Most of the cost I think is in the user experience more than the hardware. A $500 tablet running android or ios is going to feel much faster than an $400 intel atom netbook running windows 7, it turns on faster, it navigates faster, etc. Battery life is also far better and it can be held in one hand and operated with the other so it is usually more convenient for some functions. I have found for my use a tablet works fine, if I run into a situation where I need a bunch of ports or an attached keyboard I have a notebook to fall back on but my notebook has been turned on 2-3 times in the past 6 months.
This is the same argument that was made when laptops were made affordable, people questioned why they really needed one when their desktops worked just fine. The same argument when cell phones started getting popular, who needs one of those I have a home phone and a pager. The same argument when smart phone started getting popular, I have a pda why would I need all that on my phone. Those who want one will get one, those that dont will find an excuse as to why they dont want one...same shit different technology. I find tablets useful myself, in fact my laptop has been gathering dust most of the time for the past 3 6 months or so since I have had one, for my usual daily activities it does everything I need to and when I come home its more convenient to sit in front of the desktop, but thats just my situation it doesn't work for everyone, it doesn't mean I cant see how a laptop is more useful for some jobs. Thats the beauty of technology these days, there are a multitude of choices and people can pick what does the job best for them, I really dont understand why some feel the need to disparage the choices of others though.
Anyone else read doom and gloom industry and business prognostications with unbridled glee? I fail to see how having technology become so ubiquitous that everyone can afford it could be a bad thing. Yes for technology companies and hardware manufacturers its going to mean a shift from boutique to commodity but for society in general it will be a great thing. Ideally we will eventually reach a time when basic needs of sustenance, communication and shelter are just there and when that happens most of our "jobs and businesses" will likely be long since rendered useless to society. People will be free to pursue their own interests and even with the "lazy" that some now will complain about society will be better for it. Enlightenment and advancement will one day trump wealth and power, despite how many fight to keep it from happening.
It seems all the local offers I get are places that are advertising a % off of a price that is a % higher than their normal price...the 30% or so savings tends to vary from 5-10% to sometimes actually paying more. I'm hoping it just my area where this happens but if thats the norm I really dont see why in the world it has gotten so popular, either people are really gullible or the investors age.
I have business cards but rarely use them, I tend to receive copious amounts of them but usually they get shoved in my front pocket and thrown away with other bits of trash at the end of the day. Normally if I want or need contact info I will just ask them for an email address and put it in my phone but for more formal meetings they are still useful. Lately I have been giving out usb thumb drives with my contact info printed on them, I've had more clients from those than any business cards I have ever handed out, apparently potential client are more likely to keep them.
My ipad experience was what convinced me to switch, i dont do jailbreaking and rooting anymore cant really in my current position so I have to get devices based on what they can do out of the box rather than what they have the potential to do. My desk is currently an android graveyard with a g tablet, a galaxy s, an apad and a rooted pandigital novel, its not like I haven't tried. I'm willing to try again when and if google and manufacturers can get on the same page, as it is, its a great geek platform but nothing I can take seriously for corporate deployment. I do hope it matures and some sort of consistency is reached though it would be better for everyone...google, manufacturers and consumers.
Umm when your the consumer fragmentation is a pretty damn big issue. Lets put it this way I was enough for me to decide to ditch my 8 month old Samsung Android phones a few weeks ago and pick up a pair of iPhones, I would have rather stayed on android but at least now I know i'm going to get support for at least a couple phone generations. I was told I should just buy another brand of phone but frankly I just dont trust any of the android phone manufacturers to not just drop support on a whim after rolling out a new model 4 months later. You can blame google, blame the manufacturers, whatever...most consumers who dont give a crap about the politics are just going to drop them and find something else.
About that grey matter did you bother to use it? You certain didn't read the article you linked to or you would have noticed that there is no mobile standard...there is a protocol standard but its been implemented in over a half dozen incompatible ways.
Perhaps as more of this draconian crap filters down to things average people care about it will wake them up to whats going on around them. My biggest concern about this is that its very vague on "streaming" what about things like slingbox, playon or even home media streaming applications like XBMC or Plex? I rip every DVD I buy to put on my own media server, am I now a criminal?
I do sort of wish that there was some way to make all media completely locked down and as draconian as possible just to see how wildly wrong their supposed "losses to piracy" would be. My guess is that sales if anything will actually go down.
