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Wouldn't a budget-conscious hacker get a Samsung 550 Chromebook and load Ubuntu for $450? Or slog through the local electronics recyclers and get the equivalent for potentially even less?

If not on a budget, wouldn't you get a MacBook or a Lenovo?

Also, are these in a store where I can touch the hardware before dropping $1500?

I applaud Dell for making a go of it with Linux, targeting the right community, I just hope they get enough buyers to make better hardware for version 2.
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Piracy is not just about watching things you don't own. It's also about watching things you HAVE purchased.

I own a BluRay disc that I purchased new. I attempted to watch it on our "big screen," a projector with a DVI input but no HDMI. BZZZ. The fully legal software that came with my computer won't let me watch over a non-HDMI connection, and VLC can't handle this particular BluRay disc, even with the latest patches, extra files, and instructions I can find posted online.

WHY can't I watch it that way? Because some idiot executive somewhere thinks that it will make it easier to circumvent the DRM on BluRay, and therefore they screw paying customers who don't have the newest equipment.

Either that or it's Sony attempting to coerce people to upgrade their equipment so they can sell more TVs.

Either way it's unethical, and a technological violation of Copyright fair use rights: I should be able to consume a product however I like. I bought it, I want to watch it, and there's no technical reason I shouldn't be able to -- it's entirely a business reason, either way.

I'm not talking about a right necessarily ensconced in law (IANAL), but a moral right. I should also be able to rip and remix content under fair use. And in the case of BluRay, it may be illegal

Copyright law exists (in the US at least) for the benefit of the PUBLIC, not the benefit of the IP owners. Read the Constitution if you don't believe me (or this TechDirt article which provides additional support [1]); it's pretty clear and on point about why we have IP laws.

At the moment the laws are written to benefit IP holders and not the public. And it's that way simply because they have better lobbyists.

What did I do to watch the movie? Put it on my tiny laptop screen to watch in front of my whole family, and accumulated a bit more hatred of the MPAA and constituent companies. Piracy is illegal, but what they are doing now should be as well. And the sad truth is that, when you really hate someone, and they've harmed you, it becomes easier to justify "harming" them. Especially when the "harm" doesn't register in any but an abstract manner.

[1] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120407/00171418416/yes-co...
Whether piracy is wrong or not is irrelevant. The fact is, as long as piracy is possible, people will do it. And it will continue to be possible for the foreseeable future. Complaining about it is as pointless as complaining about the weather.

If it's hurting your business, that sucks. Adapt.
> Since when did touch screens become a requirement or even a semi-useful thing for laptops?

I don't think anyone said it did. All I said was this surface is very comparable to an air but also includes a touch screen and is cheaper.
Yeah, the detractors of IE are just mindlessly posting "IE SUCKS" over and over for no reason. It's not that the browser is seriously lacking, or that it's been behind for so long and actively blocking open standards. It's that the internet is dumb and people just love to hate.
It's a bit funny.... the biggest problem I have with my current laptop and linux is that I can't get it to NOT sleep when I close the lid. No matter what I do it just wants to sleep. Seems to be the opposite of the problem everyone else has....
Nice to see a move to Coverity. I use their product and it is one of the best static analysis tools I have used. Maybe we will see support for more languages rolled into the tool.

Hey Eric while your there how about you make the CLI tool suck less. I want a simple invocation to test for the presence of failures.
It's a bit like the Romney campaign, isn't it?
The white space at the right could be used in better places. Now it only contains two icons.
After trying Windows 8, I'm not convinced "hybrids" are the future anymore. Everything about such a hybrid will be a compromise one way or the other.

You won't get the best desktop experience as Windows 8 is annoying you with Metro, and you always have to bypass it, a 10" screen is pretty useless for any real work on a PC (too small). You'll also get about half or less the battery life of an ARM tablet (and probably several times less for idle time - an ARM tablet can last for days on a charge with light use). You also get too little storage for a desktop PC and for the price.

It will get hot, and will get noise from the fans. It's 30% heavier than a 10" tablet, and people are already saying how the new iPad Mini will be the "real" iPad in the future because of its weight (half the weight of regular iPad) and size. And it's also too expensive for a tablet, if that's what you really want.

Manufacturers are already saying they expect touchscreen hybrids to only be a small part of the ultrabook sales next year, and I think they got it right. Hybrids will only be a niche market, and not the "future" of tablet and PC's that Microsoft hopes it will be.
Yes, if you look at the specs page there's a disclaimer noting the OS takes up a significant amount of the space:

Storage	64GB*, 128GB
*System software uses significant storage space. Available storage is subject to change based on system software updates and apps usage.
1 GB = 1 billion bytes. See Surface.com/storage for more details.
> The reason web developers hate IE is when we have to build sites for older versions of IE because people can't or won't upgrade.

