Me, I got pissed off with performance laptops years ago, they just basically cook themselves to death. I bought two computers, well, technically three, a full featured desktop with tons of screen real estate, an old laptop that is still kicking and a smart phone and run three OSs. Desktop, windows (actually dual boot with Kubuntu), basically because of course a big part of it's function is gaming, Linux on the laptop, not much power need for work, really honestly not much power at all and Android on the smart phone.

So the better investment is a high powered desktop which is still pretty cheap and will do anything you want it to do computer wise and the cheap ass notebook because accidents on the move do happen, they happen a lot. That total will often be less than a high powered notebook which is still less capable than the desktop on it's own. Operating system.

Your comment is a sign you have no idea at all what is really going on. Google tech indulgences and not empty tech indulgences, they are a modern marketing technique. They create a impression about the kind of company Google is, well, at least pretends to be and the kind of expertise they have, well at least pretends they have and each and every fucking single time they make a tech announcement or tech update or just randomly waffle on about the tech stuff they are doing, the press dutifully picks it up and free advertises Google to the world.

Now you can either just burn money on advertising like M$ do, emptily B$ about features that disappear or make greatly exaggerated claims about their products or you can really be pretty cunning and sneaky, invest in high risk tech research that the worlds press will report on and get tons and tons of free advertising and have a chance of a big payout for that tech research (just leaving a 'positive impression about your company and products').

At a guess their investment in tech research is generating something like about like between $3 to $5 of free advertising for each dollar invested in research and depending upon the announcement cycle and interest it is up to $10 and maybe as high as $100 on occasions. LIKE RIGHT FUCKING NOW

So it all needs to be treated in pretty much the exact opposite way it is treated on desktops and notebooks. Basically Goggle is cashing in walled garden and the end user and the developers expense, with a horribly crap selection system for applications and providing not much in return, other than a decent phone operating system.

Google don't be dicks, give me an option for an alphabetic keyboard, seriously. what the fuck is so hard about that.

The most amazing thing about the current Australian government is the Prime Minister, Toxic Tony and his pals, scammed their own party member representatives with a email bombing campaign to stay in power (the gist of the campaign being the people still wanted Toxic Tony in power). So they were setting up their own party to loose big time in the next election by actively ignoring their own electorate, so that Toxic Tony and Co could cash in on bigger government pensions as long as they hold those offices for three years. You can see now why the current LNP leadership, Toxic Tony and co are desperate to implement across the board censorship. http://www.buzzfeed.com/markdi... Don't think for a second that they were not fully aware of what was going on.

The core principle of any democracy is knowledge must be free. Democracy ceases to be such when knowledge is priced beyond the reach of majority and they are forced to vote based upon ignorance. Computers are the best tool in making knowledge accessible and as such should never be priced out of easy access to the majority. Every citizen should have the right to readily access all the knowledge they want, in order to make informed decision about their democracy. Not selected highlights, not edited with secrecy, not distorted by lies but factual, validated information backed with explanations and when required, taught by suitably qualified professionals. Denial of information about the society they form a part of, in order to manipulate their consent, is autocracy by ignorance.

It is all about advertising dollars. They simply want to build the browser into the operating system, so that not matter what you do it will create an internet hit to Bing, so that, 'Bing' another cent can be claimed for advertising, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. So losing the internet 'browser, search, portal' war, no problem, fake it via the operating system. Of course when the fake claims about customer eyeballs reflects in very bad advertising outcomes, the customers will then just avoid M$ because it simply doesn't work, regardless of the internet hit numbers, at least as far as M$ is concerned. So no matter what they do in the future, no matter what, everyone will just avoid them.

Much like the crazy bullshit idea of sticking a phone GUI on a desktop because people will get used to it and like idiot sheep automagically buy the phones with the same system. Of course in reality, what really happened is that touch screen phone GUI wont really work well on that desktop and that is of course what the customer will remember. A lesson reinforced each and every time they touch the desktop and are frustrated by the experience. (OH FUCK, might need to do a free upgrade to stop the damage being done ;D ). M$ is just totally infested with crazy bean counter logic and magic numbers in spread sheets and pays no attention at all to more realistic customer empathic logical outcomes.

You'll find that all fines have a minimum base level and that increases based upon income in order to ensure all persons feel the same impact of the fine. So base fine would be based upon the minimum wage, can not pay that and you will spend some time in lock up to make up the difference ie do the time or pay the fine.

P.S. it is really, really, completely and utterly stupid to associate fines with revenue, the fine is meant to represent the harm caused and to ensure the person will feel the impact of that fine as a measure of the harm that they are trying to prevent. Failure in this regard just corrupts the whole system, just like the pretty blatantly corrupt US injustice system.

