I'd rather have page up/page down there than the back/forward buttons that were there before - I've hit the back key and lost everything that I was typing into a webpage far too many times with those damn things. Aside from that though, the layout isn't really that important, you'll get used to it. The big problem with the keyboard here, and the keyboards on these really thin laptops in general, is the stroke depth. They're just far too shallow. I'm sure that's why they moved to the chicklet style, it's better suited to a laptop with no vertical space, but it's still crap.
Tip for other laptop designers (or designers of any product): figure out what your product is best known for, the good stuff, and when you're doing your redesign don't screw with that. What are the selling points for Thinkpads?
1. Solid, durable construction
2. A no-nonsense utilitarian aesthetic
3. Excellent keyboards that are comfortable to type on
If it has to be a little thicker to accommodate a good Thinkpad (TM) keyboard, that's not a drawback - that's a selling point.
Now we will see how well MAD works when someone stops bluffing
You can't use future tense here - companies are already suing each other like crazy. Apple / Samsung; Microsoft / Android phone makers; patent trolls / everybody. We know exactly how well MAD works: poorly.
Yes, and the 3rd movie didn't make its money back with the domestic box office thankfully killed the franchise and sparing us a 4th and 5th, or do you think they would have stopped at 3 no matter what?
SPOILER
With the main characters dead and all problems solved... Yes, they would have stopped at three. The best we could have hoped for would have been another spinoff, like the Animatrix.
Ah, so you're saying that if I bust out the ruler and ask each company to stand still for a few minutes... Er, wait. Do I need a graduated cylinder for this? Yes, obviously that's what you meant. How silly of me.
My measurements show that Apple is 17 ml greater in volume than Samsung. My point stands.
Apple is a tiny company with a bunch of over-optimistic investors.
Over-optimistic investors, maybe. "Tiny company" is ridiculous by any standard, in any way you measure it. They have more than sixty thousand employees, they have $100 billion in cash, they have a world-wide retail presence and brand recognition... that's just stupid.
Sumsung is a much larger and older company than Apple
Apple has the largest market cap in the world, four times the size of Samsung's. You could argue that Apple is overvalued and shouldn't be worth that much, but much smaller than Samsung it is not.
You mean "enhanced interrogated." No, he hasn't been water boarded but he has been held in solitary confinement for a very long period of time, for apparently no reason other than the fact that they don't like him. There's been no report of any sort of violence or misbehavior on his part.
This, obviously, depends on where you are. I have a Nexus One, with T-Mobile, and have no trouble whatsoever. I use the pay-as-you-go plan, incidentally - I get no data, but since I don't use it all that much it is by far the cheapest option. Way less than the $30-$50/month that the original poster was asking for.
It's a smaller iPad. Tiny differences about bezels don't matter, we all know what to expect here. The only question is the price - how much of a premium is this going to be over a Nexus 7?
There are quite a few reasons to live there involving hedging against the future, but the immediate reason is simply that it's new and is being heavily invested in. Areas of rapid growth are excellent for your career, and large amounts of money being poured into infrastructure means that the roads don't have potholes, the buildings aren't crumbling, and no part of the city has descended into slums or otherwise become economically blighted. The fact that it's a show city, Abu Dhabi trying to show off how progressive it is, means that it will probably be very attractive as well - statues, fountains, etc.
All that said, it looks like it isn't going to be completed until 2025 so it may not be relevant to this discussion.
Canada? In the west? No. The U.S. is still being used as the world's currency for trading the world's fuel: Oil. It has a massive debt but that debt is being propped-up by everyone else, so we still have many good years left.
The US isn't in any danger of collapsing, but that wasn't the statement he made. The original poster is looking to start a family: Canada has a lower crime rate, much better health care, and one of the best school systems in the world (they're number three, after South Korea and Finland - the US is fourteenth). I'm sure he would do fine in the US as well, the point is that he would do better in Canada.
If you simply treat donations to specific government programs the way you treat donations to any other non-profit, as a deduction rather than as a credit, it could certainly lead to increased funding for popular programs without harming overall revenue.
I wonder if this would fly with the politicians though... it would either lead to reduced funds for them to give to their pet projects, because people are claiming all sorts of deductions, or it would lead to more funds, since they could reduce funding for popular programs in the budget, giving them more to spend on their special interests. I suspect the second scenario is more likely since the majority of donation money would be from a small number of very wealthy individuals and the hit to taxes collected would be small.
The other trouble you run into with this method is the same as with private charities - popular programs get the most money even if they're not the most effective or important.
