I think its always been more popular on the west coast especially in the SFO Bay Area and Seattle. Lots of Web media is based there and caters to their own tastes. If you have Japanese schoolmates/neighbors/business associates you're more likely to develop an affinity for the culture. If you live someplace that someone would actually come out and ask you WHY you're reading a Japanese comic book, then there probably is minimal exposure to the culture. As for the geek link, Comic/SF/Gaming conventions have always been a social gathering for nerds and Japanese media is a fixture there. Anime clubs that import and subtitle shows tend to be full of nerdy types. Etc...
You're lucky, my m9700 never really worked at all with the proprietary driver. ATi seemed to go out of their way to break support for mobile chips under windows so I wasn't really surprised that the Linux proprietary drivers were fubar. But the open diver was fine as long as I stuck to non 3D stuff.
Now that AMD has depreciated support for x1950 and earlier I hoping they'll open up the drivers for community support. Not gonna hold my breath though.
On the other hand, the desktop 4850 has worked pretty well with proprietary drivers. At least as well as the GF6800GT that came before it. Driver install was point and click too. I was amazed.
It was around 1997-98 and I just downloaded a version of slackware on floppy to mess around with. Boot, Root, and a bunch of other disk images. I had worked with unix and xenix so it wasn't alien to me. I seem to recall driving around trying to find a PCI based 56K hardware modem around that time and finding none.
A couple of years later I looked at many of the distros that were being given away on CD. I put a Redhat box on dialup duty first off, and had it route a simple LAN on a cheap 10Mb hub and even acted as a firewall. I remember trying Mandrake but wasn't much interested in a desktop linux box. Gaming required a Windows98 box and later Win2k and later still WinXP and my work box went from WinNT4 to Windows2000 to WinServer2003.
Today I try to keep an 12GB Ubuntu install on anything with Windows and internet access. It's just too useful to not do it and IMO stupid not to. A lot of my stuff in the background is Linux (HTPC and servers). I spend about a third of my time on the Ubuntu side now that it's got semi-proper support for videocards and most filetypes. However, I like to set most of my machines to suspend to memory and that often determines what I run when I sit down at them...
Like everything, knowledge evolves. Much of what we celebrate as science started from a Greek philosopher, Taoist alchemist, Moorish mathematician, or Jesuit priest that saw something useful and recorded their findings for later generations to improve upon. Our greatest minds will do the same and the idiot dogmatists of the future will scoff at our limited view of reality (while they seek to maintain their own) and the brilliant minds will forgive them, improve upon them, and record their own discoveries.
There's also been a huge increase in carpenter bees (the black butt bumblebees w/o stingers). Not so good for clover but they do the job for indig plants.
He did say to call him old.:) There is a feel of frivolity about a lot of linux naming conventions that I could do without. The whole "Adjective Animal" thing is useless to me as a mnemonic. Ubuntu 9.04.x64-desktop is what I'm looking for.
On the ATi side there are 2 driver paths to follow. The Open drivers are usually installed by default, but are meant to support 3D only on older radeons (pre-PS like the 9200 and 8xxx, 7xxx). For newer radeon 3D support, the proprietary drivers need to be used. They seem to work OK with most newer cards and can be easily installed through a package manager usually.
Most of the complaints I see stated about NVidia and Intel "bugs" are similar in frequency with those leveled at AMD. My radeon 4870 works with the proprietary driver. Games work. Compiz has a problem with causing video to flicker when it is enabled. I have some minor issues with dual monitor support. No show stoppers though.
The main issue between AMD, NV, and Intel, is that the Intel drivers are Open Source and the others aren't. But AMD at least Opens the code for the old stuff, or so they say. Now I hear they just depreciated support for a bunch of radeons (anything pre-X2000) that so many people still use, so it will be interesting to see how long it takes for the specs of those cards to make it to the Open Driver devs.
There was an SR-71 (and the YF-16) at the Carswell AFB Airshow in 1975 or 1976. It was still secret enough at that point that the output of the engines and true top speed was still classified, but everyone knew what it looked like and it's speed record was posted in Guiness at the time. They had an armed guard and a velvet rope to keep people from getting too close or going around behind the plane, I think. I was told at the time that the skin of the plane was very thin and could be damaged easily, but I'm pretty sure that was just a story so the airman wouldn't have to point his Ar-15 at 9 year olds. They had a rope around the YF-16 as well, but it was sittig out on the tarmac, the SR71 was half in a hangar. My elementary school was 1-2 miles southwest of the end of the runway and the blackbird left the base while we were at recess. Pretty much straight up like a rocket. The only other plane that could climb like that then was the F-15 I think and I never saw one go balistic like that. One of those cool things you remember from childhood anyways. Most badass looking plane ever.
