Or you can buy a refurb'd Thinkpad for $125-150 with specs and durability that will blow away these toys. Works just fine.
I do the majority of my work on a thinkpad that matches that description. It was ~2 years old when I bought it used and it's still humming along just fine 2+ years later. I've had previous ones meet those kind of reliability numbers as well, and I'm not exactly easy on my hardware.
Frankly it baffles me how much people will pay for hardware that won't last this long.
I frequently see new ThinkPads on sale for less than $400 brand new through Lenovo. I don't see what the advantage of this crippled $200 netbook would be; I would sooner spend a little more money to buy a vastly more useful system. Or spend a lot more and get a really nice thinkpad that won't need attention or upgrades for many years to come.
What I see is people from every branch of politics blaming people who support every other branch of politics for everything wrong with the world, including you.
First of all, I see you blaming something on me with that statement.
Second, I did not blame anything on anyone with my statements in this discussion. My statements were merely observations of the pervasive conservative bias that exists on this site. I have been observing this for years now, as you can see by reading my journal entries. I did not say that the conservative bias is the cause of anything "wrong with the world", just that it exists.
I'm sorry that this distinction defeated you so handily.
This is here because it helps to get slashdot members I disagree with riled up.
There. Fixed that for you.
Kindly take off your blinders and pay attention to the obvious bias of this website. At leastonce a week we see conservative stories like this on the front page, spreading the conservative message of the evil, evil, evil left wing. This isn't about who I disagree with, this is about the political bias of a site that used to report on technology.
Every time I point this out, people write replies like yours that claim that somehow this is not the case. I ask them to show examples of left-leaning political front page stores, and they fail to find any examples as blatant as the right-leaning political front page stories. Even if I allow them to stretch the notion of "left-leaning" to include stories that are about scientific discoveries in peer-reviewed journals (as American conservatives generally hate science), the frequency of those is not even close to the frequency of this kind of front-page conservative FUD.
This is here because it helps to get slashdot's conservative base riled up. This site has been pandering to the right wing for some time now, and this helps with that.
I was a TW customer for some time and then moved to a place where my only cable choice is Comcast. I can tell you from experience that TW was a vastly better product. Comcast is getting better, but I still got a better product for less money (and free service calls on top of it) through TW than what I get from Comcast.
TW customers should be breathing a sigh of relief that the merger didn't go through; Comcast customers are disappointed that they missed out on a possible chance at a better product.
That said, there is still almost nothing on TV worth watching. This is becoming increasingly a fault of the cable companies as they go about buying up networks so that they can provide various degrees of exclusive content.
Not long ago the Catholic Church was going to be OK with gay marriage and some limited forms of birth control, until they decided a week later that they still aren't. We ought to let the dust settle more on this one before we start congratulating the church on a sudden outbreak of common sense.
Ordinarily, yes. However it involves money (and more particularly, things that can be advertised on sites such as this in hopes of making money off of them) so someone probably posted it on facebook a while ago and then someone from here thought it was a worthwhile opportunity.
A plow is important if you need to either produce food for many people, or if you plan on producing enough food to sell to others. If you are living alone you can likely subsist on a much smaller garden that would not necessitate a plow.
The expectation is in 2023... 2013 is an error and it's already happened.
Slashdot, news from several years ago. Later today we'll likely run a story on that new "facebook" thing as well and whether or not it will be worth joining.
It's kind of hilarious that a bunch of self-styled libertarians need to have a leader cult, isn't it?
Almost as hilarious as the fact that the leader who wants to bring about the greatest (in scope) fascist revolution in this country is pretending to do it in the name of "liberty".
That sounds suspiciously like an ad-hominem argument. "Most average" Ob/Gyn? What does that even mean, other than to convey dark undertones?
I am using that because his followers make a huge deal about the number of babies he has delivered. However considering how long he was a practicing Ob/Gyn, that number is actually not particularly impressive - particularly if he was the main or only practicing Ob for a moderately populated area.
