There is no sense, no reason to it. If you are not prepared to cynical up and drain the public trough to enrich yourself providing no public benefit whatsoever, stay away from federal contracting. Far away. They are quite dangerous to the naively sincere.
Let me guess: flash video. Not that I mind missing out on this particular video. I just wanted to remark on the irony that I can't watch this video about tablets replacing notebooks on my Nexus 7 tablet. News for nerds indeed.
No one device can serve all computing needs. It might have the latest i7 and 32GB RAM, a 4TB SSD array and dual Teslas - but is it portable with all day battery life?
I doubt Intel is really excited about their share of the BOM on a $200 laptop. But they have no choice. It's this or give the Chromebook to Qualcomm for Christmas.
It pretty neatly handles the "bare machines are only for pirating Windows" argument. All Microsoft needs to do to avoid that is not write and sign the drivers for this. Any bets on how long it takes them to come up with a tailored install kit?
The idea is that any sufficiently advanced interstellar species using lasers for long-distance communications will have enough of them that at any given moment they will be pointed every which way. Much like a normal sophisticated urban human is carrying multiple radio devices.
Although tenuous, it does get away from the background glare problem. Nobody out there is going to see an Earth based laser unless we're using one powerful enough to push a solar sail on an interstellar probe because glare of the sun is so close. But a comms laser from Ceres to the moons of Saturn? Maybe. A comms laser returning data from an outbound comet to a relay in orbit around Saturn? Certainly.
Growth of Windows PCs has stalled. People aren't buying it. A great many are repulsed by Windows 8.x and determined to tough it out with what they've got. A new Windows PC is too expensive and complicated, doesn't give good value.
People are buying Android and ChromeOS devices. Quick, easy, inexpensive Android and ChromeOS devices.
OEMs want to sell Windows devices, people want to buy Android and ChromeOS devices. Naturally OEMs are going to come up with the answer that all they need to do is sneak some expensive complicated poor-value Windows onto the popular Android and ChromeOS devices and they're good as gold. They really are that stupid.
That is not how it works. You are trying to sell the worst of both worlds.
If it could just remember that I never want to see that catastrophe again, a setting maybe, that would be great. Having to request the desktop site EVERY FIVE MINUTES has become a drag.
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There is no sense, no reason to it. If you are not prepared to cynical up and drain the public trough to enrich yourself providing no public benefit whatsoever, stay away from federal contracting. Far away. They are quite dangerous to the naively sincere.
Let me guess: flash video. Not that I mind missing out on this particular video. I just wanted to remark on the irony that I can't watch this video about tablets replacing notebooks on my Nexus 7 tablet. News for nerds indeed.
Quick! Get Intel on the phone and let them know they just wasted $7.6 billion on McAfee when it was already obsolete.
Giving the gift of Windows leads to sadness.
No one device can serve all computing needs. It might have the latest i7 and 32GB RAM, a 4TB SSD array and dual Teslas - but is it portable with all day battery life?
They are hugely popular in K-12 education. It is probably not best at this point to try to assign them a niche.
My, what a broad brush you have. Is that tar? You got a little on you.
Well said.
I doubt Intel is really excited about their share of the BOM on a $200 laptop. But they have no choice. It's this or give the Chromebook to Qualcomm for Christmas.
Sadly the RAM is soldered on, or people would be bumping that to 4 or 8 GB as well. The 4GB versions are perpetually sold out.
It pretty neatly handles the "bare machines are only for pirating Windows" argument. All Microsoft needs to do to avoid that is not write and sign the drivers for this. Any bets on how long it takes them to come up with a tailored install kit?
They may have something for you at CES.
It's a $200 Haswell notebook. Why would it not sell?
The way netbooks were killed was always sort of fishy.
Also, for $99 you can upgrade the ssd to 128GB. Now it's a pretty killer laptop for $300.
You can accomplish as much damage with a jar of rust remover and some patience.
The whole purpose of the Constitution is to prevent just this sort of shit. That's what it's for.
The idea is that any sufficiently advanced interstellar species using lasers for long-distance communications will have enough of them that at any given moment they will be pointed every which way. Much like a normal sophisticated urban human is carrying multiple radio devices.
Although tenuous, it does get away from the background glare problem. Nobody out there is going to see an Earth based laser unless we're using one powerful enough to push a solar sail on an interstellar probe because glare of the sun is so close. But a comms laser from Ceres to the moons of Saturn? Maybe. A comms laser returning data from an outbound comet to a relay in orbit around Saturn? Certainly.
Growth of Windows PCs has stalled. People aren't buying it. A great many are repulsed by Windows 8.x and determined to tough it out with what they've got. A new Windows PC is too expensive and complicated, doesn't give good value.
People are buying Android and ChromeOS devices. Quick, easy, inexpensive Android and ChromeOS devices.
OEMs want to sell Windows devices, people want to buy Android and ChromeOS devices. Naturally OEMs are going to come up with the answer that all they need to do is sneak some expensive complicated poor-value Windows onto the popular Android and ChromeOS devices and they're good as gold. They really are that stupid.
That is not how it works. You are trying to sell the worst of both worlds.
Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. - Linus Torvalds
"In the dirt? Ew."
Believe it or not, some people are already shopping for gifts for next Christmas. Imagine that.
If you ordered a gift at the last possible second, the problem is not UPS. It's you.
If it could just remember that I never want to see that catastrophe again, a setting maybe, that would be great. Having to request the desktop site EVERY FIVE MINUTES has become a drag.
300 DPI, no matter what size the page.