It's not just older versions of IE that we dislike developing for. It's been the current version of IE at the time that has always given me headaches as well. At this point, it's comical to me how backwards and standards-incompliant every subsequent release of the browser has been over the years. I share milesf's distrust.
Do without.

Season not sold.

Watch something else.

Season not sold.

Play cards.

Season not sold.

It's not just about illegal downloading, it's about content providers not even trying to meet temporal demand.

By the way, I don't even have a TV. Liked your ad hominem though.
Found it interesting how they chose to portray the person doing the hating as well.
This ad might have a point if it was actually IE10 that people hated. People hate IE 6, 7, 8, and 9, because they stalled web progress and MS did nothing proactive to try to filter them out of the marketplace. Talk about missing the point entirely.
Windows has supported gestures and handwriting recognition for years, and the Pro comes with a stylus. To say a keyboard is critical seems a gross overstatement.

As for use cases, how about: it's a tablet, without the regular complexities of 'tablet mode'. It runs the same stuff as your desktop, acts, smells, barks and looks just like your desktop, and if you want to use it like a crippled toy in the style of an iPad, you're free to use the metro apps.

Let us also not be too quick to forget that Microsoft were the first to seriously meld the desktop and tablet experience. They're the only company (out of two runners, really) with a serious story in this department. Waiting with bated breath to see if Apple wholesale copies the Microsoft approach, toy-apps-as-start-button works wonderfully.
The price is not $999; with a keyboard (to be a fair competitor to the MacBook Air), it costs $1050. At $999, it's just a crappy iPad alternative with a large hardrive.
It's an interesting story and really shows an unusual level of determination, but I'm stuck on this part:

> So, just to recap, that’s about 5 months and 9 interviews/meetings and countless hours spent working on projects/reports/presentations.

> by proving himself capable for the role, he hacked the process.

I don't see a hack so much as I see a broken process that made a single task monumentally difficult and time consuming. Employers everywhere have a problem with relying on credentials or experience rather than recognizing ability and potential, which is understandable given time and budget constraints. If someone could figure out a way to help companies quickly pick talented but inexperienced individuals out of a pool of applicants, THAT would be a hack. A pretty amazing one for employees and employers, too.
>All of the temperaments...

The scary part of that paragraph is that it actually describes me accurately. Without giving too much about myself, I can say that I have been in, and utilized the situations where I've pulled strings behind the leader (this, was in school/college, but still quite scary).

Although I too consider this as hand-wavy, pseudo-y stuff I seriously think I should start looking at this and try to know when I'm committing such actions.
Triangulation should be possible by combining the bluetooth with gps or the accelerometer.
Ditto. As it is, I'm seeing it as something that's price-competitive with my Macbook Air, but which can handily double as a tablet for when I want to kick my feet up to just browse the web or read a book.

Given that it actually sounds inexpensive to me, after you factor in that it saves having to spend an extra several hundred dollars if you also want a tablet.
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I remember fondly the days when a 15" 1024x768 noninterlaced monitor was the highest resolution you could get for a PC (excepting exotic hardware that only supported AutoCAD), but that was 20 years ago!

Hopefully this (and the Surface RT) mean vendors are experimenting with ways to get the last of the crap resolution panels out of inventory and this generation of hardware will be the last.

Seriously, my 4.7" cell phone has 768 pixels in the short dimension. For a "developer laptop" this is unacceptable.
The X1 Carbon is 1600 x 900 IPS, and works great with Linux (typing this on one running wheezy, now).
As someone who likes to use Ableton Live and Adobe CS. This is exciting. I want to carry around a computer in the form of a tablet. I want to have pen input and USB.

I am using Surface RT right now. Its not perfect. But all the things, I dislike are hopefully fixed with the pro.

I do wish Apple made something similar.
Hey, cool! I had one of these back in 2003 when it was called a Tablet PC. Maybe they'll get it right this time.
Actually they searched with an expert in my flat, so this would have been possible.
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Try asking a non-savvy user to use Metro. Or do anything when logged in to Windows 8 for the first time for that matter.

They mixed mobile and desktop approach within the same OS. Time will tell, but I'm not betting on it. I may be wrong though.
Well, no. The macbook air has a keyboard, it has been available for a long time, and it's not running Windows 8; so it's a bit of a stretch to call them comparable just like that.
you might want to consider using git as your deployment model.

Over the past year I switched to using git to deploy almost all of my apps & services and it is just so much better than what I was doing before (various cobbled together crap).

I even have git repos for things like my servers' .bashrc file ... you'd be surprised how useful that is.

Yes there are tools like puppet & chef and whatnot, but I think of those as better suited to dependencies than your actual code with its higher push frequency.

