Also, this is my guess: I guess that there is not one elected official who understands the technology the NSA uses. If you know of a technically knowledgeable congressman or senator, please tell me who that is. These are the same people who gave us the DMCA!
And whose fault is that? You get the elected officials you elect. You don't like them? Don't vote for them.
I'm not an American, but it seems to me that if you don't like your elected officials, you can turn up and vote for someone else.
I'm sick of the moaning on here that Congress doesn't understand you. Well, participate in the process then. Use democracy, stop moaning about laws passed by democratically elected officals. Don't like a law? Well get it changed the same way everybody else does... Thinking a law is wrong doesn't make you exempt from being subject to the law...
At the risk of making out that all marketing is evil... What the heck is a 'ultraportable subnotebook'?
I use a Sony C1VE which I would class as pretty much the smallest viable non-PDA 'laptop' (handtop?). Perhaps the Libretto is also in this class.
At the other end of the scale we have the 'desktop replacements' with massive screens and all the bells and whistles.
Anywhere between those two extremes appears to be in a mess: notebook, sub-notebook, ultra-portable, ultra-sub-notebook, etc.
My two pence is that the market has fragmented between the 'full-featured' desktop replacement machines, the 'low-power, low weight' machines and then the associated trade-offs in between.
I can't see the validity of the attempts to compare Crusoe and PIII systems, when the raison d'etre of the systems is usually so far apart as to make the comparison pointless. I mean who buys a Sony C1 to play Quake III? So, why to magazines give us benchmarks to show me that my C1 is slow at 3D!
OblongPlatypus asks if people want laptops they can carry around comfortably, so of us do, but some people need a DVD/CD-RW/1280x800 screen. My point is that they are very, very different beasts, its just that the media is very bad at understanding what we use our machines for in real life. I have no need of DVD on the road so I bought a machine that didn't include one, but to compare them on a like-for-like basis is just daft.
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Also, this is my guess: I guess that there is not one elected official who understands the technology the NSA uses. If you know of a technically knowledgeable congressman or senator, please tell me who that is. These are the same people who gave us the DMCA!
And whose fault is that? You get the elected officials you elect. You don't like them? Don't vote for them.
I'm not an American, but it seems to me that if you don't like your elected officials, you can turn up and vote for someone else.
I'm sick of the moaning on here that Congress doesn't understand you. Well, participate in the process then. Use democracy, stop moaning about laws passed by democratically elected officals. Don't like a law? Well get it changed the same way everybody else does... Thinking a law is wrong doesn't make you exempt from being subject to the law...
At the risk of making out that all marketing is evil... What the heck is a 'ultraportable subnotebook'?
I use a Sony C1VE which I would class as pretty much the smallest viable non-PDA 'laptop' (handtop?). Perhaps the Libretto is also in this class.
At the other end of the scale we have the 'desktop replacements' with massive screens and all the bells and whistles.
Anywhere between those two extremes appears to be in a mess: notebook, sub-notebook, ultra-portable, ultra-sub-notebook, etc.
My two pence is that the market has fragmented between the 'full-featured' desktop replacement machines, the 'low-power, low weight' machines and then the associated trade-offs in between.
I can't see the validity of the attempts to compare Crusoe and PIII systems, when the raison d'etre of the systems is usually so far apart as to make the comparison pointless. I mean who buys a Sony C1 to play Quake III? So, why to magazines give us benchmarks to show me that my C1 is slow at 3D!
OblongPlatypus asks if people want laptops they can carry around comfortably, so of us do, but some people need a DVD/CD-RW/1280x800 screen. My point is that they are very, very different beasts, its just that the media is very bad at understanding what we use our machines for in real life. I have no need of DVD on the road so I bought a machine that didn't include one, but to compare them on a like-for-like basis is just daft.