Exactly. This is your cue to find a new school, preferably one that cultivates the appreciation of building a professional library in their students. Some of my $100+ textbooks are still $100+ on Amazon, and they're still worth their weight in gold. Some could be mistaken for gold bullion based on their weight, too.
Your $100 new book is still worth $100 used? Lucky you, most places come out with new editions every other year so my $100 new book could be worth about $0 next year. Oh and I love the classes where the professor wrote the book so you have to buy that edition, making it nearly impossible to find it used online. I still have $200 books I'll never use again and they're worthless, at least these students will still be able to sell their iPads in a few years.
Your cue to find a new school is if your school is still wasting student's money on $1,000 a semester dead tree paper books when we have wonderful tablets and high speed wifi at our disposal. Not to mention the bonus of just carrying a 8 ounce iPad instead of 15 lbs worth of books around
Now let's just hope the $100 books do not become $100 apps
No no everyone must be wrong this Moser guy invented the obvious in 2002 this has never ever existed before. Bottles have only been around for hundreds of years (wine bottles) there is no way this existed before 2002/sarcasm
Microsoft needed to be sued for this. They were entering the flooded tablet market where two dominate players already existed with a new OS that is not windows compatible. After seeing what happened to HP's touchpad what did Microsoft think would happen? Without a significant price decrease Windows RT was dead before it got started. Microsoft should have followed Google's lead and given away RT and made money on in-app store sales.
Am I the only one disappointed that it tops out at 32gb and has no SD card slot? Even 2012 iPad Mini offers 64gb, why isn't 64gb offered in the latest and greatest Android tablet? And isn't one of the great features of Android the fact that it can use removable storage and iOS devices can't? Why is Google removing one of the best features of Android? I know the old Nexus 7 didn't have a card slot too but a lot of people complained, I thought for sure they would offer at least micro SDXC on the next generation. 32gb, no SD, no thanks
You don't shutdown, you adapt: newegg, amazon, sears and even walmart adapted to the ebay model, so now sellers can sell their own merchandise on amazon and newegg and buyers don't even know the difference. Only way you can tell is it says "item provided by $SELLERS_NAME" somewhere. That way geeks.com wouldn't need any merchandise, they would just operate the domain and hosting and take a percentage of every sale.
Once had a job at a major sports stadium. Since there was no free parking I asked if they would compensate for parking. They said yes and put in writing. When checks finally started arriving I noticed the parking fee ($20 a day, $100 a week) wasn't in there. When I asked about it again they said they would not pay. I showed them what they wrote and they said that person has been fired and they didn't represent the company. I quit and never went back.
Acer never makes high quality products and the last Asus zendesk ultrabook had a lot of problems. Sony might be decent but someone already replied saying its close but costs more than MacBook Air but worse battery life. One nice thing about Apple is all their products are high quality and built well, unlike some acer laptops I've seen with flexing keyboards and screens.
Also Apple products all seem to have the same level of quality. PC products, even high-end models, have a wide range of quality levels. Sometimes it's worth paying a little more for something you know is going to be built well, especially if you don't plan on replacing it anytime soon. It also seems easier to get support for Apple products. Go to forums, ask a question and everyone has an answer because everyone has the same model. Go to a PC laptop forum and good luck finding anyone with the same model you have. I have never owned a Apple PC but this is my last windows laptop, when windows 7 becomes old I'm going to Mac unless Microsoft works the bugs out of Windows 8 and makes it as user friendly as iOS
So all these homes that dont have corner mailboxes should be forced to install mailboxes at the end of their driveway for what, to get junkmail? Yeah no thanks. And cluster mailboxes with a hundred boxes are a cluster fuck, they look like shit and people just pull up in front of it to get their mail and block access for everyone else. I say screw USPS, can't remember the last time they delivered a letter I wanted and UPS and FedEx will be happy to deliver packages
Something is seriously wrong when companies like FedEx and UPS can survive and offer competitive rates on just mailing boxes but USPS can't survive when they handle all of the letters and many of the packages.
they tried Ubuntu on the HP Touchpad, wasn't very popular despite over a million cheap touchpads in the public's hands.
Problem with Surface RT is the same problem the HP Touchpad had: few developers. Apple sells well because they're Apple, Android sells well because it's the phones are free and the tablets are cheap. Microsoft can't even get people to buy Windows 8 tablets much less Surface RT tablets. So, you want to sell them, do what you did with the Xbox for several years: sell the Surface RT at a colossal loss like the Xbox was sold at a huge loss.
Why sell at a loss? Windows RT has a Microsoft store built into the OS, so Microsoft will make their money back on the store just like Google makes up for giving way Android from Google Play. And since the Surface RT doesn't run windows software good luck to anyone trying to install software from anywhere but inside the Microsoft store.
