If you're running Windows, then there's your answer. If so, it's the Windows registry, which grows constantly. Back up your stuff, reinstall the OS and apps and it should be like brand new.
$300 for the first one, $250 for the second, both Acer Aspire Ones. According to wikipedia it's "kinda" a netbook, I guess. "Netbooks are a category of small, lightweight, legacy-free, and inexpensive laptop computers". It was small and lightweight (11 inch screen), but it did have wifi and and a network and monotor jacks, so it wasn't legacy free, although there was no optical drives (but had 3 USB ports).
I also would like to see a $100 netbook. I'd buy one in a heartbeat, but the Acer fit my needs perfectly; notebooks are too big. I saw an HP with an eighteen inch screen for the same price as my first Acer, but it's just not portable enough.
If the Acer isn't a netbook, maybe they are dead. But it was advertised as a netbook.
To quote Gunz 'n Roses and misquote the blurb on the cover of a 40 year old Heinlein paperback, "what we have here is a failure to communicate". An earlier commenter opined that my Acer Aspire One wasn't a netbook, despite the fact that it was advertised as such.
Now, my idea of a "netbook" is a small, lightweight laptop without removable media, but wikipedia disagrees with me. Part of the definition of a "netbook" is "inexpensive", but "inexpensive" is subjective. To me, a $250 computer is in fact inexpensive, even though the cashier at McDonald's couldn't afford one. To someone earning twice what I earn, a tablet is inexpensive.
The Acer wasn't "legacy free" because it had 3 USB ports and a network port.
But no matter what it's called, if I can get a computer that has an 11 inch screen and weighs a couple of pounds and runs decently, like the Acer did, I'm happy. I don't really care what the marketers call it.
The HDD was fine up until about a year ago when I had a message pop up (in Ubuntu - why doesn't Windows have SMART monitoring by default) saying that the drive might be on the way out.
Same with my "desktop" (sitting on the floor, using a 42 inch TV for a monitor with wireless mouse and keyboard), but I already knew it was dying from the occasional "chong chong chong" sound it made. Shortly after the media player stopped working, probably developed a bad spot right in the middle of the executable or a library.
The closest thing in Windows is Windows just stops working, but you can usually install Linux and get your files.
Linux also seems to be much more forgiving of harware faults. A few years ago I had XP dual boot with Mandriva, and Windows would choke, lock up, all kinds of problems while Linux hummed merrily along -- until the power supply finally gave out completely.
I agree, though, having it remind you to back up your data because your drive is dying is one of MANY features Windows sorely lacks.
Just visit a church some time, or go into any bar in a bad neighborhood and ask some of the rougher characters when was the last time they went to church. That said, yes, there are a lot of hypocrites in churches.
True you can get computers for free, but they're not much good without internet access -- and the poor not only don't have the money to "waste" on internet access, most of them aren't very educated and don't care about the internet or computers. There is always the library, though.
Politicians are still a little worried about cameras. Ditto criminal cops.
I have a strange life, even for a nerd (maybe especially for a nerd). First burglary Second burglary Probably was the same worthless cunt. They did put a guy in jail the second time, dumbass tried to cash a forged check he got in the burglary and the bank's camera nailed him.
It'd probably take longer for the machine to process it
I don't think so, if it was written in assembly it would only take a few byes of machine code. In a higher level language that calls libraries and such, maybe, but computers are pretty damned fast these days.
Load a, b load c, d add b, d load [address of output], b inc a inc b [couple of more bytes to look for eof, loop if not] (note, I haven't programmed in assembly for almost 30 years so that's probably not exactly right)
I had a similar problem with my Acer Asppire One. If I put it on "hibernate" and plugged it in before the lights stopped blinking it was hard to get the damned thing to start back up; I'd have to unplug it, remove the battery and put it back in, and restart it. I thought it was a Windows problem until I installed kubuntu on it, and Linux hasd similar problems. But with Linux I didn't need to put it in hibernate mode, since it would boot in like twenty seconds and unlike Windows when I booted it, everything that was open when I shut it off was opened back up. That's one of many Linux features Windows sorely lacks.
Less brick and mortor space isn't "dead". Dead would be NO brick and mortor space. And when I bought my first netbook there was only a single model at the WalMart I bought it from, the second there were two.
Yes, I agree that floor space is important. You might have an argument saying the netbook is dying, but it's certainly not dead.
This makes me think of the opening scene in Holy Grail, "Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead!"
They are not US citizens and their offenses were in a foreign country during an official military engagement
One was a US citizen in Chicago. He was finally released TWO YEARS after his imprisonment. Calling them "enemy combatants" is just semantics; they are indeed POWs and should have been treated as such. Calling them "enemy combatants" is nothing but Orwellian doublespeak.
As to the guy from Chicago, he could have been charged with treason, as well as several other crimes, and could have been easily convicted and executed or held in prison for life.
Six months for a "speedy" trial isn't unreasonable, but two years certainly is.
