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The price is little too high. At first place, you have lost the selling punch. What other justification you have about the price and why I should go for it if I already have everything set up on Android and web?
Surely the issue is that users of 3D printers will be able to manufacture guns at a lower time cost, material cost and with much lower skill required?

i.e. buying a 3D printer plus material and sending a blueprint file to it is an order of magnitude simpler than acquiring and learning to use a milling machine.
That was a great game.
I think this will sell well into markets that are heavily invested in microsoft infrastructure

These are the Windows RT tablets (ARM-based). Presumably a lot of Windows x86 software won't have ARM versions, so I'm not sure these will be popular even among the Microsoft shops.
>> the companies I've worked for pay the same for HB-1 vs local. They don't look at it as trying to find cheap employees. They look at as trying to find qualified employees anywhere, world wide.

My experience is very different. I was on H-1b for 4 years before getting my green card and EACH of my 3 employers (including big Finnish cell phone company) paid me MUCH lower than my market salary. Each time they told me that they had additional costs of:
1. Filing for my H-1b
2. Filing for my green card.

Almost everyone I know who's on H-1b is dreaming about getting their GC. Pretty much the only legal way to get it is through your current employer. Employers know about that and leverage when it comes to salary negotiations. The result - H-1b's get paid MUCH less than people with US passport or GC.
is there really no way to "side-load?" According to this, that will be enabled in the Server and Enterprise editions:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12008252/sideloading-apps...

Between this and UEFI secure boot these guys are really messing up the PC ecosystem.
From a pure market perspective, doesn't the regulation actually attempt to force a pricing inefficiency? If there are international candidates willing to work for less, why doesn't the average salary drop for local workers to the point where they also become competitive?
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In general, Metro applications must go through Microsoft's app store.

There are three exceptions:

1. You can add self-signed certificates and side-load. This is actually quite
easy for developers, but a no-go for most people;
2. You can push corporate apps out to Windows 8 Enterprise devices; and finally,
the way Chrome is doing this, which is
3. Browsers are treated really, really specially.

Microsoft is still bound by the US anti-trust agreement to allow other browsers on Intel computers. In order to facilitate that with the Metro environment, on Intel-based Windows 8 computers only (i.e., not Windows RT tablets), the DEFAULT browser may optionally provide a Metro interface, even if that browser does not come through the Microsoft store.

It is this exception that Chrome (and, in beta, Firefox) is exploiting.

This trick only works for browsers. And, further, the way it's implemented is an insanely stupid horrible pain in the ass. I really like IE10 for tablet browsing: it's very fast, it has outstanding touch support, and it's actually a great rendering engine. On the other hand, you can pry Chrome out of my cold, dead, festering corpse's fingers when I'm on Windows 8's desktop. So the logical thing would be to use IE in Metro, and Chrome on the desktop.

But you know what? You can't sanely do that. Only the default browser gets to live in Metro. And when I say default, I really mean default. If you set Chrome as your default browser, then you cannot launch Metro IE--the ONLY Metro browser you can launch is Chrome.

It's the little things like this that are making it REALLY hard for me to stay a Windows 8 supporter. The more I use it, the more the little, idiotic things like this are making me go crazy.
"They could have achieved the same effect by implementing it in a language with continuations or coroutines"

They did. They just implemented their own minilanguage instead, that (AFAIK) simply has no conventional syntax-based serialization. It's still a language, though. Given their tight focus, it is completely plausible that they can create a little VM that will run far, far better than any general-purpose language VM could.
Now that's just one of those things I would have never guessed. Super interesting.
Maybe its just you, I've seen so many iPad owners spend extra 100-200$ just for an extra keyboard and cover. Your needs are well-served by the inbuilt keyboard, so you don't need an extra attachment. But for many others, a physical keyboard solves various problems.
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the class of status (TN) is less important than the mindset of your new employer.

No visa class requires you to be paid under market (some even require that you are paid a wage comparable to an american)

If an employer is trying to "maximize profits" through non-american workers, they will do it regardless of what status you hold.

If an employer is simply trying to find the somebody to "do the job" regardless of status or citizenship then it is unlikely you will experience any difference in treatment.

On a personal note, I had been on a TN for 2.5 years and was paid at (or slightly above) market rate for the entirety of the time.

At no time did my employer seek to use my TN as a way of leveraging down my pay.
We hired quite a few americans as well (half a dozen or so, it was a small company).

