>The G1G1 _doubled_ the price of the laptop for a lone purchaser
And they had much trouble delivering the order as it's much harder to sell 100000 times one laptop than to sell once 100000 laptops, so there's a scaling issue.
When you see the cost of a batch of CPUs, do you expect to be able to buy one CPU at this cost at retail?
>>The solution is to hunt down those who misuse weapons and make them incapable of or unwilling to continue.
Given that those spammers can be in a different country, your alternative solution isn't very feasible: even if you caught all the one who are in countries with anti-spam laws, this would mean only that they would use contry without anti-spam laws as proxy..
And beside in the meantime what are you going to do?
>>So what's the solution? If you get rid of the restrictions on people moving>I'm at a loss for how to fix it. Ideas? Sorry, I don't have the solution.. It's probably comes with restrictions on capital investment, but the countries which don't 'play the game' will attract capital investment (much like Ireland does with its tax laws which is why Microsoft declare his benefits here) if the country is a big consumer, protectionism laws may help..
[[For another, back to point one: stop generalizing. Just because a religion has a few (or even a lot) of nutjobs, doesn't mean that the religion itself is to blame.]]
A particular religion, no as each and every religion has their nutjob, as once you starts to curtail rationalism with 'blind faith' which is the basis for religion, then there is no easy way to separate 'normal' religious people with nutjobs..
I don't know how much Alan Cox will earn, but I guess it'll be a very decent pay for someones living in California and he'll work at home at Swansa, which makes the pay quite good indeed.
>Smaller transistors means more efficient transistors.
Not always. Those molecule sized transistors are much more efficient yes, but this rule isn't true anymore for the transistors we have in our current CPUs..
That's why now the frequency that our CPU doesn't increase anymore, it used to be to each generation of transistors were smaller and were more efficient so you could make the CPU run faster, but as this stopped the increase of frequency of our CPU has stopped also.
Yes I known, but you know what? Those IPC are fast enough that on a normal CPU you don't care about them, but on Firefox when one tab use 100% of the CPU, you'll definitely see the whole browser being slow as a snail and you won't easily know which tab is the guilty one.. On Chrome 1) it won't slow down the other tabs as much 2) you can start Chrome's task manager and close the guilty tab, problem solved.
So there's fast and fast: Chrome is fast by being smart (even though it use some slightly slower operations), FF is fast AND dumb: its design make it very fast but only when displaying nicely behaving websites only which is a very fragile situation so a dumb design decision.
Chrome allows you to avoid the websites which use 100% of the CPU too often and if Chrome becomes widespread (unlikely, I know) then badly coded websites will see less users coming and either fix their website or close down.
>>I tried Chrome, and while I find it's a refreshing innovation in GUI design for a browser, it has a *long* way to go to match Firefox's features.
The thing is: the reverse is *also* true! Firefox has also a long way to go before matching Chrome on some features such as responsiveness (thanks to Chrome's multi-process architecture). I've dropped Firefox due to its poor responsiveness, I'm currently using Opera but my trials with Chrome were quite positive too.
So in one 'word': YMMV.
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Note that what I was saying that chiropracy worked on my back pain and also on my headache, some of the chiropractors I went to see weren't far from quackery in their claim though.
The main issue with alternative medecine is that they don't use double blind experiments to weed out the things that don't work from the things that works: in some case (homeopathy) it's because sugar pills are too much of a cash cow to let it go, in other it's impossible by design: how do you do 'double blind chiropracy'??
As long as they don't do this, quacks will remain in alternative medecine..
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The thing is that not all chiropractors are equal: having done a lot of Judo when I was young, having pain in the back was quite common, a trip to the chiropractor I knew fixed it every time, then having moved into another town, once when I had a pain in the back I went to see another chiropractor (recommended by a colleague) which did basically nothing to me, of course the back pain stayed.
Another one (a chiropractor and doctor) hurt my shoulder with an unneeded manipulation: a reminder that going to the chiropractor isn't without risks!
I think that it's Asus who sells 1/3 of their NetBook with Linux. Note that be it 1/3 or be it 10%, that's still much, much more than the normal figures for Linux desktop usage..
There will be no year of Linux where Linux goes from 0.9% to 100%, that's a myth but 1/3 of the netbook are sold with Linux. Which is way higher that the percentage of Linux in the general population.
Then again, Microsoft was surprised by the NetBook success and they're restrained by the anti-trust lawsuit but I expect them to find a way to reduce Linux marketshare on the netbooks.
