I disagree. I see the mobile computing market falling into three categories now:
1) Smartphones. These are taking the place of the netbooks of old that were tiny (i.e. 9-10"). Plenty capable of doing e-mail, texting, IM, etc., and somehow, folks are browsing the web with them too.
2) Newer netbooks. Anywhere from 9-12" with an emphasis on low power consumption and better battery life. You do e-mail, web, and all of that jazz as with smartphones but with considerable amentities that make traditional computing possible (e.g. better keyboard, larger screen, numerous ports for expandability).
3) Desktop replacement laptops. Anything larger and more powerful than the netbook described in #2. They come with even larger screens, full sized keyboard with numeric keypads, discrete graphics chips, and beefier internals like large hard drives, optical drives, multiple cores, and Library of Congress sized RAM. While "portable," the downside is that you're chained to an electrical outlet, because these bad boys devour electricity. Some have coal-fired chipsets in them (just kidding).
I'd argue that #2 will be the largest source of growth in PCs (including smartphones) in the next few years. Unless you sleep in a different city every night or need to get your pixel shading game on, these new netbooks will fill your needs toward both ends of the scale very nicely. It's a big, wide bell curve that favors the new netbooks.
Yes, the ability to pump out video to an external monitor from a netbook is nice. I have a couple Asus EeePC 1000HEs one of which has replaced a traditional desktop.
That said, VGA looks like ass. When I replaced my wife's desktop which sported a video card with DVI, she complained rightly that it looked blurry.
I dunno. Ubiquity and availability of devices to plug into is fine and all, but I long for the day we can finally lower VGA connections into the ground.
How does an amputated foot heal? Does it grow back? No. We need what is broken to grow back.
Really, this comparison of chopping off toes or feet to letting AIG go bankrupt is poor. I wish it weren't, but businesses are far too intertwined to successfully firewall risk so simply.
What your suggesting is more akin to a labatomy at best and beheading at worst.
A bridge too far. Just as MSFT shares were relatively stale during the latest bull market (early '06?), they're likely to hold up during this bear market. Why? A hell of a lot of cash on that balance sheet. Were it not for that, I'd say, "Commence firing." But they have a sizeable cushion and flexibility from the war chest they amassed in the 90's.
From TFA: "So with the Navision thing going on the situation normally pans out like this: Company/institute X switches to Free Software nominally, installing Ubuntu and OpenOffice.org on all computers, except those of the top management who need to have access to Microsoft Navision Financials. The middle management then complains that theyâ(TM)re important enough to have Microsoft Office and that they feel devalued as employees for being forced to use the free, open alternative that doesnâ(TM)t suck. Eventually the middle management gets their way, and then the lowest employees start heaving the same sighs. Before you know it Company/institute Xâ(TM)s Free Software policy is a piece of paper rotting in a drawer somewhere."
Adapt. Improvise. Overcome. Fire the entrenched middle managers. If they don't want to liberate their departments from this morass, save their countrymen a pile of kronas, and just generally improve their situation, well...who needs 'em?
Time for them to head to the conference room where Bob Slydell and Dom Porterwood are waiting.
Well, there's the lap dances, rock concerts, and golf tournaments, but really, if no one cares about the pitfalls of 30:1 leverage, who cares about these puny details.
Alright 2010 fans, anyone know if there's been interest in making a movie out of 2061: Odyssey Three? Tom Hanks had an interest, but that never came to pass.
I occassionally run into the Europa quote from 2010 on the internet, and I always wonder. It's such a cool teaser.
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I disagree. I see the mobile computing market falling into three categories now:
1) Smartphones. These are taking the place of the netbooks of old that were tiny (i.e. 9-10"). Plenty capable of doing e-mail, texting, IM, etc., and somehow, folks are browsing the web with them too.
2) Newer netbooks. Anywhere from 9-12" with an emphasis on low power consumption and better battery life. You do e-mail, web, and all of that jazz as with smartphones but with considerable amentities that make traditional computing possible (e.g. better keyboard, larger screen, numerous ports for expandability).
