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Countless other bits of more instantly forgotten crap.
Don't kid yourself, without a core the shell is just a shell.
I mean if this guy had made a pretty GUI in Flash you'd of been here posting "this is awesome!"? No, you wouldn't, you'd see it for the substance-less crap it is.
You've forgotten the massive amount of work that it's taken for your fancy visuals to come about, DECADES of work on ugly software.
And you guys don't half ask for the earth. Where would we be if when Linus had posted the Linux kernel everyone just went "This sucks. Why is there no GUI?".
The idea in Inferno is that your phone, your desktop, the cloud and your mate's computer are all the same file system space. You can copy data between all these devices, seamlessly, securely and quickly. "Data" is anything represented as a file, so that's music and documents, your phone's cpu, speaker and microphone, or even the applications your currently running on your desktop.
Plan9 and Inferno are about addressing networking and adding operating system support for it. The developers don't consider modern OS as networked. This is a project to make every computer attached to the network, as far as the user is concerned, the same computer, and the idea is to do it at the OS level, not the browser.
You want the yet to be programmed Inferno equivalent of Office on your phone? It's there. Not just as an installable application but that instance you have running on your desktop right now is also available to you on your phone via an exported file system either to stream over the network or you could just copy the running instance...
>>Your 100 MHz PC was also handling indexed-color pixels with no alpha blending
While that is true a 30Mhz ARM chip in an old Acorn runs a 1280x1024 screen and does full 32bit colour with alpha blending and anti aliased text. Also Quake.
I'd of used the 16Mhz one as an example, but that was actually a bit sluggish...
I really find the iPad crap. It's more than the cost of other tablets that give you full hackable desktop OS but most importantly it's got NO USB host! Even phones have USB host now! (Nokia N900 off the top of my head)
With USB host you can make your portable device do pretty much anything: want more storage? Add a pen drive, hell with a battery powered USB charger the N900 can run a laptop disk! Want a decent keyboard? Just plug in your desktop keyboard!
And I would of thought "Apple customers" would of wanted USB. Take photos with your fancy digital SLR camera, plug that into your tablet and upload them strait to your employer/local paper/flickr stream. The N900 can do that...
I've started indulging in a life long fantasy of writing and in my writing I've found it almost impossible to write on a (standard) computer. They have FAR too many distractions, even the option of being able to change you font size for me is a distraction ("oh, would it be easier to read on this screen in size 11, no, size 10 it is..."). To have something that you just sit at and fire your thoughts onto, complete with spelling mistakes, missing punctuation and shit sentences and paragraphs, is really liberating. It's what I was wanting to do all along, I didn't want to check spelling, I wanted to tell a story.
When writing I now use a Tandy WP-2 word processor, or "Electronic typewriter" as it's 1989 marketing called it. It cost me £12 (US£20). It's got a daylight reflective 8 by 80 character screen, runs for more than 24 hours on 4xAA batteries and stores around 70 pages with the 128Kb memory upgrade I got it. With it's 5Mhz Z80 processor all you can do with it is type. It works brilliantly, it's so slow that it actually cant insert text at the rate I can type. It drives me to write more and then only when the creative part is done, so it never interrupts, comes the boring part of the editing and spell checking on a full computer.
Before I remembered about the existence of devices like the WP-2 I was quite tempted by the idea of a type writer, with a scanner and OCR software it's not even hard to upload your work to a computer for editing. However on portability alone the A4 sized WP-2 wins, but just encase, I do own an Olivetti as well...
Microsoft claims the hardware acceleration will enhance the appearance and readability of fonts on the web, with sub-pixel positioning that eradicates the jagged edges on large typefaces.
So TWENTY years after Acorn added anti-aliasing that ran extremely quickly on a 16Mhz RISC computer Microsoft realise that they can do it too, only they require a Direct-X compatible graphics card...
Resolution was great...good enough to inspect x-rays and MRIs in detail.
Rubbish. I've worked in veterinary imaging and the common screen we installed for viewing X-Rays was a 22" wide screen that had a resolution in the region of 2500x1500 and was black and white. Speaking to a vet using it she said this was "ok" but having to zoom in and out was annoying. Last time I spoke to that company to save money (for the customer) they were starting using 23 and 30 inch Apple displays but the contrast and DPI "are a bit crap". So ether you don't know what your talking about or your hospital is a death trap.
You're going to need to burn fuel for the generators, heating, transport, etc.
