I don't know if BlackHat conference is the right place to find out what the black hats are planning, they should go to at least DefCon for that. I think it's the former - they're just trying to pretend that they do security by flashing their name in front of predominantly business audience that comprises BlackHat today. It's good for selling iPhones to executives.
Okay...so that link, if you notice, wouldn't even work. (Try it and see for yourself if you like.)
That link is to a server on a local network, to which attendees (if they're dumb enough to use an electronic device, connected to a network, to check their email, while at BlackHat) could have been connected during the conference.
I don't want a bigger screen, I want a good phone with a solid hardware keyboard. As of right now there is virtually no alternatives to BlackBerry Bold 9900 or maybe Droid Pro (slide out keyboards don't count, they're barely better than on-screen ones and make the device size balloon even worse than large screens)... I'm sure majority of consumers want to watch videos and play videogames on their mobile devices - I want to keep using mine for communicating and a hardware keyboard just cannot be beat.
I know, right. By show of hands - who here no longer owns a PC and uses a keyboardless tablet for everything? Those of you using Bluetooth keyboards on your tablet - put your hands down, you're just lying to yourself for the sake of being with the hip crowd.
Every year on the dot, but the review has a form of self-assessment, where you provide your own performance rankings and your manager than either agrees or adjusts them. Result of the review can affect your annual cost of living increase by +/- 1.5% which is pretty pretty miniscule, considering the actual inflation rates, so the whole exercise is rather pointless.
If somebody told me that was going to happen in 2007, I would have called them crazy. "RIM's stupid, but they're not bloody stark-raving incompetent morons...." And I would have been wrong.
I started getting my suspicions when they released Storm and Playbook. My suspicions are being confirmed by them not releasing a hardware-keyboard based BB10 device when, and if, the release first happens.
In their blind obsession with killing the great white Apple, they seem to have completely discarded what they were good at...
well we could take it to the next logical step, What about blind people? we need to make sure blind people can access the internet and "watch" their videos as well!
I am all for "fair access" but if the CC was not made available by the content maker, than how is it netflixes fault for not having them? Shouldnt the judge be charging the movie maker for not providing CC to begin with??
Agreed. Why stop at Netflix? Charge the internet service providers for not having the CC on the Netflix movies watched through their connections... in fact, go after screen manufacturers, since their screens don't provide CC for content watched...
Not to mention that I'm sure both Google and Microsoft employ plenty of minimum wage workers...
Actually Google singlehandedly raised the "minimum wage" across the Silicon Valley back in the day with all other tech giants having to catch up to avoid losing talent... don't sound so bitter man...
Perhaps, assuming they will use it 24x7x365... Have you ever heard of a 24x7 restaurant that isn't a fastfood chain? Instead of spreading FUD - Amazon offers a handy calculator that can be used to see the cost of your specific requirement, just pick the Amazon RDS tab on the left https://s3.amazonaws.com/calculator/calc5.html
Oh, no the dust will instead build up in the thousandth of an inch gap between the spinny part and the CPU:) Completely different set of problems than what you're used to dealing with! Have fun cleaning that out:)
Yep. No market pressures to lower the price. Sucks if you don't have or can't get insurance.
Am I the only one that read this as two completely contradicting statements? Surely, you must see the logic that if there are people forced into paying out of pocket to hear, that there is some market pressure to make lower priced hearing aids!
Not as long as they're a minority. And even then - think about it this way - if you have a 100 patients needing one and only half have insurance... would you still rather sell 50 hearing aids at $3,000 each or 100 at $500 each? Plus it's not like some startup can easily flood the market with cheap alternatives either - hearing aids are Class I regulated medical devices... I can only imagine the amount of bureaucracy that must be involved to obtaining that classification.
My 20 dollar white sonys from walmart are excellent. Dont know the model # off hand. But like I said 20 bones walmart.
As much as I loathe Sony, I have to agree - I've had a pair of their earbuds for years, I don't even remember where and when I got them... and they still work like a charm and have great sound.
Why do most of the top comments have to be about bashing Apple? It's not news that they have questionable business practices. I, for one, am glad someone put out a laptop screen with this resolution in an industry that has just settled for 1900x1080 max years ago and doesn't seem to be very interested in changing it any time soon. Maybe now they'll be forced too.
Fine by me but I'll wait until someone puts one of those screen in a laptop that actually lets me replace broken parts and upgrade the ram and disk.
My thoughts exactly. The hardware is fantastic, but being packed in an equivalent of a blister pack really doesn't fly for me. I don't know about failing batteries, but every laptop I've owned had dust/fan problems (may have something to do with the apartment building I'm in, I don't know) and not being able to open one up to clean/replace those is a concern for me.
Sounds like a laptop equivalent of German vehicles, for people who just want them to drive, and take them in for service when the light tells them to, but couldn't care less for actually knowing why the wheels spin.
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Right. I guess "Hi I'm an iPhone, and I'm a Samsung Galaxy III" advertisements hit a snag with all the same features being there :)
I don't know if BlackHat conference is the right place to find out what the black hats are planning, they should go to at least DefCon for that. I think it's the former - they're just trying to pretend that they do security by flashing their name in front of predominantly business audience that comprises BlackHat today. It's good for selling iPhones to executives.
Okay...so that link, if you notice, wouldn't even work. (Try it and see for yourself if you like.)
That link is to a server on a local network, to which attendees (if they're dumb enough to use an electronic device, connected to a network, to check their email, while at BlackHat) could have been connected during the conference.
