I've moved user directories after installation using these basic instructions, without having to resort to installation foo. I've actually done this 3-4 times over the past year, due to stupidity on my part trashing my system drive (and not having any backups, which I now do have). I've never seen any junction issues, but that's probably because I have c:\users\spoo pointing to d:\users\spoo (c:\users still exists and is valid).
Yes. For some reason, in the SF Bay Area, the price of diesel is quite high. Price-per-mile-wise, I'm guessing that the cost of diesel is close to the cost of gas. If I had to put on a fruitcake conspiracy tinfoil hat, I'd think that the gas companies are doing this to make people continue to buy gasoline.
How do you know that about your roof already? I mean they are legitimate concerns, yes, but a lot of times I have seen solar installers who were professional about their job actually find and fix shoddy workmanship by the homebuilder so ymmv.
Yup, no argument there. It's just a concern, and one possibly where I'm the only one that cares about it.:)
Perhaps it's just me, but I'd be too worried about having a leaky roof some years down the line. Poking lots of mounting holes in a roof can't be good for it. Even if the installer uses some "leak-proof sealing system", how do you know that all holes are properly sealed, even assuming that, um, "low-cost labor" isn't being used to do the installation? (Possibly worse still, some solar power systems are rented -- what happens to the roof when the system is uninstalled??)
Many years ago, I installed a satellite dish on a roof, and sealed the mounting plate and all of the bolts using UV-resistant caulking. Years later, when I replaced it, I was amazed at how corroded the bolts were (they were supposed to be galvanized, but apparently weren't). Somehow, and I don't know how, water was getting to the bolts, and down the holes in the roof (the caulking appeared to be in great shape).
This. It was great when Gina was around, but I believe the quality can, IMO, "vary wildly". My favorite was last year's article on "Thawing Frozen Food in the Washing Machine". I kid you not.
You're forgetting input devices and UI. Go ahead, try and write a thesis on your iPad. You'll see why PCs will always be superior pretty quickly.
You're missing the overall point (which, admittedly, wasn't very well made): a tablet fulfills (or will fulfill) the needs of the majority of people. To go into more detail:
1. A "majority" is not "all". No sane person is saying that a tablet will, in the next few years, fulfill the needs of everyone. However, as most people just consume media and data (web browsing, email, IM/messaging, etc.), a tablet works just fine.
2. No, a "majority" really is not "all". Not everyone simply "consumes media and data", and a tablet won't work for them. Examples include people who do significant software development, people who analyze data (spreadsheets), and people who heavy-duty number-crunching simulations of varying types. There are many other examples. Of course, a tablet won't work for them. (I suppose I should include hardcore 3D games, too, as the keyboard/gaming keypad/mouse input combo is still a much superior UI.:-)
3. While there are many examples for which a tablet isn't good, your thesis example isn't very good. As other people have pointed out, there is such a thing as a bluetooth keyboard, and a tablet & keyboard will work just fine for a thesis that doesn't have a lot of pictures, plots, and diagrams.
4. No, the PC isn't going away, but it's long-term marketshare is going to fall into the toilet. Like the horse carriage, blacksmith, and buggy whip when the automobile came out, the long-term outlook for PCs isn't good. (And, just for emphasis, let me point out that horse carriages, blacksmiths, and buggy whips are still made today -- just not in the numbers of yesteryear.)
5. Don't ignore the potential of "AI". For example, today, Siri is like a 1-year-old baby. Wait until it grows up.
(I'd give you mod points if I had any. Since I don't, I'm going to ask a silly question.)
I'm not familiar with either HAMMER1 or HAMMER2, but will migrating to a HAMMER2 FS require a backup and restore, or is the HAMMER1 FS compatible/migratable? I realize that, as HAMMER2 is in development, you might not have a clear answer, but I thought I'd ask anyway.
That's because tablet and phone technology hasn't caught up to desktop technology. Give it 20 years -- maybe even 10 -- or less, and we'll probably have multi-window tablets.
By the age when people are typically diagnosed with Alzheimer's, skin cancer is very common. Is anyone likely to question a purely coincidental diagnosis of skin cancer in a 70-year-old and its subsequent treatment?
