I don't do ActionScript anymore (for Obvious reasons) and I've been doing more serious JavaScript lately (same reasons).
I moved into 'serious' PHP roughly 5 years back and will probably use it for another few years. I do various PLs on the side (C#, Python) but not as a mainstay.
I've been trying to pick up a truly compiled language (C++) for decades and now will probably finally do so. I generally like to pick up languages I expect to use until the day I die. That's why I only use FOSS PLs - ActionScript was a sole exception to that.
... what's the point about Twinkies? Who eats these? (That's an honest question!)
Maybe some native USian can explain?... Mind you, we eat some strange and heavy sweet stuff here in Germany - and those in the Link are seriously borderline and sugary enough to put an elephant into a diabetic coma (think super-soft fluffy marshmallow fluff covered with chocolate) - but I really don't get this Twinkies thing. The cake is basically air barely held together by something remotely resembly french bisquite dough and the filling looks, feels and tastes like something scratched from the bottom of a septic tank.
Once again: Why are Twinkies a thing in the US? Please explain.
Tablets are niche, tablets are useless, bladiblah... lots of diminishing talk about tablets here.
Let me offer a different perspective: I happen to be an accidental tablet user turned convinced tablet user. I got the HTC Flyer back when it's price was coming down. For programming and fiddling. I ended up carrying it with me every day pretty quickly. 1,5 years ago I replaced it with a 10" Yoga 2. Awesome device. 18hrs battery time and aside from programming and typing the best computer-stuff consumption device ever.
However, for tablets to gain attention and usage again, they need upgrades:
1.) Pen input. The HTC Flyer was sort of feasible with its pen, but not quite there yet. iPad Pro shows how it needs to be done, but those are way to expensive - an MB Air is cheaper.... This will take another generation or two, but when we have affordable feasible pen input with that necessary maximum 20 millisecond delay, we can really start ditching paper finally and for real.
2.) Storage. The amount of storage on these devices is a joke. A tablet is also a prime media consumption device and as such should have the appropriate storage. 256 or 500GB minimum IMHO. I'm still waiting for that to happen. My trusty yoga falls short in this dept. just as much as any other old tablet for 99 euros.
3.) Battery time. The Yoga is the only tablet that is truly mobile in that regard and way ahead of anything else on the market. Way over 15hrs of uptime off the grid. Very nice and - IMHO - an absolute minimum must. Any tablet running under 15hrs should be ashamed of itself.
4.) Ruggedness. A tablet has to survive everyday use. Again, the Yoga is one of those rare exceptions, although even it could do better with an all aluminium back for sturdiness and heat dispersion. The flimsy thin apple devices aren't really setting a good example. Given, you do get a bazillion cases for the apple stuff, because Apple, but that bumps the already steep price of those by another 100 - 150 Euros. Meh.
5.) Zero-fuss file handling and transfer. Here's where all tablets, including the recent android ones, fail miserably. They all force you to go through a silly amount of hoops, half of which don't really work that well and reliably, to transfer data and files to and from them. Unacceptable. How am I supposed to accept a tablet as a serious device if this doesn't work??
6.) Repairablility. A tablet device even more than a smartphone lends itself to the idea of being opened for battery or screen replacement or storage upgrade. This needs to come before people use them for really serious stuff, no matter how powerful they are. Sturdy cases with screws and solid repairablity is what's needed.
7.) RAM. 2 gigs of RAM is silly, and that's a lot by tablet standards. 4-8gigs are minimum for a tablet in regular use and with reliable pen processing. This should be a no-brainer aswell, but tablet vendors have yet to deliver (and no, that MS tablet notebook surface thingie for north of 2000 euros doesn't really count as a tablet as an everyday everywhere universal handheld consumption and computing device)
8.) Convergence. Last but not least, tablets need to be fully ready for convergence by the next generation - that's just about a no-brainer. Apple is preparing that already in their slogans and, for once, Ubuntu & Aquaris/BQ and Remix/Jide have actually gone ahead and shown how it's done. This has to be a regular thing, also if mobile OSes are involved. I expect tablets to be way more positioned to lead the convergence revolution than smartphones. I'm sure that's going to happen within the next 3 years.
Bottom line: I love myself a good tablet (as outlined above) and I love the fact that they are basically the upgrade to books, magazines, notebooks and portable TVs/VCRs all wrapped into one. I think they shoudln't go away and have yet to reach their actual potential.