Shouldn't we be considering the merits of his argument, rather than his background?
From what I have seen, so far all he has been saying is that we're doing it wrong. I haven't seen anything from him about how to do it right. Naturally, his followers jump all over it as gospel.
Obama's Ebola czar (Ron Klain) is a lawyer and former chief-of-staff. Do you think *he's* qualified to tell us what we're doing wrong?
The Ebola czar is supposed to help manage the response. Just as the Surgeon General does not perform surgeries while a member of the cabinet, the Ebola czar is just a manager.
What the heck are you getting at? What's your purpose in posting this?
My point is that there are a lot of people - including one particular cult leader / politician / retired physician - telling us that we're doing it wrong. I have not seen any of these people do anything other than bitch and moan about it being done wrong; I most certainly have not seen them propose anything other than what we are doing.
Hell any proposal for the government to do anything would be automatically rejected as "the wrong thing" by Ron Paul as he is against all forms of government spending, regardless of how many lives are at stake (excluding, of course, his own).
I keep seeing bits on google news about Ron Paul telling us how everything we are doing is wrong in this matter. I'm sure the world's most average Ob/Gyn - and most successful living American cult leader - is also a highly qualified expert on Ebola.
And yes, I know I will be moderated straight down to hell for this one.
... a professional security agent who works for the government. If the shooter was letting as much lead fly as some have been saying, you would be delirious to think that an average Joe with a pistol would have been effective in this situation. We're not sure who the dead gunman is yet, but it seems quite likely he had a goal in mind.
... my LG Android device doesn't perform well or get good battery life. It's a slug that is constantly running out of internal storage (which makes apps run like crap and prevents them from being updated) and gets about 6-8 hours of battery life on standby most days. I don't do any apps more complicated than google plus on it, and I don't view any videos of any kind on it.
What if I am looking to download a ROM from an 8bit NES game? What if I want to watch a movie that isn't available to stream anywhere and hasn't been on DVD for years (yet still has a valid copyright which the owner is exercising and yet not selling copies of said movie)? What if I want to see episodes of TV shows that have never ben on DVD? What will google highlight for options then?
I should have been more verbose. I meant that nothing made for computers today will be of any significance in 100 years. Indeed there are other things being manufactured today that will still have meaning in 100 years (although as usual we will likely come up with more efficient ways to kill each other by then).
If only the hardware that we use in computers could have such a track record.
Nobody wants 100 year old computational hardware. Giving hardware longer longevity at this point would be pointless as it becomes obsolete around the same time it fails. Would you buy a 286 PC today from someone who said it was reliable? No, of course not - and that would only be around 30 years old. Furthermore nothing that is made today will be of any significance in 100 years.
Apparently up to this point in wine D3D 10 had more complete support than D3D 9. Is there a reason why it would be useful to make D3D 9 support more complete? I understand that this article goes beyond Wine.
I disagree. I have been in a variety of academic or academic-associated roles in the past couple decades and I can tell you from my experience that
Perl is the Perl of academia. Matlab is mostly used for undergrad instruction; researchers roll their own solutions mostly in Perl, with occasional ventures into Python, Java, Ruby, or C++ as needed.
Although you are certainly correct on Matlab having outrageous prices. In my current position if I wanted to buy a license myself my government/academic discount still places the cost at over $2k. Thankfully everyone working under me does their coding in languages whose code can be manipulated and run for free.
Really, calling it an app is like calling a Ferrari Enzo a bicycle. Matlab is a tool that is used for data analysis; when it is described as an "app" in the modern sense it is being classified with angry birds and other such smartphone rubbish.
A grant from General Mills or another cereal producer, perhaps. As someone who has spent time working on federal (in particular NIH, NSF, DOE) grant applications I can tell you that this wouldn't fly with them - at least, not in the current fiscal climates that they all face.
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Or you can buy a refurb'd Thinkpad for $125-150 with specs and durability that will blow away these toys. Works just fine.
