Oh no, not page turns. The end of the world. This matters not. It doesn't justify $400 price premium. If you can read books, browse pages, check email, listen to music, and watch videos for $200, it can do everything the iPad does for $400 less. Everything. None of the reviews say its unusable. None say its horrible. None say its not worth buying. All the reviews DO say it's the first iPad competitor they've seen, and mark it highly.
Did you read any of the reviews? They all say it holds its own against what the iPad does. Offers quick access to web and email, listen to music, and watch videos. Fire does it just fine for $200. iPad does it just fine for $600. Gee, wonder which one people will end up buying?
Seriously? You can't hold a laptop in one hand, and flick it on and within seconds you're on a web page and passing it around to your friends.
Laptops are unwieldy devices, not meant to be pop on, pop off for quick info bites. Or sitting on a train doing something. I mean, it's possible, but its a huge PITA and not very fun. $200 is the perfect price point for these devices. Apple will have to play ball if they want to keep the market.
I would mod you up if I could. The amount of hyperbole of "free market" Capitalism is sickening. Capitalism allows for bail outs, it allows for bankruptcy. It allows for a whole lot of things that can lean a lot of different ways. That is the beauty of Capitalism. The problem is people who are ranting about "pure" free markets are the same jackholes who are ranting about unions destroying companies, despite unions being one of the main principals for a "free market". The market today is run as free market Capitalism. Just because someone doesn't want to see a company get BILLIONS of interest free loans to companies like Ford from the government, doesn't mean we are suddenly a Socialist nation. So tired of people dealing in absolutes.
Why would you want to compare anything to a private school? Statistically, grade wise, they are actually doing worse by a tiny margin over public schools.
A lot of us were expecting "We have some unknown issues... We will delay the test until next year." or something.
Coming out and saying it is working as expected, and they made the sale puts this pretty much on the level of having to prove/disprove the technology with no more mucking about.
This story is working on too many assumptions that probably aren't true.
An analogy would be a story about robbing Fort Knox but putting on a fake military uniform and saying you're an important general, and you want to look at the gold just to make sure it is all there.
Seriously, THATS how bad this story is. IDs not checked? USB ports not disabled? What?
The leadership has been making a lot of bad decisions. Outside of the whole "Quikster" fiasco, the next worst decision they made was to play ball with the entertainment industry when they demanded more money. The Netflix competition right now is nowhere NEAR them. Netflix is literally on 95% of my home internet connected devices. From my Tivo, to my TVs, to my PS3, and 360. Etc. Netflix needs to expand its offerings. If they lose movies, then start adding games. They can also push into the adult movie industry as well. It's absolutely HUGE, and would gain them millions of more subscribers. This CEO really has no idea what the possibilities can be for them. If your current model is making you money, ignore Wall Streets screams for more profits. Look to expand while maintaining, not to simply profit.
It really isn't "between" generations. We are already due for refreshes from ALL the companies. People are clamoring for new systems right now. Nintendo will be the first to capitalize on it.
Exactly. A lot of people really have no idea how powerful the WiiU really is. The specs are quite a big step over the current generation. The real question will be if Nintendo will catch up with the PS3/360 for online gaming. If they can bring it to the level of the PS3 and keep it free and open for developers to integrate (Ie. STEAM), it'll be a huge hit. By the time MS and Sony come out with theirs, they will be 40 million consoles behind Nintendo, and may never catch up again.
We are already at this point. They keep raising retirement, but the amount of people at 60 who can actually still work is pretty low. You always have your exceptions of uber healthy people, but we're seeing a lot of older people RIGHT NOW who are all on disability because they are 60 and simply cannot stand 40 hours a week, or lift 50lb boxes, etc. We may be able to live longer, but that doesn't mean we can work longer.
I'm not sure if you're being naive on purpose or what. Why would you lower taxes on 0% tax rate? Why not fix it so that every corporation cannot use loopholes, and make them actually go from paying 0% to 35%? THEN start working on tax breaks? You're putting the carriage before the horse.
No, these won't be passed on to the consumers. They will not buy the product at such an increased rate. No this wont mean the company will then just blindly go out of business. What it will mean is the company will stop paying its top execs 50-100x more than they are paying the workers who actually make the products. Salaries will become to come in line with where they should be. The country makes money providing the privilege of running a business, the business makes money by readjusting salaries to something more sane, and everyone is happy.
Because this silly "tax holiday" is destroying millions of jobs all over the country? Remember when you could go to a mall and go into dozens of stores and shop for clothes and get them that day? Now you get to sit online and wait a week if it doesn't get lost in the mail. Awesome.....
I think you meant to say "to a state with more tax dodging laws". Why should Amazon be able to skirt around paying, while normal brick and mortar stores cannot?
