Firefox has a revenue sharing deal with Google. However, I don't know if the searches generated by an Ubuntu Firefox were part of this deal, since Ubuntu ALSO has one (which is now being replaced) and a Google search from the Ubuntu Firefox contains an URL parameter "rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:official." If Mozilla didn't get any money from Ubuntu searches in the first place, I don't see why this would affect anything.
I think the Debian/Iceweasel thing was a Debian issue rather than a Mozilla issue; they could have had the Firefox name, but Debian will not distribute encumbered IP (good for them!). I can't imagine that the deal with Google limits Mozilla in what they can do with their trademarks. On a sidenote, the deal runs out in November 2011, who knows what the default search provider in a stock Firefox will be at that point.
That's literally a couple of clicks, ie. two. On Ars Technica the comment thread was full of nerd rage about a change that takes a single second to undo. Even if they did change it on every upgrade it wouldn't be a big deal (though annoying).
Note that the engine WILL change to Yahoo when you upgrade to 10.04 IF you are currently using Google, ie. if you are using the 10.04 default provider. In that case it will upgrade from one default to the next default. Once you are using a custom search provider, it supposedly won't touch it later.
There's no obligation, typically people answer because they feel like it; or they don't. Just like you felt like posting some snarky comment. The N900 (I guess that's what you meant) pointer was fine though, I didn't realize people actually ran LXDE + Gimp and OpenOffice on it, running through some hoops, but still.
You can download the maps from Nokia, so that's not an issue. The fact that I can get maps for all of Europe for FREE and walk around with them in my pocket never ceases to amaze me.
Not to argue, but there are high quality, lower power PSUs available from all the major brands (e.g. Seasonic), and from what I hear the Pico PSU is high quality, too. At the same time, high wattage doesn't equal high quality; though I think unless you get a noname one, most PSUs today are decent these days. More money buys a better cooling system and a higher efficiency and consequently lower noise.
Even with a 300W PSU (which might in fact be hard to find) you could run that system along with a dozen hard disks and any number of USB devices. I can't imagine the system itself as you've specced it out using more than 75 to 100W, and probably significantly less. (Without the display, of course.)
Just my two cents, PSU choice is kind of a pet peeve.
I haven't made any argument, I'm asking a question. How easy is it to run an ARM desktop? I mean, running Ubuntu isn't an option for a start. But can you just install Debian and everything just works, at least basically to the same degree as it does on x86? That is, you install it, you get a functional Gnome desktop with Firefox/Iceweasel (including addons?), OpenOffice, a media player, etc?
True for today's games, but the combination of mid-range graphics and Atom should let you run games that are a couple of years old. For instance Civ4 needs a 1.2 GHz CPU (says Wikipedia), so a 1.6 GHz Atom might just do it; but forget about it if you're not using a dedicated GPU.
Apart from the fact that it's really easy (and cheap) to source an Atom system, while it's fairly difficult to (DIY) build an ARM system -- is running Linux on ARM as easy as running Linux on x86? Sure, the kernel and all the basic/essential user-space apps will work fine on ARM. But what about all the desktop stuff, and the breadth of drivers which finally make Linux on the desktop viable and easy to set up? What about 3D graphics? I guess it's a given that the proprietary Nvidia/AMD drivers won't work on ARM? (Fair enough if we want to build a 100% free software system.) I'm not trying to imply any answers to these questions, I'm genuinely curious how viable a desktop ARM system is as a drop-in replacement for an x86/x86-64 system.
Hell, a 500W PSU? That's incredibly overspecced. You could run that system off an external, passive power brick (e.g. Pico PSU), or any other "low-power" ATX power supply available cheaply. A 300W PSU would easily power that system even with a mid-range graphics card added. Apart from that, nice, I hope you're running it mostly fanless and you suspended the HDD, should make for a fine super-quiet system in that case. Atom is still slow though, even a dual-core.
I've read the article and half half a dozen other articles on the topic. I'm well aware that there's a utility to re-align the drives for XP. I though it wasn't necessary to point it out because basically every other comment to the article talks about it. Thanks for re-iterating it, though, foaming mouth and all. I'm just saying that MS doesn't really care either way, they want people to use 7 and won't support new features/different hardware setups (such as this) in XP.
The drive will present 512-byte sectors to all operating systems (I assume the drive isn't even aware which OS is running). The 4k is strictly a behind-the-scenes thing, hidden from the interface by the drive's firmware. The OS, including a properly aligned XP, will still take advantage of the improvements of "Advanced Format" such as they are; slightly increased capacity (or slightly reduced price at the same capacity, whatever), and very slightly improved error detection and speed if I understand correctly.
Well, it's in Extended Support which for one thing means MS doesn't give a rats ass whether or not XP works with the more efficient AF HDDs, since that's not a security related patch.