I've always hoped that most corporate fanboys are actually financially motivated (employees, stockholders, resellers, and paid shills) and feared that they were just dumbasses.
Oh yes, it was definitely an task driven "appliance" designed to be a tertiary way of getting computer work done with a very long battery life being the goal (the 720 got 9 hours while the later 728 got a few hours more). There were significant enforced hardware limitations that affected what could and couldn't be done and by the time the 720 came out (the line started in the mid-late '90s) it could have been much more than it was. But it got the job done and the wince versions of word, excel, etc... had no learning curve that I noticed. It really wasn't marketed as a PC, more as a Palm with a bigger touchscreen, a keyboard and MS-PC like "enhancements". Despite MS endorsement there was limited support by 3rd party developers. Programs had to be written for WinCE and given the limited hardware(32MB memory and 64MB storage + CF Cards of =1GB), the then popular apps (office 97/2000), anything loading from a cd, would never fit on it anyways.
I'm not advocating WinCE, as it existed then, as a recommended platform today. There were a host of craptacular problems with the system, mostly centered on the whole thing being based around a ROM chip, as per Microsoft commandment. I don't know what support would have been like if MS had allowed an updatable OS, more memory and storage on microdrives. But they chose not to. I've since moved on to clunkier x86 ultraportables running Linux and WinNT derivatives. But if someone builds an modern ARM based netbook with a HHPC's formfactor on Linux for the price of a cheap windows laptop ($700), I will buy one. I can VNC into a windows box.
Do we have the ability to measure and the records to compare Venus' annual temperature? Wouldn't it provide a stable base line to compare our own planet's temperature against? It's just a thought and I'm sure someone has tried it, but I've never heard it mentioned. Venus seems like it would be a great indicator of planetary warming due to solar variance.
Slashdot Mirror
That I did, but I added the -Duo out of habit. No matter, your way works. thx.
For a new PC, yes. A ULV-Core2Duo @ 600-800MHz is going to run as fast as a 1.6Atom. Getting DIMMs in 1GB increments is dirt cheap.
I think its always been more popular on the west coast especially in the SFO Bay Area and Seattle. Lots of Web media is based there and caters to their own tastes. If you have Japanese schoolmates/neighbors/business associates you're more likely to develop an affinity for the culture. If you live someplace that someone would actually come out and ask you WHY you're reading a Japanese comic book, then there probably is minimal exposure to the culture. As for the geek link, Comic/SF/Gaming conventions have always been a social gathering for nerds and Japanese media is a fixture there. Anime clubs that import and subtitle shows tend to be full of nerdy types. Etc...
Would that prevent a future "video response" wave of Soldjaboy dancer videos? Rickrolls? Videoblog screeds? AMVs?
Lessig would be sad, but not me.
Dammit...
You would have to have a 5 digit UID to be that evil. At best your're an acolyte of AOL.
You're lucky, my m9700 never really worked at all with the proprietary driver. ATi seemed to go out of their way to break support for mobile chips under windows so I wasn't really surprised that the Linux proprietary drivers were fubar. But the open diver was fine as long as I stuck to non 3D stuff.
Now that AMD has depreciated support for x1950 and earlier I hoping they'll open up the drivers for community support. Not gonna hold my breath though.
On the other hand, the desktop 4850 has worked pretty well with proprietary drivers. At least as well as the GF6800GT that came before it. Driver install was point and click too. I was amazed.
ditto
"I deeply and truly don't want to believe people are that stupid and panicky"
Agent K always speaks the truth.
131 never forget http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=131&r=f
AMD didn't add AMD-VT until they made the change to AM2/DDR2 based systems. There are no 939 CPUs with AMD-VT.
Not quite, there are a lot of Core2Duo and some C2Quad chips that don't support intelVT. Intel seems to offer it as "a cherry on top" feature.
It was around 1997-98 and I just downloaded a version of slackware on floppy to mess around with. Boot, Root, and a bunch of other disk images. I had worked with unix and xenix so it wasn't alien to me. I seem to recall driving around trying to find a PCI based 56K hardware modem around that time and finding none.
A couple of years later I looked at many of the distros that were being given away on CD. I put a Redhat box on dialup duty first off, and had it route a simple LAN on a cheap 10Mb hub and even acted as a firewall. I remember trying Mandrake but wasn't much interested in a desktop linux box. Gaming required a Windows98 box and later Win2k and later still WinXP and my work box went from WinNT4 to Windows2000 to WinServer2003.
Today I try to keep an 12GB Ubuntu install on anything with Windows and internet access. It's just too useful to not do it and IMO stupid not to. A lot of my stuff in the background is Linux (HTPC and servers). I spend about a third of my time on the Ubuntu side now that it's got semi-proper support for videocards and most filetypes. However, I like to set most of my machines to suspend to memory and that often determines what I run when I sit down at them...
