Exactly. OTOH, I just logged into a server via ssh and also worked remotely via NX while lying on my couch today. So, a netbook does have its advantages. Now if I could get some more screen pixels in the same form factor...
I don't think Kathleen Blanco sponsored a bill that asked for a hurricane to hit Louisiana, while Jindal sponsored the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act. He asked for it.
The Casimir effect has to be considered for the flying height budget in hard drives, FWIW. Magnetic dots are all the rage for hard drives too ("patterened media.") But for solid state? WTF? And how is laser light supposed to resolve 10 nm dots?
If your code requires 30 or 40 GB of memory to run, you'll look at every nook and cranny to save a percent here or there because it directly translates into lower HW cost and/or better performance.
If it's only 1 GB then, yes, who cares.
Oh a desktop, that is. On my netbook I noticed that Chrom{e,ium} is much more efficient with memory than Firefox (and no garbage collection=>no constant page faults) so I've all but abandoned FF.
Next round: ARM based Linux netbooks. Coming soon to a store near you.
Exactly. If you hear Tom Cruise on Scientology, do you listen to what he actually says? I don't either. The Pope is only quantitatively more relevant than Tom Cruise.
I have to wonder though - wouldn't the oil companies know that their propaganda artists are the same ones who failed the tobacco lobby?
They were very successful in swaying public opinion, i.e. consumer behavior, against the clear scientific consensus for decades. If the fossil fuel industry can get away with windfall profits from rising prices for a similar time span because consumers don't get the truth they have reached their goal.
They're supposed to be autonomous or remote controlled. Let's put 1,000 lbs worth of guns and ammo on them and control them with a central supercomputer. Then it can do all the warfighting without risking humans.
Compared to the "OS"s of Apple and Commodore, CP/M was a real disk OS, that's why it was used in business environments. Yes it was crap compared to UNIX, but it ran on cheap 8080s and Z80s, as opposed to expensive 68000s.
People don't believe in evidence when it comes to things that really affect them, like vaccination, nutrition and global warming, so why should they for far more abstract concepts? Bottom line, if it's facts against superstition, they have been told by their parents and Sunday school to trust superstition, not them durn scientists.
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"If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part."
- Richard Feynman
Well it should be "climate change deniers" or "AGW deniers."
I even like "denialists", it sounds like "creationists" who are often in the same camp.
And the 7 segment clock speed display!
Great. If that drives down netbook prices I'm all for it.
Exactly.
OTOH, I just logged into a server via ssh and also worked remotely via NX while lying on my couch today. So, a netbook does have its advantages. Now if I could get some more screen pixels in the same form factor...
I don't think Kathleen Blanco sponsored a bill that asked for a hurricane to hit Louisiana, while Jindal sponsored the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act.
He asked for it.
How about Bobby Jindal?
Or is crying for the feds "You're not doing enough!" all he can do?
Try the Alternate installer. No flashy stuff, Debian base plus some Canonical improvements, and then you can add what you like.
And Kubuntu will be Naughty Konqueror? Nah.
The Casimir effect has to be considered for the flying height budget in hard drives, FWIW. Magnetic dots are all the rage for hard drives too ("patterened media.")
But for solid state? WTF? And how is laser light supposed to resolve 10 nm dots?
If your code requires 30 or 40 GB of memory to run, you'll look at every nook and cranny to save a percent here or there because it directly translates into lower HW cost and/or better performance.
If it's only 1 GB then, yes, who cares.
Oh a desktop, that is. On my netbook I noticed that Chrom{e,ium} is much more efficient with memory than Firefox (and no garbage collection=>no constant page faults) so I've all but abandoned FF.
Next round: ARM based Linux netbooks. Coming soon to a store near you.
Imagine only executables signed by MS's toolchain were executable on Win 8.
Or only binaries signed with Linus's or RMS's private key on 2.6.33 :)
After all, it's how the RDF makes fanbois out of everybody who comes too close to His Jobsness.
Who is going to investigate that?
I don't think they give away adult toys with junk food... yet.
Exactly. If you hear Tom Cruise on Scientology, do you listen to what he actually says? I don't either.
The Pope is only quantitatively more relevant than Tom Cruise.
There's still a lot of Christian Sharia on the books of the good ole US of A.
B-movie? Now that's just nasty. He would be perfect for the next Star Wars movie.
Darth Benedikt has a nice ring to it.
"Reality has a well-known liberal bias."
If you live in the deluded world of tea-baggers or evangelical Christians, many facts seem "liberal."
I have to wonder though - wouldn't the oil companies know that their propaganda artists are the same ones who failed the tobacco lobby?
They were very successful in swaying public opinion, i.e. consumer behavior, against the clear scientific consensus for decades. If the fossil fuel industry can get away with windfall profits from rising prices for a similar time span because consumers don't get the truth they have reached their goal.
Another problem is that the cooling air channels in the turbine blades get clogged:
Engine Damage to a NASA DC-8-72 Airplane From a High-Altitude Encounter With a Diffuse Volcanic Ash Cloud
They're supposed to be autonomous or remote controlled. Let's put 1,000 lbs worth of guns and ammo on them and control them with a central supercomputer. Then it can do all the warfighting without risking humans.
Compared to the "OS"s of Apple and Commodore, CP/M was a real disk OS, that's why it was used in business environments. Yes it was crap compared to UNIX, but it ran on cheap 8080s and Z80s, as opposed to expensive 68000s.
Ooh, imagine the bang when all that dissociated water meets the first lightning storm or someone with a cigarette.
You just make drawing it crime. Problem solved.
People don't believe in evidence when it comes to things that really affect them, like vaccination, nutrition and global warming, so why should they for far more abstract concepts?
Bottom line, if it's facts against superstition, they have been told by their parents and Sunday school to trust superstition, not them durn scientists.