Frontline has a good essay on Carter's decision and the reasoning behind it. It was not a simplistic, stupid decision, it was reasonable based on the facts returned by the Nuclear Energy Policy Study Group, and it's hard to argue anything has changed since then.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/readings/keeny.html
I generally agree with this list, although I'm not sure how VMWare got on it, but I definitely think a tablet is a great platform for media, emulators, and light document viewing/editing.
For me the iPad's biggest miss is the lack of capability to mount fileshares. I don't care that the device only has a small flash drive if I can mount my samba shares, whether on my home network, or through OpenVPN when I'm remote. Why should I have to create a playlist of songs to be sync'd when I can just access them all across the network?
The "choice" to be uninsured only works until you get appendicitis and then the cost to you personally and to society as a whole gets far oustripped by the $1000/year you spent on whores--the bankruptcy courts aren't free and the hospital doesn't get paid for the service. And your credit is ruined for 7 years, so you can't buy shiny new cars or homes.
I took an SF course at UCSC in the 90s, and that short story was used as an example of hard sci-fi. I find it interesting that you were so moved by the story when I took it exactly the opposite way--the author put a cute young girl into a made-up situation where she had to die to appease the gods of physics (i.e. the cold equations) in an obvious and blatant attempt at creating a tear jerker. YMMV, of course.
That said, I think my favorite comment in the class was that since she was hiding behind a door in the closet, couldn't they have jettisoned the door?
Obviously you didn't go through the migration from Windows 98/ME to 2k/XP. I lost multiple printers and a scanner in the process. Once the sale is made, the hardware maker has no reason to revisit and update drivers for old devices, they'd rather you upgrade to their current model--which probably will include drivers for the older OS's.
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Frontline has a good essay on Carter's decision and the reasoning behind it. It was not a simplistic, stupid decision, it was reasonable based on the facts returned by the Nuclear Energy Policy Study Group, and it's hard to argue anything has changed since then. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/readings/keeny.html
I generally agree with this list, although I'm not sure how VMWare got on it, but I definitely think a tablet is a great platform for media, emulators, and light document viewing/editing.
For me the iPad's biggest miss is the lack of capability to mount fileshares. I don't care that the device only has a small flash drive if I can mount my samba shares, whether on my home network, or through OpenVPN when I'm remote. Why should I have to create a playlist of songs to be sync'd when I can just access them all across the network?
The "choice" to be uninsured only works until you get appendicitis and then the cost to you personally and to society as a whole gets far oustripped by the $1000/year you spent on whores--the bankruptcy courts aren't free and the hospital doesn't get paid for the service. And your credit is ruined for 7 years, so you can't buy shiny new cars or homes.
I took an SF course at UCSC in the 90s, and that short story was used as an example of hard sci-fi. I find it interesting that you were so moved by the story when I took it exactly the opposite way--the author put a cute young girl into a made-up situation where she had to die to appease the gods of physics (i.e. the cold equations) in an obvious and blatant attempt at creating a tear jerker. YMMV, of course.
That said, I think my favorite comment in the class was that since she was hiding behind a door in the closet, couldn't they have jettisoned the door?
Obviously you didn't go through the migration from Windows 98/ME to 2k/XP. I lost multiple printers and a scanner in the process. Once the sale is made, the hardware maker has no reason to revisit and update drivers for old devices, they'd rather you upgrade to their current model--which probably will include drivers for the older OS's.