Agreed, typing from a 12.1" 'notebook'. A 15" is too big for a daypack (loaded with other stuff). This 12.1" has the same size keys as that the 15.4" it replaced - the bigger one just had space either side. By contrast, I've tried typing on the 10.4" machines we have at work and my typing speed dropped significantly.
Cynically, I feel this attempt to define a netbook as 10" or less is a way of Intel & MS of protecting the Wintel hegemony. Intel doesn't cannibalise sales of mobile Core 2 Duos and Windows doesn't lose ground to 'desktop' Linux.
For the time being, netbooks will stagnate with N280 series CPUs partnered with sluggish embedded graphics. The sooner Nvidia, via their Tegra SoC, and other ARM licensees can pump out multi-core ARM chips, the better for consumers. Who needs a desktop when 11.6" ARMbooks will drive an external 1080p display via HDMI?
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It's subjective. It depends on what you want to do with a device. Some want a small device for coffee shops, while having a full blown desktop for home.
11.6" fills a niche of lightweight desktop replacement. For me a 15" is too big but I want a decent keyboard. I downgraded to a 12.1" and couldn't be happier. Plug in an external display at home or desk but 1366x768 is fine for everything else. Equip it as a tablet (they're coming!) and it's perfect for reading PDFs on public transport.
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The older generation didn't have to take bullshit like this
Which 'older' generation are we talking about here? A 27 yr old (and BTW that seems 'mature age' for someone just completing a 3-4 yr degree) is Gen Y.
We Gen Xers could tell these young whippersnappers a thing or two. Being deemed slackers and 'dole bludgers' during the early 90s recession that our parents and grand-parents generations caused through the '87 crash. Finding your degree you have a massive student loan for isn't worth anything isn't a new phenomenon. Being passed over for 'graduate programs' and all the while being told with a tertiary education you're overqualified for unskilled work isn't new either. Then when you go back and get yet another qualification, miss the dot-com boom $$$$ because you're on a 'graduate' salary, and then find there's a tech-wreck soon after hardly inspires hope.
It took me about a decade to pay back that student loan, for a degree in a field which I don't even work in. Today's generation have it hard?:(
The potential being that a user can change the keyboard to, say, "US English" or "International" without requiring the OS to explicitly support it?
Then one could plug a keyboard into OS X, XP, Gnome, Haiku etc and not have to mess around configuring the settings each time. Which in shared households would mean 'Gary' just plugs in his $5 US English keyboard set to international with all the weird symbols to do his Spanish/German homework and the rest of the family use their own and don't have to reset the keyboard layout if he forgets. Short of buying an international keyboard, the keyboard itself could remember which layout it's using, independent of the computer or OS. (Maybe they can already, I'm just thinking aloud!)
It depends on the % listed on the label. Your regulations may vary but I've seen mass produced "dark chocolate" sold with as little as 45% cocoa. So, of course, they fill it up with sugar and fat. It's still darker than standard milk chocolate but hardly the good stuff.
I'd say these trials would be done with chocolate that has at least 70% cocoa, which is around the limit you can get for supermarket brands, although Lindt does make an 85% version.
As they say, everything in moderation. My late father was type-2 diabetic but it certainly wasn't dark chocolate that made him overweight, more the fatty takeaways he would bring home as snacks.
That implementation may be seen as a feature, by the web page maintainer and not a bug. i.e. various browsers may use the same gecko engine but the site owner only wants to support Firefox.
For an example of similar daftness, I tried ubuntu's rebranding of firefox 3.5, 'abrowser', only to find that few of my browser extensions loaded. When using the firefox branding they all worked - evidently even extensions check for the firefox string.
Well, we'll see. Oracle has Btrfs for Linux. It's possible they may keep pushing that for databases running on Linux BUT keep ZFS as a value added solution to get people hooked on Solaris.
Pretty much everything works via a package manager on Linux. Why should Eclipse be any different if your distro keeps up to date? Easier than manually downloading a new version and unzipping *every time*.
I believe Fedora ships with the latest Eclipse in their repositories. But clearly debian and ubuntu don't. Why? Well a number of reasons.
(1) Until recently OpenJDK didn't exist, so debian and other distros (who wouldn't rely on Sun's proprietary JDK) did the native compilation thing via gcj. Extra complexity. (2) Eclipse provides its own UI library called SWT. Other applications such as Azureus decided to use it. Upgrade Eclipse and you have to test all the other applications for breakage. (3) Eclipse is a huge download since it includes a bunch of Java libraries such as ant, junit and many libraries for Java EE development. Many of these are already packaged, so it would seem to make sense to depend on them so you don't have duplicate jars floating all over your system (bloat).
I'm sure there are other reasons but packaging for debian the 'right way' is a little more complex than just unzipping, sticking it on the path and making some shortcuts for the application menu. And while debian is a volunteer project, clearly Eclipse isn't a priority for Shuttleworth to throw some money at ubuntu devs to make it happen in the same way Red Hat values Java (e.g. through JBoss).