I've had it on my laptop since it was released publicly. I use it daily and I have been hoping I get "used" to it, or something "clicks". So far, no such luck. The entire Metro interface is designed for tablets. On a normal computer, it is 100% totally and completely useless. Half the programs you install don't make icons on it. Since there is no more start menu, the programs are basically "lost" until you explore your drive and make a shortcut for it on your desktop. So now I have a Metro interface and the normal Desktop littered with 30 icons. It's ridiculous. I hope every day that a new patch will be installed and the start menu will reappear, or the Metro interface actually becomes useful. Right now the entire OS is a mish-mash of really poorly ideas that simply do not work as a desktop OS. I have a feeling this is going to bomb worse than Vista and Windows ME combined. It really is terrible. I will keep it installed and keep using it, but I really wont get my hopes up.
I installed it on a four year old laptop and holding the power button does absolutely nothing now. I used to think this was a BIOs thing, but it appears not, or something in Windows 8 has changed it. Pressing it does absolutely nothing now. To shut down, I need to do CTRL-ALT-DEL, then go to the lower right power icon, click, select shut down.
I think they covered that in their releasing the data. Their equipment checks out fine. That is why they want someone else to replicate the experiment independently.
Unfortunately, many of the sensors take up a whole bunch of pins. You get a simple LCD and over half your pins are used depending. This becomes an issue when you're trying to make something like a mobile robot with a touch LCD screen. Then you want fully articulated arms, you're going to need more pins for each servo. You could always offload them to their own processors, but I think there is a market for these uber Arduinos that will allow someone to not worry about how many pins they have left.
I don't think this will harm your normal Arduino base. They are cheap ($6 for the chip itself) and will work for MOST projects people are doing.
Actually, it is working quite well. Tens of thousands of children with various types of cancer who were previously denied any coverage have been fully covered and begun treatments. You cannot put a price on that figure. Ever. Monetary concerns must never be brought up in the same sentence as health care. Health care comes first, finding out where the money comes from is secondary. If taxes need to double, triple, then so be it. We need to put peoples health above all else.
Nice Fox News banter. If you did any research yourself instead of listening to Palin and her Tea Party rantings, you would know there are trade offs for paying less for health care and pensions. Salaries are less to compensate for better benefits. The Unions negotiate all of this through free market Capitalism. The government agreed to it. This is what happens in a free market. The unions were once private and negotiated to become public. They didn't force anyone to do that. It was the free market acting as it should. Now that people don't like it, they want to throw Capitalism out the window and remove "Evil Unions". Stuff it.
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Oh no, not page turns. The end of the world. This matters not. It doesn't justify $400 price premium. If you can read books, browse pages, check email, listen to music, and watch videos for $200, it can do everything the iPad does for $400 less. Everything. None of the reviews say its unusable. None say its horrible. None say its not worth buying. All the reviews DO say it's the first iPad competitor they've seen, and mark it highly.
Did you read any of the reviews? They all say it holds its own against what the iPad does. Offers quick access to web and email, listen to music, and watch videos. Fire does it just fine for $200. iPad does it just fine for $600. Gee, wonder which one people will end up buying?
Seriously? You can't hold a laptop in one hand, and flick it on and within seconds you're on a web page and passing it around to your friends.
Laptops are unwieldy devices, not meant to be pop on, pop off for quick info bites. Or sitting on a train doing something. I mean, it's possible, but its a huge PITA and not very fun. $200 is the perfect price point for these devices. Apple will have to play ball if they want to keep the market.
I would mod you up if I could. The amount of hyperbole of "free market" Capitalism is sickening. Capitalism allows for bail outs, it allows for bankruptcy. It allows for a whole lot of things that can lean a lot of different ways. That is the beauty of Capitalism. The problem is people who are ranting about "pure" free markets are the same jackholes who are ranting about unions destroying companies, despite unions being one of the main principals for a "free market". The market today is run as free market Capitalism. Just because someone doesn't want to see a company get BILLIONS of interest free loans to companies like Ford from the government, doesn't mean we are suddenly a Socialist nation. So tired of people dealing in absolutes.
Why would you want to compare anything to a private school? Statistically, grade wise, they are actually doing worse by a tiny margin over public schools.
A lot of us were expecting "We have some unknown issues... We will delay the test until next year." or something.
Coming out and saying it is working as expected, and they made the sale puts this pretty much on the level of having to prove/disprove the technology with no more mucking about.
This story is working on too many assumptions that probably aren't true.
An analogy would be a story about robbing Fort Knox but putting on a fake military uniform and saying you're an important general, and you want to look at the gold just to make sure it is all there.
Seriously, THATS how bad this story is. IDs not checked? USB ports not disabled? What?
The leadership has been making a lot of bad decisions. Outside of the whole "Quikster" fiasco, the next worst decision they made was to play ball with the entertainment industry when they demanded more money. The Netflix competition right now is nowhere NEAR them. Netflix is literally on 95% of my home internet connected devices. From my Tivo, to my TVs, to my PS3, and 360. Etc. Netflix needs to expand its offerings. If they lose movies, then start adding games. They can also push into the adult movie industry as well. It's absolutely HUGE, and would gain them millions of more subscribers. This CEO really has no idea what the possibilities can be for them. If your current model is making you money, ignore Wall Streets screams for more profits. Look to expand while maintaining, not to simply profit.
