333MHz Celeron 32 MB RAm (later 96) 30GB Hard Drive
Also Slackware from a magazine, can't remember the version, probably 5. I managed to install it easily, having installed Windows a lot of times in the past and being very patient reading every option. Got it installed and finished at a command prompt. Called a friend who knew linux and asked: now what? He told me about "man" and startx.
After a few hours I knew how to set modelines in xfree and got a server started. Got a hold of the mplayer source code and compiled it. It was 0.1.7 alpha, IIRC. Worked the first time!
That was the main reason I installed linux in the first place: my computer couldn't play avi files with 5.1 sound in Windows 98, because the processor was too slow, and in linux it could. I still think the mplayer guys are dicks but also some of the very few who earned the right to be dicks, as they are just as good as they say.
Also I have to confess that getting sound to work in console mode was mindblowing (mpg123 is great), also getting mplayer in console. The only time I was as happy to get something to work was when I compiled KDE 2.0 (I think)from source in Redhat, since I couldn't wait the for the official packages because KDE had just got antialiased fonts.
Not many, I think. It's one thing to dream about old national borders, but the situation has changed a lot in the last half century.
Moldova has now a very large minority of russians, ukrainians, gagauz (?) and god knows what else. They have a serious border conflict/separatist region case with regards to Transnistria. They are economically underdeveloped compared to Romania. Also their culture has been thoroughly attacked and decimated in order to smother their national identity.
Romania is now a part of the EU. In order to become a member it had to give up any and all possible territorial disputes with all of its neighbors. Agreeing to a reunification would mean being excluded from the EU. It's a choice very few romanians are prepared to make.
Also reunification would mean getting booted from the EU, getting the very large national minorities in the region, along with all the problems this entails, having to solve the Transnistria situation and also having the romanian economy dragged down in a moment when it's not doing too well already. Not smart. It has taken almost twenty years to recover from the fall of communism; this would take much more than that.
The sane view, I think, is to encourage Moldavia to find its own way into the EU, this being, from a practical point, almost equivalent to a reunification with Romania itself. The time of reunification for the two romanian states has passed almost twenty years ago. The road ahead is now much longer and darker, and this revolution/revolt will not solve anything right away. It's just the first step of many, and juvenile enthusiasm would only get them this far.
I wouldn't say that nothing plays ogg. On the Pc side Winamp plays it, and on the portable player side you have Samsung, Sansa, IRiver, Cowon, Archos and others, including many of those noname chinese MPx players.
I haven't looked in particular for ogg playback at the time of purchase, and two of my three portable players support it. Admittedly, none of those is an Ipod.
I think you're arguing using two meanings for the same thing.
Protected Path would be more correctly described as Restricted Path, and is indeed selected when playing content that requires it.
But there is a constant monitor that evaluates if a content is protected or not, especially since as far as I remember the specification allows to protect only a portion of a file. Even if you are playing unprotected content, outputting it via analog and having no problem at all it does not mean that the DRM is inactive, only that the playback is not restricted "yet" and is monitored for a restriction request.
So having DRM in the OS instead of having it be a part of the playback app, means that the DRM enforcing routines are always active, even if they do not have anything to enforce. Also you seem to forget the "Tilt Bits" which have been the bane of my early Vista experience, getting reset at every little voltage fluctuation in order to protect the "Protected Path". I can guarantee you that those are active all the time and have no relation to any multimedia content being played.
You are arguing that the DRM is not active because the Protected Path is not active. Protected Path is not the DRM, it's the effect of it, and the DRM is indeed constantly active, even if the Protected Path is not. I would have thought that the network performance degradation when playing unprotected mp3s would have empirically proved that point for anyone interested.
Why does Sony need to upgrade the PSP hardware? Your wish list is a V12 short of a Maybach. All the while the DS with inferior hardware compared to the PSP in almost every category is winning this generation portable battle.
