Apple ipads (again)

Oct 17, 2012 483 Replies

SUN workstations, IRIX - HP/UX - all in use in big user apps - banking CAD/CAM.

Rubbish. Unix and Linux was just another desktop system than and it is now.

Big unix servers didnt have GUIS of course. But desktop unix has been around a long time.

I waited till they worked. Say 7 years now. Frankly its might as well be windows except its free and its more stable. And I can do more with it.

I'd agree there..

This happens whenever you move from anything at all to PCs.

Yerrs. I did an install in a prestigious firm of Glasgow solicitors. They had SCO unix and one lawyer kept the while thing running - and 100 wyse terminals - as a spare time activity.

Then they went Microsoft...

En el artículo , Tim Streater escribió:

Use a Taser. Please.

No it was win2000, when no dos was there. It was a toy Mickey mouse setup. We asked it to anything except provide a window which apps running on UNIX servers or mainframes ran inside. Other it would just fall over.

Review of Nexus 7 v i-pad. The i-pads are being dropped in favour of the Nexus 7

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Take more water with it.

the reviewer say that anyone is dropping the IPad in favour of the Nexus.

I thought it was balanced and he started with criticisms first.

Read the comments many are dropping the i-pad. Also, if you are new to the tablets then what would you buy? Even many of the comments agree with me that the i-pad is too big to be a real portable device. One comment pointed out that the Nexus 7 charger was 2A so anything less that a 1A charger will not work - which I assume the reviewer was doing.

One comment stated that he only uses his smartphone for calls and texts nothing else, as the Nexus 7 does what he did on the phone but far better with big screen. This brings me to the point of having a cheap touch screen phone (organizes the texts well) with NFC to tether the Nexus 7, so you can access the cellphone network. Then the monthly phone bills is very low, as no i-phone or Galaxy is needed. What you save on a monthly phone contract would pay for a few Nexus 7s in a year. So, the Nexus can even save you money. The real powerful computer, pc or laptop, will be at home. The Nexus is also faster than the i-phone.

The Nexus 7 is now in 32GB for the same price as the 16GB - from Argos in a few weeks. That's if you need the capacity of course. The games nuts tend to want the extra storage.

I keep a ThinCharger in my overnight bag which will charge my phone, my kobo or my Nexus7.

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N7 also charges ok (but slower obviously) from various 1A chargers I have knocking around, or really slowly from 500mA USB port on laptop.

Tethering over NFC, are you sure? I've read my passport (and detected but not read my debit card) over NFC and that's about it.

The point is that the Nexus "can" use the cellphone network by having a phone with NFC. Another good point is that the Nexus 7 can pay for itself by getting a cheaper contract phone with NFC, as the computer (smart) side you will not be using of the phone.

it's impressive that drivel claims that he was running Windows 2000 in the late 80s. So not only does he claim to be a UNIX guru but he's also the owner of a time machine.

En el artículo , Steve Firth escribió:

Note how he's gone from "I" to "we" when talking about his fictional Unix/Windows setup. Assuming it actually existed, it's likely the real work was done by an expert and Drivel was merely the tea boy.

this man is qa fool. he is.

this idiot lives in Wallasey. he does.

expectation is

Nice job of making stuff up.

Android applications are all sandboxed so you ' install things that break other apps"

When you write applications, you use a fragments system that allows your code to lay out for any device...

No need to keep posting we all agree that you need a good kicking.

Wish you actually could get a reasonably priced laptop with a proper serial port these days.

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