it requires me to be attached to the internet to access my storage
Since you're buying a hardware and online storage bundle where nearly half the retail cost ($119.76 of $249) is the retail cost of the 100GB/2yrs online storage that is included, that's hardly surprising.
If you aren't interested in the part that makes up that much of the value of the overall package, its probably not for you.
What is the advantage of a Chromebook over a netbook? I could get a low-end netbook, with Windows included and the possibility of installing a good Linux distro, for the same price.
The advantage is that, when spending the $119.76 that it costs to buy the two years of 100GB of Google Drive storage, you have the option to spend an extra $129.24 to get an ARM-powered ChromeOS netbook to go with the storage. You aren't just buying hardware for $249, you are buying a hardware+service bundle that's almost equal parts "hardware" and "service".
Google has long said their vision is for Android and ChromeOS to converge, from both sides, in the long term. Android getting Chrome as the default browser is a step in that direction.
Chrome seems to have all that, but is far too cloudy for me, I need local apps and data
Chrome -- the browser, whether in ChromeOS or elsewhere -- already supports local apps and data.
Nah, I'll save my next disposable $250 for a Nexus 7.
I'm sure Google is extremely upset that rather than buying a Samsung-built-and-branded netbook using one of Google's operating systems you'll use the money to buy a Google-branded and ASUS-manufactured tablet running another one of Google's operating systems.
Google didn't invest in Firefox. They paid Firefox for funneling searches to them.
From most accounts I've seen, their willingness to pay the price they did to do that was driven both by the value of the search traffic directly funneled and by the value to them of Firefox disrupting IEs desktop browser dominance.
This hardware at this price running Linux, Android, Windows RT or even iOS would be a great bargain. What I have not yet seen in any promotion of a Chromebook is how well it works as a basic document editor when I'm *not* connected to the Cloud.
The Chrome browser (including Chrome OS) has considerable support for web apps that operate offline. Using it as a "document editor" offline depends on the kind of document you are editing and the availability of a web app that supports editing that kind of document offline. Google Docs supports offline editing.
But have they really enabled Chromebooks to work effectively when detached from the network yet?
From a platform (OS/browser) level, yes; but like most platforms, its not just a matter of whether the platform supports functionality but whether there are applications that leverage that support.
Android was Google's short-term response to the threat that a dominant mobile OS vendor would emerge that would use market power in that OS market in a way which would prevent Google from being able to profit from their online services (similar to how investment in Firefox was the short-term response in the web browser space.)
Chrome OS is a piece of the longer-horizon, broader (e.g., not limited to "mobile") part of the response (much as the Chrome browser was in the browser space); I say "a piece of" because Google's announced a number of times that their long-term plan is to converge Android with Chrome OS in the long term.
Microsoft has gone in different direction to make same OS for its phone, Table and PC.
No, Microsoft has three similar-but-different operating systems with partially overlapping functionality and confusingly similar names (Windows 8, Windows 8 RT, and Windows Phone 8) for, respectively, traditional PCs and some (i.e., x86-based) tablets, other (i.e., ARM-based) tablets, and phones.
OK, so that's one point the guy got wrong, out of how many he got right?
Well, he got the most obvious, easiest to verify, most current, and most relevant to his thesis that the present debate is a charade piece of information wrong. So, that alone is pretty damaging to his argument, and after that I'm not going to assume that any of the rest of his factual contentions that are presented without evidence, despite the fact that they seem -- as would, absent immediate knowledge of the most recent debate, the one that was wrong --superficially plausible are, in fact, correct.
There are a lot of countries with multi-party systems that actually work.
Yes, and they consistent largely of either countries where the multi-party systems that "actually work" are functionally two-party systems at the constituency level, but which have parliamentary rather than Presidential systems, or countries that have electoral systems for major offices that are not either plurality or majority/runoff.
The U.S. two-party system is a function of the U.S. electoral structure.
Democracy NOW!'s claims with regard to the debate format are blatantly false. Particularly, this bit:
And this election cycle is the first time that the moderator herself is prohibited from asking follow-up questions, questions seeking clarification. She’s essentially reduced to keeping time and being a lady with a microphone.
