Netbooks are cheap laptops with a small form factor. Expensive small notebooks existed for years - for example Sony Vaio or Toshiba Libretto. Overall, netbooks also are a combination of factors: battery life, price and portability. Carrying a $199 netbook which can run at least 5 hours from one charge means a lot - it can be carried everywhere and if it breaks, this is not as bad as breaking a $3000 notebook. Having your projects with you (and without carrying a heavy briefcase or worrying of losing an expensive gadget) can sometimes be a big deal.
Apple has been insisting for years that OSX has zero viruses. Users start to think they're invincible and run any downloaded binaries without a second thought. Apple is also releasing security updates (but less frequently than Microsoft). In addition, since Apple products "just work", sometimes they have to reduce security in order to make the product easier to use.
How are you going to determine that the website is youbank.com/creditcards and not yourbank.com.cr/editcards? For some cases the usual SSL padlock icon is not enough - some websites (e.g. Twitter) have no encryption and some sites have self-signed certificates.
HTC did a lot of customizations to Windows Mobile to make it a usable OS, especially after iPhone was released. Before that HTC was one of generic OEM Windows Mobile manufacturers. Since Microsoft decided to prevent manufacturers from customizing the software in WP7 (most likely to prevent fragmentation like Android), Nokia can only differentiate themselves by producing interesting hardware. Remember that Palm, while producing great hardware, couldn't win the market with a series of Windows phones.
Why the hell does Apple need Java? I the past 4 years they're been developing a closed platform that's does a limited set of tasks extremely well. Apple's business model is based on reducing hardware/software to a limited number of configurations. Knowing in advance where the software will run allows them to create a great user experience (or throw away the features if they don't work well, like video recording on pre-3GS phones).
Java, on the other hand, makes you write software for a completely unknown platform, with any OS, screen size and CPU. Now why would Apple want that? Their greatest strength is optimizing their software for a specific hardware/OS combination. Look at Microsoft, they wanted Windows everywhere and ended up with Windows Mobile and the touchscreen-enabled Windows 7, both of which are selling poorly.
Yeah, and that's the reason why manufacturers stop updating firmware less than a year after a phone is announced. Yes, you can install custom firmware like Cyanogen, but the process is complex and the custom firmware often contains nasty bugs (e.g. a buggy battery monitor draining the battery in older Cyanogen versions)
Since a large portion of Google's income is generated by ads, Bing showing Google results is identical to people who record TV shows, remove ads and put the show on The Pirate Bay. I'm pretty sure you aren't allowed to generate requests to Google search through the same interface as web browsers. In fact you'll get a captcha if you post too much requests from the same IP. You are supposed to use the APIs, which require registrations and possibly pay some fee. So this is probably not a surprise to Google.
Yeah, good luck getting yourself removed from the database once you do something "insane", like tinkering with hardware well past midnight or running "hacker" software like Linux or calling your boss names or spending all your salary on stuff you don't need.
Btw, some countries require a doctor's approval in order to buy guns or drive a car or operate dangerous machinery.
You don't need a university education in order to hit a ball with a golf club. In sports starting early is good since you have to transition from playing to coaching after reaching a certain age.
If you're under 20 you probably haven't had a real job and don't really understand finance. You'd work 80 hours a week concentrating on technical details while the VC deliberately screws up finance. Once the money runs out, you'll be offered more money in exchange for giving up a percentage of your ownership in the company. Repeat these steps a few times and you'll end up owning just 5-10%. This requires careful brainwashing by the VC in order for you to do your best. They have to make you believe that you'll own the company once it starts running profitable, nobody is going to work their ass off for a 5% ownership.
I always thought that Kinect was a software-only solution. Why on Earth would you want to buy a $200 thee-eyed webcam? Realtime image recognition is a very CPU-intensive task and is performed by the xbox CPU. My bet is that the software R&D costs were at least one figure higher that the hardware.
