It reflects poorly that there is such entitlement among the educated in India to deserve admittance to the US. Why not stay and enrich your own society and help raise it to first world status?
On the other hand, it probably reflects poorly that many US citizens are more comfortable with a foreigner fixing their computers than their kids.
No slight towards you, but the respect is at least partially because you are closer to the 20-somethings grandparents age than their fathers. It's pretty common for someone in their early 20s at least to still have a bit of rebellion against their father's / mother's ways "and new way this, modern way that" and project such attitudes on anyone 30-50 years. At your age, you're actually beyond their ability to be scourgy little d-bags around.
On the other hand, you might work at a company (or country) were the culture doesn't allow childishness to fester.
This isn't the first time Microsoft has added a patent with no intentions to use it to their portfolio. Wasn't there another zany patent for some kind of TV content control which Microsoft obtained a few months back.
It almost seems like a battle chest to troll the content companies.
Samsung's ultra-thin flexible AMOLED to the rescue. Take a 4:3 screen, pull the tabs out on each side for triple headed laptop goodness....
It's always funny to listen to Samsung hate (not usually here at/.) when you know they are incubating a great deal of the tech we will see implemented over the next 5-10 years in amazing ways.
It's really hard to pick a Mara Jade from that list you b*stard. On one hand, Glau has the grace to do some exceptional fight scenes. On the other hand, Dushku's voice and build are a superior match to the personality.
The whole point you are making happened many years ago, arguably before Steve came back. Every "innovation" Apple has had over the past ten years was someone else's idea given just enough refinement and advertising to get consumers to like it.
Smartphone, that was IBM, Microsoft, Sony, and RIM long before Apple. Apple just managed to consumerize ideas from the corporate tool world. The same goes for tablets. Microsoft never moved their primary UI to be compatible before now with touch and stylus interaction, but Gates kept evangelizing the concept until Jobs actually went and had a regular OS trimmed and locked down to where touch was easy for the uninitiated. Even the iPod was nowhere near the first or best MP3 player, but Apple managed to leverage iTunes and advertising, never superior hardware, to sell lots of hardware. Ultrabook (MBA)? Fujitsu, Sony, NEC, and Toshiba had powerful fully spec'd ultra compact laptops available overseas for 5 or 6 years prior (Dynamism was the primary importer for US buyers).
Apple is not losing their edge, they are simply having to compete now that other OEMs and software developers have had time to develop consumer, rather than professionally oriented products, in markets which have been gestating for several years. Apple has never done well competing on even ground.
It's biggest problem isn't the fact that their virus definitions miss the most virii, worms, and malware of any that I have used. It's the fact that their software tends to kludge up a system and break compatibility all to frequently. Then there are the times when it does find a virus, and instead of removing it, just pegs the CPU at 100% and does nothing to stop the problem. I would find this last situation reasonable with some virus truly hardcore at ripping out AV, but I was able to remove the last one by just deleting the cached.exe from the system and rebooting. Sucked that it took 10 minutes to get that far because the McAfee processes made the system slow as a 386.
Intel made a bad buy. Even Microsoft had the foresight to just start fresh and develop AV on their own instead of buying a pile of steaming poo to polish. I've felt bad for most of the companies McAfee has bought out in the past. Too often the response to support requests is, "Buy the new McAfee edition of the product you already own." even when McAfee hasn't held the company long enough to have gotten farther than the rebranding process.
I'm on board with the books argument. If you want to split the difference, find the best spec'd ThinkPad (for durability) on Craigslist under $200, easily Core 2 architecture if you are in a major metropolitan area. Spend the rest at Half-Price books or similar used book store.
Also, take them to the library if they have a topic of interest. By 8 or so I was already building model rockets and by 11 or 12 implementing aerodynamics from Harry G. Stine's Handbook of Model Rocketry that I had found at the library.
Ah, yes, the commercially grown California strawberry. Has more in common with a radish than a strawberry with the ridiculous watering pattern they use to make them huge, full of starch, and excess water. Size / yield optimizing watering cycles are another thing many organic farmers don't follow with the rigor of industrial farms either (they do, but for flavor and fruit maturity over size more often). For many fruits and vegetables, custom watering cycles create some of the odd sized, extreme water weight fruits and vegetables you get at a regular market.