Could you provide a reference for the 1/4 number then? I've heard that flung around, but I've never seen where it's derived from. I've also heard that the great majority of women in that number have been statutory raped, not forcibly raped, something that people tend to gloss over. Though since I can't find where the number comes from, I can't confirm that.
No, rape has a fairly broad meaning in the US as well. Laws are changing slowly, but you can still be convicted for rape if you have consensual sex with someone under a certain cutoff. Different states also have some pretty broad rules - in Louisiana for example, oral sex is a "crime against nature." I'm not sure whether or not it's categorized as rape, but it will get you registered as a sex offender.
1) Believe it or not, a girl can *actually* be interested in you. No, I'm not kidding! You *don't* have to be a creeper!
You don't know me! Crazy talk. I was going to stop reading, but I didn't and found this little gem:
6) Do not, in any circumstance, talk about your penis. Not usually too much of a problem with American guys, but to guys from more sexually-liberated countries... we know you've got one, and yes, we've seen big ones before; now can you get on with the "being human" thing before we leave?
If I don't talk about penises, how will you know that I'm not gay? You should think before you say stuff like this.
Are you honestly suggesting that this has something to do with his race? I think you meant to say "rich people problems" but you fucked it up.
Your solution is that he should jump through more bureaucratic hoops of the hospital's complaint process in order to complain about the bureaucratic hoops that he was already forced to jump through. That is not moving on your your life. He seems to have handled this in the most expedient way possible.
Obviously I don't know what he actually said here, there are polite ways to ask for things and impolite ways, but I've been on the receiving end of this "We won't give you your own information" bullshit before. In my case, the lady behind the counter claimed that there was some law preventing her from giving the information to me. I didn't have a piece of paper stating exactly the opposite, so I ultimately just had to leave without getting the test that I had come for.
It doesn't sound to me like he was being a dick. Maybe a lawsuit would have been more appropriate than sitting in the hallway, but this is a significant problem and I'm glad he stuck to his guns.
They should certainly not expect more, that was the deal that they agreed to. They deserve more, however, for taking all of the risk. What's the point of confusion here?
Don't forget the barrier to entry: none. To develop on Nintendo, Sony, or Microsoft (on non-gimped "indie" sandboxes) you have to spend major upfront costs for a dev kit.
That's true, I did neglect that. Certainly an advantage. Bit of trivia: the dev kit for the original NES cost $100. The low price of the Ouya is a selling point for gamers as well as devs, but it hardly seems to balance out the negatives.
Not that I really want to defend VCs, but the idea there is that they take a risk by investing their money in a fledgling company. Screwing people over is never really conscionable, but short of that it's not unreasonable that a VC should expect some return on their investment. Not the 3000% return that some demand, but a return.
In this case it's the Kickstarter donors that have taken the risk. What do they get? If all goes according to plan, they get the item that they paid for. No more than that.
Have they advertised this as an open console? I didn't get that impression at all. Do we know that they aren't going to require a signed OS? Will I be able to run my own ROM? I haven't been able to find that information.
Actually, I can't understand why so many people are behind this. Both from a gamer's perspective and from a developer's this seems like a non-starter. Open platforms can sometimes overcome the lack of a customer base by virtue of their openness, but we don't seem to have that here. It's underpowered compared to other consoles, the 30% cut that they want for selling games through their store is huge - I've never heard of Nintendo or Sony taking more than 20%, though Microsoft jacked up their cut on XBLA after a while - and that plus the small potential customer base means there's no financial reason to develop for this thing.
I also somewhat resent their business model. They're funding development of their product through donations, at no risk to themselves, and then demanding 30% of all sales. That's rent-seeking if I've ever seen it.
Your link does not paint Wikileaks as bullshit. Mr. Young has some criticisms, mostly he seems to think that Wikileaks could stand to be more open about its operations, but he says the world is better off for having them around:
It will be a great loss if attacks on Assange lead to loss of public confidence and trust in the initiative, and no doubt that is what some opponents intend. Some of those opponents, you will grasp, are now bear-hugging Wikileaks as putative friends to be sure it it is crippled or fails.
True: Wikileaks makes a claim, and they need to back it up.
What is this claim that they need to back up? That they've been DDoSed? You want them to release their server logs or something? Obviously they can't do that, it would be identifying everyone who reads their site. It's also stupid - Wikileaks has been unambiguously persecuted recently by webhosts and governments and payment processors and it should come as no particular surprise to anyone if some kiddie out there takes it on themselves to go a little further. There's no obligation of proof here, they've made a perfectly plausible claim and if some conspiracy nuts don't want to believe them then showing the real birth certificate isn't going to make a difference.
