Yeah. I upgrade Mac OS X, I get a speed boost and more stuff working better. I upgrade Ubuntu, I get a speed boost and more stuff working better. People queue around the block for a new Mac OS X but shudder in horror at the prospect of a new Windows.
I have a HP Compaq 6710b laptop. Core 2 Duo, 1GB memory. Doing the exact same things (Firefox 3 and playing music), it gets 2 hours' battery in XP and 3 hours' battery in Ubuntu 8.04. Fiddling with Powertop in Ubuntu gets me another half an hour. I blame the AV in XP (McAfee) for the power suckage. (I think it's fair to count the AV for "out of the box" usage - no way I'd run Windows without an AV.)
It has a "Vista Basic Ready" sticker on it. I shudder to think how it'd do on Vista.
I buy a CD, rip it to the household server and then put the CD in a box, never to emerge again, until I'm looking for CDs for a car trip (hire cars never seem to have a CD player that plays MP3s) upon which I tend to grab a random handful.
There's a reason why Wikipedia has rules about no original research and verifiability and guidelines about notability - it's to act as some sort of filter for the buckets of crap people try to pour into it, and keep it a somewhat useful encyclopedia. If you want an index of everything there's Google, and good luck.
Anyone who's ever wondered why Wikipedia are such querulous hardarses about verifiable third-party references, no original research and notability, please reread the parent comment until you achieve cognition.
See, what's happened here is that a machine with a 630MHz processor - the height of excellence in 1999 - is enough to not only sell but to become a huge hit. I see no reason Linux won't continue to work just fine (modulo sufficient memory) even as Moore's Law continues at the top end.
19100 was the year the tech bubble burst as the Y2K Bug caused the Internet to overflow and crash, and web browsers stopped working and people had to return to their Etch-a-Sketches. (This is why websites popular after 19100, such as My Space, appear to have been designed on an etch-a sketch.)
In 19100, the King of the Internet first started to suspect he would never in fact become a millionaire from the Initial Public Offering of a tech company.
And increasingly, more and more devices do have the same OS... Linux or GNU/Linux. (In the embedded space, Linux is often paired with BusyBox and uClibc - even the FSF acknowledges this is not called GNU/Linux.) That the devices have different processors and architectures doesn't actually matter in practice, as long as it's a gcc target.
Yes, that's the great thing about X - even if your software crashes X, the Unix underneath keeps running quite happily. So even though it's just lost all your work and everything you're doing, it hasn't crashed the SYSTEM. So that's all right then!
(Last night I crashed X by running the Wine 1.0rc conformance tests. Aieee.)
I'm very right-handed, but occasionally I get twinges in my right hand. Then I switch the mouse to the left for a few months and swap the buttons around. Keeps anyone else from using my PC comfortably;-)
(This is at work. At home I use a laptop with a touchpad. Unfortunately, there's precisely one model of USB touchpad in the world, and I won't buy it without a chance to try it first.)
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"I think it's a design flaw to include the operating system in a distribution and then try to package every program under the sun."
Ubuntu Server, Debian base, FreeBSD base.
Yeah. I upgrade Mac OS X, I get a speed boost and more stuff working better. I upgrade Ubuntu, I get a speed boost and more stuff working better. People queue around the block for a new Mac OS X but shudder in horror at the prospect of a new Windows.
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Anyone who can use Windows will be able to use KDE no problems.
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(I used to get confused between KDE on my laptop and Win2k on my work desktop, when I expected something that was in one to be on the other
Indeed. I know a lot of musicians who got Eee 700s and put XP on them for music software. Perfect live music workstation - solid state, small, light.
I have a HP Compaq 6710b laptop. Core 2 Duo, 1GB memory. Doing the exact same things (Firefox 3 and playing music), it gets 2 hours' battery in XP and 3 hours' battery in Ubuntu 8.04. Fiddling with Powertop in Ubuntu gets me another half an hour. I blame the AV in XP (McAfee) for the power suckage. (I think it's fair to count the AV for "out of the box" usage - no way I'd run Windows without an AV.)
It has a "Vista Basic Ready" sticker on it. I shudder to think how it'd do on Vista.
Machina Dynamica make the finest snake oil in the universe. Brilliant pebbles. Blue construction paper.
This can't be for real. Can it?
That's 20% of all. Beating IE6+IE7+IE8 may not be easy - beating just IE8 is a different matter.
MPX.
I buy a CD, rip it to the household server and then put the CD in a box, never to emerge again, until I'm looking for CDs for a car trip (hire cars never seem to have a CD player that plays MP3s) upon which I tend to grab a random handful.
There's a reason why Wikipedia has rules about no original research and verifiability and guidelines about notability - it's to act as some sort of filter for the buckets of crap people try to pour into it, and keep it a somewhat useful encyclopedia. If you want an index of everything there's Google, and good luck.
Anyone who's ever wondered why Wikipedia are such querulous hardarses about verifiable third-party references, no original research and notability, please reread the parent comment until you achieve cognition.
Yes. Medicine is not a science - it's tech support. Highly advanced tech support, of course.
Milton Friedman was not a billionaire, but was really rather rich because he did in fact apply his knowledge to money, not just knowledge itself.
See, what's happened here is that a machine with a 630MHz processor - the height of excellence in 1999 - is enough to not only sell but to become a huge hit. I see no reason Linux won't continue to work just fine (modulo sufficient memory) even as Moore's Law continues at the top end.
What coolness? Kindles are selling like Zunes. Amazon wanted to make the iPod of ebook readers, and they ended up making the Zune of ebook readers.
I'm already on Minefield 3.1a1pre :-D
19100 was the year the tech bubble burst as the Y2K Bug caused the Internet to overflow and crash, and web browsers stopped working and people had to return to their Etch-a-Sketches. (This is why websites popular after 19100, such as My Space, appear to have been designed on an etch-a sketch.)
In 19100, the King of the Internet first started to suspect he would never in fact become a millionaire from the Initial Public Offering of a tech company.
Andy Updegrove says a fourth country may also have appealed.
And increasingly, more and more devices do have the same OS ... Linux or GNU/Linux. (In the embedded space, Linux is often paired with BusyBox and uClibc - even the FSF acknowledges this is not called GNU/Linux.) That the devices have different processors and architectures doesn't actually matter in practice, as long as it's a gcc target.
What you've just described is how the Apache Foundation was formed - that's the exact situation that happened with the NCSA httpd.
I consider it expensive for "a light bulb"; I don't consider it expensive for "a really very much nicer light bulb".
Yes, that's the great thing about X - even if your software crashes X, the Unix underneath keeps running quite happily. So even though it's just lost all your work and everything you're doing, it hasn't crashed the SYSTEM. So that's all right then!
(Last night I crashed X by running the Wine 1.0rc conformance tests. Aieee.)
I'm very right-handed, but occasionally I get twinges in my right hand. Then I switch the mouse to the left for a few months and swap the buttons around. Keeps anyone else from using my PC comfortably ;-)
(This is at work. At home I use a laptop with a touchpad. Unfortunately, there's precisely one model of USB touchpad in the world, and I won't buy it without a chance to try it first.)
"Fucking history Nazis."
History Nazis. They're just a bunch of Nazism Nazis!