There has to be a reason, for most people, to buy it, right? What it is? Price - no . Battery life - no. Connectivity - haha! Usablity - not even a test editor! Multitasking... everyone remembers Microsoft idea of limiting this to three - can Apple pull out with one? I don't think so.
10 hours of battery life isn't enough?
I bet Apple will get away with single tasking. We were told by techies that all-app multitasking was a must for smart phones too, but somehow, Apple managed to sell a good pile of them.
But to the topic of the article, is this U1 really the answer? I thought the starting price was $1000. If Apple's price is too high for a tablet, then the U1 isn't it either.
It seems maybe India can ride out booms too, not get affected so much by other people making money.
India has been independent for roughly the same amount of time as Japan, a country leveled by the US in WWII. For its recent problems, Japan is still a major economic power, despite having a small fraction of the population of India. India's per capita income is $3100, Japan's is ten times that. Sure, India is right behind Japan in total GDP, the population difference is staggering.
The hard cover price war you mentioned basically got well below the normal "loss-leader". A hard cover with a $30 cover price wholesales at roughly $15, and the store is losing $5 on each book sale to get you in the door, with the eye on making money on anything else that the buyer might get on the same visit. Amazon did lose money on ebooks of best sellers until last week, with the intent of earning a larger market share than it could before.
I agree that the price of ebooks should go down when a paperback is available. I hope that Apple getting into the game will change that, because I don't see enough incentive to buying ebooks if they remain the same price in perpetuity. I know there is a convenience, but if I have to buy a device to read them comfortably, then I'm not going to try.
The problem isn't competition, it's the fact that they're loss-leading on such a large scale. Amazon was trying to buy market share in ebooks so that when the dust settles, they're big players in the game. That's also how they were instrumental in killing untold numbers of independent books stores, there was no way book stores can afford to provide a competitive price. The value of service only goes so far, if the cost difference is $5 a book and you buy a lot of books, then it's hard to support the local store.
Also, what about all the copies of the Simpsons Movie, where Bart was out in the open in the skateboard scene? Somehow, I doubt Fox is going to get prosecuted for that.
When I think of "global pain", I don't think of IP addresses running short, sorry. It was not on my list and still isn't. Maybe it's an annoyance or nuisance to certain affected people. If I don't seem sympathetic, it's because I'm not. It's a problem that needs to be addressed, but let's not resort to self-discrediting hyperbole.
Yeah, a black lacquered cube is not something that's hard to for many people make themselves. The restrictions on it negate any of the novelty that its electronic functionality might have. And seven days just isn't much time to "enjoy" an object that's priced at $2700, and assuming you sell it at the same price, you paid $650 in fees (15% to "artist", 10% to eBay + PayPal fees) for the favor of having it for a week.
The suggestion that it's somehow going to appreciate in value to offset the fees and make the reseller a profit on top of that is an interesting fantasy. Maybe if the resale stipulation was once a year, but that's optimistic too.
To be fair, Red Hat is capitalizing on the work of Linux developers.
Others have noted their contributions, but really, even if they didn't? Support is supposed to be one of the approved ways to make money from open source software. Red Hat can make their own changes for their needs, but they can't lock anyone in because those changes must be made available if they distribute modified OSS software, at least with some licenses.
Besides, the origin of netbooks is varied and fuzzy that "pioneer" is a worthless or contestable claim anyways.
It's nice that they're trying something different. But their vision of a replacement is not likely to succeed, you only need to look at the long history of palm top/ultraportable/netbook/UMPC style computers that were interesting but failed to take the market beyond a niche. Claims of the death of an existing technology from anyone with vested interest its supposed replacement must be taken with a grain of salt, or just flatly ignored, because it's usually just PR.
Anyway, there are people that will believe something despite being presented with facts that show something contrary. Hitler was known to be pretty irrational. He didn't like that Jesse Owens showed up his ideologies, and it still didn't stop him from continuing to cling to those ideologies.
I guess having more than one browser installed is apparently something that would cause the universe collapse. It's not something that really takes much work either, if there's a known bug, use something else until it's fixed.
If it's about the money, then it's probably not directly the lobbying, it's the broken campaign finance system. Businesses can't be legally prevented from contributing to campaigns. Despite being a "virtual person" (I think the reason they're allowed to contribute), businesses don't appear to have the same contribution limit as individuals, basically it's getting the best of both sides of the equation.
How about the testing to get approved for medical use? Validation that it actually produces results good enough to base a medical diagnosis or treatment on? And the limited market that the medical devices get? When you get specialized, niche devices, the cost to get one is going to be high.
It's "war" because it makes great press copy. Makes it seem dramatic. And some people get really emotional about their purchase choices, so they'll go make belligerent statements on the web on behalf of their favorite company, for free.
Chinese alternative history movies where well known US actors find themselves on the losing side of World War 2.
Are there movies like this now? I'm not sure the average Chinese person would want Japan to win in an alternative history movie, given that Japan occupied China, last I recall, pretty brutally. Animosity against Japan is still pretty strong, though again, last I recall.
