Those cheap shops exist at your place only because of the upgrade craze, because of the vast numbers of old computers beeing replaced by shiny new ones without very good reasons...and because not many people want the old ones.
There can't be large number of cheap old computers in the place where there wasn't any sizeable number of them, in new condition, in the first place. Where there's less motivation and opportunities for upgrade. And when upgrade eventually does happen - some close relative will find the machine very valuable. And so on...
It would still matter...actually, if you don't realise, it would matter greatly in your example.
How long do you keep vast majority of electronic/etc. equipment? I most cases it easily surpasses 1 year...heck, easily 2 or 3 years. But 10 years - rarely.
What would it mean with such batteries? ARM most likely won't have to recharged EVER. x86...one or two times. And you just know that it'll run out of juice in the worst possible moment. ARM-based otoh...always with you, always working.
Just use a properly written software...Opera, for example, seems to be one of the favourites among the makers of low-power devices. While it's a little sluggish on Nintendo DS, I've heard it's visibly better on (faster) DSi and quite good on the Wii. It also runs really good on my 266MHz dual P2 with 192 MiB of RAM that I still boot up sometimes.
Those ARM netbooks will be somewhat faster, I guess...
Actually, my country needs to build nuclear power plant in the coming decade, and I'll probably live in the general region of one possible contruction site (the other one, better on "technical" grounds, won't fly IMHO - this region has too conservative, too stupid and unruly masses, which ALREADY, 20 years ago, sabotaged construction of one practically finished nuclear power plant - one reactor was scrapped, the second sold for the price of scrap to Finland, where it works flawlessly to this day)
And...I see this as a great opportunity. Stupid people will probably somewhat flee the area, and the plant itself will need a large number of people who are at least open-minded, both bonuses in itself. Which means also: - possibility of getting a nice house & strip of land for quite a good price - better schools perhaps - at the least: areas around nuclear power plants in my part of the world have quite often relatively unmolested nature/environment - milder microclimate
The only thing I would mind is excessive noise associaced with any industrial installation...but 2 km or so should take care of this. I definatelly wouldn't mind the sight of cooling towers (and actually find them somewhat aesthetically plasing)
Just look up photos of this type of submarine. Once you've become familiar with placement of "open cabin", periscopes & antennas, it's obvious that damages are in the fore section (nevermind that it'll also be obvious from "one way" hydrodynamic chape; there's also wave from the bow visible)
From the photo of aftermath, it's quite evident that in this case the submarine frakked up - it seems they basically rammed the surface vessel (perhaps they were trying to reenact BSG ending after all...)
So quite a bit different than recent collision between French and British subs mentioned/compared in the summary...
If you take whole system into account, AMD is in even better position - generally cheaper motherboards, you can use cheap ddr2 memory just as well, and AMD has way better integrated GFX (might not be enough for you - but larger percentage of AMD users don't have to buy separate gfx card)
And from savings you can buy very fast io-subsystem.
All built in. Adblock has to be, as usual, provided with a list: http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/ (according to my buddy who moved FF->Opera, works just as well for blocking, slightly better for hiding empty spots)
I'm almost used to the way how those facts are ignored (still, I don't get that implied thing in the summary that FF was on top...)
Simply because there are too many of them, most of them exclusive.
So it's pretty arbitrary which unsurance policy (because that's what all religions are) one chooses, it's inevitable to break immense amounts of rules and "go" after death to many, many hells. Hence there's this lingering thought in many religious people (the ones not totally brainwashed at least), that it's all BULLSHIT.
Why wouldn't they dedicate their entire lives to adhere to and preach their religion to everybody if that wasn't the case?! I mean, you have the prospect of ETERNAL suffering/happiness.
Because they feel it's just bs. HOWEVER that doesn't stop them from pushing many grave, important questions (who am I? What will be my part in the universe? etc.) into the realm of their religions, effectively completely neglecting them - that's just easier in day to day life; not think, shovel the issue somewhere.
But when death is getting near...they panic. They don't have any answers.
You're quite spot on, especially for people who know some slavic language:> (precise translations below are from polish, but such words are somewhat universal usually (though I'd have to check, and too lazy atm))
"syfy" would be plural form of "syf"; which can mean: crap, shit, junk, syphilis.
