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This is not a very favorable review. While it seems to be trying to spin in a positive direction, the fact that the first several paragraphs are about how Microsoft wanted to control the message, and not about how great a product this is, are not encouraging.

Then there's a lot of hemming an hawing over how there's no perfect solution, and it doesn't run Windows applications. This was not enough to convince me to read the rest of the review.
Hmm. Super Nintendo games fit in well under 10MB.
Intriguingly, 349 of the largest Bitcoin transactions ever are all part of an interconnected and obfuscated web of exchanges between November 2010 and August 2012, involving at least 430,000 BTC.
The scrolling works well. It's a little weird, though, that it takes the mousewheel scrolling when I'm mousing over the comments. It makes sense, now that I've used it, it was just unexpected enough that I didn't think to try it the first time -- I wanted to focus on the element first.

I see now that it's acknowledging the mouseover focus by making the scrollbar visible, but maybe that should be more visually obvious. I didn't see it at first.
Okay, you all have convinced me. Back to the drawing board on that.
It's already there, but just on the home screen and only for the notification icons.
I don't know about Ubuntu, but apparently Windows Vista and 7 have something very similar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoost
The already owned the name; unlike Metro. The former Surface product is extremely niche, unlikely to suffer diminished market share due to a name change.
Well, if I wanted to achieve this today and I had an HDD and SSD in this computer, I'd mount /home and maybe /var on the HDD and everything else on the SSD. I usually go with a three partition setup (/boot, /, swap) and even that just with /home on the HDD would get you 3/4ths of the way there.
Besides, auto-correct and predictive text can work with physical keyboards too.
It's the poor man's (or rather consumer's) 3PAR!

HP 3PAR, StorSimple etc all have done it long time back but at a bigger scale. Apple is just scaling it down, and bringing it in front of the regular Joe (as regular as Apple customers tend to be) in a non-complex manner.
Apple uses PNG images to explain why you should use SVG & CSS
The thing about AMD is that for every advantage it has two or more disadvantages. For example, Trinity rocks but the number of laptop models available with it is staggeringly low and in most cases you have to make due with lowend specs like crappy screens, no SSD option and a case which feels like it was made from recycled Compaq PCs from the 1990s.

Which is ironic since Trinity could drive a retina-like display without a discrete GPU on the side, yet I could only find a handful of Trinity laptops with optional 1080p displays and two weren't available stateside. The only performance unit I could find was made by MSI.

There's nothing like the Zenbook or the ENVY15 available, so at the end the problem isn't a compromise on CPU power alone but on nearly everything else too. So you have to choose: either you get a good laptop or an AMD laptop, and that's not fair.

I guess AMD should start working more closely with OEMs to make sure its APUs are available on products that are not all bargain-bin units but at least some mid-to-high end units with good features and build quality.

That or do like MS with the Surface and make their own highend laptops and tablets.
I believe the motivations behind things like the MacArthur 'genius' grants, the Nobel Prize, and Jefferson awards are a way to decouple a need to earn an income, from the work product. The theory goes that folks who don't have to 'work' for a living are more able to pursue their ideas, their art, and their passion. While it is true that for some folks that means they stop contributing to society at all, for others it opens up a tremendous opportunity to do great things.

Because of that I don't share your interpretation that "FU money" is correlated at all with the sense of obligation. In my world view that obligation is intrinsic in the person and not affected by the source of income. When I see the good that the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is doing, the Lucille Packard Children's hospital, and others, I think that is pretty cool.

[1] http://www.macfound.org/programs/fellows/

[2] http://www.nobelprize.org/

[3] http://www.jeffersonawards.org/
Other examples:

Hide away your email and other interruptions until you're explicitly ready to go look at them. Out of sight, out of mind.

Multiple projects. I have a legacy app I support and a new-development project I spend most of my time on. I can spread the work for each of these out across multiple windows on multiple desktops, and switch between them when I'm ready to context-switch. When I do, everything is laid out exactly the way I want it.

I'm back on Windows for now, but great multiple desktop support is the thing I miss most from a Linux desktop.
Really Apple? Why not just throw a couple of SVG images in there and a little CSS and call it a day.

It was likely more work to make those buttons and images in Photoshop.
The reason they don't put anything in the base is so you can take off the base and put it on a swing-arm.

If they put everything in the base you'd have a Mac Mini with a Thunderbolt display.
This is why I don't fly Southwest...I hate their first come first serve policy. Essentially what this does is play smart and check you in early so you get a good seat. I don't see how it's any different than setting an alert to remind you to sign in and do it manually.

God forbid they lose the ridiculous $10 'upgrade' fee.
Overall, I'm pretty unimpressed with the quality of the crowdsourced comments -- which shouldn't come as any surprise to someone who's spent time on the internet.

