Free Flores Girl Audio Podcast at PodiobooksThe Best and Worst of Windows and Linux
Finally, I had chance at work to upgrade my old XP laptop to Windows 7 and the performance improvement was dramatic running the same software. It boots faster, the OS is more responsive and apps open faster. It looks good too but it’s easy to turn off resource hogging features. That said, I will say the key to performance is to have 3 or 4 gigs of memory.
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John Dvorak and the Apple iPad Fantards
ohn Dvorak, the old curmudgeon himself, decided to write an article not on the iPad but on the fantards that droll over themselves in singing their praise for the iPad. You know the same kind who stand on line for the new iPhone 4 for hours and then suffer through the miserable AT&T service for two years just so they can use their iPhone. When nobody is looking these very same neo-techno nerds fondle their iPhones while cooing “my precious”.
Is the Internet making pundits quick but shallow?
A recent article by Nicholas Carr for CNN indicated his support for Obama’s concerns that American are spending too much time on the Internet, in fact we average 8 hours day surfing the net. It was another tired variation on Carter’s malaise speech. He then points to some ill conceived and poorly designed studies that indicate the Internet is often a distraction to the task at hand. Really? Wow and how many tax payer dollars went to fund those trite observations?
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