Real strawberries, as nature intended them are the size of you thumb from tip to first joint. Really flavorful tart and sweet ones, the size of your pinky toe. It's supposed to be a berry, not a vine squash.
When I buy organic it is for better taste, and there are plenty of foods I don't spend the extra $$ on because their is little or no difference in the flavor profile. The ones where the growing cycle, picking cycle, or processing has been executed in a manner which produces superior flavor, I will buy all day.
Yes, but Samsung just dropped $4B more into the US economy... Asians who outsource here!
Meanwhile, Apple, a US company, chooses to take all of the business they can away from Samsung, and over to others in China. At the same time, many of their Chinese vendors have openly complained that Apple uses it's bargaining power to force lower margins, to the point of short term losses at times, than they would otherwise negotiate. Apple has so few people employed in R&D that one of their more recent job postings was for an engineer to design dock connectors. How can they not have several in house engineers waiting for work??? Besides marketing, the only "real" jobs they keep in the US are R&D... Apple store clerk and phone support counts about as much as saying McDonald's is a major employer of college grads.
So yeah, Samsung does their production globally including lots in China, but they make sure they stimulate the economies everywhere they go, playing to each locality's strengths. Frankly, they are acting very responsibly within the context of a global economy.
I've had a doctor recommend those before (who wasn't a quack). They are labeled as homeopathic, but are really more closely related to natural medicine. Rather than some crazy water diluted tincture, they are a bit oily and have constituents of therapeutic value. No strong antibiotics like prescriptions, but just moisturizing your skin helps a lot with infections and ailments near the skin. Similar to the way Melem (beeswax and oil mixture) is better than and Vaseline is about equal to triple antibiotic at helping cuts heal faster.
Matrox also does a good amount of business providing barebones 2D chips to OEMs for servers, namely, IBM and some to SuperMicro. They stick around in that market because their ancient G200 drivers are still beyond reproach for providing.99999+ uptime.
Also, you can't really fault them for going purely into video editing and multi-headed systems as they couldn't keep up on 3D performance. nVidia barely figured out how to run more than 2 displays in the last year, and AMD can barely manage 3+. Matrox has been powering N number of displays from one chip for what, 10 years or so.
I could actually see Matrox getting back into the consumer market with a little licensing of Mali or similar technology. Their commitment to quality was their biggest failing in the consumer market. They were never willing to rush things out the door half baked while ATi and nVidia have dumped generation after generation with some retarded, but avoidable flaw after another.
Can't Microsoft just wait Apple out. Seriously, the iPhone and iPad are out of steam and new tricks they can do. Android has caught up. Surface + Windows RT/8 will completely end the Bring Your Own Toy problem in the corporate world, and probably knock it out of the park with consumers.
Apple's decline will start in earnest in a little over 12 months. Stock price will begin to nosedive a couple quarters after that. There are not any new tech fields they can push into either to get themselves out of this which will be out of academic research for another 24-48 months (flexible displays, wearable computing, implants, etc...).
The possible exception is Apple's clone of Google Glass, but I suspect without anything truly novel to add to the version of iOS it would run, that Android and Windows RT goggles will both beat them to market and be incredibly cheaper and more complete.
What those numbers don't account for is the huge numbers that try a game a couple hours and then quit because it wasn't worth the time or the money. Nobody trusts demos anymore because they are loaded with extra advertising, DRM, and frequently give away the only level of the game with any effort put into it.
They also don't account for the pirate today, buy it on sale crowd. I'm sure Steam's Summer and Holiday sales weeks numbers would corroborate this if we had numbers of pirate game installs corresponding to purchased games.
It's amazing to see the amount of anger provoked from an interface that you should only see an average of 5 minutes total in a day if you are remotely productive.
Indeed, I find parent comment true regarding interest in the work performed.
