Dunno about the exact version that's necessary, but a too old modutils means that modules simply won't work at all, because the 2.4 modules tree is different than before and the modutils don't find stuff where they expect it.
When was the last time you looked at the price of harddisks? 1995, or earlier?
It would cost them a very small fraction of a cent for each article stored, especially since back issues are rarely accessed and therefore eat very little bandwidth (which is much more expensive than disk space).
You're mostly right, but mobile phones are definitely not anymore a teenager fad in Japan, they're pretty much ubiquitous by now. My personal
theory is that this is because the Japanese commute by train a lot. One of the best things you can do in a loud, crowded train is to exchange emails over the mobile phone - can be at least a bit useful and doesn't require much concentration or space.
That "XML and HTML" was probably intended to give clueless people a general idea of what it looks like. You know, the kind of people who have no idea what XML is and would be unable to recognize
the difference between XML and HTML anyway.
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How many levels of undo?
Not sure exactly, but I've never hit it before
There's a setting that lets you specify the maximum undo levels you want to have, and the maximum memory you want it to give for that.
So I'd guess that the true limit lies with your
RAM, and with virtual memory, is theoretically extremely high (practically, it would of course slow down to a crawl if you work out on paged-out memory all the time.
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The ideal solution is, of course, to have the program offer you to perform the conversion, and you can choose whether to cancel, let it do that with default parameters, or let it give you a popup window with all the parameters.
Nah, the Nausicaä anime is a half-baked, mediocre too-early adaption of the Nausicaä manga. Which is one of the most impressive things ever printed on paper.
If you felt the movie was "environmental preaching", you did not understand it. One of the main points was that it avoided a simple "nature good, humans bad" morale: the humans who exploited nature were doing so to survive, and the agents of nature were resorting to violence too quickly. If the film had a morale, it was that one should not let one's own interests get in the way of good judgement.
Does it really matter? IMO what's important is that PCs with pre-installed Linux are becoming easy to find, removing a major barrier for potential newcomers.
Wrong. Turing machines are merely a very simple form of machine that has been proven to be theoretically as powerful in terms of what it can compute as the most powerful machines we have. But there are less powerful ones.
It's very simple. They created the 578th "OS specialized for embedded applications" project, like every other software company without a sound business plan seems to be doing today. They want their project to get more exposure, excuse me, "mindshare". They figured "how much more mindshare can you get than with a plugin for the single most used application on the face of the planet?". And that's why we were blessed with this wonderful piece of ones and zeroes. A market penetration piggy back ride.
Yes, that is all it does, at least that's the only tangible benefit its makers can cite, which you'd know if you'd actually read the article... Oh, and it's programmable. As if the browser didn't yet have Java, JavaScript, ActiveX and probably a few others I can't remember.
If you actually have a point in implying that Inferno can do oh so much more, come forth and tell us about it instead of attacking people for failing to do something you apparently haven't done yourself.
Thanks to Moore's Law, there will be room for more for some time to come. Actually, you may be on to something there... Ever asked yourself what anyone would need the laterst GHz and TB monsters for when most of them are doing the same tasks with them that the hardware of 5 years ago, a tenth as powerful, was already adequate for? Well, here's your answers: layers upon layers of abstraction, emulation and embedding that do hardly anything useful and make the system all that much more complex and difficult to debug... creating more work for programmers and technical support people. And whoosh! you got yourself a "new economy" out of nothing!
"only" 719K... Well, that's "only" 719k of superficial bloat added to... how many does IE already have? OK, might not make such a big immediate difference after all, but bloat usually creeps. And bloat it is, since the damn browser already has authentification and encryption facilities, and this plugin isn't gonna be one iota more secure than the huge mountain of swiss cheese it's being plugged into.
The point is perfectly valid, and your stupid kneejerk respons perfectly annoying.
So what's supposed to be the difference between "refine" and "explore"? I really don't see the distinct turning point the article talks about. It's siimply a gradual development. The only difference is most likely that once everyone and their dog uses it, there isn't anything fundamentally "new" about it, but that's just psychology.
my K6-III is performing fine, thank you. Got me much more bang for my bucks than anything else would because I didn't have to buy a new motherboard.
Uh... competition is now supposed to hamper innovation? Where did you get that from, the microsoft website?
