However, because the OEM is free to play with the *nix, they can pick and choose as necessary so the netbook can have a modern OS, that can run the current apps, without having the limitations causing by trying to run an OS designed for a more powerful machines
The Walmart specs for in-store sales of a Linux netbook are as low-end as it gets these days: 7" screen, a VIA CPU with 512 MB of RAM and a 30 GB HDD.
I don't think any amount of tweaking is going to help things much.
Your insight into the needs of the general consumer are what make you so popular among twitter's sockpuppets
I have been using the 'westlake' alias here and there for some ten years now - and I don't do sock puppets.
Linux needs services like CNR to gain even the slightest toe-hold in the mass consumer market.
I have been downloading Windows software from reputable sites like Download.com since my dial-up years with AOL. Commander Keen. Wolfenstein 3-D. mIRC. Winamp.
There have been no problems worth mentioning.
Searching through twenty-five thousand apps without detailed descriptions, screen shots, editorial and end user reviews is my personal idea of hell - or Sourceforge.
gOS Linux at $300
7" screen, VIA CPU, 512 MB RAM, 30 GB HDD
Windows XP at $350
8.9" screen, Atom CPU, 1 GB RAM, 120 GB HDD.
SUSE Linux at $400
9" Screen, VIA CPU, 512 MB RAM, 4 GB Flash, and a webcam. Not sold in stores.
Windows XP at $400
9" Screen, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB HDD and a webcam. In some stores. Mini-Laptops
The Economist ~ understates ~ the advantages of being able to run your Windows apps on your netbook - and there is really nothing in F/OSS of interest to the general consumer market that isn't available for Windows.
It's nice to see all you have to do to get a +5 Insightful on Slashdot these days is spew unrelated obscenities in a semi-literate fashion. Well done.
I was thinking along the same lines earlier this week: Graffiti On The Men's Room Wall The geek writes himself out of the political equation when no one has to take him seriously as an adult.
HUNDREDS of people attended rallies in Australian capital cities yesterday to voice their opposition to the Rudd Government's planned internet filtering scheme. In Sydney a crowd of up to 300 mostly young and tech-savvy protestors gathered at Town Hall to hear guest speakers including bloggers and musicians criticise the web filtering schemeDigital Liberty Coalition protests against web filter held across Australia
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A crowd of several hundred gathered at Stirling Gardens in Perth today to rally against the Australian Government's plans for mandatory censorship of the Internet. A Facebook page titled, Perth Australians against Internet Censorship, Say No to Mandatory Internet Filtering states that the Australian government was 'quietly going ahead with plans to filter all Australian's access to the internet in a manner similar to the People's Republic of China and Iran.'Protestors rally against internet censorship
A rally to protest against the Federal Government's plans to filter the internet is underway in Brisbane. About 200 people are at Brisbane Square in the CBD for the rally which is part of a national day of protest. They say the Government's proposals are internet censorship and will make the net slower. Brisbane protesters rally against web filter plans
I've seen bigger crowds line up to drop coins in the kettle for the Salvation Army.
Both include an HDTV tuner and Blu-Ray drive, both are fairly muscular "desktop replacements" running 64 Bit Vista.
The only distinguishing feature of significance is the 26" TouchSmart screen.
We are going to be seeing many more systems like these and at much lower price points - and the HD media they are designed for will eat up a lot of storage very quickly.
The geek may be focused on the netbook right now - but it is worth paying attention to what is happening in other markets.
Putting a fragile cup of the stuff between your legs is inviting disaster no matter what temp it actually is
If you admit the cup is fragile - then you have as much as said that spills and burns are inevitable in the fast food and take-out service.
McFact No. 5: A McDonald's quality assurance manager testified in the case that the Corporation was aware of the risk of serving dangerously hot coffee and had no plans to either turn down the heat or to post warning about the possibility of severe burns, even though most customers wouldn't think it was possible.McFacts About The McDonald's Coffee Lawsuit
Drugs are always affordable when the dealer is trying to get you hooked.
You only have to mouse over to Walmart.com to see Windows becoming very competitive with Linux in the netbook sector.
It's a familiar story.
The OEM Linux box enters the retail market with bottom-feeder specs.
It is never upgraded - even as the entry-level Windows PC approaches the same price point with hardware that was mid-line or better six months or so back.
And just like the McDonald's coffee lawsuit, it continues to sound silly even after becoming familiar with all the facts.
The McDonald's lawsuit - as the a Geek tells the story - has all the elements of an urban legend. "Don't bother me with the facts, son. I'm on a roll here." You sell coffee in a cheap foam take-out cup at a temperature that can put someone in the hospital for weeks or months if it spills. There had been incidents before and you know the danger. That is why McD's lost the case.
people are really getting annoyed with Vista. This is all good for Mac OS X adoption
This explains why Vista has 20% of the desktop, up from 12% in January, and OSX 9%, up from 8% in January. Top Operating System Share Trend
What is striking are the hardware specs and pricing for consumer Vista in late 2008: Walmart.com has 31 Vista laptops with 4 GB RAM, 14 of these running 64 bit Vista Premium - with 64 bit Vista starting at $800.
