I think it is more likely that you will see site specific advertising, like in the early days of the web, instead of doubleclick.com and similar crapola.
If the ad files come from the same domain name of the content, and seem like content to the browser, filters stop working properly.
When Google Chrome cannot do the simplest things like smooth scrolling, or remembering the page position 100% of the time as I navigate backwards and forwards in the browsing history (even IE does this properly), I stick with Firefox.
The Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, and Prodigy are British bands. Techno, or later dance, may have played in the US but it is not easy to remember an US artist in the genre. Let alone a successful one.
Gaga seems to me like a mix of hip-hop and some of the latter dance/techno music. Her latest single Alejandro (which is her first music I actually dislike) has been said by many people to sound like Ace of Base by a lot of people (Ace of Base is one of the bands I actually disliked at the time).
The strong points of Gaga's IMO were the music (compared to US mainstream artists) and the lyrics. Her voice is ok, but I never found it great.
In this decade I mostly listen to Trance or J-Pop. Lasgo, Milk Inc, L'Arc en Ciel, MELL, or Nightmare for example.
Oh and the thing with Gaga, much like Madonna, was never the voice as much as the music itself. It's about time the US got into techno anyway. Sure beats rap.
Actually first time I listened Gaga and liked her music I had never seen her on video. As for the music will stand the test of time, it depends. Most good artists reinvent themselves along their career. They also release albums rather sparingly. She does not seem to be doing this, so I am guessing her career will crater sooner rather than later.
The number of non-FLOSS applications I use keeps shrinking as time goes by. FWIW:
I used to use Adobe Illustrator and now use a combination of Inkscape and Dia.
Used to use WinZip, now use 7-Zip.
Used to use Windows Media Player. Then I used Media Player Classic, and now increasingly VLC.
Used to use SecureCRT. Now I use PuTTY.
Used to use VMWare. Now I use VirtualBox.
Used IE at one time. Now I use Firefox.
I also replaced most uses I made of Microsoft Office and Adobe InDesign with OpenOffice.org and LaTeX. You will probably note that nearly all of these applications I mentioned are available on Linux.
What is keeping me in Windows is the games. I can already play old MS-DOS games on Linux just fine with DOSBox (in fact it works better than Microsoft's awful MS-DOS subsystem in NT kernel based systems). It's the DirectX crap that is the issue.
Nokia used to at a time. Nearly a decade ago. The Communicator series at one time was top notch.
People who like smartphones with a large touch screen have plenty of options today besides Apple, like HTC (Desire) or Samsung (Galaxy S). Like you said these are mostly Android. It shouldn't escape a lot of people's attention that there is little in an iPhone which actually comes from Apple besides the software. It's manufactured by Foxconn and most of the expensive components come from Samsung. Apple is probably trying to change this with the A4 processor. But I will share you in a little dirty secret. Apple, or Steve Jobs for that matter, have never been particularly good at semiconductor design or manufacturing. You might argue their strengths are in system design (software and hardware).
What few people realize is that often a successful company's own worst enemy is its own product. DEC had this issue in hardware with the PDP-11 and its limited memory addressing. But what few people seem to realize is that software can have the same issues. Sometimes the original design eventually gets so bad there is no viable way to move it forward to recent technological requirements. This happened with Mac OS (no preemptive multitasking), Symbian (arcane APIs), Windows Mobile (arcane APIs and obsolete OS design), and now is most likely to happen to iOS. Objective-C is obsolete as a programming language, and so are the APIs. The fact that Apple is forcing people into this environment is pathetic and laughable. They are shooting their own foot off.
Try pointing out any negative trait on Apple products. Then do the same for Microsoft products. Then for Linux. Then watch how you get moderated. The results are... interesting.
No. It is just that if the people who actually live in higher density areas converted to electric vehicles, the total nationwide consumption of fuel would go down. Way down. It is unnecessary to have a one vehicle type fits all solution.
Actually turbines use a lot of fuel. Compare the fuel consumption of an M1 tank with a Leopard 2 for example.
Turbines are known for their excellent power-to-weight ratio which means they are good for helicopters, or airplanes. Turbines are at their best efficiency when they are run at the same RPM all the time. You also cannot compare efficiency of a stationary turbine facility with heavy heat recuperation components, or water cooling towers, versus something you would actually use in a mobile application such as a car.
