If the web was still made for dial up users on Netscape it would never crash. It's possible Firefox 0.x were the worst versions and the less crashy ones.
Great. One reason I don't use Chrome/ium is there are two many processes, eventually consuming all available RAM + swap (even on a 32bit OS). I once counted 39 processes and every one of them allocate tens of megabytes, eventually hundreds for managing resources such as graphics, running bad javascript code etc.
When even swap is exhausted, every action such as moving the mouse cursor takes 5-10 seconds or more . I have to ctrl-alt-f1 to a text console (if the computer still responds to that and the screen is not totally black when showing a tty because of driver/configuration problem), then login, then killall -9 the processes. Login must be done carefully, because there is extreme lag even for typing a few characters. If you can use another computer to ssh in (or serial console in) perhaps do that.
If indeed there's only one thread for the tabs, and in the future you have an option to keep it that way (preferably as a check box in the regular options GUI) then Firefox will still be good for older and modest computers. That's three processes by the way : GUI, tabs and flash.
Indeed, the GUIs for bookmarks always has been crap, it's a dump of links, you end up scrolling a drop down menu without a scroll bar, and it's not clear why would I want to bookmark everything I read then spend time cleaning it up.
Having 220 tabs is not really special. It's like asking "who ever reads a book or magazine with 220 pages? no one ever reads that much".
Quote from the first link : "When it's complete, Gnome will serve as an operating system for merchants to run their entire operation and enable them to create real-time promotions that bring customers into their business when they need them the most."
It's really a top-level, self-contained GUI versus a top level, self-contained GUI. Both have significant underlying libraries, GUI toolkit probably, built-in apps - Gnome speaks of "Gnome OS" even. (a rough analogy would be like it's Windows 3.1 on top of DOS. Groupon must be using something be it linux, a BSD variant, QNX etc.)
I am not thrilled by the use of religious vocabulary. So shops are the temples of consumptions, Groupon wants to be the priests and we are expected to show religious fervor when they throw shit at us. I will keep shopping for groceries with cash and I don't carry little cards and crap ; if you want amazing "offers" please consider dumpster diving for food. It's less degrading and more rewarding.
Funnily, over there anyway there are two ways you can give a shopping place your identity and address : when signing up for a loyalty program, or when caught stealing things.
We get actual DSPs too not just SIMD, such as the H264 decoder, encoder, Intel Quicksync, AMD TrueAudio, various ones in cell phone CPUs.
Hell this has me going back to the Amiga and Super NES where you had some cool hardware. but TFA seems to be arguing for something like HSA or even more closely integrated into the CPU itself.
If our system bus designs permitted we could have separate graphics output and vector processor. But they don't. You've got to call it something.
We sort of have that with Optimus, SLI, Crossfire (and even output to H264 or H265 but that's another thing. or piping to a USB 3.0 display adapter it seems). I'm sure it can be generalized, at the cost of somewhat wasting or using up PCIe bandwith. Even the open source linux world is ready for this with DMA_BUF API (at the cost of poor open source driver speed). In the near future you could add a "display output card" to a system with APU (AMD or Intel), or use the motherboard's output when using a GPU board.. If firmware, drivers, OS were to play nice.
I believe the Atari Jaguar was a console made of special purpose chips, with an "orchestrator" 68000 CPU tacked on. The propaganda said you're not meant to use that CPU or something to that effect but of course the games heavily relied on it, some of them Amiga ports. The console was a big failure, lacking a usable SDK and documentation. Now consoles have an OS, APIs, middleware.
Cycling is most often easier than walking, in the cold. And it's door to door. With a car, you're walking to the car in the cold, then at arrival you step out of a heated car into the cold and walk the remaining length to the actual destination. I'm imagining a crowded city and no funds for your own private garage or great parking at the work place.. Even then, if you need to go to a campus, with car you'll go to the parking lot and walk some distance, with bicycle you'll park right next to the entrance of the building you need to get into.
because both are about worshipping a dead guy and Apple gets about as much excessive news coverage as the leaders do in their country. Besides, Kim Jong Un is a macintosh user, but does the right thing by running linux on it.
