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The plebs got scammed, because they overvalued the IPO (generally better for the company to overvalue than undervalue, as the profit goes to them not investors).

Wall Street was probably interested in it to see how it could be gamed, or perhaps simply for the spectacle of such a rare event. I don’t think anyone with a desire to actually do long term investment would have bought into the IPO price. It was an incredibly obvious bubble waiting to burst.

They’ll struggle to hold 50% of share value years from now, and in my opinion the company is probably worth under 20b since a lot of long term hopes and forcasts depend on FB implementing featurse and users using the service differently than the FB of today.

They hit the critical mass point on widespread appeal and have the market inertia to coast for at least a decade, but I don’t think they’ll go very far from how its being done today.

Well, what I don’t really understand is – why would Samsung care what the retailer charges if they get paid the price they want for a TV set.

If the brick and mortar store gives them 800 for a set, and try to sell it for 1000 – and inevitably are forced to put it on clearance for under 800, its not like Samsung is losing money.

Price wars between stores don’t really hurt the manufacturer. It’s part of the reason they want to push overpriced cables and accessories. The profit margins on those are higher than the tv itself.

He means Newegg is overpriced and has poor selection when it comes to laptops.

There is no such thing as “general” computer literacy. Without knowing anything of the basics of what computers are and how they work, knowing how to use one generally comes down to familiarity with the user interface elements of major mainstream software. Go to any basic free computer class and they teach you Windows, IE, and Office. Many of those skills were extensible in the PC desktop world where even Linux GUIs were using the same design. Now you have iOS, Android and others working on touch gestures, with different application organization. Even Microsoft is trying to reinvent their aging OS with the latest version.

Learning how to code is pretty useless for most people, unless they want to run/maintain a website (and I think everyone should have a personal site, even if its only a professional work portfolio/resume). But it also teaches you to recognize what programs are and what might be going on behind the scenes.

Before people worry about HP undermining the ultrabook definition, I think they should be concerned with how terrible most ultrabook screens are.

It’s a complete travesty that you can even spend more than $700 on a laptop and be stuck with the same crummy 768p TN panel they’ve been pushing for five years at sizes up to 16".

And it’s not like the technology isn’t there, 1080p@15" is very doable and comes as an upgrade option on many laptops. 900p should be standard on anything over 11".

I don’t even use Wireless N, because I run DD-WRT on a Linksys WRT54GL which doesn’t have it. It’s rare enough that I want to move large files to another computer (or any files really) that I might as well move it to a portable hard drive instead.

Ditto. I got started with Java in 2001 and hated it. It was goddamn slow and clunky.

It’s still clunky, but at least the performance is passable for most usage cases. I would have zero interest in touching that stuff again if it weren’t for Android, and I’m pretty sure that goes for the majority of Java coders who aren’t working maintaining enterprise code.

The first thing I thought when Oracle bought Sun was “dayum, here comes the lawsuit”.

It is if you have a microfiber beard.

Software patents need to die. This is all pretty stupid.

You are both small time. I have Panasonic and everyone knows they make the best microwaves.

(Samsung fridge and LG dishwasher!)

Not even close, or are you confused because they’re both red?

I bet you think the SGS2 is an iPhone knockoff too. :p

Yeah, this phone is on par with One X.

And yeah, that completely underwhelms me.

Aside from the fact that HTC decided to stop churning out turds, and hideous Desire-derived designs, the specs are on par with new stuff coming out of any manufacturer.

I wanted a display upgrade and I wanted Exynos 5. That’s it. I was disappointed when I heard they would use the Exynos 4212 but hoped the screen would be fantastic anyway.

Nope. The SGS 3 is quite literally an SGS 2 HD with two extra cores and uglier design. I can’t believe I waited so long for nothing.

I also have Nexus S. And ironically, one of the worst things I hate about it is the glossy smooth plastic that makes it a bitch to hold in your hand. So this “inspired by pebbles” design isn’t new, nor is it sensible. They were on a great track with the Galaxy Nexus, and pretty much ruined it. The lack of soft rubberized back and the introduction of chrome bling bumpers is ridiculous. It looks pretty darn cheap.

