The SPARC laptops start at around five thousand dollars. Oh, and they won't boot Linux, and Tadpole have repeatedly refused to provide access to hardware or documentation despite customer demand and offers from various high profile kernel hackers to do a port.
The CPU isn't fast enough. Heck, it has trouble with straight.ogg files (why oh why do ogg files have to hog so much CPU anyway?), any sane video would be beyond it.
After all the hype and press releases, where's the Gentoo port? You'd think that they'd've had time to put it together, what with all the promises they made and all...
slashdot irresponsibly posts a link to a release before it's officially available. Have the editors not learned from all the times they've done this and screwed up in the past?
Which means you'll have to run separate X servers on all three displays, since the resolutions will be different. So no moving windows between monitors any more...
Firmware updates? Heh, good luck to all of you stuck with non-flashable Nokia phones. Even the high end Nokia kit isn't firware-upgradable, which really sucks for those of us with early 3650 models that crash every few hours.
Because these days, everyone is expected to waste three or four years memorising things that can easily be looked up, rather than actually learning anything useful or cutting edge in a degree.
What's worse is the way the mozilla projects rarely seem to manage to put out an actual working source tarball. For the past dozen or so releases they've always released incomplete or unworking sources. Screwing up once is understandable, but to repeatedly omit things strongly implies that they're not interested in anyone using anything except their official binaries.
Three years on and it finally aaallllllmost just about works with Apache 2. Brilliant. Thanks to this and the spectacular fuckup that is perl6, is there anyone left who hasn't switched to Ruby or Python?
If you can't manage something simple like a kernel compile, Gentoo probably isn't the right distribution for you. You'll note that the Gentoo developers (on the whole) claim that it's a specific purpose distribution, and it's only a small number of obnoxious loudmouthed asshat users who go around saying that Gentoo is for anyone.
Sourceforge couldn't even begin to handle a project as big as, say, the main Gentoo CVS tree. Gentoo alone has more hardware at OSL than all of sourceforge put together.
Again, you're misusing the technology. HTML is a text markup language, not a page layout language. If you want pixel perfection, use PDFs or a similar format which was designed for that kind of thing.
According to the HTTP spec, GET requests must not be used to change content. POST actions must be used if you're deleting / changing something. And google doesn't prefetch POST, does it?
I guess you're in one of those strange backwards countries where you don't get given two thousand free text messages per month just for ringing up your service provider and saying "I'm switching providers unless you give me something".
Mod parent down, he needs to take a basic number theory class. It has not been proven that pi is normal. It has been proven that there are all kinds of infinite sequences which are not normal. Random is not the same as normal
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The SPARC laptops start at around five thousand dollars. Oh, and they won't boot Linux, and Tadpole have repeatedly refused to provide access to hardware or documentation despite customer demand and offers from various high profile kernel hackers to do a port.
The CPU isn't fast enough. Heck, it has trouble with straight .ogg files (why oh why do ogg files have to hog so much CPU anyway?), any sane video would be beyond it.
We haven't gone the way of the USA. Yet...
After all the hype and press releases, where's the Gentoo port? You'd think that they'd've had time to put it together, what with all the promises they made and all...
slashdot irresponsibly posts a link to a release before it's officially available. Have the editors not learned from all the times they've done this and screwed up in the past?
Would you expect anything other than a "games should promote good American Christian morals" from Christian Science Monitor?
Which means you'll have to run separate X servers on all three displays, since the resolutions will be different. So no moving windows between monitors any more...
Firmware updates? Heh, good luck to all of you stuck with non-flashable Nokia phones. Even the high end Nokia kit isn't firware-upgradable, which really sucks for those of us with early 3650 models that crash every few hours.
God created the universe in six days, not seven.
Escape key? What escape key? Easy fix:
imap jj
Looks like you didn't bother to learn how to speak English either.
There is a big difference between understanding and memorising.
Because these days, everyone is expected to waste three or four years memorising things that can easily be looked up, rather than actually learning anything useful or cutting edge in a degree.
Uh, you just described SPARCv9, not Power. Power opcodes come in multiple sizes.
Or they could do a Stallman and say "send us $80,000 and we'll give you the source-code on an 8 inch tape"...
What's worse is the way the mozilla projects rarely seem to manage to put out an actual working source tarball. For the past dozen or so releases they've always released incomplete or unworking sources. Screwing up once is understandable, but to repeatedly omit things strongly implies that they're not interested in anyone using anything except their official binaries.
Three years on and it finally aaallllllmost just about works with Apache 2. Brilliant. Thanks to this and the spectacular fuckup that is perl6, is there anyone left who hasn't switched to Ruby or Python?
As a student, these kinds of bounties mean I don't need to bother thinking about getting a job during term time to pay for getting an iPod...
My Nokia 3650 crashes every few hours anyway. Like a virus would make it any worse...
If you can't manage something simple like a kernel compile, Gentoo probably isn't the right distribution for you. You'll note that the Gentoo developers (on the whole) claim that it's a specific purpose distribution, and it's only a small number of obnoxious loudmouthed asshat users who go around saying that Gentoo is for anyone.
Sourceforge couldn't even begin to handle a project as big as, say, the main Gentoo CVS tree. Gentoo alone has more hardware at OSL than all of sourceforge put together.
Again, you're misusing the technology. HTML is a text markup language, not a page layout language. If you want pixel perfection, use PDFs or a similar format which was designed for that kind of thing.
According to the HTTP spec, GET requests must not be used to change content. POST actions must be used if you're deleting / changing something. And google doesn't prefetch POST, does it?
I guess you're in one of those strange backwards countries where you don't get given two thousand free text messages per month just for ringing up your service provider and saying "I'm switching providers unless you give me something".
Mod parent down, he needs to take a basic number theory class. It has not been proven that pi is normal. It has been proven that there are all kinds of infinite sequences which are not normal. Random is not the same as normal