I believe Rumsfeld focused on the known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknows? The unknown known was that he was bullshitting us. It's "the Emperor has no clothes" if you wish.
Silly thought experiment.. Accelerate ions you got from nuclear waste (Plutonium, Cesium, Strontium etc.) to relativistic speeds, then from our point of view the time will flow much faster for them and they'll quickly decay, giving you no significant remaining radio-activity. Though I wonder about the crap that escaped the beam - if it's not disrupted, and what crap is left in the beam that you have to get rid of.
The iPhone was released in 2007, which is Juche year 96. So from now on I'll pretend the current year is '96, though I maybe would have liked 93 or 91.
Maybe a problem is the scripts look like shit? especially as a not-so-advanced user will only see them when cat'ing them on the command line. Outside this context nobody would even think of writing a program more than ten lines in bash or sh.
Who gives a shit? Flash video still is faster and more reliable than html5 video. When Flash 11.2 gets unmaintained on linux in 2017 it will be time to stop providing Flash video. If it works better then it is the technically superior solution. That's evident on a PC without hardware H264 decoder at least.
The circuitry was never additional. This thing is just a Core i3 chip, desktop version will probably support ECC, other versions will not - save for desktop Pentium if they do as on Haswell. It's crippled with microcode and fuses.
I assume almost every laptop is using a Mini PCI express card, before that it was the bigger mini PCI. It's even become common on desktops such as mini-ITX motherboards and Intel NUC. You ought to have the wifi on a tiny user-accessible board unless you're using an Apple product or a tablet or a particularly integrated computer. Oh, Intel is working on that indeed.
I'll keep my PS/2 peripherals and sound card thanks, and I like my RAM on DIMMs / So-DIMMs. I will consider an AIO if it meets these requirements, else regular PC hardware does, even if you want the latest 10 watt CPU.
or 360p at 60fps. The feature is interesting by itself, so it shouldn't be tied to HD when you don't always have the CPU or bandwith for it. Hell, 240p and 144p with 256 kbps sound track is another thing I want, very often the music or speech is way more important than the piqué of the image. Countless bandwith and megajoules are wasted on the video and the sound still sucks. Can't watch people speaking without MP3-like artifacts. In the days of analog television, the audio had full quality.
For some reason video players on the web are often slow and/or crashy. The default Youtube one is passable (flash) Whatever is on wikipedia sucks balls. (and is designed to rape my ears) I've seen the "media player"'s skin change after a music was launched, like it was following some bizarre rules to choose html5 vs flash (switch from one to another after the show has started? or it was skin change for the sake of it. Thanks for the slow and interrupting refresh)
Worst is some html5 (I assume?) video boxes with an embedded flash object or two in it, the flash object is blocked and the flashblock icon is visible but unclickable, like the object is in a bottom layer. So the player can't work at all. I'm concerned that web developers can do tricky crap to show off their talent and be "modern", while most of the time we just want to look at documents and embedded videos, not figuring out new graphical interfaces all the time.
Also, a big failure of HTML5 video was to only include a couple of highly demanding codecs. If you're including a proprietary codec, why not have the old ones from flash video (FLV)?, or H263 proper. If I want to look at full screen 240p or 288p at 15fps on a modest computer, I should be able to do that.
A small trailer will take your dog or a young kid. would be interesting to try that in combination with an electric-assist bike. So yes it solves the dog.
Broadband isn't always "metered" either, by that I mean that in many countries you will either have broadband or not broadband. No tiered service (for residential offers) and no data caps mean it's a fixed cost that is the same every month, even if you used no bytes that month. Before that we had dial up, which was a monthly fee plus paying by the minute, or a very low set of hours (like 15 hours or 4 hours) and paying by the minute after that. So in my country, computers were common in the 90s but Internet access was very rare (let alone using a modem on a 8bit computer)
There's an opportunity here.. swap the wifi card with the one of the owner of an older laptop running Windows or recent linux, then he or she'll get slightly better wifi (perhaps) and you get working wifi.
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If the web was still made for dial up users on Netscape it would never crash.
It's possible Firefox 0.x were the worst versions and the less crashy ones.
