Comment Re:IBM warning for cost overrun?? (Score 1) 36
... anecdotes suggest that they are no worse than EDS / Accenture / and others who work in the same space.
And here is a lesson in how to damn with faint praise.
... anecdotes suggest that they are no worse than EDS / Accenture / and others who work in the same space.
And here is a lesson in how to damn with faint praise.
Considering the reaction here; the OEMs that would do this would get so much bad PR, that a significant number of customers would flee to some other manufacturer.
Of course you're right.
That's exactly what has happened with mobile phones. (cough).
It's so odd how the people that want a tablet with the functionality of a real computer are looked at like they're bizarro. What is so strange about wanting a fully featured device? It's like the people that were going off about how iPad's don't need USB functionality, insinuating that there is no point to having USB on the tablet. Uh, what? Who could possibly see more connectivity or functionality as a bad thing?
If your desires were representative of the general population then the huge number of windows-based PC tablet computers that have been around for pretty much a decade would have taken off in a big way, but no, they didn't. And I say that as the owner of a HP-TC1000 tablet from circa 2001 which was *awesome* at the time.
Um...
USB 2.0, even at its theoretical maximum is 20 x slower than Thunderbolt. USB3.0 at its theoretical maximum is 2 x slower. The thunderbolt architecture means that you get a full 10Gb/sec in both directions unlike USB which has so much processor overhead that you never get anywhere near its theoretical maximum. So no, USB is not "Almost as fast".
RS232 Serial ports used to be ubiquitous.
I'll take that bet. If only because they are still including firewire ports, and they have been useless for years and years and years. You must not earn very much to make such a bet.
You need to get over yourself.
Nobody has told you to shut up or that you "aren't allowed" to express your opinion.
What they *have* done is tell you in many (some humorous) ways that you are wrong to hold that pretty self-centered opinion
I find it reasonably amusing that you are accusing *me* of censorship when your original post said:
In other words, nothing to see here - it's up to the developer and Amazon to work out a deal.
Nowhere did I tell you to shut up, I just told you that you were acting a bit short-sightedly. I think a bit of self-awareness might be in order.
Say what you will about the position Apple is currently in, but they have been screwed over many times by other companies (Microsoft with Office, Adobe with Premiere, IBM with PowerPC @ 3ghz), and they figured that it was critical to their success that they take control of their own destiny.
You could argue that they are currently also being screwed over by Intel, who can't offer an i5 or i7 with decent graphics, hence the ridiculous shenanigans that Apple are doing with graphics processor switching in MacBook Pros, and the lack of i5 or i7 in the latest Mac Mini.
And there you go, proving my point.
According to you, I must be an Apple fanboy, and a "dishonest prick" simply because you don't accept a point of view that I have expressed.
Therefore pretty much proving yourself not to be such a "reasonable" person as you would probably wish to be.
I agree that if you buy an iPod or an iPhone you are likely subject to lock-in. You, as a clearly well-informed person, do not want to get locked in. But you DO want the lovely shinyness, dont you? Otherwise why do you get so angry and start calling people pricks? - I think you protest too much!
Thus spake the master programmer: "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"