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PC Prices Reach $300 Milestone
Carl Bialik from the WSJ writes "Prices for fully loaded, name-brand PCs have slipped below $300 in the last few weeks, a major milestone. 'Ten or so years ago, when PCs cost five or even 10 times what they do now, it was common for analysts to say that they would never become a staple in homes until they were priced the way consumer electronics were, usually defined as costing less than $300,' Lee Gomes writes in the Wall Street Journal. 'In the days when PCs were $2,000 and even more, that target seemed to be something of a fantasy. Now, PCs cost less than some telephones--and less than a lot of TV sets--and can be found in roughly three-quarters of U.S. homes. But while they are priced like consumer electronics, the machines still aren't even remotely as easy to use, and the trend lines there aren't particularly encouraging.'"
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While lower prices for hookers is great, we need to find a way to get hookers down to a price point where they can be used to replace textbooks for highschool students.
This textbook replacement hooker doesn't necessarily have to have every possible feature, but I think it does need networking, USB, a harddrive, and a display that is fast enough for word processing and simple animations. The ability to play music might insure that the kids don't lose it. The kids can play FPS games at home on their $300 hookers; this hooker is meant for study.
Obviously, Linux will be part of that solution, since Windows simply costs too much money.
The educational software for such hookers should all be Open Source. This will make it easier for governments and school systems to adapt the hookers to their particular needs. Each school district can employ a couple of hookers. Think of what the combined capabilities of so many hookers will be when it comes to developing educational software.
It's sad that we don't hear about wonderful educational software. The people who work on such software aren't held in the same regard as those who work on business enterprise applications or on games, yet educational software could potentially have much farther reaching impacts.
As did I... And when they made that same complaint (somewhat more eloquently phrased), I explained that pages not loading (or even crashing their browser) meant, in no uncertain terms, that the owner of that site didn't want their business.
Problem solved.
Now that's the dumbest thing I've heard today, especially for software that commands less than 10% of the market. Give me a break.
As an aside - I've noticed that quite a few "major" sites DELIBERATELY crash Firefox... Weather.com, as the example I notice most often (since I actually visit it regularly)... I use the User Agent Switcher extension, and if I set it to MSIE (or even to no user agent at all), such sites work just fine. If I set it to FF or Moz - Bam!, dead browser.
I mean, not taking the effort to make a site compatible, I can understand - But to actually exert effort to deliberately break some browsers? You'd almost think such actions must violate some law...
Your stupidity must violate some law...
Try upgrading to something other than Firefox 0.81. Weather.com has worked fine in all production versions of Firefox. Of course your theory that sites (other than MS-owned) would "deliberatly" write code to break a browser is downright asinine. WTF would they do that? To reduce visitors and therefore ad revenue? Seriously, remove your lips from the crack pipe every once in a while and get a grip on reality.