Flashblock worked but you couldn't see them in 0.9. Flashblock does not work at all in 1.0RC.
The adblock that I found as of a couple days ago locked up.
The kicker is that the last update to Flashblock was only two months ago, but the Firefox team managed to break the extension format twice in two months.
For less than the cost of a decent bike lock, you can buy a bike that's not worth stealing.
Doesn't that mean the bike isn't even worth using?
I'd venture that the bike would have to be in very bad shape to be like that. I'm thinking grinding bearings, bent tubes, rusty, etc.
Put it this way: With that advice, rather than buying a good computer with a good lock, just buy a computer that isn't worth stealing. Would you want to use such a beast?
There is no mention of the run time benefits of the newer gcc software.
Assuming the code will work with any reasonably recent version, go back a few versions and use that for development, and to the newer versions for compiling and testing binaries that will be distributed.
As the test system was only a Northwood P4 running "Gentoo AMD64", I don't think this particular test can be used when considering such a computer.
In terms of relatives, with a very expensive computer or some other constraints is worth paying money for the fastest software to go with it. I doubt the average Linux geek really cares to pay Intel's prices, whatever they might be, years ago it was hundreds of dollars for a single licence. I don't know if the pricing structure has changed to allow free hobbyist use. I suppose a hobbyist that chooses to use an AMD64 distribution on a Northwood CPU would tend to not make the most appropriate choices anyway.
The basic point, simplified, is that the 533MHz FSB Pentium 4 chips don't have EM64T (a.k.a. AMD64, x86-64). Some of the latest Prescott-based chips do have EMT64T, but not the tested equipment.
Unfortunately, for something like LCD, I imagine it will be a while before one can get $50 LCD monitor unless it was tiny, think the add-on to the PSOne, which currently does retail for $50.
Extra features are often cheap to add, so it allows these companies to keep the prices high. They don't want to get into the low cost business any sooner than they have to, the margins are much smaller and they want to maximize the return on investment too. This will gradually change as more players enter the market, but the upstarts probably don't want to undercut the competition too much, because they have to pay back their costs too.
This is part of the reason why you get better features sooner than you'd get a price drop.
Laptops have affordable 125 and 150 dpi screens now too. 125dpi has been available for two years now, 150dpi was just released a couple months now.
The only desktop displays above 100dpi are IBM's and Viewsonic's 200dpi displays (I kid you not, 23" 4:3 displays with 4k x 3k pixels) running for over $6000 now.
Unfortunately, the current limitation with a lot of software is that they don't scale with DPI so well, you increase the font size to compensate for the resolution increase, and the text doesn't fit boxes so well. I'd like to see a display that is as crisp as a laser printout, I figure 300dpi is a pretty good target.
They say that their core buyers aren't buying. IIRC, every year, the recording industry beats inflation in terms of revenue and profit growth but they keep saying that they are going down the drain. And now this recording professionals group seems to be parroting the same line. That is one drain I'd like to go down.
I'm not saying file sharing is necessarily good for them but it seems to be a case where they are trying to get enough people to say they are losing money often enough such that everyone believes them even if the facts are the opposite.
VHS has too poor quality of a medium, in my opinion. Few people want to bother owning an LD player just to watch the version they grew up with, in moderately acceptable quality.
The SE changes might be justifiable because the technology wasn't available to do what Lucas wanted, but why change the movies again for DVD?
How many updates are these movies going to be subjected to? If the movies were non-fiction, then there'd be accusations of revisionism. In fiction, I guess it's OK to change the story, slap 90's and 00's CG into late 70's film footage even if it looks out of place.
I refuse to play this game, I'll stick to the pre-SE LDs.
The problem I have of this is that there was never such a legal right, even before P2P, DRM and all that crap. You may argue that you should have that right, but right now, you really don't have a right to screen movies for free using copyright infringing methods.
My wish is that the Firefox extension architecture not radically change every subrelease. The last update to Flashblock was only two and a half months ago. Since then, there have been two official Firefox releases, each of them breaking extensions. Why is this so? I am NOT going to update everytime only to wait for extensions to be "fixed" again when extensions seemed to be working fine in the first place.
