Congrats... Your friends are helping to raise the barrier to entry for smaller office suites.
Sorry but your argument doesn't hold water. Office never was significantly much cheaper than it is today. And besides, if everybody stopped piracy today, the only thing that'd happen is Microsoft getting a whole lot richer, and the price would stay exactly the same.
Welcome to reality: Microsoft shafts their users whenever they can, and the users shaft Microsoft back whenever they can too in turn. That's the name of the game.
A lot of software these days is heavely bloated. So a laptop like yours could properly only run old software, wich means that you will either have to buy a new one, or swich to something less demanding.
Well quite, but what I meant was that 96M of RAM should be more than enough to run something like Impress under KDE. Heck, Windows and Powerpoint run just fine on that laptop.
OOo has grown ridiculously big and slow. So has KDE and many other programs. So much for Linux users going all giggly when they mention Microsoft bloatware: OSS software has gone worse these days...
Has it grown even bigger and slower than it is now?
OOo is great, but I discovered the other day that it doesn't work anymore on my older laptop with 96M of ram and nothing loaded but a basic KDE. It used to work there not so long ago, not fast or anything, but well enough to do presentation with Impress on the cheap. No more, which is a real pain.
So if 2.0 has grown even more monstrous, I'm not even trying it out, nosiree. My other laptop still has enough oomph to use 1.1.
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Linux acceptance has been driven by its perceived political correctness in the mass media, itself an artifact of the legend of Torvalds
Linux is politically correct now (outside/. that is)?
Fundamentally, everybody likes to be leading edge,
Geeks do. Businesses don't give a toss.
most of those who did replace a few Windows servers with Linux soon found that the software's quality led to much bigger benefits in terms of operational stability, support staffing and the overall integrity of their information systems.
Well gee, that's new. The fact is, small companies install and run Windows, and put up with the problems, because they just can't afford a "linux guy".
Most people agree that products like Sun's Java Latest News about Java desktop don't have as many features as Microsoft's integrated office suites, but people willing to give up some bells and whistles are finding the open-source products fully functional and free of the proprietary limitations built into Microsoft's products.
Because Java isn't proprietary?
As a result, the fact that Linux has traditionally been compared to Microsoft's Windows brand products and not the other Unix variants will most likely lead the general public to perceive all this as Linux sailing on to new horizons while Microsoft stalls out.
No, the general perception is that Linux is arcane, and Windows is kind of annoying but "easy". I'm talking about moms and pops' perception...
I enjoy having access to a huge library of games, and I really enjoy not having to deal with botched textures and subpar performance just to make sure it runs on my pet OS. I'm a gamer first and foremost, and in this day and age that means Microsoft.
Your focus is gaming, and you're right to choose Microsoft. But for me, I actually use Linux to do work, and I enjoy being able to launch Quake for a quicky, or play Xpilot online while something compiles. Dual boot isn't really an option for me, and I'm glad many games run on Linux, even if they may not give tip-top performance as under Windows. So you see, for some it's not a matter of "pet OS", but a simple question of practicality.
i don't know if you are being a moron or making a non-sensical joke. if former, i suggest going to college. if latter, well, it takes all kinds, i guess.
Well, since you're so educated yourself, consider this: what do you call a device that takes electrical power in and converts 100% of it into heat? That's A space heater. A CPU however, does this *and* also send the results of its operations outside. So therefore, not 100% of the power it consumes is converted into heat. Some of it is used to signal the outside world. It may be a very small amount, because no power is transmitted, just a signal, but all the same, the CPU acts as an electrical generator on its data-out lines.
It's only a matter of time until someone in Japan decide to stick Asimo, several Aibos and a bunch of angry Dinobots (and also one of these on an island, and shoot a totally robotic remake of Jurassic Park...
Ha, like Microsoft will leave that called AMD64. Expect some diplomacy and a renaming. Not that anyone but techies care.
Why would they care? When Intel invented the i*86 line, everybody software manufacturer called any Intel-compatible CPU "i*86" somewhere or other, and neither AMD, Cyrix,... complained about it. Now the situation is reversed: AMD took the lead on that particular 64 bit design, and Intel is just a follower here. It sounds rather normal and deserved that any AMD64-compatible chip should generically called "AMD64" after all.
I personaly thought all the 12 year olds would follow that market plan alot better than their new one... "Well actualy MHZ doesn't really matter when you have a more efficient Processor that doesn't cost as much."
Bleh... Typical SUV buyer's mentality: "you should buy it cuz it's safer, more beautifully designed, ergonomical, got better brakes, cheaper... but mostly, it's got MORE POWAAAH". Nevermind that it weighs 3 tons and accelerates like a pig anyway...
