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Comment I like the idea (Score 1) 77

I do like the idea of having all you computing needs with you at all times.

When on the road (or docked with just the tablet) the interface is "finger friendly" and when docked then it is keyboard + mouse oriented. I don't think the padfone is there yet, but maybe android can be both sometime soon...

I think (and as a linux user it pains me to say this) windows 8 is the only one on track to offer this experience, with classic desktop running in parallel with the metro interface. Once phones have enough processing power to do most of the things that need to be done by most people then I see the death of the laptop market, we will have phones and dumb docks when we need them. The desktop market will shrink but there will always be a need for high power workstations that phones just will not be able to meet

Comment Re:And not one mention (Score 1) 184

I have found this interesting / disturbing over the last few years...people are "consumers" now, effectively our only function is to feed money into corporate pockets. I find this most disturbing when the news media is talking about something that has nothing to do with purchasing of goods. No longer are we given the label "citizen" or "people".....are we no longer capable of being producers / makers?

Comment Re:Not Banned (Score 1) 328

I have read about this practice many times...but it still blows my mind.....users in the US allow their carriers to charge them twice for the same service???? Bits to the phone is bits to the phone....doesn't matter if the phone then routes those bits to a computer or not. I live in New Zealand....tethering is standard practice (I'm posting this from my laptop through WiFi on my nexus), how has this situation been allowed to develop over there?

Submission + - Why would a computer not respond to a ping?

RandomAdam writes: I had a problem at work a few weeks back, there are two computers on a clients network that would not respond to a ping. This caused us some problems, and I spent the next day mapping the network manually (luckily only 30 computers). These two computers would not respond to a ping, but would allow a ping to be sent from them, they would receive the response from other computers just fine.

As networking is not my area of expertise I put this question to /. I'm looking for either an explanation or some online resource that I can peruse at my leisure (what little I have).

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