My guess is that that the "effective" dose is much higher than the normal dosage for cancer treatment, and quite possibly toxic. If "normal" doses worked as well as the mice trials, we'd likely have seen anecdotal evidence by now from the people being treated for skin cancer.
The Kindle Fire is about being able to cater to a set of people to deliver a specific experience at a cheap price. NONE, I repeat NONE of the Android makers are doing that.
If you want to split hairs, just replace "Android" with "non-iOS tablet", and everything's still true. Apple delivers a certain experience, and the KF also delivers a certain experience. They're both selling well.
What's not as easy? Add an account on an iPhone and you are offered the choice of iCloud, MS Exchange, GMail, Yahoo!, Aol, Hotmail and MobileMe. Choose GMail, put in your name, email address and password, and you're done. Gmail and Google Calendar.
It's certainly not obvious, but you generally don't want to choose "GMail" to access google services on iOS.
Instead, you really want "MS Exchange". Yes that's right, "MS Exchange", which you use to access Google Sync, which gives you push gmail, calendar, and contacts (but not notes). Google Sync works well, but it does have the crazy issue of lumping all of your contacts into one big pile; even though you may have organized them into contact groups at google's end, Google Sync gives them to iOS as one big lumpy pile.
Tip: if you get a lot of mail, and find the push email sound annoying on your iOS device, you can mute the push sound for selected messages using gmail filters: any message that gets marked as read does not cause a sound on the iOS device.
Google supports ActiveSync. All you have to do for the iPhone is enter the domain, username, and password.
In all fairness, however, Google Sync on the iPhone doesn't support contact groups. While both ActiveSync and the iPhone support contact groups, Google Sync doesn't support it on the iPhone (It's supposedly supported on android). You just get one big pile o'contacts. Sure, you and others may like having one big pile, but some of us like having our contacts separated out into work, friends, and business groups.
Speaking of New Madrid, I'd be a whole lot more worried about that going off again, than a modest 5.6 earthquake, as it has the potential for ruining much of the Midwest.
Sure, it's a couple hundred miles away but, due to the geology of the midwest, you WILL feel it the next time it goes off. (H*ll, the last it went off, it rang church bells in Boston, and knocked over chimneys in Maine.)
iOS IMAP and the gmail iOS interface are crippled, as neither supports push.
As BitZtream said, the exchange sync (aka, "google sync") is the way to go, as you get push email, and also synchronized contacts and calendars. The only downside is that google sync doesn't support contact groups -- all of your contacts get lumped into one big pile (if you want contact groups, use iCloud -- iCloud contacts is the one really good thing about iCloud).
In many places, it's not that easy. Money for towers is just a part of the problem. I imagine that people screaming, "Oh NOES! Radiaaashun!", are probably the major obstacles these days. For example, as much as people like to whine and moan about AT&T coverage in San Francisco, here is one small example of what AT&T has to deal with (yes, it's a bit old, but likely still 1000% valid): http://cdn.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/06/BAT01E8QTQ.DTL
I'd have to disagree. Firefox has reached a level of penetration beyond it being used by power users and their friends and family. It has a momentum of it's own. The figures for Firefox usage alone tell you that.
Really? The figures for Firefox show a nearly flat, but downward trend. The numbers for chrome show a significant upward trend.
Don't like w3schools? Let's try another site. Oh, look, that one shows the same downward trend for Firefox, too.
And a third site (warning: flash required) shows the same thing, too: Firefox has a downward trend.
I like Firefox, too, but the devs actions seem to be driving users away. I'm only using FF because of the addons (but I'm getting really tired of some breaking every month or two).
I have loads of friends who use Firefox on recommendation from a friend who wasn't a power user..
My friends and co-workers are slowly moving away from Firefox to chrome. While personal anecdotes may be fun, they're not all that useful.
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I've moved user directories after installation using these basic instructions, without having to resort to installation foo. I've actually done this 3-4 times over the past year, due to stupidity on my part trashing my system drive (and not having any backups, which I now do have). I've never seen any junction issues, but that's probably because I have c:\users\spoo pointing to d:\users\spoo (c:\users still exists and is valid).
I think it's trying to reach low-earth orbit.
You've obviously never heard of google's Data Liberation Front.
Yes. For some reason, in the SF Bay Area, the price of diesel is quite high. Price-per-mile-wise, I'm guessing that the cost of diesel is close to the cost of gas. If I had to put on a fruitcake conspiracy tinfoil hat, I'd think that the gas companies are doing this to make people continue to buy gasoline.
