Why does a motherboard even need to know what OS you're running?
Isn't the operating system running on the CPU and using the hardware that's available?
If a motherboard only works when using a "MS Windows" table, just tell it you're Windows even if you're Linux?
If it goes on like this, step by step the internet will become more and more moderated and people will tolerate it. Now the measures in China may seem unacceptable to us, but if people accept these small steps like this one here, more and more we'll go towards the same anyway. Sad indeed:(
A laptop with a freezing system inside? But what about battery life power? I'd prefer to be able to work 8 hours at normal speed than 4 hours at "boosted" speed!
In regular desktop PC's I'd also like to see the research go to reduced power consumption in more powerful chips instead of combatting more power consumption by adding cooling that also consumes power to it...
Where does all the money from online advertising come from? The ones placing the ads online must gain more money from the views of the ads than they pay for displaying them, so appearantly a lot of people pay money to buy stuff after seeing ads? I don't know any people who have ever bought something by seeing an online ad. Add all the money paid by people buying something from an online ad in the entire world. Then subtract everything in that money that is related to the product and not its online advertising. How much is left? Enough to feed all those internet giants? Appearantly it is.
C is a great and powerful language, but maybe it's not so good for a teenager to begin with.
Myself, I began with QBasic, which was on DOS on our computer. I only started learning C at later.
QBasic was a great language to begin with because, it being a scripting language, had very helpful error messages if something went wrong and was very easy to debug. QBasic also had a quite nifty documentation. And there were two example games included which could be modified to start seeing the effect of changing code. I also loved it because you could do graphics with it - had I started with C back then, I'd have been bored by text input and output very soon.
Of course today DOS and QBasic are less relavant today, and also not *nix as you asked. But maybe another language that is also a scripting language like QBasic, such as Python or Ruby, could be helpful?
They ARE quite similar, the button style of Facebook is easily recognisable in StudiVZ. So they did rip Facebook off, they could at least have designed the shapes themselves instead of ripping off someone else's work.
A bit of a strange idea, but... If AI can solve captcha's it must also be able to solve useful problems. If they used real-life problems in captcha's (e.g. "does this blueberry look rotten or not?", "is this PCB nicely printed or not",...), then cybercriminals would actually design algoritmhs that solve useful real-life computer vision, and that would make the cybercriminals automatically do something useful!
Well, I've played SL for more than 10 minutes - to be precise, 2 days.
Then, me too got bored of it, due to lack of ability to gain XP by slaying monsters.
SL is not for everyone, but I won't label the users of it furries and perverts at least.
I've heard similar statistics in the past already. How is this statistic measured? Is it the time after you connected your ethernet cable or modem and doing nothing at all but wait, or is it the time after you opened a browser and let an "average" user surf the internet and open things?
Is it a problem if you need 4 minutes to install all windows patches and updates?
Why do they want to use Compact Flash cards? I think SD cards are more common, at least in the cameras I had so far, correct me if I'm wrong. And maybe SD and SDHC cards don't have those problems?
Hi,
I've got a more general question, if that's ok:
If resistor is the relationship current-voltage, capacitor is the relationship voltage-charge, inductor is the relationship flux-current, and memristor is the relationship charge-flux, then what compenent, theoretical or practical, if any, would represent the relationship current-charge, and, voltage-flux?
Firefox users are already going to be people who care more about what software they're using and security. IE users are everyone who doesn't really care and never actually chose what browser to use, everyone who doesn't know too much about computers and on top those who do care and chose IE, but those are only a minority of the IE user group.
So it's logical that in the firefox user group people are going to update faster, it's not directly related to the browser but to the user group.
Lots of Windows applications run on Wine. However, on Wine the application called ".NET framework" can't be installed and you need to use Mono instead. Since.NET is software that runs on Windows, what stops it from running on Wine? If there wouldn't be technical problems, would Wine have been made to support running the.NET framework, or is there another, non-technical reason why you need to use Mono instead?
An important goal of DOSBox is support for games. Is support for (the newest) games an important goal of Wine or does it focus more on office applications?
Depends on the distro you have I guess.
My distro has a wiki that shows how to get all these things like printing to work step by step.
Also, most software can be installed by searching in the package manager and then installing it with a single command. It's typing a few things in the console, but unless you're a person who is scared of a console, this is much easier than the experience bill went through to install something...
It's all screenshots from Oblivion, Thief 3, Unreal Tournament series, Diablo, and other games. Limbo Of The Lost doesn't render those things in 3D but uses it as background image for the adventure game.
Really lame that the developers of that game thought they were going to get away with it. I wonder what was going on there, they couldn't find a graphics artist to draw the backgrounds so they just photoshopped screenshots from other games together.
Still a bit of a shame for the (if there were any) good points of the game, that are now gone down together with the whole game due to this plagiarism.
I always liked the idea of a 3D CPU with all the cores and memory interweaved through each other in a way to have the optimal short path for its purposes. A LOT of memory could be there right next to the CPU. It would be fast even without clocking it very high, so not even have to consume that much watts per layer. It's a crazy amount of watts per layer mentioned in the article btw...
Slashdot Mirror
They have the most users online, but can these users even read slashdot?
Why does a motherboard even need to know what OS you're running? Isn't the operating system running on the CPU and using the hardware that's available? If a motherboard only works when using a "MS Windows" table, just tell it you're Windows even if you're Linux?
