The 7" form factor works great for me. The 16:9 aspect ratio also has benefits, I can fit the tablet into a pocket and it's nice for watching movies. I used to have an ipad, which I found too heavy and big to carry around.
A couple of years ago I would've completely agreed with you.
But I took apart some brand name electronics, for example an HP digital photo frame. All Chinese components, including a Chinese SOC, doubt it was designed by china, most likely a no name Chinese product with an HP label/price tag on it.
"Protel’s headquarters resided in Sydney, NSW, Australia until 1990 when Nick Martin decided to move the company to Silicon Valley, which was proving to be a hot spot for technology companies. In 2001, he changed the company’s name to Altium and moved operations back to Sydney. Then in 2011, Altium announced they will be moving their headquarters to Shanghai, China in the second half of 2011; again, to be in a hot spot for technology companies."
A little unrelated, on a recent trip we ended up in a Kia rental car, which did not drive any worse than the owned German made. Some noticeable difference was the much better gas mileage and the billboard next to the freeway touting 10 year warranty.
While I don't fancy this trend, let's not keep our head stuck in the sand and have this shit come back and bite us in the ass.
My laptop is about a year old now, they probably have a newer model. I'm very happy with it, other than the awesome battery life it has the best keyboard (including backlight) I've ever had.
The quoted battery life is when running win7, with linux it drops to about 10 hours.
It wasn't the cheapest (paid about $1k), but was well worth it.
I can't speak for a macbook, but on my sony laptop the only hard wired connection needed is the power cable. Everything else is wireless (mouse, keyboard, audio, display, network). I usually don't even plug in the power during the day either, as it runs 12-15 hours on a charge.
Are you sure you couldn't cut down on the number of cables with the hardware you already have?
My post was supposed to be funny;) They have child seats with 5 point seat belts, so they don't get out of their seats. Although my son did attempt it in the past.
But one time we were completely stopped in traffic, and my daughter projectile vomited all over. So I did have to attempt cleaning her up a bit, because it took 30 mins to get to the next exit.
...are toddlers. I have two of them. They fight, drop their toys, want milk, spill milk, scream, open window, throw things out of the window, get out of their seats... and all these issues have to be mitigated while doing 65 on the interstate.
""" You can't make a car analogy here, because it would be retarded. The problem with Apple has always been that Apple abused their position. They abused their position as an hardware and OS vendor by tweaking products to be less inter-operable with their competitors' software. They abused their thus-gained monopoly position through all manner of anti-competitive practice. This resulted not only in a dearth of customer choice (necessary for a healthy marketplace) but also in actual negative financial impact to human beings.
There are plenty of reasons to hate Apple products, but the biggest reason not to pay for them is that the money will just be used to fuck the industry some more — and thus, all the users. """
So why would the unions be cheerleading for it? Just because they like to travel by train?
""" Whether eroding public support will sway the Legislature is unclear. Brown, the Obama administration, labor unions and Democratic leaders, including Rep. Nancy Pelosi, are ramping up pressure on key state senators to cast aside doubts and commit funding this summer for an initial 130-mile section of track. """
Wish I had mod points, because what you are saying is nonsense and overrated.
Sounds like you are in the group that is all for science, like the gov of California, who now holds education hostage to plug the budget, while flushing 60 billion to the unions to build a train no one will ever use.
To the people you "communicate" with. Because now they can very easily ignore you. Apparently you don't have anything important to communicate, you don't have bosses or clients (or do they also have to be your followers to receive communication from you?).
In fact this is the best thing social media did: got rid of all the lolz-cats-licking-must-watch, political activism and check-what-i-did-in-band-camp spam. Now if I get email, I know it's important.
...the Zuck will make it the only way to access facebook. He'll make another truck load of money selling 1 billion devices, and I'll be able to keep my kids off facebook by not buying them one. Everyone wins.
We don't know what agreements FB and the underwriters had for propping up the IPO, so it's possible that FB walked away with a lot more money at $38 than at $28-$34. However some of the money spent on buybacks could come out of FB's money pile.
The traders won for sure, executing the almost 600 million volume.
Buyers who subscribed for the IPO and sold yesterday lost 1-2% for the transaction.
My bet is: FB, banks, traders, stock exchange won, people screwed.
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The 7" form factor works great for me. The 16:9 aspect ratio also has benefits, I can fit the tablet into a pocket and it's nice for watching movies. I used to have an ipad, which I found too heavy and big to carry around.
Thanks for your note. I will definitely start with TOS next time.
I tried to introduce myself to star trek, and deep space 9 was recommended online as the best series.
It completely turned me off star trek.
A couple of years ago I would've completely agreed with you.
But I took apart some brand name electronics, for example an HP digital photo frame. All Chinese components, including a Chinese SOC, doubt it was designed by china, most likely a no name Chinese product with an HP label/price tag on it.