GIMP's multiwindow interface doesn't suck if you have focus follows mouse. It is when your window system uses click to focus that it is a problem.
GIMP was originally done for X. At the time it came out FVWM was the most common window manager. People used to use focus follows mouse then. So it is this way for historical reasons.
Like Light Peak? Maybe the video interface after this one.
Seriously, obsolescence is getting ridiculous. It used to be you could use the same video interface for a couple of decades. Heck a TV could easily last a decade or more.
You are probably joking, but some of his pupils were some particularly nasty, infamous bloodthirsty tyrants. When Athenian democracy was restored people associated with the tyrants were purged, as per custom.
CO2 is not a pollutant. It is in fact essential for the Earth's life cycle. Plants would not survive without it.
If you actually believe that global warming is a man made problem, and believe greenhouse gas emissions should be reduced, you would not be replacing coal with natural gas (methane). Methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than CO2. Any methane infrastructure will necessarily have emissions.
No, the reason people are going for natural gas is the typical myopic management of today. Building a natural gas power plant is very cheap, even if the fuel isn't. Since people plan everything on the short term today, what matters is the low initial capital costs, even if you have to screw your customers in the long term.
If Nokia had any brains left, it would switch their smartphones to Android, like their old competitor Sony Ericsson has been doing. Qt is nice for what it is, but the technology is old hat. Where is garbage collection and sandboxing?
Since when are lines a measure of success? It used to be we considered those a sign of backwardness (think store lines in the Soviet Union). If iPhone was actually sold in more stores, in an actual market based fashion, and had more models, I doubt you would see these lines. You need to compare iOS smartphone devices with Android devices. I think in the long run the winner is going to be Android.
Yes, of course, Apple changes the world once again with their innovative technology *yawn*. Did it ever occur to you not everyone owns Apple hardware, or that people may be using their PCs to do video calls while they can do work at the same time?
People use Skype because it just plain works and is multiplatform. And free as in beer. And it can do calls to the legacy phone network if you want to.
Dell does not manufacture motherboards. Those are manufactured in China by some Taiwanese company, like Pegatron (ASUS), Gigabyte, MSI, or ECS.
Dell does not even manufacture the cases, or many of the systems. Laptops are manufactured in China by some Taiwanese company like Foxconn or Qanta. What Dell does do is have assembly plants nearer the end market (such as the US) to change the hard disk, or video card, or memory (you know the things you can select at their website to add to the system). I do believe there are Intel people at Dell. Just do not think Dell, or for that matter one of the other hardware OEMs, actually does much at all other than box shifting...
Intel used to have an ARM compatible processor, named StrongARM, which they got after their lawsuit with Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). StrongARM was used in the Compaq iPAQ Pocket PC PDA among other things. Later it was renamed XScale. Then Intel sold XScale off to Marvell. IIRC Intel still has an ARM license. However the XScale designers left Intel a long time ago.
A lot of people have claimed they have lower power, or higher performance designs than X86 due to some purported instruction set design advantage. Historically they have eventually been proven wrong time and again. Compare the TDP of Pentium 4 Mobile with Pentium M and Atom. Intel pushed like a 20x reduction in power consumption along the way. ARM is allegedly lower power still. This is due to ARM smartphones usually being done using an ARM based system on a chip processor. However I believe it is a matter of time until Intel integrates more components on chip. Plus ARM processors are often lower performance in some ways, so they need less transistors (e.g. ARM FPUs are usually awful). AFAIK Intel only needs another 2-3x further power reduction, after they integrate more things on die, in order to have a processor with equal performance per Watt to top of the line ARM processors used in smartphones.
PS: Allegedly Transmeta originally planned to manufacture x86 compatible processors to be used in servers. Transmeta made a VLIW hardware design, with a software x86 emulator worked on by Linus Torvalds named Code Morphing Software (CMS). CMS was able to do dynamic x86 to VLIW compilation. It also did runtime optimizations. Think of CMS as a JIT VM for running x86 code. When the actual silicon came out it seems the performance was pretty lackluster compared to existing server CPUs. It however consumed very low power for the performance it had, which means it was suited for mobile computing. Transmeta allegedly got some OEM design wins, for some laptop designs (mostly Japanese manufacturers), however after the Intel CPU design team at Israel came up with Banias (Pentium M), Intel had a processor with smaller even if not quite as low power consumption than Transmeta's, but Intel sold their processors much cheaper than Transmeta ever could. This basically drove Transmeta out of the hardware business. The last processor Transmeta sold was Efficeon.
