An Apple purchase would be sweet as it would get Apple access to BBM and Enterprises, kill off competing Pad. Purchase by MS would mean port to WP7 (embrace, extend, extinguish). Purchase by Android marker would give similar outcome as an Apple purchase. as I see it (aisi)
RIM is right to step wide clear of Android... in that way lies commodity, and RIM's margins and sales are well above commodity level.
Regarding the Playbook, I doubt Apple sees it as a legitimate competitor, and I honestly don't think Apple even cares about the "Enterprise" in that large corporations are difficult customers (they are more stringent about their needs, and can't be dazzled by design as compared to the consumer). Microsoft has already gotten into bed with Nokia, I don't think they can afford to dilute that purchase yet.
I see RIM living or dying by their own OS and platform.
[the crew is on a shuttle descending to an alien planet] Guy Fleegman: I changed my mind. I wanna go back. Sir Alexander Dane: After the fuss you made about getting left behind? Guy Fleegman: Yeah, but that's when I thought I was the crewman that stays on the ship, and something is up there, and it kills me. But now I'm thinking I'm the guy who gets killed by some monster five minutes after we land on the planet. Jason Nesmith: You're not gonna die on the planet, Guy. Guy Fleegman: I'm not? Then what's my last name? Jason Nesmith: It's, uh, uh - -I don't know. Guy Fleegman: Nobody knows. Do you know why? Because my character isn't important enough for a last name, because I'm gonna die five minutes in. Gwen DeMarco: Guy, you have a last name. Guy Fleegman: DO I? DO I? For all you know, I'm "Crewman Number Six"! Mommy... mommy... Sir Alexander Dane: Are we there yet?
I am not able to understand this. They already own USA. Then why are they stealing from something they already own? Well, chalk it up to yet another thing of deep eastern mysticism unfathomable by the shallow western philosophical materialists.
China only owns ~25% of the foreign holdings, which is only 23% of the debt, so basically they own ~6% of our debt.
In the infographic, the "Federal Reserve and US Intragovernmental holdings" is mostly money lent out to print money and Social Security accounts. So the government for the past 30+ years has been spending like a drunk sailor (on wars, and corporate welfare) using YOUR social security deposits, and now wants to cut your benefits to "settle the balance". How nice of them.
I'd prefer they pay back Social Security by running a damn surplus for a few years. Start by stripping the corporate welfare and "loosened tax rates" for billionaires and other tax cheats.
Why would you disclude the Nook Color? It is a $250 7.5" Android tablet. 5gb internal storage, with up to 32 gb expansion, and the same horsepower as the iPad 1.
No 3G option, no Google apps (like Maps, Gmail, etc), no Android Market, etc. I guess you could say there are two markets for "tablets": the low-end and the high-end. At the low end, you have Nook, Viewsonic and Archos models (and dozens of other Chinese knockoffs). On the high end, where most of the margins and consumer interest is, you really don't have anyone cheaper than the iPad.
I know the Nook today got a huge boost, but it still doesn't come with any Google services or Market, though it does now have Froyo.
Asus Eee Pad Transformer. $399 for full model, $150 for optional add-in keyboard and second battery transforming the tablet into a Honeycomb netbook with 15 hours of run time.
And that's just one example. They could get the XO-3 when/if it comes out for a rumored $75 (they're in education, not cutting edge technology, they can afford to wait a year or two if it costs them 6x less).
This product isn't selling yet, it's only been announced. My comment stands.
I guess what we should learn from this is to put your failover in separate regions, not separate availability zones?
Apparently, data transfer between AZs is cheap or free, while transferring data between regions is effectively transmitting them over the open internet, and counts towards your bandwidth allotment/cost, so it's sometimes prohibitively expensive to failover across regions... it would almost be less expensive to just failover to another hosting provider (which may be even more stable than sticking with Amazon).
This outage was a big black-eye for Amazon, as their recommended way to failover was used, and promptly failed for large sites, employing very smart people.