I do the majority of my work on a thinkpad that matches that description. It was ~2 years old when I bought it used and it's still humming along just fine 2+ years later. I've had previous ones meet those kind of reliability numbers as well, and I'm not exactly easy on my hardware.
Frankly it baffles me how much people will pay for hardware that won't last this long.
I frequently see new ThinkPads on sale for less than $400 brand new through Lenovo. I don't see what the advantage of this crippled $200 netbook would be; I would sooner spend a little more money to buy a vastly more useful system. Or spend a lot more and get a really nice thinkpad that won't need attention or upgrades for many years to come.
What I see is people from every branch of politics blaming people who support every other branch of politics for everything wrong with the world, including you.
First of all, I see you blaming something on me with that statement.
Second, I did not blame anything on anyone with my statements in this discussion. My statements were merely observations of the pervasive conservative bias that exists on this site. I have been observing this for years now, as you can see by reading my journal entries. I did not say that the conservative bias is the cause of anything "wrong with the world", just that it exists.
I'm sorry that this distinction defeated you so handily.
This is here because it helps to get slashdot members I disagree with riled up.
There. Fixed that for you.
Kindly take off your blinders and pay attention to the obvious bias of this website. At least once a week we see conservative stories like this on the front page, spreading the conservative message of the evil, evil, evil left wing. This isn't about who I disagree with, this is about the political bias of a site that used to report on technology.
Every time I point this out, people write replies like yours that claim that somehow this is not the case. I ask them to show examples of left-leaning political front page stores, and they fail to find any examples as blatant as the right-leaning political front page stories. Even if I allow them to stretch the notion of "left-leaning" to include stories that are about scientific discoveries in peer-reviewed journals (as American conservatives generally hate science), the frequency of those is not even close to the frequency of this kind of front-page conservative FUD.
This is here because it helps to get slashdot's conservative base riled up. This site has been pandering to the right wing for some time now, and this helps with that.
I was a TW customer for some time and then moved to a place where my only cable choice is Comcast. I can tell you from experience that TW was a vastly better product. Comcast is getting better, but I still got a better product for less money (and free service calls on top of it) through TW than what I get from Comcast.
TW customers should be breathing a sigh of relief that the merger didn't go through; Comcast customers are disappointed that they missed out on a possible chance at a better product.
That said, there is still almost nothing on TV worth watching. This is becoming increasingly a fault of the cable companies as they go about buying up networks so that they can provide various degrees of exclusive content.
I thought regular powerpoint was brutal. What happens when weaponized powerpoint crashes (and is that good or bad)?
Not long ago the Catholic Church was going to be OK with gay marriage and some limited forms of birth control, until they decided a week later that they still aren't. We ought to let the dust settle more on this one before we start congratulating the church on a sudden outbreak of common sense.
Ordinarily, yes. However it involves money (and more particularly, things that can be advertised on sites such as this in hopes of making money off of them) so someone probably posted it on facebook a while ago and then someone from here thought it was a worthwhile opportunity.
I saw a customer purchase one of these at Microcenter last night.
A plow is important if you need to either produce food for many people, or if you plan on producing enough food to sell to others. If you are living alone you can likely subsist on a much smaller garden that would not necessitate a plow.
The expectation is in 2023... 2013 is an error and it's already happened.
Slashdot, news from several years ago. Later today we'll likely run a story on that new "facebook" thing as well and whether or not it will be worth joining.
Have they demonstrated the power of the force at all? or are they just genuine nutters?
Couldn't you ask the same question of all other religions since the dawn of time, and reach the same conclusion?
It's kind of hilarious that a bunch of self-styled libertarians need to have a leader cult, isn't it?
Almost as hilarious as the fact that the leader who wants to bring about the greatest (in scope) fascist revolution in this country is pretending to do it in the name of "liberty".
That sounds suspiciously like an ad-hominem argument. "Most average" Ob/Gyn? What does that even mean, other than to convey dark undertones?
I am using that because his followers make a huge deal about the number of babies he has delivered. However considering how long he was a practicing Ob/Gyn, that number is actually not particularly impressive - particularly if he was the main or only practicing Ob for a moderately populated area.
