If you load this Windows 7 starter edition in a VM in W7SE, you can run 5 applications at once. Now, imagine if you load up a virtual machine inside your virtual machine. 7 applications! The possibilities are endless.
HUZZAH FOR WINDOWS 7 STARTER EDITION.
(cue Xzibit related joke now).
Sort of. Bank notes are basically "I owe you" notes from the government/treasury to you (to keep from pressing large amounts of coinage), but they remain owners of both the bank notes and the actual coins. That's why it's against the law to modify currency (although not enforced).
They can't say "give me back ma money", but they can revoke any value to it. That happened in the eurozone after the grace period of the Euro. I still have some old banknotes and coins, but they have technically the same value as a piece of metal or the cost of a piece of paper (I think it's linnen or something, not real paper).
Speaking from an euro country, can't say this also goes for the states.
You're forgetting the fact that ISP's don't nearly have the bandwidth available if every subscriber pulled the maximum amount of crap through his pipe.
They are overselling because most of their users don't use their connection 24/7, and it costs money to upgrade (they are still a business, maximise profits/minimise costs etc). What they should be advocating is "peak" and "low" hours, bandwidth (as in, mbit/s) caps being lifted in "low" hours, for that quick download for the night lurker, while regular speeds in the popular day hours.
Power matters. The intel atom chokes when simply browsing some ajax-enabled web pages in firefox, while more powerful CPUs don't blink.
I'd like to know which atom you are using.
The Atom N270 in my EEE 901 has no problem at all with heavy AJAX sites, like the whole google 'suite' (gmail, maps, calendar, igoogle?). The only times that thing chokes is on heavy flash games, or java applets. Then again, I haven't seen a java applet yet that doesn't make a browser choke, be it a desktop or mobile core2duo/quad, the atom or any other random piece of hardware.
Now what would be interesting if they made such a ultraflat laptop with the 'new' dualcore atom, along with nvidia's ion graphics. Chuck in a reasonably sized battery and that thing would give power comparable to a low-end core 2 duo.
If I understand the post correctly (to lazy to read TFA), some floppy drives gave back a "0" when a floppy was inserted, and other floppy drives gave back a "1". So Microsoft dropped the feature instead of having to "train" the program which value represented which state by the user.
This was of course no problem with systems that had properly spec'd floppy drives: they'd always return the same value for the same state, so they could implement that feature.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of pirates suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
For normal use, I'd have to agree on you about that audio part. For 'professional' use, I like to put a note here.
I haven't seen an integrated audio chip in a laptop that supports ASIO yet, but going with a regular DX/MME card with windows is suicide if you want your latency to be below the 200 ms mark, thanks to Windows laggy sound system (XP in any way, Vista is said to have an improved audio subsystem, but I doubt it will run any better with all kinds of other vista-related crap going around)
As far as I know, your favorite linux distro or OSX doesn't have that problem (or a whole lot less), so "out of the box" I'd suggest the macbook (along with the fact that loads of music applications also run on OSX).
Also, I didn't read TFA, because the smugness of the author made me close the page after a paragraph of 3.
(Windows user with an ASIO setup, for virtual instruments and such)
My new console is a HTPC. Atom 330, intel integrated graphics, 2gb ram and lots of diskspace.
Install dosbox on there, connect a gamepad, get some nice abandonware dos games (or, if you're oldschool, get out your original floppies and find a pc with a floppy drive), and you got one hell of a fun machine.
Even old DOS games at 320x240 can be upscaled pretty nicely, and look pretty good. Of course, going with a 42" TFT screen is a bit overkill, but my 24" 1080p screen gives some nice results.
My Wii and x360 are gathering dust, along my PS2 and gamecube. Sure, Mario Kart and Halo are fun from time to time, but I still get lots of fun out of my old dos games.
Also, who needs big titles when you can have old classics with great gameplay, re-ported/recoded. I'm talking openTTD, Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Quake, ScummVM with classics like The Dig and Indiana Jones, Rise of the Tentacle and whatnot.
>>On one computer, slashdot takes a long time to load a certain script, making the whole browser hang for 10 seconds. It doesn't happen on any other computer I know. What script is this?
If that hanging browser is firefox, try loading the page with firebug (http://getfirebug.com/), if you enable net logging, you can see what takes so long on pages to load.
