I dont know how much credence I would give to that. I know it's only anecdotal, but some little bastard kept nicking stuff off by buddies balcony and we told his mother, who promptly accused us of being racist. She changed her tone once the police came by armed with the shiny photos take of him stealing more stuff after we set up our own camera.
Point is, it only effective if someone is willing to find out who the little fucker in the photo actually is!
I see a lot of posts so far...blah blah no linux blah blah disappointing, no linux blah blah blah. People need to get real! If Nokia had entered what is gearing up to be a very aggressive market with a linux based netbook, I would have expect the BOD to fire the CEO right away!
Asus tried it already and it failed. People who buy a netbook want it to work just like their laptop. They want to share the same documents and have the same user interface.
The fact is, this Nokia netbook looks great. It's got loads of stuff on it and is slick as snot. If it's not too expensive, I will be buying one myself and no..I wont be installing Linux.
""It seems in Avatar that all this gee-whiz science is merely there to draw the 'old crowd' in and provide some kind of rationale for a brightly-coloured fantasy-world which reflects the most emetic of the artwork plastered over teenage girls' MySpace pages"
That's stupid....everyone knows that teenage girls use facebook and twitter now..NOT myspace. Duh,
"And the same huge number of users when asked "what OS do you want on your new PC, Windows or Google Chrome?", will say "Windows" because they don't have a clue what an OS is and "Windows" sounds vaguely familiar. The only way the clueless masses will use it is if it's the only choice on a cool-looking netbook or laptop and they're hooked on the color of it. "
What are you talking about? Seriously..what person in the entire world does not know they are using windows? Are you kidding? When my folks visit me, they sure as shit know nothing about computers, but they know for sure my computer is NOT windows. They even know one of their laptops is vista and one is XP. This is common knowledge by nearly every person alive by now.
I hate to tell you this, but most people are not choosing their laptop's OS based on color either. Case in point, the gal upstairs got a little netbook reinstalled with Linux and after about a week asked our IT guy to install windows because she could run any programs she wanted. I can assure you that this girl is not technical, but somehow..I am not sure how this could actually happen..she knew the difference between windows and linux and magically knew she could only do something things on windows. Weird.
Stupid companies.. Stop getting too big! Stop making so much money! Stop being so much better than your competition that everyone only uses your product. Being competitive means allowing the other guys to catch up! It also means you can't branch out too much..so keep your focus narrow.
Seriously, why does linux have so many release cycles. That's one thing I didnt like about Ubuntu. It took me forever to get it running just the way I wanted and by then a new version was out and I had the pressure to upgrade..and of course..I had to set up everything again since invariably, it broke something. It's funny how many people here bitched that windows was coming out with Win 7 so soon after vista, but they don't mind that linux seems to release something every couple months depending on the distro. Odd.
I consider myself to be a bit more advanced than the typical computer user..maybe not compared to the slashdot crowd. I had Ubuntu(gusty) on a partition for a long time. For about 3 months for so I used it as my primary partition. I liked the look and feel for the most part. I even enjoyed learning the command line stuff to get my screen rez correct..it took a long while to set that damn thing to 1366x766! But, once I figured it out, that was that. In the end, I went back to Windows and that is where I will stay and here's why... Bluetooth! At that time, my wife lived overseas and we used skype to talk. None of my Bluetooth dongles would work in the slightest with Linux. I tried and tried and tried, but could not make it work..and hell.. at that time my job was maintaining and creating bluetooth RF test cases!!!! I was so sick of having to boot to windows every time i needed to "do" something I said forgot it..im sticking with windows.
I doubt that Apple really cares about jailbreaking. For that matter, I don't either. Heck, I have mine broken. Not so that I can steal software, but so I can use T-Mobile. It seems that that there are some, like me who only want the phone broken to we can use alternate carriers and install non-apple approved apps. Conversely, there is a huge number of people who only want to get apps for free. This is whole problem. Jailbreaking indirectly allows you to steal software. The ones who say they just want to try before they buy of full of crap. Yes, I just wanted to try this torrent filled with 800 cracked apps before I buy them all. Give me a break. If people would stop stealing software there would not be a problem. For fucks sake, they are like 3 buck, just pay it!
Can someone please translate the performance into people/hand held calculator/time and space into number of libraries of congress? I am not sure what the numbers they're talking about mean. Thanks.
This may sound like I am trolling, but I am really trying to figure out how this is at all news worth of in any way amazing... I can see if perhaps they went from all MS servers to Linux that would be interested, but to go from older versions of Ubuntu to a newer version just seems...obvious. So I ask seriously, can someone explain to a slight ubuntu user like myself; whats the big deal?