Shouldn't we be considering the merits of his argument, rather than his background?
From what I have seen, so far all he has been saying is that we're doing it wrong. I haven't seen anything from him about how to do it right. Naturally, his followers jump all over it as gospel.
Obama's Ebola czar (Ron Klain) is a lawyer and former chief-of-staff. Do you think *he's* qualified to tell us what we're doing wrong?
The Ebola czar is supposed to help manage the response. Just as the Surgeon General does not perform surgeries while a member of the cabinet, the Ebola czar is just a manager.
What the heck are you getting at? What's your purpose in posting this?
My point is that there are a lot of people - including one particular cult leader / politician / retired physician - telling us that we're doing it wrong. I have not seen any of these people do anything other than bitch and moan about it being done wrong; I most certainly have not seen them propose anything other than what we are doing.
Hell any proposal for the government to do anything would be automatically rejected as "the wrong thing" by Ron Paul as he is against all forms of government spending, regardless of how many lives are at stake (excluding, of course, his own).
I keep seeing bits on google news about Ron Paul telling us how everything we are doing is wrong in this matter. I'm sure the world's most average Ob/Gyn - and most successful living American cult leader - is also a highly qualified expert on Ebola.
And yes, I know I will be moderated straight down to hell for this one.
... a professional security agent who works for the government. If the shooter was letting as much lead fly as some have been saying, you would be delirious to think that an average Joe with a pistol would have been effective in this situation. We're not sure who the dead gunman is yet, but it seems quite likely he had a goal in mind.
... my LG Android device doesn't perform well or get good battery life. It's a slug that is constantly running out of internal storage (which makes apps run like crap and prevents them from being updated) and gets about 6-8 hours of battery life on standby most days. I don't do any apps more complicated than google plus on it, and I don't view any videos of any kind on it.
What if I am looking to download a ROM from an 8bit NES game? What if I want to watch a movie that isn't available to stream anywhere and hasn't been on DVD for years (yet still has a valid copyright which the owner is exercising and yet not selling copies of said movie)? What if I want to see episodes of TV shows that have never ben on DVD? What will google highlight for options then?
I should have been more verbose. I meant that nothing made for computers today will be of any significance in 100 years. Indeed there are other things being manufactured today that will still have meaning in 100 years (although as usual we will likely come up with more efficient ways to kill each other by then).
If only the hardware that we use in computers could have such a track record.
Nobody wants 100 year old computational hardware. Giving hardware longer longevity at this point would be pointless as it becomes obsolete around the same time it fails. Would you buy a 286 PC today from someone who said it was reliable? No, of course not - and that would only be around 30 years old. Furthermore nothing that is made today will be of any significance in 100 years.
Apparently up to this point in wine D3D 10 had more complete support than D3D 9. Is there a reason why it would be useful to make D3D 9 support more complete? I understand that this article goes beyond Wine.
Long story short: Matlab is the Perl of academia.
I disagree. I have been in a variety of academic or academic-associated roles in the past couple decades and I can tell you from my experience that
Perl is the Perl of academia. Matlab is mostly used for undergrad instruction; researchers roll their own solutions mostly in Perl, with occasional ventures into Python, Java, Ruby, or C++ as needed.
Although you are certainly correct on Matlab having outrageous prices. In my current position if I wanted to buy a license myself my government/academic discount still places the cost at over $2k. Thankfully everyone working under me does their coding in languages whose code can be manipulated and run for free.
Really, calling it an app is like calling a Ferrari Enzo a bicycle. Matlab is a tool that is used for data analysis; when it is described as an "app" in the modern sense it is being classified with angry birds and other such smartphone rubbish.
I see a large grant in your future.
A grant from General Mills or another cereal producer, perhaps. As someone who has spent time working on federal (in particular NIH, NSF, DOE) grant applications I can tell you that this wouldn't fly with them - at least, not in the current fiscal climates that they all face.