No, I'm pretty sure it's more than 5.5W. Much more likely it's in the 10W range. How can 22W+ drop down to 10W? And intel's TDP is very messed up, if you're going by that counting.
The 945G is a very old chipset and is truly P4-style. (just like the Atom actually.) It was a bad pairing and that hopefully will be the death of Intel in this market, because I don't see the need for a short P4 CPU that can't do much, is too high power for ARM, and is being sandwiched by a more powerful platform (Nano) that manages to keep up or even beat it electricty-wise.
I didn't see the need in the last 8-10 years (good guess by the way, more or less on the money), because those computers were fine up until 2004, and only in 2006 did I really start getting interested in computers.
9/11 killed my field of choice at the time, though, so it wasn't exactly easy to spend on computers when I needed to fix a house thats falling apart.
But likely more usage of NAT will come up. But I hope not.
As much as I hate IPv6's naming (394dhdhs::dihd83 is your IP address, remember that!) and the fact that anything can be named (do you really need to follow my toaster around?), it's the only way to go. Unless IPv4 can be extended?
But you'll be fine, if you're in Europe or Canada or the US, plenty of IP addresses to go around, probably the same for kiwis and aussies.
I'm sure the slashdot mindhive can take a moment to understand I hate Adobe, not linux, that I'm complaining how stupid Adobe's flash plugin is. Their plugin is shit and we all know it.
Dion just needs a confidence push. People need to show him they'll stand behind that.
In many cities, namely the capital, all the newspapers are conservative and have been so for a long time. Globe and Mail was founded by an old Blue Party member... It must not be very nice to wake up and see more slamming in the media about you.
If he's given enough confidence that people will have faith in him as liberal leader he'll topple government and call in an election. Considering everyone is fucking sick and tired of Harper, and know that Dion can be swayed by his cabinet, it's very likely Harper's not going to make it out alive. And that's why he's playing like he's the king of the castle, because it depresses Dion and he knows that.
If Ontario and Quebec, or more likely the maritimes, can bring themselves to elect nothing but liberals it doesn't matter what happens in the rest of the country, it's bound to be liberal or minority.
Not to mention those 3000 "won" votes are likely to be spread out. And if not, well, wow, you might have won 1/384? seats. Or gotten 10 extra votes in every region.
With the exception of broadcom wireless chipsets almost always work. It's not our fault you buy a toaster and try and run it with OSX. Research before you buy. You'd do the same for windows and osx so why not linux? Is it because we're giving this away that it needs to be the best?
(It has the best support for wireless out of any OS, by far, if you haven't realised.)
poor opensource drivers and closed drivers being difficult to configure manually, Examples? The only things I can think of are nVidia and ATI's closed drivers. For catalyst when you get a driver that works stick with it until the next good one, and the free ATI drivers work just fine for 2D and basic 3D (I'm pretty sure they can do compiz now).
poor multimedia support on the API level (using SDL helps a bit though), Have you looked at KDE4's archetectures? They're pretty damn good for "multimedia". Unless you meant games? Still, it's not the kernel's job to play your videos. Require mplayer/gstreamer/xine/whatever and use it.
iffy ACPI support on a number of systems,
Because vendors like Foxconn locking us out and killing any OS other than windows is our problem?
Not our fault, sadly, that ACPI is a broken "standard".
negligible vendor preloads,
Dell, Acer, Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, and HP offer linux preloads. Those are the biggest names in the industry (MSI being the smallest one). You can hardly call that negligible. It's more than before.
Heck, I saw a futureshop advertisement for the Acer netbook, it had advertised it came with Linpus Linux! That's the first time I've ever seen "linux" on a bestbuy-sponsored ad!
and probably a number of other things.
Yeah but help us find them and find out what the problem actually is. Sitting around and saying linux sucks like the "linux hater" isn't going to help anyone.
I don't disagree that flash is bad for the web, but in order to convince developers not to use it, there needs to be a valid alternative.
We've been using embedded videos forever. It's only youtube that started with FLV. For anything else flash does, well, do you really need that crap? Flash is everything the web is not, in the bad sense. Closed, restricted, company-centric, OS-specific.
