While I wouldn't bother with this if I needed a "real" laptop, I just could see using this with an external USB hard drive as a tech support tool. I don't have a laptop at the moment, and it would be nice - especially with the wireless - to be able to both lookup stuff on the Net when the client's Net access is down or just look up documentation in general stored on the laptop, and also have an external USB drive to hold utilities and back off client files.
I use an external USB drive anyway, but having this laptop as a working computer would help.
Of course, I could just buy an old cheap used laptop anywhere which probably would have as much power as this thing and use it the same way.
I think the 4-8GB flash drive idea was a bad one. I really can't see that they can't reach the price point with some larger hard drives. How much more can OEM versions of 20-40GB laptop drives cost than the expensive flash drives? At least, leaving aside the probability that nobody makes those any more since everything is 60-80GB and up now. Couldn't they make a deal with a hard disk manufacturer to put in regular 20-40GB drives? 20GB anyway would probably be more than enough for anybody using these laptops. Although I suppose even 8GB would be enough for a lot of people using these. I do have clients using old HP machines with only 6-8GB drives - a lot of home users who aren't computer savvy or using media never fill those things.
He did a song with Andrea Corr at the South Africa 46664 AIDS benefit (YouTube video)and played backup music with Sharon Corr and Zucchero at the Arctic 46664 AIDS benefit (YouTube video).
So he had an opportunity with all three Corrs sisters!
That it's "theft". It's really just "unauthorized - and unpaid - marketing and distribution."
And many business people understand that. If they can use it to their advantage, they do, without any of the moral "hand wringing" that others do.
There was a clothing company who discovered that a Hong Kong or Taiwan outfit was counterfeiting their brand. Instead of bringing legal action, they went to the company and bought it out, subsequently releasing the same "counterfeit" product as their "bargain brand."
It's only people who don't have control over their own product - like artists under contract to music companies - or companies who don't know how to take advantage of or compete with so-called "piracy" who moan and groan about it.
The solution to every problem of this sort is: how can I take advantage of it?
I posted an ad the day BEFORE the outage and it never showed up on the site, nor in search.
On their status page (before the outage), they acknowledged they had problems and were promising to fix them sometime "before fall". Really competent...not.
If you have problems with your ad being pulled at random by idiots flagging it for lame excuses like all caps headlines (the rules say AVOID all caps, not "we will pull your ad for it"), the only recourse you have is to get sent to the help forum, where 16-year-old assholes throw insults at your ad.
Your competitors can flag your ad all day and there's nothing you can do about it because the Craigslist staff have insulated themselves from responsibility by claiming it's a "community-run" operation.
"I swear, people are going through some major mental gymnastics here to excuse away sheer incompetence."
They have sympathy because they know they're incompetent, too. About 95% of the population would agree.
That said, the cause of the outage could be another case of "nothing works and nobody cares." In other words, they did test everything, but it still failed when push came to shove.
I'm trying to install an eSATA for a client. We've gotten three eSATA controllers, two sets of port multipliers, and different cables and it still doesn't work right. The last set was actually tested by the company before sending it to us and it still doesn't work right, although it came a lot closer than the first two. Now the company admits the port multipliers are a new design by their supplier and they can't be certain it isn't a quality control problem with their supplier.
Nothing works in IT. I just have to engrave that on my hand like the punishment in the latest Harry Potter movie.
Nope, I browse oldest first. Why should that matter? I want to follow the development of the discussion. No matter in what order I see the threads, the pages should go in order, either from latest to oldest, or oldest to latest.
I'll try another order here, but this is ridiculous.
- and now this weird little Irish chick, Evanna Lynch - I will watch them.
Emma is becoming a serious hottie at 17.
And Evanna really is like her character, Luna.
The only thing that irritated me about the latest movie is killing off Gary Oldman's character, Sirius Black. They could have done so much more with him, given Oldman's acting ability.
"The answer, of course, was not to let vigilance waver."
And you're right. In fact, that was the plan. Once the UN inspectors certified that Saddam had no nuclear weapons program, they intended to install a monitoring system that would have guaranteed that Saddam never would have one (without deliberately throwing out the monitoring system, which would have been a red flag in itself.)
