Probably... but most Windows apps won't run on it without recompiling. And people don't buy Windows to run Windows, they buy Windows to run Windows apps.
So if you're going to buy a new netbook that won't run your old Windows apps anyway, there's much less reason to spend $150 rather than $100 just so it runs Windows rather than Linux/Chrome/whatever.
I guess C# and the like could be an option, but running non-native code on ARM seems like masochism to me.
Any crypto experts want to take a stab at explaining, in lay geek terms, how this is even remotely possible? That's a ~50,000:1 compression ratio.
I think what they're saying is that instead of building a table which will allow you to simply look up the relevant key from some known encrypted data, they'd build a smaller table which would allow you to substantially reduce decryption time.
And ads cost money to download and time wasted while sitting there for thirty seconds waiting for adserver99.crapads.com to respond with an ad that I don't want to see.
I'm not going to respond to the ads, so there's no point in me downloading them. Nor are smart advertisers going to pay money for long to companies who make me download ads that I don't respond to. If companies don't like that, they're free to demand that we pay them rather than the advertisers, but as we all know, most content on the Internet isn't worth paying for.
And, yes, I'm pretty sure that the earlier poster was just trolling.
NASA can not afford accidents, not because of the sanctity of human life or any nonsense like that, but because it will kill NASA and probably manned spaceflight in this country in general.
Nasa can't afford accidents because Challenger cost about $2,000,000,000 to replace and Columbia was essentially impossible to replace; lose one more shuttle and there aren't enough left to get anything useful done.
Lose an Arse launch and it's just a matter of replacing a capsule and hiring a few more astronauts.
Of course if NASA really cared about making it safer, they wouldn't have built an expensive, complex and rarely flown new launcher of their own rather than using a cheap ELV whose reliability is already known combined with an escape system designed to cope with what accidents may occur.
because the modern Microsoft development tools need that infernal Dotnet library to be loaded and then when it gets messes up any software that depends on it does not work.
Indeed. One of my PCs has a broken '.Net framework' which can't be fixed without a complete reinstall of the operating system: even Microsoft's own 'completely obliterate every last trace the bloody thing' uninstaller isn't enough to remove all the traces which prevent it from reinstalling properly. As a result, a lot of new software simply will not run.
Fortunately I do most of my useful work on Linux or Solaris these days so not being able to run random Windows software is no big deal, but '.Net' is such a monstrosity that it makes 'DLL Hell' look good in comparison; if even Microsoft can't fix it when it breaks, what chance do users have?
because obviously we should ignore such peoples opinions.
Police only have an easy job in a police state. Giving up rights just because the police can more easily catch EVIL ECO-TERRORISTS who dump garbage by the side of the road because the local council have cut garbage collection from weekly to every other week is not a good plan unless you intend to be the next Stalin or to end your life in a gulag.
Something tells me that the PC companies would be even more pissed if we started buying PCs en masse and returning them because we don't agree with the Windows EULA.
Google seems to struggle with practical relevancy in its results - Bing seems to return pages of companies offering the things I'm looking for, in my country (UK).
True: the more Google tries to be 'smart' about picking search results, the more it sucks. It's particularly useless for anything that uses an acronym that's similar to a real word, because Google will happily go off and give you 100,000,000 results for that word even though there are only 500 for the acronym and I typed that acronym because I only want searches containing that acronym and not the word that looks like it. And finding actual reviews of a product rather than sales sites with Google is simply hopeless.
Much as Bing has a stupid name, if it actually produces useful results then perhaps it's worth a look.
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Aren't those the same arguments used when talking about the superiority of Linux on the desktop, and yet we still have less than 5% market share?
Unlike the desktop, people don't have 20 years' worth of weird old DOS and Windows apps that they 'need' to run on their phones.
Plus I don't believe that Linus is paying companies to install Linux on their PCs yet.
The US government prints pieces of paper which Americans send to China. The Chinese make actual useful stuff and send it to America in return. Americans end up with a pile of useful stuff, Chinese end up with a pile of pieces of paper.
Agreed: anyone of clue should disable password logins for SSH or require use of strong passwords (i.e. long and randomly generated) if they can't do so.
