Phone 7, Silverlight, Zune) was a really dumb move.
That didn't stop a company from trying that on my co-worker in Denver. They wanted him to buy a battery out of his own pocket and change it out. Yeah, right. Then they were going to charge him a fee for not returning the car to the rental location. He said, "Go ahead and try it. I'll see you in court."
They lost 2 regular customers that day that rented with them every couple weeks.
My friend is a traffic cop and he says they don't even look at registrations until they are 6 months out of date. The reason is that it is almost invariably a DMV is late problem and not a driver is late problem.
The Constitution guarantees I can fundamentally express any idea I want to without fear of reprisals from the state
Tell that to Snowden.