Actually I bet you have been hit almost one time by those marketoids, lets say you build up your PC from scratch, you look after trusted reviews but those reviews are nothing more than advertisements done in a creative (pseudo-not-biased)way. Or when was the last time you got the exact benchmarks that those in the reviews with the same hardware they used?... when was the last time you used some shampoo and you turned like that handsome guy in the ads?
Unless you're living on Cuba or north Korea I bet you've been charmed by that creative spell some way or another, and remember little grasshopper, Advertising is the only thing that makes capitalism palatable, or else I have some Victory cigarettes and Victory gin for you:)
Don't know if an underpowered and little machine can beat the offering of a used Athlon XP like machine for 150 USD. Don't get me wrong, I truly like what ARM is about to do in the market and I hope to get one so I can tout my "Linux Experience" wherever I go, but for the home user? nah, people are just too much conditioned to office and messenger and when they find the can't do that in the new supper cheap PC, they will just think it's a cute and expensive tetris machine and it will be returned. Is not about expensiveness, heck you can get a free PC here if you demonstrate that you or your kids really needs it, free as in recycled corporate PC reconditioned by Microsoft with Win XP but FREE.
It's the same as people that buy OEM PC's here, most of them just ask someone to replace the vista starter/XP home with XP professional. We may not have a lot of money to waste or a dedicated car to walk our dogs but we just don't like crippled stuff, because crippled is what common people will see for an ARM netbook, ATOM netbooks are selling rather well BTW (even if the cheaper is around 360USD) people tend to see them as Little laptops they can carry in a pocket, not like "alternatives to computer architectures", it's a PC: the thing have to do what a PC does.
Hey Mr Balmer long time no see? How are you? thats just cool. Hey! do you a have a leak of the release date of 7 or something? Ah and enjoy your +1 insightful given by/. readers, you must be ROLFing big time.
I have one of those Pentium 100 MHz, hangs if the turbo is turned on at boot. Does yours have Via Apollo chipset? Also AT keyboard can be the issue. Anyway:) Anyone knows a good use for a machine like that? 100 MHz Mb(?) it has video and audio cards on ISA. Linux for kids distro?
Impressive machine by it's time, think I have to document it.
wow now the RIAA is coming after me because I don't like the mainstream music?. I have always wondered why the artists always hush when this crap happens. As I say every time this guys make another outrageous thing.. >Boycott the artist under that labels not the RIAA itself<. You can't hate the RIAA and still drool to the artists that are OK with that. Put your shit together.
No, they still pass more time in the real world than us geek types and they need to be in sync with it, other peoples lives depend on it.
Guess it's the curse of the geek. We can enjoy this virtual world but other people couldn't care less, their lives not depend on using standard compliant browsers or up to date systems. Plz stop waiting for the Joe * to catch up, we look like Evangelist:
"Hear hear brother I bring to you the bliss of a compiled gento on your base! <nerd-chorus>over 9000</nerd-chorus>"
p.s. and why html tags don't work lately on opera and FF?
Oh yeah Manizales is a hell of a place to live sorry for such a traumatic experience. What were you doing there anyway? A place where fathers make their children under age to fight in amateur boxing fights on the street just for the bets and for the family pride should be nuked from orbit, it's sad, but don't you have a part of your own country that's like a cancer that it's rooting everything else?
You were living there maybe in a time when this man:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_escobar
Was the ruler of half South America and half Central America and leave us with a legacy of crime culture. Maybe you realize that cokeheads helped to it snorting 25BN USD in coke for him and for that, we thank you very much, certainly we can't do any better.
If Intel it's so great why do they have to bribe other companies to bundle their products?
Way too much a smart decision for an Intel consumer knowing that buying his overpriced processor is actually causing that his next processor is going to be equally overpriced.
Another first world citizen that thinks the third world is like in the discovery channel or Natgeo documentaries. Get a grip. You think torrents just cant reach here? or what a MUI is? or a VLK? oh oh and we don't have INTERNET caps or throttling so we can pirate 24/7/365.
please, Brazilian pirates use NSA satellites to communicate in the jungle. The guerrilla in my country uses Bastille Linux. Guess you just haven get the idea of what INTERNET IS.
BTW Posting this from Opera in Win2K inside Ubuntu.
What a fucking waste, so many kids really needing a PC in developing countries and other people dumping their machines when they got it wasted by their own stupidity.
World REALLY needs a "PC driving license"
Yeah I'm wondering that too, since Lenovo took the Thinkpad were seeing less and less red.. dots.. ow ow now I get it the red dot remembers them the Japan flag!
The day Lenovo ditch completely the nipple I'll make a rant alas "LLEAAAVEEE!!!!1111 TEH NIPPLE ALOOONEEE!!!"
