Posts by DS 1

Disaster

The fact that the BNP is a living breathing problem is caused by the cowardly politicians, the worst my country has had in generations. Most hate britain, most are partaking in the destruction of the institutions, and today, specifically the armed forces. Most are involved in creating 1984, and multiculturalism is enforced by political correctness that is both unpopular_and_unjust. If the core of politics won;t talk or debate about things like immigration, and political correctness, then it is not hard to see why people are not tolerating the status quo any more.

And before anyone starts yabbering about the BNP, the problem with this outlook is that the BNP are not the ones trying to silence debate, they are not the ones trying to 'ban' political opponents. They are not the ones building 1984, and taking parts in disgusting EU projects that only the stasi would be proud of.

Our politicians should be utterly ashamed of themselves. They have created this terrible situation, and they are wholly responsible. They must step forward with answers and solutions to people's problems, not pretend that they don't exist and that this BNP 'success' is some kind of accident. The BNP is going to go on growing unless there is a wake up call and a serious one at that. People at ground level *are* sick of 1984, immigration, political correct stupidity, and totalitarian multiculturalism.

More garbage

The UK GDP on defense is small, and has shrunk again and again as politicians, no wait, leftists in the Labour party government throw the armed servic es to the wolves.

Its committed to two wars, the length of which have beenlonger than WW2. In that time, almost no new proper weapon systems, platforms, or indeed very much else has been done.

The RAF before Eurofighter was pitifully behind in technology and aircraft. Not only has the fleet carried on diminishing, but their air to air fighter now gets culled.

In the meantime, The Merlin is behind and off target, and there is no whit in whitehall, and no balls either to setup a factory building Chinook licensed copies/versions.

Never has so little been done by so (powerful) few, for soo long, and with the expectedly poor results.

We are at war, and defense spending needs to double. Yes, flat out double. The navy needs new gear, the army need gear, the airforce needs gear. Continual stripping is not, and never was the answer.

What next, cancel the F35 and carriers?

Wrong

Dear Reg,

Its high time that reviewers in general started saying it like it is. Another netbook, same N270/280, only 1GB of ram, same hopeless 950 GFX, apart from very very minor differences in apps or design, its same old same old. In much of the time, netbooks have changed little, and they keep being rewarded with good reviews. This 'new netbook' costs more than £300, has some of the cheapest BOM and is only a moderate redesign.

Its time, that reviewers started to ask the serious questions.

1. Why are you not butchering these guys for the monopoly practice of adhereing to the microsoft 1GB limit, and hard disk limits. The consumer is suffering under a garbage limit and you are handing them a recommended review.

2. Very minor updates to the Atom don't make a recommended review. Where is ION, or better core system improments, more ram, bigger drives.

3. The netbook struggles with Linux, and you give it a recommended rating?

The hunnymoon is over for netbooks, its time to put the hammer down.

You've missed out one that needs to be covered

Linux Mint, Ver 7.

Loaded up on the Dell Mini 9 here, and everything works.

Linux Mint is based upon Ubuntu, but is very polished and its for the user design sets it apart from most distributions. Thus far in testing, I found no issues with it, and it has replaced the Ubuntu 8.04 that Dell shipped with the unit.

IMHO, most Linux distributions need to look at Linux Mint to realise where they need to go in user/desktop Linux builds.