Where do you get 479 euros - I'm talking 479 dollars Canadian - 450 US.
Talking into account the prices here are always including VAT theres practicly no difference between the dollar prices and the euro prices.
And you can buy cheaper - they have a nice one at Future $hit for $360, but lower spec
Well, i also made the mistake of getting one of those cheap laptops once.
So they do survive the guarantee period now and then.
(but it still has a dvd burner screen, mouse, keyboard, speakers, battery and is portable - and it will use less energy than you will with your 10-year-old crt. And you're going to have to replace that crt soon anyways).
Of course i will have to replace the CRT sometime.
If i had to bet, though, it will still outlast that 360$ laptop you mentioned.
Oh, and you also have dual monitor capability built right in - and at the full 1920x1080 for hdtv. And you can actually pop a dvd in and play it, which you can't on that $192 system - no dvd. And you can lug it to the living room or den to watch the dvd on the big screen instead of that 10-year-old 17" crt.
As i already said, the big screen is hooked up to my box anyway.
A friend of mine wanted to build himself a quad-core box this winter. 3 x 1TB hard drives, 8 gigs of ram, dual 24" lcds. It was cheaper for him to buy an HP desktop from Future Crap than it would have been to build it himself,...
Weird. I always seem to be able to build them some 10-20% cheaper.
Though i usually invest a bit more and get a good mobo, case and power unit.
Not having the box fail is worth more than waiting for a replacement.
You still cant compare it.
Do you need a new monitor *EVERY* time you buy a notebook? Of course.
Do you need a new monitor every 2-3 years for a PC? No.
So lets rather go with your original 479€ figure for a cheap laptop.
At that price i can built a superior desktop INCLUDING monitor and keyboard/mouse.
After 2-3 years i can upgrade, at a far lower cost.
If i spent the same i will then have a dual monitor setup and have *highly* superior box.
As for:
Also, there are plenty of instructions on the net on how to replace screens and keyboards, though you most likely won't have to if you have half a clue.
The problem is not replacing stuff (not for me at least).
The problem is getting spare parts. And in my experience the displays happen to need replacing a lot more often than stand alone tfts. (But then again, you dont usually carry a monitor around).
Personaly i recommend desktops unless the mobility is required.
While you can sure safe money on a diy-box there are far better reasons for that approach.
Most pre-assembled boxes fail on a quite a couple of choices.
Case:
Unless you are getting some overpriced gamer boxes the case is crap! Hassle to upgrade, cheap materials, lots of edges you can cut yourself etc...
I will be keeping my nice Chieftec tower for the next couple of iterations. Exchanging drives is a lot faster, everything is easy to to get too, nice cool and quiet (with the extra ventilation).
Power Unit:
One of the mayor sources of annoyance. Choosing an efficient and quiet one sure is relaxing.
Mainboard:
Mainboards happen to be the number one source of failure in PCs. Even rather expensive boxes usually have cheap boards since they cant advertise them (more ghz? No. More cores? No. More memory? No. More reliable capacitors? Ever see something like that in a description?)
The mobo is the component i never safe money on. Its supposed to handle the next cpu as well and i rather keep a good mobo than getting the next asrock or similiar.
Do i safe money compared to a similarly specced box from a retailer? No.
But i know its more reliable and easy to upgrade, so i do safe money in the long run due to upgrading and have less hassle replacing sub-par components.
Also, most people would be better off buying a cheap dual-core laptop $479 - 3 gig ram, dual core, 320 gig hd), refusing the MS install (-$55) and getting a refund on Windows, and they also won't have to buy a monitor (-$100), keyboard and mouse (-$25) mouse, ups (-$40), or wireless networking to steal wifi since they're so cheap ($25). So, laptop $479-$245=$234 vs their machine ($192) = $42
Ok, let me get this straight.
I need an ups???
Never got one of those for my home box in 25 years.
New monitor?
I still got my good ol 17" CRT connected (as secondary monitor) and an HD TV (yes i know, not that many DPI, but i actually prefer to have a bit of space between me and the screen).
