Will we have enough time to build the machine to figure out the Last Question? That seems like the obvious solution to the problem. Why wait for some random alternative universe to appear, we'll just make one ourselves...like William Bell in one of the alternative timeline.
The "tablet is not a PC" crowd will attack. And then the "tablet is a PC" crowd will counter-attack. Out of nowhere "some tablet are PC" crowd will join, but haven't shown their alliance. The "Apple is evil" along with the "Android/Chrome OS FTW" groups will join forces to fight everybody. Unfortunately, the hills may not protect us from the "Win8 will kill everyone".
woah... the thing only has 4 hours of battery life? I thought 6 is the standard these days on ultraportables and 8 for "tablets". Screw that I'm going back to a regular laptop.
Calibration doesn't help much. The screen is very inaccurate on as you approach the edge of the screen. I'm probably off about 2 mm within 1 inch of the edge.
Except the HP TX2500 series were some of the crappiest laptops I've ever used. We bought 8 of them for the office and within 18 months half of them died. They were hot, the screens were dim, and the stylus was never accurate. Plus, it came with Windows Vista.
It has to do with over provisioning. I figure it's probably 1024 GB with 64 GB for over provisioning, that's ~6.7% which is in line with what we're normally seeing on the lower end of the market.
I remember having a hard time concentrating because of all the cute girls in my classes. I still remember my American history class where I paid more attention to the girl in front of me than the teacher or my Geometry where the cute blonde next to me was very distracting.
Or you get old and come back to a project a few years later. I've seen guys spend a good chunk of time trying to read their old code since it was written by them when they were younger and less experience. Usually, they just end up rewriting it.
Those X-Wings weren't flying very fast and the targeting couldn't hit them with lasers! Lasers travel at the speed of light and you couldn't hit a target moving less than the speed of light? Definitely gov't contractors that built the targeting system.
While you're at it, some ID requirement and checkpoints into vital area like the shield and tractor beam controls. Maybe put at guard or an alarm whenever some vital system like the shield is disabled.
And DirecTV for UFC fights. When your entire company of troops gets distracted by a light saber fight, they're just saying they need better entertainment. A firing range would help the troops relax and maybe just maybe help them hit targets with their laser rifle.
Chrome's been crashing consistently for all my machines for the last month or so: desktop (Win7-32 bit) laptop (Win7-32 bit) macbook pro (Mountain Lion) macbook (Snow Leopard)
I can go days without Firefox or even Safari crashing on me. But I usually have a problem with Chrome dying on me by the end of the day. Maybe it's a combination of Flash/Sling Player that's giving Chrome such problems on my machines.
10,000 pounds for development is low. That's like what 3 guys for a month? Art (sound/graphics) assets get reused. If it was a brand new property, you're looking at a much larger figure than that for anything beyond Tiny Wings. Even if you did it all yourself, how much "paid" did you miss out on? Just because you didn't pay yourself doesn't mean that's not a dev cost.
And don't have to wait for Dell or someone to push out special drivers for a specific variant of an OS to get your computer working if you decided to upgrade.
Can you imagine being a small hardware company in 5 years and you have to do validation: Win7, Win8, Win2013.... with different Service Packs and versions? That's going to be a nightmare.
I'm assuming this is a strategy to push developers to write "Metro" apps and not desktop applications because I'm assuming Metro the validation process is much simpler with "Metro" apps and would guarantee maximum compatibility across multiple versions of Windows.
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Will we have enough time to build the machine to figure out the Last Question? That seems like the obvious solution to the problem. Why wait for some random alternative universe to appear, we'll just make one ourselves...like William Bell in one of the alternative timeline.
I think I remember him mentioning it on "Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview".
Remember Jobs did the same when he left Apple and started NeXT. Maybe he has a new startup doing Blackberry like products better than Blackberry.
