What aspect is slow? Rendering objects? Moving objects? I use Fluxbox, so I can't think of anything I consider slow. The "kde or gnome editor" I use is Emacs, and I can't imagine it being any faster, except for the startup time, which isn't related to X. My Mozilla speed is fine, but I think the slowness of Mozilla is caused by Mozilla, since Opera 7 renders pages faster. Also, a basic app I wrote with Imlib2 rendered images ridiculously fast. I wouldn't measure the speed of X using KDE or Gnome.
I'd rather pay the price I was paying 2 years ago, plus $5 in taxes, than DOUBLE the price I paid two years ago. It's cheaper for my cable company to provide internet serveice than for my local phone company to provide DSL. Yet DSL prices are cheaper, as predicted by Obvious Consequences of a Monopoly 101.
My cable internet bill has increased with each aquisition (Comcast formerly AT&T formerly Mediaone) and the last time I had to order basic cable in addition to keep the bill under $60/month. Hopefully another company will now step in so I'll stop dreaming of going back to sucky DSL.
Actually, to my ears, "twenty times cheaper" and "95 percent cheaper" sound equally imprecise/ambiguous. How about "the cost of A is 5% the cost of B"?
One thing you never hear about with solar energy also is that the panel absorb a certain amount of heat that would normally be absorbed by the earth. Will this cause issues on a large scale?
Probably no more than all the other stuff we've built that obstructs sunlight to the earth.
If you mean free as in freedom, then the OO format is definitely more free-- just read the restrictions at the beginning of Adobe's latest PDF specification.
I recently solved this problem myself. I had a mail server running in an ATX case which was getting on my last nerve. I got an Antec Mini-ATX case from BestBuy ($70), so now I could put the thing almost anywhere. Location definitely makes a difference, for I was able to place the thing in a little nook by my bathroom. Heat problems, you ask? Nope. Got a Via C3 700 MHz motherboard combo from Pricewatch for around $75, and it idles at 30 degrees, and this is without the case fans I haven't gotten around to installing. Also, the air coming from the power supply in the case is not even warm, and the power supply is quiet. The only problem is the CPU fan is still loud, but the location of the computer now makes it mostly a non issue. I may still replace the CPU fan in the future so I can hear dead silence when walking by the computer. I also use one of my Seagate Barracuda IV drives. This drive does not whine like the Maxtors-- it is competely silent when idle. You can hear it during writes, but the quality of the noise isn't bad like I've heard in Western Digital drives, or those loud crunching Dell desktop drives which drive me mad.
I hear that the Via C3 1000MHz CPUs can run fine without a fan, and you can get one of these with a motherboard for less than $200. I opted for the cheaper route, though. Anyway, you HAVE to get a quite hard drive, because once you silence the other components, you'll be surprised by how much noise the drive makes, and it'll definitely hurt the quality of your sleep.
It's like the story about the frog and the scorpion. Microsoft can't compete with Google because they just can't allow themselves to give honest results on searches including words like "Linux". This renders their search engine useless, since there is an alternative (Google) that gives honest results. Same with Amazon. It's against their nature. They just can't resist the temptation to give results in favor of the highest bidder, even if it means they can compete with Google.
What I don't understand is why people continue to pay the insane prices for TI calculators.
Incredibly successful marketing. And the teachers who I've talked to just LOVE them. Sorry, but TI has won this battle once and for all. There is no way anyone can compete with the multitue of features given in the TI-83 Plus. This is Microsoft dominace squared, for this particular item. And get this: they're hard as hell to use, unlike MS stuff.
They probably just use the national security angle to get the government to listen. However, the fuzzy math and some of the recommendations in the PDF don't help their argument, in my opinion. Requiring MS to publish the interfaces to its software is what's needed, like they mention, but requiring MS to make "Office for Linux" is kinda useless, especially if it costs $300+, no one buys it, and the interfaces are not published. Both would work fine though, but requiring a compnay to produce a product no one would buy just won't fly.
Looks like this forum had been pretty down on MS lately. Can't we get a little love every once in a while? "What the world. needs now. is love. sweet love..."
The reason they're "actively running away from RedHat" is so that the RedHat suit against them gets dismissed. It will probably work. They'll get back to being themselves once it's over.
There's no way a for-profit would relinquish it's.com name. Also, some people bought personal.com names back when it was cool-- before the capitalists took over. I like things just the way they are today-- domain names are worthless. Once you have companies and individuals dropping.com left and right, you get that ridiculous situation we had years ago with clowns selling domains for thousands. I suppose we could do the change by force-- convert all the.com to.crap?
I opened it in AbiWord 2.0, and it looks like there is an error with the margins on the first page under the graphic. It looks the same with WV conversion. Does OpenOffice get it right?
"Average" usually refers to "arithmetic mean". This is one example of a "mean". Other examples are median, mode, harmonic mean, geometric mean, root-mean-square, etc... "Mean" is the general term; "average" is an example of a "mean".