[UPDATE] might as well talk about how we do this:

In order to use "git push" from a development box to push to remote servers (rather than having them pull from a repo, which requires keeping a git repo accessible from your production boxes, which might not be convenient), you need two things:

1. On the server, run this:

git config receive.denyCurrentBranch ignore

Otherwise git will refuse your pushes b/c the receiving end is already on that branch

2. On the server, write a .git/hooks/post-receive and make it executable. Its contents should be:

#!/bin/sh
# NB: hooks execute in the .git dir (not the repo root)
# and GIT_DIR is set to '.'; either one prevents "git checkout" from working
unset GIT_DIR
cd ..
git checkout -f # force checkout the current branch

See http://serverfault.com/questions/107608/git-post-receive-hoo... if you are curious about the GIT_DIR business.
His nerds for days comment is quite frankly, bizarre, agreed. I feel a bit sorry for him actually though. My bet is that he was probably abused as a kid and has some real issues. If he wasn't in love with lulz so much, rather than creating some shock porn sites he'd probably join the TSA or something to get his rocks off in controlling and damaging other people.

As somebody interested in peoples' motivations though, this seems puzzling. Outside of the modest burst of media attention he gets for doing it, I don't see a reason why he would add addresses to his site's pictures. The idea of mapping personally identifying information about people to certain unique numbers or addresses isn't a new concept as http://www.dirtyphonebook.com and other sites use numbers and things of that nature to link peoples' identities. But I think that inviting people to list an address is probably crossing one bridge too far.

Unfortunate.
This ad isn't about the merits of IE as a browser, this ad is about building a preformed thought in the common users mind whenever they hear someone bash IE. IE hasn't been the victim of bad PR, it has earned it's reputation through years of blood/sweat/tears by the hands of developers. Microsoft recognizes that they won't be able to change this attitude in the developer community, but that they can lessen the weight a developer's opinion has amongst non-technically minded people, which is a much larger share of users.

Like it or not, a lot of people will think of this ad first (and what it tells them), the next time one of us tries to warn them about IE
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> Interesting how many downvotes I got here...

Maybe you should stop spreading misinformation then: ISPs are not generally required to log IPs, neither on global scale, nor on European scale, nor on Austrian scale. The last two ISPs I've used, for example, were both exempted from the recently passed data retention law.

The irony is that the raided guy owns an ISP himself that (as far as I know) wouldn't be required to log IPs. If the data would have been distributed directly over that equipment, he would not be liable. Even if I'm wrong and he would have been required to keep logs and didn't, he could only be charged with that particular offense. But since the traffic went over Tor he is now at risk to getting his life ruined.
> No way to do that globally on OS X, and it's not just font size that's the problem.

You specifically mentioned the terminal, I thought that was your issue.

>> I'm not going to discuss Linux vs OS X font rendering again

> If that's what important to you, then yes, you're probably not going to be happy with anything but a Mac.

Text rendering is really important to not get eye strain.

However, I think Linux font rendering can be as good as OS X, that’s why I tried not to include it in the difference but just screen resolution. Higher resolution is always better, in my book.
The Company of Heroes games are some of the best really tactical RTS's ever made. Maybe if this does well they will toss in CoH2......
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Not that I'm passing judgement either way, but your first one is a little inaccurate. It should be:

"For hundreds of thousands of [one set of people], getting to work, school or the market has been virtually impossible since [a different set of people's] latest anti-terror campaign began."
For the last decade or so, a x86-based device running Windows with a half decent digitizer cost roughly $3000. I doubt you'll see people picking this over an iPad though.
Love it...I found the intro annoying and obstructive though. For something like that I'd want to just jump directly to a usable demo, maybe with some tooltips or other explanation.
I think a better question might be "Why buy a tablet that is also a laptop when laptops that are also tablets have been around for years?"

Asus has touchscreen laptops for less than half of the price, and convertible laptops have been around for at least a decade.
Wonder how long it might take for them to release an updated model, considering the Intel Haswell microarchitecture should be available around Q2 2013.
Wow, some really big mistakes... Explains why it took 5 months to get the final interview.

>but I will put in 12 hours a day, 7 days a week until I get there.

>Vidyard being one of them, even if I work for free.

>I'm even willing to work for free for a period of time.

Never, ever, ever do this stuff

- Free

If you say you're willing to work for free, that tells me one thing: You think your work is of no value to me. And so if you think that, I will also think that your work is worthless to me. Instant turn-off.

- I will work 24/7

You're coming off as desperate if you put it like that. I've similarly been on the job hunt for my first job recently and out of all the phone screens I had, every single one led to an on-site interview (21 on-site interviews in the next 3 weeks). I attribute my success in part to a similar snipped that I would make sure to drop into every interview:

"I'm not a 100% subscriber of Malcolm Gladwell's 10,000 hour rule, but I do believe that in order to become good at something you have to spend a lot of time and focus on it. I want to become the best software developer I can be.