They've only been dreaming of pneumatic tubes for 180 years or so, but they've never gone further than bank drivethrus and some buildings. Even something like the mail, that you would think would benefit greatly from pneumatic tubes compared to planes and vehicles, hasn't switched over. Truth is pneumatic tubes are great for short distances, but when you have them run over miles there's too many complications, if it breaks down you can't just hop off, you're stuck in a tube 100 miles from rescue. That's why we have been dreaming of it forever and had the technology for a hundred years but even countries with the money and means built bullet trains instead. We'll probably see Star Trek teleporters before pneumatic tubes
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube
I will see Ender's Game, even if it does look like that horrible Hunger Games movie set in space. We watch tom cruise movies even though he has been a raging lunatic for at least a dozen years, and kayne west keeps selling music even though he's a huge racist. Apparently the public does not care about politics of the seller as long as the product is good. Just look at all the crap we buy from communist China
You know kickstarter was suppose to change the world, finally The People could fund our own projects. Unfortunately it's run by idiots that only allow their own pet projects to be posted. Where's the revolutionary ideas that kickstarter was suppose to give us? Been on/. for over 15 years and I don't own anything that launched on kickstarter
The blogger's entire article is is based on hearsay, rumors and speculation. No quotes from Apple, TSMC, Intel or any other company he mentioned in the article. No facts at all in the article. Maybe Intel turned Apple down? Maybe we should trust the judgement of a billion dollar company like Apple over a silly blogger's opinion? I'm sure there's many great reasons Apple didn't choose Intel.
You mean get up and leave the theater and miss the movie and hope the guy is still playing on his phone when you return with the manager? Yeah right. They need a way so I can text the manager discreetly and alert them to the problem so security can catch them in the act and escort them from the theater. Maybe dimly lit signs at the front saying "text 5551212 if there is a problem with this theater". Would also be useful if the movie has no sound or other problems with the movie itself.
Given the immense popularity of iOS and tablets I'd say its better they learn to program apps for that then desktops since tablets seem to be the future. If the school was spending this much on desktops I'd be rather disappointed, glad to see this school at least realizes the future is touchscreen and tablet based.
Good luck: if you have a video of them punching you then YOU will be sued because they were right, you were recording and harassing them! Ironic isn't it?
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Exactly. This is your cue to find a new school, preferably one that cultivates the appreciation of building a professional library in their students. Some of my $100+ textbooks are still $100+ on Amazon, and they're still worth their weight in gold. Some could be mistaken for gold bullion based on their weight, too.
Your $100 new book is still worth $100 used? Lucky you, most places come out with new editions every other year so my $100 new book could be worth about $0 next year. Oh and I love the classes where the professor wrote the book so you have to buy that edition, making it nearly impossible to find it used online. I still have $200 books I'll never use again and they're worthless, at least these students will still be able to sell their iPads in a few years.
Your cue to find a new school is if your school is still wasting student's money on $1,000 a semester dead tree paper books when we have wonderful tablets and high speed wifi at our disposal. Not to mention the bonus of just carrying a 8 ounce iPad instead of 15 lbs worth of books around
Now let's just hope the $100 books do not become $100 apps
Yes. It should be punishable too, like as if they lost their weapon.
No no everyone must be wrong this Moser guy invented the obvious in 2002 this has never ever existed before. Bottles have only been around for hundreds of years (wine bottles) there is no way this existed before 2002 /sarcasm
Microsoft needed to be sued for this. They were entering the flooded tablet market where two dominate players already existed with a new OS that is not windows compatible. After seeing what happened to HP's touchpad what did Microsoft think would happen? Without a significant price decrease Windows RT was dead before it got started. Microsoft should have followed Google's lead and given away RT and made money on in-app store sales.
Am I the only one disappointed that it tops out at 32gb and has no SD card slot? Even 2012 iPad Mini offers 64gb, why isn't 64gb offered in the latest and greatest Android tablet? And isn't one of the great features of Android the fact that it can use removable storage and iOS devices can't? Why is Google removing one of the best features of Android? I know the old Nexus 7 didn't have a card slot too but a lot of people complained, I thought for sure they would offer at least micro SDXC on the next generation. 32gb, no SD, no thanks
Samsung NC215s is the world's first solar laptop way back in 2011.
It's on Amazon with real reviews and here's a customer unboxing video
Article mentions the NC215s but claims it didn't have a 10 hour battery life while this review says the NC215s did have a 10 hour battery life... not that it really matters if the laptop can run on sunlight.... unless you're visiting the Arctic I suppose
You don't shutdown, you adapt: newegg, amazon, sears and even walmart adapted to the ebay model, so now sellers can sell their own merchandise on amazon and newegg and buyers don't even know the difference. Only way you can tell is it says "item provided by $SELLERS_NAME" somewhere. That way geeks.com wouldn't need any merchandise, they would just operate the domain and hosting and take a percentage of every sale.
Once had a job at a major sports stadium. Since there was no free parking I asked if they would compensate for parking. They said yes and put in writing. When checks finally started arriving I noticed the parking fee ($20 a day, $100 a week) wasn't in there. When I asked about it again they said they would not pay. I showed them what they wrote and they said that person has been fired and they didn't represent the company. I quit and never went back.