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What aspect is slow? Rendering objects? Moving objects? I use Fluxbox, so I can't think of anything I consider slow. The "kde or gnome editor" I use is Emacs, and I can't imagine it being any faster, except for the startup time, which isn't related to X. My Mozilla speed is fine, but I think the slowness of Mozilla is caused by Mozilla, since Opera 7 renders pages faster. Also, a basic app I wrote with Imlib2 rendered images ridiculously fast. I wouldn't measure the speed of X using KDE or Gnome.
I second that. I think the only people who think xfree is "slow" are the kids who like to play those video games.
I'd rather pay the price I was paying 2 years ago, plus $5 in taxes, than DOUBLE the price I paid two years ago. It's cheaper for my cable company to provide internet serveice than for my local phone company to provide DSL. Yet DSL prices are cheaper, as predicted by Obvious Consequences of a Monopoly 101.
My cable internet bill has increased with each aquisition (Comcast formerly AT&T formerly Mediaone) and the last time I had to order basic cable in addition to keep the bill under $60/month. Hopefully another company will now step in so I'll stop dreaming of going back to sucky DSL.
Dude, just because your right-wing Econ 101 Prof says so, doesn't mean it's true.
You misunderstood my point.
Actually, to my ears, "twenty times cheaper" and "95 percent cheaper" sound equally imprecise/ambiguous. How about "the cost of A is 5% the cost of B"?
How is OO format more free than PDF?
If you mean free as in freedom, then the OO format is definitely more free-- just read the restrictions at the beginning of Adobe's latest PDF specification.
Well, judging by those solutions written for the algorithms course, it will probably lower others' impressions of MIT.
I recently solved this problem myself. I had a mail server running in an ATX case which was getting on my last nerve. I got an Antec Mini-ATX case from BestBuy ($70), so now I could put the thing almost anywhere. Location definitely makes a difference, for I was able to place the thing in a little nook by my bathroom. Heat problems, you ask? Nope. Got a Via C3 700 MHz motherboard combo from Pricewatch for around $75, and it idles at 30 degrees, and this is without the case fans I haven't gotten around to installing. Also, the air coming from the power supply in the case is not even warm, and the power supply is quiet. The only problem is the CPU fan is still loud, but the location of the computer now makes it mostly a non issue. I may still replace the CPU fan in the future so I can hear dead silence when walking by the computer. I also use one of my Seagate Barracuda IV drives. This drive does not whine like the Maxtors-- it is competely silent when idle. You can hear it during writes, but the quality of the noise isn't bad like I've heard in Western Digital drives, or those loud crunching Dell desktop drives which drive me mad.
I hear that the Via C3 1000MHz CPUs can run fine without a fan, and you can get one of these with a motherboard for less than $200. I opted for the cheaper route, though. Anyway, you HAVE to get a quite hard drive, because once you silence the other components, you'll be surprised by how much noise the drive makes, and it'll definitely hurt the quality of your sleep.
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It's like the story about the frog and the scorpion. Microsoft can't compete with Google because they just can't allow themselves to give honest results on searches including words like "Linux". This renders their search engine useless, since there is an alternative (Google) that gives honest results. Same with Amazon. It's against their nature. They just can't resist the temptation to give results in favor of the highest bidder, even if it means they can compete with Google.
What I don't understand is why people continue to pay the insane prices for TI calculators.
Incredibly successful marketing. And the teachers who I've talked to just LOVE them. Sorry, but TI has won this battle once and for all. There is no way anyone can compete with the multitue of features given in the TI-83 Plus. This is Microsoft dominace squared, for this particular item. And get this: they're hard as hell to use, unlike MS stuff.
They probably just use the national security angle to get the government to listen. However, the fuzzy math and some of the recommendations in the PDF don't help their argument, in my opinion. Requiring MS to publish the interfaces to its software is what's needed, like they mention, but requiring MS to make "Office for Linux" is kinda useless, especially if it costs $300+, no one buys it, and the interfaces are not published. Both would work fine though, but requiring a compnay to produce a product no one would buy just won't fly.
No, not new. Maybe I'm just suffering from MS/SCO overload. I should stop reading slashdot for a while and get to work.
Looks like this forum had been pretty down on MS lately. Can't we get a little love every once in a while? "What the world. needs now. is love. sweet love..."
The reason they're "actively running away from RedHat" is so that the RedHat suit against them gets dismissed. It will probably work. They'll get back to being themselves once it's over.
There's no way a for-profit would relinquish it's .com name. Also, some people bought personal .com names back when it was cool-- before the capitalists took over. I like things just the way they are today-- domain names are worthless. Once you have companies and individuals dropping .com left and right, you get that ridiculous situation we had years ago with clowns selling domains for thousands. I suppose we could do the change by force-- convert all the .com to .crap?
I opened it in AbiWord 2.0, and it looks like there is an error with the margins on the first page under the graphic. It looks the same with WV conversion. Does OpenOffice get it right?
Actually older people burn more easily. Not that I'm disagreeing with you.
1) Your fp is funny.
2) You should not be ashamed.
I'm there!
"Average" usually refers to "arithmetic mean". This is one example of a "mean". Other examples are median, mode, harmonic mean, geometric mean, root-mean-square, etc... "Mean" is the general term; "average" is an example of a "mean".
Will they have a wireless access point there so we can get free internet access?