You and your generalizations... "My" days? What do you know about them? The younger people were bathed in information from early school. Internet, games, social network, tons of tv channels... Too much information kills the information. Now older people were watching the news or reading newspapers at their younger time, and are used to pay more attention to what happens in the country/world. It's not about "my" days, it's about two different generations with two very different approaches with regards to information and how to deal with it. When it comes to something as big as Snowden's revelations, there is clearly a problem if younger people are not aware of what they mean.
Wrong. Latitude is Dell's business laptop brand. Supposed to be stronger/better than the home user laptop. Price, wrong again. With the same specs (SSD+8GB at the time), prices were similar. Yes, most of the Latitude product line was built on the same model. I wouldn't comment if that laptop wouldn't have been that deceitful. And I reply to an AC because I really feel Dell deserves that.
I'd have a hard time to trust Dell re. specs & perfs. Couple of years ago, a not-so-tecky colleague bought a Dell Latitude 15" (roughly) at the time I bought the MBA 13" (and helped her to config etc...). The Dell battery was ~2h (5h MBA) while 5-7 h advertised - the Dell was already much heavier, much thicker compared to the MBA (ok, 13" vs 15" but look at the MBA 15"..)... but the advertised battery life was valid "if you purchase the [ugly] battery extension" that makes the device even more thicker. The build quality of the Latitude was pretty bad - closing the lid makes some noise like the plastic threatens to crack. The keyboard design has been botched up (eg arrow keys near small pg up/dn) and the touchpad.... the touchpad works like hell. The guys still didn't figure in 2012 what a touchpad algo should be.
Don't know about this new model - but I'd be very cautious before purchasing a dell myself.
Indeed. During a Google Code Jam contest, one has to be fast and the prog has to be fast also! During the contest, a lot of devs 1. don't use the language they would normally use for other programs 2. use tons of Defines to accelerate typing 3. don't care at all about readability, maintenance, code-style and the like. That makes the whole program unique in a way, a kind of signature, but hard to read. That identification algo would have a much harder time to identify devs based on corporate programs.
It just goes to prove no one is irreplaceable; not even Jobs.
On one hand Tim Cook was able to pursue Jobs' job. That's refinement of initially very well designed and innovative products. Under the hood, I see annoying bugs that remain unfixed for years - is Cook able to motivate and manage his teams efficiently? Strategically, where is Apple going? An aggressive campaign to get rid of Chrome on the Mac that smells like the early days of Windows. The exceptionally good results of Apple are due to one thing: a bigger iPhone. Users have been wanting that for a long time, looking enviously at the giant Samsung phones for years. Now that everybody has a bigger iPhone, will they buy a new phone in Sept 2015? Unlikely.
Since when companies charge for making cost + x% margin? That's not the way prices are set. A product is sold at the price it can be sold - the higher the better. Many entrepreneurs are still making huge profit selling stuff 10~100x what it costs in China. Apple could sell 20% cheaper - but why would they do that? They can barely answer the huge demand of iPhones worldwide.
To be fair, the ZX81 had only 1k of RAM. So they had to cut through the chess rules. Nowadays they could of course implement the whole game including all rules. But would that be interesting provided that it couldn't compare to that 1983 program?
Just build a CPU that includes Chess rules, and voilà. The assembly code would be merely a call to the CPU chess, or maybe a loop. A few bytes at most.
The fact that drugs are illegal is the true problem.
Aren't they illegal for a reason? Maybe some drugs could be authorized. But addictive and health-destroy stuff are rightfully illegal. One might ask: Is it legal to prevent someone from destroying his own body? The problem is the highly addictiveness of the products. Someone may eventually want to stop taking the drug and be back to a normal life, but he just can't. The drug owns the user.
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Is there any price difference compared to the same hw with Windows?
You and your generalizations... "My" days? What do you know about them? The younger people were bathed in information from early school. Internet, games, social network, tons of tv channels... Too much information kills the information. Now older people were watching the news or reading newspapers at their younger time, and are used to pay more attention to what happens in the country/world. It's not about "my" days, it's about two different generations with two very different approaches with regards to information and how to deal with it. When it comes to something as big as Snowden's revelations, there is clearly a problem if younger people are not aware of what they mean.
