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This is because there is no market for graphing calculators outside of what the school requires.
This is why a Ti-83 still costs $100 even though it could be replaced by a $50 china tablet or something even cheaper.
Show me a tablet that will run for about 2 years on a set of AAA cells.
Wait a second. I had an Apple ][, and it came with Integer Basic on the ROM. You had to run floating point Basic off a cassette tape (it was a while before I got a floppy disk) but Integer Basic was built in.
Ah, the Red Book... ALL of the monitor code to read. Small enough that you could actually understand what was going on. Those were the days.
They had the lab ones monkeyed up, so you needed a boot disk so you could launch Integer Basic. I think it was supposed to be some sort of educational software, but not many people used them for it, most we like me and brought in a boot disk to get around it and start in on coding.
I have a table that wobbles.
Good plan. You can save that coaster for a cold one. Get one for me, too, while your at it.
ding dong
"Hi, are you Larry Page?"
"Yes, who are you
"Bring the truck around front, Roy, we've got him now, in the interests of National Security."
Yep.
At $49, I might buy one. At $199, I still expect to get something for my money. I discovered this recently when I bought a Chromebook on a whim. It was back in the box and returned in a few days. I thought I wouldn't care if it was just a toy at that price but I was wrong. I spent another $105 to get a quad-core 17.3" laptop and installed Chrome on it. Gives me the Chrome experience in addition to being able to do all kinds of other stuff.
Yeah, but this isn't offered to you, it's to schools. Schools will buy them, because they'll think they are getting a big fat deal. Then IT people in schools will point out what a pain they are to do anything with, but with enough tar or mortar could be used to patch holes in the roof.
Estimates are at less than 1 million RTs in 10 months. GREAT SUCCESS!!
It would be disingenuous to say you didn't see this coming from the very first day of launch, after the early product reviews.
There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave. To tell us this.
Surface RT is not a dud, it is a great product and millions have been sold.
-Steve
The Surface RT is to tablets what the Carp is to fishing.
Maybe it will skip nicely on the water...
How would this remind people of Apple in the 80s? The Apple II was not a dud product being price dumped to clear inventory.
The RT is a stinker. Dump the Pro and maybe we'll talk. <_<
I remember the Apple ][ computers showing up in school and thinking it was going to be real cool, until I found I had to get my own dubious copy of Integer Basic to boot from so I could have some fun with them
They're probably after any bitcoins you have stored on your phone. <_<
Seems to me all the disaster film (real and otherwise) I see shows dark, dark clouds over Manhattan.
But you can't fix prices on books...
Well, e-books anyway.
Dead trees are still highly variable.
Nothing like getting to where you are flying and by reflex reaching for that Swiss Army Knife I always carry, because something needs a little tweak.
But by all means, let's continue to behave like a bunch of frightened lemmings.
this also ends my plans for Ackthpt's Small Knives And Pointy Objects Emporium in airports from coast to coast.
Haven't we seen proof of concept hacks of these kinds for a while?
Also, "adding to the mystery", also my ass. Different keyfobs work with different algorithms and protocols. Someone's hacked a particular subset of them.
Maybe the car is sentient, hates the current own and wants to be stolen.
old, archived projects? Haven't been able to do much lately, but who knows. I just identified a gap.
Is the world's third oldest profession.
System going down at 5 this afternoon to install scheduler bug.