Oh how I wish to have something similar here (Poland); our law "against religious discrimination" in theory means that you can't make anyone FEEL (I kid you not) offended, but in practise it's even worse - you can't make catholic christians feel offended, while they can freely threaten you with perspective of eternal torture (that includes traumatising schoolchildren with this perspective of course)
Luckily there's some movement to abolish that, we just have to make a little more stir... (and thankfully, beeing in EU is some sort of protection at this point - not only procedural; the rest of Europe would be laughing at this country even more...)
Well, we can quite nicely compare - I have atm 129 tabs in Opera (though it changes constantly, I had for some time around 200, I believe, during this session), it has been running for over 2 weeks (since 2009-02-17, on win2k3; btw, you can check for example in Process Explorer the date when app started). Also diverse websites, using 850 MB total memory, though 415 MB of physical RAM (I'll get back to that at the end...)
Concidentally...I'm also running Firefox, since 2009-02-23, almost exactly 2 weeks; 98 tabs, total/physical RAM: 580 MB/...jumps anywhere between 250 and 400 MB constantly, while in use (uhuh...)
AND...I'm also running Seamonkey, since 2009-02-18; 16 tabs (simple pages), physical/total: 70/100.
Now, those numbers seem to be quite comparable...but user experience, UI responsiveness, paints TOTALLY different picture.
Opera stays responsive, her RAM usage is...well, not exactly constant, but without any sudden changes.
Seamonkey - not much to comment here, it has only few very simple pages in it; with more heavy browsing, while surviving noticeably longer/further, it acts basically the same as...
Firefox - which sure, might have quite a good memory usage; but it has become totally unuseable, and that's it. Hiccups, trashing HDD for no reason, heavy (and I mean heavy - a minute or so) UI-lag (even when...not trashing). Basically for over a week I'm closing slowly/when I have free time what it's in it and I don't want to loose (from my experience FF tends to corrupt session file when in such state). Oh well, another testing period ends in dissapoinment...
Now, what you don't seem to realise (from the focus of your post) is that the thing about Opera was never about memory usage per se - it was about efficient use of resources. Which might have looked like "Opera has lower memory requirements!" for Opera fanbots, but for many it was about beeing able to do certain things at all. Why do I have to close the browser to run something else, something resource intensive; especially since I don't turn off the computer, hibernate at most, and use cellular acces? Why do I have to deal with bookmarks/etc. when I can just as easily keep open EVERYTHING I need and rely more on spatial memory to navigate/quickly find a site that I need? And so I've been doing this, for many years (UI features of Opera also help greatly)
It all boils down to FALLACY (sort of, IMHO) of "you can have either low memory usage or performance/features", which is, in my opinion, only valid when discussing one particular codebase; the optimum point is different for different ones. It simply seems that Opera (and also Chrome, but through a bit different means) is able to fulfill my usage expectations, hits that optimum point, and on hardware that is currently available (and has been for at least 5 years). FF can't, it repeatedly fails to do so every few months I try it - and as a matter of fact what happens with its memory usage here seems to suggest to me that they try to lower it "artificially", in a way that's detrimental to efficiency of Gecko, which does require a lot more RAM per page than Opera to function efficiently, don't kid yourself it doesn't (how many years we're waiting for mobile Mozilla? Will it work perfectly on my Symbian phone with 230MHz ARM cpu and 12 MB of user RAM?)
Sure, might be good enough for typical user (though IMHO Chrome is currently the best fit for those), but not for me; I already told in previous post that I won't adapt to software; something like that must adapt to me!
Accidentaly, from the article I have the impression that they tested subjective performance using trivially small number of pages/tabs...
If they would do some heavy & long browsing (as in...weeks) Opera would wipe the floor with other contestants, excluding Chrome (well, I don't know about Safari)
Try testing with some non-insignificant number of tabs (one hundred...two hundred...three hundred)
Firefox is totally out of the question during such usage (and NO, I won't adapt to software! It must handle the way I want to use it!) - nevermind that it doesn't have efficient ways to handle such number of tabs, UI-wise, without extensions (which potentially worsen the problems with perf....) like, especially, Opera. But nevermind UI, when it comes to beeing able to handle at all such numbers of tabs even Seamonkey is very noticeably better, while Chrome and Opera wipe the floor with it.
