Some 100-dvd boxes are even less than 20$ if you search, but yes, one single huge hard disk is better in many cases (not in all cases anyway). With blue-rays boxes the ratio is even better. I was just pointing the fact that hard disks are not yet the cheaper per gigabyte.
What about reading it, then asking your money back because it's a defective book? When I buy a book, I want an exact copy of that book, not a randomly altered one.
My God, I hope you haven't discovered Internet yet! Just kidding, sorry, I'm not as old as you, but maybe like all tools the TV has caused problem when abused, while it also had good effects on many aspects of society.
Have you did it? And so where are your numbers to prove your claims? Anyway I don't feel like getting blind to read on a black background. There's a reason if we write black over white.
Hi, you're right! In the hurry I checked a few things (processes, and devices under/dev/bus/usb). I did not remember that a webcam has a/dev/video* device, maybe because I use them rarely.
Thanks
Michele
Hi, you're right! At work I have my PC fully secured as you say, but at home I had to accept a lower security to make things usable by others. For example my wife uses my same account because she's not so computer-savvy to manage her own account on linux (or better laziness). And noscript makes 90% of sites not fully working, and again I cannot force my wife to maniacally manage permissions for every site, or every part of a site, as I do. This is usually the price of convinving other family members to convert to the "other" OS (the alternative is continuous telephone calls for assistance). OTHO she's very happy with linux now, and uses Windows at work.
The only thing that your wisdom and sarcasm have not explained yet, is why in your opinion Intel prefers spending time and money developing for linux than for Mac, given that (as you say) Mac is as open as Linux, that Apple is one of their best customers, that Intel could get as much technical support from Apple as they like, and that linux is not minimally as "mainstream" on desktops as Mac.
Ok, so we can conclude that Apple's platform and/or politics must really suck if, *given all that*, ati / nvidia / intel still don't develop for it. Happier now?
Maybe Intel too feels more comfortable developing on an open platform, where you have the sources of the kernel, Xorg, etc. About Windows, you must support it for numerical/marketing reasons.
RTGs, if I'm not wrong, give a small amount of energy, useful in space where you need little energy but for very long times. Not to mention their weight.
Bruce Eckel publishes free (freeware?) books about several languages, and the one on C++ was one of my most read. Just a suggestion to check the existing state of the art and to not duplicate efforts. Anyway, a very good idea!
My daughter was once playing with ktuberling, where you drag little characters on the screen and create a scene. One day I caught her rotating the mouse horizontally, because she wanted the little penguin to lay down instead of standing, and she was complaining it was not working. I'm an electronic engineer, but I have not all that spare time!:-)
On the other hand, I think that Apple and others could gain millions by hiring a bunch of kids as designers...
What is surprising to me is that the copyright is still recognized to Hitler (up to 70 years since his death). I thought that Germany had someway revoked him his civil rights. For a parellel example, when Italy defeated fascism and rejected monarchy, the dictator was killed, and the king (and all his future male descendants) were exiled, their properties confiscated, and they were prohibited to even reenter Italy, until few years ago.
Once I was a happy KDE user. Then, after KDE Vista (pardon, KDE 4) I dropped it disgusted for Gnome. Just yesterday I updated my Debian testing and Gnome switched to 3.0. After a reboot I was shocked, I spent one hour thinking "no, this must be a joke, now I'll wake up and this will not be true". Basically the day before I had a computer, and today I have the functionality of a cell phone.
Now, am I the problem or are there? I need some basic functions to be guaranteed by a computer interface, why are they systematically removed year after year in the name of coolness?
Stop writing apocalyptic titles about countries that are not USA, information has never been obscured and never will be, we are not Iran or North Korea.
Neither people are condamned/acquitted arbitrarily just because laws are someway different from yours.
I mean, they found a therapy for cancer, even if it worked for a single case and it's still experimental, so why do I have to read it on Slashdot and not on all the main news? This should be "breaking news" on every tv channel, instead of the bullshit of the politician of the day.
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Some 100-dvd boxes are even less than 20$ if you search, but yes, one single huge hard disk is better in many cases (not in all cases anyway). With blue-rays boxes the ratio is even better. I was just pointing the fact that hard disks are not yet the cheaper per gigabyte.
Not sure hard disks are the cheapest ones. On Amazon you can buy a 100 dvd-pack spindle for less than 25$, and that'a almost 500 GB.
What about reading it, then asking your money back because it's a defective book? When I buy a book, I want an exact copy of that book, not a randomly altered one.
