Its not his file system. Its the delay he is experiencing while the windows loads up a list of all the files and starts displaying them. FWIW the file save dialog boxes are a lot slower in ubuntu.
No. I'm implying that they had nothing to charge her with, which is why she is not sitting in a jail cell right now. Whether that is right or not is really a matter of your stance with morality, but the truth remains that she is not charged with any sort of crime as there really is not a crime to charge her with other than perhaps fraud on some sort of level. This is probably more a case for the civil courts, and her parents may certainly have some sort of case, but that won't bring their daughter back, nor will throwing Lori Drew in prison for the rest of her life. Lori Drew is a horrible person, no doubt, but the world is full of horrible people. People choose different paths in life. We are all going to die. Some just decide to choose that time themselves. It is tragic, but so is death, and we all die. Just be glad you are still alive and woke up this morning. I think the planet has much larger problems than cyber bullies.
I also wanted to add that digg just started mixing advertisements in with its regular stories and people seem to be digging them. What's worse is that it mixes them in with the regular stories, thus forcing you to at least skim over the title as you scan down the listings. I can't explain why I keep looking on digg, but if that is what is popular on the net, its sort of like watching a slow moving train wreck.....utterly hypnotizing in a devious sort of way. At least the people here leave me some sort of hope for humanity....
Great now I need adblock for games. Isn't need for speed commercialized enough anyways? This sort of thing has been going on in hollywood for a long time now. It was only a matter of time before games started doing it. Now with the internet they can just stream you fresh targeted ads. It would be nice if people just voted no to ads with their pocketbook, but I doubt most people would care. They are already used to a steady stream of ads in their daily lives. Sad really.
I thought my opinion would be the minority, but it seems well supported here. I'm sorry, but life can be tough and challenging on many levels and if you cannot adapt even at age 12 and decide to off yourself, then I say its called thinning the herd. Sure the story is tragic, but there is a lot of tragedy in life. Lori Drew may be a monster, but she did not kill anyone, or otherwise she would be charged with murder. When I was a child and then later, a teenager, I was harassed on a repeated basis. Obviously this sort of thing leaves long and deep emotional scars, but for as much as I wanted to kill myself (and I still do occasionally when things start breaking apart) I always saw it as the most pussy and selfish way out of it. There are a lot of people in this world that care about me, and even if I were all alone in the world, I would still want to go forward in spite of facing a constant uphill battle. The only way a man reaches the top of the mountain is by climbing. For some reason I purposefully chose the hardest path. Suicide is totally giving in. Or maybe worse is becoming complacent and sitting around and waiting to die. Natural order states that only the strong survive. I never once saw anything inherently wrong with this philosophy. I'd love for some breakdown of society to occur, just if only, so people can come out of their fantasy world and live and breathe in reality for one singular moment. I'm looking at you soccer moms, driving your Honda Odyssey to soccer practice, just down the road from your expensive housing projects, I mean, um, plans. (The newer government built ones do look pretty similar I must admit) I'm looking at you, whathefuckoccino sipping, crackberry tapping, eddie bauer shoes wearing metrosexual freak. Think you can skin a deer? Reload ammo? A lot of people wouldn't make it, but we would survive as we have done as hominids for millions of years. Either you bite the bullet and take life in stride or you put one in your head. I'm sorry this little girl chose the latter, but it was, in the end, her choice to make.
I would say probably not a lot. 12 megabytes maybe. The problem is the analog to digital conversion. Over a voice line modems seem pretty locked at 56 kilobits/sec. Of course you'd have a much thicker frequency spectrum with vinyl, so you could probably pack more in there, but not a great deal more. Also, just think about the rotational latency at 45 RPM and the fact that your data would have to be in one continuous linear stream as random seeks would be pretty out of the question. Then you would have to flip the disk halfway through. Not the best medium, I'm afraid.
Mod this dude up! Making images and mounting them is painless and gives you some advantages. Most laptops have like 320gig hard drives these days anyways....
I bet I could. I happen to know a certain gay nerdy friend that has made more than one pass on me. I'd be a lot more interested if I was a lot more gay. And yes, I still regularly play SNES and PSX games. I guess I'm a big loser. I mean gee. Games that were fun 10 years ago, stopped being fun when? I'm not a cheap fuck. An incredibly poor fuck is far more like it though.
