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> Desktops are going the way of the dodo

Frankly, I'm tired of reading this. Desktops are going to lower their market share, yes, but that's all. The desktop has quite a few advantages: modularity (i.e.: want a new graphics card or a bigger hard disk? No problem. Is some hardware failing? Just replace it, not the whole thing; it's much easier than on a laptop), compatibility with a LOT of software (including a whole world of office applications and games from a very wide range of time. Laptops also share this; tablets and phones, not so much), price (compare any PC with a laptop with the same specs, especially if you select each component instead of relying on a pre-made computer), etc.
Just because you named a few games that are platform-specific, doesn't mean there are tons of games that exist on both PC and consoles.

With the new PS4 x86 + GPU architecture, portability becomes trivial.

PS4, essentially, is a PC stuck in one configuration.
Interesting. I was wondering why I had to re-enable FoxIt viewer after the latest Firefox update. Maybe it works well for some PDFs, but the first two I happened to open were formatted pretty badly.
Didn't mean to sound unimpressed - it's absolutely amazing how compact they have managed to make it (although I'd like to dive deeper into specs before I make a full judgement).

It's really hard to tell from those photos because they don't provide a great reference. The best I saw was the "strong and light" photo, so I'm going to go ahead and say it's about the same size as my thumb.

That's pretty small, but I'm not sure its small enough to have an iPod-like takeoff (yet!).
So when can I install linux on it?
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I've only had the opportunity to use the new UI on server 2012 for the last few months. Remoting in highlights the problems almost immediately.

In some ways it's great.

In other ways it's not just bad, it's really terrible. It deserves every bit of bashing it gets.

There have been so many regressions in the desktop UX it's incredibly frustrating.
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Okay, take a second to explain this to me. What exactly happens when I press the power button? On almost every laptop I have used the power button puts it to sleep. Are you saying this has changed in windows 8, and it will shut off instead?
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They never used danger as a reason. The captain can kick anyone off the plane for any reason or no reason. He chose to and will accept whatever the consequences are. (But remember: it's a union job, so there aren't going to be consequences.)

I estimate the author will get 50,000 frequent flyer miles and an apology. Seems to be the standard procedure when the central office wants to make up for poor customer service on the line.
You're at the urinal and some guy yells out "Ok glass, share video".

There will be problems.
This is kind of misleading. Many of the start-ups on that list are headquartered (or host major operations) outside of Estonia; they're considered Estonian only because the founders hold Estonian nationality. You wouldn't call start-ups headquartered in the US and founded by Indians "Indian start-ups", would you?
IMHO this numbers must be compared with employment rates of people who haven't got into a PhD. We may discover a similar (or even more significant) downfall. I think that it is not an awful market specifically for young scientists, its an awful market for everybody.
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> Explicitly navigating to a software shutdown button just isn't part of a normal workflow on modern devices.

It's not part of the normal workflow on older ones either, mine anyway: I only ever shut down my desktop computer when it nags me after updates, or when I go on extended holidays and shut off all devices in the house.

> my dinky little tablet can now drive a 2560x1440 monitor and run modern games.

Good joke, that.
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Both have their merits, but personally I prefer the event based system.

There are solutions to the 'silent failure' problem:

1: You could have your event router 'do something' whenever an event is triggered which has no registered subscribers. That way, you will get some feedback at least. However, this feedback is still almost certainly outside of the current scope - you could solve this by registering some global 'unsubscribed event' handler. This solution won't solve the silent-failure problem fully, but it could reduce the number of places it's likely to occur, and at least give some feedback (somehow) when this situation occurs.

2: You could just be more careful during development - ultimately the problem of 'silent failure' only happens because the developer(s) have no idea what's going on inside their system. There is absolutely no reason why the 'saveRequested' event should ever not have at least one handler - and if that is the case, then it's still simply the developer's fault.

All that being said, I don't think DI is too terrible either. Swings and roundabouts!
The intuitive response to this is an angry rant about the definition of normality and your mandate to define it. Despite your derogatory, I empathise with your sentiment. I don't believe that recording every aspect of your life, or being integrated with the Internet will make me a happier person.

What I am really looking forwards to, is being able to lean back and read or watch video's without having to hold anything, or sit in a big room designed for the purpose.

Is the sense of superiority you feel towards tedks worth more than that?
Uh, there are like 9 comments right now (12:54am PST) and literally none of them support the airline. What are you talking about?
Sorry, what I do not get is, that this person describes something, he claims clearly troubled him. He was wronged (by his account) by UA. He even had to buy a new ticket on his own account to have a connection-flight.