Contracts in Germany usually have a probation time of 6 months. Within that time both sides can quit anytime, that same day. After that the contract transforms into a so-called unlimitted/permanent contract. From there on there is a contractual quitting peroid, usually between 2 or 3 months for both sides. It enables both sides to be able to prepare for changes when someones leaving a job.
I like it this way. Jobs are more stable that way. Germany has strikt employment laws, which levels tge playing field for employers. Good thing.
This sound something like a pimped out ShiftSpace. BTW, what happend to that? I thought that was a pretty neat idea - now it appears all traces of ShiftSpace seem to be lost.
Can I still get ShiftSpace somewhere? Is it a distributed thing or does it rely on servers for it's content? And how is that with this new Mozilla thing?
The man should get a grant from some large software corp like MS or something to build a few of these and place them in education centers and science-museums.
That's the problem every time, be it with computers, nuclear fission, cars or whatnot.
Look what people are doing with the Tesla "Autopilot". Pure and utter reckless fooling around. No wonder people die. From all we know it's pretty certain the man was watching a f*cking DVD while being the responsible handler of an automobile. That alone should cost you a drivers licence for a lifetime!
I'm glad he only killed his own stupid self and not somebody else. That would've been a real drag. This way it's just darwin at work.
It's only a shame Tesla is getting all the bad rap for his stupidity.
... is the MacBook Air I'm typing this on. And it's from 2011 and I only bought it because my layoff in that year had an OK severance coming with it.
Granted, I hardly have any debt (a few hundred Euros) but if I had the money to buy a new car I'd certainly not use it for that. I'd use it for the downpayment on a small appartment or a microhouse.
As for the car, I have been toying with the thought of buy a used Smart to be more flexible.... Couldn't say if that's happening anytime soon. Maybe I'll just wait till the robot-controlled electric version is out.
Bottom line: I honestly don't know how people can afford the cars they're driving and standing in traffic jams with here in Germany. It's somehow beyond me.... Maybe I'm not asking enough salary?
Spain has been through some deep shit lateley, and if their economy is picking up these days, that will only be in highly specialized fields, as mentioned in TFA. Thus are the modern times of automation and efficiency.
However, an economy can't turn on a dime in highly specialized jobs, no matter how much you offer. The young educated spanish spread throughout Europe in the last few years, seeking jobs. They're all gone and have left the homeland. Getting them back will take a while. They will come, because rainy east Germany isn't quite as sexy as the spanish atlantic coast - but salaries and infrastructure have to provide some basics for an extended period of time for that to happen.
AFAICT Portugal and Spain have learned some hard lessons in the last 10 years or so and are slowly gaining traction again - also with the help of EU money and fiscal balancing by EU rescue funds. Portugal is actually gaining reputation as the newest hippster location for digital nomads and counter-culture digerati to be - some indication that they've passed the deep end of the slump, if you ask me. Same in parts of Spain. 15 years down and gentrification in Barcelona will be rampant again, as it was 12 years ago.
Whining now that you can't find that specialised software guru no matter how much you offer won't help much, simply because they've long left for someplace else. I expect this to even out pretty quickly in the next 5 years - unless the Eu falls apart that is. Which I sure as hell hope doesn't happen.
I once had a landlord who specifically required a key to have access to the appartment in case I left a candle burning or something. Apparently he'd had some experience along those lines in the past that had resulted in a fire. if, so, btw., that would've been entirely the fault of the tenant and the tenants liability to pay damages and whatnot.
I stroke out those lines in the contract. He said no way would he sign it that way. I respectfully declined and he had to find himself another tenant. I'm pretty sure that part of the contract would've been invalid here in Germany but I just didn't want the hassle. If a guy is so pesky about is 1 room apartment, god knows what trouble he would cause in the long run.
Bottom line: Don't put up with shitty/ilegal contracts. It's that simple.
It was run by citizens and was called "FidoNet". Given, that could use an update, sort of like end-to-end encryption and perhaps some virtual crypto-currency for the Sysops help maintain the bigger network but to me it's a cold hard fact: In terms of quality, independance, hardware requirements and resilience FidoNet and not the Web is the pinnacle of international digital networks IMHO.
