I see your point, but I think it very much depends on what you are studying. Laptops are utterly useless for note taking in some subjects due to the heavy reliance on diagrams and sketches. Think about how long it would take you to draw a rough P-V diagram for a Carnot cycle on a laptop vs a tablet.
Another advantage of the tablet is the noise -- imagine a whole lecture theater full of students typing away on keyboards. This is the reason why using laptops in lectures is a little frowned upon by many lecturers.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of all these touch screens in use these days -- I'd certainly never go near a cell phone or mp3 player without real buttons -- but I do think that this device could be quite useful, especially if it had roughly the same specs/capabilities as a netbook.
What do you actually mean when you say it is inefficient? Does it consume more power? Does it somehow take more time to do things? The statement makes no sense to me -- I use KDE every day and find it a pleasure to work with (kubuntu, at that -- which I hear is among the 'worst' of the KDE distros).
Ah, well, the PC I'm using it on is only used as a media PC and has never needed any of those functions. So all I'm saying is that for watching videos online etc. it seems to work well. I can't say the same for using the 32bit version on the 64bit OS -- it would do about 1 frame a second in fullscreen mode!
I've also been running 64 bit flash on linux for about a year.... I think it may still be called a beta, but I've never had any trouble with it and it runs very nicely.
You do realise that the Rastafarian religion is based on black supremacy, right? Marcus Garvey was nothing like the laid back stoner that some would portray him as these days, he was a racist radical black nationalist who used violence and intimidation to try to get this way.
I really don't see how racism has any place in a reasonable government.
That's the point -- the Queen can't just step in because she doesn't like the current government, it's only if the shit really hits the fan, as a last resort. For example, if an elected government tried to turn itself into a perpetual dictatorship without the support of the public, she could go in and kick some ass.
This is exactly why I use Opera. It doesn't use any less RAM than the others that I've noticed, but it's UI is always lightning fast, even on older systems.
I like Opera, and it's the only browser that I use nowdays, but I'm not sure it's any lighter in terms of resource use than FF or IE. Currently, it's using ~350MB with 10 tabs open after being up for a week or so, but that's because I have a CFD simulation running which is sucking up about 3GB. If there is a lot of RAM free, it will suck up quite a lot more. I don't mind this at all, RAM is there to be used, after all.
Agreed. In addition, I'd like to see an example of a mainstream piece of software that isn't becoming more 'bloated' as time goes by. It makes sense to give users more features and capability as hardware specs improve. Why would your average user want a browser that has limited functionality but only uses 10MB of RAM when they have a machine with 4GB that they only use to browse the web?
I'm using Opera at the moment on my office PC -- it's using ~350MB of RAM and I simply don't care. It could twice that and I still wouldn't care. For those that do, there will always be less mainstream options out there that are much more lightweight at the expense of some functionality.
OK, I'm from one of your colonies, so I'm not 100% up to speed with the UK's system, but can't the Queen dissolve the government in extreme circumstances (at least in theory)? I'm pretty sure she can actually dissolve our government, which IMO is quite a sensible precaution to have in place....
You could apply the same logic to cruise ships etc... It doesn't apply since customers simply wouldn't pay for an airline like seat for a multi day voyage...
Zeppelins would never be a direct competitor to jet aircraft because of the huge difference in speed (even taking into account my original postulation that significantly faster zeppelins are possible, they're not going to be going 800km/h!).
Personally, with the deadly safety record of aeroplane travel (Western Air Express Flight 7, Northwest Airlines Flight 2, Eastern Air Lines Flight 21....) and sea travel (RMS Titanic, RMS Empress of Ireland, Cospatrick....), I think I'd rather just swim.
True, but it's not physically impossible to make a faster zeppelin that could fly into head winds at a reasonable rate.... The same with getting them through storms safely -- there is no reason why it couldn't be done. I'd certainly be keen to spend a few days traveling in class in a zeppelin over a few hours in a cramped plane.
Sonic booms smashing windows is an event mainly confined to the movies. It is possible for it to happen, but the craft would need to be flying insanely low -- Which is obviously illegal for a number of other reasons.
Our ears are incredibly sensitive instruments -- what seems like an excruciatingly loud noise is actually a rather low energy wave.
this country is nothing without technical superiority over the rest of the world
What? The first part of your comments sounds pretty reasonable, but then you drop this bombshell.... What makes you think your country needs to dominate the world? What's wrong with just being a team player like most other countries are content to do? If you can't accept that, you're in trouble, since any 'technical superiority' (apart from military) you may have had is long gone....
