Depends on your definition. We work closely with the laptop OEMs - They're all there, so we manage to get a tremendous amount of meetings under our belts at CES. The booths are mostly just there for brand recognition - All the value is what goes on in the suites, meeting rooms and restaurants.
Where I live (Vancouver, Canada) the copper is largely stolen to fund drug addiction. Legalize drugs (and give away the hard stuff under prescription) and lots of this theft goes away...
Only the USA and China make you take your bags through customs at your point of entry
Canada too.
Imagine you're flying London -> Los Angeles -> Fresno. When should your bags go through customs? Fresno? Does that mean everyone flying Los Angeles -> Fresno should go through customs? The fact that you connect to an internal domestic flight means this is the only way to make this work.
As soon as people will start playing with TV firmwares
I know it's hard to believe for the/. crowd, but the vast majority of users don't jailbreak / root their phones or flash their routers. They just plug in their stuff and use it. I'm sure it will be the same with "Smart TVs." Hell, I'm pretty geeky and my router is default and my phone is running an older OS. Most people have more important things to do with their time.
I mean, just the other day my neighbor was sentenced to 25 years of hard labor for Googling "free Tibet".
Mod parent up. Comparing the USA to China does a disservice to people who live in true police states. Could the USA do much better? Absolutely - But Suggesting the USA is as bad as China means one has no clue as to how bad things really are elsewhere in the world.
Huh? Win8 isn't even shipping. How could any be sold?
sell it for $500 but have it cost less to build due to it not being powered by Intel then it's going to get built and sold. and that day will come soon. won't be good for most gaming/dev work but 99% of the people won't care.
Why do iPads sell well? Because there are lots of applications and you can do lots of good stuff.
Why do Windows computers sell well? Because there are lots of applications and you can do lots of good stuff.
A non-intel laptop is going to take a long time to come up to speed once people realize there isn't a wealth of applications available. It's the same reason all those cheap Linux boxes at Dell and Wal-Mart fail - People realize they can't run apps and return them.
Developers code apps for the most common platforms - Right now that platform is x86, and will be for the foreseeable future.
Which is useless. I know nerd paranoia is cool and all, but law enforcement really can't do anything with a MAC address (I work for a company that does extensive digital forensics as related to criminal work). There's no giant "MAC Address Database" that links them to users, and even if there was the data wouldn't be useful as they can be spoofed. Typically this work is done via physical access to the hardware, or via a trojan that you somehow get onto the device.
I remain skeptical. I'm a regular FB poster, and not even FB can target ads to me that I care about. I'm a married man so I get ads about meeting women and ovulation tests. I live in Vancouver and I've just finished a big house renovation, so I get ads for extended-stay suites IN Vancouver. Where's this big 'tracking' conspiracy if not even the mothership can get it right?
Just curious - Was Japan self-sufficient in the mid-40s when it came to food? Could you have just blockaded the islands until surrender? Nothing leaves by sea or air. Nothing arrives by sea or air Or would they all have just starved to death rather than surrender?
So if you're an Indian for whom an iPad costs the equivalent of a year's salary you should go without altogether, rather than have the best-in-breed? Sounds like a plan - Since I can't afford a Porsche I'll stick with walking.
I doubt many people are choosing to drive over flying due to 'liquids and gels' rules, groping and the like. However, they are probably doing it over time concerns. If it's an hour to drive to the airport and park, 30 minutes to check in, 30 minutes to get through security, 30 minutes standing at a packed gate area, 30 minutes to board and 45 minutes on the tarmac for 60 minutes in the air, well then a four hour drive with a bag of doritos between your legs and a big gulp in the cupholder doesn't seem so bad...
no terrorist has brought an American plane down since 2001
That has nothing to do with the TSA and everything to do with the paradigm changing. Cockpit doors are now locked and if you did get up to something the passengers would beat you to death with the drinks cart.
Data's head is three hundred years older than his body.
Dude (there's no way you're a chick), that's one excellent obscure reference to an under-rated episode. However, isn't Data's head more like 450 years old?
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I couldn't care less what happened at their industry frat party.
You do if your investment portfolio includes companies that do business at CES - Because CES is where a lot of wheeling and dealing happens.
Is CES still relevant?
Depends on your definition. We work closely with the laptop OEMs - They're all there, so we manage to get a tremendous amount of meetings under our belts at CES. The booths are mostly just there for brand recognition - All the value is what goes on in the suites, meeting rooms and restaurants.
Where I live (Vancouver, Canada) the copper is largely stolen to fund drug addiction. Legalize drugs (and give away the hard stuff under prescription) and lots of this theft goes away...
It's too bad the airlines can't afford to buy congress. They're really the ones who are suffering by all this...
Only the USA and China make you take your bags through customs at your point of entry
Canada too.
Imagine you're flying London -> Los Angeles -> Fresno. When should your bags go through customs? Fresno? Does that mean everyone flying Los Angeles -> Fresno should go through customs? The fact that you connect to an internal domestic flight means this is the only way to make this work.