Google gets a percentage from every sale in Android Market. Most apps that use AdMob ads also generate revenue for Google. In fact I think there aren't any AdSense ads in the mobile version of Google Search, so Google's loss in case Bing is used as the default search is ZERO.
Pure C benchmarks are meaningless. If you spend a significant amount of time on browsing, including Flash games, and typical office tasks, these real-world matter a low more than C performance.
I had an Olympus Camedia C830L camera and it required a special "panorama" SM card (obviously more expensive than regular cards) to be able to take panorama images. Turns out that after using a modified format utility an ordinary SM card could be turned into "panorama" card. The process was complicated, the first phase involved damaging contents of the first sectors. The card was no longer recognized by Windows or the camera. After that the modified restore utility restored the proper sectors, along with the "panorama" marker.
Hear, hear. I've developed an image processing algorithm in Java and C++ (pretty simple: for every pixel in floating point array, compute some basic stuff, create a few classes to simplify the storage of temporary values and save the result into another array). The code was as close as possible in both languages, with no obvious screwups like memory leaks or unnecessary copying of stuff. To my surprise Java ended up being 15-20% faster than C++. And C++ is THE language for image processing, every new image processing algorithm is written in C++ (with the occasional exception of C) because of performance reasons.
And after removing Flash and Java and publishing the "We want the web to be open" public letter Apple still requires Quicktime to watch videos on their own website. Hypocrites.
The situation was completely identical in the Soviet Union. My parents used to work in a Kolkhoz and the animals' conditions were awful. Shit was always never cleaned out and animals never left the corral. The only difference is that the cows were fed with grass, probably because corn was more expensive than in the US. The conditions were bad because there was zero motivation for the workers to do their job properly.
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Netbooks are cheap laptops with a small form factor. Expensive small notebooks existed for years - for example Sony Vaio or Toshiba Libretto.
Overall, netbooks also are a combination of factors: battery life, price and portability.
Carrying a $199 netbook which can run at least 5 hours from one charge means a lot - it can be carried everywhere and if it breaks, this is not as bad as breaking a $3000 notebook. Having your projects with you (and without carrying a heavy briefcase or worrying of losing an expensive gadget) can sometimes be a big deal.
Underwater eathquakes cause tsunamis.
Apple has been insisting for years that OSX has zero viruses. Users start to think they're invincible and run any downloaded binaries without a second thought.
Apple is also releasing security updates (but less frequently than Microsoft). In addition, since Apple products "just work", sometimes they have to reduce security in order to make the product easier to use.
How are you going to determine that the website is youbank.com/creditcards and not yourbank.com.cr/editcards? For some cases the usual SSL padlock icon is not enough - some websites (e.g. Twitter) have no encryption and some sites have self-signed certificates.
HTC did a lot of customizations to Windows Mobile to make it a usable OS, especially after iPhone was released. Before that HTC was one of generic OEM Windows Mobile manufacturers. Since Microsoft decided to prevent manufacturers from customizing the software in WP7 (most likely to prevent fragmentation like Android), Nokia can only differentiate themselves by producing interesting hardware.
Remember that Palm, while producing great hardware, couldn't win the market with a series of Windows phones.
Why the hell does Apple need Java? I the past 4 years they're been developing a closed platform that's does a limited set of tasks extremely well. Apple's business model is based on reducing hardware/software to a limited number of configurations. Knowing in advance where the software will run allows them to create a great user experience (or throw away the features if they don't work well, like video recording on pre-3GS phones).
Java, on the other hand, makes you write software for a completely unknown platform, with any OS, screen size and CPU. Now why would Apple want that? Their greatest strength is optimizing their software for a specific hardware/OS combination. Look at Microsoft, they wanted Windows everywhere and ended up with Windows Mobile and the touchscreen-enabled Windows 7, both of which are selling poorly.
Yeah, and that's the reason why manufacturers stop updating firmware less than a year after a phone is announced.
