All models retain the "Bambi-On-Ice" TrackPoint. Talk about legacy computing. I know people who have been so inurred to this device that they'll shove aside a mouse or forsake the also-installed-trackpad on some of these to a point-stop-click dance or a two handed (RH point, LH click) dance. Yikes.
I quite like the TrackPoint. You put your finger on it and push it in the direction you want to go, not like a pad where you put your finger on it and drag and drag and drag and drag.
This parameter was introduced with 2.6 and it's useful for laptops where a lower value will mean it swaps less. This parameter could be used for a distribution's event scripts that will change the value when, for example, the user unplugs their laptop from AC.
The idea is the users's battery life is extended slightly without them realising how.
It's used so you can tune how much RAM is used for running applications and how much is used for caches. If your running a server you probably dont want an unused program taking up your ram, so set the swappiness high (70) and have the system swap it out leaving more RAM to cache information from the disk. If your running a desktop however you want to keep your applications in RAM so you can quickly switch between them and keep them responsive, so set your swappiness low (30).
Nothing about battery life, all about plain old performance.;-)
but then not everyone is familiar with baseball terminology from which you derived "BullPen".
Ok I've stopped laughing now. I thought this guy was making a joke about trolls/user politics on wikis, saying it was like a pen of bulls, like at a market, they can be pretty rough with big animals bashing into eachother.
Mac OS was not the first OS to support anti-aliased fonts - Acorn's RISC OS pre-dated it, for one. He then told me that Apple were 'the first to make it mainstream'.
In the mid 90s Acorns were more mainstream than Apples in the UK thanks to their heavy usage in Education. My first programing was done in BASIC on an Acorn in '98, come 2000 those labs had been swapped for PCs.
PCs where what most people had, Acorns were those ones from school and Apples we're weird graphics computers that no one in their right mind used unless they were some DTP guru.
That's changed now, almost every ones forgotten Acorn and Apples are the pretty computers from TV....
We used to have a mandatory class on assembly too. Granted, its somewhat useless as a programming language in real life, but it still helps teach alot about what's going on at the low, low level.
I found the same thing with my computing course at college, but found that they hadn't stopped the Assembly module they'd only switched it to one of their Electronics courses. It seems if you want technical low level computing stuff you need to do electronics these days. (Or go to university, which I'm doing now and getting all the low level 'fun').
Maybe Spore is just doomed to repeat the failures of SimCity and The Sims;) Or maybe we have a very narrow-minded stereotype of what actually makes a game compelling.
Maybe it's just that my sarcasm detector isn't on but The Sims is by far the best selling computer game of all time...
Instead, I have to use exactly "W 125th St & Broadway", instead of searching for any of "125St at Broadway" or "W125 and Broadway" etc, even though those styles all refer to the same intersection.
Have you tried searching with zip codes (I think thats what you call them)? In the UK searching google maps with a post code always takes you real close to where you want to go.
I would disagree. What about enlightenment, fluxbox, openbox?
Linux is far more than some funky desktops (I love Enlightenment!).
Being a true multiuser OS is one feature Windows can't manage. Good file systems are another thing, journalisation and no fragmentation. A nice console, FUSE, Zen, LVM, iptables, and udev rules are also nice linux only features. And Windows doesn't use MIME info for discerning file formats.... Lot's of features!:-D
Plus it works under linux, which is more than you can say for the low-quality wmv and rm that seems to be the "industry standard" now.
Mplayer will play any format you throw at it (like mkv and other weird stuff as well as wmv and rm), the only thing I have problems with is Quicktime subtitles.
we have hundreds of thousands of socially mal-adjusted virgins at our fingertips i say we pool respources and attack microsft this weekend unless they have a whole bunch of females stockpiled at the microsft campus nothing can stop us!
Thats a win-win situation! Hurry, we have nothing to lose but our virginity!!
if you're just talking about normal (binary) system updates, one of the big reliefs for me about switching to Linux was that updates are so much less painful.
Don't forget that if you do a Windows update all your updating is Windows. If I tell Portage to update my linux system I'll get everything from kernel security patches to the latest versions of the Unreal Tournament mods I have installed, makes life much easier.
've got some friends in the medical industry, and it's seriously bloated financially - this is probably the same hardware that costs $100,000, but without the label on it.
I build ultrasound scanners that are designed for use on animals and I'll vouch for this. One of our products is a pair of VR goggles which you view your scanned image on (So you don't need to carry a screen round a farm yard). We buy these goggles for £100 do 30 minutes work on them and sell them for £700.
It's extortionate but our market is small, we sell about 150 of these goggles a year. We couldn't continue to function, never mind develop new products if we didn't charge these prices.
BitTorrent is able to distribute identical files among many users fast (and scales well even with HUGE user bases).
