It doesn't look like it has a large power source--how much of it's assist is actually mechanical vs. tricks with springs and stuff that exerts force in the correct direction without any computer/electrical help?
agreed. it would be better to have a bunch of ready-to-go servers idly sitting without power, ready to boot up in case somebody posts a link to it on slashdot.
Has anybody tried setting up a solid state disc that is dedicated as swap? The faster read/write times should make it ideal, and it is getting cheaper to buy SSDs all the time.
Why not purchase a 32gb SSD and set it as swap--it's almost like free RAM. Then when it dies from overuse, buy a 128gb SSD for the same price you bought the original one for.
Is there something I'm missing here, or is that actually an idea that would work?
That reminds me of amicus curae (friend of the court) briefs. Neither the latin nor the english translation are really very helpful if you aren't already familiar with the term. Yet you never see one without the other.
as close to instantaneous as possible. I should be able to pull my netbook out of my bag in the middle of a conversation, boot it up, and look up the definition of a word in less than 30 seconds.
Also, netbooks should come with more utilities prominently placed by default, like dictionaries, and calculators. The sort of widgets that are absurd and cumbersome on a desktop might find their use in a place where you can whip out the computer, check the weather, and then stow it away again.
The big missing feature is zoom. Firefox 3 can resize a page so my mom can read it without completely destroying the layout. Chrome still resizes the old way...
Nonsense. IE remains the majority browser. Developers who want to actually produce a product that works correctly for the majority of users target IE first (because Firefox usually does the right thing when dealing with IE-isms, and IE-isms are easier to undo to target Firefox than vice versa).
That is only true of new, inexperienced web developers. Any web developer worth his salt knows that you need to develop in a standards compliant browser, and then fix the IE bugs. Otherwise you are coding for a buggy browser, and you have to un-hack the hacks you inadvertently wrote to make it look good in IE, which is twice as much work to do.
Web developer extensions like Firebug and Web Developer toolbar are the bonuses.
Barring... direct conversion of matter into energy, this problem may be unsolvable.
Why bar that? Sounds like a great way to get rid of all our old cold-war ICBMs in a useful way. Nuke the place! The resulting nuclear winter could cool down the planet quite a bit as well! Sure, it would be radioactive for a while, but it would probably be faster to wait for the radiation to die down than to try terraforming in the more conventional ways.
Actually, it's not really ironic.
The discovery that phosphorus caused the algae (in 1974)helped to get it removed from detergents.
The punchline really should be: It's not nitrogen. (Still. Also; it's still phosphorus.)
That is what was proved after 37 years. We've known it was phosphorus since 1974!
I actually have contacted the developer directly. He was not willing to put the time in to explain how to "configure the X Server" since I don't know how to do that.
... if it's been here since 2006 then why doesn't anybody know how to install it yet? i've been asking questions on the ubuntu forums (along with a few other people) but nobody knows how to get MPX working, and there are no guides available anywhere on the internet!
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It doesn't look like it has a large power source--how much of it's assist is actually mechanical vs. tricks with springs and stuff that exerts force in the correct direction without any computer/electrical help?
agreed. it would be better to have a bunch of ready-to-go servers idly sitting without power, ready to boot up in case somebody posts a link to it on slashdot.
Of course the legitimate holders of brands can sue for them
Will someone please explain to me how Pepsi has a legal right to the username "pepsi" on every single website in the world?
with MPX!
Posting Anon because its directly related to me.
What kind of reason is that? That doesn't make any sense at all!
Hopefully you all realised I meant Sushi...Doh!
So exactly how do creationists explain me, anyway?
free will, duh.
Chrome is still the #4 browser (after FF, IE, and Safari) but it was ahead of Safari for a few days, hitting almost 10% of our traffic.
Is there some place that the full charts of this info is available?
WHAT is this car that gets 50mpg!!?
Has anybody tried setting up a solid state disc that is dedicated as swap? The faster read/write times should make it ideal, and it is getting cheaper to buy SSDs all the time.
Why not purchase a 32gb SSD and set it as swap--it's almost like free RAM. Then when it dies from overuse, buy a 128gb SSD for the same price you bought the original one for.
Is there something I'm missing here, or is that actually an idea that would work?
At 40%, you're talking about 400W when in direct sunlight.
400W per what? Square inch? Square foot?
That reminds me of amicus curae (friend of the court) briefs. Neither the latin nor the english translation are really very helpful if you aren't already familiar with the term. Yet you never see one without the other.
as close to instantaneous as possible. I should be able to pull my netbook out of my bag in the middle of a conversation, boot it up, and look up the definition of a word in less than 30 seconds. Also, netbooks should come with more utilities prominently placed by default, like dictionaries, and calculators. The sort of widgets that are absurd and cumbersome on a desktop might find their use in a place where you can whip out the computer, check the weather, and then stow it away again.
into English?
this has been an astoundingly polite and civil misunderstanding. what has the internet come to? :D
I meant that they used chunks of Mozilla, not that WebKit is found in browsers like Mozilla.
Also Mozilla.
The big missing feature is zoom. Firefox 3 can resize a page so my mom can read it without completely destroying the layout. Chrome still resizes the old way...
you mean lynx?
Nonsense. IE remains the majority browser. Developers who want to actually produce a product that works correctly for the majority of users target IE first (because Firefox usually does the right thing when dealing with IE-isms, and IE-isms are easier to undo to target Firefox than vice versa).
That is only true of new, inexperienced web developers. Any web developer worth his salt knows that you need to develop in a standards compliant browser, and then fix the IE bugs. Otherwise you are coding for a buggy browser, and you have to un-hack the hacks you inadvertently wrote to make it look good in IE, which is twice as much work to do. Web developer extensions like Firebug and Web Developer toolbar are the bonuses.
Nobody ever disagreed with that!
Barring ... direct conversion of matter into energy, this problem may be unsolvable.
Why bar that? Sounds like a great way to get rid of all our old cold-war ICBMs in a useful way. Nuke the place! The resulting nuclear winter could cool down the planet quite a bit as well! Sure, it would be radioactive for a while, but it would probably be faster to wait for the radiation to die down than to try terraforming in the more conventional ways.
Actually, it's not really ironic.
The discovery that phosphorus caused the algae (in 1974)helped to get it removed from detergents.
The punchline really should be: It's not nitrogen. (Still. Also; it's still phosphorus.)
That is what was proved after 37 years. We've known it was phosphorus since 1974!
I actually have contacted the developer directly. He was not willing to put the time in to explain how to "configure the X Server" since I don't know how to do that.
though they're probably going in this direction anyway, with their whole coffee-table computer demo...
... if it's been here since 2006 then why doesn't anybody know how to install it yet? i've been asking questions on the ubuntu forums (along with a few other people) but nobody knows how to get MPX working, and there are no guides available anywhere on the internet!