Exactly. This is pure unadulterated BS. To quote Mark Twain, "reports of my death are greatly exaggerated". My question is, why does anybody think the netbook is dead? I've bought two in the last year, the second to replace the first that was stolen. The second was stolen too, and I plan on replacing it as well. When the first netbook was stolen they took my notebook, too, I won't be replacing it. Notebooks are just too big for my purposes, and too expensive to risk theft or damage, but a netbook is small enough to take anywhere, and cheap enough to replace if it's damaged or stolen.
IMO the netbook's only drawback is the lack of an optical drive, but it's easy enough to move the data to a larger computer with a network or thumb drive.
Tablets would be nice if you could attach a keyboard and mouse and had some sort of stand to place them vertically.
Of course there are going to be kids who rise up above their upbringing, and decent respectable people whose kid winds up in prison. But usually if your dad's a mugger, you're not going to see anything wrong with mugging people. If your dad beats the hell out of you daily you're going to grow up to be a violent man.
As to the link, nobody's perfect. Looks to me like the kid just made an incredibly stupid mistake that he's terribly sorry for. If he had bad parents his response would have been more like "fuck 'em".
No holy war, just a friendly heads up. Slashdot lets you use a <url:http... or <a href="http...
I have to agree with geekoid, making your own markup language for your messageboard is retarded. Not using standards is one reason why I don't have any Microsoft software at home (although I have to endure it at work and other people's houses). I'm stuck with IE6 at work (pity me!).
It would be nice if you could edit mistakes, but then you would have trolls who would go and change their stupid posts after they've gotten responses, making the child comments look stupid or worse. Glad you can go back and edit journal entries you've posted, I hate making typos.
A WalMart Greeter's real job is watching people go OUT the door. If the anti-theft alarm goes out, that's when he earns his pay. Saying "hello" to people coming in is just a disguise.
It isn't "unwanted children" that turn out to be criminals, it's the children of criminals that turn out to be criminals. "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree."
I think you have cause and effect reversed. Violent people and criminals don't normally attend church.
What does intolerance have to do with crime? One doesn't rob someone because he hates the other's race, he does it for the money.
I've seen no evidence of this in the US, and in fact it's the opposite here. We treat the poor like shit.
I know poor people; they don't have computers.
Dude, you live in a fantasy world. Gossip doesn't cause crime; armed robbers are far less likely to rob someone who knows them and can identify them to the police.
You don't know many geezers, do you? Go into any bar in a rough neighborhood and it's full of geezers, who I assure you do get into fights. However, they're far less likely to rob you than some young punk.
Kid, how old are you? 911 didn't change anyone I know.
Do you ever even leave your house? Gangs are more prevalent now than any time since alcohol prohibition, and the problem won't go away until drug prohibition puts the gangs out of business (like the end of alcohol prohibition put the bootlegger gangs out of business)
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From what I've read, German highways are built for higher speeds; thicker pavements, wider lanes, grades less steep, etc.
If you want to do 80 when the speed limit is 65, you're a menace.
must be tethered to a cellular plan
That's the deal killer for me, and there's no reason for it. There's no reason whatever they can't simply have wifi.
To claim POW status requires participation in a act of war sponsored by a recognized nation state involved in the conflict
You mean, like Afghanistan?
If you're running Windows, then there's your answer. If so, it's the Windows registry, which grows constantly. Back up your stuff, reinstall the OS and apps and it should be like brand new.
Or just install Linux.
Nice. I might get one after all!
True that I know of no scientific studies, so anecdotal will have to do.
$300 for the first one, $250 for the second, both Acer Aspire Ones. According to wikipedia it's "kinda" a netbook, I guess. "Netbooks are a category of small, lightweight, legacy-free, and inexpensive laptop computers". It was small and lightweight (11 inch screen), but it did have wifi and and a network and monotor jacks, so it wasn't legacy free, although there was no optical drives (but had 3 USB ports).
I also would like to see a $100 netbook. I'd buy one in a heartbeat, but the Acer fit my needs perfectly; notebooks are too big. I saw an HP with an eighteen inch screen for the same price as my first Acer, but it's just not portable enough.
If the Acer isn't a netbook, maybe they are dead. But it was advertised as a netbook.
To quote Gunz 'n Roses and misquote the blurb on the cover of a 40 year old Heinlein paperback, "what we have here is a failure to communicate". An earlier commenter opined that my Acer Aspire One wasn't a netbook, despite the fact that it was advertised as such.
Now, my idea of a "netbook" is a small, lightweight laptop without removable media, but wikipedia disagrees with me. Part of the definition of a "netbook" is "inexpensive", but "inexpensive" is subjective. To me, a $250 computer is in fact inexpensive, even though the cashier at McDonald's couldn't afford one. To someone earning twice what I earn, a tablet is inexpensive.
The Acer wasn't "legacy free" because it had 3 USB ports and a network port.
But no matter what it's called, if I can get a computer that has an 11 inch screen and weighs a couple of pounds and runs decently, like the Acer did, I'm happy. I don't really care what the marketers call it.
That's what ziplock freezer bags are for.
The HDD was fine up until about a year ago when I had a message pop up (in Ubuntu - why doesn't Windows have SMART monitoring by default) saying that the drive might be on the way out.