They haven't learned the lesson from Flock, have they?
I just want a goddamn browser, without any of the facebook twitter buttons and toolbars and shit. When I want to update my facebook status, I will get there.
Bbbbut they have funding from Andreesen Horowitz! They make facebook more... face-y. Oh, I give up. This will end poorly, just like Flock. People want the browser-chrome and mechanics of the web to fade out, and let the web content shine.... see how popular low-profile browsing experiences like Chrome and Safari on iPad are.
Only solution is to build out the cell towers, make them more frequent so each cell is smaller.
Yes, that is the solution. However, AT&T didn't keep up with it's users. Instead it CUT it's deployment spending over the past few years, while it's profits and userbase is going through the roof. Why is it that Verizon can have such consistent signal? I doubt it's just CDMA, Sprint's network sucks.
Fact is, AT&T got lazy, and is letting down their customers and partners by refusing to keep infrastructure spending with their increased userbase and revenue. They get no sympathy from me.
[...] At least in America, you are still not required to cooperate in investigation against you.
I'm less worried about short-circuiting my criminal defense, and more worried about plain old corruption. This puts a LOT of power into police hands, they could go on a fishing expedition at will.. especially with those devices that pull out data in 2 or 3 minutes, that's plenty fast enough for a police stop.
Because by going by OS, you HAVE to include, iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad.
No, you don't. Just like you don't HAVE to include HP's printers that run Android, or the MP3 players that run Android, or the e-readers that run Android, or the Sony TVs that run Android.
Marketshare is about platform reach... the strength of the platform is how many units you have access to when you participate as a partner (ie, app developer). iOS gives you many more eyeballs than Android, despite Android selling more phones. Most apps aren't phone-feature-specific, so the iPad/iPod Touch user is nearly as valuable as the iPhone user if you're developing an iOS app.
When you go hyperbolic and start to talk about GoogleTV units, that doesn't really help since those devices don't run apps (btw, I bet there are more AppleTV units in production than GoogleTV units anyway, both run smartphone OS, but no one cares in marketshare terms for now because there's no app markets on either).
The pricing is really well done. The differentiation is either in price ($100 lower than even the iPad) or in form-factor (keyboard dock) but not simultaneously. The reversed scrolling sounds particularly annoying.
The Android invasion so far has only crippled Nokia and RIM (and assimilated Samsung, HTC, and Motorola), but now it's going for Microsoft. If this is a successful product, it's not clear how WinTel will be able to stop the second wave when the other Android manufacturers pile on.
Can't use the tablet while driving, have wifi in the coffee shop while on a driving break.
Can't use the tablet with G3 on the plane, when lucky the in-air wifi is working.
Have wifi in the airport terminal.
Have wifi at home.
Have wifi at work.
That is about where I would have the need for a tablet, so wifi will do, thank you I will keep the $50/month in pocket.
You sound single. Besides some tablets offer paygo data options... once you use an iPad 3G for mapping while your spouse/SO is driving, you'll never look back. $50/mo is steep... but $15 or $20/mo for on-demand months where I travel (probably 3-6 mo / yr) is very doable.
I found that setting facebook to always use https has resulted in far fewer lame apps harassing me. For some reason all the worst ones seem to refuse to work in https mode.
I'm sure this will change. It's not like it's hard to get a free SSL cert. What you're seeing is that bottom-feeders, like spammers, sometimes take a while to catch up to the tech, but once a significant portion of the userbase is SSL, they will start taking advantage of free certs.
Why is everyone parroting the trope that "everything is toxic in large quantities" without asking whether the modern Western diet is above the threshold of excess? Isn't that what we're talking about here?
In short: No. The post in question asks the question "Is Sugar Toxic?"... not "Is the modern Western too sugar centric?".
Besides saying sugar is toxic is ignoring the elephant in the room: most processed foods now don't even use sugar, they use HCFS, which has no redeeming features over sugar other than it's more portable and cheaper than sugar (and then only because of government subsidies).