I love the format of viewing with factcheck.org references off to the side, but I think it might be a better experience if you had a couple skilled people do and present the research -- or maybe moderate it? The crowd puts in a lot of dumb comments.
Suction cups were never required for third-party memory in the iMac. In fact, adding memory was so easy I've seen a secretary do it by following the basic instructions on Apple's site.

The new 27" is easily upgradeable, the 21" isn't.
Thanks for the recollection. I'd love to have the space/budget to lease a Haas machine. :)
>> The chassis is built out of an injection molded Magnesium...

Would someone more qualified than I comment on this? I seem to remember from high school that magnesium is highly flammable. Its autoignition temperature is fairly high at 473C/883F, but I could see a li-ion battery malfunction leading to a pretty nasty fire hazard.

Is there some special process that can be applied to magnesium to ensure that this product doesn't turn into a flare?
Not even sorta similar, "ReadyBoost" is a cache

"Fusion Drive" provides the union of space.

They are in the same vein of "hide the slowness of rotational media" but that is a pretty huge vein.
Try shopping a MacBook Pro against an equivalently configured T-series ThinkPad from Lenovo. The price difference is usually huge (more than 30% cheaper for the entry-level 15-inch configuration I tried) and gets even worse if you spend a few minutes to Google up an applicable Lenovo coupon.
Because it's a great name. The previous Surface was never a consumer product (and still lives on with a name I forget) so there's no huge problem outside of tech circles.
How else can you put a desktop-sized hard-drive in something that looks millimeters thin?
I guess the PC roots showing is actually the intent of the design. I have used Windows 8 and I can only imagine how much it will feel natural on a device like this. The metro UI invites touch interaction and the older office like apps will work best with mouse and keyboard. I'd prefer the surface with full windows though so that I can use all my legacy apps as well.
How can you attempt to summarize a review as "not very favorable" when you haven't been "convinced" to read the rest of it? At least read the closing paragraph if you're not going to bother spending more time: "If you're ok being an early adopter, and ok dealing with the fact that mobile devices are still being significantly revved every year, Surface is worth your consideration. If you've wanted a tablet that could really bridge the content consumption and productivity device, Surface is it."

If anything, this review seemed to lean positive. I wouldn't say it was gushing with love, but it's certainly left me with a solid impression of the hardware and a sense that the Surface won't be a complete flop.

The mix of damning judgement and deliberate ignorance here is amusing.
a PT maybe ? Personal Tablet. :)
Tiered storage has been done before, this is true. However, they are dedicated systems. If "Fusion Drive" is at the OS level, that means it shares resources with the rest of the system which presents more/different challenges.
Needless snark like this completely lowers the quality of discussion. Just make your (agreeable!) point and move on.
Ask PG: Have there been any parent-child founding teams for YC?
Just went to SUS YC and heard about brothers working together (Stripe) and plenty of founding teams where they are classmates. I'm just wondering if there are any parent-child teams since it tends to be common, for example the restaurant industry.
What if the monitors themselves were computers of a sort and they could be linked together in an arbitrary fashion, sharing resources transparently?

You're thinking of a PC as some box you plug things in to, but in the future that could be as antiquated as the old mainframe.
This one focuses on the hardware for the most part. Which I think is quite comparable to other options if not favorable. When it comes to Windows 8 though, its a personal taste. I love it even on my non-touch laptop and am looking forward to using it on a touch based laptop when I upgrade my current machine.
Indeed. I used to be an ic designer... 2 weeks turnaround would have been hog heaven.

As for money, some of our runs were 7 digits expensive. Very painful.
Happy user of idonethis here. Love it. My only complaint is that gmail now guesses my idonethis email instead of my gmail when I try to send myself a reminder to do something. Which might represent some weird pseudo-AI insight...
For something like a list of a million user names and email addresses? You put it on pastebin and set up a script to email out links to it when you get a Paypal payment confirmed email. The only cost is to acquire the data, once that is done, there is zero cost.

If you want to talk in totally abstract terms, digital goods in general tend to have marginal costs associated with them. In the context of this discussion, there is no supply and demand factor, there are no marginal costs, and there is no market force called scarcity.
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I don't know about your company, but where I work shorting my employer's stock is explicitly against company stock policy. It really does make sense though, you don't want allegations of insider trading going around when employees start shorting stock...
I would venture a guess that it's not pure Magnesium, but an alloy of some sort.
Questions you and your co-founder need to have answered before you start)
"The biggest issue I have with recommending Surface is that you know the next iteration of the device is likely going to be appreciably better, with faster/more efficient hardware and perhaps even a better chassis. "

