Tap water tastes pretty terrible in DFW from June-October, the utilities acknowledge it tastes bad here; it's just something you live with. Water is water and if you prefer bottled filtered water, fine, but don't complain when people call you out as being a picky eater. Don't get me started on the number of people who don't have access to safe drinking water. Filtered tap water is cheap too, and you don't have to cart it around in trucks and fill up landfills with the bottles afterwards.
Personally I drop two ice cubes in my tap water and wait 10 seconds. Tastes fine, and our water is pretty atrocious tasting at room temp.
Me and my buddy were looking for screenshots when the code merger was first announced. There was one screenshot on the old site, but I think it was a Moblin 2.1 screenshot. I was a little shocked to see no screenshots for this release, either. For some reason, developers completely forget that screenshots are as important to initial adoption rates as trailers are to movies. If I can't see what it's going to look like in use, I'm certainly not going to download it to see what it's like, unless it's the only app that has that feature on the entire internet (not likely).
Uhh I recall watching a video in middle school (a 15 years ago??) about the 1990 Chinese Census of 2 billion people, with an error rate of less than 1%. I would say it is roughly twice as large as India's "the biggest exercise... since humankind came into existence". Maybe Indians are... ahem, larger than the Chinese in some respects?
I would imagine most backbone hardware installed since 2002 has ipv6 capability, along with any residential neighborhoods wired up since 2005 or so. That makes up something like 30% of the US population. There are, however, office buildings full of IPv4 fiber equipment that will have to be replaced some day. As the cost comes down, I would imagine the units they replace will have 10x the capacity of those installed in the early-mid 1990s and cost a quarter of the units they are replacing, even adjusting for inflation. There's some math to it, but I would imagine in the next year or two, it will make sense to refit older, lower capacity equipment, rather than lease new space to install the new equipment. We're probably five years away before the beginning of a true transition though, and won't finish until 2020. By that time all new equipment installed in the last 15 years will have been IPv6 compliant, which will probably make up all but the hardiest routers, switches, etc.
Ooops. Should have used preview instead. Slashdot doesn't like use of chevrons.
This whole article reeks of the doctor wishing she was in an episode of Grey's Anatomy or Scrubs.
"But Docktah! I can't have [insert life threatening illness, curable only by surgery] because it [insert deep personal secret patient must overcome and reveal to the people they care about to have surgery]"
Dude, you must be new here. You could have summed that up with the cliche "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" and have been moderated to 5 already. Here, watch:
Microsoft is clearly trying their tactic of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish using SVG.
There.
Now, just kick back and watch the moderation roll in:)
I'm waiting for google news to introduce a "newspaper blacklist" so I can turn off paywall newspapers (WSJ) and techblogs that have terrible journalists (Tom's Hardware). Google News is a great resource, but it'd be nice to be able to selectively filter out crap publications.
Currently in the process of writing a "journalist blacklist" plugin for Chrome so I can just tune out the bad journalists all together:)
I got halfway through the first paragraph before I started looking for the link to the L4D2 benchmarks, which are a pretty good indicator of how well your computer is going to run L4D2, TF2, and very importantly, Portal2. None detected, even though it's one of their primary tests on all of their video card shootouts. Another failure for the guys at Tom's Hardware.
In addition to lftp's post, there is probably some technical neophyte product manager in charge of driver development who is on a knife's edge of losing his job after his team fried all those video cards a couple weeks back with a faulty driver release. I would imagine the maneuvering went something like this: "Well the reason we released a shit driver is because we've got our team having to support the open source stuff. If we didn't have to support that, we could devote more resources to completely testing our drivers before release." The other side benefit is the driver development manager doesn't have to compete against "free" to make linux drivers anymore. That makes him more important to the company, and removes a potential threat from his job.
Having been through the 9700 Pro and 9800 Pro days, I've rarely had problems with ATI cards at all.
I'm having trouble recalling when the 9800s came out. It was roughly when I bought my Powerbook, which would put it around 2002. So you're basing ATi's reputation on 8 year old hardware, who has been bought out by another company entirely. XP had just gone mainstream, the Xbox 360 was just a twinkle in Ballmer's eye. The PS2 was still considered a modern console.
8 years is a hell of a long time, I hope you don't base all your decisions on decade old information. If you're interested though, I've got some GM stock to sell you. I heard the HUMMER brand is going to be HUGE.
Nice low-content post. Want to back that up with some sources? Your user name is terrible and you're a terrible person for posting this. I bet you like to eat hot grits while watching natalie portman films.