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I'd rather have page up/page down there than the back/forward buttons that were there before - I've hit the back key and lost everything that I was typing into a webpage far too many times with those damn things. Aside from that though, the layout isn't really that important, you'll get used to it. The big problem with the keyboard here, and the keyboards on these really thin laptops in general, is the stroke depth. They're just far too shallow. I'm sure that's why they moved to the chicklet style, it's better suited to a laptop with no vertical space, but it's still crap.
Tip for other laptop designers (or designers of any product): figure out what your product is best known for, the good stuff, and when you're doing your redesign don't screw with that. What are the selling points for Thinkpads?
1. Solid, durable construction
2. A no-nonsense utilitarian aesthetic
3. Excellent keyboards that are comfortable to type on
If it has to be a little thicker to accommodate a good Thinkpad (TM) keyboard, that's not a drawback - that's a selling point.
Now we will see how well MAD works when someone stops bluffing
You can't use future tense here - companies are already suing each other like crazy. Apple / Samsung; Microsoft / Android phone makers; patent trolls / everybody. We know exactly how well MAD works: poorly.
Yes, and the 3rd movie didn't make its money back with the domestic box office thankfully killed the franchise and sparing us a 4th and 5th, or do you think they would have stopped at 3 no matter what?
SPOILER
With the main characters dead and all problems solved... Yes, they would have stopped at three. The best we could have hoped for would have been another spinoff, like the Animatrix.
are you talking about volume of blood+water in their employees?
Sure.
It means that if someone said that ARM was a much larger company than Facebook, they would be incorrect.
Ah, so you're saying that if I bust out the ruler and ask each company to stand still for a few minutes... Er, wait. Do I need a graduated cylinder for this? Yes, obviously that's what you meant. How silly of me.
My measurements show that Apple is 17 ml greater in volume than Samsung. My point stands.
Apple is a tiny company with a bunch of over-optimistic investors.
Over-optimistic investors, maybe. "Tiny company" is ridiculous by any standard, in any way you measure it. They have more than sixty thousand employees, they have $100 billion in cash, they have a world-wide retail presence and brand recognition... that's just stupid.
Sumsung is a much larger and older company than Apple
Apple has the largest market cap in the world, four times the size of Samsung's. You could argue that Apple is overvalued and shouldn't be worth that much, but much smaller than Samsung it is not.
You mean "enhanced interrogated." No, he hasn't been water boarded but he has been held in solitary confinement for a very long period of time, for apparently no reason other than the fact that they don't like him. There's been no report of any sort of violence or misbehavior on his part.
This, obviously, depends on where you are. I have a Nexus One, with T-Mobile, and have no trouble whatsoever. I use the pay-as-you-go plan, incidentally - I get no data, but since I don't use it all that much it is by far the cheapest option. Way less than the $30-$50/month that the original poster was asking for.
It's a smaller iPad. Tiny differences about bezels don't matter, we all know what to expect here. The only question is the price - how much of a premium is this going to be over a Nexus 7?
There are quite a few reasons to live there involving hedging against the future, but the immediate reason is simply that it's new and is being heavily invested in. Areas of rapid growth are excellent for your career, and large amounts of money being poured into infrastructure means that the roads don't have potholes, the buildings aren't crumbling, and no part of the city has descended into slums or otherwise become economically blighted. The fact that it's a show city, Abu Dhabi trying to show off how progressive it is, means that it will probably be very attractive as well - statues, fountains, etc.
All that said, it looks like it isn't going to be completed until 2025 so it may not be relevant to this discussion.
Canada? In the west? No. The U.S. is still being used as the world's currency for trading the world's fuel: Oil. It has a massive debt but that debt is being propped-up by everyone else, so we still have many good years left.
The US isn't in any danger of collapsing, but that wasn't the statement he made. The original poster is looking to start a family: Canada has a lower crime rate, much better health care, and one of the best school systems in the world (they're number three, after South Korea and Finland - the US is fourteenth). I'm sure he would do fine in the US as well, the point is that he would do better in Canada.
If you simply treat donations to specific government programs the way you treat donations to any other non-profit, as a deduction rather than as a credit, it could certainly lead to increased funding for popular programs without harming overall revenue.
I wonder if this would fly with the politicians though... it would either lead to reduced funds for them to give to their pet projects, because people are claiming all sorts of deductions, or it would lead to more funds, since they could reduce funding for popular programs in the budget, giving them more to spend on their special interests. I suspect the second scenario is more likely since the majority of donation money would be from a small number of very wealthy individuals and the hit to taxes collected would be small.
