During the restraining order, he already crossed the line by making up fake personas on facebook to get close to her friends, family, and her Goldman Sachs coworkers, just so he could send them the link to his blog.
Do you really want to help that guy? Teach him to stop picking rescue projects as girlfriends. Make him think about something else. Fueling his righteousness and helping him maintain this kind of obsession over this woman would not be helping him in the least.
And if you still want to make yourself useful by relaying electronic messages anonymously, find a way to help wikileaks. Wikileaks is doing more for our freedom than this guy ever will.
They won't drop the DVD service. They'll just use the DVD service as overage. You'll start watching a streaming movie online and once you're over quota, they'll just suspend the movie midway through, send you the rest on a DVD, and bill you according to how much more data there was left to watch.
-I could reasonably manage multiple textual conversations in baked in WebOS chat. Multiple chats open concurrently all under a single coherent messaging system. Now if I get gTalk, one app manages it and if I get SMS, something else handles it. If I'm chatting with someone and switch away to look up something and switch back, the SMS app has closed my conversation and I have to find it again.
You should be able to find a good free app on the Android Market that centralizes all of that.
As far as mobiles go, Microsoft already gets lots of money for every Android device sold. Microsoft wins in either case, be it Android or Windows Phone that is selling better.
Who is paying Microsoft for Android aside Microsoft's own existing vendors who do not want to bite the hand that feeds them? And does that amount exceed what they've payed Nokia to put Windows OS on Nokia's phones? I doubt it.
And who else will pay Microsoft for Android now that Barnes & Noble broke the confidentiality agreement and let the cat out of the bag? Did you read Microsot's ridiculous patent claims, and the actual dates they filed their patents on? With all the prior art, their patent won't fare much better than Amazon's one-click patent.
I mean, who else hasn't daydreamed about how we would do crime. Personally I'd never actually do anything of this nature... not only for reasons of morality and ethics.. but because I'm somewhat of a coward.
May be, the architect was a coward too, and just didn't want his family and himself tortured, raped, and beheaded/disappeared, just for refusing a request from the Sinaloa Cartel.
After all the leader of the Cartel, Guzman, the guy who testified against him, escaped from prison just after 9 months. The DEA now considers him the top drug lord in the World, with even more power and influence than Pablo Escobar. Forbes also ranks Guzman as the top 1 richest drug lord in the World (he is a billionaire, so Forbes has to keep track of him). And when he escaped, everyone was working for him, the Director of the maximum security prison, the guards, and the local police who was even used to delay the military from hunting him down within the first 24 hours.
How far would Google have progressed if they had open sourced their search engine ten minutes after they had it working?
That's a silly question.
A code base is not some static artifact. It's a living and evolving part of a larger system. It can not be replicated, just by taking the code. It needs the people behind the code too at the very least.
And by the way, Google did publish their secret sauce in an academic research paper, not that this helped their competitors much.
How do you guys think that open-sourcing your code-base affects a company's business?
If you're the business guy in the partnership, open sourcing the code is NOT in your self-interest. You don't want your technical partner to have the option to ever leave your partnership, and be able to take the code he wrote with him. Without the core developer, even if you've kept a copy of the code yourself, you won't ever be able to do anything without him. Plus, you just know that all the customers and supporters of the project will follow him wherever he goes next.
If you're the core developer who wrote the code, open sourcing the code is in your self-interest, for the reasons I described above, but also because it may bring steady customers in (assuming you do not have any such customers yet). After all, the people who buy sensors are more like developers/hackers than business people, they will automatically flock toward hardware/software that are open source and they will very likely avoid and even completely shun proprietary black box solutions (assuming there are open source alternatives available, which in this case, sounds like there are).
And if that 'rogue accountant' has higher ups that are accomplices, then the accountant is not rogue -- it's the contracting company which is. Hopefully, some of the people in that company will go to jail for fraud too.
You do not have to pay to print on Android, and nor do you need to rely on Cloud Print to print either.
You just need to install the Android app from the printer manufacturer that makes your printer. That's all. And those apps are all free (with no ads and no paid apps equivalents). You can just think of them as drivers. They'll work through the usb to your computer, through bluetooth, or through wifi.
