I just voted with my wallet I just ordered it and the tablet. In large part because I like Google and what they do. In many ways they add value without being dicks and support programmers, hackers and open source. And the fact that they on-shored the manufacturing. I hope it gets Netflix and Hulu though.
So let's see it's not Windows and so it does not run the millions of Windows software packages. And it's not Windows Phone either so it does not run those apps either, It only runs Metro UI apps compiled especially for Win RT (ARM) which is is let's see hmm... Nothing! It's a whole new platform in a space that MS has zero market share. Google making a tablet makes some sense they already have an Android market full of apps and people that would buy a sweet Android tablet and they already sell the Nexus line directly as a sort of reference platform.
Microsoft making a tablet really looks like they have no idea what they are doing and are just trying to do exactly everything Apple does and hope that will result in lightening striking twice.
Anyone remember WinCE the actual name of the product was wince. Anyway I remember Windows Mobile and basically it boils down to fool me one shame on you fool me twice shame on me.
OK so Apple has iCloud and Amazon has Cloud Drive so are they all the new Microsoft? Or is this just really dumb? Everyone has a cloud storage option these days. Dropbox has not been the only one for sometime. And I imagine Apples is bigger than Google's at this point since everyone with a Mac with Lion or IOS device has it already.
Wow, just wow, you basically just precluded the idea of someone creating art for money. What horse shit. As a person who has worked in the arts and tried to make a living let me just say it's bad enough without this attitude. I don't know what your chosen vocation is but imagine if someone said the same of your vocation.
Take for example IT. Why do we do IT? It's not for money." both are monumentally dumb statements.
Sorry they weren't filmed they were taped with analog tapes (probably betacam or betacam SP or something similar) using either a three tube camera or early CCD TV camera from the 90s. This is the equivalent of taking a analog recording and putting it on a CD and saying you remastered it. The source material was not filmed on 16 mm film stock or taped in 1080P high def it was taped with a 90s TV camera. So they source is not high def. The CCD cameras of the day were capable of around 400lines to maybe 800 lines of vertical resolution. So there will be an improvement but it is no where near 1080P. And I suspect this is trickery given how the show was taped it should fit in 480P on DVD just fine. So I don't know if they are interpolating this I.E. upconverting or what. But looking at the pics there is some other fiddling with color going on between the samples.
The only people I have heard call it a supposed "iPad killer" are Apple sycophants who assume that everything in the world that looks like an iPad might unseat it from it's throne. Low self esteem or unsure of their core beliefs or something.
Disclaimer I use Apple stuff but I hate fanboys of all stripes (except OSS fanboys those my homies)
And so Apple controls your world. They snap their fingers and content they deem inappropriate goes away. They are the gatekeeper of your world an decide what you can and can't see they can censor anything they want at their whim. You make it incredibly easy for the rich and powerful to censor anything they don't like just because you find it convenient. So you gave up your freedom gladly for a shiny iDevice. Good work
Really important thing to note from the article. They mention the profit margins on the broadband services are 95%. Anyone remember that bullshit about them needing to manage their networks because bandwidth was so pricey? If it's so pricey then how are they making 95% profit? I mean on my 69.00 a month data bill they are paying a total of 3.45 in fixed costs. That includes installation, support, sales, marketing, accounting etc... So the bandwidth cost is probably less than a buck. Wow pricey. They are such fucking greedy money grubbing boldface liars that think we are stupid enough not remember they said that. Most business don't enjoy 95% margins except for like high end audio and jewelry. Remember this the next time they start spouting bullshit about how put upon they are for us actually using the network we fucking paid for and they are reaping huge profits from. I hate these people.
The best camera is the one you have on you. It's knowing how to use the camera that separates the good from the bad.Your capturing light so the first thing you need to learn is how light affects the camera and how you can manage that. Then there's a ton of other things to learn like composition and creativity. But the point is start studying there's tons of good info in books and online. Join an online photography community or a local club. And get out and take pictures. You give Joe McNally an iPhone and he will run circles around most people with a Canon DSLR. Why? Because he knows how to use it. One of the dumbest things you can say to a photographer is " Wow nice picture you must have a really nice camera." It implies stupidly that it is the gear and not the photographers knowledge and creativity that make a good photo.
" Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst." – Henri Cartier-Bresson
“ Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all timesI just shoot at what interests me at that moment." – Elliott Erwitt
How about you move next to coal fired plant or a natural gas storage facility or pipeline or refinery. We are talking about realistic ways to replace that stuff which has all sorts of safety and environmental issues. Please take your head out of the clouds come back to reality and have a grown up conversation about power generation. Because turning off the lights when you leave a room and riding your bike everywhere and unicorn farts aren't real solutions.
Reasonable me don't change the world unreasonable men do. Keep in mind Job's was not know for being especially kind in his words and demeanour himself.
I am pretty sure your wrong. When Apple lists iPhone for example in their revenue breakdown that includes related products and services. There is a separate line item for iTunes but I am not sure what the distinction is. Are iPhone and iPad apps money included in the iTunes line item or the iPhone line item? I am pretty sure it's the latter. And that's like 86% of their income (which includes the phone hardware too). I am guessing the iTunes line item is music and movies sold through the iTunes applications and not the apps sold through the iPhone or iPad marketplace.
30% of everything sold through the iPhone and iPad markets is real money and that is what Amazon is going to be making with their Fire. That's why they would bother selling it so cheap.
What's interesting to me is that Jeff Bezos and Amazon seem to be the only ones realizing this. I mean HP could have gone that route with the Touchpad because they control the market for the WebOS devices. But they didn't they decided to take on Apple with a me too product at the SAME price point and without the content tie in either which is just like stupid.
Falcon 9 does not use any of the Shuttle technology. At least as far as we know. They developed there own engine the Merlin, they are not using the tiles or the solid boosters. So how do you figure this.
Why are you so bothered that the government is not doing this and a private company is are you that myopic in your politics that only the government can do for you? That's really just quite sad.
If the government was doing this it would not be cost effective. It would be years over due and over budget and cost many factors more than what was originally projected to launch as the Space Shuttle did. The Shuttle program was a failure in almost every way. It did not meet it's design goals, launch cost targets, or budget not even close. It was unsafe for human flight. And it's launch costs ate most of NASAs budget for years preventing real research and science from being done.
But never mind that keep your rose coloured glasses on for the Shuttle and the pork based politics that created the abomination that it was.
SUN actually got it's name from Stanford University Network and SunOS started there as did Cisco. The first Cisco prototype router was built there. And did not Google start there as well? And wasn't Yahoo's first page hosted on Stanford's hardware and started there as well.
I think Charles Bolden the director of NASA has it right. They should leave LEO to be done by the commercial launch companies. We need to look beyond LEO we have been stuck in LEO since the 1970s.
I know a lot of nerds still have a boner for the Shuttle but it's launch costs ate most of the NASA budget. By leaving truck duties to companies like spaceX and maybe launch alliance if they can get there shit together makes sense.
Let NASA focus on big picture research and getting out of LEO.
Why is this so hard to grasp?
Thinking about it they made a huge PR mistake by allowing there to be a gap between when the shuttle retires and when someone like SpaceX was ready to take astronauts to the space station.
Hehe I am not sure I buy their line. I think they lost two billion with casino style banking and this chump gets to take the fall for it. It's a fine line between fraud and oh crap we lost a bunch of money AGAIN gambling with pensioners money. What are we going to tell the press?
Prove the fraud in court and then I might believe the line they are selling.
Ten to one this guy does not do time because he was probably doing his job. What do you think investment banks do? I mean it's been proven they are all just a bunch of gamblers. Except they gamble with your 401k.
Archos 5 Internet Tablet was released September 15th 2009 with android Apple iPad April 2010. Archos should sue Apple to block the iPad in Europe. Jobisan Fanbois starting to see how this could get out of hand? no? figures
Internet nerds? If youare not an Internet nerd what are you doing in a forum arguing about the merits of Apples patent claims. You telling me you are a TMZ surfing hottie that took a wrong turn at Alburquerque and accidently ended up posting on Slashsdot?
Betrays you how? Seriously talk about hyperbole. Google offers a free service in which they believe real identities will make the service more useful and generally better. What's more they are being completely upfront and honest that they want people to use real names and why. The service is completely optional you don't have to use it. So geez don't use their free service. Seriously you sound like a PR astroturfer that works for Facebook or Microsoft. Betrayal oh noez111!!!!
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I just voted with my wallet I just ordered it and the tablet. In large part because I like Google and what they do. In many ways they add value without being dicks and support programmers, hackers and open source. And the fact that they on-shored the manufacturing. I hope it gets Netflix and Hulu though.
Here's an idea stop using your work computer for personal business. No seriously, stop use your own computer for such things. Problem solved.
