This is to kill the secondary market now that a 5 year old laptop has a cpu that is just fine. If it wasn't to kill the secondary market and the flash was really amazing and isn't going to fail ever they'd show a 5 year warranty.
We all know they won't do that, they'll actually charge you extra to get any useful warranty. But yeah, I dislike apple and won't buy their crap after paying thousands for a macbook pro that they shipped with faulty nvidia hardware and didn't recall. Apple are just a horrible company, the existence of other horrible companies does not excuse them for being awful. They're worse than microsoft, their reputation was only ever better than microsofts due to their failure to get market power. As soon as they got any they went nuts with it. Think different to apple.
Asus zenbook with any linux distro on it is just a plain better laptop.
Please add your successful linux laptops to this thread.
Do you think that the reason barricades have not been stormed and every congressperson is not running scared from all responsibility, knowledge etc is because it's another thing with a computer in it so the brain has dropped out of the ear? Same thing as public service spending billions on a solution that boils down to a 286 with a whole lot of workarounds. People stop thinking as soon as "with a computer" is in the sentence? I don't know, I can't fathom it I'm wildly advancing theories to explain how the USA achieved the USSR's wet dream of surveillance and it has less impact on policy than if a pop star got naked on prime time television.
Forward looking, non-fiction. Will be wrong, obviously it will be wrong, but if any of these wrong future speculations are worth reading then Freeman Dyson's certainly is among them.
C and C++ still haven't fixed this egregarious bug in the standard.
There is no reason for single line, un-braced blocks. People use them to show off how "cool" they are that they don't need to brace because it's only one line.
It makes for difficult to spot bugs like this. We need to actually yell at the people on the standards committees to FIX THE BUGS in the standard. There are other really obvious ones and they all should be fixed before adding more new features. YES I'M LOOKING AT YOU C++14!
There are plenty of ways you can make a new standard still work alongside code from an old one (compile old, broke, brittle, stupid code with a compiler flag indicating the old standard and new, beter files (yes "translation units c++") with the new one. Introduce a #THIS_FILE_IS_STUPID pragma to disable sanity on old code compiled with the new standard and plenty of others. Pick one, bless, it, implement it and FIX THIS CRAP
http://opensource.apple.com/so...
The 35th and 36th incidences of the words "goto fail;" in that file are the problem, not easy to spot until you look really closely and it's a bug that a sane standard would make impossible. FIX IT!!
The University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. 10 minute walk from coogee beach.
They should put more of these up and Richard Buckland is their most charismatic lecturer with others as bad as he is good. But I reckon you could do worse than really knowing what you're in for before getting hold of visas, plane tickets etc. etc.
http://au.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6B940F08B9773B9F
It's actually this image from the ceiling of the Sistine, painted by a known pederast for an organisation that features pederasty prominently amongst its other sins.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Deluge_detail.jpg
Accordingly there is no choice but to block all of wikipedia. But we must also block all of Michaelangelo's work, all greek philosophy, in fact all history up until 1968, and everything since then must be vetted carefully.
Eurasia has allways been our allies we are at war with Eastasia.
http://www.gnumeric.org/ does vastly better than excel on this front and imports workbooks made in excel. It shares statistics code with the R project.
Gnumeric is awesome. If you're doing serious calculation in a spreadsheet, use it for teh win!
You're assuming that's a good faith argument.
"We want to extract money we have no rights to from consumers and competitors using the courts enforcement of bogus patents as our tool." Isn't going to get the bogus patent approved. The solution is traditional amongst people who would try such a business technique. You lie. And Apple have done exactly that. Yet again. For anyone watching Apple with any degree of critical ability it's exactly what they've come to expect. What little power apple have in the industry (as compared microsoft) they abuse at a degree that is even worse than that undertaken microsoft. IAn industry s/microsoft/apple/g solves exactly nothing. This is why FREE software operating systems and support libraries are so very, very important. Any company with power there will always abuse it. Watch apple get more abusive as they get bigger market shares.
Is it naive to think that an Anonymous Coward apoligising for an unconscionable microsoft patent is paid for doing so? We know they've paid to push propaganda on wikipedia. Clue: the "method" is to press the Page Up or Page Down key.
Or you're arguing that the "method" they've patented is the use of basic arithmetic.
Failed Australian Entrepreneur Alan Bond had blimps used for joy rides in the 80s in Sydney. They were pretty noisy and slow. I think they got taken to the US and had goodyear painted on the side and hung out around sporting events as they were worth more as event billboards than joyride vessels.
I wonder how this is different, IF it is different...
http://www.testdrive.hp.com/
HP dude Bdale Garbee has said HP is delighted if people use testdrive to test their code on different architecture and OS combinations.
I could go on and on. But I won't. Btw, Jamie, a $30 dollar sound blaster live will let you play multiple sound streams with no mixing required.