Yes, you can install custom firmware like Cyanogen, but the process is complex and the custom firmware often contains nasty bugs (e.g. a buggy battery monitor draining the battery in older Cyanogen versions)
Since a large portion of Google's income is generated by ads, Bing showing Google results is identical to people who record TV shows, remove ads and put the show on The Pirate Bay.
I'm pretty sure you aren't allowed to generate requests to Google search through the same interface as web browsers. In fact you'll get a captcha if you post too much requests from the same IP. You are supposed to use the APIs, which require registrations and possibly pay some fee. So this is probably not a surprise to Google.
Yeah, good luck getting yourself removed from the database once you do something "insane", like tinkering with hardware well past midnight or running "hacker" software like Linux or calling your boss names or spending all your salary on stuff you don't need.
Btw, some countries require a doctor's approval in order to buy guns or drive a car or operate dangerous machinery.
You don't need a university education in order to hit a ball with a golf club. In sports starting early is good since you have to transition from playing to coaching after reaching a certain age.
If you're under 20 you probably haven't had a real job and don't really understand finance.
You'd work 80 hours a week concentrating on technical details while the VC deliberately screws up finance. Once the money runs out, you'll be offered more money in exchange for giving up a percentage of your ownership in the company. Repeat these steps a few times and you'll end up owning just 5-10%.
This requires careful brainwashing by the VC in order for you to do your best. They have to make you believe that you'll own the company once it starts running profitable, nobody is going to work their ass off for a 5% ownership.
Cr-48 is not certified for use in other countries. 3G didn't work in Moscow until recently because it interfered with aerial defense systems.
I always thought that Kinect was a software-only solution. Why on Earth would you want to buy a $200 thee-eyed webcam? Realtime image recognition is a very CPU-intensive task and is performed by the xbox CPU. My bet is that the software R&D costs were at least one figure higher that the hardware.
Google gets a percentage from every sale in Android Market. Most apps that use AdMob ads also generate revenue for Google. In fact I think there aren't any AdSense ads in the mobile version of Google Search, so Google's loss in case Bing is used as the default search is ZERO.
More likely the low-wage security worker didn't bother to read the policy.
Pure C benchmarks are meaningless. If you spend a significant amount of time on browsing, including Flash games, and typical office tasks, these real-world matter a low more than C performance.
This machine is probable capable of playing Crysis with a framerate higher that 20fps
I had an Olympus Camedia C830L camera and it required a special "panorama" SM card (obviously more expensive than regular cards) to be able to take panorama images. Turns out that after using a modified format utility an ordinary SM card could be turned into "panorama" card.
The process was complicated, the first phase involved damaging contents of the first sectors. The card was no longer recognized by Windows or the camera. After that the modified restore utility restored the proper sectors, along with the "panorama" marker.
I thought it was "A Large Ion Collider Experiment"
Hear, hear. I've developed an image processing algorithm in Java and C++ (pretty simple: for every pixel in floating point array, compute some basic stuff, create a few classes to simplify the storage of temporary values and save the result into another array). The code was as close as possible in both languages, with no obvious screwups like memory leaks or unnecessary copying of stuff. To my surprise Java ended up being 15-20% faster than C++. And C++ is THE language for image processing, every new image processing algorithm is written in C++ (with the occasional exception of C) because of performance reasons.
The site does work in Linux, however in Windows a Javascript rule removes the video, replacing them with a link to download Quicktime.
And after removing Flash and Java and publishing the "We want the web to be open" public letter Apple still requires Quicktime to watch videos on their own website. Hypocrites.
Yes, Apple actually is saying that the glass back is better than plastic or polished steel because it won't scratch.
The situation was completely identical in the Soviet Union. My parents used to work in a Kolkhoz and the animals' conditions were awful. Shit was always never cleaned out and animals never left the corral. The only difference is that the cows were fed with grass, probably because corn was more expensive than in the US. The conditions were bad because there was zero motivation for the workers to do their job properly.
That's about as stupid as locking the keys inside your car to prevent someone from stealing them from your pocket.