Actually, I was going to buy a laptop at a brick-and-mortar, but I bought it online instead to save $50 in sales tax.
Personally, I would be willing to pay more to buy locally, so I don't have to wait on shipping. But once sales tax factors in, online is just wayyy cheaper.
You are one of the better trolls I've seen. I like you. You should start a movement: "Christian Crusaders for Communist Dictatorships." You can use all the other wildly successful communist dictatorships as shining examples that The West is a distant relic, it just hasn't had enough decades to learn why command economies are superior.
Using the NVidia driver gives me more freedom, not less. It gives me the freedom to run 3d apps, while the open source driver gives me no extra freedom as I have zero intention of fiddling with its source code.
Thanks for noticing, comrade! Yes, in Little Capitalist School, they teach about ad hominem right after the class about the importance of property rights.
Not exactly... but if you were about to spend $250 on the mid-range GTX260 card, you can now get the high-end GTX285 which will pay for the difference in power saving after a few years.
Modern desktops have optical drives, GPUs, the ability to drive large or multiple displays, larger storage, faster CPU, RAM, and disk access, surround sound output, high-def video encoding and decoding...
The number of people who would not benefit from any of that stuff is pretty small.
If only the omnipotent, benevolent dictator "macraig" were commanding our economy, we would have perpetual economic growth! Chew on that, capitalist pig-dogs!
You are correct. Netbooks are a supplement to desktops. They certainly are not replacements for laptops or desktops because they have only a subset of their functionality (in exchange for extreme mobility).
Support? Hah! I think I speak for nearly everyone on Slashdot when I say: if we don't know the answer to a technical question, the script-reading third-worlder on the other end of the phone sure as hell won't know, either.
These days, you can get a powerful PC with a decent GPU (if you're a gamer) for less than $1k, and a $400 netbook for when you're on the road. Why have anything in between?
The number of apps I use which are useful without an internet connection is very small--Word, Excel, and Scite (source code editor). Nearly everything else connects to a server in some way.
If your app requires a server, anyway, just make it a RIA and forget about QT/GTK/Motif/Whatever thick client app. RIAs also save you from worrying about distributing the software, updates and patches, or licensing/piracy.
The article said "coffee increases"--causality. They could make this statement if it were a double-blind test where some people were given coffee and some were given decaf (placebo)... selected and random, yadda yadda yadda.
As it stands, this is absolutely not what they did. Therefore, the headline is embarrassingly wrong for making the worst kind of correlation/causation error.
You have no experience with adware uninstallers, it seems.
This scumbag's software could ONLY be uninstalled if the user jumped through more hoops than in a hulahoop factory. If you used the windows uninstall feature or deleted directly, his software would reinstall itself.
Only after forcing you to take a survey on the web would you have the option of removing the software. Surveys are valuable commodities. Basically, he wrote ransomware.
I call BS on your BS. I did it something like a year ago. And YES, Google's inept HR department most certainly did require personality tests for IT positions at that time.
Just have GETs to "http://anyserver.com/id/Lord Ender" return a certificate (public key) issued to, literally "http://anyserver.com/id/Lord Ender".
I would then have the certificate/keypair installed in my browser. It doesn't matter who it is signed by-it can be self-signed.
When I sign in to a website, I put "http://anyserver.com/id/Lord Ender" as my ID. The website then fetches my certificate from anyserver.com and asks my browser to prove I'm me using the built-in features of SSL. From then on, the web site will know me as "Lord Ender of anyserver.com".
It doesn't get any simpler or easier to implement.
Because life couldn't colonize the entire crust of the planet in "a moment" of time. That would take centuries, if it were even possible--plenty of time to detect native bugs if they exist.
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Actually, I was going to buy a laptop at a brick-and-mortar, but I bought it online instead to save $50 in sales tax.
Personally, I would be willing to pay more to buy locally, so I don't have to wait on shipping. But once sales tax factors in, online is just wayyy cheaper.
Radio is just another color of light--a very, uh, extremely red color.
You are one of the better trolls I've seen. I like you. You should start a movement: "Christian Crusaders for Communist Dictatorships." You can use all the other wildly successful communist dictatorships as shining examples that The West is a distant relic, it just hasn't had enough decades to learn why command economies are superior.
Using the NVidia driver gives me more freedom, not less. It gives me the freedom to run 3d apps, while the open source driver gives me no extra freedom as I have zero intention of fiddling with its source code.