Build a mesh-network with the concept of FidoNet in mind using todays technologies and protocols such as abstracted name services (namecoin or something simluar), hard asymetric encryption/signing/enveloping/auth&aut, add in some good mobile node apps and a neat deskop nodeapp + a complete redo of the HTML document ecosystem and Facebook, WhatsCrapp, The Web, E-Mail, Google+ and all the rest could go and f*ck themselves. This all is actually doable, we'd just need to get off our lazy asses and start.
We'd be independant, much cheaper and no once could control the resulting system.
Any computer expert in the whole world will tell you that he has a hard time seeing the point in "social media" "services" we see today and still constantly popping up left, right and center. MySpace, Twitter, Periscope, Meerkat, Facebook,... etc. All of these are glorified proprietary online dependant versions of IRC, ICQ, Usenet, Fidonet and so forth and to me it's of no surprise that their utilisation is dimishing.
In recent years there was a lot of talk about building an open source facebook killer. All that would need is a redo of Email. If E-Mail weren't so bad and outdated, Facebook wouldn't stand a chance.
Same goes for messaging. Microblogging Twitter style is beyond pointless in my book. The stuff it tries to cover had already been done with RSS and faded into the background as Twitter came on to the market. I remember looking into Twitter back when it started, ditching it after 3 minutes and never using it again. It may have been neat as a conclusion of the "unified messaging" craze back in 2001, with the possiblity to relay messages over SMS for no costs - just as that was the only mass-relyable way to do mobile message broadcasting, but ever since I consider Twitter to be a silly joke and cannot believe how anybody can seriously percieve it as useful.
I do see the point in blogs and I see the point in zero-fuss encrypted cross-plattform messaging with a useful browser account access (Jabber, Web IRC) just as I see a point in communities like Slashdot. But those are things that very long since have been perfected, are as secure as it gets with todays protocols and cost next to nothing to set up and run without some megacorp watching your every move.
I personally hope that all these proprietary protocols for catpictures, foodporn, collective self-indulgeance, vanity and pretensciousness die if a fire as they get replaced by sophisticated FOSS alternatives and we all can finally get on with building a better society, fixing the environment or healing cancer or something.
I don't want a Smart TV. In fact I've never possessed a TV. Wait a minute, I actually did once own a TV. Back when I was 18 I had a black and white TV. I used it as a monitor for my C64.
Other than that any dumb monitor with an android mini pc / rasberry pi / whatnot hooked on to it is smarter than any Smart TV. And I can update it myself. And chances are it's actually cheaper and has a higher screen resolution.
That aside I'd also argue that even my XBox 360 is smarter than any TV will ever be.
Bottom line: I *don't* want a Smart TV and I don't know anybody who does.
... that some half-wit web/mobile developer n00b can find a hack for this in under 30 minutes.
Another 100 Euros that any small Linux PC set up by a decent admin with Ekiga Voicechat over SSH is a bazillion times safer and way harder to crack for ye 3-letter agencies.
Aside from having specific requirements - like using a tool or playing a game that only runs on Windows - I'd recommend moving away from Windows. There is nothing Windows can offer that other systems can't offer better or cheaper or both at the same time. Chromebooks, Macs or a Linux PC are very often the better choice in a given area of usage.
Windows 2000 was the last Windows Version I used personally. I run into Windows every day at work and I honestly see no point. It's proprietary, costs money and exists for the sole purpose of attaching an expiration date to all your digital stuff.... Perhaps the new Microsoft Hardware, like those neat Surface Laptops might be an additional reason to stick to or "upgrade" your Windows. But then again, with my Lenovo Tablet I get 18 hrs. of battery life and it costs a fraction of those shiny new MS portables.
I whish they'd focus on building a really good cleaning bot instead of toys. Would be a great help for the elderly too. Roomba could use some hard competition.
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... maybe listening to Jesus might help.
Because: Not only does Jesus save, he also does nightly off-site backups.
*Tadum* *Crash* "Thud*
Thank you, thank you, I'm here all week.
Tip your waitors and try the fish.
I don't do ActionScript anymore (for Obvious reasons) and I've been doing more serious JavaScript lately (same reasons).
I moved into 'serious' PHP roughly 5 years back and will probably use it for another few years. I do various PLs on the side (C#, Python) but not as a mainstay.
I've been trying to pick up a truly compiled language (C++) for decades and now will probably finally do so. I generally like to pick up languages I expect to use until the day I die. That's why I only use FOSS PLs - ActionScript was a sole exception to that.
