I thought all that gas was used for air conditioning.
a) I can't imagine drones account for much gas b) With lasers drone will be limited to line-of-sight c) Laser power will require *much* more energy than gas, where will the power for the lasers come from? d) It's a crap idea which will never work
Another fine example of military pork spending.
If you want to save lives, why not just send everybody home?
Both mechanisms are possible. This is just more evidence.
We've made organic compounds from primordial soup + lightning, now we've also proved they're drifting through space (it was just a hypothesis before this).
as someone who has to compile/encode/model/texture/VM's an Intel Atom or equivalent just doesn't work
Maybe you're not the target market for Netbooks but that doesn't mean they're useless. For what most people do with their computers an Atom works just fine.
It's a massive difference when you have to carry it for a few hours.
I'm pretty sure my EeePC weighs a lot less than 3 lbs and it fits in a tiny bag. Most people don't believe me when I tell them I'm carrying a computer. They're like, "where??"
Large areas of computer stores have been dedicated to Netbooks for the last five years or so (around here it's about the same retail area as for 'normal' laptops). It's not really something they do for unpopular items.
Your link says that low netbook sales are hurting the PC market. To me that sounds to me like they were an important part of it.
It's not "the rich" who caused the problem. Asking "the rich" to pay more doesn't really address the root cause and will only be a band-aid on the sucking chest wound that is the economy.
The people who should pay up are the ones who got a trillion dollar taxpayer bailout and are now busy awarding themselves billion dollar bonuses for doing such a great job bankrupting the economy.
Then after they've paid up... boot the parasitic bastards out of the system.
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They're not planning on going home any time soon then...?
I thought all that gas was used for air conditioning.
a) I can't imagine drones account for much gas
b) With lasers drone will be limited to line-of-sight
c) Laser power will require *much* more energy than gas, where will the power for the lasers come from?
d) It's a crap idea which will never work
Another fine example of military pork spending.
If you want to save lives, why not just send everybody home?
Can I re-print a page in the middle of a contract?
Oh dear ... we asked a bunch of nerds which OS is best for a group of people they can't relate to.
Both mechanisms are possible. This is just more evidence.
We've made organic compounds from primordial soup + lightning, now we've also proved they're drifting through space (it was just a hypothesis before this).
Supernovas are the things the fling the atoms through space though...
Ok, Benji....
blade runners are humans who hunt down and *retire* replicants.
Really? Thanks for letting us know that.
Remnants of Alderaan?
Didn't all the atoms on Earth come by from space...?
You were ripped off.
For hundreds of years the English language wasn't exposed to people who could respond to writers instantly in public forums.
Would that be "dye"?
Or have we renamed it the "die layer" with hindsight?
as someone who has to compile/encode/model/texture/VM's an Intel Atom or equivalent just doesn't work
Maybe you're not the target market for Netbooks but that doesn't mean they're useless. For what most people do with their computers an Atom works just fine.
Given that they've got 2Gb RAM I bet Win7 would speed them up. A lot.
XP has a terrible memory manager which constantly hammers the swap file even when there's plenty of RAM available.
Who cares about "popular"
Ummm... the people writing in this thread?
1.2gHz? Luxury.
My first copy of 3D Studio ran on a 33MHz 486 (which was one of the fastest PCs available at the time).
Hell im using some older Dell D series laptops as cheap servers.
I'm just connecting up an Arduino as a web server so I'm getting a kick out of this thread.
a difference of maybe 2.5 lbs is not that much.
It's a massive difference when you have to carry it for a few hours.
I'm pretty sure my EeePC weighs a lot less than 3 lbs and it fits in a tiny bag. Most people don't believe me when I tell them I'm carrying a computer. They're like, "where??"
Large areas of computer stores have been dedicated to Netbooks for the last five years or so (around here it's about the same retail area as for 'normal' laptops). It's not really something they do for unpopular items.
Your link says that low netbook sales are hurting the PC market. To me that sounds to me like they were an important part of it.
Because size/weight counts when you actually have to carry it around...
If you're only carrying it to the SUV or a different room then go ahead, buy the huge one.
OK, you go first...
I can tell you'd be useless in a marketing job.
How come the shops are full of them and lots of people own them? (Including me)
It's not "the rich" who caused the problem. Asking "the rich" to pay more doesn't really address the root cause and will only be a band-aid on the sucking chest wound that is the economy.
The people who should pay up are the ones who got a trillion dollar taxpayer bailout and are now busy awarding themselves billion dollar bonuses for doing such a great job bankrupting the economy.
Then after they've paid up ... boot the parasitic bastards out of the system.