That depends on how you define firefox. I think that the main advantage of firefox is the excellent plugin system and thus any plugins should be counted as features of firefox. This is a common standpoint since people often refer to firebug and adblock as major benefits to firefox. So firefox does have the feature under this system there appear to be a few plugins with the functionality.
Telephoto lens? Surely you don't fit one of those onto your phone. The article only mentioned camera phones, I presume because if oyu have a camera it is more obvious that you are taking a photo whereas with a phone you could be texting or anything else.
I also had fun writing a ray caster. I am slightly puzzled at why you say that they would use a lookup table for the height of the wall. It is a single division which is needed to get the height and this only needs to be done once per row of pixels per frame so at 30 fps and 320 wide that is only 9600 divisions per second surely not worth a lookup table.
I would say that we are getting fairly close to the limit of where more polygons will show a noticeable increase. I would say that the main increases are going to come in lighting and procedurally generated objects and textures.
That is assuming everyone is working on the same thing. If you for example were split into groups who were working on a specific part of a project you could set up a server of your own or you can use the git-send-email command to email changes to another person. Also there is the flexibility to be able to keep versions of your own without needing to upload them to the central server until they are ready.
It depends on why they want to steal your PC as to how much easier it is for a laptop. If they just want a computer then disk encryption is worthless because they don't want your data so they can just wipe it clean as they probably would do anyway. It is a lot easier to carry a laptop (this is a major feature) so thus is is a lot easier for a thief to carry away. And of course there is the point that you virtually never take a desktop out of your house.
When looking at the specs for a laptop and a desktop you cannot compare them without looking at some form of benchmark. As an example we have a PC which is now 7.5 years old and a laptop which is 2.5 years old. I ran benchmark software on it and found that overall the laptop was about 10% faster. The desktop cost £1000 and the laptop cost £800. Given the 5 years difference and 20% price drop I would think that the laptop should run a lot faster. Laptop components may look nice on paper but they don't run as fast as similar looking desktop ones.
But with your electricity factor are you considering the heating effect of the desktop? Where we live the heating is probably on for about 2/3 of the year. Thus if waste heat from my PC heats the room the energy is not being wasted, instead it is saving me money on my heating bills. So this would cut the extra cost by 2/3 making it $16-$33 assuming your calculation is correct.
If they trash xulrunner they trash every single extension. Also gecko doesn't seem to be all that bad for me. I think it is probably better ot have more than one rendering engine anyway.
In windows XP tweak UI can be used to prevent focus stealing. This works most of the time but there are some applications which seem to be able to get around this.
I was saying that it is not so easy for somebody to do the install of Linux onto the PS3. I know a few people who ask somebody to come round to help them install software on their PC. Installing an OS would be very intimidating to a lot of people.
But if you spend as much as you say on this new graphics card that you would find that the graphics card is considerably better than the console. Instead you sho8uld try and find a comparable graphics card which you will find is probably about half the cost of a console.
First you cannot disable this updater by any normal means. I have tried searching Chrome's options but there is not option. I tried disabling using some of the system tools in windows but it put itself back when i next used the browser.
Also your argument about keeping up to date is complete rubbish. It is easier to make the program auto update when the software is run like firefox does (for minor version numbers). If they don't open the browser they are not causing web compatibility problems.
Thus there was no reason for them to do this and I don't like it either.
Maybe this is pretty dependent on the university. I have been visiting them on open days recently and two of the places had workstations with Linux, one was fedora but the other didn't have any obvious logos although it looked like gnome to me. At the other places I didn't see any with Linux however.
Given that firefox 3 runs faster and uses less memory. Also the system requirements appear to be identical. Aside from this the upgrade is free and requires a small download. Your web browser has virtually no dependencies unlike an operating system which has all of your software on it. Other than these minor points your analogy works really well.
I am not sure how much energy it takes but I believe one approach to keeping the helium cool is to put some liquid nitrogen cooling around it since liquid nitrogen is fairly cheap.
Not if it prevents current from flowing by having a huge resistance. This is very common such as when you have a battery which is not wired to anything. The air has a large resistance so effectively no current flows and thus the battery does not lose the energy.
Although both your statements above are correct I feel they could be a bit misleading.
You say that they superconduct better which isn't clarified. Basically all superconductors superconduct as well as each other while they are superconducting. The difference is how much current they can take before the superconductivity breaks down. So when they superconduct better this means they can have more current flowing through them before losing superconducting properties.
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I spit on people like you who make petty points, oh wait, spitting is also considered assault under UK law.
That depends on how you define firefox. I think that the main advantage of firefox is the excellent plugin system and thus any plugins should be counted as features of firefox. This is a common standpoint since people often refer to firebug and adblock as major benefits to firefox. So firefox does have the feature under this system there appear to be a few plugins with the functionality.