But Bush's throwing out the inspectors and invading ruined that plan.
No, we did not all think they were there. A LOT of people KNEW they were not there based on the simple fact that a) they could NOT be there based on Iraq's capabilities (and lack of same subsequent to 1991), and 2) the inspectors who were there could not find them, even when it was clear to them that Saddam WAS cooperating fully, as he was once it was clear to him that Bush meant to invade.
Even Colin Powell delivered a speech a year or so before 2001 stating that Saddam's capabilities had been eviscerated. Which is why Powell should have known the case was full of shit before he made his UN speech. And if you listen to Colonel Wilkerson, Powell pretty much had his suspicions that was the case. But he decided to "obey orders".
Citing Clinton is not particularly kind to your argument either.
You're mistaking the consensus of a brainwashed media and the bulk of an ignorant population with "everybody".
The same applies today with Iran. Iran has no "nuclear weapons program." The IAEA has stated that REPEATEDLY in every single report they've issued. But you wouldn't know it by reading the MSM or any lying word out of Dick Cheney's mouth.
We're tracking one OS that was released seven months ago against an OS that's been around a while - and we're tracking month to month Web usage? Not even that, we're tracking month to month incremental PERCENTS in Web usage?
We're supposed to care that OS X slipped POINT 46%? Did they even cite the margin of error?
And where's Linux in this study? Notice the omission.
Anything to tout the Vista that most corporations have said they're gonna wait on buying, right?
Computerworld - the pre-eminent Microsoft shill (when they aren't still shilling mainframes from the 1980's).
Well, I might agree with you, but that phrase "Linux will (never need to rise to the level of complexity even of Windows Server 2003" nags at me.
"Forever" is a long time - and we see a lot of desire in the community for more capability - even if only to rival Windows or assist interoperability with Windows. That could produce a lot of complexity in time.
I just don't see anybody in the near future saying, "Linux is done - we don't need to do anything more except tweak it."
But again, it probably will be a long time yet before Linux is TOO complex. But I wouldn't go so far as to say it will never be.
And also again, if you add in the desktop environments, I see that as pretty open-ended as to how far their complexity will go. I think KDE will become too complex faster than the kernel will. It already has persistent bugs from one release to the next if you look at the bug database. Not critical bugs, but annoying ones if they affect your setup. The addition of things like Beryl and Compiz indicate to me that complexity in the desktop is increasing. The plans for things like Parakey to add Web integration into the desktop promises to make it more complex.
But my main point was that Windows is ALREADY too complex. I'm not that worried about Linux - yet. But if Linux ever does get too complex, I hope the community recognizes it and deals with it - unlike Microsoft.
Yes, NSA has a way to break into Windows Vista (and probably any other version of Windows) since they were allowed by Microsoft to try (and supposedly report their results to Microsoft - which of course they didn't entirely.)
However, this story makes little sense as it stands. Until somebody sets up a proper test, there's nothing to see here.
And if people like the NSA, Halliburton and DOHS were scanning everybody's PC, they damn sure wouldn't be allowing a traceback to their own IP addresses assigned to them. Unless, of course, they wanted you to know Big Brother was watching. And Halliburton, despite being in bed with Big Brother, obviously wouldn't want that - they'd get sued blind by somebody.
"What Microsoft does is to push the limits of exploitation of the most common software development technology"
That's exactly what I meant - they're not doing anything new in terms of development technology, but they are trying to do projects too big to be done with current technology. Exactly why their "database file system" has never succeeded.
I agree with you about the kernel, BUT when comparing directly to Windows which integrates a desktop environment, we have to take the standard Linux desktop environments into accounts as well - which means adding in GNOME and/or KDE. I was referring to the total lines of code for both the kernel and either or both of the standard user interfaces, but I do not include any of the other apps that usually come with Linux.
That is, if you need to do computing on the move. Well, there is one more reason - to act as backup if your desktop goes down temporarily.
Otherwise a desktop is by FAR the superior solution as a primary machine for all sorts of reasons it would be tedious to list here, especially since other posters already have.
