A bit OT, but I'm kind of curious what sort of "factory restore" functionality will be included with the device. It comes with no built-in optical drive, so perhaps.. a tool to make a backup image on Flash?
If Dell makes the Linux image downloadable, it would be really cool too.
The Flemish are more anal about that than the Walloons, especially in Brussels. It's geographically part of Flanders, but is mostly French-speaking (and encroaching on Flemish-speaking suburbs), to the point that a (hypothetical, but getting increasingly likely) breakaway Flanders would have trouble holding to it.
But less than two percent of the whole world speaks French, and the great majority of them live in France, about 90% of all French speakers, to be exact
The great majority of French speakers live in West Africa; in total it probably accounts for 7% of the world population, not 2%. Compared to the 11% of the world population that speaks English as first or second language, give or take, quite decent.
I just ordered one, and the estimated shipping time is 10/10 (I had to customise the base Linux model, since the higher-end models are twinned irrevocably with XP).
So if the delay is only 15 days, hopefully the quoted estimate is overly pessimistic (that tends to be the case with Dell and Apple), and it will actually ship before the month is out. Sweet.
I personally prefer black to red. Red's more striking, yes, but I don't want a "look at me" laptop.
Yes, it's a pain to set up, but so is any dual-boot setup.
EasyBCD makes it rather easy, actually. The hardest part in dual-booting with Windows is partitioning -- the trick is to make sure there are some gap between the Windows partition and the Linux partitions, or even better, create all the partitions in Windows, and only change the type and initialize them from the Linux installer.
Otherwise, Windows and Linux sees different disk geometries, and if you're not careful you could end up with an overlap, with disastrous consequences.
On the other hand, CFC has higher molecular weight (CFC-113 is 118.375 g/mol) and so would stay in the atmosphere longer. One of the reason Mars' atmosphere is mostly CO2 is because anything lighter has vented off into space long ago; the RMS velocity of nitrogen and oxygen gas is higher than the escape velocity of Mars.
Or we can pump Mars' atmosphere full of CFCs. Per unit weight, much more effective than ammonia, especially considering the tiny proportion of an asteroid's weight that's actually ammonia (plus, with asteroidal impacts you risk evaporating the precious water ice!)
The first part suggest it is in orbit around the Sun. Not a sun. The Sun. Thus, there are no other planets in the universe outside of our Solar System. Not quite:
The IAU...resolves that planets and other bodies, except satellites, in our Solar System be defined into three distinct categories in the following way
(emphasis mine).
Naturally a different standard needs to be applied to extra-solar planets, since our observational methods lack the resolution to ascertain their conformance.
It will -- and is already happening (ZFS on FUSE). What can't happen for licensing reason is ZFS in the Linux kernel, rather than as a userspace file system.
Naturally, performance will never be as good due to the additional overhead, but another FUSE filesystem driver, NTFS3g runs tolerably fine.
Any publicly traded corporation is right-wing - in favor of the interests of investors - by definition.
From the viewpoint of a purist who believes in socialism, yes. Yet from the viewpoint of American conservatives, most mainstream media are overly liberal. It's a matter of degree.
My point is that in the British political scheme, the Independent is considered more leftish than most -- outside weekly magazines such as The New Statesman, that is.
Why the immediate assumption that newspaper owners are right-wing? Or that incompetence at newspapers must be a result of right-wing ownership?
The Independent happens to be politically left-of-centre, and in the early years of New Labour being in power it is arguably the only major broadsheet (back when broadsheets actually refer to physical dimension as well) on the centre-left that regularly criticizes the British government.
It always seems like the Indie is struggling to establish a market niche, though -- flanked by the Guardianistas on the left and the right-leaning Times and Daily Telegraph. A lot of readers, myself included, prefers reading Guardian and Times because they are simply better-written; not surprising that the Independent struggles to fund proper fact-checking.
But that's why patents do have expiration dates. But perhaps there should be a time limit on how long the patent holder has to sue, after a product is openly known to use a patented technology.
Still, this must be the first non-frivolous patent claim to make Slashdot headlines in quite some time (the only one I could remember from recently was the dispute over ZFS)
Their plugins heavily utilize AltiVec and SSE, but then again the plugins are UI-independent. It's probably the Codewarrior-isms that make the code hard to port to Xcode. Or perhaps the Mac back-end had too many erroneous assumptions hardcoded (big-endian CPU, etc.). Who knows?
