The problem is that the chemical processes involved do not coat electrodes evenly. If you are willing to try other methods of 'recharging', for example:
Pull battery apart.
Melt down the pieces.
Refurbish the electrodes and solute.
Rebuild the battery.
You can get the battery back to its original state. Otherwise, electrodes will always be built incorrectly [they become more and more 'fuzzy'] and performance will deteriorate.
The end result is that while it is possible to remove a sufficient amount of entropy from the system, it is not always easy, as in, easy enough to do on a regular basis. It is not a memory problem, it is an aging problem: as the act of recharging introduces entropy itself, and recharging happens within the battery, that is where the entropy goes.
..as well. The one argument I've heard against it is that it can't do animations, but honestly, I can't figure out how to add animations to powerpoint 2007 documents either, however that may have to do with the animations I was trying to import [made with Maple]. With that argument gone, Beamer has better support for mathematical formula, makes you organise your document correctly, and looks a lot cleaner, IMO.
I'm not saying it is good. I'm saying he is wrong. I'm all for a healthy bashing of x86, but lets keep our facts straight, please.
And besides, there is no level playing field for comparison when that RISC core is so lame, anyway. The quality example of that being that 800MHz Alpha's used to wipe the floor with 2 GHz Pentium IV's on floating point.
I'm not saying it always works. I'm not saying it is a good thing. If I had the free option, I would be using Alpha or Itanium.
Instruction length is, of course, only one factor, and I am guessing a minor factor, considering memory bandwidth, data cache associativity, floating point performance, and performance and flexibility of VM management seem to be more serious problems with current x86 implementations.
"But it doesn't matter that you have to use 8 instructions to perform the same thing other arch's do in 1 opcode, because the microcode is really, really, really fast!!1" Actually, you have it backwards. The x86 can do a handful of RISC instructions with a single instruction. That instruction might take longer to execute, but since you get more done for that one instruction, you get better instruction cache locality.
If you would like to troll on the failings of x86, there are well documented options for you. You must earn your troll-fu, young grasshoppa.
Perhaps you are thinking of Mormons. My family are Jehovah's Witnesses, they don't have any problem with technology.
[But yes, Prince is a Jehovah's Witness.]
they will save you money after you have used at least 400000 (four hundred thousand) sheets of paper roughly Unless you get some monetary benefit out of having several hundred pieces of paper organised and indexable. Having all your documents neatly stored and easy to carry around could make this electronic paper pay for itself.
I'm not sure if it is the same in the US, but I really miss the CDMA network [I think CDMA is EDGE, or similar]. I never had any problems with CDMA, but one thing has driven me up the wall ever since going to 3G- that I have to update the time myself. On CDMA, the clock would automatically sync. No need to worry about time zones or daylight savings, or the clock being a couple of minutes off. Always perfect time. I haven't seen any benefit to 3G that could outweigh the lack of time sync. Bandwidth is not so interesting when you can only get decent bandwidth in certain areas, and I'm pretty sure for most people here, that means in the office, where you've got a computer and don't need to use the phone for media./rant
On topic, the point they make about phone hardware not keeping up with bandwidth is a good point too. My 680i seems to respond to key presses slower than a vt100 [it drops fast hits], so I can imagine that is where the bottleneck for html rendering is, not the bandwidth.
I've seen a few programs here get caught by the color/colour bug. Haven't had or seen any problems with the -ize suffix yet, but I'm sure it will hit me one day.
When you are quoting a sentence, that's not how the nesting works at all. When you are quoting a few words, it is a different story. I hate seeing words spelled incorrectly! "Color" is not a word, at least not in English!
The original post was about not having to recompile drivers and the kernel together, which has nothing to do with the reliability benefits of user space drivers.
So you've gone from crash and reboot, to crash and reboot the X Server, which is just a time saver. Maybe a little less corruption on your file system, but the difference is negligible. Huh? Well, if the X server was writing files at the time, maybe. If you can reboot the X server or access a command line, you can kill off processes that you can't get control of again. You can even shut down normally. On the other hand, if a kernel-mode driver causes a panic or locks the system up, there is no chance of recovery.
I quite like contextual adds. My Inbox is full of Coyotos and Hurd related emails, so I get to have a good chuckle every time I get advertisements for Minix 3. Nice try Andy.
And what is with the gasps? If you have sensitive mail, you need to be using pop3 and encrypting it. That's just common sense.
does it come with all linux partitioning tools? including resizing of partitions? No. It offers no ability to touch the hard drive at all at the moment. It doesn't include any GNU tools whatsoever.:(
Novel used the number 30 Million in their "I'm a Mac/I'm a PC" spoof. They didn't say if that was an estimate of all GNU/Linux users or just Novel users, but either way, that's ~3% of the desktop market, which fits with observations by the w3c.
I wonder if the ability to mount other media is restricted in the BIOS or the actual system.
