I paid $46NZ + $7.5NZ for shipping. This is for the model B, which is a far superior product, the ethernet connection alone makes it worth the extra $12 or what ever it is in NZD.
I do like the idea of having all you computing needs with you at all times.
When on the road (or docked with just the tablet) the interface is "finger friendly" and when docked then it is keyboard + mouse oriented. I don't think the padfone is there yet, but maybe android can be both sometime soon...
I think (and as a linux user it pains me to say this) windows 8 is the only one on track to offer this experience, with classic desktop running in parallel with the metro interface. Once phones have enough processing power to do most of the things that need to be done by most people then I see the death of the laptop market, we will have phones and dumb docks when we need them. The desktop market will shrink but there will always be a need for high power workstations that phones just will not be able to meet
I have found this interesting / disturbing over the last few years...people are "consumers" now, effectively our only function is to feed money into corporate pockets. I find this most disturbing when the news media is talking about something that has nothing to do with purchasing of goods.
No longer are we given the label "citizen" or "people".....are we no longer capable of being producers / makers?
Well thanks to this debacle I have herd of an interesting new game and signed up for the Alpha.....
I also own Oblivion, but I doubt that I will be giving any more money to Bethesda.....seriously mountains???? WTF
I have read about this practice many times...but it still blows my mind.....users in the US allow their carriers to charge them twice for the same service???? Bits to the phone is bits to the phone....doesn't matter if the phone then routes those bits to a computer or not.
I live in New Zealand....tethering is standard practice (I'm posting this from my laptop through WiFi on my nexus), how has this situation been allowed to develop over there?
The same was as the physical act will be made into a crime...
Some officer of the law will ask you to move and when you don't then you are arrested for failure to comply with an officer of the law, which is barely a step away from resisting arrest when you protest that this is a ligitimate protest...
As a Kiwi I welcome more people. Highly skilled software engineers / computer scientists, these are the type of people who make a country grow. Innovation and problem solving skills are what we need here.
Oh and we have nice open country to enjoy also. If you like that kind of thing.
Nice to hear that at least some places in the world wont criminalise people so x-megacorp can "protect" their investment even after it should have passed into public domain
Annoyingly things are priced at "what the market will bear" now what the thing is worth. People have overwhelmingly shown that for movies and music what the market will NOW bear is much lower then it used to be. The execs at the music/movie production companies have decided to ignore this obvious fact.
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If you don't already know
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.co.nz/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html
You should!!!!
That seems a bit high,
..... and wait .... and wait ....
I paid $46NZ + $7.5NZ for shipping. This is for the model B, which is a far superior product, the ethernet connection alone makes it worth the extra $12 or what ever it is in NZD.
Just have to wait
Isn't that sometimes you roll a 20 on your confirm roll?
I do like the idea of having all you computing needs with you at all times.
When on the road (or docked with just the tablet) the interface is "finger friendly" and when docked then it is keyboard + mouse oriented. I don't think the padfone is there yet, but maybe android can be both sometime soon...
I think (and as a linux user it pains me to say this) windows 8 is the only one on track to offer this experience, with classic desktop running in parallel with the metro interface. Once phones have enough processing power to do most of the things that need to be done by most people then I see the death of the laptop market, we will have phones and dumb docks when we need them. The desktop market will shrink but there will always be a need for high power workstations that phones just will not be able to meet
I have found this interesting / disturbing over the last few years...people are "consumers" now, effectively our only function is to feed money into corporate pockets. I find this most disturbing when the news media is talking about something that has nothing to do with purchasing of goods. No longer are we given the label "citizen" or "people".....are we no longer capable of being producers / makers?
Well thanks to this debacle I have herd of an interesting new game and signed up for the Alpha..... I also own Oblivion, but I doubt that I will be giving any more money to Bethesda.....seriously mountains???? WTF
I have read about this practice many times...but it still blows my mind.....users in the US allow their carriers to charge them twice for the same service???? Bits to the phone is bits to the phone....doesn't matter if the phone then routes those bits to a computer or not. I live in New Zealand....tethering is standard practice (I'm posting this from my laptop through WiFi on my nexus), how has this situation been allowed to develop over there?
The same was as the physical act will be made into a crime... Some officer of the law will ask you to move and when you don't then you are arrested for failure to comply with an officer of the law, which is barely a step away from resisting arrest when you protest that this is a ligitimate protest...
Aside from the 24 letters, I wonder how far into extended ASCII (or worse yet UNICODE) they'll get. I claim umlaut.
I know I'm getting old, but the last time I checked the American alphabet it contained 26 letters.
And last time I checked it was the English alphabet....
about 2.8 micro Joules
Yes I care a little bit, the fact that the mac version has to use non-microsoft technology means that it is closer to a linux version.
I could care less about the mac version....but if there was a Linux version that would be awesome
Got to be sarcasm, there is no way we have the tech to build the fibre yet.....let alone get it into space in a controlled way.
NZ FTW ~ http://www.nzcs.org.nz/news/blog.php?/archives/97-.html ~ an interesting article from the NZ computer society
As a Kiwi I welcome more people. Highly skilled software engineers / computer scientists, these are the type of people who make a country grow. Innovation and problem solving skills are what we need here. Oh and we have nice open country to enjoy also. If you like that kind of thing.
Sometimes it is good to be a New Zealander. First it was nuclear ships now software patents. There was recently a really cool ad on tv for steinlager (beer), with Willem Dafoe going on about NZ telling the US to f-off with your nuclear powered ships. it even made it onto the news: http://www.3news.co.nz/Brewery-using-American-actor-to-sell-Steinlager/tabid/369/articleID/82050/Default.aspx
"Religion is bullshit" - my personal favourite http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=MeSSwKffj9o&feature=related
Nice to hear that at least some places in the world wont criminalise people so x-megacorp can "protect" their investment even after it should have passed into public domain
Annoyingly things are priced at "what the market will bear" now what the thing is worth. People have overwhelmingly shown that for movies and music what the market will NOW bear is much lower then it used to be. The execs at the music/movie production companies have decided to ignore this obvious fact.