I am in security design and I can't tell you how many times my peers tell me I'm crazy for not spending more time patching systems than using them otherwise. My own belief is that most patching is a wasted effort and tends to break more than it fixes. Apply some common sense change management, do fixes quarterly or something.
My laptop weighs maybe a shade over 5 lbs. It has a 15.4" screen, 2GB ram, 120GB drive, dual core Intel. It runs about 4-5hrs on a new battery. I think the extra 2.5lbs is worth it. Maybe not to you but to me it is.
Fucking gopher. Bullshit assistant nonsense wrangler. Basically they're all the same shitty job that's too poorly defined to even be replaced by a robot or some Indians.
Seriously. If they renamed it "Lenovo toss every chunk of shit ever deployed onto your laptop and prey, fucking prey that you still have networking after that Update" it would be closer to the truth.
Mine just threw up 525MB worth of updates and I wound up backing most of it off because Access Connections is a piece of shit that breaks everything. And most of the other junk you just don't need like menus that run in the background popup and tell you to call customer support. Wow I really need an app to do that for me. And that task automater that defrags in the background. Yeah that's great.
All this noise about cheap laptops. But they're not. Is anyone going to use an Asus eee for a general purpose device? No. It's a glorified web browser, PDA and possibly a big ass phone. In the meantime all the cheap laptops will disappear and become 'portable multimedia centers'
I can still get a low and Thinkpad R61 or Lenovo N200 for $500 and for $200 more than that Asus piece of crap you get an actual laptop. Of course we'll never actually see a $200 laptop. Instead it will be a $200 MP3 player with a keyboard.
Linux is only not ready in the context of what you already expect Windows to be able to do. Linux will never be Windows therefore the people who insist on 'ready' being exactly like Windows will never be happy.
Mac isn't Windows and it never will be. But it has its own advantages. It has its own learning curve. Same with Linux. If you never saw a Windows machine you would learn Linux differently and you would have an entirely different set of criticisms.
All of this technology has only 2 practical uses: law enforcement, specifically amber alerts, and spam.
And yet in the Democratic west people don't care
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We're not that far removed from this and we supposedly have the political tools to stop it. Problem is, we don't really care. At best half of us get up off our fat asses to vote. So in a culture that like China WHICH DOESN'T SEE THIS AS A BAD THING, I'm doubtful that anything will of complaints. That's not the Chinese way.
Albeit I'm irked that the ASUS eee has 2GB and a flash card slot for another 4GB which is a tad too small. But how is the size of a hard drive relevant to the OS? Is Windows SO LARGE that you need more than 80GB to house it now?
See they're not talking about LOW PRICE laptops, they're talking about LOW PERFORMANCE laptops. My used Thinkpad T-40 absolutely qualifies as a low price laptop and it's been running XP Pro for years w/o any problem (and it even has an 80GB drive) but it would be unusuable with a 10 inch screen.
How 'focused' do you have to be to drive a car? Neurosurgery focused? A night carrier landing in bad weather focused? Sniper focused? MLB pitcher focused?
Seriously if driving a car were that hard there would be a million fatalities a day. This is just more nanny state bullshit foisted on us by the soccer mommies of the world who want to slap a bike helmet on everyone everywhere at all times.
It's censorship aimed at silencing any speech or thought critical of Islam or Muslim culture whatsoever. Which is fine, really, I'm not Canadian, I don't live there and when it comes to the US I'll just have to emigrate.
Let me know & I'll tear all the gear off. Plus the Yamaha Vino 125 is one of the most expensive similar sized scooters out there @ $2700 base price. Adding what appears to be another $1000 bucks to that and making it useless in the rain coupled with an inability to park it anywhere, well I'm left wondering WTF good it is.
So before you go off ranting about eeeevuuulll child porn you should consider that people get the Abu Ghraib treatment every day all over the world for simply attempting to HIDE their communications.
I saw an add for one of these $299 'Laptops', an Asus eee. But it's not really a laptop, it's a thin client with a battery. If you throw another $60 at it you can increase the 2GB flash with a 4GB flash card giving you a total of 6GB for everything including whatever is used by the installed OS and all apps. Which is acceptable, but clearly this $360 laptop is meant to rely on something else for what we normally consider adequate storage. Say Google Drive or similar.
It's not going to get cheaper than the price of the Lotus. Anyway I'm sure the retards in my state will figure out a way to tax it to oblivion or make it illegal to register or tell people that EMS will never be allowed near the car in the case of an accident. Because of that thar new fangled 'lectricity.
For example Time Warner pays 15% of their net revenue back to the city of Cary, NC as an 'access fee'. This can only be described as a kickback, a bribe in exchange for monopoly access. And it's legal.
Well the only useful experience I have with this is with a Kodak G610 printer dock. Which is a film type printer. And the thing I learned almost immediately was ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS use Kodak paper. Nothing else yields a useful result at all. So I have to think that Kodak has engineered their printer and paper chemistry to go hand in hand.
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I am in security design and I can't tell you how many times my peers tell me I'm crazy for not spending more time patching systems than using them otherwise. My own belief is that most patching is a wasted effort and tends to break more than it fixes. Apply some common sense change management, do fixes quarterly or something.
Hows that OCD working for you?
