Secondhand Sony VAIO from 2006 - 1GB RAM, 1.66GHz dual core x86, and a stupidly underpowered Intel Integrated Graphics Card. Win7 runs almost perfectly but very slowly and while taking up more than half of that 1GB of memory. I don't even want to know what happens when I try to shrink that page file.
FWIW, I'm running Ubuntu right now, which runs far more quickly (in GNOME; KDE 4.2 overworked the graphics card, so I had to take a pass on it.)
I pull up Slashdot with no Javascript and get a nice comment list. It works, and that's all there is to it.
I pull up Slashdot with Javascript enabled and sit there and wait for the browser to grind code for five seconds (bringing everything else on my computer, including Folding@Home, to a stall), just for a stupid little box that floats along the left side of the page like a stray dog that's decided to follow you around for some reason and has a bunch of sliders that are supposed to show and hide content but don't work at all.
I'll take the no-JS version of the page, thanks.
And don't even get me started about the Preferences...
Ubuntu 9.04 CD, stuffed into the CD drive of this ol' Sony VAIO. Surprise, WiFi worked perfectly out of the box and there's a perfectly usable GUI tool for connecting to whichever network is around. (Now, all I want is the tool that tells me whether the router's actually sending packets back over the airwaves to me, like the Wireless dialog box in Windows - my router craps out just often enough that it is necessary to check if something's even going on in there.)
True, but until Flash for Linux catches up to Flash for Windows (Flash in WinXP in VirtualBox runs at the same speed as Flash in Linux natively o.O) it definitely won't be "ready for the desktop" on, say, netbooks that people want to play dinky little flash games on.
Case in point (for browser vertical space that is).
I really really wanted a smidgen more vertical space (1280x768 on a fixed 800-width school website is absolutely painful) so... this is my solution. The VertTabbar extension for Firefox, then stuffing the address bar into the top of the browser. Combined with FireGestures to provide an alternate route to commonly used functions, this is hugely more usable on skinny websites with this rather awkward "widescreen" monitor.
Therefore, until someone comes up with a way to do this again in FF4.0 (admittedly I'm on Linux*, on which the introduction of a ribbon might never happen), I'll sit on my 3.5.
*Unlike many fanbois here, yes I do use Linux - a girl, on Slashdot, walking the walk and talking the talk. Don't make me outgeek you!
Can you go whole-hog and just homeschool the poor kid? From what you describe you're getting more learning done at home in a few hours than at school in six or eight...
Electromagnets are one way to bring rollercoaster cars up a track; probability can be explored through all manner of other ways, up to and including Vegas Poker. *shrug* It's easy enough to come up with these, but far harder to come up with a way to teach them without resorting to "This is a complementary probability and here's how you find it, and this is a * and here's how you do that" etc. etc.
What I do: have Stylish around and use per-site adjustments. It's a bit of a pain hunting down userstyles for everything, but it's significantly more unified in appearance when I do.
Anyway... if you're taking AP courses, it behooves you to check if the college you'd like to go to *takes* the AP scores for college credit (or at least prerequisites). I've heard horror stories; believe me, you want to know about this stuff beforehand.
It's only a small step from testing for these purported genes in kids, to testing for 'em in embryo bits. Then we get eugenics and kid selection, and surprise, there's a superhuman race inheriting the earth. *shrug* I think we all know how these things go.
I agree with your ideals, but I am far more idealistic (and live in the States). So, find me and help me set something up... you do know my email address is sitting up here staring you in the face, right?
On the other hand, I'd buy a 12". I hate 600px-tall screens with a passion and need a certain minimal amount of portability, so 12" is better than 10". Plus, 600px makes Yahoo complain that your screen is too small.
Try looking at this from the perspective of the dumbuser...
"Oh look, I can't browse the Internet without clicking on this screen and waiting for this f*ing statusbar to fill up!?"
either that or they'll look at the screen and the huge blue E will be the only thing they recognize. This would be a good opening for FF et al. to take advantage of, but to do that they need brand recognition. Who wants to pay for Firefox TV ads?
It's a weighted average. 68.1 males per 100k males. 12.9 females per 100k females. You can't just add, you have to account for how 100k of a population is made of both males and females.
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(N.B. I'm a happy NoScript user.)
The blacklist program you speak of? It's called YesScript, and despite your intimations, it has not taken off.
Then the stomach flu has horrible marketing strategies - and look, it's being successful!
Secondhand Sony VAIO from 2006 - 1GB RAM, 1.66GHz dual core x86, and a stupidly underpowered Intel Integrated Graphics Card. Win7 runs almost perfectly but very slowly and while taking up more than half of that 1GB of memory. I don't even want to know what happens when I try to shrink that page file.