How do you know that about your roof already? I mean they are legitimate concerns, yes, but a lot of times I have seen solar installers who were professional about their job actually find and fix shoddy workmanship by the homebuilder so ymmv.
Yup, no argument there. It's just a concern, and one possibly where I'm the only one that cares about it. :)
Perhaps it's just me, but I'd be too worried about having a leaky roof some years down the line. Poking lots of mounting holes in a roof can't be good for it. Even if the installer uses some "leak-proof sealing system", how do you know that all holes are properly sealed, even assuming that, um, "low-cost labor" isn't being used to do the installation? (Possibly worse still, some solar power systems are rented -- what happens to the roof when the system is uninstalled??)
Many years ago, I installed a satellite dish on a roof, and sealed the mounting plate and all of the bolts using UV-resistant caulking. Years later, when I replaced it, I was amazed at how corroded the bolts were (they were supposed to be galvanized, but apparently weren't). Somehow, and I don't know how, water was getting to the bolts, and down the holes in the roof (the caulking appeared to be in great shape).
This. It was great when Gina was around, but I believe the quality can, IMO, "vary wildly". My favorite was last year's article on "Thawing Frozen Food in the Washing Machine". I kid you not.
You're forgetting input devices and UI. Go ahead, try and write a thesis on your iPad. You'll see why PCs will always be superior pretty quickly.
You're missing the overall point (which, admittedly, wasn't very well made): a tablet fulfills (or will fulfill) the needs of the majority of people. To go into more detail:
1. A "majority" is not "all". No sane person is saying that a tablet will, in the next few years, fulfill the needs of everyone. However, as most people just consume media and data (web browsing, email, IM/messaging, etc.), a tablet works just fine.
2. No, a "majority" really is not "all". Not everyone simply "consumes media and data", and a tablet won't work for them. Examples include people who do significant software development, people who analyze data (spreadsheets), and people who heavy-duty number-crunching simulations of varying types. There are many other examples. Of course, a tablet won't work for them. (I suppose I should include hardcore 3D games, too, as the keyboard/gaming keypad/mouse input combo is still a much superior UI. :-)
3. While there are many examples for which a tablet isn't good, your thesis example isn't very good. As other people have pointed out, there is such a thing as a bluetooth keyboard, and a tablet & keyboard will work just fine for a thesis that doesn't have a lot of pictures, plots, and diagrams.
4. No, the PC isn't going away, but it's long-term marketshare is going to fall into the toilet. Like the horse carriage, blacksmith, and buggy whip when the automobile came out, the long-term outlook for PCs isn't good. (And, just for emphasis, let me point out that horse carriages, blacksmiths, and buggy whips are still made today -- just not in the numbers of yesteryear.)
5. Don't ignore the potential of "AI". For example, today, Siri is like a 1-year-old baby. Wait until it grows up.
(In case it's not clear, "HackTheWeb" is a viable replacement for "Aardvark" the firefox extension, and not "Aardvark" the social search engine.)
For a reasonable replacement for Aardvark, see HackTheWeb: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hack-the-web/
(I'd give you mod points if I had any. Since I don't, I'm going to ask a silly question.)
I'm not familiar with either HAMMER1 or HAMMER2, but will migrating to a HAMMER2 FS require a backup and restore, or is the HAMMER1 FS compatible/migratable? I realize that, as HAMMER2 is in development, you might not have a clear answer, but I thought I'd ask anyway.
That's because tablet and phone technology hasn't caught up to desktop technology. Give it 20 years -- maybe even 10 -- or less, and we'll probably have multi-window tablets.
By the age when people are typically diagnosed with Alzheimer's, skin cancer is very common. Is anyone likely to question a purely coincidental diagnosis of skin cancer in a 70-year-old and its subsequent treatment?
My guess is that that the "effective" dose is much higher than the normal dosage for cancer treatment, and quite possibly toxic. If "normal" doses worked as well as the mice trials, we'd likely have seen anecdotal evidence by now from the people being treated for skin cancer.
It's related to Android, but it isn't Android.
