Because setting your own price is legal and colluding with other companies to raise the price isn't.

Nice rant, but,

"Furthermore, I think its dangerous to let this mentality seep into the programming world. What consists of musical talent is entirely subjective, and at the end, affects nothing. Bad music everywhere is a mere annoyance.
"Now imagine if programmers were overpaid, undertalented, super inflated egos, where [b]glaring faults in code could be patched over with a public relations campaign?[/b]"

I don't have to imagine it. I see it. Only the names are brands like Microsoft, Apple, Linux, Snapchat..., not the names of programmers (with rare exceptions).

Seriously, every programmer that believes there are 10X programmers also believes he's one of them.

"There's no easy way to say this: You're eating too much chocolate, all of you."

My dentist has been telling me this for years. So has my wife. Do you think they're seeing each other?

Yes it is. Take the output, put it back into the input and reproduce the original input (scaled).

Don't repeat yourself.

It sure is when you're trying to get a project built.

Apple changed processor architectures entirely twice.
Just because it's been done poorly doesn't mean it can't be done well.

"Merely" laptops as in more capable than what you think of as a tablet?

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/t...

You didn't read the linked article, "Hackers attacked the U.S. weather system in October, causing a disruption in satellite feeds..."

Lenovo Yoga 2 sells for $299.... The oldest model iPad mini sells for $249. The new model iPad Air sells for $499 and up.

You're just wrong.

The legacy compatibility can be handled by running a VM. There's not need to support it in hardware at all, but you're right that it takes only a tiny bit of die space. A '386 had fewer than 300k transistors. A P5 had 3 million. An Atom has 47 million. That's skipping some architecture steps in between, but you can see the direction. Each can have a complete implementation of the previous architecture and it's still only a few percent of the processor complexity.

Windows 8 tablets run Intel processors, so they're not "trying" to break into the tablet market, they HAVE broken into it. The smartphone market, not so much.

This is why all the smart Italians already live in the United States.