You are being too kind, merely using "crap" to describe it. Start with "fugly" and go from there. It needs a copious beating with an Apple beauty stick.
Except, if you changed over all of those hundreds of millions of vehicles with little gasoline burning engines to hundreds of millions of vehicles with electric motors and batteries, you would have to put up completely new (massive) power distribution networks, thousands of big new electric power plants and somehow come up with all of the rare raw materials (like copper - which is already on the road to short supply) for all of those hundreds of millions of electric motors and trillions of batteries (you do know that something like the Tesla Roadster has 6831 battery cells in it, right?).
Somewhere along the line, someone didn't quite think this electric vehicle revolution through...
Don't forget the grounded copper mesh in the walls to prevent Big Brother and The Man from snooping on the electronic emissions from inside your abode. And some sort of active or passive insulation in the walls to block infrared snooping.
Seriously, this sounds like good business to start up. First sell it to the rich fuckers as part of personal "security" and go from there...
Makes one wonder how much of this "HTML 5 will do this", "HTML 5 will do that" is hype or wishful thinking. Past experience has shown great disappointment in all this hyperbole...
I've had nothing but positive experiences with them
Ha! I wish...
1) Cold standby Dell PowerEdge 2850 server refusing to power up after sitting idle (i.e. off) for a couple of months. It was only a couple of months old and idling in a real data center.
2) All six 'enterprise grade' SCSI SCA hard drives in another Dell PowerEdge 2850 failing one after another in a period of three weeks. It was only six months old and living in a real data center.
3) Dell Inspiron 6400 dying just inside the warranty period. Dell returns the laptop with a 120GB hard drive and 1GB of RAM when it was originally ordered, shipped and received with a 160GB drive and 2GB of RAM. Ooopsy! where did that disk and memory go?
4) Change the shipping address on personal account via the Dell web site order system. Place an order right after changing the shipping address. Order system pulls out and puts in the old address instead of the new one. Immediately call Dell to have the shipping address changed to the billing (i.e. correct) address. Person in India says no problem, he will fix it. Order never shows up. Call Dell. Another person in India tells me they don't fix the shipping address (even to the billing address) due to "security" reasons. After more phone calls, she person in India tells me they will refund the order to the credit card due to loss of shipment. Dell never refunds the order amount. Lesson learned: Dell Customer Service outright lies to the customer.
Over the last few years, I've bought well over $1 million worth of Dell laptops, desktops, servers and monitors for various customers. And you still get fucked around by them.
Look at pictures of Mount Kilimanjaro today, 20, 30 and 50 years ago. Where have the glaciers gone? Travel to any of the glaciers fields in Europe, North America or Asia. Where have the glaciers gone? Global cooling sure as fuck hasn't caused them to recede drastically.
Google finances everything from their advertising revenue.
If that ever dries up, they are royally, totally, completely fucked.
In the meantime, they are royally, totally, completely fucking up every market they blunder into by offering services in that market for free - totally destroying the market for any one or company trying to make money in that market.
Freetrads love Google because they get stuff for free (as in someone else pays for it). People with half a brain are realizing Google is becoming the greatest corporate evil ever.
Atom based netbooks are already too slow for anything *but* web surfing
Horse cow pie poopies!!! A Dell Mini 10v with 2GB RAM and 320GB 7200RPM HD running Photoshop CS4 under Mac OS X 10.6.2 is a little bit more than "anything *but* web surfing". Lest you still wet behind the ears 20-somethings have forgotten that today's Netbook is just as powerful as a several year old desktop (or laptop!) that was used to run things like Photoshop, Autocad, Quark, Office, Eclipse and many other real world productivity applications.
These days, cracked iPhone apps make up a significant chunk of the titles in the pirate scenes 0-day packs. A few times more than half the titles where iPhone apps. Just saying what I've observed...
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Arrogance? Ignorance? Pick one.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=8192 will fix it.
You are being too kind, merely using "crap" to describe it. Start with "fugly" and go from there. It needs a copious beating with an Apple beauty stick.
Clueless one, go visit http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/mac-os-x/ to see hundreds of Dell Minis running OS X...
You forgot Google Checkout - your credit card numbers and online purchasing history.
...and my question is, where are the "graspingatstraws", "lipstickonapig" or "toolate" tags?
Except, if you changed over all of those hundreds of millions of vehicles with little gasoline burning engines to hundreds of millions of vehicles with electric motors and batteries, you would have to put up completely new (massive) power distribution networks, thousands of big new electric power plants and somehow come up with all of the rare raw materials (like copper - which is already on the road to short supply) for all of those hundreds of millions of electric motors and trillions of batteries (you do know that something like the Tesla Roadster has 6831 battery cells in it, right?).
Somewhere along the line, someone didn't quite think this electric vehicle revolution through...
