I don't want to knock air travel, which is truly remarkable, but on a holiday weekend, when a highway is at capacity, but not over, and dusk is upon me, the sight of thousands of cars traveling together at 70+ MPH truly amazes me.
The fact that I can, at a moments notice, simply travel hundreds of miles (days or even weeks of travel historically), with hundreds of pounds of stuff, do something and travel back, all in a weekend is quite marvelous.
And I would never fly anywhere in that short of a period willingly (yuck!), though I did it once pre-911.
I have not played a single DS game where the touch screen is a gimmick, it is almost always unused (e.g. Mario Cart DS), and alternate control method that may or may not be better (e.g. advanced wars), or a fantastic edition (e.g. tap for backup item in NSMB). The Wiimote is a different story though often it is used as a very fun gimmick.
This is the American charts, it has the attach-rate at about the same as the PS3 and lower than the 360, of course arguments can be made to drop the Nintendo one by 1 or 2, it is still pretty fricken high in raw numbers of sales. If you subtract out 1 from the attach-rate (for Wii Sports) you end up with 150 million to XBOX 360's 170 Million, and PS3s 70 million. This is in the most 360 heavy region (North America).
Where Nintendo really makes their money though is software. Taking out Wii-play and Wii-sports they still sell more than EA on many weeks, and without licensing fees. Nintendo dominates in total money in the industry by such a huge amount that it isn't even funny. As far as the games industry goes Nintendo is a shrewd company, that is miles ahead of the rest.
Even with the Came Cube they were a major publisher by raw numbers, this is competing against companies selling for XBOX, PS2, and Computers.
My co-worker is simply someone who could use some extra money (trust me, he doesn't make that much).
He did so by making a little bit off of advertising with some in-expensive real-estate (a domain name). Sometimes the real-estate has value to someone else, and he can make a little extra.
He didn't get rich off of it, but he was able to have a little bit of spending cash, and didn't cost anybody else significant money.
That was really my point, that a lot of this is just normal people looking for a little bit of beer/electronics money.
As to the real-estate analogies below, this is simply a lot of billboard space being valued more by someone else.
He purchased a bunch of green bullshit names and then put add pages on them. When people contacted him about purchase he would be like, well it means a lot too me and I want to start a site, but I haven't done much yet, what is it worth to you?
Generally that was the end f it, but pretty much any offer was accepted.
The thing is that with previous FS drivers (and optionally with EXT4, so this is really just kind of academic) one could make sure that data that existed at boot time would not be lost, with only stuff in RAM, but not synced being lost on a crash.
EXT4 by default re-orders things so that your file that has been on disk for 100's of years can theroretically be killed by a power outage, as the rename() can occur before the writing of the data.
The solution is to queue the order of things, so that they go to RAM for a leisurely write, but they write in the order they happen. This way data on disk at boot time is not clobbered.
The spec for ODF spreadsheet allows for formulas to be in written pig-latin, it does not mean it is the best way to do things.
It is a good thing for a programmer to be able to say, I don't really care if these changes get written in the case of a power failure in the next ten minutes, but please don't erase what used to be here last year if it happens.
Super reliably (very slowly) write what you want Atomically write changes, with little risk of file loss, but changes can be lost Sloppily write in a way that can allow data loss
In EXT4 an application can: Super reliably (very slowly) write what you want Sloppily write in a way that can allow data loss
There is no in between, unless of course you use the new non-default ordered option.
An app that aggressively uses the massive amount of RAM in a modern sub-$1000 computer will be quicker than one that uses the disk.
I don't have that new of a system, so it wouldn't help me, but if an app was able to assume it could have 1GB or RAM it can run quicker than one that needs to stay svelte.
Consider this entry level machine:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883113094
It has an easy 3-4GB of RAM just for applications, programs made to not take advantage of that will not run as fast as they could.
Open Office is a large, very feature completeness attempt at replacing MS Office. It does very good import/export and is very cross platform, making it a good general solution if you have lots of RAM (512 MB +). OO.Org has fairly good Gnome integration, not sure on KDE.
KOffice is done by the KDE team, it is designed around the KDE libraries and as such it integrates very well. KOffice2 makes very good use of KDE4 allowing for a very nice interface of docking/floating toolbars and widget manipulation boxes (don't know a better word for it). I actually REALLY like the interface for KWord2.
GNOME Office is simply a collection of applications that use the GNOME libraries (or used to be anyway). It is Gnumeric (my favorite Linux spreadsheet, and Abiword, the best truly lightweight word processor I have used, maybe Dia (diagramming counts as a part too?). It does not feel at all like an Office suite, just some nicely done programs.
I personally use Open Office in GNOME, and KOffice on KDE, occasionally using Gnumeric on either because I like it.
I have a Asus WL-500W, and only get about 2MB/s HD access to the USB (tested with dd, and SMB access). My understanding is that this has to do with the fact that it lacks CPU power. Additionally, the extra RAM would be quite a boon for it too.
Using one of these would leave me less RAM starved for rtorrent, I bet I would also see closer to the 8 - 16 mbit Usenet download I get off my desktop, instead of the consistent 3.6 I get on the router.