Lost Season 1 Episodes 1-25, 8.8Gb in size, 399 seeders (people who have it), 5784 peers (people who are getting it). I'm normally getting about 35Kb/s.
I also gave up and went for a Mac for exactly the same reason. It's unacceptable that in 2005 a Linux distribution (FC3, in my case) doesn't recognize a three-button+wheel USB mouse out-of-box or that setting up a TV card requires you to edit some config-files by hand.
"OMG!! SOMETHING I GOT FOR FREE DOESNT DO EVERYTHING 100% PERFECTLY!!! I MUST BITCH ABOUT IT!!!""
Why don't you write the code to do this yourself, it's all GPL.
But they're enough to make me totally drop the notion of buying a Mac Mini instead of a mini-ITX box.
I own an Epia M10000 (1Ghz) and on a good day it feels like it's about a 700Mhz P3, on a bad day (when you actualy have it think about something) it's more like 500Mhz.
In exactly the same boat I'd never try and play a beat 'em up on a PC, I remember Tekken 3 in a Playstation 1 emulator and keyboards just aren't joy pads.
However people will still try and argue apples are better than oranges...
$199 doesn't impress me with slow specs and no storage.
Does it let me browse the Internet? Yes. Does it run linux? Yes. Does it have a good battery life? Yes. Is it cheap? Yes. Is it portable? Yes. Do 1Gb USB keys cost next to nothing? Yes.
I'd snatch one up at the first chance I got.
My AthlonXP 1700 desktop is 84% idle with a load average of 0.36 0.39 0.40, I dont think I'd have a problem if this thing was 100-200Mhz to be honest. Oh, I'm currently running Overnet (edonkey2k), Konqueror, XMMS playing MP3s, Abiword, Firefox, Eterm, a transparent xdaliclock, and Enlightenment 16 with lots of eye candy turned on.
If you read the interview you would of read that Brinkmann seems to think it's pretty trivial to make a "Linux driver server" and just use any Linux driver.
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Oh I'm sure Emacs will have a function that can move your keys around.
All models retain the "Bambi-On-Ice" TrackPoint. Talk about legacy computing. I know people who have been so inurred to this device that they'll shove aside a mouse or forsake the also-installed-trackpad on some of these to a point-stop-click dance or a two handed (RH point, LH click) dance. Yikes.
I quite like the TrackPoint. You put your finger on it and push it in the direction you want to go, not like a pad where you put your finger on it and drag and drag and drag and drag.
This parameter was introduced with 2.6 and it's useful for laptops where a lower value will mean it swaps less. This parameter could be used for a distribution's event scripts that will change the value when, for example, the user unplugs their laptop from AC.
;-)
The idea is the users's battery life is extended slightly without them realising how.
It's used so you can tune how much RAM is used for running applications and how much is used for caches. If your running a server you probably dont want an unused program taking up your ram, so set the swappiness high (70) and have the system swap it out leaving more RAM to cache information from the disk. If your running a desktop however you want to keep your applications in RAM so you can quickly switch between them and keep them responsive, so set your swappiness low (30).
Nothing about battery life, all about plain old performance.
UK and US shares one wiki, the english.
Us Scots have our own wiki at http://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page, and we're part of the UK.
but then not everyone is familiar with baseball terminology from which you derived "BullPen".
Ok I've stopped laughing now. I thought this guy was making a joke about trolls/user politics on wikis, saying it was like a pen of bulls, like at a market, they can be pretty rough with big animals bashing into eachother.
I'm from rural Scotland.
Mac OS was not the first OS to support anti-aliased fonts - Acorn's RISC OS pre-dated it, for one. He then told me that Apple were 'the first to make it mainstream'.
In the mid 90s Acorns were more mainstream than Apples in the UK thanks to their heavy usage in Education. My first programing was done in BASIC on an Acorn in '98, come 2000 those labs had been swapped for PCs.
PCs where what most people had, Acorns were those ones from school and Apples we're weird graphics computers that no one in their right mind used unless they were some DTP guru.
That's changed now, almost every ones forgotten Acorn and Apples are the pretty computers from TV....
We used to have a mandatory class on assembly too. Granted, its somewhat useless as a programming language in real life, but it still helps teach alot about what's going on at the low, low level.
I found the same thing with my computing course at college, but found that they hadn't stopped the Assembly module they'd only switched it to one of their Electronics courses. It seems if you want technical low level computing stuff you need to do electronics these days. (Or go to university, which I'm doing now and getting all the low level 'fun').
Maybe Spore is just doomed to repeat the failures of SimCity and The Sims ;) Or maybe we have a very narrow-minded stereotype of what actually makes a game compelling.
Maybe it's just that my sarcasm detector isn't on but The Sims is by far the best selling computer game of all time...
