Posts by Lusty 1686 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jun 2009
If this ever hits a fondleslab it would be a crap one. The iPad is 7.5mm thick and needs to include case and screen in that so this 7mm drive would make a tablet huge. This is also spinning disk so the tablet would be slow as mollasses and open to all sorts of mechanical failure to boot.
@AC you're right the apps are a little better than they used to be, although in the list you gave you included a text editor, a commercial browser that was gifted and a pointless fork of the office suite that was gifted to the community which kind of backs up my point a bit - most of the coders are not working on apps for normal people to make the shift and as such Linux will never be mainstream. In the years I've been using Linux I've seen the massive rise of OSX, the rise and fall of Symbian, the rise of iOS and Android with full and rich application ecosystems being created for each and every one of them. In that time Linux has changed a lot less than people around here seem to think it has, the fact that @asdf is still babbling about drivers shows this well. If they weren't an issue it wouldn't even come up, but I still have driver issues on my standard HP Elitebook with Red Hat, Debian and Ubuntu even before I get to having no applications. Since I only use it for server admin it suits me fine as I have a browser and an SSH shell but when I need to do documentation I need Windows, Office and Visio. When I want to watch a BluRay movie I need Windows or OSX to do so legally and without messing about too much. The list goes on...
@Jedidiah, Microsoft can redesign the desktop as much as they like, they already own the desktop market because of the reasons I said above and so can now move back from apps to OS design if they like.
@tracyanne - go on then, share with the world what you DO with your Linux machine and perhaps I'll accept your point. Any fool can install the OS and call themselves a Linux user, what I'm saying is that there is then a limit as to what you can do with that computer due to a lack of finished applications.
@asdf if you delete the xterm icons you'd have even fewer applications to use!
We've redesigned the desktop. Again. Applications? Nah someone else will do those...
This is why Linux has never and will never catch on for the desktop. All of the development for desktop Linux for the past 17 years that I've used it has been on the installer, the desktop "experience" and text editors. Oh, and GIMP, GIMP is pretty good.
I've seen very little evidence of any applications being written to meet the needs of the users once they start using their computer. Even the office suite was a gift, and most of what happened to that since is the UI.
Sadly I don't think this will ever change because there are two kinds of users on Linux. Those using it as a server, and those writing the OS. Because nobody gets paid to write the stuff they won't use they don't write that stuff so all of the other types of user in the world turn to Windows or OSX. It's sad really, when I first saw it, it seemed like such a good idea.
If you mean from KVM then yes, you just P2V the VM and call the operation a V2V. I can't think of a reason Microsoft would make a tool to migrate to KVM, or even a reason large Microsoft deployments would consider KVM as a hypervisor since it lacks a lot of the surrounding cloud tools and infrastructure that Microsoft provide. SCVMM and other SC tools have moved on a lot recently and have even started making VMware look like they need to catch up a bit. KVM may be a good solution for those with a lot of Linux in the environment but it's no better or worse as a hypervisor than Hyper-V or ESXi, and Hyper-V would already be licenced in a Windows environment.
Going from VMware to Hyper-V there are some really great tools for mass migration available to MS partners.
"'I'm American so I don't know the nuances of when English people say "uni" vs. "university"'
'nuff said."
Of course the Oxford English Dictionary does include the word Uni separately, so perhaps that American knows British English better than certain obnoxious posters on this thread. Certainly better than those who think using Uni to shorten University is done to look trendy but for some reason shortening enough to 'nuff isn't.
"They wouldn't need "permission" under the copyright "fair use" policy where extracts are permitted for "reviews""
You consider publishing several full resolution copies of the copyright work to be an extract? I think photographers worldwide would disagree with you. Had they been low resolution versions or crops then I would agree with you but what you're suggesting is akin to me reviewing the Harry Potter series and posting the full text of several of the books with the article. Copyright law quite clearly says this is not cool.
