Well, maybe not.
I recently read that Europe knocked down some sneaky lobbying, and made some laws to the opposite effect than what the lobby group wanted... I think it had something to do with the IP ratchet of trying to force SOPA on the European populace, or something.

So, if you push back hard enough, there might some enterprising politican that decides that staying in power longer will be more profitable than taking a quick bribe, you might get laws banning some of the more horrible abuses you are seeing these days.

However, just giving up and calling things inevitable is the only sure way for your opposition to succeed.

Yup, I heard stories of the hippie days from the old timers.
Sounds like a much happier time, too. When & why did we lose out on that?

Not knowing about this specific model, but I do take my kid out of the stroller before adjusting the thing. Seems a pretty bad flaw in it's design for such hazardous pinch points to exist in the first place.

Why is it that some people believe that if they hide away from something that something ceases to exist?

I might be showing my age a little here, but I remember 640kb being enough for an OS, and windows 95 comfortably fit in 16mb of ram a few years later.
Provided that you are not running a resource-hungry OS, and your applications have been coded properly, this netbook should run just fine.
If you want more serious performance/power, you have to pay serious money. As always, you get what you pay for!

I have to agree. There are less users, but they are overall more useful. I subscribe to the photography and technology groups, so I have a neverending stream of nice photos and interesting gadgets to look at on a slow news day. In fact, I sometimes learn about new gadgets even before they pop up on slashdot. So, G+ is aimed at a different group of people, and that being so does not make it a failure. Facebook pretty much has the market cornered with the Farmville and other online game types, G+ news seems to have more news from creative types. Also, G+ is easy to train, and after weeding out the worst spammers, the rest is all good. -Evert Vorster-

And while I understand Linus's point, nVidia has been really good at supporting their drivers. Every bug I found and reported had a real person working on it, and soon enough it was fixed. This is a lot better support than what I get with some open source projects that are not as well funded as nVidia devs. So, binary blob = bad, but nVidia does make up for it by actually supporting their stuff.