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Ahhh Quotes…
Usually they are meant to inspire. Some do some don’t. As I bump into worthy quotes, good, humorous or what not I’ll post them here.
“A vision without the ability to execute is a hallucination.” - AOL’s Steve Case
“Great firms don’t try to be good at everything, they choose where to dominate the competition.” - R.C.
“There is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.†Some wise man said that, a Judge I think.
“Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.”
-Sergey Brin
“Everywhere is walking distance if you’ve got the time.” - Steven Wright
“There is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals” - Justice Felix FrankFurter
I still have friends who persist in pointing out how fantastic GIMP is. GIMP is not fantastic. GIMP is “free”; “Free” is not (contrary to popular belief) the same as “good”. Herpes, for instance, is generally free (unless you got it from a hooker or your ex-husband/wife, then you most likely paid for it one way or another). Herpes is generally not too useful for anything, people are usually not to happy about getting it and coincidentally, herpes flare-up is just about as erratic as GIMP’s stability.
- moJoe [Ref]
I think knowing what you’re talking about on IRC violates the RFC
- Peter Gildea
Trying to build a RAID array out of IDE drives is like auto racing Yugos. Sure, you can do it, but it doesn’t impress anyone and it’s not very fun to watch.
- David McNett Nugget’s Law: 95% of the time when a Linux user says “Linux” they really mean “Unix”. The other 5% of the time they’re referring to an aspect that only applies to their particular distribution
Leto’s Corollary: 95% of the time when a Unix user says “Linux”, they really mean “RedHat”.
19″ Laptop is here but Samsung Misses the boat.
October 25, 2005 in Commentary, IT by Poohbah | No comments
19″ Laptop is here but Samsung Misses the boat.
Wow, O.K.
So someone had to go first and Samsung did. I currently use a Dell D810. Loaded to the gills.
Screen resolution WUXGA = 1920×1200. I like screen real estate. Screen real estate is where it’s at.
I’ll take a bigger window over a few CPU cycles any day.
First looks at this thing are sweet:
But they missed the boat big time.
19″s and WXGA 1680×1050 resolution. Cripple it with 512mb ram out of the box and Windows Home edition. Are they nuts? For a system that can come apart and fit as a desktop replacement only to perhaps be taken home on weekends?
If I’m going to carry a beast of a laptop around as a desktop replacement, it’s got to give me what I want or what I would get if I purchased a desktop. I’m already giving up performance to be portable, and I’m paying a premium to be portable as it is. If you’re gonna make it big, make it big. Give me resolution or give me portability. Don’t make something this stinking large and then give me the same screen resolution that’s available on today’s 14″ screens. That’s just bad. But I give them credit for going first.
Does this thing have a place? Sure it does… For trade shows and presentations, at an attractive price point, I could see a couple of these in an organization. But I’m not going out of my way to buy these from Samsung. If they OEM them to Dell maybe. But not until then. It’s not good enough, not wiz bangy enough to get me excited.