As this does not have any phone capabilities (apart from skype) and is more expensive than an EEEPC, I'd be interested to hear the benefits of a N800 (orN810) over an EEE?
Invest some more time and effort, get a postgraduate degree (maybe even a MBA if you're not the world's brightest) and you will be able to get a proper job.
If you display normal human traits, are friendly to everyone, respect the hierarchy and are eager to learn you will find out that your co-workers are just people.
Deserve? Would you ask the same question about the mute, deaf, physically disabled? Or people from different ethnicities? Do they 'deserve' better webdesign???
That's the most brainless and condescending headline I have read on Slashdot for a long time.
Ok, I'll bite.
I bought the EEEPC 5 months ago specifically for one reason: it was small enough to fit in my s.o.'s handbag. Yes, you will ask yourself why people make acquisitions purely due to design and dimension of a laptop, but Apple for instance has been winning in this category for decades. The fact that it ran Linux satisfied my inner geek and that my partner didn't have to lug around a laptop case and the ubiquitous female handbag made it perfect.
And you know what: it's been absolutely perfect. Equipped with an SD Card, an USB mouse and a set of headphones it's a beautiful, tiny, unobtrusive office laptop during working hours and at home fast enough to comfortably use the BBC's iplayer, watch an.avi of a good movie and hook it up to the inhouse Ipod. All for ca 250 pounds. Yes, you get a normal sized Dell for that these days, but that's not as small, hence not fitting the criteria.
NPOV. A completely and utterly useless goal. Everybody has a point of view and one's literary output reflects this. That's why I prefer E2: NPOV is not a necessity if it's well written.
While I'm a diehard Linux/*BSD fan myself, this machine wouldn't even be improved with a genuine OpenBSD install done by Theo de Raadt himself (apart from that it would probably swear really well). Look at the design: it looks like a watercooler on wheels. Where's the robotic arm?
Before committing a large amount of money to an overpriced Dell on wheels it really has to stand the 'get me a fecking bottle of beer from the fridge' test.
I work in a very small company (10 workstations) but in my lunchbreak boot DamnSmallLinux off my USBstick and turn my dreary XP - experience into a sleek Unix-terminal.
I don't know why Doom3 isn't mentioned that much. I still can play only about 10 minutes at the time, although with the sound turned down really low I can muster maybe 20 minutes. It's not the visuals a la 'scary monsters jumping out of the cabinet'. It's the sound. It's the scariest shit I ever heard (especially when played on my massive 5.1 setup with that enormous subwoofer that just seems to emanate low frequency, scary sounds).
While the gameplay is rather boring and scripted, kudos to the audio engineers. The sound is the star of the game.
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P.S. Oh yes, and looking at yourself in the toilet-mirror next to the marine - HQ.
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I would suggest Heinlein's 'Have spacesuit, will travel'. Funny and definitely made for kids.
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As this does not have any phone capabilities (apart from skype) and is more expensive than an EEEPC, I'd be interested to hear the benefits of a N800 (orN810) over an EEE?
because it was insightful.
Invest some more time and effort, get a postgraduate degree (maybe even a MBA if you're not the world's brightest) and you will be able to get a proper job.
My first anatomy atlas (4 books in total) cost 460$. That was 15 years ago.
Why's that then ?
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Brillant!
Just a bit more intelligent.
Deserve? Would you ask the same question about the mute, deaf, physically disabled? Or people from different ethnicities? Do they 'deserve' better webdesign???
That's the most brainless and condescending headline I have read on Slashdot for a long time.
And you know what: it's been absolutely perfect. Equipped with an SD Card, an USB mouse and a set of headphones it's a beautiful, tiny, unobtrusive office laptop during working hours and at home fast enough to comfortably use the BBC's iplayer, watch an .avi of a good movie and hook it up to the inhouse Ipod. All for ca 250 pounds. Yes, you get a normal sized Dell for that these days, but that's not as small, hence not fitting the criteria.
..and Singapore Airways.
NPOV. A completely and utterly useless goal. Everybody has a point of view and one's literary output reflects this. That's why I prefer E2: NPOV is not a necessity if it's well written.
Before committing a large amount of money to an overpriced Dell on wheels it really has to stand the 'get me a fecking bottle of beer from the fridge' test.
arrgh! This.
And they're dirt cheap, too
Could be better than that GI-Joe flick.
boy, are you easy to please.
a) why did you have to expose poor Frances' sexual habits?
b) who is this "God", and
c) what is this "Texas" Is it some sort of third world fiefdom?
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Still looks crap.
But it's sure nice to know how you spent your thanksgiving.
While the gameplay is rather boring and scripted, kudos to the audio engineers. The sound is the star of the game.
D
P.S. Oh yes, and looking at yourself in the toilet-mirror next to the marine - HQ.
see?
Isn't that a quote from ADOM (which of course is vastly superior)?
dad's der bunny.