He asked for a citation, not your personal anecdotes.
In any case, I doubt that, as the grandparent is implying, that your entertainment system is using the same software as your car's in-board computer though. It would be crazy to use the same kind of hardware and the same kind of tests for both. One is critical to your safety and your life. And the other is just important to your entertainment. Those two types of functions are simply not the same.
The desire to have better in-car navigation systems is completely understandable, but car companies are well aware of this need as well, and will soon be addressing these concerns without throwing away their entire systems. (No, I can't provide any details)
That's not the real problem.
I was going to tell you what the problem was, but then you beat me to the punch with your next paragraph.
The fragmentation of smartphone platforms is much more significant of an issue than in-car systems. Apps need to be cheap or free to entice end users. But when it's bundled with your vehicle, even a couple hundred bucks for an app is lost in the noise of the car's sticker price. With that kind of money available, in-car systems can be as fragmented as the manufacturers want, and they'll still attract developers because the smaller market and specialized skills are more than made up for by the larger sale price.
This attitude that a "couple of hundred bucks for an app is lost in the noise of the car's sticker price" is the very reason that you've already lost my trust as a consumer.
Do you really want to engender a feeling of disgust every time one of your customers browses your app store? You may make money in the short run, but consumers will learn to stay away from your car brand just like they've learned to stay away from J2ME feature phones, or learned to stay away from your $300 map updates.
Eventually at least one car maker will rise up to the challenge, and make a real car app store that doesn't try rip off its customers, and make car accessories using open standards that don't just try to replace people's smart-phones/devices, but enhance their uses instead, and ultimately that car maker will be the one that everybody will be flocking to (including the developers). Will that be a Japanese manufacturer again? May be, it's sad to say, but unless Google steps in, and does some of its magic, I don't expect much leadership coming from any of the big car manufacturers here in the US.
The desire to have better in-car navigation systems is completely understandable, but car companies are well aware of this need as well, and will soon be addressing these concerns without throwing away their entire systems. (No, I can't provide any details)
That's not the real problem.
I was going to tell you what the problem was, but then you beat me to the punch with your next paragraph.
The fragmentation of smartphone platforms is much more significant of an issue than in-car systems. Apps need to be cheap or free to entice end users. But when it's bundled with your vehicle, even a couple hundred bucks for an app is lost in the noise of the car's sticker price. With that kind of money available, in-car systems can be as fragmented as the manufacturers want, and they'll still attract developers because the smaller market and specialized skills are more than made up for by the larger sale price.
This attitude that a "couple of hundred bucks for an app is lost in the noise of the car's sticker price" is the very reason that you've already lost my trust as a consumer.
Do you really want to engender a feeling of disgust every time one of your customers browses your app store? You may make money in the short run, but consumers will learn to stay away from your car brand just like they've learned to stay away from J2ME feature phones, or learned to stay away from your $300 map updates.
Eventually at least one car maker will rise up to the challenge, and make a real car app store that doesn't try rip off its customers, and make car accessories using open standards that don't just try to replace people's smart-phones/devices, but enhance their uses instead, and ultimately that car maker will be the one that everybody will be flocking to (including the developers). Will that be a Japanese manufacturer again? May be, it's sad to say, but unless Google steps in, and does some of its magic, I don't expect much leadership coming from any of the big car manufacturers here in the US.
I'm sure that they would have said a similar thing "don't come to the hospital if you just have a sore throat or a sprained ankle", not that they said anything of the sort. But that's basically what an ER hospital would say because it never would want to be perceived as overwhelmed. The fact is, they refused this lady service for three hours (basically until she died) because she didn't come via ambulance. And 911 wouldn't send an ambulance because the couple was already located at the ER.
And having a "sprained ankle", that's a good one! The people with "sprained ankles" who actually go to the ER generally don't know they have a sprained ankle. It's not like most people enjoy going to their ER in the first place. If they're at the ER, it's usually because they think something is broken, but the PR lady is not going to say something like that, that could land her into trouble. Just imagine if she said: "Don't come to the ER, even if you think you broke your ankle. Having lots of pain doesn't necessarily mean anything is broken anyway, so if you're lucky, and you probably are -- it's probably just a sprain. Just stay off it for a while and take some ibuprofen."