My 2 Eurocents.
... what's the point about Twinkies?
Who eats these? (That's an honest question!)
Maybe some native USian can explain? ... Mind you, we eat some strange and heavy sweet stuff here in Germany - and those in the Link are seriously borderline and sugary enough to put an elephant into a diabetic coma (think super-soft fluffy marshmallow fluff covered with chocolate) - but I really don't get this Twinkies thing. The cake is basically air barely held together by something remotely resembly french bisquite dough and the filling looks, feels and tastes like something scratched from the bottom of a septic tank.
Once again: Why are Twinkies a thing in the US? Please explain.
Thanks.
Captain Obvious strikes again!
... or are they mixing assembly up with web-assembly?
That would explain a thing or two.
Tablets are niche, tablets are useless, bladiblah ... lots of diminishing talk about tablets here.
Let me offer a different perspective:
I happen to be an accidental tablet user turned convinced tablet user. I got the HTC Flyer back when it's price was coming down. For programming and fiddling. I ended up carrying it with me every day pretty quickly. 1,5 years ago I replaced it with a 10" Yoga 2. Awesome device. 18hrs battery time and aside from programming and typing the best computer-stuff consumption device ever.
However, for tablets to gain attention and usage again, they need upgrades:
1.) Pen input. The HTC Flyer was sort of feasible with its pen, but not quite there yet. iPad Pro shows how it needs to be done, but those are way to expensive - an MB Air is cheaper. ... This will take another generation or two, but when we have affordable feasible pen input with that necessary maximum 20 millisecond delay, we can really start ditching paper finally and for real.
2.) Storage. The amount of storage on these devices is a joke. A tablet is also a prime media consumption device and as such should have the appropriate storage. 256 or 500GB minimum IMHO. I'm still waiting for that to happen. My trusty yoga falls short in this dept. just as much as any other old tablet for 99 euros.
3.) Battery time. The Yoga is the only tablet that is truly mobile in that regard and way ahead of anything else on the market. Way over 15hrs of uptime off the grid. Very nice and - IMHO - an absolute minimum must. Any tablet running under 15hrs should be ashamed of itself.
4.) Ruggedness. A tablet has to survive everyday use. Again, the Yoga is one of those rare exceptions, although even it could do better with an all aluminium back for sturdiness and heat dispersion. The flimsy thin apple devices aren't really setting a good example. Given, you do get a bazillion cases for the apple stuff, because Apple, but that bumps the already steep price of those by another 100 - 150 Euros. Meh.
5.) Zero-fuss file handling and transfer. Here's where all tablets, including the recent android ones, fail miserably. They all force you to go through a silly amount of hoops, half of which don't really work that well and reliably, to transfer data and files to and from them. Unacceptable. How am I supposed to accept a tablet as a serious device if this doesn't work??
6.) Repairablility. A tablet device even more than a smartphone lends itself to the idea of being opened for battery or screen replacement or storage upgrade. This needs to come before people use them for really serious stuff, no matter how powerful they are. Sturdy cases with screws and solid repairablity is what's needed.
7.) RAM. 2 gigs of RAM is silly, and that's a lot by tablet standards. 4-8gigs are minimum for a tablet in regular use and with reliable pen processing. This should be a no-brainer aswell, but tablet vendors have yet to deliver (and no, that MS tablet notebook surface thingie for north of 2000 euros doesn't really count as a tablet as an everyday everywhere universal handheld consumption and computing device)
8.) Convergence. Last but not least, tablets need to be fully ready for convergence by the next generation - that's just about a no-brainer. Apple is preparing that already in their slogans and, for once, Ubuntu & Aquaris/BQ and Remix/Jide have actually gone ahead and shown how it's done. This has to be a regular thing, also if mobile OSes are involved. I expect tablets to be way more positioned to lead the convergence revolution than smartphones. I'm sure that's going to happen within the next 3 years.
Bottom line: I love myself a good tablet (as outlined above) and I love the fact that they are basically the upgrade to books, magazines, notebooks and portable TVs/VCRs all wrapped into one. I think they shoudln't go away and have yet to reach their actual potential.
My 2 eurocents.
... levels the playing field for employees I meant to say. â
Contracts in Germany usually have a probation time of 6 months. Within that time both sides can quit anytime, that same day. After that the contract transforms into a so-called unlimitted/permanent contract. From there on there is a contractual quitting peroid, usually between 2 or 3 months for both sides. It enables both sides to be able to prepare for changes when someones leaving a job.