It's not uncommon for people to show up 30-45 minutes early and a lot of times we forget to leave until the cleaning crew comes in to remind us.
Anyone in your office have a spouse? Kids? Close friends, even? (And if they do have kids my question is "why?")
So either you've figured out the "perfect" tax shelter
You're assuming he lives in the USA. Maybe he lives in the Cayman Islands or Malta.
As soon as people will start playing with TV firmwares
I know it's hard to believe for the /. crowd, but the vast majority of users don't jailbreak / root their phones or flash their routers. They just plug in their stuff and use it. I'm sure it will be the same with "Smart TVs." Hell, I'm pretty geeky and my router is default and my phone is running an older OS. Most people have more important things to do with their time.
[Insert tired "but Windows is the biggest virus there is!" post here.]
Did AMD stop making chips
Sigh.
OK, you got me. Aren't you so smart?
"Non x86." blah blah blah.
I mean, just the other day my neighbor was sentenced to 25 years of hard labor for Googling "free Tibet".
Mod parent up. Comparing the USA to China does a disservice to people who live in true police states. Could the USA do much better? Absolutely - But Suggesting the USA is as bad as China means one has no clue as to how bad things really are elsewhere in the world.
and how many Windows 8 tablets have been sold?
Huh? Win8 isn't even shipping. How could any be sold?
sell it for $500 but have it cost less to build due to it not being powered by Intel then it's going to get built and sold. and that day will come soon. won't be good for most gaming/dev work but 99% of the people won't care.
Why do iPads sell well? Because there are lots of applications and you can do lots of good stuff.
Why do Windows computers sell well? Because there are lots of applications and you can do lots of good stuff.
A non-intel laptop is going to take a long time to come up to speed once people realize there isn't a wealth of applications available. It's the same reason all those cheap Linux boxes at Dell and Wal-Mart fail - People realize they can't run apps and return them.
Developers code apps for the most common platforms - Right now that platform is x86, and will be for the foreseeable future.
It's called a MAC address
Which is useless. I know nerd paranoia is cool and all, but law enforcement really can't do anything with a MAC address (I work for a company that does extensive digital forensics as related to criminal work). There's no giant "MAC Address Database" that links them to users, and even if there was the data wouldn't be useful as they can be spoofed. Typically this work is done via physical access to the hardware, or via a trojan that you somehow get onto the device.
I remain skeptical. I'm a regular FB poster, and not even FB can target ads to me that I care about. I'm a married man so I get ads about meeting women and ovulation tests. I live in Vancouver and I've just finished a big house renovation, so I get ads for extended-stay suites IN Vancouver. Where's this big 'tracking' conspiracy if not even the mothership can get it right?
Just curious - Was Japan self-sufficient in the mid-40s when it came to food? Could you have just blockaded the islands until surrender? Nothing leaves by sea or air. Nothing arrives by sea or air Or would they all have just starved to death rather than surrender?
This one time, at band camp...
That's why I said one of MANY examples...
Not the best for health
Actually, the latest science suggests you may outlive us all (provided you're eating vitamins, iron and minerals etc.)
http://www.gizmag.com/dietary-restriction-aging-and-disease/13436/
Street parking rarely, if ever, has reserved accessible spaces
Bzzzt. Thank you for playing. Here's one of many examples from my city (Vancouver, Canada):
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XmgrJ99G4Vs/Tice-jsqlKI/AAAAAAAAASE/wR-wsve4Iq0/s1600/Vancouver%2B225.JPG
something that Apple EXPLICITLY PREVENTS YOU OR ANYONE FROM DOING
Installing OSX on non-Apple hardware.
Last time I checked, Microsoft doesn't care if you install Windows on a Mac, and Dell doesn't care if you install Linux on one of their PCs.
(Yeah, yeah, blah blah blah technically they can't 'prevent' it but its prohibited...)
Ignoring the blatant trolling of your comment
WHOOSH!
It doesn't seem worth it for the compromises made
So if you're an Indian for whom an iPad costs the equivalent of a year's salary you should go without altogether, rather than have the best-in-breed? Sounds like a plan - Since I can't afford a Porsche I'll stick with walking.
I doubt many people are choosing to drive over flying due to 'liquids and gels' rules, groping and the like. However, they are probably doing it over time concerns. If it's an hour to drive to the airport and park, 30 minutes to check in, 30 minutes to get through security, 30 minutes standing at a packed gate area, 30 minutes to board and 45 minutes on the tarmac for 60 minutes in the air, well then a four hour drive with a bag of doritos between your legs and a big gulp in the cupholder doesn't seem so bad...
no terrorist has brought an American plane down since 2001
That has nothing to do with the TSA and everything to do with the paradigm changing. Cockpit doors are now locked and if you did get up to something the passengers would beat you to death with the drinks cart.
Data's head is three hundred years older than his body.
Dude (there's no way you're a chick), that's one excellent obscure reference to an under-rated episode. However, isn't Data's head more like 450 years old?