Comment Re:Wait, what? (Score 0) 44
Glad military are not talking about BYOG. Imagine if you are military pilot and have to have your own F-16.
Most sane people do not feel safe with roaming machine-gun-toting civilians in any venue neither.
OTOH, there hasn't been a single crime committed with a lawfully-owned civilian machine gun (or other automatic firearm) since 1934.
There has not been a single crime committed with a lawfully-owned civilian nuclear device either.
However, those insistent on trashing open source will still forget that the issue is a solved one for anyone willing to do a little work.
Yeah, like reading couple millions lines of code... Good luck with that. I have seen 100 line magic functions that could not be understood in couple of days. I bet in a bigger code base the number of such magic functions could be quite significant. Open source only gives us illusion.
Nice how you neatly dismissed it. If hardware is such a small problem, why didn't previous generations of CE-based Microsoft tablets work? If hardware is such a small problem, why not laptops, after all, it even has a keyboard for precise data entry.
Battery life.
But the hinge can't hold the screen up. Laptops have been able to do that for decades.
Exactly. I have laptop from 1968 and it can hold screen up. It even has touch interface. Dumb, dumb Micro$$$oft!
If those were meaningless points, Microsoft wouldn't just have had to dump a billion dollars worth of Surface tablets because no-one wanted to buy them.
'Surface Pro' is just a continuation of the long line of x86 tablets that hardly anyone wanted to buy for the last decade or more.
Are you really that dumb? Surface pro is continuation of the last decade of tablets? It is damn different. It is like comparing iPhone with Palm Pilot from 2000. It is so dumb that it is not even funny.
Screen size, resolution, storage capactiy, storage speed, processor speed, active digitizer, RAM, x86 architecture are all advantages the Surface Pro has over the tablets you mentioned.
So, nothing most people care about, then.
Do people care about anything?
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
