Ever since ubuntu became usable without command line hacking (somewhere in 2007 by my account), they started fucking up other parts. They started adding in new flashy shit that no-one really needs, and forgetting about actually getting a STABLE distro out there. In 9.10 everything pretty much works on my desktop (wish i could say the same for my laptops, which fuck up on every release), except for the piece of misconfigured shit that is pulseaudio. If i try to play certain DVDs in vlc, all sound will play, except for the fricking voice tracks.. it takes endless fucking about to get this to work. And every single release the last few years has had these type of issues on nearly all of my systems. nearly everything works, but they never forget to royally screw at least one thing up, preventing themselves from becoming a true user friendly distro.
10.04 will NOT make it onto my main systems for day to day use, if i ever find the need to upgrade from my current ubuntu settups, then fedora is first on my list.
Both those laptops have cpu's that are less powerfull then my 3 year old MSI (which is an 1.8 GHz amd x2, these two laptops have 1.6 and 1.5, also K8 based), and lack a dvd drive, which my laptop has.
Those two things are the perfect example of what i was saying, poshed up netbooks which have taken the place of ultra portables with the specs of a full-size laptop
i see your point for safari numbers, but is chrome available on the mobile platform? from what i can find chrome isnt the default for android.
as for still using IE on the desktop, that might very well be, but lots of people might check out safari/opera/whatever after having a positive experience on their phone
depends, if he tells the people clearly after installing the trigger, i'd say he is well within his rights, especially if he fixes computers for free.
Lots of people expect us nerds to just fix their computers because we are good at it, and it is supposed to be our hobby, fuck that. If i fix a machine i am doing you a favor, and if i give advice on the use of a computer, they should listen (hey, i'm the computer expert right?), if they chose to ignore my advice and in the process destroy my work, am i an asshole for not doing it again and again?
Atom has hyperthreading, so that dual penguin aspire one has a single core with HT, much like the older pentium 4 chips. Your foxconn system has a dual core atom (which has been available for ages, just banned from netbooks by intel), also with HT, so it has four logical threads
i had one of those dual core atom mini-itx boards, wanted to replace my intel 1,2 GHz celeron board with it. Turned out intel used some shitty network chip on that thing with no usable linux drivers in the mainstream kernel, so i sold it
The SSD in the first generation eee wasnt spectacular (own one myself), but a new intel SSD is MUCH faster then a laptop hdd
and to be honest i think size is the reason the industry backed away, joe sixpack will see two netbooks at walmart, one with 16 of that wacky number, and the other has 160, must be better right?
unfortunatly nvidia cant put out an x86 design, which basically means no windows on a tegra system, which is gonna kill the platform for joe sixpack. What nvidia needs to get tegra off the ground would be microsoft willing to port windows to ARM
Then what you want isn't a netbook. You want an ultra-portable-PC, which have existed for a while and will keep continuing to exist.
sadly the whole netbook-craze has wiped out a good part of the sub-notebook market, three years back i bought a 12" MSI laptop, dual core amd turion, DVD drive, ATI chipset, about 4 pounds, and under 1000 euros. Today, i can not buy the same kind of machine. Either i have to go for a 13,3" model, or settle for a CULV/atom type cpu, which have LESS performance then that dual core AMD i have in the old machine.
Yes i can buy a "smaller then standard 15 inch" laptop, but there is no logical succesor to my 3 year old machine without going way over budget. For this, i hate netbooks! (and really, a year ago you could find 12 inch "netbooks", incredibly ridiculous, i had four times the power in the same from factor)
true, people dont buy a new computer to get more performance, people buy a new computer for the included hard-drive with an OS on it that isnt yet infected with thousands of toolbars, trojans, virusses, scamware etc....
My Step-father asked me to reinstall his circa 2004 Pentium 4 based laptop, i just got an email from my mom this morning about how great the speed improvement is. The old OS install had bogged down to the point of being unusable to them (which is so slow i would have installed linux and opened up the included browser rather then use the browser on that install). If they hadnt had me in the family, chances are eventually they would have replaced the machine...
Users dont care about Gflops, they care about checking their email in X time, microsoft and the OEMs play into this by negating all hardware improvements with new "features" and added trials to the point that every new computer, be it now or three years from now, will have just a few years of joe sixpack use in it, before the OS has been bogged down so bad joe sixpack wants a new one, never mind that a simple re-install would fix it
hmm, forgot about that, even though my last install was less then a year ago...
thing is though, linux is much easier when everything works, if some module/driver doesnt, solving it is more of a hassle then your regular windows install
any dope who can install linux should be able to install windows and these days VMware/virtualbox are pretty much click&play, with some very sane defaults, and no expert skills needed beyond just installing windows...
