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Living Room / Re: Apple...Just ever so slightly paranoid?
« on: June 18, 2012, 11:15 AM »
That's a classic, rgdot! I needed that laugh today.
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I will not downgrade to a tablet when I can have a desktop PC.I thought the same, too, and I used a laptop for travel. But tablets got good in a hurry and, of all people, I was surprised at how useful the device could be in the field. No, it won't ever replace a desktop, though you can dock one to a keyboard and mouse, you're still not (yet) using a robust OS with it. For now, it's mainly a device made for reading, browsing, content consumption.-Shades (June 17, 2012, 02:58 PM)
For me it is difficult to grasp why anyone wants one. So you can take it anywhere and (only) consume content? And pay monthly fees for that besides the fee you pay for your ISP connection (which data transfer speed trumps the speed of your mobile device)? And do the consuming in any position you like? All of the above sound (financially) unhealthy to me, it is not for nothing you have ergonomic chairs, desks, keyboards and the like.No monthly fees unless you want it connected all the time like a phone; your current ISP connection is shared via wifi; no extra cost at all. All you need is the wifi versions (of a particular tablet) that can connect using any wifi connection; 3G or 4G connectivity is what you'll pay extra for. For your home, all that takes is switching to a wireless router, for instance, and voila! you've got wifi. Also, a tablet allows me to spend even more time in the bathroom, ha! It's also great to have a few books downloaded for offline reading when I know I'm going to be waiting on someone, on a plane, in a doctor's office, etc. I can read, play games, compose email, but most of the time in those situations you won't have a wifi connection.-Shades (June 17, 2012, 02:58 PM)
Which is why you should use the different parts in your house for their intended purpose only. No electronics in the room where I sleep, for example. I know we (me and the missus) sleep better because of that. Same with the kitchen, you cook, eat and have dinner conversation about how the day went with wife and kids, an "electronic" recipe is not allowed there (after all, the kitchen is the area where most accidents happen and I don't see a good reason to introduce expensive gadgets to those odds).-Shades (June 17, 2012, 02:58 PM)
I want a better world. A free world. A world where information isn't propaganda. Information needs to be unbiased, and money is the ultimate bias.I so agree. But much of the current world is based on extraction and destruction (of the environment, creative arts, wealth, jobs, the future, hope, etc.).-Renegade (June 03, 2012, 10:45 AM)
Google has been slowly sliding towards the dark side. I stopped advertising with them simply because they suck (and yes -- I have been advertising with them for many years and spent many, many thousands of dollars with them). I would encourage others to do the same. Drop Google.I think this is true only if you think Google is the center of the universe. Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft will gladly offer their counterarguments.-Renegade (June 03, 2012, 10:45 AM)
I hate their monopoly stuff and when their fanboys cover it up with some dumb defense. (ramaya.na movie is not accessible on any other browser than chrome.) So they're going to force people to use google laptops, google storage and now google browser only. I am sure apple and google fanboys will defend this with yet another excuse.I'm completely against any forced browser limits by anyone. But google doesn't make laptops. Hey, but "information wants to be free" until some country asks Google to censor their search for them!-mahesh2k (June 03, 2012, 03:27 PM)
<-- Corporations will do everything we let them do, but now that they own governments, it's too late. (The next ACTA, CISPA, SOPA will arrive sooner than you expect, trust me.)
I've spent some considerable time over the last week trying to get into Linux, especially with LinuxMint which seems to be the second best after Ubuntu.First, Mint is the fattest and heaviest of all the Linux distros. Bring lots of hardware and GPU power if you're going to run it. By "second best" I assume you mean second most popular. Linux popularity of any given Linux distro ebbs and flows. While Debian is quite fine, I contend that Ubuntu is about the worst introduction someone can have to Linux, especially if they think all of Ubuntu's problems are shared among other distros. I really like openSUSE and Fedora, but tend to use openSUSE at home simply because it's good, boring, and quite productive.-dantheman (May 21, 2012, 08:00 AM)
Too bad the Linux aspect of that is false.-Josh (April 11, 2012, 05:30 AM)