Where the heck do you get the "50% faster than anything else" figure? Last time I checked, people dissed the P4 because it was slower than all the other recent chips at similar clock rates.
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Just to pick nits: since when does MS make hardware?
Yeah, but some go to great lengths to prove how big their tits are...
Dunno about the exact version that's necessary, but a too old modutils means that modules simply won't work at all, because the 2.4 modules tree is different than before and the modutils don't find stuff where they expect it.
It would cost them a very small fraction of a cent for each article stored, especially since back issues are rarely accessed and therefore eat very little bandwidth (which is much more expensive than disk space).
You're mostly right, but mobile phones are definitely not anymore a teenager fad in Japan, they're pretty much ubiquitous by now. My personal theory is that this is because the Japanese commute by train a lot. One of the best things you can do in a loud, crowded train is to exchange emails over the mobile phone - can be at least a bit useful and doesn't require much concentration or space.
Um... It's called "i-mode". DoCoMo is a company, the mobile phone subsidiary of NTT (Japanese Telecom).
That "XML and HTML" was probably intended to give clueless people a general idea of what it looks like. You know, the kind of people who have no idea what XML is and would be unable to recognize the difference between XML and HTML anyway.
Not sure exactly, but I've never hit it before
There's a setting that lets you specify the maximum undo levels you want to have, and the maximum memory you want it to give for that. So I'd guess that the true limit lies with your RAM, and with virtual memory, is theoretically extremely high (practically, it would of course slow down to a crawl if you work out on paged-out memory all the time.
The ideal solution is, of course, to have the program offer you to perform the conversion, and you can choose whether to cancel, let it do that with default parameters, or let it give you a popup window with all the parameters.
Nah, the Nausicaä anime is a half-baked, mediocre too-early adaption of the Nausicaä manga. Which is one of the most impressive things ever printed on paper.
If you felt the movie was "environmental preaching", you did not understand it. One of the main points was that it avoided a simple "nature good, humans bad" morale: the humans who exploited nature were doing so to survive, and the agents of nature were resorting to violence too quickly. If the film had a morale, it was that one should not let one's own interests get in the way of good judgement.
They do not see the Hiroshima blast. They live in the Oosaka area, hundreds of kilometers away from Hiroshima.
Bull. I live in Japan right now. I've yet to see anything betamax, but everyone has a VHS VCR.
Does it really matter? IMO what's important is that PCs with pre-installed Linux are becoming easy to find, removing a major barrier for potential newcomers.
It might be a good idea to get yourself a dictionary and look up "sarcasm" and "irony". Perhaps "humor" first so that you can understand the others.
Wrong. Turing machines are merely a very simple form of machine that has been proven to be theoretically as powerful in terms of what it can compute as the most powerful machines we have. But there are less powerful ones.
It's very simple. They created the 578th "OS specialized for embedded applications" project, like every other software company without a sound business plan seems to be doing today. They want their project to get more exposure, excuse me, "mindshare". They figured "how much more mindshare can you get than with a plugin for the single most used application on the face of the planet?". And that's why we were blessed with this wonderful piece of ones and zeroes. A market penetration piggy back ride.
If you actually have a point in implying that Inferno can do oh so much more, come forth and tell us about it instead of attacking people for failing to do something you apparently haven't done yourself.
Moron.
Point taken, but in this case it's quite obvious.
Thanks to Moore's Law, there will be room for more for some time to come. Actually, you may be on to something there... Ever asked yourself what anyone would need the laterst GHz and TB monsters for when most of them are doing the same tasks with them that the hardware of 5 years ago, a tenth as powerful, was already adequate for? Well, here's your answers: layers upon layers of abstraction, emulation and embedding that do hardly anything useful and make the system all that much more complex and difficult to debug... creating more work for programmers and technical support people. And whoosh! you got yourself a "new economy" out of nothing!
The point is perfectly valid, and your stupid kneejerk respons perfectly annoying.
So what's supposed to be the difference between "refine" and "explore"? I really don't see the distinct turning point the article talks about. It's siimply a gradual development. The only difference is most likely that once everyone and their dog uses it, there isn't anything fundamentally "new" about it, but that's just psychology.
Now *that* is a sight to see: "Hurd" and "brilliant" in the same sentence! :)
Then why isn't IBM the monopoly it used to be anymore, huh?