Likelyhood of the US ever adopting this, 0, zero, nil, never, impossible, no fucking way. In fact they would be far more likely to swap to a system fine or time, where for all crimes you either do the time or pay the fine, after all it's all about revenue and has nothing at all to do with lives, well not poor people's lives. So a rich person murders a poor person. They calculate how much tax a person on minimum wage would make in a life time and that is the fine for the rich person or they do the time (all poor people would of course do the time), see all revenue based.

Seriously, don't be such a bullshitting wanker. By far the majority got rich by the parents giving them the money prior to their parents dying and thus trying to avoid inheritance tax. How many completely and utterly fucking useless spawn of the rich end up in management positions where they manage nothing. A two for one position, where a competent person is hired to actually do the job whilst the incompetent spawn take credit for the work being done. Forbes the capitalist propaganda rag, just did the normal paid for PR spiel and twisted it around.

A nuclear powered bomber, hmm, I remember those, they never got off the drawing board. So US navy, a navy that refuses to declare whether they have nuclear weapons on board or not, so all US ships by your definition are nuclear, well, ain't that just nuclear. Word of the day for you NUCLEAR ;). Apparently if it is Russian it is Nuclear and if it is US then it is what? a flower petal carrier, come to sprinkle flower petals over you land to win you over and has a record of visiting many lands and sprinkling many flower petals over many people ;D.

Well, yeah, the US is busily privatising the US prison system and of course recidivism is their number one major profit centre. In point of fact wasting money on rehabilitation is not only a wasted cost but actively disrupts a core profit centre, so it is against the interests of investors. Kind of tough luck that those investors will become the target of the crimes that they expect prison management to 'PROMOTE'. America, STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES.

Seriously bugger off. You can stick a nuke in anything, any ship, any plane, any rubber dingy. OHHHHHH look it's propeller bomber, that has only been used for long range reconnaissance for years. ICBM, long range cruise missiles and submarines are all the deployment methods of choice. So why is the US carrying on like a great big ole bag of dicks, hmm, possibly because they are a great big ole bag of wrinkly white pseudo Christian dicks. How about the armoured convoy through Europe, what's the message there, once you are in NATO there is no leaving NATO and NATO is the US Army not your local token armies, so obey or else. Yep, the empire is collapsing so now the US military dick waving must occur across the globe because stupid, just because stupid will always expose it self more and more as failure becomes more apparent, just like the typical flasher.

Much more simply they can be more diplomatically effective. Ignore and rebuke the stupid stuff like this and ridicule the individual responsible for the stupid demand ie Russia wants to refuel planes, it flies in international territories, SO FUCKING WHAT, morons, it is not a time of war so piss off. Perhaps not in those words but certainly you want to find out who was the individually responsible for the request and front them directly. Where real contention arises simply invite affected parties to discuss the issue directly between themselves at a venue to host and chair. Keep the status quo going, whilst the discussion continue. The will not be able to refuse a public request to attend the conference and whilst it goes on and on and on, you don't have to do a single thing about the requests being made.

Being diplomatic is often more about saying neither yes nor nor but maintaining communications in order to delay undesirable outcomes whilst tensions difuse and the need for the undesirable outcomes evaporates. In this case blatant toddler behaviour, where the child is lashing out making demands as a result of global frustration from failures in other regions, really just needs to be ignored or a public meeting where Russian and US government representatives can discus the issues directly in a location within Vietnam and the Vietnam government will chair the meeting.

Think of a big screen all in one computer with multiple remote tablets. Each participant gets their own networked tablet which they can view their own particular output whilst controlling the outcomes on the big screen in a multi-user environment. We are maturing into a computerised environment and the push is already occurring into making it an inclusive, shared with those around you environment, rather than an exclusive, disconnecting from those around you environment. You are looking at more digitised board gaming , easy to learn, short play times and high re-playability, more interactive and more visual, taking into account the outputs on the individual tablet, rather than the big screen. Obviously tying this back to internet play, for when not all players are in the room.

So it is not a TV, it is simply a big screen 50 inch or greater all in one computer with tablets 10 inch or greater as the remotes (plural, more than one can play at a time with a user name - password master tablet ie sudo stop changing the fucking channel ;D). Dumbly consuming content would be the least of it's roles.

A little more expensive but likely more effective would be remoting a tablet to the larger screen. So everything done on the tablet occurs on the larger screen, a more accessible touch interface. With the likely speed of input the tablet replace the keyboard and you call up a keyboard function on it without disturbing the main screen view, this also provides the audio and visual signalling interface on the tablet.

That is the failure of a criminal justice system based upon punishment and not rehabilitation. With a system based purely on rehabilitation, with specific crimes where risk of server consequence is high, no rehabilitation, no release. That becomes much more feasible where detention conditions are much more humane and the concern is protecting the public, whilst still endeavouring to achieve rehabilitation.