Just make sure you don't get the Sound Blaster Live! from Dell.
Dell claim to sell you a sound blaster live, with the bits of paper and everything. In fact it is not, it is something else that will not work with linux.
False advertisting? (Yeah I know most people already know about Dell, but its worth repeating for those who don't.)
No need for them to re-invent the wheel, they can just use Gnumeric
Oh yeah, and the stats functions on gnumeric get fixed if bugs are found, unlike the 10 year outstanding bugs in excel;)
(When MS 'fixed' the rand() function, to my knowlege the only one they bothered even trying to fix, random numbers between 0 and 1 started coming out negative.)
There's every chance it isn't.
This is a Gartner study, they have a reputation.
More formally, what is the error on their estimate?
My bet is that it's plus or minus 5% gross thus they have found that Zaurus used to be somewhere in the range 0.0 - 6.9% now they think it's in the range 0.0 - 5.9%
Note how say a growth from 3% to 3.5% fits those numbers as well.
Yes I did pull the numbers out of my hat. But seriously we're geeks, where's the sample error? Are we just going to take Gartner's rediculous precision numbers as being accurate?
Not that I would accuse Gartner of pulling their numbers out of their hat on what 'sounds reasonable' and is likely to drum up business for them, oh no, I'm sure they're entirely honourable, aren't you...?
And where do microsoft sit in that 'category'?
How would it affect the market share differential between Palm & Microsoft
Gartner, seriously, how crap are they?
As an aside, you know why the made-for-TV Incredible Hulk is named David Banner rather than Bruce Banner (the original name)? The TV execs thought the name Bruce was too gay. No joke.
I object to that as an Australian! TV execs don't study philosophy anymore?
"New Bruce, are you a poofter?"
But dude, like, those compiler messages... You're clearly missing them. They're missing you too.
Ok, your_place% make V=1 gets you a verbose build. Leave that help alone, it's dangerous stuff. Too many seedy types pushing help on kids, turning them into users and worse...:)
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This is to kill the secondary market now that a 5 year old laptop has a cpu that is just fine. If it wasn't to kill the secondary market and the flash was really amazing and isn't going to fail ever they'd show a 5 year warranty.
We all know they won't do that, they'll actually charge you extra to get any useful warranty. But yeah, I dislike apple and won't buy their crap after paying thousands for a macbook pro that they shipped with faulty nvidia hardware and didn't recall. Apple are just a horrible company, the existence of other horrible companies does not excuse them for being awful. They're worse than microsoft, their reputation was only ever better than microsofts due to their failure to get market power. As soon as they got any they went nuts with it. Think different to apple.
Asus zenbook with any linux distro on it is just a plain better laptop.
Please add your successful linux laptops to this thread.
Do you think that the reason barricades have not been stormed and every congressperson is not running scared from all responsibility, knowledge etc is because it's another thing with a computer in it so the brain has dropped out of the ear? Same thing as public service spending billions on a solution that boils down to a 286 with a whole lot of workarounds. People stop thinking as soon as "with a computer" is in the sentence? I don't know, I can't fathom it I'm wildly advancing theories to explain how the USA achieved the USSR's wet dream of surveillance and it has less impact on policy than if a pop star got naked on prime time television.
Forward looking, non-fiction. Will be wrong, obviously it will be wrong, but if any of these wrong future speculations are worth reading then Freeman Dyson's certainly is among them.
C and C++ still haven't fixed this egregarious bug in the standard. There is no reason for single line, un-braced blocks. People use them to show off how "cool" they are that they don't need to brace because it's only one line. It makes for difficult to spot bugs like this. We need to actually yell at the people on the standards committees to FIX THE BUGS in the standard. There are other really obvious ones and they all should be fixed before adding more new features. YES I'M LOOKING AT YOU C++14! There are plenty of ways you can make a new standard still work alongside code from an old one (compile old, broke, brittle, stupid code with a compiler flag indicating the old standard and new, beter files (yes "translation units c++") with the new one. Introduce a #THIS_FILE_IS_STUPID pragma to disable sanity on old code compiled with the new standard and plenty of others. Pick one, bless, it, implement it and FIX THIS CRAP http://opensource.apple.com/so... The 35th and 36th incidences of the words "goto fail;" in that file are the problem, not easy to spot until you look really closely and it's a bug that a sane standard would make impossible. FIX IT!!
