Then go to the library. I haven't needed Netflix nor Blockbuster for a good long time. My library is part of a rather large network of libraries. I can go to the library itself and browse available titles and I can also put a hold online for pretty much any movie I want. Yes, I have to wait a bit longer for recent releases compared to a pay service, but I'm patient and there are plenty of older good movies that have zero wait that you can watch in the interim. Now, if you live somewhere where there aren't any good libraries, well, I guess you are SOL. I've never had this problem, but I guess if you live in the boonies it affects you.

Tryna kill you in your sleep
So y'all need to
Hide your kids, hide your wife
Hide your kids, hide your wife
And hide your husband
Cuz they killin' errbody out here

Also http://www.rottenapples.info/.

1. The DC circuits would be in addition to AC circuits
2. DC motors do exist

No, that's not the entire point. Your point is that a "proper open tablet could pretty much wipe out netbooks." It's not a lack of openness that's holding back tablets, else the currently available x86-based tablets would have taken over and the iPad would not be successful where others have not been. What is holding back tablets is the price and lack of utility. Sure, openness will help out with these two things (as I mentioned in a previous post), but openness in the sense you are describing isn't really the issue.

Not myopic, realistic. And you're the one throwing the insults, so not sure who the jerk is. And while the entire world doesn't have to be mired in mediocrity, it seems to be quite content to do so. How many people hack their gadgets or buy things based upon customizability and control? Get real; price and ease of use are the main things consumers care about.

You also don't read about it in the paper.

The thing is, most people don't care about doing everything you want to do with your electronics, and what Apple provides covers pretty much all of their needs. If you don't believe me, talk to product owners. Furthermore, even if a the device does offer some advanced capability, often the user does not have the skill, desire or need to use it. How many people actually care about tethering? How many of those would be able to set it up?

That is moshgirl. Old meme is old.

I'm going to agree and disagree with your statement. Openness by itself won't do anything. However, openness leads to two things that will help tablets.

First, it opens up the market to competition. While this may not help a company like Apple, Google's Android platform allows new companies to enter the market without having to write the entire software stack. This in turn should drive prices down.

Secondly, an "open" platform allows more things to be done with it. Say some company is willing to sell me a netbook with a detachable keyboard (or a tablet with a clip-on keyboard that swivels), I would be more inclined to purchase that over a traditional netbook. Maybe not everyone, especially if it commands a hefty premium.

The one advantage that netbooks currently have is that they can run Windows and hence all the software that is developed for Windows. Until someone makes a good office suite for Android, I don't see people flocking to tablets over netbooks any time soon.

It's not even people giving recommendations to friends. It's people giving recommendations to anyone. Some jackass who went to the same college as me simply spammed everyone who went to there asking for recommendations. Perhaps back in the day it was a bit of the norm for people from the same university to skip together, but my school had nearly 5k people in it's graduating class and I certainly wouldn't vouch for just anyone from there. However, with the level of anonymity and lack of accountability on LinkedIn, I'm pretty sure someone eventually just clicked the "recommend" button and that was that. Similarly, I've seen people just asking everyone in their network for recommendations as well. This is a bit more legit, but it becomes a bit fishy when you are asking people who have only tangentially worked with you for a recommendation, but I wouldn't doubt that there are people who still click the recommend button even in those cases.

Compared to such articles as AnandTech's coverage of this in November 2009, I don't see much new information. Perhaps the key bit, and this is glossed over but you can tell from the slides AMD gave them, is the difference between the bulldozer and bobcat cores. The bulldozer cores contain the two integer units that have been revealed before, but the bobcat core only has one but it still implements hyperthreading.

Okay, first the citation. They used PS3 footage for XBox's Final Fantasy XIII.

Secondly, I agree wholeheartedly that people who try to game the comment system by replying to the first post just to get at the top of the thread are fricking annoying. I wish I had modpoints left to downmod GP.

I think you are missing the point of the argument that others are making. Let's take your two circles. The first is the size of a quarter and represents users that want to run Linux, and the second circle is the number of people who want to pirate games and that is 50 meters in diameter. However, you will find that not everyone in either circle has the technical proficiency to actually do the hacking, but the average technical aptitude of people in the Linux circle is far greater than the mean aptitude in the piracy circle. The real comparison needs to be between the people who want to run Linux, have the technical ability to do the hacking and are willing to invest the time to do it versus to the people whose motivation is piracy. The argument that is made is that the Linux circle now shrinks to the size of a dime, whereas you would need a microscope to see the piracy circle.

Probably because they approached the problem from the other direction (e.g. not looking for something to do with all that N2O, but looking for a source of the gas).

Seems like Cantwell developed the N2O rocket first and then looked for where to get fuel. He got in touch with Craig Criddle, "a professor of civil and environmental engineering and senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford," and this idea was born.

The opening crawl begins with "A long time ago," so the more the movie ages the more authentic it gets. Furthermore, Lucus made a good business decision targeting the new movies to children. Adults have already seen the original 3 movies and probably already own them on whatever medium and most will not upgrade. However, by getting a new generation of consumers, he extends the amount of time people watch the movies. Maybe in 10 or 20 years he'll make the last 3 to get another generation interested. Even by themselves, the original movies are classics and will be required viewing by anyone who isn't culturally retarded.