Wine runs the code almost raw - the only difference to running on windows is that Win32 API calls are handled by Wine rather than Windows. All the computation that Firefox itself does is run exactly as it is on windows, ad thus the optimisations MSVC makes to the machine code are still there when it's run under Wine.
RTFS with regards to quotes - the submitter is not the person in question. A google of the quoted text will turn up the original forum post if you want to ask, though.
I did some research earlier in the year and decided that the filtering would either be ineffective due to humans attempting to maintain blacklists, or would result in a ridiculous amount of false positives (as quoted in the summary). And no opt-out? Yipes. I certainly hope this is the hand-picked blacklist that was the original proposition... but I really don't think they'll get anywhere with it. After all, it's alt.binaries you really have to worry about.
On a more serious note, Rudd was in China jabbering Mandarin at a mysterious group of people a few months ago. Now we know who they were - Golden Shield sysadmins.
Flee to the parts of Europe that aren't Sweden, the UK, Russia or Germany! Flee now!
Yes, the original concept was to keep it cheap, and all the manufacturers seem to have thrown it out the window... I think it would be possible to get a 9" Atom model retailing for $200.
However, personally I prefer the upper end of the netbook market - if I could get an 11" 1280x800 screen to suck up the 1000H's bezel, it would be an excellent machine. I'm surprised none of the manufacturers have pushed into the 11" range since Microsoft lifted the 10" limit on XP licenses - I can understand Asus not wanting to intrude upon their high-end U1s, but I would expect a move from someone else. 11" is the sweet spot, really - it's the point at which the keyboard becomes fully touch-type-able for just about anyone.
Far Cry's "rendering modes" were just hsv/gamma shifts, it was all a single postprocessing multiplier applied to every pixel. But, you make a good point - better to have the game in viewable colours with a slider for the deep, brooding, dark-wanting people than to make the game in brown-on-black and leave those who like to see with a washed-out palette.
I completely agree - vi seems daunting and stupid when you first attempt it, but after a couple of days of adjusting, it allows me to do so many things, so quickly. I was basically told to use vi on my first day at a job, and I now understand why.
Is CE really that much faster? After a couple of weeks of rot, it absolutely crawls on a 624Mhz ARM... sure, we're talking about a 1.6ghz x86 chip here, but XP is plenty snappy on it as far as I'm concerned - after all, the Atom has about the same processing power as the early Pentium 4s that were available at XP release, and the one gigabyte of ram is significantly more than the average was then.
Yes. CE defeats the purpose of having Windows... sure, it's as close as you can get to Windows on a PDA or phone, but on a device thhat's perfectly capable of running XP? I can't see it taking off, as in my experience it's a pretty poor platform (though I have only experienced the "Windows Mobile" incarnations).
It's a different kernel, and can't run Windows applications unless they've been specifically ported, which removes the one advantage Windows has on a device like this to new users - I think lightweight Linux is a much better choice.
I will NOT have my preciousness desecrated by non-canon material! He might introduce story arcs that don't fit with the carefully woven future history Adams so painstakingly built... wait, what was with the sandwiches again?
A good point, there are many GPLed chunks of code with trademarks that are distributed with the name and without the EULA. Mozilla, PAH.
Then again, I could use IceWeasel, and everyone would think I use an obscure BROWSER as well! Just need to override the stylesheet to white on black.
Yes, I think the improvement of usability of open platforms is going to see Apple having problems with their traditional proprietary approach... let's hope that alternatives like Android get some mainstream press and that the consumers start voting with their wallets.
I don't have a lot of experience in the industry, but the one software company I have worked for (albeit a small one) has a programmer in charge... really, you can't expect to manage an IT staff properly if you don't have a basic knowledge of what's involved in the job.
I believe Multiwinia will be similar to DEFCON - you can play offline and don't have to contact the metaserver every n days, it just works, but when you do have a net connection it validates your key and checks whether it should put you into full MP-enabled status or as a demo user. Not DRM as far as I understand the definition.
Also, +1 for Introversion. Excellent games.
Just because one WebKit browser spawns a new process for each tab doesn't mean all do. In my experience, WebKit is a tad faster and just as light as Gecko when implemented in similar applications (eg Epiphany).
Depends which model... The 901 with the powersaving atom can pull 6.5 hours with everything turned down (but screen still on).
My 1000H gets 4 hours with medium brightness, wifi, and the cpu getting a decent workout with frequent compiles, flash player under linux (>_), etc... with wifi off and screen at minimum, it stretches to 5.5 hours. That's with the stock 6.6Ah battery.
The Atom seems to have similar idle power draw to the Core ULV (~2W), but at full-tilt it only draws a watt more, compared to quite a few from the more conventional chips.
Wireless power isn't really practical yet (requires either painful microwave burns or huge EM fields), and I can't see it being practical at a range longer than a metre for a long while.
I'm not sure about the US, but I know that here the best prices (and often good service) are to be had at small, privately-run places... you'd have to look around and find one with decent prices that don't seem dodgy, but if there's one near by, you can just walk in and buy the parts rather than waiting for the shipment to arrive.
Lots. For a high-speed SLC (i.e. something that will equal a cheap 7200rpm spinning platter), you'll pay $400+ for a 64gb and $700+ for a 128gb at this point.
Basically, they're completely economically infeasible at anything larger than the 4/8gb you see being used to store the OS and apps in netbooks, unless you have a critical need to access a lot of data at high speed while driving a truck over a small post-apocalyptic wasteland.
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Wine runs the code almost raw - the only difference to running on windows is that Win32 API calls are handled by Wine rather than Windows. All the computation that Firefox itself does is run exactly as it is on windows, ad thus the optimisations MSVC makes to the machine code are still there when it's run under Wine.