Same with my "desktop" (sitting on the floor, using a 42 inch TV for a monitor with wireless mouse and keyboard), but I already knew it was dying from the occasional "chong chong chong" sound it made. Shortly after the media player stopped working, probably developed a bad spot right in the middle of the executable or a library.
The closest thing in Windows is Windows just stops working, but you can usually install Linux and get your files.
Linux also seems to be much more forgiving of harware faults. A few years ago I had XP dual boot with Mandriva, and Windows would choke, lock up, all kinds of problems while Linux hummed merrily along -- until the power supply finally gave out completely.
I agree, though, having it remind you to back up your data because your drive is dying is one of MANY features Windows sorely lacks.
Citation needed.
Just visit a church some time, or go into any bar in a bad neighborhood and ask some of the rougher characters when was the last time they went to church. That said, yes, there are a lot of hypocrites in churches.
True you can get computers for free, but they're not much good without internet access -- and the poor not only don't have the money to "waste" on internet access, most of them aren't very educated and don't care about the internet or computers. There is always the library, though.
Politicians are still a little worried about cameras. Ditto criminal cops.
Good point.
I have a strange life, even for a nerd (maybe especially for a nerd).
First burglary
Second burglary
Probably was the same worthless cunt. They did put a guy in jail the second time, dumbass tried to cash a forged check he got in the burglary and the bank's camera nailed him.
But... no insurance :(
It'd probably take longer for the machine to process it
I don't think so, if it was written in assembly it would only take a few byes of machine code. In a higher level language that calls libraries and such, maybe, but computers are pretty damned fast these days.
Load a, b
load c, d
add b, d
load [address of output], b
inc a
inc b
[couple of more bytes to look for eof, loop if not]
(note, I haven't programmed in assembly for almost 30 years so that's probably not exactly right)
I had a similar problem with my Acer Asppire One. If I put it on "hibernate" and plugged it in before the lights stopped blinking it was hard to get the damned thing to start back up; I'd have to unplug it, remove the battery and put it back in, and restart it. I thought it was a Windows problem until I installed kubuntu on it, and Linux hasd similar problems. But with Linux I didn't need to put it in hibernate mode, since it would boot in like twenty seconds and unlike Windows when I booted it, everything that was open when I shut it off was opened back up. That's one of many Linux features Windows sorely lacks.
Less brick and mortor space isn't "dead". Dead would be NO brick and mortor space. And when I bought my first netbook there was only a single model at the WalMart I bought it from, the second there were two.
Yes, I agree that floor space is important. You might have an argument saying the netbook is dying, but it's certainly not dead.
This makes me think of the opening scene in Holy Grail, "Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead!"
My house was burglarized twice. I don't live in a very good neighborhood.
They are not US citizens and their offenses were in a foreign country during an official military engagement
One was a US citizen in Chicago. He was finally released TWO YEARS after his imprisonment. Calling them "enemy combatants" is just semantics; they are indeed POWs and should have been treated as such. Calling them "enemy combatants" is nothing but Orwellian doublespeak.
As to the guy from Chicago, he could have been charged with treason, as well as several other crimes, and could have been easily convicted and executed or held in prison for life.
Six months for a "speedy" trial isn't unreasonable, but two years certainly is.
Exactly. This is pure unadulterated BS. To quote Mark Twain, "reports of my death are greatly exaggerated". My question is, why does anybody think the netbook is dead? I've bought two in the last year, the second to replace the first that was stolen. The second was stolen too, and I plan on replacing it as well. When the first netbook was stolen they took my notebook, too, I won't be replacing it. Notebooks are just too big for my purposes, and too expensive to risk theft or damage, but a netbook is small enough to take anywhere, and cheap enough to replace if it's damaged or stolen.
IMO the netbook's only drawback is the lack of an optical drive, but it's easy enough to move the data to a larger computer with a network or thumb drive.
Tablets would be nice if you could attach a keyboard and mouse and had some sort of stand to place them vertically.
Making your users do the work is just laziness.
Of course there are going to be kids who rise up above their upbringing, and decent respectable people whose kid winds up in prison. But usually if your dad's a mugger, you're not going to see anything wrong with mugging people. If your dad beats the hell out of you daily you're going to grow up to be a violent man.
As to the link, nobody's perfect. Looks to me like the kid just made an incredibly stupid mistake that he's terribly sorry for. If he had bad parents his response would have been more like "fuck 'em".
No holy war, just a friendly heads up. Slashdot lets you use a <url:http... or <a href="http...
I have to agree with geekoid, making your own markup language for your messageboard is retarded. Not using standards is one reason why I don't have any Microsoft software at home (although I have to endure it at work and other people's houses). I'm stuck with IE6 at work (pity me!).
It would be nice if you could edit mistakes, but then you would have trolls who would go and change their stupid posts after they've gotten responses, making the child comments look stupid or worse. Glad you can go back and edit journal entries you've posted, I hate making typos.
And there is the preview button.
A WalMart Greeter's real job is watching people go OUT the door. If the anti-theft alarm goes out, that's when he earns his pay. Saying "hello" to people coming in is just a disguise.
Age discrimination may be illegal, but it still exists.