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Sprint does this too.

Sprint is another (lesser?) offender -- their mobile broadband injects a script in every page that loads compressed versions of images until told otherwise. (Annoying, but at least it's well-intentioned.) I've long since blocked the IP, but it gave me a bit of a scare to see unfamiliar code in my own websites.

Upon seeing the title I was expecting an article about movie piracy. I think this was ultimately more interesting.

Agreed, equating the entire internet with the "tech community" is more than a little bit sensational. There certainly are misogynists in the tech community, but I doubt they were responsible for all of the overall backlash.

Lua is known for pairing really well with C.

And that doesn't work on mobile, because they have a "forgetful" mobile site :(

* CPU speed will get vastly more ridiculous, but battery life probably won't improve significantly (on x86 laptops).

* ARM will have around 50% market share as tablets become ubiquitous and laptops move to ARM. Those laptops will run some form of Windows, but Windows will continue to sell poorly on tablets.

* Reliable, reasonably fast internet will be available to almost all of the US.

* Cloud computing still won't be fully adopted. More computer users will do most of their work in a browser, but smartphones and tablets will still run many apps locally and desktop OSs will still be structured similarly to today's.

* Something huge and crazy will happen to education and Khan Academy will be involved in it.

The Verge says this about the Pixel: "Google’s greatest advantage is that it doesn’t need bleeding-edge specs to build a high-functioning computer." That could be exactly what I'm talking about.

Never mind, I found rjtech.com. The designs don't look spectacular, but that's just from the pictures. What does look great, though, is the "No OS" option.

I could deal with a 15.6" computer if it meant decent resolution, but more 1366x768? Really, Asus?

Aside from that, it looks promising. I'm seeing it for about $400 at a couple places.

I've been meaning to try a tiling window manager. Right now I'm working with Unity, Chrome, and either Vim or Geany depending on my mood.

That's the "original" netbook, isn't it? I can't believe I hadn't ever seen one of those before.

At a quick glance, I think the biggest problem with it would be the 800x480 screen! If screen resolution wasn't an issue, I think a netbook could meet my criteria.

This is very irritating. I really don't want to buy a Mac, but the PC laptop market seems determined to suck!

I looked at Clevo's site a while ago and was kinda put off by their obscure model numbering. Can you recommend a friendlier site to look at, and where I could potentially buy one?

I have been looking at Samsung's ARM chromebook. It looks like it might be the best of my options right now, but I would really like a higher-resolution screen, even if that meant a bigger screen size. (Every laptop is 1366x768 these days...)

It just seems to me that it should be possible to design a really good laptop that costs less than $1000, if specs are secondary. I think that would be the best way for a PC manufacturer to finally beat Apple. The problem, however, is that such a computer might not run Windows very well. (but Linux would run quite nicely!)

See also: http://gizmodo.com/5711720/every-laptop-should-be-like-googl...

Thanks, that will be very helpful.

Do you have any tips for setting up a new VPS? I just got one recently. I know my way around Apache, but I've never run a mail server before, so I'm reluctant to move my domain until I know that I won't miss any emails in the process. (I'm using Ubuntu Server 12.04)

would you be willing to sell talkto.me?

Try the trance channel on http://di.fm (or whichever genre suits your taste)

This is cool, but what the cloud needs to truly work is a standard for communicating between any two services. Optimally, I should be able to use any Dropbox-type service with any web app, by setting "file opener" URLs. There would be some authentication method between the servers, and the file would be transferred over to the app for editing, and back to Dropbox when I press "save".

Is this feasible?