I like it this way. Jobs are more stable that way. Germany has strikt employment laws, which levels tge playing field for employers. Good thing.
This sound something like a pimped out ShiftSpace. BTW, what happend to that?
I thought that was a pretty neat idea - now it appears all traces of ShiftSpace seem to be lost.
Can I still get ShiftSpace somewhere? Is it a distributed thing or does it rely on servers for it's content?
And how is that with this new Mozilla thing?
... that will continue 32bit support. I bet there are a few out there who are glad to jump to the occasion and get a larger userbase.
This is an impressive learning device.
The man should get a grant from some large software corp like MS or something to build a few of these and place them in education centers and science-museums.
News at 11.
Honestly, where's the big deal?
Can they jail her? Will they? That's what I'm interested in.
Powerful tools in untrained/stupid hands.
That's the problem every time, be it with computers, nuclear fission, cars or whatnot.
Look what people are doing with the Tesla "Autopilot". Pure and utter reckless fooling around. No wonder people die.
From all we know it's pretty certain the man was watching a f*cking DVD while being the responsible handler of an automobile.
That alone should cost you a drivers licence for a lifetime!
I'm glad he only killed his own stupid self and not somebody else. That would've been a real drag.
This way it's just darwin at work.
It's only a shame Tesla is getting all the bad rap for his stupidity.
My 2 cents.
... is the MacBook Air I'm typing this on. And it's from 2011 and I only bought it because my layoff in that year had an OK severance coming with it.
Granted, I hardly have any debt (a few hundred Euros) but if I had the money to buy a new car I'd certainly not use it for that. I'd use it for the downpayment on a small appartment or a microhouse.
As for the car, I have been toying with the thought of buy a used Smart to be more flexible. ... Couldn't say if that's happening anytime soon. Maybe I'll just wait till the robot-controlled electric version is out.
Bottom line: ... Maybe I'm not asking enough salary?
I honestly don't know how people can afford the cars they're driving and standing in traffic jams with here in Germany. It's somehow beyond me.
Spain has been through some deep shit lateley, and if their economy is picking up these days, that will only be in highly specialized fields, as mentioned in TFA. Thus are the modern times of automation and efficiency.
However, an economy can't turn on a dime in highly specialized jobs, no matter how much you offer. The young educated spanish spread throughout Europe in the last few years, seeking jobs. They're all gone and have left the homeland. Getting them back will take a while. They will come, because rainy east Germany isn't quite as sexy as the spanish atlantic coast - but salaries and infrastructure have to provide some basics for an extended period of time for that to happen.
AFAICT Portugal and Spain have learned some hard lessons in the last 10 years or so and are slowly gaining traction again - also with the help of EU money and fiscal balancing by EU rescue funds. Portugal is actually gaining reputation as the newest hippster location for digital nomads and counter-culture digerati to be - some indication that they've passed the deep end of the slump, if you ask me. Same in parts of Spain. 15 years down and gentrification in Barcelona will be rampant again, as it was 12 years ago.
Whining now that you can't find that specialised software guru no matter how much you offer won't help much, simply because they've long left for someplace else. I expect this to even out pretty quickly in the next 5 years - unless the Eu falls apart that is. Which I sure as hell hope doesn't happen.
My 2 cents.
... Maybe? Perhaps?
Honestly, I don't get it.
I once had a landlord who specifically required a key to have access to the appartment in case I left a candle burning or something. Apparently he'd had some experience along those lines in the past that had resulted in a fire. if, so, btw., that would've been entirely the fault of the tenant and the tenants liability to pay damages and whatnot.
I stroke out those lines in the contract. He said no way would he sign it that way. I respectfully declined and he had to find himself another tenant.
I'm pretty sure that part of the contract would've been invalid here in Germany but I just didn't want the hassle. If a guy is so pesky about is 1 room apartment, god knows what trouble he would cause in the long run.
Bottom line: Don't put up with shitty/ilegal contracts. It's that simple.
... go out of their way to infuse this mindless gibberish with meaning.
Which they do a pretty good job at, btw.
Funny conceptional art experiment, nothing more. No big deal.
An 80ies Amiga could've generated that script.
Ubuntu is further.