Great. One reason I don't use Chrome/ium is there are two many processes, eventually consuming all available RAM + swap (even on a 32bit OS). I once counted 39 processes and every one of them allocate tens of megabytes, eventually hundreds for managing resources such as graphics, running bad javascript code etc.
When even swap is exhausted, every action such as moving the mouse cursor takes 5-10 seconds or more . I have to ctrl-alt-f1 to a text console (if the computer still responds to that and the screen is not totally black when showing a tty because of driver/configuration problem), then login, then killall -9 the processes. Login must be done carefully, because there is extreme lag even for typing a few characters. If you can use another computer to ssh in (or serial console in) perhaps do that.
If indeed there's only one thread for the tabs, and in the future you have an option to keep it that way (preferably as a check box in the regular options GUI) then Firefox will still be good for older and modest computers. That's three processes by the way : GUI, tabs and flash.
Indeed, the GUIs for bookmarks always has been crap, it's a dump of links, you end up scrolling a drop down menu without a scroll bar, and it's not clear why would I want to bookmark everything I read then spend time cleaning it up.
Having 220 tabs is not really special. It's like asking "who ever reads a book or magazine with 220 pages? no one ever reads that much".
I used to think it was a little dog (on the start menu's icon)
Quote from the first link : "When it's complete, Gnome will serve as an operating system for merchants to run their entire operation and enable them to create real-time promotions that bring customers into their business when they need them the most."
It's really a top-level, self-contained GUI versus a top level, self-contained GUI.
Both have significant underlying libraries, GUI toolkit probably, built-in apps - Gnome speaks of "Gnome OS" even. (a rough analogy would be like it's Windows 3.1 on top of DOS. Groupon must be using something be it linux, a BSD variant, QNX etc.)
I am not thrilled by the use of religious vocabulary. So shops are the temples of consumptions, Groupon wants to be the priests and we are expected to show religious fervor when they throw shit at us.
I will keep shopping for groceries with cash and I don't carry little cards and crap ; if you want amazing "offers" please consider dumpster diving for food. It's less degrading and more rewarding.
Funnily, over there anyway there are two ways you can give a shopping place your identity and address : when signing up for a loyalty program, or when caught stealing things.
We get actual DSPs too not just SIMD, such as the H264 decoder, encoder, Intel Quicksync, AMD TrueAudio, various ones in cell phone CPUs.
Hell this has me going back to the Amiga and Super NES where you had some cool hardware. but TFA seems to be arguing for something like HSA or even more closely integrated into the CPU itself.
If our system bus designs permitted we could have separate graphics output and vector processor. But they don't. You've got to call it something.
We sort of have that with Optimus, SLI, Crossfire (and even output to H264 or H265 but that's another thing. or piping to a USB 3.0 display adapter it seems). I'm sure it can be generalized, at the cost of somewhat wasting or using up PCIe bandwith. Even the open source linux world is ready for this with DMA_BUF API (at the cost of poor open source driver speed). In the near future you could add a "display output card" to a system with APU (AMD or Intel), or use the motherboard's output when using a GPU board.. If firmware, drivers, OS were to play nice.
Never knew that. It gives "arson" in English and "ardent" in both French and English.
But else, fuck shitbook!
I believe the Atari Jaguar was a console made of special purpose chips, with an "orchestrator" 68000 CPU tacked on. The propaganda said you're not meant to use that CPU or something to that effect but of course the games heavily relied on it, some of them Amiga ports. The console was a big failure, lacking a usable SDK and documentation. Now consoles have an OS, APIs, middleware.
Cycling is most often easier than walking, in the cold. And it's door to door.
With a car, you're walking to the car in the cold, then at arrival you step out of a heated car into the cold and walk the remaining length to the actual destination.
I'm imagining a crowded city and no funds for your own private garage or great parking at the work place.. Even then, if you need to go to a campus, with car you'll go to the parking lot and walk some distance, with bicycle you'll park right next to the entrance of the building you need to get into.
In a flat? Storing the fuel may be illegal, dangerous or void your home insurance ; running the generator may kill you with carbon monoxide.
because both are about worshipping a dead guy and Apple gets about as much excessive news coverage as the leaders do in their country. Besides, Kim Jong Un is a macintosh user, but does the right thing by running linux on it.
