Federal funding has all but dried up for Primate research. Researchers have found that Chimps are indeed very similar to humans, and testing on them is inhumane. Animal/primates rights activists have won, and the few chimps in federal care are the only ones left, they won't be replaced. There's quite a backstory here that isn't being told.
As great of research Harvard provided, they had effectively built a Guantanamo for apes.
and the laptop's bottom surface is coated in soft checkerboard patterned plastic
Probably one of the more interesting parts of the chassis as a whole is described as plastic, rather than factory made carbon fiber parts. This piece adds a lot of rigidity, strength and shock absorption (if/when dropped on the corner) without adding much weight, and yet he glosses right over it. Resin infused woven carbon fiber is a wonderful piece of modern material science and it's completely ignored. Dell should be praised for pushing materials like this in to consumer products that cost less than $2000.
Hey guys, I did my own non-GAAP numbers for my income, and I made a net profit of $23 billion dollars last year! And I can prove it, I used Enron's old accountants to do it!
Non-GAAP means nothing. GAAP stands for Generally Accepted Accounting Principals. You're only allowed to report taxes/earnings etc using GAAP. Using GAAP means you followed the rules, and conversely non-GAAP quite literally means you ignored all of the rules and made up your own. Really.
To put it another way, GAAP is to professional accountants as ITEF's RFC is to networking engineers.
Always ignore non-GAAP numbers, because it's how marketing drones convince dumb journalists (or worse, Slashdot editors) to publish fake, reverse FUD.
W2000 was a great OS. You can still run TF2 (and by extension, Steam) on it. You're stuck using older, but perfectly usable productivity software like Office 2000 or Photoshop CS2.
There are no distro wars, just RHEL/Cent and Ubuntu. The former if you need stability, the latter if you hate life and need a terrible GUI experience. If you're a 16 year old "linux hacker" then there are more options, but just a few, really.
The good news is that there's no red tape in Texas, and despite Massachusetts marketing campaign, Texas will likely be first in the water.... with a much larger installation. Texas' office of natural resources has an open door policy and are a lot further long...without the need for federal funding.
Yes, and they had a similar screen larger than 1.5" as well, right? I put up with that resolution with my m100, but I wouldn't wish it on someone wearing it as a wristwatch. When was the last time you said to yourself, "I wish I could read a book on my wrist!"
Lots of people wear watches, either to tell time or for fashion, or both.
The big problem with a smart watch is that 1.5" isn't enough space to display any meaningful amount of data, and worse, the context that it's in. I can think of a few situations where reading a ticker tape on my wrist of a short email or text message might be useful, but 200x200 pixels is really only useful for animated GIFs of cats and telling the time.
There's a difference between "acceptable for daily use", "barely works", and "technically will load a YouTube video". The lowest end machines available in 2009 were net books, and they will just barely play 480p video at 30fps
Starting abou 2009-2010 the lowest end computer could play Youtube/Facebook/Netflix out of the box without any upgrades. Those are the killer apps of the home PC experience... and also things that a $150 android Tablet excells at. Your kid can still type up their book report on the old family Pentium 4 from 2002, but a $150 tablet outclasses it in every other way in both features, connectivity and speed for consumer use.
PCs hit a price floor at around $350 due to the size and cost to ship, along with the various modular components. The $80 tablet (not sale price, the MSRP price) is a thing now, in five years the $50 tablet will exist, and people will look at you like you're crazy if you buy a $150 tablet. Google is about to announce their new $149 Nexus 7.
Lots of big, old houses in my city near downtown are populated with 4, 5 couples (~10 people living in one house). 20mbps gets painfully slow very quickly if two people are torrenting and you want to do HD streaming, especially at peak hours like 7-9pm when everyone is winding down for bed.
You must have a pile of money you're just aching to get rid of if you need to keep investing in things that are only "mostly worthless".
Google can go fuck themselves, free email is pretty awesome, but if you can't rely on the services that connect to it to be around in five years, there's no reason why I can't privatize my email on a portable cloud instance somewhere else. I don't even use Google Reader, but it's clear that the idea* that "you can trust your data with Google forever" is dead. Spending additional money for worse lock in than an Apple product? No thanks!
