Nonsense. Everquest really epitomized the concept of "time-sink" before the Planes of Power expansion. It could take HOURS to travel from one end of a continent to the other. As cool as this experience was the first time, it was a major waste of time every subsequent voyage. After the Planes of Power expansion, there were still plenty of places off the beaten path that could take upwards of an hour to run to, but to get to the main hubs, a quick journey and a teleport and you were minutes away from slaying dragons with your friends.
I will admit, for those who love exploration and the challenges it brings, fast travel ruins a good part of the experience. But IMHO, the mainstream MMO'er has more fun slaying hordes of Orcs (or stormtroopers for you SciFi freaks) with friends than running lost around gigabytes of map data being wowed by mildly impressive graphics.
When people have been doing this with Windows AND Linux for a few years now. The very interesting thing I see about this is perhaps they could have their update client update the thumb drive so if you ever have to reinstall (I mean it IS windows) you wouldn't have to go through the painful 10 billion hours of updates? Especially on these netbooks with painfully slow performance specs. I recall it taking close to 8 hours to install XP on an Acer Aspire One with a super slow SSD.
I think your analysis is fair, but I also think it totally disregards one of the most important points which IMHO is the unrealistic ratio of the judgment to actual proven damages. However, since anyone with a fair bit of knowledge of the case and the issue in general could have told you that, I can't help but agree that it is at best gratuitous and at worst, advertising.
Unbelievable.
Consider for a moment that some people can concentrate very well. Consider that there are also people who can hardly concentrate at all.
Haven't you realized that the above statements are obviously true?
Consider for a moment that some people are experiencing symptoms outside of an educational environment.
The stimulants given for treatment of ADHD significantly boost the ability to concentrate of those on the lower end of the spectrum. If it makes their life better by their own opinion, this is all that matters. If not, then they don't take it.
The +5 mod points are totally wasted on your post.
...have to do with the interface really? My understanding is that most netbook builds tweak disk and UI related functions which hardly have any relevance to the processor. The summary implies that these non-Moblin builds have optimizations/customizations that improve the function with the Intel Atom processor, but I'm guessing this is not yet true. Naturally, the customized UIs have been an awesome improvement for the netbooks, but that would be true regardless of Intel's Atom Processor.
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Nonsense. Everquest really epitomized the concept of "time-sink" before the Planes of Power expansion. It could take HOURS to travel from one end of a continent to the other. As cool as this experience was the first time, it was a major waste of time every subsequent voyage. After the Planes of Power expansion, there were still plenty of places off the beaten path that could take upwards of an hour to run to, but to get to the main hubs, a quick journey and a teleport and you were minutes away from slaying dragons with your friends. I will admit, for those who love exploration and the challenges it brings, fast travel ruins a good part of the experience. But IMHO, the mainstream MMO'er has more fun slaying hordes of Orcs (or stormtroopers for you SciFi freaks) with friends than running lost around gigabytes of map data being wowed by mildly impressive graphics.
When people have been doing this with Windows AND Linux for a few years now. The very interesting thing I see about this is perhaps they could have their update client update the thumb drive so if you ever have to reinstall (I mean it IS windows) you wouldn't have to go through the painful 10 billion hours of updates? Especially on these netbooks with painfully slow performance specs. I recall it taking close to 8 hours to install XP on an Acer Aspire One with a super slow SSD.
I think your analysis is fair, but I also think it totally disregards one of the most important points which IMHO is the unrealistic ratio of the judgment to actual proven damages. However, since anyone with a fair bit of knowledge of the case and the issue in general could have told you that, I can't help but agree that it is at best gratuitous and at worst, advertising.
Where users expect reasonable terms only to later find many that are quite unreasonable.
Dude, whats mine say?
Unbelievable. Consider for a moment that some people can concentrate very well. Consider that there are also people who can hardly concentrate at all. Haven't you realized that the above statements are obviously true? Consider for a moment that some people are experiencing symptoms outside of an educational environment. The stimulants given for treatment of ADHD significantly boost the ability to concentrate of those on the lower end of the spectrum. If it makes their life better by their own opinion, this is all that matters. If not, then they don't take it. The +5 mod points are totally wasted on your post.
...have to do with the interface really? My understanding is that most netbook builds tweak disk and UI related functions which hardly have any relevance to the processor. The summary implies that these non-Moblin builds have optimizations/customizations that improve the function with the Intel Atom processor, but I'm guessing this is not yet true. Naturally, the customized UIs have been an awesome improvement for the netbooks, but that would be true regardless of Intel's Atom Processor.