I think the actual biggest reason for this is people who wanted a tablet already got a different product from Samsung or Motorola or Apple and they're not going to spend all that money again just to switch. MS came into the game WAY too late.
Also we're at the verge of a netbook-caliber tablet crash where everyone realizes they all suck and stop buying them. They're too fragile, they don't have a DVD drive, they're harder to type on, the screen is tiny, they get dirty with fingerprints, they don't run 99% of software ever written, everything they do on it is designed to cost money, the browsers don't display pages correctly, the battery life is a lie, most don't have USB flash drive capabilities, they don't work with the majority of printers, and it's difficult to do meaningful work on them in any way shape or form. That's actually slightly more cons than netbooks and they went from boom to flop in approximately 2 years.
Day 1. OMFG, the smell. Day 2. I don't know how long I can live on Doritos and Mountain Dew. Day 3. I think I've made contact, they keep saying Boobs or GTFO. Year 3. I'm done, going to the spa.
Wait, you need riot police, armed with guns... to recover a lost phone prototype...?
Crazy.
Tenuous Link from the article.
"Shortly after an officer-involved shooting in which a plainclothes officer shot a suspect who pulled a gun on the officer Thursday night, dozens of rioters surrounded San Francisco’s Mission District Police Station while one person vandalized the police station, according to San Francisco police."
14 people were killed in a cafe suicide bominbg in Somalia too, not sure why Google is not being blamed for than too.
No, that was just a bad battery on a Surface tablet.
So, the H1-B worker, by your calculation, lives of donuts he steals in the break room and sleeps on a park bench? While there are probably some H1-B workers who remit a fraction of their income to their home country, most live in the community like every one else, renting a house, buying a car and groceries, and try to get ahead in the new country. As for the "stealing American's jobs", we graduate some 5,000,000 people a year from US colleges. Compare that to the 85,000 total H1B visa given out annually, less than 2% of the total job market entries.
No actually the ones I worked with were living 5-6 people in an apartment supplied by the company that they were contracting for. I'm guessing there is some kind of company store arrangement which paid back the company out of the wages for rent.
They all would carpool together to their work sites.
Odd, my car club encourages us to not have any passengers and to drive as fast as possible without going anywhere. I spend a weekend driving the same route in a circle over and over and over again and trying to do it as fast as I possibly can.
Car clubs in Great Britain are very different than what we have here.
If you don't use apple maps you probably won't have this problem.
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I think it's more like stockholm syndrome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
For a rant about Unity....
nah, the 'crap' is instantly informative and likewise instantly thrown away.
The stench of Win 8 will linger for literally years...
Nah Windows 9 will be better, Windows 10, thats the one that will replace Windows ME as worst MS OS evah.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/01/us-foxconn-robots-idUSTRE77016B20110801
No Assembly jobs, just robot repair and janitors.
should have used imgur, it removes the geotags
I think the actual biggest reason for this is people who wanted a tablet already got a different product from Samsung or Motorola or Apple and they're not going to spend all that money again just to switch. MS came into the game WAY too late.
Also we're at the verge of a netbook-caliber tablet crash where everyone realizes they all suck and stop buying them. They're too fragile, they don't have a DVD drive, they're harder to type on, the screen is tiny, they get dirty with fingerprints, they don't run 99% of software ever written, everything they do on it is designed to cost money, the browsers don't display pages correctly, the battery life is a lie, most don't have USB flash drive capabilities, they don't work with the majority of printers, and it's difficult to do meaningful work on them in any way shape or form. That's actually slightly more cons than netbooks and they went from boom to flop in approximately 2 years.
Nah that's untrue, Mac's have the same issues.
Cloud storage, and make the exit node a leech off your neighbors wifi.
I wonder if any of the auto manufacturers have considered working with Google and using Android?
Why not just toss a Nexus 7 in? you can bluetooth link with a phone, GPS already in the tablet.
You can also put in a Bluetooth ODBII adapter in later (after about 1996) models.
You must be pretty poor if you think $80K/year is good money in most/any American city.
Probably not in the Bay area, NYC, Boston...
In smaller cities with lower costs for housing, shorter commutes, lower taxes, it's probably fine.
Most people working in India change jobs for better money much more frequently than in the US.
Going forward, technologies like Watson will probably eliminate all the level 1 (Help Desk, Support) jobs worldwide.
Day 1. OMFG, the smell.
Day 2. I don't know how long I can live on Doritos and Mountain Dew.
Day 3. I think I've made contact, they keep saying Boobs or GTFO.
Year 3. I'm done, going to the spa.
Just have homeless/unemployed people at the intersections with digital cameras?
And if not, is there a price break on the original Wii?
So I bought a nice logitech review the month they came out. Lesson learned. Never buy a gen 1 google device.
Corporate Name change expected. Film at 11.
Intel bought them a while ago.
"Hundreds of Billions" over 20 years? That seems to be pretty inexpensive.
Also think of all the jobs for installing/servicing/billing that are being created.
With more adoption of solar/wind/tidal generation, the initial price of the equipment should go down, once
the Chinese market undercutting is "fixed"
The UN takeover of the Internet? Or just a portent of the way things will work in the future?
Clippy says "I see you're trying to access a site that we think you shouldn't. Would you like me to report you to the authorities?"
And the Huffington Post is still down! I wonder what sea water flooding implies for the financial district.
Looks like they sort of tried on Wall Street:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/data?pid=avimage&iid=iB520MWRNVP8
Wait, you need riot police, armed with guns... to recover a lost phone prototype...?
Crazy.
Tenuous Link from the article.
"Shortly after an officer-involved shooting in which a plainclothes officer shot a suspect who pulled a gun on the officer Thursday night, dozens of rioters surrounded San Francisco’s Mission District Police Station while one person vandalized the police station, according to San Francisco police."
14 people were killed in a cafe suicide bominbg in Somalia too, not sure why Google is not being blamed for than too.
No, that was just a bad battery on a Surface tablet.
So, the H1-B worker, by your calculation, lives of donuts he steals in the break room and sleeps on a park bench? While there are probably some H1-B workers who remit a fraction of their income to their home country, most live in the community like every one else, renting a house, buying a car and groceries, and try to get ahead in the new country. As for the "stealing American's jobs", we graduate some 5,000,000 people a year from US colleges. Compare that to the 85,000 total H1B visa given out annually, less than 2% of the total job market entries.
No actually the ones I worked with were living 5-6 people in an apartment supplied by the company that they were contracting for. I'm guessing there is some kind of company store arrangement which paid back the company out of the wages for rent.
They all would carpool together to their work sites.
http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Blinky
Amazon?
I'm thinking the nexus line is more comparable to the surface tablet, mostly since no itunes.
I'm somewhat leery of continued support from Microsoft given their history of Plays For Sure, Zune...
Has identified the limits of server capacity.
Odd, my car club encourages us to not have any passengers and to drive as fast as possible without going anywhere. I spend a weekend driving the same route in a circle over and over and over again and trying to do it as fast as I possibly can.
Car clubs in Great Britain are very different than what we have here.
If you don't use apple maps you probably won't have this problem.