Why? My present solution is better in several ways.
First, the work laptop has a 17" 1920x1200 LCD, and I have full HD videos on the USB disk, while I have yet to see a netbook with a remotely comparable screen. Second, the USB disk and CD add almost nothing to either weight or bulk, while any netbook would occupy more space and mass, especially if it has a decent display. Third, the USB disk and CD are rather cheaper than even a budget netbook, and far cheaper than any netbook with an adequate display (or a tablet, as another pundit opined).
BTW, I already have a personal laptop which also has a 17" 1920x1200 screen (actually slightly nicer than the work laptop's). However, I choose not to carry it around when I travel on business, since it has mass and bulk far greater than the USB drive and CD, and for my purposes would provide no additional functionality. Note that I carry several other work-related items along with the laptop, so airplane carry-on mass and space are not to be wasted.
I bring a Knoppix live CD, a ruggedized 500GB USB drive (Adata SH93, which is powered from a single USB port), and headphones. In total, this adds less than half a kilo to the mass I have to carry, and almost nothing to the bulk. The laptop hard disk is untouched, as it's not even mounted when Knoppix boots. I'm only using the laptop for personal purposes in hotels to either (i) surf the web, (ii) access non-work email accounts, or (iii) watch movies. I generally copy a selection of movies from the home media server to the USB drive before traveling - hotels often charge outrageous amounts for their limited selection of premium channels, and the company won't cover such charges. If I download anything, it also goes to the USB drive.
I actually prefer store bought media material - known format, quality assurance & convenience. It takes me less time to find it in the store (hell even ask the staff) to get it than trawl through spam, traps, seo bullshit & so on. However availability is an issue - 'net has almost everything, stores not so much. Unless you want to order and wait, even then.
This availability factor can be a great annoyance. I discovered several years ago that the Dreaded P.D.Q. Bach Collection [*] was not available from any store in Finland, and that furthermore the stores within reach said they could not even order it. I ended up ordering it from Amazon UK, which involved waiting weeks and paying their shipping fees.
[*] I use the third movement of the Pervertimento for bagpipe, bicycle, and balloons from disk 2 as the primary ringtone on my phone. The third movement is mostly bagpipe and string quartet, and is rather attention-getting, in its own way.
Also the WAF (wife acceptance factor) who very much likes dropping the disk in the home cinema drive and doesn't like computers.
All of our CDs and BDs and most of our DVDs have been ripped to the media server. It's even easier to use than dropping disks in the home theater.
you could make a shape with several thousand sides and patent that
Actually, the concept was employed by Poul Anderson in his story The three-cornered wheel, in which a constant width polygon (the simplest being a Reuleaux triangle) was employed to circumvent a religious prohibition on circular objects.
There is also a three-dimensional equivalent (constant-width polyhedron). A version of the Reuleaux triangle with rounded corners is occasionally encountered in industrial design. People keep reinventing it, just like square wheels, etc.
Anyway, 7671 volts is more than they used in an electric chair.
The lawyers saw this number and stopped production: a customer might get hurt and sue...
Hey, what's wrong with electing Bender?
Let's elect Bender to all offices, just like the Grand Pooh-Bah! It could hardly be worse than the present bunch.
Version 11+ seems to be dumbing down the OS much like Windows exists today. I understand they want to appeal to a greater number of users but, in my opinion, it's a step in the wrong direction for Ubuntu.
I'm running 10.04 LTS, and will continue to do so for a while. Most likely, the two PCs with the gnome interface will be upgraded to use xfce (i.e. Ubuntu 10.04 will become Xubuntu 12.04 LTS). One of our PCs already uses Xubuntu 10.04 LTS, so it will be a straight upgrade. I have installed Ubuntu 11.10 on a VM, and it sucks; I've also installed Linux Mint (menu sucks and can't be avoided), Suse (menu and other stuff sucks), etc. on VMs, and the only one which has a chance of supplanting Ubuntu is one of the flavors of PCLinuxOS.
Of course, some of us regard Stratfor as a joke with no tangible wit or discernible punchline. This does not impede idiots with more money than sense of humor from buying its output. Much the same can be said for The Atlantic, unfortunately...
Your toggle switches worked? You shouldn't be allowed to use a PDP 8/e unless you can solder a broken switch and fix the lights. Don't forget cleaning the tape heads.
