How many laptops, no, how many personal computers in general go that long without needing a major fix? Any time a computer lasts for more than 10 years without hosing itself up, that's admirable.
That's just plain wrong: most computers over a certain age that are junked are in perfect working condition, they're just obsoleted by evermore demanding software and incompatible new devices and interfaces.
I don't disagree, I just point out that Apple customers seem to have a surprisingly selective memory, with statements such as "12 years without a problem" for a laptop he himself said the screen of was replaced, or this post further down where the guys is all happy with his laptop that, in only 4 years, had failing hinges and a desoldered power connector.
I'm sorry, I've had laptops from Tosh and IBM that lasted longer, truly without a problem at all. And if they had had a problem, I wouldn't have described them as flawless, even if I found the problem could be expected after a long time.
I used a PowerBook 140 for about... oh, I dunno, 12 years. The screen went out in 2003, but other than that the machine runs. [...] Still though, 12 years without a problem is pretty freaking solid. Kudos!
So let's see: one major failure == no problem.
I'm sure PC makers would love the kind of blind brand loyalty Apple enjoys...
To me it seems just as bothersome to load an rss reader as it is to load the websites in a browser, ive never understood the massive hype surounding RSS.
Exactly. For example, there's a/. RSS feed, but most people read it from the front page. Why? because they can't be bothered with RSS and a regular web page works just as well.
But I think the real flaw in RSS is the very concept it implements, the "push technology". People don't like information to be pushed at them. They want to retrieve (pull) it themselves. That's the same behaviour that explains why people don't like ads shoved in their mailboxes, and prefer to ask the salesmen about this or that product: the pitch is the same, but in one case, the information is asked by the customer first. That's also why/. readers prefer to reload the front page every 30 seconds, instead of waiting for the RSS feed to get updated, despite that the RSS version should theorically bring them new stories faster.
I've said it before, I'll say it again- if RSS was called SpeedFeed every user would have to have it.
There are a number of acronyms that can be just as "sexy" as marketdroid made-up name. Think MP3, PC or IBM. Maybe the truth is that much of RSS is hype? Either that or there's SS in the name and it's too nazi, but I won't say it because I fear Godwin's wrath.
Do you know what happened when my associate typed "del/? ". And don't tell me "nothing" (which is essentially what should've happened).
Hmm, it deleted all one-letter files in the root directory, i.e. nothing happened? Not to mention, what was a guy typing DOS commands under Unix doing with the root password?
You first-hand story sounds like a load of bollocks to me...
Obligatory Python reference: ARTHUR: Go and tell your master that we have been charged by God with a sacred quest. If he will give us money, he can have join a very nice movie on DVD GUARD: Well, I'll ask him, but I don't think he'll be very keen... Uh, he's already downloaded it, you see? ARTHUR: What? GALAHAD: He says they've already downloaded it! ARTHUR: Are you sure he's downloaded it? GUARD: Oh, yes, it's very nice-a (I told him we already downloaded it) ARTHUR: Well, um, can we come up and have a look? GUARD: Of course not! You are English types-a! ARTHUR: Well, what are you then? GUARD: I'm French! Why do think I have this outrageous accent, you silly king! GALAHAD: What are you doing in England? GUARD: Mind your own business! ARTHUR: If you will not show us the illegal download, we shall take your castle by force! GUARD: You don't frighten us, English pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called Arthur-King, you and your silly English K...niggets. Thppppt! GALAHAD: What a strange person.
This isn't a rant against Zonk (whom I feel gets too much grief sometimes) but a rant against the entertainment industry in general.
Oh please... your faux-blase act is so commonplace these days it's not even funny.
If you don't like best of the year reviews, then don't bloody read them. If you don't like awards, don't watch the ceremonies. I hate the whole Christmas and end-of-year bullshit as much as the next guy, but that doesn't mean I should feel compelled to go on Slashdot pretending to be assaulted by the entertainment industry against my will and complain about it.
The article doesn't make it clear why it should run as a screensaver... is the ISO interactive? How does one escape the screensaver? Why not just run it stand-alone?
No no no, you don't understand, while it runs as a screensaver, it's building Gentoo. Only after it's done can you run it standalone...
As a teenager, I sat raptly in the U.S. Supreme Court gallery listening to attorneys argue University of Illinois Foundation v. Blonder Tongue Laboratories, a landmark patent-infringement case
you listened to rapty to attorneys in your teenage years? this guy's a sicko, I was doing plenty of strange new things as a teen, including things involving my left hand, then girls (in that order), and also things involving dried fauna and cigarette paper, but certainly not listening raptly to attorneys. Sheesh...
We don't complain (too loudly:) ) when dupes happen here
except Taco didn't write "it is a guideline that the Slashdot editors should spell-check and dupe-check submissions". Since they didn't set the trap, they don't run the chance of getting caught in it.
he did not write about himself, but rather edited content about his entry. I don't see why editing your bio, espcially to correct errors, would be such a terrible crime worthy of news.
