middle of the road
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| Author | Content |
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| shmget Dec 12, 2007 6:51 AM EDT |
"This advice is intended for middle-of-the-road tech consumers." Apparently his concept of 'middle' is heavily weighted on the dumb side. Come to think of it... he might be right on that. |
| jdixon Dec 12, 2007 7:07 AM EDT |
Of course, his lukewarm endorsement of the OLPC directly contradicts his no Linux policy. I wonder if he even knows that. |
| tuxchick Dec 12, 2007 7:17 AM EDT |
Meh. The whole article is dim. Put it under "what not to read for christmas' |
| Sander_Marechal Dec 12, 2007 7:26 AM EDT |
Hehehe. He recommended a Zune. Wasn't that thing already buried even by MS itself? |
| land0 Dec 12, 2007 7:34 AM EDT |
@tuxchick roflol |
| techiem2 Dec 12, 2007 7:49 AM EDT |
LOL
I agree with TC.
I'm scratching my head on the whole thing. One of my favorites is: Quoting: Do buy: Any laptop with a widescreen. Anyone who has actually run the calculations knows that you don't really get more real estate. You just move it from the bottom to the side. However his point is semi-valid. |
| shmget Dec 12, 2007 9:39 AM EDT |
"Anyone who has actually run the calculations knows that you don't really get more real estate." Since the size of screens are given as the length of their diagonal, you actually, for a given 'size', get less 'real-estate' with a widescreen (16:9) than a 4:3 |
| gus3 Dec 12, 2007 10:19 AM EDT |
25 inch diagonal on 4:3 screen: 16 inches x 9 inches = 144 square inches 25 inch diagonal on a 25:1 screen: 25 square inches Very close diagonal measurements, vastly different screen sizes. |
| tuxchick Dec 12, 2007 10:55 AM EDT |
"Middle of the road" is where you see the flattened corpses. Watching movies on a laptop seems like a waste of time to me, but then I'm am old fogie who still has an actual TV and DVD player. I read somewheres that widescreen LCD panels cost less to manufacture than the squarish panels, and yes, as us smart LXers know, a 15" widescreen is fewer square inches of screen real estate than a standard 15" widescreen. |
| theboomboomcars Dec 12, 2007 11:41 AM EDT |
It also seems odd that he says Vista will speed up your system. I guess after you've done all the upgrading to run it your system will be faster, though you probably wont notice through the extra bloat. Oh well, you can't always expect a good article. |
| hkwint Dec 12, 2007 11:56 AM EDT |
You people (that would be, my fellow LXer commenters above) really didn't understand what that writer meant, did you? He said: What not TO BUY for Christmas! (Read that again ten times if you still don't get it) How many of you, except tracyanne, actually BOUGHT Linux? I'm sure as hell I didn't! BTW Also I never _bought_ Windows I have to admit, but probably software pirates like I was back then aren't among the intended audience of FOX. |
| azerthoth Dec 12, 2007 12:17 PM EDT |
gus, 25 diag does != 25 square inches. You still need height and width which can vary slightly from manufacturer to manufacturer. As an exaple if your 25 diag was actually 24 x 20 you get 480 sq inches (those numbers were pulled from the air, not any real measurement.) |
| herzeleid Dec 12, 2007 3:18 PM EDT |
> How many of you, except tracyanne, actually BOUGHT Linux? I'm sure as hell I didn't! Good on tracyanne if she did buy it. I started buying slackware from cdrom.com back in the 90s, then bought every version of redhat from 4.0 to 9. I've been buying suse since 8.0. I vote with my wallet. I want linux to succeed. and that doesn't happen by trying to starve out the linux vendors in some misguided revolutionary zeal. |
| jdixon Dec 12, 2007 4:00 PM EDT |
> How many of you, except tracyanne, actually BOUGHT Linux? Not this year, but I tend to pay for Slackware every few releases. I'll probably buy the next release. |
| Scott_Ruecker Dec 12, 2007 4:26 PM EDT |
actually BOUGHT Linux? I bought SuSE 10.0 in the box when it came out just to say to myself that I had found and bought Linux off the shelf. Burning an ISO is like riding a bike, once you how to, you never forget. Or some such thing.. |
| azerthoth Dec 12, 2007 4:57 PM EDT |
Bought ... no, donated to distro of choice? yes. |
| ColonelPanik Dec 12, 2007 6:26 PM EDT |
Yep, those expensive books w/cheap CD RH 0.1 or something
And one w/Caldera Then Libranet, DLed the free one and had my first working Linux box. Bought the next Libranet and it worked very well. But since Ubuntu it is free as in gratis and free as in Libre |
| gus3 Dec 12, 2007 8:59 PM EDT |
azerthoth: Pythagorean theorem. 25" x 1" gives a 25.02" diagonal. Close enough. 24" x 20" gives a 31.24" diagonal. |
| hkwint Dec 12, 2007 9:05 PM EDT |
OK, seems I was wrong and I am the only one free-riding, though I did donate to the FSF. |
| gus3 Dec 13, 2007 12:23 AM EDT |
bought, no. purchased swag with clever SubGenius Bob logo, heck yeah! |
| jezuch Dec 13, 2007 2:34 AM EDT |
Quoting:OK, seems I was wrong and I am the only one free-riding, though I did donate to the FSF. You're not alone here (unfortunately?) I installed Debian as my first (and last) Linux and cherished my freedom among gratis stuff ever since ;) But I promise that when I stop being a starving student I'll even subscribe to LWN ;) |
| number6x Dec 13, 2007 5:20 AM EDT |
Colonel, I miss Libranet. It was probably the best debian based distro ever released. Mepis and Ubuntu are ok, but Libranet was rock solid, easy to use and pure debian. I paid for a few copies of Libranet to support John Danzig and his work. |
| ColonelPanik Dec 13, 2007 5:30 AM EDT |
number6x, Libranet was a great distro, I had lots of respect for Jon and Tal. The community,
mainly the forum, drove me away. But if it wasn't for Libranet I would have given up on Linux. Just bought two OLPC lappies, Does that count as buying Linux? |
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