There is a version of Galaxy S with a slide out keyboard... at least from Rogers in Canada. It's an older one, but it exists.
I don't want a bigger screen, I want a good phone with a solid hardware keyboard. As of right now there is virtually no alternatives to BlackBerry Bold 9900 or maybe Droid Pro (slide out keyboards don't count, they're barely better than on-screen ones and make the device size balloon even worse than large screens)... I'm sure majority of consumers want to watch videos and play videogames on their mobile devices - I want to keep using mine for communicating and a hardware keyboard just cannot be beat.
I know, right. By show of hands - who here no longer owns a PC and uses a keyboardless tablet for everything? Those of you using Bluetooth keyboards on your tablet - put your hands down, you're just lying to yourself for the sake of being with the hip crowd.
Every year on the dot, but the review has a form of self-assessment, where you provide your own performance rankings and your manager than either agrees or adjusts them. Result of the review can affect your annual cost of living increase by +/- 1.5% which is pretty pretty miniscule, considering the actual inflation rates, so the whole exercise is rather pointless.
Finally some practical application that may be used to justify the artificial cost of diamonds.
If somebody told me that was going to happen in 2007, I would have called them crazy. "RIM's stupid, but they're not bloody stark-raving incompetent morons...." And I would have been wrong.
I started getting my suspicions when they released Storm and Playbook. My suspicions are being confirmed by them not releasing a hardware-keyboard based BB10 device when, and if, the release first happens.
In their blind obsession with killing the great white Apple, they seem to have completely discarded what they were good at...
Pfft. Motorola had Six Sigma and that didn't stop them from tanking their profits...
Wow, you don't even try to pretend that these are articles anymore... features, price, everything... only thing missing is a "Click to buy" link.
At some point iPhone wasn't even a blip on the RIM's radar...
People must be blind if they can't see how much current intellectual property regulations are stifling innovation.
Get the new eyePhone from MOM!
Soldiers are trained to obey orders. I wouldn't bet your life on "US soldiers won't fire upon US civilians", since they've happily done so before.
They get paid. It's a job. 'Nuff said.
And your politicians have nukes.
And large commercial aircraft to crash into things... Just saying.
well we could take it to the next logical step, What about blind people? we need to make sure blind people can access the internet and "watch" their videos as well! I am all for "fair access" but if the CC was not made available by the content maker, than how is it netflixes fault for not having them? Shouldnt the judge be charging the movie maker for not providing CC to begin with??
Agreed. Why stop at Netflix? Charge the internet service providers for not having the CC on the Netflix movies watched through their connections... in fact, go after screen manufacturers, since their screens don't provide CC for content watched...
P.S. YouTube is screwed.
How does it stick to fan blades?
Not to mention that I'm sure both Google and Microsoft employ plenty of minimum wage workers...
Actually Google singlehandedly raised the "minimum wage" across the Silicon Valley back in the day with all other tech giants having to catch up to avoid losing talent... don't sound so bitter man...
Perhaps, assuming they will use it 24x7x365... Have you ever heard of a 24x7 restaurant that isn't a fastfood chain? Instead of spreading FUD - Amazon offers a handy calculator that can be used to see the cost of your specific requirement, just pick the Amazon RDS tab on the left https://s3.amazonaws.com/calculator/calc5.html
If you can't afford the infrastructure, rent a cloud server and charge it as recurring business expense.
Oh, no the dust will instead build up in the thousandth of an inch gap between the spinny part and the CPU :) Completely different set of problems than what you're used to dealing with! Have fun cleaning that out :)
If you've ever taken apart a Macbook, you should know they never go back quite the same way after... all them little tabs and clips you have to pry...
Yep. No market pressures to lower the price. Sucks if you don't have or can't get insurance.
Am I the only one that read this as two completely contradicting statements? Surely, you must see the logic that if there are people forced into paying out of pocket to hear, that there is some market pressure to make lower priced hearing aids!
Not as long as they're a minority. And even then - think about it this way - if you have a 100 patients needing one and only half have insurance... would you still rather sell 50 hearing aids at $3,000 each or 100 at $500 each? Plus it's not like some startup can easily flood the market with cheap alternatives either - hearing aids are Class I regulated medical devices... I can only imagine the amount of bureaucracy that must be involved to obtaining that classification.
My 20 dollar white sonys from walmart are excellent. Dont know the model # off hand. But like I said 20 bones walmart.
As much as I loathe Sony, I have to agree - I've had a pair of their earbuds for years, I don't even remember where and when I got them... and they still work like a charm and have great sound.
Why do most of the top comments have to be about bashing Apple? It's not news that they have questionable business practices. I, for one, am glad someone put out a laptop screen with this resolution in an industry that has just settled for 1900x1080 max years ago and doesn't seem to be very interested in changing it any time soon. Maybe now they'll be forced too.
Fine by me but I'll wait until someone puts one of those screen in a laptop that actually lets me replace broken parts and upgrade the ram and disk.
My thoughts exactly. The hardware is fantastic, but being packed in an equivalent of a blister pack really doesn't fly for me. I don't know about failing batteries, but every laptop I've owned had dust/fan problems (may have something to do with the apartment building I'm in, I don't know) and not being able to open one up to clean/replace those is a concern for me.
Sounds like a laptop equivalent of German vehicles, for people who just want them to drive, and take them in for service when the light tells them to, but couldn't care less for actually knowing why the wheels spin.