for hd video, wifi is NO SUBSTITUTE for wired enet.
Agree with the latter part, kinda disagree with the former. Wired will always be better than WiFi, which is why I have both, but I don't think I've had an issue streaming HD video (mostly 1080p MKVs) over WiFi since 5GHz 802.11n came out. Sure, it gets spotty out on the balcony or in the back yard, but inside, close to the APs?
Are you running 2.4GHz WiFi in a densely populated area, by any chance?
Not when it compromises the size, battery-life and/or weight it's not. Especially for people that don't need any of those things.
Correct. However, at which point do you decide a port is compromising weight/battery life/size enough to be let go? I can understand leaving off bulky ports like VGA or Ethernet, but not having a single regular USB port is cutting it kinda close. "Normal consumers" may seldom use external hard drives, audio interfaces, wired printers, USB headphone amps, USB gamepads, wired mice or USB card readers (I'm assuming there's also no SD card reader?)... but what about when their buddy says, "Hey, I brought you the photos from last night on a USB stick - you want 'em?"
That's a scenario I see regularly...
And Ethernet is virtually extinct for laptops these days. The ports are nearly all unused. When you see an old wired office usually the ethernet sockets aren't connected to anything any more, obsoleted by fast wifi.
You're living in the past.
I suppose you don't work anywhere that does serious work on the network. Try running SVN or Git with 300 devs on a WiFi network in a single building... dozens of build servers and test machines over constantly running RDP connections... and what about file transfers? Just the other day I had to pull a 200 gig VHD off a test machine. Had wireless been the only choice, my one large data transfer probably would have destroyed transfer rates for the entire office over a period of hours.
If all your office needs the network for is e-mail and Slashdot, then yeah... wireless is fine.
It's funnier. Imagine the first time someone asks you for a file, you hand them a USB stick and they realize what they spent their $1000 on - a glorified iPad with a built-in keyboard. Bhahaha...
If you bought a MacBook *pro*, why the fuck do you care about the new Retina netbook/tablet-with-a-screen they just released?
1. Low-power fanless device
2. No ports
3. Keyboard with basically 0 travel
Looks like a great device for surfing the web and Skyping, but that MBP you bought is an actual laptop - you can't compare 'em.
I'm not sure I follow - how is that scenario different from using a checksum to verify you've downloaded the correct piece of software? Some copies will be bad, and some people will be able to tell. Others could be indistinguishable from the original.
Bit of a contradictrion here:
For software, generally speaking the copy is exactly the same as the original. No one collects software (only their medium), and its unlimited.
So being able to tell the originals from the copies apart kind of matters this time around.
If you can't tell the originals from the copies, wouldn't we be in the same situation as with software?
Wow, so Finland rocks, apparently. The largest packages you can get here in Germany are 15-20€ per month for 5 gigs, and they limit you to GPRS speeds (64kbps!) when you hit that limit. And you usually can't pay for additional data, you really have to wait until the next month (unless you're on an expensive carrier such as Vodafone, but there you'll usually be paying more than 20€).
Is Garfield the one in the Amazing Spiderman? Then yeah, agree wholeheartedly. The Tobey Maguire films were pretty awful
Isn't HWA off by default?
Oh God, why? This is the first thing I turn off on new TVs
Hahaha, every time someone posts with, "I had problem X in distro Y", someone else posts, "that's a problem with distro Y, try distro Z!"
And you wonder why people just fuck off back to Windows after the first few snags...
Are you me? Your experience with Linux sounds like mine back in the day.
For the last few years, I've only run Linux in VMs (on Windows hosts), and it runs pretty much perfectly and does everything I ask it to. Standard "hardware", I guess...
They still do this if you're on a GSM network.
What were the symptoms? I've been thinking about getting a N7 2013 for the nightstand...
Closest I've come is the above... basically, use an automated app with root privileges to add the main ad-servers to your hosts file.
Other than that, you're pretty much fucked.
The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time. -- Merrick Furst
