No doubt the advent of tablets and mobile OS's has killed the niche. It's a shame because the last generation of netbooks were pretty decent. I love mine for travel since it was cheap enough not to be too much of a worry if it gets lost or stolen.
Sometimes a tablet just won't cut it, particularly when typing but clearly there isn't much money to be made in the segment.
Kind of like the term "useful idiot", huh? Besides, who "cracked down" on the ows hippies? They were simply left to rot in their little camps until it was clear that their only remaining purpose was to occupy public spaces and make a mess.
But it really takes an imbecile to believe that ows could spring into existence fully formed, complete with a slick web site and well orchestrated publicity. Perhaps the better term would be "McMovement".
All of these countries are a lot smaller than the US. People always point to South Korea as broadband heaven, but you're basically talking about wiring one big city as opposed to a huge continent.
The economic reality is that laying cable is expensive. Wireless is much cheaper to roll out. The market for wireless services is maturing, new tech keeps getting rolled out. As people get more internet centric, cable companies will become redundant and that's when prices will drop and service will rise. Besides, FIOS is already available from verizon - also a big wireless carrier - wherever they can make money from it. They're the biggest crossover company out there yet they always get ignored in these discussions.
Government schemes to speed up this stuff always fail because they don't make money.
Capitalist free markets for the win!
I love how they always cite "europe" as an example as if all countries there were similar.
krugman is a political hack who is only relevant to others who can't do simple arithmetic.
What they need to ban is knowledge of how to commit violent crimes. They need to remove the words used to describe violence from our language so people can't talk about it and teach each other how to be violent.
Anyone with a bit of education knows that knowledge is power so we need to control knowledge. It's for the children.
I'd really like to know how you can make it worse than by letting psychotic religious fanatics take over large swaths of the country.
Agreed. The conclusions are idiotic. Punching something isn't nearly as effective as bashing something over the head with a rock.
Look at all the things for which modern humans use their thumbs. It's a multifunction device and whether your talking tool use or weapon use, thumbs made our species much more likely to survive.
Considering the enormous expense and effort that went into obtaining those moon rocks, it's not surprising they were technically "loaned" rather than "given away" as you mistakenly assert.
The point is there needs to be a legal framework in place so such expenditures are protected. The only way to spur private space exploration is to make it possible to profit from it. Otherwise it's simply a huge waste of money - what benefit does humanity derive from, say, letting the hyper rich shoot themselves into orbit for a short while?
Extraterrestrial resource extraction could mean endless supplies of things like rare earth minerals needed for high tech manufacturing. You do like cheap computers and cell phones, don't you?
Remember that the next time some idiot starts blathering about the need for gun control. Freedom can be dangerous. The most dangerous thing of all is an idea.
Take away people's ability to defend themselves, then take away people's ability to educate themselves. The last hurdle is taking away people's ability to think for themselves.
"1984" was a warning, but a lot of governments seem to be using it as an instruction manual.
If you've done nothing wrong then you have nothing to hide. Now show me your identity papers and PICK UP THAT CAN!!!
Euros are so used to being "subjects" rather than citizens they don't understand that freedom means you shouldn't have to submit to constant surveillance.
Lulz. All the while grinding the economy into the dust.
Forcing millions into poverty is nothing as we go forward to our bright, shining future, comrades!
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Exactly. Nuclear weapoms have saved more lives than people could possibly imagine, simply by making all out war between the major powers unthinkable.
And regardless of how many died at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, far more lives were spared from the hideously destructive ground war that would have occured had the US been forced to invade Japan. The military junta ruling Japan was training childred to fight with sharpened sticks and would have gladly sacrificed them to protect themselves.
Never in history has peace resulted from merely wishing for it. Peace only exists when a nation is sufficiently strong to defend itself.
No real strings attached if they go bankrupt. You think the people running the company don't know that?
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Not to mention that we developed anti-melting chocolate technology during WW2 called "M&Ms".
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of money? -- Ayn Rand
