Comment Compromised (Score 3, Insightful) 178
Except it's a 7 inch tablet with a widescreen ratio screen. So when holding in portrait it looks silly, too narrow and too tall.
These compromises are why they get overlooked.
Except it's a 7 inch tablet with a widescreen ratio screen. So when holding in portrait it looks silly, too narrow and too tall.
These compromises are why they get overlooked.
It's one way of announcing the product without announcing it. It lets people know it is nearly ready without having a formal announcement where all the specifications are laid down and dissected by the media.
Logo was my first experience (alongside BASIC) of programming.
It's quite a simple thing to pick up and it shows them how to make shapes.
It was designed for education too:
People name check Apple because they are doing well. It would be Microsoft if they captured the peoples imagination.
It's not like Apple don't audit these people. But they can't be there 24/7 and 365 days of the year.
Great, so what HP needs to succeed is an inferior hardware product that costs twice or three times as much as the competition?
As much as people like to think that their own country can assemble and produce a better product, places like China and Taiwan are geared up to doing such work. The chips are made near by, the boards are made near by and there's plenty of people to do the work.
They ran their tests on a hackintosh from what I can see. They mention the OSX tests were not run on Apple hardware.
Now that probably doesn't make a huge difference, it just depends how good the hardware is and how they've make the hackintosh version of OSX.
Do they have any track record in enterprise software?
It seems like HP is just another tech firm looking for the next bandwagon. But ultimately they don't have the courage and conviction to stay on it until it gets where they want it to go.
This is hardly encouraging for customers who don't like their platform investment to be wiped out by scatter-brain CEOs.
We have both in the UK. The roundabouts work until the roads get to a certain level of traffic and then they put traffic lights on the roundabouts which are often full time lights. Nothing more irritating than stopping at traffic lights at 1am on empty roads.
Put more sensors and "intelligence" in the traffic lights and let people drive around as normal.
Traffic light systems are really stupid, last night I was driving home at 2am and came to some traffic lights, they changed to red and there was no other cars around.
I think you're getting running mixed up with Golf.
Wrong. Tablets were around for 10 years but they were without a touch screen friendly OS.
The iPad has a UI designed for the touchscreen. It is why you never really feel the need for a mouse or keyboard.
The reason the mouse and keyboard feel most comfortable when using Windows is because that is what Windows was designed for. Also, you tend to have the screen further away when using a PC or laptop and therefore touching the screen isn't ergonomically friendly.
Look at Microsoft under Ballmer, the creative spark has gone.
When Jobs left Apple in 1985 they bumbled along producing revisions of Macs and Mac OS that added very little. It took until 2001 and 4 years of Jobs to get a new OS with proper multitasking. OSX was based on all the work done at NeXT. Some of that work could have happened while he was at Apple and OSX (with a different name) could have been released in the 80s or 90s.
I bet he didn't see that it would be a popular embedded and server OS either.
Many seem to think Linux will grow on the desktop but that's unlikely to happen. It's easier to move into new markets.
Such long copyrights and brand names being traded around is pure laziness. The people buying brands and capitalising on IP created nearly 30 years ago.
Personally I see that there's a case for having all patents, copyright and other IP die with the company when they go bust. It offers an incentive to be creative and not take massive risks.
Drivers are more than just translating printer data into print outs. They have control panels for features in the printer. Multiple trays and the like.
Getting rid of printer drivers would mean having to handle these device specific features and even if you added facilities to handle these unique features there may be a situation that can't be handled.
Old programmers never die, they just hit account block limit.