And no, i dont need wireless on my stationary box.
So there are at least 160 bucks which wouldnt flow into my calculation.
And my box is diy, too. Components between 1 and 4 years old (except for the 17", thats 10+).
And you got too take something else into account. What if something breaks on a laptop?
Display? You are screwed.
Even something as simple as a keyboard. Desktop? No prob. Laptop? Yea sure. Best chance getting the some model defective on ebay.
And no, even a good laptop keyboard and touchpad dont compare to a real keyboard and mouse...
A magazine has a very finite space unlike the appstore which is only limited by disk space and thus practicly limitless.
But i'm sure you can haggle a flat rate with a magazine for advertisement and get a page every issue.
The submitter seems to think that China somehow wields a monopoly over information sources. While they may have a degree of dominance in certain areas, there are far more choices of where to get your media than China. If you don't agree with China's "walled garden" approach, then you don't have to live there. There's Europe and America out there for you instead. Have fun.
It's a bit of an overstatement, but maybe you get the point.
Its not just about the iPad.
German magazine publishers have been uncomfortable with Apple for quite a while now.
The issues are Apples censorship, ranging from tits to satire, and the 30% cut Apple demands.
It is likely the WeTab (formerly known as WePad) will receive major backing from german publishers.
A video from a prototype can be found here
is having the buttons on the left.
To fix that:
open console or press ALT-F2
type "gconf-editor"
go to "apps->metacity->general"
edit the key "button_layout" to "menu:minimize,maximize,close"
No longer get nerved by the changed layout.
Just felt like it fell behind the times and was no longer the easiest Linux to use anymore.
It's amazing what having millions of dollars to throw into a software project can do.
To my knowledge, Mandriva did not have someone behind it with loads of money.
Mandriva is definatly on par with Ubuntu in terms of user-friendlyness.
Dont know about Canonicals budget, but given their popularity one might expect more kernel patches from their side.
Yes, it's true that Flash is not a right. And yes, it's also true that by "choosing Apple" you're choosing a "closed system". But none of it get to the core issue.
And, unluckily, neither are you.
Its not about the flash runtime. Its the clause about disallowing applications written in "illegal" languages. Apple are crossing a very distinctive line here.
Next thing, you are only allowed to dissasemble a Mac with authorized iScrewdrivers...
In this case, Adobe being such a crybaby about this situation is both an insult to Apple, but also a very big compliment. There is so much fear that the iPad will revolutionize... something (Granted I don't know what, as the most entertaining thing I've managed to get out of it is tapping flying Dragonballs to a musical beat) and become so ubuiquitous, that Adobe not being able to take part in it the way they've currently done with so many other forms of computing environments makes them throw e-hissy fits.
Missing the point again. Its not about the iPad really. Its about disallowing languages/development tools. The iPhone has been fairly succesfull and Apple wants to lock out CS5, MonoTouch, Unity3D etc...
[..] but I'm pretty sure anyone who has tried to use Flash on x86 linux will remember how poor a job Adobe does in making the player. Adobe could barely make a version of Flash to run well on a 1.8 GHz Pentium 4 with 512 MB of RAM; you really think they can make it run on a cell phone?
Flashplayer sucks on Linux, sure. But you know what? I dont really care it uses nearly 100% of one of my cores when i watch a film, or play a little flash game.
Did Adobe really ever really care about Linux? Dont think so.
Im pretty sure they can do a lot better if they really want to optimize the player for Android.
And you know what? Those improvements may actually flow back to desktop linux...
My daughter may not have racial bias, but she also does not have stranger-danger... would gladly hug the nice homeless man who is yelling at god and drinking a paper bag.
As someone who has been homeless for a couple of months (and also happily drinks beer, dont do the god-yelling stuff, no sense in doing that if you dont believe in that kind of stuff) i have to ask, that is wrong why?
Most violance and abuse happens via family members.
Or would you prefer if she hugs some well-dressed banker, who wants to sell her some 100% risk free investments?