And Alpha 21264 still outperforms Intel per watt. I'm not impressed.
That's a silly comment, it's like saying "my wristwatch calculator outperforms any Intel processor per watt". But wait... can I do heavy-duty image processing and 3D stuff with my wristwatch calculator??
The real question you should be asking yourself, with regard to such processors, is whether one is more powerful than another, period. Because power consumption is hardly their main selling point, although it can be a plus.
From TFA: he new chips also offer improved [...] memory overflow protection (XD bit).
I think they should call it the XP bit instead: it'd be an accurate description of the problem, and it would ring a bell immediately in consumers' mind...
First walkman phone eh? You can have music on your regular cell phone RIGHT NOW: Call AT&T's customer support line, say to the operator that you're furious and you wish to complain and talk to her manager, wait till she says "yes Sir, please hold" and enjoy endless music for FREE!
So, if we attached a couple square inches of this stuff to a pigeon, or filled a 747 with some of these chips, and flew it around the world, how fast would the transfer rate be?
I know you're trying to be funny but...
What most people really look for in electronic communication networks is not transfer rate but good latency: if I can "download" the entire library of Congress by having it Fedexed to be in a big box full of disks, but I have to wait 3 weeks for the snail mail request to reach the LoC, the guys to package everything up and the box to reach me eventually, I may be better off downloading the LoC on a slower link that answers immediately.
(a) Reliability: No words about how reliable the system and elements are... (b) Testing: How are they going to test this trillion element chip ?... (c) Redundancy: Is this process going to give more yield than conventional electronic processes ?
Do you understand the definition of a prototype?
I'm sure all your questions will be answered in due time, in 5 or 10 years when the device hits the street.
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You can usually tell someone who's been writing a lot of code by how they write code.
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I looked at the slashcode once and I'm fairly sure Taco worked on debugging serial port line noise before starting
Congrats... Your friends are helping to raise the barrier to entry for smaller office suites.
Sorry but your argument doesn't hold water. Office never was significantly much cheaper than it is today. And besides, if everybody stopped piracy today, the only thing that'd happen is Microsoft getting a whole lot richer, and the price would stay exactly the same.
Welcome to reality: Microsoft shafts their users whenever they can, and the users shaft Microsoft back whenever they can too in turn. That's the name of the game.
A lot of software these days is heavely bloated. So a laptop like yours could properly only run old software, wich means that you will either have to buy a new one, or swich to something less demanding.
Well quite, but what I meant was that 96M of RAM should be more than enough to run something like Impress under KDE. Heck, Windows and Powerpoint run just fine on that laptop.
OOo has grown ridiculously big and slow. So has KDE and many other programs. So much for Linux users going all giggly when they mention Microsoft bloatware: OSS software has gone worse these days...
You bastard, that was a clean shirt! Please don't make me laugh while I'm drinking :-)
I find it funny, b/c my friends are still shelling out hundreds of dollars for M$ Office.
I find your friends funny, cuz mine don't pay a cent for M$ Office. P2P, ya know...
I mean come on, honestly: apart from businesses and some high(er)-profile folks, who the hell pays for Office?
Has it grown even bigger and slower than it is now?
OOo is great, but I discovered the other day that it doesn't work anymore on my older laptop with 96M of ram and nothing loaded but a basic KDE. It used to work there not so long ago, not fast or anything, but well enough to do presentation with Impress on the cheap. No more, which is a real pain.
So if 2.0 has grown even more monstrous, I'm not even trying it out, nosiree. My other laptop still has enough oomph to use 1.1.
Upgrade your Betamax tapes to D-Betamax with a toothbrush!
Linux acceptance has been driven by its perceived political correctness in the mass media, itself an artifact of the legend of Torvalds
/. that is)?
Linux is politically correct now (outside
Fundamentally, everybody likes to be leading edge,
Geeks do. Businesses don't give a toss.
most of those who did replace a few Windows servers with Linux soon found that the software's quality led to much bigger benefits in terms of operational stability, support staffing and the overall integrity of their information systems.
Well gee, that's new. The fact is, small companies install and run Windows, and put up with the problems, because they just can't afford a "linux guy".
Most people agree that products like Sun's Java Latest News about Java desktop don't have as many features as Microsoft's integrated office suites, but people willing to give up some bells and whistles are finding the open-source products fully functional and free of the proprietary limitations built into Microsoft's products.
Because Java isn't proprietary?
As a result, the fact that Linux has traditionally been compared to Microsoft's Windows brand products and not the other Unix variants will most likely lead the general public to perceive all this as Linux sailing on to new horizons while Microsoft stalls out.
No, the general perception is that Linux is arcane, and Windows is kind of annoying but "easy". I'm talking about moms and pops' perception...