"But how many people do you know that refer to gibibyte"
Actually the majority of enterprise storage vendors now differentiate between GiB and GB in their toolsets. Well Dell, HP and NetApp certainly do. The ones who are not playing ball are the OS vendors who are the only ones who could fix it. When you buy a hard drive of 1TB from a vendor, Windows should call it 931GiB so that morons would stop moaning about "formatting losses" and then articles like this would not be needed in the future.
Go to an Apple store and hold up the broken shell of your device. Say the following..."Hello 'Genius' I had a whoopsie with my computer thing"
The 'Genius' will then hand you a new one or fix the one you had. They will more than likely also transfer the data to your new device.
Why do I give a crap how hard it is to do anything inside the case? I have people for that dahling.
The thing is, none of the truly successful tech companies have used any of those services while starting up, especially the taking people out to dinner nonsense. In the world of tech, people adopt your service/buy your software/play your game based on what it can do for them generally and these days word of mouth is sufficient advertising if your product is good enough to succeed. Marketing is useless to a startup because they wouldn't be running the type of campaign to need analysis. Lawyers on the other hand are all over the place, but are surprisingly good at working remotely when you ask them to.
I completely agree. London is a horrid busy place, but if you must go elsewhere why would you choose another horrid busy place? If you want to attract techies then move somewhere interesting and invite them to join you. Somewhere on a nice bit of coast, or near some mountains or forests. Look at Cornwall for instance, the most connected place in the UK in theory, beautiful beaches, reasonable infrastructure and reasonable transport links. South Wales is nice too, as I'm sure are many of the more northern bits of England and Scotland. If I wrote code for a living there is no way anyone could convince me that being in London was a good idea!
"Your example is flawed.
All cars have standard 12 volt batteries of a standard size."
Your reply is flawed. Cars have in fact widely varying types and sizes of battery. It's true that most of them have a base voltage of 12V but they operate between 11V and 15V with capacities varying from 30Ah to over 200Ah depending on requirements with sizes between probably 15cm and 50cm in length.
But regardless, the reason batteries in iPads are a certain size and shape is because that's the space left over after the electronics go in. If you want a massive tabet with crap battery life then standardise on a square battery and fit stuff around it. If (like many of us) you want nicely designed, small, light devices with battery life in the 10-12 hour range then leave them to it.
"What is the point of me recycling when companies like Apple and (now) Microsoft seem determined to prevent their stuff being maintained."
Don't try to drag Apple into this. All of their devices are very recyclable when they eventually stop being used but more importantly their devices tend to be used for many years. The ones to focus on are the cheap crappy android sub £100 tablets which get used for a week and then put in a drawer until their inevitable trip to the skip. These are not worth enough to recycle due to the cheap materials used whereas an iPad for instance is worth at least something for the materials even after it's beyond repair.
In fact, come to think of it, for several years Outlook has also warned people that they are about to mail a lot of people if they use a big group. Presumably because Microsoft found it cheaper to change the software than watch this kind of nonsense. Cisco ought to upgrade :)
" if I am somewhere that doesn't have wireless coverage"
But seriously, how often do you actually visit the 80s? I mean I know the kids like it retro but the only time I've been outside coverage in the last few years was in the middle of the Irish Sea on a yacht. We didn't have the necessary wired infrastructure either. If you're somewhere with a wired network and no wireless...fit wireless don't buy a dock.
"I bought a "cheapo" tablet on a whim because it was cheap enough to be an impulse buy."
I sense you're of the mindset that iPad buyers don't consider them cheap enough to be an impulse buy?
That's how I ended up with mine, I was in the shop and thought "what the hell, they seem popular..." but the next one will have been thoroughly thought through. It's still going to be an iPad but I respect you and your friends for finding the cheapo tablets good enough for your requirements.
Unfortunately they don't meet mine (I have tried) as I need better support than they offer such as ongoing OS updates from the vendor and the ability to get it immediately swapped out in a shop and up to the minute data restored if it breaks so I can continue working.