It just means their behaviour is not illegal. It doesn't tell anything about the morality of their behaviour.
Well, i dont know the judicial system in America, but i would not be surprised if it were illegal there as well under some "anti-competetive behavior" rules.
It would be a pretty clear case in Germany.
Sorry, but let's keep things in perspective. You may not like Apple's degree of control and restrictions (and you certainly wouldn't be the first in that group) but they are not misusing anything - at least not any more so than Walmart misuses control over their floorspace.
Guess its ok then. Adobe just opens an alternate store and sells applications there...
Oh, wait.
"Applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited."
About the same as if the Win7 EULA contained something like "Applications not written in Visual-Studio are prohibited."
Apple is misusing its controll of the app-store to prohibit sale and production of third party development tools. And one of the main targets here is CS5.
Do you have a reliable source for the number of apps sold/downloaded at the other portals?
You mean as reliable as the aforementioned article? (Falsely claiming sales instead of downloads at first)
Well, my guesswork probably isnt worse than that of the atricle.
Take e.g. Jamba, with an estimated revenue of 300M$.
Sure, they make the bigger portion with ringtones, but assuming only 20% j2me games and the fact that games usually sell for around a dollar in the weekly rates i would estimate around 50 million SALES of j2me games on ONE of the bigger portals alone.
With some 40 million or so iphones vs billions of phones capable of j2me midlets (not counting smybian etc...) that figure cant be true.
Also, that article states that apple counted the free apps as well and insists only 16 million apps were sold for all other phones combined.
Thats complete bullshit.
There are MANY portals that sell more than 16 millions phone apps per year.
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Where do you get 479 euros - I'm talking 479 dollars Canadian - 450 US.
Talking into account the prices here are always including VAT theres practicly no difference between the dollar prices and the euro prices.
And you can buy cheaper - they have a nice one at Future $hit for $360, but lower spec
Well, i also made the mistake of getting one of those cheap laptops once.
So they do survive the guarantee period now and then.
(but it still has a dvd burner screen, mouse, keyboard, speakers, battery and is portable - and it will use less energy than you will with your 10-year-old crt. And you're going to have to replace that crt soon anyways).
Of course i will have to replace the CRT sometime.
If i had to bet, though, it will still outlast that 360$ laptop you mentioned.
Oh, and you also have dual monitor capability built right in - and at the full 1920x1080 for hdtv. And you can actually pop a dvd in and play it, which you can't on that $192 system - no dvd. And you can lug it to the living room or den to watch the dvd on the big screen instead of that 10-year-old 17" crt.
As i already said, the big screen is hooked up to my box anyway.
A friend of mine wanted to build himself a quad-core box this winter. 3 x 1TB hard drives, 8 gigs of ram, dual 24" lcds. It was cheaper for him to buy an HP desktop from Future Crap than it would have been to build it himself,...
Weird. I always seem to be able to build them some 10-20% cheaper.
Though i usually invest a bit more and get a good mobo, case and power unit.
Not having the box fail is worth more than waiting for a replacement.
Do you need a new monitor *EVERY* time you buy a notebook? Of course.
Do you need a new monitor every 2-3 years for a PC? No.
So lets rather go with your original 479€ figure for a cheap laptop.
At that price i can built a superior desktop INCLUDING monitor and keyboard/mouse.
After 2-3 years i can upgrade, at a far lower cost.
If i spent the same i will then have a dual monitor setup and have *highly* superior box.
As for:
Also, there are plenty of instructions on the net on how to replace screens and keyboards, though you most likely won't have to if you have half a clue.
The problem is not replacing stuff (not for me at least).
The problem is getting spare parts. And in my experience the displays happen to need replacing a lot more often than stand alone tfts. (But then again, you dont usually carry a monitor around).
Personaly i recommend desktops unless the mobility is required.
While you can sure safe money on a diy-box there are far better reasons for that approach.
Most pre-assembled boxes fail on a quite a couple of choices.