Granted it is pretty stupid to have a 'user friendly' distro like ubuntu being unable to detect a windows partition and leave it in peace..
i learned that too about ubuntu releases. I am pretty much the same in terms of "WANT IT NOW" when it comes to new releases, but ubuntu fucks something major up every release for at the very least one of my systems, this got so bad that now i just install the most up to date version when i install a machine, and never upgrade to a new version, the downside obviously is having all my systems run a different version (9.10 on my main, 9.04 on the laptop, 8.10 on the server etc...)
Prepare to not find a 'doughnut', but a small foam-based tyre repair-kit when you have a flat.. Here on most new cars you have to pay extra to get the 50 MPH emergency spare. I once had to drive about 100 miles with one of those on my car, it is NOT fun to be overtaken by a frickin truck on the highway (were i usually drive ~75)
i hope that funny mod is what you were going for, because if competency is no longer a legal step in hiring people, i dont want to be subjected to any american employees
maybe my humor-o-meter if broken, but that post really scared the shit out of me
if we assume a 4 mile effective range (which i think is overly generous for a gun, but hey), that gives a mach 3 cruise missile approximatly 6 seconds within phalanx range, i'd love to see a crew that can reload ammo cans on an opperating, moving and firing phalanx system in that amount of time. you would just need ~8 missiles to overload a single phalanx (2 100-round bursts to take out a missile, phalanx runs out after 7 missiles), assuming its range is 4 miles (i believe that even if it is, it would be severly less effective due to bullet scatter), purely on ammo capacity
Phalanx might work against one or two simultanious missiles, but overpowering it with sheer numbers wouldnt be all that hard
im guessing that even if you could track 500 targets all inbound at mach 3 at low altitude, taking them down would be next to impossible. Even if you assume a phalanx system can reach out 4 miles (which it probably cant, at that range the bullets are highly ineffective), at mach three that leaves each missile within phalanx range for 6 seconds. Now even if your carier has four phalanx's facing having line of sight, they would need to take out 16 missiles per second, which i'm pretty sure they are not capable off
the phalanx also only carries a 1500 round magazine, and at several miles of range you need more then an average of 12 rounds to take out a multi-ton cruise missile i think.
I know its totally unrealistic, but my guess is that against a co-ordinated 500 cruise missile strike, a carrier battlegroup is pretty much fucked, they just cant shoot down that many missiles without a few getting through
not to mention the fact that a limping carrier with still some valuable assets that could be retrieved is a bigger strain on the rest of the fleet then a sunk one. It will need to be towed/supported/protected on its way back to port.
The same principle is used in the design of anti-personel mines. Why kill an enemy soldier when you can blow his leg off and have him take up one of the enemies hospital beds sucking down resources?
Just to put forth my own standpoint, i think these kind of anti-personel mines are awfull, and horribly immoral, unfortunatly in terms of strategy against a de-humanized opponent, the idea is sound
750kg warhead, nominal speeds of mach 4.5, with prototype engines capable of up to mach 6, an advanced group attach mode in which 4-8 missiles attack in a self-cordinated strike (1 missile flies higher and designates sepperate targets for the others).
I'm not sure how effective anti missile defenses are these days, but with this thing, a single fregat armed with 8 of these missiles could provide a devestating blow to a battlegroup
Just think, 8 co-operating missiles at mach 4.5 (or even 6), each with 750kg of high explosive (or a 500KT nuke), heading for your fleet..
just to point something out, up to 2006 the netherlands were doing only a fraction of what they sold in 2007, my guess is both 2006/2007 saw a few navy ship deals, as that is basically all we make in terms of military equipment, so once you get into that range of money, things can fluctuate a lot.
i doubt that the energy requirements of getting something capable of wiping out mankind this far into the gravity well (who said about getting anything back? send some automated kill-probes) would be a real problem for interstellar pillagers.
Besides, there are multiple ways of disabling earth without actually putting a huge fleet of star-cruisers in orbit and lasering the frack out of us. a small number of warheads with an extreme biological/chemical agent will wipe out the majority of humans, causing short-term economical collapse, and an overall very much reduced threat to aliens. A couple of very potent EMP devices can take out all satelites, and if targetted well, the majority of society
You dont need to manually kill every human, just kick out one of the fragile supporting pillars and let society die
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Ever since ubuntu became usable without command line hacking (somewhere in 2007 by my account), they started fucking up other parts. They started adding in new flashy shit that no-one really needs, and forgetting about actually getting a STABLE distro out there. In 9.10 everything pretty much works on my desktop (wish i could say the same for my laptops, which fuck up on every release), except for the piece of misconfigured shit that is pulseaudio. If i try to play certain DVDs in vlc, all sound will play, except for the fricking voice tracks.. it takes endless fucking about to get this to work. And every single release the last few years has had these type of issues on nearly all of my systems. nearly everything works, but they never forget to royally screw at least one thing up, preventing themselves from becoming a true user friendly distro.
