Doesn't change the fact that my machine is "several years older than KDE4", and runs it fine. Yours is memory constrained and I would dare say that it isn't really usable in any modern GUI, as far as actually using it, not booting, goes.
Current Hummers have absolutely nothing in common with Humvees except for general similarity in styling/look (plus made appropriately shitty by chrome/etc. for general consumption)
Try running any latest version of KDE on hardware that's several years older than it.
Did YOU try? It's perfectly possible, perfectly usable (Athlon XP 1700+, 768mb ram; BTW, NT 6.x doesn't even have drivers for my soundcard, webcam or GFX cards)
Yeah, it's simply exchanging browser monopoly for browser duopoly - previously we've had "best viewed in IE", now it's "...in IE & Firefox". No real progress at all.
Posting from a place where Opera is quite popular (8.5% here, 31.6% in neighbouring country (yeah, more than Gecko - 24.5%); most countries in the region have less than 50% IE usage); trust me, browser-agnostic web is a much better idea.
Well, then it sounds to me like what he's doing is a GREAT way to discourage some members of his family from hanging out with him; those which might don't have, for him, many qualities worthy of hanging around with anyway, for example. (kinda like I almost encourage gossips about me - they are a GREAT tool, thanks to which, often, people I wouldn't really like hanging around with select themselves out of my sphere of friends/etc....meaning I don't have to do that work)
Why, exactly, do we have to like/hang out with most of family in a manner that you think is appriopriate? Just because they share relatively large portion of our DNA? Might have been a factor in times when staying alife was difficult without every bit of effort and cooperation possible (and our DNA-relatives were best for that because of highest chance of reciprocity).
Furthermore lines determining with what portion of DNA-relatives we're willing/have to hang out change with times, cultures and...individuals (and you DO draw them; we all have quite recent common ancestors, not even getting into Y-Adam or mitochondrial Eve). And he actually seems to dedicate a bit of memory and effort for his relatives, which seems a lot more worthy than cultivation of old models, which today are mostly for show, mostly for hanging out for the sake of hanging out.
people do not care about which browser they use. A small percentage does, and it seem this site is popular with that group but at this point, a browser is part of a platform as a steering wheel is part of a car. Occasionally an enthusiast replaces his steering wheel but most people don't care about it.
So how come in many european countries IE usage is below 50%?
Though it matters how properly written is the software that you're using. Heck, I'm writing this on Athlon XP 1700+, just with a little more RAM than you would expect from a machine with such CPU.
In comparison with C2D/etc. of typical user that's riddled with bloatware - it flies. And does more too.
AFAI remember/understand from how OLPC XO-1 screen works (and this is basically just upgraded version of it) there's more to it - specifically, not using colour filters which are based on absorption of certain frequencies of light. Instead, they use light scaterring (prism/CD-like), and this is what allows/doesn't interfere with reflective mode.
But yes, it's just a single screen, not some sort of sandwiching like parent poster assumes. Which also means it's just marginally more expensive and able to use basically the same tech as current LCDs.
Bonus: waaaaaay larger amount of light from backlight manages to pass through screen. So in colour mode it's much brighter with the same backlighting or able to use less power for backlight when achieving the same brightness as todays LCDs.
PS. That screan is already for over a year part of my perfect netbook (plus SoC, no moving parts (fan...), and "Thinkpad X-series"-like construction)
WTF? You need to do much less than using a proxy to get "restricted formats" playback working in current distros. It's usually clicking "Yes" when trying to play them for the first time.
But why do I have to do anything to make it work? Especially since current limitations are far more half-hearted than simply serving full/castrated ISO based on geographc location?
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...H1 (discontinued), and the H2 and H3 based on its designs.
I'd say "based on its looks" (but of course made appropriately crappy, for general consumption, with "cool" elements)
Doesn't change the fact that my machine is "several years older than KDE4", and runs it fine. Yours is memory constrained and I would dare say that it isn't really usable in any modern GUI, as far as actually using it, not booting, goes.
For starters, one could check also devbuilds of Opera 10...would be good for integrity.
Behold, Chinese Humvees: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRC_HMMWVs
(it must be stressed that current Hummers have absolutely nothing in common with Humvee)
Current Hummers have absolutely nothing in common with Humvees except for general similarity in styling/look (plus made appropriately shitty by chrome/etc. for general consumption)
Try running any latest version of KDE on hardware that's several years older than it.