You missed one important part of my post, when I said that back then practically EVERY social group would be described by us as religious wackjobs - so in the case of US that includes not only New England of the past, but also those "secular" settlements. They were secular only to the degree that was possible back then, in both Europe and US, but...from our point of view, still nutjobs.
And you can't really argue with me that this didn't survive in the US to a much greater degree then in general Europe - I feel the pain too, I see it every day, living in one of the few countries that, especially in this regard, don't fit into EU at all. Actually you even mention unfortunate events that allowed it to survive in the US (yeah, in different parts...so?), I might look into them out of curiosity when time allows.
Russia is a special case though...not only they never forgot their aspirations for beeing the most powerfull superpower, don't forget that even for a second.
But also...it was largery you, Americans, who beat them at that aspiration. Not only that, you also caused a major setback. And that's just on a "national pride" level...also don't forget for a second that many Russians think they were better of during USSR era (and in many cases that's quite correct, nevermind typical nostalgia for the times when one was young)
It's more what people think about your country as a whole in comparison to what they were thinking 10 of 15 years ago - back then you were the model everybody loved and aspired to, with a lot of power throughout the world but putting that power in a good use.
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Those cheap shops exist at your place only because of the upgrade craze, because of the vast numbers of old computers beeing replaced by shiny new ones without very good reasons...and because not many people want the old ones.
There can't be large number of cheap old computers in the place where there wasn't any sizeable number of them, in new condition, in the first place. Where there's less motivation and opportunities for upgrade. And when upgrade eventually does happen - some close relative will find the machine very valuable. And so on...
It would still matter...actually, if you don't realise, it would matter greatly in your example.
How long do you keep vast majority of electronic/etc. equipment? I most cases it easily surpasses 1 year...heck, easily 2 or 3 years. But 10 years - rarely.
What would it mean with such batteries? ARM most likely won't have to recharged EVER. x86...one or two times. And you just know that it'll run out of juice in the worst possible moment. ARM-based otoh...always with you, always working.
Just use a properly written software...Opera, for example, seems to be one of the favourites among the makers of low-power devices. While it's a little sluggish on Nintendo DS, I've heard it's visibly better on (faster) DSi and quite good on the Wii. It also runs really good on my 266MHz dual P2 with 192 MiB of RAM that I still boot up sometimes.
Those ARM netbooks will be somewhat faster, I guess...
I won't mind at all.
Actually, my country needs to build nuclear power plant in the coming decade, and I'll probably live in the general region of one possible contruction site (the other one, better on "technical" grounds, won't fly IMHO - this region has too conservative, too stupid and unruly masses, which ALREADY, 20 years ago, sabotaged construction of one practically finished nuclear power plant - one reactor was scrapped, the second sold for the price of scrap to Finland, where it works flawlessly to this day)
And...I see this as a great opportunity. Stupid people will probably somewhat flee the area, and the plant itself will need a large number of people who are at least open-minded, both bonuses in itself. Which means also:
- possibility of getting a nice house & strip of land for quite a good price
- better schools perhaps
- at the least: areas around nuclear power plants in my part of the world have quite often relatively unmolested nature/environment
- milder microclimate
The only thing I would mind is excessive noise associaced with any industrial installation...but 2 km or so should take care of this. I definatelly wouldn't mind the sight of cooling towers (and actually find them somewhat aesthetically plasing)
And what about per-Watt basis? (honest question here; though I do suspect i7 is quite a bit more competive here)
It freezed several times, corrupted save file and shown you once red ring of death and...issues are resolved?
O...K...
PS. And you do use Windows atm...
Just look up photos of this type of submarine. Once you've become familiar with placement of "open cabin", periscopes & antennas, it's obvious that damages are in the fore section (nevermind that it'll also be obvious from "one way" hydrodynamic chape; there's also wave from the bow visible)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USS_Hartford_damaged.jpg
From the photo of aftermath, it's quite evident that in this case the submarine frakked up - it seems they basically rammed the surface vessel (perhaps they were trying to reenact BSG ending after all...)