Doesn't matter. As SerpentMage said:
The Kindle Fire is about being able to cater to a set of people to deliver a specific experience at a cheap price. NONE, I repeat NONE of the Android makers are doing that.
If you want to split hairs, just replace "Android" with "non-iOS tablet", and everything's still true. Apple delivers a certain experience, and the KF also delivers a certain experience. They're both selling well.
What's not as easy? Add an account on an iPhone and you are offered the choice of iCloud, MS Exchange, GMail, Yahoo!, Aol, Hotmail and MobileMe. Choose GMail, put in your name, email address and password, and you're done. Gmail and Google Calendar.
It's certainly not obvious, but you generally don't want to choose "GMail" to access google services on iOS.
Instead, you really want "MS Exchange". Yes that's right, "MS Exchange", which you use to access Google Sync, which gives you push gmail, calendar, and contacts (but not notes). Google Sync works well, but it does have the crazy issue of lumping all of your contacts into one big pile; even though you may have organized them into contact groups at google's end, Google Sync gives them to iOS as one big lumpy pile.
Instructions for Google Sync are here (don't skip the part at the end about specifying which calendars to sync): https://support.google.com/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&topic=14252&answer=138740
Tip: if you get a lot of mail, and find the push email sound annoying on your iOS device, you can mute the push sound for selected messages using gmail filters: any message that gets marked as read does not cause a sound on the iOS device.
Google supports ActiveSync. All you have to do for the iPhone is enter the domain, username, and password.
In all fairness, however, Google Sync on the iPhone doesn't support contact groups. While both ActiveSync and the iPhone support contact groups, Google Sync doesn't support it on the iPhone (It's supposedly supported on android). You just get one big pile o'contacts. Sure, you and others may like having one big pile, but some of us like having our contacts separated out into work, friends, and business groups.
I'm thinking he should read "War and Peace", or perhaps the Old Testament.
The Nook is $79 with no ads.
It also appears to be in-store only (Black Friday special?). Foo.
Speaking of New Madrid, I'd be a whole lot more worried about that going off again, than a modest 5.6 earthquake, as it has the potential for ruining much of the Midwest.
Because we don't get earthquakes in this part of the world. Ever.
New Madrid would like to disagree with you.
Sure, it's a couple hundred miles away but, due to the geology of the midwest, you WILL feel it the next time it goes off. (H*ll, the last it went off, it rang church bells in Boston, and knocked over chimneys in Maine.)
iOS IMAP and the gmail iOS interface are crippled, as neither supports push.
As BitZtream said, the exchange sync (aka, "google sync") is the way to go, as you get push email, and also synchronized contacts and calendars. The only downside is that google sync doesn't support contact groups -- all of your contacts get lumped into one big pile (if you want contact groups, use iCloud -- iCloud contacts is the one really good thing about iCloud).
I'll wait for the Z68000.
In many places, it's not that easy. Money for towers is just a part of the problem. I imagine that people screaming, "Oh NOES! Radiaaashun!", are probably the major obstacles these days. For example, as much as people like to whine and moan about AT&T coverage in San Francisco, here is one small example of what AT&T has to deal with (yes, it's a bit old, but likely still 1000% valid): http://cdn.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/06/BAT01E8QTQ.DTL
Other examples:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/15/west-virginias-quiet-zone-becomes-refuge-for-those-on-the-run/
http://gawker.com/372440/?tag=television (this is for wifi, but I'm sure the sentiment extends to cellular)
Uh, you're in violent agreement with The123king. There's nothing he said that conflicts with what you wrote.
I'd have to disagree. Firefox has reached a level of penetration beyond it being used by power users and their friends and family. It has a momentum of it's own. The figures for Firefox usage alone tell you that.
Really? The figures for Firefox show a nearly flat, but downward trend. The numbers for chrome show a significant upward trend.
Don't like w3schools? Let's try another site. Oh, look, that one shows the same downward trend for Firefox, too.
And a third site (warning: flash required) shows the same thing, too: Firefox has a downward trend.
I like Firefox, too, but the devs actions seem to be driving users away. I'm only using FF because of the addons (but I'm getting really tired of some breaking every month or two).
I have loads of friends who use Firefox on recommendation from a friend who wasn't a power user..
My friends and co-workers are slowly moving away from Firefox to chrome. While personal anecdotes may be fun, they're not all that useful.