Is there any real chance that human-piloted airliners will spot you in less than ideal conditions? I don't really know anything about aviation, but it seems like seeing something as small and slow as an ultralight would be hard to avoid for someone flying something as big and fast as a big airliner.
Every game that ships in the next 4 years or so will certainly run on Windows XP, and they'll look great doing it. Please try to keep your FUD to decent levels.
Back in the real world, Microsoft graciously extended support by a year and a half from January 2004 to July 2006 because so many people were still using by the end of 2003.
A quick google shows wx.NET, a C# wrapper around wxWidgets. I haven't tried it, though. The Mono project provides GTK# along-side their Windows.Forms implementation, of course.
And if we assume the moon is made of cheese, we can discuss what it tastes like.
Building and maintaing a gas distribution network that covers every household requires vastly more energy than delivering the gas to a small number of power stations, especially given that there still needs to be an electricity grid either way. I'm not saying electric heating is as efficent as gas, but your figures are certainly exagerated by a wide margin.
You say that all the waste heat is lost at the power station, but at least here in Finland, many power stations distribute their waste heat to near-by homes and industries. From a conservationist viewpoint, replacing the fossil-fuel-powered power station with cleaner power sources is much easier than replacing a gas burner in every home.
I don't know why people want to read PDFs in the browser in the first place. My windows browser loads Foxit to display PDFs and on Linux the browser loads Evince (the Gnome document viewer). PDFs are hard enough to navigate without having to deal with the limitations of plugins.
Back in the real world, oil companies often make huge investments that only pay off 10 years down the line. The reason that they haven't invested in alternative fuels is that there is no demand for more expensive fuels as long as petroleum remains as cheap as it is.
The rise in oil prices does mean that more expensive ways of getting oil become profitable, like tar sands and deep-sea drilling. Oil men, who know a thing or two about booms and busts, aren't going to make huge investments until they know oil prices will stay high.
Yeah, it might shorten from 10 to 5 years, by which time it will be useless for high-end gaming. And it's not like you're going to use a 400W system as a second system.
Well I don't know what you're talking about. I ran XP on an 800 MHz AMD Duron without any trouble and I ran Windows 2000 on a Pentium II 266 without much trouble (once I'd upgraded to 256 MB of RAM).
The KDE version that shipped with Red Hat 9 was a total pig on the 450 MHz Pentium IIs with 256 MB RAM in my school's Linux lab, however.
PEAR::DB is intalled on a hundred times as many systems as PDO. If DB's not there, it's trivial to install, which can't be said of upgrading to PHP 5.1 with PDO.
Is it really worth forking out a few hundred dollars for such a dismal gain in performance?
The Core Duo is expensive, but have you looked at what AMD is charging for the FX series? Intel wins on price/performance by a mile. On the other hand, they're overclocking the Intel CPU a hell of a lot and running the AMD CPU at stock speed, so it's not exactly a fair comparison. Still says a lot about what we can expect from Core 2, though.
Does it have better performance-per-watt?
What? We are talking about the Core Duo here, the most efficent x86 CPU on the market.
I'm guessing AMD is still limited by manufacturing capacity. Building new cutting edge manufacturing fabs is very expensive, and it takes a while for AMD to save up for new ones. If they can't play in both the low and high ends, the more profitable high end is obviously preferable.
No, in those systems graphics, network and audio are all in nvidia's chipset. Since Nvidia doesn't like realeasing specs for their hardware and nobody has reverse-engineered the 6100 model, you're out of luck. Intel's and Via's solutions, and even older Nvidia chipsets should be fine.
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According to US law, trademarks are only valid as long as they are enforced. You can't blame Red Hat for protecting their name.
Is there any real chance that human-piloted airliners will spot you in less than ideal conditions? I don't really know anything about aviation, but it seems like seeing something as small and slow as an ultralight would be hard to avoid for someone flying something as big and fast as a big airliner.
Every game that ships in the next 4 years or so will certainly run on Windows XP, and they'll look great doing it. Please try to keep your FUD to decent levels.
Back in the real world, Microsoft graciously extended support by a year and a half from January 2004 to July 2006 because so many people were still using by the end of 2003.
I don't get it? The screenshot on the top right of the freshmeat is just as unspeakably hideous as every other pro media app.
The picture is hosted on flickr.
A quick google shows wx.NET, a C# wrapper around wxWidgets. I haven't tried it, though. The Mono project provides GTK# along-side their Windows.Forms implementation, of course.
That's going to be real expensive real fast. Every online payment option I've seen charges a significant transaction fee.
Stupid as it is, this is the standard term. If you haven't heard it before you probably aren't doing UI work and can feel free to hit the back button.
And if we assume the moon is made of cheese, we can discuss what it tastes like.
Building and maintaing a gas distribution network that covers every household requires vastly more energy than delivering the gas to a small number of power stations, especially given that there still needs to be an electricity grid either way. I'm not saying electric heating is as efficent as gas, but your figures are certainly exagerated by a wide margin.
You say that all the waste heat is lost at the power station, but at least here in Finland, many power stations distribute their waste heat to near-by homes and industries. From a conservationist viewpoint, replacing the fossil-fuel-powered power station with cleaner power sources is much easier than replacing a gas burner in every home.
' only searches in link text. / searches all text on the page
I don't know why people want to read PDFs in the browser in the first place. My windows browser loads Foxit to display PDFs and on Linux the browser loads Evince (the Gnome document viewer). PDFs are hard enough to navigate without having to deal with the limitations of plugins.
Back in the real world, oil companies often make huge investments that only pay off 10 years down the line. The reason that they haven't invested in alternative fuels is that there is no demand for more expensive fuels as long as petroleum remains as cheap as it is. The rise in oil prices does mean that more expensive ways of getting oil become profitable, like tar sands and deep-sea drilling. Oil men, who know a thing or two about booms and busts, aren't going to make huge investments until they know oil prices will stay high.
The US doesn't use the Imperial system. It uses the incompatible American or "English" units.
Yeah, it might shorten from 10 to 5 years, by which time it will be useless for high-end gaming. And it's not like you're going to use a 400W system as a second system.
That's why Apple switched from Ti to Al in their laptops, I think.
Well I don't know what you're talking about. I ran XP on an 800 MHz AMD Duron without any trouble and I ran Windows 2000 on a Pentium II 266 without much trouble (once I'd upgraded to 256 MB of RAM).
The KDE version that shipped with Red Hat 9 was a total pig on the 450 MHz Pentium IIs with 256 MB RAM in my school's Linux lab, however.
Then don't upgrade Firefox.
Then the game is broken, not Windows. Try fixing it.
CDATA sections already do that. But you can't rely on CDATA, because not all UAs support it.
PEAR::DB is intalled on a hundred times as many systems as PDO. If DB's not there, it's trivial to install, which can't be said of upgrading to PHP 5.1 with PDO.
What's wrong with PEAR_DB?
I'm guessing AMD is still limited by manufacturing capacity. Building new cutting edge manufacturing fabs is very expensive, and it takes a while for AMD to save up for new ones. If they can't play in both the low and high ends, the more profitable high end is obviously preferable.
No, in those systems graphics, network and audio are all in nvidia's chipset. Since Nvidia doesn't like realeasing specs for their hardware and nobody has reverse-engineered the 6100 model, you're out of luck. Intel's and Via's solutions, and even older Nvidia chipsets should be fine.