Well I think it'd be targeted more towards lower income countries than the UK. I mean, a bargain basement desktop or laptop computer would cost at least 100$ wherever you go. TVs are cheap- you can buy a tiny old 5" crt/radio at the drug store for 20-25$ here. HDMI I think was a mistake, but if these things have composite out, it could be very, very affordable as an introduction to computing for those living in Africa. Even if you have 5$ of disposable income a week, in less than 3 months you could own a computer! A little over a month if you already own a TV with composite (read: any TV since 1980, and I don't see many pre-80's TVs still working). This could change the world.
A pentium or an x386? It'd be nearly useless for much of anything written today, I don't see many packages below i686, and I don't see any below i486. Not to mention clock speeds would be abysmally low on an old pentium, somewhere in the neighborhood of 100MHz. These things run at 700MHz and draw an unbelievable low amount of power compared to an old computer.
Actually I think it'd work well as, say, a NES/SNES/Genesis emulator. Hook up a USB gamepad, compile znses or whatever you're using, and you're set. Not sure, but it might even be able to pull off playstation 1 and nintendo 64 emulation. That would be a treat.
Especially considering that it was what Amidala was supposed to prevent by being in office in the first place- you'd have thought they would have at least explained to him what politics were before granting him a position in the galactic senate.
PS3 has exclusives like god of war, and though it's rarely taken advantage of, superior hardware to the 360. Not that it matters much in the current generation of consoles- it's like comparing a GeForce 6800 to a 7800. Actually, that's basically exactly what it is.
Talking about as a desktop OS for newbies, mint is much friendlier, and stabler. And I could have sworn there was an option for it when I set up debian edition.
What I'm saying is that if there's a big push to politically eliminate malware (which I think is what these last attacks are being spun to create), they will eliminate it, by pushing computers that are more locked down than iPads, and a locked down 1 way internet for those of us who hold on to our shotguns and Pentium IIIs.
But politicians backed by the MAFIAA would institute trusted computing and a locked up internet in the name of eradicating malware. People only have to think malware is eradicated at no cost for them to be reelected.
Er- no. 2% usage on the desktop/laptop equates to around 20 million with about a billion desktops in the world if I recall correctly. There are not 20 million windows phone users.
Obvious 4chan troll is obviously not suited to trolling/.
In your otherwise observant post, you had the line "Gate's Law: Every 18 months the speed of software halves." If this were true, the speed of modern software would be comparable to that of any other point in computer history. In truth, the rate of slowing is slightly in excess of that of hardware driven speed gains. I would suggest the next version of your post should read "Gate's Law: Every 16 months the speed of software halves".
Was not aware of that, actually. I tend to prefer permissive licenses on what code I write as well. I would do GPLv2 for anything important enough to me to keep free, but v3 is commercially a mess with regard to dealing with software patents.
Thing is, the FSF is still very much ingrained in the "Cathedral" method, even today. Arguably that, more than anything, is what killed off HURD so many moons ago.
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Well I think it'd be targeted more towards lower income countries than the UK. I mean, a bargain basement desktop or laptop computer would cost at least 100$ wherever you go. TVs are cheap- you can buy a tiny old 5" crt/radio at the drug store for 20-25$ here. HDMI I think was a mistake, but if these things have composite out, it could be very, very affordable as an introduction to computing for those living in Africa. Even if you have 5$ of disposable income a week, in less than 3 months you could own a computer! A little over a month if you already own a TV with composite (read: any TV since 1980, and I don't see many pre-80's TVs still working). This could change the world.
A pentium or an x386? It'd be nearly useless for much of anything written today, I don't see many packages below i686, and I don't see any below i486. Not to mention clock speeds would be abysmally low on an old pentium, somewhere in the neighborhood of 100MHz. These things run at 700MHz and draw an unbelievable low amount of power compared to an old computer.
Actually I think it'd work well as, say, a NES/SNES/Genesis emulator. Hook up a USB gamepad, compile znses or whatever you're using, and you're set. Not sure, but it might even be able to pull off playstation 1 and nintendo 64 emulation. That would be a treat.
256Mb Actually- they seemed to have increased it on their site. That is much more useful to me than 128, personally.
Especially considering that it was what Amidala was supposed to prevent by being in office in the first place- you'd have thought they would have at least explained to him what politics were before granting him a position in the galactic senate.
PS3 has exclusives like god of war, and though it's rarely taken advantage of, superior hardware to the 360. Not that it matters much in the current generation of consoles- it's like comparing a GeForce 6800 to a 7800. Actually, that's basically exactly what it is.
Talking about as a desktop OS for newbies, mint is much friendlier, and stabler. And I could have sworn there was an option for it when I set up debian edition.
Now ubuntu can go from cold boot to crashing apps faster than windows! Ah, bug #1 will be solved any day now.
P.S. Mint has been better since 9.04
What I'm saying is that if there's a big push to politically eliminate malware (which I think is what these last attacks are being spun to create), they will eliminate it, by pushing computers that are more locked down than iPads, and a locked down 1 way internet for those of us who hold on to our shotguns and Pentium IIIs.
But politicians backed by the MAFIAA would institute trusted computing and a locked up internet in the name of eradicating malware. People only have to think malware is eradicated at no cost for them to be reelected.
Usage share of web client operating systems.
Emphasis mine. Linux use actually has been growing the past few months. Not that I think this or next year will be the year of linux on the desktop.
Eat statistics microsoft shill!
Er- no. 2% usage on the desktop/laptop equates to around 20 million with about a billion desktops in the world if I recall correctly. There are not 20 million windows phone users.
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Obvious 4chan troll is obviously not suited to trolling
You have won one internet.
Wow, titan's influenced by Jupiter so much that it's considered a moon of Jupiter over Saturn? Gosh, astronomy these days.
You won't know if this link is goatse until you click it and collapse the wave function!
To get the alpha centauri victory of course!
Beat me to it. Thunderbird works wonderfully here.
What's this ".exe" extension you speak of?
Has it been more than a week since you've last seen spaceballs? Then it's been too long since you've last seen spaceballs.
No, it was 12345.
And lock the cockpit? Oh wait, we did that already.
In your otherwise observant post, you had the line "Gate's Law: Every 18 months the speed of software halves." If this were true, the speed of modern software would be comparable to that of any other point in computer history. In truth, the rate of slowing is slightly in excess of that of hardware driven speed gains. I would suggest the next version of your post should read "Gate's Law: Every 16 months the speed of software halves".
Was not aware of that, actually. I tend to prefer permissive licenses on what code I write as well. I would do GPLv2 for anything important enough to me to keep free, but v3 is commercially a mess with regard to dealing with software patents.
Thing is, the FSF is still very much ingrained in the "Cathedral" method, even today. Arguably that, more than anything, is what killed off HURD so many moons ago.