Most people have a 2-3 hour productivity peak each day. If I am engrossed with a topic of work, I can definitely have several highly productive hours well beyond this expectation. Frankly, this boils down to an optimal recipe. Require me to work 4 hours a day on the basis that when I am truly needed or being exceptionally productive, and I will work 10+ hours at a stretch.
Everyday at 12-15 hours, M-F plus a few hours Saturday I can pull off for about 6 weeks straight (I have done it before) but it better be because of some kind of windfall coming my way. I would never put myself through that if the payoff wasn't guaranteed and worthwhile.
Getting to reality, I am sure we would see increased productivity if normal required office hours were around 5 a day or 4 days a week, but 35-40 hours required per week. There are a lot of people who have come to love 10 hour days for the benefit of a 3rd day off each week to take care of their own interests such as hobbies and family. 3 days x 12 hours has also gotten popular in many industries.
All of that said, I think medical personnel should be under the same shift requirements as airline pilots and semi-truckers. It's stupid the number of them I see sleeping through their shifts because they aren't the kind of person who can handle it (not everyone can).
You don't seem to understand that in most fields, crowdsourcing from the general public works really badly. Just look at the results of any given election. Consider GeoCities and MySpace were the result of letting everyone have input.
On the other hand, crowdsourcing can be really effective when the source group are experts and learned enthusiasts.
So, no, unless you have years of experience doing graduate level research in search, e-mail, or social networking, you should probably stop speaking with entitlement that Google should listen to you. If you have such experience, go get a job with them or build something better.
The bigger issue is the waste of society's resources for such an endeavor. The artist is in fact griefing. Heck, a few thousand pages of selected primary school student's letters to aliens would be a better use for society.
We can hope for the best that this thread becomes a discussion from people who have gotten their Nexus 7's.
A roommate got one and the screen is exceptional. The hand picked extra apps are great too. As Timothy stated, the portability is a world of difference over 10", but I already knew this, having owned an HP Slate (8.9" device, size of a slender hardback).
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It reflects poorly that there is such entitlement among the educated in India to deserve admittance to the US. Why not stay and enrich your own society and help raise it to first world status?
On the other hand, it probably reflects poorly that many US citizens are more comfortable with a foreigner fixing their computers than their kids.
We'll call this round a draw.
No slight towards you, but the respect is at least partially because you are closer to the 20-somethings grandparents age than their fathers. It's pretty common for someone in their early 20s at least to still have a bit of rebellion against their father's / mother's ways "and new way this, modern way that" and project such attitudes on anyone 30-50 years. At your age, you're actually beyond their ability to be scourgy little d-bags around.
On the other hand, you might work at a company (or country) were the culture doesn't allow childishness to fester.
This isn't the first time Microsoft has added a patent with no intentions to use it to their portfolio. Wasn't there another zany patent for some kind of TV content control which Microsoft obtained a few months back.
It almost seems like a battle chest to troll the content companies.
Samsung's ultra-thin flexible AMOLED to the rescue. Take a 4:3 screen, pull the tabs out on each side for triple headed laptop goodness....
It's always funny to listen to Samsung hate (not usually here at /.) when you know they are incubating a great deal of the tech we will see implemented over the next 5-10 years in amazing ways.
Kinda misses the point of a car. Perhaps not a tractor-trailer, but cars are definitely not all that useful without passengers.
Tahmoh Penikett as Thrawn...
It's really hard to pick a Mara Jade from that list you b*stard. On one hand, Glau has the grace to do some exceptional fight scenes. On the other hand, Dushku's voice and build are a superior match to the personality.
The whole point you are making happened many years ago, arguably before Steve came back. Every "innovation" Apple has had over the past ten years was someone else's idea given just enough refinement and advertising to get consumers to like it.
Smartphone, that was IBM, Microsoft, Sony, and RIM long before Apple. Apple just managed to consumerize ideas from the corporate tool world. The same goes for tablets. Microsoft never moved their primary UI to be compatible before now with touch and stylus interaction, but Gates kept evangelizing the concept until Jobs actually went and had a regular OS trimmed and locked down to where touch was easy for the uninitiated. Even the iPod was nowhere near the first or best MP3 player, but Apple managed to leverage iTunes and advertising, never superior hardware, to sell lots of hardware. Ultrabook (MBA)? Fujitsu, Sony, NEC, and Toshiba had powerful fully spec'd ultra compact laptops available overseas for 5 or 6 years prior (Dynamism was the primary importer for US buyers).