The other trouble you run into with this method is the same as with private charities - popular programs get the most money even if they're not the most effective or important.
Could you provide a reference for the 1/4 number then? I've heard that flung around, but I've never seen where it's derived from. I've also heard that the great majority of women in that number have been statutory raped, not forcibly raped, something that people tend to gloss over. Though since I can't find where the number comes from, I can't confirm that.
No, rape has a fairly broad meaning in the US as well. Laws are changing slowly, but you can still be convicted for rape if you have consensual sex with someone under a certain cutoff. Different states also have some pretty broad rules - in Louisiana for example, oral sex is a "crime against nature." I'm not sure whether or not it's categorized as rape, but it will get you registered as a sex offender.
1) Believe it or not, a girl can *actually* be interested in you. No, I'm not kidding! You *don't* have to be a creeper!
You don't know me! Crazy talk. I was going to stop reading, but I didn't and found this little gem:
6) Do not, in any circumstance, talk about your penis. Not usually too much of a problem with American guys, but to guys from more sexually-liberated countries... we know you've got one, and yes, we've seen big ones before; now can you get on with the "being human" thing before we leave?
If I don't talk about penises, how will you know that I'm not gay? You should think before you say stuff like this.
These are white people problems--get over it.
Are you honestly suggesting that this has something to do with his race? I think you meant to say "rich people problems" but you fucked it up.
Your solution is that he should jump through more bureaucratic hoops of the hospital's complaint process in order to complain about the bureaucratic hoops that he was already forced to jump through. That is not moving on your your life. He seems to have handled this in the most expedient way possible.
Obviously I don't know what he actually said here, there are polite ways to ask for things and impolite ways, but I've been on the receiving end of this "We won't give you your own information" bullshit before. In my case, the lady behind the counter claimed that there was some law preventing her from giving the information to me. I didn't have a piece of paper stating exactly the opposite, so I ultimately just had to leave without getting the test that I had come for.
It doesn't sound to me like he was being a dick. Maybe a lawsuit would have been more appropriate than sitting in the hallway, but this is a significant problem and I'm glad he stuck to his guns.
They should certainly not expect more, that was the deal that they agreed to. They deserve more, however, for taking all of the risk. What's the point of confusion here?
Don't forget the barrier to entry: none. To develop on Nintendo, Sony, or Microsoft (on non-gimped "indie" sandboxes) you have to spend major upfront costs for a dev kit.
That's true, I did neglect that. Certainly an advantage. Bit of trivia: the dev kit for the original NES cost $100. The low price of the Ouya is a selling point for gamers as well as devs, but it hardly seems to balance out the negatives.
Not that I really want to defend VCs, but the idea there is that they take a risk by investing their money in a fledgling company. Screwing people over is never really conscionable, but short of that it's not unreasonable that a VC should expect some return on their investment. Not the 3000% return that some demand, but a return.
In this case it's the Kickstarter donors that have taken the risk. What do they get? If all goes according to plan, they get the item that they paid for. No more than that.
Have they advertised this as an open console? I didn't get that impression at all. Do we know that they aren't going to require a signed OS? Will I be able to run my own ROM? I haven't been able to find that information.
Actually, I can't understand why so many people are behind this. Both from a gamer's perspective and from a developer's this seems like a non-starter. Open platforms can sometimes overcome the lack of a customer base by virtue of their openness, but we don't seem to have that here. It's underpowered compared to other consoles, the 30% cut that they want for selling games through their store is huge - I've never heard of Nintendo or Sony taking more than 20%, though Microsoft jacked up their cut on XBLA after a while - and that plus the small potential customer base means there's no financial reason to develop for this thing.
I also somewhat resent their business model. They're funding development of their product through donations, at no risk to themselves, and then demanding 30% of all sales. That's rent-seeking if I've ever seen it.
It will be a great loss if attacks on Assange lead to loss of public confidence and trust in the initiative, and no doubt that is what some opponents intend. Some of those opponents, you will grasp, are now bear-hugging Wikileaks as putative friends to be sure it it is crippled or fails.
True: Wikileaks makes a claim, and they need to back it up.
What is this claim that they need to back up? That they've been DDoSed? You want them to release their server logs or something? Obviously they can't do that, it would be identifying everyone who reads their site. It's also stupid - Wikileaks has been unambiguously persecuted recently by webhosts and governments and payment processors and it should come as no particular surprise to anyone if some kiddie out there takes it on themselves to go a little further. There's no obligation of proof here, they've made a perfectly plausible claim and if some conspiracy nuts don't want to believe them then showing the real birth certificate isn't going to make a difference.