My experience is that the people with the most knowledge of Windows also have experience with Linux. I do not think it wise to let someone who can't install Debian try to fix a Windows box.
non-root access means very minimum damage to a system
Hahahahaha no.
Non-root access is sufficient to blow away the user's documents and snarf their passwords. The only thing root lets you do is screw with the other users. But most desktops are single-user machines.
GP is referring to maximum frequency, which is less on Ivy because of the increased thermal density. (The size of the die shrunk more than the power consumption did.)
I'm not a big fan of x86, but I think Intel got endianness right.
Consider a single byte. We call the low bit, which contributes 2^0, 'bit 0'. We call the high bit, which contributes 2^7, 'bit 7'. Why shoud we not use the same order for larger constructions?
In a little endian word, bit n is in the (n/8)th byte. Big endian is just weird.
The problem with C++ is that it has too many features, and too many ways to do the same thing. You can write complex application programs in C++ while only knowing a small subset of the language. The problem ocurs when someone comes along to maintain your code and knows a completely different subset.
1. Lights that are left on for long periods of time -- CFLs.
Tubular fluorescent. Larger area light source, so less brightness from one area of your vision. Cheaper, 'cause you only have to replace the bulb, not the ballast. Less prone to failure, because the ballast isn't subject to the heat from the bulb.
AFAIK, fluorescent is more efficient than LED, particularly if you use actual T8 fixtures. The 'advantage' of LEDs is that they can scale to very low brightness and power.
I think the best way to go for efficiency and low glare is recessed fluorescent tubes with a grid of slats to block the bulbs from view at oblique angles.
I find you name ninnies to be far more offensive than calling a piece of software 'The Gimp'. Oh no, people enjoy BDSM in the privacy of their own homes. WHATEVER SHALL WE DO?!
2.6 is the stable version. All the development happens in 2.7. The value sliders have been greatly improved, and they've got single-window mode (still kinda buggy though).
LCDs have a big advantage over CRTs in that the addressable pixels line up with the physical pixels. To display the same resolution without aliasing, a CRT needs a dot pitch twice as fine as an LCD (Nyquist sampling condition).
I think this is one of those situations where absolute fairness must be sacrificed for the Rule of Pretty. Highly competitive games like Starcraft could have a tournament mode to force everyone to use the same aspect ratio.
At that horizontal size, though, you want to use multiple displays so you can turn them in a bit. A 2.39:1 display would subtend a huge angle, and would thus have color shift problems.
Even low end discrete GPUs are a heavy power draw in a laptop, and the integrated ones in Sandy Bridge and AMD's APUs are entirely sufficient for 2048x1535 as long as you don't need serious 3D performance. And if you you want fancy 3D, you should be looking at a desktop anyhow.
On emulators the source resolution is usually so low that you meet the Nyquist limit for resampling. Unfortunately, scaled bitmaps will still look like dog shit until we at least double PPI. When scaling less than 200%, you have to filter the source bitmap to half the target resolution.
No, you aren't. No color CRT sold to the public in significant quantity had the dot pitch/aperture grille pitch to actually resolve 2048x1536. Just because it will sync at that resolution doesn't mean it can actually show it.
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My experience is that the people with the most knowledge of Windows also have experience with Linux. I do not think it wise to let someone who can't install Debian try to fix a Windows box.
spreading 'like wild fire' in the hacking community
For definitions of 'hacking community' sufficiently close to 4chan, I presume?
I would prefer Debian. It's on all my servers and laptops. But my primary workstation runs Ubuntu, because Debian's font rendering is ugly as sin.
non-root access means very minimum damage to a system
Hahahahaha no.
Non-root access is sufficient to blow away the user's documents and snarf their passwords. The only thing root lets you do is screw with the other users. But most desktops are single-user machines.
GP is referring to maximum frequency, which is less on Ivy because of the increased thermal density. (The size of the die shrunk more than the power consumption did.)
I'm not a big fan of x86, but I think Intel got endianness right.
Consider a single byte. We call the low bit, which contributes 2^0, 'bit 0'. We call the high bit, which contributes 2^7, 'bit 7'. Why shoud we not use the same order for larger constructions?
In a little endian word, bit n is in the (n/8)th byte. Big endian is just weird.
The problem with C++ is that it has too many features, and too many ways to do the same thing. You can write complex application programs in C++ while only knowing a small subset of the language. The problem ocurs when someone comes along to maintain your code and knows a completely different subset.
1. Lights that are left on for long periods of time -- CFLs.
Tubular fluorescent. Larger area light source, so less brightness from one area of your vision. Cheaper, 'cause you only have to replace the bulb, not the ballast. Less prone to failure, because the ballast isn't subject to the heat from the bulb.
AFAIK, fluorescent is more efficient than LED, particularly if you use actual T8 fixtures. The 'advantage' of LEDs is that they can scale to very low brightness and power.
I think the best way to go for efficiency and low glare is recessed fluorescent tubes with a grid of slats to block the bulbs from view at oblique angles.
240W/hr to 15W/hr.
2.4KW/h draw replaced with 150W/h or at $0.12/KW/h
No. No. NO!
I find you name ninnies to be far more offensive than calling a piece of software 'The Gimp'. Oh no, people enjoy BDSM in the privacy of their own homes. WHATEVER SHALL WE DO?!
2.6 is the stable version. All the development happens in 2.7. The value sliders have been greatly improved, and they've got single-window mode (still kinda buggy though).
d) Measure the pressure difference between the top and bottom of the building.
Requires a table of atmospheric density, a hygrometer, and a thermometer.
LCDs have a big advantage over CRTs in that the addressable pixels line up with the physical pixels. To display the same resolution without aliasing, a CRT needs a dot pitch twice as fine as an LCD (Nyquist sampling condition).
Amd 6 core 3.2ghz
Multi terrabytes in scsi, pata, sata
8g ram
Nvidia geforce 550 Ti
HP vs15 monitor. 4:3 max resolution 1024x768
Never go full retard.
I think this is one of those situations where absolute fairness must be sacrificed for the Rule of Pretty. Highly competitive games like Starcraft could have a tournament mode to force everyone to use the same aspect ratio.
At that horizontal size, though, you want to use multiple displays so you can turn them in a bit. A 2.39:1 display would subtend a huge angle, and would thus have color shift problems.
Even low end discrete GPUs are a heavy power draw in a laptop, and the integrated ones in Sandy Bridge and AMD's APUs are entirely sufficient for 2048x1535 as long as you don't need serious 3D performance. And if you you want fancy 3D, you should be looking at a desktop anyhow.
On emulators the source resolution is usually so low that you meet the Nyquist limit for resampling. Unfortunately, scaled bitmaps will still look like dog shit until we at least double PPI. When scaling less than 200%, you have to filter the source bitmap to half the target resolution.
Nosquint. I use it in reverse on my 800x480 netbook.
That's a ridiculously huge display for that resolution. I have a 24'' 1920x1200 and even that's pretty blocky.
What? Size can always be adjusted by moving your face closer to the screen. But you cannot fix 1366x768.
No, you aren't. No color CRT sold to the public in significant quantity had the dot pitch/aperture grille pitch to actually resolve 2048x1536. Just because it will sync at that resolution doesn't mean it can actually show it.
the IDE will be running partly in Javascript on your browser and partly on a server.
We need to go deeper.
Installing software on the thing you hold will be about as strange as installing hardware on it is now. Not unheard of, but old-fashioned and unusual.
Jesus Christ how horrifying