If we could have found more qualified candidates, we probably would have hired more
(american or not, we scoured github for candidates as this tended to provide the best candidates. since github user profiles generally do not provide citizenship information, we had to be open to hiring local or possibly non local if we found somebody who looked promising).
I find it very impossible to believe that in 20 years there will be no "adult" games available.

For one thing the XboX is a very closed platform run by Microsoft and there is no lack of violent games available there. I imagine this part of the agreement is simply an oversight that will be corrected in one form or another.

The only other possible way that this could play out if MS stubbornly don't want to allow adult content on computers is that anybody who wants to play games will switch to another platform, be it Android or Ubuntu or whatever.

The most likely dangerous thing that this could do for game developers would be if MS took control of launch dates for third party games so that they didn't clash with games they planned to heavily promote themselves or with preferred partners.

So maybe if you're an Indie developer you can't launch a game during the Xmas period if Halo 6 is due to come out or something like that.
Another reference pointing this out: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10264451/will-metro-style...
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I also agree with the above comments that more could be done regarding the design. The navigation is great and I kind of understood the message, but the overall design is ....an eye sore to say the least
I'm amazed at the kind of auditing info on Dropbox activity Zynga have access to. Guess that business account really paid off.

There's only a brief mention of 'security testing and auditing' here, no details as to the extent of what they offer (e.g. how Zynga discovered his attempt to 'cover up' copying the files:

https://www.dropbox.com/teams/security
One would see open-source projects and volunteer coding project (such as the one I will post at the end) are a good way to get a leg up.

Being able to derive a linear regression is less important than being able to see the end from the beginning and being able to read math. I know a coder-cum-CEO (freshly minted) who has a hard time understanding how to program a numerical derivative, yet has produced amazing works based on what he does know. I said it before--we all need each other, especially as the focus has been on specialization (so that no one person has the entire skillset requred).

[1]http://www.volunteermatch.org/search/index.jsp?v=true&af...
The kickstarter pledges are probably more interesting than the product itself. The limited editions, DIY power kit, are all pretty standard, but offering a bag of rare moon dust and a 101 course in kickstarter is a great tactic.
No-one's blaming the victim. They're blaming the security team who were supposed to be protecting the victim.

They don't get to be appallingly incompetent at their jobs because someone took advantage of it!
It looks pretty decent and gets the message across. I would suggest to add either sound fx or background music to spice it up a little bit. :)
I don't mind this so much presuming it can do Bluetooth tethering with my phone [vs WiFi due to power usage issues]. If I'm the device's user, I'll likely have my phone with me, so having a redundant radio in the device doesn't add value. And, if I let someone else use the device while I'm not around, the likelihood is that there will be an available WiFi source.

I'd like it-just-works connectivity between my phone and any other devices I carry with me. Right now, I have to hit a couple buttons on both devices -- a pain for short-term usage scenarios.
When everything in live resolves around money then you will always blame the dealer. Just how things go. It is when goverments repocess the banks is when you truely worry.

Also people blame banks in general as they don't feel they have learned there leasons, yet at the same time complain they can't borrow more money. We do need bankers, they also need us.
I think this is the nail on the already-likely-dead coffin of MS Surface. What's the market they are going after???

"tablet market"? nope - already dominated by iPad

"enterprise"? nope - 1) not a market, 2) already dominated by iPad

"budget"? nope - priced on par with iPad

seriously, how are they going to push this thing? they don't have a channel like Apple nor Amazon, so they need to rely on all their other paths.

they should've called this "XPad", made it a mobile Xbox, and sold through that channel - just like they did with Kinect.

fail fail fail.
Thanks for the insight. Do you know the reasons why they switched from using stack to registers in their VM implementation?
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For anyone who types fast, a physical keyboard is far faster than the ipad on-screen keyboard.

I'm not sure if that will translate to marketshare for the surface, however.
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disclaimer: It's possible that I end up being an H-1B worker eventually, I'm a foreigner working in the US, and I'm working on a website that helps people like me.

> H-1B workers are cheaper than Americans — "and the cost difference is too great" for IBM not to look for foreign workers first. The H-1B statutes are designed to allow employers to legally pay H-1B workers less than Americans and IBM (and a lot of others) is taking full advantage.

This is interesting, because the H-1B process costs about 5k in processing and lawyer fees, plus an additional 2kish fee for larger companies.

In addition to this, companies are required to pay the prevailing wage for that profession and location to foreign workers, so that they can not undercut Americans (or at least that was what was intended).

Prevailing wages are determined by the Dept of Labor, the same guys who set minimum wages. Unless this data is way off-base, H-1B workers are by definition not cheaper than the average worker.

