andyman1080

not super critical but is there a terraform provider for proxmox? I looked at proxmox a while back when building my home server but went with esxi free because of the community provider - https://github.com/josenk/terraform-provider-esxi

You’re lucky he didn’t actually do anything to your teeth. Story of a dentist giving unnecessary root canals https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/the-tro...

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Curious, which historical house?

Took it as referring to the text box that appears at the top of the item page on the site that says something like "you purchased this item on <date>."

Part of the reason this hobby continues to exist (and remain so lucrative for some participants) is because they are such a small segment of the total passenger miles traveled. If we had some numbers I think it would dramatically weaken this particular argument. Also in general the airlines' primary justification for giving away seats as awards is that they predict those seats will go unsold.

One possible explanation for his experience is that he was what they call "managed out".

Is it known how much equity Faddell had? Is he a billionaire now?

As an Apple shareholder I must say I'm loving this market punishment!

In a platform race, in a business where multi-year contracts are typical, and platform lock-in is strong, there is an argument to be made that the first device someone purchases is most important.

"aspect ratio was a deep design choice made many moons ago by Jobs"

any source for this?

yeah, all product launches should be done this way!

You're most likely wrong about Steve throwing a fit seeing this piece of junk.

Steve liked skeuomorphism even when it made Jony Ive 'wince' http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/apple-designer-jonathan...

"Only the idea counts."

hahahahahahahaha

How are you equating standards essential 3G patents to software UI? They don't really have any correlation whatsoever.

Surprised to see so many responses without a fact check on this: "the biggest indicator of the shift in their priorities is that they took 100 billion dollars in cash and used it for stock buybacks and dividends."

The dividend and stock repurchase will be more than paid for out of operating cash flow. In other words, even with them the cash pile will increase.

Look at some of the analysis that Horace Dediu is doing to observe that Apple is actually investing a tremendous amount of capital ($7B this year) in as yet unknown equipment, maybe real estate. (http://www.asymco.com/2012/05/22/up-to-eleven/) That's not including the billions they spend on R&D. If that's not reinvesting profit in a big picture way, I don't know what is.

I don't know, many of those "companies" are one or two person operations. I haven't had that experience.

none. http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/05/apples-stock-r...

I won't argue that Android tablets will never overtake the iPad, but I disagree with the reasoning you cite in paragraph 1. I don't think the comparison with smartphones holds up because the tablet and smartphone markets are so different. A few big reasons:

-phones are a "necessary" device whereas a tablet is a luxury device

-consumers don't want another carrier contract so most tablets are sold without subsidies or contracts, whereas nearly all phones here are sold with subsidies and 2-year contracts.

-with phones, the carriers have influence/control over what devices are available to their customers. would Android be where it is today in the US if Verizon hadn't pushed it so hard before they got the iPhone? Carriers don't have nearly the same influence over tablets, and most people don't and won't buy tablets from their carriers anyway.

And I'm sure others can come up with many more. Again I'm not saying that Android tablets will never catch the iPad. I'm just saying that the smartphone market is sufficiently different from the tablet market that arguing for Android tablets vs iPad by citing Android phones vs iPhone isn't very convincing.

A friend of mine bought the Verizon 3G model so that, between iPad and iPhone, he'd have a device on both of the major networks. After using it for a few days he found the Verizon coverage/speed to be noticeably slower at his home and office, so he's about to return it for a GSM 3G model.

Seriously? Did I miss the part where iOS obtained 95% mobile OS market share?

But the better resolution of the XOOM is irrelevant. The core value of a tablet device to the user is delivered through apps. Users tend not to care or notice how many pixels the device has, as long as there is a variety of good and inexpensive apps.

Not changing the iPad 2 resolution ensures there are still 65k and counting fully compatible apps. Android tablet makers continually "one-upping" each other on specs effectively ensure that much fewer quality and compatible apps will be available for their devices.

good luck with that.