So they're brave enough to ship it when you can't write a document while offline. Wow. If they're taking a leaf from Apple's book in opening stores they should take another leaf from Apple's book and not ship products until they have something worth shipping.
> we do not have the physical resources to provide everyone with our best medical care.
That's a straw man anyway, of course there is only one top doctor in any given field and they can't treat everybody personally.
However, it would be bullshit to suggest we can't provide a high standard of medical care to everyone. It's just a question of how we decide to allocate our resources.
Eric Lefkofsky is supposedly already a billionaire, though quite how much of that is based on his Groupon stock I don't know. Even if Groupon went bankrupt tomorrow he's already pulled hundreds of millions from the company so he'll not exactly be poor. You know all that investment Groupon got? Best part of a billion bucks? Yeah, that was mostly used to cash out the early investors, Lefkofsky included, at massively inflated stock prices.
Male pattern baldness isn't the only kind of hair loss and hair isn't all about looks. I'd rather like my nose hairs back so they can filter out dust and stuff; I'd like my eyelashes back so I don't get as much crap in my eyes or get dazzled by the sun; I'd like my eyebrows back so when it rains the water doesn't just pour down my forehead straight into my eyes.
The Fiat 500 has a 5 star Euro NCAP safety rating for adult occupants (that's the maximum) and is on sale in the USA, so I'm guessing it passes your crash tests too.
The V50 does indeed have a bigger engine. I was just using it as an example of a larger, more luxurious car which is extremely economical to show that tiny cars aren't the only option if you want something that does a lot better for fuel than the typical car sold in the USA.
Odd how I regularly see little 1 litre cars doing 80+ mph on the motorway and have driven similar cars at similar speeds and for journeys of a couple of hundred miles. As one example, a Fiat 500 Twin Air with it tiny 0.9 litre engine maxes out at 108 mph.
If you want something a bit bigger and more luxurious, the Volvo V50 we'll be getting delivered next month can seat 4 or 5 in comfort, has a big boot and the Drive model with its little 1.6 litre diesel engine gets to 60 in under 11 seconds and maxes out at 120 mph. Not fast, but more than fast enough that you're not a liability. And it'll get over 80 mpg on a run - about 70 mpg in US units.
The difference is that trucks and busses have to be big for the job they do and additional training is required to drive them, which makes the risk they pose much more acceptable. SUVs and trucks, when used for a job a normal car can do perfectly adequately, pose an additional and unnecessary risk.
Glossy really isn't easier to do right, as evidenced by the huge number of god-awful glossy screens out there. Look closely at a good quality glossy screen and you'll see it has a rippled surface to break up reflections and make them less noticeable. Less obvious - until you do a side-by-side comparison - are the anti-reflective coatings. There is a a world of difference between a high-quality screen with those features and a cheap-ass HP laptop with a plain sheet of shiny glass over the screen.
Buy a console for gaming. They are about as non-free as you can get, but as a black box which plays games they work great. FPS with a controller works just fine once you get used to it. You can even play UT3 on the PS3 with keyboard and mouse.
Wow, it's good to hear ET is still going. It was about the only FPS I played on the PC and I played it a lot. A hell of a lot. Haven't touched it in three years or more though. I might have to get the old Windows box running again and fire it up.
The in-depth explanation of the chemistry on the site describes the relevant reaction as a reduction of the free bromine produced when the flame retardant decomposes.
PS:It wasn't Jobs that was responsible for OS X. It was Amelio- he bought NEXT after BeOS stuck its thumb up at Apple and demanded a fortune. Jobs repaid the favor by manipulating the stock price and ousting Amelio.
That's one way of looking at it, but there's a lot of truth in the saying that NEXT bought Apple for -$400m.
I think I posted a comment further up, but I run an Eee 1000 running vanilla Ubuntu with the minor tweaks detailed above and a kernel from array.org to make the WiFi and hotkeys work properly. My Eee 1000 wakes from sleep in 6 seconds, WiFi takes a further 15 seconds or so to reconnect. Linux has never been super-snappy resuming from sleep, but 31 seconds sounds really bad, I can see why you'd care about fast booting with performance if sleep is that slow.
I would say that at the moment there isn't an OS out there that lends itself to the particular brand of configuration required for the netbooks, but if you wait just a bit longer it'll be worth the wait.
What configuration? I use Ubuntu on an Eee 1000 (a typical Atom-based netbook with an SSD and 1024x600 display). The sum total of "configuration required for netbooks" I carried out was to use one panel instead of two, set the panel to auto-hide, use the deadline scheduler rather CFQ and reduce the kernel's tendency to use swap (which I'd also do on any desktop Linux machine). I have felt no need for any further tweaking.
I have no idea why you think nanosecond timestamp resolution matters for netbooks.
Perhaps he actually likes the way Vista works, not just the way it looks. Do any of the Vista look-alike themes for XP give you, as just one example, Vista's improved Task Manager?
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The tech exchange rate is more like £1 to $1.
So they're brave enough to ship it when you can't write a document while offline. Wow. If they're taking a leaf from Apple's book in opening stores they should take another leaf from Apple's book and not ship products until they have something worth shipping.
For a cheap ducted fan model a few hundred bucks is about right, but RC jets really do cost thousands of dollars.
> we do not have the physical resources to provide everyone with our best medical care.
That's a straw man anyway, of course there is only one top doctor in any given field and they can't treat everybody personally.
