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The Economist Suggests Linux For Netbooks
Trepidity writes "In its roundup of how to choose a netbook, The Economist suggests that users 'avoid the temptation' to go for a Windows-based netbook, and in particular to treat them as mini laptops on which you'll install a range of apps. In their view, by the time you add the specs needed to run Windows and Windows apps effectively, you might as well have just bought a smallish laptop. Instead, they suggest the sweet spot is ultra-lite, Linux-based netbooks, with a focus on pre-installed software that caters to common tasks. They particularly like OpenOffice, which they rate as easier to use than MS Word and having 'no compatibility problems,' as well as various photo-management software." Besides which, does Windows offer spinning cubes for coffee-shop demos?
eXpensive Piece of Shit?
We have an XML open standard: Office Open XML. The free software community just refuses to implement it because they hate innovation and enjoy kicking puppies.
93rd rule of Slashdot: No matter how obvious my sarcasm is, my comment will be taken seriously by someone.
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Dear Earthlings and in particular readers of Slashdot,
We are a species from, what you call, the Pleiades, who have been watching your planet for a number of weeks. Our mission is to ascertain whether contact with your planet would be mutually beneficial.
We were of the belief that a cultural exchange, and maybe some donation of hardware -- particularly something to help you with pollution and climate change, so that you don't all die soon -- would be a good thing. However, our anthropologists were worried by the number of stupid people down there who may jeopardise the mission, and cause harm to you or us. We resolved to keep monitoring for a little while longer, to continue assessing you. I can now inform you that we have made our decision. The reason we are posting it on this site, and beneath this comment, is the parent post was the deciding factor; it made our course of action clear.
Nosbig, joke comprehension is an indicator of intelligence (or lack thereof). That you mis-understood the parent's joke is forgiveable, but speaking out about it is not. If we made contact, and during the first meeting made a joke about sharks with frickin' laser beams. Could we be sure that you would not shout, "They've got lasers! They're going to try to kill us all!!1!one" causing mass panic? It's this sort of stupidity that worries us, and means contact cannot be made at present.
So, there will be no gifts of technology or cultural exchanges, you have Nosbig to thank for this. Presently we will be f*cking back off to the Pleiades, our home and native land. However, all is not lost: we will be observing Slashdot tradition when someone misinterprets a joke, but as we will be flying approximately 2,500 kilometres over Nosbig, and there is no sound in space, I have ordered the entire crew onto the bridge, where we will all shout *WHHHOOOOOOOOOOSH* the moment we pass over him. I expect a joke has never flown so far over someone's head as now.
Good bye and good luck Earthpeople, hope the lifestyle comes together.
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CARRIER LOST
Flying Toasters?
THATS BRILLIANT!
Maybe we could make a program that only runs after the screen has gone black...we could call it...After...Black. Or something.
I'm a researcher. If I went under a bus nobody would notice.