Of course, that doesn't mean the article is wrong - most of the world does stupid shit every day and continues to do so no matter how incorrect it is.
So, yes, the desktop is "dying" in the sense that I get more and more home clients only running a laptop as their primary machine.
I do not recommend anyone do this, but, yes, they are in fact doing this. I can understand individual users who need computing power both at home and on the move doing it, because they can't afford to buy both, or don't want to. But it's still an incorrect decision.
Fine, I can see how you can have numerous persistent connections if XP only cuts off in excess of ten concurrent incoming half-open connections.
However, the limit is still a problem for some software (such as P2P systems and possibly some remote management utilities) as I indicated.
And yes, I'm aware that the limit can be modified.
Which doesn't quite make my post "the stupidest and most incorrect thing on Slashdot" - unless of course you haven't read Slashdot in, oh, maybe the last year.
"No, XP limits the number of TCP/IP connections you can have in the wait state; you can have thousands actually open."
Uhm, how do you get thousands actually open if XP cuts off all incoming connections at 10?
Do a Google - the XP 10 connection limit is a known issue. Not that critical a one for most people, but it is for some. It's been known to be a problem for people who use an XP machine as a "server" in some applications, as well as occasionally impacting remote system management utilities.
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I guess that pretty much demonstrates the thesis...that /.'ers are below average intelligence...
I suppose I could cite the study that shows intelligent women have more and richer sex lives than unintelligent females, but what would be the point?
While I wouldn't bother with this if I needed a "real" laptop, I just could see using this with an external USB hard drive as a tech support tool. I don't have a laptop at the moment, and it would be nice - especially with the wireless - to be able to both lookup stuff on the Net when the client's Net access is down or just look up documentation in general stored on the laptop, and also have an external USB drive to hold utilities and back off client files.
I use an external USB drive anyway, but having this laptop as a working computer would help.
Of course, I could just buy an old cheap used laptop anywhere which probably would have as much power as this thing and use it the same way.
I think the 4-8GB flash drive idea was a bad one. I really can't see that they can't reach the price point with some larger hard drives. How much more can OEM versions of 20-40GB laptop drives cost than the expensive flash drives? At least, leaving aside the probability that nobody makes those any more since everything is 60-80GB and up now. Couldn't they make a deal with a hard disk manufacturer to put in regular 20-40GB drives? 20GB anyway would probably be more than enough for anybody using these laptops. Although I suppose even 8GB would be enough for a lot of people using these. I do have clients using old HP machines with only 6-8GB drives - a lot of home users who aren't computer savvy or using media never fill those things.
He did a song with Andrea Corr at the South Africa 46664 AIDS benefit (YouTube video)and played backup music with Sharon Corr and Zucchero at the Arctic 46664 AIDS benefit (YouTube video).
So he had an opportunity with all three Corrs sisters!
Like the Chinese government is going to standardize on an OS that Microsoft allowed the US NSA to break into
deliberately.
Right, I believe that.
Sure.
I'm also personally acquainted with the Tooth Fairy, who looks a lot like Angelina Jolie.
"ATI will make the smart business decision and give customers what they want."
Never seen it happen yet in my 58 years of breathing.
Humans ALWAYS make the wrong decision. It's a wonder the species still exists - must be the ability to breed out of season...
That it's "theft". It's really just "unauthorized - and unpaid - marketing and distribution."
And many business people understand that. If they can use it to their advantage, they do, without any of the moral "hand wringing" that others do.
There was a clothing company who discovered that a Hong Kong or Taiwan outfit was counterfeiting their brand. Instead of bringing legal action, they went to the company and bought it out, subsequently releasing the same "counterfeit" product as their "bargain brand."
It's only people who don't have control over their own product - like artists under contract to music companies - or companies who don't know how to take advantage of or compete with so-called "piracy" who moan and groan about it.
The solution to every problem of this sort is: how can I take advantage of it?
Absolutely correct.
I posted an ad the day BEFORE the outage and it never showed up on the site, nor in search.
On their status page (before the outage), they acknowledged they had problems and were promising to fix them sometime "before fall". Really competent...not.