Not sure what you're saying here. He wasn't comparing different peoples from the 1700s, but rather people from back then to today. Many things that were a tragedy back then are a nuisance today. For instance, I get the chance to have a useful and entertaining life because I get to wear glasses. OTOH, you seem to focus on the meaning of the word "harmony" (with nature, specifically). Certainly that's a very loaded term, and I think GPs point was that this harmony is often idealized, to the point that yes, it does mean easy and long and many other positive things to many people, ignoring the negative sides such as the lack of optometrists.
High and increasing standards of living at a crippling and unsustainable cost and with a criminally unjust distribution of wealth. But it's great that you feel good about it. A stable government can't be a goal in itself; a stable cruel dictatorship might be preferable to an unstable cruel dictatorship, either way it's still a dictatorship. Political stability is particularly enticing when the stable status quo agrees with your own respective political affiliation.
Comes with 1 "monitor" output, which I assume means D-BUS. Not a very good solution. Not to mention driving more than one display, or running Linux. It is cheap though, I'll give you that.
(GP forgot the/wiki/ between the hostname and the article title.) I was about to write about how dumb it is that they don't simply redirect into the "subfolder" because I'm sure this happens all the time. Then I noticed that they do redirect. So now I'm going to complain that they don't auto-redirect for a capitalisation error like Tidal Locking vs. Tidal locking.;)
Determining the prevalence of miscarriage is difficult. Many miscarriages happen very early in the pregnancy, before a woman may know she is pregnant. Treatment of women with miscarriage at home means medical statistics on miscarriage miss many cases.[28] Prospective studies using very sensitive early pregnancy tests have found that 25% of pregnancies are miscarried by the sixth week LMP (since the woman's Last Menstrual Period).[29][30] Clinical miscarriages (those occurring after the sixth week LMP) occur in 8% of pregnancies.[30]
The risk of miscarriage decreases sharply after the 10th week LMP, i.e. when the fetal stage begins.[31] The loss rate between 8.5 weeks LMP and birth is about two percent; loss is “virtually complete by the end of the embryonic period."[32]
Likelihood of miscarriage drastically increases with the mother's age; the average age of mothers at childbirth has steadily increased in the past decades, although I was very surprised to see it's still at 25 in the US. So it's got fuck all to do with "bypassing natural selection".
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Firefox has a revenue sharing deal with Google. However, I don't know if the searches generated by an Ubuntu Firefox were part of this deal, since Ubuntu ALSO has one (which is now being replaced) and a Google search from the Ubuntu Firefox contains an URL parameter "rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:official." If Mozilla didn't get any money from Ubuntu searches in the first place, I don't see why this would affect anything.
I think the Debian/Iceweasel thing was a Debian issue rather than a Mozilla issue; they could have had the Firefox name, but Debian will not distribute encumbered IP (good for them!). I can't imagine that the deal with Google limits Mozilla in what they can do with their trademarks. On a sidenote, the deal runs out in November 2011, who knows what the default search provider in a stock Firefox will be at that point.
That's literally a couple of clicks, ie. two. On Ars Technica the comment thread was full of nerd rage about a change that takes a single second to undo. Even if they did change it on every upgrade it wouldn't be a big deal (though annoying).
Note that the engine WILL change to Yahoo when you upgrade to 10.04 IF you are currently using Google, ie. if you are using the 10.04 default provider. In that case it will upgrade from one default to the next default. Once you are using a custom search provider, it supposedly won't touch it later.
For anybody else who wondered: 1 m^3 of median density steel weighs 7820 kg according to Wolfram Alpha.
There's no obligation, typically people answer because they feel like it; or they don't. Just like you felt like posting some snarky comment. The N900 (I guess that's what you meant) pointer was fine though, I didn't realize people actually ran LXDE + Gimp and OpenOffice on it, running through some hoops, but still.
You can download the maps from Nokia, so that's not an issue. The fact that I can get maps for all of Europe for FREE and walk around with them in my pocket never ceases to amaze me.
Not to argue, but there are high quality, lower power PSUs available from all the major brands (e.g. Seasonic), and from what I hear the Pico PSU is high quality, too. At the same time, high wattage doesn't equal high quality; though I think unless you get a noname one, most PSUs today are decent these days. More money buys a better cooling system and a higher efficiency and consequently lower noise.
Even with a 300W PSU (which might in fact be hard to find) you could run that system along with a dozen hard disks and any number of USB devices. I can't imagine the system itself as you've specced it out using more than 75 to 100W, and probably significantly less. (Without the display, of course.)
Just my two cents, PSU choice is kind of a pet peeve.