As such, I cannot forsee Firefox being a serious contender if it won't bother with backward compatibility modes or a stable extension architecture.
I liked what I saw on 0.9, 1.0RC even more so. I want stuff like flashbock, and I do want the latest, sleekest, fastest version but sorry, not without flashblock and adblock working properly because I like to keep the bullshit down on my general web experience.
I doubt that encryption will physically damage a CD drive. Besides, Apple doesn't design drives. At most, it might be a drive from Pioneer or whoever with a custom firmware tag, and a custom label.
I think it behooves Apple to make a better system rather than crashing once it sees a bitstream it doesn't understand.
If you think about it, 3 days notice is not enough to have every person in a metropolis patch up their houses and move to higher ground. Some might say that everyone with the possibilty of getting hit by the storm should prepare, but imagine having to board your windows every 3 weeks or so only to be missed by the storm.
The boarding-up problem can probably be simplified with rigid mount points and locks on pre-fitted panels. I'm sure a solution can be designed for second story windows where it can be installed and locked in from the inside of the house and still be on the outside to protect the glass. I imagine it could be done such that it only takes a couple minutes per window, five for the largest ones and you can be packing within an hour or two. That might not help for situations where there are just too many people on the road to evacuate in time.
This sort of code is probably heavily matrix oriented. Fortran handles matrix operations, making matrix operations as easy to program as simple arithmetic.
It would take over 500 years to fill a 64 bit filesystem written at 1GB/sec (and of course 500 years to read it back again).
One product already can transfer a Terrabyte per second, so that would cut the transfer down to half a year. And I imagine that transfer rate would continue to increase.
I don't see how one would necessarily argue against such a thing for products that will go for cluster and supercomputer use. I say might as well get the bugs out so when you can so that once the 65th bit is needed, the supercomputer suppliers are ready.
http://www.sc-conference.org/sc2004/storcloud.ht ml
The same driver problem is often what makes 2000 unstable. Many consumer hardware makers didn't bother making good drivers for 2000 because it wasn't intended to be a consumer OS.
I really don't experience stability problems with either 2000 or XP. In my case, the only BSOD I had in 2000 was because of an unsigned driver. I only had one crash in Windows NT, because of using the wrong driver, but this was on an Alpha based computer.
All of them being "aliens attack" isn't necessarily a remake of War Of the Worlds. Similar plots, yes, but remake? Not really. I'm not sure if it is possible to make a truly original plot and still be good, because most of the decent plots have already been done.
Something... just something... tells me that this isn't going to catch on. The fact that its both Japanese and relatively useless is a hint.
Whereas, if it were European or American and is relatively useless, it goes gangbusters?
One thing that does help is what some A/V circles call "Wife Acceptance Factor". If a speaker doesn't look like a speaker then sometimes it is a good thing. A lot of spouses reject having nicer sound systems with larger speakers (or subwoofers) simply because they are plain (or ugly) boxes. I suppose a better tactic would just be to disguise a speaker as a plant with a deeper planter with a false bottom half.
Oil and wind power don't equate. Most of the US electricity supply is produced using coal.
Another poster has hit it on the head though. As it is, oil is being consumed just about as quickly as it is being extracted. Most suppliers are extracting oik as quickly as they can as it is, with too few new discoveries to make up for drying fields. Estimates vary, but pretty much all of them agree that the extractible oil will be gone a few decades before year 2100.
As noted before, the production limits are getting thin, with demand increasing. The cost of oil will have to go up as more people want it but less of it can be produced, a problem that could come to a head in a decade or two.
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Flashblock worked but you couldn't see them in 0.9. Flashblock does not work at all in 1.0RC.
The adblock that I found as of a couple days ago locked up.
The kicker is that the last update to Flashblock was only two months ago, but the Firefox team managed to break the extension format twice in two months.
For less than the cost of a decent bike lock, you can buy a bike that's not worth stealing.
Doesn't that mean the bike isn't even worth using?
I'd venture that the bike would have to be in very bad shape to be like that. I'm thinking grinding bearings, bent tubes, rusty, etc.
