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205 posts • joined Monday 15th October 2007 10:00 GMT

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Re: Microsoft Metro Tablet?

Ok, put android on your home PC.

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Big Brother

MS will always be on this road

Why? MS Is STILL a monopoly.

Nothing is going to change until that changes.

Of course until the US Gov changes and does what it should have but refused to do the first time around this marry-go-round, we will continue see this revisited again and again...indefinitely.

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...and just imagine how these cultural issues are impacting your customers...

" “The norms we expect in more developed economies, in terms of loyalty to one’s employer and business ethics, seem to be less well-developed or at least significantly different in China,” Christofis told The Reg."

Now imagine this realization and how the customer care agents in India, South America, and Philippines are impacting all your customers.

Personally as a Tier 2 Tech support agent in the US who used to deal with the support agents in these countries, I rarely found that they ever gave truthful information and would do or say ANYTHING to end a call no matter how utterly absurd the lie they thought they had to tell in order to do so.

What does it all mean. Cultures in other countries, they operate by a completely different rule set and are a HAZARD to western business success. The cost of the undermining that occurs far out-ways the cost savings of the labor.

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Mushroom

What monopoly MS + entertainment industry = less on your computer...

...and the MS monopoly is doing it to you in grand fashion. Seems the whole of the corporations and entertainment industry have colluded to end optical storage as of late, doesn't it?

They wouldn't want you keeping user created content longer than the 5min life span of today's typically delicate short lived 2T HD's.

Also, I'M BLOODY SICK AND F****** TIRED OF FEATURES DISAPPEARING FROM THE MS OS with every new version. REPLACE STEVE BALLMER NOW!

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Stop

Not writting it off....

If I can't see it with my eyes then it isn't there, isn't hurting me. Scientists and technical people throughout history have acted like that. Surgeons would never wash there hands. 100 years later oops that stuff we couldn't see well...we make sure ER's are clean of it now.

So I DON'T write off the whole issue out of hand without some good amount of UNBIASED time and scientific testing to prove or disprove. For all we know there might be a electronic noise threshold for complex organisms like humans before it begins to cause biological disruptions in them.

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Megaphone

Time to call the modern Corp Executives what they are...

American Heritage Dictionary:

ty·ran·ni·cal

Home > Library > Literature & Language > Dictionary

(tĭ-răn'ĭ-kəl, tī-) pronunciation also ty·ran·nic (-răn'ĭk)

adj.

1. Of or relating to a tyrant or tyranny: a tyrannical government.

2. Characteristic of a tyrant or tyranny; despotic and oppressive: a tyrannical supervisor.

tyrannically ty·ran'ni·cal·ly adv.

tyrannicalness ty·ran'ni·cal·ness n.

tempemeaty

Re: "And why do they hand out so many keys?"

...and all the stuff about "...developers developers developers..." that monkey boy was dancing around stage so much about...all for nothing.

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Facepalm

Sheeeesh.....

Considering whether to file patents or commercialize the technology? WHAT!?

PATENT THAT NOW!

Sheeeeesh....

Why? Richo, Minolta, Xerox, HP, Canon...should I go on? ANY printer and copier manufacture would want as the next feature in their next gen product just to say they have a new feature!

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Happy

me so ludite....

I'm so proud to not have a TweettwitFacefriend anything.

That said, best of luck and fun to all on this challenge.

< goes to slip on his, just out of the laundry, winsocks >

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Facepalm

I'll hava a uhhh...what can I have?

Ever go into a fast food place that has no menu? >.<

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Pirate

Nothing like a big company violating your computer

So your runS a number graphic progys and such, the software is stable, coexisting and then the big brother decides it's their computer not yours and forces software updates on your computer. Suddenly a good stable running situation is borked. Some of your programs are unstable and big brother has ruined your software tools working together with this. Who owns your computer? You or them?

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FAIL

The messa WD is sending the end user...poor quality drive...

Basically it makes it look like you are buying a disposable drive with an option for a payment plan for replacement WHEN it fails not if it should. Of course when the end user spends thousands of dollars on file data and programs being stored on a poor quality drive no one is offering to replace that.

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Big Brother

What the Music industry wants...

It's not about if or not your connection is good or available making it impractical. It's worse than that.

It's about the music industry continuing to fight consumers keeping backups of their paid for music or even now even just keeping any copy of it. Apple is just the f#cktard facilitating it.

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Perhaps an evern better solution....

...is not to keep propping up the beast but to go with the Open Source solutions once and for all?

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Alert

Irresponsible security risks

The big corporations are gambling with millions of peoples personal data. I worked tech support in the US for a large corp that was in India. They had a massive security breach by that Indian contractor and moved to the US support teams then broke the US contract and went back to India again risking a repeat. The big corporation execs are irresponsible to their shareholders and their customers with this kind or behavior. Best of wishes to all the HP employees and best of luck with the security of the personal data of those millions.

