Re: the glaring omission is a kensington lock
Kensington will sell you a SafeDock for £99 that also angles the keyboard more ergonomically. But it makes the thin shiny rather thick.
Posts by Pookietoo
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Stock dips as fanbois complain of dodgy Wi-Fi on MacBook Air
Windows 8 hype has hurt PC makers and distributors - Gartner
Spaniards deploy self-propelled ROBOT BALLS
Google mounts legal challenge to surveillance gag orders
COLD BALLS OF FLAME light up International Space Station
Kim Dotcom victim of 'largest data MASSACRE in history'
AXE-WAVING BIKER GANG SMASHES into swanky Apple UK store
SCO vs. IBM battle resumes over ownership of Unix
Help! I’m trapped inside the Chamber of Hollers
Exclusive Halo game coming to Windows 8 and WinPhone 8
Former Microsoft Windows chief: I was right to kill the Start button
Saturday 1st June 2013 11:35 GMT
Re: There has never been a better time in the computing era
I don't think that the market will necessarily be dominated by a different company, it will just be a more diverse computing environment where devices often aren't x86 PCs and PCs often don't run Windows - the first half of that has already happened.
Saturday 1st June 2013 10:33 GMT
Re: simply make things optional
The changes aren't about making Windows a better desktop tool, they're about MSFT trying to leverage their desktop presence to gain market share with mobile devices. A problem with this tactic (apart from not owning the rights to "Metro", making ugly difficult interfaces that users complain about, annoying hardware partners by associating the software launch with own-brand hardware, advertising campaigns that leave the public wondering "what was that about?") is that the PC business was feeling a bit fragile already ...
Film crew plans dig to find lost burial ground of Atari's E.T.
Windows 8.1 Start button SPOTTED in the wild
Googorola loses bid to ban US Xbox sales after ITC slapdown
US power grid the target of 'numerous and daily' cyber-attacks
Thursday 23rd May 2013 15:29 GMT
If I were the power companies I'd be doing the legal minimum ...
... to counter these "attacks", while watching closely and planning strategies for when they become more of a threat. This rather than increasing the challenge to hackers beyond what it appears to be at the moment. If they're not probing my actual defences or testing my full resilience they don't know where any weakness really lies.
If you've bought DRM'd film files from Acetrax, here's the bad news
The iWatch is coming! The iWatch is coming!
Tuesday 21st May 2013 11:20 GMT
Re: There's a parallel with the move from pocket watches to wrist watches
Except that a wristwatch is big enough to display the time, a display smaller than a smartphone is going to struggle to display much more with any degree of usability. Remember calculator wristwatches? The interface was just about usable, their appeal was limited to geeks, and everyone else carried on using their pocket calculators. If you want a wearable smart device you can just hang a phone around your neck.
Google builds crowdsourcing into new Maps code stack
Jailed Romanian hacker repents, invents ATM security scheme
Hex & plugs & ROM & roll: Computer music stars rock Bletchley
Windows 8 'sales' barely half as good as Microsoft claims
Drone to deliver beer-as-a-service
Ubuntu dev proposes new package format for mobile apps
Coke? Windows 8 is Microsoft's 'Vista moment'. Again
Wednesday 8th May 2013 13:07 GMT
Re: The idea was that things like folders and file paths would become meaningless
Was it, or was it just a UI abstraction that worked like a desktop search e.g. Unity Dash? Because I'm pretty sure the underlying OS is going to want a hierarchical file structure, regardless of how it's presented to the user.
Microsoft: All RIGHT, you can have your Start button back
Acer reveals 'floating' screen to save desktop, self
Greenhouse gases may boost chances of exoplanetary life
Thousands rally behind teen girl cuffed, expelled in harmless 'explosion'
Google Chrome slips web fix to addicts suffering net withdrawal
Brits on benefits: 'Dole office site only works on PCs over 10 YEARS OLD'
US Senate vote to add internet sales tax this week
Saturday 27th April 2013 23:07 GMT
Re: Um you do know that Puerto Rico is US territory and subject to federal law
Um, I did write "I have no idea whether US/PR law creates a situation analogous to the UK one". The comparison was geographical as much as anything - the Channel Islands are British Crown Dependencies but not part of the United Kingdom, Puerto Rico is an island that is part of the United States but not a state.
Tuesday 23rd April 2013 08:18 GMT
Re: Sales taxes are not going to make a company set up an international presence
It already happened in the UK - some major online retailers have benefited from offshoring their tax liabilities for several years, although more recently the loopholes are being closed. Imagine large US companies leaving the USA for Puerto Rico (I have no idea whether US/PR law creates a situation analogous to the UK one, but hopefully you get the general idea).
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