Because USB is a standard power supply, and then they don't have the expense of having to add a power supply that may or may not be used to every device (and will quite often go unused). It's simple economics.
And if you get a good enclosure like mine, the second power plug has a pass-through, so you can hook up a low-power device like a mouse through it. When you've only got two laptop USB ports (T43), it's handy.
What's fun is when you got good enough at knowing all the bot paths that it didn't matter that they were Godlike. I used to go onto servers that had auto-adjust bots with some friends and beat the snot out of the bots until they were Godlike, then we'd exit and rejoin as spectators, and watch everyone else get slaughtered.
"the beauty and power that surrounds everything in the scientific world that is not definable by any empirical means"? I think that the old Norsemen used to say that about thunder and lightning, and came up with Thor and Odin.
And in the meantime, I plug my girlfriend's iPod into my Linux boxes, and AmaroK will let me do anything I want to the collection on it, including playing it on the computer from the iPod, without having to copy the music over.
$200? I've invested more than that in my DS. You bet I would, to know it's clean. $50 is easily approaching the size of marginal returns of having to deal with "dirty" hardware, especially when it has a disabling daemon on it.
We give them prophylactics, tell them how it's spread, and they insist on believing in witchcraft. I don't mind helping people, but I hate helping ingrates.
Many laptops have a disabling button you can use, or you can just disable the device completely (don't load the drivers). Did that stop your friend from buying a machine?
What do you mean "what state"? It's just a re-display of the exact same window that the application generates. So you can watch a CD burning application's progress in the background, even if it's hidden by other windows.
Like I said, you don't understand it. You probably think that all the effects on a Mac are useless eye-candy too. It's the feedback you get from the little actions that makes the whole experience more organic, and feel more natural, rather than simply interfacing with a machine. It makes it more comfortable to use a computer.
Why not have both? Use the integrated GPU for physics or some other processing, and then use a faster, non-integrated graphics chip for the higher-power calculations? I can see how it'd be great to have an integrated, fast SIMD geometry processor on the CPU.
...you realize AMD had this design a while ago, right? All of their chips current released have the on-die memory controller? Intel is announcing that they will catch up to AMD in a couple generations. Where's the news here?
But Qt actually does better integration with the target systems, and has many more built-in facilities like networking and graphics that are integrated with the rest of the toolkit that don't require as much hacking as ACE and wxWidgets. Qt is made by Trolltech, a for-profit company. If you want to use their stuff for profit, you have to pay them. If you don't, you can release it under the GPL. I figure it's a pretty fair deal, unless you're just wanting to get a leg up on your software for free, which is what it really sounds like with your LGPL and BSD licensing bitching.
Any idea how nice it is to see a live view of an application on another desktop just hovering your mouse over it's task manager button? No? Don't knock it until you've tried it (as in, tried working with it for a few days). There are a number of nice things, feedback and such that the 3D desktops provide. Some of it is just eye candy, but a lot of it can be useful, too. Not to mention the Expose like application gatherers, etc. So much more useful than alt-tab, or even virtual desktops at times. Not to mention most of those effects run primarily in the GPU, and only very minimally affect the CPU (assuming you aren't using an integrated, essentially worthless for anything but a video buffer, graphics chip).
That enhanced C++ that you deride are the Qt extensions, which are what make it even remotely possible to have K* applications on other operating systems. I wouldn't knock it too much until you've tried it.
In theory, aRts is going away in KDE4 and being replaced with Phonon, which should hopefully be a lot more streamlined, stable and not require as much babysitting as aRts, and will let the other backends such as Xine or Gstreamer (POS that it is) just deal with the media. All the mixing and such can be done in ALSA any more, which kind of gets rid of the one useful feature of aRts.
If he was attacking her BECAUSE she's a woman, I could agree with you. But they just happen to use the fact that she's a woman in their insult, which doesn't make it misogyny. Or, would you label me a misandrist because I assume that her attacker is a male, and that you're only thinking with your dick, hoping to get props for protecting women?
Just because someone says something is misogynist or racist, or any other kind of "-ist" doesn't make it so.
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Because USB is a standard power supply, and then they don't have the expense of having to add a power supply that may or may not be used to every device (and will quite often go unused). It's simple economics.
And if you get a good enclosure like mine, the second power plug has a pass-through, so you can hook up a low-power device like a mouse through it. When you've only got two laptop USB ports (T43), it's handy.
And become a dead-eye with the freakin' railgun. Man, I loved Q3DM17...
