I've talked to a number of illiterate Brits online as well. America has no monopoly on ignorance, we're just a little more humble than the rest of y'all.
Only if you don't have much memory to work with. Java's quite well positioned to work on the desktop, and can even look decent with a good developer behind it.
Huh, that's funny. T-Mobile gives me unlimited data on my phone. I can also hook up that phone to my computer, and the unlimited data plan STILL APPLIES. No extra fees. Verizon is just double-dipping stupid people with that. There's no significant difference between surfing the web on your phone or on your computer except for readability, and they charge more for it. There's a reason I dropped 'em.
Music will always be profitable as long as people are willing to pay to hear it. Going to a concert is completely different than loading up an mp3 on your iPod. Music as a "gravy train" will diminish, though. It will no longer be about hitting it big and letting your great grandchildren live off the royalties of something they had no hand in, it will be about working for your money, just like almost everyone else does. I figure it's just making musicians productive members of society, rather than a drain on it (I'm talking about big names like Metallica or Elvis Presley, not the band that plays in your local bar on Friday nights).
Except this would be a different type of long-term storage, rather than short-term RAM which can be wiped at any time. I'm thinking being able to balance sequential-read and/or large files on a rotary, slower drive, and filesystem and program files on the flash. Yet another level of memory, I suppose, but it'd be transparent and treated like a drive to the user, versus RAM being essentially invisible.
Yeah. But that doesn't match with the bell curve that we typically see in population averages, and in the case of that bell curve, 50% being above average is pretty much spot-on. You're right in theory, but in practice, you aren't.
I'd personally love to have a 32GB "working" drive that has the OS and all the programs, and then a larger 200-300GB drive that I can put all my media and the stuff that isn't random-access intensive on. Actually, it'd be sweet if there was some sort of dynamic data management system that automatically put appropriate types of data on the appropriate drives, so I wouldn't even have to manage it.
PAE doesn't work for Microsoft's desktop OS's, only for their server versions, and Vista. But your chipset has to support it. Remember, PAE causes a performance hit when it's enabled, as well as some drivers can't do DMA accesses when PAE is enabled (which can cause all kinds of effects).
Naah, it's just that some gamers are -serious- about whatever Microsoft or Bungie tells them is the new hotness. I've only seen lukewarm reception of DX10 from sites I trust for reviews. There are some graphical appearance gains, but they almost always come with a rider of "but it runs at half the framerate of the DX9 path".
That's the public spin of it at least. In reality, you get non-working Soundblasters and a failure to take advantage of hardware that exists in the system because of an arbitrary "let's make all sound cards like WinModems! We need to do something with Intel's extra cores!" decision.
32bit isn't any faster than 64bit overall. In some cases it is, in some cases it isn't. For gaming, it by and large is because most games are 32bit, and 32bit software takes less memory in general. But don't state it as if it's a fact for everything, because it's not true.
That's what the drivers are for. OpenGL has this neat thing called "extensions", so if your card supports DX10 features and the drivers have the proper extensions, it's just* a matter of hooking things up properly.
* yes, I know "just" is a pretty big leap in actuality, but the conceptual one is pretty small
Depends on who you talk to. The RIAA/MPAA and other copyright maximalists would love to be able to charge you a fee every time you used something of theirs. Or that might possibly be theirs. Or isn't theirs, but is somewhat like something they own.
They may not be able to watch through your TV, but they can watch what you're watching on TV and tell if you're watching that communist propaganda on PBS or any other station that isn't ESPN or Fox News;)
Just because it's better than others doesn't mean that it's as good as it could be. That is a stupid argument to make. "Well, I'm in jail for a crime I didn't commit. At least I'm not wrongly jailed AND being tortured, I should be thankful!". The problem isn't the UAV... it's the lack of transparency and the lies that the Houston PD gave when confronted with the evidence. The people who "protect" us should be accountable to us.
Just because Godwin is invoked does not immediately invalidate the argument. The Nazi argument may be somewhat cliché, but that doesn't mean that the lessons or arguments are any less correct. Those who refuse to learn from history (or outright ignore it on "principle", such as invoking Godwin) are doomed to repeat it.
Because sometimes, it's nice to do themed, episodic content that's broken apart by firm delineations. If anything, I think that Mario 64 did the best mix of levels and "seamless" play that's been done (haven't tried SM Galaxy yet, it's on my list). Any other silly questions?
I'm rather partial to the desktop cube, as well as the wobbly windows. Gives me feedback I like, and other people drool over it;) Anything like that in the KWin compositing? I haven't seen anything quite the same, but I haven't spent more than 30 minutes poking around, either.
Let them be promoters. They're good at reaching people, and have contacts throughout the industry. The problem is that they will no longer make money hand over fist screwing over bands on record deals, and they're scared of actually having to WORK for their money, as are many of the big-name artists that have gotten fat and complacent on their royalties.
Does Compiz Fusion work with KDE4's RC's? I love my KDE, but I've grown quite fond of Compiz Fusion... do they still support the aquamarine widget translator or whatever that is?
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I've talked to a number of illiterate Brits online as well. America has no monopoly on ignorance, we're just a little more humble than the rest of y'all.
Neat :) I never knew that kinda stuff was out there.
It's still a bigger pain than just writing Java code, though.
