With Windows Phone 7 being a success among critics and probably the only mobile platform which tries to take at least baby steps away from the old WIMP/desktop paradigm, it's not entirely unsurprising that a lot of people are asking for Windows Phone 7 on tablets. However, Microsoft once again reiterated that WP7 is not meant for tablets, since they view tablets as PCs - hence, they will be running regular Windows.
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Thanks for swooping to ad hominem attacks so fast. That really shows your best personal characteristics.
Newsflash, my dearie: Apple is there to cater to the average person (See their recent "love" towards professionals)
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This comment is so patently ridiculous that I should not respond, but I just can't pass up the opportunity.
You are saying that you want to connect a BluRay drive to your iPad/other tablet computer, and have that device do the conversion to H264 so you can then watch that BluRay movie on the portable device? Really??? And that this is a very common practice? Really???
Never mind that there is NO BluRay drive that will connect to ANY pad-type device; that NO pad-type device has either the RAM, processor capability, or ripping/conversion software available to do this, you really expect to be able to do this on your pad device instead of on a fully capable desktop computer and THEN transfer the completed shrunk-down movie to the tablet device for viewing on your train commute or whatever?
I own DVD and BluRay movies, and I have converted them to a file size and resolution suitable for viewing on my iPad. And I have utilized the Digital Copy feature on a lot of BluRays and DVDs because they are done in a suitable resolution for my portable devices.
I don't bother converting them to 1080p or even 720p because tablet displays are not capable of displaying full HDTV video. One must work within the capabilities of the portable device display when doing conversions. But I certainly don't expect to be able to do all the converting on the tablet device itself, that's just silly. That's what I have my iMac for, with its 4 Gb of RAM, Core2Duo processor and all the software necessary to do the ripping and conversion.
Full-on PC's have their uses and tablets have their uses. I don't expect to do broadcast-quality video editing, special effects work, or anything like that on a tablet device, as the hardware is just not capable of doing it. I don't expect to create horribly complicated spreadsheets on a tablet either, although I am sure some people are capable of doing that and that is just fine. It doesn't make the device any better or worse if you can use it to do what you want to do, within the capabilities of the device and its hardware.
Official Apple statement on PRISM and privacy: "Regardless of the circumstances, our Legal team conducts an evaluation of each request and, only if appropriate, we retrieve and deliver the narrowest possible set of information to the authorities. In fact, from time to time when we see inconsistencies or inaccuracies in a request, we will refuse to fulfill it." This is basically Apple re-publishing their earlier statement in a more official manner. You either believe it, or you don't.
The open source Contiki operating system and its commercial Thingsquare distribution are making strides towards the connected home. According to a Computerworld article, a new LED light bulb manufacturer is putting small computers into their light bulbs. Each computer runs the Contiki OS, which gives each bulb an IP address and allows them to be controlled with a smartphone application. To connect the bulbs to the application, the bulbs use both Wi-Fi and the much lower power IEEE 802.15.4 mesh technology.
"Google asked the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday to ease long-standing gag orders over data requests it makes, arguing that the company has a constitutional right to speak about information it's forced to give the government. The legal filing, which cites the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech, is the latest move by the California-based tech giant to protect its reputation in the aftermath of news reports about sweeping National Security Agency surveillance of Internet traffic." Draining the ditch after the cow has drowned in it."I can't find one person who has been using the Nexus 7 for an extended period of time, and hasn't seen a massive downgrade in performance. Just what kind of downgrade are we talking here? I cannot pick up my Nexus 7 without experiencing problems like a lag of ten seconds, or more, just to rotate the display; touches refusing to acknowledged; stuttering notification panel actions; and unresponsive apps." Fully and utterly agreed. My Nexus 7 was blazing-fast and awesome for a few months, and at some point, it just started sucking. Just like that. I've tried loads of ROMs, and nothing helps.A new release of the hobby operating system MenuetOS! The release notes are a bit non-descript, but you'll have to take what you can get: "updates and improvements (picview, httpc, ehci, ...)"."The Internet is one of the most transformative technologies of our lifetimes. But for 2 out of every 3 people on earth, a fast, affordable Internet connection is still out of reach. And this is far from being a solved problem. There are many terrestrial challenges to Internet connectivity - jungles, archipelagos, mountains. There are also major cost challenges. Right now, for example, in most of the countries in the southern hemisphere, the cost of an Internet connection is more than a month's income. Solving these problems isn't simply a question of time: it requires looking at the problem of access from new angles. So today we're unveiling our latest moonshot from Google[x]: balloon-powered Internet access." Insane.
"MineAssemble is a tiny bootable Minecraft clone written partly in x86 assembly. I made it first and foremost because a university assignment required me to implement a game in assembly for a computer systems course. Because I had never implemented anything more complex than a 'Hello World' bootloader before, I decided I wanted to learn about writing my own kernel code at the same time. Note that the goal of this project was not to write highly efficient hand-optimized assembly code, but rather to have fun and write code that balances readability and speed. This is primarily accomplished by proper commenting and consistent code structuring." Just cool.
Jon Rubinstein, former CEO of Palm: "Well, I'm not sure I would have sold the company to HP. That's for sure. Talk about a waste. Not that I had any choice because when you sell a company you don't get to decide that. Obviously, the board and shareholders decide that. If we had known they were just going to shut it down and never really give it a chance to flourish, what would have been the point of selling the company? I think the deal we had with Verizon really hurt us, but who knew that at the time? These things are all hindsight.""And so it is with Dell's Alienware X51 R2, a small form factor gaming PC in console digs. It's shaped similar to Microsoft's Xbox 360 Slim, and though it's slightly larger than either a 360 or PlayStation 3, the X51 R2 would be right at home in a living room setting nestled next to a large screen TV. Indeed, it's adept at running Steam's Big Picture mode, and if your primary objective is to play games in the living room, go ahead and consider the X51 R2 a hybrid game console." This is obviously not the only machine like this - still, these are very valid console alternatives even for those that don't like being hunched over with a cramped WASD-claw. Also, PC gamers among us: could you get away with the $699 model for gaming?
From Bloomberg: "Microsoft, the world's largest software company, provides intelligence agencies with information about bugs in its popular software before it publicly releases a fix, according to two people familiar with the process. That information can be used to protect government computers and to access the computers of terrorists or military foes." The lid has officially been blown off.
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So, you can't get away with having a single device. Just like you using your laptop as your ebook reader is suboptimal, using your pad for content creation is mostly impossible. Not because of operating system/applications but because of a hardware platform.
Really, dude?
Most people don't do compiling or video/audio editing (more than iMovie, at least). And a BeagleboardXM based desktop is sufficient for most users these days. Watch a bit of YouTube, write some emails, manage photos and write a document once in a while(I mean really, most people use word as a damn notebook for most of the time)