The Commission rules for this debate did not include this prohibition. The Romney and Obama campaigns agreed to it, but -- and this was pretty heavily covered all over the media before the debate -- it wasn't part of the Commission rules and the moderator openly rejected the restriction before the debate. And, in fact, when the debate actually happened, the moderator actually asked follow-ups.
Sending new sites only to a subset of the list makes it harder for blocking software companies to join the list and find all new sites as soon as they're released.
Not significantly. Sure, they have to join with multiple recipient email addresses, but that's not that much of a burden.
There really is no way you can use email lists or similar direct-distribution methods to get information to anonymous strangers who you want to have the information and simultaneously keep it out of the hands of people you don't want to have it.
Survey courses exist to introduce students to broad and general topics, the high school is quite clearly trying to educate students much more deeply on the individual general sciences (Googlin' State of Maryland's required subjects lists Biology, Physics, and Chemistry.)
Biology, Physics, and Chemistry are each extremely broad fields and a year-long high-school level courses in any of three is a survey of a broad field. The author of the complaint may, however, be so ignorant of the content of the fields as to not realize that, in which case the complaint may be honest, if complete nonsense.
And if you wouldn't have wasted your time on that public speaking course and instead used that opportunity cost to take a class in a Lisp language like Scheme you'd understand why your failure to close that left parenthesis is driving me bat shit insane right now.
Note that the same thing works with if you replace "a Lisp language like Scheme" with "English." Unbalanced parentheses drove me crazy in English before I learned my first Lisp.
Yeah, but there's a difference between short range wireless (several cm) and long range (10's of metres) that makes a huge difference to the possible attach vectors.
There actually isn't a fundamental difference between short-range and long-range wireless: its all broadcast, and range depends on both the the sensitivity of the receiver and the power of the transmitter. You can't make a system "short-range only" when you control only one endpoint.
That is what happens when you don't do what the U.S. tells you to.
Actually, countries have defied the US without this happening, even with strong US sanctions, because the rest of the world thought the US position was stupid and didn't support it (e.g., Cuba).
Iran's pissed off a lot more countries than just the US, and it wouldn't be having the problems it is if that wasn't the case.
I wonder how this will affect (or stem) hyperinflation? Generally the solution* to hyperinflation is to print mountains of money to the point that people burn it to heat their homes in the winter
Printing mountains of money to monetize exisiting government debt or to monetize current government spending which revenues and borrowing won't support is usually the cause of hyperinflation (there's other possible causes, but they are more rare in practice.) It can become cyclical, with, having triggered hyperinflation, the government then adopting increased spending requiring printing even bigger mountains to address the effects.
2) So... no retina display... you mean it has the same resolution as every other screen its size safe for the iPad? darn.
If you really want to look at things that aren't the iPad (9.7" @ 2048x1536), the current wave of new 7" tablets are going for resolutions around that of Surface (Nexus 7 & Kindle Fire HD [7"] both @ 1280x800, Nook HD @ 1440x900), will and the current wave of new 9" range are going for even higher resolutions (Kindle Fire HD [9"] and Nook HD+ both @ 1920x1200). And its rumored that Google is going to be releasing a Samsung-manufactured Nexus-branded 10.1" tablet with a 2560x1600 in the first half of next year. For a new, platform flagship product, 1366x768 in a 10.6" screen is a surprising choice.
It's a bad metaphor because I agreed on ongoing supply of food at an agreed price.
No, that new metaphor you are offering is the bad metaphor, unless Google made some commitment not only as to the current terms, but explicitly limiting future changes to the terms for current users.
So I expect them to deliver the service they agreed at the price they agreed it.
They did. You seem to want to pretend that they agreed to prospective future terms that they never, in fact, agreed to.
This focus on scientific thinking is valuable but there are still good reasons to opt for the stronger interpretation, namely that if you're not going to be able to test, even if it's just for money reasons, then your scientific method is still damaged.
No, your "scientific method" is fine. What you have then is a testable but -- until testing is both practical and executed -- untested hypothesis.
