A Dell Mini 10 doesn't handle Youtube just fine. It doesn't handle it fine in Windows 7, and it doesn't handle it fine in Jolicloud Linux. Jolicloud is one of the very, very few OS's that plays nice with the godforsaken Poulsbo chipset, with built in support, but it's still a framedropping mess with flash.
HDMI out, putting Hulu to a TV? Get ready for about every other frame to be skipped/dropped.
You do realise that Newegg is selling this "fake" mouse, right?
The mouse is, as yet, unannounced and you were probably speaking to a call-center rep that knows less about the company he's taking calls for than you do.
Palm m105 user here. I'd imagine that my cheap little 105 has more hours of use on it that most. I bought it as an e-book reader for text and html documents gotten off the web and purchased from PeanutPress etc...
I average between 1 and 2 hours of use per night on my 105, and it's over a year old now. Most of the uptime is with the backlight on as well (reading in bed). The units had only one reset since I bought it, and that was due to letting the batteries get so low that it evidently corrupted the memory. It commonly has around 3 megs of data (text files) swapped on and off it every week. It's showing over 146 days since the last reset now.
I really haven't used the digitizer functions on the unit much, and most of the times that I have it's for writing in Notepad. I haven't used any of the other PDA's so I can't compare it's input sensitivity to the higher end models... it works fine for what I do with it though.
Perhaps I'm just lucky, but mine has run flawlessly, and the display and other buttons and features continue to work just fine.
When you rent something, you are allowed the use of that property for the rental period... that's it. End of contract, and end of obligation.
Lets say that my company rent's you a hammer, on a yearly basis. For the sake of discussion, lets say it's a magical hammer, and that it's stipulated in the contract that it will disappear in one year.
One year later, the hammer disappears and you come back to "Magical Hammer Rentals-R-Us" to get another, only to find that we're going out of business and won't be renting anymore magical hammers. How in the hell could you possibly think that it is "Magical Hammer Rentals-R-Us's" responsibility to find you another hammer, or to give you a magical hammer that would last forever, before we closed our doors?
It's a friggin' yearly contract, for crying out loud.... after a year it's OVER, end of obligation!!
Now, back to reality. I'm not sure whether or not I like the idea of yearly software "rentals" or not, but it might have it's advantages. Instead of "MS Office" costing $300.00, only to be outdated in 1 1/2 years anyway, it might be beneficial to pay, say $50.00 a year, and get presumably newer versions of said software on a yearly basis.
Of course, there's always the possibility that you could use a competing product that you outright buy (or GPL'd software) if you could find one that performed well and did what you needed it to do.
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I'm a proud member of IBEW Local 354 in SLC, Utah. I'm a blue collar worker, a electrician mainly working on light and heavy industrial construction projects, a demanding and dangerous job.
I've always known that the only way to be assured a future as a blue collar worker was to be a union member, most of my non-union counterparts don't even have such basic needs as job safety, retirement or medical insurance met by their employers.
I find it intriguing that the new breed of white collar workers are finding out what we've known all along:)
Don't listen to the corporate shills fellas. Unions aren't the evil entities that they would have you believe... The are organizations set up by *workers* to protect those same *worker's* rights.
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A Dell Mini 10 doesn't handle Youtube just fine. It doesn't handle it fine in Windows 7, and it doesn't handle it fine in Jolicloud Linux. Jolicloud is one of the very, very few OS's that plays nice with the godforsaken Poulsbo chipset, with built in support, but it's still a framedropping mess with flash.
HDMI out, putting Hulu to a TV? Get ready for about every other frame to be skipped/dropped.
You do realise that Newegg is selling this "fake" mouse, right?
The mouse is, as yet, unannounced and you were probably speaking to a call-center rep that knows less about the company he's taking calls for than you do.
Palm m105 user here. I'd imagine that my cheap little 105 has more hours of use on it that most. I bought it as an e-book reader for text and html documents gotten off the web and purchased from PeanutPress etc...
I average between 1 and 2 hours of use per night on my 105, and it's over a year old now. Most of the uptime is with the backlight on as well (reading in bed). The units had only one reset since I bought it, and that was due to letting the batteries get so low that it evidently corrupted the memory. It commonly has around 3 megs of data (text files) swapped on and off it every week. It's showing over 146 days since the last reset now.
I really haven't used the digitizer functions on the unit much, and most of the times that I have it's for writing in Notepad. I haven't used any of the other PDA's so I can't compare it's input sensitivity to the higher end models... it works fine for what I do with it though.
Perhaps I'm just lucky, but mine has run flawlessly, and the display and other buttons and features continue to work just fine.
When you rent something, you are allowed the use of that property for the rental period... that's it. End of contract, and end of obligation. Lets say that my company rent's you a hammer, on a yearly basis. For the sake of discussion, lets say it's a magical hammer, and that it's stipulated in the contract that it will disappear in one year. One year later, the hammer disappears and you come back to "Magical Hammer Rentals-R-Us" to get another, only to find that we're going out of business and won't be renting anymore magical hammers. How in the hell could you possibly think that it is "Magical Hammer Rentals-R-Us's" responsibility to find you another hammer, or to give you a magical hammer that would last forever, before we closed our doors? It's a friggin' yearly contract, for crying out loud.... after a year it's OVER, end of obligation!! Now, back to reality. I'm not sure whether or not I like the idea of yearly software "rentals" or not, but it might have it's advantages. Instead of "MS Office" costing $300.00, only to be outdated in 1 1/2 years anyway, it might be beneficial to pay, say $50.00 a year, and get presumably newer versions of said software on a yearly basis. Of course, there's always the possibility that you could use a competing product that you outright buy (or GPL'd software) if you could find one that performed well and did what you needed it to do.
I'm a proud member of IBEW Local 354 in SLC, Utah. I'm a blue collar worker, a electrician mainly working on light and heavy industrial construction projects, a demanding and dangerous job. I've always known that the only way to be assured a future as a blue collar worker was to be a union member, most of my non-union counterparts don't even have such basic needs as job safety, retirement or medical insurance met by their employers. I find it intriguing that the new breed of white collar workers are finding out what we've known all along :)
Don't listen to the corporate shills fellas. Unions aren't the evil entities that they would have you believe... The are organizations set up by *workers* to protect those same *worker's* rights.