Don't forget the grounded copper mesh in the walls to prevent Big Brother and The Man from snooping on the electronic emissions from inside your abode. And some sort of active or passive insulation in the walls to block infrared snooping.
Seriously, this sounds like good business to start up. First sell it to the rich fuckers as part of personal "security" and go from there...
You would look rather silly with an iPhone or iPod touch duct taped to your head...
Makes one wonder how much of this "HTML 5 will do this", "HTML 5 will do that" is hype or wishful thinking. Past experience has shown great disappointment in all this hyperbole...
All normal people will print out the recipe on their ink jet printer and take the printed copy to the kitchen to make it.
Only a /.tard would take a netbook or laptop into the kitchen and gunge up the keyboard with ingredients.
It's for sitting on the couch and reading Slashdot, dammit!
I already have that. It's called Ubuntu running on a Dell Mini.
And it (the Mini) can do far, far more than that (run XP, Windows 7 or Mac OSX) double and triple dammit!
I've had nothing but positive experiences with them
Ha! I wish...
1) Cold standby Dell PowerEdge 2850 server refusing to power up after sitting idle (i.e. off) for a couple of months. It was only a couple of months old and idling in a real data center.
2) All six 'enterprise grade' SCSI SCA hard drives in another Dell PowerEdge 2850 failing one after another in a period of three weeks. It was only six months old and living in a real data center.
3) Dell Inspiron 6400 dying just inside the warranty period. Dell returns the laptop with a 120GB hard drive and 1GB of RAM when it was originally ordered, shipped and received with a 160GB drive and 2GB of RAM. Ooopsy! where did that disk and memory go?
4) Change the shipping address on personal account via the Dell web site order system. Place an order right after changing the shipping address. Order system pulls out and puts in the old address instead of the new one. Immediately call Dell to have the shipping address changed to the billing (i.e. correct) address. Person in India says no problem, he will fix it. Order never shows up. Call Dell. Another person in India tells me they don't fix the shipping address (even to the billing address) due to "security" reasons. After more phone calls, she person in India tells me they will refund the order to the credit card due to loss of shipment. Dell never refunds the order amount. Lesson learned: Dell Customer Service outright lies to the customer.
Over the last few years, I've bought well over $1 million worth of Dell laptops, desktops, servers and monitors for various customers. And you still get fucked around by them.
The solution is simple: /etc/hosts
vi
add:
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 twx.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.uk.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com
127.0.0.1 googleads.g.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com
127.0.0.1 partner.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1 analytics.live.com
127.0.0.1 ads1.msn.com
etc.
if global warming is false
Look at pictures of Mount Kilimanjaro today, 20, 30 and 50 years ago. Where have the glaciers gone? Travel to any of the glaciers fields in Europe, North America or Asia. Where have the glaciers gone? Global cooling sure as fuck hasn't caused them to recede drastically.
I have a three year old Dell Inspiron 6400 (with a 160GB 5400RPM 2.5" HD) that boots Windows XP SP3 from power off to desktop in 15 seconds.
What are you people doing wrong?
You'd fill the Grand Canyon in record time if you saw what was and is being used in nuclear facilities...
Reads to me like you have a product idea right there...
What is google doing to finance all this
Google finances everything from their advertising revenue.
If that ever dries up, they are royally, totally, completely fucked.
In the meantime, they are royally, totally, completely fucking up every market they blunder into by offering services in that market for free - totally destroying the market for any one or company trying to make money in that market.
Freetrads love Google because they get stuff for free (as in someone else pays for it). People with half a brain are realizing Google is becoming the greatest corporate evil ever.
Watch the rabid down-modding being...
He's counting the red, green and blue dots as pixels.
Atom based netbooks are already too slow for anything *but* web surfing
Horse cow pie poopies!!! A Dell Mini 10v with 2GB RAM and 320GB 7200RPM HD running Photoshop CS4 under Mac OS X 10.6.2 is a little bit more than "anything *but* web surfing". Lest you still wet behind the ears 20-somethings have forgotten that today's Netbook is just as powerful as a several year old desktop (or laptop!) that was used to run things like Photoshop, Autocad, Quark, Office, Eclipse and many other real world productivity applications.
These days, cracked iPhone apps make up a significant chunk of the titles in the pirate scenes 0-day packs. A few times more than half the titles where iPhone apps. Just saying what I've observed...
They're not a search engine company, they're a data management company.
No they are not. They are an advertising company. If the revenue from advertising dried up, they would not be able to exist at all.
Unfortunately, the culture of the Apple App store is 'everything for 99 cents'.
If you have a small selection of solid games/apps now for Android that will give you a great advantage later on when the market increases.
Except you won't be around "later on" having either a) gone out of business due to lack of revenue, or b) gone off to some other job to pay the bills.