Unless you are over the ocean, this point is moot. Manual cell selection is a mandatory feature in GSM/UMTS. Thus, with a limit technical limit of a bit more than 30 miles, as long as you are over a populated area you can connect to a ground based station.
Seriously... who cares? Without the shuttle, there is no need for the ISS. They only exist to give reason for the others existence. The shuttle was useless and spending all that time in LEO with a skeleton crew with no time for real science makes the ISS useless IMO. I say NASA should strap some motors on that POS and send it out to L1 and use it as a supply depot or a "just in case" spot on the way to the moon. I have always hated the shuttle and the ISS.
The problem with WiMAX IMO is nothing really to do with the technology on a technical level, as it actually uses the same modulation scheme as LTE, but rather with the WiMAX Consortium.
The WiMAX Consortium has set things up so that only a couple large companies make the money. This goes all the way down to the device testing side. Here, you have AT4 wireless in Spain whom the manufactures like R&S must GIVE equipment to "validate". We are talking more than 1 million for a WiMAX RF test system. Lots of cash.
Then you have WiMAX Consortium price fixing on how much a test house can charge for something, as well as the equipment costs.
Also, if you want to get into that business you need to pay the WiMAX Consortium 1 million buck....you heard me right...1 million buck for the rights to do it.
Then the test spec it self. They cant figure it out. They decided that the GSM guys where just too stupid and WiMAX better start from nothing...that's not working out too well for them.
So, to make a long post longer..WiMAX will fail, but it wont be the fault of the tech, which is actually really good, it will be the fault of the money machine WiMAX Consortium whom is interested in a money and power grab, rather the open membership.
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Slow Down you damn Steam Punks! And stay the hell off my lawn.
He may just have access to it anyhow, in which case..take the money and run.
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I dont know how much credence I would give to that.
I know it's only anecdotal, but some little bastard kept nicking stuff off by buddies balcony and we told his mother, who promptly accused us of being racist.
She changed her tone once the police came by armed with the shiny photos take of him stealing more stuff after we set up our own camera.
Point is, it only effective if someone is willing to find out who the little fucker in the photo actually is!
Finally!! This one is sure to be a real page turner. I hope it comes on audiobook so I can listen to it while stuck in traffic!
I see a lot of posts so far...blah blah no linux blah blah disappointing, no linux blah blah blah.
People need to get real! If Nokia had entered what is gearing up to be a very aggressive market with a linux based netbook, I would have expect the BOD to fire the CEO right away!
Asus tried it already and it failed. People who buy a netbook want it to work just like their laptop. They want to share the same documents and have the same user interface.
The fact is, this Nokia netbook looks great. It's got loads of stuff on it and is slick as snot. If it's not too expensive, I will be buying one myself and no..I wont be installing Linux.
""It seems in Avatar that all this gee-whiz science is merely there to draw the 'old crowd' in and provide some kind of rationale for a brightly-coloured fantasy-world which reflects the most emetic of the artwork plastered over teenage girls' MySpace pages"
That's stupid....everyone knows that teenage girls use facebook and twitter now..NOT myspace. Duh,
...most will just DL it anyhow...does it really matter? ;)
I mean..I just asked WA why Wolrfram is such a douchebag and it pretended not to understand. Google, by contrast returned 28,000 hits.
And racist cops are news because??? Also, how is this tech news other than the fact that someone used the internet?
"And the same huge number of users when asked "what OS do you want on your new PC, Windows or Google Chrome?", will say "Windows" because they don't have a clue what an OS is and "Windows" sounds vaguely familiar. The only way the clueless masses will use it is if it's the only choice on a cool-looking netbook or laptop and they're hooked on the color of it. "
What are you talking about? Seriously..what person in the entire world does not know they are using windows? Are you kidding? When my folks visit me, they sure as shit know nothing about computers, but they know for sure my computer is NOT windows. They even know one of their laptops is vista and one is XP.
This is common knowledge by nearly every person alive by now.
I hate to tell you this, but most people are not choosing their laptop's OS based on color either. Case in point, the gal upstairs got a little netbook reinstalled with Linux and after about a week asked our IT guy to install windows because she could run any programs she wanted. I can assure you that this girl is not technical, but somehow..I am not sure how this could actually happen..she knew the difference between windows and linux and magically knew she could only do something things on windows. Weird.