Telephoto lens? Surely you don't fit one of those onto your phone. The article only mentioned camera phones, I presume because if oyu have a camera it is more obvious that you are taking a photo whereas with a phone you could be texting or anything else.
I also had fun writing a ray caster. I am slightly puzzled at why you say that they would use a lookup table for the height of the wall. It is a single division which is needed to get the height and this only needs to be done once per row of pixels per frame so at 30 fps and 320 wide that is only 9600 divisions per second surely not worth a lookup table.
I would say that we are getting fairly close to the limit of where more polygons will show a noticeable increase. I would say that the main increases are going to come in lighting and procedurally generated objects and textures.
That is assuming everyone is working on the same thing. If you for example were split into groups who were working on a specific part of a project you could set up a server of your own or you can use the git-send-email command to email changes to another person. Also there is the flexibility to be able to keep versions of your own without needing to upload them to the central server until they are ready.
What about grey code you insensitive clod.
It depends on why they want to steal your PC as to how much easier it is for a laptop. If they just want a computer then disk encryption is worthless because they don't want your data so they can just wipe it clean as they probably would do anyway. It is a lot easier to carry a laptop (this is a major feature) so thus is is a lot easier for a thief to carry away. And of course there is the point that you virtually never take a desktop out of your house.
Does a live CD count? Mine boots in about 60 seconds. Looks like Linux to me.
When looking at the specs for a laptop and a desktop you cannot compare them without looking at some form of benchmark. As an example we have a PC which is now 7.5 years old and a laptop which is 2.5 years old. I ran benchmark software on it and found that overall the laptop was about 10% faster. The desktop cost £1000 and the laptop cost £800. Given the 5 years difference and 20% price drop I would think that the laptop should run a lot faster. Laptop components may look nice on paper but they don't run as fast as similar looking desktop ones.
But with your electricity factor are you considering the heating effect of the desktop? Where we live the heating is probably on for about 2/3 of the year. Thus if waste heat from my PC heats the room the energy is not being wasted, instead it is saving me money on my heating bills. So this would cut the extra cost by 2/3 making it $16-$33 assuming your calculation is correct.
It does seem surprising given that the ionosphere was used to bounce radio waves around the earth when satellites were not available.
If they trash xulrunner they trash every single extension. Also gecko doesn't seem to be all that bad for me. I think it is probably better ot have more than one rendering engine anyway.
In windows XP tweak UI can be used to prevent focus stealing. This works most of the time but there are some applications which seem to be able to get around this.
I was saying that it is not so easy for somebody to do the install of Linux onto the PS3. I know a few people who ask somebody to come round to help them install software on their PC. Installing an OS would be very intimidating to a lot of people.
I think this might break the ease of use argument in favour of consoles.
But if you spend as much as you say on this new graphics card that you would find that the graphics card is considerably better than the console. Instead you sho8uld try and find a comparable graphics card which you will find is probably about half the cost of a console.
You clearly need to be informed about firebug lite not quite as good as the full firefox version but so much better than nothing.
First you cannot disable this updater by any normal means. I have tried searching Chrome's options but there is not option. I tried disabling using some of the system tools in windows but it put itself back when i next used the browser.
Also your argument about keeping up to date is complete rubbish. It is easier to make the program auto update when the software is run like firefox does (for minor version numbers). If they don't open the browser they are not causing web compatibility problems.
Thus there was no reason for them to do this and I don't like it either.
Maybe this is pretty dependent on the university. I have been visiting them on open days recently and two of the places had workstations with Linux, one was fedora but the other didn't have any obvious logos although it looked like gnome to me. At the other places I didn't see any with Linux however.
BT give the 404 thing as well.
Given that firefox 3 runs faster and uses less memory. Also the system requirements appear to be identical. Aside from this the upgrade is free and requires a small download. Your web browser has virtually no dependencies unlike an operating system which has all of your software on it. Other than these minor points your analogy works really well.
I am not sure how much energy it takes but I believe one approach to keeping the helium cool is to put some liquid nitrogen cooling around it since liquid nitrogen is fairly cheap.
Not if it prevents current from flowing by having a huge resistance. This is very common such as when you have a battery which is not wired to anything. The air has a large resistance so effectively no current flows and thus the battery does not lose the energy.
Although both your statements above are correct I feel they could be a bit misleading. You say that they superconduct better which isn't clarified. Basically all superconductors superconduct as well as each other while they are superconducting. The difference is how much current they can take before the superconductivity breaks down. So when they superconduct better this means they can have more current flowing through them before losing superconducting properties.