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You think rev2 will have an Nvidia GPU? Unlikely, but you're welcome to wait for that perfect pc.

Is it me or did they finally remove the superdrive?
My experience with WPEngine was terrible.
The review starts out comparing the Surface to the iPad, saying both are better and worse than the other in different ways. But then the review goes on the trash almost everything unique to the Surface. It sounds like a rather splendid failure. I doubt we will be talking much about this product in 2-3 years.
Reminds me of Seagate's Momentus XT, except it sounds like the file management is done in the OS and not on the drive, and that the SSD is not being used as a cache.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3734/seagates-momentus-xt-revi...

I'm guessing the SSD portion will be MLC?

Are there any other hybrid drives like this in the wild?
The Wikipedia entry on CE certification says:

* The product may be placed on the market only if it complies with the provisions of all applicable directives and if the conformity assessment procedure has been carried out accordingly.

* If stipulated in the directive(s), an authorized third party (Notified Body) must be involved in the conformity assessment procedure.

I'm not sure if the machine directive stipulates it, but "authorized third party" seems to imply that the manufacturer can't perform the certification themselves.

Even if you can count yourself as the approving company, did you make sure that your product complies with all the provisions? Or were you taking advantage of some loophole somewhere to skip the entire process?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE_marking

EDIT: I see that you mentioned this was 15 years ago, so I'm mostly curious for historical reasons.
Unfortunately it doesn't seem like there is a way to achieve both. If you want a reasonably sized keyboard, the screen will end up being too large (as is the case with Surface). Or if you want a more traditional tablet sized screen, the keyboard will suffer (for e.g. the Transformer Prime).
There existed at least one project to do this, but you essentially can't justify it unless you are an ad network with hundreds of millions of impressions. The statistical confidence math is otherwise prohibitive. Ask if you need elaboration.
The only people really using the CLI are developers and people in related fields, who will be writing the apps that everyone else will run on their tablets/car/fridge/etc. PCs will not be going away in the foreseeable future for the simple fact developers will need them.
I remember my Physics teacher discounting this straight away and wouldn't let us talk about it at all. He simply replied, "They will be shown as frauds and quietly retire, never to be heard from again."

It stuck with me and I was glad to see someone revisiting the idea again.
The PC isn't dead
Interview with Eric Law Anderson
Yeah, it would be nice for tablet diversity but it still feels like it doesn't know what it wants to be... haven't used it yet though so I'd be willing to be swayed.
Weird. My impression is the opposite. In youth, you have time to go slow, but as you get older and busier, you jump into bed to see what works without wasting any time.
1. Find a popular thread on the HN front page.

2. Click on the usernames.

3. Write down email address from their profile.

4. Send the following email to the list of people you wrote down (at least a 100, because if you get a 2% response rate, you might get a gig out of half an hour of work):

Hello,

My name is $name, a freelance developer. Read your comment about $subject, and I think you make a good point. Anyhow, just dropping by to chat a bit about what you are currently up to. Hope you are having a great day.

Take care.

$name

Then just get a conversation going and talk about what you do. Simple.
Unsurprisingly, yes. You have to delete the book after you sell it. Relevant quote:
"Resale: If you buy an O'Reilly ebook, when you are done with it you may resell it, provided that you do not retain any copies of the book after you sell it. This is the same as the situation when you sell a used print copy—when you sell the copy, you deliver it to the buyer and no longer have a copy in your library. If you have bought a hard copy/ebook bundle, you may of course retain the hard copy, if you sell the ebook."
- Under more about usage.
Still an awesome policy.
How to install Android 4.1 Jelly Bean on the Kindle Fire
"Very alpha" - but I think this is exactly what you want.

https://github.com/github/swordfish
Hi Jerome.

Thanks for the kind words. In regards to your concern, the way we imagine this playing out is that in your app, the client asks to upload something. You use an ajax request to ask your server, with your cookies, if this is allowed. If the user is allowed, you can create a policy and sign it. You should also set the min and max size on the policy. Then you can pass this along. Thus, you know of and approve of every upload request.

Does that sound reasonable? We has also considered a post upload hook where you approve of it. However, we imagined that people would not only want to know the metadata, but maybe even the contents before approving it which seems silly to pass the entire data around.

I think what will really help is if you set up the policy as outlined above, and then, do the clean up that you mentioned when we do webhooks where you could sign up to receive a notification after every upload.
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This looks pretty sweet. Good job.
If you think they're sticking around to make more money, then they must be trying to repair the company's stock price. Or you think they're still there out of a sense of pride or guilt.

