If you were going to pay the $60 a month anyway, because you need internet access everywhere for some reason (say you're a travailing system administrator, or a professor at a collage that doesn't have wifi), the phone company giving you the hardware is just icing on the cake.
However if having internet access everywhere is that important to someone, a cheap netbook probably won't be their choice for hardware. Especially not with this kill switch installed.
Buy your high end machine. That's not the question.
The question is should grandma have to buy a high end machine to go on facebook, if she wants to use MacOS because she can't figure out how not to break Windows, or install Linux. How many grandmas would buy Macs if they weren't so damn expensive?
Why can't MacOS compete against windows instead of only marketing to people who have loads of dough? We all could use more competition in the operating system market, it would improve support for Linux, and maybe even force Microsoft to make something that doesn't suck so bad.
If Macs weren't so expensive when Vista came out, they'd have a much higher market share today, but Mac doesn't want to play ball. MacOS shouldn't just be for "the Cadillac of computers", it's an operating system, not hardware.
Get Crossover Office, it's defiantly worth the money. I use Microsoft Office 2007 of my Linux laptop. OpenOffice just doesn't cut it. Symphony is also a nice, Linux compatible, alternative to OO.
DRM in your brain. If you get a song stuck in your head you didn't pay royalties for... Not to mention the political implications of this, no more need for torture when you have a Romulan brain probe that can download the information you want out of the person's brain. Or how such technology could be used by a dictator to control the population by punishing unloyal thoughts.
especially when they're running Linux. Who wants to carry a big clunky laptop around to prove they're tough? I think big laptops make you look stupid, like you're using it compensate for something else that's missing, or you just want to play games.
Netbooks are responsible, sleek, intelligent (especially the Linux ones), they're tools for men, while larger (Vista) laptops are toys for boys. I don't know what kind of sorority girl you're trying to attract with a big laptop, but probably not the kind who's looking at your computer. It's intelligent women who look at laptops, and they arn't put off by netbooks.
I have stability issues with KDE, and it uses more memory than Gnome to run. Why would I use KDE when Gnome is perfectly good, and doesn't crash like KDE does?
If your time is that valuable, get a Mac Pro, they're very nice, server-end machines, run an extremely stable and easy to use operating system, and have ECC memory.
Is ECC memory worth the money in a machine you use to check your E-mail? Can't you just reboot and/or replace the memory if errors occur?
I could see it happening when the cost of ECC memory is no higher than normal memory, and using ECC memory has no or minimal impact on performance, until then, I won't expect to start seeing it desktop machines.
If you want ECC memory on your desktop, feel free to build your own machine with a motherboard that supports ECC memory. Some high end desktops do support ECC memory already.
So long as they do it honestly. If the strengths and weakness of evolution are taught fairly there is no problem. However if the strengths of evolution are downplayed, and areas where more study is need unreasonably used against the theory for political reasons, we have a big problem.
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What's with slashdotters who can't block adds? I thought this was a site for people who know how to use computers.
If you were going to pay the $60 a month anyway, because you need internet access everywhere for some reason (say you're a travailing system administrator, or a professor at a collage that doesn't have wifi), the phone company giving you the hardware is just icing on the cake.
However if having internet access everywhere is that important to someone, a cheap netbook probably won't be their choice for hardware. Especially not with this kill switch installed.
Siverlight won't run on Linux. I had the same issue.
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Buy your high end machine. That's not the question.
The question is should grandma have to buy a high end machine to go on facebook, if she wants to use MacOS because she can't figure out how not to break Windows, or install Linux. How many grandmas would buy Macs if they weren't so damn expensive?
Why can't MacOS compete against windows instead of only marketing to people who have loads of dough? We all could use more competition in the operating system market, it would improve support for Linux, and maybe even force Microsoft to make something that doesn't suck so bad.
If Macs weren't so expensive when Vista came out, they'd have a much higher market share today, but Mac doesn't want to play ball. MacOS shouldn't just be for "the Cadillac of computers", it's an operating system, not hardware.
Apple happens to be great for grandma though. It's too bad their line up is so limited that grandma can't get a mac.
True, I should have written "excuse for torture".
But would a brain probe be a form of torture? Should it be banned by the Geneva conventions?
With adblock plus or noscript. Either will do the trick, running both I had to do some work to see the add you're talking about. That's firefox.
Opera will let you block the content too, if you prefer that.
Get Crossover Office, it's defiantly worth the money. I use Microsoft Office 2007 of my Linux laptop. OpenOffice just doesn't cut it. Symphony is also a nice, Linux compatible, alternative to OO.
DRM in your brain. If you get a song stuck in your head you didn't pay royalties for... Not to mention the political implications of this, no more need for torture when you have a Romulan brain probe that can download the information you want out of the person's brain. Or how such technology could be used by a dictator to control the population by punishing unloyal thoughts.
especially when they're running Linux. Who wants to carry a big clunky laptop around to prove they're tough? I think big laptops make you look stupid, like you're using it compensate for something else that's missing, or you just want to play games.
Netbooks are responsible, sleek, intelligent (especially the Linux ones), they're tools for men, while larger (Vista) laptops are toys for boys. I don't know what kind of sorority girl you're trying to attract with a big laptop, but probably not the kind who's looking at your computer. It's intelligent women who look at laptops, and they arn't put off by netbooks.
I have stability issues with KDE, and it uses more memory than Gnome to run. Why would I use KDE when Gnome is perfectly good, and doesn't crash like KDE does?
If your time is that valuable, get a Mac Pro, they're very nice, server-end machines, run an extremely stable and easy to use operating system, and have ECC memory.
It seems like the day I'm talking about may not be that far away. We'll probably start seeing ECC memory in desktops sooner rather than later.
Is ECC memory worth the money in a machine you use to check your E-mail? Can't you just reboot and/or replace the memory if errors occur?
I could see it happening when the cost of ECC memory is no higher than normal memory, and using ECC memory has no or minimal impact on performance, until then, I won't expect to start seeing it desktop machines.
If you want ECC memory on your desktop, feel free to build your own machine with a motherboard that supports ECC memory. Some high end desktops do support ECC memory already.
So long as they do it honestly. If the strengths and weakness of evolution are taught fairly there is no problem. However if the strengths of evolution are downplayed, and areas where more study is need unreasonably used against the theory for political reasons, we have a big problem.