Fix the backlight problem, and those puppies would run for *days* on a single charge, not a bloody useless 5 hours!
You make it sound so trivial. While we're at it, why don't we just fix the battery problem, so laptops can run by absorbing spiritual energry from the æther?;-)
Price it at sub-$1K, and the world would beat a path to their door. My god, I'd take two of them!
That's like saying, "Man, why don't they just sell Ferraris for $1.25? I'd buy half a dozen!" If you can think of how to make that cost effective, I guarantee you that your salary will soon increase to the point where you won't need a cheap notebook. Heh.
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Once, for a few months, I did tech support for some crappy business software. I loved how Mr. Bumpkin called the taskbar (in Windows 95) "that thar elec-tronic bar".
Sorry, your post just reminded me.
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Most dial-in services these days assign dynamic IPs, and with some of the larger networks, traffic is rerouted enough so that the IP visible to Amazon could change within the same session.'
Hmmm, maybe I shouldn't feel so bad about still only surfing at 28.8.:-)
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Imagine RMS grinding against your backside. If that doesn't help, imagine RMS grinding against ESR's backside. If that doesn't help, just kill yourself.
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She's mine, bitch.
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If you have your cookies turned off and never "log in" until you go to checkout, how can they possibly track you? It would be pretty stupid to let the customer see one price and then have it change when they go to pay. Just visit Amazon with cookies disabled, and keep your eyes open.
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It's not the official 2.2.17. `uname` may report 2.2.17, but trust me, it's 2.2.17-pre-something. In the Potato release notes, Debian says "Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is based on the latest stable Linux kernel (2.2.16), updated with Alan Cox's patches expected to go into 2.2.17." (My memory is currently failing me, but I think it's pre6. Sorry, not on the Debian machine right now!)
IMNSHO I doubt it's worth the upgrade from Potato's "2.2.17" to the real 2.2.17. Myself, I'm not touching Debian's kernel until 2.4 is released. My Slack box is currently running 2.2.16 with Unified IDE and it's probably going to wait for 2.4 as well. Wonder when we can hope to get it. November, maybe? Hopefully before the end of the year. 2.4 is all I want for Xmas. (Well, that and a Yopy.)
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Dammit... I'm on a 28.8; I'll have to download it at work tomorrow.;-)
Hey, has anyone else been having mouse problems with the XFree86 distro in Debian 2.2? Anytime I'm do something CPU-intensive (esp. working with large files in The GIMP), the mouse gets jerky as hell and even seems to register mouse events that aren't happening (sudden erratic movement and clicks). I've never had this problem in the past and it's weirding me out. Perhaps I should download the latest unpatched 3.* from XFree86 along with the new kernel.
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This is great for using at home, but how many organizations are going to run out and install this on their production servers? I think most would refuse to upgrade a working system because of the threats (real and imagined) of old scripts breaking. "It works now, why upgrade?" Perl seems to be the type of thing that the admins install when setting up the box, and never touch again.
I don't think that any changes/improvements in the language are drastic enough to warrant it anyway. It's not like the difference between Java pre-1.1.8. and Java 1.2. Perl 6, OTOH, will probably be worth the effort, but there still looms the problem of backwards-compatibility...
Has anything interesting happened yet re: Perl 6 and UNICODE? IMNSHO UNICODE should not be a standard feature in a language which does so much text parsing. I'm worried about performance.
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This is a bit offtopic, but I'm glad to see that you're finally being frank about Windows and Diablo II, Taco. So I'm withdrawing my previous gripes.
I actually have the Diablo II Collector's Edtion, but I haven't played it yet. I've been really busy lately, and I need to make sure that when I start playing, I'll have lots of free time. Unfortunately, everyone else will have leveled so early on that I have no chance of catching up... oh well.
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Now that we've found the gene, we need to integrate it into a new mutant breed of super-ultra-hyper-caffeinated humans. Perhaps my children will be able to live as I always wanted to, twitching and delusional 24/7, able to code for days on end without sleep. It's an amazing time we live in. *tearing up* God bless America.
Perhaps... perhaps they will even create a medication that will lower my caffeine tolerance back to mortal levels. I haven't gotten a coffee-buzz in years. I only get messed up and neurotic if I don't have enough coffee, and that's no fun. I like coffee.
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You make it sound so trivial. While we're at it, why don't we just fix the battery problem, so laptops can run by absorbing spiritual energry from the æther? ;-)
That's like saying, "Man, why don't they just sell Ferraris for $1.25? I'd buy half a dozen!" If you can think of how to make that cost effective, I guarantee you that your salary will soon increase to the point where you won't need a cheap notebook. Heh.
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Sorry, your post just reminded me.
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Hmmm, maybe I shouldn't feel so bad about still only surfing at 28.8. :-)
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If in doubt, go with that third option. I'm bored.
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IMNSHO I doubt it's worth the upgrade from Potato's "2.2.17" to the real 2.2.17. Myself, I'm not touching Debian's kernel until 2.4 is released. My Slack box is currently running 2.2.16 with Unified IDE and it's probably going to wait for 2.4 as well. Wonder when we can hope to get it. November, maybe? Hopefully before the end of the year. 2.4 is all I want for Xmas. (Well, that and a Yopy.)
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Hey, has anyone else been having mouse problems with the XFree86 distro in Debian 2.2? Anytime I'm do something CPU-intensive (esp. working with large files in The GIMP), the mouse gets jerky as hell and even seems to register mouse events that aren't happening (sudden erratic movement and clicks). I've never had this problem in the past and it's weirding me out. Perhaps I should download the latest unpatched 3.* from XFree86 along with the new kernel.
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This is great for using at home, but how many organizations are going to run out and install this on their production servers? I think most would refuse to upgrade a working system because of the threats (real and imagined) of old scripts breaking. "It works now, why upgrade?" Perl seems to be the type of thing that the admins install when setting up the box, and never touch again.
I don't think that any changes/improvements in the language are drastic enough to warrant it anyway. It's not like the difference between Java pre-1.1.8. and Java 1.2. Perl 6, OTOH, will probably be worth the effort, but there still looms the problem of backwards-compatibility...
Has anything interesting happened yet re: Perl 6 and UNICODE? IMNSHO UNICODE should not be a standard feature in a language which does so much text parsing. I'm worried about performance.
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a "life blow", dear Emily!
Wait, you are dead. Ew.
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Ask someone from DoubleClick. Maybe they run GNU/Linux too.
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Go bugger a kangaroo.
Fucking Aussie scum.
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Low user IDs
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I actually have the Diablo II Collector's Edtion, but I haven't played it yet. I've been really busy lately, and I need to make sure that when I start playing, I'll have lots of free time. Unfortunately, everyone else will have leveled so early on that I have no chance of catching up... oh well.
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Perhaps... perhaps they will even create a medication that will lower my caffeine tolerance back to mortal levels. I haven't gotten a coffee-buzz in years. I only get messed up and neurotic if I don't have enough coffee, and that's no fun. I like coffee.
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