Funny, but actually what it means is that you a sandy bridge class core CPU in an iPad Air form factor that dramatically alters the scenarios for usage. A nice port replicator or docking station will make for a clean and minimalist work area. One more generation and graphics will be pretty capable of mainstream gaming. Even with core M, many games will be playable with medium/low settings.

Currently I'm looking for an excuse to dump my still capable lenovo t400s

As long as the tax subsidy is in the form of a federal tax break, there is zero problem because Ricardian equivalence does not apply to federal government. Unlike the states, the federal government is the net issuer of the currency as well as the user. States on the other hand cannot issue currency so if states were to issue solar tax breaks, they would eventually have to find the money. For the federal government, the only real cost for deficit spending is the cost of tolerable inflation. Today inflation is far too low and taxes far to high, thus the general public lacks the funds necessary to drive demand.

#mmt

I suppose I'm too late to append /sarcasm to my posting...but hey thanks for playing! You put in a big effort A+

A Linux user calling tech support...that's rich.

Pretty soon there'll be a startling discovery of whale cancer and dolphin 'diabeetus'

Fallacy of "frivolous" lawsuits is that they are only frivolous when it is not affecting you.

Dreamforce and TechED get my vote, sadly TechEd will no longer be around, but they are recorded and very interesting.

This exactly.

It's not ginned up outrage to waste dozens of man hours for someone else's mistake. GCC can be considered a Teir 1 OSS project. For a major point release to have an issue that, if verified, causes the founder of Linux to call it crap, then raw criticism is warranted. Raw, unfiltered , communication amongst trusted engineers leads to better outcome, I have found in my career. Keep the politically correct crap outside of the engineering room.

I'm super tired of this BS argument. I'm sick and tired of high performing professional being criticized for expecting high standards from others. Not every job requires or should have an abstraction layer of "people development," "life coaching," or professional courtesy and pleasantries. Some jobs, the jobs that truly change of course of human events requires breathtaking sacrifice, most significantly of all, putting aside ones ego when called out. If someone calls me an idiot for being wrong, whether justified or not, I'm still wrong and I accept it. If my performance is so shoddy that I get called out as incompetent, than an introspective person should have the maturity to realize that he or she caused such frustration to the other person that such words were uttered. To be able to take this is the sign of a true professional and leader. If you can't take the heat, just GTFO of the way, and go work at a Fortune 500 with regular white collar people with thin skin.

I like the way Clash of Clan looks on my iPhone 5 three inches from my face while reality fades to a soft and silky blur. (Nearsighted)

The symmetric usage scenarios haven't been thoroughly explored so far. All it will really take is a few killer apps that will demonstrate use cases. The argument against high bandwidth today is the same arguments made about computers being "fast enough" in the 90's. Rather than thinking about services that are good enough, consider what is currently not possible with limited bandwidth?

We still don't have perfect realtime video calls. As the need to deal with low bandwidth has allowed advancements in efficient codecs, so to has the processing requirements of endpoints to handle the codec. Allowing for less intensive codecs that use more bandwidth would enable better experience.

While neoclassical economics models equates labor as a commodity that obeys supply & demand, the evidence is actually dismal. Labor does does not follow supply and demand in the real world modern economies. Wages earned by the laboring class from the capitalist class is more accurately described by classical economics; essentially that profit is derived by the systemic underpayment to the laboring class. The greater the ability of the capitalist class to dictate legal, financial, and operational terms, the more profit it is able to extract from labor. For the value that the CS and IT profession creates within all industries, it is vastly underpaid. Capitalists and financialists recognise this, but the general public does not.

If you are only looking at the consumer side, sure I'll give you that, but you have to look at the macro policy with the currency, central bank policy, and fiscal policy to see that it is anything but free. China exercises massive capital control. Don't get me wrong western countries should adopt similar macro policy, but these are hardly things that the mainstream would consider traditional "free market."

100% to 95% is still centralised planning.