Australia has not okay'd this, some fsking bureaucratic fsckwits have - but I'm pretty sure most of Australia is pretty pissed about it!
 

"non-essential travel for 3 months"

I think that flying for your work/job qualifies as essential.

Are you really that ignorant?

It's called a design fault. It is often caused by the GPU heating and cooling cycle that eventually cracks the solder joints on the grid ball array.

You'll find nearly all DELL 9400's (e1705) have exactly the same design fault.

The user is only to blame in as much as them being foolish enough to trust Apple to design them properly.

I expect the real issue is modifying the common build tools to work nicely with this setup - make, gcc, etc...

Would be nice feature though!

As much as I'm a fan of C/C++, I expect the headers could be generated at compile time for distribution with libraries or for compiling against - I see no reason for the developer to maintain the header file. That way you can still hide your implementation etc and not have the burden of flicking between headers & source etc.

You don't need to use the aspects you find incomprehensible and those aspects don't negate the value of the bits you can comprehend.

I'm no expert regarding ARM emulation but when using the AVD (Android Virtual Device) that comes shipped with their ADK (dev kit) and I have Hardware Acceleration enabled (for video performance mostly) my games run at blazing speeds compared to a real Android device (mobile).

Perhaps your issues were that the emulator you were using did not have the advantage of hardware acceleration? Perhaps this new setup their proposing will have this advantage. Let's hope :)

Whatever.

Argue that all you like, but I don't see the relevance to this thread. It seems you just want to argue :)

You sound like you think it's a special privilege to have a computer and they're reserved for special 'adult things' (are you referring to porn?)

Have you just become and adult and feel a little superior to those you class as 'non adults'? I don't get your line of argument - it seems to have nothing to do with the original posts.

If an adult or non adult wants to have a PC to play games, browse the web, watch porn or lick their screen - they're all valid reasons, even if you don't like it.

Your last post actually supports my argument - if people are not doing the things that you classed as 'modern adult things' (sounds kinky) then they are probably just fine with a tablet/phone for their computing tasks. We're back to that 75%.

Anyway, I'm going back to doing some non adult things with my computer.

I'm not claiming that you and other US citizens don't need a computer for your taxes - but that may not be true for a very large percentage of computer users (the other 95% of the worlds population).

Why are we discussing tax again?

If you read my post again, I actually claimed that it was more likely caused by people jumping to the tablet/phone and that PC useful lifetime was probably a cause, but a lesser cause.

I disagree, I think you're projecting your use cases onto others.

Other than IT professionals, I know few if any adults that use their personal computers for these tasks. I'm a software engineer so my usage patterns don't match that of the average user and I'm not about to assume that others use their computers like I do.

I stand by my comment - out of all computer sales, I think that less than 25% would perform the tasks you describe, adults or not.

Well, no, you seem to need these - perhaps your tax is more complicated than 75% of PC users? Taxation is not the same in all countries - I have never had the need to use such tools to do my tax, ever. I'm not in the US (nor are 95% of the worlds population).

Sorry, I missed where I said that. I'm not in that 75%, I'm certainly in the 25% - I just don't assume others have the same use patterns as I. All of my non technical friends (we're talking adults here) do not perform these tasks using their PCs. They use facebook, email and browse the web.

Hmm, by default I believe not - but I use my Android tablet for a lot of web browsing, and I've never found that an issue. I'd say it's a non issue unless you're wanting to play flash games (no loss there :) )

I was never giving any opinion of Win 8 - my point is that I don't believe that it's a large contributor to the diminishing PC sales. It may well be a contributor, but PC sales were diminishing before the release of Win 8. Even if Win 8 was the best OS Microsoft ever released, PC sales would still be diminishing for other reasons.

I think this is why Microsoft is so hell bent on getting into the tablet/phone business and also why it made its hair brained decision to try and turn the desktop into a tablet - they totally missed the reasons why people were moving to tables/phones - It's not the interface, it's the convenience - something the desktop is a long way from (It won't fit in my pocket and it needs a power cord).

No, he's still laughing.

Well:

I think the items you listed sit firmly in that remaining 25% of users. Most users simply user their computers (be it desktop, laptop, tablet or mobile) to browse the web, play games and not much else.

Not really. No one claimed that the PC has no use left and that the mobile/tablets/Android will replace them entirely for all users. But there are a certain subset of users where these things will and already have replaced their PCs. That subset I think is a substantial proportion of end users.