I'd suggest using an unmanned station powered by a thermoelectric generator, there in use in the Antarctic circle for lighthouses already and are extremely reliable. Even if the station was manned thermoelectric generators would still be a good way to go, although they don't make *that* much energy they make plenty of excess heat to keep scientists alive.
As much as I would like to see that happen; history shows that whoever is best at marketing, wins.
Generally yes.
But among my geek friends we're pretty interested in the G1, if only because it's a phone that might actually let us do what we want. And this, well I want this now, I mean even with my current phone I can't backup texts or phone numbers without a Windows system and some Nokia applications. This thing looks like I could write a cron job to back up everything to my server over SSH nightly. I want, I'm going to tell my friends, and that's pretty good advertising...;-)
Local authorities in the UK defined 955,000 as potential terrorists and searched them under the stop and search laws in 06/07. As far as I see it it's the officers and officials that enforce those laws who decide the definition. I mean if they don't arrest/search someone then they've defined them as NOT a potential terrorist and if they search them under stop and search then they've HAVE defined them as a potential terrorist.
When 169 of those stop and searches were investigated 88% were found to be unfounded and when the definition of a terrorist/suspected individual in law so all encompassing I find it quite incredible that only 12% were founded. You know it almost sounds like they maybe getting creative with their interpretation of the definition...
Actually you'd be surprised. It's an excuse/problem I've heard from a couple of "noobs", their so scared of downloading things, after all the warnings and viruses they've gotten with windows that they really dont feel confident downloading an ISO and burning it on CD.
One friend of mine bought a Dell Ubuntu desktop as it was cheaper and she has XP on CD and just planned to wipe it. She used Ubuntu for about two or three months after she got off to a good start getting her broadband modem working and found Pidgin without any help. But eventually she needed fully compatible Power Point for her work so got her boyfriend to do the Windows install. He botched it (somehow:-S) and left the machine unbootable. She took this as a sign (Her technical boyfriend cant get windows working, but she can get Ubuntu to do anything she wants...) and decided she wanted Ubuntu back. She didn't have CDs and that's when she called me with "How do you get Ubuntu?" I thought that was a simple problem but explaining how to download and burn an ISO to her turned out to be beyond me. In the end I burnt her a disk and she been back using Ubuntu for the last 6 months.
On a side note she reckons it's far simpler, she can find her files now, feels far more secure and thanks to Synaptic shes happy to install new software...
Please, call her anything but that. She has next to no musical talent. She's just a model who got the idea into her head she can sing. Her songs are truly sleep inducing.
Well as much as I hate her politics I actually really like her first album, her second is crap and I've still to hear her third. "Quelqu'un m'a dit", "L'excessive" and "Raphaël" would be my favourites, especially the latter. No more sleep inducing than any other acoustic singer song writer type.
I'm posting this from a four year old Thinkpad T43, with 15" display, at 1400x1050.
I'm also posting for a T43 and the common models of our laptop had a 14.1" screen, which is even higher DPI (and what your probably running). I always thought that higher DPI was better for screens and this laptop has proven it for me, with sharper smother edges on fronts you read faster and more easily. When viewing images the extra sharpness is incredible compared to normal screens. I do all my browsing, writing and coding on this just because of the DPI.
Finding a new screen for myself is now quite a problem. Everything looks CRAP.
My desktop has a 20" Sun CRT that runs at 1600x1200 (Sony Trinitron tube) and it's colour is fantastic, it's really really good for gaming with. A 24" TFT is bigger but try running Baldurs Gate, which runs at 600x400, the rescaling artefacts would be terrible. Even my spare screen is a 19" 1600x1200 CRT, another Trinitron - it looks great but the extra inch is good when gaming, still I'd probably use this for the DPI if I did anything else on my desktop.
So when it comes to getting new screens I really don't know what I'm going to do. All desktop TFTs look crap. Compared to BOTH of my CRTs they are going to have crap DPI and rubbish colour, and artefacts when resizing resolution. And all for a little extra desk space, my desk is a 12 foot by 4 foot dining table so that's not something I'm exactly short of...
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I take photographs of white water kayaking. You need to keep moving down river so cant really use a tripod and normally need a fairly large zoom so this actually looks pretty useful if it helped you steady a big lens better...
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a cargo ship full of datacenters?
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And Ubuntu never paid much attention to testing, I ran it for six months before switching to Debian I had countless broken applications (who cares if it works, Ubuntu has it first!!!11one) and one MAJOR release problem.
Turns out the guy that packaged up X.org forgot to test it on anything other than his Intel GMA based laptop so he never noticed that it didn't work on any other graphics chip set, this apparently "wasn't a problem" though as they had a new version out 2 hours later.