3) Desktop replacement laptops. Anything larger and more powerful than the netbook described in #2. They come with even larger screens, full sized keyboard with numeric keypads, discrete graphics chips, and beefier internals like large hard drives, optical drives, multiple cores, and Library of Congress sized RAM. While "portable," the downside is that you're chained to an electrical outlet, because these bad boys devour electricity. Some have coal-fired chipsets in them (just kidding).
I'd argue that #2 will be the largest source of growth in PCs (including smartphones) in the next few years. Unless you sleep in a different city every night or need to get your pixel shading game on, these new netbooks will fill your needs toward both ends of the scale very nicely. It's a big, wide bell curve that favors the new netbooks.
Yes, the ability to pump out video to an external monitor from a netbook is nice. I have a couple Asus EeePC 1000HEs one of which has replaced a traditional desktop.
That said, VGA looks like ass. When I replaced my wife's desktop which sported a video card with DVI, she complained rightly that it looked blurry.
I dunno. Ubiquity and availability of devices to plug into is fine and all, but I long for the day we can finally lower VGA connections into the ground.
They should have instead invested in making PostgreSQL better, at least developing better replication and clustering.
And settling on a sensible case sensitivity methodology that empowers developers rather than hamstrings them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN2_czSBSD0&NR=1
Watch it all the way through. From 2:10 to the end is breathtaking.
Agreed and very well written.
+1 interesting if only for mod points.
How does an amputated foot heal? Does it grow back? No. We need what is broken to grow back.
Really, this comparison of chopping off toes or feet to letting AIG go bankrupt is poor. I wish it weren't, but businesses are far too intertwined to successfully firewall risk so simply.
What your suggesting is more akin to a labatomy at best and beheading at worst.
You didn't just write that the Fed has never been successful at warding off deflation, did you? It can be argued that the Fed has never failed.
*channeling Heath Ledger* ...there goes...the Bat Man...
"Dose she swallow?"
Alas, some doses are bigger than others.
Agreed. The Copyright Clause says "promote." Not "perpetuate." Too many interpret it as the latter at the expense of the former.
A bridge too far. Just as MSFT shares were relatively stale during the latest bull market (early '06?), they're likely to hold up during this bear market. Why? A hell of a lot of cash on that balance sheet. Were it not for that, I'd say, "Commence firing." But they have a sizeable cushion and flexibility from the war chest they amassed in the 90's.
From TFA: "So with the Navision thing going on the situation normally pans out like this: Company/institute X switches to Free Software nominally, installing Ubuntu and OpenOffice.org on all computers, except those of the top management who need to have access to Microsoft Navision Financials. The middle management then complains that theyâ(TM)re important enough to have Microsoft Office and that they feel devalued as employees for being forced to use the free, open alternative that doesnâ(TM)t suck. Eventually the middle management gets their way, and then the lowest employees start heaving the same sighs. Before you know it Company/institute Xâ(TM)s Free Software policy is a piece of paper rotting in a drawer somewhere."
Adapt. Improvise. Overcome. Fire the entrenched middle managers. If they don't want to liberate their departments from this morass, save their countrymen a pile of kronas, and just generally improve their situation, well...who needs 'em?
Time for them to head to the conference room where Bob Slydell and Dom Porterwood are waiting.
and BSOD you!
What's the ticker symbol for ESPN?
DIS - Walt Disney Company
Yeah, but if caught you could end up going to federal POUND ME IN THE ASS prison...with Bernie Madoff as your bunk mate.
Well, there's the lap dances, rock concerts, and golf tournaments, but really, if no one cares about the pitfalls of 30:1 leverage, who cares about these puny details.
And is now a 201(k).
Alright 2010 fans, anyone know if there's been interest in making a movie out of 2061: Odyssey Three? Tom Hanks had an interest, but that never came to pass.
I occassionally run into the Europa quote from 2010 on the internet, and I always wonder. It's such a cool teaser.
(2) some kind of automated space cleaner that went around removing debris - but we had no idea how that could possibly work or be designed
Put a gyroscope in a Roomba?
Agree to these terms?
[No. Take me away.]
[Yes, absolutely.]
[I have no choice but to agree to these draconian terms, so yes.]
Move to an area that is not serviced by Time Warner Cable.
We'll find the terrorists.
Identify the problem and FIX IT!
This is long overdue. Seriously. They need to identify the problems and FIX IT!.