Still, it could be worse: my webcam came with a password on the http: front-end, but a passwordless root login if you telnet to the other open port that nmap found. At least they must have realised they'd made a mistake because the firmware update removed that insane security hole.
And as an aside, the reason BR is DOA is that a) they're frickin' expensive
Since when?
Most of the Blu-Ray disks I've bought of older movies have been cheaper than the equivalent DVD was when it came out, and the last few box sets of TV shows have been only a few dollars more than the same show on DVD... if not less, in some cases.
That's not to imply that some Blu-Ray disks aren't crazily priced, but most would have looked like a bargain compared to when I started buying DVDs in the 90s. The whole 'Band of Brothers' TV show on Blu-Ray cost me about $35, for example.
Then again, if you think that 4-8GB is 'immense size', you may think $35 for one of the best TV shows of recent years at HD resolution is 'frickin expensive'.
If that were done, then the computers could ensure that collisions in the train don't happen.
Of course that makes collisions worse with any vehicle or obstruction in front of your 'train'... like, say, some wacko terrorist who steals a truck and then slams on the brakes in front of you.
This whole 'road train' idea is just stupid for so many reasons that I'm surprised that anyone other than 'private transport is evil' commies keep trying to defend it.
Not trying to create flamebait, But honestly does anyone still use it.
Yes. It's buggy and configuration is horrendous, but now it's going the only real problem I have is that it tends not to update the database properly when a table changes in a new version (e.g. mythbuntu seems to assume that you don't have a root password on the MySQL database).
That said, I'm not going to be upgrading to 0.22 until the current season of my girlfrend's favorite shows finishes, because I'll be in trouble if she misses some due to software changes.
There are these new-fangled things called 'cookies', which get sent to Google every time you view one of their ads, which are on roughly 99.99% of web pages these days unless you block access to those servers.
That's weird, because 9.04 gives: vm.mmap_min_addr = 65536 and so did the 9.10 desktop version a few posts up.
You probably don't have Wine installed. AFAIR Wine needs it set to zero to run some old 16-bit applications, so installing Wine installs a config file which sets it to zero.
It's another thing to not consider putting the car in neutral when something like this is encountered.
Will an electronically controlled transmission even let you put the car in neutral while the engine is running flat out?
These days the controls in the typical modern car are merely suggestions to the computers that are really driving it, so who knows they'll do in extreme circumstances?
Ok, repeat after me: there is no production car on the planet with an engine capable of suddenly overpowering simple hydraulic brakes.
There is if the engine is running flat out and you burn out the brakes trying to stop it.
This is the same bullshit driver error as before, just the computers playing boogeyman are a bit more advanced this time.
From what I've read on the subject, I believe at least one car affected in this way did have its brakes burnt out; so I suspect the bullshit is coming from a different direction.
That said, I tend to suspect floor mats are at least as likely an explanation as software faults: I remember my throttle getting stuck on something in the footwell some years ago, but fortunately it was a manual with an ignition key rather than an automatic with a 'hold down for five seconds to stop the engine' button.
Are they? Or is it just another shitstorm of astroturf and payed for reviews that is pretty much the trademark of Microsoft?
Bingo. I knew plenty of people who couldn't wait to get Windows 95 to replace 3.1. I even knew people who were just as eager to get Windows 98 even though it was basically just Windows 95 SP3. I don't know anyone who wanted Vista or anyone whose attitude to Windows 7 is anything but 'well, I guess it will be on the next PC I buy'.
The only reason why I keep a Windows PC in the house is to play games and to run the video software I have which only runs on Windows; other than that, what Microsoft do is irrelevant to me. There's no way I could have said the same thing ten years ago.
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Doesn't Windows Mobile (WinCE) run on ARM?
Probably... but most Windows apps won't run on it without recompiling. And people don't buy Windows to run Windows, they buy Windows to run Windows apps.
So if you're going to buy a new netbook that won't run your old Windows apps anyway, there's much less reason to spend $150 rather than $100 just so it runs Windows rather than Linux/Chrome/whatever.
I guess C# and the like could be an option, but running non-native code on ARM seems like masochism to me.