Then http://www.altium.com/ moves its headquarters to China, from wikipedia:
"Protel’s headquarters resided in Sydney, NSW, Australia until 1990 when Nick Martin decided to move the company to Silicon Valley, which was proving to be a hot spot for technology companies. In 2001, he changed the company’s name to Altium and moved operations back to Sydney. Then in 2011, Altium announced they will be moving their headquarters to Shanghai, China in the second half of 2011; again, to be in a hot spot for technology companies."
A little unrelated, on a recent trip we ended up in a Kia rental car, which did not drive any worse than the owned German made. Some noticeable difference was the much better gas mileage and the billboard next to the freeway touting 10 year warranty.
While I don't fancy this trend, let's not keep our head stuck in the sand and have this shit come back and bite us in the ass.
21 and facing decades in a US jail where the other criminals are mean?
why can't he just say i'm sorry, i learned my lesson and be done with it?
oh yeah, and why not give him a trophy for participating at the same time?
My laptop is about a year old now, they probably have a newer model. I'm very happy with it, other than the awesome battery life it has the best keyboard (including backlight) I've ever had.
The quoted battery life is when running win7, with linux it drops to about 10 hours.
It wasn't the cheapest (paid about $1k), but was well worth it.
The model number is VPCSB190X with the internal and sheet battery. It only ever sees the charger overnight.
These are out of your price range (~$100), but these are the most comfortable headphones. No torture of the ears, no sweating, and awesome sound.
Oh, and they are purple.
I can't speak for a macbook, but on my sony laptop the only hard wired connection needed is the power cable. Everything else is wireless (mouse, keyboard, audio, display, network). I usually don't even plug in the power during the day either, as it runs 12-15 hours on a charge.
Are you sure you couldn't cut down on the number of cables with the hardware you already have?
Ads on my phone, and on my computers, are blocked.
Just for the record, my post was supposed to be funny.
My post was supposed to be funny ;) They have child seats with 5 point seat belts, so they don't get out of their seats. Although my son did attempt it in the past.
But one time we were completely stopped in traffic, and my daughter projectile vomited all over. So I did have to attempt cleaning her up a bit, because it took 30 mins to get to the next exit.
My kids are under control. My post was supposed to be funny ;)
Lol. I take that as a funny, because my post was supposed to be funny ;)
...are toddlers. I have two of them. They fight, drop their toys, want milk, spill milk, scream, open window, throw things out of the window, get out of their seats... and all these issues have to be mitigated while doing 65 on the interstate.
"""
You can't make a car analogy here, because it would be retarded. The problem with Apple has always been that Apple abused their position. They abused their position as an hardware and OS vendor by tweaking products to be less inter-operable with their competitors' software. They abused their thus-gained monopoly position through all manner of anti-competitive practice. This resulted not only in a dearth of customer choice (necessary for a healthy marketplace) but also in actual negative financial impact to human beings.
There are plenty of reasons to hate Apple products, but the biggest reason not to pay for them is that the money will just be used to fuck the industry some more — and thus, all the users.
"""
You see what I just did there?
Great idea. Wish I had mod points for you.
You mean the zero effort and no preparation? It was total embarrassment.
Hope he'll put more effort into his new venture.
So why would the unions be cheerleading for it? Just because they like to travel by train?
"""
Whether eroding public support will sway the Legislature is unclear. Brown, the Obama administration, labor unions and Democratic leaders, including Rep. Nancy Pelosi, are ramping up pressure on key state senators to cast aside doubts and commit funding this summer for an initial 130-mile section of track.
"""
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/06/02/4533938/public-opinion-wanes-on-california.html#storylink=cpy
Wish I had mod points, because what you are saying is nonsense and overrated.
Sounds like you are in the group that is all for science, like the gov of California, who now holds education hostage to plug the budget, while flushing 60 billion to the unions to build a train no one will ever use.
18 companies with 4 yes/no checks. Nothing about how the companies use collected user data or how they share it. Complete fail.
How can anyone call this a report?
Most mobile games you play are using mono http://www.unity3d.com/ .
To the people you "communicate" with. Because now they can very easily ignore you. Apparently you don't have anything important to communicate, you don't have bosses or clients (or do they also have to be your followers to receive communication from you?).
In fact this is the best thing social media did: got rid of all the lolz-cats-licking-must-watch, political activism and check-what-i-did-in-band-camp spam. Now if I get email, I know it's important.
...the Zuck will make it the only way to access facebook. He'll make another truck load of money selling 1 billion devices, and I'll be able to keep my kids off facebook by not buying them one. Everyone wins.
We don't know what agreements FB and the underwriters had for propping up the IPO, so it's possible that FB walked away with a lot more money at $38 than at $28-$34. However some of the money spent on buybacks could come out of FB's money pile.
The traders won for sure, executing the almost 600 million volume.
Buyers who subscribed for the IPO and sold yesterday lost 1-2% for the transaction.
My bet is: FB, banks, traders, stock exchange won, people screwed.