Apple is not losing their edge, they are simply having to compete now that other OEMs and software developers have had time to develop consumer, rather than professionally oriented products, in markets which have been gestating for several years. Apple has never done well competing on even ground.
False. The lottery has winners.
Sorry, McAfee AV will still be crap.
It's biggest problem isn't the fact that their virus definitions miss the most virii, worms, and malware of any that I have used. It's the fact that their software tends to kludge up a system and break compatibility all to frequently. Then there are the times when it does find a virus, and instead of removing it, just pegs the CPU at 100% and does nothing to stop the problem. I would find this last situation reasonable with some virus truly hardcore at ripping out AV, but I was able to remove the last one by just deleting the cached .exe from the system and rebooting. Sucked that it took 10 minutes to get that far because the McAfee processes made the system slow as a 386.
Intel made a bad buy. Even Microsoft had the foresight to just start fresh and develop AV on their own instead of buying a pile of steaming poo to polish. I've felt bad for most of the companies McAfee has bought out in the past. Too often the response to support requests is, "Buy the new McAfee edition of the product you already own." even when McAfee hasn't held the company long enough to have gotten farther than the rebranding process.
I'm on board with the books argument. If you want to split the difference, find the best spec'd ThinkPad (for durability) on Craigslist under $200, easily Core 2 architecture if you are in a major metropolitan area. Spend the rest at Half-Price books or similar used book store.
Also, take them to the library if they have a topic of interest. By 8 or so I was already building model rockets and by 11 or 12 implementing aerodynamics from Harry G. Stine's Handbook of Model Rocketry that I had found at the library.
Ah, yes, the commercially grown California strawberry. Has more in common with a radish than a strawberry with the ridiculous watering pattern they use to make them huge, full of starch, and excess water. Size / yield optimizing watering cycles are another thing many organic farmers don't follow with the rigor of industrial farms either (they do, but for flavor and fruit maturity over size more often). For many fruits and vegetables, custom watering cycles create some of the odd sized, extreme water weight fruits and vegetables you get at a regular market.
Real strawberries, as nature intended them are the size of you thumb from tip to first joint. Really flavorful tart and sweet ones, the size of your pinky toe. It's supposed to be a berry, not a vine squash.
When I buy organic it is for better taste, and there are plenty of foods I don't spend the extra $$ on because their is little or no difference in the flavor profile. The ones where the growing cycle, picking cycle, or processing has been executed in a manner which produces superior flavor, I will buy all day.
Yes, but Samsung just dropped $4B more into the US economy... Asians who outsource here!
Meanwhile, Apple, a US company, chooses to take all of the business they can away from Samsung, and over to others in China. At the same time, many of their Chinese vendors have openly complained that Apple uses it's bargaining power to force lower margins, to the point of short term losses at times, than they would otherwise negotiate. Apple has so few people employed in R&D that one of their more recent job postings was for an engineer to design dock connectors. How can they not have several in house engineers waiting for work??? Besides marketing, the only "real" jobs they keep in the US are R&D... Apple store clerk and phone support counts about as much as saying McDonald's is a major employer of college grads.
So yeah, Samsung does their production globally including lots in China, but they make sure they stimulate the economies everywhere they go, playing to each locality's strengths. Frankly, they are acting very responsibly within the context of a global economy.
I've had a doctor recommend those before (who wasn't a quack). They are labeled as homeopathic, but are really more closely related to natural medicine. Rather than some crazy water diluted tincture, they are a bit oily and have constituents of therapeutic value. No strong antibiotics like prescriptions, but just moisturizing your skin helps a lot with infections and ailments near the skin. Similar to the way Melem (beeswax and oil mixture) is better than and Vaseline is about equal to triple antibiotic at helping cuts heal faster.
