Sounds like a good offer to me. 6% for 20k USD (which would assume the company is already worth almost 400k USD). Then you become "MS backed". Not sure what that means, but the title alone will make many future customers trust you more. That may be worth the 6% alone.
I'm also surprised how many people I've met that credits gates for the invention of the computer. Even some techies! Yes, that's worth the exclamation mark.
What? The library and prices of Amazon.com are great and all, but there is something special about going to a book store. It would be sad thing to see those go away.
I know you're joking, but The Pirate Bay is inconvenient. First I have to find songs, figure out the quality of the downloads by reading the comments of the torrent (if any). Of course if it hasn't been popular in the last couple of years it's often nowhere to be found. Then I often have to download the entire album even though I really only want one song. Then once I got it, perhaps it's not the one I thought it would be. Later on I have to sync with my phone, updating on each device every time I change my playlist. Too much time. Spotify and Google Music is a major step up.
Nobody cares if you try to improve on it or not. If your only interest would be programming, good for you. Still though, I have a hard time imagining someones life that would not improve, after improving social skills. Unless you're already 'good enough' at it of course. Whether it's about getting a job, a raise, friends, girlfriends or even collaborating with other programmers, social skills will always help.
That said I agree on your point about "quiet people with low self esteem".
I'm not buying that unless you speak exclusively of weapon companies. As far as I've seen debt, unemployment and the general economy has gone much for the worse since 9/11.
I don't really want a tablet, nor any book to read right, but if B&N sells any to Norway, any of the above suddenly sounds interesting. I hope people will enough people will vote with their wallets.
Actually they were very picky about whom to allow access to honeycomb. There are probably hundreds of tablet companies in China (mostly Shenzhen), and although most are rather crappy (both in terms of quality and speed), there are some of pretty good ones. However only the very biggest ones (like Huawei) were granted access. Others were left out in the cold. Even a company I knew with 700 employees selling equally matched tablets to the original Samsung Galaxy tab had no chance.
Well in the Android submissions, there are usually several comments about how Android is not really open source. Some of them often has a +5 insightful to boot.
Google and doubleclick is offering an advertisement service that websites can optionally use. You know the same service type that probably funds 95% of free content out there. How is that associated with evil?
I'm not saying this is not done, nor that it's not plausible. However is your answer a reflection on how you would attempt to do if you were a cartel boss, or actual insight on how such matters were settled in the past? I guess what I'm saying is [citation needed].
To be honest I don't have the impression that your opinion is one of the majority. On the blogs and forums I frequent, the 2.5+ UI is seen as a step up. Pre-2.5 there were always massive complaints about the UI. With much reason if you ask me, as it looked like some programmer had vomited ugly buttons (or checkboxes? or radio buttons? hard to see the difference) randomly all over the place.
Now I guess one could in theory maintain 2 styles of UIs and make us both happy, but that could be a big undertaking by itself
I have to strongly disagree regarding your blender comments.
I've tried to use blender for YEARS. On every new release I've downloaded it, played with it in my spare time for some hours. Every time I couldn't figure out how to do ANYTHING without googling around for even the most basic things. And it felt all very inconsistent. Finally in Blender 2.5 they made a complete UI makeover, and it's beautiful! Buttons are much more often where I hope them to be. When hover over the mouse I not only get the keyboard shortcut for it, but python API hints as well. How anyone can prefer the old UI is beyond me.
How is demanding 9$ for the "privilege" to install up to 10 unapproved apps anywhere close to "bending over backwards to let anything run on their systems"?
It's a horrible day for software freedom in general when Microsoft gets applauded for charging you 9$ to install applications on a device that you already own.
You're dreaming. Windows tablets sucks NOW. Much due to no ARM support, which will come in W8. I'm not sure how the ARM w8 kernel will work compared to the linux one, but on laptops w7 seems to do a quite decent job in prolonging battery life. W8 preview seems to be rather create a crappy desktop experience to go all in on Tablet experience, so the touch input seems to be fixed as well. Unlike Android and iPad you can also easily share code written for W8 desktop and tablet (maybe everything)
If you ask me the only hurdle for windows tablets is the price. Here the cheapest home edition costs almost 300$ (50% off on OEM install). Right now I can buy a good quality Chinese Capacitive 10" 1.3GHz Cortex A8 Android tablet in rather low volumes for 160$. When W8 gets out that price may very well be the retail price. Will people pay 100-200% extra to get windows on their tablets? I doubt it. Will MS lower OS costs to WP7 level (15-20$) on their biggest cash cow by far, maybe effectively halving MS revenue or more? I doubt it even more.
Thanks. I actually hoped some somebody would elaborate on the downside of the 'hacky' 40 bit solution. I knew there'd be some.
Though outside of big databases, the hacky solution still sounds useful. For example on application servers, or cheap LAMP hosting, a massive amount of cool low power cores might perform better
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Sounds like a good offer to me. 6% for 20k USD (which would assume the company is already worth almost 400k USD). Then you become "MS backed". Not sure what that means, but the title alone will make many future customers trust you more. That may be worth the 6% alone.
They don't make that much profit on the tablets. If you want to support them, buy some of their ebooks.
Sometimes I wonder though if it's truly incompetence bringing those crap patents to become reality, or corrupt malice.