10.04 will NOT make it onto my main systems for day to day use, if i ever find the need to upgrade from my current ubuntu settups, then fedora is first on my list.
Both those laptops have cpu's that are less powerfull then my 3 year old MSI (which is an 1.8 GHz amd x2, these two laptops have 1.6 and 1.5, also K8 based), and lack a dvd drive, which my laptop has.
Those two things are the perfect example of what i was saying, poshed up netbooks which have taken the place of ultra portables with the specs of a full-size laptop
i see your point for safari numbers, but is chrome available on the mobile platform? from what i can find chrome isnt the default for android.
as for still using IE on the desktop, that might very well be, but lots of people might check out safari/opera/whatever after having a positive experience on their phone
depends, if he tells the people clearly after installing the trigger, i'd say he is well within his rights, especially if he fixes computers for free.
Lots of people expect us nerds to just fix their computers because we are good at it, and it is supposed to be our hobby, fuck that. If i fix a machine i am doing you a favor, and if i give advice on the use of a computer, they should listen (hey, i'm the computer expert right?), if they chose to ignore my advice and in the process destroy my work, am i an asshole for not doing it again and again?
what job can IE possibly be the right tool for? (save off course for very specific IE targetted web apps)
Atom has hyperthreading, so that dual penguin aspire one has a single core with HT, much like the older pentium 4 chips. Your foxconn system has a dual core atom (which has been available for ages, just banned from netbooks by intel), also with HT, so it has four logical threads
i had one of those dual core atom mini-itx boards, wanted to replace my intel 1,2 GHz celeron board with it. Turned out intel used some shitty network chip on that thing with no usable linux drivers in the mainstream kernel, so i sold it
The SSD in the first generation eee wasnt spectacular (own one myself), but a new intel SSD is MUCH faster then a laptop hdd
and to be honest i think size is the reason the industry backed away, joe sixpack will see two netbooks at walmart, one with 16 of that wacky number, and the other has 160, must be better right?
unfortunatly nvidia cant put out an x86 design, which basically means no windows on a tegra system, which is gonna kill the platform for joe sixpack. What nvidia needs to get tegra off the ground would be microsoft willing to port windows to ARM
Then what you want isn't a netbook. You want an ultra-portable-PC, which have existed for a while and will keep continuing to exist.
sadly the whole netbook-craze has wiped out a good part of the sub-notebook market, three years back i bought a 12" MSI laptop, dual core amd turion, DVD drive, ATI chipset, about 4 pounds, and under 1000 euros. Today, i can not buy the same kind of machine. Either i have to go for a 13,3" model, or settle for a CULV/atom type cpu, which have LESS performance then that dual core AMD i have in the old machine.
Yes i can buy a "smaller then standard 15 inch" laptop, but there is no logical succesor to my 3 year old machine without going way over budget. For this, i hate netbooks! (and really, a year ago you could find 12 inch "netbooks", incredibly ridiculous, i had four times the power in the same from factor)
true, people dont buy a new computer to get more performance, people buy a new computer for the included hard-drive with an OS on it that isnt yet infected with thousands of toolbars, trojans, virusses, scamware etc....
My Step-father asked me to reinstall his circa 2004 Pentium 4 based laptop, i just got an email from my mom this morning about how great the speed improvement is. The old OS install had bogged down to the point of being unusable to them (which is so slow i would have installed linux and opened up the included browser rather then use the browser on that install). If they hadnt had me in the family, chances are eventually they would have replaced the machine...
Users dont care about Gflops, they care about checking their email in X time, microsoft and the OEMs play into this by negating all hardware improvements with new "features" and added trials to the point that every new computer, be it now or three years from now, will have just a few years of joe sixpack use in it, before the OS has been bogged down so bad joe sixpack wants a new one, never mind that a simple re-install would fix it
let's try
hmm, forgot about that, even though my last install was less then a year ago...
thing is though, linux is much easier when everything works, if some module/driver doesnt, solving it is more of a hassle then your regular windows install
it isnt?
any dope who can install linux should be able to install windows and these days VMware/virtualbox are pretty much click&play, with some very sane defaults, and no expert skills needed beyond just installing windows...