Who said anything about trusting the phone company...my point is that people inherently dont trust anything but are willing to trade their illusion of certain freedoms in exchange for things that make their life easier, more entertaining or convenient. I dont think Stallman is a bad guy I actually got to meet him back in the late 90's I do think he genuinely believes in what the espouses but I think his ideas are a bit utopian at times and simply will not work unless you can figure out a way to remove most of the 7 deadly sins from the equation, as long as greed, lust and envy are in play society will never advance to the level that would be needed for true "freedom".
Would I love to see a "star trek" like society where people's basic needs are met, everyone at least had a decent living and people work doing what interests them simply for the betterment of society...sure who wouldn't (besides those in positions of weath and power now who like the current feudalesque structure)...do I think it will ever happen...not in my lifetime nor in any foreseeable future.
There is no standard for this yet and I would rather see vendors like Apple staying out of it than picking sides and trying to push their "choice", including a non-standard that may or may not work depending on where you shop would make any device that chose a loosing technology obsolete much faster than they already become obsolete.
I have to wonder do many people even really want this? I've had my phone stolen before and it was hours before I noticed, plenty of time for someone to clean me out if they desired. Even with id checks supposedly required to make purchases its shocking how many times I go somewhere and just swipe without a glance using my credit card, any safeguards that could be encouraged would do nothing but make it the same hassle as using a credit or debit card now.
I really think he has a mental disorder, it goes way beyond tin foil hat. While I too would love to dream about a society where software is just created out of the goodness of peoples hearts, viruses and malware dont exist and everyone is connected to the internet....I usually wake up...Stallman doesn't but does very little to address the reality that people still need to make money, people wont just blindly trust other people and people will be willing to pay for a convenience or better experience than their free equivalent will provide. While I respect Stallman's right to live his life as he chooses IMHO paranoia and fear is not a brand of freedom I want to partake in.
What I find funny is he goes out of his way to say that while most muslims are good citizens their clerics are telling them to just ignore the radicals, but couldn't the same be said about the evangelical movement? Why is it if someone is muslim and does something wrong they are a terrorist, but when they are another religion they are simply criminals, I dont see a terrorist label being placed on Scott Roeder, Christopher Speight or James Von Brunn, etc.
Hmm so basically we are saying fuck due process and everyone is eventually guilty of something? I was arrested once for a warrant that ended up being someone else with the same name, it was straightened out in a couple of hours (actually in about 5 minutes but I spend 2 hours in a holding cell waiting for them to get around to me) from what I was told it happens all the time. I wouldn't have a problem with dna samples for felony convictions but this is ridiculous. Its amazing how much of our own personal freedoms some people in society are willing to completely give up in exchange for heightened paranoia and a false sense of security.
“We will continue to make every effort to provide the most powerful, well-designed and productive mobile device to customers,” Executive Vice President Lee Don-Joo is quoted by Yonhap as saying.
A Samsung spokesman told the outlet the release plan for the Android-based Galaxy Tab 10.1 has not been affected, but declined to say when the device will ship.
The ipad part I agree is useless trivia, but the idea that they are finally getting around to writing a formal constitution for the country is news...the 1949 one they refer to was drafted by their communist leaders at the time and their government has changed to a Parlimentary Republic.
Around here we call them puppy mills. You wouldn't believe how many Devry graduates I have interviewed over the years that thought their MCSE and Devry Certificate was their prerequisite to writing their own ticket. I had one get really angry with me when he came back after not being hired, I explained I was really looking for experience over paper and suggested he intern somewhere or try to hook on with a larger firm that had "entry level" positions. When hiring I usually come up with a short "quiz" mainly to get an idea of their troubleshooting skills...this particular guy actually told me "it wasn't in the books".
Because if its the police doing the recording its easier for the recording to go missing or accidentally glitch than it would be if the person being pulled over did the recording.
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Most of the cost I think is in the user experience more than the hardware. A $500 tablet running android or ios is going to feel much faster than an $400 intel atom netbook running windows 7, it turns on faster, it navigates faster, etc. Battery life is also far better and it can be held in one hand and operated with the other so it is usually more convenient for some functions. I have found for my use a tablet works fine, if I run into a situation where I need a bunch of ports or an attached keyboard I have a notebook to fall back on but my notebook has been turned on 2-3 times in the past 6 months.
