It's simple, RIM will go after the business market. Tablet style computers are great for lugging around to meetings and taking notes on and such. Give it some sort of a video out so I can attach it to a projector and it's an ultimate win. In the venn diagram that is the two companies' markets there's less overlap than there is individuality. Apple will get the consumer and RIM will get the business, assuming it doesn't totally screw up the business apps.
This is Slashdot, you're required to use a car analogy. It's more like someone finding out that if you plug in a 2nd generation iPod into a 1996 Civic LS with the upgraded stereo then it will cause a short and your car will explode into a fiery mess. Sure, some yahoo could run around plugging iPods into Civics, but generally I'd be happy to know of the potential danger.
I had the pleasure of getting my hands on an iPad for a couple weeks for a work related project. Deleting all of the other department's apps to clean the device so we could have only our apps on it took like 2 hours of re-imaging the device. Oh, and you couldn't even do it unless you were connected to the internet. Holy mother of God, that's ridiculous. I had TONS of issues with the screen rotation stuff. With the little bit I did get to play with a couple games that required you to shake the thing that almost never triggered properly. It's a neat toy and it was surely better than the other touch-screen devices I work with (truck-mounted CE devices) but it was not an awe-inspiring experience for me. If Apple's iPad is truly the best in class tablet device (which I find very believable) then I think I'll be waiting until the 4-5th generation before plunking down a few hundred bucks on one.
It's not really Amazon vs. [someone else] unless it's meant that [someone else] is a brick and mortar store. Every other online retailer will have the same loss of Saturday delivery from the USPS. I can't speak for the masses, but I have never once considered Saturday delivery via USPS as a draw to Amazon. If I need something by a specific date then I'm willing to pay for FedEx or UPS x-day delivery or whatever.
Fat chance of that happening. Try watching the Sabres from Florida. If you're lucky and they're in FL playing a FL team you *might* get the channel. You can buy the package from your cable provider, you can pay the $90/yr I think for the online package... or you can stream it at lower quality through other more nefarious methods which I would not condone.
It's only useless for gamers because this is the early generations of the technology. More than likely for the next several decades hard-core gamers will want a dedicated video card. But at some point soon you will wind up with "good enough" graphics on the main die to get by for the casual gamer on all but the most graphics intense games.
Maybe it's changed in the last couple of years but my understanding was that AMD was still the place to go for database type machines because of the bus speed but Intel was the way to go for number crunching app machines. At the time I did the research and tried to explain that to my manager but it didn't matter because the Core 2 Duo was kicking the pants off AMD on the personal computer so Intel was faster and that's what we were getting for all the machines.
It's just a hunch, but I don't think the imaginary military that has their classified simulation on a 2000 PS3 supercomputing cluster is going to be plugging their PS3s into the PlayStation Network.
TV manufacturers aren't *that* worried. Their products still fail after 3-5 years so you'll need to buy a new one whether they have a whizbang feature or not.
3D will be really cool in the sports world. The NFL already has amazing camera work, just imagine the offensive line barreling out of the screen at you. Or riding in the car with Dale Earnhardt Jr. Or standing at the plate while the likes of Randy Johnson fires a 100mph fast ball at you. Lebron James could dunk a basketball right in your face during the NBA finals. The options are vast. It will take forever and a day for that to become reality, but it will be cool when it does and all of this is a stepping stone towards that end.
It does not appear to block entire domains very well. I just added CNN to my adblock to verify and it loaded the web page just fine. Sure I could block the turner domain the images were coming from... I want to be able to say "Don't let me go to cnn.com again" and it to show me a "Oh, you banned this domain previously" screen. CNN isn't really a problem for me, I just use it here as an example.
I would like to see a "Firewall" built into browsers. "*click* I have found this site to be annoying. If I ever accidentally come here again make me jump through hoops in order to get it to load." I'm sure you can find/create a plugin for firefox that will simulate this ability, but I would like to see it as default behavior.
At least 11% of the increase in price is simply due to the relative currency value changes between the dollar and ruble from 1 year ago. I would suspect there is some speculation as to the future worth of the dollar as well. That doesn't account for the full doubling of the price, but it's a key factor I'm sure.