Don't forget to de install or deactivate it afterwards though, since it can slow other stuff down. (gmail for example)
>> On some computers there is, and on some other computers there is not, a flashy green thing on the top right that has the text "green" in it. What is this?
For what I've seen, it's the comment filter level (with black being raw&uncut, everything from -1, with green being only awesome posts (3+)
Also, take that answer with a grain of salt, IANAHSA (I am not a haxor slashdot admin)
>> Articles get tags. What decides which of the *many* tags that people probably give to it, appear on the front page below the article? Sometimes there are tags that are so strange that I can't imagine multiple people would by chance pick that same tag, how comes it that those get picked by so many people anyway?
That annoys me too, I've tagged stories with crappy tags on error by that.
Next to that, the preview button 'hangs' for me a lot, so I have to press it again for it actually gives me a preview. Seems like shoddy AJAX programming to me.
Actually, that's due to the conductive properties of the tungsten wire that runs inside the bulb. When cold, it's resistance is less then when it's warm, so when you turn on a cold bulb, for a moment it rushes a higher current through the wire, and that is the moment when worn-out wires break. Some switches have a sort of delay that they will limit the current flowing through for the first few seconds so that the bulb can warm up.
I used to have a frontend for mine, but when switching to ubuntu, ditched that. In both windows and linux is pretty easy to just make shortcuts, dosbox supports a lot of command-line arguments so you can just make each shortcut automount your dir and run the appropriate file.
Then: D-fend: Pretty easy to use, has dosbox profiles that is basically just a different config file for each dosbox game, along with some general info. Games can be sorted on developer etc. Discontinued, but there is D-fend reloaded. No experience with that though.
D.O.G. : Easy to use, pretty much same functionality as d-fend. Also added zip functionality (just keep all your game-related stuff in a zip). Also a version of dosbox can be specified per game so if a update of dosbox breaks a game you can use both versions side-by-side.
I stuck in 2 GB of ram instead of the usual 1 GB, the 4gb drive has ubuntu and some other apps (totalling at ~700 mb free) and the other drive has maybe 1.5 gb free at most. So standby is pretty much my option, sans formatting my second drive.
Then again, the thing shuts down in 10 seconds and boots up again in 40, so by the time I found my mouse in my backpack, connected it, it's waiting for me at the login screen.
> f the computer itself presented information in a 3D world to the user, it would be intuitive to understand what the user needs to do. To get an idea of what I mean, think of something like SecondLife as the interface on your screen, or the window manager. On the screen is a user customized 'world' that contains 3D icons as part of it's makeup. So the user moves their avatar to their 'office' and the objects there represent those functions that the user associates with the 'office'. A trip to the 3D kitchen and touch the cook book object to open a link to recipes, both saved and on the Internet etc.
That sounds an awful lot like Microsoft Bob to me. We all know how that ended up...
Game booklets used to be tons of fun, with of course the general controls in it, but also lots of trivia, back story and other stuff.
For example, take Age of Empires, it includes: * A CD-ROM with the actual game. * a 3 A4 sheet fold-out with stats of various units on one side, a complete tech tree on the other. * a huge book with of course install instructions, game play tips and other hints, a complete back story of each civilisation in the game, really detailled information about stuff in the game, tactics.
And some other things I've lost over the years.
Age of Empires wasn't an exception though, I remember Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis containing both a CD-ROM with the game, as well as 9 floppy disks with the game, a user manual, a really thourough walkthrough, a poster and some other goodies.
Of course, you can't fit loads of crap anymore in these tiny dvd-cases, but I find booklets and stuff always expand game experience. I never knew about certain types of station building in Transport Tycoon without one for example.
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"Hasta la vista, baby"
Windows VM
You might be on to something here.
If you load this Windows 7 starter edition in a VM in W7SE, you can run 5 applications at once. Now, imagine if you load up a virtual machine inside your virtual machine. 7 applications! The possibilities are endless.
HUZZAH FOR WINDOWS 7 STARTER EDITION.
(cue Xzibit related joke now).
Sort of. Bank notes are basically "I owe you" notes from the government/treasury to you (to keep from pressing large amounts of coinage), but they remain owners of both the bank notes and the actual coins. That's why it's against the law to modify currency (although not enforced).
