nVidia after a few acquisitons can make 386SX processors that they do sell. I have no idea how much the i686s have changed.
As for 64-bit x86, well, the only people good for that are AMD. Intel's EM64T is just a botched AMD64 because itanium was a spectactular failure. It doesn't look very likely that AMD will deal with nVidia though. There's probably a bit of bad blood now; nvidia's CEO wanted to be CEO of the merged company, and that's why the merge never happened but AMD bought ATI.
All the better. The GTX series cards are looking to be completely craptastic. Outlook not bright.
Have you checked about:config for the close buttons? I'm pretty sure the "feature" is still available. ("tabs" have always been crappier than real MDI)
The GP's numbers are a bit scary. I've always been told that French grows against Germanic languages, and has been growing; but seeing that english and german are more popular than french is not reassuring...
Gigabyte uses sold-state Japanese caps on a lot of its motherboards.
They work well with linux, and have got a lot of overclocking options (for those of you into that sort of stuff). With Asus seemingly moving towards actual computers (their latest boards are lackluster compared to the gigabyte ones, sort of like nvidia chipsets) Gigabyte is filling their void.
It's just France was ashamed of its history. That doesn't mean you have to be. There is nothing wrong with historic Quebecois french, the stuff your grandparents and possibly parents talk to you with, or that you even use colliquially.
Moy is a great example. It's not that we're retarded fish monkeys from 1774, but that we've diverged from main french a lot in the process.
CECELFCE (yeah a fucking mouthful for what amounts to a bunch of dicks in an office, right?), the french catholic board of Ottawa spends money stupidly. You're going to laugh when you read this. Then cry. Then die a little on the inside.
You spend more, you get more. That's the deal. It's probably more in other places. They spend more to upgrade their computers with XP and (what the fuck?) netburst celerons at 600$ (yeah that much, and it's ~2.5GHz), and not to mention LCDs, and then next year they get more money to keep upgrading.
So why go for linux unless you go for a pricey local one? And even then can't run photoshop! That'll drop the cost!
What's really stupid though is that it never dawned on anyone that you can't game with a linux thin client. (or any thin client, and likely any linux because of permissions) So that eliminates their bitching about network sluggishness (and it is sluggy, I think they route them to the school board itself). And it's secure, and no reason for the "zenworks" bullshit, and X forwarding lets you control them remotely.
Best of all for them it can be locked down, and you can avoid a whole bunch of trouble by having them as real thin clients, or even thick clients (with systems like the asus eee desktop). Not only that, you can theme it to look like XP, or make it very simple, or better yet let the students decide. Not to mention the default settings to save at My Documents doesn't matter*; everybody has a/home/, a persistant home.
* They run deep freeze and last I was there everything got saved under U:\ as your user, with teachers using T:\ for public access.
It's very likely. There's plenty of smaller software companies, especially linux-based ones, that just need a little kick in the ass and could do a good job (Xandros, I'm eyeing you).
The Quebec government probably has enough cash to help jump start a medium-sized linux distribution for its needs, get everything translated into french to perfection (some things might not, other things might not be good, and French in Canada is a bit different), and it would mean Quebec gets money, not Redmond.
DND at least is almost entirely windows, and now transitionning to windows xp. Server side is provided by Novell, I have no idea if it's SUSE or NetWare though.
Complete waste if you ask me, because what are they running in those offices that really requires windows?
When a site gets greedy (lookin' at your Toms, and even worse is IGN) and starts plastering ads everywhere, they do it to get money, under the guise that "oh it's free you don't pay just click our ads!". Yet it's costing me a fucking ton when it goes through the tubes.
My ISP is the angriest little twerp I've ever seen. I can't really get off tomorrow, if you get my drift; sure there's Teksavvy but the upfront costs right now are not realistic. Maybe when I move. So, here's the question for you: considering their non-grandfathered (mine is gfded) plans cap you at 2GB and start charging like 2.50$-5.00$ for each extra gigabyte (maximum is 25$, but mine is forever), do you really want tom's nasty shit clogging your tubes?
It would be nice though, if one day our descendants had to leave Earth, that they explore here and find our archives floating around or buried on the moon. Or maybe for true "extra terrestrials".
Ekiga supports video now, doesn't it? Should be as easy as customising a light WM to only run it, or if you want this as a normal desktop too just use Xfce designed to be more user-friendly (use your judgement for what's user-friendly) and run Ekiga constantly.
Much better than skype. Bonus points if you can encrypt the signal.