"Blowups Happen" is a classic 1940s SF story about a future in which society is total dependent on nuclear power plants. The engineering theory behind them shows that they are intrinsically safe and cannot blow up like a bomb.
"Blowups Happen" [ca 1940*] is about a "breeder reactor" so big it supplies the entire continent with atomic fuels and radioactive isotopes of every sort. The engineers and technicians who work there all know that the plant is inherently unstable and that their safety measures are hopelessly inadequate. But, since no one can be persuaded to shut the thing down, the reactor will go up like a bomb, sooner or later. Given that everyone on the line is quietly going bonkers under the stress, that day can't be very far off.
Former FCC Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate has announced she is retiring in 2009 and is looking forward to giving her full attention to giving blowjobs to RIAA executives
There are some things it is a pleasure to leave behind in high school.
Trash talk from a nerd is one of them.
Talk of blowjobs isn't "insightful." It is adolescent.
Beavis and Butt-Head. You have given no reason why any one over the age of consent should take you seriously.
If it was you, and you knew you didn't do the downloading, and you knew that your absent father had opened an internet account in your name, and you were charged with downloading, wouldn't you conclude it must have been him? I sure would.
IF it is in her name, yeah.
But you don't make the slanderous accusation on Eyewitness News. Because if your lawyer can't back it up, you've dug yourself into an even deeper hole.
The internet on the other hand, being massively non-localized and more or less free to everyone, it makes no sense and serves no purpose to require "local" websites to carry a certain percentage of local content
The Internet may look free global to the geek. I am not convinced it is going to stay that way. If the price is that regional and national cultures will be overwhelmed.
The worlds copyright and patent systems are in need of massive reform, as they don't seem to be living up to the ideals they promised (namely providing incentive for the production of new works).
These are some of the films scheduled for release in 2009:
Ashen
Avatar [$200 million budget, 3-D, James Cameron, Sigourney Weaver]
Friday the Thirteenth
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
G.I. Joe
Gran Torino [Clint Eastwood]
Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs [think Scrat in "The Lost World"]
Monsters vs, Aliens [Dreamworks Animation]
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Tine
Star Trek
Terminator: Salvation
The Spirit
The Lovely Bones ["magic realism"]
Transformers 2
Watchman
The Wolfman [The teen age vampire. Universal]
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
If you think the list lacks - originality - don't blame the copyright regime. Look in the mirror. This is as geek as it gets. Schlock horror. Comic books and the Graphic Novel, Video Games, and Stra Trek.
Slashdot Mirror
The Walmart specs for in-store sales of a Linux netbook are as low-end as it gets these days: 7" screen, a VIA CPU with 512 MB of RAM and a 30 GB HDD.
I don't think any amount of tweaking is going to help things much.
No he doesn't.
I have been using the 'westlake' alias here and there for some ten years now - and I don't do sock puppets.
Linux needs services like CNR to gain even the slightest toe-hold in the mass consumer market.
I have been downloading Windows software from reputable sites like Download.com since my dial-up years with AOL. Commander Keen. Wolfenstein 3-D. mIRC. Winamp.
There have been no problems worth mentioning.
Searching through twenty-five thousand apps without detailed descriptions, screen shots, editorial and end user reviews is my personal idea of hell - or Sourceforge.
gOS Linux at $300
7" screen, VIA CPU, 512 MB RAM, 30 GB HDD
Windows XP at $350
8.9" screen, Atom CPU, 1 GB RAM, 120 GB HDD.
SUSE Linux at $400
9" Screen, VIA CPU, 512 MB RAM, 4 GB Flash, and a webcam. Not sold in stores.
Windows XP at $400
9" Screen, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB HDD and a webcam. In some stores. Mini-Laptops
The Economist ~ understates ~ the advantages of being able to run your Windows apps on your netbook - and there is really nothing in F/OSS of interest to the general consumer market that isn't available for Windows.
I was thinking along the same lines earlier this week: Graffiti On The Men's Room Wall The geek writes himself out of the political equation when no one has to take him seriously as an adult.
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A crowd of several hundred gathered at Stirling Gardens in Perth today to rally against the Australian Government's plans for mandatory censorship of the Internet. A Facebook page titled, Perth Australians against Internet Censorship, Say No to Mandatory Internet Filtering states that the Australian government was 'quietly going ahead with plans to filter all Australian's access to the internet in a manner similar to the People's Republic of China and Iran.' Protestors rally against internet censorship
A rally to protest against the Federal Government's plans to filter the internet is underway in Brisbane. About 200 people are at Brisbane Square in the CBD for the rally which is part of a national day of protest. They say the Government's proposals are internet censorship and will make the net slower. Brisbane protesters rally against web filter plans
I've seen bigger crowds line up to drop coins in the kettle for the Salvation Army.
And it's sweet revenge that the "unbreakable" titles are the must-haves for the Geek. Titles like Firefly and Futurama.
and you wouldn't be laying out the big bucks for that 30" LCD desktop monitor or the 65" home theater display.
Some A-list Blu-Ray titles like The Dark Knight are already shipping with a digital copy for your PC and portable devices in the box.