They can't say "give me back ma money", but they can revoke any value to it. That happened in the eurozone after the grace period of the Euro. I still have some old banknotes and coins, but they have technically the same value as a piece of metal or the cost of a piece of paper (I think it's linnen or something, not real paper).
Speaking from an euro country, can't say this also goes for the states.
Yes, indeed it would be very ironic. Thanks for clarifying that one, I don't know where the world would be without Captain Obvious!
"Whooosh!" never sounded so elaborate!
You're forgetting the fact that ISP's don't nearly have the bandwidth available if every subscriber pulled the maximum amount of crap through his pipe.
They are overselling because most of their users don't use their connection 24/7, and it costs money to upgrade (they are still a business, maximise profits/minimise costs etc). What they should be advocating is "peak" and "low" hours, bandwidth (as in, mbit/s) caps being lifted in "low" hours, for that quick download for the night lurker, while regular speeds in the popular day hours.
There actually is a 10 AM?
Power matters. The intel atom chokes when simply browsing some ajax-enabled web pages in firefox, while more powerful CPUs don't blink.
I'd like to know which atom you are using.
The Atom N270 in my EEE 901 has no problem at all with heavy AJAX sites, like the whole google 'suite' (gmail, maps, calendar, igoogle?). The only times that thing chokes is on heavy flash games, or java applets. Then again, I haven't seen a java applet yet that doesn't make a browser choke, be it a desktop or mobile core2duo/quad, the atom or any other random piece of hardware.
Now what would be interesting if they made such a ultraflat laptop with the 'new' dualcore atom, along with nvidia's ion graphics. Chuck in a reasonably sized battery and that thing would give power comparable to a low-end core 2 duo.
...but how do you repair a fiber optic cable that has been cut? What is the magic process for sticking it back together?
splicing it together.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_splicing
It's like getting two copper wires and just heating the copper to such a high temperature that they melt and re-form one strand.
If I understand the post correctly (to lazy to read TFA), some floppy drives gave back a "0" when a floppy was inserted, and other floppy drives gave back a "1". So Microsoft dropped the feature instead of having to "train" the program which value represented which state by the user.
This was of course no problem with systems that had properly spec'd floppy drives: they'd always return the same value for the same state, so they could implement that feature.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of pirates suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
For normal use, I'd have to agree on you about that audio part. For 'professional' use, I like to put a note here.
I haven't seen an integrated audio chip in a laptop that supports ASIO yet, but going with a regular DX/MME card with windows is suicide if you want your latency to be below the 200 ms mark, thanks to Windows laggy sound system (XP in any way, Vista is said to have an improved audio subsystem, but I doubt it will run any better with all kinds of other vista-related crap going around)
As far as I know, your favorite linux distro or OSX doesn't have that problem (or a whole lot less), so "out of the box" I'd suggest the macbook (along with the fact that loads of music applications also run on OSX).
Also, I didn't read TFA, because the smugness of the author made me close the page after a paragraph of 3.
(Windows user with an ASIO setup, for virtual instruments and such)
Sun's stock price drop.
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AJAVA
My new console is a HTPC.
Atom 330, intel integrated graphics, 2gb ram and lots of diskspace.
Install dosbox on there, connect a gamepad, get some nice abandonware dos games (or, if you're oldschool, get out your original floppies and find a pc with a floppy drive), and you got one hell of a fun machine.
Even old DOS games at 320x240 can be upscaled pretty nicely, and look pretty good. Of course, going with a 42" TFT screen is a bit overkill, but my 24" 1080p screen gives some nice results.
My Wii and x360 are gathering dust, along my PS2 and gamecube. Sure, Mario Kart and Halo are fun from time to time, but I still get lots of fun out of my old dos games.
Also, who needs big titles when you can have old classics with great gameplay, re-ported/recoded. I'm talking openTTD, Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Quake, ScummVM with classics like The Dig and Indiana Jones, Rise of the Tentacle and whatnot.
>>On one computer, slashdot takes a long time to load a certain script, making the whole browser hang for 10 seconds. It doesn't happen on any other computer I know. What script is this?
If that hanging browser is firefox, try loading the page with firebug (http://getfirebug.com/), if you enable net logging, you can see what takes so long on pages to load.
Don't forget to de install or deactivate it afterwards though, since it can slow other stuff down. (gmail for example)
>> On some computers there is, and on some other computers there is not, a flashy green thing on the top right that has the text "green" in it. What is this?
