My own machine is a K6 with 256 megs of RAM. It's running three Firefox windows with 10-15 tabs in each, Matlab, three pdf's open, MSN Messenger, two big Excel spreasheets, Gvim, etc. And it's smooth. As I type this, there isn't the delay between pressing keys and seeing them onscreen as there is on the very same machine running Fluxbox+Firefox.
And it's been running for five days. The reason why I have all those apps open is that I never bother to close them. The computer remains just as responsive.
The local graduate school had an old lab with Pentiums and K6's running Win95 and IE3 for email/web browsing/instant messengers/word processing. Over the year's end, they decided to move on to some Linux distro with IceWM and Mozilla.
The computers are unusable.
There are three different classes of users here. Some of them just can't figure out what to do when Mozilla presents them with a "Choose User Profile" dialog, and leave in frustration. The second class can sort that dialog out, but Mozilla takes so long to load they give up before it even shows up and leave in frustration. The third class will wait until Mozilla loads, and leave soon after in frustration after the computer chokes trying to render some ordinary website -- like Slashdot.
Nevermind the fact that we don't get to use instant messengers or jot down some text. I don't blame the admins; the computers would probably catch fire trying to run Mozilla, Gaim and OOWrite at the same time.
Everyone is unhappy.
Everyone is unhappy and they all hate Linux already, and will always remember Linux as the cheap, slow, inferior solution. I'm considering leaving a few BartPE Windows liveCD's around so someone gets to do something at those computers.
I wish people would stop advocating Linux as a solution for breathing life into outdated equipment. It's not. It's VERY VERY frustrating.
If it says "for teenagers", it's for preteens. If it says for "young adults", it's for 15-18s. People want to be older than they are until they reach 23-24ish.
Tsk. I don't have as much as a M.Sc. yet, and while I'd love such a job in four years or so, I'm not in the market yet. You sure don't seem to realize that there's more to the success of technology than technology itself in the computer business, and that affects long-term perspectives for everyone, even the tech-loving freaks.
Have you seen people pining for the innovations present in BeOS that have died? Well, that's why understanding the economics present -- which is more than heed to software patents defenders' schumpeterian pleads or ESR's opensourcian preaching -- is important.
As a research economist working in the field of network externalities, I'd like to know a little more about the history of your position at Microsoft. Since when there has been a Platform Strategy division? Do you follow the academic literature on fields like network externalities or produce entirely original theoretical work to support strategical advisory?
I watched Steve's kenyote speech, and he spent fiteen times as much time demo'ing software than talking about the Mac mini -- which I thought was the big event of the night. Some totally noncharismatic VP demo'ed Pages for ages, a band was called to demo GarageBand, and Steve generally spent a lot of time clicking around.
I ended up thinking "wow, Apple is really a software company that happens to make hardware".
This not only is a dupe, but it's a dupe rephrased in a misleading way. Granted, most of the fault is on silicon.com. But "Linux makes interoperability harder" does not necessarily mean "Linux has poor interoperabiliy" (it could mean "Linux developers aren't working with us"), and nowhere in the text Gates says what the headline says. The actual quote on interoperability is:
"Open source is a methodology for licensing and/or developing software - that may or may not be interoperable. Additionally, the open source development approach encourages the creation of many permutations of the same type of software application, which could add implementation and testing overhead to interoperability efforts"
Any mention of Linux? Nah, some noserubbing on the Great Forking Problem.
At least for WordPress. It's called Spam Karma. I'm lazy, Google for it.
If Spam Karma finds questionable words in comments -- it's configurable, and it comes with a good default list -- it sends users to a captcha. If they fail at the captcha -- and they're not on a strongbad keyword list like "viagra" and "vegas poker" -- the comments are sent for moderation.
Works great for me. Nope, the URL in my profile is not my blog anymore, it's on my own server, it's in portuguese and I ain't gonna expose my server to a slashdotting.
Hmm. If the average number of fingers is 10, then that'd mean that for every person who loses a finger, there's someone with 6 fingers in a hand.
Finger-losing accidents are way more common than freakish nature odddities of hands with more than 10 fingers. Therefore, the average person has less than 10 fingers.
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Basically what I'm saying is PUT WIN95 ON THE DAMN MACHINE, and you'll have something that's more useful than what you have now.
Fact: Windows extracts more functionality out of old hardware.
Apple adopted the Konqueror rendering engine for Safari. It _is_ a good web browser.
You know what's funny?
