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Comment Re:Resolution (Score 1) 316

It's because they're not going after the tablet market, they're going after the laptop market. In the demo, they were comparing it to the MacBook Air, not the iPad. We're doing a product evaluation of the Surface Pro 2 at work, and the biggest complaints are that the screens too small and it's too heavy. they fixed both of these thing with the 3. This will sell ridiculously well in the enterprise.

Comment Re:Wow, the Republicans... (Score 1) 194

It was meant more as a validation of your comment. Neither party's constituents are what the media (or other side) portrays them as. Many of the wealthiest, business owning Americans are Democrats. 8 of the 10 poorest counties in the US (the 'entitlements' voters) went to Romney. As a radical moderate, I find irony in either of the stereotypes.

Comment Re:scalability (Score 1) 137

In Denver, Mile High Organics, Door to Door Organics, Walmart to Go, The Organic Dish, Growers Organics, and a few others all offer a large variety of organic and local produce and packaged/prepared foods delivered directly to your home. Since your question was when, the answer is a few years ago.

Comment Re:Seriously?! (Score 1) 255

If you did, you should have patented it, 'cause you were way ahead of your time. The only other product doing anything like this in 2000 was Microsoft's new OWA client, which had just implemented XMLHTTPRequest to dynamically update content from the internet. This patent is a bit ahead of that in that it was being applied to display content from multiple sources, rather than just Exchange.

Comment Re:metric? (Score 1) 237

At 0 degrees Fahrenheit, to the human body, it becomes frickin' cold out.
At 100 degrees Fahrenheit, to the human body, it becomes frickin' hot out.

Why would humans care whether water is freezing? I have no emotion towards how water feels. When I go outside, I'm more concerned with whether I'm going to be freezing, and at 32F, it's only mildly chilly out.

Comment Re:not NET neutrality (Score 1) 272

It's the network path that's followed. If you published the original file on your local pc and set the tracker up for use within comcast's network, then you wouldn't be using the internet. Of course, no one outside of comcast's network, and more specifically, your comcast subnet, would be able to access it. And really, what's the point of using bt between two users? Just set up an nfs share, there's a lot less overhead.

Comment Re:not NET neutrality (Score 1) 272

I'd say the Internet is a Specific network of networks. If Comcast is receiving the shows from the studios via satellite telemetry, encoding them, then distributing them to your app via their own IP based network, no Internet connection is required. You're paying separately, via your cable subscription, for this network access. I have Comcast as my ISP, but I don't have cable. I have access to the Internet, but I don't have access to this.

Comment not NET neutrality (Score 2, Interesting) 272

The NET in Net Neutrality implies Internet. When comcast is delivering you a Netflix/Hulu/Vudu etc. stream, they're pulling it from the open Internet to deliver it to you. When you're using their app, the can deliver the same content completely over their own network. You're not using the Internet, you're using Comcast's WAN, so no Internet bandwidth is being used, so it shouldn't be charged. If I'm streaming a movie from my PC to my TV, it doesn't go against my cap either, because it's using my isolated network, not the Internet.

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