What I see as being likelier is that H-1B workers are an easy-to-hire pool of workers (the average H-1B worker is super happy to get a job / visa), who are willing to work hard for just above prevailing wage.

Not to mention that if there is a lack of supply of american workers who are working for around prevailing wage (because they already have jobs and can't be hired), it's easier to hire people from abroad than to wait until those workers are available or more workers come in.

P.S. The CIS is known for its slightly odd conservative stance on immigration, which is something like "we don't want foreigners to come in if they can compete with Americans (who were also immigrants), but otherwise we're pro-immigration (under these very stringent requirements)"

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edit: Now that I think about it, it's likelier that a ton of these workers come in L-1 visas. These are for intra-company transfers for multinationals. These have no prevailing wage requirements. So IBM india can hire a worker and move them over here for the same wage. And it still allows dual-intent, so you can eventually get a green card via L-1.
Those resolvers are run by level3. I could dish out the stats for queries coming from level3, but that may not be accurate. Do you know the real ips behind the anycasted 4.2.2.1-6 nameservers?
> But after I got my first iPad, the original, I found that I could type at nearly the same speed

Speed is certainly one issue, but the ergonomics of typing for an extended period favor separate screen and keyboard components. I too use a table for typing and while I'm pretty quick at it, I can't find a comfortable position that lets me do this for more than half an hour at a time. For this reason alone, the inclusion of a keyboard has certainly made me take notice of Microsoft's offering.
> they should've called this "XPad"

Can't. Apple owns all Pads.

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/04/13/steve-jobs-apple-owns-pad-tra...
> It is rare the case when a company will hire an academic person to directly lead a company effort

I actually hear of this happening a lot for economists in Silicon Valley, even with unfamous people.
If Google can influence the search results, it can influence your views. Google just think that, if it give the result that you like and support your ideology, you more likely to click on the results and more likely to use the search engine.
The pay difference between working locally in India and working remotely in India is apparently very attractive, so working locally in America would need to be very attractive as well (which doesn't help businesses).
It is as fractal as this is: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_curve
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Windows 8 is the Oogieloves of operating systems: no one wants it, but that doesn't stop its creator from pushing it hard.
Transformer Prime owner here. It has a detachable keyboard, that while quite nice (it is a battery too, so no balancing problems!) is still a far cry from a keyboard on a proper laptop. (Btw., keyboard on Thinkpad X230 rocks, despite being chicklet).

I'm working daily with Excel. If someone in IT would have the crazy idea to buy us tablets (even Surface) for that work, we would beat them with it. That's why I see the "Office on RT" as hyped nonsense.
I find this extremely hard to believe. I completed two internships at IBM in my undergrad years when I was here on an F1 visa (international student visa). While I was on my F1 visa, I was making more than a lot of my American counterparts and lesser than others who were doing internships as well. The only things that factored into pay were the number of credits you completed in college, and whether you were a returning employee. Nothing else.

I worked for IBM for almost 12 months before I got out of undergrad. There were 4 hiring managers and a senior VP in a hardware unit who was personally vouching for me. Yet, IBM didn't hire me because they were ridiculously careful with hiring H1-B visas because of a snafu they had in the early 80s when the immigration dept cracked down on them. At least IBMs engineering divisions were only hiring H1B folks only if you had 2 years of experience with a Bachelors, or a Masters. I was extremely pissed at the time because I felt like I had more credibility based on merit and my time at IBM than many other interns who were getting offers left and right after spending most of their time playing counterstrike in the labs. They were being ridiculously paranoid about sticking with the books on this one. And sure enough, after I got my Masters I did have and continue to be able to get offers from IBM.

Like some folks said, this probably has to do with third parties who place folks at IBM. Keep in mind, I'm not trying to support them (I'm still sour about my undergrad days and not getting a job purely based on immigration status), but I'm just refuting the whole point about IBM hiring H1B folks just to save money. Just ask around your H1B friends who work at Fortune 100 companies (I'm sure most of you have many). The only ones that I've heard of doing shady things with H1B candidates are small consulting shops and third party staffers.
BenConf has a policy of inclusivity, it's just that calling everyone Ben makes the name badges so much easier to print.
Many people feel that social connections like Family and Friends are worth quite a bit. Also, the average African is much better off than you might suspect as people tend to leave the worst areas.
but in most cases these days it's more a more casual comedy thing, similar to the way the English dislike the French - they don't really but it's fun to have a frenemy.