It was run by citizens and was called "FidoNet". Given, that could use an update, sort of like end-to-end encryption and perhaps some virtual crypto-currency for the Sysops help maintain the bigger network but to me it's a cold hard fact: In terms of quality, independance, hardware requirements and resilience FidoNet and not the Web is the pinnacle of international digital networks IMHO.
Build a mesh-network with the concept of FidoNet in mind using todays technologies and protocols such as abstracted name services (namecoin or something simluar), hard asymetric encryption/signing/enveloping/auth&aut, add in some good mobile node apps and a neat deskop nodeapp + a complete redo of the HTML document ecosystem and Facebook, WhatsCrapp, The Web, E-Mail, Google+ and all the rest could go and f*ck themselves. This all is actually doable, we'd just need to get off our lazy asses and start.
We'd be independant, much cheaper and no once could control the resulting system.
My 2 cents.
Any computer expert in the whole world will tell you that he has a hard time seeing the point in "social media" "services" we see today and still constantly popping up left, right and center. MySpace, Twitter, Periscope, Meerkat, Facebook, ... etc. All of these are glorified proprietary online dependant versions of IRC, ICQ, Usenet, Fidonet and so forth and to me it's of no surprise that their utilisation is dimishing.
In recent years there was a lot of talk about building an open source facebook killer. All that would need is a redo of Email. If E-Mail weren't so bad and outdated, Facebook wouldn't stand a chance.
Same goes for messaging. Microblogging Twitter style is beyond pointless in my book. The stuff it tries to cover had already been done with RSS and faded into the background as Twitter came on to the market. I remember looking into Twitter back when it started, ditching it after 3 minutes and never using it again. It may have been neat as a conclusion of the "unified messaging" craze back in 2001, with the possiblity to relay messages over SMS for no costs - just as that was the only mass-relyable way to do mobile message broadcasting, but ever since I consider Twitter to be a silly joke and cannot believe how anybody can seriously percieve it as useful.
I do see the point in blogs and I see the point in zero-fuss encrypted cross-plattform messaging with a useful browser account access (Jabber, Web IRC) just as I see a point in communities like Slashdot. But those are things that very long since have been perfected, are as secure as it gets with todays protocols and cost next to nothing to set up and run without some megacorp watching your every move.
I personally hope that all these proprietary protocols for catpictures, foodporn, collective self-indulgeance, vanity and pretensciousness die if a fire as they get replaced by sophisticated FOSS alternatives and we all can finally get on with building a better society, fixing the environment or healing cancer or something.
My 2 cents.
... Elon Musk actually tends to deliver - to put it mildly - so I'm quite hesitant to blow this off as mere standard ceo/corporate drumming.
My 0.02 Euros.
I don't want a Smart TV. In fact I've never possessed a TV.
Wait a minute, I actually did once own a TV.
Back when I was 18 I had a black and white TV. I used it as a monitor for my C64.
Other than that any dumb monitor with an android mini pc / rasberry pi / whatnot hooked on to it is smarter than any Smart TV. And I can update it myself. And chances are it's actually cheaper and has a higher screen resolution.
That aside I'd also argue that even my XBox 360 is smarter than any TV will ever be.
Bottom line:
I *don't* want a Smart TV and I don't know anybody who does.
... that some half-wit web/mobile developer n00b can find a hack for this in under 30 minutes.
Another 100 Euros that any small Linux PC set up by a decent admin with Ekiga Voicechat over SSH is a bazillion times safer and way harder to crack for ye 3-letter agencies.
Aside from having specific requirements - like using a tool or playing a game that only runs on Windows - I'd recommend moving away from Windows. There is nothing Windows can offer that other systems can't offer better or cheaper or both at the same time. Chromebooks, Macs or a Linux PC are very often the better choice in a given area of usage.
Windows 2000 was the last Windows Version I used personally. I run into Windows every day at work and I honestly see no point. It's proprietary, costs money and exists for the sole purpose of attaching an expiration date to all your digital stuff. ... Perhaps the new Microsoft Hardware, like those neat Surface Laptops might be an additional reason to stick to or "upgrade" your Windows. But then again, with my Lenovo Tablet I get 18 hrs. of battery life and it costs a fraction of those shiny new MS portables.
My 2 cents.
I whish they'd focus on building a really good cleaning bot instead of toys.
Would be a great help for the elderly too.
Roomba could use some hard competition.
My 2 cents.