When my NZB's are completed I bet this will be able to do the PAR2, and unrar far quicker too.
This has 5x the CPU and 16x the RAM. It would make a much better platform and is tempting.
So far (and I could very well be wrong about it) Linux basically globs all of the storage together into one equivalent of the C drive, and then chops it up into various partitions, which I assume are like top-level folders. Certain ones seem to have significance in Linux, but I haven't figured out exactly which one does what yet. I haven't figured out where, say, firefox is installed (ie, where the executable and system files are, vs. configuration settings, etc).
As a Linux user for a while (3 years exclusive, 10 years some usage), but really not an "expert" (so much has changed since it started "just working" for me that I really can't trouble shoot it like I can Windows.
As to where things are stored: Anythings you should be touching directly is in your home folder in hidden directories and files (Firefox would be in ~/.mozilla for example). The binary you run (main exe on windows) would be in/usr/bin, the libraries (Same as Windows DLLs)/usr/lib.
system configuration is in/etc
Of course: 1) This is full of lies, in/usr/bin it is simply a symbolic link (a shortcut that works) to a file in/usr/lib where the real executable lies.
But you should pretty much only be touching stuff directly in/etc or/home/you.
And I guess/usr/local, but by the time that comes up you'll know enough to know.
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That's interesting.
I don't want to knock air travel, which is truly remarkable, but on a holiday weekend, when a highway is at capacity, but not over, and dusk is upon me, the sight of thousands of cars traveling together at 70+ MPH truly amazes me.
The fact that I can, at a moments notice, simply travel hundreds of miles (days or even weeks of travel historically), with hundreds of pounds of stuff, do something and travel back, all in a weekend is quite marvelous.
And I would never fly anywhere in that short of a period willingly (yuck!), though I did it once pre-911.
I have not played a single DS game where the touch screen is a gimmick, it is almost always unused (e.g. Mario Cart DS), and alternate control method that may or may not be better (e.g. advanced wars), or a fantastic edition (e.g. tap for backup item in NSMB). The Wiimote is a different story though often it is used as a very fun gimmick.
As for attach rates:
http://vgchartz.com/aweekly.php
This is the American charts, it has the attach-rate at about the same as the PS3 and lower than the 360, of course arguments can be made to drop the Nintendo one by 1 or 2, it is still pretty fricken high in raw numbers of sales. If you subtract out 1 from the attach-rate (for Wii Sports) you end up with 150 million to XBOX 360's 170 Million, and PS3s 70 million. This is in the most 360 heavy region (North America).
Where Nintendo really makes their money though is software. Taking out Wii-play and Wii-sports they still sell more than EA on many weeks, and without licensing fees. Nintendo dominates in total money in the industry by such a huge amount that it isn't even funny. As far as the games industry goes Nintendo is a shrewd company, that is miles ahead of the rest.
Even with the Came Cube they were a major publisher by raw numbers, this is competing against companies selling for XBOX, PS2, and Computers.
But what if they are "true perching birds" instead?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scalzi/1970031768/in/set-72157603091357751/
My co-worker is simply someone who could use some extra money (trust me, he doesn't make that much).
He did so by making a little bit off of advertising with some in-expensive real-estate (a domain name). Sometimes the real-estate has value to someone else, and he can make a little extra.
He didn't get rich off of it, but he was able to have a little bit of spending cash, and didn't cost anybody else significant money.
That was really my point, that a lot of this is just normal people looking for a little bit of beer/electronics money.
As to the real-estate analogies below, this is simply a lot of billboard space being valued more by someone else.
A co-worker of mine did that for a while.
He purchased a bunch of green bullshit names and then put add pages on them. When people contacted him about purchase he would be like, well it means a lot too me and I want to start a site, but I haven't done much yet, what is it worth to you?
Generally that was the end f it, but pretty much any offer was accepted.
EXT4 is already fixed with the ability to require ordered writing.
I bet the ordered writing is turned on by default though.
This will make all the wining irrelevant.
The thing is that with previous FS drivers (and optionally with EXT4, so this is really just kind of academic) one could make sure that data that existed at boot time would not be lost, with only stuff in RAM, but not synced being lost on a crash.
EXT4 by default re-orders things so that your file that has been on disk for 100's of years can theroretically be killed by a power outage, as the rename() can occur before the writing of the data.
The solution is to queue the order of things, so that they go to RAM for a leisurely write, but they write in the order they happen. This way data on disk at boot time is not clobbered.
The spec for ODF spreadsheet allows for formulas to be in written pig-latin, it does not mean it is the best way to do things.
It is a good thing for a programmer to be able to say, I don't really care if these changes get written in the case of a power failure in the next ten minutes, but please don't erase what used to be here last year if it happens.
Too bad what you list as proper does not work by default in EXT4 (by default).
This is still within spec, the spec does not say order of operations must be maintained, so an FS driver can violate that.
An all this discussion on weather the problem is in the FS or not is silly to me, isn't it the driver that decides to re-order things?