The article would be more balanced if it considered and compared realistic sweetener alternatives (ie, is HFCS toxic?).
The problem is iPads, iPhones and iPods. The real problem is people that own a home that they can ONLY furnish from Ikea. WTF? We would not allow that anywhere else in our lives.
Really? Try purchasing (from 1995 - 2005) a PC without Windows. Or try purchasing
I posit that your idealized view that we should always have options and freedom of choice (which I agree with) is an un-natural situation, it's only enforced by governmental regulations, international free standards, and group action.
Both consumers and businesses really want functionality (that's usable) first. Folks (and businesses) often don't have time or capacity to actually review competitive options unless the cost of the product requires this (say, home/vehicle purchase for a family), and even then are not very good at it. Competitive options for their own sake aren't usually sought after.
The reason is because this new windows flavor will have to JIT emulate the x86 instruction set for those legacy apps, and do all kinds of calisthenics to make shit happen between native binaries and emulated binaries. The ARM cpu uses less power, but is also somewhat more gutless compared to desktop x86 chips. It will suck hard trying to emulate that bloated dinosaur of an instruction set.
The reason Microsoft has been pushing.NET, C# and the CLR comes to fruition; As I understand it, fully managed.NET code effectively has it's own JIT, devs just have to recompile for ARM. Has Microsoft finally learned Apple's lessons? What next, their move to LLVM based compilers?
At least based on my MS friend's claims... they probably have many such projects (say, like, a fully functional web-based MS office) In fact I'd say this is one of those companies where such innovative ideas usually go to die, as they often "might windows or office cashflows".
Now that windows is threatened, then the skunkworks projects get revealed. The battle for ARM dominance is joined and now there are many contenders (WebOS, iOS, ChromeOS, etc).
Who said anything about passwords being compromised? My e-mail address is now public. Big whoop, it has always been public. If the "public" (don't include me) uses the same password for their checking account as they do their email, shame on them.
A username+password is two pieces of a credential set. With many of these services, one of them is now given up (ie, your email). This is just making it easier for criminals to target you (akin to similar attack reducing the key search space in cryptography).
The difficulty with this thing is that it is NOT suitable (if you read the article) for a hybrid. That's because the engine is unsuited for use as the baseload prime mover. It is only suitable for a full electric transmission with battery storage. Full electric transmissions are expensive and inefficient and, as I note in another post, probably can't compete with plain old Diesel.
Isn't the "full electric transmission" combined with gas power-plant equivalent to a series hybrid? (i.e., the Chevy Volt)?
Series Hybrids have existed long before the Volt arrived, too (though mostly used on large vehicles like trains). With this invention (I'm waiting for the prototype), the series hybrid could be far more efficient and thus economical (couple several engines like this one for increased power generation).
If this isn't a strong case for term-limits, I don't know what is.
Term limits are flawed unless they are tacked on to ALL STAFFERS and LOBBYISTS as well. If you have experienced staffers (who will be or once were lobbyists) and experienced lobbyists (who will be or once were staffers) and combine that with neophyte politicians, you simply make the staffer/lobbyist far more powerful.
The real corridors of power lie in the back-rooms where the lobbyist money flows into DC, not necessarily the vaunted halls of Congress and White House.
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An Apple purchase would be sweet as it would get Apple access to BBM and Enterprises, kill off competing Pad. Purchase by MS would mean port to WP7 (embrace, extend, extinguish). Purchase by Android marker would give similar outcome as an Apple purchase. as I see it (aisi)
RIM is right to step wide clear of Android... in that way lies commodity, and RIM's margins and sales are well above commodity level.
Regarding the Playbook, I doubt Apple sees it as a legitimate competitor, and I honestly don't think Apple even cares about the "Enterprise" in that large corporations are difficult customers (they are more stringent about their needs, and can't be dazzled by design as compared to the consumer). Microsoft has already gotten into bed with Nokia, I don't think they can afford to dilute that purchase yet.