Pentium M was based on the old Pentium III design with some optimizations. Atom is a CPU design made from scratch by Intel to be low power. Atom is an in-order processor, while Pentium M was out of order. Atom basically uses older style CPU design (similar to original Pentium), with some new tricks (like Hyperthreading), to have high CPU performance per Watt and less heat dissipation. Think of it this way: the mobile Pentium 4 had a 70W TDP, the first Pentium M had a 27W TDP, while the first Atom had a 3W TDP. So Atom consumes like 10x less power than the first Pentium M processor.
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If the ad files come from the same domain name of the content, and seem like content to the browser, filters stop working properly.
When Google Chrome cannot do the simplest things like smooth scrolling, or remembering the page position 100% of the time as I navigate backwards and forwards in the browsing history (even IE does this properly), I stick with Firefox.
This laser has 32 kW of power, not 32 MW. The beam just dissipates into nothingness (due to the atmosphere) at large ranges.
What? I thought DosEmu only worked in Virtual 8086 mode in i386 (or above) processors. Perhaps you are talking about DosBox.
Gaga seems to me like a mix of hip-hop and some of the latter dance/techno music. Her latest single Alejandro (which is her first music I actually dislike) has been said by many people to sound like Ace of Base by a lot of people (Ace of Base is one of the bands I actually disliked at the time).
The strong points of Gaga's IMO were the music (compared to US mainstream artists) and the lyrics. Her voice is ok, but I never found it great.
In this decade I mostly listen to Trance or J-Pop. Lasgo, Milk Inc, L'Arc en Ciel, MELL, or Nightmare for example.
Oh and the thing with Gaga, much like Madonna, was never the voice as much as the music itself. It's about time the US got into techno anyway. Sure beats rap.
Actually first time I listened Gaga and liked her music I had never seen her on video. As for the music will stand the test of time, it depends. Most good artists reinvent themselves along their career. They also release albums rather sparingly. She does not seem to be doing this, so I am guessing her career will crater sooner rather than later.
I also replaced most uses I made of Microsoft Office and Adobe InDesign with OpenOffice.org and LaTeX. You will probably note that nearly all of these applications I mentioned are available on Linux.
What is keeping me in Windows is the games. I can already play old MS-DOS games on Linux just fine with DOSBox (in fact it works better than Microsoft's awful MS-DOS subsystem in NT kernel based systems). It's the DirectX crap that is the issue.
People who like smartphones with a large touch screen have plenty of options today besides Apple, like HTC (Desire) or Samsung (Galaxy S). Like you said these are mostly Android. It shouldn't escape a lot of people's attention that there is little in an iPhone which actually comes from Apple besides the software. It's manufactured by Foxconn and most of the expensive components come from Samsung. Apple is probably trying to change this with the A4 processor. But I will share you in a little dirty secret. Apple, or Steve Jobs for that matter, have never been particularly good at semiconductor design or manufacturing. You might argue their strengths are in system design (software and hardware).
What few people realize is that often a successful company's own worst enemy is its own product. DEC had this issue in hardware with the PDP-11 and its limited memory addressing. But what few people seem to realize is that software can have the same issues. Sometimes the original design eventually gets so bad there is no viable way to move it forward to recent technological requirements. This happened with Mac OS (no preemptive multitasking), Symbian (arcane APIs), Windows Mobile (arcane APIs and obsolete OS design), and now is most likely to happen to iOS. Objective-C is obsolete as a programming language, and so are the APIs. The fact that Apple is forcing people into this environment is pathetic and laughable. They are shooting their own foot off.
Try pointing out any negative trait on Apple products. Then do the same for Microsoft products. Then for Linux. Then watch how you get moderated. The results are... interesting.
No. It is just that if the people who actually live in higher density areas converted to electric vehicles, the total nationwide consumption of fuel would go down. Way down. It is unnecessary to have a one vehicle type fits all solution.
Turbines are known for their excellent power-to-weight ratio which means they are good for helicopters, or airplanes. Turbines are at their best efficiency when they are run at the same RPM all the time. You also cannot compare efficiency of a stationary turbine facility with heavy heat recuperation components, or water cooling towers, versus something you would actually use in a mobile application such as a car.
