Sleeping in the hangar

[Jamie]

Oder "geh hearst, hot die oide Kraxn kaa Heizung ned".:-)

Hahaha genau so ies es! 'Koan ee-pee-uu??? So a schasss! Ie steig aus, so kann i ned oarbeitn!'

@Hardy: I've never heard "Bitscheee". Not in the Vienna dictionary

@Martin: It's true! Ask around! And for Austria vs Australia: sometimes I get analogue mail from Holland with Melbourne or Sydney stamps on it

[delcom]

Unpowered.

regards,
delcom

[IefCooreman]

For a Boeing I always heard "unpowered" since procedures are also called "electrical power-up" and "electrical power down". On the other hand, power-down on a 777 is something to avoid since waking up all the digibits streaming through its cyberoptic veins takes ages...

A powered down 737 we used to call "dark", "oven", or "freezing hell" depending on the coordinates :-)

[martin]

waking up all the digibits streaming through its cyberoptic veins takes ages...

Just like Windows!
 :mrgreen:

[John Golin]

waking up all the digibits streaming through its cyberoptic veins takes ages...

Just like Windows!
 :mrgreen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ia3zBs42cc

[martin]

...aaand Win8 has Metro! From the Maoists!

Cheers,
Martin

[John Golin]

It is change, but once you have used it for 30 minutes it's really good - sensational with touch.  I've played with a Samsung Core i5 tablet with Windows 8 on it and it is a fantastic experience...

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

Will we poor lab rats that want to have a WORKstation instead of a PLAYstation or TV still be able to use a normal desktop box with an anti-RSI good keyboard and ten fingers, or should we simply throw away all our techno stuff and just buy software in China?

I have no problem with new media consumption gadgets, but I don't want to lose my tools, if possible.

The amount of USB stuff dongling off a modern computer just to support industry standard interfaces that happen do be "not interesting to the average media consumer" is staggering already ...


Jeroen

[John Golin]

Hoppie, Windows has PowerShell - you'd love it!  

You don't need touch for Windows 8.  Windows 8 is a variant that improves and refines Windows 7, it doesn't take away functionality or tools.

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

I've no problems with Windows per se -- just that I have been bothered by 20 years of little progress. Only the last few years, Microsoft really lost the monopoly (and not due to Linux as such) and now they're catching up. As always, they catch up well, but boy it took long. Both in the tech, the sysadmin, and the user experience fields.

I just hope that the desktop will remain a primary target. It probably will be (99.99999% of business takes place with a desk nearby) but some top marketeer may declare "a handheld device will be sufficient for everybody" and forget about the non-executives among us.


Jeroen

[John Golin]

Hoppie, Microsoft have gone ahead leaps and bounds in the Server and desktop space in the last few years - I would argue they haven't lost a monopoly, they are actually listening to their base and adjusting the products to suit their needs.

The really have improved massively - people complain you have to patch Windows, but MS at least acknowledge bugs and weaknesses and have a strategy to deal with them, including mature deployment and patch systems to assist in automation of the processes.  The flexibility and feature sets of their Server and Desktop products is leaps and bounds ahead of where it was a few years ago - but most importantly, they are responding to customers, not dictating how you should do things.

Windows 8 doesn't remove the desktop at all...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VnsHmVs1UA&feature=related

[martin]

...adjusting the products to suit their needs.

Indeed. :mrgreen:

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

So it must have been all my IT departments that have not made any progress. I see.   :mrgreen: