Speculation, perhaps... more accurately, they are educated estimates. One could, on the basis that it is also an estimate, object to the notion that the universe is roughly 13.7 billion years old as well. The chief point is that the estimate is going to be accurate enough for all practical purposes.
My main object is that you said it was "mainstream." It most certainly is not. It is still vaporware. Yes, it may become mainstream, and yes, they must price it competitively, or it will go the way of the Zune, if it ever arrives at all. Also, your educated estimates do not compare to the collective scientific agreement on the age of the universe, which although is technically "speculation," it is based on evidence, while your estimates are not. There is no evidence on what the Surface will cost. And your estimates are in no way "reality."
As for the notion that it's going to be mainstream, It's an affordably priced consumer electronics product, designed along the same vein as most other tablets available today, and as a is reasonable to presume it will be just as mainstream as any one of them.
Objection! Quoting a dozen lines to only supply a single lIne of your own!
Also... Failing to be specific in your objection lends suspect that your own objection is not rationally founded. Counsel is requested to clarify or else withdraw the objection.
So using bold to indicate my objection wasn't enough for you? Well let me spell it out - Surface is NOT a mainstream product; it's not even a product yet - it's little more than vaporware.
Here's a fact: The U.S. and Israel have started war against Iran. I don't remember congress ever approving this war, I don't remember the public ever being notified that our country is now at war with yet another country, despite being unable to pay for the half dozen other wars we're currently engaged in. This is completely unacceptable.
No, it's alleged that the "U.S. and Israel have started war against Iran." The claims are all by anonymous resources.
Also... what term can we use now for gesture-based computing that isn't necessarily geared towards tablets? The term "surface computing" has been around for a while, but now I expect that term is going to just be too heavily associated with this particular mainstream product.. where at least with the old MS Surface, Microsoft could legitimately have made a claim to being the first one to commercialize a product that the term would get named for. Now calling something "surface computing" is just going to sound like people are trying to "microsoftize" an industry where there are already a number of other players.
Try visiting Yahoo! news or Politico or Huffington Post and explaining how guaranteed loans make college more expensive and you get flamed and accused of being a rich 1%er that only wants wealthy kids to go to college.
Visit/. and there's no need to explain the obvious.
"well, duh"
Succinct AND accurate
Bravo.
OTOH, the articles are from Bloomberg News and WSJ - both almost as right-wing as Fox News. So of course their "conclusion" is we should cut student aid - and cut taxes on the rich ^H^H^H^H job-creators.
There is only one source who says they have "evidence" and keeps pointing the finger at the US and Israel about Stuxnet, Flame, and other Trojans, and that is Kaspersky, which is a Russian AV company. Nobody else out there, be it Panda, Symantec, McAfee, or independent researchers makes these conclusions. It might just be me, but it appears that there might be a political agenda here.
Perhaps because Panda, Symantec, McAfee have contracts with the US Gov to provide Stuxnet, Flame, and other Trojans?
People who now feel betrayed for voting for him are as stupid as the people who think Obama is the root cause of all evil and that shit will turn to honey once they vote a Repub back into the presidency (specially if he believes Darwin's "On The Origin of Species" is a work of fiction.)
Stupidity of the most grotesque kind permeates both sides of the political spectrum. Such is the ethos of the at-will uneducated simpleton masses.
FYI: People who feel betrayed for voting for Obama are few-and-far-between. They are a myth that the right invents to try to convince people that they've been betrayed.
OK well beyond this specific thing, this whole idea of installing "custom" video players just for one specific video seems insane to me.
Like, we've had good and trustworthy video players for a really long time. Hell, mplayer runs damn near on every platform that exists. Then something comes along and says, "hey, to see this video you MUST install "MyCustomPlayerItWontJackYourSystemWeSwear!!.exe"... and people do that shit? WTF?
Same for music. Why in the hell prompted the break from the former "standard, trustworthy players separated from the content they play", and towards, "using custom apps for every little thing?" You see it increasing now on tablets too.
It's crazy!
Horny teenagers will install it even if its called "MyCustomPlayerItWillJackYourSystem.exe if they're promised some hardcore porn.
Nobody is saying they don't have that right as long as it ends at the city limits. But my point is still valid. Social engineering with no regard to the unintended consequences will fail every time. Instead of using the money to buy crap that will have to be maintained forever thus requiring more money and more government employees to manage it every year, IMHO, the money should be given back to every citizen in the form of a tax rebate.
Perhaps the residents of Richmond, CA don't share your HO that what they buy with their tax money is crap.
Aside from the f*cking nanny statist bullsh*t that this is, what's really wrong with it is that there's money involved. When the cigarette taxes were levied and sold to the uneducated electorate with the notion that the money would be spent on early childhood development programs or some other program, what they didn't realize is they just added to the parasitic economy. As cigarette sales dropped, so did the money available to spend on these programs which continued to grow. Then these same do-gooders whined that their precious bullsh*t social programs didn't have any money so other tax money had to be allocated to them which inevitable leads to higher taxes.
This scheme is no different.
However, the people of the city of Richmond, California have the right to decide if they want it, your anger not withstanding.
Though I can recognize sarcasm when I see it, there is one gigantic problem with your argument: I can avoid being killed by a doctor by choosing not to see one. I cannot choose not to see anyone with a gun.
excuse me, there's only one way to my house and it's called the path.
next time you wish to tell me how to get to my house i would appreciate a little consoltation. failing that, feel free to confine yourself to describing things as you know them.
fuck off! I was responding to the parent who asked why it's called the driveway.
I've been seeing reports that over the past few years, there's been an exodus of quite a number of people leaving NY for other states to get away from the high taxation there....many going to states with no state income taxes, or estate taxes (like FL).
Now the state is trying to tell you wtf you can drink or eat? Sheesh.
Do you not know the difference between New York City and the state of New York?
Speeding tickets. Virginia is one of the few states to ban radar detectors. Plus their "reckless driving" stature comes with criminal misdemeanor charges and nice big fines.
Not to mention that 20 mph over posted speed limit or 80 mph gives you automatic reckless driving.
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Speculation, perhaps... more accurately, they are educated estimates. One could, on the basis that it is also an estimate, object to the notion that the universe is roughly 13.7 billion years old as well. The chief point is that the estimate is going to be accurate enough for all practical purposes.
My main object is that you said it was "mainstream." It most certainly is not. It is still vaporware. Yes, it may become mainstream, and yes, they must price it competitively, or it will go the way of the Zune, if it ever arrives at all. Also, your educated estimates do not compare to the collective scientific agreement on the age of the universe, which although is technically "speculation," it is based on evidence, while your estimates are not. There is no evidence on what the Surface will cost. And your estimates are in no way "reality."
Between 600 and 800 dollars. Not cheap, but still definitely affordable.
Objection! Hearsay. Microsoft has not announced prices.
As for the notion that it's going to be mainstream, It's an affordably priced consumer electronics product, designed along the same vein as most other tablets available today, and as a is reasonable to presume it will be just as mainstream as any one of them.
Objection! Assuming facts not in evidence.
5) My company phone keeps "breaking" for some reason.
The FAR side of the border (as in already crossed over).
But it will only show your location, not how hard you're working. Plenty of people are AT work but not DOING work.
Objection! Quoting a dozen lines to only supply a single lIne of your own!
Also... Failing to be specific in your objection lends suspect that your own objection is not rationally founded. Counsel is requested to clarify or else withdraw the objection.
So using bold to indicate my objection wasn't enough for you? Well let me spell it out - Surface is NOT a mainstream product; it's not even a product yet - it's little more than vaporware.
A recently drafted cyber strategy formulated by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) classifies digital sabotage as an act of war.
Here's a fact: The U.S. and Israel have started war against Iran. I don't remember congress ever approving this war, I don't remember the public ever being notified that our country is now at war with yet another country, despite being unable to pay for the half dozen other wars we're currently engaged in. This is completely unacceptable.
No, it's alleged that the "U.S. and Israel have started war against Iran." The claims are all by anonymous resources.
Anybody know?
Also... what term can we use now for gesture-based computing that isn't necessarily geared towards tablets? The term "surface computing" has been around for a while, but now I expect that term is going to just be too heavily associated with this particular mainstream product.. where at least with the old MS Surface, Microsoft could legitimately have made a claim to being the first one to commercialize a product that the term would get named for. Now calling something "surface computing" is just going to sound like people are trying to "microsoftize" an industry where there are already a number of other players.
Objection! Assuming facts not in evidence.
So voting for Obama, solidifying the move to economic socialism through higher taxes (See Greece, Italy, France, etc) is preferable
Or you could see Ireland (low taxes, super-high unemployment).
This is a great discussion.
Try visiting Yahoo! news or Politico or Huffington Post and explaining how guaranteed loans make college more expensive and you get flamed and accused of being a rich 1%er that only wants wealthy kids to go to college.
Visit /. and there's no need to explain the obvious.
"well, duh"
Succinct AND accurate
Bravo.
OTOH, the articles are from Bloomberg News and WSJ - both almost as right-wing as Fox News. So of course their "conclusion" is we should cut student aid - and cut taxes on the rich ^H^H^H^H job-creators.
There is only one source who says they have "evidence" and keeps pointing the finger at the US and Israel about Stuxnet, Flame, and other Trojans, and that is Kaspersky, which is a Russian AV company. Nobody else out there, be it Panda, Symantec, McAfee, or independent researchers makes these conclusions. It might just be me, but it appears that there might be a political agenda here.
Perhaps because Panda, Symantec, McAfee have contracts with the US Gov to provide Stuxnet, Flame, and other Trojans?
People who now feel betrayed for voting for him are as stupid as the people who think Obama is the root cause of all evil and that shit will turn to honey once they vote a Repub back into the presidency (specially if he believes Darwin's "On The Origin of Species" is a work of fiction.)
Stupidity of the most grotesque kind permeates both sides of the political spectrum. Such is the ethos of the at-will uneducated simpleton masses.
FYI: People who feel betrayed for voting for Obama are few-and-far-between. They are a myth that the right invents to try to convince people that they've been betrayed.
Horny teenagers will install it even if its called "MyCustomPlayerItWillJackYourSystem.exe if they're promised some hardcore porn.
you don't need to install anything to get hardcore porn.
Of course not, but horny teenagers don't necessarily know that and will install ANYTHING if promised hardcore porn.
OK well beyond this specific thing, this whole idea of installing "custom" video players just for one specific video seems insane to me.
Like, we've had good and trustworthy video players for a really long time. Hell, mplayer runs damn near on every platform that exists. Then something comes along and says, "hey, to see this video you MUST install "MyCustomPlayerItWontJackYourSystemWeSwear!!.exe" ... and people do that shit? WTF?
Same for music. Why in the hell prompted the break from the former "standard, trustworthy players separated from the content they play", and towards, "using custom apps for every little thing?" You see it increasing now on tablets too.
It's crazy!
Horny teenagers will install it even if its called "MyCustomPlayerItWillJackYourSystem.exe if they're promised some hardcore porn.
...it might as well be with porn!
Nobody is saying they don't have that right as long as it ends at the city limits. But my point is still valid. Social engineering with no regard to the unintended consequences will fail every time. Instead of using the money to buy crap that will have to be maintained forever thus requiring more money and more government employees to manage it every year, IMHO, the money should be given back to every citizen in the form of a tax rebate.
Perhaps the residents of Richmond, CA don't share your HO that what they buy with their tax money is crap.
Aside from the f*cking nanny statist bullsh*t that this is, what's really wrong with it is that there's money involved. When the cigarette taxes were levied and sold to the uneducated electorate with the notion that the money would be spent on early childhood development programs or some other program, what they didn't realize is they just added to the parasitic economy. As cigarette sales dropped, so did the money available to spend on these programs which continued to grow. Then these same do-gooders whined that their precious bullsh*t social programs didn't have any money so other tax money had to be allocated to them which inevitable leads to higher taxes.
This scheme is no different.
However, the people of the city of Richmond, California have the right to decide if they want it, your anger not withstanding.
They might as well run a lottery for the same effect.
They've already been doing that for > 20 years.
Though I can recognize sarcasm when I see it, there is one gigantic problem with your argument: I can avoid being killed by a doctor by choosing not to see one. I cannot choose not to see anyone with a gun.
There are two ways to your house: the WALKWAY (you walk to your house) and the DRIVEWAY (you drive to your house) Simple enough for you?
And while I'm at it, the PARKWAY is typically called that because it goes through a PARK (or once did), not because you park your car there.
And the HIGHWAY is where you drive when you're high. :-)
No, the Highway is often elevated, thus high.
excuse me, there's only one way to my house and it's called the path.
next time you wish to tell me how to get to my house i would appreciate a little consoltation. failing that, feel free to confine yourself to describing things as you know them.
fuck off! I was responding to the parent who asked why it's called the driveway.
Why they insist on hermetically sealing them, though, that is baffling to me.
I believe it is that way for as a theft deterrent. The harder it is to open the harder it is to open in the aisle in the store and not get caught.
Regardless, if I ever meet the inventor, I will punch him/her in the face.
...for people to leave NY.
I've been seeing reports that over the past few years, there's been an exodus of quite a number of people leaving NY for other states to get away from the high taxation there....many going to states with no state income taxes, or estate taxes (like FL).
Now the state is trying to tell you wtf you can drink or eat? Sheesh.
Do you not know the difference between New York City and the state of New York?
Speeding tickets. Virginia is one of the few states to ban radar detectors. Plus their "reckless driving" stature comes with criminal misdemeanor charges and nice big fines.
Not to mention that 20 mph over posted speed limit or 80 mph gives you automatic reckless driving.