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this whole "there is only one product in any category and it has to be killed" theory of journalism and blogs drives me up the wall.

Go outside and look in the road. Can you see more than one make of car?

competition is good. This story should read - "at long last some decent competition in the 'pad' market place"
i live in india and among people still closer to the culture, than the modern, savvy crowd... Recently i have found that i seem to swear as a tactic, when i find someone is not listening to my arguments, but just rejecting some of it implicitly...
As an owner of one of Asus's early precursors to the Ultrabook which also has serious trackpad problems (UL30VT), this makes me wonder how long Asus is going to go without correcting these basic problems.

Until then the Samsung Series 9 is probably a better choice.
aggressive Type A personality?? Damn... pop psychology books.. Current cognitive science has long discarded that as a inaccurate model...
To be honest, any help at all would be HUGELY appreciated.
I have seen things like this : http://www.nirsoft.net/articles/pst_password_bug.html
written, and it makes it sound so very straight forward.
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I'm referring to the general discourse and the comments made by Jobs in regards to Android.
Expanding on this, the idea is that a great artist takes someone else's idea, but executes it so much better that the idea ends up being associated with the great artist, not the original inventor of the idea. The iPod versus other mp3 players is a good example.

In this case, it suffices to look at the title of the article - the Asus is being seen as a copy of the MacBook Air, and not the definitive form of Ultrabook that all other makers are going to try to copy. If they had succeeded in stealing the idea, the article would have been talking about how the Asus was going to be the benchmark all other Ultrabooks were going to be judged against, and it would have highlighted how the Asus had filled in the weaknesses of the current champion, which is the MacBook Air.

Clearly a case of copying.
Reading this article while I'm reading Stephen Levy's "In the Plex" is interesting. Stephen argues this is all part of Google's nature and that Page and Brin are convinced the "montisorian way" will figure it out one day...

I think he's right in many ways, Google definately doesn't work anything like Apple does, it'll just be interesting how Google comes out the "midlife crisis"
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I view this as a positive thing -- imitating the best seems an excellent approach. Inovation comes next.
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I really think that the Z is more comparable to a MacBook Pro that just happens to be lighter than the Air. Living with a 13" screen, particularly one with such a high resolution, is really not an issue at all (especially since external monitors are so cheap now). The overhead of keeping two computers synced would not be worth it, I think.

As for Linux, I suspect it depends a lot on the exact hardware and distro in question. I had issues with OpenSUSE; it worked immediately with Fedora (only after spending a while playing with SUSE :().

As for the MacBook Pro, I have a friend who has been relegated to living almost exclusively in a Linux VM on Mac OS because running it natively caused it to overheat. The only way I see of being sure of not having any Linux issues would have been to buy a computer with Linux installed, but I didn't see any interesting ones in this particular market.
Easy. When you do something that's been done before and do it better, you get credit. When you do something that's been done before and do it worse (e.g. this Macbook Air clone), you don't.
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I read the article, and my understanding was that the asus isn't any better than the macbook air.

Taking inspiration from something and making something new doesn't count for anything unless you can make it better or cheaper.

I'm not saying apple doesn't copy, because they do. Who doesn't in this day and age?
I actually agree with Confusion. All these implicit coercions _will_ bite you. Don't understand why his post is downvoted.
Intel reportedly is unveiling reference designs aimed at keeping ultrabook prices at less than $1,000 to better enable them to compete with Apple’s MacBook Air.

So, that shows that Intel have been producing reference designs to compete with Apple's design. Where is the evidence that Intel designed the MacBook Air?
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I know the ultrabook project is taking a lot of flak in a lot of area, but the idea excites me. A lot of people would argue that cloning is not the way to go, and even in the article the writer states that its a pity asus didn't try to do something better than apple.

Why not make something equal first, we seen it with android, although I'm not saying that Android is built as a clone of iOS, but they got feature parity and then went onto more innovation.

Personally as someone who loves the look and feel of the MacBook, but who for a number of reasons won't be purchasing one ( expensive for a college student, not a fan of Mac OS). An entry into the market like this appeals to me greatly. Keep it up Intel and partners!
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I just read this and came here to see if anyone else was confused by some of the answers they've given.