The tape reader was fairly robust; it was the paper tale which needed to be fixed occasionally, as it did not wear gracefully. We had sticky tape and a couple of hole punch things for emergency fixes. Wait, you didn't mean magnetic tape, did you? We used to dream about a magnetic tape reader...
First, it was too realistic - it gave me an error with no indication of how to solve it: "PDP-8 has an error, try again tomorrow".
Also, it was not realistic - there was no button for thumping the unit (when the power key inexplicably caused an error light) or for muttering magic incantations (required while toggling in the address of your bootstrap in preparation for hitting the RUN switch).
Will it work for that lady who got hit with a court order because she was too loud during sex, causing the neighbors to complain. Or does general moaning and screaming get past it?
Cycling doesn't work in some parts of USA due to weather extremes. You can't bike when its 40 below zero wind chill, or on snow and ice.
People cycle here in central Finland through the winter, and it gets about as cold as Alaska. You just need to put winter tires (or wheels) on the bikes. They have metal studs in the tires, just like on the standard winter tires/wheels for cars.
Have you looked at the HTML of this site? (search for Google)
No worries: I have Ghostery and AdBlock among other extensions installed on the browsers at home, so Google's scripts are blocked when necessary. The particular browser I'm posting with also has Facebook blocker, since the laptop it's on is not allowed behind our firewall at home. It's a work laptop with Windows and an incredible quantity of corporate spyware and similar leper-ware.
Right on. Just measuring time spent on something doesn't determine it's value, that's the wrong metric.
Time spent is a measure of cost, not value. Value must be measured using other criteria.
The entire premise of the article is garbage. It seems to assume that a great amount of time wasted struggling (no doubt against massed stupidity) to get a simple thing done was worth more than getting the same thing done quickly, easily, and efficiently.
Which brings it all back to the merits of the two services to the end users.
Well, that's about a zero for G+, by the looks of things. However, FB is unequivocally heavily into negative territory in terms of merit to end users (even attempting to track non-users?). This is one reason why my router blocks all access to all of FB's IP ranges, thus rendering all those "like" buttons polluting other pages utterly harmless. These stupid "like" buttons are shown, but it's actually impressive or astonishing how much other stuff around the web is replaced by "denied" messages by the router.
I've an open mind about Google, but Facebook is definitely at the wrong end of the good-evil axis.
"Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason." - Sir John Harrington (1561–1612).
And that's why they are out to get him, and why he knows it. If Assange and the sordid revelations he assisted can survive in the teeth of official U.S. outrage, then that kind of revelation becomes legitimate. It's not just the U.S. which rails against that, since several of their allies and opponents appear to be cheering them on in the process.
Then all die of anal warts. I realize that anal warts are not usually life threatening, but we can dream!
You left out the bit about getting those anal warts on the penis and tongue. Probably a fate worse than death, and which should suit both of them just dandy. And their legions of bloodsuckers^Wlawyers, too.
When I lived in Toronto Ontario - 20+ years ago - I observed that Audi cars were almost always driven badly, and that a disproportionately large fraction of bad drivers seemed to drive an Audi. By bad driving, I mean cutting other drivers off especially at intersections, driving in two lanes for extended distances, swerving across multiple lanes abruptly to get to an exit, turning without indicating at places where indicating was really required, and driving at entirely inappropriate speeds (e.g. not accellerating on the adit ramp and thus blithely merging into 100+km/h traffic while doing 60km/h). The only obvious explanation was that those who overpaid for a Volkswagen were likely to have deficient judgment in other areas also.
TFA implies that these characteristics are now enjoyed by Prius drivers. Or endured by all other drivers.
If the Chinese completely took down the Great Firewall, many other sites would start to howl in pain. Think how useless lots of corporate feedback pages would become (e.g. on Facebook). Consultants would make a fortune implementing anti-Chinese firewalls all over the place...
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Just get your own net book man.
Why? My present solution is better in several ways.
First, the work laptop has a 17" 1920x1200 LCD, and I have full HD videos on the USB disk, while I have yet to see a netbook with a remotely comparable screen. Second, the USB disk and CD add almost nothing to either weight or bulk, while any netbook would occupy more space and mass, especially if it has a decent display. Third, the USB disk and CD are rather cheaper than even a budget netbook, and far cheaper than any netbook with an adequate display (or a tablet, as another pundit opined).