Only if you don't have much memory to work with. Java's quite well positioned to work on the desktop, and can even look decent with a good developer behind it.
Huh, that's funny. T-Mobile gives me unlimited data on my phone. I can also hook up that phone to my computer, and the unlimited data plan STILL APPLIES. No extra fees. Verizon is just double-dipping stupid people with that. There's no significant difference between surfing the web on your phone or on your computer except for readability, and they charge more for it. There's a reason I dropped 'em.
Music will always be profitable as long as people are willing to pay to hear it. Going to a concert is completely different than loading up an mp3 on your iPod. Music as a "gravy train" will diminish, though. It will no longer be about hitting it big and letting your great grandchildren live off the royalties of something they had no hand in, it will be about working for your money, just like almost everyone else does. I figure it's just making musicians productive members of society, rather than a drain on it (I'm talking about big names like Metallica or Elvis Presley, not the band that plays in your local bar on Friday nights).
Except this would be a different type of long-term storage, rather than short-term RAM which can be wiped at any time. I'm thinking being able to balance sequential-read and/or large files on a rotary, slower drive, and filesystem and program files on the flash. Yet another level of memory, I suppose, but it'd be transparent and treated like a drive to the user, versus RAM being essentially invisible.
Yeah. But that doesn't match with the bell curve that we typically see in population averages, and in the case of that bell curve, 50% being above average is pretty much spot-on. You're right in theory, but in practice, you aren't.
I'd personally love to have a 32GB "working" drive that has the OS and all the programs, and then a larger 200-300GB drive that I can put all my media and the stuff that isn't random-access intensive on. Actually, it'd be sweet if there was some sort of dynamic data management system that automatically put appropriate types of data on the appropriate drives, so I wouldn't even have to manage it.
PAE doesn't work for Microsoft's desktop OS's, only for their server versions, and Vista. But your chipset has to support it. Remember, PAE causes a performance hit when it's enabled, as well as some drivers can't do DMA accesses when PAE is enabled (which can cause all kinds of effects).
Naah, it's just that some gamers are -serious- about whatever Microsoft or Bungie tells them is the new hotness. I've only seen lukewarm reception of DX10 from sites I trust for reviews. There are some graphical appearance gains, but they almost always come with a rider of "but it runs at half the framerate of the DX9 path".
That's the public spin of it at least. In reality, you get non-working Soundblasters and a failure to take advantage of hardware that exists in the system because of an arbitrary "let's make all sound cards like WinModems! We need to do something with Intel's extra cores!" decision.
32bit isn't any faster than 64bit overall. In some cases it is, in some cases it isn't. For gaming, it by and large is because most games are 32bit, and 32bit software takes less memory in general. But don't state it as if it's a fact for everything, because it's not true.
That's what the drivers are for. OpenGL has this neat thing called "extensions", so if your card supports DX10 features and the drivers have the proper extensions, it's just* a matter of hooking things up properly.
* yes, I know "just" is a pretty big leap in actuality, but the conceptual one is pretty small
Depends on who you talk to. The RIAA/MPAA and other copyright maximalists would love to be able to charge you a fee every time you used something of theirs. Or that might possibly be theirs. Or isn't theirs, but is somewhat like something they own.
And you coulda had a sweet reward, too... could have taken along that email exchange and forwarded it to the BSA ;)
They may not be able to watch through your TV, but they can watch what you're watching on TV and tell if you're watching that communist propaganda on PBS or any other station that isn't ESPN or Fox News ;)
Just because it's better than others doesn't mean that it's as good as it could be. That is a stupid argument to make. "Well, I'm in jail for a crime I didn't commit. At least I'm not wrongly jailed AND being tortured, I should be thankful!". The problem isn't the UAV... it's the lack of transparency and the lies that the Houston PD gave when confronted with the evidence. The people who "protect" us should be accountable to us.
Just because Godwin is invoked does not immediately invalidate the argument. The Nazi argument may be somewhat cliché, but that doesn't mean that the lessons or arguments are any less correct. Those who refuse to learn from history (or outright ignore it on "principle", such as invoking Godwin) are doomed to repeat it.
Because sometimes, it's nice to do themed, episodic content that's broken apart by firm delineations. If anything, I think that Mario 64 did the best mix of levels and "seamless" play that's been done (haven't tried SM Galaxy yet, it's on my list). Any other silly questions?
I'm rather partial to the desktop cube, as well as the wobbly windows. Gives me feedback I like, and other people drool over it ;) Anything like that in the KWin compositing? I haven't seen anything quite the same, but I haven't spent more than 30 minutes poking around, either.
Well, yes. Use the RAID for backups.
Most CPU's have dual (or more) cores now. If you aren't running Windows and needing to run a virus scanner with the second core, where's the issue?
Those stories are the only way they can get funding to do the real research. They've gotta play politics in science now, haven't you heard?
Let them be promoters. They're good at reaching people, and have contacts throughout the industry. The problem is that they will no longer make money hand over fist screwing over bands on record deals, and they're scared of actually having to WORK for their money, as are many of the big-name artists that have gotten fat and complacent on their royalties.
Does Compiz Fusion work with KDE4's RC's? I love my KDE, but I've grown quite fond of Compiz Fusion... do they still support the aquamarine widget translator or whatever that is?