Because all the good ones have already been created.

Wherever you go you must be the life of the party.

The RAM on this thing is limited to 32GB. Pretty soon there will probably be laptops at Best Buy that support more than that.

Q: How much RAM do you really need?
A: It doesn't matter. GIVE ME MORE RAM!

Five years ago I would have agreed with you. But all my machines nowadays are laptops with SSD, and the internal disks are 128 or 256GB. What really matters is in the cloud, and for what is less important I am not about to start doodling around with pairs of external drives.

Maybe I should get a device like a Drobo. Or go nuts and get myself a nice SAN. I saw a Dell PS400E on eBay for $5,0000. 42TB of highly-redundant, high-performance storage... Now THAT would be awesome. Except the the noise and power bill.

I use various cloud providers to backup important stuff.

But I would expect that a hard drive for which I pay $120 would last at least a year. Of course we live in a world where failure is expected in computer hardware so the blame is on me for not rsync'ing 6 seasons of Nash Bridges and 3 seasons of Airwolf.

Hurry before the next flood in Thailand, where most of the major hard disk factories in the world are conveniently located nearby each other (hence the price surge of 2011).

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11...

From the article:
“Surely one of the inevitable impacts of this is that never again will so much be concentrated in so few places,” said John Monroe, an expert on storage devices at Gartner, a technology research firm.

Yeah, sure.

The day Netflix offers The Wire and the Star Wars movies I may consider doing the same. Until then they are my $8/month source for bad British or Swedish series, although they are becoming quite a good source for bollywood movies too.

I'm not kidding. Recently I had the opportunity to watch the puzzling movie Besharam on Netflix. The scene with the exploding car at the beginning got me hooked but the highlight of the movie is definitely this dynamic duo of Indian guys dressed in aluminium foil who dance like Michael Jackson on what sounds like Korean pop played on a 8-bit Casio keyboard.

See for yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
(notice the frequent zooms on the main guy's crotch)

THANK YOU NETFLIX

Just like before I can lose entire tv series when the disk fails. But now it's the HD version of the series I will lose. That's called progress.

I get the "bought" part, that is after all how lobbying works (it's not a secret), but how does one "sell" a politician? Do you mean that political parties are pimping out their people?

Also I would suggest that given the kind of loyalty one can find in Washington, the proper term should be "rent" rather than "buy".

The Egyptians did not move those blocks into place. They did like those companies we know and admire, they made plans and outsourced the backbreaking work to unscrupulous partners in countries where labor is cheap and workers safety is not a priority. And then pretended they were not aware of the abysmal work conditions in the pyramid factories.

I'm pretty sure that if someone was to raise the pyramid there would be a Made in China label at the bottom.

Whenever I hear about Box, I hear about Aaron Levie. I even got spam the other day telling me that "Aaron Levie Wants You To Register For BoxWorks".

Name-dropping used to involve famous people. Now startups name-drop their CEO all the time and this sucks.

I prefer java desktop apps to adobe air apps.

Talk about horrible stuff and annoying updater...

Thank you for ruining my day. I don't know what JavaZone is but I now hate it.

Who says you are a cool kid?

The stock has been a roller-coaster ride over the last 3 years. The real good thing that he did was the deal with IBM to at last set foot in the enterprise. For a very long time a lot of people have been using iPhones at the office but most of the time it was in BYOD organizations. If the Apple-IBM thing can move forward (and if Apple can get a grip on reality, price-wise) it could be a new era for Apple.

Enterprise customers can't be dazzled by marketing or fashion trends like the typical Apple crowd. And while people keep talking about the wonderful app store and its billions of apps, the truth is that a business won't run on angry birds and yos. Hopefully Apple will get a clue and start using its factories to deliver cost-effective devices on which enterprise apps can run. Take things where Blackberry left them and move forward.

Apple is not a front-runner anymore in design. Samsung, Microsoft, Dell - everyone has good designers nowadays and lawsuits aside, all smartphones are user-friendly enough. Apple should really use its position and deep pockets to set foot in the enterprise before they fade away.