My laptop weighs maybe a shade over 5 lbs. It has a 15.4" screen, 2GB ram, 120GB drive, dual core Intel. It runs about 4-5hrs on a new battery. I think the extra 2.5lbs is worth it. Maybe not to you but to me it is.
It's a T61 Thinkpad and maybe it costs $740.
Fucking gopher. Bullshit assistant nonsense wrangler. Basically they're all the same shitty job that's too poorly defined to even be replaced by a robot or some Indians.
Why not? No one's FORCING you to watch it.
Exactly it's not meant as a 'replacement' for anything. It's another gadget. You make my case.
Now someone mod this troll above.
Seriously. If they renamed it "Lenovo toss every chunk of shit ever deployed onto your laptop and prey, fucking prey that you still have networking after that Update" it would be closer to the truth.
Mine just threw up 525MB worth of updates and I wound up backing most of it off because Access Connections is a piece of shit that breaks everything. And most of the other junk you just don't need like menus that run in the background popup and tell you to call customer support. Wow I really need an app to do that for me. And that task automater that defrags in the background. Yeah that's great.
All this noise about cheap laptops. But they're not. Is anyone going to use an Asus eee for a general purpose device? No. It's a glorified web browser, PDA and possibly a big ass phone. In the meantime all the cheap laptops will disappear and become 'portable multimedia centers'
I can still get a low and Thinkpad R61 or Lenovo N200 for $500 and for $200 more than that Asus piece of crap you get an actual laptop. Of course we'll never actually see a $200 laptop. Instead it will be a $200 MP3 player with a keyboard.
Linux is only not ready in the context of what you already expect Windows to be able to do. Linux will never be Windows therefore the people who insist on 'ready' being exactly like Windows will never be happy.
Mac isn't Windows and it never will be. But it has its own advantages. It has its own learning curve. Same with Linux. If you never saw a Windows machine you would learn Linux differently and you would have an entirely different set of criticisms.
All of this technology has only 2 practical uses: law enforcement, specifically amber alerts, and spam.
We're not that far removed from this and we supposedly have the political tools to stop it. Problem is, we don't really care. At best half of us get up off our fat asses to vote. So in a culture that like China WHICH DOESN'T SEE THIS AS A BAD THING, I'm doubtful that anything will of complaints. That's not the Chinese way.
Just because you can do something doesn't make it great idea for anything, let alone a business.
Whenever some program gives more money to cops, my life gets a little more oppressive and dingy.
Albeit I'm irked that the ASUS eee has 2GB and a flash card slot for another 4GB which is a tad too small. But how is the size of a hard drive relevant to the OS? Is Windows SO LARGE that you need more than 80GB to house it now?
See they're not talking about LOW PRICE laptops, they're talking about LOW PERFORMANCE laptops. My used Thinkpad T-40 absolutely qualifies as a low price laptop and it's been running XP Pro for years w/o any problem (and it even has an 80GB drive) but it would be unusuable with a 10 inch screen.
How 'focused' do you have to be to drive a car? Neurosurgery focused? A night carrier landing in bad weather focused? Sniper focused? MLB pitcher focused?
Seriously if driving a car were that hard there would be a million fatalities a day. This is just more nanny state bullshit foisted on us by the soccer mommies of the world who want to slap a bike helmet on everyone everywhere at all times.
It's censorship aimed at silencing any speech or thought critical of Islam or Muslim culture whatsoever. Which is fine, really, I'm not Canadian, I don't live there and when it comes to the US I'll just have to emigrate.
Let me know & I'll tear all the gear off. Plus the Yamaha Vino 125 is one of the most expensive similar sized scooters out there @ $2700 base price. Adding what appears to be another $1000 bucks to that and making it useless in the rain coupled with an inability to park it anywhere, well I'm left wondering WTF good it is.
So before you go off ranting about eeeevuuulll child porn you should consider that people get the Abu Ghraib treatment every day all over the world for simply attempting to HIDE their communications.
I saw an add for one of these $299 'Laptops', an Asus eee. But it's not really a laptop, it's a thin client with a battery. If you throw another $60 at it you can increase the 2GB flash with a 4GB flash card giving you a total of 6GB for everything including whatever is used by the installed OS and all apps. Which is acceptable, but clearly this $360 laptop is meant to rely on something else for what we normally consider adequate storage. Say Google Drive or similar.
It's not going to get cheaper than the price of the Lotus. Anyway I'm sure the retards in my state will figure out a way to tax it to oblivion or make it illegal to register or tell people that EMS will never be allowed near the car in the case of an accident. Because of that thar new fangled 'lectricity.
Will coat a flatscreen with it and mount it on an Escalade.
Failure to maintain adequate breathing, or something like that.
For example Time Warner pays 15% of their net revenue back to the city of Cary, NC as an 'access fee'. This can only be described as a kickback, a bribe in exchange for monopoly access. And it's legal.
In performance and price it's a 2-3 year old Mac, I guess. The fan problem though could probably be eliminated with a cheap PCI slot blower fan.
Well the only useful experience I have with this is with a Kodak G610 printer dock. Which is a film type printer. And the thing I learned almost immediately was ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS use Kodak paper. Nothing else yields a useful result at all. So I have to think that Kodak has engineered their printer and paper chemistry to go hand in hand.