I'm also surprised how many people I've met that credits gates for the invention of the computer. Even some techies! Yes, that's worth the exclamation mark.
What? The library and prices of Amazon.com are great and all, but there is something special about going to a book store. It would be sad thing to see those go away.
I suspect Windows Phone as well as Windows desktop has negotiable OEM prices
Mentioning 9/11 was meant more as a point in time. A point which has since followed with several wars.
I know you're joking, but The Pirate Bay is inconvenient. First I have to find songs, figure out the quality of the downloads by reading the comments of the torrent (if any). Of course if it hasn't been popular in the last couple of years it's often nowhere to be found. Then I often have to download the entire album even though I really only want one song. Then once I got it, perhaps it's not the one I thought it would be. Later on I have to sync with my phone, updating on each device every time I change my playlist. Too much time. Spotify and Google Music is a major step up.
Nobody cares if you try to improve on it or not. If your only interest would be programming, good for you. Still though, I have a hard time imagining someones life that would not improve, after improving social skills. Unless you're already 'good enough' at it of course. Whether it's about getting a job, a raise, friends, girlfriends or even collaborating with other programmers, social skills will always help.
That said I agree on your point about "quiet people with low self esteem".
War does pay well
I'm not buying that unless you speak exclusively of weapon companies. As far as I've seen debt, unemployment and the general economy has gone much for the worse since 9/11.
Out of curiosity, how much more expensive would smaller track and gap specs be for similar volume? No need for an exact number
Too bad I'm out of mod points.
I don't really want a tablet, nor any book to read right, but if B&N sells any to Norway, any of the above suddenly sounds interesting. I hope people will enough people will vote with their wallets.
Interesting. Your reasoning makes sense.
Actually they were very picky about whom to allow access to honeycomb. There are probably hundreds of tablet companies in China (mostly Shenzhen), and although most are rather crappy (both in terms of quality and speed), there are some of pretty good ones. However only the very biggest ones (like Huawei) were granted access. Others were left out in the cold. Even a company I knew with 700 employees selling equally matched tablets to the original Samsung Galaxy tab had no chance.
Well in the Android submissions, there are usually several comments about how Android is not really open source. Some of them often has a +5 insightful to boot.
Google and doubleclick is offering an advertisement service that websites can optionally use. You know the same service type that probably funds 95% of free content out there. How is that associated with evil?
Out of curiosity, is there any research done on what happened to the alcohol smuggler gangs in the US after the prohibition was over?
I'm not saying this is not done, nor that it's not plausible. However is your answer a reflection on how you would attempt to do if you were a cartel boss, or actual insight on how such matters were settled in the past? I guess what I'm saying is [citation needed].
To be honest I don't have the impression that your opinion is one of the majority. On the blogs and forums I frequent, the 2.5+ UI is seen as a step up. Pre-2.5 there were always massive complaints about the UI. With much reason if you ask me, as it looked like some programmer had vomited ugly buttons (or checkboxes? or radio buttons? hard to see the difference) randomly all over the place.
Now I guess one could in theory maintain 2 styles of UIs and make us both happy, but that could be a big undertaking by itself
I have to strongly disagree regarding your blender comments.
I've tried to use blender for YEARS. On every new release I've downloaded it, played with it in my spare time for some hours. Every time I couldn't figure out how to do ANYTHING without googling around for even the most basic things. And it felt all very inconsistent. Finally in Blender 2.5 they made a complete UI makeover, and it's beautiful! Buttons are much more often where I hope them to be. When hover over the mouse I not only get the keyboard shortcut for it, but python API hints as well. How anyone can prefer the old UI is beyond me.
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How is demanding 9$ for the "privilege" to install up to 10 unapproved apps anywhere close to "bending over backwards to let anything run on their systems"?
It's a horrible day for software freedom in general when Microsoft gets applauded for charging you 9$ to install applications on a device that you already own.
You're dreaming. Windows tablets sucks NOW. Much due to no ARM support, which will come in W8. I'm not sure how the ARM w8 kernel will work compared to the linux one, but on laptops w7 seems to do a quite decent job in prolonging battery life. W8 preview seems to be rather create a crappy desktop experience to go all in on Tablet experience, so the touch input seems to be fixed as well. Unlike Android and iPad you can also easily share code written for W8 desktop and tablet (maybe everything)
If you ask me the only hurdle for windows tablets is the price. Here the cheapest home edition costs almost 300$ (50% off on OEM install). Right now I can buy a good quality Chinese Capacitive 10" 1.3GHz Cortex A8 Android tablet in rather low volumes for 160$. When W8 gets out that price may very well be the retail price. Will people pay 100-200% extra to get windows on their tablets? I doubt it. Will MS lower OS costs to WP7 level (15-20$) on their biggest cash cow by far, maybe effectively halving MS revenue or more? I doubt it even more.
It was meant as a joke. Though I hope you'll share what you use more than 256 GB of RAM for.
Thanks. I actually hoped some somebody would elaborate on the downside of the 'hacky' 40 bit solution. I knew there'd be some.
Though outside of big databases, the hacky solution still sounds useful. For example on application servers, or cheap LAMP hosting, a massive amount of cool low power cores might perform better