Thanks for noticing, comrade! Yes, in Little Capitalist School, they teach about ad hominem right after the class about the importance of property rights.
Not exactly... but if you were about to spend $250 on the mid-range GTX260 card, you can now get the high-end GTX285 which will pay for the difference in power saving after a few years.
Modern desktops have optical drives, GPUs, the ability to drive large or multiple displays, larger storage, faster CPU, RAM, and disk access, surround sound output, high-def video encoding and decoding...
The number of people who would not benefit from any of that stuff is pretty small.
Netbooks are for coffee shops and airplanes.
If only the omnipotent, benevolent dictator "macraig" were commanding our economy, we would have perpetual economic growth! Chew on that, capitalist pig-dogs!
Certain BestBuy locations are selling Eee PC 900A white netbooks for $199. That's a 9 inch screen, one gig RAM, four gig SSD, and Linux.
You are correct. Netbooks are a supplement to desktops. They certainly are not replacements for laptops or desktops because they have only a subset of their functionality (in exchange for extreme mobility).
Support? Hah! I think I speak for nearly everyone on Slashdot when I say: if we don't know the answer to a technical question, the script-reading third-worlder on the other end of the phone sure as hell won't know, either.
These days, you can get a powerful PC with a decent GPU (if you're a gamer) for less than $1k, and a $400 netbook for when you're on the road. Why have anything in between?
The same is true for QT.
I think you misread "Cheap, Distrubted Zero-Day Defense" as "expensive, ineffective, and slow defense."
The number of apps I use which are useful without an internet connection is very small--Word, Excel, and Scite (source code editor). Nearly everything else connects to a server in some way.
If your app requires a server, anyway, just make it a RIA and forget about QT/GTK/Motif/Whatever thick client app. RIAs also save you from worrying about distributing the software, updates and patches, or licensing/piracy.
The supernatural doctrines of Scientology were written deliberately by a SciFi author. Hallucinations didn't enter in to it.
The supernatural doctrines of other religions quite possibly were rooted in hallucinations (a talking, burning bush, anyone?).
The article said "coffee increases"--causality. They could make this statement if it were a double-blind test where some people were given coffee and some were given decaf (placebo)... selected and random, yadda yadda yadda.
As it stands, this is absolutely not what they did. Therefore, the headline is embarrassingly wrong for making the worst kind of correlation/causation error.
Rich Internet Application platforms, like Adobe Flex, are making it easier to get rid of client-side GUI libraries entirely.
Have a browser? Most apps can be done in AJAX, the remaining apps can be done in Flex. Why use GTK or QT?
You have no experience with adware uninstallers, it seems.
This scumbag's software could ONLY be uninstalled if the user jumped through more hoops than in a hulahoop factory. If you used the windows uninstall feature or deleted directly, his software would reinstall itself.
Only after forcing you to take a survey on the web would you have the option of removing the software. Surveys are valuable commodities. Basically, he wrote ransomware.
Really, they should partner with Amazon to get their papers delivered to the Kindle automatically for a subscription fee.
Also, Amazon should release an ebook reader designed for netbooks.
Both would go a long way toward getting revenue for their publications.
They might not today. They sure about a year ago. Perhaps they wised up and canned the practice.
I call BS on your BS. I did it something like a year ago. And YES, Google's inept HR department most certainly did require personality tests for IT positions at that time.
Google makes you take a looooooong and in depth personality test just to apply for an IT position. It's really insulting.
P.S. Fuck you, Google. Didn't want to work for you anyway. Put that in your personality test.
Why make things complicated? Just use X.509.
Just have GETs to "http://anyserver.com/id/Lord Ender" return a certificate (public key) issued to, literally "http://anyserver.com/id/Lord Ender".
I would then have the certificate/keypair installed in my browser. It doesn't matter who it is signed by-it can be self-signed.
When I sign in to a website, I put "http://anyserver.com/id/Lord Ender" as my ID. The website then fetches my certificate from anyserver.com and asks my browser to prove I'm me using the built-in features of SSL. From then on, the web site will know me as "Lord Ender of anyserver.com".
It doesn't get any simpler or easier to implement.
Because life couldn't colonize the entire crust of the planet in "a moment" of time. That would take centuries, if it were even possible--plenty of time to detect native bugs if they exist.