In a way, it's *harder* to use hiearchical directories that tags as there will always be debate about what is the 'right hierarchy': do you put all your configuration files under/etc or do you have one configuration subdirectory for each package? With a 'tagged filesystem' this kind of issue becomes obsolete as you can have both view easily..
Given that I consider that the Unix FHS *suck*, I hope that reinventing Unix with a "tagged" FS will happen, but I'm not holding my breath: there's still many people who thinks that the 'Unix FHS' as flawed as it is (/etc??/usr??) is the right way to doing things..
I'm not sure what is new in this article: in France (and I bet in many other country too), this is already the case for ID card, passport.. Not smiling when the photography is taken feels very weird, but that's not a big issue, though I would guess that parents trying to make their children not smiling for the photography may disagree.
Are you sure that's not because you're judging the routes that the GPS gives you according to criteria that the GPS either don't have or that you don't agree with?
You'd better work on your analogy: there are tri-cycles, there are motor-cycles with a kind of 'shell'(which protects against he rain and has seatbelt): both are usable like a regular motor-cycles (at a bigger cost).
It's true that the nature of Linux and the OS based on Linux is freedom, the point is: this process created a very good kernel but it also created a mess of audio APIs, unnecessary duplication of package format, etc: it seems as if as soon as you go higher level than POSIX then all the contributors will compete much more than cooperate with a resulting chaos which will last for a long time..
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15s to boot up to what?
Linux users tend to measure their boot time when the login prompt comes up and then you have to wait that KDE|Gnome starts for real..
>The G1G1 _doubled_ the price of the laptop for a lone purchaser
And they had much trouble delivering the order as it's much harder to sell 100000 times one laptop than to sell once 100000 laptops, so there's a scaling issue.
When you see the cost of a batch of CPUs, do you expect to be able to buy one CPU at this cost at retail?
>The guy was a bad president. We get it
Uhm, no if people had really 'get it' then he wouldn't have been reelected.
>>The solution is to hunt down those who misuse weapons and make them incapable of or unwilling to continue.
Given that those spammers can be in a different country, your alternative solution isn't very feasible: even if you caught all the one who are in countries with anti-spam laws, this would mean only that they would use contry without anti-spam laws as proxy..
And beside in the meantime what are you going to do?
>>So what's the solution? If you get rid of the restrictions on people moving>I'm at a loss for how to fix it. Ideas?
Sorry, I don't have the solution.. It's probably comes with restrictions on capital investment, but the countries which don't 'play the game' will attract capital investment (much like Ireland does with its tax laws which is why Microsoft declare his benefits here) if the country is a big consumer, protectionism laws may help..
[[For another, back to point one: stop generalizing. Just because a religion has a few (or even a lot) of nutjobs, doesn't mean that the religion itself is to blame.]]
A particular religion, no as each and every religion has their nutjob, as once you starts to curtail rationalism with 'blind faith' which is the basis for religion, then there is no easy way to separate 'normal' religious people with nutjobs..
>Actually, believing that the world is 6000 years old is unlikely to have any consequences.
What if some of those who believe it are in position to vote/decide budget for paleonthology teachers/researchers?
Remember that in California those religious assh*** prevented gay people to have *civil* marriage: religions have consequences even on non believers!
I don't know how much Alan Cox will earn, but I guess it'll be a very decent pay for someones living in California and he'll work at home at Swansa, which makes the pay quite good indeed.
Of course he deserves it.
>Smaller transistors means more efficient transistors.
Not always.
Those molecule sized transistors are much more efficient yes, but this rule isn't true anymore for the transistors we have in our current CPUs..
That's why now the frequency that our CPU doesn't increase anymore, it used to be to each generation of transistors were smaller and were more efficient so you could make the CPU run faster, but as this stopped the increase of frequency of our CPU has stopped also.
Yes I known, but you know what? Those IPC are fast enough that on a normal CPU you don't care about them, but on Firefox when one tab use 100% of the CPU, you'll definitely see the whole browser being slow as a snail and you won't easily know which tab is the guilty one..
On Chrome 1) it won't slow down the other tabs as much 2) you can start Chrome's task manager and close the guilty tab, problem solved.
So there's fast and fast: Chrome is fast by being smart (even though it use some slightly slower operations), FF is fast AND dumb: its design make it very fast but only when displaying nicely behaving websites only which is a very fragile situation so a dumb design decision.
Chrome allows you to avoid the websites which use 100% of the CPU too often and if Chrome becomes widespread (unlikely, I know) then badly coded websites will see less users coming and either fix their website or close down.