When talking about consoles it's always about the games. Yes, HD may be nice, but what would that do to the battery life? The PSP is suffering from a lack of quality games and from a lack of games in general. The DS has a much larger library, shovelware mostly, but it doesn't matter as long as genuinely good games exist between them.
Also Sony is unclear at the moment about the direction it wants to take the console. It seems to have a new strategy with the PSN, but the firmware updates are a constant disappointment. It took them almost a year to unlock full resolution video playback that the console was able to do from day one; the mp3 playback still sucks, the browser is pitiful, and people are resorting to custom firmware to change that.
With custom firmware you can get an ok browser (Opera Mobile), a great ebook reader (Bookr), a very nice mp3 player (LiteMP3), Youtube playback, and emulators for all the classic consoles up to the PSX. They fell into the same trap as Microsoft with the original Xbox: the modded console is so much better in every way that it becomes almost mandatory to mod it, and once there piracy is just a click or two away.
You can also interpret the Perot vote as "not Bush". His votes are not necessarily conservative votes. But, as you say, in the first election Bush may have had a chance if not for Perot.
In the second election Clinton got 49.2% against Dole's 40.7%, so allow me to doubt very much that all of Perot's votes were conservative votes and that Clinton would not have won. I think that the difference was simply too big. And even if Perot's votes were conservative, allow me to argue that many of those voters did not consider the republican candidates as being conservative, hence them voting for the third candidate.
Still, I think at this point it's just splitting hairs.
A memory card is great if you plan to upgrade the phone further down the road. That's the saving money part, since memory is getting cheaper and cheaper every day.
Many phones have 3G and wireless headphones, and I'm sure they're not privy to some battery technology that Apple couldn't get. And FYI, wireless headphones also let you answer a call by pressing a button, so don't be so quick to dismiss them if you've never used one.
And if you think that battery life is more important than multitasking, then let me introduce you to Nokia 1100. No multitasking and one week battery. It frankly boggles the mind that someone could argue that multitasking should not be necessary in this day. The phone has more computing resources than my first computer, and that one ran a multitasking OS. You tell me that the phone can't, that it's too weak?
Working for a service provider, I can see why you look at things more from a user support perspective. But from a user perspective, the list has things we want, and the user should be always right, since he is the one who pays.
Oh yes they do. Music, especially. And sweat odor. And barbecue smoke. They can ruin my day, especially when you cannot walk away (such as in public transport, or in a meeting, or in a movie theater).
Maybe you are just more sensitive to cigarette smoke than other odors, but everybody is different.
By the same token Linux should have never appeared since Hurd was just around the corner. But hurd never came and Linux stole its thunder.
In the marketplace success is very dependent on price. If OLED does not get cheaper and easier to manufacture faster than five years, not to mention in larger sizes and with longer life, this improvement may well find a very nice place if it does come on said schedule.
What's true also is that a lot of these articles are just "look at what cool things we have developed in our lab" and there is no real intention of ever using them besides PR. Which may very well be the case with OLED, which was trumped up for as long as I can remember and besides a few little screens we haven't seen anything.
Since you do not stay fixed in relation to the tower but are instead moving and rotating around you cannot use a directional, high gain antenna, or else you would lose connection if you position yourself the wrong way. The antennas have to be pretty much omnidirectional, so as low gain as possible.
There is no proper gain in an antenna, as per the laws of physics you cannot get out of something more than you put in. Gain is a measure of how much of the input energy is radiated towards a receiver compared to a theoretical perfect omni antenna, so to "gain" something means you radiate less in other directions.
So your theory, though correct, does not apply here.