RTFS with regards to quotes - the submitter is not the person in question. A google of the quoted text will turn up the original forum post if you want to ask, though.
I did some research earlier in the year and decided that the filtering would either be ineffective due to humans attempting to maintain blacklists, or would result in a ridiculous amount of false positives (as quoted in the summary). And no opt-out? Yipes. I certainly hope this is the hand-picked blacklist that was the original proposition... but I really don't think they'll get anywhere with it. After all, it's alt.binaries you really have to worry about. On a more serious note, Rudd was in China jabbering Mandarin at a mysterious group of people a few months ago. Now we know who they were - Golden Shield sysadmins. Flee to the parts of Europe that aren't Sweden, the UK, Russia or Germany! Flee now!
Yes, the original concept was to keep it cheap, and all the manufacturers seem to have thrown it out the window... I think it would be possible to get a 9" Atom model retailing for $200. However, personally I prefer the upper end of the netbook market - if I could get an 11" 1280x800 screen to suck up the 1000H's bezel, it would be an excellent machine. I'm surprised none of the manufacturers have pushed into the 11" range since Microsoft lifted the 10" limit on XP licenses - I can understand Asus not wanting to intrude upon their high-end U1s, but I would expect a move from someone else. 11" is the sweet spot, really - it's the point at which the keyboard becomes fully touch-type-able for just about anyone.
Yes, I could swear I read this exact same thing last week. In a Slashdot summary.
Far Cry's "rendering modes" were just hsv/gamma shifts, it was all a single postprocessing multiplier applied to every pixel. But, you make a good point - better to have the game in viewable colours with a slider for the deep, brooding, dark-wanting people than to make the game in brown-on-black and leave those who like to see with a washed-out palette.
I completely agree - vi seems daunting and stupid when you first attempt it, but after a couple of days of adjusting, it allows me to do so many things, so quickly. I was basically told to use vi on my first day at a job, and I now understand why.
Is CE really that much faster? After a couple of weeks of rot, it absolutely crawls on a 624Mhz ARM... sure, we're talking about a 1.6ghz x86 chip here, but XP is plenty snappy on it as far as I'm concerned - after all, the Atom has about the same processing power as the early Pentium 4s that were available at XP release, and the one gigabyte of ram is significantly more than the average was then.
Yes. CE defeats the purpose of having Windows... sure, it's as close as you can get to Windows on a PDA or phone, but on a device thhat's perfectly capable of running XP? I can't see it taking off, as in my experience it's a pretty poor platform (though I have only experienced the "Windows Mobile" incarnations). It's a different kernel, and can't run Windows applications unless they've been specifically ported, which removes the one advantage Windows has on a device like this to new users - I think lightweight Linux is a much better choice.
I will NOT have my preciousness desecrated by non-canon material! He might introduce story arcs that don't fit with the carefully woven future history Adams so painstakingly built... wait, what was with the sandwiches again?
Yes, it's much better to be told "you're not allowed to do that" than "you are not being allowed to be doing that".
Funny mod parent's ass!
A good point, there are many GPLed chunks of code with trademarks that are distributed with the name and without the EULA. Mozilla, PAH. Then again, I could use IceWeasel, and everyone would think I use an obscure BROWSER as well! Just need to override the stylesheet to white on black.
Yes, I think the improvement of usability of open platforms is going to see Apple having problems with their traditional proprietary approach... let's hope that alternatives like Android get some mainstream press and that the consumers start voting with their wallets.
I don't have a lot of experience in the industry, but the one software company I have worked for (albeit a small one) has a programmer in charge... really, you can't expect to manage an IT staff properly if you don't have a basic knowledge of what's involved in the job.
Eh... crawl > nethack.
I believe Multiwinia will be similar to DEFCON - you can play offline and don't have to contact the metaserver every n days, it just works, but when you do have a net connection it validates your key and checks whether it should put you into full MP-enabled status or as a demo user. Not DRM as far as I understand the definition. Also, +1 for Introversion. Excellent games.
...after all, they'd have to run in a browser, would be supported by ads, and would steal all your sensitive information. And money. And clothes.
Just because one WebKit browser spawns a new process for each tab doesn't mean all do. In my experience, WebKit is a tad faster and just as light as Gecko when implemented in similar applications (eg Epiphany).
Depends which model... The 901 with the powersaving atom can pull 6.5 hours with everything turned down (but screen still on). My 1000H gets 4 hours with medium brightness, wifi, and the cpu getting a decent workout with frequent compiles, flash player under linux (>_), etc... with wifi off and screen at minimum, it stretches to 5.5 hours. That's with the stock 6.6Ah battery. The Atom seems to have similar idle power draw to the Core ULV (~2W), but at full-tilt it only draws a watt more, compared to quite a few from the more conventional chips.
Wireless power isn't really practical yet (requires either painful microwave burns or huge EM fields), and I can't see it being practical at a range longer than a metre for a long while.
I don't think a Pringles cantenna is going to be sufficient here... anyone got a spare grain silo laying around?
I'm not sure about the US, but I know that here the best prices (and often good service) are to be had at small, privately-run places... you'd have to look around and find one with decent prices that don't seem dodgy, but if there's one near by, you can just walk in and buy the parts rather than waiting for the shipment to arrive.
Lots. For a high-speed SLC (i.e. something that will equal a cheap 7200rpm spinning platter), you'll pay $400+ for a 64gb and $700+ for a 128gb at this point. Basically, they're completely economically infeasible at anything larger than the 4/8gb you see being used to store the OS and apps in netbooks, unless you have a critical need to access a lot of data at high speed while driving a truck over a small post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Do I know you? That sounds awfully familiar.