Editing your own bio is just like writing it. If Charles Manson edited his to turn "murderer" into "serious self-defense practitioner", in his eyes he might think he's right and absolutely entitled to correct the error, but the result would be wrong.
I think the phrase is "you can't be judge and jury".
he price--US$359. In order to hit that price point, I imagine Nokia had to make some hardware trade offs. Unfortunately, those make themselves glaringly apparent at times. 128MB of shared memory isn't enough; neither is a 250MHz ARM processor.'
All that and more (just look at the specs) for that price in a small package "isn't enough"?
Just curious here. What happens if you plug a memory stick into the net cafe PC and run linux on an emu?
Most internet cafes I've patronized didn't allow you to run anything other than their own programs, namely an account manager or activator, a web browser, email client, and IMs, as well as online games that were pre-installed by the owners. The machines also won't boot a removable media, and the bios is passworded. I've even known a web cafe where all the machines ran a watchdog, and an alarm would ring if you tried to fuck around with one of them.
As for using a laptop, I suppose they would just require you to use their web proxy.
China must be very fascistic (sic) then... oh too bad it's communist! What a tool...
Well actually, you're right: China is a capitalist economy run by a fascist government. In short, it's a dictatorship open to business. China has seized to be communist (or at least stopped trying to become a true communist country) many years ago.
Yes, this is a concept that appears throughout the world known as 'capitalism'.
Trouble is, the force that drives the new booming field of security/military/anti-terrorism devices isn't free market, but rather how much it's possible to milk public money from law enforcement agencies before they start to complain. Since they never complain, primarily because they *want* to be seen as spending a lot to "protect" the people, all these companies keep jacking the prices up. And none of them would dare giving the game away by trying to be cheaper than the others, there's just too much money to be made for everybody without having to being normal business competition into play.
In short, the anti-bad-guys market isn't driven by capitalism, and hasn't been since 9/11. Rather, the state and the private sector work together to spend your tax money as fast as they can, making themselves richer and you poorer under the pretext of protecting you.
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How many laptops, no, how many personal computers in general go that long without needing a major fix? Any time a computer lasts for more than 10 years without hosing itself up, that's admirable.
That's just plain wrong: most computers over a certain age that are junked are in perfect working condition, they're just obsoleted by evermore demanding software and incompatible new devices and interfaces.
I don't disagree, I just point out that Apple customers seem to have a surprisingly selective memory, with statements such as "12 years without a problem" for a laptop he himself said the screen of was replaced, or this post further down where the guys is all happy with his laptop that, in only 4 years, had failing hinges and a desoldered power connector.
I'm sorry, I've had laptops from Tosh and IBM that lasted longer, truly without a problem at all. And if they had had a problem, I wouldn't have described them as flawless, even if I found the problem could be expected after a long time.
I used a PowerBook 140 for about ... oh, I dunno, 12 years. The screen went out in 2003, but other than that the machine runs. [...] Still though, 12 years without a problem is pretty freaking solid. Kudos!
So let's see: one major failure == no problem.
I'm sure PC makers would love the kind of blind brand loyalty Apple enjoys...
To me it seems just as bothersome to load an rss reader as it is to load the websites in a browser, ive never understood the massive hype surounding RSS.
/. RSS feed, but most people read it from the front page. Why? because they can't be bothered with RSS and a regular web page works just as well.
/. readers prefer to reload the front page every 30 seconds, instead of waiting for the RSS feed to get updated, despite that the RSS version should theorically bring them new stories faster.
Exactly. For example, there's a
But I think the real flaw in RSS is the very concept it implements, the "push technology". People don't like information to be pushed at them. They want to retrieve (pull) it themselves. That's the same behaviour that explains why people don't like ads shoved in their mailboxes, and prefer to ask the salesmen about this or that product: the pitch is the same, but in one case, the information is asked by the customer first. That's also why
I've said it before, I'll say it again- if RSS was called SpeedFeed every user would have to have it.
There are a number of acronyms that can be just as "sexy" as marketdroid made-up name. Think MP3, PC or IBM. Maybe the truth is that much of RSS is hype? Either that or there's SS in the name and it's too nazi, but I won't say it because I fear Godwin's wrath.
Do you know what happened when my associate typed "del /? ". And don't tell me "nothing" (which is essentially what should've happened).
Hmm, it deleted all one-letter files in the root directory, i.e. nothing happened? Not to mention, what was a guy typing DOS commands under Unix doing with the root password?
You first-hand story sounds like a load of bollocks to me...
Céline Dion, is canadian, from quebec. Not every that speaks french is from France.
Any person from France can tell you the Quebec lingo can hardly be called french. It's just about impossible to understand outside of Montreal...
Obligatory Python reference:
ARTHUR: Go and tell your master that we have been charged by God with a sacred quest. If he will give us money, he can have join a very nice movie on DVD
GUARD: Well, I'll ask him, but I don't think he'll be very keen... Uh, he's already downloaded it, you see?
ARTHUR: What?
GALAHAD: He says they've already downloaded it!
ARTHUR: Are you sure he's downloaded it?
