As a counter point, I have a Lenovo T60, and over several years, I've only had to deal with technical support once. That once was when the fan suddenly got loud (I cleaned it first -- no joy), I called up Lenovo, told them the problem and they shipped me a replacement (for $0, under standard warranty) in a couple business days. I replaced it myself using the hardware manual and I was back up and running again in less than an hour.
Maybe that's not the usual case, but there was very little I could complain about there.
Over here in downtown Toronto $300k will get you a postage stamp of a condo (less than 700 square feet, if not less than 500 square feet), if you're lucky. You can't really find fully detached houses for less than $500k, and even if you could, you wouldn't want to live in it (there'd have to be something seriously wrong with it).
Given that you've started this in the first place, you're almost certainly going to become unhappy with the new corporate environment sooner or later, which means that you're going to come back to this again. The real questions are:
What's the chance you'll come up with another idea of equal or better quality that you can turn into something worth $$$? Keep in mind that this is harder than you might think.
Just how much money are they throwing at you up front? Could you retire on it? (unlikely)
So what other phones could do any of that when the Razr came out? Oh right, none of them. The iPhone didn't come around for another 3 years. Way to completely miss the point.
Apple makes the best consumer hardware out there, bar none.
Bzzt! Wrong.
Their entire laptop line is permanently useless, as none of them have nipples. They're also all hobbled with shortscreen LCDs, but that's hard to avoid nowadays.
Their desktops are just off the shelf components thrown in a glossy white plastic case and marked up 200%.
I feel like you've compared apples to oranges. Let us ponder how your scenario would play out given linux. Replacing 32-bit ubuntu with 64-bit kubuntu is basically like replacing 32-bit vista with 64-bit vista running one of those fancy shell replacements. Same thing under the hood. Granted, a few vista 64-bit drivers aren't quite there, but by now all the major vendors have gotten their game face on.
What would have actually transpired if you had attempted to do what you did with XP would be install some ancient version of Ubuntu, lets say 6.10 and then compiled a kernel recent enough to contain whatever driver it is that you are looking for, all the while hoping that you didn't just break some critical part of your system that sits on the kernel/usermode boundary. Take HAL or ALSA for instance.
No, it's a perfectly valid comparison. The poster picked his favourite Linux OS and the least bad Windows OS. If anything, Vista would have fared worse overall than XP, and nobody uses ancient versions of Ubuntu anymore because (wait for it)...the newer versions are better!
I haven't tried it myself (no time), but Savage 2 is a MMORPG with a native Linux client. I stumbled upon it last year before they had released anything and made a note to look at it later. It seems that now they're offering the game for free along with paid "premium" accounts now, which is different than their original model (the game costs money, no premium accounts).
Afterall, what point is there in gettign the absolute latest NVidia card with 512MB ram and however many bajillion stream processors they have these days when it isn't going to work particularly well.
Poor example. Nvidia's Linux drivers are, in general, on par or better than their Windows drivers.
Thankfully, there's no.NET allowed at the ACM competitions, or at least there wasn't in any of the ones I participated in. C++, C and Java only. You also don't get any IDEs, or debuggers, or vim or emacs. There's vi, nano, a graphical editor with almost as many features as notepad and (IIRC), jove.
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As a counter point, I have a Lenovo T60, and over several years, I've only had to deal with technical support once. That once was when the fan suddenly got loud (I cleaned it first -- no joy), I called up Lenovo, told them the problem and they shipped me a replacement (for $0, under standard warranty) in a couple business days. I replaced it myself using the hardware manual and I was back up and running again in less than an hour.
Maybe that's not the usual case, but there was very little I could complain about there.
Ew.
At least that's easy to fix.
safe is the biggest marketing scam in western society. SUVs were born to market safe vehicles for hockey moms, desire for safety got Bush re-elected.
Too bad SUVs are anything but safe. http://www.gladwell.com/2004/2004_01_12_a_suv.html
Over here in downtown Toronto $300k will get you a postage stamp of a condo (less than 700 square feet, if not less than 500 square feet), if you're lucky. You can't really find fully detached houses for less than $500k, and even if you could, you wouldn't want to live in it (there'd have to be something seriously wrong with it).
Given that you've started this in the first place, you're almost certainly going to become unhappy with the new corporate environment sooner or later, which means that you're going to come back to this again. The real questions are:
I'd certainly lean towards not taking the offer.
Think I'll stick with the tried and true IDE/SATA tech.
Psst: SSD drives connect via SATA.
So what other phones could do any of that when the Razr came out? Oh right, none of them. The iPhone didn't come around for another 3 years. Way to completely miss the point.
But you repeat yourself.
Bzzt! Wrong.
Their entire laptop line is permanently useless, as none of them have nipples. They're also all hobbled with shortscreen LCDs, but that's hard to avoid nowadays.
Their desktops are just off the shelf components thrown in a glossy white plastic case and marked up 200%.
This is even easier:
"Even Apple is designing its own chips these days."
Unlike Oracle, I think Apple is traditionally a fashion accessory company.
I wish them the best carrying on the Sun baton.
There, fixed that for you.
I feel like you've compared apples to oranges. Let us ponder how your scenario would play out given linux. Replacing 32-bit ubuntu with 64-bit kubuntu is basically like replacing 32-bit vista with 64-bit vista running one of those fancy shell replacements. Same thing under the hood. Granted, a few vista 64-bit drivers aren't quite there, but by now all the major vendors have gotten their game face on. What would have actually transpired if you had attempted to do what you did with XP would be install some ancient version of Ubuntu, lets say 6.10 and then compiled a kernel recent enough to contain whatever driver it is that you are looking for, all the while hoping that you didn't just break some critical part of your system that sits on the kernel/usermode boundary. Take HAL or ALSA for instance.
No, it's a perfectly valid comparison. The poster picked his favourite Linux OS and the least bad Windows OS. If anything, Vista would have fared worse overall than XP, and nobody uses ancient versions of Ubuntu anymore because (wait for it) ...the newer versions are better!
I haven't tried it myself (no time), but Savage 2 is a MMORPG with a native Linux client. I stumbled upon it last year before they had released anything and made a note to look at it later. It seems that now they're offering the game for free along with paid "premium" accounts now, which is different than their original model (the game costs money, no premium accounts).
Poor example. Nvidia's Linux drivers are, in general, on par or better than their Windows drivers.
Not all games, Game! for example.
People have Windows machines at work? I pity you.
(Yes, I exclusively run Linux both at home and at work, and have for many years.)
I don't get what the big deal is with Hungarian Notation. Why do people consider it a bad thing?
The proper name is Hungarian Line Noise, which should answer your question.
Of course they are, nobody cares about good news, only bad news.
No, that's not enough. The only way to be safe is to nuke it from orbit.
You're thinking of the T221. It's a single 22" LCD with a resolution of 3840×2400 and an initial price of ~$20k.
And yet you did...
Not only that, but fast enough to get a first post.
They could just all get netbooks and play web games, like Game!
Thankfully, there's no .NET allowed at the ACM competitions, or at least there wasn't in any of the ones I participated in. C++, C and Java only. You also don't get any IDEs, or debuggers, or vim or emacs. There's vi, nano, a graphical editor with almost as many features as notepad and (IIRC), jove.
It would be immoral, after all.
The correct term is Digital Restrictions Management.