I'll give you the display is slightly smaller and the video card is slightly worse , but the bluetooth is only a few dollars extra, the processor is a ULV so it's easier on the battery, plus the speed difference may not matter as much to some people, and RAM and HD are easy to replace. For 1900 I was able to configure a 1,2GHz Core 2 Duo, external DVD-RW, 1GB RAM, 80GB HD, 2 9-cell batteries (good for about 5+5 hours, a 6+9 cell would give 3+5 hours), a slim 65W Auto/Air/AC Adapter, Intel 4965 802.11a/g/n, wired Ethernet + modem, Bluetooth + Bluetooth Travel Mouse, 4USB ports, XP SP2 + media, all in a durable magnesium chassis that will take on occasional roughing in stride. For another 100$ you could get a MediaBase that clips on the bottom, that can also serve as a dock for the office in order to connect an external display + peripherals without messing around with cables. It even has an old serial port on it, if I'm not mistaken, and I believe it also has a PCMCIA slot. So, for about the same price as the Air you could get an external DVD-RW single or in a dock with extra outputs, 3 extra USB ports, 1 extra long-life battery, a bluetooth mouse, an universal travel adapter, magnesium chassis. But I'll admit that the Air is cooler looking, at least, if not as powerful or practical.
Well, to show that there's no accounting for taste, I really like those two "washed up groups" and would pay good money to see them live. In fact I saw Sting live a while ago and he was absolutely great. I also think that both groups have had far more lasting impact in music than most of the current, non-washed up bands.
Are you looking at the same images? Besides that image of the Americas, which does not appear to be from the same set as the rest of the scans, I counted at least two views of Eurasia and one of Australia.
In order to reduce travel time it would be necessary that you not only overshoot the target in a non-menu bar environment, but that you would do that multiple times in order for it to add up to the supplementary travel distance in a menu-bar GUI. That is, in my opinion, extremely unlikely.
I'm sure that the main reason that Apple chose to keep it this way is force-of-habit and perhaps other technical limitations that I can't think of right now. In time, with the ever-expanding desktop space, the menu bar will become increasingly inconvenient and will be abandoned. Apple is very traditionalist, but not stupidly so (see two-button mouse, Intel processor, giving up "Computer" from the name).
I have an Asus WL107G PCMCIA card with a Ralink 2500 chipset and it worked with no config necessary, except of course the password with WPA (TKIP+PSK, will change it later to AES). In 7.04 it was really a pain to get it working with anything except WEP, which is worthless, and it was very unstable. I have installed the 7.10 beta about a month or so ago, but the subsequent updates have not broken anything yet and I presume that at the moment I have 7.10 final.
Completely offtopic, I hate Grub with a passion and wish there was more control in the setup for the bootloader. I know it is supposed to be newbie friendly, but that does not mean that I have to pull my hair out looking for a place to select the bootloader type and location.
Do you even bother to read what you quote? It says right there: "if your NIC is supported", meaning that if you have a working NIC, Vista is able to download drivers for other hardware devices.
This is getting to be goddamned annoying. This is the exact same thought process that creationists use to create doubt about evolution. It's just a theory. It can't really be a law, and laws and theories got changed in the past so this one will certainly change too.
Well, it's not like this. These theories and laws and etc are use to describe and predict reality as it is known to us. The heliocentric model was simply better at describing the observed movement of the stars and planets. It wasn't revolutionary as much as evolutionary, and only religious preconceptions made it so controversial. The same with the flat earth.
If you want to go with experience, each and every one - each and every one - of these type of claims were false. No ifs and buts about it. There's absolutely no reason to believe that the laws of thermodynamics, which were tested and tested probably beyond your capacity to comprehend, both empirically and theoretically, are going to be proven wrong by a wheel with magnets attached to it made by some nobody without any scientific credit, standing or history.
That's strange. I have the same SIM since 7 years (and 3 phones) ago. My wife's SIM card has more than 8 years. Admitedly, I'm from Europe, but a SIM that lasts just 2 years seems a little curious to me.
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333MHz Celeron
32 MB RAm (later 96)
30GB Hard Drive
Also Slackware from a magazine, can't remember the version, probably 5. I managed to install it easily, having installed Windows a lot of times in the past and being very patient reading every option. Got it installed and finished at a command prompt. Called a friend who knew linux and asked: now what? He told me about "man" and startx.