I think it's surprising that someone into consoles & interested in Netflix playback would still be ignorant of the likely reason why it requires a disc.
I think that a Netflix app is probably on the order of standard game you'd download on the Wii. Video files aren't saved locally, it's all just streaming.
Does Pakistan have satellites? They've had some put up for them, but it looks like it numbers a total of three that have been put up there, and it looks like they're all dead or abandoned now.
It seems more to me they're concerned about China.
If the US doesn't like being part of an international system, then why keep a woefully obsolete, far less accurate system running into 2010? It's like complaining that a new Dell doesn't offer built-in floppy drive. One person's redundancy is another's dead weight. There is still GLONASS running now, even in a weakened state it has to be better, and hopefully Galileo will be up soon enough.
It's been a long time since the last time I've had a broken jack on an electronic device. It's fine if other people want this wireless standard. However, if it means slower data transfer, likely slower charging, adding a bit of weight and thickness, at a higher cost, only to make it slightly more reliable, I'll be a late adopter on this particular idea.
I'm not totally certain what this is, but I already make shortcuts to commonly used Control Panel items and put them where ever I like. I've done it on Windows 2000. Display properties, network configuration mouse settings are the three that I use most, it saves me a couple clicks.
It's an interesting series of arguments, too bad the LHC's name and organization seems to be plugged into the argument to capitalize on the fear and hysteria about something that the LHC will never be able to do.
The LHC is simply not going to be able to make anything that swallows Earth. We know that because countless far more energetic particles hit Earth over a period of billions of years, and yet Earth still exists. The LHC just can't compete against that. The people that think otherwise might as well go watch Plan 9 as if it were a documentary.
For those who try to start a business, think twice. A single tiny wrong move means you will go to bankruptcy, lose your house, and end up bring your family into suicide.
Hyperbole much? Sure, things can go wrong, but it's quite rare that it ends in suicide.
And yes, it's best to not bet the house on it.
Also, China has a bit of a Machiavellian attitude about things, more so than any major power, even the US, IMO. Economic freedom is largely the main freedom there is in China.
There is a difference between "common knowledge" and actually testing and quantifying it to see if it's true at all, and to what degree. The problem with just relying on common knowledge is that it's wrong often enough, but people generally don't know it. For examples, just watch an episode of Mythbusters.
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People with EyeFi cards seem to do well enough. They are WiFi devices in an SD card, which isn't much larger than a SIM card.
There has to be a reason, for most people, to buy it, right? What it is? Price - no . Battery life - no. Connectivity - haha! Usablity - not even a test editor! Multitasking ... everyone remembers Microsoft idea of limiting this to three - can Apple pull out with one? I don't think so.
10 hours of battery life isn't enough?
I bet Apple will get away with single tasking. We were told by techies that all-app multitasking was a must for smart phones too, but somehow, Apple managed to sell a good pile of them.
But to the topic of the article, is this U1 really the answer? I thought the starting price was $1000. If Apple's price is too high for a tablet, then the U1 isn't it either.
It seems maybe India can ride out booms too, not get affected so much by other people making money.
India has been independent for roughly the same amount of time as Japan, a country leveled by the US in WWII. For its recent problems, Japan is still a major economic power, despite having a small fraction of the population of India. India's per capita income is $3100, Japan's is ten times that. Sure, India is right behind Japan in total GDP, the population difference is staggering.
The hard cover price war you mentioned basically got well below the normal "loss-leader". A hard cover with a $30 cover price wholesales at roughly $15, and the store is losing $5 on each book sale to get you in the door, with the eye on making money on anything else that the buyer might get on the same visit. Amazon did lose money on ebooks of best sellers until last week, with the intent of earning a larger market share than it could before.
I agree that the price of ebooks should go down when a paperback is available. I hope that Apple getting into the game will change that, because I don't see enough incentive to buying ebooks if they remain the same price in perpetuity. I know there is a convenience, but if I have to buy a device to read them comfortably, then I'm not going to try.
The problem isn't competition, it's the fact that they're loss-leading on such a large scale. Amazon was trying to buy market share in ebooks so that when the dust settles, they're big players in the game. That's also how they were instrumental in killing untold numbers of independent books stores, there was no way book stores can afford to provide a competitive price. The value of service only goes so far, if the cost difference is $5 a book and you buy a lot of books, then it's hard to support the local store.
Also, what about all the copies of the Simpsons Movie, where Bart was out in the open in the skateboard scene? Somehow, I doubt Fox is going to get prosecuted for that.
When I think of "global pain", I don't think of IP addresses running short, sorry. It was not on my list and still isn't. Maybe it's an annoyance or nuisance to certain affected people. If I don't seem sympathetic, it's because I'm not. It's a problem that needs to be addressed, but let's not resort to self-discrediting hyperbole.
Yeah, a black lacquered cube is not something that's hard to for many people make themselves. The restrictions on it negate any of the novelty that its electronic functionality might have. And seven days just isn't much time to "enjoy" an object that's priced at $2700, and assuming you sell it at the same price, you paid $650 in fees (15% to "artist", 10% to eBay + PayPal fees) for the favor of having it for a week.