Nowadays younger people - Internet generation - is less interested in news than older people. Or they just care less.
In India, she would get peanuts.
Not really.
Mostly?
Really?
Put OpenWrt on it and problem over.
Wrong. Latitude is Dell's business laptop brand. Supposed to be stronger/better than the home user laptop. Price, wrong again. With the same specs (SSD+8GB at the time), prices were similar. Yes, most of the Latitude product line was built on the same model. I wouldn't comment if that laptop wouldn't have been that deceitful. And I reply to an AC because I really feel Dell deserves that.
er, last time I checked, 100,000 hours is 11 years.
Oh you check that a lot?
And in a few years, the "broadband" definition will change again? They should find a new word instead - or add some extension, like "+" or "2" ...
I'd have a hard time to trust Dell re. specs & perfs. Couple of years ago, a not-so-tecky colleague bought a Dell Latitude 15" (roughly) at the time I bought the MBA 13" (and helped her to config etc...). The Dell battery was ~2h (5h MBA) while 5-7 h advertised - the Dell was already much heavier, much thicker compared to the MBA (ok, 13" vs 15" but look at the MBA 15"..) ... but the advertised battery life was valid "if you purchase the [ugly] battery extension" that makes the device even more thicker. The build quality of the Latitude was pretty bad - closing the lid makes some noise like the plastic threatens to crack. The keyboard design has been botched up (eg arrow keys near small pg up/dn) and the touchpad .... the touchpad works like hell. The guys still didn't figure in 2012 what a touchpad algo should be.
Don't know about this new model - but I'd be very cautious before purchasing a dell myself.
Ouf of 130+ comments, how many are just to talk about what the heck that acronym is -a lot.
Indeed. During a Google Code Jam contest, one has to be fast and the prog has to be fast also! During the contest, a lot of devs 1. don't use the language they would normally use for other programs 2. use tons of Defines to accelerate typing 3. don't care at all about readability, maintenance, code-style and the like. That makes the whole program unique in a way, a kind of signature, but hard to read. That identification algo would have a much harder time to identify devs based on corporate programs.
Actually a bit newer than you, 244 precisely.
Seriously, who even sees ads anymore?
People using iPhones and iPads.
I had to google IoT....
Well, you could also have clicked on the link in TFA, for a change!
To be fair, Slashdot titles cannot be longer than a few chars. Like we're in 1992
Flashback from the 90's: Telnet and X11 are inherently insecure - where's the news in that?
We're still expecting X12 any time now.
The news is that nobody uses telnet anymore (ssh), while X11..
It just goes to prove no one is irreplaceable; not even Jobs.
On one hand Tim Cook was able to pursue Jobs' job. That's refinement of initially very well designed and innovative products. Under the hood, I see annoying bugs that remain unfixed for years - is Cook able to motivate and manage his teams efficiently? Strategically, where is Apple going? An aggressive campaign to get rid of Chrome on the Mac that smells like the early days of Windows. The exceptionally good results of Apple are due to one thing: a bigger iPhone. Users have been wanting that for a long time, looking enviously at the giant Samsung phones for years. Now that everybody has a bigger iPhone, will they buy a new phone in Sept 2015? Unlikely.
That means your device could be 20% cheaper.
Since when companies charge for making cost + x% margin? That's not the way prices are set. A product is sold at the price it can be sold - the higher the better. Many entrepreneurs are still making huge profit selling stuff 10~100x what it costs in China. Apple could sell 20% cheaper - but why would they do that? They can barely answer the huge demand of iPhones worldwide.
To be fair, the ZX81 had only 1k of RAM. So they had to cut through the chess rules. Nowadays they could of course implement the whole game including all rules. But would that be interesting provided that it couldn't compare to that 1983 program?
Just build a CPU that includes Chess rules, and voilà. The assembly code would be merely a call to the CPU chess, or maybe a loop. A few bytes at most.
The fact that drugs are illegal is the true problem.
Aren't they illegal for a reason? Maybe some drugs could be authorized. But addictive and health-destroy stuff are rightfully illegal. One might ask: Is it legal to prevent someone from destroying his own body? The problem is the highly addictiveness of the products. Someone may eventually want to stop taking the drug and be back to a normal life, but he just can't. The drug owns the user.