Case:
Unless you are getting some overpriced gamer boxes the case is crap! Hassle to upgrade, cheap materials, lots of edges you can cut yourself etc...
I will be keeping my nice Chieftec tower for the next couple of iterations. Exchanging drives is a lot faster, everything is easy to to get too, nice cool and quiet (with the extra ventilation).
Power Unit:
One of the mayor sources of annoyance. Choosing an efficient and quiet one sure is relaxing.
Mainboard:
Mainboards happen to be the number one source of failure in PCs. Even rather expensive boxes usually have cheap boards since they cant advertise them (more ghz? No. More cores? No. More memory? No. More reliable capacitors? Ever see something like that in a description?)
The mobo is the component i never safe money on. Its supposed to handle the next cpu as well and i rather keep a good mobo than getting the next asrock or similiar.
Do i safe money compared to a similarly specced box from a retailer? No.
But i know its more reliable and easy to upgrade, so i do safe money in the long run due to upgrading and have less hassle replacing sub-par components.
Updates wont break the "crack".
Also, most people would be better off buying a cheap dual-core laptop $479 - 3 gig ram, dual core, 320 gig hd), refusing the MS install (-$55) and getting a refund on Windows, and they also won't have to buy a monitor (-$100), keyboard and mouse (-$25) mouse, ups (-$40), or wireless networking to steal wifi since they're so cheap ($25). So, laptop $479-$245=$234 vs their machine ($192) = $42
Ok, let me get this straight.
I need an ups???
Never got one of those for my home box in 25 years.
New monitor?
I still got my good ol 17" CRT connected (as secondary monitor) and an HD TV (yes i know, not that many DPI, but i actually prefer to have a bit of space between me and the screen).
And no, i dont need wireless on my stationary box.
So there are at least 160 bucks which wouldnt flow into my calculation.
And my box is diy, too. Components between 1 and 4 years old (except for the 17", thats 10+).
And you got too take something else into account. What if something breaks on a laptop?
Display? You are screwed.
Even something as simple as a keyboard. Desktop? No prob. Laptop? Yea sure. Best chance getting the some model defective on ebay.
And no, even a good laptop keyboard and touchpad dont compare to a real keyboard and mouse...
I'm at work so I'm not going to try a tinyurl link... Let me guess... goatse guy?
Far worse.
Steve Jobs.
A magazine has a very finite space unlike the appstore which is only limited by disk space and thus practicly limitless.
But i'm sure you can haggle a flat rate with a magazine for advertisement and get a page every issue.
The submitter seems to think that China somehow wields a monopoly over information sources. While they may have a degree of dominance in certain areas, there are far more choices of where to get your media than China. If you don't agree with China's "walled garden" approach, then you don't have to live there. There's Europe and America out there for you instead. Have fun.
It's a bit of an overstatement, but maybe you get the point.
I would like the magazines to agree to publish whatever I ask them to in their magazines. It's only fair that it works both ways, right?
You can.
Its called advertisement.
Its not just about the iPad.
German magazine publishers have been uncomfortable with Apple for quite a while now.
The issues are Apples censorship, ranging from tits to satire, and the 30% cut Apple demands.
It is likely the WeTab (formerly known as WePad) will receive major backing from german publishers.
A video from a prototype can be found here
is having the buttons on the left.
To fix that:
open console or press ALT-F2
type "gconf-editor"
go to "apps->metacity->general"
edit the key "button_layout" to "menu:minimize,maximize,close"
No longer get nerved by the changed layout.
Just felt like it fell behind the times and was no longer the easiest Linux to use anymore.
It's amazing what having millions of dollars to throw into a software project can do.
To my knowledge, Mandriva did not have someone behind it with loads of money.
Mandriva is definatly on par with Ubuntu in terms of user-friendlyness.
Dont know about Canonicals budget, but given their popularity one might expect more kernel patches from their side.
Show me a domina that shits in her customers and bills them 500 bucks for the deal.
Yeah, weird things happen.
Notebook sales bite netbook sales. iPad sales bite iPod sales. Nothing to see here.