Yes, but parallel bubble sort, which makes all the difference, efficiency-wise:)
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The actual situation is most likely in-between the two extremes posited by parent and GP. Adobe has its own abstraction layer that they program against, so once they have a way to target GTK or Qt with that backend, compiling the applications should be quite straightforward.
(This layer is likely to be rather complex -- witness how long it took them to bring Photoshop to MacIntel)
Between xulrunner getting more mature (in the upcoming Fedora 9, Firefox, Epiphany etc. link against xulrunner, rather than every package depending on Firefox for Gecko, and thus needing rebuilds everytime Firefox is updated, even for non-Gecko-reasons), and WebKit's GTK port, yes, it would be nice if we are finally rid of gtkhtml.
Wonder when some projects will make the switch though. Liferea will probably switch quite quickly, but Evolution?
A 5 hour battery life on a 16 hour flight would be a bit... lacking. Not to mention people that travel to underdeveloped regions. Especially considering the 5 hour rating is probably the max not the minimum.
Completely agree there, and that is what external batteries are for (battery packs that connect to the laptop's power plug). Unfortunately, last time I check, there's no official third-party MagSafe licensee -- I noticed mikegyver.com but that looked rather fishy.
Negroponte being a visionary does not mean he has business acumen, unfortunately. He's currently exploring G1G1 programs for other countries, but is refusing to continue it in the States (why that is, who knows)
You're entirely correct -- it only captures frequencies up to ~22 kHz. Audio DVDs are encoded at 96 kHz (thus 48 kHz), which might be an overkill, while the audio track in normal DVDs are encoded at 48 kHz which seem perfectly reasonable (worryingly, a lot of DVD ripping software would offer to downsample the audio to 44.1 kHz -- for no good reason).
And she gave a talk with some of the same slides back in 2006, for the Beyond Belief conference. Enceladus is basically unique because not only does it have water, but it's also liquid water, and thus is probably the best bet right now for extra-terrestrial life in the solar system.
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A bit OT, but I'm kind of curious what sort of "factory restore" functionality will be included with the device. It comes with no built-in optical drive, so perhaps .. a tool to make a backup image on Flash?
If Dell makes the Linux image downloadable, it would be really cool too.
The Flemish are more anal about that than the Walloons, especially in Brussels. It's geographically part of Flanders, but is mostly French-speaking (and encroaching on Flemish-speaking suburbs), to the point that a (hypothetical, but getting increasingly likely) breakaway Flanders would have trouble holding to it.
The great majority of French speakers live in West Africa; in total it probably accounts for 7% of the world population, not 2%. Compared to the 11% of the world population that speaks English as first or second language, give or take, quite decent.
I just ordered one, and the estimated shipping time is 10/10 (I had to customise the base Linux model, since the higher-end models are twinned irrevocably with XP).
So if the delay is only 15 days, hopefully the quoted estimate is overly pessimistic (that tends to be the case with Dell and Apple), and it will actually ship before the month is out. Sweet.
I personally prefer black to red. Red's more striking, yes, but I don't want a "look at me" laptop.
Detroit does not care about that either when they tried to torpedo stricter CAFE standards. In the long run, that hurts their own competitiveness.
This is unconscionable, though. And the excuse the judges came up with is just plain ridiculous.
8 threads per core in Niagara 2; you get up to 64 threads, as the chip is available with 4, 6 or 8 cores.
Yes, it's a pain to set up, but so is any dual-boot setup.
EasyBCD makes it rather easy, actually. The hardest part in dual-booting with Windows is partitioning -- the trick is to make sure there are some gap between the Windows partition and the Linux partitions, or even better, create all the partitions in Windows, and only change the type and initialize them from the Linux installer.
Otherwise, Windows and Linux sees different disk geometries, and if you're not careful you could end up with an overlap, with disastrous consequences.
On the other hand, CFC has higher molecular weight (CFC-113 is 118.375 g/mol) and so would stay in the atmosphere longer. One of the reason Mars' atmosphere is mostly CO2 is because anything lighter has vented off into space long ago; the RMS velocity of nitrogen and oxygen gas is higher than the escape velocity of Mars.