Why call this out when it is true for every single piece of consumer hardware these days?
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I wonder why the author tried to treat this as a full desktop replacement knowing that this is ARM based unit and hence does not run full windows 8. The Surface Pro is the one that should fir the bill of a tablet that is a laptop replacement. The author is expecting things from the unit that it is not quite designed for.
Will Google ever lose its crown as the most popular search engine?
One process is described on wikipedia, using inert gas to prevent ignition[1]:

For magnesium alloys, thixomolding uses a machine similar to injection molding.
In a single step process, room temperature magnesium alloy chips are fed into the
back end of a heated barrel through a volumetric feeder. The barrel is maintained
under an argon atmosphere to prevent oxidation of the magnesium chips. A screw feeder
located inside the barrel feeds the magnesium chips forward as they are heated into
the semi-solid temperature range. The screw rotation provides the necessary shearing
force to generate the globular structure needed for semi-solid casting. Once enough
slurry has accumulated, the screw moves forward to inject the slurry into a steel die.

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-solid_metal_casting#Thix...
Anyone have any theories on why the Government has decided to create a boogeyman out of computers?
And if too large of a group uses it then some will start paying the $10.
The 5th Generation iPad and what Apple needs to deliver
If you want to work on mobile apps, Mutual Mobile is looking for people.
I don't know how it can be called a PC. Maybe the Surface Pro version that runs a full Windows 8 OS is the one they should be referring to. That is a true tablet with full support for legacy apps not this one.
Are you saying that you don't think your product provides $30/month value compared to tooltip scripts like on Code Canyon, or compared to not having a web app tour at all?

- I think most web apps with users or revenue would get $xxx+ of value from a tour.

- I've thought about creating a tour for some of my sites, but I've always been too intimidated by the idea of mucking around with scripts that I don't understand. A WYSIWYG tooltip product might as well be the only tooltip product from my point of view.

I agree that you should be charging 10x-100x more.
It is now called PixelSense (which is not a great name):
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/pixelsense/default.aspx
1. Yes. 2. Yes. 3. No.
Its a Chromebook competitor not an iPad competitor :-)

Reading all the reviews this evening it looks like they are going for 'your corporate road warrior' type. Clearly the iPad is making inroads there, and office on the road? Check. Powerpoint to HDMI output? Check. Exchange email? Check. Given their market share in that space it seems like the right place to start.
Can privacy tech save advertising?
This is really cool tech. Not only does it solve the problem of "having more stuff than I can fit on an SSD I can afford" but "long-term storage that I still need periodic random access to but I/O performance is not paramount, but heavens no, it needs to be faster than a tape backup"
F*ck biannual product cycles. I'm poor.
Seems like an interesting choice not use the fast disk as a cache. This is the design that Windows 7 and beyond went with. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff356869.aspx
This. You could believe that Mason was acting in a completely earnest fashion, but was too naive to realize he was being manipulated by Lefkofsky.

As Excutive Chairman in a non-operational role, Lefkofsky is under only a fraction of the unpleasant pressure Mason is under as CEO. If he were guilty of behaving in this way, that would actually jibe pretty well with pg's assertion about people not wanting to run struggling public companies if they can avoid it.

Personally, I am no expert on Groupon. I make no claims that Lefkofsky has behaved in that way, because I don't have any evidence to either validate or invalidate such a hypothesis. It's simply not clear to me that such an accusation is obviously false, as pg claims.
I'm just going to leave this here...

Burning a NeXT Cube (Magnesium)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkvQ-BJD2rU
Eh, it's a corporate product. Corporate products tend to have stupid MultipleCapitals names, for reasons I do not understand.
Blatant racism ;-)
Seeing it listed in this way reminds me of all the moving parts in actually getting an app online.

I'm glad I finally (mostly) have a grip on it all but boy did it take a while.
Is it not true that Linux and Mac OSX are viable for new desktops even though they cannot and will never run any legacy Win32 apps?

Out of curiosity, what legacy Win32 apps are you actually looking to use? I'm generally a Windows user, but not really for the legacy apps.
I'm wondering why you would want that touch keyboard in the first place. If their laptop-style keyboard is just as thin and it gives you tactile feedback, what's the reason for touch-only style?
Now that would be sweet, or instead of my 4 monitors, I had the wall, and I could scale, expand, place various screens in different placements. This effectively is how we use multiple monitors now, at least I do. That would solve it... although still need a way to hide certain browsers, tabs, etc.
Me thinks SXSW is suffering from overreach.

* SXSW music
* SXSW film
* SXSW interactive
* SXSW Eco (just a couple of weeks ago in Austin)
* SXSW V2V (sounds like a shampoo)

How long before they launch a Vodka, a water, and a shoe?