I haven't made any argument, I'm asking a question. How easy is it to run an ARM desktop? I mean, running Ubuntu isn't an option for a start. But can you just install Debian and everything just works, at least basically to the same degree as it does on x86? That is, you install it, you get a functional Gnome desktop with Firefox/Iceweasel (including addons?), OpenOffice, a media player, etc?
True for today's games, but the combination of mid-range graphics and Atom should let you run games that are a couple of years old. For instance Civ4 needs a 1.2 GHz CPU (says Wikipedia), so a 1.6 GHz Atom might just do it; but forget about it if you're not using a dedicated GPU.
Wow. His head must have hit the Submit button falling down.
Apart from the fact that it's really easy (and cheap) to source an Atom system, while it's fairly difficult to (DIY) build an ARM system -- is running Linux on ARM as easy as running Linux on x86? Sure, the kernel and all the basic/essential user-space apps will work fine on ARM. But what about all the desktop stuff, and the breadth of drivers which finally make Linux on the desktop viable and easy to set up? What about 3D graphics? I guess it's a given that the proprietary Nvidia/AMD drivers won't work on ARM? (Fair enough if we want to build a 100% free software system.) I'm not trying to imply any answers to these questions, I'm genuinely curious how viable a desktop ARM system is as a drop-in replacement for an x86/x86-64 system.
Hell, a 500W PSU? That's incredibly overspecced. You could run that system off an external, passive power brick (e.g. Pico PSU), or any other "low-power" ATX power supply available cheaply. A 300W PSU would easily power that system even with a mid-range graphics card added. Apart from that, nice, I hope you're running it mostly fanless and you suspended the HDD, should make for a fine super-quiet system in that case. Atom is still slow though, even a dual-core.
I've read the article and half half a dozen other articles on the topic. I'm well aware that there's a utility to re-align the drives for XP. I though it wasn't necessary to point it out because basically every other comment to the article talks about it. Thanks for re-iterating it, though, foaming mouth and all. I'm just saying that MS doesn't really care either way, they want people to use 7 and won't support new features/different hardware setups (such as this) in XP.
The drive will present 512-byte sectors to all operating systems (I assume the drive isn't even aware which OS is running). The 4k is strictly a behind-the-scenes thing, hidden from the interface by the drive's firmware. The OS, including a properly aligned XP, will still take advantage of the improvements of "Advanced Format" such as they are; slightly increased capacity (or slightly reduced price at the same capacity, whatever), and very slightly improved error detection and speed if I understand correctly.
Well, it's in Extended Support which for one thing means MS doesn't give a rats ass whether or not XP works with the more efficient AF HDDs, since that's not a security related patch.
ECC is more efficient for 4k blocks. Apparently, 100 bytes of ECC for a single 4k block are as reliable as 320 bytes of ECC for eight 512 byte blocks. See http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3691
Not sure what you're saying here. He wasn't comparing different peoples from the 1700s, but rather people from back then to today. Many things that were a tragedy back then are a nuisance today. For instance, I get the chance to have a useful and entertaining life because I get to wear glasses. OTOH, you seem to focus on the meaning of the word "harmony" (with nature, specifically). Certainly that's a very loaded term, and I think GPs point was that this harmony is often idealized, to the point that yes, it does mean easy and long and many other positive things to many people, ignoring the negative sides such as the lack of optometrists.
Yes, isn't it obvious? Colorful tank? Check. Black tube thingy? Check. Odd wires? Yep. Carrying belts? Yes! Clearly a plant.
http://www.ksplice.com/
Fair enough, didn't realize it's extensible using PCI cards.
High and increasing standards of living at a crippling and unsustainable cost and with a criminally unjust distribution of wealth. But it's great that you feel good about it. A stable government can't be a goal in itself; a stable cruel dictatorship might be preferable to an unstable cruel dictatorship, either way it's still a dictatorship. Political stability is particularly enticing when the stable status quo agrees with your own respective political affiliation.
Stable, all the way down the shitter!
Bonus points for using the phrase "it's simple maths" in your post.
Comes with 1 "monitor" output, which I assume means D-BUS. Not a very good solution. Not to mention driving more than one display, or running Linux. It is cheap though, I'll give you that.
Racing bikes with no gears, my biking-geek friends tell me.
(GP forgot the /wiki/ between the hostname and the article title.) I was about to write about how dumb it is that they don't simply redirect into the "subfolder" because I'm sure this happens all the time. Then I noticed that they do redirect. So now I'm going to complain that they don't auto-redirect for a capitalisation error like Tidal Locking vs. Tidal locking. ;)
Bullshit. From fittingly/where-else Wikipedia:
Likelihood of miscarriage drastically increases with the mother's age; the average age of mothers at childbirth has steadily increased in the past decades, although I was very surprised to see it's still at 25 in the US. So it's got fuck all to do with "bypassing natural selection".