"While Linux has modern filesystems and gets optimized and fixed almost constantly, Windows Vista still uses the same basic NTFS layout and associated algorithms that were finalised around 10 years ago, and weren't even very good back then. There have been only very minor revisions to NTFS and virtually none of them have improved its performance or reduced its fragmentation."
i see no evidence of this so called optimization for ssd on linux. prove it or else you are ujst talking out of your ass.
i've had different experience. mother and her friends use ie regardless of what i tell them about firefox. i've let them try it, they go back to ie. in fact the whole idea of surfing using tabs is just something they find uninteresting. lol
its actually more. unless the population all lived beside the desert theres going to be massive use of long range transmission wires. and without any superconducting technology, theres going to be significant loss of energy/efficiency to the grid.
there was e3 coverage in the gaming mags long before the internet got big. let alone big enough that downloading booth babe pictures didn't take minutes.
as for growing up...they seem to be fooling themselves into believing they are something other than what they are. they shouldn't grow up, its a youth industry catering to mostly youth who have the time to follow and play most of these games. sure, theres "casual" gamers now days, but they are unreliable and don't follow e3 anyways, which is why it should remain as free wheeling as it has always been. it caters to the hardcore, and the hardcore spread the news.
yup, its gaming, its silliness and entertainment. and yes its also a promotional event that gamers follow, and gamers are an important audience/factor in trade shows. it gives media something to report on, and basically free advertising for their products. its odd how they suddenly think they are just selling widgets and should have a boring trade show. political correctness and the fat suits of big business have been working together to ruin e3.
yup with a government censoring as much as theirs and indoctrinating their people, making others the enemy is rather simple. people whine about western countries alot. but just imagine if the us were like china. people would have their searches for abu garib censored, and what do you think that kind of environment would do to a people esp when stoked with nationalism like in china. its a powder keg. they've made themselves dangerous and thats why china is not our friend.
not very currently, and they require large heatsinks that look rather like giant cpu heatsinks to keep the leds cool enough to last for any reasonable period. and thats the problem so far, its not affordable. its not just manufacturing price but efficiency. leds cannot survive heat.
hasn't happened, there are issues with touch screens that make them imperfect for all uses.
and frankly reaching out and smudging my screen isn't something comfortable or attractive
problem is even if this is a swamp cooler and yes you can toss ice packs into swamp coolers as well, it might be a cheap and cheesy one. how good is the evaporative media, is it a thick honeycomb type thing where theres plenty of surface area and water or is it just one of those cheap ones with a sheet of fabric net thats sorta wet.
no, apple got greedy and charged per port.
over millions of units..that adds up.
apple got greedy and short sighted. and we pay with an technically inferior product.
:P russia didn't do better if you factor in the number of their own they had to kill to make their system "work".
and the golden age of public opinion didn't exist, thats just nostalgic nonsense.
The job of the corporation is to create jobs, maximize profits, create good profits and create share holder returns. By giving away money they are basically giving away customers money, giving away share holder money. Forced charity or charity where you give away others money is not charity.
no i understand perfectly. the entire enterprise still does revolve around the idea that this laptop is the magic bullet. "the laptop is just a particularly effective - and cost-effective - tool. "
thats the magic bullet assumption right there.
olpc people aren't helping pay for schools books or teachers. so any help they are giving this project is mostly to justify their own existence and sell their product.
flawed idea from the start. making poor governments pay for a gadget that pushes a certain agenda and rather naive belief that technology is a magic bullet. donating the thing is fine. having the poor pay for your social experiment is ludicrous. esp since technology has not been an educational magic bullet in developed countries. the ui is the least of this projects problems.
for better humidity/air pressure alone i'd choose a 787 flight over a380 alone. lessen the air travel fatigue one gets from long flights. i'd even pay a little more not to feel like cr@p from a long flight.
thats hilarious. hoping the hardware stays insufficient to run a ms app is a losing proposition. cheap speed and memory are here. light weight os frankly is not that important.
people are suddenly so interested in saving someone elses job. of course these people were probably the first to buy foreign cars american factory workers be damned.
blacks are over represented in sports and music and entertainment in general.
i guess they should not exceed the 10% or so they are of the total population otherwise it smacks of unfairness and depriving others of opportunities.