The suggestion that it's somehow going to appreciate in value to offset the fees and make the reseller a profit on top of that is an interesting fantasy. Maybe if the resale stipulation was once a year, but that's optimistic too.
To be fair, Red Hat is capitalizing on the work of Linux developers.
Others have noted their contributions, but really, even if they didn't? Support is supposed to be one of the approved ways to make money from open source software. Red Hat can make their own changes for their needs, but they can't lock anyone in because those changes must be made available if they distribute modified OSS software, at least with some licenses.
Besides, the origin of netbooks is varied and fuzzy that "pioneer" is a worthless or contestable claim anyways.
It's nice that they're trying something different. But their vision of a replacement is not likely to succeed, you only need to look at the long history of palm top/ultraportable/netbook/UMPC style computers that were interesting but failed to take the market beyond a niche. Claims of the death of an existing technology from anyone with vested interest its supposed replacement must be taken with a grain of salt, or just flatly ignored, because it's usually just PR.
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Anyway, there are people that will believe something despite being presented with facts that show something contrary. Hitler was known to be pretty irrational. He didn't like that Jesse Owens showed up his ideologies, and it still didn't stop him from continuing to cling to those ideologies.
I guess having more than one browser installed is apparently something that would cause the universe collapse. It's not something that really takes much work either, if there's a known bug, use something else until it's fixed.
If it's about the money, then it's probably not directly the lobbying, it's the broken campaign finance system. Businesses can't be legally prevented from contributing to campaigns. Despite being a "virtual person" (I think the reason they're allowed to contribute), businesses don't appear to have the same contribution limit as individuals, basically it's getting the best of both sides of the equation.
DivX was always a bastard format anyway, from what I recall, it is MPEG 4 video with MPEG 2 audio in a way-obsolete Microsoft-designed container.
If there really is a big demand for it, some other software will support it, or there will be a fork.
How about the testing to get approved for medical use? Validation that it actually produces results good enough to base a medical diagnosis or treatment on? And the limited market that the medical devices get? When you get specialized, niche devices, the cost to get one is going to be high.
It's "war" because it makes great press copy. Makes it seem dramatic. And some people get really emotional about their purchase choices, so they'll go make belligerent statements on the web on behalf of their favorite company, for free.
Chinese alternative history movies where well known US actors find themselves on the losing side of World War 2.
Are there movies like this now? I'm not sure the average Chinese person would want Japan to win in an alternative history movie, given that Japan occupied China, last I recall, pretty brutally. Animosity against Japan is still pretty strong, though again, last I recall.
I think it's surprising that someone into consoles & interested in Netflix playback would still be ignorant of the likely reason why it requires a disc.
I think that a Netflix app is probably on the order of standard game you'd download on the Wii. Video files aren't saved locally, it's all just streaming.
Does Pakistan have satellites? They've had some put up for them, but it looks like it numbers a total of three that have been put up there, and it looks like they're all dead or abandoned now.
It seems more to me they're concerned about China.
If the US doesn't like being part of an international system, then why keep a woefully obsolete, far less accurate system running into 2010? It's like complaining that a new Dell doesn't offer built-in floppy drive. One person's redundancy is another's dead weight. There is still GLONASS running now, even in a weakened state it has to be better, and hopefully Galileo will be up soon enough.
It's been a long time since the last time I've had a broken jack on an electronic device. It's fine if other people want this wireless standard. However, if it means slower data transfer, likely slower charging, adding a bit of weight and thickness, at a higher cost, only to make it slightly more reliable, I'll be a late adopter on this particular idea.
I'm not totally certain what this is, but I already make shortcuts to commonly used Control Panel items and put them where ever I like. I've done it on Windows 2000. Display properties, network configuration mouse settings are the three that I use most, it saves me a couple clicks.
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It's an interesting series of arguments, too bad the LHC's name and organization seems to be plugged into the argument to capitalize on the fear and hysteria about something that the LHC will never be able to do.
The LHC is simply not going to be able to make anything that swallows Earth. We know that because countless far more energetic particles hit Earth over a period of billions of years, and yet Earth still exists. The LHC just can't compete against that. The people that think otherwise might as well go watch Plan 9 as if it were a documentary.
For those who try to start a business, think twice. A single tiny wrong move means you will go to bankruptcy, lose your house, and end up bring your family into suicide.
Hyperbole much? Sure, things can go wrong, but it's quite rare that it ends in suicide.
And yes, it's best to not bet the house on it.
Also, China has a bit of a Machiavellian attitude about things, more so than any major power, even the US, IMO. Economic freedom is largely the main freedom there is in China.
Yeah, this one in particular is terrible.
There is a difference between "common knowledge" and actually testing and quantifying it to see if it's true at all, and to what degree. The problem with just relying on common knowledge is that it's wrong often enough, but people generally don't know it. For examples, just watch an episode of Mythbusters.