But this isn't about situations whether the buttons are on one side or the other. This is about whether the buttons are on one side or the other in a *particular* theme. Unless you didn't read the example from the summary...
I think people are looking at this all wrong. Who are these people who are so tightly wound about where the window control buttons are that they'd start flame wars over it? My wife uses EEEBuntu on her netbook. She is a casual computer user... internet, e-mail, IM, and that's about it. If I changed her theme and it made the window controls be on the *wrong* side of the window it would take her about 10 seconds to adjust, she might think to herself "That's weird that they're over there now." and move on with her life never to think about it again. People who are that finicky over relatively minor UI changes to a particular theme in a free/niche operating system have serious emotional problems.
"If you don't like the interface changes in Windows 7, you don't have the option to either change it yourself or pay someone who knows how to change it for you."
Last I heard, MSFT is a pubically traded company. You CAN buy it and have them change whatever you like in the code. While impractible, so would hiring a coder to custom modify any other OS be to most individuals.
It's not really impractical so much as most people don't care *enough*. I'm sure you could go over to Rentacoder or something and find someone in India or China willing to move the window control buttons on that theme for under $100 on a particular build of Ubuntu. The Microsoft stock comparison is laughable. The issue is that for the people involved the time and/or money to make it the way they want it isn't *worth* the cost, no matter how little that cost might be.
That doesn't have anything to do with my argument of what makes two web browsers be classified as "different" is somewhat gray. What if I created a browser that used Gecko for rendering but chose a different javascript engine than Firefox. Is my browser Firefox? What if I created a wrapper for Gecko and SpiderMonkey that only allowed for single-tabbed browsing? Is that still Firefox?
It's a lose/lose for Microsoft. If they were to filter out choices then "Microsoft is picking the winners and the losers." Seriously, companies sue Google because they aren't high enough in the page rank. What Microsoft did, while annoying, was probably the best option.
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It's simple, RIM will go after the business market. Tablet style computers are great for lugging around to meetings and taking notes on and such. Give it some sort of a video out so I can attach it to a projector and it's an ultimate win. In the venn diagram that is the two companies' markets there's less overlap than there is individuality. Apple will get the consumer and RIM will get the business, assuming it doesn't totally screw up the business apps.
Well, the system which counts the votes is still in Beta.
My IQ is 124, so I'm a looser. :(
This is Slashdot, you're required to use a car analogy.
It's more like someone finding out that if you plug in a 2nd generation iPod into a 1996 Civic LS with the upgraded stereo then it will cause a short and your car will explode into a fiery mess. Sure, some yahoo could run around plugging iPods into Civics, but generally I'd be happy to know of the potential danger.
Yes, I'd like to go from Orlando to Las Angeles... sort by cheapest: bike, 5283 hrs.
I had the pleasure of getting my hands on an iPad for a couple weeks for a work related project. Deleting all of the other department's apps to clean the device so we could have only our apps on it took like 2 hours of re-imaging the device. Oh, and you couldn't even do it unless you were connected to the internet. Holy mother of God, that's ridiculous. I had TONS of issues with the screen rotation stuff. With the little bit I did get to play with a couple games that required you to shake the thing that almost never triggered properly. It's a neat toy and it was surely better than the other touch-screen devices I work with (truck-mounted CE devices) but it was not an awe-inspiring experience for me. If Apple's iPad is truly the best in class tablet device (which I find very believable) then I think I'll be waiting until the 4-5th generation before plunking down a few hundred bucks on one.
So the rep uninstalled Windows for you? How nice!
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It's not really Amazon vs. [someone else] unless it's meant that [someone else] is a brick and mortar store. Every other online retailer will have the same loss of Saturday delivery from the USPS. I can't speak for the masses, but I have never once considered Saturday delivery via USPS as a draw to Amazon. If I need something by a specific date then I'm willing to pay for FedEx or UPS x-day delivery or whatever.
Fat chance of that happening. Try watching the Sabres from Florida. If you're lucky and they're in FL playing a FL team you *might* get the channel. You can buy the package from your cable provider, you can pay the $90/yr I think for the online package... or you can stream it at lower quality through other more nefarious methods which I would not condone.