That might discourage journalists from taking up the profession altogether, especially considering the amount of non-notable tech journalism on the internet these days. And - horror of horrors - might subject them to actual quality standards. I recently emailed a journalist about the low quality of their article and learned that major tech blogs don't actually have an editorial staff.
It seems to have intelligent pattern awareness. I'd love to plug something like an image of the rosetta stone into it and have it fill in the words in the correct languages of the broken off parts. Or maybe use it to translate documents from one language to another based on it's pattern recognition (scanned pages, after all, are just complex patterns of words - nouns, verbs and adjectives)
Yes, someone at Sprint finally woke up and realized they have a range full of boring-ass phones, and even the Palm Pre couldn't save them. Glad to see Sprint has finally joined the 21st century with this phone. I'll still never switch back to them though:P
Running maximized all the time is pretty silly unless you're playing a video game or watching a movie. I've usually got 4-5 browser windows that take up 80% of my screen along with some file browser windows, music player, image editor, and whatever other apps I'm working on at the time. If it's not in the top layer I'll either a) alt-tab or b) use the task bar like you suggested.
Did they fix the chat notification layovers for Empathy and the several other programs that use them? That's probably my only gripe about 9.10 on my netbook. I'm excited about 10.4 UNR (or whatever they rebranded it as this time) but I don't think I am going to upgrade this time 'round; 9.10 UNR is damn fast on a N270 and until something significant breaks, or they improve full screen youtube @ 480p on the intel GMA950 I don't see a compelling reason to switch.
Oh, I was talking about engines like the Source engine and Unreal 3. Counter Strike: Source will reputedly run at 15fps on a N270 (single core) netbook using the lousy GMA950. The Crysis engine is so lousy I don't think anyone would realistically try and run it on a netbook:)
Also: [geezer] You kids these days! Why, back in MY day, we ran Counter Strike 1.6 in software mode at 15fps, and we liked it! We were elated if we got anywhere near 30fps in our cutting edge games. You young whipper-snappers and your sixty frames per second...[/geezer]
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Tap water tastes pretty terrible in DFW from June-October, the utilities acknowledge it tastes bad here; it's just something you live with. Water is water and if you prefer bottled filtered water, fine, but don't complain when people call you out as being a picky eater. Don't get me started on the number of people who don't have access to safe drinking water. Filtered tap water is cheap too, and you don't have to cart it around in trucks and fill up landfills with the bottles afterwards.
Personally I drop two ice cubes in my tap water and wait 10 seconds. Tastes fine, and our water is pretty atrocious tasting at room temp.
Me and my buddy were looking for screenshots when the code merger was first announced. There was one screenshot on the old site, but I think it was a Moblin 2.1 screenshot. I was a little shocked to see no screenshots for this release, either. For some reason, developers completely forget that screenshots are as important to initial adoption rates as trailers are to movies. If I can't see what it's going to look like in use, I'm certainly not going to download it to see what it's like, unless it's the only app that has that feature on the entire internet (not likely).
Perhaps they are measuring some biometrics they aren't letting on about?
Uhh I recall watching a video in middle school (a 15 years ago??) about the 1990 Chinese Census of 2 billion people, with an error rate of less than 1%. I would say it is roughly twice as large as India's "the biggest exercise... since humankind came into existence". Maybe Indians are... ahem, larger than the Chinese in some respects?
I would imagine most backbone hardware installed since 2002 has ipv6 capability, along with any residential neighborhoods wired up since 2005 or so. That makes up something like 30% of the US population. There are, however, office buildings full of IPv4 fiber equipment that will have to be replaced some day. As the cost comes down, I would imagine the units they replace will have 10x the capacity of those installed in the early-mid 1990s and cost a quarter of the units they are replacing, even adjusting for inflation. There's some math to it, but I would imagine in the next year or two, it will make sense to refit older, lower capacity equipment, rather than lease new space to install the new equipment. We're probably five years away before the beginning of a true transition though, and won't finish until 2020. By that time all new equipment installed in the last 15 years will have been IPv6 compliant, which will probably make up all but the hardiest routers, switches, etc.
First, screwing with GUI buttons, now this? Mark Shuttleworth, I'm calling you out on your BS
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Ooops. Should have used preview instead. Slashdot doesn't like use of chevrons.
This whole article reeks of the doctor wishing she was in an episode of Grey's Anatomy or Scrubs.
"But Docktah! I can't have [insert life threatening illness, curable only by surgery] because it [insert deep personal secret patient must overcome and reveal to the people they care about to have surgery]"
Dude, you must be new here. You could have summed that up with the cliche "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" and have been moderated to 5 already. Here, watch:
:)
Microsoft is clearly trying their tactic of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish using SVG.