Any crypto experts want to take a stab at explaining, in lay geek terms, how this is even remotely possible? That's a ~50,000:1 compression ratio.
I think what they're saying is that instead of building a table which will allow you to simply look up the relevant key from some known encrypted data, they'd build a smaller table which would allow you to substantially reduce decryption time.
Content costs money to produce and deliver.
And ads cost money to download and time wasted while sitting there for thirty seconds waiting for adserver99.crapads.com to respond with an ad that I don't want to see.
I'm not going to respond to the ads, so there's no point in me downloading them. Nor are smart advertisers going to pay money for long to companies who make me download ads that I don't respond to. If companies don't like that, they're free to demand that we pay them rather than the advertisers, but as we all know, most content on the Internet isn't worth paying for.
And, yes, I'm pretty sure that the earlier poster was just trolling.
NASA can not afford accidents, not because of the sanctity of human life or any nonsense like that, but because it will kill NASA and probably manned spaceflight in this country in general.
Nasa can't afford accidents because Challenger cost about $2,000,000,000 to replace and Columbia was essentially impossible to replace; lose one more shuttle and there aren't enough left to get anything useful done.
Lose an Arse launch and it's just a matter of replacing a capsule and hiring a few more astronauts.
Of course if NASA really cared about making it safer, they wouldn't have built an expensive, complex and rarely flown new launcher of their own rather than using a cheap ELV whose reliability is already known combined with an escape system designed to cope with what accidents may occur.
because the modern Microsoft development tools need that infernal Dotnet library to be loaded and then when it gets messes up any software that depends on it does not work.
Indeed. One of my PCs has a broken '.Net framework' which can't be fixed without a complete reinstall of the operating system: even Microsoft's own 'completely obliterate every last trace the bloody thing' uninstaller isn't enough to remove all the traces which prevent it from reinstalling properly. As a result, a lot of new software simply will not run.
Fortunately I do most of my useful work on Linux or Solaris these days so not being able to run random Windows software is no big deal, but '.Net' is such a monstrosity that it makes 'DLL Hell' look good in comparison; if even Microsoft can't fix it when it breaks, what chance do users have?
because obviously we should ignore such peoples opinions.
Police only have an easy job in a police state. Giving up rights just because the police can more easily catch EVIL ECO-TERRORISTS who dump garbage by the side of the road because the local council have cut garbage collection from weekly to every other week is not a good plan unless you intend to be the next Stalin or to end your life in a gulag.
Something tells me that the PC companies would be even more pissed if we started buying PCs en masse and returning them because we don't agree with the Windows EULA.
Surely one of the main reasons for having web based applications in the first place is to get some independence from the clients' platform.
You haven't been in IT long, have you?
Google seems to struggle with practical relevancy in its results - Bing seems to return pages of companies offering the things I'm looking for, in my country (UK).
True: the more Google tries to be 'smart' about picking search results, the more it sucks. It's particularly useless for anything that uses an acronym that's similar to a real word, because Google will happily go off and give you 100,000,000 results for that word even though there are only 500 for the acronym and I typed that acronym because I only want searches containing that acronym and not the word that looks like it. And finding actual reviews of a product rather than sales sites with Google is simply hopeless.
Much as Bing has a stupid name, if it actually produces useful results then perhaps it's worth a look.
Aren't those the same arguments used when talking about the superiority of Linux on the desktop, and yet we still have less than 5% market share?
Unlike the desktop, people don't have 20 years' worth of weird old DOS and Windows apps that they 'need' to run on their phones.
Plus I don't believe that Linus is paying companies to install Linux on their PCs yet.
The microchip, and a lot of the technological advances attributed to space exploration, were actually invented for use in ICBMs.
No they weren't.
Apollo and ICBMs provided much of the incentive to mass-produce ICs, but they weren't 'invented for use in ICBMs'.
Yep! Now who's the Super Power, again?
The US government prints pieces of paper which Americans send to China. The Chinese make actual useful stuff and send it to America in return. Americans end up with a pile of useful stuff, Chinese end up with a pile of pieces of paper.
Who's getting the worst of the deal here?
Agreed: anyone of clue should disable password logins for SSH or require use of strong passwords (i.e. long and randomly generated) if they can't do so.