So quite a bit different than recent collision between French and British subs mentioned/compared in the summary...
If you take whole system into account, AMD is in even better position - generally cheaper motherboards, you can use cheap ddr2 memory just as well, and AMD has way better integrated GFX (might not be enough for you - but larger percentage of AMD users don't have to buy separate gfx card)
And from savings you can buy very fast io-subsystem.
Was that the mindset that inspired Mozilla to make FF unuseable for me? ( http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1150259&cid=27093553 )
All built in. Adblock has to be, as usual, provided with a list: http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/ (according to my buddy who moved FF->Opera, works just as well for blocking, slightly better for hiding empty spots)
I'm almost used to the way how those facts are ignored (still, I don't get that implied thing in the summary that FF was on top...)
Simply because there are too many of them, most of them exclusive.
So it's pretty arbitrary which unsurance policy (because that's what all religions are) one chooses, it's inevitable to break immense amounts of rules and "go" after death to many, many hells. Hence there's this lingering thought in many religious people (the ones not totally brainwashed at least), that it's all BULLSHIT.
Why wouldn't they dedicate their entire lives to adhere to and preach their religion to everybody if that wasn't the case?! I mean, you have the prospect of ETERNAL suffering/happiness.
Because they feel it's just bs. HOWEVER that doesn't stop them from pushing many grave, important questions (who am I? What will be my part in the universe? etc.) into the realm of their religions, effectively completely neglecting them - that's just easier in day to day life; not think, shovel the issue somewhere.
But when death is getting near...they panic. They don't have any answers.
It has potential to be somewhat less messy, I'd guess.
Of course there's the problem of how you were made, so you'd have to be in-vitro, and also with male genetic material taken in non-natural way.
Then it should be orderly, clean, non-messy process.
Though I guess the only sure way to paradise would be artificial uterus.
And just realised now that when used strictly in plural form "syfy" could refer to some bumps/homos/tramps.
Could it possibly relate to those that made the decision about the rebranding?
You're quite spot on, especially for people who know some slavic language :> (precise translations below are from polish, but such words are somewhat universal usually (though I'd have to check, and too lazy atm))
"syfy" would be plural form of "syf"; which can mean: crap, shit, junk, syphilis.
Oh how I wish to have something similar here (Poland); our law "against religious discrimination" in theory means that you can't make anyone FEEL (I kid you not) offended, but in practise it's even worse - you can't make catholic christians feel offended, while they can freely threaten you with perspective of eternal torture (that includes traumatising schoolchildren with this perspective of course)
Luckily there's some movement to abolish that, we just have to make a little more stir... (and thankfully, beeing in EU is some sort of protection at this point - not only procedural; the rest of Europe would be laughing at this country even more...)
Well, we can quite nicely compare - I have atm 129 tabs in Opera (though it changes constantly, I had for some time around 200, I believe, during this session), it has been running for over 2 weeks (since 2009-02-17, on win2k3; btw, you can check for example in Process Explorer the date when app started). Also diverse websites, using 850 MB total memory, though 415 MB of physical RAM (I'll get back to that at the end...)
Concidentally...I'm also running Firefox, since 2009-02-23, almost exactly 2 weeks; 98 tabs, total/physical RAM: 580 MB/...jumps anywhere between 250 and 400 MB constantly, while in use (uhuh...)
AND...I'm also running Seamonkey, since 2009-02-18; 16 tabs (simple pages), physical/total: 70/100.
Now, those numbers seem to be quite comparable...but user experience, UI responsiveness, paints TOTALLY different picture.
Opera stays responsive, her RAM usage is...well, not exactly constant, but without any sudden changes.
Seamonkey - not much to comment here, it has only few very simple pages in it; with more heavy browsing, while surviving noticeably longer/further, it acts basically the same as...
Firefox - which sure, might have quite a good memory usage; but it has become totally unuseable, and that's it. Hiccups, trashing HDD for no reason, heavy (and I mean heavy - a minute or so) UI-lag (even when...not trashing). Basically for over a week I'm closing slowly/when I have free time what it's in it and I don't want to loose (from my experience FF tends to corrupt session file when in such state). Oh well, another testing period ends in dissapoinment...
