Prices are simply a marketing thing. The $400 price to start out is
almost a test balloon. They think that at $400 they can successfully
sell the Nexus 7. If they price it too low then it may be placed in the
same category as the Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet. Over the next quarter
or two, they will
I stand corrected. Thanks Stephen.
In any case, the point is that it is the market that determines the
price of anything.
On 07/14/2012 11:02 AM, Stephen Ronan wrote:
> Not sure if that's a typo, Jerry. The Nexus 7 price is $200 ($199) -s.
>
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2012, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>
>> Prices
We sort of had a little dust-up about agile programming techniques.
Ruffled feathers and I hope no hurt feelings. Hop on over to Slashdot
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/07/14/1242237/new-analyst-report-calls-agile-a-scam-says-its-an-easy-out-for-lazy-devs
Ignore the article, but the use
XBMC for Android announced
http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/13/3158413/xmbc-for-android-announced
XBMC has announced its first full-featured release for Android.
Introduced in a blog post on the developer's website, the open-source
media sharing software is compatible with any Android-based
Daniel Barrett wrote:
> Cloud backups are not an option, as I don't want my private data
> sitting on some company server.
I've been meaning to mention that Steve Gibson on his "Security Now"
podcast did a review of cloud storage services from the perspective of
their security models. In order for
Daniel Barrett wrote:
> In the past year or two, however, all of the large external HD's I've tried
> (3TB) develop errors or die within the first year.
>
> At the same time, I read reviews on NewEgg of large external drives and
> they are filled with negatives.
Hasn't your NewEgg observation app
On 7/14/2012 5:35 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
It would be interesting to get an expert's opinion on this, backed up
with some long term statistics, to see if drive reliability, at the
higher capacities, is in fact trailing off.
I mentioned this a few months back: the most reliable drives that
BackBla
Richard Pieri wrote:
> Customer reviews are cumulatively skewed towards failures.
> You hear about a few dozen failures but you don't hear about the
> hundreds of thousands that don't fail.
Right, they are more useful for qualitative information. Is he product
suitable for its intended purpose, an