BTW, I already have a personal laptop which also has a 17" 1920x1200 screen (actually slightly nicer than the work laptop's). However, I choose not to carry it around when I travel on business, since it has mass and bulk far greater than the USB drive and CD, and for my purposes would provide no additional functionality. Note that I carry several other work-related items along with the laptop, so airplane carry-on mass and space are not to be wasted.
You don't even need a live cd, you can run it all off of the usb hard disk.
Not in my case. USB media are not bootable due to BIOS lockdown.
I bring a Knoppix live CD, a ruggedized 500GB USB drive (Adata SH93, which is powered from a single USB port), and headphones. In total, this adds less than half a kilo to the mass I have to carry, and almost nothing to the bulk. The laptop hard disk is untouched, as it's not even mounted when Knoppix boots. I'm only using the laptop for personal purposes in hotels to either (i) surf the web, (ii) access non-work email accounts, or (iii) watch movies. I generally copy a selection of movies from the home media server to the USB drive before traveling - hotels often charge outrageous amounts for their limited selection of premium channels, and the company won't cover such charges. If I download anything, it also goes to the USB drive.
I actually prefer store bought media material - known format, quality assurance & convenience. It takes me less time to find it in the store (hell even ask the staff) to get it than trawl through spam, traps, seo bullshit & so on. However availability is an issue - 'net has almost everything, stores not so much. Unless you want to order and wait, even then.
This availability factor can be a great annoyance. I discovered several years ago that the Dreaded P.D.Q. Bach Collection [*] was not available from any store in Finland, and that furthermore the stores within reach said they could not even order it. I ended up ordering it from Amazon UK, which involved waiting weeks and paying their shipping fees.
[*] I use the third movement of the Pervertimento for bagpipe, bicycle, and balloons from disk 2 as the primary ringtone on my phone. The third movement is mostly bagpipe and string quartet, and is rather attention-getting, in its own way.
Also the WAF (wife acceptance factor) who very much likes dropping the disk in the home cinema drive and doesn't like computers.
All of our CDs and BDs and most of our DVDs have been ripped to the media server. It's even easier to use than dropping disks in the home theater.
you could make a shape with several thousand sides and patent that
Actually, the concept was employed by Poul Anderson in his story The three-cornered wheel, in which a constant width polygon (the simplest being a Reuleaux triangle) was employed to circumvent a religious prohibition on circular objects.
There is also a three-dimensional equivalent (constant-width polyhedron). A version of the Reuleaux triangle with rounded corners is occasionally encountered in industrial design. People keep reinventing it, just like square wheels, etc.
Ascent video highlights from STS-129, from STS-130, from STS-131, from STS-132. Also, the blast from the past, and the last launch for Endeavour.
Anyway, 7671 volts is more than they used in an electric chair.
The lawyers saw this number and stopped production: a customer might get hurt and sue...
Hey, what's wrong with electing Bender?
Let's elect Bender to all offices, just like the Grand Pooh-Bah! It could hardly be worse than the present bunch.
Yup, Unity is the reason I'm still running 10.10
Version 11+ seems to be dumbing down the OS much like Windows exists today. I understand they want to appeal to a greater number of users but, in my opinion, it's a step in the wrong direction for Ubuntu.
I'm running 10.04 LTS, and will continue to do so for a while. Most likely, the two PCs with the gnome interface will be upgraded to use xfce (i.e. Ubuntu 10.04 will become Xubuntu 12.04 LTS). One of our PCs already uses Xubuntu 10.04 LTS, so it will be a straight upgrade. I have installed Ubuntu 11.10 on a VM, and it sucks; I've also installed Linux Mint (menu sucks and can't be avoided), Suse (menu and other stuff sucks), etc. on VMs, and the only one which has a chance of supplanting Ubuntu is one of the flavors of PCLinuxOS.
Of course, some of us regard Stratfor as a joke with no tangible wit or discernible punchline. This does not impede idiots with more money than sense of humor from buying its output. Much the same can be said for The Atlantic, unfortunately...
Your toggle switches worked? You shouldn't be allowed to use a PDP 8/e unless you can solder a broken switch and fix the lights. Don't forget cleaning the tape heads.
