In a very cold room take a skillet and put a large flat rock in it. Put a block of ice on the rock. Heat the skillet. After a while the heat will travel through the rock and melt the ice from the bottom.
I had decided to buy this tablet as soon as it became available in the US long ago. I ordered it before just before/. found out it was shipping on Monday. Of course like you, I had heard they have had trouble meeting demand in India and figured I wouldn't see it until after Easter. I have it here in my hand now, as it was delivered three hours ago.
It's a nice tablet. I would not mind them using these at my kids' school. Heck, I wouldn't mind using this at school myself if I didn't already have a Nexus 7.
I have no idea how they managed to sell this for $40.
I always wanted to commute in a miles long tunnel through gelatinous muck below sea level under the waterfront of America's most earthquake-prone city.
Oh wait, no. I didn't. I meant to prefix that with "I know someone who"
I forgot to mention - they have a new line of business process IP as well. Their innovative patent-pending OWINS (Order When I Need Something) supply chain heuristic has helped them to cut their key metric COGNS (Cost Of Goods Not Sold) by almost 95%. They are licensing this innovative technology to Microsoft for their Surface line of tablets and HP, Dell, Lenovo and others in the PC industry for desktops and laptops.
Shush. They have found a profit center. By getting tax credits for responsible ewaste management. The current plan is to take their own unsold products and continuously e-cycle them in-house into new unsold products to e-cycle again, gaining an additional tax credit each time. This e-cycling perpetual motion machine is self sustaining and profitable, ensuring unlimited future paid-in capital as Wall Street discovers the enhanced efficiencies only available by cutting the humans out of the loop while simultaneously "going green".
Asking any audience larger than about 20 to compare the qualitative differences of object code vectorization is statistically problematic as the survey group is larger than the qualified population.
The product is targeted at the India K-12 market. Approximately a billion students will pass through there over the next decade, and the idea is to subsidize half so the student pays only $20 - or in some cases nothing. I think they'll be OK on volume.
To me this one is interesting simply because it's the Datawind. I can't wait to play with it when it arrives. I do have Nexus tablets, but as the low-end device to be made available to a billion students in India that alone makes it worth investigating.
You thought that was bad? We shouldn't have admitted that? Totally didn't see that coming. Ok, making a list now... was there anything else you wanted to not know about?
This patch was premature. It wasn't supposed to be released until the last patch batch before XP goes out of support. Fortunately they have more like these to share with us between now and March, so the motivation to get off XP by April should be quite strong.
Three years since we cut the cord and went streaming only. Savings so far is about $2500. It would be more but I buy more Blurays now, or rent them from Redbox, we have bought more gear for streaming (Chromecast, Android tablets). The most significant side effect is that nobody in the house can bear to sit through a half hour of commercial TV any more, or watch SD or DVD quality video. We have 12 OTA digital channels in HD and can't bear to watch them because there is not enough content between the commercials to sustain interest, and the commercials are uninteresting and repetitive. It's too tedious.
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Yeah, I was missing that connection. Thanks.
My mistake. Sorry.
I was talking about Greenland, sorry.
In a very cold room take a skillet and put a large flat rock in it. Put a block of ice on the rock. Heat the skillet. After a while the heat will travel through the rock and melt the ice from the bottom.
Or maybe... geothermal energy is melting the ice from the bottom, as it should be expected to.
I had decided to buy this tablet as soon as it became available in the US long ago. I ordered it before just before /. found out it was shipping on Monday. Of course like you, I had heard they have had trouble meeting demand in India and figured I wouldn't see it until after Easter. I have it here in my hand now, as it was delivered three hours ago.
It's a nice tablet. I would not mind them using these at my kids' school. Heck, I wouldn't mind using this at school myself if I didn't already have a Nexus 7.
I have no idea how they managed to sell this for $40.
I always wanted to commute in a miles long tunnel through gelatinous muck below sea level under the waterfront of America's most earthquake-prone city.
Oh wait, no. I didn't. I meant to prefix that with "I know someone who"
Again?
And Kins.
No, it isn't.
I'm pretty sure that my tax money is in there somewhere. Maybe that's what they found. If so, I would like for them to return it.
I forgot to mention - they have a new line of business process IP as well. Their innovative patent-pending OWINS (Order When I Need Something) supply chain heuristic has helped them to cut their key metric COGNS (Cost Of Goods Not Sold) by almost 95%. They are licensing this innovative technology to Microsoft for their Surface line of tablets and HP, Dell, Lenovo and others in the PC industry for desktops and laptops.
Shush. They have found a profit center. By getting tax credits for responsible ewaste management. The current plan is to take their own unsold products and continuously e-cycle them in-house into new unsold products to e-cycle again, gaining an additional tax credit each time. This e-cycling perpetual motion machine is self sustaining and profitable, ensuring unlimited future paid-in capital as Wall Street discovers the enhanced efficiencies only available by cutting the humans out of the loop while simultaneously "going green".
Asking any audience larger than about 20 to compare the qualitative differences of object code vectorization is statistically problematic as the survey group is larger than the qualified population.
The problem with this is eventually you become unable to tolerate commercials.
The product is targeted at the India K-12 market. Approximately a billion students will pass through there over the next decade, and the idea is to subsidize half so the student pays only $20 - or in some cases nothing. I think they'll be OK on volume.
To me this one is interesting simply because it's the Datawind. I can't wait to play with it when it arrives. I do have Nexus tablets, but as the low-end device to be made available to a billion students in India that alone makes it worth investigating.
And this is how you get that done.
Also, Wireless charging means she can't break the connector.
When you know you're doing things wrong, today is always the best day to stop.
You thought that was bad? We shouldn't have admitted that? Totally didn't see that coming. Ok, making a list now... was there anything else you wanted to not know about?
Download yourself a real database.
This patch was premature. It wasn't supposed to be released until the last patch batch before XP goes out of support. Fortunately they have more like these to share with us between now and March, so the motivation to get off XP by April should be quite strong.
Three years since we cut the cord and went streaming only. Savings so far is about $2500. It would be more but I buy more Blurays now, or rent them from Redbox, we have bought more gear for streaming (Chromecast, Android tablets). The most significant side effect is that nobody in the house can bear to sit through a half hour of commercial TV any more, or watch SD or DVD quality video. We have 12 OTA digital channels in HD and can't bear to watch them because there is not enough content between the commercials to sustain interest, and the commercials are uninteresting and repetitive. It's too tedious.
They get the taxpayers to pay for the stadium. And those of us who don't care to watch are really unhappy about that.