Swapping out pages that aren't in use is much less efficient than de-allocating them and making them available to another program's heap as it requires disk accesses.
And then you take someone's deathly slow netbook and install Chrome on it for them as their primary browser and they thank you constantly because its usable now.
Chrome is a fantastically fast little browser that works in small memory spaces much better than Firefox.
As far as privacy goes - google software has NEVER asked me if i really want to check for updates and despite my repeated attempts to let them know that i dont by disabling the appropriate daemons they sneak back in when you update manually or install some other unrelated piece of code from google.
And thank Google for that -- the last thing we need is another browser with three-year old versions lingering about causing major security problems for everyone else. You think worms propagate because everyone has their software up to date?
I know several professional photographers and graphics design people who use high powered macs for all their work. None of them would be able to do their work from an ipad instead; they need a lot more horsepower (not to mention a properly calibrated screen).
Not everyone is destined to move into the tablet space, and personally speaking, a ten inch tablet just doesn't fit my lifestyle at all on the go. Give me a PC and my smart phone and I'm happy.
It sounds like he's complaining about being told that he has to update this, scan that, defrag something, and turn on his firewall for crissakes. My netbook is far more interested in telling me that whatever programs I run at boot have a new version out than just opening whatever program I need to use badly enough to have turned the thing on.
Back in the early days of the PC, none of those things needed doing on that platform either. Then as people became more demanding and did more unforseen things with their computers, they became necessary.
I wouldn't be surprised if tablets and phones are just as maintenance-heavy in a year or two as the average PC.
A netbook just powerful enough to run VNC (or preferably remote X sessions) with a data stick is kind of the ultimate mobile computing platform if you're going to do that kind of thing.
I use VNC and SSH on my Dell Streak all the time, but I admit the 5" screen and on-screen keyboard are a bit limiting when doing SSH work:)
People on Slashdot don't add the cost of premium online service for the XBOX360 vs. PS3 when comparing prices for online gaming, why would they consider data costs?:)
No offense, but 30GB isn't enough storage to watch more than one blu-ray quality movie in HD. With the compression turned up enough and the resolution cut down substantially, sure.
Note: I watch movies at home on a 100+" screen on a comfy couch with 5.1 audio. The very thought of watching movies on a regular basis on a tablet is just laughable. That said, even if you were wanting to do such a thing; there really isn't enough storage for the quality i'd expect from a movie, nor is the audio capability there.
In fact, I dare say if small laptops came with built-in GPS and 3G/4G data access built-in, a lot of people might find the comparison more direct.
The problem I think is that smart phones and tablets are presently coming with hardware capabilities that traditional mobiles did not have -- from the multi-axis motion sensing to GPS to mobile data access to decent cameras. Those features don't actually exist in a nice integrated way in the Windows PC or Mac markets, so the phones and tablets have an advantage in those use cases.
Actually, I suited the opposite bias. I compared people who already know how to install Windows to people who may not know how to install Linux at all. If you'd bothered considering that, you'd realized I'd actually stacked the deck against my argument, not for it.
As a result, the rest of your comment is meaningless to me.
The acting in both sets of movies is completely different in style, that's the only issue. The dialog in the prequels is poorly written; the actors didn't have much to go on to be honest. In my opinion, it had bad directing, not bad acting -- if that's the performance we got its because the director kept that take.
All six movies are silly in a lot of ways, but fun to watch. They all have terrible issues, but fans of a specific set of them will always prefer those to the others. Personally, I found prequel 2 to be the most interesting of the movies. It was probably the only one of the six that wasn't full of "saw that coming".
Irrelevant; if you wanted to go somewhere specific, you'd use the home button just like an iOS device, or if its something you used recently, you'd hold down the home button and pick from the MRU list.
The Android devices can do the same behaviours as the iOS devices, but the inverse is not true.
No offense, but Apple's got marketing... the experience side I've experienced is different.