Instead, I have to use exactly "W 125th St & Broadway", instead of searching for any of "125St at Broadway" or "W125 and Broadway" etc, even though those styles all refer to the same intersection.
Have you tried searching with zip codes (I think thats what you call them)? In the UK searching google maps with a post code always takes you real close to where you want to go.
they would have to prove that there is some sort of huge source of energy external to the Earth.
Something matching that description rises every morning, or at least where I live....
Where the hell does this end?
About the same point the "donations" do.
I would disagree. What about enlightenment, fluxbox, openbox?
:-D
Linux is far more than some funky desktops (I love Enlightenment!).
Being a true multiuser OS is one feature Windows can't manage. Good file systems are another thing, journalisation and no fragmentation. A nice console, FUSE, Zen, LVM, iptables, and udev rules are also nice linux only features. And Windows doesn't use MIME info for discerning file formats.... Lot's of features!
Plus it works under linux, which is more than you can say for the low-quality wmv and rm that seems to be the "industry standard" now.
Mplayer will play any format you throw at it (like mkv and other weird stuff as well as wmv and rm), the only thing I have problems with is Quicktime subtitles.
Try it!
I dunno about you but I get 88 megabits per second (11 megabytes per second) from my wired LAN.
Sure your not confusing megabits and megabytes?
The PSP is just another time wasting device
Do I have anything better to do on the bus to work?
we have hundreds of thousands of socially mal-adjusted virgins at our fingertips i say we pool respources and attack microsft this weekend unless they have a whole bunch of females stockpiled at the microsft campus nothing can stop us!
Thats a win-win situation! Hurry, we have nothing to lose but our virginity!!
if you're just talking about normal (binary) system updates, one of the big reliefs for me about switching to Linux was that updates are so much less painful.
Don't forget that if you do a Windows update all your updating is Windows. If I tell Portage to update my linux system I'll get everything from kernel security patches to the latest versions of the Unreal Tournament mods I have installed, makes life much easier.
've got some friends in the medical industry, and it's seriously bloated financially - this is probably the same hardware that costs $100,000, but without the label on it.
I build ultrasound scanners that are designed for use on animals and I'll vouch for this. One of our products is a pair of VR goggles which you view your scanned image on (So you don't need to carry a screen round a farm yard). We buy these goggles for £100 do 30 minutes work on them and sell them for £700.
It's extortionate but our market is small, we sell about 150 of these goggles a year. We couldn't continue to function, never mind develop new products if we didn't charge these prices.
BitTorrent is able to distribute identical files among many users fast (and scales well even with HUGE user bases).
:D
Lost Season 1 Episodes 1-25, 8.8Gb in size, 399 seeders (people who have it), 5784 peers (people who are getting it). I'm normally getting about 35Kb/s.
I'd say thats scaling pretty well.
I also gave up and went for a Mac for exactly the same reason. It's unacceptable that in 2005 a Linux distribution (FC3, in my case) doesn't recognize a three-button+wheel USB mouse out-of-box or that setting up a TV card requires you to edit some config-files by hand.
"OMG!! SOMETHING I GOT FOR FREE DOESNT DO EVERYTHING 100% PERFECTLY!!! I MUST BITCH ABOUT IT!!!""
Why don't you write the code to do this yourself, it's all GPL.
But they're enough to make me totally drop the notion of buying a Mac Mini instead of a mini-ITX box.
I own an Epia M10000 (1Ghz) and on a good day it feels like it's about a 700Mhz P3, on a bad day (when you actualy have it think about something) it's more like 500Mhz.
Mini-ITX is SLOW.
I would never try to play an FPS on a console.
In exactly the same boat I'd never try and play a beat 'em up on a PC, I remember Tekken 3 in a Playstation 1 emulator and keyboards just aren't joy pads.
However people will still try and argue apples are better than oranges...
$199 doesn't impress me with slow specs and no storage.
Does it let me browse the Internet? Yes.
Does it run linux? Yes.
Does it have a good battery life? Yes.
Is it cheap? Yes.
Is it portable? Yes.
Do 1Gb USB keys cost next to nothing? Yes.
I'd snatch one up at the first chance I got.
My AthlonXP 1700 desktop is 84% idle with a load average of 0.36 0.39 0.40, I dont think I'd have a problem if this thing was 100-200Mhz to be honest. Oh, I'm currently running Overnet (edonkey2k), Konqueror, XMMS playing MP3s, Abiword, Firefox, Eterm, a transparent xdaliclock, and Enlightenment 16 with lots of eye candy turned on.
It's a funky idea, brother, but it ain't so hip to get on up to James Brown, because you know you've gotta' make it funky after that.
Your friends just wont understand.
If you read the interview you would of read that Brinkmann seems to think it's pretty trivial to make a "Linux driver server" and just use any Linux driver.