Alcatel have to collect it first... You know how long Microsoft can keep stalling things through the courts... especially when there's a foreign company involved trying to collect...
Hmmm... Synaptic for Windows... it could use Sourceforge and Freshmeat as repositories... you could have the little alert icon in the systray that tells you when updates are available...
when I purchase a DVD drive, unless it's a real barebones package, it usually comes with WinDVD... as far as I'm concerned, that's my "permission" to use DeCSS to get round the fact that there isn't the equivalent package for Linux bundled with the drive as well. I don't see why on earth I should have to purchase a $4.95 package via CnR when the drive (and usually the PC these days) has already come with bundled software.
they blocked software patents because the legislation which would have been passed had been so neutered as to make software patents useless for the big boys to use as a weapon... what would have been passed would have been software patents that actually required a real inventive step and a true "technical effect" instead of just an idea that could be rubber-stamped through by a body paid by the volume of patents they passed...
When Microsoft and the others realised what was about to happen (in that the anti-software lobbying was actually working) was not in their long term interest, then they had the bill killed. Killing the bill allows them to sneak what they want in again...
Critical question here is whose compiler was used to compile the benchmarking programs??? and whether the benchmarks themselves were specifically compiled to take advantage of the instruction sets...
There's only one truly independent test available... and that's how long it takes to emerge a default Gentoo install with the compile options set to match the respective processors. Everything else should be as identical as possible.
They decided to require fancy graphics cards to run the best version of Vista. This is because Vista offloads the graphics performance from the CPU to the card. This also means that the extremely common "shared memory" graphics subsystems are unusable with the modern Vista, making a lot of strong-selling hardware obsolete overnight. This is the same hardware that makes the $299 PC possible, so you can probably tell how happy this makes hardware vendors.
Too right... I bought two machines last month, just before 30th Jan to make sure they had XP on them and NOT Vista. Both machines are advertised as Vista capable... one machine (AMD Sempron 2800+) has 512 MB ram with 128MB shared graphics is entitled to a free Vista Home Basic upgrade (which we won't be redeeming), and mine (AMD64 x2 3800+) 1 GB ram with 256MB shared graphics) is entitled to a free Vista Home PRemium upgrade...
we won't be bothering with the upgrades... we will be sticking Feisty Fawn on when it's officially released (Edgy Eft doesn't support the ethernet chip, but Feisty does) and keeping reduced XP partitions just for a few programs we already own.
the Vista boxes aren't flying off the shelves in good old blighty... it's stupidly expensive... you can easily buy a base unit with XP on it for the cost of a Vista retail license. One dreads to think just how much of the cost of a current PC is made up of the cost of Vista to the OEMs.
what's driving the very low frequency waves then??? Atmospheric turbulence??? Which if so, would mean that the indirect cause of the "hum" IS atmospheric turbulence...
where are the Intel graphics cards then??? all I see are laptops with Intel graphics... I would like to replace the nVidia cards in my boxes with Intel cards but can't.
I think you'll find it's Microsoft who're dragging their ass with nVidia... deliberately stalling the certification and probably got code to deliberately crash nvidia at random... they've done stuff like this before and I wouldn't put it past them now either...
OpenGL is only dying because Microsoft are deliberately killing it... why else is it deliberately strangled on Vista? There is no valid reason for it, but Microsoft have deliberately made the OpenGL subsystem go through extra steps to get to the hardware so that it is slower in comparison to DirectX.
the question is... are the potatoe seeds large enough to survive re-entry? They're light, but is their density low enough so that they decelerate without burning up?
just who is going to be the only person who won't fall foul of this proposed "law"... If the courts get flooded with cases, then perhaps they might just rethink things... or am I just living in cloud-cuckoo land... Personally, I'd recommend that we deliberately go to police stations and give ourselves up, all at an pre-arranged time and day as a means of protest if this stupidity gets passed.
shouldn't be growing corn for ethanol... you should be installing arrays of solar cells instead... growing corn for ethanol has just driven the cost of all corn up... farmers are happy, those whose staple food is derived from corn aren't... ask the Mexicans what they think about corn being priced out of their reach...
they sell at a set price... the money we're talking about here is the Market Development Funds... the kickbacks the OEMs get for doing things like having that stupid "XXXX recommends Windows XP Professional" or not selling naked PCs or not selling PCs with other OSes pre-installed...
iPods are not cool anymore, they're too common, chavs have them... that's enough of a downer on the coolness factor itself... in fact, the very word iPod is being used as a generic to describe all small form factor portable music players... the only way to have a "cool" iPod these days is to have hacked it to run Linux
Little Girl: [looking at a Magic Eye poster] Wow. It's a schooner.
Willam Black: Ha ha ha ha. You dumb bastard. It's not a schooner... it's a Sailboat.
Little Boy: A schooner IS a sailboat stupid head.
Willam Black: [becoming enraged] You know what. There is NO Easter Bunny. Over there, that's just a guy in a suit.
That's a pretty stiff penalty to stick Mac users with
Stiff penalty??? why can't I buy OSX in a box to run in a VM on my Linux box then??? why the f do I have to purchase an entire Apple machine???
I have a perfectly capable machine already... and it runs Linux and Windows very well using VirtualBox (virtualbox's own server is currently unreachable for me), so it should have no problems at all with OSX in a VM.
I already know it would run OSX on the bare metal itself as I've got a second hard disk available with a dodgy install of the OSX x86 version... so it's not a real technical issue preventing me from running OSX on this box, it's a jumped up marketing decision that's stopping me.
makes a good heat source so they should be able to capture that heat and turn the thing into a CHP type plant instead of just an electricity plant... hmmm lots of nice hot water... so, when can I have a micro one for my house then???
