In China the idea of "market value" for a bit of property is different than what you'd find elsewhere. In China people are not allowed to own many properties and resell them over and over again contributing to speculative expectations that any bit of land should be worth millions. Ultimately, this means that salaries can grow in a very different way than they would if the increase in property costs (which isn't measured by the inflation rate) influenced every single business venture in the country. Today, if a westerner wanted to live a low cost & low income life they couldn't. In China, it's possible to be a worker in a widget factory and not be homeless. Want to bring back small industry to the West? try socialized housing first.
Why don't we just use an add-on to the browser that keeps making random requests to these search engines? this should work so that our manual searches display the stuff we want, while the rest of the traffic is meant to make all searches look random
Where on earth did you get the idea that Europe subsidises diesel?
some 60% of the retail price usually consists on oil-products tax and then VAT on top of it. In some countries like Portugal and Spain the retail price for diesel fuel used to be some 25% lower because the oil tax was lower. Then the TDIs of this world became successful enough for people to used them on stuff that is not a lorry or a tractor and the price gap between petrol and diesel was reduced.
There is a matter of user expectation that I think might be the most valuable legacy from the ChromeOS. Today, a lot of the stuff we use is clunky. Enterprise applications that walk over any UI guidelines, intranet sites that works so-so depending on the browser used; web applications that actually do not degrade to work in small screens or not-so-broadband connections.. there's probably more examples if you think about it.
If a large number of people start using these Google terminals and this allows them to see their files and favourite internet services working nicely, regardless of using the netbook, the fat PC with Firefox or Safari or any unknown PC at an internet cafe, this will be clearly a good thing. Users will expect to see the same kind of quality on desktop applications, on enterprise applications and importantly, on their intranet and enterprise applications.
Some of the applications I currently use that frustrate me the most are MS applications that simply lag behind the free stuff that I use at home on free internet services. The way my company is unable to make Sharepoint present simple lists of files and allow changing individual items without refreshing the whole thing is frustrating and worse than everything that I use for fun on Facebook; Dynamics CRM would be nice and usable for 2005 standars, but now its navigation requires more clicks and menus than everything that I find acceptable; hell, even using MS Office with files stored remotely is a pain, with all the warnings and confirmations.
I'm counting on google and mobile telcos to subsidize the hardware and take these netbooks to the broad market. People will have new expectations about usability, about what is basic and what is advanced use of their computers. Desktop software developers will have to adapt, because their stuff cannot possibly be less clunky than free browser based applications running on cheap hardware.
Use a HOSTS file that is reviewed by many people sharing the objective of ridding themselves of malware, and boom, there goes the $$$ spent on that new domain.
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
Take the Northern Line tube to Hendon Central, walk up the stairs and read the sign "The nearest station for the RAF museum is Colindale, walk back to platform 1 and take the first train."
The Science museum is good but probably more interesting for kinds than for adults, I prefer spending more time in the Natural History museum. Take some time to visit the Imperial War Museum and the Movieum on the South Bank. For a 2 week trip I wouldn't bother with carrying the laptop, just bring extra memory cards for your camera. Join any hospitality Club meeting in London, there's always someone happy to be your tour guide.
It could be a completely different case. When the OP describes the base requirements as "include the usual suspects, i.e. www, ftp, email, dns, firewall, dhcp — and some more" we don't know if he's one of my clients who has received the bad news recently that the irritating and debilitating problem in the ERP he reported is not something my people will be able to fix. This is because he's been ignoring my advice for 5 years for upgrading the ERP software to a version that has not reached end of life status.Now, that piece of software needs that upgrade because nobody will fix it or put a warranty sticker on any workaround and since the users are raising a stink about it, for the first time in 7 years the IT people are actively involved in getting anything done on the Windows 2000 + SQL 2000 machines they have had there ticking along nicely for all this time. I certainly hope it is my client that is posting to Slashdot. If not I'll forward him this discussion...
or the other way around: if you use Firefox without a master password, you should be worried because it's very easy to go to the menu and see all your user/passwd combinations.
Funny the bit about ERP software. Essentially they say that ERP is not as good as people expected, but once you apply some Business Intelligence solutions you'll be sorted.
and that works nicely on my Nokia 3120. thanks for the tip. I'll check if other slash based sites do the same and my toilet time will never be the same!
Actually, this discussion has happened millions of times, always to show that if your comparison starts with "I'll configure a PC to be comparable with a Mac", the Mac is a great deal; whereas if you start with "I'll pick a sane PC configuration and find a Mac that is comparable" you would have to be quite eccentric not to buy a PC.
Add 45 minutes at Sac security and 20 in the terminal and I still get there faster than the travel time on this train which probably won't ever exist.
I don't know anything about USA geography but I'd be surprised if these airports you are using are conveniently located inside the cities in question. The train stations usually are.