It's not that limited, there are lots of tinkerers, amateur home re-modelers etc that would use this product. My uncle would have used a free version of AutoCAD to design his garage/workshop expansion or his detached chicken coop on the property.
Perhaps as 3D printing becomes more ubiquitous, we'll see an open source version of SolidWorks (which has some AutoCAD functionality) created. Google SketchUp is sort of like a fischer price toy in comparison unfortunately.
We did something like AutoCAD 2.0 on some ancient (even then) B&W screen Mac SE's in 7th/8th grade Wood Shop back in 1995/1996. The core product/concept hasn't changed a lot, but it was neat to "build your own house" back then.
Automobiles used to cost several times the average yearly wage, now they can be had for the poverty line wage level. I don't think 3D printers will drop in price immediately, but as materials science improves and bugs get worked out in the printers, the prices will drop. By the time we're in 10th generation printers, the design will have matured significantly. A PC used to cost half a year's salary, by 2000 they could be had on occasion for $400, now we're down to $250 or even $150 for a nettop, but the price isn't dropping much more due to parts and it's become a commodity. 3D printers will reach that point eventually, but we need to wait another 20 years or so.
The screens in the T430, even the "hd" 1600x900 screen are terrible. Lenovo should be ashamed of putting a 1366x768 panel in a 14" business class laptop. Also, where's my blue enter key *shakes fist*
Ground truth does not always equal what is said on a map. It's hard to read the signs that say "one way" from a satellite photo. It's also a lot easier for someone to come back to america, look at their GPS track and say "yep, there's definitely an entrance to an underground bunker here on this street" etc etc.Beijing is riddled with nuclear bunkers with entrances on to public streets, but they're poorly documented in english. Also, government mapping agencies tend to "forget" to put things on maps. BT tower, tallest building in London for many years and a major telcom antenna platform for the city/country, the address was a national secret, it existed on no map in public record.
That doesn't make sense. The PS2 is still sold in South America with huge profit margins on stable, well vetted hardware. South America has been one generation behind North America with consoles since the Sega Master System. The SMS was sold in Brazil until fairly recently (2012). You don't just discontinue a console unless someone forces you to, there's too much money to be made selling it cheaply in poorer markets.
Your argument stands true for North America and Europe, but doesn't hold water in South America, Central America, Asia (excluding JP) and Africa. Most of the world lives outside of NA and EU.
Because clearly they're not making enough money from it to justify keeping it around, and/or it doesn't fit their future vision of the company? I'm not google, but clearly they have their reasons.
I wonder, why don't they just sell the Reader service? Surely someone (Microsoft? Facebook?) would find it as a useful service and bring them a large installed base. Or alternately, why not just integrate it better with their existing facebook+ service that google has been pushing on everyone for a year now? Killing the goose that lays the golden social networking eggs seems pretty dumb. They also nuked a bunch of neat community features in Google Groups, and I was a little surprised to see them flat out abandon Wave. Absorbing those users in to their flagship product seems a lot more productive than actively driving them to your competitors.
You can buy lithium batteries in various sizes and voltages, when yours wears out you can just buy one off the shelf. AAAA batteries might be small enough to replace a li-ion slab battery, but at a high cost to the environment and battery life.
I wonder what will happen in another 15 years. When the "win95 generation" moves in to upper management and the "relatively virus free win7/osx generation" starts designing and managing their own pay-software.
The current crop of software devs dealt with stuxnet, *worm and all that other crap. They probably dealt with it on their parent's computers, their grand parents and neighbors. Designing secure, web connected software is in their interests.
Will the next generation of developers who entered middle school with facebook already being a thing have the same security concerns? People who survived the Great Depression are typically much more fiscally savvy than those born in the credit era of the 80s 90s and early 2000s.
Does this mean we're going to plunge in to a security trough as mediocre corporate software developers push out crap, insecure code, not knowing how insecure code causes problems down the road?