So what I do not get is, why is he not holding UA responsible for the lost money, lost time and his trouble. Is he such a big fanboy, that he does not want to cost his big love some (by his account) well deserved money?

Or might it just be, that there are some other aspects to his story, not told in the written blog post? His tone of voice, while talking to the FA? Was he calm, might he come about as being aggressive? What was his body language? Might she have felt threatened.

Maybe he is right in his point of view - but maybe - and just maybe, he acted from a position of blogger-power, taking his blogger-influence for granted and letting this show.

I know, that this is just me speculating, but I haven't been there and did not hear anything from the other side of the story. But reading the comments here and in the blog, UA is guilty until proven innocent, or so it seems.
It's not a nitpick when you're trying to use the high-success-rate "turn it off and on again" method of fixing problems.
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Two issues:
1. 'Terrorist' seems to be a keyword that will get you into a lot of trouble if uttered in the vicinity of an airport.
2. Why not provide evidence of the truth there and then? Show your camera photo roll containing the one photo, and then you have a solid case. Otherwise, we have to consider that perhaps more than one photo was taken, it is a "your word" against "their word" scenario.
If you accept that facebook was worth $100 billion, and if you accept that instagram was a credible threat to facebook, then it follows that instagram was perhaps worth 1% of facebook. Reddit is not facebook's or google's threat so its valuation is not based on a big company's valuation.
Never ever directly accuse someone of lying. Mostly because it's usually a communication problem where they said it unclear and your heard it wrong. Also because you should always give someone a way out without losing too much face.

I would have said something like: Sorry if I gave the impression of not cooperating, but I can assure you I did not and will not take any more pictures this flight. It would mean a lot to me if I could stay on the plane.
Having just gone through this I concur 100%. Everything, and I mean everything, now seems just a little bit more achievable. The good things in life feel better, the bad things not as bad. I smile more, and am sleeping better.

A weight has lifted, and I'm slowly regaining energy - almost feel like I might one day have enough again to start on the journey of another startup.
why the hell would you suddenly spout "I am not a terrorist" when no-one has even implied as such

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Why would it freak someone out, when no terrorist (to my knowledge) has ever declared "I'm not a terrorist" ... right before hijacking a plane?
consumers can demand all they want. it downy
doesn't mean they will get anything. the bandwidth problem in Australia is due to the small population, and distance from the rest of the world.
It's an idiomatic English response to an accusation regarding picture taking. I bet if you walked up to 1000 native speakers of English and asked them to stop taking pictures, more than 10% would say exactly this.
"Hey guys, come on, don't throw me out. It's not like I said that I have a bomb!"
Isn't that equally the advantage and the folly of consoles? They are basically computers, but locked down. You can't do with your hardware what you want; you get told what's good. Just like with Apple, it's a golden cage; good because it's golden; bad because it's a cage. On PC, it's the other way around: It's not a cage, you have the power to change pretty much anything. With that power comes responsibility, though. There's infinitely more ways of fucking up your PC; the freedom isn't golden anymore.
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It seems likely that, in the not-too-distant future, we will all be eagerly recording everything around us to prevent these kinds of injustices from happening. Imagine if you'd had a mic running, then played it back to the captain. Problem solved - and the FA would have gotten into trouble for creating a liability risk for the airline.
Sorry if I gave the impression of not cooperating, but I can assure you I did not and will not take any more pictures this flight. It would mean a lot to me if I could stay on the plane

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feels a bit too servile for me, especially if I felt I didn't do anything wrong in the first place.
There is no evidence he "tried to fuck Tesla". From what I've gleaned, his review is what most non-fanboys would have ended up with. It looks to me like the typical clash of business guys vs. tech guys. The business is saying "hey, this sucks I can't figure it out" and the tech guys are spouting true but useless statistics at them, all the while mocking them for "ignorance".

The customer's perception is more important than the car sellers data.

>Who can blame them for wanting to set an example at the nearest opportunity?

Set an example of what? That if you don't write a glowing review they're going to throw an infantile fit on the internet?
Everyone really should read "How to win friends and influence people."
I've had two since the day they shipped.
I'm sorry about your plight, but really, you should get that sorted. There were quite some screwups with the early orders, alas.
And while the specs may not be super-'lite, the community and fun-factor in the entire underground scene around the Pandora more than make up for it. The thing feels fabulous when fully loaded, and I mean: fully.
While i'm not sure i agree with you or the grand-parent post†, i think your argument doesn't help refuting the grand-parent's main point.

ComputerGuru's main point was showing how similar dolphins are to humans, in the way they live and socialize, and stating that, because of those reasons, killing them is wrong. Yes, they might be doing it for their own living, but that doesn't make it any less wrong. In the end, we all work for our food, or to cover our needs in general, but that does not justify the work of paid assassins for example, or any other job that directly threatens other humans' lives.