Perhaps. In the past 6 months everything electronic I used regularly suddenly failed. All within a few months period of time. Don't know about karma, but perhaps something isn't jiving on a cosmic level in a big way. I guess draw your own conclusions. And yes, I am an aberration indeed.:)
I beg to differ. Nothing I have owned that was built in the last 10 years has survived a decade. My MP3 player died after a whole year. My last desktop died after about 5 years. The old P3 backup still works though, and a bunch of older equipment I have at work and around my house still works. I honestly believe that things are just being built so damned cheaply these days, since they figure most people will only use the tech for a couple of years before they upgrade. Its like the floppy disk. The ones they made in the 80s are still readable, and the one you bought last year is already somehow corrupt. You'd think that quality would increase over time, but that isn't always the case. Those 12-year olds in china make some piss poor components I hate to say. I liked it better when Taiwan manufactured all our tech.
I was stuck on a 1 ghz p3 backup for a month a little while ago. Not bad under ubuntu. Hell I even ran kubuntu on it as it was snappier than gnome. There isn't much you can do with a box like that other than render web pages these days though. You should skim craigslist. I regularly see dual core machines for like $15o-200 right now and you'd be only like a generation or two behind. Nothing wrong with buying 2 year old computers for a decent price....:)
I finally bought my first new computer ever though. It is easily the fastest machine that I've ever used and its a laptop.:)
dual core athlon64 2ghz, with ddr2 667 ram with hypertransport 3.0 is at least twice as fast as my old single core athlon 64 3000 which also ran at 2ghz.
It amazes me how many people throw away perfectly good equipment because windows is running slow, or the drive is crashed, so they think that the whole machine doesn't work anymore. People cannot differentiate between operating system health and hardware health. Also a lot of older tech that is getting phased out is still perfectly usable with windows xp. Even a lowly P4 2ghz isn't all that bad for just web surfing. I was thinking about the rate of PC platform development lately, and it seems to me that the innovation rate is slowing down. Perhaps this is due to there being one single platform (x86) now, but doesn't it seem like things moved so much faster forward in the 90s? I mean we went from 8-bit processors to 32-bit risc monsters on the desktop in like 10 years. Asides from faster busses and dual processors and (finally) 64-bit addressing, how much further have we really come? All these people are reusing 10 year old tech because it still runs today's software (2d software at least) and that isn't something you could say 10 years ago, and that is my point.
I never encountered any problems, but I'm sure incompatibilities exist. I'm running windows 7 64 right now and I was pretty shocked at how seamless everything was. I guess YMMV.
The 32-bit wrapper works because chips like the athlon64 and core can both run 32-bit apps natively in 64-bit mode since they can execute x86. I really don't know who modded this one insightful.
I don't know if ubuntu has an arm port, but debian does. Thought I'd clarify something though. With x86-64 you can run 32-bit apps seamlessly. You really don't give anything up. I've been running windows 7 64-bit and I have yet to come across a 32-bit application that will not run. Device drivers were the real issues with 64-bit XP, and now 64 bit drivers are pretty standard. There aren't many disadvantages to running a 64-bit OS. Just a small performance penalty. Like 5% or something. We really should thank AMD for coming out with the opterons back in the day. I shudder to think what would it be like if the Itanic didn't slide into the sea.
Why would idaho, which is far more isolated than Connecticut have electricity that costs nearly 3x less? Its pretty impressive how taxes drive the costs of things up, isn't it?
Sure....adblock is checking all of those images to see if they are ads or not. Anymore I haven't even bothered installing adblock again. it doesn't really seem to make pages load any faster and it breaks a lot of things. Also its a free lunch, and I sort of feel like web content providers deserve some sort of revenue stream. The ads on slashdot aren't all that intrusive. They keep giving me the option of turning them off for my contributions, but I just leave them on. Maybe one day I'll subscribe.
I just loaded Rheine. No slowdowns. Running x86 FF 3.5 on x64 windows 7.
I don't geocache. But it would be a lot harder with no reference map and basically just a direction to go by. I was under the impression it was supposed to be challenging. I found caches all over my neighborhood that I'm pretty sure I could find without even a gps, though, if I went somewhere I've never been before, I'm sure it would be a lot harder.
Hmmm. There must be something wrong with your setup there. I'm running a dual core 2ghz machine with 3gb of ram and the page you mentioned ran in total real time. I was able to scroll around the map as fast as my connection could download the map. Pretty neat site. Never thought of combining google maps with geocaching......kinda takes a lot of the challenge out of it to be honest.
ff 3.5 on windows 7 has tabs that flow into the document. they are quite pleasing to the eye. i know the linux version has some appearance differences. I think I really prefer the default windows ff over the default skin in ubuntu.
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Its not his file system. Its the delay he is experiencing while the windows loads up a list of all the files and starts displaying them. FWIW the file save dialog boxes are a lot slower in ubuntu.
