My friend works at tesco at the electronics section most of the time. I was there looking for headphones and this woman came up to him and asked him what the difference between a netbook and laptop is. He told her it was a computer mostly designed to browse the internet. After the explanation she thought it could only surf the internet and do nothing else.

Most of the time I prefer windows due to it actually working on my system without tampering ( I would actually consider linux for my main os if the sound/ video worked properly). Does speed really matter when it runs like a cheetah on steroids compared to other operating systems on the same hardware? I don't know about other users but this is from the perspective of someone with an average computer and basic-to-intermediate linux knowledge.

That people even picked this crap up for a serious discussion. The person that thought this up is a moron. I may sound negative but you have to consider that this is coming from someone who just finished school and is going on to university. I for one don't see this working unless the child is a prodigy who is actually being held back by the schooling system. This was the case with Einstein contrary to what many people believe (he never failed at school and actually told his parents he felt that school was holding him back and asked his parents to buy him advanced textbooks so he could teach himself). For this to work, the child needs to be inquisitive and I doubt that any 12-15 year old is gonna ask why mirrors reflect light and what speed does light travel at. Hell, I doubt any kid would know that things are made up of atoms unless they were specifically told so. Also, why the hell would any child actually want to learn maths unless they were forced to do so and told that it was an essential skill? Why does everyone miss the fact that schools aren't the only ones to blame if a child is not performing at the level expected of him/her. Some people aren't academically inclined so it doesn't matter what environment they are in.

I guess thats why we are better off here financially in these types of things here in the uk. All universities charge a flat fixed rate regardless of what course you do. The tuition fee is gonna be the same if you do English literature at a small university or if you do law at oxford university. There are downsides to the system here as well. The biggest one being that you don't apply to a university but for a very specific course offered by the university so there is no flexibility to the classes that you can take once you get in. Its already been decided when you applied and the only time you get some choice is in what you would like to concentrate on in your chosen subject in the third year. When you apply for university you do so by telling them what grades that you expect to get. This effectively means that you are betting on being accepted. Also, you can only apply to 5 courses. On the plus side, there are really good student loans, bursaries and scholarships. Right now the tuition fee is £3225 per year. On top of this you can apply for a non-repayable grant of £1000 per year from the local council(easy to get as it works on a first come first serve basis). Also, you don't start paying the loans back until you leave and have job.

I read this a while ago and also found it on wikipedia. It was said by Jean-Paul Gaster who happens to be the drummer for the band Clutch. "As a musician, I think it is irrelevant to me. It exists and it is out there and no matter what I try and do about it, it will always be there. I don't mind kids trading tapes, that's totally cool. Videos are cool too. They only add to the live show. A kid might show that to some of their friends and they might think that we are cool and might come out and see us next time. The reality is that an artist has to have a record go gold, before they are even going to see a dime. Bands put out 3 or 4 records on a label and never see a dime from record sales. So, it is not like people who are downloading would be putting a dollar in my pocket if they would have bought the record. The industry is set up so that the record company will immediately get paid from record sales. So...download all you want!!! I think that the internet has changed the record industry and will continue to do so. The record labels will find some way to make money. I think that the artists main concern is to concentrate on their live performance and be the best artist that they can". I don't know how much of this actual fact but this is coming from someone who has been making music for a very long time and is in a relatively well known band. So basically this will most likely come to pass considering all the lobbying from the music and film industry. Personally it does not affect me since I don't download music or films illegally (used to a few years back) but what does concern me is the privacy issues. I don't want someone keeping track of all my internet activity because I doubt that only illegal downloaders would be monitored.

I really don't have a problem with DLC....most of the time. For burnout paradise the developers gave us quite a lot of DLC for free. It was only recently that they started charging for it. Things like big surf island are worth the money. You can see that it was made after listening to what people would actually want in a DLC. It really pisses me off though when DLC adds a "feature" to the game that to be honest should have been present from the start. Its almost like as if that the feature had already been present on the disk but you had to pay extra to unlock it.

Good riddance I say. Netbook shouldn't be larger than 10 inches. I would expect a lot more from a 12 inch laptop like the hp dv2 laptops. I wonder when this race to the bottom is gonna level out. Hopefully soon considering theres a netbook offering from every manufacturer. I would encourage this if it wasn't for the fact that almost every single netbook is exactly the same when it comes to the actual computing. I'm all for those ARM processor based ones though. A 7-10 inch version with 720p video and full flash support would be awesome. Hopefully tegra delivers on its promise.

This is slashdot, any issue involving microsoft is automatically their fault. Why RTFA when microsoft is to blame for everything that is wrong with the world.

if this caused people to spontaneously combust. Yeah.....wifi = the new death-ray. Then it would finally make sense for me to get a n-draft router.

I got my dell about 8 months back. The sound didn't work at first and i went to the bios and saw some option that allows for the laptop to be tracked. I guess this is it. Is the laptop still vulnerable even if this feature is turned off? Mine came with it turned off as default. Maybe you gotta pay extra for it, i dunno.

can i get porn channels in 3d? If not then sky 3d can suck it..... Actually hold on a second, do i really want a ginormous phallus sticking out of my tv? so no....i guess 3d porn is not that great an idea.