Matrox also does a good amount of business providing barebones 2D chips to OEMs for servers, namely, IBM and some to SuperMicro. They stick around in that market because their ancient G200 drivers are still beyond reproach for providing .99999+ uptime.
Also, you can't really fault them for going purely into video editing and multi-headed systems as they couldn't keep up on 3D performance. nVidia barely figured out how to run more than 2 displays in the last year, and AMD can barely manage 3+. Matrox has been powering N number of displays from one chip for what, 10 years or so.
I could actually see Matrox getting back into the consumer market with a little licensing of Mali or similar technology. Their commitment to quality was their biggest failing in the consumer market. They were never willing to rush things out the door half baked while ATi and nVidia have dumped generation after generation with some retarded, but avoidable flaw after another.
Can't Microsoft just wait Apple out. Seriously, the iPhone and iPad are out of steam and new tricks they can do. Android has caught up. Surface + Windows RT/8 will completely end the Bring Your Own Toy problem in the corporate world, and probably knock it out of the park with consumers.
Apple's decline will start in earnest in a little over 12 months. Stock price will begin to nosedive a couple quarters after that. There are not any new tech fields they can push into either to get themselves out of this which will be out of academic research for another 24-48 months (flexible displays, wearable computing, implants, etc...).
The possible exception is Apple's clone of Google Glass, but I suspect without anything truly novel to add to the version of iOS it would run, that Android and Windows RT goggles will both beat them to market and be incredibly cheaper and more complete.
What those numbers don't account for is the huge numbers that try a game a couple hours and then quit because it wasn't worth the time or the money. Nobody trusts demos anymore because they are loaded with extra advertising, DRM, and frequently give away the only level of the game with any effort put into it.
They also don't account for the pirate today, buy it on sale crowd. I'm sure Steam's Summer and Holiday sales weeks numbers would corroborate this if we had numbers of pirate game installs corresponding to purchased games.
It's amazing to see the amount of anger provoked from an interface that you should only see an average of 5 minutes total in a day if you are remotely productive.
Well now you got me thinking about racks of Backblazes in a cargo container.
Indeed, I find parent comment true regarding interest in the work performed.
Most people have a 2-3 hour productivity peak each day. If I am engrossed with a topic of work, I can definitely have several highly productive hours well beyond this expectation. Frankly, this boils down to an optimal recipe. Require me to work 4 hours a day on the basis that when I am truly needed or being exceptionally productive, and I will work 10+ hours at a stretch.
Everyday at 12-15 hours, M-F plus a few hours Saturday I can pull off for about 6 weeks straight (I have done it before) but it better be because of some kind of windfall coming my way. I would never put myself through that if the payoff wasn't guaranteed and worthwhile.
Getting to reality, I am sure we would see increased productivity if normal required office hours were around 5 a day or 4 days a week, but 35-40 hours required per week. There are a lot of people who have come to love 10 hour days for the benefit of a 3rd day off each week to take care of their own interests such as hobbies and family. 3 days x 12 hours has also gotten popular in many industries.
All of that said, I think medical personnel should be under the same shift requirements as airline pilots and semi-truckers. It's stupid the number of them I see sleeping through their shifts because they aren't the kind of person who can handle it (not everyone can).
You don't seem to understand that in most fields, crowdsourcing from the general public works really badly. Just look at the results of any given election. Consider GeoCities and MySpace were the result of letting everyone have input.
On the other hand, crowdsourcing can be really effective when the source group are experts and learned enthusiasts.
So, no, unless you have years of experience doing graduate level research in search, e-mail, or social networking, you should probably stop speaking with entitlement that Google should listen to you. If you have such experience, go get a job with them or build something better.
I'm reading this on a Sony FW900 you insensitive clod!
The bigger issue is the waste of society's resources for such an endeavor. The artist is in fact griefing. Heck, a few thousand pages of selected primary school student's letters to aliens would be a better use for society.
We can hope for the best that this thread becomes a discussion from people who have gotten their Nexus 7's.
A roommate got one and the screen is exceptional. The hand picked extra apps are great too. As Timothy stated, the portability is a world of difference over 10", but I already knew this, having owned an HP Slate (8.9" device, size of a slender hardback).