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This is one of the reasons I pay someone to help me avoid paying as much as possible. If I had a say what taxes were used for then, I might think otherwise. Unfortunately it get used to fund oil wars, surveillance and quangos whilst Healthcare, education and infrastructure crumbles. And don't give me that democracy bollocks - it doesn't work when the majority of the voting populous are semi-morons who might as well just tick the first box.

I genuinely don't get it. Can someone please explain why the hell anyone would queue up like this?

Food, water, medicine, supplies - yes.

Shiny telephone - no.

I keep trying to read the singularity is near. It just feels like a a drag so it gets put down. So much repetition and irrelevance, diversions etc. I hope his writing has improved.

I think that is a symptom of a larger problem to be honest. Odd screws don't stop tampering, they just cost you lots of money to tamper. Why bother? this is another circumvention industry that doesn't really need to exist.

My Lenovo can be stripped bare and reassembled with a Swiss army knife in a few minutes and not much effort or head scratching.

For reference, Lenovo have a web site which SHOWS you how to take your stuff to bits:

http://service.lenovo.partner-management.com/et.cfm?eid=1369

Pick a unit, click the Take course link. Videos for everything.

That NCrunch is pretty awesome. Never seen that. I'm currently running TestDriven.Net every 5 minutes. Installing now :) Thanks for posting.

Another plus for Microsoft/Nokia.

Windows Phone with Nokia Maps / Nokia Drive is actually really good and it's not about to disappear overnight.

Try HTTP://bigv.io if you are UK based.

Which model. If it's a G-series, you're probably right.

It's still not practical. some other reasons:

1. It doesn't perform on some browsers which people use (IE7,IE8). I'm not willing to tell these users to go away or stick Chrome frame in as it makes us look like arrogant assholes.

2. It requires a large memory ceiling even with dynamic loading on a client browser. That kills older browsers and mobile devices.

3. It's an absolute bastard to test properly with Selenium or Ranorex as paths through the application require navigating through anchors rather than HTTP endpoints.

4. The entire UI would be dynamically typed shooting a lot of compile time checks that we rely on.

5. Internationalization is a bastard, particularly with multi-currency support, international date support and multiple languages.

6. It would require more state. State is bad. State means bugs.

7. It shifts the security model to an untrusted zone i.e. the client.

8. We have no scalability problems (5% cluster utilisation) and we shift 100 million requests a day.

Sorry but it doesn't cut it. I'd rather shift a WebStart or ClickOnce behemoth than do this with a client side MVC framework.

Unfortunately for a lot of applications that just doesn't scale.

In our case, I don't think our clients would be happy if we moved 2 million lines of code to the client-side...

Yes they are horrible machines. I don't think Lenovo actually manufacture those themselves.

This is your friend for big compiles:

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/itemdetails/0A36280/460/2D575BF5CD...

Weighs a bit but you'll get another 5 hours :)

Yeah I avoided the external graphics T61. Anything that isn't integrated is a PITA on a laptop. I have an Intel integrated one.

I turned all the powertop options on. Granted I did do this before I started using it for anything serious as a test case and left it a day. Worked fine.

To get 9-10 hours I used a 9-cell pack and keep the brightness fairly low. The screen kills it more than anything. I also have a 128Gb Crucial M4 SSD in it which is a little less power hungry than most devices. It does only have 4Gb of RAM though.

As for usage, mainly Eclipse with JDT and a Windows 7 VM spun up for Visual Studio 2010. CPU is throttled most of the time and memory usage is about 60-70%. Disk IO is fairly low once everything is up. Unity is running in 2D mode or disabled entirely in favour of Awesome WM. I don't do heavy compile runs as a rule as our dependencies are quite small and coupling free.

Regarding charging, it spends most of its time docked in an Ultrabase but when away or sitting in the garden I rarely have to bother charging it. I've got to the point I don't actually bother dragging a mains charger with me. The 9 cell pack was a year old when purchased with the laptop off ebay - neither were new. The battery had 108 charge cycles when purchased. I have no idea what it has now as I don't know how to extract that info from Linux.

Battery life is better if you install Windows on it as a rule though. I actually much prefer windows on it to Linux but I'm forcing myself to use Linux as my primary OS for a few months to see how I get on.

Windows 8 will probably give best battery life as it is tickless as well but I can't stand metro.

Based on the number of apple-negative articles recently, i think apple have subconciously hurt a number of people here rather than it being an in your face attitude.

I'd just buy a second hand Intel core based lenovo rather than a new atom one. The market is saturated with Lenovo kit so it's very cheap.

for my x220:

1. Fine. 9-10 hours with a 2 year old 9 cell battery. I run powertop and don't use unity though which is a power hog.

2. Everything works flawlessly

3. Yes but you have to enable it as Ubuntu turn hibernate off by default.

4. External display works fine. Never tried rotation.

5. Yes.

6. I don't use it. I use the nipple mouse. all trackpads make my fingers hurt as I have skin sensitivity issues.

7. Several orders or magnitude better than a MacBook. Keyboard is amazing.

Anything Lenovo usually does. I've got a T61 and an X220 tablet here which everything in Ubuntu 12.04 works fine.

The only problem I've had was connecting to an SSTP VPN but that was resolved easily with an ssh tunnel.

The only thing I can think of is medical imaging and they use windows.

It's got more pixels yes, but that doesn't make it N orders of magnitude more useful.

That's not expensive for what it does. It really isn't. I'd buy one in a snap if I had an application. It's beyond amazingly cheap for a tool of that power.

This is comparatively expensive for what it does: http://store.apple.com/us/configure/MC975LL/A

Thank you :)

Thanks for the detailed response. Much appreciated.

I think I will avoid as well then.

That's one of the reasons we don't use it.

Trac is a framework which just happens to have ticketing, wiki and source control modules.

Redmine is a ticketing tool, wiki and source control browser which happens to have half a framework underneath it.

Doesn't surprise me.

I used to live in Nottingham in the UK. You could see hookers on streetview. It destroyed the property prices in the area in question.

I admire your cynicism. It matches mine.

We had a similar project over here in Europe (Eurofighter). So far they have been used to annoy Argentina purely through penis-waving and drop a couple of bombs on Libya and that's all. Then they ran out of spare bits and grounded them all.

Because we're clever enough to view the cached version:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3vDKN5A...

Try trac. Redmine is a poor copy of Trac. Trac is a wonderful piece of software once you get used to it. Nothing can match the plugin model, reliability and extensibility of it.

Name something else which we can customise, make client facing easily, have AD authentication working against, use for documentation, source tracking, ticket mangement and infrastructure management with an administration effort of 30 minutes a month at average, that costs $0?

Thanks for the heads up :) anything in particular that kills it for you?

I've done a fair bit with Spring in Java. Unfortunately the promises seem to fall short of delivering as your application scales up in complexity. I've experienced a number of problems with annoying little bugs and some odd brick walls with transaction management (between JMS/Hibernate).

I'd rather build something with Java EE6 if I had the choice now, or ASP.Net MVC+WCF+NHibernate if I had the choice of platform.