Did YOU try? It's perfectly possible, perfectly usable (Athlon XP 1700+, 768mb ram; BTW, NT 6.x doesn't even have drivers for my soundcard, webcam or GFX cards)
Yeah, it's simply exchanging browser monopoly for browser duopoly - previously we've had "best viewed in IE", now it's "...in IE & Firefox". No real progress at all.
Posting from a place where Opera is quite popular (8.5% here, 31.6% in neighbouring country (yeah, more than Gecko - 24.5%); most countries in the region have less than 50% IE usage); trust me, browser-agnostic web is a much better idea.
Opera has different preview versions for different functionalities.
So...you're limiting Opera to official/final releases but Firefox Beta is fine?
How cute...
One would think you would at least check wattage drain of ARM SoCs before comparing them to some x86...
And those Snapdragons are actually relatively power-hungry...for an ARM! (comparable to Geode LX in performance would be 0.1 W probably, perhaps 0.2)
That's still order of magnitude more than ARM.
...but c'mon.
Well, then it sounds to me like what he's doing is a GREAT way to discourage some members of his family from hanging out with him; those which might don't have, for him, many qualities worthy of hanging around with anyway, for example. (kinda like I almost encourage gossips about me - they are a GREAT tool, thanks to which, often, people I wouldn't really like hanging around with select themselves out of my sphere of friends/etc. ...meaning I don't have to do that work)
Why, exactly, do we have to like/hang out with most of family in a manner that you think is appriopriate? Just because they share relatively large portion of our DNA? Might have been a factor in times when staying alife was difficult without every bit of effort and cooperation possible (and our DNA-relatives were best for that because of highest chance of reciprocity).
Furthermore lines determining with what portion of DNA-relatives we're willing/have to hang out change with times, cultures and...individuals (and you DO draw them; we all have quite recent common ancestors, not even getting into Y-Adam or mitochondrial Eve). And he actually seems to dedicate a bit of memory and effort for his relatives, which seems a lot more worthy than cultivation of old models, which today are mostly for show, mostly for hanging out for the sake of hanging out.
That's just the other way of saying "they set higher prices for vendors wishing to preserve competitive field, forcing them into submission"
And it harmed the market greatly. BeOS was possibly killed like that...
Plus changing european V6 for US V8 wouldn't really make a difference... ;p
people do not care about which browser they use. A small percentage does, and it seem this site is popular with that group but at this point, a browser is part of a platform as a steering wheel is part of a car. Occasionally an enthusiast replaces his steering wheel but most people don't care about it.
So how come in many european countries IE usage is below 50%?
If only that was the policy at Black Mesa...
Though it matters how properly written is the software that you're using. Heck, I'm writing this on Athlon XP 1700+, just with a little more RAM than you would expect from a machine with such CPU.
In comparison with C2D/etc. of typical user that's riddled with bloatware - it flies. And does more too.
AFAI remember/understand from how OLPC XO-1 screen works (and this is basically just upgraded version of it) there's more to it - specifically, not using colour filters which are based on absorption of certain frequencies of light. Instead, they use light scaterring (prism/CD-like), and this is what allows/doesn't interfere with reflective mode.
But yes, it's just a single screen, not some sort of sandwiching like parent poster assumes. Which also means it's just marginally more expensive and able to use basically the same tech as current LCDs.
Bonus: waaaaaay larger amount of light from backlight manages to pass through screen. So in colour mode it's much brighter with the same backlighting or able to use less power for backlight when achieving the same brightness as todays LCDs.
PS. That screan is already for over a year part of my perfect netbook (plus SoC, no moving parts (fan...), and "Thinkpad X-series"-like construction)
I raise your 9000 with over 9000.
You forgot "~" at the end of first sentence.
Having the possibility to implement easily, in another app, those few small ideas that I have for my perfect writing app sounds like fun.
WTF? You need to do much less than using a proxy to get "restricted formats" playback working in current distros. It's usually clicking "Yes" when trying to play them for the first time.
But why do I have to do anything to make it work? Especially since current limitations are far more half-hearted than simply serving full/castrated ISO based on geographc location?
They can always move to Gamma release stage...
I guess they are routinelly too close to Cthulhu. Or habe large Mayan ancestry...