Do you believe that the total global social wealth has an exponential growth rate of 3% annually and will continue to do so until the end of time?
It's only useless for gamers because this is the early generations of the technology. More than likely for the next several decades hard-core gamers will want a dedicated video card. But at some point soon you will wind up with "good enough" graphics on the main die to get by for the casual gamer on all but the most graphics intense games.
Maybe it's changed in the last couple of years but my understanding was that AMD was still the place to go for database type machines because of the bus speed but Intel was the way to go for number crunching app machines. At the time I did the research and tried to explain that to my manager but it didn't matter because the Core 2 Duo was kicking the pants off AMD on the personal computer so Intel was faster and that's what we were getting for all the machines.
It's just a hunch, but I don't think the imaginary military that has their classified simulation on a 2000 PS3 supercomputing cluster is going to be plugging their PS3s into the PlayStation Network.
Not all states have property tax.
TV manufacturers aren't *that* worried. Their products still fail after 3-5 years so you'll need to buy a new one whether they have a whizbang feature or not.
3D will be really cool in the sports world. The NFL already has amazing camera work, just imagine the offensive line barreling out of the screen at you. Or riding in the car with Dale Earnhardt Jr. Or standing at the plate while the likes of Randy Johnson fires a 100mph fast ball at you. Lebron James could dunk a basketball right in your face during the NBA finals. The options are vast. It will take forever and a day for that to become reality, but it will be cool when it does and all of this is a stepping stone towards that end.
It does not appear to block entire domains very well. I just added CNN to my adblock to verify and it loaded the web page just fine. Sure I could block the turner domain the images were coming from... I want to be able to say "Don't let me go to cnn.com again" and it to show me a "Oh, you banned this domain previously" screen. CNN isn't really a problem for me, I just use it here as an example.
I would like to see a "Firewall" built into browsers. "*click* I have found this site to be annoying. If I ever accidentally come here again make me jump through hoops in order to get it to load." I'm sure you can find/create a plugin for firefox that will simulate this ability, but I would like to see it as default behavior.
At least 11% of the increase in price is simply due to the relative currency value changes between the dollar and ruble from 1 year ago. I would suspect there is some speculation as to the future worth of the dollar as well. That doesn't account for the full doubling of the price, but it's a key factor I'm sure.
But this isn't about situations whether the buttons are on one side or the other. This is about whether the buttons are on one side or the other in a *particular* theme. Unless you didn't read the example from the summary...
I think people are looking at this all wrong. Who are these people who are so tightly wound about where the window control buttons are that they'd start flame wars over it? My wife uses EEEBuntu on her netbook. She is a casual computer user... internet, e-mail, IM, and that's about it. If I changed her theme and it made the window controls be on the *wrong* side of the window it would take her about 10 seconds to adjust, she might think to herself "That's weird that they're over there now." and move on with her life never to think about it again. People who are that finicky over relatively minor UI changes to a particular theme in a free/niche operating system have serious emotional problems.
"If you don't like the interface changes in Windows 7, you don't have the option to either change it yourself or pay someone who knows how to change it for you."
Last I heard, MSFT is a pubically traded company. You CAN buy it and have them change whatever you like in the code. While impractible, so would hiring a coder to custom modify any other OS be to most individuals.
It's not really impractical so much as most people don't care *enough*. I'm sure you could go over to Rentacoder or something and find someone in India or China willing to move the window control buttons on that theme for under $100 on a particular build of Ubuntu. The Microsoft stock comparison is laughable. The issue is that for the people involved the time and/or money to make it the way they want it isn't *worth* the cost, no matter how little that cost might be.
These days your debit card transactions are all ACH also.
That doesn't have anything to do with my argument of what makes two web browsers be classified as "different" is somewhat gray. What if I created a browser that used Gecko for rendering but chose a different javascript engine than Firefox. Is my browser Firefox? What if I created a wrapper for Gecko and SpiderMonkey that only allowed for single-tabbed browsing? Is that still Firefox?
It's a lose/lose for Microsoft. If they were to filter out choices then "Microsoft is picking the winners and the losers." Seriously, companies sue Google because they aren't high enough in the page rank. What Microsoft did, while annoying, was probably the best option.