Use a different workspace then.
GIMP was originally done for X. At the time it came out FVWM was the most common window manager. People used to use focus follows mouse then. So it is this way for historical reasons.
Like Light Peak? Maybe the video interface after this one.
Seriously, obsolescence is getting ridiculous. It used to be you could use the same video interface for a couple of decades. Heck a TV could easily last a decade or more.
Now everything gets obsolete quickly. Plasma? LCD? Perhaps OLED next? Crikey.
You are probably joking, but some of his pupils were some particularly nasty, infamous bloodthirsty tyrants. When Athenian democracy was restored people associated with the tyrants were purged, as per custom.
CO2 is not a pollutant. It is in fact essential for the Earth's life cycle. Plants would not survive without it.
If you actually believe that global warming is a man made problem, and believe greenhouse gas emissions should be reduced, you would not be replacing coal with natural gas (methane). Methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than CO2. Any methane infrastructure will necessarily have emissions.
No, the reason people are going for natural gas is the typical myopic management of today. Building a natural gas power plant is very cheap, even if the fuel isn't. Since people plan everything on the short term today, what matters is the low initial capital costs, even if you have to screw your customers in the long term.
If Nokia had any brains left, it would switch their smartphones to Android, like their old competitor Sony Ericsson has been doing. Qt is nice for what it is, but the technology is old hat. Where is garbage collection and sandboxing?
Since when are lines a measure of success? It used to be we considered those a sign of backwardness (think store lines in the Soviet Union). If iPhone was actually sold in more stores, in an actual market based fashion, and had more models, I doubt you would see these lines. You need to compare iOS smartphone devices with Android devices. I think in the long run the winner is going to be Android.
Yes, of course, Apple changes the world once again with their innovative technology *yawn*. Did it ever occur to you not everyone owns Apple hardware, or that people may be using their PCs to do video calls while they can do work at the same time?
People use Skype because it just plain works and is multiplatform. And free as in beer. And it can do calls to the legacy phone network if you want to.
Soon after the Kindle App, Apple launched iBooks. Coincidence?
Dell does not manufacture motherboards. Those are manufactured in China by some Taiwanese company, like Pegatron (ASUS), Gigabyte, MSI, or ECS.
Dell does not even manufacture the cases, or many of the systems. Laptops are manufactured in China by some Taiwanese company like Foxconn or Qanta. What Dell does do is have assembly plants nearer the end market (such as the US) to change the hard disk, or video card, or memory (you know the things you can select at their website to add to the system). I do believe there are Intel people at Dell. Just do not think Dell, or for that matter one of the other hardware OEMs, actually does much at all other than box shifting...
Intel used to have an ARM compatible processor, named StrongARM, which they got after their lawsuit with Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). StrongARM was used in the Compaq iPAQ Pocket PC PDA among other things. Later it was renamed XScale. Then Intel sold XScale off to Marvell. IIRC Intel still has an ARM license. However the XScale designers left Intel a long time ago.
A lot of people have claimed they have lower power, or higher performance designs than X86 due to some purported instruction set design advantage. Historically they have eventually been proven wrong time and again. Compare the TDP of Pentium 4 Mobile with Pentium M and Atom. Intel pushed like a 20x reduction in power consumption along the way. ARM is allegedly lower power still. This is due to ARM smartphones usually being done using an ARM based system on a chip processor. However I believe it is a matter of time until Intel integrates more components on chip. Plus ARM processors are often lower performance in some ways, so they need less transistors (e.g. ARM FPUs are usually awful). AFAIK Intel only needs another 2-3x further power reduction, after they integrate more things on die, in order to have a processor with equal performance per Watt to top of the line ARM processors used in smartphones.
Pentium M was based on the old Pentium III design with some optimizations. Atom is a CPU design made from scratch by Intel to be low power. Atom is an in-order processor, while Pentium M was out of order. Atom basically uses older style CPU design (similar to original Pentium), with some new tricks (like Hyperthreading), to have high CPU performance per Watt and less heat dissipation. Think of it this way: the mobile Pentium 4 had a 70W TDP, the first Pentium M had a 27W TDP, while the first Atom had a 3W TDP. So Atom consumes like 10x less power than the first Pentium M processor.