Nearly every person who sees my wife using her new Motorola Droid3 or me using my Dell Streak 5 ask which IPhone we have (lol). Then we show them our customized home screens with information instantly visible, from calendar appointments (I use S2 calendar widgets) to recent friend updates to weather forecasts. Then she slides out the very nice keyboard on hers, or more likely demonstrates how fast it is to enter text with Swype or voice on Android, and how you can instantly jump between recently used apps that are still running in the background, and they're sold.
I haven't met a single IPhone user who says "oh my phone can do that better" yet. The only thing I've heard in favour of an IPhone from its users is "it makes me feel good."
Unattended Windows installations are not easy to configure or set up or get started with. Your average person who knows how to install Windows would not figure out how to create an unattended installation.
Your average computer person who can read a blog can create their own custom CentOS distribution for installation over PXE in a couple hours (or a lot less).
The actual installation part was not what I was commenting on, sorry.
I almost always play video games in the dark, on a nice big projected screen, from about 10' away. The PS3's lit Move controller has no problem with this, and the Wii doesn't either, but Kinect I haven't tried (and don't think it would be happy about it).
To be fair, I have yet to see a single Kinect game feature that seemed worth buying it for.
Its actually handy for those of us who do multiple VNC installs of CentOS on the LAN at once. I start a bunch of LAN installations, monitor them by VNC, and on reboot, I ssh in as root, upload keys for the default user, disable root access and password logins, and voila, its done.
What I really wish they'd do is put up an/etc/issue.net prompt complaining that the server hasn't been configured yet (like snmpd.conf's).
We still have modems at most customer sites; although IPSEC is configured to allow remote VPN access; but that's firewalled to only permit attempted connections from known IP addresses (including ours).
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Swapping out pages that aren't in use is much less efficient than de-allocating them and making them available to another program's heap as it requires disk accesses.
And then you take someone's deathly slow netbook and install Chrome on it for them as their primary browser and they thank you constantly because its usable now.
Chrome is a fantastically fast little browser that works in small memory spaces much better than Firefox.
And thank Google for that -- the last thing we need is another browser with three-year old versions lingering about causing major security problems for everyone else. You think worms propagate because everyone has their software up to date?
Yes, and hundreds of other applications much like the app store, but cross-platform for your browser.
Feel free to navigate the Chrome Store and download applications like offline gmail and even Angry Birds.
I know several professional photographers and graphics design people who use high powered macs for all their work. None of them would be able to do their work from an ipad instead; they need a lot more horsepower (not to mention a properly calibrated screen).
Not everyone is destined to move into the tablet space, and personally speaking, a ten inch tablet just doesn't fit my lifestyle at all on the go. Give me a PC and my smart phone and I'm happy.
Back in the early days of the PC, none of those things needed doing on that platform either. Then as people became more demanding and did more unforseen things with their computers, they became necessary.
I wouldn't be surprised if tablets and phones are just as maintenance-heavy in a year or two as the average PC.
I'm not sure what you're getting at here, but you do realize tools like git are designed precisely for this type of work.
A netbook just powerful enough to run VNC (or preferably remote X sessions) with a data stick is kind of the ultimate mobile computing platform if you're going to do that kind of thing.
I use VNC and SSH on my Dell Streak all the time, but I admit the 5" screen and on-screen keyboard are a bit limiting when doing SSH work :)
People on Slashdot don't add the cost of premium online service for the XBOX360 vs. PS3 when comparing prices for online gaming, why would they consider data costs? :)
No offense, but 30GB isn't enough storage to watch more than one blu-ray quality movie in HD. With the compression turned up enough and the resolution cut down substantially, sure.
Note: I watch movies at home on a 100+" screen on a comfy couch with 5.1 audio. The very thought of watching movies on a regular basis on a tablet is just laughable. That said, even if you were wanting to do such a thing; there really isn't enough storage for the quality i'd expect from a movie, nor is the audio capability there.
