Heh. Actually I wasn't referring to Mr Klein specifically, although now that you mention it my use of drunken turns out to be more apt than I had anticipated.
You have to admit that Alberta is a bit of a special case. A drunken monkey could run a surplus with their natural resources in todays economic climate.
Sorry for the exasperation, but you have it wrong too. I see this mistake constantly on Digg and/. and it is really starting to piss me off. Right and left wing politics are solely a measure of ECONOMIC policy. They are NOT a measure freedom. You are all very aware of communism and the problems therein but how many of you are familiar with right-wing authoritarianism? There are many examples of governments like this and they aren't any more friendly then their left-wing counterparts. Just as there is right-wing authoritarianism, there is also left-wing libertarianism. Calling leftists authoritarian is mixing terms. Right-left and authoritarian-libertarian are completely different scales.
I heartily disagree. First of all, I purchased my EeePC 701 in December of last year and I have never looked back; despite the fact that I have the largest fingers of anyone I have ever met (no I haven't met any NBA players, I'm sure many of them have bigger hands then me). I'm not kidding, I couldn't get a grad ring in Grade 12 because even the largest size would not fit on my pinky finger. I have no complaints -- at all -- about the keyboard. Sure it isn't an IBM Model M but I don't find it any more annoying to type on then the keyboard on a standard 15.4 inch laptop. To be fair, though, I don't touch type. However my girlfriend does and she hasn't had any complaints about the EeePC's keyboard either.
As well I don't have any issues with the storage space. In fact, I would go as far as to say that I wish the EeePC 901 came with a 4GB HD because I simply have no need of a larger drive. Also, I would be absolutely shocked if any significant percentage of EeePC users use their EeePCs as desktop replacements. I would think that most people who buy EeePCs probably have a desktop at home, or at least another laptop. Personally I run an SSHFS serve on my desktop, which allows me to access my entire movie collection, as long as I am connected to my own network, or at least my entire music collection as long as I am connected to the internet at, at least, 512Kbits. As well, most people I know, who like to carry around a large amount of data, use external HDs rather then laptops anyway, so even if the user is incapable of using something like SSHFS, they may not care that much about disk space.
As far as battery life goes, I have been able to stretch my EeePC out to almost 9 hours, if I am not using it heavily. This has, so far, proved to be more then adequate for my usage, although mileage may vary.
And finally, yes, indeed, the low-res screen is a bit of a bitch. Although this can easily be mitagated (at least mostly) by using virtual desktops.
Personally I wish the EeePC, including it's keyboard, was a little bit SMALLER, as I currently can only fit it in the pockets of a couple of my pants, out of about 30 or so, and I don't like taking much stuff with me for the vast majority of my excursions.
In short I love the EeePC, and, knowing what I know now, I would find it very hard to choose between the 701, 901 and the Acer AsprieOne if I was in the market for my first subnotebook today.
I worked for an outsourcing call centre that took tech support calls for Bell Sympatico internet service for 2 and a half years (the majority of this time I was a senior support tech [tier 2]). My tenure with them has only recently ended (February) and I was still there while they began traffic shaping. In the 2 and a half years I worked there I only received 2 calls that I could attribute to network congestion (the sync and error rates between the modem and line card were perfect but they would inexplicably get slow speed in the evenings and I have never seen a case where latency was an issue, that wasn't related to sync problems or port forwarding). From what I have heard through the food chain there, these issues were extremely isolated and my experience (and the experiences of many of my coworkers, may I add) this certainly seems to be the case. I have high hopes that the CRTC will repeal this nonsense once and for all.
P.S. I am in the maritimes (NB) and our version of Bell, called Aliant doesn't traffic shape or have any bandwidth caps on DSL.:p
The initial version of "The Charter of the French Language" (Bill 101) made it illegal to post signs in any language other then French. This law was upheld (through a storm of controversy, I might add) between 1977 and 1993. However in 1988 The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that this restriction violated "The Charter of Rights and Freedoms". However the incumbent Premier at the time invoked the "not withstanding" clause of the Canadian constitution to delay the change in law until 1993. Since then it has been legal to have bilingual signs in Quebec so long as the French part of the sign is displayed "markedly predominant."
I apologize for the off-topicness of my post but as a Canadian who is deeply fascinated with politics, especially those surrounding Quebec and the French language, I could not resist.
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Heh. Actually I wasn't referring to Mr Klein specifically, although now that you mention it my use of drunken turns out to be more apt than I had anticipated.
