Comment Re:Forget battery life - price is way too high (Score 1) 442
What percentage of the tablet buying public or like your husband? Enough to make the surface pro a success?
What percentage of the tablet buying public or like your husband? Enough to make the surface pro a success?
This is where we get into what is the definition of fail. I think there is a healthy number of people like you who will buy it for the same reasons. But I think that number will probably get them something like 1 million sales per quarter.
So is that a failure or success? I believe compared to the goals Microsoft has set itself, that is failure.
If that's so, then if I were heading their mapping effort, I would be nervous.
They are thinking 'no compromises'. But they are likely mistaken. 'Include everything and everyone will be happy' is not a true statement.
Indeed, sort of what I came to say. If he wants to eliminate mandatory basic science education, then voting needs to be restricted to those with the basic education to understand all the issues.
Nobody asks if Apple products are expensive.
I suppose you're correct. They come out and state they are as a fact, rather than ask it as a question.
It almost makes me miss the days of the test pattern, when they would at least have the decency to turn off the transmitter when they had nothing of value to transmit,
If the transmitter was turned off, where was the test pattern coming from?
Flying cars can go over security fences and other barriers. Only rich people will be allowed do have them.
BGR has a pretty good historical analysis here:
Would he take more than a $90 hit if he bought the transformer, and then resold it a month or two later if he didn't like it?
Seems like the poor quality of a $90 tab might sour him before he ever got to trying a well executed one like the transformer.
It's interesting, these "metallic" dealer logos on cars thing seems to be common most places in the country, but it is virtually absent in southern California. The most they can get away with here is putting a dealer plate frame, and most people swap those out in short order. I always wondered at that as LA etc. are pretty far from being ad media free in any other way.
In fact they are hyper brand aware as near as I can tell.
Notice how the kickstarter game market is already starting to loose steam.
I see what you did there.
Really?
Given the self-serving crap that we (the US) ourselves pull in various parts of the world because of our power and in spite of the UN, you have any credible logic to back up your claim the UN could handle Russia or China doing worse?
But then you have a minority of Americans, like me, who at least try to use the terms correctly.
We are the other 1%!
Or is it even less?
You consider it cheating and fundamentally unethical as you grew up under the system that defined it that way. As did I, so I tend to only download things which I then find a way to compensate the artist for, i.e. by buying the crappy compressed versions off of iTunes
However, my music buying is a fraction of what it would be if the ridiculous gatekeepers (RIAA) weren't siphoning off virtually all the profit in the old system, with artists then able to sell their stuff at 1/4 or 1/10 the costs and still have a better income than they did that way. If I am unwilling to spend more than $10 per album (still my preferred format over singles), younger people today (who never seen anything but despicable behavior from the labels) certainly aren't, and are bound to come away with the impression that ethics don't apply to record companies. I'd tend to agree with them.
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