Store brand cola is about a third of the price and usually perfectly drinkable.
Why do people buy Coca Cola? Branding, familiarity/safety, not wanting to do any explaining if they have guests 'round.... a combination of all of the above?
Whatever the reason, Coca Cola outsells store brand cola by orders of magnitude.
Linux is up against something similar and it's as unlikely to "win".
A graphics card is expensive but not strange and unknown. Most people don't know what Linux is but they know it's "Not Windows" so for $30 they don't risk it.
The only outstanding feature is the 1280x800 graphics (which is worth having, don't get me wrong...)
It basically fills in the gap between mini/maxi and more choice = good.
One thing it really does is pull the rug out from under those vastly overpriced $2500 SONY mini-laptops. The only reason to buy those was small size, and that reason just vanished.
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Which will happen.
If the 10" was 1024x768 I'd be interested, but it's not, it's still 1024x600 so what's the point?
The #1 selling point of the Eee PC is portability and the 10" is less portable.
Eee PC has 1Gb RAM and enough disk for an XP install. No "shoe-horning" or "horrible task" required.
I bought the Linux one because it was cheaper and had a 20Mb SSD instead of 12 ... but I installed XP on it when I got home.
I suspect a lot of the early adopters are doing the same thing, thus artificially inflating the Linux numbers.
Store brand cola is about a third of the price and usually perfectly drinkable.
Why do people buy Coca Cola? Branding, familiarity/safety, not wanting to do any explaining if they have guests 'round .... a combination of all of the above?
Whatever the reason, Coca Cola outsells store brand cola by orders of magnitude.
Linux is up against something similar and it's as unlikely to "win".
A graphics card is expensive but not strange and unknown. Most people don't know what Linux is but they know it's "Not Windows" so for $30 they don't risk it.
If I obey the law and send a letter the customer won't need my bandwidth any more...
I'll settle for that.
Any block cipher can be used as a hash function in feedback mode.
(Also as a stream chiper - there's nothing they can't do!)
That'll have people switching to Linux in droves.
Also the "faster install" - because installing Vista is the first thing anybody does when they buy a new PC.
Is Linux really this desperate?
Politics be damned, just vote for the coolest dude and get him representin' the people.
The only reason they're doing it is because people don't have attention spans long enough to wait 'til morning to know the result.
Maybe you mean OOXML, that's definitely for documents.
To be fair, the 7" screens were too small. They're ok in theory but hardly any apps will work well at 800 pixels.
To me the sweet spot seems to be 9" Eee PC with 20Gb drive. A little bit bigger drive would be nice but I can live without it.
The only outstanding feature is the 1280x800 graphics (which is worth having, don't get me wrong...)
It basically fills in the gap between mini/maxi and more choice = good.
One thing it really does is pull the rug out from under those vastly overpriced $2500 SONY mini-laptops. The only reason to buy those was small size, and that reason just vanished.
Bummer it comes with Vista and not XP.
And pretty decent sound, too.
AN Eee PC has the aame RAM, same CPU, can take a hard disk...which part of "no room" am I failing to comprehend?
If you're trying to call us pinheads your ruler needs to be calibrated in angels.
Outside a few core developers there's very little work done at Google. It's all about meetings and impressing visitors.
Some birds can do that - it's like fly through McDonalds for them.
It takes two clicks to permanently whitelist a site. Your "usual set of sites" will take a minute or so to add.
>"potentially do some dns poisoning and cause the whitelist to be tainted"
You said you turn noscript off for your "usual" sites then on again when you "venture out". How is this safer than just whitelisting your usual sites?
Yeah, 'cos that would be easier than just adjusting a clock.
What's it to be? Glory or obscurity?
I'd go ... even if it was only with a few weeks of supplies and a suicide pill for when they run out.
People climb Everest even though there's a good chance of dying. How much greater a trip to mars?
Did you not see that article about the walking house?
It's a few articles further down...
Guinness is full of yummy flavonoids which zap oxidants and help protect against cancer.