From question 2: "They found that a large percentage of participants overestimated the likelihood that Jack was an engineer, even though mathematically, there was only a 30-in-100 chance of that being true."

So all the additional information we are given should be ignored, no patterns can be derived, and stereotypes have no basis in reality?

Sounds like bollocks to me. But then I don't really follow probability theory, kinda lost interest in a class I took when the lecturer proved that you were more likely to be hit by a bus every day for a year than win the lottery.
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Whatever. Main development for us happen on Windows (Game Development studio doing Console games mainly).

Not my choice, at home OSX/Linux, but even then also a machine with Windows XP.
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It is run by thinkmap.com and doesn't look like a for-profit project.

Here is the launch press release: http://www.thinkmap.com/pressrelease.jsp?id=1290
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Look at how many models Asus makes: http://www.asus.com/Notebooks/AllProducts/ . Around 55 distinct designs.

Look at how many models Apple makes: http://www.apple.com/why-mac/compare/ . Five distinct designs.

True attention to detail is surely impossible with Asus' scattergun approach.
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Just use the keyboard instead. Takes longer to learn the shortcuts, but you'll be more productive.
Absolutely love it, a huge addition.
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From MacBooks to many (most?) PCs they're using Synaptics chips

Don't know about PCs, but the current and last gen of MacBook Airs uses the Broadcom bcm5974 touchpad controller, and I believe the MBPs do as well. The Linux "synaptics" driver drives a lot more than just Synaptics chipsets these days.
As much as I like orange, it's not meant to be used in such quantities in screens...
But: It's the same with any kind of news sources.

They are nice for getting hints on what's going on, but it's stupid to plainly believe stuff - like everywhere.

It's the same with cyber mobbing and posting random stuff about or even impersonating another person. If people wouldn't simply believe all the nonsense, be it FUD, advertisement or whatever a lot of things would be better.

This also seems to be a problem in the scientific field. Things sadly aren't transparent all the time. There are secrets and press releases that are made for investors. On the other hand there appear to be fewer peer reviews. Maybe because it's hard to make money doing so (especially when there is a lack of transparency in first place). If you want to discredit you competition it's far more effective to create FUD than it is to find (probably hidden) errors. Investors, consumers and even the media is unlikely to be interested into actual, scientific data that weaken or even disprove claims.
'There is also a blatant error in the OP article: Answer No. 2 (Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement.) is by no means "logically impossible".'

They meant that it's logically impossible for the probability of A AND B to be higher than the probability of A, since A AND B is a subset of A. She could be feminist, but the probability of being feminist is lower than the 100% probability that she's either a feminist or not.
Would How to Design Programs (http://www.htdp.org/) and Racket be a good combination to recommend for someone who is starting programming? Racket even has special language settings for different levels of HTDP that are the subsets of the scheme language that are used in each phase of the book.

And Racket is batteries included. It's got plenty of libs out of the box with lots of bells and whistles to make things that go bing. There's also GUI REPL tool called Dr. Racket.

I just checked racket out from Git, and it was easy to build and install (on an out-of-date Ubuntu) and they had binaries available too.
I think it also very much depends in what 'tier' you do your spending. For example, I bought a Samsung laptop. It's great. My housemate bought a Sony laptop that's slightly shinier but has similar features and a pricetag 2.5x higher. I buy $30 shirts. Provided they fit me properly, they look great. A friend of mine frequently spends $200 on each shirt. His are a little shinier, but for a price tag of 6-7x more. And I still look great ;)
I love how his site says "Sign up for my dang RSS feed"...he's trying to follow his own advice, though dang is arguably a VERY light swear.
See also:'trimming sails' as it relates to sailboats.
I cannot help but think that the recent flavor-of-the-month rush to all that NoSQL is nothing but the average web monkies who do not understand databases, SQL and the fundamental problems RDBMS are dealing with so, yea, when I have no idea about all that I would prefer a network-accessible key-value map as well...
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I think I have to chime in to try and counteract Apple's marketing: the world isn't actually divided into Mac/PC. Just because you buy Apple hardware--which really isn't bad--doesn't mean you have to use their OS--which is. You could install Windows or, even better, use Linux. Of course, if you're not into Mac OS, you might as well get the Asus, which means its entry into the market benefits you.Even some non-Apple clones are competition and make the market much better for everyone.

