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  1. Re:Nuber not that impressive on Man Who Sold $100 Million Worth of Pirated Software Gets 12 Years In Prison · · Score: 1

    Pricing needs agreement from the seller too. Otherwise, I'd like everything free, thank you very much.

    If that's all you're willing to pay, then problem solved. The product cannot be sold and therefore there is no point in building a business around it.

    Asking $100K for specialized engineering software isn't insane when you consider how much specialized dedication, education and talent may be required. It's definitely not just "coding".

    This is completely backwards. The price of software has very little to do with the costs of producing it.
    The price depends on how much value it brings to the buyer.

  2. I don't see the problem with putting a laptop in a bag. I put my laptop in my satchel along with my notebook and move around with it everyday, there is no problem.
    If you need something small, just pick a small form factor. There are models at 13 or 11 inches, though the latter are sometimes called 'netbooks' (an ipad is 10 inches).

  3. Re:Problem with PC's on Half a Billion PCs To Ship In 2013, As Desktops and Laptops Dip But Tablets Grow · · Score: 1

    Laptops are cheap, portable, silent, generally have a camera, speakers and microphones which gives them built in telephony features.
    They also have keyboards, better screens, etc.

    Basically a laptop has all the advantages of the PC and the tablet that you listed combined.

  4. Do we know what the reason is?
    I still personally have no idea why anyone would choose a tablet over a laptop.

  5. Re:Sacrifice the kids (was Re:Geek Savior) on Half a Billion PCs To Ship In 2013, As Desktops and Laptops Dip But Tablets Grow · · Score: 1

    Surely you can run GCC and vim on your tablet.
    That's all the tools you need.

  6. Re:Hooray for the PC market! on Half a Billion PCs To Ship In 2013, As Desktops and Laptops Dip But Tablets Grow · · Score: 1

    There are lots of reasons to upgrade to sandy bridge. That processor is a marvel of engineering.

  7. Re:Nuber not that impressive on Man Who Sold $100 Million Worth of Pirated Software Gets 12 Years In Prison · · Score: 1

    Pricing software is very easy, it's whatever the buyer is willing to pay.
    If the buyer is not willing to spend sufficient money to cover your production and R&D costs, then that means there is no good business model for this particular product and that you should do something else with your life.

  8. There is a simple explanation to this: 200k is worth more than a life.

  9. Re:Too large to be useful... on Hacker Releases 1.7TB Treasure Trove of Gaming Info · · Score: 1

    You're barely six-digit yourself. I don't even see how what you're saying is relevant to the post you're replying to.

  10. Re:Too large to be useful... on Hacker Releases 1.7TB Treasure Trove of Gaming Info · · Score: 1

    You're probably confusing bit and byte again.

  11. And still no IPv6 on Mobile Devices Will Outnumber People By 2017 · · Score: 1

    So all of these cannot host a web server on port 80 on the global internet at the same time.

  12. Re:Too large to be useful... on Hacker Releases 1.7TB Treasure Trove of Gaming Info · · Score: 1

    Actually, even FTTH ISPs usually only provide 50Mb/s up (100Mb/s down).
    FTTH is of course not very common outside of important cities.

  13. Re:Equality via Exclusivity? on The Rails Girls Are Coming to a City Near You (Video) · · Score: 0

    Of course they have different needs, didn't you see they highlighted the presence of cooking equipment?

  14. Re:Too large to be useful... on Hacker Releases 1.7TB Treasure Trove of Gaming Info · · Score: 1

    56 kbit/s is what you get with dial-up. 512 kbit/s is the minimum of what you get with DSL.

  15. Re:I guess it fails Turing even if prog'd correcly on The Turbo Entabulator: A 3D-printed Mechanical Computer · · Score: 1

    It doesn't appear to have memory, just 3 registers.

  16. Re:Too large to be useful... on Hacker Releases 1.7TB Treasure Trove of Gaming Info · · Score: 1

    Any old copper telephone line supports at least 512kbit/s.

  17. Re:I smell... on Hacker Releases 1.7TB Treasure Trove of Gaming Info · · Score: 1

    Maybe in a divergent future where they prove that P = NP and where rap music is actually relevant.

  18. Re:Too large to be useful... on Hacker Releases 1.7TB Treasure Trove of Gaming Info · · Score: 1

    You probably mean 100kB/s, not 100kb/s.
    It will still take you about 200 days.

  19. Re:I smell... on Hacker Releases 1.7TB Treasure Trove of Gaming Info · · Score: 2

    You can't just decrypt stuff just because you want to. It's protected by the power of math.

  20. Re:Encrypted blob on Hacker Releases 1.7TB Treasure Trove of Gaming Info · · Score: 4, Informative

    The xbox 360 base SDK is 2GB. If you count all extra stuff for Kinect etc. it's even bigger.
    And they probably have tons of other middleware software, some of which could come with their own editing and authoring tools. That alone could account for a hundred gigs if not more.
    Then there is source code. It's not unusal for a piece of software to have sources that account for 500MB, and several gigabytes if you include binaries.

    All in all they probably also have binary assets of some sort, but software does take quite some space on a disk.

  21. Re:Too large to be useful... on Hacker Releases 1.7TB Treasure Trove of Gaming Info · · Score: 1

    It takes about two days at 100Mb/s

  22. Desktop Computer and Tablet on Dell's New X18: 5 Pounds, 18 Inches · · Score: 1

    If the summary was unclear to you, what this is is actually a screen with a computer built into it.
    You can use it as a regular desktop computer by using a bluetooth keyboard and mouse, or you can use it as a tablet.

    It wouldn't be a bad idea if there was a good operating system that worked well as a desktop and as a tablet too.

  23. Re:Not a good architecture for alternate guis on Clearing Up Wayland FUD, Misconceptions · · Score: 1

    Wayland and Weston are separate programs.
    Weston is currently the only window manager for Wayland.

  24. How about on Google Patents Frowns and Winks To Unlock Your Phone · · Score: 1

    Using a set of digits as a password?

  25. Re:MATE or Cinnamon on One Week With GNOME 3 Classic · · Score: 1

    I don't quite understand what you mean.