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Revealed: the best Linux distro for your netbook | News | TechRadar UK
With their dependency on networking and limited hardware, netbooks ask more of their OSes than many modern computers. And from what we've tested here, it seems fairly obvious that no one has quite perfected the art of cloud focused Linux yet.
That said, the best reason to move away from the pre-installed distro on your netbook is if you can garner the advantages of a larger parent OS, enabling you to install plenty of useful upgrades and packages, rather than being restricted to a small subset of netbook-specific apps.
Which is why the winning distro, EeeXubuntu, best nails down the essence of what makes a netbook distro change a good idea. It builds on the foundations of Ubuntu's popularity. Fundamentally, that success is based on reliability – perfect for netbooks, where you want something that will work straightforwardly and without any fuss.
EeeXubuntu provides that in spades and of the distributions reviewed here, it was the one that was the least painful to set up and to use.
World's Happiest Places - Forbes.com
Where in the world do people feel most content with their lives?
According to a new report released by the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)... happiness levels are highest in northern European countries.
Denmark, Finland and the Netherlands rated at the top of the list, ranking first, second and third, respectively. Outside Europe, New Zealand and Canada landed at Nos. 8 and 6, respectively. The U.S. did not crack the top 10. Switzerland placed seventh and Belgium placed tenth.
nrc.nl - International - Opinion - Going Dutch? Not So Fast!
NRC columnist Heleen Mees begs to disagree with Russell Shorto's raving article in The New York Times about the benefits of living in the Dutch welfare state. Mees, who lives in New York, has recently published a book in which she argues that European welfare states would do well to look to opportunity-based societies like New York for inspiration.
Going Dutch - How I Learned to Love the European Welfare State. - NYTimes.com
while the top income-tax rate in the United States is 35 percent, the numbers are a bit misleading. “People coming from the U.S. to the Netherlands focus on that difference, and on that 52 percent,” said Constanze Woelfle, an American accountant based in the Netherlands whose clients are mostly American expats. “But consider that the Dutch rate includes social security, which in the U.S. is an additional 6.2 percent. Then in the U.S. you have state and local taxes, and much higher real estate taxes. If you were to add all those up, you would get close to the 52 percent.”
Red Laser - The First Accurate iPhone Barcode Scanner - Hits The App Store : iSmashPhone
What Red Laser Does
Scan an item, and instantly have access to a bunch of online prices and information. Scan movies at the store and beam them to your TiVo. Scan a book and check for online reviews. Scan a food item and add it to your grocery list.
The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett review | Non-fiction book reviews - Times Online
Their book charts the level of health and social problems — as many as they could find reliable figures for — against the level of income inequality in 20 of the world’s richest nations, and in each of the 50 United States. They allocate a brief chapter to each problem, supplying graphs that display the evidence starkly and unarguably. What they find is that, in states and countries where there is a big gap between the incomes of rich and poor, mental illness, drug and alcohol abuse, obesity and teenage pregnancy are more common, the homicide rate is higher, life expectancy is shorter, and children’s educational performance and literacy scores are worse. The Scandinavian countries and Japan consistently come at the positive end of this spectrum. They have the smallest differences between higher and lower incomes, and the best record of psycho-social health. The countries with the widest gulf between rich and poor, and the highest incidence of most health and social problems, are Britain, America and Portugal.
What Finland can teach America about true luxury
As I spent more time in Helsinki, my own notion of the luxuries available in Finland expanded to include more than just the quiet pleasures of a cabin getaway. Finnish cities are filled with universally well-maintained and high-quality schools, hospitals, buses, trains, and parks. While most Finns might never be able to own a well-appointed SUV or a big house, they value the less-tangible assets they do have, which add up to quality of life and peace of mind.
Finland doesn't pay lip service to providing a level playing field for all its citizens. It really does give the vast majority of its citizens a fair and equal chance in life, in a way that the US just doesn't, no matter how much Americans like to think it does.
The Real Pirate Bay - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org
Set up a torrent tracker, get fined, go to jail.
Join a bank, destroy the economy, profit.
Let's draw out the distinction.
The Pirate Bay guys were criminally prosecuted for....violating (largely obsolete) copyright. Almost no one in finance has been held even civilly liable for vastly more economically damaging actions.
On the one hand, we have damages worth maybe (maybe) a few million. On the other, a few trillion.
On the one hand, innovation and better music is stifled - benefits are foregone. On the other, reform of a broken banking system is stifled - losses are incurred.
That's everything that's wrong with the economy in two sentences: the ongoing inability of today's leaders to deal with 21st century economics.
4 Nations Happier than the U.S., With Half the Carbon Emissions : TreeHugger
Although it may come as a surprise, research shows a larger carbon footprint doesn't lead to happiness. While the United States ranks near the top of both per capita and aggregate carbon emissions, it's not in the top 10 when it comes to happiness. In fact, many nations ranked happier than the U.S. also tread much more lightly on the planet. Read on to find out where the U.S.'s carbon emissions come from and which countries are doing it right.
What Your Global Neighbors Are Buying - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com
How people spend their discretionary income – the cash that goes to clothing, electronics, recreation, household goods, alcohol – depends a lot on where they live. People in Greece spend almost 13 times more money on clothing as they do on electronics. People living in Japan spend more on recreation than they do on clothing, electronics and household goods combined. Americans spend a lot of money on everything.
Compare book prices in Australia with Booko
Booko is a site with a very simple goal - to find the cheapest place to buy books in Australia. This site started out as a personal itch and has slowly grown into a very handy site, slowly adding more shops for comparison and more features to make it easier to use. You can read more about Booko at the Blogo.
The Size of All Planets Are Relative - Video
Entertaining as well as educational! You think the world is Earth...this should give you a good perspective.
The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment « Content Consumer
I was interested to see how far Linux had come since then in terms of being used easily by the mainstream. So, I tricked my grudging girlfriend Erin into sitting down at a brand new Ubuntu 8.04 installation and performing some basic tasks. It’s surprisi
Stop Whining About Gas Prices : TreeHugger
You don't know how good you have it. Look at the taxes everyone else pays, and surprise, the higher the tax, the more efficient on average the cars are.
Why capitalism is good for the soul
Capitalism provides the conditions for creating worthwhile lives,
argues Peter Saunders
Booksthatmakeyoudumb
Ever read a book (required or otherwise) and upon finishing it thought to yourself, "Wow. That was terrible. I totally feel dumber after reading that."? I know I have. Well, like any good scientist, I decided to see how well my personal experience matches
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