Interesting Links for 12-04-2013
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andrewducker- How environmentally friendly are electric cars?
- How To Work On Elance
- Ask a Historian: I am a murderer who has successfully fled to a city 100 miles away. Am I captured?
- You've always wanted to play a T-Rex dating game, right?
- In “Raiders of the Lost Ark”, the Ark of the Covenant is the Antagonist
- Samsung unveils 6.3in Galaxy Mega smartphone. (Gosh. That's a big one.)
- Add Two-Factor Authentication To Your Website
- As many of you know, I recently purchased an Uruk-Hai scimitar. - As many of you know, I recently purchased an Uruk-Hai scimitar...
- Turns out that men (on average) like women to look post-pubescent.
- Sorry, PC Industry: You’ve Apparently Managed to Perfect the PC
- If Game Of Thrones happened on Facebook (I laughed)
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Date: 2013-04-12 01:44 pm (UTC)"Yes, Jamie, it IS a big one!"
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Date: 2013-04-12 07:35 pm (UTC)"There is one meaningful caveat: IDC doesn’t include Windows tablets and tablet-laptop hybrids (like notebooks with detachable keyboards) in its study, which means that it’s not accounting for sales of most of the most interesting, forward-looking Windows 8 computers."
So the biggest innovation in laptop computing for ages, probably bigger than the netbook, that's being advertised heavily not just by MS but by all the other manufacturers, doesn't get included in the "decline in sales" figures because it doesn't technically count.
Right. Any idea what the actual figures are?
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Date: 2013-04-12 07:36 pm (UTC)However, my understanding is that Windows Tablets aren't selling massive amounts. If you can find something that says how much I'd love to know!
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Date: 2013-04-15 04:43 pm (UTC)http://blogs.computerworld.com/tablets/22048/windows-tablets-dont-even-rate-blip-64-billion-tablet-market-say-report
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Date: 2013-04-15 06:35 pm (UTC)