This is the same argument that was made when laptops were made affordable, people questioned why they really needed one when their desktops worked just fine. The same argument when cell phones started getting popular, who needs one of those I have a home phone and a pager. The same argument when smart phone started getting popular, I have a pda why would I need all that on my phone. Those who want one will get one, those that dont will find an excuse as to why they dont want one...same shit different technology. I find tablets useful myself, in fact my laptop has been gathering dust most of the time for the past 3 6 months or so since I have had one, for my usual daily activities it does everything I need to and when I come home its more convenient to sit in front of the desktop, but thats just my situation it doesn't work for everyone, it doesn't mean I cant see how a laptop is more useful for some jobs. Thats the beauty of technology these days, there are a multitude of choices and people can pick what does the job best for them, I really dont understand why some feel the need to disparage the choices of others though.
Anyone else read doom and gloom industry and business prognostications with unbridled glee? I fail to see how having technology become so ubiquitous that everyone can afford it could be a bad thing. Yes for technology companies and hardware manufacturers its going to mean a shift from boutique to commodity but for society in general it will be a great thing. Ideally we will eventually reach a time when basic needs of sustenance, communication and shelter are just there and when that happens most of our "jobs and businesses" will likely be long since rendered useless to society. People will be free to pursue their own interests and even with the "lazy" that some now will complain about society will be better for it. Enlightenment and advancement will one day trump wealth and power, despite how many fight to keep it from happening.
It seems all the local offers I get are places that are advertising a % off of a price that is a % higher than their normal price...the 30% or so savings tends to vary from 5-10% to sometimes actually paying more. I'm hoping it just my area where this happens but if thats the norm I really dont see why in the world it has gotten so popular, either people are really gullible or the investors age.
I have business cards but rarely use them, I tend to receive copious amounts of them but usually they get shoved in my front pocket and thrown away with other bits of trash at the end of the day. Normally if I want or need contact info I will just ask them for an email address and put it in my phone but for more formal meetings they are still useful. Lately I have been giving out usb thumb drives with my contact info printed on them, I've had more clients from those than any business cards I have ever handed out, apparently potential client are more likely to keep them.
Haven't sexual predators figured out that "they were asking for it" doesn't work as a defense regardless of how prudish the judge and jury might be?
My ipad experience was what convinced me to switch, i dont do jailbreaking and rooting anymore cant really in my current position so I have to get devices based on what they can do out of the box rather than what they have the potential to do. My desk is currently an android graveyard with a g tablet, a galaxy s, an apad and a rooted pandigital novel, its not like I haven't tried. I'm willing to try again when and if google and manufacturers can get on the same page, as it is, its a great geek platform but nothing I can take seriously for corporate deployment. I do hope it matures and some sort of consistency is reached though it would be better for everyone...google, manufacturers and consumers.
Umm when your the consumer fragmentation is a pretty damn big issue. Lets put it this way I was enough for me to decide to ditch my 8 month old Samsung Android phones a few weeks ago and pick up a pair of iPhones, I would have rather stayed on android but at least now I know i'm going to get support for at least a couple phone generations. I was told I should just buy another brand of phone but frankly I just dont trust any of the android phone manufacturers to not just drop support on a whim after rolling out a new model 4 months later. You can blame google, blame the manufacturers, whatever...most consumers who dont give a crap about the politics are just going to drop them and find something else.
He's joking right? The day after expanding copyright "reform" and weeks after renewing the patriot act...fuck you obama change my ass
About that grey matter did you bother to use it? You certain didn't read the article you linked to or you would have noticed that there is no mobile standard...there is a protocol standard but its been implemented in over a half dozen incompatible ways.
Perhaps as more of this draconian crap filters down to things average people care about it will wake them up to whats going on around them. My biggest concern about this is that its very vague on "streaming" what about things like slingbox, playon or even home media streaming applications like XBMC or Plex? I rip every DVD I buy to put on my own media server, am I now a criminal?
I do sort of wish that there was some way to make all media completely locked down and as draconian as possible just to see how wildly wrong their supposed "losses to piracy" would be. My guess is that sales if anything will actually go down.