Acer never makes high quality products and the last Asus zendesk ultrabook had a lot of problems. Sony might be decent but someone already replied saying its close but costs more than MacBook Air but worse battery life. One nice thing about Apple is all their products are high quality and built well, unlike some acer laptops I've seen with flexing keyboards and screens.
Also Apple products all seem to have the same level of quality. PC products, even high-end models, have a wide range of quality levels. Sometimes it's worth paying a little more for something you know is going to be built well, especially if you don't plan on replacing it anytime soon. It also seems easier to get support for Apple products. Go to forums, ask a question and everyone has an answer because everyone has the same model. Go to a PC laptop forum and good luck finding anyone with the same model you have. I have never owned a Apple PC but this is my last windows laptop, when windows 7 becomes old I'm going to Mac unless Microsoft works the bugs out of Windows 8 and makes it as user friendly as iOS
Price of stamps have been increasing every year for over a decade now and they're still complaining about not enough money
So all these homes that dont have corner mailboxes should be forced to install mailboxes at the end of their driveway for what, to get junkmail? Yeah no thanks. And cluster mailboxes with a hundred boxes are a cluster fuck, they look like shit and people just pull up in front of it to get their mail and block access for everyone else. I say screw USPS, can't remember the last time they delivered a letter I wanted and UPS and FedEx will be happy to deliver packages
Something is seriously wrong when companies like FedEx and UPS can survive and offer competitive rates on just mailing boxes but USPS can't survive when they handle all of the letters and many of the packages.
they tried Ubuntu on the HP Touchpad, wasn't very popular despite over a million cheap touchpads in the public's hands.
Problem with Surface RT is the same problem the HP Touchpad had: few developers. Apple sells well because they're Apple, Android sells well because it's the phones are free and the tablets are cheap. Microsoft can't even get people to buy Windows 8 tablets much less Surface RT tablets. So, you want to sell them, do what you did with the Xbox for several years: sell the Surface RT at a colossal loss like the Xbox was sold at a huge loss.
Why sell at a loss? Windows RT has a Microsoft store built into the OS, so Microsoft will make their money back on the store just like Google makes up for giving way Android from Google Play. And since the Surface RT doesn't run windows software good luck to anyone trying to install software from anywhere but inside the Microsoft store.
Simple: give congress millions for more h1b visas, but look like you're helping Americans by having a $100,000 prize!
Want to encourage Americans to get CS degrees? Stop shipping the jobs overseas.
They've only been dreaming of pneumatic tubes for 180 years or so, but they've never gone further than bank drivethrus and some buildings. Even something like the mail, that you would think would benefit greatly from pneumatic tubes compared to planes and vehicles, hasn't switched over. Truth is pneumatic tubes are great for short distances, but when you have them run over miles there's too many complications, if it breaks down you can't just hop off, you're stuck in a tube 100 miles from rescue. That's why we have been dreaming of it forever and had the technology for a hundred years but even countries with the money and means built bullet trains instead. We'll probably see Star Trek teleporters before pneumatic tubes http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube
I will see Ender's Game, even if it does look like that horrible Hunger Games movie set in space. We watch tom cruise movies even though he has been a raging lunatic for at least a dozen years, and kayne west keeps selling music even though he's a huge racist. Apparently the public does not care about politics of the seller as long as the product is good. Just look at all the crap we buy from communist China
Needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few - Spock
You know kickstarter was suppose to change the world, finally The People could fund our own projects. Unfortunately it's run by idiots that only allow their own pet projects to be posted. Where's the revolutionary ideas that kickstarter was suppose to give us? Been on /. for over 15 years and I don't own anything that launched on kickstarter
Yes TA is great but what's with the system requirements? 64 megabytes for the larger maps is outrageous! ;)
The blogger's entire article is is based on hearsay, rumors and speculation. No quotes from Apple, TSMC, Intel or any other company he mentioned in the article. No facts at all in the article. Maybe Intel turned Apple down? Maybe we should trust the judgement of a billion dollar company like Apple over a silly blogger's opinion? I'm sure there's many great reasons Apple didn't choose Intel.
You mean get up and leave the theater and miss the movie and hope the guy is still playing on his phone when you return with the manager? Yeah right. They need a way so I can text the manager discreetly and alert them to the problem so security can catch them in the act and escort them from the theater. Maybe dimly lit signs at the front saying "text 5551212 if there is a problem with this theater". Would also be useful if the movie has no sound or other problems with the movie itself.
Given the immense popularity of iOS and tablets I'd say its better they learn to program apps for that then desktops since tablets seem to be the future. If the school was spending this much on desktops I'd be rather disappointed, glad to see this school at least realizes the future is touchscreen and tablet based.
But wouldn't this engine continue to build speed forever since there is no resistance in space? So 1g should be easily achievable.
Good luck: if you have a video of them punching you then YOU will be sued because they were right, you were recording and harassing them! Ironic isn't it?