Of course, some of us are in markets with several excellent indy and public radio stations, so foregoing the radio means missing out on a lot of good music. Of course, apple zealots never see this because they're blinded by the fact that their player is blessed by the almighty steve
Because e17 requires a total rewrite of damn near everything to take advantage of its changes. This requires minor tweaks to the window manager to have any app realize most of the changes, even if the app was written years ago. Does e17 help me when I'm running firefox?
Bullshit. The default environment is near close to unusable crap. Where is the nice gui-based scp client like that's built into kde? where are the themes to get rid of the ugly ass brushed metal portions of the finder and itunes? I only wish I could pop te hoodd of OS X so I could get it looking real good.
You could always use cygwin, which also comes with tex and doesn't have the overhead of a complete operating system. Or go with colinux which should be a bit faster than qemu and knoppix.
Unless you're going to something like ww.wchevychasebank.com, which depending on the font, etc, looks close enough to fool a surprising number of people.
Unfortunately, laws regarding contests are so sporadic and varied that making an international contest for something like this becomes damn tough to administer. If the laws on these sorts of events were more normalized, you'd see a lot more of these contests opening up to a wider audience. If you want to join so bad, you could always move;)
FM tuners are dirt cheap and tiny these days. I've got a pen with a built in radio that cost me a few bucks. Hell, there are FM tuners available for $0.99 which are decent enough for most purposes. Adding an FM radio would add negligable costs to a portable music player, and give people more choice as to what they want to listen too. Course, then again, not everyone is in a radio market where Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols is a DJ, so ymmv.
Except that apple didn't come up with this idea. This market was born on the PC side with boxes like the cappuccinopc. Apple, like usual, is a Johnny come lately whose adherents have selective amnesia about computer products.
How's it way better? The imperial system is broken up so that the units are resonably scaled as it is. For distance, you've got inches, feet, and miles. Small stuff, you measure it in inches, or fractions thereof. Larger things you measure in feet, and for distances, you use miles. Fluids, you use ounces for small, cups, pints and quarts for medium, and gallons for large measurements. Converting to metric would cost billions of dollars for not much real benefit.
The ipod shuffle is one of the few products that apple offers that is decently priced. The Mac Mini is not that great of a bargain for the money. I'd much rather spend my $500 to get a small x86 machine which is faster and more compatible with off the shelf software. A few hundred dollars extra would get me an Athlon64 system that could go toe to toe with the expensive and gaudy G5 towers. Yes, apple has a few products that are price competitive, but by and large, their products are just as overpriced as they've always been.
Y'know, if you set up your computer right, you don't need to reinstall every 6 months. Yes, I know this means that you can't download every 2 bit application that comes down the pip, but it's a small consolation. I use windows, Linux, freebsd, and mac os x on a regular basis, and OS X is inferior in a lot of ways without expending more effort to make it decent than is needed with either Linux or Windows.
I don't know about you, but I've got a decent job and have these things known as weekends which are spent pursuing geekish tasks which aren't work related. Also, his feeder can be controlled and monitored online, which is something the COTS feeders can't do.
Usually the hit isn't more than a few percent, but if you're running a big server farm, a few percent here and there can start to add up to being a significant bottleneck if you're talking about a fair-sized datacenter. The overhead and few percent is usually because of all the message passing, disk -- kernel/os -- process is inherently less processor intensive than disk -- microkernel -- os -- process.
Microkernels in and of themselves don't offer any stability benefits. Certain implementations, like qnx, do offer better stability, but not OS X's implementation of Mach, as they use mach more as a way to implement better scheduling controls than as a way of increasing reliability. It's a trade-off, really, and the insane reliability with a microkernel system designed to go down usually isn't worth it unless you invest in hotplug everything so that hardware failures can be mitigated. And frankly, most reliability problems can usually be better solved by having a spare box than by having a microkernel system.
NetBSD runs, FreeBSD doesn't. And Linux is still faster than Darwin, due to the inherent limitations of the mach microkernel. Additionally, Linux has support for a wider range of filesystem types which are better for various applications; *BSD, you're stuck with just UFS, which may not be the best choice. Linux is more tuneable and configurable than BSD, which does help in making sure that your server is as fast as possible, and as reliable as possible
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Of course, some of us are in markets with several excellent indy and public radio stations, so foregoing the radio means missing out on a lot of good music. Of course, apple zealots never see this because they're blinded by the fact that their player is blessed by the almighty steve
This isn't OS X, I'm sure you'll be able to turn off these funky UI elements with whatever window manager you choose.