GUARD: Oh, yes, it's very nice-a (I told him we already downloaded it)
ARTHUR: Well, um, can we come up and have a look?
GUARD: Of course not! You are English types-a!
ARTHUR: Well, what are you then?
GUARD: I'm French! Why do think I have this outrageous accent, you silly king!
GALAHAD: What are you doing in England?
GUARD: Mind your own business!
ARTHUR: If you will not show us the illegal download, we shall take your castle by force!
GUARD: You don't frighten us, English pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called Arthur-King, you and your silly English K...niggets. Thppppt!
GALAHAD: What a strange person.
You Sir are my hero for the day. Well spotted.
This isn't a rant against Zonk (whom I feel gets too much grief sometimes) but a rant against the entertainment industry in general.
Oh please... your faux-blase act is so commonplace these days it's not even funny.
If you don't like best of the year reviews, then don't bloody read them. If you don't like awards, don't watch the ceremonies. I hate the whole Christmas and end-of-year bullshit as much as the next guy, but that doesn't mean I should feel compelled to go on Slashdot pretending to be assaulted by the entertainment industry against my will and complain about it.
That award goes to Shadow of the Colossus. Which, sorry Jared, did actually rock.
No Zonk, *you* think it rocks.
The article doesn't make it clear why it should run as a screensaver... is the ISO interactive? How does one escape the screensaver? Why not just run it stand-alone?
No no no, you don't understand, while it runs as a screensaver, it's building Gentoo. Only after it's done can you run it standalone...
Am I the only one® to find non-legal documents® polluted by legalese bullshit® extremely annoying®?
As a teenager, I sat raptly in the U.S. Supreme Court gallery listening to attorneys argue University of Illinois Foundation v. Blonder Tongue Laboratories, a landmark patent-infringement case
you listened to rapty to attorneys in your teenage years? this guy's a sicko, I was doing plenty of strange new things as a teen, including things involving my left hand, then girls (in that order), and also things involving dried fauna and cigarette paper, but certainly not listening raptly to attorneys. Sheesh...
We don't complain (too loudly :) ) when dupes happen here
except Taco didn't write "it is a guideline that the Slashdot editors should spell-check and dupe-check submissions". Since they didn't set the trap, they don't run the chance of getting caught in it.
he did not write about himself, but rather edited content about his entry. I don't see why editing your bio, espcially to correct errors, would be such a terrible crime worthy of news.
Editing your own bio is just like writing it. If Charles Manson edited his to turn "murderer" into "serious self-defense practitioner", in his eyes he might think he's right and absolutely entitled to correct the error, but the result would be wrong.
I think the phrase is "you can't be judge and jury".
For the price, it would be nice to have Windows XP on the device.
Oh yeah, they'll release an XP version just as soon as Microsoft completes the ARM port, any time now...
Even if it had to be in a dual-boot configuration, it'd make gaming easier
You do realize computing != beige box PCs right?
KHTML. The K stands for Krap.
No no, it's a KDE software.
Come to think of it, you're still right...
he price--US$359. In order to hit that price point, I imagine Nokia had to make some hardware trade offs. Unfortunately, those make themselves glaringly apparent at times. 128MB of shared memory isn't enough; neither is a 250MHz ARM processor.'
All that and more (just look at the specs) for that price in a small package "isn't enough"?
Can you say techno-blase?
Not sure that my nose pores will look that good at a half meter across each.
They'll just look like dead pixels...
Just curious here. What happens if you plug a memory stick into the net cafe PC and run linux on an emu?
Most internet cafes I've patronized didn't allow you to run anything other than their own programs, namely an account manager or activator, a web browser, email client, and IMs, as well as online games that were pre-installed by the owners. The machines also won't boot a removable media, and the bios is passworded. I've even known a web cafe where all the machines ran a watchdog, and an alarm would ring if you tried to fuck around with one of them.
As for using a laptop, I suppose they would just require you to use their web proxy.
China must be very fascistic (sic) then... oh too bad it's communist! What a tool...
Well actually, you're right: China is a capitalist economy run by a fascist government. In short, it's a dictatorship open to business. China has seized to be communist (or at least stopped trying to become a true communist country) many years ago.
Aah, so you see now what Americans have to bear with every day: fascistic laws *and* having to read them on /. too :)
On an unrelated note, would I be considered a "peeping tom" if I rolled one of these things into a cheerleader's locker room?
Not if the room is empty...
Yes, this is a concept that appears throughout the world known as 'capitalism'.
Trouble is, the force that drives the new booming field of security/military/anti-terrorism devices isn't free market, but rather how much it's possible to milk public money from law enforcement agencies before they start to complain. Since they never complain, primarily because they *want* to be seen as spending a lot to "protect" the people, all these companies keep jacking the prices up. And none of them would dare giving the game away by trying to be cheaper than the others, there's just too much money to be made for everybody without having to being normal business competition into play.
In short, the anti-bad-guys market isn't driven by capitalism, and hasn't been since 9/11. Rather, the state and the private sector work together to spend your tax money as fast as they can, making themselves richer and you poorer under the pretext of protecting you.