If you have problems with your ad being pulled at random by idiots flagging it for lame excuses like all caps headlines (the rules say AVOID all caps, not "we will pull your ad for it"), the only recourse you have is to get sent to the help forum, where 16-year-old assholes throw insults at your ad.
Your competitors can flag your ad all day and there's nothing you can do about it because the Craigslist staff have insulated themselves from responsibility by claiming it's a "community-run" operation.
Pathetically badly run outfit.
"I swear, people are going through some major mental gymnastics here to excuse away sheer incompetence."
They have sympathy because they know they're incompetent, too. About 95% of the population would agree.
That said, the cause of the outage could be another case of "nothing works and nobody cares." In other words, they did test everything, but it still failed when push came to shove.
I'm trying to install an eSATA for a client. We've gotten three eSATA controllers, two sets of port multipliers, and different cables and it still doesn't work right. The last set was actually tested by the company before sending it to us and it still doesn't work right, although it came a lot closer than the first two. Now the company admits the port multipliers are a new design by their supplier and they can't be certain it isn't a quality control problem with their supplier.
Nothing works in IT. I just have to engrave that on my hand like the punishment in the latest Harry Potter movie.
Nope, I browse oldest first. Why should that matter? I want to follow the development of the discussion. No matter in what order I see the threads, the pages should go in order, either from latest to oldest, or oldest to latest.
I'll try another order here, but this is ridiculous.
- and now this weird little Irish chick, Evanna Lynch - I will watch them.
Emma is becoming a serious hottie at 17.
And Evanna really is like her character, Luna.
The only thing that irritated me about the latest movie is killing off Gary Oldman's character, Sirius Black. They could have done so much more with him, given Oldman's acting ability.
When there are ten pages of comments here, and I read page one, then click on page two - why the hell do I get page one all over again?
And this goes on for pages two, three, four, maybe. At some point I get a new page.
What the hell is going on with this interface?
I'm finally irritated enough to ask WHY.
Because he was a "yes man".
And that's why Bush kept him on.
Same thing.
"The answer, of course, was not to let vigilance waver."
And you're right. In fact, that was the plan. Once the UN inspectors certified that Saddam had no nuclear weapons program, they intended to install a monitoring system that would have guaranteed that Saddam never would have one (without deliberately throwing out the monitoring system, which would have been a red flag in itself.)
But Bush's throwing out the inspectors and invading ruined that plan.
No, we did not all think they were there. A LOT of people KNEW they were not there based on the simple fact that a) they could NOT be there based on Iraq's capabilities (and lack of same subsequent to 1991), and 2) the inspectors who were there could not find them, even when it was clear to them that Saddam WAS cooperating fully, as he was once it was clear to him that Bush meant to invade.
Even Colin Powell delivered a speech a year or so before 2001 stating that Saddam's capabilities had been eviscerated. Which is why Powell should have known the case was full of shit before he made his UN speech. And if you listen to Colonel Wilkerson, Powell pretty much had his suspicions that was the case. But he decided to "obey orders".
Citing Clinton is not particularly kind to your argument either.
You're mistaking the consensus of a brainwashed media and the bulk of an ignorant population with "everybody".
The same applies today with Iran. Iran has no "nuclear weapons program." The IAEA has stated that REPEATEDLY in every single report they've issued. But you wouldn't know it by reading the MSM or any lying word out of Dick Cheney's mouth.
to allow any APPLICATION to remember my passwords...
That's what my brain is for. And for those of you without brains - and you know who you are - there are encrypted password managers for that.
We're tracking one OS that was released seven months ago against an OS that's been around a while - and we're tracking month to month Web usage? Not even that, we're tracking month to month incremental PERCENTS in Web usage?
We're supposed to care that OS X slipped POINT 46%? Did they even cite the margin of error?
And where's Linux in this study? Notice the omission.
Anything to tout the Vista that most corporations have said they're gonna wait on buying, right?
Computerworld - the pre-eminent Microsoft shill (when they aren't still shilling mainframes from the 1980's).
Well, I might agree with you, but that phrase "Linux will (never need to rise to the level of complexity even of Windows Server 2003" nags at me.
