One-nine SLA
Posts by James Scholes
10 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Jun 2008
Dev's code manages to topple Microsoft's mighty SharePoint
Worst of CES Awards: The least private, least secure, least repairable, and least sustainable
Re: "the marginal cost of sharing and making copies of things is pretty close to zero"
Look into standard music distribution contracts. You'll find a whole load with an arbitrary percentage of sales profits held back from the artist to cover costs that used to be incurred through losses shipping fragile bakelite records around the country, and haven't been actually incurred in 40+ years.
The year ahead in technology fail: You knew they were bad, now they're going to prove it
Apple: EU can't make us use your stinking common charging standard
Re: "It'll stifle [..] innovation."
I like how it'll simultaneously stifle innovation and create obsolescence by everyone using the same connector. If your connector was driving innovation, there'd be no obsolescence, would there?
Must be true though. My last three cars have all used the same fuel hose and that's why this one doesn't have any more features than the 15 year old one. Unless you count power steering, abs, cruise control, automatic lights and wipers, no-fog windows...
EPIC demand: It's time for Google to fly the Nest after 'forgetting' to mention home alarm hub has built-in mic
Apple: You can't sue us for slowing down your iPhones because you, er, invited us into, uh, your home... we can explain
Slack to fend off the collaboration competition with... a new logo
Nokia reinstates 'hide the Notch' a day after 'Google required' feature kill
Asus blames lack of Linux Eee PCs on Atom hold-ups
Amazon...
Have an expected shipping date in August. What the heck, ASUS?
@John Latham: The difference in spec (which is only the capacity of the SSD - 12GB on windows, 20GG on linux) is there so that the windows model doesn't cost more than the linux one. It's probably a 'keep Microsoft happy' compromise, but currently XP costs 8GB of SSD goodness.