Well after that I went to Debian because if they let bugs like that through who knows what else they'll break (say, my file system...). I have a clue about what I'm doing on my system so I actually find Debian easier to use, it doesn't automatically reconfigure anything, it's configs are all sane and most importantly things are tested.
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Users of stable can still get the kernel and keep the stable applications. This kernel should hit testing soon (if it hasn't all ready...) so you can get it from there!
First add testing repositories to/etc/apt/sources.list (copy the ones for stable and replace "lenny" or "stable" with "testing") then make a file called something like "20defaultrelease" in/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ and in that file add the line "APT::Default-Release "stable";" then update APT. Next run "apt-get install -t testing linux-image-2.6-686", reboot and bingo you'll be running the new kernel!
To be honest however I think its masochistic running stable on anything thats not a server, and pinning is a little messy to setup as you might have noticed... I've been running testing for over a year and everything has been perfect (well bar Audacious...) and I have got access to lots of packages stable doesn't have.
We're not even close to being able to have an AI that would be able to adapt to a new opponent with a new weapon system or form of motion.
Funny that didn't stop the class in my robotics course from making autonomous battle robots (from lego) even though we were forbidden to do so. We managed to make robots that could find each other (pan with an ultrasound distance sensor until something pops out) and fight (like sumo mainly) running their AI on Handy Boards (http://www.handyboard.com/) basically while the professor wasn't looking. So long as the tasks are clearly stated before people start developing I cant think why their should be a problem...
If your going to have a challenge why not make a real one?
This was commonly done in WWI during nerve gas attacks. With lack of gas masks, the best way to protect yourself was to breathe through a cloth soaked in ammonia. Piss being the easiest source of it.
Thankfully there was no such thing as nerve gas during ether world war. They used chlorine gas which dissolved in the moisture in the victims lungs to make hydrochloric acid which then dissolved their lungs.
Nerve gas however doesn't even need to be inhaled, it's absorbed through the skin where it overloads the nervous system and I don't actually know much about how it works other than that...
I'm not sure you have an acurate view of public transport...
It costs less than the cost of public transport. Maybe in the US but in the UK it's far cheaper. Insurance for me is about £500 (US$1000) a year alone.
Goes at exactly the time you want it to Most buses I get are every 10 or 15 minutes, we even have funky LED screens in the stops telling us how long it will be 'till the next bus. So not exactly but pretty close..
Allows you to take lots of luggage Just how much luggage do you need? I can easily carry all my university books and a weeks clothing...
Is often quicker (especially when companired to busses) Trains are much faster than cars, it takes 25 minutes to travel from Inverurie (my parents town) to Aberdeen (where I live) by train but 40 by car. And thanks to bus lanes and tracking devices in the buses that cause traffic lights to change for them buses are just as fast as cars, faster in traffic.
and goes from your house and travels very close to the location you want to be at. Fairly correct, although I can get a bus 10 minutes walk from my house to 10 minutes walk from any where I want to go, worst case. I have a bus stop a literally You don't have to stand or sit next to someone you don't want to I can't say I've ever had a problem with that... Maybe I'm not as stuck up as other people...
runs through the night. From 6-1 and then there are plenty taxis after that.
Public transport has advantages too: It's lots cheaper, I just had to say that again... You can't read a book or snooze while driving. You can't drive while drunk. You never need to worry about parking. You don't get stuck in traffic. Your saving the planet!
$9 more, NVidia graphics processor, Athlon 3200+, same 0-MB of RAM...
You'll need a heat sink. Avoid installing >1 DIMM. Does that qualify as 'close'?
This board doesn't compete with an Athlon 3200 on performance/cost, it does however blow it out the water on efficiency. I want a router/firewall box and having it running 24/7/365 means the electricity adds up and the Athlon ends up far more expensive. I don't have the exact figures but when I worked this out for my parents file server we found that it was cheaper over 2 years to swap their 2Ghz Durion that they already had (cost £0) for a MiniITX very similar to this (cost ~£120).
Basically if I could get one of these in the UK for ~£40 ($80) I'd buy it without a second though.
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>It thinks the 1024x600 screen is 800x600 and I googled and googled and tried fixes and no luck.
I think you might find that the graphics chip on that system can't do widescreen.