I enjoy having access to a huge library of games, and I really enjoy not having to deal with botched textures and subpar performance just to make sure it runs on my pet OS. I'm a gamer first and foremost, and in this day and age that means Microsoft.
Your focus is gaming, and you're right to choose Microsoft. But for me, I actually use Linux to do work, and I enjoy being able to launch Quake for a quicky, or play Xpilot online while something compiles. Dual boot isn't really an option for me, and I'm glad many games run on Linux, even if they may not give tip-top performance as under Windows. So you see, for some it's not a matter of "pet OS", but a simple question of practicality.
Or even better, the Linux Game Tome, which is the original site to list games, and also the primary site where Linux game authors post their updates.
i don't know if you are being a moron or making a non-sensical joke. if former, i suggest going to college. if latter, well, it takes all kinds, i guess.
Well, since you're so educated yourself, consider this: what do you call a device that takes electrical power in and converts 100% of it into heat? That's A space heater. A CPU however, does this *and* also send the results of its operations outside. So therefore, not 100% of the power it consumes is converted into heat. Some of it is used to signal the outside world. It may be a very small amount, because no power is transmitted, just a signal, but all the same, the CPU acts as an electrical generator on its data-out lines.
Will it run linux? ^_^
I think it runs BSD. I hear dinosaurs are dying...
It's only a matter of time until someone in Japan decide to stick Asimo, several Aibos and a bunch of angry Dinobots (and also one of these on an island, and shoot a totally robotic remake of Jurassic Park...
Riiiiight, because stack overflow only happens in XP.
Sorry you're right, it also happens in 2000, NT, ME, 98 and 95...
100% of power consumed by a processor is converted to heat. 100%.
So I guess the amount of electricity that flows out of the CPU to the different busses comes from the hamster pedalling inside the CPU?
Ha, like Microsoft will leave that called AMD64. Expect some diplomacy and a renaming. Not that anyone but techies care.
Why would they care? When Intel invented the i*86 line, everybody software manufacturer called any Intel-compatible CPU "i*86" somewhere or other, and neither AMD, Cyrix,... complained about it. Now the situation is reversed: AMD took the lead on that particular 64 bit design, and Intel is just a follower here. It sounds rather normal and deserved that any AMD64-compatible chip should generically called "AMD64" after all.
I personaly thought all the 12 year olds would follow that market plan alot better than their new one... "Well actualy MHZ doesn't really matter when you have a more efficient Processor that doesn't cost as much."
Bleh... Typical SUV buyer's mentality: "you should buy it cuz it's safer, more beautifully designed, ergonomical, got better brakes, cheaper... but mostly, it's got MORE POWAAAH". Nevermind that it weighs 3 tons and accelerates like a pig anyway...
And Alpha 21264 still outperforms Intel per watt. I'm not impressed.
That's a silly comment, it's like saying "my wristwatch calculator outperforms any Intel processor per watt". But wait... can I do heavy-duty image processing and 3D stuff with my wristwatch calculator??
The real question you should be asking yourself, with regard to such processors, is whether one is more powerful than another, period. Because power consumption is hardly their main selling point, although it can be a plus.
From TFA: he new chips also offer improved [...] memory overflow protection (XD bit).
I think they should call it the XP bit instead: it'd be an accurate description of the problem, and it would ring a bell immediately in consumers' mind...
First walkman phone eh? You can have music on your regular cell phone RIGHT NOW: Call AT&T's customer support line, say to the operator that you're furious and you wish to complain and talk to her manager, wait till she says "yes Sir, please hold" and enjoy endless music for FREE!
Do you guys get aspirine with your subscription? Cuz if you do, I'm signing up right now...
So, if we attached a couple square inches of this stuff to a pigeon, or filled a 747 with some of these chips, and flew it around the world, how fast would the transfer rate be?
I know you're trying to be funny but...
What most people really look for in electronic communication networks is not transfer rate but good latency: if I can "download" the entire library of Congress by having it Fedexed to be in a big box full of disks, but I have to wait 3 weeks for the snail mail request to reach the LoC, the guys to package everything up and the box to reach me eventually, I may be better off downloading the LoC on a slower link that answers immediately.
172 ls-120's on the size of a heineken bottle cap.
You're right, I'd rather drink a single cold one than eat 172 LS-120 disks...
(a) Reliability: No words about how reliable the system and elements are ... ...
(b) Testing: How are they going to test this trillion element chip ?
(c) Redundancy: Is this process going to give more yield than conventional electronic processes ?
Do you understand the definition of a prototype?
I'm sure all your questions will be answered in due time, in 5 or 10 years when the device hits the street.
The LOC is about 20 TB worth of data. So the storage medium here is roughly 1/160th of an LOC :-)