May be, he could just take a look at the Twitter account on the phone itself and ask the juror in question to swear (or he'll go to jail) if he deleted any DMs. At some point, the judge has to be pragmatic about this. No judge can't have any absolute guarantee that a juror wasn't tampered with.
This is why jurors are sequestered in the first place, to prevent outside communications from impacting the jury's decision.
Yes no doubt, this kind of sequestration will only make more jurors nod off during a trial. That's clearly what we want.
On my Samsung Tab 10.1, I just did a search for "printer" in the Market and found at least a dozen fully functional free apps with excellent user reviews. There is at least one that was made by each major printer manufacturer, I assume that's because they're selling printers and ink, that's why they're supplying their own apps fully functional for free (with not even a paid equivalent), but Cloud Print seems to be the best one since it relies on Google Cloud Printing Service and just seems to be universal (and that one is totally free as well).
This is not to say I disagree with your main point. A tablet is cool, but it's a not a good productivity tool unless you're a salesman or something. Mine has become exclusively an entertainment device these days, I use it for playing games, reading manga, watching videos, listening to/remote controlling podcasts/music, casually browsing photos/the web, casually playing with the gestures of the UI interface, basically almost anything but actual real work.
And yes, I do realize the Asus Transformer comes with a keyboard, but the problem is that, even with a keyboard, it's still a very seductive device that seems to have been optimized for playing games and consuming media first and foremost.
If you want an actual real useful light device with instantaneous startup time/connection to the web, and extremely long battery life, and assuming your needs are as simple as browsing the web, working on documents online, etc, I'd suggest you take a look at the latest Samsung Chromebook. When my relatives visit, they love my tablet and they also play with it, but they actually use my Chromebook to get actual work done (instead of their own laptops that start up just so damn slowly). Plus, the Chromebook comes with 2 years of free data (the 100 MB quota per month is laughable, but it comes in handy during the times I'm out of wifi range, and I just need a quick bit of information without wanting to activate my mobile hotspot, and the way it's done, the indicator/notifier for data consumption is very well done and very transparent despite the well known evilness of Verizon, there is actually no chance of unknown overages that will come bite me in the ass later on).
This is not to say that the original poster will actually follow my advice. I don't think that he will. The very fact that the tablet is so seductive a device, and the fact that the Chromebook is not seductive at all -- it's just useful, is probably the main reason he'll insist on getting a tablet anyway.
On my Samsung Tab 10.1, I just did a search for "printer" in the Market and found at least a dozen fully functional free apps with excellent user reviews. There is at least one that was made by each major printer manufacturer, I assume that's because they're selling printers and ink, that's why they're supplying their own apps fully functional for free (with not even a paid equivalent), but Cloud Print seems to be the best one since it relies on Google Cloud Printing Service and just seems to be universal (and that one is totally free as well).
This is not to say I disagree with your main point. A tablet is cool, but it's a not a good productivity tool unless you're a salesman or something. Mine has become exclusively an entertainment device these days, I use it for playing games, reading manga, watching videos, listening to/remote controlling podcasts/music, casually browsing photos/the web, casually playing with the gestures of the UI interface, basically almost anything but actual real work.
And yes, I do realize the Asus Transformer comes with a keyboard, but the problem is that, even with a keyboard, it's still a very seductive device that seems to have been optimized for playing games and consuming media first and foremost.
If you want an actual real useful light device with instantaneous startup time/connection to the web, and extremely long battery life, and assuming your needs are as simple as browsing the web, working on documents online, etc, I'd suggest you take a look at the latest Samsung Chromebook. When my relatives visit, they love my tablet and they also play with it, but they actually use my Chromebook to get actual work done (instead of their own laptops that start up just so damn slowly). Plus, the Chromebook comes with 2 years of free data (the 100 MB quota per month is laughable, but it comes in handy during the times I'm out of wifi range, and I just need a quick bit of information without wanting to activate my mobile hotspot, and the way it's done, the indicator/notifier for data consumption is very well done and very transparent despite the well known evilness of Verizon, there is actually no chance of unknown overages that will come bite me in the ass later on).