If youtube didn't use flash for video, what would they use instead? Animated gifs? Expecting a site like youtube to just not serve video because there isn't a free software way to do what they want to do is unreasonable.
I never had any serious, regular problem, in the last year and a half, with Debian Etch or Any Ubuntu release since 6.10 (when i first used it) with flash. The oddball crash happens, but its nothing normal or that I can re-create (in epiphany browser or firefox)
And yet I still keep getting them.
When running firefox and I minimise it, if there's a flash app Firefox becomes unresponsive.
Not to mention Flash sucks up ALL of my CPU cycles and almost all of my RAM. I run old hardware. So what? It should work just fine. Flash used to work on windows with even less. It works fine with MPlayer. Why not the plugin?
Next time one of you goes to the main US parties' conventions, ask them what they think of the RIAA, MPAA, and corporate donations.
We really do need a technical person in charge for once. And somebody who won't try to take control of everything, but let others manage what they can't think up.
Of course, would you like to increase our (still minimal by the way, even compared to Europe) debt in the name of maglevs? Personally I would but how could you sell that to The People? Out of the war but still a ton of money is being spent?
No. But how much power could you get from wind/solar in the Sahara?
And do you really think the rising sea levels are from water, not waste?
If A is High, and B is true, get some pumps out. Because pumping water out, desalinising it, and dumping it in the Sahara is probably the only way to really terraform it.
Of course before we try reforming the Sahara, might want to make sure the US doesn't dry up. Idiots who don't know how to manage water have run that country out of water in a large part of the country, namely the midwest, that might once again become a dust bowl, and even a desert. But that just means Canada's dark future is certain...
What's funny in a sad sort of way is that all the best sellers for the Xbox/360 and PS3 are intended for teenage boys who want to hack and slash. Except of course for PS3Home and Rock Band and Guitar Hero. Because you know ripping someone else's concepts and using it yourself is great isn't it?
I can totally feel the graphics man!!! I can feel the graphics!!! Graphics aren't anything but why doesn't nintendo make their console xbawks hueg and add in extra video for only 50$ more! Just stick in a 8400GS or something they're like 50$ and way better than the crap nintendo does! And FPS are great shut up!!! They're the best selling games man! So what if they haven't ever changed! Bang bang!
And man online play soo increases the life of your console! Because we all want to play against/v/irgins from 4chan who do nothing but vegitate and swear! And we so need voice chat because you need to coordinate on SSBB and like set the rules! Host is fucking useless I want to set the rules!
Credited to a typical 13 year old trying to convince me the Wii is crap. No thanks kid. The wii is good. I don't care about high definition games. I'd much rather have ray tracing on my PC.
I'd buy a console so it just works. So that I can play innovative games. Stuff that won't go obsolete so quick. Stuff I can just sit back and play with a friend, sister, by myself, whatever. SNES was like that. Gamecube was like that too. Wii is like that even more.
Nintendo tried going all-or-nothing for power. They did the gamecube. Yet everyone hated it and said it was lame... And now MSony does it, "everybody" says it's great.
Nice doublethink. Graphics are not the only thing but it's shit without good graphics. Gamecube was shit who cares about power, oh man PS3 is great let's game on my 1080p TV!
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Not that anyone uses a 64bit OS anyway, let alone Vista!
Fixed. It's more accurate now.
That we shoulfd ask for something neutral...
So, remind me, why am I going to spend 400$ on a computer to run vista and only vista?
When my older computers should still be working just fine?
No, I'm pretty sure it's more than 5.5W. Much more likely it's in the 10W range. How can 22W+ drop down to 10W? And intel's TDP is very messed up, if you're going by that counting.
The 945G is a very old chipset and is truly P4-style. (just like the Atom actually.) It was a bad pairing and that hopefully will be the death of Intel in this market, because I don't see the need for a short P4 CPU that can't do much, is too high power for ARM, and is being sandwiched by a more powerful platform (Nano) that manages to keep up or even beat it electricty-wise.
What would be nice is a desktop icon to install Xubuntu, something like "Feeling Slow?" and walks you through the xubuntu install...
Even then, the atom is pretty damn slow. I don't think, especially with the idiot path xubuntu has taken, that it will be a good idea in the long run.
