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No, it proves that you are a retard. An anal, pathetic retard at that.

You can buy them at the store for less than $200 that come with XP already in place, ya dumb ditzy twit.

UK

Lately we've been buying cute little netbooks, with Windows installed, for about $260 each. They are handy for running USB type things like device programmers and background debuggers, and don't take a lot of bench space.

John

On a sunny day (Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:14:09 -0800) it happened FatBytestard wrote in :

You must be an other microsoft zomby. Take your own advice. Goodbye.

UK

You must not spend three minutes doing any research then. Most of those can be had for less than $200 each. Try Fry's or even Amazon, for Christ's sake.

I have an Acer that mounts onto the back of the flat panel it uses via the VESA mount standard, and I run upright arcade video games on it that replaces 7800 upright video arcade cabinets with ONE. I can even set it up so that it doesn't run unless the appropriate USB drive is in place.

I knew you had issues when you called them "Cute little notebooks".

UK

I hear some people make their living by buying complete new products, taking them apart and selling the components separately.

UK

I read some reviews and got good stuff. Cheap usually isn't worth it.

That's a desktop, not a netbook.

You must not spend three seconds reading. I did not call them "Cute little notebooks." You can't even cut and paste properly.

But they are cute, and now everybody wants more. At $260 each, why not?

John

It is the same shit, you dumbfuck. Same brand, same model. You pay $100 more per unit, because you are stupid about purchasing, not because you know ANYTHING about what is or is not cheap, and after this retarded response you made here, that fact is blatantly clear.

So, Acer is cheap, eh?

No, John, your brain is cheap. Even at twice the price, it would be.

You couldn't be a bigger goddamned retard than you have devolved into in this group.

Nice snipping, to avoid the fact that you don't know the difference between a desktop, a notebook, and a netbook.

We can expense stuff like this immediately, so with the tax differential, we get about half off anyhow. The resulting $30 is down in the noise, certainly not worth another hour of my time shopping around.

The Samsung netbooks with XP are very nice. The keyboard is great and the display is razor sharp. We have one of them running our new B+K USB device programmer (which I think is actually an ELNEC SmartProg2.)

John

Of course it saved you days of frustration. You aren't smart enough to use any version of Windows.

be.

Thanks for keeping it civilized.

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Unfortunately, I have a windows only app for the faneless PC that doesn't behave well under wine. Otherwise, I agree with you.

Sounds like yet more operator error. I'd be willing to bet, in fact.

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Fuck you very much, the wine issue has been verified by others. Thanks for playing.

There is your problem. Wine is not all that it is cut out to be. Hell DOSBox works better. So.... Bwuahahahahah... f*ck you very much? No, you are doing a fine job of that to yourself, all by yourself.

Bwuahahahahahahaha!

A comment to a recent item on Slashdot contrasts this with Linux:

I find what Dirk is describing to be a stretch for the category of "embedded". This sounds like a "specialist system" or an "appliance" based on a general-purpose computer (PC).

NOTE: The title of the Slashdot item ("The 1-Second Linux Boot") and summary are mostly bogus and the video linked there is mostly tripe:

skrev i meddelelsen news: snipped-for-privacy@t23g2000yqt.googlegroups.com...

I haven't particularly thought much about what linux is appropriate for an embedded application.

Maybe you want to have a look at FreeBSD instead? Their licensing is more attractive to closed-source drivers and all the docs are sitting off freebsd.org, which hints at discipline!

List here:

From the amount of times that I have to "Google ShIt" at work, I have the distinct impression that Linux is now going through a phase where an exponentially growing number of "almost ready" features are included into the distributions by bright young things.

Then I see seriously cool stuff like ZFS and virtualisation being released as standard for FreeBSD 8.0. Hmm.

Take a LOOK at TINY-XP from the hacker community:

There is a USB based version also..

IF you get a product together that looks profitable, THEN figure out how to give MicroSoft some Money...

On a sunny day (Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:40:19 -0800 (PST)) it happened " snipped-for-privacy@sushi.com" wrote in :

Yes wine will not run everything, only logical as it tries to imitate MS windows :-) hehe