Heck, even speculation as to mechanisms that doesn't yet have an identified testable prediction is important in science, its just the step before finding a testable prediction that would make the speculation into a testable hypothesis.
Its obviously the goal to get to something that is not merely testable in principle, and not merely testable in practice, but actually tested. But there are several steps on the way to that, and each is important in science, and a being able to get to one of those steps without immediately taking the next doesn't mean "your scientific method is damaged".
Its a routine part of science. And you publicize what you've been able to do, however far along the road you've gotten, and hopefully, even if you can't take the next step, someone else can, ideally soon, but sometimes it takes a while.
60K USD isn't exactly "make you rich" territory in the US, but it's a hell of a lot of money for a teenager. That's pretty close to the median annual salary.
If by "pretty close" you mean "well above".
For 2010 (the most recent year for which statistics are available; the 2011 statistics should be available this month), the Social Security Administration figures show the median annual wage in the US as $26,363.55, and the average annual wage as $39,959.30.
So, $60K is more than twice the median annual wage and more than 1.5 times the average annual wage. Its also a more than the median household income ($50,054 in 2011, per the U.S. Census Bureau).
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Since you're buying a hardware and online storage bundle where nearly half the retail cost ($119.76 of $249) is the retail cost of the 100GB/2yrs online storage that is included, that's hardly surprising. If you aren't interested in the part that makes up that much of the value of the overall package, its probably not for you.
The advantage is that, when spending the $119.76 that it costs to buy the two years of 100GB of Google Drive storage, you have the option to spend an extra $129.24 to get an ARM-powered ChromeOS netbook to go with the storage. You aren't just buying hardware for $249, you are buying a hardware+service bundle that's almost equal parts "hardware" and "service".
Chrome -- the browser, whether in ChromeOS or elsewhere -- already supports local apps and data.
I just checked Acer's website and the range of list prices for Aspire models is $349.99 through $1,299.99.
I'm sure Google is extremely upset that rather than buying a Samsung-built-and-branded netbook using one of Google's operating systems you'll use the money to buy a Google-branded and ASUS-manufactured tablet running another one of Google's operating systems.
From most accounts I've seen, their willingness to pay the price they did to do that was driven both by the value of the search traffic directly funneled and by the value to them of Firefox disrupting IEs desktop browser dominance.
The Chrome browser (including Chrome OS) has considerable support for web apps that operate offline. Using it as a "document editor" offline depends on the kind of document you are editing and the availability of a web app that supports editing that kind of document offline. Google Docs supports offline editing.
From a platform (OS/browser) level, yes; but like most platforms, its not just a matter of whether the platform supports functionality but whether there are applications that leverage that support.
Android was Google's short-term response to the threat that a dominant mobile OS vendor would emerge that would use market power in that OS market in a way which would prevent Google from being able to profit from their online services (similar to how investment in Firefox was the short-term response in the web browser space.) Chrome OS is a piece of the longer-horizon, broader (e.g., not limited to "mobile") part of the response (much as the Chrome browser was in the browser space); I say "a piece of" because Google's announced a number of times that their long-term plan is to converge Android with Chrome OS in the long term.
No, Microsoft has three similar-but-different operating systems with partially overlapping functionality and confusingly similar names (Windows 8, Windows 8 RT, and Windows Phone 8) for, respectively, traditional PCs and some (i.e., x86-based) tablets, other (i.e., ARM-based) tablets, and phones.
Well, he got the most obvious, easiest to verify, most current, and most relevant to his thesis that the present debate is a charade piece of information wrong. So, that alone is pretty damaging to his argument, and after that I'm not going to assume that any of the rest of his factual contentions that are presented without evidence, despite the fact that they seem -- as would, absent immediate knowledge of the most recent debate, the one that was wrong --superficially plausible are, in fact, correct.
Yes, and they consistent largely of either countries where the multi-party systems that "actually work" are functionally two-party systems at the constituency level, but which have parliamentary rather than Presidential systems, or countries that have electoral systems for major offices that are not either plurality or majority/runoff. The U.S. two-party system is a function of the U.S. electoral structure.
