I find this funny, PC users know there is free porn out there, and the mac users are instantly willing to pay extra for it. says a lot about which world each lives in
then there was linux based PDA's with phones in them (sony) then palm phones and a half dozen others then Opps apple "innovated" the smartphone and all other phones before it did not exist
hm we have macbook pro's at work, they have gamer cards and run hot as balls, heck the ones a few years ago ran so hot they would desolder their own nvidia GPU
IMO it just sounds like you dont know how to shop for what you want, they make cute thin light cool stinkpads, and apple makes multicore portable mainfame furnaces, its not a companies or markets fault you dont know what your looking for.
popular items dont sit on the shelf for 5 years while the company tries to ditch them on the weekend sales
seriously go look at them, its the same ones that were there last year and the year before that, netbooks were going to sell like hotcakes, everyone bought a fuckton of them, and now everyone is stuck with them. that is exactly why the specs haven't gotten any better and the price hasn't dropped.
A 10 inch netbook with 1 gig of ram and a 1.6ghz atom would run you around 300 bucks a few years ago, now they are down to 278
gee I hope when I donate less that a microprecent of my income to charity some preacher will be standing behind me touting how I had zero obligation to do anything and how you pissants should be greatful.
the AC does have a point, its like dropping a quarter and a dime in the thing at Mc Donalds
Ya know 99% of the time all you have to do is a system restore and your back and running in less time than a smoke break, I just love it when people make out this HUGE deal with windows, like 90% of the world hasn't been using it for the last couple decades or anything.
no the vast majority of them are in their mums basement wondering why they cant find love or friendship, but just spent 8 months tweaking the most ultimate KDE4 desktop ever! and now it doesn't matter
The team announced that they will be removing the mouse, instead of the mouse users are expected to use a tiny window on the screen called "the mouse", and the team said most users would not notice once they got used to it. In other news the team also announced they solved what some have perceived as annoying action where the controls for widgets would jump out like a light show.
so it takes 700 bucks to gather the materials, add in marketing, management, packaging, wholesale, retail + extended warranty and your going to have a total shit 3000$ laptop that wont be able to do anything cause its only burning off 15 watts out of a celphone battery
As someone already mentioned this one trick pony is getting a bit near its end, yea they can keep adding stuff on to it, but google became google cause of a simple and fast search engine, that is not simple not fast and not really worth a fuck anymore as its loaded down with 10 trillion google mini apps, shovel fulls of shit java scripts, and the first 9 pages are fucking spam!
that would require something other than a 20+ year old concept in a new package, though I will consent that having cheap cellular Internet had a major 1 up in the evolution of the newton/palm/and all the other mips and arm pocket pc's
hm I happen to be writing an article about linux on old machines, one target is my old 90Mhz pentium 90 with 8 megs of ram, with linux 2.4 kernel and a fairly (but not tweaked out I will give you that) spartan setup, before I even hit the login prompt most of that ram is gone, start X and your working almost totally on swap, and it takes about 30 minuets to get to a usable point, it never really stops thrashing the swap manager and god help you if your dumb enough to toss on a light window manager.
So OK you remember a SPARCstation 1, and it was the shit, I can buy that as it was running a proper unix, it was designed for that reason and it had some corporate support behind it. Thats a bit different than getting some distro, and slapping it on a random machine.
My wife just got done with a course, and it was online, it graded her wrong cause she clicked the edge of the button instead of the dead center. it doesn't matter she clicked the right button, it only matters that she did not click it DEAD PERFECT CENTER
so no these systems cant grade better cause they are made by teachers who don't proof read their own shit (for example there was many times she would be taking a quiz and the answer would be in 2 chapters ahead) made by flunkie CS 101 students that just got introduced to the concept of a bounding box via web image mapping.
I agree, the "time to kill X" was in the mid 1990's when a Pentium could run OS/2 or Windows 95 with no problems but just loading an X desktop would suck all your ram and take an hour
X is the underling tech that displays all those new shiny borked GUI's and your old favorites too, it sort of needs to go because it rarely gets used for what its intended and is a big bloated overcomplicated pain in the ass for normal desktop use!
now the optimal time to do that would have been a decade or more ago when it took unholy matters of hell to get X working worth a shit on older machines, now whats the point we all have at least a quarter gig of ram and a 1+Ghz cpu and X is just a tiny tidbit
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I have better things to do than wait for apple to catch up to the world
I am trying to decide which is worse, draggin all that shit around or the cost of all crappy little stands you would need, just buy a computer yo
it still has buttons for normal controls, the phones not so much
yea but its like a neutered unix that been beaten for years now
I find this funny, PC users know there is free porn out there, and the mac users are instantly willing to pay extra for it. says a lot about which world each lives in
these are mostly games of the region, you would get pretty far blanket banning a significant portion of customers
you too?