Who said anything about trusting the phone company...my point is that people inherently dont trust anything but are willing to trade their illusion of certain freedoms in exchange for things that make their life easier, more entertaining or convenient. I dont think Stallman is a bad guy I actually got to meet him back in the late 90's I do think he genuinely believes in what the espouses but I think his ideas are a bit utopian at times and simply will not work unless you can figure out a way to remove most of the 7 deadly sins from the equation, as long as greed, lust and envy are in play society will never advance to the level that would be needed for true "freedom".
Would I love to see a "star trek" like society where people's basic needs are met, everyone at least had a decent living and people work doing what interests them simply for the betterment of society...sure who wouldn't (besides those in positions of weath and power now who like the current feudalesque structure)...do I think it will ever happen...not in my lifetime nor in any foreseeable future.
There is no standard for this yet and I would rather see vendors like Apple staying out of it than picking sides and trying to push their "choice", including a non-standard that may or may not work depending on where you shop would make any device that chose a loosing technology obsolete much faster than they already become obsolete.
I have to wonder do many people even really want this? I've had my phone stolen before and it was hours before I noticed, plenty of time for someone to clean me out if they desired. Even with id checks supposedly required to make purchases its shocking how many times I go somewhere and just swipe without a glance using my credit card, any safeguards that could be encouraged would do nothing but make it the same hassle as using a credit or debit card now.
I really think he has a mental disorder, it goes way beyond tin foil hat. While I too would love to dream about a society where software is just created out of the goodness of peoples hearts, viruses and malware dont exist and everyone is connected to the internet....I usually wake up...Stallman doesn't but does very little to address the reality that people still need to make money, people wont just blindly trust other people and people will be willing to pay for a convenience or better experience than their free equivalent will provide. While I respect Stallman's right to live his life as he chooses IMHO paranoia and fear is not a brand of freedom I want to partake in.
What I find funny is he goes out of his way to say that while most muslims are good citizens their clerics are telling them to just ignore the radicals, but couldn't the same be said about the evangelical movement? Why is it if someone is muslim and does something wrong they are a terrorist, but when they are another religion they are simply criminals, I dont see a terrorist label being placed on Scott Roeder, Christopher Speight or James Von Brunn, etc.
Why not just have someone send you a message?
Hmm so basically we are saying fuck due process and everyone is eventually guilty of something? I was arrested once for a warrant that ended up being someone else with the same name, it was straightened out in a couple of hours (actually in about 5 minutes but I spend 2 hours in a holding cell waiting for them to get around to me) from what I was told it happens all the time. I wouldn't have a problem with dna samples for felony convictions but this is ridiculous. Its amazing how much of our own personal freedoms some people in society are willing to completely give up in exchange for heightened paranoia and a false sense of security.
This really sounds like a failed design where blame should go to Boeing rather than the IEEE standard.
According to isuppli even the cheapest version is making money...not a huge margin but respectable.
http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/Pages/Mid-RangeiPadtoGenerateMaximumProfitsforApple,iSuppliEstimates.aspx
http://mobilized.allthingsd.com/20110305/samsungs-10-inch-tablet-to-ship-as-announced-despite-apples-ipad-2-announcement/?mod=ATD_rss
“We will continue to make every effort to provide the most powerful, well-designed and productive mobile device to customers,” Executive Vice President Lee Don-Joo is quoted by Yonhap as saying.
A Samsung spokesman told the outlet the release plan for the Android-based Galaxy Tab 10.1 has not been affected, but declined to say when the device will ship.
The ipad part I agree is useless trivia, but the idea that they are finally getting around to writing a formal constitution for the country is news...the 1949 one they refer to was drafted by their communist leaders at the time and their government has changed to a Parlimentary Republic.
They have mostly been living without one since the overthrow of communism there in '89. I just wonder what took them so long.
Around here we call them puppy mills. You wouldn't believe how many Devry graduates I have interviewed over the years that thought their MCSE and Devry Certificate was their prerequisite to writing their own ticket. I had one get really angry with me when he came back after not being hired, I explained I was really looking for experience over paper and suggested he intern somewhere or try to hook on with a larger firm that had "entry level" positions. When hiring I usually come up with a short "quiz" mainly to get an idea of their troubleshooting skills...this particular guy actually told me "it wasn't in the books".
Shame on you trying to sully a perfectly good conspiracy theory with facts...this is /. you should know better.
Because if its the police doing the recording its easier for the recording to go missing or accidentally glitch than it would be if the person being pulled over did the recording.