Not that I would care, if it had good internals. But lack of new-gen display and SoC = pass.

Except design-wise, this still looks better than anything Nokia has released recently. I’m not sure what you mean with longevity, but the nerd cred of the N900 lasted quite a while.

About the display wars: AMOLED vs LCD, all things being equal (subpixels, ppi, resolution), the AMOLED will win in picture quality assuming its calibrated properly.

So I’m surprised why this article claims the One X display “runs circles” around the Galaxy Nexus. In the Galaxy Nexus article, it was mentioned that pentile vs rgb at this density is a non-issue. And given that viewing angles and contrast on AMOLED are perfect as well, the only issue besides the sharpness question is whether colours are accurate.

So that leads me to the conclusion that The Verge thinks Galaxy Nexus display has far more inaccurate colours, or something? I haven’t heard many complaints about its display, even though I have heard such complaints about other phones’ AMOLED displays having tinting or oversaturation issues. But, even if true and the One X display is far better in this department.. is that really a colossal beatdown?

The Galaxy Nexus display was, afaik, the best display on any phone right up until this got released, and I don’t think the differences between 1st and 2nd place are going to be that dramatic.

tl;dr – It sounds like sensationalism to suggest this phone’s display somehow obsoletes the next best thing and everything else by extension. If there is any incentive for people to lust after this display over AMOLED, it would be the promise of high contrast ratios with deep blacks that many LCD panels still do not have (even the HD IPS ones), combined with the brightness advantage LCDs have in direct sunlight. And I don’t see anything in this article about either.

Bluray drive is a waste of money and space. 1080p panels are great, but the higher pixels are too much for most mobile gpus. 16gb of ram is pointless overkill as well.

Why is it that OEMs who build “gamer” laptops never actually build a laptop that is designed for gaming performance at a reasonable price?

Take a regular laptop, strip out stuff you don’t need (like the above) and put in the most powerful mGPU you can. It should have the performance of a $140-160 discrete card and cost $1200-1300 at most.

The PVE is ass, and the PVP can be one-sided as hell. But it’s a sandbox game. There is no rank/level/storyline progression, and even though people may have more money or skillpoints than you it doesn’t mean they will win over you.

Ultimately the game appeals to people who don’t like being told what to do or how to play. People who excel at making up their own purpose and entertainment. The people who are used to WoW, and being held along some sort of linear progression to fabulousness will be disappointed or bored. They literally sit inside station or fly around expecting someone or something to tell them what to do.

Many do, in fact, settle on being told what to do by agents that spew out boring and predictable missions. They end up amassing pixels in the form of items and ships, and eventually get bored.

If you want to having fun, the fastest way is to forget about getting rich or getting certain ships. Join a corporation and set a goal.

That said, the game is as rewarding as what you put into it, but even if you don’t put a lot of hours, you can have fun by avoiding all the busy work and time sinks that people create for themselves.

Well, if the Exynos is significantly faster than the S4, it technically won’t be as smooth.

Ego boosting benchmarks. There I said it.

To be fair, Samsung is keeping this bitch locked up in their basement to the level that nobody in the neighbourhood knows what it looks like. Usually non-Apple OEMs can’t keep a damn thing secret from the public – unless its a product nobody actually cares about. And even Apple has its great snafus (iPhone 4).

What the hell do we know about this phone for >90% certainty? Quad core A9 Exynos, 4.65" 720p AMOLED, the Galaxy S3 name, and that it may or may not have some sort of “camera”.

So basically, aside from the fact that it has a quad core cpu, it may as well be the SGS2 HD specwise, for all the public knows about it. Annnnd…we’re one week from the reveal date. Pretty impressive.

If we don’t get to see what the thing looks like by the end of the month, I will be worried for the state of tech “journalism”. What are you guys good for, if you can’t show us the goods in advance? :(

Sigh, oh well. There was <5% chance they would use Exynos 5 instead of this, which has effectively been killed.

This means the SGS3 won’t be the most cutting edge phone released this year, as it was the case with SGS2.