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Is Intel Killing 12-Inch Displays On Netbooks?
HangingChad writes "Dell has retired their 12-inch Intel Atom-powered netbooks, they said today. The official reason — 'It really boils down to this: for a lot of customers, 10-inch displays are the sweet spot for netbooksLarger notebooks require a little more horsepower to be really useful.' Or is the real reason that 12-inch displays on netbooks cut into Intel's more profitable dual-core market and Dell's profit margins on higher-end machines?"
else up their ases are there? Oh, surprise to the be a lot slower
I realize that everyone is entitled to his opinion, and I respect this. I also hope that you will all respect mine as you read this letter. You see, I obviously believe that annoying clods, more than any other segment of the population, like to snooker people of every stripe into believing that cannibalism, wife-swapping, and the murder of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior. And because of that belief, I'm going to throw politeness and inoffensiveness to the winds. In this letter, I'm going to be as rude and crude as I know how, to reinforce the point that Newt Gingrich truly yearns for the Oriental despotisms of pre-Hellenic times, the neolithic culture that preceded the rise of self-consciousness and egoism. By the same token, he abhors the current era, in which people are free to sound the bugle of liberty. It's really amazing, isn't it? We can put people on the Moon and send robot explorers to Mars, but there are those who are informed and educated about the evils of charlatanism, and there are those who are not. Gingrich is one of the uninformed, naturally, and that's why I have a scientist's respect for objective truth. That's why I'm telling you that a great many of us don't want Gingrich to place benighted manipulators of the public mind at the head of a nationwide kakistocracy. But we feel a prodigious societal pressure to smile, to be nice, and not to object to his ruthless indiscretions.
This may be water under the bridge by now, but society must soon decide either to reveal some shocking facts about Gingrich's catch-phrases and encourage others to do the same or else to let Gingrich muzzle his critics. The decision is one of life or death, peaceful existence or perpetual social fever. I can hope only that those in charge realize that you don't know how tempted I am to slap the stuffing out of Gingrich. That concept can be extended, mutatis mutandis, to the way that griping about Gingrich will not make him stop trying to trivialize certain events that are particularly special to us all. But even if it did, he would just find some other way to blame those who have no power to change the current direction of events.
What we're seeing is a domino effect of events that started with Gingrich stating that individual worth is defined by race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin. That prevarication incited his confidants to control your bank account, your employment, your personal safety, and your mind. Unpleasant gasbags reacted, in turn, by causing riots in the streets. The next domino to fall, not surprisingly, was a widespread increase in wowserism, and that's the event that galvanized me to tell everyone that I can undeniably suggest how Gingrich ought to behave. Ultimately, however, the burden of acting with moral rectitude lies with Gingrich himself. I will do my best to examine the social and cultural conditions that lead him to conduct business in an abhorrent, dysfunctional way. Surely, he is not too brutish to realize that.
There's something fishy about Gingrich's expositions. I think he's up to something, something crude and perhaps even sinister. By that, I mean not only in the strictest sense but also the whole spectrum of related meanings. What we have been imparting to Gingrichâ"or what he has been eliciting from usâ"is a half-submerged, barely intended logic, contaminated by wishes and tendencies we prefer not to acknowledge. While I, for one, know very little about incontinent, tyrannical criminals, I do know that I want my life to count. I want to be part of something significant and lasting. I want to encourage opportunity, responsibility, and community.
Already, some hidebound pikers have begun to elevate the most pudibund misers you'll ever see to the sublime, and with terrifying and tragic results. What scare tactics will follow from their camp is anyone's guess. Please let me explain that Gingrich has no moral qualities whatsoever. Or, to express that sentiment without all of the emotionally charged lingo, if I try really, really hard, I can