This is not to say that the original poster will actually follow my advice. I don't think that he will. The very fact that the tablet is so seductive a device, and the fact that the Chromebook is not seductive at all -- it's just useful, is probably the main reason he'll insist on getting a tablet anyway.
It's also a good way for them to enforce their Affirmative Action policy against the disliked Malaysian Chinese and the disliked Malaysian Indian minorities in favor of the "disadvantaged" Malay majority.
After all, it's very difficult to implement a quota system without some kind of registration and licensing requirement first. For instance, this licensing distinction between University graduates and non-graduates will only ensure that the two minorities that are being "positively" discriminated from attending the Malaysian University system do not attempt to try to bi-pass the system and steal the tech jobs away from the Malay graduates.
I wonder if bombing Al Jezeera offices and trying to shut down Wikileaks would count as repression? Or what about in the case of Turkey, denying the genocide of the Kurds and arresting any journalist that talks about that?
My point is that many countries probably won't make the cut, just because it would be too politically inconvenient for the EU to exclude them.
How does paying technical debt ever give your app that new feature that your marketing department is pushing for -- to have out by tomorrow.
It's doesn't. That's the point. When the technical debt becomes too high and it doesn't allow you to add a feature by tomorrow without breaking everything, it means it's time to look for a brand new job with a brand new new code base where you can restart new technical debt from scratch
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During the restraining order, he already crossed the line by making up fake personas on facebook to get close to her friends, family, and her Goldman Sachs coworkers, just so he could send them the link to his blog.
Do you really want to help that guy? Teach him to stop picking rescue projects as girlfriends. Make him think about something else. Fueling his righteousness and helping him maintain this kind of obsession over this woman would not be helping him in the least.
And if you still want to make yourself useful by relaying electronic messages anonymously, find a way to help wikileaks. Wikileaks is doing more for our freedom than this guy ever will.
They won't drop the DVD service. They'll just use the DVD service as overage. You'll start watching a streaming movie online and once you're over quota, they'll just suspend the movie midway through, send you the rest on a DVD, and bill you according to how much more data there was left to watch.
There is actually a moral to this story.
If you're doing anything illegal, make sure you have anti-aircraft capabilities.
And if you're going out to the out house, make sure you carry your guns with you.
Yes, it's better to make them full time exempt employees, this way you can make them work sixty hours a week without over-time.
-I could reasonably manage multiple textual conversations in baked in WebOS chat. Multiple chats open concurrently all under a single coherent messaging system. Now if I get gTalk, one app manages it and if I get SMS, something else handles it. If I'm chatting with someone and switch away to look up something and switch back, the SMS app has closed my conversation and I have to find it again.
You should be able to find a good free app on the Android Market that centralizes all of that.
The missing SD card slot? I think that's by design. Don't count on it being in version 2.
As far as mobiles go, Microsoft already gets lots of money for every Android device sold. Microsoft wins in either case, be it Android or Windows Phone that is selling better.
Who is paying Microsoft for Android aside Microsoft's own existing vendors who do not want to bite the hand that feeds them? And does that amount exceed what they've payed Nokia to put Windows OS on Nokia's phones? I doubt it.
And who else will pay Microsoft for Android now that Barnes & Noble broke the confidentiality agreement and let the cat out of the bag? Did you read Microsot's ridiculous patent claims, and the actual dates they filed their patents on? With all the prior art, their patent won't fare much better than Amazon's one-click patent.
Apparently, that was one of their problems, but they're using some kind of foam cases for their iPads.
This kind of thing speaks to the geek in me.
I mean, who else hasn't daydreamed about how we would do crime. Personally I'd never actually do anything of this nature... not only for reasons of morality and ethics.. but because I'm somewhat of a coward.
May be, the architect was a coward too, and just didn't want his family and himself tortured, raped, and beheaded/disappeared, just for refusing a request from the Sinaloa Cartel.