OS9 Vista Rebecca Black Countless other bits of more instantly forgotten crap. Don't kid yourself, without a core the shell is just a shell. I mean if this guy had made a pretty GUI in Flash you'd of been here posting "this is awesome!"? No, you wouldn't, you'd see it for the substance-less crap it is. You've forgotten the massive amount of work that it's taken for your fancy visuals to come about, DECADES of work on ugly software. And you guys don't half ask for the earth. Where would we be if when Linus had posted the Linux kernel everyone just went "This sucks. Why is there no GUI?".
Fuck fancy visuals.
The idea in Inferno is that your phone, your desktop, the cloud and your mate's computer are all the same file system space. You can copy data between all these devices, seamlessly, securely and quickly. "Data" is anything represented as a file, so that's music and documents, your phone's cpu, speaker and microphone, or even the applications your currently running on your desktop.
Plan9 and Inferno are about addressing networking and adding operating system support for it. The developers don't consider modern OS as networked. This is a project to make every computer attached to the network, as far as the user is concerned, the same computer, and the idea is to do it at the OS level, not the browser.
You want the yet to be programmed Inferno equivalent of Office on your phone? It's there. Not just as an installable application but that instance you have running on your desktop right now is also available to you on your phone via an exported file system either to stream over the network or you could just copy the running instance...
Fuck fancy visuals.
>>Your 100 MHz PC was also handling indexed-color pixels with no alpha blending
While that is true a 30Mhz ARM chip in an old Acorn runs a 1280x1024 screen and does full 32bit colour with alpha blending and anti aliased text. Also Quake.
I'd of used the 16Mhz one as an example, but that was actually a bit sluggish...
I really find the iPad crap. It's more than the cost of other tablets that give you full hackable desktop OS but most importantly it's got NO USB host! Even phones have USB host now! (Nokia N900 off the top of my head)
With USB host you can make your portable device do pretty much anything: want more storage? Add a pen drive, hell with a battery powered USB charger the N900 can run a laptop disk! Want a decent keyboard? Just plug in your desktop keyboard!
And I would of thought "Apple customers" would of wanted USB. Take photos with your fancy digital SLR camera, plug that into your tablet and upload them strait to your employer/local paper/flickr stream. The N900 can do that...
I've started indulging in a life long fantasy of writing and in my writing I've found it almost impossible to write on a (standard) computer. They have FAR too many distractions, even the option of being able to change you font size for me is a distraction ("oh, would it be easier to read on this screen in size 11, no, size 10 it is..."). To have something that you just sit at and fire your thoughts onto, complete with spelling mistakes, missing punctuation and shit sentences and paragraphs, is really liberating. It's what I was wanting to do all along, I didn't want to check spelling, I wanted to tell a story.
When writing I now use a Tandy WP-2 word processor, or "Electronic typewriter" as it's 1989 marketing called it. It cost me £12 (US£20). It's got a daylight reflective 8 by 80 character screen, runs for more than 24 hours on 4xAA batteries and stores around 70 pages with the 128Kb memory upgrade I got it. With it's 5Mhz Z80 processor all you can do with it is type. It works brilliantly, it's so slow that it actually cant insert text at the rate I can type. It drives me to write more and then only when the creative part is done, so it never interrupts, comes the boring part of the editing and spell checking on a full computer.
Before I remembered about the existence of devices like the WP-2 I was quite tempted by the idea of a type writer, with a scanner and OCR software it's not even hard to upload your work to a computer for editing. However on portability alone the A4 sized WP-2 wins, but just encase, I do own an Olivetti as well...
Microsoft claims the hardware acceleration will enhance the appearance and readability of fonts on the web, with sub-pixel positioning that eradicates the jagged edges on large typefaces.
So TWENTY years after Acorn added anti-aliasing that ran extremely quickly on a 16Mhz RISC computer Microsoft realise that they can do it too, only they require a Direct-X compatible graphics card...
Yay for innovation...
Resolution was great...good enough to inspect x-rays and MRIs in detail.
Rubbish. I've worked in veterinary imaging and the common screen we installed for viewing X-Rays was a 22" wide screen that had a resolution in the region of 2500x1500 and was black and white. Speaking to a vet using it she said this was "ok" but having to zoom in and out was annoying. Last time I spoke to that company to save money (for the customer) they were starting using 23 and 30 inch Apple displays but the contrast and DPI "are a bit crap". So ether you don't know what your talking about or your hospital is a death trap.
You're going to need to burn fuel for the generators, heating, transport, etc.
I'd suggest using an unmanned station powered by a thermoelectric generator, there in use in the Antarctic circle for lighthouses already and are extremely reliable. Even if the station was manned thermoelectric generators would still be a good way to go, although they don't make *that* much energy they make plenty of excess heat to keep scientists alive.