As a college student, I think you'd get almost the same utility out of a nice netbook running Linux as you would an Air unless you're a heavy gamer. I have several friends who went that route and their uniformly happy and productive (unlike some of the people I know using Mac OS, although that is more a function of their not being CS people).

Of course, I say this almost hypocritically as a college who did splurge on a laptop and doesn't regret it. I just had some money left over from an internship--that's my excuse.
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Paying attention to well designed ad campaigns can let you gleam a lot of information about a company. When picking stocks I put more weight on their ads than I do the stock quote history.

In a sea of shitty advertising where companies recycle bad ideas and rely on special effects or catchy jingles to sell, you end up with an arms race between competitors telling you why to chose them over the alternatives. They completely forget to say why you should want the product at all. It just ends up leaving people suspicious of advertising in general.

This ad was really effective because it didn't hype the technology. They thought about what is important to people and found a way to show their products as enriching that experience.

It is rare to find ads this good, but they are the kind that will stay in their minds for years to come.

I am at the age where I look forward to having children. I want to establish some stability before I do it and so it is still a few years off. Despite this, I find myself thinking on a daily basis what values and skills I want to teach my kids. I am making lists of books, films, projects, etc. that I will introduce to them at the appropriate age. After seeing this ad, I went ahead and registered a few accounts with names that my wife and I talk about every once in a while.

I bet many other people at the same stage of life as me are doing the same.

Kudos to google.
Except both are ARM based. So either way ARM wins.
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> I remember waking up one morning to find a strange man setting up a Mac LC II in my room. I don't know who he was or why we chose to buy an Apple computer, but on that day, history was made

So who was this guy? and, history being made? really? When I think about historic moments I think about the Berlin Wall, September 11, or the Japanese delegation boarding the USS Missouri in Tokyo Harbor to sign the surrender of Japan. I definitely don't associate it with some guy getting his first Mac
It looks like they took Etherpad and added exactly one feature showing deletions in yellow.

Our team started with Etherpad, added a real-time collaborative grid similar to Google Spreadsheets, multiple tabs, integrated full-text Lucene search (indexed immediately), spellcheck, file browser, permissions system, automated time estimates, element insertion, a special script print format, and teleprompter output. I guess I am jealous that we never got interviewed by a hot chick in a fancy high-rise.

Anyway I am wondering, did they use the regular Java/appjet Etherpad, or is it based on the node.js Etherpad Lite?

Also Google Wave wasn't really about collaborative text editing.

It was more about a generic framework for developers that used operational transforms to enable collaborative manipulation of all types of content or objects. But people didn't get that.
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At least one. Trimming is also the term we use when adjusting the ballast or cargo so the ship floats differently in the water. Never heard of a bloated ship before.
I like the attitude, but can't help thinking that using a decent modern statically typed language prevents half of the problems that this article poses to solve to begin with.
Apple multi-touch pads are less fun when your one year old child swipes his hand over it, changing god knows what and you having no idea how to get everything back.
It would have helped if you said so in your original comment...since the article has nothing to do with androids but instead with the ultra-portable pc market.
I have yet to work on a project where neither charsets nor line-endings ever pop-up and cause problems... seeing as it is 2011, this is an absolutely abysmal testimony for IT as a whole.
The only way to get real focus in a company is to kill projects. It's not pretty and it pisses the people off who were working on those projects. But it is absolutely necessary to get focused and start making a few great things instead of lots of OK things.
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though I myself hail from babson, sad to see the top entrepreneurial school discouraging entrepreneurial endeavors.
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Are these people being fired? Or reassigned into different roles? The email makes it seem like they're being let go...
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I am well aware of the point they were trying to make. Or, more precisely, the point Kahneman et al. were trying to make. What I am concerned about is that they, that is, the editors / writers of Vanity Fair, do not understand their mistake. This is somewhat likely given the error they made described by the grandparent comment.