There are miniITX Geodes. I can't see why AMD couldn't pressure Gigabyte or another close partner to release a 780G miniITX board.
Of course they also have DTX but that's another story.
I didn't see the need in the last 8-10 years (good guess by the way, more or less on the money), because those computers were fine up until 2004, and only in 2006 did I really start getting interested in computers.
9/11 killed my field of choice at the time, though, so it wasn't exactly easy to spend on computers when I needed to fix a house thats falling apart.
Most people thought XP was rubbish for the first couple of years that it was out for
Not gamers, gamers loved it from the start. Extra stability? Yes please!
Vista does a lot of things right, and improves on XP in many, many areas,
Name a few that warrant a 40GB+ hard drive and 1GB of RAM.
it's just dogged by this idea that it's crap because you can't run it on your P3-800 and it won't work with your dot-matrix printer from 1977.
And it won't run on my Pentium 3s 500MHz or Pentium 2 450MHz. Is it my fault I can't afford to upgrade right now?
Nobody will be able to join anymore.
But likely more usage of NAT will come up. But I hope not.
As much as I hate IPv6's naming (394dhdhs::dihd83 is your IP address, remember that!) and the fact that anything can be named (do you really need to follow my toaster around?), it's the only way to go. Unless IPv4 can be extended?
But you'll be fine, if you're in Europe or Canada or the US, plenty of IP addresses to go around, probably the same for kiwis and aussies.
Thanks guys for modding me troll.
I'm sure the slashdot mindhive can take a moment to understand I hate Adobe, not linux, that I'm complaining how stupid Adobe's flash plugin is. Their plugin is shit and we all know it.
Dion just needs a confidence push. People need to show him they'll stand behind that.
In many cities, namely the capital, all the newspapers are conservative and have been so for a long time. Globe and Mail was founded by an old Blue Party member... It must not be very nice to wake up and see more slamming in the media about you.
If he's given enough confidence that people will have faith in him as liberal leader he'll topple government and call in an election. Considering everyone is fucking sick and tired of Harper, and know that Dion can be swayed by his cabinet, it's very likely Harper's not going to make it out alive. And that's why he's playing like he's the king of the castle, because it depresses Dion and he knows that.
Doesn't hold true in Canada.
If Ontario and Quebec, or more likely the maritimes, can bring themselves to elect nothing but liberals it doesn't matter what happens in the rest of the country, it's bound to be liberal or minority.
Not to mention those 3000 "won" votes are likely to be spread out. And if not, well, wow, you might have won 1/384? seats. Or gotten 10 extra votes in every region.
And why not pipe it to heat homes / industrial zones?
like poor wireless support (on the driver level),
With the exception of broadcom wireless chipsets almost always work. It's not our fault you buy a toaster and try and run it with OSX. Research before you buy. You'd do the same for windows and osx so why not linux? Is it because we're giving this away that it needs to be the best?
(It has the best support for wireless out of any OS, by far, if you haven't realised.)
poor opensource drivers and closed drivers being difficult to configure manually,
Examples? The only things I can think of are nVidia and ATI's closed drivers. For catalyst when you get a driver that works stick with it until the next good one, and the free ATI drivers work just fine for 2D and basic 3D (I'm pretty sure they can do compiz now).
poor multimedia support on the API level (using SDL helps a bit though),
Have you looked at KDE4's archetectures? They're pretty damn good for "multimedia". Unless you meant games? Still, it's not the kernel's job to play your videos. Require mplayer/gstreamer/xine/whatever and use it.
iffy ACPI support on a number of systems,
Because vendors like Foxconn locking us out and killing any OS other than windows is our problem?
Not our fault, sadly, that ACPI is a broken "standard".
negligible vendor preloads,
Dell, Acer, Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, and HP offer linux preloads. Those are the biggest names in the industry (MSI being the smallest one). You can hardly call that negligible. It's more than before.
Heck, I saw a futureshop advertisement for the Acer netbook, it had advertised it came with Linpus Linux! That's the first time I've ever seen "linux" on a bestbuy-sponsored ad!
and probably a number of other things.
Yeah but help us find them and find out what the problem actually is. Sitting around and saying linux sucks like the "linux hater" isn't going to help anyone.
