Portability. 2 Hours should be enough to get you to your location without bringing the system down. So when you get to the office and quitly plug in the system to the projector bingo your keynote presintation is ready on the first page.
These things can go into suspend mode, like a laptop - now there's portability.
Easy for you to say, you have a license. I'm 17. Besides, driving a fake car burns less gas. And it's cheaper. And you can drive 200 virtual MPH if you want to. Or the car can fly, etc etc. Wind blowing in your hair can be simulated.:P
Perhaps so that the publisher stands a chance to make *some* money? It's not like anyone other than a java geek will buy the book (ok, maybe the author's mom...), and geeks are more willing to just use what's freely available online.
Well, the only reason to buy a book is that deadtreeware is easier to read and the human mind is more compatible with it. THere is a lot of documentation online, yet people still buy the book. K&R C is online, I bought the book.
It is. It's just got a lot of sane defaults for a newbie's desktop. Also, you should try it, it looks and works remarkably well - think of it as Debian's package mgmt. with Red Hat's looks
Russia continued research on vacuum tubes well after all US R&D went over to solid state. (hell, the MiG planes ran on tubes). There were certain conditions in which tubes far outperformed solid-state circuits, even for American tubes. Russion tubes of that era are small, almost transistor-size, are far more rugged wrt. interference and EMP. As a result, Russian tube technology was the best in the world (and several Russian plants still make them) and they made the right choice.
Only very recently have tubes lost all of their use.
You are probably thinking of Data. But the actor did accidentaly use contractions several times, which didn't stop Wesley crusher from realizing that Lore, Data's evil twin, was posing as Data in one episode.
The article writes that the Apollo missions lobbed up machines that were marginally more powerful than an i386. By that I assume they mean the decidedly fixed-to-the-ground System/360 Model 91, an ultra-high-end machine at the time, later replaced by a Model 195.
NASAs on-board computer was the ingenious AGC (Apollo Guidance Computer). It's slower than an 8086.
The reason? Mice and cockroaches. Popcorn is edible, styrofoam isn't. If you don't add some environmentally dangerous pesticides, you'll have a severe pest-control problem if you pack things with popcorn.
Also, popcorn is far less solid than styro. A good friend of mine got a rare terminal packed in popcorn - the terminal had quickly crushed the popcorn to a fine pulp and proceeded to fall apart itself.
While Opera may be an "actual company" with "actual revenues" and more than 6 developers, they haven't managed to arrange for a website that is slashdot-proof.
Oh, nae only./. Every site imaginable carries this story. When literally millions of people download 5MB, well, do the math.
I hate to say it, but Opera feels like a bloated mess. There are far too many buttons and options.
Well, the binary is smaller than Firefox's. It has many many features that Firefox doesn't, even with extensions. It does things better than Firefox. Also, the interface has been significantly cleaned up since 7.
Controlling trains in 1D isn't that hard folks. Not at all like flying an airplane, where autopilot has been accepted for decades.
Have you ever seen someone throw himself in front of an in-flight 747? Ever seen someone try to keep the door open for a friend who's 10 seconds late for the flight?
Bah, I know those sources, and I have found that they are only 43.731% reliable 21% of the time, 23% on weekdays ending with -day and beginning with mon-, and 22.98% on Tuesdays. However, 12% of the times you ask them again, 42% of the 64% previously mentioned change their mind, leading to a 3.7% drop in accuracy of the 33% that give 22% of the wrong answers.
I think the discomfort comes from the idea that theyve made Popularity an explicit goal. Popular people didnt get popular by trying to be popular. People who try to be cool, arent. (Just look at Steve Ballmer.)
People who yell uncontrollably are not deemed cool. People who try to be cool, will be cool. People who actually want to do something with their life but drink and buy expensive status symbols to maintain their "coolness" usually end up on top of society.
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Does it bother you when someone has a ferrari that they just drive to work or an SUV that they just drive to soccer practice?
:P
Yes, it fucking well does - that's environmentally irresponsible.
Yes, it would hugely annoy me and I would most definately make a point of it.
Really bad analogy
Portability. 2 Hours should be enough to get you to your location without bringing the system down. So when you get to the office and quitly plug in the system to the projector bingo your keynote presintation is ready on the first page.
These things can go into suspend mode, like a laptop - now there's portability.
That's BS.
...the short attention span of the youth of today.
I take great offence to that remark. As a member of the "youth of today" I can assure you that... ooh, shiny
...neural system structures are quite heavily specialized...
Actually, recent research seems to indicate that our brains far less specialized than previously.