Put it this way: With that advice, rather than buying a good computer with a good lock, just buy a computer that isn't worth stealing. Would you want to use such a beast?
There is no mention of the run time benefits of the newer gcc software.
Assuming the code will work with any reasonably recent version, go back a few versions and use that for development, and to the newer versions for compiling and testing binaries that will be distributed.
Agreed.
As the test system was only a Northwood P4 running "Gentoo AMD64", I don't think this particular test can be used when considering such a computer.
In terms of relatives, with a very expensive computer or some other constraints is worth paying money for the fastest software to go with it. I doubt the average Linux geek really cares to pay Intel's prices, whatever they might be, years ago it was hundreds of dollars for a single licence. I don't know if the pricing structure has changed to allow free hobbyist use. I suppose a hobbyist that chooses to use an AMD64 distribution on a Northwood CPU would tend to not make the most appropriate choices anyway.
Oops, Intel's name for x86-64 is EM64T, not EMT64T.
The basic point, simplified, is that the 533MHz FSB Pentium 4 chips don't have EM64T (a.k.a. AMD64, x86-64). Some of the latest Prescott-based chips do have EMT64T, but not the tested equipment.
Are there any figures as to what proportion of Linux computers are x86?
if the guy at the next desk drives 500 miles weekly in his V8 5litre penis extension because he's got no self esteem what-so-ever?
How do they now that you aren't saying that out of envy?
If you assume a motivation of other people, you give an opening for other people to assume your motivation for making that assumption.
In short, don't resort to the fallacy of ridicule. Suggesting that someone has a small penis or low esteem is exactly that.
Unfortunately, for something like LCD, I imagine it will be a while before one can get $50 LCD monitor unless it was tiny, think the add-on to the PSOne, which currently does retail for $50.
Extra features are often cheap to add, so it allows these companies to keep the prices high. They don't want to get into the low cost business any sooner than they have to, the margins are much smaller and they want to maximize the return on investment too. This will gradually change as more players enter the market, but the upstarts probably don't want to undercut the competition too much, because they have to pay back their costs too.
This is part of the reason why you get better features sooner than you'd get a price drop.
Laptops have affordable 125 and 150 dpi screens now too. 125dpi has been available for two years now, 150dpi was just released a couple months now.
The only desktop displays above 100dpi are IBM's and Viewsonic's 200dpi displays (I kid you not, 23" 4:3 displays with 4k x 3k pixels) running for over $6000 now.
Unfortunately, the current limitation with a lot of software is that they don't scale with DPI so well, you increase the font size to compensate for the resolution increase, and the text doesn't fit boxes so well. I'd like to see a display that is as crisp as a laser printout, I figure 300dpi is a pretty good target.
They say that their core buyers aren't buying. IIRC, every year, the recording industry beats inflation in terms of revenue and profit growth but they keep saying that they are going down the drain. And now this recording professionals group seems to be parroting the same line. That is one drain I'd like to go down.
I'm not saying file sharing is necessarily good for them but it seems to be a case where they are trying to get enough people to say they are losing money often enough such that everyone believes them even if the facts are the opposite.
Big deal. It's out on VHS and laserdisc.
VHS has too poor quality of a medium, in my opinion. Few people want to bother owning an LD player just to watch the version they grew up with, in moderately acceptable quality.
The SE changes might be justifiable because the technology wasn't available to do what Lucas wanted, but why change the movies again for DVD?
How many updates are these movies going to be subjected to? If the movies were non-fiction, then there'd be accusations of revisionism. In fiction, I guess it's OK to change the story, slap 90's and 00's CG into late 70's film footage even if it looks out of place.
I refuse to play this game, I'll stick to the pre-SE LDs.
i most certainly have the right to screen it,
The problem I have of this is that there was never such a legal right, even before P2P, DRM and all that crap. You may argue that you should have that right, but right now, you really don't have a right to screen movies for free using copyright infringing methods.
I thought getting basic cable with cable internet was intended to be a selling point, not an unintended feature.
