Are there really adults reading hacker news with skins thin enough to be offended by his post? Perhaps e have a lot of web-monkeys who have a business plan to deep-link? Sheesh.
What do you mean? The name is still awful. Hell I am writing this on my iPad, and I still think it is an awful name. On edit: you missed my main point, which is that Xoom has no clear pronunciation. Is it "zoom?" I am…
Nobody cares dude.
It needs to have higher specs, as it is running a knocked off Java. And as good as honeycomb cereal is, Android is pretty sluggish and ugly compared to iOS. iOS is <I><b>gorgeous.</b></I>…
The lil blogger says "The Library of Congress declared that it is completely legal to jailbreak your devices." Firstly, the Library of Congress hardle makes legal decisions, and additionally, if they did, that does not…
Actually the average consumer does not know what Zune is. Maybe your average geek does.
Hasn't this already been done by several different hackers? I am quite sure it has been.
You might be right, in a sense. But on the other hand things like meals out and skydiving lessons hold little appeal to me. Half off veggies or vehicle repair could be more up my alley.
Get a bunch of egotistical, powerful, and moderately financially successful aspies together and have them solve a problem. This is a recipe for disaster and anybody who reads the kernel mailing list knows it. Sadly…
<i>Advertising has become quite spammy and irrelevant. We've gotten away from the core issue, which is not inherently spammy at all - merchants interacting with people to retain their existing customers and win…
Bring the spice back into tech interviews? I guess I never knew it was there in the past, and had gone away. However, not to be too rude, but I will take my spice from spicier sources and stick to TED for my nerd fixes.…
Ugh. E-Branding. On topic, music without lyrics is the way to go.
Of course, eating out twice a day, whole foods, the finest wines every night, and of course the Porsche 911 for him, and the Cayenne for her so she can get the kids to soccer practice. Seriously, how much do people…
A combination of IBM and Sun / SNOracle.
I think a smart "founder" saves his Porsche buying until after the company is actually profitable. A $50k salary for a founder is about the limit until the company is actually raking in some dough, unless the goal is to…
"that would be a remarkably stupid way for Google to empower the worst citizens of the web to hold the rest hostage" It is easy to forget that Google is not the Internet. A time goes on, SEO will cause Google to become…
Mystery meat is never gorgeous.
Actually there are millions of people who have gone out of their way to disable Flash in the browser. Flash blockers are extremely popular these days.
Are you joking? Cocoa / GNUStep applications have been around for years and Apple has in no way attempted to punish anybody for making them. GNUstep has already been tracking Apple's Cocoa for years without Apple…
Stop giving the internet cancer, you SEO bastards.
You know, not everybody wants to give away their plans for free. Nor does everyday wat to cut somebody else in on the action.
This is what happens when a PowerPoint presentation is your presentation. PowerPoint should be an aid to a presentation, not the whole shebang. You should be prepared to give a presentation even if the power goes out…
See they are just covering their asses at this point. Besides, bugs are not random nor can one casually observe them to be little until more is known. Might be a huge problem that takes them weeks to solve.
This isn't "regrettable" it's simply par for the course from everybody's favorite tech company. The only thing they will regret is getting caught, much like any sociopath.
The point is NOT to sell the biggest number of phones, as individual units. The point is to make the most profit and a race to the bottom in a market already saturated with what amounts to 50 identical wannabe iPhone…
Are there really adults reading hacker news with skins thin enough to be offended by his post? Perhaps e have a lot of web-monkeys who have a business plan to deep-link? Sheesh.
What do you mean? The name is still awful. Hell I am writing this on my iPad, and I still think it is an awful name. On edit: you missed my main point, which is that Xoom has no clear pronunciation. Is it "zoom?" I am…
Nobody cares dude.
It needs to have higher specs, as it is running a knocked off Java. And as good as honeycomb cereal is, Android is pretty sluggish and ugly compared to iOS. iOS is <I><b>gorgeous.</b></I>…
The lil blogger says "The Library of Congress declared that it is completely legal to jailbreak your devices." Firstly, the Library of Congress hardle makes legal decisions, and additionally, if they did, that does not…
Actually the average consumer does not know what Zune is. Maybe your average geek does.
Hasn't this already been done by several different hackers? I am quite sure it has been.
You might be right, in a sense. But on the other hand things like meals out and skydiving lessons hold little appeal to me. Half off veggies or vehicle repair could be more up my alley.
Get a bunch of egotistical, powerful, and moderately financially successful aspies together and have them solve a problem. This is a recipe for disaster and anybody who reads the kernel mailing list knows it. Sadly…
<i>Advertising has become quite spammy and irrelevant. We've gotten away from the core issue, which is not inherently spammy at all - merchants interacting with people to retain their existing customers and win…
Bring the spice back into tech interviews? I guess I never knew it was there in the past, and had gone away. However, not to be too rude, but I will take my spice from spicier sources and stick to TED for my nerd fixes.…
Ugh. E-Branding. On topic, music without lyrics is the way to go.
Of course, eating out twice a day, whole foods, the finest wines every night, and of course the Porsche 911 for him, and the Cayenne for her so she can get the kids to soccer practice. Seriously, how much do people…
A combination of IBM and Sun / SNOracle.
I think a smart "founder" saves his Porsche buying until after the company is actually profitable. A $50k salary for a founder is about the limit until the company is actually raking in some dough, unless the goal is to…
"that would be a remarkably stupid way for Google to empower the worst citizens of the web to hold the rest hostage" It is easy to forget that Google is not the Internet. A time goes on, SEO will cause Google to become…
Mystery meat is never gorgeous.
Actually there are millions of people who have gone out of their way to disable Flash in the browser. Flash blockers are extremely popular these days.
Are you joking? Cocoa / GNUStep applications have been around for years and Apple has in no way attempted to punish anybody for making them. GNUstep has already been tracking Apple's Cocoa for years without Apple…
Stop giving the internet cancer, you SEO bastards.
You know, not everybody wants to give away their plans for free. Nor does everyday wat to cut somebody else in on the action.
This is what happens when a PowerPoint presentation is your presentation. PowerPoint should be an aid to a presentation, not the whole shebang. You should be prepared to give a presentation even if the power goes out…
See they are just covering their asses at this point. Besides, bugs are not random nor can one casually observe them to be little until more is known. Might be a huge problem that takes them weeks to solve.
This isn't "regrettable" it's simply par for the course from everybody's favorite tech company. The only thing they will regret is getting caught, much like any sociopath.
The point is NOT to sell the biggest number of phones, as individual units. The point is to make the most profit and a race to the bottom in a market already saturated with what amounts to 50 identical wannabe iPhone…