Either way it's not a pump and dump, and their goal is to turn the company around.
I have a few apps on my phone that only have access tokens for google reader. Oh, and this is the list of access given to Google Drive:

Google Drive — Google Contacts, Google Contacts, Full Account Access, Google Docs, Google Docs, Google Docs, Google Talk

So they're 90% of the way there, they just need to get rid of the 'full account access' that's layered on top of access to the specific parts of the account for some inane reason.
I am from a dotnet background originally, only created one php app back in my school days. For me, it is less about liking ERB and more about preferring the medium I am working in (HTML). If I could pick anything, it would be razor. It is similar to ERB in that you use HTML, but the painful percent brackets are replaced by a single @. Code blocks are as follows:

@{

// code

}

another example:

<div>@user.Name</div>

It feels very natural to write and is simple to read/pickup. Now that microsoft has open sourced it, someone should make a version in ruby. Might be a good side project for me actually :)
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Keen to get this setup, we need a product tour but didn't have a good way of building it quickly.
Also, I've got used to my 4 monitors... not sure I could give those up yet.
It sounds like it just works. And after "[struggling] mightily with typos and finger placement for the first 24 hours". Who's going to put up with that?
Send me an email, I'll be sure something comes your way when we launch.

ebzlo@ebzlo.com
They're absolutely marginal costs, if you look at the right way.

Takes more servers and fatter pipes to support 10,000 downloads a day rather than 500.
Another vote for Passpack. Great service.
That's not the conclusion I came away with. He wrote at the end "this is a great device." Obviously the jury's out on whether or not this thing will actually sell (and thus be worth talking about 2-3 years from now), but he clearly doesn't conclude that Surface is a failure.
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QUOTA_EXCEEDED_ERR: DOM Exception 22: An attempt was made to add something to storage that exceeded the quota.
Someone that just spent $600 on a new tablet is probably gonna be just fine spending a few hours getting used to a new keyboard.
Money may be good when allocated fairly and productively, but "FU money" implies a sense of no obligation to society and in many respects is the motivating influence behind much of the ill greed rampant today. F FU money.
If you pay full fare on southwest ("anytime" fare) - they are refundable for any reason. If you have a discount fare, they are 100% creditable. Southwest is really great in the regard.
I have read somewhere, that using pre-certified parts (wifi, boards, etc.) can dramatically streamline that process. But I have not done this personally so treat this advice as urban myth until you find further verification.
For 90% of the working world, I'd say that is a true statement. I personally need compilers and geeky utilities, but my boss could probably get by with a browser and a copy of MS Office just fine. My bosses boss definitely could.
To be fair, I still struggle with my ipad keyboard after months of use. It frustrates the life out of me, because the keys shift depending on context.
Companies only show their incompetence by sending these letters.

You know what we do when spammers get through our filters, or people make posts on our company discussion forum that contravenes our TOS? We hire dozens of lawyers, file multiple lawsuits against them, and fight it in the courts to the bitter end!!

No, that's not what we do.

We improve our spam filters.

When people find away around 'the system', we can either fix 'the system', or change the expectations of what people will use 'the system' for. ('The system' can be anything, it doesn't even have to be internet or contract related.)

Suing people and hiring lawyers is what clueless people with technical and social incompetence do because they are bullies.
Whilst the case is of the UK, the same thing can happen on a larger or smaller scale in any other countrys. Certainly more to power distribution than you would initial think, large as well as small. Think circuit diagram almost, and the design considerations with aspects of those and how addressed. Not many wonder large capacitors around alas, water dams/pumped when capacity needs to take the excess and ontap when you need to handle a surge in demand that would cause all sorts of fun if not met. Truely is a balancing act in many aspects.
Obesity isn't a look, it is a lifestyle-impacting condition.
Legally. ;-)
With respect to the conversations about the legality of stripping the DRM from e-books (in the USA). I just looked up the Librian of Congress's 2010 DMCA statement, where it is stated that one of the classes works which qualify for exception from the no disabling DRM clause of the DMCA is:

"Literary works distributed in ebook format when all existing ebook editions of the work (including digital text editions made available by authorized entities) contain access controls that prevent the enabling either of the book’s read-aloud function or of screen readers that render the text into a specialized format."

I suspect that it is in error, but this excemption does not specify that the reason for disabling DRM is to use it for one of the mentioned purposes, only that stripping DRM would be nessasary for the mentioned purposes. The lack of enforcement probably makes this a moot point, but if all of a e-book's versions have DRM, and you get in trouble for stripping the DRM off, this would probably hold up as a solid technicality.

Granted, it is still illegal to distribute software designed to aid people in lawfully stripping DRM from e-books.

Source: http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2010/Librarian-of-Congress-120...
Their review is more negative but I'm not sure why it's a much better job.
yes, "only computer" is incredibly dependent on what your needs are, and there's a very diverse range of those. My inlaws have been using an iPad as their only computer for about 4 months now and doing fabulously (they love it), but for myself I need a unix terminal and good text editor

It's why the old "which is best" argument is completely useles without a qualifier "for ..."
Microsoft's first stab at a tablet: Surface reviewed
The author is obviously pointing out the he (or she, I didn't look) sees the surface as being more than a content consumption device and possible contender as a desktop/laptop replacement.

No need to be overly (and wrongly) pedantic.
This is not a hybrid drive, it is two drives as evidenced by the picture of the iMac that Phil Schiller showed.

This is more akin to "tiered storage" which has existed before, just not in the consumer space which prevents more/different challenges.
2.96 pounds (1.35kg) for the 13" MacBook Air vs 3.57 pounds (1.62kg) for this new 13" MacBook Pro. It can drive two external 2560x1600 screens as well? Tempting. It looks like it is only being offered with an SSD though.

To anyone with a machine that has a 128GB SSD: Do you wish you had more space?
That guy was slamming the keyboard and tablet around pretty aggressively
I'm in the same boat. I'm personally holding out for the Surface Pro, but the RT is very tempting.
Any separate typing surface is superior to a touch screen surface. Touch screen keypads cover massive parts of the screen, force constant hand shifts, and constantly reposition content on the screen. Auto-correct and predictive corrections try to cover for problems that shouldn't exist.

I fail to see how the review can be characterized as "meh". It comes off as guardedly impressed to me, and definitely looking forward to the next revision of the hardware.

Hmm. Just saw a Surface commercial on TV while I was writing this. Looks like the war is a "go". Beneficiaries: Everyone.
But not likely due to company policy or pressure. By all accounts, Valve employees work on things they enjoy doing and end up spending more time if only to pursue things they find interesting.
> more than a content consumption device and possible contender as a desktop/laptop replacement.

Yeah I'd love a desktop replacement that cannot and will never run any legacy Win32 apps. Sounds awesome.
I see, thanks; I haven't had a chance to watch the Keynote yet.

Do you know how difficult it would be to set up something comparable using two drives (HDD+SSD) under, say, Ubuntu?
You're all looking at the supply side of things - there might also be very low amounts of demand.
I work deep in IT (information security) and spend 90% of my working time in the browser looking at our security monitors. Another 5% in Word preparing memos or taking notes. The rest is split between the command prompt (nslookup, ping, basic stuff), Excel, OneNote (time/project tracking), SSH, and that's about it. Everything else I do at work is personal stuff done on personal time at the office.

I'm not a boss of anything or manager of anything. Programmers will always need computers targeted to whatever they are programming to, but I would guess that most other IT workers would be fine with a browser and Office (except stupid legacy apps that your office makes you use that were written in Java, talking to VB6 which really only interfaces with a database. You know what I'm talking about).
It really depends on how complex your product is, and how good your PCB designer is. We are getting into some decently high-speed designs (LVDS/USB) and it is definitely a learning process with every board...

As far as pitfalls, they range from minor product alterations like requiring the addition of ferrite beads/elements on power lines/other wires inside the enclosure or altering component values on the board, to major alterations that require another board spin (adding extra passives like ferrites, decoupling caps, or just better PCB trace layouts), to very bad problems that require major redesign and rearchitecture of parts of the product.

If you are still in the board design/prototype stage, try to add spots on data lines and high speed traces for: extra capacitors in parallel for decoupling and to target power supply ripples and harmonics, and 0 ohm resistors in series to later replace with ferrites to absorb EMI or low-value resistors to correct for trace impedance mismatches. You can always remove these when the design gets closer to production.

Budget ~$1-2k extra as well if you want the testing house engineer to try various ferrites and shielding to get a design a few dB out of whack to pass while it is in their test environment. Of course, some of their recommendations may be too expensive/unworkable and some redesign is in order.

Unfortunately, all of this costs time, money, and enormous amounts of energy cursing the gods of physics and RF when things go wrong... but that's part of the fun of designing new things, right? :)

Great resource: http://www.murata.com/products/emicon_fun/index.html
I don't really follow Microsoft news. The last time I heard about a Microsoft Surface product it was the size of a kitchen table.

I wonder why they used the same name for this product.
Beautiful site. Have seen a few of these on HN but your implementation looks the best so far. We need this - looking forward to launch.
Wow, looks awesome and for business, the ability to use Microsoft office is the "killer app", as much as I dislike ppt and word and wheel they are the staples of most companies so the lack if office on iPad is hurting it for business users and this will be just what they are looking for. I am glad to see a new player (although msft are well experienced at touch computers) and excited to get my hands on one. They hit the pain points of the iPad out of the park, can't type for toffee, and lack of msft office for work stuff. Google docs is great for trivial things but not for getting real work done in a team where everyone else has Office.
Looks like Kera.io, great project. I'd love to hear how you guys differ btw :)
Instead of asking yourselves "what's the minimum amount someone would pay?", you should be asking "what's the maximum?".