After a few hours I knew how to set modelines in xfree and got a server started. Got a hold of the mplayer source code and compiled it. It was 0.1.7 alpha, IIRC. Worked the first time!
That was the main reason I installed linux in the first place: my computer couldn't play avi files with 5.1 sound in Windows 98, because the processor was too slow, and in linux it could. I still think the mplayer guys are dicks but also some of the very few who earned the right to be dicks, as they are just as good as they say.
Also I have to confess that getting sound to work in console mode was mindblowing (mpg123 is great), also getting mplayer in console. The only time I was as happy to get something to work was when I compiled KDE 2.0 (I think)from source in Redhat, since I couldn't wait the for the official packages because KDE had just got antialiased fonts.
Not many, I think. It's one thing to dream about old national borders, but the situation has changed a lot in the last half century.
Moldova has now a very large minority of russians, ukrainians, gagauz (?) and god knows what else. They have a serious border conflict/separatist region case with regards to Transnistria. They are economically underdeveloped compared to Romania. Also their culture has been thoroughly attacked and decimated in order to smother their national identity.
Romania is now a part of the EU. In order to become a member it had to give up any and all possible territorial disputes with all of its neighbors. Agreeing to a reunification would mean being excluded from the EU. It's a choice very few romanians are prepared to make.
Also reunification would mean getting booted from the EU, getting the very large national minorities in the region, along with all the problems this entails, having to solve the Transnistria situation and also having the romanian economy dragged down in a moment when it's not doing too well already. Not smart. It has taken almost twenty years to recover from the fall of communism; this would take much more than that.
The sane view, I think, is to encourage Moldavia to find its own way into the EU, this being, from a practical point, almost equivalent to a reunification with Romania itself. The time of reunification for the two romanian states has passed almost twenty years ago. The road ahead is now much longer and darker, and this revolution/revolt will not solve anything right away. It's just the first step of many, and juvenile enthusiasm would only get them this far.
My guess? UPS. And not the postal kind.
But hey, who am I to stand in the way of a joking opportunity, right?
I wouldn't say that nothing plays ogg. On the Pc side Winamp plays it, and on the portable player side you have Samsung, Sansa, IRiver, Cowon, Archos and others, including many of those noname chinese MPx players.
I haven't looked in particular for ogg playback at the time of purchase, and two of my three portable players support it. Admittedly, none of those is an Ipod.
I think you're arguing using two meanings for the same thing.
Protected Path would be more correctly described as Restricted Path, and is indeed selected when playing content that requires it.
But there is a constant monitor that evaluates if a content is protected or not, especially since as far as I remember the specification allows to protect only a portion of a file. Even if you are playing unprotected content, outputting it via analog and having no problem at all it does not mean that the DRM is inactive, only that the playback is not restricted "yet" and is monitored for a restriction request.
So having DRM in the OS instead of having it be a part of the playback app, means that the DRM enforcing routines are always active, even if they do not have anything to enforce. Also you seem to forget the "Tilt Bits" which have been the bane of my early Vista experience, getting reset at every little voltage fluctuation in order to protect the "Protected Path". I can guarantee you that those are active all the time and have no relation to any multimedia content being played.
You are arguing that the DRM is not active because the Protected Path is not active. Protected Path is not the DRM, it's the effect of it, and the DRM is indeed constantly active, even if the Protected Path is not. I would have thought that the network performance degradation when playing unprotected mp3s would have empirically proved that point for anyone interested.
Why does Sony need to upgrade the PSP hardware? Your wish list is a V12 short of a Maybach. All the while the DS with inferior hardware compared to the PSP in almost every category is winning this generation portable battle.
When talking about consoles it's always about the games. Yes, HD may be nice, but what would that do to the battery life? The PSP is suffering from a lack of quality games and from a lack of games in general. The DS has a much larger library, shovelware mostly, but it doesn't matter as long as genuinely good games exist between them.