what gets me is every time I have liquid nitrogen and boiling water in close proximity I never think its a bad idea.
then the politicians wont have extra pork for their state contractors
you don't have to be an expert to come to the conclusion that a planet with no vegetation is going to be rocky
You geniuses at NASA gave this one more than 3CM of ground clearance so it didn't get stuck on a rock
then there was linux based PDA's with phones in them (sony) then palm phones and a half dozen others then Opps apple "innovated" the smartphone and all other phones before it did not exist
hm we have macbook pro's at work, they have gamer cards and run hot as balls, heck the ones a few years ago ran so hot they would desolder their own nvidia GPU
IMO it just sounds like you dont know how to shop for what you want, they make cute thin light cool stinkpads, and apple makes multicore portable mainfame furnaces, its not a companies or markets fault you dont know what your looking for.
popular items dont sit on the shelf for 5 years while the company tries to ditch them on the weekend sales
seriously go look at them, its the same ones that were there last year and the year before that, netbooks were going to sell like hotcakes, everyone bought a fuckton of them, and now everyone is stuck with them. that is exactly why the specs haven't gotten any better and the price hasn't dropped.
A 10 inch netbook with 1 gig of ram and a 1.6ghz atom would run you around 300 bucks a few years ago, now they are down to 278
gee I hope when I donate less that a microprecent of my income to charity some preacher will be standing behind me touting how I had zero obligation to do anything and how you pissants should be greatful.
the AC does have a point, its like dropping a quarter and a dime in the thing at Mc Donalds
Ya know 99% of the time all you have to do is a system restore and your back and running in less time than a smoke break, I just love it when people make out this HUGE deal with windows, like 90% of the world hasn't been using it for the last couple decades or anything.
no the vast majority of them are in their mums basement wondering why they cant find love or friendship, but just spent 8 months tweaking the most ultimate KDE4 desktop ever! and now it doesn't matter
HA HA
The team announced that they will be removing the mouse, instead of the mouse users are expected to use a tiny window on the screen called "the mouse", and the team said most users would not notice once they got used to it. In other news the team also announced they solved what some have perceived as annoying action where the controls for widgets would jump out like a light show.
so it takes 700 bucks to gather the materials, add in marketing, management, packaging, wholesale, retail + extended warranty and your going to have a total shit 3000$ laptop that wont be able to do anything cause its only burning off 15 watts out of a celphone battery
sounds fucking great
As someone already mentioned this one trick pony is getting a bit near its end, yea they can keep adding stuff on to it, but google became google cause of a simple and fast search engine, that is not simple not fast and not really worth a fuck anymore as its loaded down with 10 trillion google mini apps, shovel fulls of shit java scripts, and the first 9 pages are fucking spam!
that would require something other than a 20+ year old concept in a new package, though I will consent that having cheap cellular Internet had a major 1 up in the evolution of the newton/palm/and all the other mips and arm pocket pc's
hm I happen to be writing an article about linux on old machines, one target is my old 90Mhz pentium 90 with 8 megs of ram, with linux 2.4 kernel and a fairly (but not tweaked out I will give you that) spartan setup, before I even hit the login prompt most of that ram is gone, start X and your working almost totally on swap, and it takes about 30 minuets to get to a usable point, it never really stops thrashing the swap manager and god help you if your dumb enough to toss on a light window manager.
So OK you remember a SPARCstation 1, and it was the shit, I can buy that as it was running a proper unix, it was designed for that reason and it had some corporate support behind it. Thats a bit different than getting some distro, and slapping it on a random machine.
My wife just got done with a course, and it was online, it graded her wrong cause she clicked the edge of the button instead of the dead center. it doesn't matter she clicked the right button, it only matters that she did not click it DEAD PERFECT CENTER
so no these systems cant grade better cause they are made by teachers who don't proof read their own shit (for example there was many times she would be taking a quiz and the answer would be in 2 chapters ahead) made by flunkie CS 101 students that just got introduced to the concept of a bounding box via web image mapping.
I agree, the "time to kill X" was in the mid 1990's when a Pentium could run OS/2 or Windows 95 with no problems but just loading an X desktop would suck all your ram and take an hour
X is the underling tech that displays all those new shiny borked GUI's and your old favorites too, it sort of needs to go because it rarely gets used for what its intended and is a big bloated overcomplicated pain in the ass for normal desktop use!
now the optimal time to do that would have been a decade or more ago when it took unholy matters of hell to get X working worth a shit on older machines, now whats the point we all have at least a quarter gig of ram and a 1+Ghz cpu and X is just a tiny tidbit
Thats a bit of a jump
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