On EXT3 an application can:
Super reliably (very slowly) write what you want
Atomically write changes, with little risk of file loss, but changes can be lost
Sloppily write in a way that can allow data loss
In EXT4 an application can:
Super reliably (very slowly) write what you want
Sloppily write in a way that can allow data loss
There is no in between, unless of course you use the new non-default ordered option.
I only skimmed it, but she appears to be upholding the letter of the law there.
I would think that makes her conservative.
As do at least some BlackBerrys
They will charge from wall wart with standard USB, but from computer you need an "approved" cord.
Not true.
An app that aggressively uses the massive amount of RAM in a modern sub-$1000 computer will be quicker than one that uses the disk.
I don't have that new of a system, so it wouldn't help me, but if an app was able to assume it could have 1GB or RAM it can run quicker than one that needs to stay svelte.
Consider this entry level machine:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883113094
It has an easy 3-4GB of RAM just for applications, programs made to not take advantage of that will not run as fast as they could.
This looks to me exactly like the XO, but with a better color display.
I was intrigued 2 years ago when i got my XO.
Now it is simply what I hoped would happen, same tech, but with focus on image quality and resolution over inexpensiveness.
On the XO, the wavy lines can become quite the hassle.
Not all of them yet, both my wife and father have not received it.
1) buy featurephone and plan
2) move SIM to Android
I am not 100% sure this will work though, but I believe the communication the android does is not with the network so it wouldn't know.
Open Office is a large, very feature completeness attempt at replacing MS Office. It does very good import/export and is very cross platform, making it a good general solution if you have lots of RAM (512 MB +). OO.Org has fairly good Gnome integration, not sure on KDE.
KOffice is done by the KDE team, it is designed around the KDE libraries and as such it integrates very well. KOffice2 makes very good use of KDE4 allowing for a very nice interface of docking/floating toolbars and widget manipulation boxes (don't know a better word for it). I actually REALLY like the interface for KWord2.
GNOME Office is simply a collection of applications that use the GNOME libraries (or used to be anyway). It is Gnumeric (my favorite Linux spreadsheet, and Abiword, the best truly lightweight word processor I have used, maybe Dia (diagramming counts as a part too?). It does not feel at all like an Office suite, just some nicely done programs.
I personally use Open Office in GNOME, and KOffice on KDE, occasionally using Gnumeric on either because I like it.
I am not convinced.
Just as they leave the TCP/IP stack open for others to use, I don't see why MS couldn't leave the update open for others.
Display: table
it's ugly, but at least it doesn't falsely imply you are about to display tabular data.
Are you for real? /. does not use any tables for example. Pretty elaborate and flexible layout even (though not the greatest perhaps).
This page http://www.coolwebsitelistings.com/, a first result searching for cool websites only has one table with 3 columns.
Table hell is old school I think.
I have a Asus WL-500W, and only get about 2MB/s HD access to the USB (tested with dd, and SMB access). My understanding is that this has to do with the fact that it lacks CPU power. Additionally, the extra RAM would be quite a boon for it too.
Using one of these would leave me less RAM starved for rtorrent, I bet I would also see closer to the 8 - 16 mbit Usenet download I get off my desktop, instead of the consistent 3.6 I get on the router.
When my NZB's are completed I bet this will be able to do the PAR2, and unrar far quicker too.
This has 5x the CPU and 16x the RAM. It would make a much better platform and is tempting.
The fact that is says "subscriptions" leads me to believe it grossly undercounts Asia, where I believe people pay hourly.
So far (and I could very well be wrong about it) Linux basically globs all of the storage together into one equivalent of the C drive, and then chops it up into various partitions, which I assume are like top-level folders. Certain ones seem to have significance in Linux, but I haven't figured out exactly which one does what yet. I haven't figured out where, say, firefox is installed (ie, where the executable and system files are, vs. configuration settings, etc).
As a Linux user for a while (3 years exclusive, 10 years some usage), but really not an "expert" (so much has changed since it started "just working" for me that I really can't trouble shoot it like I can Windows.
As to where things are stored: /usr/bin, the libraries (Same as Windows DLLs) /usr/lib.
Anythings you should be touching directly is in your home folder in hidden directories and files (Firefox would be in ~/.mozilla for example). The binary you run (main exe on windows) would be in
system configuration is in /etc
Of course: /usr/bin it is simply a symbolic link (a shortcut that works) to a file in /usr/lib where the real executable lies.
1) This is full of lies, in
But you should pretty much only be touching stuff directly in /etc or /home/you.
And I guess /usr/local, but by the time that comes up you'll know enough to know.
That is what Windnows needs!
It needs the ability for third parties to integrate with Windows Update. That way I do not get Sun Java Update, and Adobe updater CS3, ect. ect.
Windows update is actually fairly non-intrusive and respectful, I would love it if other companies were able to hook into it for themselves.
I like it, because it is easy to rank by popularity, which is quicker that reading review to try and get the best package for a task.
Also, it is a lot easier to browse applications without being root (sudo'd) using add/remove.