The "tablet is not a PC" crowd will attack. And then the "tablet is a PC" crowd will counter-attack. Out of nowhere "some tablet are PC" crowd will join, but haven't shown their alliance. The "Apple is evil" along with the "Android/Chrome OS FTW" groups will join forces to fight everybody. Unfortunately, the hills may not protect us from the "Win8 will kill everyone".
woah... the thing only has 4 hours of battery life? I thought 6 is the standard these days on ultraportables and 8 for "tablets". Screw that I'm going back to a regular laptop.
As far as I know it's part of OS X since Snow Leopard. But I could totally use the Linux support.
Calibration doesn't help much. The screen is very inaccurate on as you approach the edge of the screen. I'm probably off about 2 mm within 1 inch of the edge.
Except the HP TX2500 series were some of the crappiest laptops I've ever used. We bought 8 of them for the office and within 18 months half of them died. They were hot, the screens were dim, and the stylus was never accurate. Plus, it came with Windows Vista.
I need the upload speed so I can watch some Slingbox while on my lunch break at my desk.
There's a lot of shit I bought on Steam that I would love to get $25 for. I'm looking at you DNF.
It has to do with over provisioning. I figure it's probably 1024 GB with 64 GB for over provisioning, that's ~6.7% which is in line with what we're normally seeing on the lower end of the market.
in 1999, I had a 21" with 1600 x 1200. It's 2013 and my 24" is 1920 x 1080.
I remember having a hard time concentrating because of all the cute girls in my classes. I still remember my American history class where I paid more attention to the girl in front of me than the teacher or my Geometry where the cute blonde next to me was very distracting.
I look forward to CES 2014 when there's 200 devices demoing Ubuntu and Firefox OS.
Samsung Techwin makes the K9 Thunder self-propelled howitzer.
Or you get old and come back to a project a few years later. I've seen guys spend a good chunk of time trying to read their old code since it was written by them when they were younger and less experience. Usually, they just end up rewriting it.
Those X-Wings weren't flying very fast and the targeting couldn't hit them with lasers! Lasers travel at the speed of light and you couldn't hit a target moving less than the speed of light? Definitely gov't contractors that built the targeting system.
While you're at it, some ID requirement and checkpoints into vital area like the shield and tractor beam controls. Maybe put at guard or an alarm whenever some vital system like the shield is disabled.
And DirecTV for UFC fights. When your entire company of troops gets distracted by a light saber fight, they're just saying they need better entertainment. A firing range would help the troops relax and maybe just maybe help them hit targets with their laser rifle.
There's nothing more frustrating that having a flaky PSU. It can masquerade as any other computer issues.
Can we make cheese like our ancestors did 7,500 years ago? Then we'll blow it up with some C4.
The processor only ceased production in 2007. There's plenty of 386 embedded systems still running.
Chrome's been crashing consistently for all my machines for the last month or so:
desktop (Win7-32 bit)
laptop (Win7-32 bit)
macbook pro (Mountain Lion)
macbook (Snow Leopard)
I can go days without Firefox or even Safari crashing on me. But I usually have a problem with Chrome dying on me by the end of the day. Maybe it's a combination of Flash/Sling Player that's giving Chrome such problems on my machines.
10,000 pounds for development is low. That's like what 3 guys for a month? Art (sound/graphics) assets get reused. If it was a brand new property, you're looking at a much larger figure than that for anything beyond Tiny Wings. Even if you did it all yourself, how much "paid" did you miss out on? Just because you didn't pay yourself doesn't mean that's not a dev cost.
You also don't paid for Ubuntu.
And don't have to wait for Dell or someone to push out special drivers for a specific variant of an OS to get your computer working if you decided to upgrade.
Can you imagine being a small hardware company in 5 years and you have to do validation: Win7, Win8, Win2013.... with different Service Packs and versions? That's going to be a nightmare.
I'm assuming this is a strategy to push developers to write "Metro" apps and not desktop applications because I'm assuming Metro the validation process is much simpler with "Metro" apps and would guarantee maximum compatibility across multiple versions of Windows.
When they were just "common carrier" they can't be sued for things that goes across their network. Anyone know the legal implications of this?