I believe Rumsfeld focused on the known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknows?
The unknown known was that he was bullshitting us. It's "the Emperor has no clothes" if you wish.
Silly thought experiment.. Accelerate ions you got from nuclear waste (Plutonium, Cesium, Strontium etc.) to relativistic speeds, then from our point of view the time will flow much faster for them and they'll quickly decay, giving you no significant remaining radio-activity. Though I wonder about the crap that escaped the beam - if it's not disrupted, and what crap is left in the beam that you have to get rid of.
The iPhone was released in 2007, which is Juche year 96. So from now on I'll pretend the current year is '96, though I maybe would have liked 93 or 91.
Maybe a problem is the scripts look like shit? especially as a not-so-advanced user will only see them when cat'ing them on the command line.
Outside this context nobody would even think of writing a program more than ten lines in bash or sh.
Why not implement the scripts in lua or whatever.
Who gives a shit? Flash video still is faster and more reliable than html5 video. When Flash 11.2 gets unmaintained on linux in 2017 it will be time to stop providing Flash video. If it works better then it is the technically superior solution.
That's evident on a PC without hardware H264 decoder at least.
The circuitry was never additional. This thing is just a Core i3 chip, desktop version will probably support ECC, other versions will not - save for desktop Pentium if they do as on Haswell. It's crippled with microcode and fuses.
I assume almost every laptop is using a Mini PCI express card, before that it was the bigger mini PCI.
It's even become common on desktops such as mini-ITX motherboards and Intel NUC.
You ought to have the wifi on a tiny user-accessible board unless you're using an Apple product or a tablet or a particularly integrated computer. Oh, Intel is working on that indeed.
I'll keep my PS/2 peripherals and sound card thanks, and I like my RAM on DIMMs / So-DIMMs.
I will consider an AIO if it meets these requirements, else regular PC hardware does, even if you want the latest 10 watt CPU.
or 360p at 60fps. The feature is interesting by itself, so it shouldn't be tied to HD when you don't always have the CPU or bandwith for it.
Hell, 240p and 144p with 256 kbps sound track is another thing I want, very often the music or speech is way more important than the piqué of the image. Countless bandwith and megajoules are wasted on the video and the sound still sucks. Can't watch people speaking without MP3-like artifacts. In the days of analog television, the audio had full quality.
For some reason video players on the web are often slow and/or crashy. The default Youtube one is passable (flash)
Whatever is on wikipedia sucks balls. (and is designed to rape my ears)
I've seen the "media player"'s skin change after a music was launched, like it was following some bizarre rules to choose html5 vs flash (switch from one to another after the show has started? or it was skin change for the sake of it. Thanks for the slow and interrupting refresh)
Worst is some html5 (I assume?) video boxes with an embedded flash object or two in it, the flash object is blocked and the flashblock icon is visible but unclickable, like the object is in a bottom layer. So the player can't work at all.
I'm concerned that web developers can do tricky crap to show off their talent and be "modern", while most of the time we just want to look at documents and embedded videos, not figuring out new graphical interfaces all the time.
Also, a big failure of HTML5 video was to only include a couple of highly demanding codecs. If you're including a proprietary codec, why not have the old ones from flash video (FLV)?, or H263 proper. If I want to look at full screen 240p or 288p at 15fps on a modest computer, I should be able to do that.
A small trailer will take your dog or a young kid. would be interesting to try that in combination with an electric-assist bike. So yes it solves the dog.
Broadband isn't always "metered" either, by that I mean that in many countries you will either have broadband or not broadband. No tiered service (for residential offers) and no data caps mean it's a fixed cost that is the same every month, even if you used no bytes that month.
Before that we had dial up, which was a monthly fee plus paying by the minute, or a very low set of hours (like 15 hours or 4 hours) and paying by the minute after that. So in my country, computers were common in the 90s but Internet access was very rare (let alone using a modem on a 8bit computer)
There's an opportunity here.. swap the wifi card with the one of the owner of an older laptop running Windows or recent linux, then he or she'll get slightly better wifi (perhaps) and you get working wifi.