So let's see it's not Windows and so it does not run the millions of Windows software packages. And it's not Windows Phone either so it does not run those apps either, It only runs Metro UI apps compiled especially for Win RT (ARM) which is is let's see hmm... Nothing! It's a whole new platform in a space that MS has zero market share. Google making a tablet makes some sense they already have an Android market full of apps and people that would buy a sweet Android tablet and they already sell the Nexus line directly as a sort of reference platform.
Microsoft making a tablet really looks like they have no idea what they are doing and are just trying to do exactly everything Apple does and hope that will result in lightening striking twice.
Anyone remember WinCE the actual name of the product was wince. Anyway I remember Windows Mobile and basically it boils down to fool me one shame on you fool me twice shame on me.
Exactly the timesharing term was passe and they needed a new hip marketing term for the same thing thus "cloud" was born.
OK so Apple has iCloud and Amazon has Cloud Drive so are they all the new Microsoft? Or is this just really dumb? Everyone has a cloud storage option these days. Dropbox has not been the only one for sometime. And I imagine Apples is bigger than Google's at this point since everyone with a Mac with Lion or IOS device has it already.
"Why do we make art? It's not for money."
Wow, just wow, you basically just precluded the idea of someone creating art for money. What horse shit. As a person who has worked in the arts and tried to make a living let me just say it's bad enough without this attitude. I don't know what your chosen vocation is but imagine if someone said the same of your vocation.
Take for example IT. Why do we do IT? It's not for money." both are monumentally dumb statements.
Sorry they weren't filmed they were taped with analog tapes (probably betacam or betacam SP or something similar) using either a three tube camera or early CCD TV camera from the 90s. This is the equivalent of taking a analog recording and putting it on a CD and saying you remastered it. The source material was not filmed on 16 mm film stock or taped in 1080P high def it was taped with a 90s TV camera. So they source is not high def. The CCD cameras of the day were capable of around 400lines to maybe 800 lines of vertical resolution. So there will be an improvement but it is no where near 1080P. And I suspect this is trickery given how the show was taped it should fit in 480P on DVD just fine. So I don't know if they are interpolating this I.E. upconverting or what. But looking at the pics there is some other fiddling with color going on between the samples.
they should all fight gladiator style over the $3.41 two projects enter one project leaves.
The only people I have heard call it a supposed "iPad killer" are Apple sycophants who assume that everything in the world that looks like an iPad might unseat it from it's throne. Low self esteem or unsure of their core beliefs or something.
Disclaimer I use Apple stuff but I hate fanboys of all stripes (except OSS fanboys those my homies)
And so Apple controls your world. They snap their fingers and content they deem inappropriate goes away. They are the gatekeeper of your world an decide what you can and can't see they can censor anything they want at their whim. You make it incredibly easy for the rich and powerful to censor anything they don't like just because you find it convenient. So you gave up your freedom gladly for a shiny iDevice. Good work
Really important thing to note from the article. They mention the profit margins on the broadband services are 95%. Anyone remember that bullshit about them needing to manage their networks because bandwidth was so pricey? If it's so pricey then how are they making 95% profit? I mean on my 69.00 a month data bill they are paying a total of 3.45 in fixed costs. That includes installation, support, sales, marketing, accounting etc... So the bandwidth cost is probably less than a buck. Wow pricey. They are such fucking greedy money grubbing boldface liars that think we are stupid enough not remember they said that. Most business don't enjoy 95% margins except for like high end audio and jewelry. Remember this the next time they start spouting bullshit about how put upon they are for us actually using the network we fucking paid for and they are reaping huge profits from. I hate these people.
The best camera is the one you have on you. It's knowing how to use the camera that separates the good from the bad.Your capturing light so the first thing you need to learn is how light affects the camera and how you can manage that. Then there's a ton of other things to learn like composition and creativity. But the point is start studying there's tons of good info in books and online. Join an online photography community or a local club. And get out and take pictures. You give Joe McNally an iPhone and he will run circles around most people with a Canon DSLR. Why? Because he knows how to use it. One of the dumbest things you can say to a photographer is " Wow nice picture you must have a really nice camera." It implies stupidly that it is the gear and not the photographers knowledge and creativity that make a good photo.
" Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst." – Henri Cartier-Bresson
“ Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all timesI just shoot at what interests me at that moment." – Elliott Erwitt
How about you move next to coal fired plant or a natural gas storage facility or pipeline or refinery. We are talking about realistic ways to replace that stuff which has all sorts of safety and environmental issues. Please take your head out of the clouds come back to reality and have a grown up conversation about power generation. Because turning off the lights when you leave a room and riding your bike everywhere and unicorn farts aren't real solutions.
Reasonable me don't change the world unreasonable men do. Keep in mind Job's was not know for being especially kind in his words and demeanour himself.
I am pretty sure your wrong. When Apple lists iPhone for example in their revenue breakdown that includes related products and services. There is a separate line item for iTunes but I am not sure what the distinction is. Are iPhone and iPad apps money included in the iTunes line item or the iPhone line item? I am pretty sure it's the latter. And that's like 86% of their income (which includes the phone hardware too). I am guessing the iTunes line item is music and movies sold through the iTunes applications and not the apps sold through the iPhone or iPad marketplace.
30% of everything sold through the iPhone and iPad markets is real money and that is what Amazon is going to be making with their Fire. That's why they would bother selling it so cheap.
What's interesting to me is that Jeff Bezos and Amazon seem to be the only ones realizing this. I mean HP could have gone that route with the Touchpad because they control the market for the WebOS devices. But they didn't they decided to take on Apple with a me too product at the SAME price point and without the content tie in either which is just like stupid.
Falcon 9 does not use any of the Shuttle technology. At least as far as we know. They developed there own engine the Merlin, they are not using the tiles or the solid boosters. So how do you figure this.
Why are you so bothered that the government is not doing this and a private company is are you that myopic in your politics that only the government can do for you? That's really just quite sad.
If the government was doing this it would not be cost effective. It would be years over due and over budget and cost many factors more than what was originally projected to launch as the Space Shuttle did. The Shuttle program was a failure in almost every way. It did not meet it's design goals, launch cost targets, or budget not even close. It was unsafe for human flight. And it's launch costs ate most of NASAs budget for years preventing real research and science from being done.
But never mind that keep your rose coloured glasses on for the Shuttle and the pork based politics that created the abomination that it was.
SUN actually got it's name from Stanford University Network and SunOS started there as did Cisco. The first Cisco prototype router was built there. And did not Google start there as well? And wasn't Yahoo's first page hosted on Stanford's hardware and started there as well.
Gimp... Well at least the core image processing part was an 11th hour switch from a failed LISP compiler thesis project.
I think Charles Bolden the director of NASA has it right. They should leave LEO to be done by the commercial launch companies. We need to look beyond LEO we have been stuck in LEO since the 1970s.
I know a lot of nerds still have a boner for the Shuttle but it's launch costs ate most of the NASA budget. By leaving truck duties to companies like spaceX and maybe launch alliance if they can get there shit together makes sense.
Let NASA focus on big picture research and getting out of LEO.
Why is this so hard to grasp?
Thinking about it they made a huge PR mistake by allowing there to be a gap between when the shuttle retires and when someone like SpaceX was ready to take astronauts to the space station.
Hehe I am not sure I buy their line. I think they lost two billion with casino style banking and this chump gets to take the fall for it. It's a fine line between fraud and oh crap we lost a bunch of money AGAIN gambling with pensioners money. What are we going to tell the press?
Prove the fraud in court and then I might believe the line they are selling.
Ten to one this guy does not do time because he was probably doing his job. What do you think investment banks do? I mean it's been proven they are all just a bunch of gamblers. Except they gamble with your 401k.
Untangle is probably what you want
www.untangle.com
I know I know where do i get off actually answering the questions asked.
http://www.amazon.com/Archos-32-Internet-Tablet-Android/dp/B002OL2PLU
Archos 5 Internet Tablet was released September 15th 2009 with android Apple iPad April 2010. Archos should sue Apple to block the iPad in Europe. Jobisan Fanbois starting to see how this could get out of hand? no? figures
Internet nerds? If youare not an Internet nerd what are you doing in a forum arguing about the merits of Apples patent claims. You telling me you are a TMZ surfing hottie that took a wrong turn at Alburquerque and accidently ended up posting on Slashsdot?
Hey Pot meet Kettle... just sayin
Betrays you how? Seriously talk about hyperbole. Google offers a free service in which they believe real identities will make the service more useful and generally better. What's more they are being completely upfront and honest that they want people to use real names and why. The service is completely optional you don't have to use it. So geez don't use their free service. Seriously you sound like a PR astroturfer that works for Facebook or Microsoft. Betrayal oh noez111!!!!