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by npalli 16y ago
There is more information regarding trends -- 50% of the smartphone purchases in the last six months were android. From July-Sept'10 to Jan-Mar'11 people wanting an iPhone dropped from 33% to 30% From July-Sept'10 to Jan-Mar'11 people wanti
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by npalli 16y ago
1. I doubt Kindle is a quality product, NC seems a better product than that. You can't install Kindle for Android in an unrooted NC. The cost factor works for B&N since they own retail distribution. That alone gives them a 30% advantage
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by npalli 16y ago
Few things. kenjackson alluded to them 1. NC is using older generation parts (ex. their SoC is OMAP3621 which is at least two generations behind). This is off the shelf from Texas instruments who own the entire supply chain in design and fo
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by npalli 16y ago
Early reports suggest almost 3 million NC's sold in four months[1]. That would mean a run rate of at least 6 million per year. That is astonishing for a brick and mortar retailer with no consumer electronics background. The very attractive
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by npalli 16y ago
What I find Surreal is that IBM is still the company to beat in 2011. I mean, by 1981 they were already the king of the hill for a good 15-20 years. To put that into perspective, who thinks apple, (or google, microsoft) will be relevant in
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by npalli 16y ago
Werner Herzog was apparently not impressed http://www.dgaquarterly.org/BACKISSUES/Winter2010/DGAIntervi... Q: What about shooting digitally? A: We used the RED camera for My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done. It's an immature camera created
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by npalli 16y ago
He seemed pretty proud of malloc being around for forty years! Bertrand Serlet on private API's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd97us27eSg
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by npalli 16y ago
Sertlet’s departure may indicate a diminishing role for Apple’s desktop operating system as the iOS, the operating system for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, becomes a larger focus Looks like Scott Forstall is the new king. Mac engineeri
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by npalli 16y ago
Money quote "... In so doing it reminded the world that the Itanium chip exists at all"
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by npalli 16y ago
Looks like lot of top level changes at apple. If rumors/reports are to be believed, just this year -- 1. Steve Jobs out of action for a while 2. Jonny Ive not wanting to extend his stay in the US and going back to England 3. Oppenheimer out
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by npalli 16y ago
In C++0x it is std::vector<std::string>> frobs = {"foo","bar","baz"};
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Fastest selling consumer electronics device ever(blogs.wsj.com)
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by npalli 16y ago
I rooted the Nook Color and it is terrific. Great use as a ebook reader and general tablet. It seems to strike a very good balance between a pure ebook reader like the kindle and the iPad. We have kindle, nook color and the iPad at home. Th
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An Update is available for your computer(stickycomics.com)
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Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letters 2010 [pdf](berkshirehathaway.com)
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Optimal Age to Start a Revolution, Age and Creativity [pdf](harford.de)
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Boost 1.46.0 Released(boost.org)
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by npalli 16y ago
Just installed SP1 on 64bit professional. Went smoothly in 20 mins. Freed up 7GB of diskspace on my SSD. Nice!
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by npalli 16y ago
>>> Any tablet with a higher price than the iPad fails to generate any kind of lasting interest, I don't see why it will be different here Which tablet higher priced than the iPad failed to generate any interest? Xoom should the
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by npalli 16y ago
Wow, completely amazing pricing. Going to get the wi-fi version. This completely blow away the current iPad. Has front/back facing camera with video capture, better resolution, dual-core processor with graphics acceleration, HDMI, USB, micr
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by npalli 16y ago
50-100ms is just horrible. In fact, the best malloc's show operations in 50-100 nanoseconds. http://goog-perftools.sourceforge.net/doc/tcmalloc.html