You're right maybe lenovo is aiming to replace the venerable tower form our desktops. They have the ideapads and they are nice so they do care for netbook market.
Next time I'm looking for a computer (desktop) I'll be looking seriously for a laptop, a very beefy one, 17" inch screen so I can hook a 22" LCD and be done with it. Think in the power saving, the reduction in noise and you can carry it from your desktop to your sofa or bed.
It's sad to see lenovo showing the middle finger to Linux after IBM era Thinkpads were highly compatible with Linux. Bad Lenovo Bad! You can think Win7 will be the shit because touch and all that stuff but you really have to ditch Linux?
I really really hope someday IBM gets back the Thinkpad line before Lenovo kills it.
well you can also buy a pack of cigarettes for(insert price of a cigarettes pack) extract the nicotine and get at least 10mg of nicotine enough to kill 5 people or make an epic hero. That said, theres activated charcoal to reverse the nicotine intoxication but how do I "un-buy" all the hardware bought for Vista, theres no money refund for the therapist to treat your nightmares caused by the post-traumatic-vista-stress-disorder. No, really, I've meet people that are considering leave the IT world (or at least leave a well payed job) because someone tough it was a great idea to put vista on "Compaq workstations" and the workload had doubled for them.
Hi Fellow American Concerned Citizen What you're talking about sounds too much just like a conspiracy theory and just because of that you know that everyone reading your post will say "OMG it can be truth but talking about it would make other people lose any credibility on me, better hush. Now, curse that damn Mexicans" Is that what you want? Huh? Sounds a little racist for me so stop wasting everyone's time and just gather somewhere with other people, go to a baseball park, or basketball arena, don't forget to breath very deep once you're there and if by any chance you see someone sneezing just go a kiss him/her! Why not? These are great times! Let's all enjoy our achievement bonus che.. eh your bonus points if you go without a jacket or coat.
Yours
Pedro Sanchez viral marketing Baxter International Mexico Mexico D.F
Well for you information in my country we already have bought 200.000 tamiflu doses and 10.000 for children, even if we haven't find any confirmed case, theres a probable girl infected coming from a trip to Mexico they sent the test to US for analysis and that was Monday by now we would know, but not.. the media is playing THE SAME GAME in every news channel I've seen in the last days in the whole S. America, they are asking us to wear masks and buy a lot of cleaning stuff just to be "sure". Prevention is good and all, but even here? the closest infected maybe over 5000Km.. people "meek and obedient" (bonus points if you catch the pun) is buying the stuff.
This post is just to rectify you about third world not having medicine because, in fact ROCHE is doing a great PR-Marketing job around here, they have a lot of air time in the news, well is not freely sold over the counter but the government bought a lot of it, it was needed! you might say, the fact is that we have already had that medicine in stock being a tropical nation, it's a generic (oseltamivir) made by ROCHE. btw I Googled Tamiflu and the first result was "Roche have satisfied all the world demand for Tamiflu" further search for "roche tamiflu demand" found a lot of mixed messages.
I hope some random Anon hac..bumps with the fucking information and we can call that the day of the end of pharma bad practices. That would be epic. If it bleads IT LEAKS.
have you ever heard of TV tuner cards? you can by pass the video signal to the AV RCA out, it's not digital but well most theres not a lot of HD to stream anyway.
In the end I agree with the service providers because theres a lot of demand for video and remember one thing, bandwidht CAPS are almost non existent in developing world. But the FAIL is in the service providers for not trying to sell real targeted ADs, or subscriptions. I'd be more than happy to pay 10 USD monthly to see what I want when I want it at decent resolution. It's cheaper than local cable offering with 130 channels of translated dumb fox-warner-sony- crap. Or let me buy channels to see.. let me buy episodes for 50C each FUCK! the money is here you just don't give a heck. When you think you have to put your data centers in the middle of a jungle, with IT personal killed by malaria everyday.. you know and I know it can be helped, you're a moron
This is good news for local entrepreneurs, If only I had enough money to start up a local hulu clone.. sigh.
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Actually I bet you have been hit almost one time by those marketoids, lets say you build up your PC from scratch, you look after trusted reviews but those reviews are nothing more than advertisements done in a creative (pseudo-not-biased)way. Or when was the last time you got the exact benchmarks that those in the reviews with the same hardware they used?... when was the last time you used some shampoo and you turned like that handsome guy in the ads?