† I'm kind of in a cognitive dissonance state about killing animals for eating, as i do consider animals to be not different in essence to humans --i think that our difference are only quantitative instead of qualitative-- but at the same time i eat animal meat, so i'm contributing to their killing.
There's a lot of projecting in your post. I'm not patting myself on the back for seeing the obvious. I'm frustrated that other, otherwise very intelligent people, are so blind to it.
There are 30,000 flights a day in the US with an average of 100 passengers each. This happening to one blogger is not exactly a pattern of paranoia. It was simply two people making a bad customer service decision.
The instant he said that to the FA, he was off. It's like using the "B" word with the TSA. If you say it, expect to be taken to a room for a nice 20 minute conversation with various security officials. And there is no "room" on an airplane, you're off if you behave like this guy.
Something similar happened a couple years ago involving photos being taken of employees.[1][2] What struck me as different this time was that neither the FA nor the GS Rep attempted to take the camera away or have the pictures deleted. If this was a security issue, it makes sense that they wouldn't just let him walk off the plane with the photo(s).

It's possible that his saying "terrorist" was part of it, or maybe UA has a very strict no-photos policy, or maybe there's something else we don't know (and I think this is probably the case,) but this still seems pretty absurd.

1: http://consumerist.com/2011/07/28/united-says-photographing-...

2: http://consumerist.com/2011/04/25/allegations-of-photography...
You're going to be reading it for a long time, because it's true. The desktop is going extinct, and it's going extinct at a faster rate every month. Q4 desktop sales were 6.4% lower than Q4 2011. The advantages you mention are largely irrelevant outside specific professional niches, the only place desktops will stick around for a while.

The cheapest laptops are cheaper than the cheapest desktops in stores, and are cheap enough that it doesn't matter if you have to replace the whole thing if it's broken. Both laptops and tablets are compatible with the entire Windows legacy ecosystem. They're portable, they're what the workers and the managers making purchase decisions want to work on, and they cut the company's electric bill by more than half. Towers are going extinct.
I've started several companies and also been a first employee (and so have a number of my family members), and I've experienced multiple situations (and seen others second hand) where subsequent employees contributed more than at least one of the founders. This includes everything from founders being unmistakable liabilities to even one case where a 50% owning founder ended up doing quite literally nothing but playing online poker and silently attending meetings for his entire tenure, which lasted half a decade.

The problem with the issue is what constitutes "deserving" of a larger share of equity. Obviously there are different perspectives on this, but in terms effort, there certainly are many cases where employees eclipse founders. I literally just finished a conversation 30 minutes ago with a c-level exec about how the one founder of her company who is still present (there were two) never actually did anything other than give talks and never had anything to do with operations or strategy.

Even in the case of taking on risk, a founder with enough personal wealth and/or strong professional network that failure doesn't severely impact them is certainly not taking as much risk as an employee who is living paycheck to paycheck.

In short, I've seen more than enough cases where strong, effective employees worked harder, took more risk, and contributed more to the success of the company than one of the founders. I'm not sure by what metric the founder "deserved" more equity in those cases besides being there from the beginning.
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Captain: I don't have any, but United will have no trouble finding me. My name is...[removed].

Why do victims protect their aggressors in this way? The captain made a wrongheaded decision, and he should at the very least have his name attached to it.
Thanks, I should have known log out versus lock. 4am here and not sure why am I still up.

Hopefully you didn't have anything important open that was not saved,
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Hehe - that might be it! :-)
Possibly, the original Flight Attendant said something to the Captain. Pretty much everything that happens on or around an airliner is at the Captains discretion. The decisions can be questioned and challenged by the airline supervisors, the FAA etc. and the Captain can be relieved of duty by the airline, but its Captains prerogative to remove someone off their aircraft.

The other factor involved is CRM, Crew Resource Management. The days were the crew passively follow the Captains decisions are over, and for good reason. Captains are trained to listen to their First Officer and FA, and actively respond to questions.

This means its quite possible that the Captain didn't want his flight delayed, or cause unnecessarily tension on the flight with his FA, and so took the easy (but highly questionable) option to simply remove him from the flight.

Note: This should not be interpreted as taking the airlines side, just explaining my thoughts on the factors involved.
I've played it for a short while, maybe I should pick it up again but somehow it didn't grasp me as I would have expected it to.

