And also, it's quite cool that with some applications you can save a document by just dragging their icon in the title bar to the desktop (or any other location).
> and the phone weighs LESS than my 1.5 year old Kyocera 5135... 5x less than my Kyocera Smart Phone (6035)
I based the weight-point on the fact that the first phone with cam (T610) from SonyEricsson is, IIRC, about 30 grams heavier than the last one without a cam (T68i).
But well, they're probably trying to make the non-cam parts lighter.:-)
This is the first time that I actually see a sane reason to have a camera in a mobile phone. They're too crappy for taking real pictures, they increase the weight of the phone by 25%, more and more places are banning cam-phones... But at least now you can use them to buy stuff at Amazon.;-)
Well, I have it over 3MB on at least two 2.6 machines and I see a 2.9MB vmlinux on one other. It's not that I put everything into modules when I get the chance, maybe that's why you have them smaller?
Just wait until Microsoft integrates MSN search support in IE. When the user tries to open a non-existent site, type a non-URL in the address bar or do something else stupid, automatically convert it to some nifty MSN search query. Ignorant people who don't know what a search engine or Google is will love it.
Just it's pretty hard to explain people who don't know what a web browser is why they should use Mozilla FireFox or any other sane browser.
I'm just proving your point that they didn't invent anything really useful. Besides Clippy, they also gave us Comic Sans MS, the terrible font that still shows up everywhere because some people think it's cool.:-(
The notion that you could actually spot the difference between two graphics cards using the same resolution
Uhm... I can assure you, that's not hard. Not always, at least. Have to say that this is from over two years ago, when I connected my brand new 19" screen to a cheap TNT2 card. I almost cried when I saw the blurry image, and considered bringing back the screen.
Until someone told me I should get myself a sane graphic card, which I did. And indeed, the blurry image went away completely.
Although I'm told nVidia does a better job these days, I still prefer my good old G450.:-)
Implementing a site in ASP/.NET doesn't prevent you from supporting multiple web browsers... Just as using PHP doesn't prevent you from making MSIE-only sites...
Damn, this guy is a genius, I haven't seen many impressive project lists like this one. And I always thought his name sounded familiar and now I found out why. It seems he also wrote LZEXE over ten years ago, which was used by many people to make their DOS.EXE files smaller. So he's around for quite some time already!
I especially wonder how he can do this all on his own, doesn't he have a job? Or is this his job?:-)
Because "Ubuntu" stands for "people", and the average "people" won't really be interested in compiling their own operating system together for a 0.5% performance increase...
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Ok, I can see why for novice users (especially those who can't count to ten) having only two mouse buttons might be of benefit, but what about the overwhelming majority of users who have no trouble at all using ten buttons?
The answer is simple. One button is usually enough. Mac OS and all the available programs can live perfectly with "just" one mouse button. So why bother?
Yes, people certainly click on Google ads. Actually, I know some webmasters who have Google ads on their sites (as you possibly know, you can have Google ads on your site and you'll get a certain amount of money for every click), and some of them really make more money than just to pay for the hosting.
Remember that the ads are quite on-topic in many cases, which makes it more likely that someone will click on them.
And actually, your idea would be quite effective. The people who are most annoying with their phones are usually the people who buy new cellphones every three months.:-)
Second, I doubt that even debian would get the MYSQL to install correctly, and even if they did, it would be 4 versions behind. Not exactly what you want on your webserver.
Installing MySQL has never been more work to me than installing a.deb or an.rpm. The only thing left to do after installing the package is setting the root MySQL password correctly. That has never been a problem for me.
And just for your information, Debian unstable has MySQL 4.0.21 (currently the newest stable version available).
What's the problem with using an installer written by Microsoft if someone is already writing the software for the Microsoft Windows platform anyway? Doesn't make a big difference, if you ask me...
It doesn't look like AT&T is doing it for this reason, because they're also considering Mac OS X. Because, if they tell Microsoft they'll switch to Mac OS X because it's cheaper, do you think Microsoft will believe it?;-)
(No, I'm not trolling here. I'm just noting that money is apparently not the primary reason for their switch away from Windows.)
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I guess the @Home (reasonably big cable ISP in the Netherlands) webspace server can handle some load.
And also, it's quite cool that with some applications you can save a document by just dragging their icon in the title bar to the desktop (or any other location).
> and the phone weighs LESS than my 1.5 year old Kyocera 5135... 5x less than my Kyocera Smart Phone (6035)
:-)
I based the weight-point on the fact that the first phone with cam (T610) from SonyEricsson is, IIRC, about 30 grams heavier than the last one without a cam (T68i).
