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From Urban-Invention (came out of a german university I think).
Did he mean 1/10x, or (1/10)x, or (as I suspect based on the substance of the discussion) did he mean (1/10)(10x) = x ?
You would have thought that a _real_ 10x programmer would not make an operator precedence error like that!
I'm trusting that these copyright/design right concerns have been contemplated at least - not least because of the similarity in name as well as in design.
(See the google images link for a collection of octonauts: http://goo.gl/Xek21)
But Google can handle such wafer-thin margins because the secondary markets that this tablet secures for them. No other Android tablet vendor can enjoy the same control over the underlying OS, the same footprint in terms of Apps ecosystem (and importantly the revenue derived from this), the same intimacy between online applications/services and hardware. All these things mean Google can 'get away' with pricing this tablet as cheaply as they do.
But where does that leave Samsung, LG, and the others ? The big risk for us as consumers here is that Google will in fact reduce, not increase, the amount of credible competition against Apple by jeopardizing the competitors' capacity to derive profit from tablets.
IEEE publication policy is nothing but a barrier to innovation.
Shame WikiLeaks / anonymous / whoever couldn't help us all out here.
Also, seems to be an issue - this number does not increase (from 0 to 1 in the test I did) when you 'mark as unread'. Tried to give feedback about this to gmail labs but couldn't.
Too good to be true ? Read on....
The technique is slightly different, depending in which operating system you have, but in general the instructions are:
(i) switch to your browser (ii) select "Exit" from the "File" menu.
Voila! Productivity improves. [[ assuming your not using the browser for work, of course ]]
Try it.
"The Timetraveller's Wife" will make you think.
McEwan's book will just eat at your heart. If you haven't read it I implore you to at least read the first chapter.
Of Baker's book, Wikipedia says: "On the surface it deals with a man's trip up an escalator in the mezzanine of his office building during a lunch-time sojourn from his building. In reality, it deals with all the thoughts that run through our minds in any given few moments – if we were given the time to think them through to their conclusions"
That girl became my wife, and now we have a seven-year-old son. Unlike me, he will probably never use one of these. Ever. He'll never have the joy of standing in the rain/cold/wind chatting to his girlfriend from a payphone.
And to that point, I conjecture that he will never have a POTS wired phoneline in his own home, he will never buy a newspaper, and perhaps he will never buy a CD, DVD or petrol-only vehicle.
What do you think ?
I would love to see investors put more effort into demonstrating the value that they bring to young companies - over-and-above capital. Quite often it's hard to get anything more than some pretty intangible statements on the topic.
I spent 9 months of my precious life schlopping round VCs in London (well, it was 2001...). Sitting behind expensive oak tables in ostentatious board rooms pitching for investment. Listening to what was in too many cases downright arrogance on the part of the investors whose understanding of the market was at best surfacial.
I think much of this world is gone (thankfully) but wouldn't it be nice to hear the <i>investors' elevator pitch</i> for a change ?
But does this show commercial ingenuity ? Perhaps less so. People will be terrified of plugging a random USB device into their machine. And anyway it's pretty easy to buy things just like this - you see them quite a lot at trade shows these days. (eg: http://www.flashbay.com/wafer_usb_card.html)
Perhaps Metcalfe's Law applies up to a certain size, and then tails off thereafter.
There is a limit on the number of people that us humans can reasonably be expected to have friendships with. I have a feeling that it is substantially smaller than the number of 'friends' that facebook attracts.