I think this is totally accurate, but I worry this subtly is lost on some people, and especially kids. I'm English, and lived in Scotland between the age of 10 and 14, and the genuine anti-English victimization I received both at school and out and about was ridiculous. It never bothered me, perhaps because I don't really consider myself, "English" having (at that point) never lived there, but I remember being genuinely shocked. I expect it's much the same a French child would experience coming to school at that age in the UK.

Kids see their parents or comedians mock the English/French, but don't necessarily distinguish between, "banter" and genuine disdain. Hopefully those kids grow up to identify that difference, although some of the experiences I had would suggest this may not always be the case.
Background music of some kind is on the short list. We wanted to get it out there and see what it does for conversions as is (we are testing it against an image on our home page. we will probably blog those results as well).
As an engineer, this made me chuckle.
>which is pretty much the largest reason on a very short list of reasons why non-enthusiasts would jailbreak.

Yeah, no. Free tethering is a much bigger deal than simple piracy.
sounds awesome .. we are eagerly waiting.
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Probably several orders of magnitude lower.
I can get tethering to work, my mom: never. My parents both got iPads and a device that isn't just online all the time could never ever work for them. iPad really set the bar on that one.
First of all no comparison. It have USB 3 and mini display port (pro version). It is a nice combo of mobility and ease like iPad + power like a laptop. It is a full blown mobile machine. Ipad, android are just content consuming devices. You can't do much on them besides just absorbing content. I am glad MS understood the missing features from ipad and came with this beautiful product.
They have a couple of markets they can go after pretty easily.

* Gaming. It's fairly easy to port games between Xbox and Windows, and this
device has been shown to integrate nicely with Xbox. Whether that's enough
is anyone's guess, but it hardly seems like a hail-mary pass at this point
to me.
* Enterprise. I do not actually see what you're seeing, at least here in New
York, that enterprise tablets either don't exist, or are dominated by iPad.
I've seen mostly laptops still, plus some iPads, some Xooms and other Android
tablets, and even some Blackberry PlayBooks. This market is not exactly a
done deal for anyone at this point, and the level to which Office is
entrenched in the corporate space gives Windows RT a real chance.

I'm not saying that the Surface will nail these markets, but you're being odd to discount them so quickly.
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Actually Win 8 is a great OS (from my personal point of view is Ms best OS so far). So saying no one wants it it a stretch.
What people in this thread are missing is that Microsoft isn't trying to capture the entire WinRT market with this device, they're not trying to outsell their partners, they're trying to set a benchmark. Something for their partners to compete against, and for those partners to compete against it (and the iPad) successfully.

The point of Surface is to keep Asus, HP, Samsung, etc from making a not-quite-iPad for $700 and blogs mocking the demise of the platform. Basically, if WinRT partners cannot outsell the Surface, they don't deserve to be selling Windows tablets. That is what Microsoft is implying with this release. Making it impossible to compete against would actively destroy that effort.
Is this a recent thing?

I'm in the UK under a Tier 1 (a points based, highly skilled migrants visa) and can work almost without restriction (I can't be a doctor or professional sports person).

Even under the working holiday maker there were no restrictions to your employer.
I'm very excited about 3D printing, but perhaps irrationally so. I'd also like an answer to this question.
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The thing about it-just-works connectivity is that it will generally halve battery life on a smartphone. You basically have to keep the radios constantly on and scanning for known connections.
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The "Touch Cover", which I'm assuming is the bit with the keyboard, will run you an extra $100-120. Given the attention to the Touch Cover in the promotional material MS has distributed, I'm surprised that it's even optional.
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But "fun" isn't the same as efficient and maintainable.
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Imagine if all other car makers said "Oh, the car market is already taken by Ford. We should do something else".
Worth throwing in my article about this topic: http://swombat.com/2011/10/24/people-processes-tools

Processes definitely come before tools. People come even before processes, though.
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I'm not sure internal controls fraud and signing off on SarbOx violations qualifies as "the power to be stupid."
And to take it a step further, more likely to click on ads and product listings (which is where Google actually makes money).
This is simply false. As a non-EU citizen within Europe (Ireland), my "permission to stay" is definitely tied to my employment.
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Legislating away was only half of the goal, the other half was enforcing penalties (financial -- ie: fees, or physical -- ie: jailtime) where applicable.

It might even be easy to argue that legislature was a very minor goal compared to enforcement, which seems to be where copyright enforcement pairs very closely with general law enforcement and broad-sweeping monitoring of the general populace.
This is the opposite of the selling the first laptop problem - some people won't take a device seriously unless it has a physical keyboard. It isn't about the quality of on-screen keyboards, it's about the perception of the accessory. These people see electronics as toys unless they have that one accessory.