Or we can pump Mars' atmosphere full of CFCs. Per unit weight, much more effective than ammonia, especially considering the tiny proportion of an asteroid's weight that's actually ammonia (plus, with asteroidal impacts you risk evaporating the precious water ice!)
(emphasis mine).
Naturally a different standard needs to be applied to extra-solar planets, since our observational methods lack the resolution to ascertain their conformance.
It will -- and is already happening (ZFS on FUSE). What can't happen for licensing reason is ZFS in the Linux kernel, rather than as a userspace file system.
Naturally, performance will never be as good due to the additional overhead, but another FUSE filesystem driver, NTFS3g runs tolerably fine.
Any publicly traded corporation is right-wing - in favor of the interests of investors - by definition.
From the viewpoint of a purist who believes in socialism, yes. Yet from the viewpoint of American conservatives, most mainstream media are overly liberal. It's a matter of degree.My point is that in the British political scheme, the Independent is considered more leftish than most -- outside weekly magazines such as The New Statesman, that is.
Why the immediate assumption that newspaper owners are right-wing? Or that incompetence at newspapers must be a result of right-wing ownership?
The Independent happens to be politically left-of-centre, and in the early years of New Labour being in power it is arguably the only major broadsheet (back when broadsheets actually refer to physical dimension as well) on the centre-left that regularly criticizes the British government.
It always seems like the Indie is struggling to establish a market niche, though -- flanked by the Guardianistas on the left and the right-leaning Times and Daily Telegraph. A lot of readers, myself included, prefers reading Guardian and Times because they are simply better-written; not surprising that the Independent struggles to fund proper fact-checking.
You're reinforcing GP's point. The laptops you cited are classified by Dell as belonging to their business Latitude line.
Not that the price premium is that steep for Dells, though.
But that's why patents do have expiration dates. But perhaps there should be a time limit on how long the patent holder has to sue, after a product is openly known to use a patented technology.
Still, this must be the first non-frivolous patent claim to make Slashdot headlines in quite some time (the only one I could remember from recently was the dispute over ZFS)
Their plugins heavily utilize AltiVec and SSE, but then again the plugins are UI-independent. It's probably the Codewarrior-isms that make the code hard to port to Xcode. Or perhaps the Mac back-end had too many erroneous assumptions hardcoded (big-endian CPU, etc.). Who knows?
Yes, but parallel bubble sort, which makes all the difference, efficiency-wise :)
The actual situation is most likely in-between the two extremes posited by parent and GP. Adobe has its own abstraction layer that they program against, so once they have a way to target GTK or Qt with that backend, compiling the applications should be quite straightforward.
(This layer is likely to be rather complex -- witness how long it took them to bring Photoshop to MacIntel)
Between xulrunner getting more mature (in the upcoming Fedora 9, Firefox, Epiphany etc. link against xulrunner, rather than every package depending on Firefox for Gecko, and thus needing rebuilds everytime Firefox is updated, even for non-Gecko-reasons), and WebKit's GTK port, yes, it would be nice if we are finally rid of gtkhtml.
Wonder when some projects will make the switch though. Liferea will probably switch quite quickly, but Evolution?
Completely agree there, and that is what external batteries are for (battery packs that connect to the laptop's power plug). Unfortunately, last time I check, there's no official third-party MagSafe licensee -- I noticed mikegyver.com but that looked rather fishy.
Negroponte being a visionary does not mean he has business acumen, unfortunately. He's currently exploring G1G1 programs for other countries, but is refusing to continue it in the States (why that is, who knows)
It says a lot about Slashdot editors and contributors that the mistake was made on the Slashdot side.. TFA did not mention ISPs at all.
You're entirely correct -- it only captures frequencies up to ~22 kHz. Audio DVDs are encoded at 96 kHz (thus 48 kHz), which might be an overkill, while the audio track in normal DVDs are encoded at 48 kHz which seem perfectly reasonable (worryingly, a lot of DVD ripping software would offer to downsample the audio to 44.1 kHz -- for no good reason).
*cough* an audio CD is sampled at 44.1 kHz, not 32 kHz
And she gave a talk with some of the same slides back in 2006, for the Beyond Belief conference. Enceladus is basically unique because not only does it have water, but it's also liquid water, and thus is probably the best bet right now for extra-terrestrial life in the solar system.