The Commission rules for this debate did not include this prohibition. The Romney and Obama campaigns agreed to it, but -- and this was pretty heavily covered all over the media before the debate -- it wasn't part of the Commission rules and the moderator openly rejected the restriction before the debate. And, in fact, when the debate actually happened, the moderator actually asked follow-ups.
Not significantly. Sure, they have to join with multiple recipient email addresses, but that's not that much of a burden. There really is no way you can use email lists or similar direct-distribution methods to get information to anonymous strangers who you want to have the information and simultaneously keep it out of the hands of people you don't want to have it.
Biology, Physics, and Chemistry are each extremely broad fields and a year-long high-school level courses in any of three is a survey of a broad field. The author of the complaint may, however, be so ignorant of the content of the fields as to not realize that, in which case the complaint may be honest, if complete nonsense.
Note that the same thing works with if you replace "a Lisp language like Scheme" with "English." Unbalanced parentheses drove me crazy in English before I learned my first Lisp.
There actually isn't a fundamental difference between short-range and long-range wireless: its all broadcast, and range depends on both the the sensitivity of the receiver and the power of the transmitter. You can't make a system "short-range only" when you control only one endpoint.
Actually, countries have defied the US without this happening, even with strong US sanctions, because the rest of the world thought the US position was stupid and didn't support it (e.g., Cuba). Iran's pissed off a lot more countries than just the US, and it wouldn't be having the problems it is if that wasn't the case.
Printing mountains of money to monetize exisiting government debt or to monetize current government spending which revenues and borrowing won't support is usually the cause of hyperinflation (there's other possible causes, but they are more rare in practice.) It can become cyclical, with, having triggered hyperinflation, the government then adopting increased spending requiring printing even bigger mountains to address the effects.
Galaxy Nexus is a phone. The tablet with a $250, 16GB model (and a $199, 8GB model) is the Nexus 7.
If you really want to look at things that aren't the iPad (9.7" @ 2048x1536), the current wave of new 7" tablets are going for resolutions around that of Surface (Nexus 7 & Kindle Fire HD [7"] both @ 1280x800, Nook HD @ 1440x900), will and the current wave of new 9" range are going for even higher resolutions (Kindle Fire HD [9"] and Nook HD+ both @ 1920x1200). And its rumored that Google is going to be releasing a Samsung-manufactured Nexus-branded 10.1" tablet with a 2560x1600 in the first half of next year. For a new, platform flagship product, 1366x768 in a 10.6" screen is a surprising choice.
Not the word you are looking for, I suspect.
Still not it. You are probably trying to say "in good faith" in Latin ("bona fide").
No, that new metaphor you are offering is the bad metaphor, unless Google made some commitment not only as to the current terms, but explicitly limiting future changes to the terms for current users.
They did. You seem to want to pretend that they agreed to prospective future terms that they never, in fact, agreed to.
Even if Android didn't have any native code, Dalvik bytecode files are still binaries (e.g., any computer file that isn't text.)
N*(N+1)/2.
No, your "scientific method" is fine. What you have then is a testable but -- until testing is both practical and executed -- untested hypothesis. Heck, even speculation as to mechanisms that doesn't yet have an identified testable prediction is important in science, its just the step before finding a testable prediction that would make the speculation into a testable hypothesis. Its obviously the goal to get to something that is not merely testable in principle, and not merely testable in practice, but actually tested. But there are several steps on the way to that, and each is important in science, and a being able to get to one of those steps without immediately taking the next doesn't mean "your scientific method is damaged". Its a routine part of science. And you publicize what you've been able to do, however far along the road you've gotten, and hopefully, even if you can't take the next step, someone else can, ideally soon, but sometimes it takes a while.
If by "pretty close" you mean "well above".
For 2010 (the most recent year for which statistics are available; the 2011 statistics should be available this month), the Social Security Administration figures show the median annual wage in the US as $26,363.55, and the average annual wage as $39,959.30.
So, $60K is more than twice the median annual wage and more than 1.5 times the average annual wage. Its also a more than the median household income ($50,054 in 2011, per the U.S. Census Bureau).