Especially when you consider Python does a lot of things you'd have to do in C or C++ manually...
I mean we keep hearing how slow Python is supposed to be, that Perl can be as fast as C, etc. but where's the real hard data across plenty of cases? Where does each shine?
It's not like this is being used to give people fibre, either.
Isn't their part of AT&T's Video On Demand service expansion? Yeah, real nice guys. Nobody gives a flying fuck about video on demand. Video is The Pirate Bay.
Obviously? I really doubt nVidia will be able to make chipsets for Intel. And if they can it'll be crap ones, and even worse than typical nForces because they won't have QuickPath.
No, I'm afraid we're all out for now, unless the Baby Boomers want to come into service one last time.
Really the baby boomers were the Great Generation, the generation that kept our countries free. Every step they took towards retirement during "their days" led us down a slippery slope to where we are today.
Inspect the code you use. Use OpenBSD or I guess Linux would be fine if sufficiently protected. Always try and use HTTPS:.
However, confuse them a bit. For normal crap like the news, use HTTP. Why not? Vary your stuff. Download small files once in a while via encrypted BT, then large ones that are porn/movies/music/ROMs/software, then get some unencrypted torrents about stuff like Haiku, ReactOS. Mess with their heads. Keep your encryption up. Alert your friends in person that they should only contact you via email, zfone, or an encrypted IM service.
I'd love to see them wasting all this time just to see that you like talking to friends and watching porn while learning to make cookies.
I bet you a couple of beers and a copy of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Alien Crossfire that by 2050 we're going to have "microwave power", power collected in space and "beamed down", as a form of newer power plants, and then later we get Fusion.
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Use unicode with a font and system that supports it? UTF-8 supports pretty much every language character set out there.
It supports elvish, FFS.
Intel has nothing nvidia wants.
nVidia after a few acquisitons can make 386SX processors that they do sell. I have no idea how much the i686s have changed.
As for 64-bit x86, well, the only people good for that are AMD. Intel's EM64T is just a botched AMD64 because itanium was a spectactular failure. It doesn't look very likely that AMD will deal with nVidia though. There's probably a bit of bad blood now; nvidia's CEO wanted to be CEO of the merged company, and that's why the merge never happened but AMD bought ATI.
All the better. The GTX series cards are looking to be completely craptastic. Outlook not bright.
Have you checked about:config for the close buttons? I'm pretty sure the "feature" is still available. ("tabs" have always been crappier than real MDI)
Anybody have the numbers on French?
The GP's numbers are a bit scary. I've always been told that French grows against Germanic languages, and has been growing; but seeing that english and german are more popular than french is not reassuring...
Gigabyte uses sold-state Japanese caps on a lot of its motherboards.
They work well with linux, and have got a lot of overclocking options (for those of you into that sort of stuff). With Asus seemingly moving towards actual computers (their latest boards are lackluster compared to the gigabyte ones, sort of like nvidia chipsets) Gigabyte is filling their void.
(not a shill, just satisfied gigabyte customer)
Those DOS/WordPerfect classes are really helpful eh?
It's because businesses are the only ones left caring.
But businesses can't fund canadian politicians... At least not directly.
I grew up around quebecois, and yes, they do.
It's just France was ashamed of its history. That doesn't mean you have to be. There is nothing wrong with historic Quebecois french, the stuff your grandparents and possibly parents talk to you with, or that you even use colliquially.
Moy is a great example. It's not that we're retarded fish monkeys from 1774, but that we've diverged from main french a lot in the process.
It's not about discounts from MS.
CECELFCE (yeah a fucking mouthful for what amounts to a bunch of dicks in an office, right?), the french catholic board of Ottawa spends money stupidly. You're going to laugh when you read this. Then cry. Then die a little on the inside.
You spend more, you get more. That's the deal. It's probably more in other places. They spend more to upgrade their computers with XP and (what the fuck?) netburst celerons at 600$ (yeah that much, and it's ~2.5GHz), and not to mention LCDs, and then next year they get more money to keep upgrading.
So why go for linux unless you go for a pricey local one? And even then can't run photoshop! That'll drop the cost!
What's really stupid though is that it never dawned on anyone that you can't game with a linux thin client. (or any thin client, and likely any linux because of permissions) So that eliminates their bitching about network sluggishness (and it is sluggy, I think they route them to the school board itself). And it's secure, and no reason for the "zenworks" bullshit, and X forwarding lets you control them remotely.
