Sure, the linked to article is a *real* review. The slashdot summary is not, it reads exactly like an ad, that's what makes it a "Slashvertisement". Too bad it's no longer *news* since the tablet was released in NOVEMBER, over one month ago.

And by calling it a "slashverdtisement" I don't imply that Slashdot is getting paid in any way, I mean that the summary reads more like an ad than a "news" item for nerds.

Wow, an ad for a nVidia product posing as a slashdot article... this is, unfortunately, getting more and more common. :(

Good for Mikko for taking a stand. Unfortunately, the NSA was monitoring Americans as well as foreigners, they just had to obfuscate their spying on American Citizens because it's illegal for them to target Americans without secret court permission.

Hmm... kids in the school system are below par, so why would anybody think that adults educated in the same system would suddenly become geniuses?

Oh yeah, the Americans*, the same group that scored below average. ;-)

* Yeah, yeah, all you Central Americans, South Americans, Mexicans, Canadians, etc., etc. you know that I mean USAians when using the term "Americans".

After I RTFA, I realized that the authors' definition of NPE is a company that doesn't PHYSICALLY MANUFACTURE the product. And it's doubly disappointing that one author WAS the DIRECTOR of the patent office from 2004-2009. I wonder why the patent office is so screwed up?

It lists Qualcomm as an NPE!?!?! WTF!?! I guess it's because they don't FAB the chips themselves.

Qualcomm sells chips THEY DESIGN using their IP, they just CONTRACT OUT the device to others to build. How is that NOT an Practicing Entity?!? They also license out their patents for worldwide standards (WCDMA) that they may not have any part in the manufacture of the devices that use that standard.

So by the Authors' definition of NPE, Apple is also an NPE because they contract the assembly of their I-devices to other companies and don't actually FAB their A7 processors?

Meh.

In 200x when the iPad was being developed for the 2010 release one could not put enough batteries in a 7" form factor to power the device for the strict time requirements Apple put on the device and also to meet the thickness requirements. So, AT THE TIME, a 9.7" screen made sense....

However, in 2012, lower power everything has come out, and better batteries have been created, now a manufacturer can successfully run the device for an acceptable amount of time with smaller batteries. So a smaller form factor is appropriate for 2012 for the majority of users.

As others have already mentioned, SJ, was just being his dismissive self when deriding the non 10" competitors in 2010, and backed himself into a corner...

IMHO certifications mean little once a person has >10 years of experience

Leverage your experience for some contracting jobs.

Since you worked in a high reliability/availability environment before, target similar areas like telecom, military, avionics, medical equipment.
Also don't forget those industries also require competent Verification and Validation staff on contract. It may be a "step down" in a lot of peoples' opinions, but a job is a job, and it actually is really hard to find V&V people that have programming skills.

It's good that performance has increased by greater than 100%, but it does no good if I can't see the difference on my 60 fps monitors, nor anybody elses the top-of-the-line 120 fps monitors.

Note how the press release didn't state what resolution the game was running at? Was it running at 640x480? (useless, but quite likely) or 2560x1600? (impressive if it were true, but highly unlikely). What were the quality settings?

Both AMD and NVIDIA play this "numbers" game... whenever a new "performance" driver comes out, and claims "25%" gains for a certain game, it usually means 25% in one specific instance that nobody uses, but you'll probably get 2-5% if you're lucky. :-(

Actually Windows Phones have very little lattitude in minimum and maximum tech specs of screens, no variation on number of hard buttons, nor processors. There are minimum memory requirements as well. Hardware in terms of style, is purely up to the manufacturer.

However, I think that the fear is that Microsoft will put out a phone with a *more powerful* processor and/or a *higher resolution* display than they allow the other Windows Phone licensees to, thus ensuring that no OEM can match Microsoft's top-of-the-line phone.

Umm... Amazon runs one of the largest commercial "cloud" computing services, they've moved from being a strictly "box mover" a LONG time ago. Buying TI's OMAP division may help Amazon develop custom low power servers that would improve their "cloud" in addition to moving their e-reader/multimedia consumption device design in-house.

girlintraining,

Would the world be a better place if the US and other allies didn't apply sanctions to Japan, and allowed Japan to completely take over China and then given time to consolidate their holdings to prepare for war in 1949 instead of 1941?... Look at the war machine Japan created with just their holdings in Manchuria for 1941... what could they do if they were given more time and resources to prepare for war? The Japanese did not create their war machines because of the *sanctions*, the sanctions were put upon them because Japan was creating *war machines*.

Oh, or did you think that *appeasing* Japan by giving them China would *solve* the problem? The Japanese would just say, "yeah, China's good enough, let's dismantle our war machines cause China's all we want, there's no reason to expand any more, there's no reason we would want to take over Indochina, India, Eastern Russia, etc, etc."

Of course WWII showed that they wanted to take over those areas as well... purely for self preservation, of course. ;)

Your argument is fatally flawed by making the assumption that giving China to Japan would stop their expansionistic agenda and would not eventually cause a conflict with the US, or their Russian allies (at the time they were allies.)

Better to back a feral cat against a wall than a mountain lion.

Yeah, in hilly northern San Diego, it's really *only* the helmet laws that are preventing 40% more people from riding bicycles. Also it has nothing to do with the way that main roads have 50mph speed limits with a "white line" separating the cars from the bicycle lane. Also not due to the fact that one of the official "bike routes" has an uphill section that is actually on Interstate 5 between two exits where the bicyclists have to ride on the paved shoulder with, you guessed it, a magical white line keeping bicyclists separated from cars on the freeway.

Honestly, anybody stupid enough to believe that eliminating helmet laws will reduce obesity is living in a dream world.

I don't ride much anymore because I'm lazy, not because of helmet laws.

It's called NATURAL SELECTION, not EVOLUTION.

He's most probably better off "in jail" because it'll be much more difficult for another crazy person to actually *kill* him and collect the numerous bounties on his head. I don't know why a lot of people are making this a "free speech" issue. He was not arrested for the video, but for lying to his parole officer and is being held since he was considered a flight risk.

And all those people that say that he should be handled like any other parolee that has lied to his parole officer... all I can say is... This is the REAL WORLD, nothing is ever applied consistently. People who make a big stink and get attention directed towards them tend to get more "special treatment".

Meh... really?...

"Time Delayed Real Time"

More like "Real Time as constrained by the Speed of Light", it's not like NASA is doing what NBC is doing with the olympics... :rolleyes: