Skimming the responses, I'm surprised that there aren't more calls for this. Unless this is a working vacation, you're going to want to spend your time doing rather than surfing, anyway. I've taken my original Eee to europe twice now and it's been exactly what I've wanted. WiFi is easy to get on for free, and since you're there more than a day or so, you'll probably find a place you like that you can get online for nary a penny.
While I also agree with the choruses of "go and do" both above and below, you're probably not in much danger of sitting in your room all day reading slashdot - that wasn't your question. A netbook will help with that because it doesn't facilitate long surf sessions, but does plenty (IM! Email! skype!) for communication, and most "modern" netbooks will also have plenty of space for backups of your photos.
You're misinformed - the font doesn't download and install any more than an image saves itself into your "my pictures" folder when you view it on the web. Argue the semantics of cache all you want, but the "unsuspecting people" you're trying to protect aren't rooting around their cache folders for a font they saw on a webpage once the name of which they don't even know just so they can make their 10th grade history paper work better.
You and the OP are looking for reasons to dislike web progress, and, while I'm happy to get off your lawn, you should find legitimate reasons, not ones that I learned were false in 3 minutes of reading and a quick check of my fonts folder.
More, what does this say about their commitment to Vista? Why isn't there a push to get a low-footprint version of Vista on the XO laptop? I feel like the whole company could benefit from money being thrown at figuring out how to de-beef that thing anyway, and it would speak more to the company's buy-in of their own OS if they were developing their OS of the future rather than one that's rapidly approaching EOL.
this is a dupe of an article here that had much more information and was more timely. I mean, that deal closed (and was in the news) in 2005. Nothing has changed since then, except the slate has gotten less certain and we've all gotten two years older.
Yay for content producers being able to make their own movies. Does that mean we'll get only good superhero movies from now on? Hell no. It means that we'll only have the producers to blame when the movie comes out bad - no more "They missed the WHOLE POINT of the origins of blah blah blah!" The image deal may have fallen through, but Marvel was still pretty sweet.
Three times. Make sure I'm counted in the MILLION INSTALL MARCH figures.
First time: locked up my system during install.
Second time: installed fine, but there was no menu bar text and my keyboard was somehow disabled, because when I found the search box in Apple's default page (the cursor was 15px down and right of where it should have been), that didn't take input the same way the address bar didn't take input.
Third time: after a fresh restart and a check to make sure that there was no residual information from either previous install - almost the same result as my second try. This time, though, the menus dropped down when I clicked where they should be, but there was still no text in any of it. Still no use of my keyboard.
I get that a Beta is a Beta, but since when is Apple in the business of releasing shitty software? I know this won't cool the HARDCORE MAC FANBOYS' ardor for their beloved white boxes, but maybe people who just like their iPods will start to understand that Apple has surged all the way to 5% of the market (or whatever) for a reason - they're just not ready to write software that runs outside their little sandbox.
I have a widescreen laptop (as I expect plenty of people do) and I tried Ubuntu Live on it, but it failed to recognize the aspect ratio, and therefore everything was stretched out and ugly. Not good.
Then I tried it on my main system (where I do a lot of video and photo editing, so I'm unlikely to switch full time), but came up empty when Ubuntu didn't work with three monitors.
Is this version of the OS going to address needs like my relatively-standard non-standard display issues?
you might be surprised to hear that there aren't yet established currency amounts for online product-placement investments. It will work, and I'm hoping that it'll work with our product, but I'm not the businessman I'd probably need to be to make this work. As much as it hurts me to say this, it may be time to hire an MBA.
I'm working on something that is exactly what you describe, but I need an answer to the question that will take this from hobby to Viacom-killing profession, and that question is "How do I see money?" Who pays for it? Sure, I can get investors once, but after they don't see their money back, I'm sunk. Is this the type of thing that I can pay for with Google ads? Only if people can't scrape the video and watch it offline. Only if they can't post it on YouTube.
Nope, the distribution model is fucked. All hail technology, making it easier and easier to distribute content for which there's no commercial incentive!
...and I pretty much agree that the slate sucks the way it's laid out. But consider this: Marvel has never before made their own films and had controlling interest in them. They've never had creative control to hire/fire screenwriters or directors, and they've only ever gotten a cut of the profits of the movies they make.
This deal is important because it brings a new angle to the way movies get made in Hollywood - we created a mini studio out of a defunct has-been of a comic company, and we're going to do it again. All I'm saying is that you can bash the films all you want, but this is a good precedent because it's putting creative control for the first time in the hands of the creators. I know that in this case, there's no one left who helped create Captain America, but from a company standpoint, we're at the source. Who do you think is working on a deal with Image? Those cats aren't so old - there's a very real chance that they'll get to executive produce (at the very least) their own movies like no comic book geek has ever done before.
Lastly, remember that the slate can (and will) change. I'm hoping that '300' can invigorate the hobbled historical epic genre because the script is good and the concept excellent. Sorry I'm late to the party.
extremely doubtful. Besides the fact that you can't multitask conversations nearly as well over video as with IM, we already have telephones.
What's video good for? We don't always want the people we're chatting with seeing us - what if I haven't put on my makeup? What if I've been lying in that old-fashioned chatroom? I can't use video chat at work - I answer phones and talk to coworkers all day long. I can't have unrelated people boomnig out of my speakers all day, nor can I wear headphones.
Video chat is a niche market, and could have taken off years ago with telephones, but there's no widespread interest for all manner of reasons. It's a cool technology that will supplement, not supplant the ways we communicate now.
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Of course you're worried about migrating users. If Samba gets easier to use, you'll find people migrating from the biggest user base on the planet - Windows.
And worry about alienating Linux users? Please, where are you going to go to get something better? On a Mac? I know you're not going to stop using Linux (maybe Samba, but who cares, I guess) and go to Windows because your system is operating more and more like Windows.
Unless you're losing functionality, cheer the changes. As more users (like me) migrate to open source, your exclusive club will get better and better. I'll tell you one thing - if Samba gets easier to figure out, I'll certainly start using it to get my systems connected to a single file server.
Can you say "Netscape 2"? That was the browser on everyone's lips, and with the release of IE (a crappy release, even), everyone was saying, "What's Microsoft doing trying to get into the online world? Don't they make word processors and operating systems?"
Yeah.
And Video Games? Plenty of failures, but the jury's still out on the XBox, for sure. And Microsoft doesn't make video games, remember?
Make no mistake - if they want to beat Google, they will. It's not a question of "if," it's a question of "when," and, if you're smart, "How." Start paying attention now, and when there's room for another mega conglomerate at the top, maybe you'll have learned enough about the way to run a company to not blindly hate them just because they're big.
To sum up, a quote from Doc Holliday in teh best movie ever made: "I'll remember you said that."
I know I'm a little late to the party, but I purchased a laptop from Netlux a year and a half ago and in their configuration section chose "No OS." and that's exactly what I got.
I had to confirm this on a phone call with a rep a day or so later because I'm pretty sure they had to reformat the OS, but since they just build them there, they could hold onto the CD and the license and use it on another machine.
Long story short, I didn't pay for a copy of windows that I was just going to pirate anyway (linux free? only if your time is worth nothing) and ended up with a solid machine upon which I'm writing this post via 802.11b connection. The only thing it doesn't have is firewire, and I'll bet even that's available if you're willing to pay for technology that still hasn't gone mainstream and probably never will.
sooner or later, someone here has to mention celebrity culture and hero worship.
People need people to emulate, and I don't believe that the human psyche is ready to yearn to be digital Brad Pitt. It will never be a secret (the conceit in S1M0NE, for example) that there are no real people in a film because we're just too interconnected, informationally-speaking, so it'll be a choice by the mass market, and I guarantee that sometimes we will want to see real people doing things that we can't do, that we wouldn't do, that we want to do.
It's already been mentioned that the market will just expand to accommodate the new styles of entertainment, but the end to film and the use of human crews to make movies is inconceivable.
Consider, also, that the Teamsters wouldn't hear of it. Trust me, if this ever becomes a major threat, the East Coast Council will just sign a deal with everyone outlawing CG. Don't think they can do it? You've obviously never dealt with them. I happen to work on feature films for a living and have.
"Keaton always said 'I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of him.' Well, I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Kaiser Soze."
Anyway, I'm not afraid for my job, so I don't expect anyone to be afraid for it for me. Thanks anyway.
I have absolutely no use for clustered machines (my brother is the particle physicist), but I do happen to have a few pentium-class machines lying around my apartment. I'm just starting to learn about practical uses of linux in my home enviornment, and I'm wondering if I can use a Mosix cluster behind my switcher/firewall box on my DSL line.
If I want to set up apache and FTP access to my network, could I use a Mosix cluster to help distribute the load? Maybe I could use a mosix cluster to speed the rendering of video that I edit on my workstation somehow?
This stuff is just too cool to have absolutely no practical application in my life.
Umm, your weak, pathetic self is showing--you might want to re-hide that behind the tough veneer of your RailArena character.
You see the phrase "catch a ball" in print and automatically flip out about how "ball games" are for stupid people--that's pretty pathetic.
Get over your weakness and accept that people are good at things that you aren't, and instead of making them dumb, it makes them different from you. All of your supposed intelligence comes off as ignorance (you Joe Sixpack, you) when you make stupid blanket statements like "sports [are] the opiate of Joe Sixpack." Plenty of smart people aren't interested in the least in "physics and orbital mechanics" but are interested in playing or watching sports.
Consider that this article was about astronauts, not baseball players, and was about unlearning gravitational constants and not Jai Ali statistics. Re-read it and post something intelligent. Thanks.
Microsoft has bought advertising here in huge amounts and they're doing an interesting thing, which is that they have like 5 different posters, and 4 of them mention, casually, that disgruntled employees are the ones that turn in 80% of businesses for software piracy.
Now, if you've ever commuted on the NYC subway, you know that EVERY ONE of the people on the subway in the morning are disgruntled, and on the ride home, those that aren't have become suicidal. I wonder at Microsoft's not-too-subtle play to get people to turn in their own workplaces. It feels (and I hesitate because of this) like a similar idea to violence in the media, but I wonder whether people (80% of the BSA's business, in fact) would know how to tell Microsoft or the BSA about software piracy without the handy URLs provided on every poster.
...then so be it. I hear all the whining "Waa, waa, weapons buildup is horrible (except for the economy)" and I've stopped caring. If it's the Defense Department that wants to pay for my fiends at NASA, then fantastic. I mean, better they spend my tax dollars on space-based weapons than on more bullets or something else I don't care about.
Our space program came to a grinding halt when the Challenger exploded, and I think that's a terrible shame, and a disservice to the memory of those who died.
Exploring has always taken a high toll in lives and it is only our lately-super-sensitive society that holds us back in this new arena of space travel. Excuse my irritation, but *I* want to get into space and unless things progress a little more quickly, I'll have to bribe some third world government with promises of blow jobs to get into space. And I don't want that.
Not Enquirer.
That's a national tabloid.
The Inquirer may indeed be a rag fit only for kindling fires, but no more so than the NY Times or the Washington Post. that's it. thanks.
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Skimming the responses, I'm surprised that there aren't more calls for this. Unless this is a working vacation, you're going to want to spend your time doing rather than surfing, anyway. I've taken my original Eee to europe twice now and it's been exactly what I've wanted. WiFi is easy to get on for free, and since you're there more than a day or so, you'll probably find a place you like that you can get online for nary a penny.
While I also agree with the choruses of "go and do" both above and below, you're probably not in much danger of sitting in your room all day reading slashdot - that wasn't your question. A netbook will help with that because it doesn't facilitate long surf sessions, but does plenty (IM! Email! skype!) for communication, and most "modern" netbooks will also have plenty of space for backups of your photos.
Enjoy!
You're misinformed - the font doesn't download and install any more than an image saves itself into your "my pictures" folder when you view it on the web. Argue the semantics of cache all you want, but the "unsuspecting people" you're trying to protect aren't rooting around their cache folders for a font they saw on a webpage once the name of which they don't even know just so they can make their 10th grade history paper work better.
You and the OP are looking for reasons to dislike web progress, and, while I'm happy to get off your lawn, you should find legitimate reasons, not ones that I learned were false in 3 minutes of reading and a quick check of my fonts folder.
More, what does this say about their commitment to Vista? Why isn't there a push to get a low-footprint version of Vista on the XO laptop? I feel like the whole company could benefit from money being thrown at figuring out how to de-beef that thing anyway, and it would speak more to the company's buy-in of their own OS if they were developing their OS of the future rather than one that's rapidly approaching EOL.
CmdrTaco...
is that you?
this is a dupe of an article here that had much more information and was more timely. I mean, that deal closed (and was in the news) in 2005. Nothing has changed since then, except the slate has gotten less certain and we've all gotten two years older.
Yay for content producers being able to make their own movies. Does that mean we'll get only good superhero movies from now on? Hell no. It means that we'll only have the producers to blame when the movie comes out bad - no more "They missed the WHOLE POINT of the origins of blah blah blah!" The image deal may have fallen through, but Marvel was still pretty sweet.
I downloaded the Safari Beta.
Three times. Make sure I'm counted in the MILLION INSTALL MARCH figures.
First time: locked up my system during install.
Second time: installed fine, but there was no menu bar text and my keyboard was somehow disabled, because when I found the search box in Apple's default page (the cursor was 15px down and right of where it should have been), that didn't take input the same way the address bar didn't take input.
Third time: after a fresh restart and a check to make sure that there was no residual information from either previous install - almost the same result as my second try. This time, though, the menus dropped down when I clicked where they should be, but there was still no text in any of it. Still no use of my keyboard.
I get that a Beta is a Beta, but since when is Apple in the business of releasing shitty software? I know this won't cool the HARDCORE MAC FANBOYS' ardor for their beloved white boxes, but maybe people who just like their iPods will start to understand that Apple has surged all the way to 5% of the market (or whatever) for a reason - they're just not ready to write software that runs outside their little sandbox.
I have a widescreen laptop (as I expect plenty of people do) and I tried Ubuntu Live on it, but it failed to recognize the aspect ratio, and therefore everything was stretched out and ugly. Not good.
Then I tried it on my main system (where I do a lot of video and photo editing, so I'm unlikely to switch full time), but came up empty when Ubuntu didn't work with three monitors.
Is this version of the OS going to address needs like my relatively-standard non-standard display issues?
you might be surprised to hear that there aren't yet established currency amounts for online product-placement investments. It will work, and I'm hoping that it'll work with our product, but I'm not the businessman I'd probably need to be to make this work. As much as it hurts me to say this, it may be time to hire an MBA.
I'm working on something that is exactly what you describe, but I need an answer to the question that will take this from hobby to Viacom-killing profession, and that question is "How do I see money?" Who pays for it? Sure, I can get investors once, but after they don't see their money back, I'm sunk. Is this the type of thing that I can pay for with Google ads? Only if people can't scrape the video and watch it offline. Only if they can't post it on YouTube.
Nope, the distribution model is fucked. All hail technology, making it easier and easier to distribute content for which there's no commercial incentive!
Why assume he's Ben? Why not figure that he's Ben's biggest fan?
...and I pretty much agree that the slate sucks the way it's laid out. But consider this: Marvel has never before made their own films and had controlling interest in them. They've never had creative control to hire/fire screenwriters or directors, and they've only ever gotten a cut of the profits of the movies they make.
This deal is important because it brings a new angle to the way movies get made in Hollywood - we created a mini studio out of a defunct has-been of a comic company, and we're going to do it again. All I'm saying is that you can bash the films all you want, but this is a good precedent because it's putting creative control for the first time in the hands of the creators. I know that in this case, there's no one left who helped create Captain America, but from a company standpoint, we're at the source. Who do you think is working on a deal with Image? Those cats aren't so old - there's a very real chance that they'll get to executive produce (at the very least) their own movies like no comic book geek has ever done before.
Lastly, remember that the slate can (and will) change. I'm hoping that '300' can invigorate the hobbled historical epic genre because the script is good and the concept excellent. Sorry I'm late to the party.
Doesn't GMail offer more space than that now? When was this article submitted?
Maybe it's submissions get rejected immediately but take weeks to be accepted? This one clearly sat in the queue for 3 weeks.
extremely doubtful. Besides the fact that you can't multitask conversations nearly as well over video as with IM, we already have telephones.
What's video good for? We don't always want the people we're chatting with seeing us - what if I haven't put on my makeup? What if I've been lying in that old-fashioned chatroom? I can't use video chat at work - I answer phones and talk to coworkers all day long. I can't have unrelated people boomnig out of my speakers all day, nor can I wear headphones.
Video chat is a niche market, and could have taken off years ago with telephones, but there's no widespread interest for all manner of reasons. It's a cool technology that will supplement, not supplant the ways we communicate now.
Of course you're worried about migrating users. If Samba gets easier to use, you'll find people migrating from the biggest user base on the planet - Windows.
And worry about alienating Linux users? Please, where are you going to go to get something better? On a Mac? I know you're not going to stop using Linux (maybe Samba, but who cares, I guess) and go to Windows because your system is operating more and more like Windows.
Unless you're losing functionality, cheer the changes. As more users (like me) migrate to open source, your exclusive club will get better and better. I'll tell you one thing - if Samba gets easier to figure out, I'll certainly start using it to get my systems connected to a single file server.
Can you say "Netscape 2"? That was the browser on everyone's lips, and with the release of IE (a crappy release, even), everyone was saying, "What's Microsoft doing trying to get into the online world? Don't they make word processors and operating systems?"
Yeah.
And Video Games? Plenty of failures, but the jury's still out on the XBox, for sure. And Microsoft doesn't make video games, remember?
Make no mistake - if they want to beat Google, they will. It's not a question of "if," it's a question of "when," and, if you're smart, "How." Start paying attention now, and when there's room for another mega conglomerate at the top, maybe you'll have learned enough about the way to run a company to not blindly hate them just because they're big.
To sum up, a quote from Doc Holliday in teh best movie ever made:
"I'll remember you said that."
I know I'm a little late to the party, but I purchased a laptop from Netlux a year and a half ago and in their configuration section chose "No OS." and that's exactly what I got.
I had to confirm this on a phone call with a rep a day or so later because I'm pretty sure they had to reformat the OS, but since they just build them there, they could hold onto the CD and the license and use it on another machine.
Long story short, I didn't pay for a copy of windows that I was just going to pirate anyway (linux free? only if your time is worth nothing) and ended up with a solid machine upon which I'm writing this post via 802.11b connection. The only thing it doesn't have is firewire, and I'll bet even that's available if you're willing to pay for technology that still hasn't gone mainstream and probably never will.
sooner or later, someone here has to mention celebrity culture and hero worship.
People need people to emulate, and I don't believe that the human psyche is ready to yearn to be digital Brad Pitt. It will never be a secret (the conceit in S1M0NE, for example) that there are no real people in a film because we're just too interconnected, informationally-speaking, so it'll be a choice by the mass market, and I guarantee that sometimes we will want to see real people doing things that we can't do, that we wouldn't do, that we want to do.
It's already been mentioned that the market will just expand to accommodate the new styles of entertainment, but the end to film and the use of human crews to make movies is inconceivable.
Consider, also, that the Teamsters wouldn't hear of it. Trust me, if this ever becomes a major threat, the East Coast Council will just sign a deal with everyone outlawing CG. Don't think they can do it? You've obviously never dealt with them. I happen to work on feature films for a living and have.
"Keaton always said 'I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of him.' Well, I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Kaiser Soze."
Anyway, I'm not afraid for my job, so I don't expect anyone to be afraid for it for me. Thanks anyway.
Reminds me of SPY HARD or some Leslie Nielson movie where the italian gangster parody always messes up the colloquialisms.
FWIW:
"Jumping the gun" is a phrase and "chomping at the bit" is a phrase, and together, they mean absolutely nothing. Exciting, huh?
I know it's flamebait to poke fun at the editors' foolishness, but this time, I couldn't resist. Mod me to -1 Troll--I can take it.
I have absolutely no use for clustered machines (my brother is the particle physicist), but I do happen to have a few pentium-class machines lying around my apartment. I'm just starting to learn about practical uses of linux in my home enviornment, and I'm wondering if I can use a Mosix cluster behind my switcher/firewall box on my DSL line.
If I want to set up apache and FTP access to my network, could I use a Mosix cluster to help distribute the load? Maybe I could use a mosix cluster to speed the rendering of video that I edit on my workstation somehow?
This stuff is just too cool to have absolutely no practical application in my life.
Umm, your weak, pathetic self is showing--you might want to re-hide that behind the tough veneer of your RailArena character.
You see the phrase "catch a ball" in print and automatically flip out about how "ball games" are for stupid people--that's pretty pathetic.
Get over your weakness and accept that people are good at things that you aren't, and instead of making them dumb, it makes them different from you. All of your supposed intelligence comes off as ignorance (you Joe Sixpack, you) when you make stupid blanket statements like "sports [are] the opiate of Joe Sixpack." Plenty of smart people aren't interested in the least in "physics and orbital mechanics" but are interested in playing or watching sports.
Consider that this article was about astronauts, not baseball players, and was about unlearning gravitational constants and not Jai Ali statistics. Re-read it and post something intelligent. Thanks.
Microsoft has bought advertising here in huge amounts and they're doing an interesting thing, which is that they have like 5 different posters, and 4 of them mention, casually, that disgruntled employees are the ones that turn in 80% of businesses for software piracy.
Now, if you've ever commuted on the NYC subway, you know that EVERY ONE of the people on the subway in the morning are disgruntled, and on the ride home, those that aren't have become suicidal. I wonder at Microsoft's not-too-subtle play to get people to turn in their own workplaces. It feels (and I hesitate because of this) like a similar idea to violence in the media, but I wonder whether people (80% of the BSA's business, in fact) would know how to tell Microsoft or the BSA about software piracy without the handy URLs provided on every poster.
thoughts?
...then so be it. I hear all the whining "Waa, waa, weapons buildup is horrible (except for the economy)" and I've stopped caring. If it's the Defense Department that wants to pay for my fiends at NASA, then fantastic. I mean, better they spend my tax dollars on space-based weapons than on more bullets or something else I don't care about.
Our space program came to a grinding halt when the Challenger exploded, and I think that's a terrible shame, and a disservice to the memory of those who died.
Exploring has always taken a high toll in lives and it is only our lately-super-sensitive society that holds us back in this new arena of space travel. Excuse my irritation, but *I* want to get into space and unless things progress a little more quickly, I'll have to bribe some third world government with promises of blow jobs to get into space. And I don't want that.
"That's in the room!"
"It's reading right, man, it's reading right!"
"Maybe YOU'RE not reading IT right!"
Fuckin' Aliens.
only one of which i have yet taken naked pictures of.
i bet i get negative Karma for that here, but it speaks well of the coming year for me.
Not Enquirer. That's a national tabloid. The Inquirer may indeed be a rag fit only for kindling fires, but no more so than the NY Times or the Washington Post.
...flicman
that's it.
thanks.