Sort of... although I think thin is the expensive kicker here. The Asus eeePC is cheap and - dare I say it - a lot more portable and feature-laden than the Air (removable battery, 3 USB ports, ethernet).
The police are allowed to tap regular phone lines because they don't have to intrude on your property to do it.
No, they're allowed to tap phone lines because they get court orders saying they can. Do you think courts have never issued warrants allowing police to place bugs on a suspect's property?
My introduction to free software was in 1986 when my father bought a Commodore 64 and one of his friends came over with an extra disk drive so we could copy all his games.
It's a waste of bandwidth and disk space. Sure, it's only text, but cruft is cruft. If you can cut an email down by 80% by removing all the quoted material except what you're specifically replying to, and everyone does it, that adds up to a significant saving in bandwidth.
With Gmail. It's intelligent filters screen out the quoted text,
So if you can't see the bloat, it doesn't matter? Thanks Google! You've done for email what Microsoft did for software!
and by displaying email as threads (aka conversations) instead of just chronologically it makes dealing with a large volume of correspondence much easier.
Wow, just like Netscape 2! Gmail is really on the cutting edge.
When I do that, Firefox uses about 100 MB of memory, about the same as any other browser.
180-240 MB on my four year old Dell, which is significantly more than if I try it with Opera or Safari, and enough that my machine slows to a crawl. If I want to use iTunes and browse the web at the same time on that computer, I have to restart Firefox every hour or so.
This isn't as much of a problem on my six month old laptop, but a web browser is not something that should require a state-of-the-art system to run.
Besides, you give nearly exactly David Baron's example of a useless bug report. In order for problems to be fixed, we must come up with specific problems, along with a detailed set of instructions for how others can reproduce them. Then we can file a bug report on each specific issue. Can you point out any specific problems in Firefox?
Yes, it uses too much memory when left running with multiple tabs opened. Numerous people have complained about this, and they get dismissed for not providing detailed technical information on the problem. This is not acceptable with a program that's above version 2.0.
I keep seeing people make statements like this, but when I ask for steps to reproduce any problem, no one can seem to come up with any. Can you show me how I could see memory usage significantly worse than other browsers,
Open Firefox in the morning. Don't close it all day. Browse entirely in tabs. Open Task Manager. Look at how much memory Firefox is using. Simple.
Harddrives are mechanical devices, and are wearing out anytime they are powered up and running. While I'm sure that a drive does get stressed a bit more when it is turned on, I can guarantee you that a drive that runs for 40-50 hours a week is going to last longer than a drive that runs 168 hours a week.
The secondary hard-drive on my current desktop machine started life as the C drive on the computer I had in 2001. I never turn my computers off except to restart, tinker with the innards, or because I'm going out of town. If I can get seven years of life out of a drive running almost 24/7, I don't see any reason to try to extend it.
Sure. But once the Internet gets its claws into a system, it's impossible to make it let go. The system users are infected by the Internet, and no matter how much the admins do to disconnect the system, the users will find a way to reconnect. The Department of Defense has spent years trying to separate their secure networks from the Internet, but there are still people emailing secure documents to their Hotmail account so they can work on it at home.
Megastores must operate differently in Europe in America. In the US, only the absolutely newest hardbacks ever get a discount -- MMPBs at Borders and B&N are almost always cover price, or at most 10% off.
"Your statement makes the presumptuous assumption that people being able to afford more books provides more societal benefit than protecting independently owned bookstores with crappy selections."
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Slashdot has ads? One of these days I need to disable Privoxy, Adblock, and my Hosts file and browse the web like a normal person.
Opera is the singular of opus, "work". Easy enough to figure out why the browser uses that name.
Well, I had Space Taxi and Impossible Mission, so the games were definitely speech.
My introduction to free software was in 1986 when my father bought a Commodore 64 and one of his friends came over with an extra disk drive so we could copy all his games.
I don't want cutting edge space technology. I want reliable space technology that won't fail catastrophically 2% of the time.
"Oh, jokes. I get jokes. Ha ha ha!"
-Homer Simpson
But what if W3C is an airplane and you put it on the treadmill -- does it stay still or take off?
It's a waste of bandwidth and disk space. Sure, it's only text, but cruft is cruft. If you can cut an email down by 80% by removing all the quoted material except what you're specifically replying to, and everyone does it, that adds up to a significant saving in bandwidth.
This isn't as much of a problem on my six month old laptop, but a web browser is not something that should require a state-of-the-art system to run.
Yes, it uses too much memory when left running with multiple tabs opened. Numerous people have complained about this, and they get dismissed for not providing detailed technical information on the problem. This is not acceptable with a program that's above version 2.0.
The secondary hard-drive on my current desktop machine started life as the C drive on the computer I had in 2001. I never turn my computers off except to restart, tinker with the innards, or because I'm going out of town. If I can get seven years of life out of a drive running almost 24/7, I don't see any reason to try to extend it.
Sure. But once the Internet gets its claws into a system, it's impossible to make it let go. The system users are infected by the Internet, and no matter how much the admins do to disconnect the system, the users will find a way to reconnect. The Department of Defense has spent years trying to separate their secure networks from the Internet, but there are still people emailing secure documents to their Hotmail account so they can work on it at home.
None of Three laws forbade lying or destroying other robots -- in fact, they implicitly allow it if it would save a human.
Okay, you can replace the battery. But can you replace the battery without voiding the warranty?
Megastores must operate differently in Europe in America. In the US, only the absolutely newest hardbacks ever get a discount -- MMPBs at Borders and B&N are almost always cover price, or at most 10% off.
"Your statement makes the presumptuous assumption that people being able to afford more books provides more societal benefit than protecting independently owned bookstores with crappy selections."
Fixed.
It is protectionism -- of small businesses against megacorps that can afford to discount more deeply.