>>I tried Chrome, and while I find it's a refreshing innovation in GUI design for a browser, it has a *long* way to go to match Firefox's features.
The thing is: the reverse is *also* true!
Firefox has also a long way to go before matching Chrome on some features such as responsiveness (thanks to Chrome's multi-process architecture).
I've dropped Firefox due to its poor responsiveness, I'm currently using Opera but my trials with Chrome were quite positive too.
So in one 'word': YMMV.
Note that what I was saying that chiropracy worked on my back pain and also on my headache, some of the chiropractors I went to see weren't far from quackery in their claim though.
The main issue with alternative medecine is that they don't use double blind experiments to weed out the things that don't work from the things that works: in some case (homeopathy) it's because sugar pills are too much of a cash cow to let it go, in other it's impossible by design: how do you do 'double blind chiropracy'??
As long as they don't do this, quacks will remain in alternative medecine..
The thing is that not all chiropractors are equal: having done a lot of Judo when I was young, having pain in the back was quite common, a trip to the chiropractor I knew fixed it every time, then having moved into another town, once when I had a pain in the back I went to see another chiropractor (recommended by a colleague) which did basically nothing to me, of course the back pain stayed.
Another one (a chiropractor and doctor) hurt my shoulder with an unneeded manipulation: a reminder that going to the chiropractor isn't without risks!
I think that it's Asus who sells 1/3 of their NetBook with Linux.
Note that be it 1/3 or be it 10%, that's still much, much more than the normal figures for Linux desktop usage..
There will be no year of Linux where Linux goes from 0.9% to 100%, that's a myth but 1/3 of the netbook are sold with Linux.
Which is way higher that the percentage of Linux in the general population.
Then again, Microsoft was surprised by the NetBook success and they're restrained by the anti-trust lawsuit but I expect them to find a way to reduce Linux marketshare on the netbooks.
In a way, it's *harder* to use hiearchical directories that tags as there will always be debate about what is the 'right hierarchy': do you put all your configuration files under /etc or do you have one configuration subdirectory for each package?
With a 'tagged filesystem' this kind of issue becomes obsolete as you can have both view easily..
Given that I consider that the Unix FHS *suck*, I hope that reinventing Unix with a "tagged" FS will happen, but I'm not holding my breath: there's still many people who thinks that the 'Unix FHS' as flawed as it is (/etc?? /usr??) is the right way to doing things..
I disagree, this wasn't only a lucky guess, remember the controversy when they slashed the price of the iPhone after a few weeks only?
I'm not sure what is new in this article: in France (and I bet in many other country too), this is already the case for ID card, passport..
Not smiling when the photography is taken feels very weird, but that's not a big issue, though I would guess that parents trying to make their children not smiling for the photography may disagree.
>if you damage the hardware because of software, Google should replace it, as I am a firm believer of software should not be able to damage hardware,
Well what's usually protecting hardware is 'firware' i.e. software so if you're rewrite the firmware then it becomes your responsibility..
GPS routes?
Are you sure that's not because you're judging the routes that the GPS gives you according to criteria that the GPS either don't have or that you don't agree with?
More CPU power won't help in this case..
You'd better work on your analogy: there are tri-cycles, there are motor-cycles with a kind of 'shell'(which protects against he rain and has seatbelt): both are usable like a regular motor-cycles (at a bigger cost).
It's true that the nature of Linux and the OS based on Linux is freedom, the point is: this process created a very good kernel but it also created a mess of audio APIs, unnecessary duplication of package format, etc: it seems as if as soon as you go higher level than POSIX then all the contributors will compete much more than cooperate with a resulting chaos which will last for a long time..
Of course, the unmaintability of Perl's program has nothing to do with the ~#~#*#\@ design of the language itself, it must be the developpers.
Same thing for APL surely?
Face it: the language design have some consequence in maintainability.
>You know, sarcasm aside, the linux versions of these netbooks have a much higher return rate than the Windows versions.
That's debatable, I remember that one news (I think it was from MSI, not sure) said that the netbook with Linux had a much higher return rate that Windows but another news from Asus say that this isn't the case:
http://www.osnews.com/story/20568/EeePC_Return_Rate_is_Similar_for_Windows_and_Linux
As both are using different distribution, maybe this could be the explanation or they have different market or someone is lying, I don't know..
Not really ideal though: still the wrong screen technology for outside reading though.
That much material???
Each book could probably be reduced to a quarter of its size if the author had used a 'normal' writing style.