After all the leader of the Cartel, Guzman, the guy who testified against him, escaped from prison just after 9 months. The DEA now considers him the top drug lord in the World, with even more power and influence than Pablo Escobar. Forbes also ranks Guzman as the top 1 richest drug lord in the World (he is a billionaire, so Forbes has to keep track of him). And when he escaped, everyone was working for him, the Director of the maximum security prison, the guards, and the local police who was even used to delay the military from hunting him down within the first 24 hours.
I'm sure both would change this back if Banshee upstream started accepting donations again.
May be Banshee is no longer an Amazon Affiliate.
The biggest victim here may be Amazon, which would have just kept that money if no one took it. I feel bad for Amazon.
How far would Google have progressed if they had open sourced their search engine ten minutes after they had it working?
That's a silly question.
A code base is not some static artifact. It's a living and evolving part of a larger system. It can not be replicated, just by taking the code. It needs the people behind the code too at the very least.
And by the way, Google did publish their secret sauce in an academic research paper, not that this helped their competitors much.
How do you guys think that open-sourcing your code-base affects a company's business?
If you're the business guy in the partnership, open sourcing the code is NOT in your self-interest. You don't want your technical partner to have the option to ever leave your partnership, and be able to take the code he wrote with him. Without the core developer, even if you've kept a copy of the code yourself, you won't ever be able to do anything without him. Plus, you just know that all the customers and supporters of the project will follow him wherever he goes next.
If you're the core developer who wrote the code, open sourcing the code is in your self-interest, for the reasons I described above, but also because it may bring steady customers in (assuming you do not have any such customers yet). After all, the people who buy sensors are more like developers/hackers than business people, they will automatically flock toward hardware/software that are open source and they will very likely avoid and even completely shun proprietary black box solutions (assuming there are open source alternatives available, which in this case, sounds like there are).
And if that 'rogue accountant' has higher ups that are accomplices, then the accountant is not rogue -- it's the contracting company which is. Hopefully, some of the people in that company will go to jail for fraud too.
You do not have to pay to print on Android, and nor do you need to rely on Cloud Print to print either.
You just need to install the Android app from the printer manufacturer that makes your printer. That's all. And those apps are all free (with no ads and no paid apps equivalents). You can just think of them as drivers. They'll work through the usb to your computer, through bluetooth, or through wifi.
He asked for a citation, not your personal anecdotes.
In any case, I doubt that, as the grandparent is implying, that your entertainment system is using the same software as your car's in-board computer though. It would be crazy to use the same kind of hardware and the same kind of tests for both. One is critical to your safety and your life. And the other is just important to your entertainment. Those two types of functions are simply not the same.
The desire to have better in-car navigation systems is completely understandable, but car companies are well aware of this need as well, and will soon be addressing these concerns without throwing away their entire systems. (No, I can't provide any details)
That's not the real problem.
I was going to tell you what the problem was, but then you beat me to the punch with your next paragraph.
The fragmentation of smartphone platforms is much more significant of an issue than in-car systems. Apps need to be cheap or free to entice end users. But when it's bundled with your vehicle, even a couple hundred bucks for an app is lost in the noise of the car's sticker price. With that kind of money available, in-car systems can be as fragmented as the manufacturers want, and they'll still attract developers because the smaller market and specialized skills are more than made up for by the larger sale price.
This attitude that a "couple of hundred bucks for an app is lost in the noise of the car's sticker price" is the very reason that you've already lost my trust as a consumer.
Do you really want to engender a feeling of disgust every time one of your customers browses your app store? You may make money in the short run, but consumers will learn to stay away from your car brand just like they've learned to stay away from J2ME feature phones, or learned to stay away from your $300 map updates.
Eventually at least one car maker will rise up to the challenge, and make a real car app store that doesn't try rip off its customers, and make car accessories using open standards that don't just try to replace people's smart-phones/devices, but enhance their uses instead, and ultimately that car maker will be the one that everybody will be flocking to (including the developers). Will that be a Japanese manufacturer again? May be, it's sad to say, but unless Google steps in, and does some of its magic, I don't expect much leadership coming from any of the big car manufacturers here in the US.
The desire to have better in-car navigation systems is completely understandable, but car companies are well aware of this need as well, and will soon be addressing these concerns without throwing away their entire systems. (No, I can't provide any details)
That's not the real problem.