Also Sony is unclear at the moment about the direction it wants to take the console. It seems to have a new strategy with the PSN, but the firmware updates are a constant disappointment. It took them almost a year to unlock full resolution video playback that the console was able to do from day one; the mp3 playback still sucks, the browser is pitiful, and people are resorting to custom firmware to change that.
With custom firmware you can get an ok browser (Opera Mobile), a great ebook reader (Bookr), a very nice mp3 player (LiteMP3), Youtube playback, and emulators for all the classic consoles up to the PSX. They fell into the same trap as Microsoft with the original Xbox: the modded console is so much better in every way that it becomes almost mandatory to mod it, and once there piracy is just a click or two away.
You can also interpret the Perot vote as "not Bush". His votes are not necessarily conservative votes. But, as you say, in the first election Bush may have had a chance if not for Perot.
In the second election Clinton got 49.2% against Dole's 40.7%, so allow me to doubt very much that all of Perot's votes were conservative votes and that Clinton would not have won. I think that the difference was simply too big. And even if Perot's votes were conservative, allow me to argue that many of those voters did not consider the republican candidates as being conservative, hence them voting for the third candidate.
Still, I think at this point it's just splitting hairs.
Heathen! How can you not choose beer?
A memory card is great if you plan to upgrade the phone further down the road. That's the saving money part, since memory is getting cheaper and cheaper every day.
Many phones have 3G and wireless headphones, and I'm sure they're not privy to some battery technology that Apple couldn't get. And FYI, wireless headphones also let you answer a call by pressing a button, so don't be so quick to dismiss them if you've never used one.
And if you think that battery life is more important than multitasking, then let me introduce you to Nokia 1100. No multitasking and one week battery. It frankly boggles the mind that someone could argue that multitasking should not be necessary in this day. The phone has more computing resources than my first computer, and that one ran a multitasking OS. You tell me that the phone can't, that it's too weak?
Working for a service provider, I can see why you look at things more from a user support perspective. But from a user perspective, the list has things we want, and the user should be always right, since he is the one who pays.
Oh yes they do. Music, especially. And sweat odor. And barbecue smoke. They can ruin my day, especially when you cannot walk away (such as in public transport, or in a meeting, or in a movie theater).
Maybe you are just more sensitive to cigarette smoke than other odors, but everybody is different.
By the same token Linux should have never appeared since Hurd was just around the corner. But hurd never came and Linux stole its thunder.
In the marketplace success is very dependent on price. If OLED does not get cheaper and easier to manufacture faster than five years, not to mention in larger sizes and with longer life, this improvement may well find a very nice place if it does come on said schedule.
What's true also is that a lot of these articles are just "look at what cool things we have developed in our lab" and there is no real intention of ever using them besides PR. Which may very well be the case with OLED, which was trumped up for as long as I can remember and besides a few little screens we haven't seen anything.
Since you do not stay fixed in relation to the tower but are instead moving and rotating around you cannot use a directional, high gain antenna, or else you would lose connection if you position yourself the wrong way. The antennas have to be pretty much omnidirectional, so as low gain as possible.
There is no proper gain in an antenna, as per the laws of physics you cannot get out of something more than you put in. Gain is a measure of how much of the input energy is radiated towards a receiver compared to a theoretical perfect omni antenna, so to "gain" something means you radiate less in other directions.
So your theory, though correct, does not apply here.
Wooshhhhhh......
I'll give you the display is slightly smaller and the video card is slightly worse , but the bluetooth is only a few dollars extra, the processor is a ULV so it's easier on the battery, plus the speed difference may not matter as much to some people, and RAM and HD are easy to replace. For 1900 I was able to configure a 1,2GHz Core 2 Duo, external DVD-RW, 1GB RAM, 80GB HD, 2 9-cell batteries (good for about 5+5 hours, a 6+9 cell would give 3+5 hours), a slim 65W Auto/Air/AC Adapter, Intel 4965 802.11a/g/n, wired Ethernet + modem, Bluetooth + Bluetooth Travel Mouse, 4USB ports, XP SP2 + media, all in a durable magnesium chassis that will take on occasional roughing in stride.