Why is this news for nerds?
Wait, you can read Slashdot comments sober?
As much as I would like to see that happen; history shows that whoever is best at marketing, wins.
;-)
Generally yes.
But among my geek friends we're pretty interested in the G1, if only because it's a phone that might actually let us do what we want. And this, well I want this now, I mean even with my current phone I can't backup texts or phone numbers without a Windows system and some Nokia applications. This thing looks like I could write a cron job to back up everything to my server over SSH nightly. I want, I'm going to tell my friends, and that's pretty good advertising...
Unfortunately for the astronauts they'd be far more efficient if they lived on insects and fungus. Not very glamorous but far more efficient...
The definition is not "up to the authorities".
Local authorities in the UK defined 955,000 as potential terrorists and searched them under the stop and search laws in 06/07. As far as I see it it's the officers and officials that enforce those laws who decide the definition. I mean if they don't arrest/search someone then they've defined them as NOT a potential terrorist and if they search them under stop and search then they've HAVE defined them as a potential terrorist.
When 169 of those stop and searches were investigated 88% were found to be unfounded and when the definition of a terrorist/suspected individual in law so all encompassing I find it quite incredible that only 12% were founded. You know it almost sounds like they maybe getting creative with their interpretation of the definition...
I got my stats from here:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/steep-rise-in-stop-and-search-complaints-941727.html
Actually you'd be surprised. It's an excuse/problem I've heard from a couple of "noobs", their so scared of downloading things, after all the warnings and viruses they've gotten with windows that they really dont feel confident downloading an ISO and burning it on CD.
:-S) and left the machine unbootable. She took this as a sign (Her technical boyfriend cant get windows working, but she can get Ubuntu to do anything she wants...) and decided she wanted Ubuntu back. She didn't have CDs and that's when she called me with "How do you get Ubuntu?" I thought that was a simple problem but explaining how to download and burn an ISO to her turned out to be beyond me. In the end I burnt her a disk and she been back using Ubuntu for the last 6 months.
One friend of mine bought a Dell Ubuntu desktop as it was cheaper and she has XP on CD and just planned to wipe it. She used Ubuntu for about two or three months after she got off to a good start getting her broadband modem working and found Pidgin without any help. But eventually she needed fully compatible Power Point for her work so got her boyfriend to do the Windows install. He botched it (somehow
On a side note she reckons it's far simpler, she can find her files now, feels far more secure and thanks to Synaptic shes happy to install new software...
Please, call her anything but that. She has next to no musical talent.
She's just a model who got the idea into her head she can sing. Her songs are truly sleep inducing.
Well as much as I hate her politics I actually really like her first album, her second is crap and I've still to hear her third. "Quelqu'un m'a dit", "L'excessive" and "Raphaël" would be my favourites, especially the latter. No more sleep inducing than any other acoustic singer song writer type.
I'm posting this from a four year old Thinkpad T43, with 15" display, at 1400x1050.
I'm also posting for a T43 and the common models of our laptop had a 14.1" screen, which is even higher DPI (and what your probably running). I always thought that higher DPI was better for screens and this laptop has proven it for me, with sharper smother edges on fronts you read faster and more easily. When viewing images the extra sharpness is incredible compared to normal screens. I do all my browsing, writing and coding on this just because of the DPI.
Finding a new screen for myself is now quite a problem. Everything looks CRAP.
My desktop has a 20" Sun CRT that runs at 1600x1200 (Sony Trinitron tube) and it's colour is fantastic, it's really really good for gaming with. A 24" TFT is bigger but try running Baldurs Gate, which runs at 600x400, the rescaling artefacts would be terrible. Even my spare screen is a 19" 1600x1200 CRT, another Trinitron - it looks great but the extra inch is good when gaming, still I'd probably use this for the DPI if I did anything else on my desktop.
So when it comes to getting new screens I really don't know what I'm going to do. All desktop TFTs look crap. Compared to BOTH of my CRTs they are going to have crap DPI and rubbish colour, and artefacts when resizing resolution. And all for a little extra desk space, my desk is a 12 foot by 4 foot dining table so that's not something I'm exactly short of...
I take photographs of white water kayaking. You need to keep moving down river so cant really use a tripod and normally need a fairly large zoom so this actually looks pretty useful if it helped you steady a big lens better...
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a cargo ship full of datacenters?