Because e17 requires a total rewrite of damn near everything to take advantage of its changes. This requires minor tweaks to the window manager to have any app realize most of the changes, even if the app was written years ago. Does e17 help me when I'm running firefox?
Bullshit. The default environment is near close to unusable crap. Where is the nice gui-based scp client like that's built into kde? where are the themes to get rid of the ugly ass brushed metal portions of the finder and itunes? I only wish I could pop te hoodd of OS X so I could get it looking real good.
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You could always use cygwin, which also comes with tex and doesn't have the overhead of a complete operating system. Or go with colinux which should be a bit faster than qemu and knoppix.
Unless you're going to something like ww.wchevychasebank.com, which depending on the font, etc, looks close enough to fool a surprising number of people.
Unfortunately, laws regarding contests are so sporadic and varied that making an international contest for something like this becomes damn tough to administer. If the laws on these sorts of events were more normalized, you'd see a lot more of these contests opening up to a wider audience. If you want to join so bad, you could always move ;)
Just like game show winnings, the prizes are considered taxable income.
A scanner Darkly used a technique called rotoscoping, which is similar, in that it takes images and illustrates them to create the final product.
FM tuners are dirt cheap and tiny these days. I've got a pen with a built in radio that cost me a few bucks. Hell, there are FM tuners available for $0.99 which are decent enough for most purposes. Adding an FM radio would add negligable costs to a portable music player, and give people more choice as to what they want to listen too. Course, then again, not everyone is in a radio market where Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols is a DJ, so ymmv.
Another one: http://gaim-encryption.sf.net/
Seems right to me. Take something bland and unappealing and putting something real good on it. Especially makes sense if it was a free veggie burger.
Except that apple didn't come up with this idea. This market was born on the PC side with boxes like the cappuccinopc. Apple, like usual, is a Johnny come lately whose adherents have selective amnesia about computer products.
No excuses. Now eat your real ice cream, none of that soy crap.
How's it way better? The imperial system is broken up so that the units are resonably scaled as it is. For distance, you've got inches, feet, and miles. Small stuff, you measure it in inches, or fractions thereof. Larger things you measure in feet, and for distances, you use miles. Fluids, you use ounces for small, cups, pints and quarts for medium, and gallons for large measurements. Converting to metric would cost billions of dollars for not much real benefit.
The ipod shuffle is one of the few products that apple offers that is decently priced. The Mac Mini is not that great of a bargain for the money. I'd much rather spend my $500 to get a small x86 machine which is faster and more compatible with off the shelf software. A few hundred dollars extra would get me an Athlon64 system that could go toe to toe with the expensive and gaudy G5 towers. Yes, apple has a few products that are price competitive, but by and large, their products are just as overpriced as they've always been.
Y'know, if you set up your computer right, you don't need to reinstall every 6 months. Yes, I know this means that you can't download every 2 bit application that comes down the pip, but it's a small consolation. I use windows, Linux, freebsd, and mac os x on a regular basis, and OS X is inferior in a lot of ways without expending more effort to make it decent than is needed with either Linux or Windows.
It's not even the first that small and to answer your question, some mac users feel the psychological need to justify their overpriced products by comparing products whenever possible. It's like a three year old that goes "look at me, look at me" when the older folk are talking amongst themselves.
I don't know about you, but I've got a decent job and have these things known as weekends which are spent pursuing geekish tasks which aren't work related. Also, his feeder can be controlled and monitored online, which is something the COTS feeders can't do.
Usually the hit isn't more than a few percent, but if you're running a big server farm, a few percent here and there can start to add up to being a significant bottleneck if you're talking about a fair-sized datacenter. The overhead and few percent is usually because of all the message passing, disk -- kernel/os -- process is inherently less processor intensive than disk -- microkernel -- os -- process.
Microkernels in and of themselves don't offer any stability benefits. Certain implementations, like qnx, do offer better stability, but not OS X's implementation of Mach, as they use mach more as a way to implement better scheduling controls than as a way of increasing reliability. It's a trade-off, really, and the insane reliability with a microkernel system designed to go down usually isn't worth it unless you invest in hotplug everything so that hardware failures can be mitigated. And frankly, most reliability problems can usually be better solved by having a spare box than by having a microkernel system.
NetBSD runs, FreeBSD doesn't. And Linux is still faster than Darwin, due to the inherent limitations of the mach microkernel. Additionally, Linux has support for a wider range of filesystem types which are better for various applications; *BSD, you're stuck with just UFS, which may not be the best choice. Linux is more tuneable and configurable than BSD, which does help in making sure that your server is as fast as possible, and as reliable as possible
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