Perhaps the (in my city) low and very uneven distribution of portals has something to do with that. Perhaps it is because when all portals are occupied and you are level 1 (or 2 now) you can not really do much but gather some stuff by hacking them. If they're from the enemy, and they are well defended, you can't do much damage with your level 1 (or 2). It got boring fast. Or it was perhaps the speed at which it drained my battery. Also, winter came.

On the other hand, those were the early beta days. Things may have improved now. And they would have for me if I had had the time to team up with a group in a nearby city and join their adventure trips. This type of gameplay does have amazing and very novel aspects (imagine attacking a portal, someone defending / repairing it may stand around the corner), as is also depicted in the article. I do think there should be more games like this, and perhaps a little less Sci Fi ones, so they can become mainstream (90% of my friends would never play Ingress the way it is laid out, which may say something about my friends, or about the game, or both :).
This is completely unacceptable. You don't take people of a plane for taking pictures - they are no thread to everyone and certainly paid for their ticket. I am flying with United Airlines in March, I hope for a better experience - but after reading this, it might be my last flight with them, ever.
This is very much Musk worship. You really think they use the exact same software at Tesla as they use for SpaceX? Is there any reasons at all to believe the programmers from these two companies have ever even met each other? Or share code via some kind of cross-company repository?
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Even police officers have no right to confiscate equipment or delete pictures[0], and you're proposing that private parties attempt it? Please, be more aware of your civil rights.

[0] http://www.aclupa.org/issues/freespeech/kyrwhentakingphotosa...
All the "Well he shouldn't have used the T word" when he explained that he was taking the photos as part of his travel review job.

There were no faults in the way he handled it. The airline was completely to blame, severely inconvenienced him, falsely accused him, and cost him money. Outrageous behavior against any passenger. That he is a 950,000 mile traveler on the airline and often writes articles recommending them to others (at a time when United is well known for being among the worst of the carriers) makes it completely idiotic from a business standpoint as well.
Why, if this means, you stay on the plane, you win. But nobody looses his/her face.

So wining, without anyone losing, what is so wrong?

Everything else (and I sadly, really often react that way) is the little child in a sand-pit: "But he started it" kind of argument. Not mature, not civilized, just childish - the way or societies more and more seem to become imho.
Sounds like he stepped in to a plane in Little Britain's 'Come fly with Me' and met 'Penny' the steward: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XlDUTpCIOE
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Or for us old-timers: "I got the bomb box on my Mac. Yeah, it crashed."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb_(symbol)#Mac_OS
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x86_64 CPU/GPU hybrid chip and common DDR5 memory is nice idea (if they have big CPU caches). I would like to run Linux or it.)
It depends on your subject. Libraries will only take you so far if you need access to a million-dollar microscope or a petaflop supercomputer to get your work done.

So be careful when you say "[reading these books will give you] more intellectual freedom afterwards than any PhD graduate." That's simply not true. And I'm not even touching on the benefits of having a good mentor...
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No, I'm just saying United has done that before, so it seems odd that it didn't happen this time as well. I certainly don't think that it's right.
What would be reason not to discuss something that whole nation is scared shitless?

No talk policy will make everything go away.

This is beyond understanding for me, how can a word ban someone from flight.

In ol' days when you could smoke and drink and have a nice discussion about shit in world... while in airplane.
Because if it did not happen exactly the way the OP wrote it - and he has the ability to prove it, he might get himself in real trouble that way.

I do not know the US law in that case, but in Germany, the captain then could go to court on terms of "wrong accusation" and the OP would have to prove his accusations.
We don't even have an indication it actually did freak them out. To me that's just a speculative justification, giving authority the benefit of the doubt.
This might not be the case for quite a few Estonian startups though -- with 1.3 million people you're desperately lacking a large enough target market for the niche products that some startups are developing, and looking to other countries may actually be a part of a strategy, not simply a case of 'I happen to be an Estonian living in the UK so I'll just go with the flow and do my startup here'. I would call these startups Estonian.
feels a bit too servile for me

Is acting submissive to control someone else really being submissive? (No. It's just another tool in the dealing-with-people toolbox. Save your flames for the Internets!)
Depends on location and situation; here in EU the take-home pay (if the professor has a grant/project to take in PhD students) tends to be quite livable - less than an equivalent commercial IT job, but more than unskilled labor and more than, say, a humanities master would make in their area.
By your logic, I, as purely a PC gamer, shouldn't know anything about the PS3 or the XBOX360 even existing, yet i definitely know of them.
Some stores offer coupons for your next purchase. For example, Gap gave me coupon for 20% off any one item if I complete their online survey. That's a pretty big discount, so that survey information must be pretty valuable.
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You can get an iPad with a data plan. $15-30/mo is still a lot less then $99.