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FAIL

Millimetre wave irratiation of whole population...

Millimetre wave scanning systems have been found by independent testing to be harmful and does break down DNA in living cells. The Gov has been trying to hide this. Now Toyota after just having been brought to their knees suddenly is talking about turning cars into mobile millimetre wave projecting devices so we can get irradiated with it everywhere and on every street?

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Thumb Down

I laughed when I read it had no optical storage.

Ever depend on the Internet for installs? Ever have Internet go down in the middle of something when you find you need to install another tool? Internet dependence of computers can cause all kinds of end user problems. Then there's the whole point that optical storage is not subject to accidental magnetic erasure of data. I have lots of data and programs on DVD. I install the most of it from optical disks. Then there's magnetic storage drive mechanical failure, loss of data to this is real and optical disks are the solution. In the end it's, "no optical drive no sale."

Well best of luck to the Jobs and crew but no sale. I suppose the fanboys will not care though...

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Mushroom

I swear that Nvidia's Optimus is a real serious pain...

Manufactures keep glomming on to Nvidia's Optimus but us users who chose our own operating systems are unable to utilize the nVidia chipset due to an attitude problem on nVidia's side about creating drivers to support anything other than only Windows. This narrow view is causing me and other like me to grow extremely agitated at and impatient with both nVidia and the manufactures that are using Nvidia's Optimus.

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Thumb Up

Beautiful

I was wondering if and when anyone would ever do this. I always thought it would be cool to have a real batmobile with a real-deal engine like this.

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Mushroom

Tell a friend...

Then lets lets tell EVERYONE. If that's what they want then lets do it. They actually want us to tell everyone we know that Yahoo is a privacy invasive jerk? Ok. Idiots will get what they deserve then...

tempemeaty

I wonder....

I wonder if they will be unable to support Linux base OS's with this.

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Mushroom

I guess it's war then...

...the people against the corporations. If these corporations can collect our email data, mac addresses and wifi location data then it's a surveillance state by corporations. Should this continue?

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Big Brother

To take the computer out of our computers...

Well if HTML and Javascript is the future for Windows applications then MS would succeed in pushing the world one more baby step closer to being ready to run all applications off a remote server over a WAN connection instead of natively on the "device" itself. Oops I said device not computer...yeah, that EXACTLY the plan.

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Mushroom

Divide and conquer. It's a tactic. Oracle is using it.

It's and old tactic. It just means Oracle has just found a way to sell it's war on open source as something else. Those execs are probably patting themselves on the back for reading Sun Tzu's "The Art of War"

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Grenade

Groan...Nvidia's Optimus...Linux users beware

Nvidia's Optimus technology is such a MS dedicated technology. With that chip-set you are going to be locked into a MS's OS with no other option because Nvidia isn't making that switching Optimus driver available for any other. Sorry Linux users. This is another one that Linux can't do proper graphics on despite the Nvidia brand on the graphics chip inside.

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Big Brother

MS is definately not a consumer friendly company....

...as any consumer who's had to deal with the "activation" jackassery in MS's Windows OS can attest to.

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Grenade

The Immoral abuse of users with opression by Big Brother

Forcing people to do anything is immoral. It's a persons OWN personal business what they browse with and what software they use. In other words Mozilla, Stay the %$# out of messing with peoples PERSONAL computers. They pull this kind of Oppression BS I'm going to stop using FF and campaign against them HARD.

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FAIL

Apple just lost a customer for life...

Computer parts don't chose the best time to have issues. When you're working on a PAID PROJECT with a DEADLINE and suddenly need a hard drive in the middle of it YOU DON'T F%$#ING HAVE TIME TO LEAVE IT AT THE MAC STORE!

Well that does it. The money I've saved for a Mac will go to better use elsewhere. Idiots(Apple).

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Unhappy

There goes another one

There was another company with technology MS needed. It was a 3D software company called TrueSpace. MS bought the company, got what they needed from TrueSpace then killed it. I'm now feeling that again...

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Google can remove it.

Google has already demonstrated any program they don't want on an Android device they can remove. It's why I don't have an Android device yet.

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Armed military is a re "arm"ed populace

If you can think it you can build it. Let it be. Finally from this we'll get new lives for those who've lost limbs as the technology finds it's way into the civilian sector.

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Big Brother

How to keep the users locked into Windows

Nvidia Optimus switchable graphics technology's large adoption by hardware marginalizes all other OS options due to the inability for other OS's and their existing drivers to access the Nvidia chip for graphics.

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Pint

The AZ solution.

Come to Arizona. We'll take care of you. Nuff said.

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Pint

Beautiful graphic on the outside, secret graphics on the inside ^^

Cute and tricky lid. Now if only it had a graphics chip-set. It's got to have one though none is listed. Intel Graphics? nVidia Graphics? ATI? I got it, S4! Hahahaha....