And Ubuntu never paid much attention to testing, I ran it for six months before switching to Debian I had countless broken applications (who cares if it works, Ubuntu has it first!!!11one) and one MAJOR release problem.
Turns out the guy that packaged up X.org forgot to test it on anything other than his Intel GMA based laptop so he never noticed that it didn't work on any other graphics chip set, this apparently "wasn't a problem" though as they had a new version out 2 hours later.
Well after that I went to Debian because if they let bugs like that through who knows what else they'll break (say, my file system...). I have a clue about what I'm doing on my system so I actually find Debian easier to use, it doesn't automatically reconfigure anything, it's configs are all sane and most importantly things are tested.
Users of stable can still get the kernel and keep the stable applications. This kernel should hit testing soon (if it hasn't all ready...) so you can get it from there!
/etc/apt/sources.list (copy the ones for stable and replace "lenny" or "stable" with "testing") then make a file called something like "20defaultrelease" in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ and in that file add the line "APT::Default-Release "stable";" then update APT. Next run "apt-get install -t testing linux-image-2.6-686", reboot and bingo you'll be running the new kernel!
First add testing repositories to
To be honest however I think its masochistic running stable on anything thats not a server, and pinning is a little messy to setup as you might have noticed... I've been running testing for over a year and everything has been perfect (well bar Audacious...) and I have got access to lots of packages stable doesn't have.
We're not even close to being able to have an AI that would be able to adapt to a new opponent with a new weapon system or form of motion.
Funny that didn't stop the class in my robotics course from making autonomous battle robots (from lego) even though we were forbidden to do so. We managed to make robots that could find each other (pan with an ultrasound distance sensor until something pops out) and fight (like sumo mainly) running their AI on Handy Boards (http://www.handyboard.com/) basically while the professor wasn't looking. So long as the tasks are clearly stated before people start developing I cant think why their should be a problem...
If your going to have a challenge why not make a real one?
I always thought the trick was to sell your soul to the devil then die...
This was commonly done in WWI during nerve gas attacks. With lack of gas masks, the best way to protect yourself was to breathe through a cloth soaked in ammonia. Piss being the easiest source of it.
Thankfully there was no such thing as nerve gas during ether world war. They used chlorine gas which dissolved in the moisture in the victims lungs to make hydrochloric acid which then dissolved their lungs.
Nerve gas however doesn't even need to be inhaled, it's absorbed through the skin where it overloads the nervous system and I don't actually know much about how it works other than that...
I'm not sure you have an acurate view of public transport...
It costs less than the cost of public transport.
Maybe in the US but in the UK it's far cheaper. Insurance for me is about £500 (US$1000) a year alone.
Goes at exactly the time you want it to
Most buses I get are every 10 or 15 minutes, we even have funky LED screens in the stops telling us how long it will be 'till the next bus. So not exactly but pretty close..
Allows you to take lots of luggage
Just how much luggage do you need? I can easily carry all my university books and a weeks clothing...
Is often quicker (especially when companired to busses)
Trains are much faster than cars, it takes 25 minutes to travel from Inverurie (my parents town) to Aberdeen (where I live) by train but 40 by car. And thanks to bus lanes and tracking devices in the buses that cause traffic lights to change for them buses are just as fast as cars, faster in traffic.
and goes from your house and travels very close to the location you want to be at.
Fairly correct, although I can get a bus 10 minutes walk from my house to 10 minutes walk from any where I want to go, worst case. I have a bus stop a literally You don't have to stand or sit next to someone you don't want to
I can't say I've ever had a problem with that... Maybe I'm not as stuck up as other people...
runs through the night.
From 6-1 and then there are plenty taxis after that.
Public transport has advantages too:
It's lots cheaper, I just had to say that again...
You can't read a book or snooze while driving.
You can't drive while drunk.
You never need to worry about parking.
You don't get stuck in traffic.
Your saving the planet!
$9 more, NVidia graphics processor, Athlon 3200+, same 0-MB of RAM...
You'll need a heat sink. Avoid installing >1 DIMM. Does that qualify as 'close'?
This board doesn't compete with an Athlon 3200 on performance/cost, it does however blow it out the water on efficiency. I want a router/firewall box and having it running 24/7/365 means the electricity adds up and the Athlon ends up far more expensive. I don't have the exact figures but when I worked this out for my parents file server we found that it was cheaper over 2 years to swap their 2Ghz Durion that they already had (cost £0) for a MiniITX very similar to this (cost ~£120).
Basically if I could get one of these in the UK for ~£40 ($80) I'd buy it without a second though.