I'm not looking for just a 9 to 5, and especially interested in startups because I want to join a great team that I can intensely work with and learn from"

That was roughly part of my pitch. I also researched _every_ person who I'd be talking to. Has a lot of PostgreSQL related posts on their blog? "Oh yeah I hate MySQL". Re-tweeted a tweet about a MongoDB bug report? "I prefer traditional databases for serious apps". Has a blog post about Go? "I think the speed advantage that Go can offer is really interesting" And so on and so forth. People like people who are like them, with pretty much everyone exposing their lives and opinions, stuff like this is up for easy pickings.

Respect to the guy's persistence. I'm similarly in a position where I can't immigrate to the US (but at least I'm a EU citizen so I can move to London) so I can see why OP really wanted to join a famous startup when there's already so few available to him.
Imagine the destruction they could Photoshop onto America. We better disable Google satellite view before they erase our homes and rain pixelated fire down on the entire country. Oh, the horror!
To be fair for every web developer with legit gripes about IE there probably are about 100 people posting "IE SUXX" on youtube.

Most discussion of technology on the internet is just noise written by people who don't have the slightest clue what they are talking about.
Active digitizers aren't cheap, and are really great with one note (I have the Samsung tablet). My problem with this tablet is also that I can't use it as a laptop (literally, I like working on sofas at starbucks). On the other hand, the resolution looks quite promising, its almost retina!

The good old tablet PCs have good digitizers on them, and they are still being made. I'm not sure what I will replace my EliteBook with...I like the digitizer but would prefer something thinner and bigger (like a Samsung Series 9 or a Carbon X1).
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This only is connected to your friends. So, if this is a serious post, then just don't connect with friends on Rdio.
Don't expect them to anytime soon, they are on the verge of bankruptcy. Negative equity and they technically defaulted on a 50m loan. http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ATHQI
If the pen input is comparable to that of a Wacom tablet, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. Its closest competition sells for $2,200 in Sweden.
Interesting view. I certainly care about what browser I use on my XP installation. I (and my coworkers) have always cared which browser we use. But, we aren't Web 2.0.
Actually, I would go further include the BSDs. I recently installed PC-BSD 9, and the only issue I had was some uncommon aftermarket usb speakers needing a one liner to be recognized on boot. Runs nVidia drivers, etc, etc.
The problem is that the pricing puts it into a weird space in the market. If you want to use it as a laptop, you have to add one of the covers (the $120 Touch Cover or $130 Type Cover) so you have a keyboard, and that puts the price of the package over $1,000. You can get a "real" laptop (even a Macbook Air!) for less than that.

An argument could be made that Surface Pro isn't just a laptop, but a laptop plus a tablet, in which case the appropriate price comparison would be the cost of a Macbook and an iPad. But the extra horsepower the Surface would require to run like a laptop would mean lower battery life and greater weight. So you get a tablet, but one that's less appealing than a tablet designed to only be a tablet.
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When I posted that, I was really picturing the majority of the occupants being in their 50s or older, so they've had a lot of time for their investments to start to pay off. You won't find many 20 year olds being able to say the same, granted.

If you are still young, my only tip is to start investing too. With any luck, your time will come as well.
For me, IE is like landmines. Built as weapon to break the web rather than to do anything constructive, and then abandoned after the war to create more havoc for years.

Maybe MS should have given the new generations of IE a new name. Rebranding would probably have been cheaper and more effective than marketing campaigns trying to make IE respectable.
Wow. I don't know if I should be impressed or pity the guy. Mike says, "Everyone who wants to work in a startup should do this," which I don't agree with. But I think every job-seeker should read this piece and pay attention to 2 key points:

1. Amar leveraged his own internet real estate by publishing blog posts about Vidyard's marketing and then tweeting at the founders to let them know about his work. He essentially provided some flattering, well-written, and useful consulting work to Vidyard.

2. He was honest about his desires, expectations, and willingness to work. When his initial email was written off as just another form letter, he went above and beyond to ensure his real feelings were heard.

These tactics are within the reach of every reasonably intelligent person. Good read.
Before even clicking the link, I thought to myself, 'What would I pay for a Windows 8 tablet?' Not more than $500 I thought. When I saw they priced it at $900 I laughed. Microsoft is a non-stop train wreck of misery at the moment. It's like Window ME and Windows Vista combined. I hope they come out of this beating with a renewed sense of reality. Maybe shed a few layers of management..
I see it as an answer to this question: when I leave home, should I bring my MacBook Air, my iPad, or both? None, take the Surface.
Wow seriously? I bought a mechanical keyboard with gold plated switches for each single key for that price!
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