"Forever" is a long time - and we see a lot of desire in the community for more capability - even if only to rival Windows or assist interoperability with Windows. That could produce a lot of complexity in time.
I just don't see anybody in the near future saying, "Linux is done - we don't need to do anything more except tweak it."
But again, it probably will be a long time yet before Linux is TOO complex. But I wouldn't go so far as to say it will never be.
And also again, if you add in the desktop environments, I see that as pretty open-ended as to how far their complexity will go. I think KDE will become too complex faster than the kernel will. It already has persistent bugs from one release to the next if you look at the bug database. Not critical bugs, but annoying ones if they affect your setup. The addition of things like Beryl and Compiz indicate to me that complexity in the desktop is increasing. The plans for things like Parakey to add Web integration into the desktop promises to make it more complex.
But my main point was that Windows is ALREADY too complex. I'm not that worried about Linux - yet. But if Linux ever does get too complex, I hope the community recognizes it and deals with it - unlike Microsoft.
Yes, NSA has a way to break into Windows Vista (and probably any other version of Windows) since they were allowed by Microsoft to try (and supposedly report their results to Microsoft - which of course they didn't entirely.)
However, this story makes little sense as it stands. Until somebody sets up a proper test, there's nothing to see here.
And if people like the NSA, Halliburton and DOHS were scanning everybody's PC, they damn sure wouldn't be allowing a traceback to their own IP addresses assigned to them. Unless, of course, they wanted you to know Big Brother was watching. And Halliburton, despite being in bed with Big Brother, obviously wouldn't want that - they'd get sued blind by somebody.
"What Microsoft does is to push the limits of exploitation of the most common software development technology"
That's exactly what I meant - they're not doing anything new in terms of development technology, but they are trying to do projects too big to be done with current technology. Exactly why their "database file system" has never succeeded.
I agree with you about the kernel, BUT when comparing directly to Windows which integrates a desktop environment, we have to take the standard Linux desktop environments into accounts as well - which means adding in GNOME and/or KDE. I was referring to the total lines of code for both the kernel and either or both of the standard user interfaces, but I do not include any of the other apps that usually come with Linux.
That is, if you need to do computing on the move. Well, there is one more reason - to act as backup if your desktop goes down temporarily.
Otherwise a desktop is by FAR the superior solution as a primary machine for all sorts of reasons it would be tedious to list here, especially since other posters already have.
Of course, that doesn't mean the article is wrong - most of the world does stupid shit every day and continues to do so no matter how incorrect it is.
So, yes, the desktop is "dying" in the sense that I get more and more home clients only running a laptop as their primary machine.
I do not recommend anyone do this, but, yes, they are in fact doing this. I can understand individual users who need computing power both at home and on the move doing it, because they can't afford to buy both, or don't want to. But it's still an incorrect decision.
"Vista sales have tended to involve more of the higher-priced versions, dubbed premium by the company, than has XP."
Gee, I wonder why? Could it be that this is the only reason Vista exists?
of Nigerian hackers - since the first thing those kids will do is disable the filters.
Filters for Nigerian kids - like the Nigerian kids are all Catholics or something...
We gonna do the same thing in Thailand, where they happily rent out their kids to tourists for the US dollar?
Morons.
Fine, I can see how you can have numerous persistent connections if XP only cuts off in excess of ten concurrent incoming half-open connections.
However, the limit is still a problem for some software (such as P2P systems and possibly some remote management utilities) as I indicated.
And yes, I'm aware that the limit can be modified.
Which doesn't quite make my post "the stupidest and most incorrect thing on Slashdot" - unless of course you haven't read Slashdot in, oh, maybe the last year.
So fuck off, moron. How's that?
"No, XP limits the number of TCP/IP connections you can have in the wait state; you can have thousands actually open."
Uhm, how do you get thousands actually open if XP cuts off all incoming connections at 10?
Do a Google - the XP 10 connection limit is a known issue. Not that critical a one for most people, but it is for some. It's been known to be a problem for people who use an XP machine as a "server" in some applications, as well as occasionally impacting remote system management utilities.