For what I've seen, it's the comment filter level (with black being raw&uncut, everything from -1, with green being only awesome posts (3+)
Also, take that answer with a grain of salt, IANAHSA (I am not a haxor slashdot admin)
>> Articles get tags. What decides which of the *many* tags that people probably give to it, appear on the front page below the article? Sometimes there are tags that are so strange that I can't imagine multiple people would by chance pick that same tag, how comes it that those get picked by so many people anyway?
That annoys me too, I've tagged stories with crappy tags on error by that.
Next to that, the preview button 'hangs' for me a lot, so I have to press it again for it actually gives me a preview. Seems like shoddy AJAX programming to me.
I think a more appropriate response to this topic, considering the lead in that movie, should be "whoa".
Actually, that's due to the conductive properties of the tungsten wire that runs inside the bulb. When cold, it's resistance is less then when it's warm, so when you turn on a cold bulb, for a moment it rushes a higher current through the wire, and that is the moment when worn-out wires break. Some switches have a sort of delay that they will limit the current flowing through for the first few seconds so that the bulb can warm up.
But buying a faster multi-core (as in, 3 or more cores) chip isn't going to do you any good if your application only runs on one or two threads.
Enjoy your new and improved MPG rating.
Open windows will give your car a LOT of drag, I'd guess add about 10% of your fuel usage.
I used to have a frontend for mine, but when switching to ubuntu, ditched that.
In both windows and linux is pretty easy to just make shortcuts, dosbox supports a lot of command-line arguments so you can just make each shortcut automount your dir and run the appropriate file.
But here are my recommendations for windows:
First, all frontends listed here:
http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/DOSBoxFrontends
Then:
D-fend: Pretty easy to use, has dosbox profiles that is basically just a different config file for each dosbox game, along with some general info. Games can be sorted on developer etc. Discontinued, but there is D-fend reloaded. No experience with that though.
D.O.G. : Easy to use, pretty much same functionality as d-fend. Also added zip functionality (just keep all your game-related stuff in a zip). Also a version of dosbox can be specified per game so if a update of dosbox breaks a game you can use both versions side-by-side.
Why do I actually hear Patrick Stewart saying that in my head?
I think the picard song has something to do with that.
ENGAGE!
I can't even use hibernate on my EEE 901.
I stuck in 2 GB of ram instead of the usual 1 GB, the 4gb drive has ubuntu and some other apps (totalling at ~700 mb free) and the other drive has maybe 1.5 gb free at most. So standby is pretty much my option, sans formatting my second drive.
Then again, the thing shuts down in 10 seconds and boots up again in 40, so by the time I found my mouse in my backpack, connected it, it's waiting for me at the login screen.
> f the computer itself presented information in a 3D world to the user, it would be intuitive to understand what the user needs to do. To get an idea of what I mean, think of something like SecondLife as the interface on your screen, or the window manager. On the screen is a user customized 'world' that contains 3D icons as part of it's makeup. So the user moves their avatar to their 'office' and the objects there represent those functions that the user associates with the 'office'. A trip to the 3D kitchen and touch the cook book object to open a link to recipes, both saved and on the Internet etc.
That sounds an awful lot like Microsoft Bob to me. We all know how that ended up...
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Finally a use for my fake ID that says "Dan Glickman".
Then you're not buying the right games.
Game booklets used to be tons of fun, with of course the general controls in it, but also lots of trivia, back story and other stuff.
For example, take Age of Empires, it includes:
* A CD-ROM with the actual game.
* a 3 A4 sheet fold-out with stats of various units on one side, a complete tech tree on the other.
* a huge book with of course install instructions, game play tips and other hints, a complete back story of each civilisation in the game, really detailled information about stuff in the game, tactics.
And some other things I've lost over the years.
Age of Empires wasn't an exception though, I remember Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis containing both a CD-ROM with the game, as well as 9 floppy disks with the game, a user manual, a really thourough walkthrough, a poster and some other goodies.
Of course, you can't fit loads of crap anymore in these tiny dvd-cases, but I find booklets and stuff always expand game experience. I never knew about certain types of station building in Transport Tycoon without one for example.
It has?
Just append "filetype:odf" to your search query. It even converts them to html for most documents.
Or do you mean that they didn't add it to that drop-down list.