:)
Unless you're living on Cuba or north Korea I bet you've been charmed by that creative spell some way or another, and remember little grasshopper, Advertising is the only thing that makes capitalism palatable, or else I have some Victory cigarettes and Victory gin for you
Don't know if an underpowered and little machine can beat the offering of a used Athlon XP like machine for 150 USD. Don't get me wrong, I truly like what ARM is about to do in the market and I hope to get one so I can tout my "Linux Experience" wherever I go, but for the home user? nah, people are just too much conditioned to office and messenger and when they find the can't do that in the new supper cheap PC, they will just think it's a cute and expensive tetris machine and it will be returned. Is not about expensiveness, heck you can get a free PC here if you demonstrate that you or your kids really needs it, free as in recycled corporate PC reconditioned by Microsoft with Win XP but FREE.
It's the same as people that buy OEM PC's here, most of them just ask someone to replace the vista starter/XP home with XP professional. We may not have a lot of money to waste or a dedicated car to walk our dogs but we just don't like crippled stuff, because crippled is what common people will see for an ARM netbook, ATOM netbooks are selling rather well BTW (even if the cheaper is around 360USD) people tend to see them as Little laptops they can carry in a pocket, not like "alternatives to computer architectures", it's a PC: the thing have to do what a PC does.
Hey Mr Balmer long time no see? How are you? thats just cool. Hey! do you a have a leak of the release date of 7 or something? Ah and enjoy your +1 insightful given by /. readers, you must be ROLFing big time.
I have one of those Pentium 100 MHz, hangs if the turbo is turned on at boot. Does yours have Via Apollo chipset? Also AT keyboard can be the issue. Anyway :) Anyone knows a good use for a machine like that? 100 MHz Mb(?) it has video and audio cards on ISA. Linux for kids distro?
Impressive machine by it's time, think I have to document it.
wow now the RIAA is coming after me because I don't like the mainstream music?. I have always wondered why the artists always hush when this crap happens. As I say every time this guys make another outrageous thing.. >Boycott the artist under that labels not the RIAA itself<. You can't hate the RIAA and still drool to the artists that are OK with that. Put your shit together.
this is what happens when you dont check HASH checksums n00b, now go back to TPB and download it again.Jebus! this replicator guys should know better.
No, they still pass more time in the real world than us geek types and they need to be in sync with it, other peoples lives depend on it.
Guess it's the curse of the geek. We can enjoy this virtual world but other people couldn't care less, their lives not depend on using standard compliant browsers or up to date systems. Plz stop waiting for the Joe * to catch up, we look like Evangelist:
"Hear hear brother I bring to you the bliss of a compiled gento on your base! <nerd-chorus>over 9000</nerd-chorus>"
p.s. and why html tags don't work lately on opera and FF?
Ok, but please make GOOGOL THE DESTROYER! a blog or something so I can subscribe. Can it be on blogger? For the lulz? :)
I can see the lineup:
The MS Vista Canyonero the only SUV that locks you in every two hours.
The MS Swift Starter only one passenger at a time
The MS Mustang Ultimate, the car delivers but still you maybe have to take it to Redmond twice a year to reactivate it because WGA went ape shit.
Oh yeah Manizales is a hell of a place to live sorry for such a traumatic experience. What were you doing there anyway? A place where fathers make their children under age to fight in amateur boxing fights on the street just for the bets and for the family pride should be nuked from orbit, it's sad, but don't you have a part of your own country that's like a cancer that it's rooting everything else?
You were living there maybe in a time when this man:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_escobar
Was the ruler of half South America and half Central America and leave us with a legacy of crime culture. Maybe you realize that cokeheads helped to it snorting 25BN USD in coke for him and for that, we thank you very much, certainly we can't do any better.
>> decreasing the competitive advantage conferred by abusive practices.
Make them pay with IP and patents.. Free up the market.
Intel has lost the last little love I had for them
If Intel it's so great why do they have to bribe other companies to bundle their products?
Way too much a smart decision for an Intel consumer knowing that buying his overpriced processor is actually causing that his next processor is going to be equally overpriced.
Another first world citizen that thinks the third world is like in the discovery channel or Natgeo documentaries. Get a grip. You think torrents just cant reach here? or what a MUI is? or a VLK? oh oh and we don't have INTERNET caps or throttling so we can pirate 24/7/365. please, Brazilian pirates use NSA satellites to communicate in the jungle. The guerrilla in my country uses Bastille Linux. Guess you just haven get the idea of what INTERNET IS. BTW Posting this from Opera in Win2K inside Ubuntu.
What a fucking waste, so many kids really needing a PC in developing countries and other people dumping their machines when they got it wasted by their own stupidity. World REALLY needs a "PC driving license"
I reckon they are deliberately screwing with the user experience to make windows look more favourable, and I think they are being stupid in doing that
No they are being successful whores in doing that, but still successful. I guess if anyone can prove that, MS should be sued.