Stupid companies.. Stop getting too big! Stop making so much money! Stop being so much better than your competition that everyone only uses your product. Being competitive means allowing the other guys to catch up! It also means you can't branch out too much..so keep your focus narrow.
Anyone else think this is a little over zealous?
Seriously, why does linux have so many release cycles. That's one thing I didnt like about Ubuntu. It took me forever to get it running just the way I wanted and by then a new version was out and I had the pressure to upgrade..and of course..I had to set up everything again since invariably, it broke something.
It's funny how many people here bitched that windows was coming out with Win 7 so soon after vista, but they don't mind that linux seems to release something every couple months depending on the distro. Odd.
I really hope that this works across multiple drives, because my p0rn collection is so spread out it would take for ever to sort manually!
You could always travel back to 1995 and get one of those Macs...or you could buy an actual business Lenevo, which by and large do not have cameras.
I consider myself to be a bit more advanced than the typical computer user..maybe not compared to the slashdot crowd.
I had Ubuntu(gusty) on a partition for a long time. For about 3 months for so I used it as my primary partition. I liked the look and feel for the most part.
I even enjoyed learning the command line stuff to get my screen rez correct..it took a long while to set that damn thing to 1366x766! But, once I figured it out, that was that.
In the end, I went back to Windows and that is where I will stay and here's why...
Bluetooth!
At that time, my wife lived overseas and we used skype to talk. None of my Bluetooth dongles would work in the slightest with Linux. I tried and tried and tried, but could not make it work..and hell.. at that time my job was maintaining and creating bluetooth RF test cases!!!!
I was so sick of having to boot to windows every time i needed to "do" something I said forgot it..im sticking with windows.
Something else to do with baby chicks!!
I doubt that Apple really cares about jailbreaking. For that matter, I don't either. Heck, I have mine broken. Not so that I can steal software, but so I can use T-Mobile.
It seems that that there are some, like me who only want the phone broken to we can use alternate carriers and install non-apple approved apps. Conversely, there is a huge number of people who only want to get apps for free. This is whole problem. Jailbreaking indirectly allows you to steal software.
The ones who say they just want to try before they buy of full of crap. Yes, I just wanted to try this torrent filled with 800 cracked apps before I buy them all. Give me a break. If people would stop stealing software there would not be a problem. For fucks sake, they are like 3 buck, just pay it!
Can someone please translate the performance into people/hand held calculator/time and space into number of libraries of congress? I am not sure what the numbers they're talking about mean.
Thanks.
Perhaps it's a new iPhone update designed to turn all unlocked phones into "bricks".
This may sound like I am trolling, but I am really trying to figure out how this is at all news worth of in any way amazing...
I can see if perhaps they went from all MS servers to Linux that would be interested, but to go from older versions of Ubuntu to a newer version just seems...obvious.
So I ask seriously, can someone explain to a slight ubuntu user like myself; whats the big deal?
Unless you are over the ocean, this point is moot. Manual cell selection is a mandatory feature in GSM/UMTS. Thus, with a limit technical limit of a bit more than 30 miles, as long as you are over a populated area you can connect to a ground based station.
Seriously... who cares? Without the shuttle, there is no need for the ISS. They only exist to give reason for the others existence. The shuttle was useless and spending all that time in LEO with a skeleton crew with no time for real science makes the ISS useless IMO.
I say NASA should strap some motors on that POS and send it out to L1 and use it as a supply depot or a "just in case" spot on the way to the moon.
I have always hated the shuttle and the ISS.
Perhaps, but ever time I hear something like this, I still have the hope it really is true. Each time I'm wrong, but who cares! It would be awesome!
The problem with WiMAX IMO is nothing really to do with the technology on a technical level, as it actually uses the same modulation scheme as LTE, but rather with the WiMAX Consortium. The WiMAX Consortium has set things up so that only a couple large companies make the money. This goes all the way down to the device testing side. Here, you have AT4 wireless in Spain whom the manufactures like R&S must GIVE equipment to "validate". We are talking more than 1 million for a WiMAX RF test system. Lots of cash. Then you have WiMAX Consortium price fixing on how much a test house can charge for something, as well as the equipment costs. Also, if you want to get into that business you need to pay the WiMAX Consortium 1 million buck....you heard me right...1 million buck for the rights to do it. Then the test spec it self. They cant figure it out. They decided that the GSM guys where just too stupid and WiMAX better start from nothing...that's not working out too well for them. So, to make a long post longer..WiMAX will fail, but it wont be the fault of the tech, which is actually really good, it will be the fault of the money machine WiMAX Consortium whom is interested in a money and power grab, rather the open membership.