You have to admit that Alberta is a bit of a special case. A drunken monkey could run a surplus with their natural resources in todays economic climate.
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/. and it is really starting to piss me off. Right and left wing politics are solely a measure of ECONOMIC policy. They are NOT a measure freedom. You are all very aware of communism and the problems therein but how many of you are familiar with right-wing authoritarianism? There are many examples of governments like this and they aren't any more friendly then their left-wing counterparts. Just as there is right-wing authoritarianism, there is also left-wing libertarianism. Calling leftists authoritarian is mixing terms. Right-left and authoritarian-libertarian are completely different scales.
Sorry for the exasperation, but you have it wrong too. I see this mistake constantly on Digg and
I heartily disagree. First of all, I purchased my EeePC 701 in December of last year and I have never looked back; despite the fact that I have the largest fingers of anyone I have ever met (no I haven't met any NBA players, I'm sure many of them have bigger hands then me). I'm not kidding, I couldn't get a grad ring in Grade 12 because even the largest size would not fit on my pinky finger. I have no complaints -- at all -- about the keyboard. Sure it isn't an IBM Model M but I don't find it any more annoying to type on then the keyboard on a standard 15.4 inch laptop. To be fair, though, I don't touch type. However my girlfriend does and she hasn't had any complaints about the EeePC's keyboard either.
As well I don't have any issues with the storage space. In fact, I would go as far as to say that I wish the EeePC 901 came with a 4GB HD because I simply have no need of a larger drive. Also, I would be absolutely shocked if any significant percentage of EeePC users use their EeePCs as desktop replacements. I would think that most people who buy EeePCs probably have a desktop at home, or at least another laptop. Personally I run an SSHFS serve on my desktop, which allows me to access my entire movie collection, as long as I am connected to my own network, or at least my entire music collection as long as I am connected to the internet at, at least, 512Kbits. As well, most people I know, who like to carry around a large amount of data, use external HDs rather then laptops anyway, so even if the user is incapable of using something like SSHFS, they may not care that much about disk space.
As far as battery life goes, I have been able to stretch my EeePC out to almost 9 hours, if I am not using it heavily. This has, so far, proved to be more then adequate for my usage, although mileage may vary.
And finally, yes, indeed, the low-res screen is a bit of a bitch. Although this can easily be mitagated (at least mostly) by using virtual desktops.
Personally I wish the EeePC, including it's keyboard, was a little bit SMALLER, as I currently can only fit it in the pockets of a couple of my pants, out of about 30 or so, and I don't like taking much stuff with me for the vast majority of my excursions.
In short I love the EeePC, and, knowing what I know now, I would find it very hard to choose between the 701, 901 and the Acer AsprieOne if I was in the market for my first subnotebook today.
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Bobette, Lorena.
There I just did it too. Then I pressed my pinkie finger against the corner of my mouth.
I worked for an outsourcing call centre that took tech support calls for Bell Sympatico internet service for 2 and a half years (the majority of this time I was a senior support tech [tier 2]). My tenure with them has only recently ended (February) and I was still there while they began traffic shaping. In the 2 and a half years I worked there I only received 2 calls that I could attribute to network congestion (the sync and error rates between the modem and line card were perfect but they would inexplicably get slow speed in the evenings and I have never seen a case where latency was an issue, that wasn't related to sync problems or port forwarding). From what I have heard through the food chain there, these issues were extremely isolated and my experience (and the experiences of many of my coworkers, may I add) this certainly seems to be the case. I have high hopes that the CRTC will repeal this nonsense once and for all. P.S. I am in the maritimes (NB) and our version of Bell, called Aliant doesn't traffic shape or have any bandwidth caps on DSL. :p
Are we talking about file-sharing or pot?
The initial version of "The Charter of the French Language" (Bill 101) made it illegal to post signs in any language other then French. This law was upheld (through a storm of controversy, I might add) between 1977 and 1993. However in 1988 The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that this restriction violated "The Charter of Rights and Freedoms". However the incumbent Premier at the time invoked the "not withstanding" clause of the Canadian constitution to delay the change in law until 1993. Since then it has been legal to have bilingual signs in Quebec so long as the French part of the sign is displayed "markedly predominant."
I apologize for the off-topicness of my post but as a Canadian who is deeply fascinated with politics, especially those surrounding Quebec and the French language, I could not resist.