Don't you just love how people think nuclear is environmentally friendly? :)
No. I'm implying that they had nothing to charge her with, which is why she is not sitting in a jail cell right now. Whether that is right or not is really a matter of your stance with morality, but the truth remains that she is not charged with any sort of crime as there really is not a crime to charge her with other than perhaps fraud on some sort of level. This is probably more a case for the civil courts, and her parents may certainly have some sort of case, but that won't bring their daughter back, nor will throwing Lori Drew in prison for the rest of her life. Lori Drew is a horrible person, no doubt, but the world is full of horrible people. People choose different paths in life. We are all going to die. Some just decide to choose that time themselves. It is tragic, but so is death, and we all die. Just be glad you are still alive and woke up this morning. I think the planet has much larger problems than cyber bullies.
I also wanted to add that digg just started mixing advertisements in with its regular stories and people seem to be digging them. What's worse is that it mixes them in with the regular stories, thus forcing you to at least skim over the title as you scan down the listings. I can't explain why I keep looking on digg, but if that is what is popular on the net, its sort of like watching a slow moving train wreck.....utterly hypnotizing in a devious sort of way. At least the people here leave me some sort of hope for humanity....
I have two words for you: DNS Blacklist
Great now I need adblock for games. Isn't need for speed commercialized enough anyways? This sort of thing has been going on in hollywood for a long time now. It was only a matter of time before games started doing it. Now with the internet they can just stream you fresh targeted ads. It would be nice if people just voted no to ads with their pocketbook, but I doubt most people would care. They are already used to a steady stream of ads in their daily lives. Sad really.
I thought my opinion would be the minority, but it seems well supported here. I'm sorry, but life can be tough and challenging on many levels and if you cannot adapt even at age 12 and decide to off yourself, then I say its called thinning the herd. Sure the story is tragic, but there is a lot of tragedy in life. Lori Drew may be a monster, but she did not kill anyone, or otherwise she would be charged with murder. When I was a child and then later, a teenager, I was harassed on a repeated basis. Obviously this sort of thing leaves long and deep emotional scars, but for as much as I wanted to kill myself (and I still do occasionally when things start breaking apart) I always saw it as the most pussy and selfish way out of it. There are a lot of people in this world that care about me, and even if I were all alone in the world, I would still want to go forward in spite of facing a constant uphill battle. The only way a man reaches the top of the mountain is by climbing. For some reason I purposefully chose the hardest path. Suicide is totally giving in. Or maybe worse is becoming complacent and sitting around and waiting to die. Natural order states that only the strong survive. I never once saw anything inherently wrong with this philosophy. I'd love for some breakdown of society to occur, just if only, so people can come out of their fantasy world and live and breathe in reality for one singular moment. I'm looking at you soccer moms, driving your Honda Odyssey to soccer practice, just down the road from your expensive housing projects, I mean, um, plans. (The newer government built ones do look pretty similar I must admit) I'm looking at you, whathefuckoccino sipping, crackberry tapping, eddie bauer shoes wearing metrosexual freak. Think you can skin a deer? Reload ammo? A lot of people wouldn't make it, but we would survive as we have done as hominids for millions of years. Either you bite the bullet and take life in stride or you put one in your head. I'm sorry this little girl chose the latter, but it was, in the end, her choice to make.
I would say probably not a lot. 12 megabytes maybe. The problem is the analog to digital conversion. Over a voice line modems seem pretty locked at 56 kilobits/sec. Of course you'd have a much thicker frequency spectrum with vinyl, so you could probably pack more in there, but not a great deal more. Also, just think about the rotational latency at 45 RPM and the fact that your data would have to be in one continuous linear stream as random seeks would be pretty out of the question. Then you would have to flip the disk halfway through. Not the best medium, I'm afraid.
Mod this dude up! Making images and mounting them is painless and gives you some advantages. Most laptops have like 320gig hard drives these days anyways....
I bet I could. I happen to know a certain gay nerdy friend that has made more than one pass on me. I'd be a lot more interested if I was a lot more gay. And yes, I still regularly play SNES and PSX games. I guess I'm a big loser. I mean gee. Games that were fun 10 years ago, stopped being fun when? I'm not a cheap fuck. An incredibly poor fuck is far more like it though.
Perhaps. In the past 6 months everything electronic I used regularly suddenly failed. All within a few months period of time. Don't know about karma, but perhaps something isn't jiving on a cosmic level in a big way. I guess draw your own conclusions. And yes, I am an aberration indeed. :)
I beg to differ. Nothing I have owned that was built in the last 10 years has survived a decade. My MP3 player died after a whole year. My last desktop died after about 5 years. The old P3 backup still works though, and a bunch of older equipment I have at work and around my house still works. I honestly believe that things are just being built so damned cheaply these days, since they figure most people will only use the tech for a couple of years before they upgrade. Its like the floppy disk. The ones they made in the 80s are still readable, and the one you bought last year is already somehow corrupt. You'd think that quality would increase over time, but that isn't always the case. Those 12-year olds in china make some piss poor components I hate to say. I liked it better when Taiwan manufactured all our tech.