Can't wait to see one change colors even if the graphics chip-set is secret. >_<

tempemeaty

Nope...and and and....

My required productivity software does not run on a Wonder-Slab™ . The Wonder-Slab™ market isn't even trying to create equivalents to those necessary professional programs either.

Until the Slabware™ makers start offering fully profesional level software for business and productivity that we need that is already in use on our PC's, net books and note books the Wonder-Slab™ will just continue to be a awesome technological toy. (and and and...oh well, we'll see)

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The bad the good and ATI....

Bad, more hybrid Intel-nVidia crap graphics chips for your netbooks/notebooks that won't run on the nVidia drivers with your Linux OS.

Good, Intel can not and will not ever under any circumstances be able to make a graphics processor and drivers that could hope to compete with ATI even with nVidia's help. Intel just can't.

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Heads up to Linux, OS requirements moving fast into furture now

If this goes down the path of "big brother" controlling what I can and can not install or do with my computer then turning it into an appliance dependent on a net connection to operate then I'm out. If Mark Shuttleworth builds are real OS that does better and doesn't go down the "big brother" path then good for him. As it is I HAVE to use Linux with KDE or GNOME desktops. I can't even think about proprietary a gui right now. I need programs the use KDE and GNOME. This is also a shot over all the independent open source programmers bows. Get it together with program packaging. Time to package the applications more professionally these days. Time to get organized or stagnate. Ubuntu with depositories has spoiled some but recently the version turn over and loss of depositories have made it an OS that loses dependencies to quickly to be a serious Windows or Apple competitor. Those OS's 3rd party program codes don't leave you having to collect dozens of dependencies in order to get their programs installed. Other than a couple dependencies the programs are complete on install as is.

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WTF?

Tablet foundling...?

You guys sure are enamored with tablets aren't you. O_O;;

With a tablet I can't sit on a bus typing out my latest what-ever-I'm-working-on or run any of my productivity software yet.

Most of the programs as of now are just play toy software for entertainment only making the tablets nothing more than a wonderful computer toy or adults. I hope real programs to actually get real business done find there way to the tablet some day. ^^;;

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Big Brother

Stand together or fall.

As goes Assange so goes us all. All these governments an corporations are acting together as one entity now for total power over all of us. This must end before it goes any further.

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Big Brother

Sony's blue for blue bloods....

Difference? One is illuminated by the blue rays of the new world order?

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Big Brother

Keeping us on Terra Firma....or just in it's orbit again...

Well it could also be another attempt to side tract actual human space exploration with another new short bus that never leaves orbit that looks busy, does nothing and keep the slaves on the Plantation Earth.

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nVidia under the hood thank you Samsung...and a note to nVidia....

The use of nVidia is a great thing to see. Good for Samsung.

Not sure about this hybrid Optimus tech yet though. Most buy nVidia to NOT have Intel graphics.

Note to nVidia, Linux drivers are needed. I see a backlash coming if none are ever provided for this Optimus tech due to the probability that a large number of manufactures will use Optimus in note books. There are more users of Linux than ever and this tech shuts them out of using nVida on notebooks entirely. Not a good thing.

tempemeaty

Good try....maybe the next one will hit the mark

To go the course of using a dual core and not properly complimenting it with a suitably capable GPU and enough RAM seems to me a bit of a waste. Perhaps in the next version they'll use an ATI or nVidia for the graphics and equip the unit with 2Gb RAM. One can at least hope. Otherwise it looks like a beautifully designed netbook.

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Joke

That's a big one...

Over sized bar magnet. (-_^)

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FAIL

Beautiful hardware but Android....

The real reason I chose net books is to take my desk top applications on the road with me. Tablets and anything else running "Android" can't do that. This leaves the Toshiba featured here in a bind. Beautiful hardware though.

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FAIL

New OS's, nice but I want to run my PC programs on the go...

New operating systems...woooot! Nice but if I can't use it to take my favorite computer programs with me on the go and use them, well, no.

Perhaps if tables ran OSX10.6, Linux(normal PC variety), or even Windows 7 or XP. Otherwise...no.

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Linux on this model with nVidia?

If the "Nvidia Control Panel" required then perhaps Linux users needing the nVIdia will be unable to use this? If the Intel chip is primary then I imagine on Linux you might not be able to run with the nVidia chip at all?

tempemeaty

Partitions are a geek fetish

I used to partition also. Then I learned to stop that. I've had partitions fail often enough over the years I avoid them now. Since discontinuing that geek fetish my installs have been problem free for the normal life spans of the drives. From my experience I find Ubuntu is doing just fine.

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Big Brother

Product Inventory and cattle, that's what they are for. So which are you?

You know the ear tags for cattle are an RFID chip in a plastic card as well. The only reason they are fixed to the cattle's ear is because they don't have wallets to carry them in.

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Remember the Truespace 3D graphic program? MS bought that company. It's gone now...

Well Adobe has had a good life...bye bye....

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