But the technology does have drawbacks. For one, it only benefits users who run several programs at once or have software specially designed to take advantage of the two engines.
One doesn't have to read catch-22...
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Have you actually read Catch-22?
The body of your post is not an example of Catch-22, never mind a good example.
One doesn't have to read Catch-22 to know what the word means. Since catch-22 is a dictionary term now, all one needs to do is look up the word in a dictionary to find out the meaning of the word.
Quoting The Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd Edn.) (note: there is a spoiler about the novel in the 'ORIGIN' part, below):
catch-22, noun a dilemma or difficult circumstance from which there is no escape because of mutually conflicting or dependent conditions: [as modifier] a catch-22 situation.
-ORIGIN 1970s: title of a novel by Joseph Heller (1961) in which the main character feigns madness in order to avoid dangerous combat missions, but his desire to avoid them is taken to prove his sanity.
But you were right on one account.
If a commercial software vendor doesn't support linux people bitch. If a commercial software vendor does support it people bitch that the software isn't GPL. If the software gets GPL'd, people bitch that it hasn't been ported to their distros of choice.
That does not qualify as a catch-22 situation. 'catch-22' cannot be used in every lose-lose situation.
Sorry for taking this discussion completely off-topic, but the parent started it!:p
With a laptop, they have the "save battery" excuse, which is a valid one (but still over-ridable by the user) - what's the desktop equivalent?
I live in India and power cuts are a daily problem where I live in (southern) India. Therefore, a good lot of us people here are forced to keep battery powered backup power sources so that our computers don't just go off when the power goes off. I wouldn't mind if I could run my computer a bit longer on batteries by scaling down my CPU frequency when I don't need so much power. Intel's speedstep technology's introduction to desktops is an unintentional blessing to guys like myself. But, of course, Intel still needs to provide a better cooling solution for its processors.
CPUfreq works very well both on my Dell Inspiron 8600 (Pentium M, 1.8GHz) and my desktop machine (Pentium 4, 3.0EGHz).
Using CPUfreq is a good way of lowering CPU temperature when all of the CPU's power is not required (like when using the computer just to listen to music, etc).
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Quoting The Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd Edn.) (note: there is a spoiler about the novel in the 'ORIGIN' part, below):
catch-22, noun a dilemma or difficult circumstance from which there is no escape because of mutually conflicting or dependent conditions: [as modifier] a catch-22 situation.
-ORIGIN 1970s: title of a novel by Joseph Heller (1961) in which the main character feigns madness in order to avoid dangerous combat missions, but his desire to avoid them is taken to prove his sanity.
But you were right on one account.
That does not qualify as a catch-22 situation. 'catch-22' cannot be used in every lose-lose situation.
Sorry for taking this discussion completely off-topic, but the parent started it!
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/cpufr eq/cpufreq.html
CPUfreq works very well both on my Dell Inspiron 8600 (Pentium M, 1.8GHz) and my desktop machine (Pentium 4, 3.0EGHz).
Using CPUfreq is a good way of lowering CPU temperature when all of the CPU's power is not required (like when using the computer just to listen to music, etc).
Ah... the follies of youth. And what do anonymous cowards use in Korea? :p
I say, for the good of the world, fedora-redhat.com should be slashdotted ASAP!