Yes, it's true that Flash is not a right. And yes, it's also true that by "choosing Apple" you're choosing a "closed system". But none of it get to the core issue.
And, unluckily, neither are you.
Its not about the flash runtime. Its the clause about disallowing applications written in "illegal" languages. Apple are crossing a very distinctive line here.
Next thing, you are only allowed to dissasemble a Mac with authorized iScrewdrivers...
In this case, Adobe being such a crybaby about this situation is both an insult to Apple, but also a very big compliment. There is so much fear that the iPad will revolutionize... something (Granted I don't know what, as the most entertaining thing I've managed to get out of it is tapping flying Dragonballs to a musical beat) and become so ubuiquitous, that Adobe not being able to take part in it the way they've currently done with so many other forms of computing environments makes them throw e-hissy fits.
Missing the point again. Its not about the iPad really. Its about disallowing languages/development tools. The iPhone has been fairly succesfull and Apple wants to lock out CS5, MonoTouch, Unity3D etc...
[..] but I'm pretty sure anyone who has tried to use Flash on x86 linux will remember how poor a job Adobe does in making the player. Adobe could barely make a version of Flash to run well on a 1.8 GHz Pentium 4 with 512 MB of RAM; you really think they can make it run on a cell phone?
Flashplayer sucks on Linux, sure. But you know what? I dont really care it uses nearly 100% of one of my cores when i watch a film, or play a little flash game.
Did Adobe really ever really care about Linux? Dont think so.
Im pretty sure they can do a lot better if they really want to optimize the player for Android.
And you know what? Those improvements may actually flow back to desktop linux...
My daughter may not have racial bias, but she also does not have stranger-danger... would gladly hug the nice homeless man who is yelling at god and drinking a paper bag.
As someone who has been homeless for a couple of months (and also happily drinks beer, dont do the god-yelling stuff, no sense in doing that if you dont believe in that kind of stuff) i have to ask, that is wrong why? Most violance and abuse happens via family members. Or would you prefer if she hugs some well-dressed banker, who wants to sell her some 100% risk free investments?
It just means their behaviour is not illegal. It doesn't tell anything about the morality of their behaviour.
Well, i dont know the judicial system in America, but i would not be surprised if it were illegal there as well under some "anti-competetive behavior" rules.
It would be a pretty clear case in Germany.
and anything containing the word Linux has immediate press and street stigma.
Not true.
Was already in the news of the biggest radio station in germany.
Sorry, but let's keep things in perspective. You may not like Apple's degree of control and restrictions (and you certainly wouldn't be the first in that group) but they are not misusing anything - at least not any more so than Walmart misuses control over their floorspace.
Guess its ok then. Adobe just opens an alternate store and sells applications there...
Oh, wait.
"Applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited."
About the same as if the Win7 EULA contained something like "Applications not written in Visual-Studio are prohibited."
Apple is misusing its controll of the app-store to prohibit sale and production of third party development tools. And one of the main targets here is CS5.
You put stakes into VAMPIRES, not Palm.
Poor Palm.
Do you have a reliable source for the number of apps sold/downloaded at the other portals?
You mean as reliable as the aforementioned article? (Falsely claiming sales instead of downloads at first)
Well, my guesswork probably isnt worse than that of the atricle.
Take e.g. Jamba, with an estimated revenue of 300M$.
Sure, they make the bigger portion with ringtones, but assuming only 20% j2me games and the fact that games usually sell for around a dollar in the weekly rates i would estimate around 50 million SALES of j2me games on ONE of the bigger portals alone.
With some 40 million or so iphones vs billions of phones capable of j2me midlets (not counting smybian etc...) that figure cant be true.
Also, that article states that apple counted the free apps as well and insists only 16 million apps were sold for all other phones combined.
Thats complete bullshit.
There are MANY portals that sell more than 16 millions phone apps per year.
i already wrote native code that works with 100% shared code on different plattforms!
Yeah, on both Intel and AMD!