Understandable, yes, but it is still 'wrong'.... Ideally, you'd just disable him somehow and wait until the police show up and take him away. I'm not saying that I would have the self restraint needed to do this in the example you give, but it is the 'right' thing to do....
Vigilante justice can't be allowed in any case, since your average person isn't qualified (or impartial enough) to make a rational judgment of guilt and appropriate punishment. Again, I'm not saying that I'd have the self restraint not to kill the rapist in question, but I would expect to be charged with the killing, and convicted if it was shown that my motive was to kill and not simply to stop the attack.
Simple, rip out the factory computer and buy a megasquirt kit. A couple of hundred bucks gets you a kit to build your own stand alone engine management system which can do pretty much anything you'd want it to (engine only). It plugs into your laptop and you can geek out to your hearts desire! Even works with linux if you use the megatunix software.
Of course, if your car has other functions like transmission control built into the engine computer you'll need to sort that out somehow..... Probably best to sell the car and get one that doesn't! IMO, it's worth it, there is nothing like the satisfaction you get from programming your own ECU and being able to tune it in real time while driving.
I'd go "WTF" at people who install XP64 for nonexperimental use.
But why? I've been using it for ~3 or 4 years and have honestly never had a better experience with a windows operating system. It has always seemed faster and less prone to crashing than the 32 bit XP. It also allows me to use a decent amount of RAM, which I need for fluids simulations. I would still use it over XP32, and Win7 any day.
I completely agree, I've had a better experience using XP64 than 32. It boots faster, and seems to last longer before turning into a slow unstable mess. I've used it on a number of PCs. My office computer at uni (along with many others in the department) also runs XP64, and I've never had a problem with it at all. I have heard of some obscure devices not having drivers, but I've never come across any.
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I see your point, but I think it very much depends on what you are studying. Laptops are utterly useless for note taking in some subjects due to the heavy reliance on diagrams and sketches. Think about how long it would take you to draw a rough P-V diagram for a Carnot cycle on a laptop vs a tablet.
Another advantage of the tablet is the noise -- imagine a whole lecture theater full of students typing away on keyboards. This is the reason why using laptops in lectures is a little frowned upon by many lecturers.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of all these touch screens in use these days -- I'd certainly never go near a cell phone or mp3 player without real buttons -- but I do think that this device could be quite useful, especially if it had roughly the same specs/capabilities as a netbook.
Nowhere. A Swallow, on the other hand.....
It's not uncommon for petrol companies to lower prices before holidays..... In fact, it happens before pretty much every big holiday in NZ.
Or just let the installer choose for itself. There is no reason why you have to manually choose where to install anything in *buntu now.
What do you actually mean when you say it is inefficient? Does it consume more power? Does it somehow take more time to do things? The statement makes no sense to me -- I use KDE every day and find it a pleasure to work with (kubuntu, at that -- which I hear is among the 'worst' of the KDE distros).
That's funny, because I (and a lot of other uses) am perfectly happy with KDE 4.4 and wouldn't go near gnome with a 3.048m barge pole...
Ah, well, the PC I'm using it on is only used as a media PC and has never needed any of those functions. So all I'm saying is that for watching videos online etc. it seems to work well. I can't say the same for using the 32bit version on the 64bit OS -- it would do about 1 frame a second in fullscreen mode!
I've also been running 64 bit flash on linux for about a year.... I think it may still be called a beta, but I've never had any trouble with it and it runs very nicely.
Garvey himself wasn't rastafarian, but he is regarded as a prophet to them and played a major part in the growth of the movement.
You do realise that the Rastafarian religion is based on black supremacy, right? Marcus Garvey was nothing like the laid back stoner that some would portray him as these days, he was a racist radical black nationalist who used violence and intimidation to try to get this way.
I really don't see how racism has any place in a reasonable government.
That's the point -- the Queen can't just step in because she doesn't like the current government, it's only if the shit really hits the fan, as a last resort. For example, if an elected government tried to turn itself into a perpetual dictatorship without the support of the public, she could go in and kick some ass.
This is exactly why I use Opera. It doesn't use any less RAM than the others that I've noticed, but it's UI is always lightning fast, even on older systems.