But well, they're probably trying to make the non-cam parts lighter.
This is the first time that I actually see a sane reason to have a camera in a mobile phone. They're too crappy for taking real pictures, they increase the weight of the phone by 25%, more and more places are banning cam-phones... But at least now you can use them to buy stuff at Amazon. ;-)
I wonder if they patented this...
Well, I have it over 3MB on at least two 2.6 machines and I see a 2.9MB vmlinux on one other. It's not that I put everything into modules when I get the chance, maybe that's why you have them smaller?
But that file's probably called bzImage or vmlinuz. And do you know what the z means? Right, compressed. :-)
vmlinux files are 3-4MBytes (2.6) AFAIK. And, as the other poster pointed out, that doesn't include the modules.
Just wait until Microsoft integrates MSN search support in IE. When the user tries to open a non-existent site, type a non-URL in the address bar or do something else stupid, automatically convert it to some nifty MSN search query. Ignorant people who don't know what a search engine or Google is will love it.
Just it's pretty hard to explain people who don't know what a web browser is why they should use Mozilla FireFox or any other sane browser.
I'm just proving your point that they didn't invent anything really useful. Besides Clippy, they also gave us Comic Sans MS, the terrible font that still shows up everywhere because some people think it's cool. :-(
> Can anyone think of something useful they developed first in the past five years?
:-)
Uhm... Clippy?
The notion that you could actually spot the difference between two graphics cards using the same resolution
:-)
Uhm... I can assure you, that's not hard. Not always, at least. Have to say that this is from over two years ago, when I connected my brand new 19" screen to a cheap TNT2 card. I almost cried when I saw the blurry image, and considered bringing back the screen.
Until someone told me I should get myself a sane graphic card, which I did. And indeed, the blurry image went away completely.
Although I'm told nVidia does a better job these days, I still prefer my good old G450.
I saw two of them already (okay, one of them was actually about doom4 :-)...
I myself was more looking for "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these" posts, BTW.
What about OGM? That's Ogg Theora, IIRC. Don't know how good it is though.
Implementing a site in ASP/.NET doesn't prevent you from supporting multiple web browsers... Just as using PHP doesn't prevent you from making MSIE-only sites...
Damn, this guy is a genius, I haven't seen many impressive project lists like this one. And I always thought his name sounded familiar and now I found out why. It seems he also wrote LZEXE over ten years ago, which was used by many people to make their DOS .EXE files smaller. So he's around for quite some time already!
:-)
I especially wonder how he can do this all on his own, doesn't he have a job? Or is this his job?
Because "Ubuntu" stands for "people", and the average "people" won't really be interested in compiling their own operating system together for a 0.5% performance increase...
Ok, I can see why for novice users (especially those who can't count to ten) having only two mouse buttons might be of benefit, but what about the overwhelming majority of users who have no trouble at all using ten buttons?
The answer is simple. One button is usually enough. Mac OS and all the available programs can live perfectly with "just" one mouse button. So why bother?
Yes, people certainly click on Google ads. Actually, I know some webmasters who have Google ads on their sites (as you possibly know, you can have Google ads on your site and you'll get a certain amount of money for every click), and some of them really make more money than just to pay for the hosting.
Remember that the ads are quite on-topic in many cases, which makes it more likely that someone will click on them.
You surely know that an IRC client for Vim exists for some time already? :-)
under OSX, all it means is that you are in the sudoers file
/Applications/...
Also, it means that you have write access in
And is slow as hell on any machine under 2 GHz... And still not quite usable on faster machines.
Yes, I'm reading. But can't you just use /query to open a separate conversation with the person?
And actually, your idea would be quite effective. The people who are most annoying with their phones are usually the people who buy new cellphones every three months. :-)
Second, I doubt that even debian would get the MYSQL to install correctly, and even if they did, it would be 4 versions behind. Not exactly what you want on your webserver.
.deb or an .rpm. The only thing left to do after installing the package is setting the root MySQL password correctly. That has never been a problem for me.
Installing MySQL has never been more work to me than installing a
And just for your information, Debian unstable has MySQL 4.0.21 (currently the newest stable version available).
What's the problem with using an installer written by Microsoft if someone is already writing the software for the Microsoft Windows platform anyway? Doesn't make a big difference, if you ask me...
It doesn't look like AT&T is doing it for this reason, because they're also considering Mac OS X. Because, if they tell Microsoft they'll switch to Mac OS X because it's cheaper, do you think Microsoft will believe it? ;-)
(No, I'm not trolling here. I'm just noting that money is apparently not the primary reason for their switch away from Windows.)