Overall, I find it rather ironic to find such gross errors in an article that sets out to educate the reader about "human error".
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He is certainly shaving the google watermelon, thats for sure!
Each domain on the web is essentially an "app store": If you type http://facebook.com into your web browser, you visit an appstore, download an app, install and run it. If you click on a youtube link in your facebook app, you visit another appstore, download another app, run it.

It's very simple and almost instant software management. Most people who do this every day do not even realize that they install and use different applications from different sources.

And it's a very healthy process for the industry as well: Just imagine Facebook and Google and Apple had to submit their products to Microsoft and beg for their approval.

We don't need fewer app stores. We need links and a search engine.
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Here's a much more readable article about the GPU from Anandtech:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5077/arms-malit658-gpu-in-2013...
Except you are prioritizing your own short-term gain over the long-term benefit to a larger group of people. Apple would have figured it out very quickly and would have taken steps to regain control of their pricing.

It is a program that provides financial benefit to poor students in exchange for a moral obligation. I see it as being more akin to stealing from a charity rather than a savvy or smart business opportunity. Being entrepreneurial is about providing a product or service to people, but not doing it at the cost to all others. It takes zero imagination to take advantage of a goodwill initiative, all it requires is a lack of moral compass.

I was a super-poor student from a low income family and I relied on both educational discounts and financing to get access to my own computer - so to know now that the program was screwed with by guys who were not exactly starving students really pisses me off.
mixing metaphors isn't the end of the world. "bloated" is used metaphorically so often only the "ship" part strikes me as non-literal.
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Mea culpa. I did not realize that it was an interface to cowsay, instead of an implementation of it.

There is something to say to say about using a platform-dependent utility for a talk of an eminently portable language, but i do not think that is necessary here.
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Umm, I honestly have no idea. The battery monitor's estimates are horribly inconsistent, and I haven't used it unplugged for long-enough stretches to drain the battery completely. So, at least for me, we can call it "enough".

I have used it for over 4 hrs of active use interspersed with sleep periods (e.g. with the lid closed) without running out. I plug it in whenever I can, which means it gets a little charged whenever I'm at home, at work or at the library (but not in lecture). My schedule means I rarely need to use it for more than three hours without being able to plug in at some point.

Since it doesn't use the switchable graphics cards that are popular in other laptops, this is not an issue. Unfortunately, I think it still does better on Windows.

That said, if it isn't enough, you can always get an extra sheet battery you could attach to the bottom of the laptop--it's pretty neat.
Yep, you are not the only one. I've had a laptop with a nipple, and it started to move around all on it's own.

The same is true for my brothers old dell laptop and my dads not so old dell laptop.
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You can think of Marco Arment as Gruber Lite...

I for one hope that this Ultrabook is a wild success, if I want to buy a Mac in my country I have to pay about 900$ more compared to the US and I don't even get AppleCare, but an equivalent. The world shouldn't begin and end with Apple, competition is healty.
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If the startup is struggling or making a pivot, it might need to lay off employees who are performing fine.

Of course, the reverse is true also. Employees can leave at any time for any reason as well.

Overall, at-will employment keeps companies and labor markets flexible.
For me, the main difference is whether they made something _better_ than the original and innovated in the process. Apple did this with many of their products.
Any bluetooth mouse is MUCH better than even the best trackpads.
It's true that Macs have great trackpads, but I almost never use them anyay.
That worked really well for Somalia, innit?

I mean, look at all the creative endeavours the good people of Somalia ventured upon release from the hands of the Evil Government and Lobbies.

You are a perfect example of a person that would pave his road to hell with good intentions. All due to failure to see humans as we really are, and our time and again honoured tradition of refusing to do what "should" be done.
I tried to code like this already, but one scenario I've found that is ruining this style is external API calls.

I'm now finding my code heading back to the old littered style whenever I have to update or get information from someone else's API just because I have to handle potential failure there and then.

Very frustrating, anyone got any insights on how they're dealing with it?
As a recent convert to moai (http://getmoai.com), which is a Lua-based cross-platform environment for game development, I have to say this: hogwash.

Cross-platform, easy to use, deliverable as a download for offline use, publishable on the web: a moai project already delivers what this guy is blowing hard about. Its not going away just because he says so. In fact, the future is here already - put your app on the cloud, let users decide if they want to install it locally or not.
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