In fact, I dare say if small laptops came with built-in GPS and 3G/4G data access built-in, a lot of people might find the comparison more direct.
The problem I think is that smart phones and tablets are presently coming with hardware capabilities that traditional mobiles did not have -- from the multi-axis motion sensing to GPS to mobile data access to decent cameras. Those features don't actually exist in a nice integrated way in the Windows PC or Mac markets, so the phones and tablets have an advantage in those use cases.
Many take both, but the point is still valid -- a multi-card reader with a good controller is a valuable asset.
A portable hard drive with built-in card reader for doing instant backups is even better.
While surely they're not all relevant, I got 758 results for 'used ipad' on ebay just now. Surely many of the listings don't say used.
As far as I can tell, the second-hand market *is* flooded with ipads since many of these are going for under $350.
Actually, I suited the opposite bias. I compared people who already know how to install Windows to people who may not know how to install Linux at all. If you'd bothered considering that, you'd realized I'd actually stacked the deck against my argument, not for it.
As a result, the rest of your comment is meaningless to me.
Psst, random Google result: try this.
If you computer count all ballots and randomly hand-count some segments of ballots, you catch errors in the counting.
That you realize random coders on the internet are more likely to care about the end results of their product than a monolith like Samsung?
The acting in both sets of movies is completely different in style, that's the only issue. The dialog in the prequels is poorly written; the actors didn't have much to go on to be honest. In my opinion, it had bad directing, not bad acting -- if that's the performance we got its because the director kept that take.
All six movies are silly in a lot of ways, but fun to watch. They all have terrible issues, but fans of a specific set of them will always prefer those to the others. Personally, I found prequel 2 to be the most interesting of the movies. It was probably the only one of the six that wasn't full of "saw that coming".
YMMV.
Irrelevant; if you wanted to go somewhere specific, you'd use the home button just like an iOS device, or if its something you used recently, you'd hold down the home button and pick from the MRU list.
The Android devices can do the same behaviours as the iOS devices, but the inverse is not true.
No offense, but Apple's got marketing ... the experience side I've experienced is different.
Nearly every person who sees my wife using her new Motorola Droid3 or me using my Dell Streak 5 ask which IPhone we have (lol). Then we show them our customized home screens with information instantly visible, from calendar appointments (I use S2 calendar widgets) to recent friend updates to weather forecasts. Then she slides out the very nice keyboard on hers, or more likely demonstrates how fast it is to enter text with Swype or voice on Android, and how you can instantly jump between recently used apps that are still running in the background, and they're sold.
I haven't met a single IPhone user who says "oh my phone can do that better" yet. The only thing I've heard in favour of an IPhone from its users is "it makes me feel good."
Unattended Windows installations are not easy to configure or set up or get started with. Your average person who knows how to install Windows would not figure out how to create an unattended installation.
Your average computer person who can read a blog can create their own custom CentOS distribution for installation over PXE in a couple hours (or a lot less).
The actual installation part was not what I was commenting on, sorry.
Just because there's no sense in it doesn't mean they won't.
I almost always play video games in the dark, on a nice big projected screen, from about 10' away. The PS3's lit Move controller has no problem with this, and the Wii doesn't either, but Kinect I haven't tried (and don't think it would be happy about it).
To be fair, I have yet to see a single Kinect game feature that seemed worth buying it for.
Its actually handy for those of us who do multiple VNC installs of CentOS on the LAN at once. I start a bunch of LAN installations, monitor them by VNC, and on reboot, I ssh in as root, upload keys for the default user, disable root access and password logins, and voila, its done.
What I really wish they'd do is put up an /etc/issue.net prompt complaining that the server hasn't been configured yet (like snmpd.conf's).
We still have modems at most customer sites; although IPSEC is configured to allow remote VPN access; but that's firewalled to only permit attempted connections from known IP addresses (including ours).
Setting up a CentOS server is even faster than configuring a Windows 7 PC, yes.
I run unattended CentOS installations regularly, its very very simple.