Unlimited Blu-Ray rentals will add $1 a month to your Netflix account. The devices which can play Netflix video streams are multiplying like rabbits.
By this time next year, "portability" will have become a piss-poor excuse excuse for piracy.
Both include an HDTV tuner and Blu-Ray drive, both are fairly muscular "desktop replacements" running 64 Bit Vista.
The only distinguishing feature of significance is the 26" TouchSmart screen.
We are going to be seeing many more systems like these and at much lower price points - and the HD media they are designed for will eat up a lot of storage very quickly.
The geek may be focused on the netbook right now - but it is worth paying attention to what is happening in other markets.
I have read Swift. I suggest you do the same.
If you admit the cup is fragile - then you have as much as said that spills and burns are inevitable in the fast food and take-out service.
McFact No. 5: A McDonald's quality assurance manager testified in the case that the Corporation was aware of the risk of serving dangerously hot coffee and had no plans to either turn down the heat or to post warning about the possibility of severe burns, even though most customers wouldn't think it was possible. McFacts About The McDonald's Coffee Lawsuit
But if I hear a geek mouth the words "flawed business model" one more time, I think I will throw up,
You only have to mouse over to Walmart.com to see Windows becoming very competitive with Linux in the netbook sector.
It's a familiar story.
The OEM Linux box enters the retail market with bottom-feeder specs.
It is never upgraded - even as the entry-level Windows PC approaches the same price point with hardware that was mid-line or better six months or so back.
This doesn't tell me anything unless I know the scale of the projects you want to build and the purpose they are intended to serve.
You can live with a longer lead time if the nuke delivers 1000X as much power and is online 24/7/365.
Israel's biggest [photovoltic] solar power station is a 50KW rooftop intallation. Arizona's Palo Verde nuclear plant has a capacity of about 4,000 MW.
The McDonald's lawsuit - as the a Geek tells the story - has all the elements of an urban legend. "Don't bother me with the facts, son. I'm on a roll here." You sell coffee in a cheap foam take-out cup at a temperature that can put someone in the hospital for weeks or months if it spills. There had been incidents before and you know the danger. That is why McD's lost the case.
This explains why Vista has 20% of the desktop, up from 12% in January, and OSX 9%, up from 8% in January. Top Operating System Share Trend
What is striking are the hardware specs and pricing for consumer Vista in late 2008:
Walmart.com has 31 Vista laptops with 4 GB RAM, 14 of these running 64 bit Vista Premium - with 64 bit Vista starting at $800.
It may be cool.
But when traffic is being routed through my home system - when I am the "upstream provider" - there are questions I need answered:
1 What is my legal exposure?
I am betting I do not have protection as a common carrier.
2 What is my financial exposure?
Is my personal liability limited in any significant way?
3 Who is responsible for physically maintaining the service?
I do not want to be the one on the roof in February running coax, replacing in-line amps and antennas.
4 If my own need for bandwidth increases, how long am I obligated to maintain the service?
"Blowups Happen" [ca 1940*] is about a "breeder reactor" so big it supplies the entire continent with atomic fuels and radioactive isotopes of every sort. The engineers and technicians who work there all know that the plant is inherently unstable and that their safety measures are hopelessly inadequate. But, since no one can be persuaded to shut the thing down, the reactor will go up like a bomb, sooner or later. Given that everyone on the line is quietly going bonkers under the stress, that day can't be very far off.
*- the story as I have it was revised post-war.
This is a "Free as in Beer" story. "Enterprise-level" apps that are plausible alternatives to the market leaders.
The problem is, it is the geek who isn't taken seriously. The mod-up to +5 simply makes him "one of the boys."
There are some things it is a pleasure to leave behind in high school.
Trash talk from a nerd is one of them.
Talk of blowjobs isn't "insightful." It is adolescent.
Beavis and Butt-Head. You have given no reason why any one over the age of consent should take you seriously.
IF it is in her name, yeah.
But you don't make the slanderous accusation on Eyewitness News. Because if your lawyer can't back it up, you've dug yourself into an even deeper hole.
The Internet may look free global to the geek. I am not convinced it is going to stay that way. If the price is that regional and national cultures will be overwhelmed.
The worlds copyright and patent systems are in need of massive reform, as they don't seem to be living up to the ideals they promised (namely providing incentive for the production of new works).
These are some of the films scheduled for release in 2009:
Ashen
Avatar [$200 million budget, 3-D, James Cameron, Sigourney Weaver]
Friday the Thirteenth
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
G.I. Joe
Gran Torino [Clint Eastwood]
Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs [think Scrat in "The Lost World"]
Monsters vs, Aliens [Dreamworks Animation]
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Tine
Star Trek
Terminator: Salvation
The Spirit
The Lovely Bones ["magic realism"]
Transformers 2
Watchman
The Wolfman [The teen age vampire. Universal]
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
2009 Upcoming Films
If you think the list lacks - originality - don't blame the copyright regime. Look in the mirror. This is as geek as it gets. Schlock horror. Comic books and the Graphic Novel, Video Games, and Stra Trek.
that's right: levign makes more money off my artistic creation than i do.
You don't have an artistic creation. What you have is an ego trip.