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Alcatel have to collect it first... You know how long Microsoft can keep stalling things through the courts... especially when there's a foreign company involved trying to collect...
Hmmm... Synaptic for Windows... it could use Sourceforge and Freshmeat as repositories... you could have the little alert icon in the systray that tells you when updates are available...
when I purchase a DVD drive, unless it's a real barebones package, it usually comes with WinDVD... as far as I'm concerned, that's my "permission" to use DeCSS to get round the fact that there isn't the equivalent package for Linux bundled with the drive as well. I don't see why on earth I should have to purchase a $4.95 package via CnR when the drive (and usually the PC these days) has already come with bundled software.
ah, but once you've done the full install, you can then use the machines to run other "standard" tasks (using scripts) to see which is really faster.
they blocked software patents because the legislation which would have been passed had been so neutered as to make software patents useless for the big boys to use as a weapon... what would have been passed would have been software patents that actually required a real inventive step and a true "technical effect" instead of just an idea that could be rubber-stamped through by a body paid by the volume of patents they passed... When Microsoft and the others realised what was about to happen (in that the anti-software lobbying was actually working) was not in their long term interest, then they had the bill killed. Killing the bill allows them to sneak what they want in again...
Critical question here is whose compiler was used to compile the benchmarking programs??? and whether the benchmarks themselves were specifically compiled to take advantage of the instruction sets...
There's only one truly independent test available... and that's how long it takes to emerge a default Gentoo install with the compile options set to match the respective processors. Everything else should be as identical as possible.
Too right... I bought two machines last month, just before 30th Jan to make sure they had XP on them and NOT Vista. Both machines are advertised as Vista capable... one machine (AMD Sempron 2800+) has 512 MB ram with 128MB shared graphics is entitled to a free Vista Home Basic upgrade (which we won't be redeeming), and mine (AMD64 x2 3800+) 1 GB ram with 256MB shared graphics) is entitled to a free Vista Home PRemium upgrade...
we won't be bothering with the upgrades... we will be sticking Feisty Fawn on when it's officially released (Edgy Eft doesn't support the ethernet chip, but Feisty does) and keeping reduced XP partitions just for a few programs we already own.
the Vista boxes aren't flying off the shelves in good old blighty... it's stupidly expensive... you can easily buy a base unit with XP on it for the cost of a Vista retail license. One dreads to think just how much of the cost of a current PC is made up of the cost of Vista to the OEMs.
what's driving the very low frequency waves then??? Atmospheric turbulence??? Which if so, would mean that the indirect cause of the "hum" IS atmospheric turbulence...
does it have one?
where are the Intel graphics cards then??? all I see are laptops with Intel graphics... I would like to replace the nVidia cards in my boxes with Intel cards but can't.
anyway, here's her picture... ;)
I think you'll find it's Microsoft who're dragging their ass with nVidia... deliberately stalling the certification and probably got code to deliberately crash nvidia at random... they've done stuff like this before and I wouldn't put it past them now either...
OpenGL is only dying because Microsoft are deliberately killing it... why else is it deliberately strangled on Vista? There is no valid reason for it, but Microsoft have deliberately made the OpenGL subsystem go through extra steps to get to the hardware so that it is slower in comparison to DirectX.
Moon Trees anyone???
just boot him... and block him from re-entering for 30 minutes... he might just get the hint...
the question is... are the potatoe seeds large enough to survive re-entry? They're light, but is their density low enough so that they decelerate without burning up?
welcome our mutant space potatoe overlords...
just who is going to be the only person who won't fall foul of this proposed "law"... If the courts get flooded with cases, then perhaps they might just rethink things... or am I just living in cloud-cuckoo land... Personally, I'd recommend that we deliberately go to police stations and give ourselves up, all at an pre-arranged time and day as a means of protest if this stupidity gets passed.
they should ban sock-puppet lobbying groups such as the "Initiative For Software Choice"...
shouldn't be growing corn for ethanol... you should be installing arrays of solar cells instead... growing corn for ethanol has just driven the cost of all corn up... farmers are happy, those whose staple food is derived from corn aren't... ask the Mexicans what they think about corn being priced out of their reach...
they sell at a set price... the money we're talking about here is the Market Development Funds... the kickbacks the OEMs get for doing things like having that stupid "XXXX recommends Windows XP Professional" or not selling naked PCs or not selling PCs with other OSes pre-installed...
iPods are not cool anymore, they're too common, chavs have them... that's enough of a downer on the coolness factor itself... in fact, the very word iPod is being used as a generic to describe all small form factor portable music players... the only way to have a "cool" iPod these days is to have hacked it to run Linux
Stiff penalty??? why can't I buy OSX in a box to run in a VM on my Linux box then??? why the f do I have to purchase an entire Apple machine???
I have a perfectly capable machine already... and it runs Linux and Windows very well using VirtualBox (virtualbox's own server is currently unreachable for me), so it should have no problems at all with OSX in a VM.
I already know it would run OSX on the bare metal itself as I've got a second hard disk available with a dodgy install of the OSX x86 version... so it's not a real technical issue preventing me from running OSX on this box, it's a jumped up marketing decision that's stopping me.
makes a good heat source so they should be able to capture that heat and turn the thing into a CHP type plant instead of just an electricity plant... hmmm lots of nice hot water... so, when can I have a micro one for my house then???