My God, I hope you haven't discovered Internet yet! Just kidding, sorry, I'm not as old as you, but maybe like all tools the TV has caused problem when abused, while it also had good effects on many aspects of society.
Hook up a power meter and see for yourself.
Have you did it? And so where are your numbers to prove your claims? Anyway I don't feel like getting blind to read on a black background. There's a reason if we write black over white.
Don't know, I always felt it's an urban legend, especially with LCDs.
Sorry, I'm not english, can you convert to milli-coffee units?
You're right, I must resolve someday to extend my knowledge and study how they work.
Thanks
Michele
Hi, you're right! In the hurry I checked a few things (processes, and devices under /dev/bus/usb). I did not remember that a webcam has a /dev/video* device, maybe because I use them rarely.
Thanks
Michele
Hi, thanks, this is a very useful insight. I did not realize the webcam has a microphone too, and perhaps I had some processes related to mic.
Hi, you're right! At work I have my PC fully secured as you say, but at home I had to accept a lower security to make things usable by others. For example my wife uses my same account because she's not so computer-savvy to manage her own account on linux (or better laziness). And noscript makes 90% of sites not fully working, and again I cannot force my wife to maniacally manage permissions for every site, or every part of a site, as I do. This is usually the price of convinving other family members to convert to the "other" OS (the alternative is continuous telephone calls for assistance). OTHO she's very happy with linux now, and uses Windows at work.
The only thing that your wisdom and sarcasm have not explained yet, is why in your opinion Intel prefers spending time and money developing for linux than for Mac, given that (as you say) Mac is as open as Linux, that Apple is one of their best customers, that Intel could get as much technical support from Apple as they like, and that linux is not minimally as "mainstream" on desktops as Mac.
Ok, so we can conclude that Apple's platform and/or politics must really suck if, *given all that*, ati / nvidia / intel still don't develop for it. Happier now?
Maybe Intel too feels more comfortable developing on an open platform, where you have the sources of the kernel, Xorg, etc. About Windows, you must support it for numerical/marketing reasons.
Of course, solar-electric airplanes have flown for two weeks continuously, but that sure seems like refueling!"
Come on, that's terribly unfair! Refueling as you fly is not the same as having to return to base...
RTGs, if I'm not wrong, give a small amount of energy, useful in space where you need little energy but for very long times. Not to mention their weight.
At least, I like to think that Microsoft should know better than others where in their OS a malware can inject. But I may be wrong.
Am I the only one looking amazed at the rover and ignoring the landscape? It's like my child's robot dreams starting slowly to come true.
Bruce Eckel publishes free (freeware?) books about several languages, and the one on C++ was one of my most read. Just a suggestion to check the existing state of the art and to not duplicate efforts. Anyway, a very good idea!
My daughter was once playing with ktuberling, where you drag little characters on the screen and create a scene. One day I caught her rotating the mouse horizontally, because she wanted the little penguin to lay down instead of standing, and she was complaining it was not working. I'm an electronic engineer, but I have not all that spare time! :-)
On the other hand, I think that Apple and others could gain millions by hiring a bunch of kids as designers...
What is surprising to me is that the copyright is still recognized to Hitler (up to 70 years since his death). I thought that Germany had someway revoked him his civil rights. For a parellel example, when Italy defeated fascism and rejected monarchy, the dictator was killed, and the king (and all his future male descendants) were exiled, their properties confiscated, and they were prohibited to even reenter Italy, until few years ago.
What about Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA? As a bonus, there's the GooglePlex too.
Once I was a happy KDE user. Then, after KDE Vista (pardon, KDE 4) I dropped it disgusted for Gnome. Just yesterday I updated my Debian testing and Gnome switched to 3.0. After a reboot I was shocked, I spent one hour thinking "no, this must be a joke, now I'll wake up and this will not be true". Basically the day before I had a computer, and today I have the functionality of a cell phone. Now, am I the problem or are there? I need some basic functions to be guaranteed by a computer interface, why are they systematically removed year after year in the name of coolness?
Stop writing apocalyptic titles about countries that are not USA, information has never been obscured and never will be, we are not Iran or North Korea. Neither people are condamned/acquitted arbitrarily just because laws are someway different from yours.
I mean, they found a therapy for cancer, even if it worked for a single case and it's still experimental, so why do I have to read it on Slashdot and not on all the main news? This should be "breaking news" on every tv channel, instead of the bullshit of the politician of the day.