There.
Now, just kick back and watch the moderation roll in
I'm waiting for google news to introduce a "newspaper blacklist" so I can turn off paywall newspapers (WSJ) and techblogs that have terrible journalists (Tom's Hardware). Google News is a great resource, but it'd be nice to be able to selectively filter out crap publications.
:)
Currently in the process of writing a "journalist blacklist" plugin for Chrome so I can just tune out the bad journalists all together
This whole article reeks of the doctor wishing she was in an episode of Grey's Anatomy or Scrubs.
"But Docktah! I can't have because it "
I got halfway through the first paragraph before I started looking for the link to the L4D2 benchmarks, which are a pretty good indicator of how well your computer is going to run L4D2, TF2, and very importantly, Portal2. None detected, even though it's one of their primary tests on all of their video card shootouts. Another failure for the guys at Tom's Hardware.
In addition to lftp's post, there is probably some technical neophyte product manager in charge of driver development who is on a knife's edge of losing his job after his team fried all those video cards a couple weeks back with a faulty driver release. I would imagine the maneuvering went something like this: "Well the reason we released a shit driver is because we've got our team having to support the open source stuff. If we didn't have to support that, we could devote more resources to completely testing our drivers before release." The other side benefit is the driver development manager doesn't have to compete against "free" to make linux drivers anymore. That makes him more important to the company, and removes a potential threat from his job.
It was only two months ago the THX certification lost all meaning due to lack of testing.
I'm having trouble recalling when the 9800s came out. It was roughly when I bought my Powerbook, which would put it around 2002. So you're basing ATi's reputation on 8 year old hardware, who has been bought out by another company entirely. XP had just gone mainstream, the Xbox 360 was just a twinkle in Ballmer's eye. The PS2 was still considered a modern console.
8 years is a hell of a long time, I hope you don't base all your decisions on decade old information. If you're interested though, I've got some GM stock to sell you. I heard the HUMMER brand is going to be HUGE.
US DNS servers magically start pulling DNS data from chinese servers? Uh huh. Completely an "accident".
Nice low-content post. Want to back that up with some sources? Your user name is terrible and you're a terrible person for posting this. I bet you like to eat hot grits while watching natalie portman films.
That might discourage journalists from taking up the profession altogether, especially considering the amount of non-notable tech journalism on the internet these days. And - horror of horrors - might subject them to actual quality standards. I recently emailed a journalist about the low quality of their article and learned that major tech blogs don't actually have an editorial staff.
It seems to have intelligent pattern awareness. I'd love to plug something like an image of the rosetta stone into it and have it fill in the words in the correct languages of the broken off parts. Or maybe use it to translate documents from one language to another based on it's pattern recognition (scanned pages, after all, are just complex patterns of words - nouns, verbs and adjectives)
Yes, someone at Sprint finally woke up and realized they have a range full of boring-ass phones, and even the Palm Pre couldn't save them. Glad to see Sprint has finally joined the 21st century with this phone. I'll still never switch back to them though :P
Running maximized all the time is pretty silly unless you're playing a video game or watching a movie. I've usually got 4-5 browser windows that take up 80% of my screen along with some file browser windows, music player, image editor, and whatever other apps I'm working on at the time. If it's not in the top layer I'll either a) alt-tab or b) use the task bar like you suggested.
Cooool! Now the next question is, can you install Win7 on 32gb?
Did they fix the chat notification layovers for Empathy and the several other programs that use them? That's probably my only gripe about 9.10 on my netbook. I'm excited about 10.4 UNR (or whatever they rebranded it as this time) but I don't think I am going to upgrade this time 'round; 9.10 UNR is damn fast on a N270 and until something significant breaks, or they improve full screen youtube @ 480p on the intel GMA950 I don't see a compelling reason to switch.
Some people have to peel back 2-3 layers to find the desktop :) Pretty sure I haven't seen my desktop wallpaper in over a year :)
Oh, I was talking about engines like the Source engine and Unreal 3. Counter Strike: Source will reputedly run at 15fps on a N270 (single core) netbook using the lousy GMA950. The Crysis engine is so lousy I don't think anyone would realistically try and run it on a netbook :)
Also: [geezer] You kids these days! Why, back in MY day, we ran Counter Strike 1.6 in software mode at 15fps, and we liked it! We were elated if we got anywhere near 30fps in our cutting edge games. You young whipper-snappers and your sixty frames per second...[/geezer]
Oh, I meant the vestigial PCI (not PCI-e) slot on most full size ATX boards.