Best of all for them it can be locked down, and you can avoid a whole bunch of trouble by having them as real thin clients, or even thick clients (with systems like the asus eee desktop). Not only that, you can theme it to look like XP, or make it very simple, or better yet let the students decide. Not to mention the default settings to save at My Documents doesn't matter*; everybody has a /home/, a persistant home.
* They run deep freeze and last I was there everything got saved under U:\ as your user, with teachers using T:\ for public access.
Munich did it. I think Singapore did it.
Doesn't the US Department of Justice do it?
It's very likely. There's plenty of smaller software companies, especially linux-based ones, that just need a little kick in the ass and could do a good job (Xandros, I'm eyeing you).
The Quebec government probably has enough cash to help jump start a medium-sized linux distribution for its needs, get everything translated into french to perfection (some things might not, other things might not be good, and French in Canada is a bit different), and it would mean Quebec gets money, not Redmond.
DND at least is almost entirely windows, and now transitionning to windows xp. Server side is provided by Novell, I have no idea if it's SUSE or NetWare though.
Complete waste if you ask me, because what are they running in those offices that really requires windows?
When a site gets greedy (lookin' at your Toms, and even worse is IGN) and starts plastering ads everywhere, they do it to get money, under the guise that "oh it's free you don't pay just click our ads!". Yet it's costing me a fucking ton when it goes through the tubes.
My ISP is the angriest little twerp I've ever seen. I can't really get off tomorrow, if you get my drift; sure there's Teksavvy but the upfront costs right now are not realistic. Maybe when I move. So, here's the question for you: considering their non-grandfathered (mine is gfded) plans cap you at 2GB and start charging like 2.50$-5.00$ for each extra gigabyte (maximum is 25$, but mine is forever), do you really want tom's nasty shit clogging your tubes?
It would be nice though, if one day our descendants had to leave Earth, that they explore here and find our archives floating around or buried on the moon. Or maybe for true "extra terrestrials".
But priority is for earth of course...
Here in Ontario, at least in the French boards, 451 is requirement in 10th grade. I have no idea any more if 1984 is required (but I did read it!).
Ekiga supports video now, doesn't it? Should be as easy as customising a light WM to only run it, or if you want this as a normal desktop too just use Xfce designed to be more user-friendly (use your judgement for what's user-friendly) and run Ekiga constantly.
Much better than skype. Bonus points if you can encrypt the signal.
No, blame Canada!
But the thing is, how slow is slow?
Especially when you consider Python does a lot of things you'd have to do in C or C++ manually...
I mean we keep hearing how slow Python is supposed to be, that Perl can be as fast as C, etc. but where's the real hard data across plenty of cases? Where does each shine?
It's not like this is being used to give people fibre, either.
Isn't their part of AT&T's Video On Demand service expansion? Yeah, real nice guys. Nobody gives a flying fuck about video on demand. Video is The Pirate Bay.
Obviously? I really doubt nVidia will be able to make chipsets for Intel. And if they can it'll be crap ones, and even worse than typical nForces because they won't have QuickPath.
Yes and it was included in Atom (that looks very much like a Pentium 4 with a 45nm process) before it was reintroduced in nehalem.
No, I'm afraid we're all out for now, unless the Baby Boomers want to come into service one last time.
Really the baby boomers were the Great Generation, the generation that kept our countries free. Every step they took towards retirement during "their days" led us down a slippery slope to where we are today.
Use programs like zphone.
Inspect the code you use. Use OpenBSD or I guess Linux would be fine if sufficiently protected. Always try and use HTTPS:.
However, confuse them a bit. For normal crap like the news, use HTTP. Why not? Vary your stuff. Download small files once in a while via encrypted BT, then large ones that are porn/movies/music/ROMs/software, then get some unencrypted torrents about stuff like Haiku, ReactOS. Mess with their heads. Keep your encryption up. Alert your friends in person that they should only contact you via email, zfone, or an encrypted IM service.
I'd love to see them wasting all this time just to see that you like talking to friends and watching porn while learning to make cookies.
Heh, again Will Wright hits the nail on the head.
I bet you a couple of beers and a copy of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Alien Crossfire that by 2050 we're going to have "microwave power", power collected in space and "beamed down", as a form of newer power plants, and then later we get Fusion.
No, it's not unworkable.
It's going to happen. I don't know of any serious statement Tesla made that was a lie or a complete fantasy.
It's just taking us time because we didn't listen to him.