Easy for you to say, you have a license. I'm 17. Besides, driving a fake car burns less gas. And it's cheaper. And you can drive 200 virtual MPH if you want to. Or the car can fly, etc etc. Wind blowing in your hair can be simulated. :P
Perhaps so that the publisher stands a chance to make *some* money? It's not like anyone other than a java geek will buy the book (ok, maybe the author's mom...), and geeks are more willing to just use what's freely available online.
Well, the only reason to buy a book is that deadtreeware is easier to read and the human mind is more compatible with it. THere is a lot of documentation online, yet people still buy the book. K&R C is online, I bought the book.
Though I value that reply about as much as the fluff I keep accumulating in my navel, I do indeed wonder why the electronic version is delayed.
It is. It's just got a lot of sane defaults for a newbie's desktop. Also, you should try it, it looks and works remarkably well - think of it as Debian's package mgmt. with Red Hat's looks
They were using vacuum tubes...
Russia continued research on vacuum tubes well after all US R&D went over to solid state. (hell, the MiG planes ran on tubes). There were certain conditions in which tubes far outperformed solid-state circuits, even for American tubes. Russion tubes of that era are small, almost transistor-size, are far more rugged wrt. interference and EMP. As a result, Russian tube technology was the best in the world (and several Russian plants still make them) and they made the right choice.
Only very recently have tubes lost all of their use.
I thought Mr. Spock couldn't use contractions!
You are probably thinking of Data. But the actor did accidentaly use contractions several times, which didn't stop Wesley crusher from realizing that Lore, Data's evil twin, was posing as Data in one episode.
Surprisingly, I do not live with my parents.
The article writes that the Apollo missions lobbed up machines that were marginally more powerful than an i386. By that I assume they mean the decidedly fixed-to-the-ground System/360 Model 91, an ultra-high-end machine at the time, later replaced by a Model 195.
NASAs on-board computer was the ingenious AGC (Apollo Guidance Computer). It's slower than an 8086.
The reason? Mice and cockroaches. Popcorn is edible, styrofoam isn't. If you don't add some environmentally dangerous pesticides, you'll have a severe pest-control problem if you pack things with popcorn.
Also, popcorn is far less solid than styro. A good friend of mine got a rare terminal packed in popcorn - the terminal had quickly crushed the popcorn to a fine pulp and proceeded to fall apart itself.
You're going to be running per CPU licensed software, and likely dual-core will not help in this regard. Sorry about your luck.
Yeah, my company avoided upgrading our Apache-running webserver because the license costs would've killed us.
I want to see a distro with actual no-shit autoconfiguration of all relevant devices.
Ubuntu gets close.
While Opera may be an "actual company" with "actual revenues" and more than 6 developers, they haven't managed to arrange for a website that is slashdot-proof.
./. Every site imaginable carries this story. When literally millions of people download 5MB, well, do the math.
Oh, nae only
I hate to say it, but Opera feels like a bloated mess. There are far too many buttons and options.
Well, the binary is smaller than Firefox's. It has many many features that Firefox doesn't, even with extensions. It does things better than Firefox. Also, the interface has been significantly cleaned up since 7.
So I go to post my happy findings to /. and I press Ctrl + T to get a new tab. Lo and Behold, the Add a new bookmark comes up. Not cool.
So, you don't like Opera because its customizeable hotkeys aren't set to Firefox's by standard...? It's fully configureable.
Controlling trains in 1D isn't that hard folks. Not at all like flying an airplane, where autopilot has been accepted for decades.
Have you ever seen someone throw himself in front of an in-flight 747? Ever seen someone try to keep the door open for a friend who's 10 seconds late for the flight?
There's a lot of free advice out there, but not enough time or energy in my day to follow all of it.
Well, you don't go bitching at your brother when your refusing to exercise made you fat.
People will come bitch at you when their unpatched Windows XP machine slows to a grinding halt.
They will not install Firefox nonetheless.
It's "It's" not "Its"! :)
So are they going to be doing Folding@Home when no one is using it.
Trust me, with machines this expensive, the CPUs very rarely run idle. There's always another problem waiting to be solved.
Why not install a larger disk? 50-pin SCSI, no?
Bah, I know those sources, and I have found that they are only 43.731% reliable 21% of the time, 23% on weekdays ending with -day and beginning with mon-, and 22.98% on Tuesdays. However, 12% of the times you ask them again, 42% of the 64% previously mentioned change their mind, leading to a 3.7% drop in accuracy of the 33% that give 22% of the wrong answers.
I think the discomfort comes from the idea that theyve made Popularity an explicit goal. Popular people didnt get popular by trying to be popular. People who try to be cool, arent. (Just look at Steve Ballmer.)
People who yell uncontrollably are not deemed cool. People who try to be cool, will be cool. People who actually want to do something with their life but drink and buy expensive status symbols to maintain their "coolness" usually end up on top of society.