I like Opera, and it's the only browser that I use nowdays, but I'm not sure it's any lighter in terms of resource use than FF or IE. Currently, it's using ~350MB with 10 tabs open after being up for a week or so, but that's because I have a CFD simulation running which is sucking up about 3GB. If there is a lot of RAM free, it will suck up quite a lot more. I don't mind this at all, RAM is there to be used, after all.
Agreed. In addition, I'd like to see an example of a mainstream piece of software that isn't becoming more 'bloated' as time goes by. It makes sense to give users more features and capability as hardware specs improve. Why would your average user want a browser that has limited functionality but only uses 10MB of RAM when they have a machine with 4GB that they only use to browse the web?
I'm using Opera at the moment on my office PC -- it's using ~350MB of RAM and I simply don't care. It could twice that and I still wouldn't care. For those that do, there will always be less mainstream options out there that are much more lightweight at the expense of some functionality.
OK, I'm from one of your colonies, so I'm not 100% up to speed with the UK's system, but can't the Queen dissolve the government in extreme circumstances (at least in theory)? I'm pretty sure she can actually dissolve our government, which IMO is quite a sensible precaution to have in place....
You could apply the same logic to cruise ships etc... It doesn't apply since customers simply wouldn't pay for an airline like seat for a multi day voyage... Zeppelins would never be a direct competitor to jet aircraft because of the huge difference in speed (even taking into account my original postulation that significantly faster zeppelins are possible, they're not going to be going 800km/h!).
Personally, with the deadly safety record of aeroplane travel (Western Air Express Flight 7, Northwest Airlines Flight 2, Eastern Air Lines Flight 21....) and sea travel (RMS Titanic, RMS Empress of Ireland, Cospatrick....), I think I'd rather just swim.
True, but it's not physically impossible to make a faster zeppelin that could fly into head winds at a reasonable rate.... The same with getting them through storms safely -- there is no reason why it couldn't be done. I'd certainly be keen to spend a few days traveling in class in a zeppelin over a few hours in a cramped plane.
Sonic booms smashing windows is an event mainly confined to the movies. It is possible for it to happen, but the craft would need to be flying insanely low -- Which is obviously illegal for a number of other reasons.
Our ears are incredibly sensitive instruments -- what seems like an excruciatingly loud noise is actually a rather low energy wave.
this country is nothing without technical superiority over the rest of the world
What? The first part of your comments sounds pretty reasonable, but then you drop this bombshell.... What makes you think your country needs to dominate the world? What's wrong with just being a team player like most other countries are content to do? If you can't accept that, you're in trouble, since any 'technical superiority' (apart from military) you may have had is long gone....
Understandable, yes, but it is still 'wrong'.... Ideally, you'd just disable him somehow and wait until the police show up and take him away. I'm not saying that I would have the self restraint needed to do this in the example you give, but it is the 'right' thing to do....
Vigilante justice can't be allowed in any case, since your average person isn't qualified (or impartial enough) to make a rational judgment of guilt and appropriate punishment. Again, I'm not saying that I'd have the self restraint not to kill the rapist in question, but I would expect to be charged with the killing, and convicted if it was shown that my motive was to kill and not simply to stop the attack.
Simple, rip out the factory computer and buy a megasquirt kit. A couple of hundred bucks gets you a kit to build your own stand alone engine management system which can do pretty much anything you'd want it to (engine only). It plugs into your laptop and you can geek out to your hearts desire! Even works with linux if you use the megatunix software.
Of course, if your car has other functions like transmission control built into the engine computer you'll need to sort that out somehow..... Probably best to sell the car and get one that doesn't! IMO, it's worth it, there is nothing like the satisfaction you get from programming your own ECU and being able to tune it in real time while driving.
I'd go "WTF" at people who install XP64 for nonexperimental use.
But why? I've been using it for ~3 or 4 years and have honestly never had a better experience with a windows operating system. It has always seemed faster and less prone to crashing than the 32 bit XP. It also allows me to use a decent amount of RAM, which I need for fluids simulations. I would still use it over XP32, and Win7 any day.
I completely agree, I've had a better experience using XP64 than 32. It boots faster, and seems to last longer before turning into a slow unstable mess. I've used it on a number of PCs. My office computer at uni (along with many others in the department) also runs XP64, and I've never had a problem with it at all. I have heard of some obscure devices not having drivers, but I've never come across any.
Many of the machines in our department at university (mech eng) are running XP64. Some of us need 4GB+ of RAM.