Wait, you don't have time for what? I worked full time + (IE overtime, IE 40-50 hour weeks), and went to school fulltime and also picked up 4.0's. The whole I can't work because I have school, or I can't go to school because I have work ordeal is lame at the most extreme levels. Deal with it. If you quit college your a fool. If you can't do both and excel at both your lazy. Get it together.
And the comment from Kstenerud about contact networks is probably the most important thing anyone will ever tell you. Without this, your worthless. Well, unless you are a true renegade in tech. But web designing... come on. You are competing with a zillion other people, aren't prototyping hardware, inventing anything (hardware/software/anything else), so it's more about networking, schooling, etc than anything else!
While I agree with the need to push yourself, and it might have worked for you, I disagree that this is a lame excuse in general.
Good work requires focus. Whether you can work and handle school at the same time also depends on your course load. If you are spending 70 hours a week on classes, an extra 40 hours a week (though not impossible) might not be worth a decrease in performance in both activities.
Wait, so let me get this straight. The author goes into all this huplah in the beginning about "well these people could be right", but, towards the end he says this.... "The Kindle is going to be broken, sluggish, and unusable in the eyes of most tech-savvy users and developers, but I think it’ll sell well once Amazon plasters it across their site and will introduce a lot of people to post-PC devices."
I'm sorry but as an author you are horrid. Not only were you semi on the right track at the beginning, it actually made me read the rest of your article... then you said that. That "know it all, lets be completely hypocritical" type ordeal. How do you know what it will be. You are speculating the same as everyone else.
In other words, you article not only failed, it made you look like a hypocritical author just writing random thoughts down, then doing the same exact thing you were talking about others doing.
People are saying this is a game changer from a price to offerings ordeal. Game changing is more than just what tech it has, it's about price. This could possibly force I pads to come down in price. Is that not a game changer? People are so stuck on this well it can't do this, or that ordeal, when in reality, it's more about lowering the price of things. I guess your just one of those people that has to have a million apps and do whatver on a tablet (they are already worthless for any real computing), so it's more down to reading articles, tinkering here and there, a few games, movies etc. What is there to revolutionize asides from PRICE?
Why would someone want to post this on a blog,? Unless that have a wish to become a new target for the feds? Seems kind of odd someone posting up a story like this in such a public place.
Something sounds very fishy with all this on top of that.
"For Apple, a move away from generally-available, off-the-shelf CPUs and towards its own breed of proprietary designs would not only afford it more control over product release schedules and its intellectual property, but it would also pave the way for the Mac maker to introduce new patent-protected features on its Mac line that rivals would have trouble reproducing for their own designs. "
What does this article author think the Motorola Power PC chips were? They were custom made just for mac. This isn't anything that MAC hasn't done before what so ever. Just the same with the new chips, odds are they won't be MFG'd by MAC, and just by a third party again. Same thing as SUN used to, same thing as MAC used to. (Remember all those "Sun Microsystems" chips made by a million different makers all labeled "Sun Microsystems".
They are just reverting back to their old game, for one reason, and that's to differentiate MAC's from others and lock people into proprietary hardware/software, while at the same token, be able to get rid of people running specific MAC OS's on PC's.
Holy crap man, is there any need to post up yet another article based upon an article originally posted here on HN?
Come on, no need to literally drill it deep down inside the kids self esteem.
It's not even 2 pages back on HN either. I've said it before, these duped threads are getting pretty lame. How many posts does it take to convey the message already been read,, and heck, still being read. This one is even worse of an article because it's about a blog debunking the ordeal. A blog that was covered on HN like said twice in this comment of mine.
A: Get a girlfriend. B: if he is really that hopeless, enable a child filter on his browser, and just lose the password, to make a re-install of the browser mandatory.
Sounds like he just needs some therapy in the end.