Did enterprise ever mass deploy 2K? My experience, around 2003, was that businesses had only started migrating from NT 4 Workstation because the laptops they supplied their sales and marketing people needed XP drivers.
In a sense, yes, when the referring to a mixture of male and female, or person of unknown gender we defer to the male term.
Going back a generation, an actress was a woman and an actor a man. Somewhere along the line, political correctness and feminism got mixed up and decided that the male term would henceforth be used for both. So instead of the awards 'Best Actor' and 'Best Actress' we have abominably bloated misuse of the language with 'Best Male Actor' and 'Best Female Actor'. If the sanitization of the language were truly to treat women equal with men there would be no need for positive discrimination in having a separate award for an actress - i.e. Women would compete with men for the same trophy. That would of course cut the Oscar ceremony in half.
I'm all for gender rights but I think adopting the hitherto male/neuter words actually removes some of the colour from the language. Whenever I hear terms such as 'female actor' in deference to 'actress', it's like god kills a kitten.:(
I think that's an important issue about sustainability. Trains may be powered through renewable electricity sources or biodiesel but at high altitudes synthetic aviation fuel freezes, or so I read somewhere.
I think we better jolly well find a replacement for jumbo fuel or cheap air travel will be a thing of the past once oil rationing hits.:(
But I do believe he has a point about seeking out the lowest cost of business, and if it comes down to it, I wouldn't be surprised to see Microsoft move all accounts receivabo to a tax haven and just keep cost centers in the U.S.
Forget Ireland or the off-shoring giants of India or China. MS could simply buy a small micro-nation and set its own taxation agenda.
Let's look at Microsoft:
Net income: 17.681 billion
Employees: 89,809
Now compare Andorra, an existing tax-haven country nestled in the Pyrenees, bordered by France and Spain:
Socialist Republic? Our coins still have Elizabeth II on them...
Anyway, it was Little Johnny and his neo-con capitalism that sold our public infrastructure off to private investors not Kevin 007 and his merry band of Bolshies.
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Agreed, typing from a 12.1" 'notebook'. A 15" is too big for a daypack (loaded with other stuff). This 12.1" has the same size keys as that the 15.4" it replaced - the bigger one just had space either side. By contrast, I've tried typing on the 10.4" machines we have at work and my typing speed dropped significantly.
Cynically, I feel this attempt to define a netbook as 10" or less is a way of Intel & MS of protecting the Wintel hegemony. Intel doesn't cannibalise sales of mobile Core 2 Duos and Windows doesn't lose ground to 'desktop' Linux.
For the time being, netbooks will stagnate with N280 series CPUs partnered with sluggish embedded graphics. The sooner Nvidia, via their Tegra SoC, and other ARM licensees can pump out multi-core ARM chips, the better for consumers. Who needs a desktop when 11.6" ARMbooks will drive an external 1080p display via HDMI?
Well I'm not American, FYI.
It's subjective. It depends on what you want to do with a device. Some want a small device for coffee shops, while having a full blown desktop for home.
11.6" fills a niche of lightweight desktop replacement. For me a 15" is too big but I want a decent keyboard. I downgraded to a 12.1" and couldn't be happier. Plug in an external display at home or desk but 1366x768 is fine for everything else. Equip it as a tablet (they're coming!) and it's perfect for reading PDFs on public transport.
Hmmm, I thought 'spelt' was a variety of wheat.
Which 'older' generation are we talking about here? A 27 yr old (and BTW that seems 'mature age' for someone just completing a 3-4 yr degree) is Gen Y.
We Gen Xers could tell these young whippersnappers a thing or two. Being deemed slackers and 'dole bludgers' during the early 90s recession that our parents and grand-parents generations caused through the '87 crash. Finding your degree you have a massive student loan for isn't worth anything isn't a new phenomenon. Being passed over for 'graduate programs' and all the while being told with a tertiary education you're overqualified for unskilled work isn't new either. Then when you go back and get yet another qualification, miss the dot-com boom $$$$ because you're on a 'graduate' salary, and then find there's a tech-wreck soon after hardly inspires hope.
It took me about a decade to pay back that student loan, for a degree in a field which I don't even work in. Today's generation have it hard? :(
When did the GPL *ever* claim to be 'open'? FSF never talks about open source but rather 'free software'.
RMS redefined 'free', others 'open'. Don't confuse the two :)
The potential being that a user can change the keyboard to, say, "US English" or "International" without requiring the OS to explicitly support it?
Then one could plug a keyboard into OS X, XP, Gnome, Haiku etc and not have to mess around configuring the settings each time. Which in shared households would mean 'Gary' just plugs in his $5 US English keyboard set to international with all the weird symbols to do his Spanish/German homework and the rest of the family use their own and don't have to reset the keyboard layout if he forgets. Short of buying an international keyboard, the keyboard itself could remember which layout it's using, independent of the computer or OS. (Maybe they can already, I'm just thinking aloud!)