However, it would be bullshit to suggest we can't provide a high standard of medical care to everyone. It's just a question of how we decide to allocate our resources.
Eric Lefkofsky is supposedly already a billionaire, though quite how much of that is based on his Groupon stock I don't know. Even if Groupon went bankrupt tomorrow he's already pulled hundreds of millions from the company so he'll not exactly be poor. You know all that investment Groupon got? Best part of a billion bucks? Yeah, that was mostly used to cash out the early investors, Lefkofsky included, at massively inflated stock prices.
At least for me, being out of 3G coverage or my broadband going down are a damn sight more frequent than hard drive failures.
Male pattern baldness isn't the only kind of hair loss and hair isn't all about looks. I'd rather like my nose hairs back so they can filter out dust and stuff; I'd like my eyelashes back so I don't get as much crap in my eyes or get dazzled by the sun; I'd like my eyebrows back so when it rains the water doesn't just pour down my forehead straight into my eyes.
The Fiat 500 has a 5 star Euro NCAP safety rating for adult occupants (that's the maximum) and is on sale in the USA, so I'm guessing it passes your crash tests too.
The V50 does indeed have a bigger engine. I was just using it as an example of a larger, more luxurious car which is extremely economical to show that tiny cars aren't the only option if you want something that does a lot better for fuel than the typical car sold in the USA.
Odd how I regularly see little 1 litre cars doing 80+ mph on the motorway and have driven similar cars at similar speeds and for journeys of a couple of hundred miles. As one example, a Fiat 500 Twin Air with it tiny 0.9 litre engine maxes out at 108 mph.
If you want something a bit bigger and more luxurious, the Volvo V50 we'll be getting delivered next month can seat 4 or 5 in comfort, has a big boot and the Drive model with its little 1.6 litre diesel engine gets to 60 in under 11 seconds and maxes out at 120 mph. Not fast, but more than fast enough that you're not a liability. And it'll get over 80 mpg on a run - about 70 mpg in US units.
Similarly sized cars today weigh significantly more than they used to and are a lot safer, in addition to be being more economical. So, erm, no.
The difference is that trucks and busses have to be big for the job they do and additional training is required to drive them, which makes the risk they pose much more acceptable. SUVs and trucks, when used for a job a normal car can do perfectly adequately, pose an additional and unnecessary risk.
Glossy really isn't easier to do right, as evidenced by the huge number of god-awful glossy screens out there. Look closely at a good quality glossy screen and you'll see it has a rippled surface to break up reflections and make them less noticeable. Less obvious - until you do a side-by-side comparison - are the anti-reflective coatings. There is a a world of difference between a high-quality screen with those features and a cheap-ass HP laptop with a plain sheet of shiny glass over the screen.
There are many grades of fireproof box. Fireproof media safes are designed to protect DVDs, hard drives and the like.
I think your're confusing your childhood with a "yo momma" joke.
Buy a console for gaming. They are about as non-free as you can get, but as a black box which plays games they work great. FPS with a controller works just fine once you get used to it. You can even play UT3 on the PS3 with keyboard and mouse.
Wow, it's good to hear ET is still going. It was about the only FPS I played on the PC and I played it a lot. A hell of a lot. Haven't touched it in three years or more though. I might have to get the old Windows box running again and fire it up.
Half-Life doesn't have a story, by the way, it has around about a sentence.
The fact that Half Life doesn't have cut scenes doesn't mean it doesn't have a story.
You just wait and see the plant analogy he'll come up with in another ten years. It'll be fucking awesome.
The Osborne 1 is old hat. I'm holding out for the Osborne Executive.
The in-depth explanation of the chemistry on the site describes the relevant reaction as a reduction of the free bromine produced when the flame retardant decomposes.
PS:It wasn't Jobs that was responsible for OS X. It was Amelio- he bought NEXT after BeOS stuck its thumb up at Apple and demanded a fortune. Jobs repaid the favor by manipulating the stock price and ousting Amelio.
That's one way of looking at it, but there's a lot of truth in the saying that NEXT bought Apple for -$400m.
Reddit isn't too bad once you filter out the politics and atheism.
I think I posted a comment further up, but I run an Eee 1000 running vanilla Ubuntu with the minor tweaks detailed above and a kernel from array.org to make the WiFi and hotkeys work properly. My Eee 1000 wakes from sleep in 6 seconds, WiFi takes a further 15 seconds or so to reconnect. Linux has never been super-snappy resuming from sleep, but 31 seconds sounds really bad, I can see why you'd care about fast booting with performance if sleep is that slow.
I would say that at the moment there isn't an OS out there that lends itself to the particular brand of configuration required for the netbooks, but if you wait just a bit longer it'll be worth the wait.
What configuration? I use Ubuntu on an Eee 1000 (a typical Atom-based netbook with an SSD and 1024x600 display). The sum total of "configuration required for netbooks" I carried out was to use one panel instead of two, set the panel to auto-hide, use the deadline scheduler rather CFQ and reduce the kernel's tendency to use swap (which I'd also do on any desktop Linux machine). I have felt no need for any further tweaking.
I have no idea why you think nanosecond timestamp resolution matters for netbooks.
Perhaps he actually likes the way Vista works, not just the way it looks. Do any of the Vista look-alike themes for XP give you, as just one example, Vista's improved Task Manager?