What's fun is when you got good enough at knowing all the bot paths that it didn't matter that they were Godlike. I used to go onto servers that had auto-adjust bots with some friends and beat the snot out of the bots until they were Godlike, then we'd exit and rejoin as spectators, and watch everyone else get slaughtered.
"the beauty and power that surrounds everything in the scientific world that is not definable by any empirical means"? I think that the old Norsemen used to say that about thunder and lightning, and came up with Thor and Odin.
As long as you also don't try to claim that evolution isn't a commonly accepted scientific fact, you're entitled to it.
That's the best reason for developers to start using a dual-core machine ;)
And in the meantime, I plug my girlfriend's iPod into my Linux boxes, and AmaroK will let me do anything I want to the collection on it, including playing it on the computer from the iPod, without having to copy the music over.
He was probably distracted with his TPS reports.
$200? I've invested more than that in my DS. You bet I would, to know it's clean. $50 is easily approaching the size of marginal returns of having to deal with "dirty" hardware, especially when it has a disabling daemon on it.
We give them prophylactics, tell them how it's spread, and they insist on believing in witchcraft. I don't mind helping people, but I hate helping ingrates.
Many laptops have a disabling button you can use, or you can just disable the device completely (don't load the drivers). Did that stop your friend from buying a machine?
What do you mean "what state"? It's just a re-display of the exact same window that the application generates. So you can watch a CD burning application's progress in the background, even if it's hidden by other windows.
Like I said, you don't understand it. You probably think that all the effects on a Mac are useless eye-candy too. It's the feedback you get from the little actions that makes the whole experience more organic, and feel more natural, rather than simply interfacing with a machine. It makes it more comfortable to use a computer.
Or if you run a server with a high load. Not everything is done on the desktop, you know, and faster memory is better for more than just gamers.
Say what? The 8800GTX may have crap drivers in Vista, but under XP, drivers are way more than fine. And OpenGL is something that ATI has NEVER been good at ( http://www.3dnature.com/ati.html http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38 589 ). Why is this misinformation modded up?
Why not have both? Use the integrated GPU for physics or some other processing, and then use a faster, non-integrated graphics chip for the higher-power calculations? I can see how it'd be great to have an integrated, fast SIMD geometry processor on the CPU.
...you realize AMD had this design a while ago, right? All of their chips current released have the on-die memory controller? Intel is announcing that they will catch up to AMD in a couple generations. Where's the news here?
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But Qt actually does better integration with the target systems, and has many more built-in facilities like networking and graphics that are integrated with the rest of the toolkit that don't require as much hacking as ACE and wxWidgets. Qt is made by Trolltech, a for-profit company. If you want to use their stuff for profit, you have to pay them. If you don't, you can release it under the GPL. I figure it's a pretty fair deal, unless you're just wanting to get a leg up on your software for free, which is what it really sounds like with your LGPL and BSD licensing bitching.
Any idea how nice it is to see a live view of an application on another desktop just hovering your mouse over it's task manager button? No? Don't knock it until you've tried it (as in, tried working with it for a few days). There are a number of nice things, feedback and such that the 3D desktops provide. Some of it is just eye candy, but a lot of it can be useful, too. Not to mention the Expose like application gatherers, etc. So much more useful than alt-tab, or even virtual desktops at times. Not to mention most of those effects run primarily in the GPU, and only very minimally affect the CPU (assuming you aren't using an integrated, essentially worthless for anything but a video buffer, graphics chip).
That enhanced C++ that you deride are the Qt extensions, which are what make it even remotely possible to have K* applications on other operating systems. I wouldn't knock it too much until you've tried it.
In theory, aRts is going away in KDE4 and being replaced with Phonon, which should hopefully be a lot more streamlined, stable and not require as much babysitting as aRts, and will let the other backends such as Xine or Gstreamer (POS that it is) just deal with the media. All the mixing and such can be done in ALSA any more, which kind of gets rid of the one useful feature of aRts.
And porn. Can't forget the porn. It's like the donkeys in Tijuana...
I stretched too far on that one, didn't I?
If he was attacking her BECAUSE she's a woman, I could agree with you. But they just happen to use the fact that she's a woman in their insult, which doesn't make it misogyny. Or, would you label me a misandrist because I assume that her attacker is a male, and that you're only thinking with your dick, hoping to get props for protecting women?
Just because someone says something is misogynist or racist, or any other kind of "-ist" doesn't make it so.