I see RIM living or dying by their own OS and platform.
From the greatest non-trek trek movie:
[the crew is on a shuttle descending to an alien planet]
Guy Fleegman: I changed my mind. I wanna go back.
Sir Alexander Dane: After the fuss you made about getting left behind?
Guy Fleegman: Yeah, but that's when I thought I was the crewman that stays on the ship, and something is up there, and it kills me. But now I'm thinking I'm the guy who gets killed by some monster five minutes after we land on the planet.
Jason Nesmith: You're not gonna die on the planet, Guy.
Guy Fleegman: I'm not? Then what's my last name?
Jason Nesmith: It's, uh, uh - -I don't know.
Guy Fleegman: Nobody knows. Do you know why? Because my character isn't important enough for a last name, because I'm gonna die five minutes in.
Gwen DeMarco: Guy, you have a last name.
Guy Fleegman: DO I? DO I? For all you know, I'm "Crewman Number Six"! Mommy... mommy...
Sir Alexander Dane: Are we there yet?
I am not able to understand this. They already own USA. Then why are they stealing from something they already own? Well, chalk it up to yet another thing of deep eastern mysticism unfathomable by the shallow western philosophical materialists.
The biggest owners of the US Debt are US Citizens and companies.
http://www.mint.com/blog/trends/who-owns-the-u-s-debt-07152010/?display=wide
China only owns ~25% of the foreign holdings, which is only 23% of the debt, so basically they own ~6% of our debt.
In the infographic, the "Federal Reserve and US Intragovernmental holdings" is mostly money lent out to print money and Social Security accounts.
So the government for the past 30+ years has been spending like a drunk sailor (on wars, and corporate welfare) using YOUR social security deposits, and now wants to cut your benefits to "settle the balance". How nice of them.
I'd prefer they pay back Social Security by running a damn surplus for a few years. Start by stripping the corporate welfare and "loosened tax rates" for billionaires and other tax cheats.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nookcolor/?cds2Pid=35700
Why would you disclude the Nook Color? It is a $250 7.5" Android tablet. 5gb internal storage, with up to 32 gb expansion, and the same horsepower as the iPad 1.
No 3G option, no Google apps (like Maps, Gmail, etc), no Android Market, etc. I guess you could say there are two markets for "tablets": the low-end and the high-end. At the low end, you have Nook, Viewsonic and Archos models (and dozens of other Chinese knockoffs). On the high end, where most of the margins and consumer interest is, you really don't have anyone cheaper than the iPad.
I know the Nook today got a huge boost, but it still doesn't come with any Google services or Market, though it does now have Froyo.
Asus Eee Pad Transformer. $399 for full model, $150 for optional add-in keyboard and second battery transforming the tablet into a Honeycomb netbook with 15 hours of run time.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4277/asus-eee-pad-transformer-review
And that's just one example. They could get the XO-3 when/if it comes out for a rumored $75 (they're in education, not cutting edge technology, they can afford to wait a year or two if it costs them 6x less).
This product isn't selling yet, it's only been announced. My comment stands.
I guess what we should learn from this is to put your failover in separate regions, not separate availability zones?
Apparently, data transfer between AZs is cheap or free, while transferring data between regions is effectively transmitting them over the open internet, and counts towards your bandwidth allotment/cost, so it's sometimes prohibitively expensive to failover across regions... it would almost be less expensive to just failover to another hosting provider (which may be even more stable than sticking with Amazon).
This outage was a big black-eye for Amazon, as their recommended way to failover was used, and promptly failed for large sites, employing very smart people.
Other than it being an Apple product, my biggest issue with it is the price -which is largely a function of it being an Apple product...
There is cheaper no tablet out there. Full Stop. After a year of existence, the iPad is still the cheapest tablet selling*
This "Apple is always more expensive" trope needs to be killed, because the facts don't agree.