I don't disagree that flash is bad for the web, but in order to convince developers not to use it, there needs to be a valid alternative.
We've been using embedded videos forever. It's only youtube that started with FLV. For anything else flash does, well, do you really need that crap? Flash is everything the web is not, in the bad sense. Closed, restricted, company-centric, OS-specific.
If youtube didn't use flash for video, what would they use instead? Animated gifs? Expecting a site like youtube to just not serve video because there isn't a free software way to do what they want to do is unreasonable.
MPEG2, h.264, xvid, theora, DIRAC?
I never had any serious, regular problem, in the last year and a half, with Debian Etch or Any Ubuntu release since 6.10 (when i first used it) with flash. The oddball crash happens, but its nothing normal or that I can re-create (in epiphany browser or firefox)
And yet I still keep getting them.
When running firefox and I minimise it, if there's a flash app Firefox becomes unresponsive.
Not to mention Flash sucks up ALL of my CPU cycles and almost all of my RAM. I run old hardware. So what? It should work just fine. Flash used to work on windows with even less. It works fine with MPlayer. Why not the plugin?
I don't see Groening as the type of person who'd do that...
Unless he's trying to spite Fox for something?
Latest seasons of The Simpsons haven't been so crappy. They're not laugh-you-balls-off funny like the mid-run seasons, but still pretty damn good.
Who needs backups when you're on the internet?
Especially with music.
Next time one of you goes to the main US parties' conventions, ask them what they think of the RIAA, MPAA, and corporate donations.
We really do need a technical person in charge for once. And somebody who won't try to take control of everything, but let others manage what they can't think up.
Of course, would you like to increase our (still minimal by the way, even compared to Europe) debt in the name of maglevs? Personally I would but how could you sell that to The People? Out of the war but still a ton of money is being spent?
Not add symmetry.
Follow the golden rule.
I've never really gotten a clear explanation on that Uncanny Valley chart wikipedia hosts...
What do the + and - mean, exactly? How you'd treat it as being "good" or "bad", in terms of intention?
No. But how much power could you get from wind/solar in the Sahara?
And do you really think the rising sea levels are from water, not waste?
If A is High, and B is true, get some pumps out. Because pumping water out, desalinising it, and dumping it in the Sahara is probably the only way to really terraform it.
Of course before we try reforming the Sahara, might want to make sure the US doesn't dry up. Idiots who don't know how to manage water have run that country out of water in a large part of the country, namely the midwest, that might once again become a dust bowl, and even a desert. But that just means Canada's dark future is certain...
Well, it's easy.
Kiff is a silly mooshy green man who bears the children, and the Kiffians are part of his species...
Program your entire phone now, with down to the metal assembler.
What's funny in a sad sort of way is that all the best sellers for the Xbox/360 and PS3 are intended for teenage boys who want to hack and slash. Except of course for PS3Home and Rock Band and Guitar Hero. Because you know ripping someone else's concepts and using it yourself is great isn't it?
I can totally feel the graphics man!!! I can feel the graphics!!! Graphics aren't anything but why doesn't nintendo make their console xbawks hueg and add in extra video for only 50$ more! Just stick in a 8400GS or something they're like 50$ and way better than the crap nintendo does! And FPS are great shut up!!! They're the best selling games man! So what if they haven't ever changed! Bang bang!
And man online play soo increases the life of your console! Because we all want to play against /v/irgins from 4chan who do nothing but vegitate and swear! And we so need voice chat because you need to coordinate on SSBB and like set the rules! Host is fucking useless I want to set the rules!
Credited to a typical 13 year old trying to convince me the Wii is crap. No thanks kid. The wii is good. I don't care about high definition games. I'd much rather have ray tracing on my PC.
I'd buy a console so it just works. So that I can play innovative games. Stuff that won't go obsolete so quick. Stuff I can just sit back and play with a friend, sister, by myself, whatever. SNES was like that. Gamecube was like that too. Wii is like that even more.
Nintendo tried going all-or-nothing for power. They did the gamecube. Yet everyone hated it and said it was lame... And now MSony does it, "everybody" says it's great.
Nice doublethink. Graphics are not the only thing but it's shit without good graphics. Gamecube was shit who cares about power, oh man PS3 is great let's game on my 1080p TV!