Yeah I'm wondering that too, since Lenovo took the Thinkpad were seeing less and less red.. dots.. ow ow now I get it the red dot remembers them the Japan flag!
The day Lenovo ditch completely the nipple I'll make a rant alas "LLEAAAVEEE!!!!1111 TEH NIPPLE ALOOONEEE!!!"
You're right maybe lenovo is aiming to replace the venerable tower form our desktops. They have the ideapads and they are nice so they do care for netbook market.
Next time I'm looking for a computer (desktop) I'll be looking seriously for a laptop, a very beefy one, 17" inch screen so I can hook a 22" LCD and be done with it. Think in the power saving, the reduction in noise and you can carry it from your desktop to your sofa or bed.
It's sad to see lenovo showing the middle finger to Linux after IBM era Thinkpads were highly compatible with Linux. Bad Lenovo Bad! You can think Win7 will be the shit because touch and all that stuff but you really have to ditch Linux?
I really really hope someday IBM gets back the Thinkpad line before Lenovo kills it.
well you can also buy a pack of cigarettes for(insert price of a cigarettes pack) extract the nicotine and get at least 10mg of nicotine enough to kill 5 people or make an epic hero. That said, theres activated charcoal to reverse the nicotine intoxication but how do I "un-buy" all the hardware bought for Vista, theres no money refund for the therapist to treat your nightmares caused by the post-traumatic-vista-stress-disorder. No, really, I've meet people that are considering leave the IT world (or at least leave a well payed job) because someone tough it was a great idea to put vista on "Compaq workstations" and the workload had doubled for them.
if you love that take a look at this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texhnolyze
btw I'd buy this book, also I'll wait for a JAVA and C++ guide in manga.
me also tambien ofended sir. porqueue?!
If you have access to your LAN why not use VNC?
Hi Fellow American Concerned Citizen
What you're talking about sounds too much just like a conspiracy theory and just because of that you know that everyone reading your post will say "OMG it can be truth but talking about it would make other people lose any credibility on me, better hush. Now, curse that damn Mexicans" Is that what you want? Huh? Sounds a little racist for me so stop wasting everyone's time and just gather somewhere with other people, go to a baseball park, or basketball arena, don't forget to breath very deep once you're there and if by any chance you see someone sneezing just go a kiss him/her! Why not? These are great times! Let's all enjoy our achievement bonus che.. eh your bonus points if you go without a jacket or coat.
Yours
Pedro Sanchez
viral marketing
Baxter International Mexico
Mexico D.F
Well for you information in my country we already have bought 200.000 tamiflu doses and 10.000 for children, even if we haven't find any confirmed case, theres a probable girl infected coming from a trip to Mexico they sent the test to US for analysis and that was Monday by now we would know, but not.. the media is playing THE SAME GAME in every news channel I've seen in the last days in the whole S. America, they are asking us to wear masks and buy a lot of cleaning stuff just to be "sure". Prevention is good and all, but even here? the closest infected maybe over 5000Km.. people "meek and obedient" (bonus points if you catch the pun) is buying the stuff.
This post is just to rectify you about third world not having medicine because, in fact ROCHE is doing a great PR-Marketing job around here, they have a lot of air time in the news, well is not freely sold over the counter but the government bought a lot of it, it was needed! you might say, the fact is that we have already had that medicine in stock being a tropical nation, it's a generic (oseltamivir) made by ROCHE. btw I Googled Tamiflu and the first result was "Roche have satisfied all the world demand for Tamiflu" further search for "roche tamiflu demand" found a lot of mixed messages.
I hope some random Anon hac..bumps with the fucking information and we can call that the day of the end of pharma bad practices. That would be epic. If it bleads IT LEAKS.
My two year old girl likes pixies, beatles and supergrass? ow and she hates cartoon network. Am I doing right?
have you ever heard of TV tuner cards? you can by pass the video signal to the AV RCA out, it's not digital but well most theres not a lot of HD to stream anyway.
In the end I agree with the service providers because theres a lot of demand for video and remember one thing, bandwidht CAPS are almost non existent in developing world. But the FAIL is in the service providers for not trying to sell real targeted ADs, or subscriptions. I'd be more than happy to pay 10 USD monthly to see what I want when I want it at decent resolution. It's cheaper than local cable offering with 130 channels of translated dumb fox-warner-sony- crap. Or let me buy channels to see.. let me buy episodes for 50C each FUCK! the money is here you just don't give a heck. When you think you have to put your data centers in the middle of a jungle, with IT personal killed by malaria everyday.. you know and I know it can be helped, you're a moron
This is good news for local entrepreneurs, If only I had enough money to start up a local hulu clone.. sigh.