The University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. 10 minute walk from coogee beach. They should put more of these up and Richard Buckland is their most charismatic lecturer with others as bad as he is good. But I reckon you could do worse than really knowing what you're in for before getting hold of visas, plane tickets etc. etc. http://au.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6B940F08B9773B9F
It's actually this image from the ceiling of the Sistine, painted by a known pederast for an organisation that features pederasty prominently amongst its other sins. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Deluge_detail.jpg Accordingly there is no choice but to block all of wikipedia. But we must also block all of Michaelangelo's work, all greek philosophy, in fact all history up until 1968, and everything since then must be vetted carefully. Eurasia has allways been our allies we are at war with Eastasia.
http://www.gnumeric.org/ does vastly better than excel on this front and imports workbooks made in excel. It shares statistics code with the R project. Gnumeric is awesome. If you're doing serious calculation in a spreadsheet, use it for teh win!
You're assuming that's a good faith argument. "We want to extract money we have no rights to from consumers and competitors using the courts enforcement of bogus patents as our tool." Isn't going to get the bogus patent approved. The solution is traditional amongst people who would try such a business technique. You lie. And Apple have done exactly that. Yet again. For anyone watching Apple with any degree of critical ability it's exactly what they've come to expect. What little power apple have in the industry (as compared microsoft) they abuse at a degree that is even worse than that undertaken microsoft. IAn industry s/microsoft/apple/g solves exactly nothing. This is why FREE software operating systems and support libraries are so very, very important. Any company with power there will always abuse it. Watch apple get more abusive as they get bigger market shares.
Oh FFS. Any webbrowser you posted that from does THE SAME THING.
Is it naive to think that an Anonymous Coward apoligising for an unconscionable microsoft patent is paid for doing so? We know they've paid to push propaganda on wikipedia. Clue: the "method" is to press the Page Up or Page Down key. Or you're arguing that the "method" they've patented is the use of basic arithmetic.
Failed Australian Entrepreneur Alan Bond had blimps used for joy rides in the 80s in Sydney. They were pretty noisy and slow. I think they got taken to the US and had goodyear painted on the side and hung out around sporting events as they were worth more as event billboards than joyride vessels. I wonder how this is different, IF it is different...
http://www.testdrive.hp.com/
HP dude Bdale Garbee has said HP is delighted if people use testdrive to test their code on different architecture and OS combinations.
what they do is calculate the averate prevailing winds :-)
Never been to the Great Sandy Desert, huh?
I could go on and on. But I won't. Btw, Jamie, a $30 dollar sound blaster live will let you play multiple sound streams with no mixing required.
Just make sure you don't get the Sound Blaster Live! from Dell.
Dell claim to sell you a sound blaster live, with the bits of paper and everything. In fact it is not, it is something else that will not work with linux.
False advertisting? (Yeah I know most people already know about Dell, but its worth repeating for those who don't.)
Dept of Employment Education and Training.
Mod parent up +5 funny!
Using 'secure' 'portable' in the same sentence as NT.
Brilliant!
No need for them to re-invent the wheel, they can just use Gnumeric Oh yeah, and the stats functions on gnumeric get fixed if bugs are found, unlike the 10 year outstanding bugs in excel ;)
(When MS 'fixed' the rand() function, to my knowlege the only one they bothered even trying to fix, random numbers between 0 and 1 started coming out negative.)
There's every chance it isn't.
This is a Gartner study, they have a reputation.
More formally, what is the error on their estimate? My bet is that it's plus or minus 5% gross thus they have found that Zaurus used to be somewhere in the range 0.0 - 6.9% now they think it's in the range 0.0 - 5.9%
Note how say a growth from 3% to 3.5% fits those numbers as well.
Yes I did pull the numbers out of my hat. But seriously we're geeks, where's the sample error? Are we just going to take Gartner's rediculous precision numbers as being accurate?
Not that I would accuse Gartner of pulling their numbers out of their hat on what 'sounds reasonable' and is likely to drum up business for them, oh no, I'm sure they're entirely honourable, aren't you...?
And where do microsoft sit in that 'category'?
How would it affect the market share differential between Palm & Microsoft
Gartner, seriously, how crap are they?
Like you schmoboy, I also believe in being paid more money. More is more.
Who knows (or cares?) what OS google uses for their workstations?
They use some version of Red Hat for their worstations.
At least that is what Marc Merlin said at Linux.conf.au this year.
Who cares? Can't help you there...
Was Washington born in the USA?
or was he a migrant?
As an aside, you know why the made-for-TV Incredible Hulk is named David Banner rather than Bruce Banner (the original name)? The TV execs thought the name Bruce was too gay. No joke.
I object to that as an Australian!
TV execs don't study philosophy anymore?
"New Bruce, are you a poofter?"
But dude, like, those compiler messages...
:)
You're clearly missing them. They're missing you too.
Ok,
your_place% make V=1
gets you a verbose build. Leave that help alone, it's dangerous stuff. Too many seedy types pushing help on kids, turning them into users and worse...
No way baby, prise it from my cold dead, erm, wallet?
:)
try 'make help' with a 2.6 kernel.
It has all information you are looking for