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Dell Rugged Laptops Not Quite Tough Enough 225

Posted by timothy on Tuesday November 03, 2009 @11:40AM from the one-good-hit dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Trusted Reviews has put the new Dell XFR rugged laptop through the grinder and it hasn't fared as well as expected. Considering that these guys drove a car over a Panasonic Toughbook, they went pretty easy on the Dell, but it still couldn't take the punishment. It looks like Dell still has a way to go to steal the ball from Panasonic when it comes to all terrain computing."

Submission + - Micropayments for news: Holy grail or dangerous de (niemanlab.org)

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newscloud

on Monday September 21, 2009 @04:13PM

newscloud writes: "Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab sounds off today on micropayments — on the side of dangerous delusions: 'What does it mean for journalism? It could mean charging for different platforms, for early alerts, for special members-only access to certain premium or value-added content. But I'm pretty sure of one thing: It doesn't mean charging people fractions of a cent to read a news story, no matter how sophisticated the process.' The article provides good context on the debate over micropayments from a 2003 piece by Clay Shirky, to recent pieces by Masnick, Outing and Reifman. Google's micropayment plans were recently covered by Slashdot."

Comment Re:That's nothing (Score 1) 280

by walterwalter on Thursday September 25, 2008 @04:31PM (#25156863) Attached to: Russian Town Puts Giant Smiley On Google Maps

I agree with you, but DCA is actually located in Arlington, VA.

Wireless Routers for Congested Areas? 138

Posted by Cliff on Saturday March 17, 2007 @07:55PM from the let's-add-to-the-RF-mashup dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "I have been living close to campus at UW Madison for the past six months or so and have come across a problem. We, along with everyone else in the area, have a wireless router, both a Belkin 54g and a Linksys WRT54G. We have Charter 3 Mbit down/.25 Mbit up cable and 6 guys in our apartment. Just on our block about 15-20 people have routers. We are constantly plagued with problems connecting to the wireless, staying connected, getting connected after rebooting, hibernating, and so forth. We have to reset the cable modem and the router many times a day to get everything rolling again. I am thinking that the router is the problem, because my dad always told me that's why they have twenty dollar routers up to thirty thousand dollar routers. What router can I purchase that will help my situation and will work well in a congested college area?"

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