Granted it is pretty stupid to have a 'user friendly' distro like ubuntu being unable to detect a windows partition and leave it in peace..
i learned that too about ubuntu releases. I am pretty much the same in terms of "WANT IT NOW" when it comes to new releases, but ubuntu fucks something major up every release for at the very least one of my systems, this got so bad that now i just install the most up to date version when i install a machine, and never upgrade to a new version, the downside obviously is having all my systems run a different version (9.10 on my main, 9.04 on the laptop, 8.10 on the server etc...)
bah, try buying a european small hatchback
Prepare to not find a 'doughnut', but a small foam-based tyre repair-kit when you have a flat.. Here on most new cars you have to pay extra to get the 50 MPH emergency spare. I once had to drive about 100 miles with one of those on my car, it is NOT fun to be overtaken by a frickin truck on the highway (were i usually drive ~75)
i would actually pay extra for that feature...
or one day, plus the articles themselves.
why back up TFA? nobody reads them anyway..
i hope that funny mod is what you were going for, because if competency is no longer a legal step in hiring people, i dont want to be subjected to any american employees
maybe my humor-o-meter if broken, but that post really scared the shit out of me
if we assume a 4 mile effective range (which i think is overly generous for a gun, but hey), that gives a mach 3 cruise missile approximatly 6 seconds within phalanx range, i'd love to see a crew that can reload ammo cans on an opperating, moving and firing phalanx system in that amount of time. you would just need ~8 missiles to overload a single phalanx (2 100-round bursts to take out a missile, phalanx runs out after 7 missiles), assuming its range is 4 miles (i believe that even if it is, it would be severly less effective due to bullet scatter), purely on ammo capacity
Phalanx might work against one or two simultanious missiles, but overpowering it with sheer numbers wouldnt be all that hard
im guessing that even if you could track 500 targets all inbound at mach 3 at low altitude, taking them down would be next to impossible. Even if you assume a phalanx system can reach out 4 miles (which it probably cant, at that range the bullets are highly ineffective), at mach three that leaves each missile within phalanx range for 6 seconds. Now even if your carier has four phalanx's facing having line of sight, they would need to take out 16 missiles per second, which i'm pretty sure they are not capable off
the phalanx also only carries a 1500 round magazine, and at several miles of range you need more then an average of 12 rounds to take out a multi-ton cruise missile i think.
I know its totally unrealistic, but my guess is that against a co-ordinated 500 cruise missile strike, a carrier battlegroup is pretty much fucked, they just cant shoot down that many missiles without a few getting through
not to mention the fact that a limping carrier with still some valuable assets that could be retrieved is a bigger strain on the rest of the fleet then a sunk one. It will need to be towed/supported/protected on its way back to port.
The same principle is used in the design of anti-personel mines. Why kill an enemy soldier when you can blow his leg off and have him take up one of the enemies hospital beds sucking down resources?
Just to put forth my own standpoint, i think these kind of anti-personel mines are awfull, and horribly immoral, unfortunatly in terms of strategy against a de-humanized opponent, the idea is sound
the GP wasnt suggesting the SS-N-22 has sat-guidance, but the Club-K supposedly does
forget the SS-N-22, check out the SS-N-19 shipwreck: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-700_Granit
750kg warhead, nominal speeds of mach 4.5, with prototype engines capable of up to mach 6, an advanced group attach mode in which 4-8 missiles attack in a self-cordinated strike (1 missile flies higher and designates sepperate targets for the others).
I'm not sure how effective anti missile defenses are these days, but with this thing, a single fregat armed with 8 of these missiles could provide a devestating blow to a battlegroup
Just think, 8 co-operating missiles at mach 4.5 (or even 6), each with 750kg of high explosive (or a 500KT nuke), heading for your fleet..
just to point something out, up to 2006 the netherlands were doing only a fraction of what they sold in 2007, my guess is both 2006/2007 saw a few navy ship deals, as that is basically all we make in terms of military equipment, so once you get into that range of money, things can fluctuate a lot.
anyway [nelson]*points at the uk* HA-HA [/nelson]
i doubt that the energy requirements of getting something capable of wiping out mankind this far into the gravity well (who said about getting anything back? send some automated kill-probes) would be a real problem for interstellar pillagers.
Besides, there are multiple ways of disabling earth without actually putting a huge fleet of star-cruisers in orbit and lasering the frack out of us. a small number of warheads with an extreme biological/chemical agent will wipe out the majority of humans, causing short-term economical collapse, and an overall very much reduced threat to aliens. A couple of very potent EMP devices can take out all satelites, and if targetted well, the majority of society
You dont need to manually kill every human, just kick out one of the fragile supporting pillars and let society die