about a year after 'netbook's came out, the iPad was in the wild and it destroyed any chance of these ever catching on.. sure, they were cheaper, but the user experience on a tablet was just so much better. (and tablets…
i don't think it's just the performance .. it's a form-factor paradigm shift in the consumer end. the younger generations just don't care about screen real estate as much as genX and early Millenials did. the devices…
NeXT was a failed rocket launch (analogous to early rocket failures within SpaceX). A great step forward and a necessary step in the evolution of the PC. I thought NeXT workstations were pretty bad-ass for their time…
Atom was shit. A desperation move. I was so embarrassed to recommend a Poulsbo laptop to friend, it was the worst machine I have every seen.
exactly; he's just a bloke like you and I - not some super-helper-expert-because-i-work-for-the-state guy. I'm not saying we shouldn't expect any return for our tax dollars; but certainly not as the primary source of…
re : "What would happen if creators couldn’t charge for their creations? The same as if you couldn’t charge for lines of computer code: there’d be less of it. Some people would keep on producing for the public good,…
..and another thing - MIT brains should never engage in 'one-night stands'. ..and another thing - MIT brains should never buy a girl a drink unless they fully intend on making an emotional commitment. (gimme a break)
i prefer the term 'metagaming'.
I like the idea of a Ward Republic (see Jefferson) coupled with a Delegate Democracy.
about a year after 'netbook's came out, the iPad was in the wild and it destroyed any chance of these ever catching on.. sure, they were cheaper, but the user experience on a tablet was just so much better. (and tablets…
i don't think it's just the performance .. it's a form-factor paradigm shift in the consumer end. the younger generations just don't care about screen real estate as much as genX and early Millenials did. the devices…
NeXT was a failed rocket launch (analogous to early rocket failures within SpaceX). A great step forward and a necessary step in the evolution of the PC. I thought NeXT workstations were pretty bad-ass for their time…
Atom was shit. A desperation move. I was so embarrassed to recommend a Poulsbo laptop to friend, it was the worst machine I have every seen.
exactly; he's just a bloke like you and I - not some super-helper-expert-because-i-work-for-the-state guy. I'm not saying we shouldn't expect any return for our tax dollars; but certainly not as the primary source of…
re : "What would happen if creators couldn’t charge for their creations? The same as if you couldn’t charge for lines of computer code: there’d be less of it. Some people would keep on producing for the public good,…
..and another thing - MIT brains should never engage in 'one-night stands'. ..and another thing - MIT brains should never buy a girl a drink unless they fully intend on making an emotional commitment. (gimme a break)
i prefer the term 'metagaming'.
I like the idea of a Ward Republic (see Jefferson) coupled with a Delegate Democracy.