I was going to tell you what the problem was, but then you beat me to the punch with your next paragraph.
The fragmentation of smartphone platforms is much more significant of an issue than in-car systems. Apps need to be cheap or free to entice end users. But when it's bundled with your vehicle, even a couple hundred bucks for an app is lost in the noise of the car's sticker price. With that kind of money available, in-car systems can be as fragmented as the manufacturers want, and they'll still attract developers because the smaller market and specialized skills are more than made up for by the larger sale price.
This attitude that a "couple of hundred bucks for an app is lost in the noise of the car's sticker price" is the very reason that you've already lost my trust as a consumer.
Do you really want to engender a feeling of disgust every time one of your customers browses your app store? You may make money in the short run, but consumers will learn to stay away from your car brand just like they've learned to stay away from J2ME feature phones, or learned to stay away from your $300 map updates.
Eventually at least one car maker will rise up to the challenge, and make a real car app store that doesn't try rip off its customers, and make car accessories using open standards that don't just try to replace people's smart-phones/devices, but enhance their uses instead, and ultimately that car maker will be the one that everybody will be flocking to (including the developers). Will that be a Japanese manufacturer again? May be, it's sad to say, but unless Google steps in, and does some of its magic, I don't expect much leadership coming from any of the big car manufacturers here in the US.
We're in a sad state when people need to go to the hospital to deal with sore throats and sprained ankles.
You're not very good at reading between the lines of a Cover-Your-Ass Public Relations statement. Are you?
Having a "sore throat" in a US Hospital ER is a very specific code word which means vomiting blood, writhing on the floor in agony, and basically dying slowly in front of the ER nurses while they still refuse to treat you. Go ahead, listen to the 911 tapes and watch the actual video of the waiting room.
I'm sure that they would have said a similar thing "don't come to the hospital if you just have a sore throat or a sprained ankle", not that they said anything of the sort. But that's basically what an ER hospital would say because it never would want to be perceived as overwhelmed. The fact is, they refused this lady service for three hours (basically until she died) because she didn't come via ambulance. And 911 wouldn't send an ambulance because the couple was already located at the ER.
And having a "sprained ankle", that's a good one! The people with "sprained ankles" who actually go to the ER generally don't know they have a sprained ankle. It's not like most people enjoy going to their ER in the first place. If they're at the ER, it's usually because they think something is broken, but the PR lady is not going to say something like that, that could land her into trouble. Just imagine if she said: "Don't come to the ER, even if you think you broke your ankle. Having lots of pain doesn't necessarily mean anything is broken anyway, so if you're lucky, and you probably are -- it's probably just a sprain. Just stay off it for a while and take some ibuprofen."
May be, he could just take a look at the Twitter account on the phone itself and ask the juror in question to swear (or he'll go to jail) if he deleted any DMs. At some point, the judge has to be pragmatic about this. No judge can't have any absolute guarantee that a juror wasn't tampered with.
This is why jurors are sequestered in the first place, to prevent outside communications from impacting the jury's decision.
Yes no doubt, this kind of sequestration will only make more jurors nod off during a trial. That's clearly what we want.
You must have an iPad or something.
On my Samsung Tab 10.1, I just did a search for "printer" in the Market and found at least a dozen fully functional free apps with excellent user reviews. There is at least one that was made by each major printer manufacturer, I assume that's because they're selling printers and ink, that's why they're supplying their own apps fully functional for free (with not even a paid equivalent), but Cloud Print seems to be the best one since it relies on Google Cloud Printing Service and just seems to be universal (and that one is totally free as well).
This is not to say I disagree with your main point. A tablet is cool, but it's a not a good productivity tool unless you're a salesman or something. Mine has become exclusively an entertainment device these days, I use it for playing games, reading manga, watching videos, listening to/remote controlling podcasts/music, casually browsing photos/the web, casually playing with the gestures of the UI interface, basically almost anything but actual real work.
And yes, I do realize the Asus Transformer comes with a keyboard, but the problem is that, even with a keyboard, it's still a very seductive device that seems to have been optimized for playing games and consuming media first and foremost.
