I don't think there's any significant difference. Anyone know otherwise?
Well, on my Samsung R65 with an Intel Yonah-class chip (max at 1.6GHz) Gentoo outperforms Windows (XP) in pretty much everything - especially in battery life, but also in heat pro- (or rather re-)duction. With Win the fan is constantly spinning up and down and the poor thing is growing pretty hot. But I'm using very aggressive GPU (NVidia) and CPU-Scaling on the linux-side, so that might be the reason Linux does so much better.
But that's really no surprising result - fire up beryl on linux and see your battery going to hell (I'm losing up to half an hour). The GPU and Graphics memory increase clock cycles by factor four. Though LCD backlight is the most energy consuming device on a laptop, increased GPU and CPU performance can cut down your battery's life pretty hard. As Vista doesn't really care about resources it doesn't make for a good mobile system anyway as resources are pretty hard to find out there in the wireless world.
01:52:45 | 9 $ echo "OK, run this command, now of the things it output, go back and tell me this and this about them." | wc -c
97
01:53:26 | 10 $ echo "Of these things that are running, tell me which five are using the most CPU time, then tell me the version of each, and how much memory they're using." | wc -c
151
Well but that's the normal type of ambiguity you always encounter when you have a look at natural language. Let's explain it from a programmer's point of view: The function free(x) is always applied with respect to the kind of x you're talking about. On a lower level you would just not say free(x) but free(Commodity x), free(Animate x), free(Beer x)...
It's just humans that are imprecise - and rely on a common connotation for a given word. When we speak of free software and we're hairy beardy geeks then probably we don't mean Winamp. One has to respect us when telling us stuff we're supposed to listen to. That does not at all mean that the word free looses it's original meaning... it's just another overloaded function that does not affect the other ones...
By the way, I would not consider free software inanimate. It fools you, it suits you, lies to you, intrigues against other software, it can reproduce, it chats with you, it works - most of the time for less money than it would deserve, it's bitchy, sometimes it goes out for a lunch and sometimes it takes a dump - and you don't like what you see. Hell, I can even feel it breathe from time to time.
Just have a look at Sahara. I was expecting a nice view of the desert but it looks like an alien shot through a telescope. NASA makes better pictures of stuff in space.
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I don't think there's any significant difference. Anyone know otherwise?
Well, on my Samsung R65 with an Intel Yonah-class chip (max at 1.6GHz) Gentoo outperforms Windows (XP) in pretty much everything - especially in battery life, but also in heat pro- (or rather re-)duction. With Win the fan is constantly spinning up and down and the poor thing is growing pretty hot. But I'm using very aggressive GPU (NVidia) and CPU-Scaling on the linux-side, so that might be the reason Linux does so much better.
But that's really no surprising result - fire up beryl on linux and see your battery going to hell (I'm losing up to half an hour). The GPU and Graphics memory increase clock cycles by factor four. Though LCD backlight is the most energy consuming device on a laptop, increased GPU and CPU performance can cut down your battery's life pretty hard. As Vista doesn't really care about resources it doesn't make for a good mobile system anyway as resources are pretty hard to find out there in the wireless world.
01:52:12 | 7 $ echo "command | filter | filter" | wc -c
26
01:52:45 | 9 $ echo "OK, run this command, now of the things it output, go back and tell me this and this about them." | wc -c
97
01:53:26 | 10 $ echo "Of these things that are running, tell me which five are using the most CPU time, then tell me the version of each, and how much memory they're using." | wc -c
151
01:55:05 | 3 $ echo "ps -eo command,%cpu,%mem --sort %cpu | tail -n 5" | wc -c
49
Guess what? I'll stick with bash. Making a shell able to tell you all this information with it's built-ins is also braindead.
Well but that's the normal type of ambiguity you always encounter when you have a look at natural language. Let's explain it from a programmer's point of view: The function free(x) is always applied with respect to the kind of x you're talking about. On a lower level you would just not say free(x) but free(Commodity x), free(Animate x), free(Beer x)... It's just humans that are imprecise - and rely on a common connotation for a given word. When we speak of free software and we're hairy beardy geeks then probably we don't mean Winamp. One has to respect us when telling us stuff we're supposed to listen to. That does not at all mean that the word free looses it's original meaning... it's just another overloaded function that does not affect the other ones...
By the way, I would not consider free software inanimate. It fools you, it suits you, lies to you, intrigues against other software, it can reproduce, it chats with you, it works - most of the time for less money than it would deserve, it's bitchy, sometimes it goes out for a lunch and sometimes it takes a dump - and you don't like what you see. Hell, I can even feel it breathe from time to time.
We could still talk in rot13 to each other, so what's the deal?
And since we should have read it. All four of them. Twice.
Just have a look at Sahara. I was expecting a nice view of the desert but it looks like an alien shot through a telescope. NASA makes better pictures of stuff in space.