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"While Linux has modern filesystems and gets optimized and fixed almost constantly, Windows Vista still uses the same basic NTFS layout and associated algorithms that were finalised around 10 years ago, and weren't even very good back then. There have been only very minor revisions to NTFS and virtually none of them have improved its performance or reduced its fragmentation." i see no evidence of this so called optimization for ssd on linux. prove it or else you are ujst talking out of your ass.
i've had different experience. mother and her friends use ie regardless of what i tell them about firefox. i've let them try it, they go back to ie. in fact the whole idea of surfing using tabs is just something they find uninteresting. lol
its actually more. unless the population all lived beside the desert theres going to be massive use of long range transmission wires. and without any superconducting technology, theres going to be significant loss of energy/efficiency to the grid.
its true, but the transmission losses would be pretty great, most people don't live near deserts, and the efficiency of panels is still poor.
your video link is dead already
there was e3 coverage in the gaming mags long before the internet got big. let alone big enough that downloading booth babe pictures didn't take minutes. as for growing up...they seem to be fooling themselves into believing they are something other than what they are. they shouldn't grow up, its a youth industry catering to mostly youth who have the time to follow and play most of these games. sure, theres "casual" gamers now days, but they are unreliable and don't follow e3 anyways, which is why it should remain as free wheeling as it has always been. it caters to the hardcore, and the hardcore spread the news.
yup, its gaming, its silliness and entertainment. and yes its also a promotional event that gamers follow, and gamers are an important audience/factor in trade shows. it gives media something to report on, and basically free advertising for their products. its odd how they suddenly think they are just selling widgets and should have a boring trade show. political correctness and the fat suits of big business have been working together to ruin e3.
yup with a government censoring as much as theirs and indoctrinating their people, making others the enemy is rather simple. people whine about western countries alot. but just imagine if the us were like china. people would have their searches for abu garib censored, and what do you think that kind of environment would do to a people esp when stoked with nationalism like in china. its a powder keg. they've made themselves dangerous and thats why china is not our friend.
well you can be sure they accounted for remote wipes. who do you think makes these things anyways lol;)
sounds good, except that the heat of an array of powerful leds would fry the thing
not very currently, and they require large heatsinks that look rather like giant cpu heatsinks to keep the leds cool enough to last for any reasonable period. and thats the problem so far, its not affordable. its not just manufacturing price but efficiency. leds cannot survive heat.
hasn't happened, there are issues with touch screens that make them imperfect for all uses. and frankly reaching out and smudging my screen isn't something comfortable or attractive
oh it gets worse. theres such a thing as Audiophile AC power cable. its a freaky world....
problem is even if this is a swamp cooler and yes you can toss ice packs into swamp coolers as well, it might be a cheap and cheesy one. how good is the evaporative media, is it a thick honeycomb type thing where theres plenty of surface area and water or is it just one of those cheap ones with a sheet of fabric net thats sorta wet.
lol yea that or a light tube/skylight. most other solar is just hobbiest stuff. impractical/costly
no, apple got greedy and charged per port. over millions of units..that adds up. apple got greedy and short sighted. and we pay with an technically inferior product.
:P russia didn't do better if you factor in the number of their own they had to kill to make their system "work". and the golden age of public opinion didn't exist, thats just nostalgic nonsense.
The job of the corporation is to create jobs, maximize profits, create good profits and create share holder returns. By giving away money they are basically giving away customers money, giving away share holder money. Forced charity or charity where you give away others money is not charity.
no i understand perfectly. the entire enterprise still does revolve around the idea that this laptop is the magic bullet. "the laptop is just a particularly effective - and cost-effective - tool. " thats the magic bullet assumption right there. olpc people aren't helping pay for schools books or teachers. so any help they are giving this project is mostly to justify their own existence and sell their product.
flawed idea from the start. making poor governments pay for a gadget that pushes a certain agenda and rather naive belief that technology is a magic bullet. donating the thing is fine. having the poor pay for your social experiment is ludicrous. esp since technology has not been an educational magic bullet in developed countries. the ui is the least of this projects problems.
in operation? i assume that means you ignore the massive development cost funded from british tax coffers?
for better humidity/air pressure alone i'd choose a 787 flight over a380 alone. lessen the air travel fatigue one gets from long flights. i'd even pay a little more not to feel like cr@p from a long flight.
thats hilarious. hoping the hardware stays insufficient to run a ms app is a losing proposition. cheap speed and memory are here. light weight os frankly is not that important.
people are suddenly so interested in saving someone elses job. of course these people were probably the first to buy foreign cars american factory workers be damned.
blacks are over represented in sports and music and entertainment in general. i guess they should not exceed the 10% or so they are of the total population otherwise it smacks of unfairness and depriving others of opportunities.