My wish is that the Firefox extension architecture not radically change every subrelease. The last update to Flashblock was only two and a half months ago. Since then, there have been two official Firefox releases, each of them breaking extensions. Why is this so? I am NOT going to update everytime only to wait for extensions to be "fixed" again when extensions seemed to be working fine in the first place.
As such, I cannot forsee Firefox being a serious contender if it won't bother with backward compatibility modes or a stable extension architecture.
I liked what I saw on 0.9, 1.0RC even more so. I want stuff like flashbock, and I do want the latest, sleekest, fastest version but sorry, not without flashblock and adblock working properly because I like to keep the bullshit down on my general web experience.
I doubt that encryption will physically damage a CD drive. Besides, Apple doesn't design drives. At most, it might be a drive from Pioneer or whoever with a custom firmware tag, and a custom label.
I think it behooves Apple to make a better system rather than crashing once it sees a bitstream it doesn't understand.
If you think about it, 3 days notice is not enough to have every person in a metropolis patch up their houses and move to higher ground. Some might say that everyone with the possibilty of getting hit by the storm should prepare, but imagine having to board your windows every 3 weeks or so only to be missed by the storm.
The boarding-up problem can probably be simplified with rigid mount points and locks on pre-fitted panels. I'm sure a solution can be designed for second story windows where it can be installed and locked in from the inside of the house and still be on the outside to protect the glass. I imagine it could be done such that it only takes a couple minutes per window, five for the largest ones and you can be packing within an hour or two. That might not help for situations where there are just too many people on the road to evacuate in time.
I really can't speak to the other issues raised.
This sort of code is probably heavily matrix oriented. Fortran handles matrix operations, making matrix operations as easy to program as simple arithmetic.
It would take over 500 years to fill a 64 bit filesystem written at 1GB/sec (and of course 500 years to read it back again).
t ml
One product already can transfer a Terrabyte per second, so that would cut the transfer down to half a year. And I imagine that transfer rate would continue to increase.
I don't see how one would necessarily argue against such a thing for products that will go for cluster and supercomputer use. I say might as well get the bugs out so when you can so that once the 65th bit is needed, the supercomputer suppliers are ready.
http://www.sc-conference.org/sc2004/storcloud.h
The same driver problem is often what makes 2000 unstable. Many consumer hardware makers didn't bother making good drivers for 2000 because it wasn't intended to be a consumer OS.
I really don't experience stability problems with either 2000 or XP. In my case, the only BSOD I had in 2000 was because of an unsigned driver. I only had one crash in Windows NT, because of using the wrong driver, but this was on an Alpha based computer.
The don't really have a lot of components, and they don't have a lot of layers.
Compared to what? I understand some motherboards are pretty simple looking, but the ones that tend to be in my systems can get pretty complicated.
All of them being "aliens attack" isn't necessarily a remake of War Of the Worlds. Similar plots, yes, but remake? Not really. I'm not sure if it is possible to make a truly original plot and still be good, because most of the decent plots have already been done.
Something... just something... tells me that this isn't going to catch on. The fact that its both Japanese and relatively useless is a hint.
Whereas, if it were European or American and is relatively useless, it goes gangbusters?
One thing that does help is what some A/V circles call "Wife Acceptance Factor". If a speaker doesn't look like a speaker then sometimes it is a good thing. A lot of spouses reject having nicer sound systems with larger speakers (or subwoofers) simply because they are plain (or ugly) boxes. I suppose a better tactic would just be to disguise a speaker as a plant with a deeper planter with a false bottom half.
Oil and wind power don't equate. Most of the US electricity supply is produced using coal.
Another poster has hit it on the head though. As it is, oil is being consumed just about as quickly as it is being extracted. Most suppliers are extracting oik as quickly as they can as it is, with too few new discoveries to make up for drying fields. Estimates vary, but pretty much all of them agree that the extractible oil will be gone a few decades before year 2100.
As noted before, the production limits are getting thin, with demand increasing. The cost of oil will have to go up as more people want it but less of it can be produced, a problem that could come to a head in a decade or two.
It looks like that the LCD panels were cast-offs from work. nVidia four DVI port Quadros aren't too expensive on eBay. Nothing else looks expensive.