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The medical term for this is "circling the drain"
Federal funding has all but dried up for Primate research. Researchers have found that Chimps are indeed very similar to humans, and testing on them is inhumane. Animal/primates rights activists have won, and the few chimps in federal care are the only ones left, they won't be replaced. There's quite a backstory here that isn't being told.
As great of research Harvard provided, they had effectively built a Guantanamo for apes.
Probably one of the more interesting parts of the chassis as a whole is described as plastic, rather than factory made carbon fiber parts. This piece adds a lot of rigidity, strength and shock absorption (if/when dropped on the corner) without adding much weight, and yet he glosses right over it. Resin infused woven carbon fiber is a wonderful piece of modern material science and it's completely ignored. Dell should be praised for pushing materials like this in to consumer products that cost less than $2000.
Hey guys, I did my own non-GAAP numbers for my income, and I made a net profit of $23 billion dollars last year! And I can prove it, I used Enron's old accountants to do it!
Non-GAAP means nothing. GAAP stands for Generally Accepted Accounting Principals. You're only allowed to report taxes/earnings etc using GAAP. Using GAAP means you followed the rules, and conversely non-GAAP quite literally means you ignored all of the rules and made up your own. Really.
To put it another way, GAAP is to professional accountants as ITEF's RFC is to networking engineers.
Always ignore non-GAAP numbers, because it's how marketing drones convince dumb journalists (or worse, Slashdot editors) to publish fake, reverse FUD.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generally_accepted_accounting_principles
Always wait for the quarterly earnings report, THAT is required by law to use GAAP.
Apple has been selling $999-1800 laptops pretty consistently since the 90's. Someone page me when apple released a $599 laptop.
W2000 was a great OS. You can still run TF2 (and by extension, Steam) on it. You're stuck using older, but perfectly usable productivity software like Office 2000 or Photoshop CS2.
There are no distro wars, just RHEL/Cent and Ubuntu. The former if you need stability, the latter if you hate life and need a terrible GUI experience. If you're a 16 year old "linux hacker" then there are more options, but just a few, really.
The good news is that there's no red tape in Texas, and despite Massachusetts marketing campaign, Texas will likely be first in the water.... with a much larger installation. Texas' office of natural resources has an open door policy and are a lot further long...without the need for federal funding.
Yes, and they had a similar screen larger than 1.5" as well, right? I put up with that resolution with my m100, but I wouldn't wish it on someone wearing it as a wristwatch. When was the last time you said to yourself, "I wish I could read a book on my wrist!"
Lots of people wear watches, either to tell time or for fashion, or both.
The big problem with a smart watch is that 1.5" isn't enough space to display any meaningful amount of data, and worse, the context that it's in. I can think of a few situations where reading a ticker tape on my wrist of a short email or text message might be useful, but 200x200 pixels is really only useful for animated GIFs of cats and telling the time.
There's a difference between "acceptable for daily use", "barely works", and "technically will load a YouTube video". The lowest end machines available in 2009 were net books, and they will just barely play 480p video at 30fps
Starting abou 2009-2010 the lowest end computer could play Youtube/Facebook/Netflix out of the box without any upgrades. Those are the killer apps of the home PC experience... and also things that a $150 android Tablet excells at. Your kid can still type up their book report on the old family Pentium 4 from 2002, but a $150 tablet outclasses it in every other way in both features, connectivity and speed for consumer use.
PCs hit a price floor at around $350 due to the size and cost to ship, along with the various modular components. The $80 tablet (not sale price, the MSRP price) is a thing now, in five years the $50 tablet will exist, and people will look at you like you're crazy if you buy a $150 tablet. Google is about to announce their new $149 Nexus 7.
Lots of big, old houses in my city near downtown are populated with 4, 5 couples (~10 people living in one house). 20mbps gets painfully slow very quickly if two people are torrenting and you want to do HD streaming, especially at peak hours like 7-9pm when everyone is winding down for bed.
You must have a pile of money you're just aching to get rid of if you need to keep investing in things that are only "mostly worthless".
Google can go fuck themselves, free email is pretty awesome, but if you can't rely on the services that connect to it to be around in five years, there's no reason why I can't privatize my email on a portable cloud instance somewhere else. I don't even use Google Reader, but it's clear that the idea* that "you can trust your data with Google forever" is dead. Spending additional money for worse lock in than an Apple product? No thanks!
