Re:"I'm still waiting for my under $50 Macbook."
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The $45 Windows Laptop
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It's easy, just start selecting some extra options such as more RAM or an ssd drive. Admittedly the other manufactures also have a high markup on such upgrades but it's much easier to upgrade these parts yourself. Apple do their best to go against this with helpful features such as hard to open cases, oddly sized storage mounts and glued in memory.
If you choose the cheapest RAM / storage options on a "pc laptop" and buy upgrades elsewhere you not only save a few hundred bucks on manufacturers price but also have a spare drive for backups/whatever and an extra RAM stick to flog on ebay. Given Apple's price markup on upgrades the savings will be even greater for similar specs.
As for the GPs comparison of a 13" XPS vs the MacBook Air, Standard: given that the Air uses a low power Core variant the fact that it has a higher clock speed is meaningless. The XPS will be faster and costs 20% less than the Air.
Over many months the fuel may evaporate, but the taxes are paid up front. Hence, they are certainly exactly the same as the % you pay for using the same fuel in a car vs a mower.
In the UK healthcare is run by the National Health Servce, a large public sector organisation as the OP pointed out. In other words, not an organisation in the "profitable" sector of the economy. Perhaps they're better on budget control, or atleast slightly more professional than a local council.
It's especially likely that someone will 'reverse engineer' your model in the case that they don't need to bother, given that you've already published it in a financial journal way back in 1973...
As stated before Adobe opens when pdf's are clicked on when it's the default application. If you have a different pdf reader set as default and you wish to open a pdf with Adobe reader (say when you need to load embedded fonts properly...) a more natural place to enable this feature is in the right-click menu options for pdf's, open with > adobe. The alternative is to dig through the start menu, then the document picker or drag/drop/click in whatever previous window you launched the pdf from. The number of cases where the start menu option is truly effective is really small, the only one I can think of is to open it so you can turn off automatic updates, which itself is better achieved by deleting the updater folder in the installation directory.
Given that your on linux your swap file resides on it's own disk partition a full hdd won't cause slowdowns to running out of swap space. Seek times can increase quite a bit with disk use depending on the data stored on the drive and how it's accessed.
This configuration is easily "emulated" on windows and doing so will prevent the dreaded problem of a fragmented swap file. You can find the setting somewhere near the my computer > properties > performance tab if i recall. First set up a partition the size of your swap file and then untick the 'let Windows decide' box in the swap file settings dialog. Instead, create one of fixed size on the partition and reboot to apply the setting.
Alternatively you could unbox the thing, giggle as you imagine all the collector peens howl out in agony of the opened box, take a bunch of pics of the whole process and put them online so the same peens can ogle the illicitly treated item AND pay you more in ads than you'd ever get for the thing.... Let's face it, unboxing collectables is no different to rape porn
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Why not go the whole hawg and use vim?
http://portableapps.com/apps/development/gvim_portable
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It's easy, just start selecting some extra options such as more RAM or an ssd drive. Admittedly the other manufactures also have a high markup on such upgrades but it's much easier to upgrade these parts yourself. Apple do their best to go against this with helpful features such as hard to open cases, oddly sized storage mounts and glued in memory.
If you choose the cheapest RAM / storage options on a "pc laptop" and buy upgrades elsewhere you not only save a few hundred bucks on manufacturers price but also have a spare drive for backups/whatever and an extra RAM stick to flog on ebay. Given Apple's price markup on upgrades the savings will be even greater for similar specs.
As for the GPs comparison of a 13" XPS vs the MacBook Air, Standard: given that the Air uses a low power Core variant the fact that it has a higher clock speed is meaningless. The XPS will be faster and costs 20% less than the Air.
How very dare you! It shall be called "The Year of Laptop GNU/Linux" of course!
Installing pirated games, perhaps?
Obviously substitute the url for which ever one you decide to actually d/l, but the following ought to work:
wget --limit-rate=20k http://www.dragonflybsd.org/download/#index1h1
Hear hear!
I take my mayonaise with a grain of salt.
Hear! Hear!
Over many months the fuel may evaporate, but the taxes are paid up front. Hence, they are certainly exactly the same as the % you pay for using the same fuel in a car vs a mower.
In the UK healthcare is run by the National Health Servce, a large public sector organisation as the OP pointed out. In other words, not an organisation in the "profitable" sector of the economy. Perhaps they're better on budget control, or atleast slightly more professional than a local council.
Reading your quote, I'd say "cyberpsychology" is in need of a self esteem boost themselves.
I think http://slashdot.jp/ looks less cluttered, for a start there are no kdawson posts on it.
Currently it appears that the main wikileaks site is unavailable. Thankfully wikileaks is actively mirrored, a list of which can be found on http://wikileaks.info/, http://mirror.wikileaks.info/wiki/Afghan_War_Diary,_2004-2010/ ought to take you straight to the original page. On a side note, the guardians' data blog have a nice writeup and sample of the data: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/datablog/2010/jul/25/wikileaks-afghanistan-data
In chromium this is possible on the Options > Under The Hood tab as the "Use suggestion service..." option.
I'd say Apple make the quintessential "branded pc".....
It's especially likely that someone will 'reverse engineer' your model in the case that they don't need to bother, given that you've already published it in a financial journal way back in 1973...
They've also made their 'distro' available, see http://freshmeat.net/projects/ttlinux/ and their gpl page http://www.tomtom.com/page.php?Page=gpl
I mean who really wants another windows pc?????
Wiis
iPhones
or worse, quicklaunch icons?
As stated before Adobe opens when pdf's are clicked on when it's the default application. If you have a different pdf reader set as default and you wish to open a pdf with Adobe reader (say when you need to load embedded fonts properly...) a more natural place to enable this feature is in the right-click menu options for pdf's, open with > adobe. The alternative is to dig through the start menu, then the document picker or drag/drop/click in whatever previous window you launched the pdf from. The number of cases where the start menu option is truly effective is really small, the only one I can think of is to open it so you can turn off automatic updates, which itself is better achieved by deleting the updater folder in the installation directory.
Given that your on linux your swap file resides on it's own disk partition a full hdd won't cause slowdowns to running out of swap space. Seek times can increase quite a bit with disk use depending on the data stored on the drive and how it's accessed. This configuration is easily "emulated" on windows and doing so will prevent the dreaded problem of a fragmented swap file. You can find the setting somewhere near the my computer > properties > performance tab if i recall. First set up a partition the size of your swap file and then untick the 'let Windows decide' box in the swap file settings dialog. Instead, create one of fixed size on the partition and reboot to apply the setting.
Alternatively you could unbox the thing, giggle as you imagine all the collector peens howl out in agony of the opened box, take a bunch of pics of the whole process and put them online so the same peens can ogle the illicitly treated item AND pay you more in ads than you'd ever get for the thing.... Let's face it, unboxing collectables is no different to rape porn