It really isn't "between" generations. We are already due for refreshes from ALL the companies. People are clamoring for new systems right now. Nintendo will be the first to capitalize on it.
Exactly. A lot of people really have no idea how powerful the WiiU really is. The specs are quite a big step over the current generation. The real question will be if Nintendo will catch up with the PS3/360 for online gaming. If they can bring it to the level of the PS3 and keep it free and open for developers to integrate (Ie. STEAM), it'll be a huge hit. By the time MS and Sony come out with theirs, they will be 40 million consoles behind Nintendo, and may never catch up again.
We are already at this point. They keep raising retirement, but the amount of people at 60 who can actually still work is pretty low. You always have your exceptions of uber healthy people, but we're seeing a lot of older people RIGHT NOW who are all on disability because they are 60 and simply cannot stand 40 hours a week, or lift 50lb boxes, etc. We may be able to live longer, but that doesn't mean we can work longer.
I'm not sure if you're being naive on purpose or what. Why would you lower taxes on 0% tax rate? Why not fix it so that every corporation cannot use loopholes, and make them actually go from paying 0% to 35%? THEN start working on tax breaks? You're putting the carriage before the horse.
No, these won't be passed on to the consumers. They will not buy the product at such an increased rate. No this wont mean the company will then just blindly go out of business. What it will mean is the company will stop paying its top execs 50-100x more than they are paying the workers who actually make the products. Salaries will become to come in line with where they should be. The country makes money providing the privilege of running a business, the business makes money by readjusting salaries to something more sane, and everyone is happy.
Because this silly "tax holiday" is destroying millions of jobs all over the country? Remember when you could go to a mall and go into dozens of stores and shop for clothes and get them that day? Now you get to sit online and wait a week if it doesn't get lost in the mail. Awesome.....
I think you meant to say "to a state with more tax dodging laws". Why should Amazon be able to skirt around paying, while normal brick and mortar stores cannot?
I've had it on my laptop since it was released publicly. I use it daily and I have been hoping I get "used" to it, or something "clicks". So far, no such luck. The entire Metro interface is designed for tablets. On a normal computer, it is 100% totally and completely useless. Half the programs you install don't make icons on it. Since there is no more start menu, the programs are basically "lost" until you explore your drive and make a shortcut for it on your desktop. So now I have a Metro interface and the normal Desktop littered with 30 icons. It's ridiculous. I hope every day that a new patch will be installed and the start menu will reappear, or the Metro interface actually becomes useful. Right now the entire OS is a mish-mash of really poorly ideas that simply do not work as a desktop OS. I have a feeling this is going to bomb worse than Vista and Windows ME combined. It really is terrible. I will keep it installed and keep using it, but I really wont get my hopes up.
I installed it on a four year old laptop and holding the power button does absolutely nothing now. I used to think this was a BIOs thing, but it appears not, or something in Windows 8 has changed it. Pressing it does absolutely nothing now. To shut down, I need to do CTRL-ALT-DEL, then go to the lower right power icon, click, select shut down.
Seriously, this reads like a Fox News article, or a Rush Limbaugh speech.
This is what the article is talking about. The contractors get paid the same, but the company doing the sourcing gets profit ON TOP of the normal pay.
I think they covered that in their releasing the data. Their equipment checks out fine. That is why they want someone else to replicate the experiment independently.
Unfortunately, many of the sensors take up a whole bunch of pins. You get a simple LCD and over half your pins are used depending. This becomes an issue when you're trying to make something like a mobile robot with a touch LCD screen. Then you want fully articulated arms, you're going to need more pins for each servo. You could always offload them to their own processors, but I think there is a market for these uber Arduinos that will allow someone to not worry about how many pins they have left.
I don't think this will harm your normal Arduino base. They are cheap ($6 for the chip itself) and will work for MOST projects people are doing.
The government agreed to it. So, the government are the ones who are ultimately responsible to the no layoffs clause.
Actually, it is working quite well. Tens of thousands of children with various types of cancer who were previously denied any coverage have been fully covered and begun treatments. You cannot put a price on that figure. Ever. Monetary concerns must never be brought up in the same sentence as health care. Health care comes first, finding out where the money comes from is secondary. If taxes need to double, triple, then so be it. We need to put peoples health above all else.
Nice Fox News banter. If you did any research yourself instead of listening to Palin and her Tea Party rantings, you would know there are trade offs for paying less for health care and pensions. Salaries are less to compensate for better benefits. The Unions negotiate all of this through free market Capitalism. The government agreed to it. This is what happens in a free market. The unions were once private and negotiated to become public. They didn't force anyone to do that. It was the free market acting as it should. Now that people don't like it, they want to throw Capitalism out the window and remove "Evil Unions". Stuff it.
This is so sad.
Yeah. $103.49 for a text file.