*ignoring the flaws in this line of thought
I wish I had mod points for this whole thread.
It's not that limited, there are lots of tinkerers, amateur home re-modelers etc that would use this product. My uncle would have used a free version of AutoCAD to design his garage/workshop expansion or his detached chicken coop on the property.
Perhaps as 3D printing becomes more ubiquitous, we'll see an open source version of SolidWorks (which has some AutoCAD functionality) created. Google SketchUp is sort of like a fischer price toy in comparison unfortunately.
We did something like AutoCAD 2.0 on some ancient (even then) B&W screen Mac SE's in 7th/8th grade Wood Shop back in 1995/1996. The core product/concept hasn't changed a lot, but it was neat to "build your own house" back then.
Automobiles used to cost several times the average yearly wage, now they can be had for the poverty line wage level. I don't think 3D printers will drop in price immediately, but as materials science improves and bugs get worked out in the printers, the prices will drop. By the time we're in 10th generation printers, the design will have matured significantly. A PC used to cost half a year's salary, by 2000 they could be had on occasion for $400, now we're down to $250 or even $150 for a nettop, but the price isn't dropping much more due to parts and it's become a commodity. 3D printers will reach that point eventually, but we need to wait another 20 years or so.
The screens in the T430, even the "hd" 1600x900 screen are terrible. Lenovo should be ashamed of putting a 1366x768 panel in a 14" business class laptop. Also, where's my blue enter key *shakes fist*
Ground truth does not always equal what is said on a map. It's hard to read the signs that say "one way" from a satellite photo. It's also a lot easier for someone to come back to america, look at their GPS track and say "yep, there's definitely an entrance to an underground bunker here on this street" etc etc.Beijing is riddled with nuclear bunkers with entrances on to public streets, but they're poorly documented in english. Also, government mapping agencies tend to "forget" to put things on maps. BT tower, tallest building in London for many years and a major telcom antenna platform for the city/country, the address was a national secret, it existed on no map in public record.
That doesn't make sense. The PS2 is still sold in South America with huge profit margins on stable, well vetted hardware. South America has been one generation behind North America with consoles since the Sega Master System. The SMS was sold in Brazil until fairly recently (2012). You don't just discontinue a console unless someone forces you to, there's too much money to be made selling it cheaply in poorer markets.
Your argument stands true for North America and Europe, but doesn't hold water in South America, Central America, Asia (excluding JP) and Africa. Most of the world lives outside of NA and EU.
Because clearly they're not making enough money from it to justify keeping it around, and/or it doesn't fit their future vision of the company? I'm not google, but clearly they have their reasons.
I wonder, why don't they just sell the Reader service? Surely someone (Microsoft? Facebook?) would find it as a useful service and bring them a large installed base. Or alternately, why not just integrate it better with their existing facebook+ service that google has been pushing on everyone for a year now? Killing the goose that lays the golden social networking eggs seems pretty dumb. They also nuked a bunch of neat community features in Google Groups, and I was a little surprised to see them flat out abandon Wave. Absorbing those users in to their flagship product seems a lot more productive than actively driving them to your competitors.
You can buy lithium batteries in various sizes and voltages, when yours wears out you can just buy one off the shelf. AAAA batteries might be small enough to replace a li-ion slab battery, but at a high cost to the environment and battery life.
I wonder what will happen in another 15 years. When the "win95 generation" moves in to upper management and the "relatively virus free win7/osx generation" starts designing and managing their own pay-software.
The current crop of software devs dealt with stuxnet, *worm and all that other crap. They probably dealt with it on their parent's computers, their grand parents and neighbors. Designing secure, web connected software is in their interests.
Will the next generation of developers who entered middle school with facebook already being a thing have the same security concerns? People who survived the Great Depression are typically much more fiscally savvy than those born in the credit era of the 80s 90s and early 2000s.
Does this mean we're going to plunge in to a security trough as mediocre corporate software developers push out crap, insecure code, not knowing how insecure code causes problems down the road?