Still, it could be worse: my webcam came with a password on the http: front-end, but a passwordless root login if you telnet to the other open port that nmap found. At least they must have realised they'd made a mistake because the firmware update removed that insane security hole.
And as an aside, the reason BR is DOA is that a) they're frickin' expensive
Since when?
Most of the Blu-Ray disks I've bought of older movies have been cheaper than the equivalent DVD was when it came out, and the last few box sets of TV shows have been only a few dollars more than the same show on DVD... if not less, in some cases.
That's not to imply that some Blu-Ray disks aren't crazily priced, but most would have looked like a bargain compared to when I started buying DVDs in the 90s. The whole 'Band of Brothers' TV show on Blu-Ray cost me about $35, for example.
Then again, if you think that 4-8GB is 'immense size', you may think $35 for one of the best TV shows of recent years at HD resolution is 'frickin expensive'.
If that were done, then the computers could ensure that collisions in the train don't happen.
Of course that makes collisions worse with any vehicle or obstruction in front of your 'train'... like, say, some wacko terrorist who steals a truck and then slams on the brakes in front of you.
This whole 'road train' idea is just stupid for so many reasons that I'm surprised that anyone other than 'private transport is evil' commies keep trying to defend it.
The car in the front is a professional, probably government employed, driver.
Somehow being in a 'train' of a hundred cars with a taxi driver at the front doesn't fill me with confidence.
Not trying to create flamebait, But honestly does anyone still use it.
Yes. It's buggy and configuration is horrendous, but now it's going the only real problem I have is that it tends not to update the database properly when a table changes in a new version (e.g. mythbuntu seems to assume that you don't have a root password on the MySQL database).
That said, I'm not going to be upgrading to 0.22 until the current season of my girlfrend's favorite shows finishes, because I'll be in trouble if she misses some due to software changes.
There are these new-fangled things called 'cookies', which get sent to Google every time you view one of their ads, which are on roughly 99.99% of web pages these days unless you block access to those servers.
A person can be distracted by anything.
Indeed: I was distracted this morning while I was driving to work by thoughts about how I could create a technological solution to distracted driving.
Must be an Ubuntu oddity for Wine, then.
Yeah, I don't know of any other distribution than Ubuntu which automatically reconfigures it when you install Wine.
Ubuntu sets this to zero if you have wine installed.
That's weird, because 9.04 gives: vm.mmap_min_addr = 65536 and so did the 9.10 desktop version a few posts up.
You probably don't have Wine installed. AFAIR Wine needs it set to zero to run some old 16-bit applications, so installing Wine installs a config file which sets it to zero.
It's another thing to not consider putting the car in neutral when something like this is encountered.
Will an electronically controlled transmission even let you put the car in neutral while the engine is running flat out?
These days the controls in the typical modern car are merely suggestions to the computers that are really driving it, so who knows they'll do in extreme circumstances?
Ok, repeat after me: there is no production car on the planet with an engine capable of suddenly overpowering simple hydraulic brakes.
There is if the engine is running flat out and you burn out the brakes trying to stop it.
This is the same bullshit driver error as before, just the computers playing boogeyman are a bit more advanced this time.
From what I've read on the subject, I believe at least one car affected in this way did have its brakes burnt out; so I suspect the bullshit is coming from a different direction.
That said, I tend to suspect floor mats are at least as likely an explanation as software faults: I remember my throttle getting stuck on something in the footwell some years ago, but fortunately it was a manual with an ignition key rather than an automatic with a 'hold down for five seconds to stop the engine' button.
Are they? Or is it just another shitstorm of astroturf and payed for reviews that is pretty much the trademark of Microsoft?
Bingo. I knew plenty of people who couldn't wait to get Windows 95 to replace 3.1. I even knew people who were just as eager to get Windows 98 even though it was basically just Windows 95 SP3. I don't know anyone who wanted Vista or anyone whose attitude to Windows 7 is anything but 'well, I guess it will be on the next PC I buy'.
The only reason why I keep a Windows PC in the house is to play games and to run the video software I have which only runs on Windows; other than that, what Microsoft do is irrelevant to me. There's no way I could have said the same thing ten years ago.