With cheap hardware they typically use a long POST to counteract RAM or whatnot dying without a symptom. At least, that's the only reason I can think of them using the long POST RAM tests and such...
You didn't click the anon box hard enough, apparently;)
Anyway, there are standards. But part of what makes Linux so powerful is the fact that it CAN be anything anyone wants. We aren't fighting for marketshare. We're working to make the best system we can to solve our problems. If it helps other people along the way, awesome. There's no problem with Mark Shuttleworth promoting standards, as long as people understand that they will not really be followed unless they're great standards and ubiquitous. And even then, it's open for debate.
Except for the fact that the interface is NOT horrible, contrary to the opinions of world+dog who froth at the mouth any time someone says that the GIMP is actually a pretty decent program.
The thing is, with Alpha and POWER, they're very tuned to only certain jobs. They're very dependent on a very good compiler. An x86 CPU is much more forgiving about compiler architecture, which makes it much more widely acceptable because it's more tolerant of imperfect/inelegant software.
If you write ASM, things like ARM and Sparc and MIPS are great. It's easier and more efficient to use an expanded instruction set like x86 when making a compiler, though. I'm not saying x86 is perfect by any means. Dearth of registers, etc. But the "small, fast, simple" approach of other CPU's just doesn't scale except past mostly very specific algorithms.
And my wife has a Motorola Q that reboots itself periodically, and I have a Blackberry 8800 (GSM/EDGE, which is the worst part) that just keeps running with plenty of nifty 3rd party apps like Trapster and Google Maps tied to the GPS. I sync to Linux and use as a bluetooth modem for my Linux-based laptop, and it just works... no way you could do that with a Windows Mobile device. An anecdote does not data make.
If there's not a critical mass of people avoiding DRM and working with unlocked hardware, it just won't be available any more. That's the point. It'll become a very niche, if still existent, market. The golden age will be when everyone has proper, unencumbered information sharing.
Might try something like that for your mirror effect. I doubt they make any that do that by default since one-way mirroring diffuses the light so much.
That's only as long as you have a monopoly or oligopoly. When proper competition ensues, it is very much influenced by the cost of making and shipping the good.
We've been in the process of buying a house, and we've actually signed and emailed a lot of documents since my wife and I work fairly far apart, and we can't take a lot of time off work to get the documents done in a timely manner. I'm glad our seller (and agent) are both fairly up to date with using email and scanners.
Use your computer. The upscaling of most software scalers is similar (if not better) to what you'll get off of an upscaling DVD player or Blu-Ray proper. And you can always download HD content, even if it's not full videos.
Me too. But they work 9 months a year, yet pull a salary commensurate with someone who gets 2 weeks of vacation a year. There are always opportunities like tutoring and such available to teachers, too.
Many teachers bitch about low pay, but never bat an eye about the great benefits they enjoy with being unionized and spending only 3/4ths of the time working that the rest of us do.
True. But failure modes for hard drives are more likely to be catastrophic than they are for flash. A head crash on a hard drive has no analogue with flash unless you count, say, hitting a flash drive with a hammer.
The GIMP works for many people. The main people who bitch about it are people who got used to Photoshop. Same thing as with Linux... "It's not what I'm used to, so it obviously sucks!"
And Exchange isn't even a working alternative to Exchange. I've seen large Exchange installs... there's no way to sanely run them. Or back them up. The only "backup" is mirroring.
That's a VERY big if you give there. IF you can sell your time for $100/hr. If your job pays you hourly. If you have a client to pay you that $350/hr. You may get $350/hr as a lawyer, but do you have clients every hour of every day? No? Unless you have a client sitting at your office willing to pay you right then, you aren't losing anything by going to lunch. For every hour you don't make $350, you aren't losing money. You're not losing anything. You're simply NOT MAKING money. There's a big difference there. Like, night and day difference. Only if you have work to do that you do not fulfill, that you pass on, do you "lose" money and make that choice. Not everyone has the luxury of having more work than time. Actually, very few people do... that's why things like open source done as a hobby is so popular.
It's much easier to get them used to something like Perl or Python, which while "scripting" languages, is much more useful than VBA in the long run. VBA teaches TONS of bad habits, and is not a good language with which to introduce people to programming. The only use for VBA is if you are forced to use Microsoft applications in your work.
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Not hockey though?
With cheap hardware they typically use a long POST to counteract RAM or whatnot dying without a symptom. At least, that's the only reason I can think of them using the long POST RAM tests and such...
You didn't click the anon box hard enough, apparently ;)
Anyway, there are standards. But part of what makes Linux so powerful is the fact that it CAN be anything anyone wants. We aren't fighting for marketshare. We're working to make the best system we can to solve our problems. If it helps other people along the way, awesome. There's no problem with Mark Shuttleworth promoting standards, as long as people understand that they will not really be followed unless they're great standards and ubiquitous. And even then, it's open for debate.