FWIW, I'm running Ubuntu right now, which runs far more quickly (in GNOME; KDE 4.2 overworked the graphics card, so I had to take a pass on it.)
Counterexample.
I pull up Slashdot with no Javascript and get a nice comment list. It works, and that's all there is to it.
I pull up Slashdot with Javascript enabled and sit there and wait for the browser to grind code for five seconds (bringing everything else on my computer, including Folding@Home, to a stall), just for a stupid little box that floats along the left side of the page like a stray dog that's decided to follow you around for some reason and has a bunch of sliders that are supposed to show and hide content but don't work at all.
I'll take the no-JS version of the page, thanks.
And don't even get me started about the Preferences...
Battle of the dueling anecdotes?
Ubuntu 9.04 CD, stuffed into the CD drive of this ol' Sony VAIO. Surprise, WiFi worked perfectly out of the box and there's a perfectly usable GUI tool for connecting to whichever network is around. (Now, all I want is the tool that tells me whether the router's actually sending packets back over the airwaves to me, like the Wireless dialog box in Windows - my router craps out just often enough that it is necessary to check if something's even going on in there.)
True, but until Flash for Linux catches up to Flash for Windows (Flash in WinXP in VirtualBox runs at the same speed as Flash in Linux natively o.O) it definitely won't be "ready for the desktop" on, say, netbooks that people want to play dinky little flash games on.
Case in point (for browser vertical space that is).
I really really wanted a smidgen more vertical space (1280x768 on a fixed 800-width school website is absolutely painful) so... this is my solution. The VertTabbar extension for Firefox, then stuffing the address bar into the top of the browser. Combined with FireGestures to provide an alternate route to commonly used functions, this is hugely more usable on skinny websites with this rather awkward "widescreen" monitor.
Therefore, until someone comes up with a way to do this again in FF4.0 (admittedly I'm on Linux*, on which the introduction of a ribbon might never happen), I'll sit on my 3.5.
*Unlike many fanbois here, yes I do use Linux - a girl, on Slashdot, walking the walk and talking the talk. Don't make me outgeek you!
Can you go whole-hog and just homeschool the poor kid? From what you describe you're getting more learning done at home in a few hours than at school in six or eight...
Electromagnets are one way to bring rollercoaster cars up a track; probability can be explored through all manner of other ways, up to and including Vegas Poker. *shrug* It's easy enough to come up with these, but far harder to come up with a way to teach them without resorting to "This is a complementary probability and here's how you find it, and this is a * and here's how you do that" etc. etc.
What I do: have Stylish around and use per-site adjustments. It's a bit of a pain hunting down userstyles for everything, but it's significantly more unified in appearance when I do.
Bzipping, AFAIK, is lossless. *shrug*
Dude, don't I know you from Cogito?
Anyway... if you're taking AP courses, it behooves you to check if the college you'd like to go to *takes* the AP scores for college credit (or at least prerequisites). I've heard horror stories; believe me, you want to know about this stuff beforehand.
I schmell WOOSH.
It's only a small step from testing for these purported genes in kids, to testing for 'em in embryo bits. Then we get eugenics and kid selection, and surprise, there's a superhuman race inheriting the earth. *shrug* I think we all know how these things go.
I agree with your ideals, but I am far more idealistic (and live in the States). So, find me and help me set something up... you do know my email address is sitting up here staring you in the face, right?
Debian.
On the other hand, I'd buy a 12". I hate 600px-tall screens with a passion and need a certain minimal amount of portability, so 12" is better than 10". Plus, 600px makes Yahoo complain that your screen is too small.
I'd be obliged if someone like you set up an ABP list that only blocked the obnoxious ads and left the nice images and text ads alone. Please?
If you're worried about their fine motor training, how about teaching them to *assemble* the computers they'll need to use?
Really though, agreed. ^^
Already done.
Try looking at this from the perspective of the dumbuser...
"Oh look, I can't browse the Internet without clicking on this screen and waiting for this f*ing statusbar to fill up!?"
either that or they'll look at the screen and the huge blue E will be the only thing they recognize. This would be a good opening for FF et al. to take advantage of, but to do that they need brand recognition. Who wants to pay for Firefox TV ads?
Sega v. Accolade, 1980s (IIRC).
If you look at the tags on this story, someone's calling it the "isyncwar". Just FYI.
Personally I think it'd make a pretty good name but I digress...
It's a weighted average. 68.1 males per 100k males. 12.9 females per 100k females. You can't just add, you have to account for how 100k of a population is made of both males and females.
Uh... it's not available yet, that's the trouble.