frazerb

Ack. Ack. Thank you, HN. Nearly 13 years enjoying HN - certainly more times a day than I care to admit. Always nervous to tell people what a great forum it is, for fear of reducing the SNR. Remarkable that, even more than a decade on, it continues to be my homepage. Thank you PG and those that have fostered HN to be the great place that it is.

Would be a great feature to add to Google One? Or a reason to switch search engines, I guess.

Any idea of the power source for this beastie ? It's not very 'wearable' if I have to plug it into a computer (via) USB to power it....

9AM PT is 17:00GMT. So London showing starts 5PM

His last question: "How do I prevent my engineers from performing at 1/10x?"

Did he mean 1/10x, or (1/10)x, or (as I suspect based on the substance of the discussion) did he mean (1/10)(10x) = x ?

You would have thought that a _real_ 10x programmer would not make an operator precedence error like that!

chicken

All very wise observations, folks. I feel better now. And thanks.

People don't leave jobs, they leave bosses.

You've got to wonder how much Apple are paying Google to support maps on iOS....or what other kick-back (more valuable to Google than cash) there might be.

I struggle here with Google's business model, and the impact their efforts have on other Android tablet vendors. At this price point the profit (if there is any to speak of) must be wafer-thin.

But Google can handle such wafer-thin margins because the secondary markets that this tablet secures for them. No other Android tablet vendor can enjoy the same control over the underlying OS, the same footprint in terms of Apps ecosystem (and importantly the revenue derived from this), the same intimacy between online applications/services and hardware. All these things mean Google can 'get away' with pricing this tablet as cheaply as they do.

But where does that leave Samsung, LG, and the others ? The big risk for us as consumers here is that Google will in fact reduce, not increase, the amount of credible competition against Apple by jeopardizing the competitors' capacity to derive profit from tablets.

I just struggle to understand how IEEE's publication policy contributes to "advancing technological innovation [..] for the benefit of humanity".

IEEE publication policy is nothing but a barrier to innovation.

Shame WikiLeaks / anonymous / whoever couldn't help us all out here.

I used NEO from Caelo (nelsons email organiser) for five years+ [[ employer INSISTED on using freakin' Msft and Outlook ]]. NEO is an overlay (non-invasive) on top of Outlook that does all this and more - free text search etc. NEO saved me an hour a week at least. [[ No personal relationship with Caelo I just think NEO is awesome. ]]