Yeah, it's called Singularity!
Woot, look at the submarines, they're all sinking! It's beautiful!
If it goes on like this, step by step the internet will become more and more moderated and people will tolerate it. Now the measures in China may seem unacceptable to us, but if people accept these small steps like this one here, more and more we'll go towards the same anyway. Sad indeed :(
A laptop with a freezing system inside? But what about battery life power? I'd prefer to be able to work 8 hours at normal speed than 4 hours at "boosted" speed! In regular desktop PC's I'd also like to see the research go to reduced power consumption in more powerful chips instead of combatting more power consumption by adding cooling that also consumes power to it...
[not serious] No they didn't really place flags there, because it was fake! Here's the proof [/not serious]
Where does all the money from online advertising come from? The ones placing the ads online must gain more money from the views of the ads than they pay for displaying them, so appearantly a lot of people pay money to buy stuff after seeing ads? I don't know any people who have ever bought something by seeing an online ad. Add all the money paid by people buying something from an online ad in the entire world. Then subtract everything in that money that is related to the product and not its online advertising. How much is left? Enough to feed all those internet giants? Appearantly it is.
C is a great and powerful language, but maybe it's not so good for a teenager to begin with. Myself, I began with QBasic, which was on DOS on our computer. I only started learning C at later. QBasic was a great language to begin with because, it being a scripting language, had very helpful error messages if something went wrong and was very easy to debug. QBasic also had a quite nifty documentation. And there were two example games included which could be modified to start seeing the effect of changing code. I also loved it because you could do graphics with it - had I started with C back then, I'd have been bored by text input and output very soon. Of course today DOS and QBasic are less relavant today, and also not *nix as you asked. But maybe another language that is also a scripting language like QBasic, such as Python or Ruby, could be helpful?
They ARE quite similar, the button style of Facebook is easily recognisable in StudiVZ. So they did rip Facebook off, they could at least have designed the shapes themselves instead of ripping off someone else's work.
A bit of a strange idea, but... If AI can solve captcha's it must also be able to solve useful problems. If they used real-life problems in captcha's (e.g. "does this blueberry look rotten or not?", "is this PCB nicely printed or not", ...), then cybercriminals would actually design algoritmhs that solve useful real-life computer vision, and that would make the cybercriminals automatically do something useful!
Well, I've played SL for more than 10 minutes - to be precise, 2 days. Then, me too got bored of it, due to lack of ability to gain XP by slaying monsters. SL is not for everyone, but I won't label the users of it furries and perverts at least.
I've heard similar statistics in the past already. How is this statistic measured? Is it the time after you connected your ethernet cable or modem and doing nothing at all but wait, or is it the time after you opened a browser and let an "average" user surf the internet and open things? Is it a problem if you need 4 minutes to install all windows patches and updates?
This CPU appears to own Intel and AMD's. Can it be used in desktop PC's?
Why do they want to use Compact Flash cards? I think SD cards are more common, at least in the cameras I had so far, correct me if I'm wrong. And maybe SD and SDHC cards don't have those problems?
Hi, I've got a more general question, if that's ok: If resistor is the relationship current-voltage, capacitor is the relationship voltage-charge, inductor is the relationship flux-current, and memristor is the relationship charge-flux, then what compenent, theoretical or practical, if any, would represent the relationship current-charge, and, voltage-flux?
Why not use mirrors, or lenses, to focus the light? Simple, but effective.
Firefox users are already going to be people who care more about what software they're using and security. IE users are everyone who doesn't really care and never actually chose what browser to use, everyone who doesn't know too much about computers and on top those who do care and chose IE, but those are only a minority of the IE user group. So it's logical that in the firefox user group people are going to update faster, it's not directly related to the browser but to the user group.
Well, that's the end of online poker, everyone could be using a computer doing it for them instead. Only face to face poker is reliable.
Lots of Windows applications run on Wine. However, on Wine the application called ".NET framework" can't be installed and you need to use Mono instead. Since .NET is software that runs on Windows, what stops it from running on Wine? If there wouldn't be technical problems, would Wine have been made to support running the .NET framework, or is there another, non-technical reason why you need to use Mono instead?
An important goal of DOSBox is support for games. Is support for (the newest) games an important goal of Wine or does it focus more on office applications?
Depends on the distro you have I guess. My distro has a wiki that shows how to get all these things like printing to work step by step. Also, most software can be installed by searching in the package manager and then installing it with a single command. It's typing a few things in the console, but unless you're a person who is scared of a console, this is much easier than the experience bill went through to install something...
It's all screenshots from Oblivion, Thief 3, Unreal Tournament series, Diablo, and other games. Limbo Of The Lost doesn't render those things in 3D but uses it as background image for the adventure game. Really lame that the developers of that game thought they were going to get away with it. I wonder what was going on there, they couldn't find a graphics artist to draw the backgrounds so they just photoshopped screenshots from other games together. Still a bit of a shame for the (if there were any) good points of the game, that are now gone down together with the whole game due to this plagiarism.
Maybe this is one of the American units of measurements? Yards, feet, number-of-men-with-calculator-years?
I always liked the idea of a 3D CPU with all the cores and memory interweaved through each other in a way to have the optimal short path for its purposes. A LOT of memory could be there right next to the CPU. It would be fast even without clocking it very high, so not even have to consume that much watts per layer. It's a crazy amount of watts per layer mentioned in the article btw...