"A desktop dock with Ethernet was an important decider for me. At work I have Edge, at best, and no WLAN."
So let us get this straight. Your workplace has decided not to keep up with technology and fit Wifi to support the multitude of modern mobile devices and you somehow concluded Apple are the ones at fault? Apple don't give a shit if you want to glue your iPad to the desk, but that's no reason for the other 169999999 iPad users to be lumbered with an RJ45 socket.
The iPad is not successful because it's a smaller computer, it's successful because it's NOT a smaller computer. Apple make smaller computers, in fact they kind of fixed the whole smaller computer market with the Mini and the Air. They also fixed the data available on your devices issue with iCloud. The fact that you don't get their strategy is of no importance to them because you're not their market.
"The big piece that apple is missing is the fact that the world is shifting to a place whereby you will want to have ONE device that does everything, i.e. a tablet that also functions as your computer."
While YOU may want this, 170 million other people have chosen to buy the iPad and countless more would buy an iPad if they could afford the price tag. Try to separate out what you want and what "people" want in future, if you were right then you'd be running the most valuable company on the planet rather than Tim Cook :)
I wouldn't include Newton in a list of mistakes, Apple learned a lot from the Newton. One of the things they learned is that people wanted a handheld computing device and were willing to pay for it. The other thing they learned is not to release it until the technology could deliver the experience people expected. Cue a few years gap and the release of the iPhone.
It could be argued that Apple have kept the same plan all along - look at the new Mac Pro as further evidence of finishing old projects :)
"Never tell a friend anything personal, in confidence, nor a sibling nor a parent. Who knows what your best friend or your mother will blurt out one day."
Yes that's the generally accepted wisdom. If you genuinely want to keep something secret, don't tell ANYONE. Human nature is to trust and to diminish the importance of these things over time. You tell someone a secret and at that moment they think they will keep it. A year later they might not. At the time the man took this video he may have thought the relationship would last and that he'd never share it but then it ended and he was lonely and decided to share it.
If it was a hidden camera then of course that's a different matter altogether but once you share something you can no longer consider it private and under your control.
"This is a privacy case."
This is, however, a privacy case where the woman (as you say, not underage so why call her a girl?) seems to have willingly let someone film her perform sexual acts. Yes, the man should be punished to show it's wrong to upload without permission, but I think it's also appropriate to limit that punishment to show it's wrong to ignore your own privacy. If she wants to not have pictures or videos of herself spread about then the only way to ensure that is not to allow them to be taken.
"Except if you are a doer, not a brain dead follower. Like for example if you want to paint with a stylus, with pressure sensitivity. Or write some code. Whatever. You prolly have no idea what I'm talking about."
I'll admit your grasp of the language does make it difficult to work out what you're trying to say, but those who wish to produce art would be using the Mac range rather than the iPad, or they would use one of the many pressure sensitive accessories available for iPad. Those who wish to write code are free to do so on the iPad but would generally compile said code on a computer more suited to the task. Generally real coders prefer a keyboard though.
As to what your babbling had to do with my post though, I have no idea.
"The "competing" 7-8" tablets (think Nexus 7, Kindle HD, etc) had much higher resolutions - and are considerably cheaper than even the old iPad Mini."
Weird how many iPad Minis they sold then really given the competition was "better" and "cheaper". Better doesn't always mean bigger numbers, cheaper doesn't always mean costs the least.
For instance I would consider a gold brick for £50 to be much better value than a Starbucks for £3.
I would also consider an iPad with a 3000mAH battery which lasts 10 hours doing video playback better than a Windows tablet with a 6000mAH battery which lasts 2 hours doing video playback.