For another 100$ you could get a MediaBase that clips on the bottom, that can also serve as a dock for the office in order to connect an external display + peripherals without messing around with cables. It even has an old serial port on it, if I'm not mistaken, and I believe it also has a PCMCIA slot.
So, for about the same price as the Air you could get an external DVD-RW single or in a dock with extra outputs, 3 extra USB ports, 1 extra long-life battery, a bluetooth mouse, an universal travel adapter, magnesium chassis. But I'll admit that the Air is cooler looking, at least, if not as powerful or practical.
Well, to show that there's no accounting for taste, I really like those two "washed up groups" and would pay good money to see them live. In fact I saw Sting live a while ago and he was absolutely great. I also think that both groups have had far more lasting impact in music than most of the current, non-washed up bands.
That is totally right, except that it wasnt Apple, it was LG. The iPhone has no such feedback.
That's a troll? A troll should contain at least some slight inexactity. It's flamebait,at best.
For the humor impaired: the above is a troll.
Are you looking at the same images? Besides that image of the Americas, which does not appear to be from the same set as the rest of the scans, I counted at least two views of Eurasia and one of Australia.
In order to reduce travel time it would be necessary that you not only overshoot the target in a non-menu bar environment, but that you would do that multiple times in order for it to add up to the supplementary travel distance in a menu-bar GUI. That is, in my opinion, extremely unlikely.
I'm sure that the main reason that Apple chose to keep it this way is force-of-habit and perhaps other technical limitations that I can't think of right now. In time, with the ever-expanding desktop space, the menu bar will become increasingly inconvenient and will be abandoned. Apple is very traditionalist, but not stupidly so (see two-button mouse, Intel processor, giving up "Computer" from the name).
I have an Asus WL107G PCMCIA card with a Ralink 2500 chipset and it worked with no config necessary, except of course the password with WPA (TKIP+PSK, will change it later to AES). In 7.04 it was really a pain to get it working with anything except WEP, which is worthless, and it was very unstable. I have installed the 7.10 beta about a month or so ago, but the subsequent updates have not broken anything yet and I presume that at the moment I have 7.10 final.
Completely offtopic, I hate Grub with a passion and wish there was more control in the setup for the bootloader. I know it is supposed to be newbie friendly, but that does not mean that I have to pull my hair out looking for a place to select the bootloader type and location.
Do you even bother to read what you quote? It says right there: "if your NIC is supported", meaning that if you have a working NIC, Vista is able to download drivers for other hardware devices.
This is getting to be goddamned annoying. This is the exact same thought process that creationists use to create doubt about evolution. It's just a theory. It can't really be a law, and laws and theories got changed in the past so this one will certainly change too.
Well, it's not like this. These theories and laws and etc are use to describe and predict reality as it is known to us. The heliocentric model was simply better at describing the observed movement of the stars and planets. It wasn't revolutionary as much as evolutionary, and only religious preconceptions made it so controversial. The same with the flat earth.
If you want to go with experience, each and every one - each and every one - of these type of claims were false. No ifs and buts about it. There's absolutely no reason to believe that the laws of thermodynamics, which were tested and tested probably beyond your capacity to comprehend, both empirically and theoretically, are going to be proven wrong by a wheel with magnets attached to it made by some nobody without any scientific credit, standing or history.
That's strange. I have the same SIM since 7 years (and 3 phones) ago. My wife's SIM card has more than 8 years. Admitedly, I'm from Europe, but a SIM that lasts just 2 years seems a little curious to me.
How long until Webmail (http://webmail.mozdev.org/index.html) is updated for 2.0?
Do you like money too? I think we should hang out.
/may be too subtle