*e-readers like the Nook and Kindle don't count.
They haven't learned the lesson from Flock, have they?
I just want a goddamn browser, without any of the facebook twitter buttons and toolbars and shit. When I want to update my facebook status, I will get there.
Bbbbut they have funding from Andreesen Horowitz! They make facebook more ... face-y. Oh, I give up. This will end poorly, just like Flock. People want the browser-chrome and mechanics of the web to fade out, and let the web content shine.... see how popular low-profile browsing experiences like Chrome and Safari on iPad are.
Only solution is to build out the cell towers, make them more frequent so each cell is smaller.
Yes, that is the solution. However, AT&T didn't keep up with it's users. Instead it CUT it's deployment spending over the past few years, while it's profits and userbase is going through the roof. Why is it that Verizon can have such consistent signal? I doubt it's just CDMA, Sprint's network sucks.
Fact is, AT&T got lazy, and is letting down their customers and partners by refusing to keep infrastructure spending with their increased userbase and revenue. They get no sympathy from me.
[...] At least in America, you are still not required to cooperate in investigation against you.
I'm less worried about short-circuiting my criminal defense, and more worried about plain old corruption. This puts a LOT of power into police hands, they could go on a fishing expedition at will.. especially with those devices that pull out data in 2 or 3 minutes, that's plenty fast enough for a police stop.
I'm almost there, however live sports is a hard thing to find an alternative channel for.
Don't know about the other players, but AppleTV gets NBA and MLB live games:
http://www.click-av.com/news/2011/3/9/apple-tv-now-has-mlbtv-and-nba-season-pass-live-game-streami.html
Because by going by OS, you HAVE to include, iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad.
No, you don't. Just like you don't HAVE to include HP's printers that run Android, or the MP3 players that run Android, or the e-readers that run Android, or the Sony TVs that run Android.
Marketshare is about platform reach... the strength of the platform is how many units you have access to when you participate as a partner (ie, app developer). iOS gives you many more eyeballs than Android, despite Android selling more phones. Most apps aren't phone-feature-specific, so the iPad/iPod Touch user is nearly as valuable as the iPhone user if you're developing an iOS app.
When you go hyperbolic and start to talk about GoogleTV units, that doesn't really help since those devices don't run apps (btw, I bet there are more AppleTV units in production than GoogleTV units anyway, both run smartphone OS, but no one cares in marketshare terms for now because there's no app markets on either).
The pricing is really well done.
The differentiation is either in price ($100 lower than even the iPad) or in form-factor (keyboard dock) but not simultaneously.
The reversed scrolling sounds particularly annoying.
The Android invasion so far has only crippled Nokia and RIM (and assimilated Samsung, HTC, and Motorola), but now it's going for Microsoft.
If this is a successful product, it's not clear how WinTel will be able to stop the second wave when the other Android manufacturers pile on.
Can't use the tablet while driving, have wifi in the coffee shop while on a driving break.
Can't use the tablet with G3 on the plane, when lucky the in-air wifi is working.
Have wifi in the airport terminal.
Have wifi at home.
Have wifi at work.
That is about where I would have the need for a tablet, so wifi will do, thank you I will keep the $50/month in pocket.
You sound single. Besides some tablets offer paygo data options... once you use an iPad 3G for mapping while your spouse/SO is driving, you'll never look back.
$50/mo is steep...
but $15 or $20/mo for on-demand months where I travel (probably 3-6 mo / yr) is very doable.
I found that setting facebook to always use https has resulted in far fewer lame apps harassing me. For some reason all the worst ones seem to refuse to work in https mode.
I'm sure this will change. It's not like it's hard to get a free SSL cert. What you're seeing is that bottom-feeders, like spammers, sometimes take a while to catch up to the tech, but once a significant portion of the userbase is SSL, they will start taking advantage of free certs.
Why is everyone parroting the trope that "everything is toxic in large quantities" without asking whether the modern Western diet is above the threshold of excess? Isn't that what we're talking about here?