Having worked in a law firm dealing with exactly these things, I was simply putting forward the view of the lawyers I worked with whose job it was to keep these people out of jail. Often they are fully aware of the re-offending nature of the criminal and of the clear guilt of them, yet it is their job and duty to reduce sentences and attempt to help in any way they can. Although our legal system is "fair" it does mean that keeping criminals off the streets is almost impossible for smaller crimes such as these, and the police could be standing on every street corner and be no more effective.
I agree it would be rather welcome but I see a couple of problems. The iPad connector is not on the side, so there is nowhere easy to plug it in. Without the integrated plug, the keyboard must be wireless and therefore needs a battery which would make it a poor cover. I'd love to see this though.
"Microsoft says; up to 512Gb storage"
Oh I strongly doubt Microsoft said that. They probably said 512 GB otherwise they'd have said 64GB if they actually meant 512Gb. This is happening more and more on the Reg and makes me think that the tech knowledge and experience is disappearing from the writers :/
The problem is though that for every good phone they make like the one, they also make a thousand shitty models which make millions of people hate them and give them a bad name. I hate HTC based on two work phones, one being a Wildfire S. yes I know it's a low end hand set but that it no excuse for what that POS put me through. This is why Apple don't enter the cheap market, it does more harm than its worth.
"I'm already retired (kinda), and it's not for sale. That was rhetorical."
I don't think the comment was answering you so much as highlighting how pointless your jibber jabber is whenever a phone thread comes up. In case it wasn't clear...nobody cares about your crappy old Nokia so you don't need to keep mentioning it.
"Booting to a log-in screen does not mean the operating system has loaded. On Win8, that happens for several minutes AFTER you log in. And there is not a whole lot you can do till it is loaded. More MS fakery."
Actually that's not what happens on Win8 at all. Try it some time and you might like it.
Also the fact that Windows 8 boots in 10 seconds compared to the 30-40 seconds for Windows XP (even ignoring the SSD boost). Multiply half a minute by number of staff by working days per year. divide by 60 then multiply by average hourly rate...
oh look, cheaper already :)
That was one example of something XP doesn't support. I notice you ignored Direct Access, one of the few ways to achieve full remote manageability of a laptop including removing the cached credentials to allow for revocation of access (AKA true security of company data). There are many, many things that Windows 8 supports (and will support) that Windows XP doesn't and never will support. Maybe not all your users will need them, but if some of them do, there's a business case for standardising to reduce cost and that will be on Windows 8.
"Code does not rot. The only reason Microsoft XP is "obsolete" is that Microsoft is declaring it so."
Really?
Have you tried using one of the new generation ultra high def screens with XP? The start button on XP is essentially fixed size, so with sufficiently high DPI you won't be able to find it or read the start menu if you do.
Have you tried doing IPv6 networking with XP? Have you tried using direct access with Windows XP to remotely manage a logged off machine?
You're right, code doesn't rot, but it also doesn't get support for new features and technologies either.
"For many systems, the cost of conversion to a new operating system is too high."
With the exception of systems which were certified on XP for medical use or similar I have yet to see one which won't run on Windows 8 which would run on Windows XP. Those applications which did get certification will very shortly be running completely without support - If Microsoft won't support it then other vendors can't support their apps running on it. This would be considered negligence in a court should anything happen, so expect to see all of those medical apps updated and recertified in the next few months, the process has already begun, and for those where it hasn't you can expect a change to a different app.
Any IT admin who genuinely thinks that not upgrading is an option needs to be shot. Look at the guys who held on to NT4 until too late, costing their companies millions in hurried upgrades too late, do they stil have jobs? If you work in IT and seriously can't understand Windows 8 or 8.1 even after reading the release notes explaining the interface and watching the post install video then you shouldn't be working in IT. More to the point, what are you doing reading the Reg? This is a NEWs site for NEW things. Please get out of our profession so the rest of us can get on with improving IT!
I'm wondering whether the actual communication went more like:
"We know all your factories are flat out coping with demand right now so in order to increase production of our flagship model would you please reduce production of our other models?"
Seems like good business sense to me?
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