Like everything, knowledge evolves. Much of what we celebrate as science started from a Greek philosopher, Taoist alchemist, Moorish mathematician, or Jesuit priest that saw something useful and recorded their findings for later generations to improve upon. Our greatest minds will do the same and the idiot dogmatists of the future will scoff at our limited view of reality (while they seek to maintain their own) and the brilliant minds will forgive them, improve upon them, and record their own discoveries.
There's also been a huge increase in carpenter bees (the black butt bumblebees w/o stingers). Not so good for clover but they do the job for indig plants.
I'm modding you down because Lewis makes me feel inadequate.
He did say to call him old. :) There is a feel of frivolity about a lot of linux naming conventions that I could do without. The whole "Adjective Animal" thing is useless to me as a mnemonic. Ubuntu 9.04.x64-desktop is what I'm looking for.
On the ATi side there are 2 driver paths to follow. The Open drivers are usually installed by default, but are meant to support 3D only on older radeons (pre-PS like the 9200 and 8xxx, 7xxx). For newer radeon 3D support, the proprietary drivers need to be used. They seem to work OK with most newer cards and can be easily installed through a package manager usually.
Most of the complaints I see stated about NVidia and Intel "bugs" are similar in frequency with those leveled at AMD. My radeon 4870 works with the proprietary driver. Games work. Compiz has a problem with causing video to flicker when it is enabled. I have some minor issues with dual monitor support. No show stoppers though.
The main issue between AMD, NV, and Intel, is that the Intel drivers are Open Source and the others aren't. But AMD at least Opens the code for the old stuff, or so they say. Now I hear they just depreciated support for a bunch of radeons (anything pre-X2000) that so many people still use, so it will be interesting to see how long it takes for the specs of those cards to make it to the Open Driver devs.
Foxie, but good.
apologies to RW.
"mazda only started reskinning ford models when ford bought shares in mazda."
Hasn't Mazda been a part of Ford since the 1970s?
I what you mean. :)
Your not getting old, this is an older than you media bumrush. This is voluntary spam. How can they lose?
There was an SR-71 (and the YF-16) at the Carswell AFB Airshow in 1975 or 1976. It was still secret enough at that point that the output of the engines and true top speed was still classified, but everyone knew what it looked like and it's speed record was posted in Guiness at the time. They had an armed guard and a velvet rope to keep people from getting too close or going around behind the plane, I think. I was told at the time that the skin of the plane was very thin and could be damaged easily, but I'm pretty sure that was just a story so the airman wouldn't have to point his Ar-15 at 9 year olds. They had a rope around the YF-16 as well, but it was sittig out on the tarmac, the SR71 was half in a hangar. My elementary school was 1-2 miles southwest of the end of the runway and the blackbird left the base while we were at recess. Pretty much straight up like a rocket. The only other plane that could climb like that then was the F-15 I think and I never saw one go balistic like that. One of those cool things you remember from childhood anyways. Most badass looking plane ever.
I've always hoped that most corporate fanboys are actually financially motivated (employees, stockholders, resellers, and paid shills) and feared that they were just dumbasses.
Oh yes, it was definitely an task driven "appliance" designed to be a tertiary way of getting computer work done with a very long battery life being the goal (the 720 got 9 hours while the later 728 got a few hours more). There were significant enforced hardware limitations that affected what could and couldn't be done and by the time the 720 came out (the line started in the mid-late '90s) it could have been much more than it was. But it got the job done and the wince versions of word, excel, etc... had no learning curve that I noticed. It really wasn't marketed as a PC, more as a Palm with a bigger touchscreen, a keyboard and MS-PC like "enhancements". Despite MS endorsement there was limited support by 3rd party developers. Programs had to be written for WinCE and given the limited hardware(32MB memory and 64MB storage + CF Cards of =1GB), the then popular apps (office 97/2000), anything loading from a cd, would never fit on it anyways.
I'm not advocating WinCE, as it existed then, as a recommended platform today. There were a host of craptacular problems with the system, mostly centered on the whole thing being based around a ROM chip, as per Microsoft commandment. I don't know what support would have been like if MS had allowed an updatable OS, more memory and storage on microdrives. But they chose not to. I've since moved on to clunkier x86 ultraportables running Linux and WinNT derivatives. But if someone builds an modern ARM based netbook with a HHPC's formfactor on Linux for the price of a cheap windows laptop ($700), I will buy one. I can VNC into a windows box.
Do we have the ability to measure and the records to compare Venus' annual temperature? Wouldn't it provide a stable base line to compare our own planet's temperature against? It's just a thought and I'm sure someone has tried it, but I've never heard it mentioned. Venus seems like it would be a great indicator of planetary warming due to solar variance.