If you want an actual real useful light device with instantaneous startup time/connection to the web, and extremely long battery life, and assuming your needs are as simple as browsing the web, working on documents online, etc, I'd suggest you take a look at the latest Samsung Chromebook. When my relatives visit, they love my tablet and they also play with it, but they actually use my Chromebook to get actual work done (instead of their own laptops that start up just so damn slowly). Plus, the Chromebook comes with 2 years of free data (the 100 MB quota per month is laughable, but it comes in handy during the times I'm out of wifi range, and I just need a quick bit of information without wanting to activate my mobile hotspot, and the way it's done, the indicator/notifier for data consumption is very well done and very transparent despite the well known evilness of Verizon, there is actually no chance of unknown overages that will come bite me in the ass later on).
This is not to say that the original poster will actually follow my advice. I don't think that he will. The very fact that the tablet is so seductive a device, and the fact that the Chromebook is not seductive at all -- it's just useful, is probably the main reason he'll insist on getting a tablet anyway.
You must have an iPad or something.
On my Samsung Tab 10.1, I just did a search for "printer" in the Market and found at least a dozen fully functional free apps with excellent user reviews. There is at least one that was made by each major printer manufacturer, I assume that's because they're selling printers and ink, that's why they're supplying their own apps fully functional for free (with not even a paid equivalent), but Cloud Print seems to be the best one since it relies on Google Cloud Printing Service and just seems to be universal (and that one is totally free as well).
This is not to say I disagree with your main point. A tablet is cool, but it's a not a good productivity tool unless you're a salesman or something. Mine has become exclusively an entertainment device these days, I use it for playing games, reading manga, watching videos, listening to/remote controlling podcasts/music, casually browsing photos/the web, casually playing with the gestures of the UI interface, basically almost anything but actual real work.
And yes, I do realize the Asus Transformer comes with a keyboard, but the problem is that, even with a keyboard, it's still a very seductive device that seems to have been optimized for playing games and consuming media first and foremost.
If you want an actual real useful light device with instantaneous startup time/connection to the web, and extremely long battery life, and assuming your needs are as simple as browsing the web, working on documents online, etc, I'd suggest you take a look at the latest Samsung Chromebook. When my relatives visit, they love my tablet and they also play with it, but they actually use my Chromebook to get actual work done (instead of their own laptops that start up just so damn slowly). Plus, the Chromebook comes with 2 years of free data (the 100 MB quota per month is laughable, but it comes in handy during the times I'm out of wifi range, and I just need a quick bit of information without wanting to activate my mobile hotspot, and the way it's done, the indicator/notifier for data consumption is very well done and very transparent despite the well known evilness of Verizon, there is actually no chance of unknown overages that will come bite me in the ass later on).
This is not to say that the original poster will actually follow my advice. I don't think that he will. The very fact that the tablet is so seductive a device, and the fact that the Chromebook is not seductive at all -- it's just useful, is probably the main reason he'll insist on getting a tablet anyway.
It's also a good way for them to enforce their Affirmative Action policy against the disliked Malaysian Chinese and the disliked Malaysian Indian minorities in favor of the "disadvantaged" Malay majority.
After all, it's very difficult to implement a quota system without some kind of registration and licensing requirement first. For instance, this licensing distinction between University graduates and non-graduates will only ensure that the two minorities that are being "positively" discriminated from attending the Malaysian University system do not attempt to try to bi-pass the system and steal the tech jobs away from the Malay graduates.
I wonder if bombing Al Jezeera offices and trying to shut down Wikileaks would count as repression? Or what about in the case of Turkey, denying the genocide of the Kurds and arresting any journalist that talks about that?
My point is that many countries probably won't make the cut, just because it would be too politically inconvenient for the EU to exclude them.
How does paying technical debt ever give your app that new feature that your marketing department is pushing for -- to have out by tomorrow.
It's doesn't. That's the point. When the technical debt becomes too high and it doesn't allow you to add a feature by tomorrow without breaking everything, it means it's time to look for a brand new job with a brand new new code base where you can restart new technical debt from scratch
There is nothing evil about it. It's just a brilliant marketing strategy. The fact that you're injecting your own cynicism is your own issue.