If it is the latter, and since the system can be updated from a running OS, it should be possible to put your kernel, servers and window manager in the flash and have most of your operating system boot instantly. And I have no doubt that if that is the case, some very clever person who was given one of these will work out how to do just that. Given that this does use a Linux kernel, it shouldn't be too hard to get source for any hardware specific issues you might find in booting from this.
Otherwise, this is pretty boring. There has been software available to, say, play media without booting into your operating system for ages.
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Why not? They broke a perfectly good [well.. working] API.
- Pull battery apart.
- Melt down the pieces.
- Refurbish the electrodes and solute.
- Rebuild the battery.
You can get the battery back to its original state. Otherwise, electrodes will always be built incorrectly [they become more and more 'fuzzy'] and performance will deteriorate.The end result is that while it is possible to remove a sufficient amount of entropy from the system, it is not always easy, as in, easy enough to do on a regular basis. It is not a memory problem, it is an aging problem: as the act of recharging introduces entropy itself, and recharging happens within the battery, that is where the entropy goes.
The key word here is entropy. If you find a way to reverse that my friend, we'll have this memory effect thing figured out ;)
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..as well. The one argument I've heard against it is that it can't do animations, but honestly, I can't figure out how to add animations to powerpoint 2007 documents either, however that may have to do with the animations I was trying to import [made with Maple]. With that argument gone, Beamer has better support for mathematical formula, makes you organise your document correctly, and looks a lot cleaner, IMO.
I'm not saying it is good. I'm saying he is wrong. I'm all for a healthy bashing of x86, but lets keep our facts straight, please.
And besides, there is no level playing field for comparison when that RISC core is so lame, anyway. The quality example of that being that 800MHz Alpha's used to wipe the floor with 2 GHz Pentium IV's on floating point.
I'm not saying it always works. I'm not saying it is a good thing. If I had the free option, I would be using Alpha or Itanium.
:P
Instruction length is, of course, only one factor, and I am guessing a minor factor, considering memory bandwidth, data cache associativity, floating point performance, and performance and flexibility of VM management seem to be more serious problems with current x86 implementations.
Not that any of it is really on topic
If you would like to troll on the failings of x86, there are well documented options for you. You must earn your troll-fu, young grasshoppa.
never mind.
Perhaps you are thinking of Mormons. My family are Jehovah's Witnesses, they don't have any problem with technology. [But yes, Prince is a Jehovah's Witness.]
Or... Amoeba?
Ah, I see. How confusing. Thank you.
I'm not sure if it is the same in the US, but I really miss the CDMA network [I think CDMA is EDGE, or similar]. I never had any problems with CDMA, but one thing has driven me up the wall ever since going to 3G- that I have to update the time myself. On CDMA, the clock would automatically sync. No need to worry about time zones or daylight savings, or the clock being a couple of minutes off. Always perfect time. I haven't seen any benefit to 3G that could outweigh the lack of time sync. Bandwidth is not so interesting when you can only get decent bandwidth in certain areas, and I'm pretty sure for most people here, that means in the office, where you've got a computer and don't need to use the phone for media. /rant
On topic, the point they make about phone hardware not keeping up with bandwidth is a good point too. My 680i seems to respond to key presses slower than a vt100 [it drops fast hits], so I can imagine that is where the bottleneck for html rendering is, not the bandwidth.
How often were you writing the MBR? That's a very strange place to get a failure like this.
I wonder what Keith is like in real life.
...what if he's not real?!
I've seen a few programs here get caught by the color/colour bug. Haven't had or seen any problems with the -ize suffix yet, but I'm sure it will hit me one day.
When you are quoting a sentence, that's not how the nesting works at all. When you are quoting a few words, it is a different story. I hate seeing words spelled incorrectly! "Color" is not a word, at least not in English!
Wow. Now that's a blast from the past.
I quite like contextual adds. My Inbox is full of Coyotos and Hurd related emails, so I get to have a good chuckle every time I get advertisements for Minix 3. Nice try Andy.
And what is with the gasps? If you have sensitive mail, you need to be using pop3 and encrypting it. That's just common sense.
Novel used the number 30 Million in their "I'm a Mac/I'm a PC" spoof. They didn't say if that was an estimate of all GNU/Linux users or just Novel users, but either way, that's ~3% of the desktop market, which fits with observations by the w3c.
I wonder if the ability to mount other media is restricted in the BIOS or the actual system.
If it is the latter, and since the system can be updated from a running OS, it should be possible to put your kernel, servers and window manager in the flash and have most of your operating system boot instantly. And I have no doubt that if that is the case, some very clever person who was given one of these will work out how to do just that. Given that this does use a Linux kernel, it shouldn't be too hard to get source for any hardware specific issues you might find in booting from this.
Otherwise, this is pretty boring. There has been software available to, say, play media without booting into your operating system for ages.