The tape reader was fairly robust; it was the paper tale which needed to be fixed occasionally, as it did not wear gracefully. We had sticky tape and a couple of hole punch things for emergency fixes. Wait, you didn't mean magnetic tape, did you? We used to dream about a magnetic tape reader...
Also, if you would like to relive your PDP-8 days, click here for a comprehensive re-enactment.
First, it was too realistic - it gave me an error with no indication of how to solve it: "PDP-8 has an error, try again tomorrow".
Also, it was not realistic - there was no button for thumping the unit (when the power key inexplicably caused an error light) or for muttering magic incantations (required while toggling in the address of your bootstrap in preparation for hitting the RUN switch).
Will it work for that lady who got hit with a court order because she was too loud during sex, causing the neighbors to complain. Or does general moaning and screaming get past it?
Cycling doesn't work in some parts of USA due to weather extremes. You can't bike when its 40 below zero wind chill, or on snow and ice.
People cycle here in central Finland through the winter, and it gets about as cold as Alaska. You just need to put winter tires (or wheels) on the bikes. They have metal studs in the tires, just like on the standard winter tires/wheels for cars.
I think CP violation was used by particle physicists long before the term was hijacked and given a different meaning by law enforcement hysteria.
A year is not even exactly 365.2422 days long (if we could actually agree how long a "day" is).
Have you looked at the HTML of this site? (search for Google)
No worries: I have Ghostery and AdBlock among other extensions installed on the browsers at home, so Google's scripts are blocked when necessary. The particular browser I'm posting with also has Facebook blocker, since the laptop it's on is not allowed behind our firewall at home. It's a work laptop with Windows and an incredible quantity of corporate spyware and similar leper-ware.
Did they also request removal of works with aliens who turn into humans and have sex with real humans?
It's been used in a Hollywood movie.
Right on. Just measuring time spent on something doesn't determine it's value, that's the wrong metric.
Time spent is a measure of cost, not value. Value must be measured using other criteria.
The entire premise of the article is garbage. It seems to assume that a great amount of time wasted struggling (no doubt against massed stupidity) to get a simple thing done was worth more than getting the same thing done quickly, easily, and efficiently.
Which brings it all back to the merits of the two services to the end users.
Well, that's about a zero for G+, by the looks of things. However, FB is unequivocally heavily into negative territory in terms of merit to end users (even attempting to track non-users?). This is one reason why my router blocks all access to all of FB's IP ranges, thus rendering all those "like" buttons polluting other pages utterly harmless. These stupid "like" buttons are shown, but it's actually impressive or astonishing how much other stuff around the web is replaced by "denied" messages by the router.
I've an open mind about Google, but Facebook is definitely at the wrong end of the good-evil axis.
If that's treason, thank god for treason.
"Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason." - Sir John Harrington (1561–1612).
And that's why they are out to get him, and why he knows it. If Assange and the sordid revelations he assisted can survive in the teeth of official U.S. outrage, then that kind of revelation becomes legitimate. It's not just the U.S. which rails against that, since several of their allies and opponents appear to be cheering them on in the process.
Then all die of anal warts. I realize that anal warts are not usually life threatening, but we can dream!
You left out the bit about getting those anal warts on the penis and tongue. Probably a fate worse than death, and which should suit both of them just dandy. And their legions of bloodsuckers^Wlawyers, too.
When I lived in Toronto Ontario - 20+ years ago - I observed that Audi cars were almost always driven badly, and that a disproportionately large fraction of bad drivers seemed to drive an Audi. By bad driving, I mean cutting other drivers off especially at intersections, driving in two lanes for extended distances, swerving across multiple lanes abruptly to get to an exit, turning without indicating at places where indicating was really required, and driving at entirely inappropriate speeds (e.g. not accellerating on the adit ramp and thus blithely merging into 100+km/h traffic while doing 60km/h). The only obvious explanation was that those who overpaid for a Volkswagen were likely to have deficient judgment in other areas also.
TFA implies that these characteristics are now enjoyed by Prius drivers. Or endured by all other drivers.
Screw the phone. Tell us more about the laptop...
If the Chinese completely took down the Great Firewall, many other sites would start to howl in pain. Think how useless lots of corporate feedback pages would become (e.g. on Facebook). Consultants would make a fortune implementing anti-Chinese firewalls all over the place...