In short: No. The post in question asks the question "Is Sugar Toxic?"... not "Is the modern Western too sugar centric?".
Besides saying sugar is toxic is ignoring the elephant in the room: most processed foods now don't even use sugar, they use HCFS, which has no redeeming features over sugar other than it's more portable and cheaper than sugar (and then only because of government subsidies).
The article would be more balanced if it considered and compared realistic sweetener alternatives (ie, is HFCS toxic?).
The problem is iPads, iPhones and iPods.
The real problem is people that own a home that they can ONLY furnish from Ikea.
WTF?
We would not allow that anywhere else in our lives.
Really? Try purchasing (from 1995 - 2005) a PC without Windows.
Or try purchasing
I posit that your idealized view that we should always have options and freedom of choice (which I agree with) is an un-natural situation, it's only enforced by governmental regulations, international free standards, and group action.
Both consumers and businesses really want functionality (that's usable) first. Folks (and businesses) often don't have time or capacity to actually review competitive options unless the cost of the product requires this (say, home/vehicle purchase for a family), and even then are not very good at it. Competitive options for their own sake aren't usually sought after.
The best use for IE is to download another browser after installing Windows.
You forget microsoftupdate.com... that and getfirefox.com are the only two sites allowed on my IE installs.
Change, or die.
I read the last sentence with the voice of the this old Atari skateboard game, 720 running through my head.
The reason is because this new windows flavor will have to JIT emulate the x86 instruction set for those legacy apps, and do all kinds of calisthenics to make shit happen between native binaries and emulated binaries. The ARM cpu uses less power, but is also somewhat more gutless compared to desktop x86 chips. It will suck hard trying to emulate that bloated dinosaur of an instruction set.
The reason Microsoft has been pushing .NET, C# and the CLR comes to fruition; As I understand it, fully managed .NET code effectively has it's own JIT, devs just have to recompile for ARM. Has Microsoft finally learned Apple's lessons? What next, their move to LLVM based compilers?
So I guess Redhat is going to be popular with some folks in the right-wing of US political spectrum?
At least based on my MS friend's claims... they probably have many such projects (say, like, a fully functional web-based MS office)
In fact I'd say this is one of those companies where such innovative ideas usually go to die, as they often "might windows or office cashflows".
Now that windows is threatened, then the skunkworks projects get revealed. The battle for ARM dominance is joined and now there are many contenders (WebOS, iOS, ChromeOS, etc).
Who said anything about passwords being compromised? My e-mail address is now public. Big whoop, it has always been public. If the "public" (don't include me) uses the same password for their checking account as they do their email, shame on them.
A username+password is two pieces of a credential set. With many of these services, one of them is now given up (ie, your email). This is just making it easier for criminals to target you (akin to similar attack reducing the key search space in cryptography).
The difficulty with this thing is that it is NOT suitable (if you read the article) for a hybrid. That's because the engine is unsuited for use as the baseload prime mover. It is only suitable for a full electric transmission with battery storage. Full electric transmissions are expensive and inefficient and, as I note in another post, probably can't compete with plain old Diesel.
Isn't the "full electric transmission" combined with gas power-plant equivalent to a series hybrid? (i.e., the Chevy Volt)?
Series Hybrids have existed long before the Volt arrived, too (though mostly used on large vehicles like trains). With this invention (I'm waiting for the prototype), the series hybrid could be far more efficient and thus economical (couple several engines like this one for increased power generation).
If this isn't a strong case for term-limits, I don't know what is.
Term limits are flawed unless they are tacked on to ALL STAFFERS and LOBBYISTS as well. If you have experienced staffers (who will be or once were lobbyists) and experienced lobbyists (who will be or once were staffers) and combine that with neophyte politicians, you simply make the staffer/lobbyist far more powerful.
The real corridors of power lie in the back-rooms where the lobbyist money flows into DC, not necessarily the vaunted halls of Congress and White House.