in a dept store, the laptops all have the same features, save for some corner cases.
there's no shame in "just wanting something to browse on, and maybe some other stuff". if that's what you want, then every machine in the store is good enough.
given that, why on earth wouldn't you choose the prettiest, lightest, cheapest one (though i'd include battery life as well, because using these things in bed with the power plugged in causes awful things to happen to the power jack).
my wife's getting an iPad 2.0. she knows how much i dislike Apple, but the thing is... it's the best tablet out there for plain old tabletty stuff, and has some features the others don't offer, at the same price point.
i can't forbid her to buy it, or it'd expose me for being an arrogant fuck (she MUST NOT FIND THIS OUT about me).
of course, i'll get her old netbook with HDMI and a fuct screen. i'll nuke win7 and put linux on it, like my other netbook. horses for courses.
that's all well and good, but so long as the majority don't care enough to also boycott, nothing will change.
and it's our bosses that decide it's cheaper to do it overseas... and they're correct in that decision.
i'm increasingly of the opinion that outsourcing to countries with cheap labour is actually capitalism's version of communism. it's raising the standard of living in the cheap countries and lowering it at home. when the standard has raised to the point that it's no longer competitive to outsource there, they find somewhere cheaper.
china is outsourcing a big chunk of it's clothing business to various African countries. you'll be surprised to find "made in China" may actually be a lie.
china wont be the world's factory for long - its skill set and wages are increasing very fast.
is this a bad thing or a good thing? certainly it's bad for us 1%'ers. it's most likely very bad for the global environment, but in the medium term at least it's good for the majority of people.
i don't know about "so many disasters", so much as "1 major disaster, 1 medium disaster caused by a much bigger catastrophe and 1 small gas leak and messed up but contained core".
it's not good, but it's not bad either. you write like the world is a pulsating green wasteland without so much as cockroaches surviving.
i agree that greed will fuck up anything. it's up to the engineers to design these things as greed-proof as possible. that's just another safety feature. to that end, i'd rather a new gen reactor designed with a modern nuclear engineer's cynicism than one built in the era of "Peaceful Atoms" and almost sickening faith and optimism.
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welcome our low-cost, boardroom robot overlords.
i'm not sure the 2nd amendment had giant space-ripping lasers in mind when it was written.
and furthermore, the constitution doesn't apply to sharks.
interesting to hear from the other side...
the key word here is "responsibly" though.
responsibly run nuke plants are safer than any other form of power (as the stats thrown around this and many other threads appear to show).
only problem is when large amounts of money are involved, human error seems to increase.
ACs have much credibility. especially when they give no citations (why should they? the bible doesn't give citations!).
everything you said there is flat wrong, except for your observation of the colour of a flame.
...the worst nuclear disaster in his countries history...
well, i seem to recall learning about 2 others in high school history. something to do with americans?
in a dept store, the laptops all have the same features, save for some corner cases.
there's no shame in "just wanting something to browse on, and maybe some other stuff". if that's what you want, then every machine in the store is good enough.
given that, why on earth wouldn't you choose the prettiest, lightest, cheapest one (though i'd include battery life as well, because using these things in bed with the power plugged in causes awful things to happen to the power jack).
my wife's getting an iPad 2.0. she knows how much i dislike Apple, but the thing is... it's the best tablet out there for plain old tabletty stuff, and has some features the others don't offer, at the same price point.
i can't forbid her to buy it, or it'd expose me for being an arrogant fuck (she MUST NOT FIND THIS OUT about me).
of course, i'll get her old netbook with HDMI and a fuct screen. i'll nuke win7 and put linux on it, like my other netbook. horses for courses.
I SAID "GOOD DAY".
he's a cyclist... no car.
UIDs are like f-stops.
the smaller number, the larger the hole.
and the fuzzier the posts.
are they all virii? or are a good whack of them trojans?
i suspect it's not as correct as you think.
wow, so many pots and kettles. am i in a kitchen?
dammit, if /. are being so tight with modpoints, can they at least put a "like" button in? :)
you mean the AM industry?
it's getting windy in here.
in other news, ipods get heavier as you fill them.
maybe "the singularity" will happen when the internet gets so heavy the Earth collapses into a black hole?
semiconductors.
you posted to slashdot, therefore QM works.
out of date = unusable?
why did you buy something that would deactivate itself as soon as an update was available?
whoa, now it's in a superposition of goatse and non-goatse. i don't particularly feel like collapsing it's wave function.
now it's FALAC, which sounds a bit phallic.
that's all well and good, but so long as the majority don't care enough to also boycott, nothing will change.
and it's our bosses that decide it's cheaper to do it overseas... and they're correct in that decision.
i'm increasingly of the opinion that outsourcing to countries with cheap labour is actually capitalism's version of communism. it's raising the standard of living in the cheap countries and lowering it at home. when the standard has raised to the point that it's no longer competitive to outsource there, they find somewhere cheaper.
china is outsourcing a big chunk of it's clothing business to various African countries. you'll be surprised to find "made in China" may actually be a lie.
china wont be the world's factory for long - its skill set and wages are increasing very fast.
is this a bad thing or a good thing? certainly it's bad for us 1%'ers. it's most likely very bad for the global environment, but in the medium term at least it's good for the majority of people.
browsing at anything higher would deny your own existence :)
http://xkcd.com/645/
it makes things worse that you can end up on the list when you're a minor yourself, sexting a friend.
when everyone's on the register, the app will be useless and "the children" will be at risk again.
i don't know about "so many disasters", so much as "1 major disaster, 1 medium disaster caused by a much bigger catastrophe and 1 small gas leak and messed up but contained core".
it's not good, but it's not bad either. you write like the world is a pulsating green wasteland without so much as cockroaches surviving.
i agree that greed will fuck up anything. it's up to the engineers to design these things as greed-proof as possible. that's just another safety feature. to that end, i'd rather a new gen reactor designed with a modern nuclear engineer's cynicism than one built in the era of "Peaceful Atoms" and almost sickening faith and optimism.