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[irish accent]Blasphemy!![/irish accent]
here is a more detailed explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBE
In China the idea of "market value" for a bit of property is different than what you'd find elsewhere. In China people are not allowed to own many properties and resell them over and over again contributing to speculative expectations that any bit of land should be worth millions. Ultimately, this means that salaries can grow in a very different way than they would if the increase in property costs (which isn't measured by the inflation rate) influenced every single business venture in the country. Today, if a westerner wanted to live a low cost & low income life they couldn't. In China, it's possible to be a worker in a widget factory and not be homeless. Want to bring back small industry to the West? try socialized housing first.
Why don't we just use an add-on to the browser that keeps making random requests to these search engines? this should work so that our manual searches display the stuff we want, while the rest of the traffic is meant to make all searches look random
Where on earth did you get the idea that Europe subsidises diesel?
some 60% of the retail price usually consists on oil-products tax and then VAT on top of it. In some countries like Portugal and Spain the retail price for diesel fuel used to be some 25% lower because the oil tax was lower. Then the TDIs of this world became successful enough for people to used them on stuff that is not a lorry or a tractor and the price gap between petrol and diesel was reduced.
www.london-eating.co.uk/2904.htm
not with 13", but there is a similar thing on ebuyer.com. £120, no DRM.
that's £120, no DRM. There are 270 in stock right now, I expect to see them all gone tomorrow after my post is read by a lot of /.rs.
If a large number of people start using these Google terminals and this allows them to see their files and favourite internet services working nicely, regardless of using the netbook, the fat PC with Firefox or Safari or any unknown PC at an internet cafe, this will be clearly a good thing. Users will expect to see the same kind of quality on desktop applications, on enterprise applications and importantly, on their intranet and enterprise applications.
Some of the applications I currently use that frustrate me the most are MS applications that simply lag behind the free stuff that I use at home on free internet services. The way my company is unable to make Sharepoint present simple lists of files and allow changing individual items without refreshing the whole thing is frustrating and worse than everything that I use for fun on Facebook; Dynamics CRM would be nice and usable for 2005 standars, but now its navigation requires more clicks and menus than everything that I find acceptable; hell, even using MS Office with files stored remotely is a pain, with all the warnings and confirmations.
I'm counting on google and mobile telcos to subsidize the hardware and take these netbooks to the broad market. People will have new expectations about usability, about what is basic and what is advanced use of their computers. Desktop software developers will have to adapt, because their stuff cannot possibly be less clunky than free browser based applications running on cheap hardware.
It's the reading material with adverts they give away for free at Tube stations.
Use a HOSTS file that is reviewed by many people sharing the objective of ridding themselves of malware, and boom, there goes the $$$ spent on that new domain. http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
Take the Northern Line tube to Hendon Central, walk up the stairs and read the sign "The nearest station for the RAF museum is Colindale, walk back to platform 1 and take the first train."
The Science museum is good but probably more interesting for kinds than for adults, I prefer spending more time in the Natural History museum. Take some time to visit the Imperial War Museum and the Movieum on the South Bank. For a 2 week trip I wouldn't bother with carrying the laptop, just bring extra memory cards for your camera. Join any hospitality Club meeting in London, there's always someone happy to be your tour guide.
It could be a completely different case. When the OP describes the base requirements as "include the usual suspects, i.e. www, ftp, email, dns, firewall, dhcp — and some more" we don't know if he's one of my clients who has received the bad news recently that the irritating and debilitating problem in the ERP he reported is not something my people will be able to fix. This is because he's been ignoring my advice for 5 years for upgrading the ERP software to a version that has not reached end of life status.Now, that piece of software needs that upgrade because nobody will fix it or put a warranty sticker on any workaround and since the users are raising a stink about it, for the first time in 7 years the IT people are actively involved in getting anything done on the Windows 2000 + SQL 2000 machines they have had there ticking along nicely for all this time. I certainly hope it is my client that is posting to Slashdot. If not I'll forward him this discussion ...
Since when does the 3rd world define what is the way forward for IT?
'sup dawg I herd yo like gimmicks wo we split yo phone in two so you can gimmick while yo gimmick.
or the other way around: if you use Firefox without a master password, you should be worried because it's very easy to go to the menu and see all your user/passwd combinations.
Funny the bit about ERP software. Essentially they say that ERP is not as good as people expected, but once you apply some Business Intelligence solutions you'll be sorted.
yo momma is so ugly she makes goatse look good!
(would have saved $20,000 per year in licensing)
I pity the damn fool.
and that works nicely on my Nokia 3120. thanks for the tip. I'll check if other slash based sites do the same and my toilet time will never be the same!
There's loads of flash based games on Facebook. Most have ways to compare scores and send trash talk to your mates.
-- Mr. Goatse
Actually, this discussion has happened millions of times, always to show that if your comparison starts with "I'll configure a PC to be comparable with a Mac", the Mac is a great deal; whereas if you start with "I'll pick a sane PC configuration and find a Mac that is comparable" you would have to be quite eccentric not to buy a PC.
Add 45 minutes at Sac security and 20 in the terminal and I still get there faster than the travel time on this train which probably won't ever exist.
I don't know anything about USA geography but I'd be surprised if these airports you are using are conveniently located inside the cities in question. The train stations usually are.