Amazing. I had no idea they used plastic with magnetic dust affixed for platters. I've ripped apart a few drives, but the platters were always metal.
I meant ubuntu, though I haven't really tried running a great deal on the 64-bit port. It sucks that it isn't seamless.
I was stuck on a 1 ghz p3 backup for a month a little while ago. Not bad under ubuntu. Hell I even ran kubuntu on it as it was snappier than gnome. There isn't much you can do with a box like that other than render web pages these days though. You should skim craigslist. I regularly see dual core machines for like $15o-200 right now and you'd be only like a generation or two behind. Nothing wrong with buying 2 year old computers for a decent price.... :)
I finally bought my first new computer ever though. It is easily the fastest machine that I've ever used and its a laptop. :)
dual core athlon64 2ghz, with ddr2 667 ram with hypertransport 3.0 is at least twice as fast as my old single core athlon 64 3000 which also ran at 2ghz.
While I'd love an old 5005, I'd hate to pay shipping on it. Where is the company that picks up on govt auctions?
It amazes me how many people throw away perfectly good equipment because windows is running slow, or the drive is crashed, so they think that the whole machine doesn't work anymore. People cannot differentiate between operating system health and hardware health. Also a lot of older tech that is getting phased out is still perfectly usable with windows xp. Even a lowly P4 2ghz isn't all that bad for just web surfing. I was thinking about the rate of PC platform development lately, and it seems to me that the innovation rate is slowing down. Perhaps this is due to there being one single platform (x86) now, but doesn't it seem like things moved so much faster forward in the 90s? I mean we went from 8-bit processors to 32-bit risc monsters on the desktop in like 10 years. Asides from faster busses and dual processors and (finally) 64-bit addressing, how much further have we really come? All these people are reusing 10 year old tech because it still runs today's software (2d software at least) and that isn't something you could say 10 years ago, and that is my point.
I never encountered any problems, but I'm sure incompatibilities exist. I'm running windows 7 64 right now and I was pretty shocked at how seamless everything was. I guess YMMV.
I think the custom lithium ion would be a lot cheaper and more convenient than 4 hours you get off of 8 AAs. Kind of reminds me of the game gear.
The 32-bit wrapper works because chips like the athlon64 and core can both run 32-bit apps natively in 64-bit mode since they can execute x86. I really don't know who modded this one insightful.
I don't know if ubuntu has an arm port, but debian does. Thought I'd clarify something though. With x86-64 you can run 32-bit apps seamlessly. You really don't give anything up. I've been running windows 7 64-bit and I have yet to come across a 32-bit application that will not run. Device drivers were the real issues with 64-bit XP, and now 64 bit drivers are pretty standard. There aren't many disadvantages to running a 64-bit OS. Just a small performance penalty. Like 5% or something. We really should thank AMD for coming out with the opterons back in the day. I shudder to think what would it be like if the Itanic didn't slide into the sea.
Why would idaho, which is far more isolated than Connecticut have electricity that costs nearly 3x less? Its pretty impressive how taxes drive the costs of things up, isn't it?
Sure....adblock is checking all of those images to see if they are ads or not. Anymore I haven't even bothered installing adblock again. it doesn't really seem to make pages load any faster and it breaks a lot of things. Also its a free lunch, and I sort of feel like web content providers deserve some sort of revenue stream. The ads on slashdot aren't all that intrusive. They keep giving me the option of turning them off for my contributions, but I just leave them on. Maybe one day I'll subscribe.
Sorry for the ramble.
I just loaded Rheine. No slowdowns. Running x86 FF 3.5 on x64 windows 7.
I don't geocache. But it would be a lot harder with no reference map and basically just a direction to go by. I was under the impression it was supposed to be challenging. I found caches all over my neighborhood that I'm pretty sure I could find without even a gps, though, if I went somewhere I've never been before, I'm sure it would be a lot harder.
Hmmm. There must be something wrong with your setup there. I'm running a dual core 2ghz machine with 3gb of ram and the page you mentioned ran in total real time. I was able to scroll around the map as fast as my connection could download the map. Pretty neat site. Never thought of combining google maps with geocaching......kinda takes a lot of the challenge out of it to be honest.
ff 3.5 on windows 7 has tabs that flow into the document. they are quite pleasing to the eye. i know the linux version has some appearance differences. I think I really prefer the default windows ff over the default skin in ubuntu.