I'm really cheap, and even I find $3/month ridiculous. It should at least be $9/month, and you should find a way to have multiple plans (say, $9, $29, $59).
I believe everybody should be treated with respect and decency. Just as long as they are behaving respectfully and decently, and perhaps a little past. But you know what? Trying to keep loving couples from getting married and having kids is not even vaguely respectful.

The whole, "I'm going do what I can to keep you from having your civil rights, but don't be mean to me" thing is dumbfounding to me. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from having your fee-fees hurt.

Suppose I got a referendum passed that banned the Mormon Church: meetings are forbidden, Mormon marriages are nullified, and the feds start tearing down the churches. Can you honestly say that the appropriate response is a quiet, "Oh, pardon me, perhaps you could reconsider?"
I guess it's a little late to let you into the secret now, but: that was what the 'hold' button on the remote was for - it would prevent the page reloading the next time the page number was transmitted. Of course, when you finish reading page 1, and 'unhold' it, the next version of the page to load might not be page 2, perhaps, but say, page 8. So you have to wait for 2 to come round again....
As you said, to a point. In my experience some of the approaches to frugality can quickly become counterproductive and eat away critically needed development clock cycles.

Here's an concrete example: I made due for years with cobbled-together CNC equipment of various kinds. I bought an old Bridgeport CNC mill really cheap. Within a month of use the spindle transmission had to be rebuilt. It did not have an automatic tool changer or tool probing. After that I took a Bridgeport knee mill and converted it to CNC. No tool changer or tool probe. It did OK. Both of these represented HUGE time drains and detracted from the main mission in major ways.

Later on I decided to do it right and leased a Haas VF6-SS. If I remember correctly the lease ran about $2,000 per month. Best decision I ever made. All of a sudden CNC was not a research project. The thing just worked and it could work 24/7 if required. It had an automatic tool changer and automatic tool probing. When properly married to Solidworks and a CAM program the setup was smooth as silk. This improvement in productivity was well worth the $2,000 per month and other costs (tooling, setup, training) in that it quickly returned everyone to being focused on what we were actually trying to design rather. It also opened-up design possibilities that did not exist before this machine arrived due to what was lacking on the cobbled-up machines (fourth axis being one example).

That's not to say that I am not for being frugal and creative whenever possible. For example, we used the CNC machine to manufacture custom assembly tooling that would have cost tens of thousands of dollars to purchase. We also made our own sub-table for the machine and saved tons of money.
Turning an idea into a product: How does it work?
If stipulated in the directive(s), an authorized third party (Notified Body) must be involved in the conformity assessment procedure.

The "If stipulated" part seems to be the key. Below your quotes in the wikipedia entry there is a section that covers self-certification. While it doesn't list the directives comprehensively, the steps there do seem to indicate that self-certification is not unanticipated.
You realize this is essentially the same offering as EBS? It just shows up as a raw device in your operating system and you can create your preferred FS on it and its a persistant file system. Some people might want to use xfs some might want to use zfs so just providing a raw block device is the best way to have widespread compatibility.
I'll second @therealarmen point and agree with @sgdesign.

You priced the product based on real value and not perceived value, which represents how much customers feel a product is worth and is willing to pay for it.

If I have a web app, I sit and suffer as I look at my low conversion rate, low engagement and high amount of tickets coming to the support desk with annoyingly simple questions. All these items take up my time and effort, which cost money.

If your product means five less support e-mails, three more users that do not cancel because they understand how to use my app and ten more conversions a month, that right there is worth much more than $3 a month and I'd would be willing to pay for it.
This is the best review I've read so far. I agree with the reviewer in that I've had the same sort of feeling that Microsoft doesn't really 'get' it, but phrasing it as their 'perspective' on the market is exactly right. The first time Microsoft tried to do a 'tablet' aka the 'tablet pc' too much 'pc' and not enough 'tablet'. This seems to have moved in the spectrum closer to 'tablet' but the PC roots are still showing.

I want this to be successful because I would love something like it with a bit 'denser' screen and flexibility. I wonder if they tried a keyboard with a fold out mouse like ginormous scroll area.

I really like the fit and finish though. That is some awesome tech right there.
Do you offer some sort of iSCSI endpoint over IPSEC or similar? Or would I have to use FUSE to mount it as an actual drive/block device?
I hear people arguing that Mac and Linux are PCs, yet they don't run Windows programs. Picking the most obscure example I know of, MenuetOS runs on x86 (PC hardware) but runs next to no programs, especially not Windows, Linux, or Mac programs. A PC is either defined by the OS on it or by the processor it runs. Or we could accept that the word PC is basically meaningless marketing speak. I'm leaning towards the last option.

How would you define PC and PC app?
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Many people have them as their primary or only computer. They call them iPads.
> (e.g., with YC startups like BoostedBoards and Double, and popular KickStarter projects like Ouya)

Don't forget tIndie!