Now, what you don't seem to realise (from the focus of your post) is that the thing about Opera was never about memory usage per se - it was about efficient use of resources. Which might have looked like "Opera has lower memory requirements!" for Opera fanbots, but for many it was about beeing able to do certain things at all. Why do I have to close the browser to run something else, something resource intensive; especially since I don't turn off the computer, hibernate at most, and use cellular acces? Why do I have to deal with bookmarks/etc. when I can just as easily keep open EVERYTHING I need and rely more on spatial memory to navigate/quickly find a site that I need? And so I've been doing this, for many years (UI features of Opera also help greatly)
It all boils down to FALLACY (sort of, IMHO) of "you can have either low memory usage or performance/features", which is, in my opinion, only valid when discussing one particular codebase; the optimum point is different for different ones. It simply seems that Opera (and also Chrome, but through a bit different means) is able to fulfill my usage expectations, hits that optimum point, and on hardware that is currently available (and has been for at least 5 years). FF can't, it repeatedly fails to do so every few months I try it - and as a matter of fact what happens with its memory usage here seems to suggest to me that they try to lower it "artificially", in a way that's detrimental to efficiency of Gecko, which does require a lot more RAM per page than Opera to function efficiently, don't kid yourself it doesn't (how many years we're waiting for mobile Mozilla? Will it work perfectly on my Symbian phone with 230MHz ARM cpu and 12 MB of user RAM?)
Sure, might be good enough for typical user (though IMHO Chrome is currently the best fit for those), but not for me; I already told in previous post that I won't adapt to software; something like that must adapt to me!
You should got used to it by now...
Accidentaly, from the article I have the impression that they tested subjective performance using trivially small number of pages/tabs...
If they would do some heavy & long browsing (as in...weeks) Opera would wipe the floor with other contestants, excluding Chrome (well, I don't know about Safari)
http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/
Nice list & style, works just as good as FF Adblock for blocking, somewhat better for hiding empty spaces.
Try testing with some non-insignificant number of tabs (one hundred...two hundred...three hundred)
Firefox is totally out of the question during such usage (and NO, I won't adapt to software! It must handle the way I want to use it!) - nevermind that it doesn't have efficient ways to handle such number of tabs, UI-wise, without extensions (which potentially worsen the problems with perf....) like, especially, Opera. But nevermind UI, when it comes to beeing able to handle at all such numbers of tabs even Seamonkey is very noticeably better, while Chrome and Opera wipe the floor with it.
Well, IE is worse...
Now, Slashdot is a US based site, but I'd guess you don't have to be so cautious among as...
You can safely say "almost certainly".
You missed one important part of my post, when I said that back then practically EVERY social group would be described by us as religious wackjobs - so in the case of US that includes not only New England of the past, but also those "secular" settlements. They were secular only to the degree that was possible back then, in both Europe and US, but...from our point of view, still nutjobs.
And you can't really argue with me that this didn't survive in the US to a much greater degree then in general Europe - I feel the pain too, I see it every day, living in one of the few countries that, especially in this regard, don't fit into EU at all. Actually you even mention unfortunate events that allowed it to survive in the US (yeah, in different parts...so?), I might look into them out of curiosity when time allows.
It's a bit hard to talk when the more populist side immediatelly starts to shout "don't allow!", "sin!", "ban it!", "criminalise it!"
Russia is a special case though...not only they never forgot their aspirations for beeing the most powerfull superpower, don't forget that even for a second.
But also...it was largery you, Americans, who beat them at that aspiration. Not only that, you also caused a major setback. And that's just on a "national pride" level...also don't forget for a second that many Russians think they were better of during USSR era (and in many cases that's quite correct, nevermind typical nostalgia for the times when one was young)
It's not really about individuals.
It's more what people think about your country as a whole in comparison to what they were thinking 10 of 15 years ago - back then you were the model everybody loved and aspired to, with a lot of power throughout the world but putting that power in a good use.
Now, often, you're just an overwight bully.