It depends on the % listed on the label. Your regulations may vary but I've seen mass produced "dark chocolate" sold with as little as 45% cocoa. So, of course, they fill it up with sugar and fat. It's still darker than standard milk chocolate but hardly the good stuff.
I'd say these trials would be done with chocolate that has at least 70% cocoa, which is around the limit you can get for supermarket brands, although Lindt does make an 85% version.
As they say, everything in moderation. My late father was type-2 diabetic but it certainly wasn't dark chocolate that made him overweight, more the fatty takeaways he would bring home as snacks.
That implementation may be seen as a feature, by the web page maintainer and not a bug. i.e. various browsers may use the same gecko engine but the site owner only wants to support Firefox.
For an example of similar daftness, I tried ubuntu's rebranding of firefox 3.5, 'abrowser', only to find that few of my browser extensions loaded. When using the firefox branding they all worked - evidently even extensions check for the firefox string.
Well, we'll see. Oracle has Btrfs for Linux. It's possible they may keep pushing that for databases running on Linux BUT keep ZFS as a value added solution to get people hooked on Solaris.
Why NOT? I would.
Pretty much everything works via a package manager on Linux. Why should Eclipse be any different if your distro keeps up to date? Easier than manually downloading a new version and unzipping *every time*.
I believe Fedora ships with the latest Eclipse in their repositories. But clearly debian and ubuntu don't. Why? Well a number of reasons.
(1) Until recently OpenJDK didn't exist, so debian and other distros (who wouldn't rely on Sun's proprietary JDK) did the native compilation thing via gcj. Extra complexity.
(2) Eclipse provides its own UI library called SWT. Other applications such as Azureus decided to use it. Upgrade Eclipse and you have to test all the other applications for breakage.
(3) Eclipse is a huge download since it includes a bunch of Java libraries such as ant, junit and many libraries for Java EE development. Many of these are already packaged, so it would seem to make sense to depend on them so you don't have duplicate jars floating all over your system (bloat).
I'm sure there are other reasons but packaging for debian the 'right way' is a little more complex than just unzipping, sticking it on the path and making some shortcuts for the application menu. And while debian is a volunteer project, clearly Eclipse isn't a priority for Shuttleworth to throw some money at ubuntu devs to make it happen in the same way Red Hat values Java (e.g. through JBoss).
Did anyone else read the headline as 'chocolateion? Mmmm, chocolate ion!
:)
Why can't we have more "Stuff That Matters" articles on chocolate?
Did enterprise ever mass deploy 2K? My experience, around 2003, was that businesses had only started migrating from NT 4 Workstation because the laptops they supplied their sales and marketing people needed XP drivers.
IBM, allegedly, collaborated with the Nazis.
Corporations making a quick buck through trading with 'the enemy' is nothing new.
The Usual Suspects quote:
"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
Maybe where you come from but for me it so isn't.
In a sense, yes, when the referring to a mixture of male and female, or person of unknown gender we defer to the male term.
Going back a generation, an actress was a woman and an actor a man. Somewhere along the line, political correctness and feminism got mixed up and decided that the male term would henceforth be used for both. So instead of the awards 'Best Actor' and 'Best Actress' we have abominably bloated misuse of the language with 'Best Male Actor' and 'Best Female Actor'. If the sanitization of the language were truly to treat women equal with men there would be no need for positive discrimination in having a separate award for an actress - i.e. Women would compete with men for the same trophy. That would of course cut the Oscar ceremony in half.
I'm all for gender rights but I think adopting the hitherto male/neuter words actually removes some of the colour from the language. Whenever I hear terms such as 'female actor' in deference to 'actress', it's like god kills a kitten. :(
I must have been living under a rock since I'd never heard of 4chan.org
Sigurdium.
I think that's an important issue about sustainability. Trains may be powered through renewable electricity sources or biodiesel but at high altitudes synthetic aviation fuel freezes, or so I read somewhere.
I think we better jolly well find a replacement for jumbo fuel or cheap air travel will be a thing of the past once oil rationing hits. :(
I thought it was more to do with having distributions with names such as 'Karmic Koala'.
In both those cases 'gender' would suffice.
Forget Ireland or the off-shoring giants of India or China. MS could simply buy a small micro-nation and set its own taxation agenda.
Let's look at Microsoft:
Net income: 17.681 billion
Employees: 89,809
Now compare Andorra, an existing tax-haven country nestled in the Pyrenees, bordered by France and Spain:
GDP: $2.77 billion
Population: 88,700
Agreed, a general purpose netbook tablet can't be too far away anyway.
The lack of a keyboard does marginalise it as a $US300 single purpose gadget, as in Nokia's Maemo offerings. For that price an iPhone?
Socialist Republic? Our coins still have Elizabeth II on them...
Anyway, it was Little Johnny and his neo-con capitalism that sold our public infrastructure off to private investors not Kevin 007 and his merry band of Bolshies.