SXSW is an idea that has metastasized into a cancer on Austin and the industries it attaches itself to.
Bad Surface Reviews - Business Insider
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Isn't US the nation where companies get sued because coffee is too hot?
I can't speak to your experiences other than to say it's disgusting mismanagement if true. I've heard similar stories involving non-trades union companies. I've also heard amazing success stories involving companies bought out of bankruptcy by their employees and turned into financial success stories. Guess it depends on the people involved.

One thing I can address is this:

" Labour laws have protected the workforce from shady practices you experienced (arguably an isolated incident)"

In manufacturing and trades (especially trades) this isn't even slightly accurate. Laws don't protect people, they provide a theoretical framework for compensation or punitive action after the fact. In practice a private citizen has almost no chance against a corporate lawyer in court, so it's almost impossible to prove workplace safety violations. On the rare ocassion that something does stick in court companies caught violating worker safety laws typically get a slap on the wrist, meanwhile whistleblowers better have a spare career up their sleeves or line up a settlement big enough to retire on because they
won't be working for any outfits in their industry once they pull the trigger on a court case. Good luck proving the last company you interviewed you didn't hire you because you blew the whistle on your last employer. :/
In the Fusion Drive example, 3TB of hard drive is combined with 128GB of flash. The union of space is 3.125 TB, compared to the 3TB you would get with a cache.

That's just a 4% increase in space that the Fusion Drive gives you over what a cache would give you. You can call it whatever you want, but I'm going to call them similar.
Now why didn't I think of that? :P
StorSimple implements auto-tiering at block level and presents an iscsi target block device transparently to the OS/Filesystem layer. It is built on top of already available open source linux iscsi target software. If Fusion was done in similar manner, it absolutely does not require any modifications to the regular OS/file system layers at all. The intelligent auto-tiering capable iSCSI target portion would be at the driver level well isolated from the rest of the OS/filesystem components. It probably even has more simplistic rules for tiering . Keep OS files/dir always on SSD. Apply tiering logic to app data using a simplistic LRU scheme. And there is only two tiers to deal with. I am no expert in Linux/iSCSI or auto-tiering, but I bet you this is something that a HP/3PAR or Dell Compellent can spin up at a very short notice using their existing technologies. Apple is very good at identifying a complex ( and in most cases an existing but end-user un-friendly) technology that has been under-utilized in consumer space and bring it down to consumer level and deliver it in a consumer-friendly manner and put a wonderful marketing spin on it with cool terminology (Retina display, Fusion drive)and possibly even patent some arcane & obvious variations of the main theme.
I sort of touched on this in a HN thread a few days ago [1]. I don’t think that mobile devices are successfully replacing conventional PCs, more so replacing objects and knickknacks that were single function devices. For instance, my wife uses an ipad to read books because she can take her whole library with her wherever she goes and download new books while sitting on the train. I use an app that turns my phones flash into a torch when I’m looking for something in the dark. My ~2 year old nephew uses a drum and piano app on an ipad to play instruments, and animated book-like apps for entertainment. Buying these objects now would be for almost purely ornamental reasons. Little things that we use each day whether for utility or entertainment are being supplanted by multi-function mobile devices because 1. We take them wherever we go and 2. Touch screens/GUIs are excellent for emulating objects.

The power of the app, I think, is in emulating small things – not replacing dedicated, powerful tools.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4681135
From the wired review :

Half the apps pre-installed on the Surface RT launches in the classic desktop interface, most notably Microsoft Office, where the smaller user elements do not play nicely with the touch interface.

From AnandTech's review just typing into Office takes 50% CPU.

I had totally expected Microsoft will get Office right - touch friendly, not relying on classic Desktop and relatively bloat free. If integrated well with the tablet interface it would become a better productivity machine for Enterprise users than competition's offerings.

With what is being said of Office RT, I don't see what the selling point of Surface is - It is Windows but can't run Windows apps, it is a tablet but needs to switch to classic to run a so-so version of touch-unfriendly Office (Do I get Outlook with it?).

May be it will be a better story with Surface Pro.
Why don't we start with Photoshop? Perhaps Lightroom?

Every single App you currently use on Windows is a "legacy app" for Windows RT. They'll all have to be written from scratch.
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Uh oh. Where is my Dad going to get his horse racing results now? NB: He doesn't have a computer.
Yes, I distinctly recall enabling FEC on poorly performing ADSL links when packet loss was an issue for some ISP customers. It would almost always bump the end point rtt from 8ms to about 30-40ms.
Her parents probably don't know that.
I wonder if this was implemented as a combination of LVM with an extended area for the Hot File Clustering [1], which currently reserves only 0.5% spinning boot disks for small files with a high temperature. Lots to speculate about, little to know at this point, it seems.

[1] http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/misc/optimizations/#THREE
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