Except for the fact that the interface is NOT horrible, contrary to the opinions of world+dog who froth at the mouth any time someone says that the GIMP is actually a pretty decent program.
The thing is, with Alpha and POWER, they're very tuned to only certain jobs. They're very dependent on a very good compiler. An x86 CPU is much more forgiving about compiler architecture, which makes it much more widely acceptable because it's more tolerant of imperfect/inelegant software.
And that's why Apple is still running on Motorola chips, and is faster than any of the competing systems...
If you write ASM, things like ARM and Sparc and MIPS are great. It's easier and more efficient to use an expanded instruction set like x86 when making a compiler, though. I'm not saying x86 is perfect by any means. Dearth of registers, etc. But the "small, fast, simple" approach of other CPU's just doesn't scale except past mostly very specific algorithms.
Can you back up/sync your Tilt in Linux? Use it as a bluetooth or USB tethered modem? If not, Blackberry has WM beaten with Linux compatibility.
Which is from the movie Dodgeball, which, I am sorry to say, I actually saw. It wasn't that bad... it just wasn't that good, either.
And my wife has a Motorola Q that reboots itself periodically, and I have a Blackberry 8800 (GSM/EDGE, which is the worst part) that just keeps running with plenty of nifty 3rd party apps like Trapster and Google Maps tied to the GPS. I sync to Linux and use as a bluetooth modem for my Linux-based laptop, and it just works... no way you could do that with a Windows Mobile device. An anecdote does not data make.
If there's not a critical mass of people avoiding DRM and working with unlocked hardware, it just won't be available any more. That's the point. It'll become a very niche, if still existent, market. The golden age will be when everyone has proper, unencumbered information sharing.
The back row of the megaplex theater exists for a reason...
Until the Democrats take office and then bail all of them out. Haven't you watched the campaign promises?
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Might try something like that for your mirror effect. I doubt they make any that do that by default since one-way mirroring diffuses the light so much.
That's only as long as you have a monopoly or oligopoly. When proper competition ensues, it is very much influenced by the cost of making and shipping the good.
As long as it doesn't go around dropping sperm whales and petunias everywhere...
We've been in the process of buying a house, and we've actually signed and emailed a lot of documents since my wife and I work fairly far apart, and we can't take a lot of time off work to get the documents done in a timely manner. I'm glad our seller (and agent) are both fairly up to date with using email and scanners.
Use your computer. The upscaling of most software scalers is similar (if not better) to what you'll get off of an upscaling DVD player or Blu-Ray proper. And you can always download HD content, even if it's not full videos.
Me too. But they work 9 months a year, yet pull a salary commensurate with someone who gets 2 weeks of vacation a year. There are always opportunities like tutoring and such available to teachers, too.
Many teachers bitch about low pay, but never bat an eye about the great benefits they enjoy with being unionized and spending only 3/4ths of the time working that the rest of us do.
True. But failure modes for hard drives are more likely to be catastrophic than they are for flash. A head crash on a hard drive has no analogue with flash unless you count, say, hitting a flash drive with a hammer.
So that's what really happened at Enron...
The GIMP works for many people. The main people who bitch about it are people who got used to Photoshop. Same thing as with Linux... "It's not what I'm used to, so it obviously sucks!"
And Exchange isn't even a working alternative to Exchange. I've seen large Exchange installs... there's no way to sanely run them. Or back them up. The only "backup" is mirroring.
You don't know what you're asking for.
Damnit. It's embarrassing rising to obvious bait like this ;)
(this post is purely for those of you who may have been confused as to what the parent AC was trying to accomplish)
That's a VERY big if you give there. IF you can sell your time for $100/hr. If your job pays you hourly. If you have a client to pay you that $350/hr. You may get $350/hr as a lawyer, but do you have clients every hour of every day? No? Unless you have a client sitting at your office willing to pay you right then, you aren't losing anything by going to lunch. For every hour you don't make $350, you aren't losing money. You're not losing anything. You're simply NOT MAKING money. There's a big difference there. Like, night and day difference. Only if you have work to do that you do not fulfill, that you pass on, do you "lose" money and make that choice. Not everyone has the luxury of having more work than time. Actually, very few people do... that's why things like open source done as a hobby is so popular.
It's much easier to get them used to something like Perl or Python, which while "scripting" languages, is much more useful than VBA in the long run. VBA teaches TONS of bad habits, and is not a good language with which to introduce people to programming. The only use for VBA is if you are forced to use Microsoft applications in your work.