My own machine is a K6 with 256 megs of RAM. It's running three Firefox windows with 10-15 tabs in each, Matlab, three pdf's open, MSN Messenger, two big Excel spreasheets, Gvim, etc. And it's smooth. As I type this, there isn't the delay between pressing keys and seeing them onscreen as there is on the very same machine running Fluxbox+Firefox.
And it's been running for five days. The reason why I have all those apps open is that I never bother to close them. The computer remains just as responsive.
Inferior solution my esophagus.
The local graduate school had an old lab with Pentiums and K6's running Win95 and IE3 for email/web browsing/instant messengers/word processing. Over the year's end, they decided to move on to some Linux distro with IceWM and Mozilla.
The computers are unusable.
There are three different classes of users here. Some of them just can't figure out what to do when Mozilla presents them with a "Choose User Profile" dialog, and leave in frustration. The second class can sort that dialog out, but Mozilla takes so long to load they give up before it even shows up and leave in frustration. The third class will wait until Mozilla loads, and leave soon after in frustration after the computer chokes trying to render some ordinary website -- like Slashdot.
Nevermind the fact that we don't get to use instant messengers or jot down some text. I don't blame the admins; the computers would probably catch fire trying to run Mozilla, Gaim and OOWrite at the same time.
Everyone is unhappy.
Everyone is unhappy and they all hate Linux already, and will always remember Linux as the cheap, slow, inferior solution. I'm considering leaving a few BartPE Windows liveCD's around so someone gets to do something at those computers.
I wish people would stop advocating Linux as a solution for breathing life into outdated equipment. It's not. It's VERY VERY frustrating.
If it says "for teenagers", it's for preteens. If it says for "young adults", it's for 15-18s. People want to be older than they are until they reach 23-24ish.
First goes the RIAA, then goes the MPAA, then goes the GNAA! :-D
PGM is the easiest format to reverse engineer out there; it's an ASCII file with RGB values and some headers.
:-D
Useful for those wanting to muck with images directly from code. I learned about that last week, and I'm having fun with neural nets
*sigh*
I don't know exactly what is that people do to screw up with their HTML so it doesn't show well on nonmaximized windows.
Yes, I'm talking about the weblogs link.
Is Armadillo Aerospace's John Carmack the well-known game programmer?
Tsk. I don't have as much as a M.Sc. yet, and while I'd love such a job in four years or so, I'm not in the market yet. You sure don't seem to realize that there's more to the success of technology than technology itself in the computer business, and that affects long-term perspectives for everyone, even the tech-loving freaks.
Have you seen people pining for the innovations present in BeOS that have died? Well, that's why understanding the economics present -- which is more than heed to software patents defenders' schumpeterian pleads or ESR's opensourcian preaching -- is important.
Apple had three quarters of negative profit once, and they have risen again.
Of course, they better have pretty good plans to get back to the scene. Let's see.
As a research economist working in the field of network externalities, I'd like to know a little more about the history of your position at Microsoft. Since when there has been a Platform Strategy division? Do you follow the academic literature on fields like network externalities or produce entirely original theoretical work to support strategical advisory?
I watched Steve's kenyote speech, and he spent fiteen times as much time demo'ing software than talking about the Mac mini -- which I thought was the big event of the night. Some totally noncharismatic VP demo'ed Pages for ages, a band was called to demo GarageBand, and Steve generally spent a lot of time clicking around.
I ended up thinking "wow, Apple is really a software company that happens to make hardware".
I'd prefer everything to remain in Freenode too.
:-D
That said, I snatched up #linux
Oh well it should hav'em.
Any mention of Linux? Nah, some noserubbing on the Great Forking Problem.
it's made by microsoft so it can't be any good, can it? *Head explodes*
At least for WordPress. It's called Spam Karma. I'm lazy, Google for it.
If Spam Karma finds questionable words in comments -- it's configurable, and it comes with a good default list -- it sends users to a captcha. If they fail at the captcha -- and they're not on a strongbad keyword list like "viagra" and "vegas poker" -- the comments are sent for moderation.
Works great for me. Nope, the URL in my profile is not my blog anymore, it's on my own server, it's in portuguese and I ain't gonna expose my server to a slashdotting.
Hmm. If the average number of fingers is 10, then that'd mean that for every person who loses a finger, there's someone with 6 fingers in a hand.
Finger-losing accidents are way more common than freakish nature odddities of hands with more than 10 fingers. Therefore, the average person has less than 10 fingers.
Tsk. It's called the "be tolerant in what you accept and strict in what you send" rule.
What are the differences between PPC boxen by Pegaos and IBM, and Macs?
This is prolly the Slashdot record of n-ple repeated article. This comes up every few months :-O
The best revenge is living well.