Ocean is salt water, while ice swimming in it is fresh water. If the latter melts, ocean _will_ rise.
In practice this would be negligible of course in comparison to the effects of melting Greenland and Antarctica caps, but it _will_ add to the effect a bit.
Not necessarily daft, it could be simply watching at both sides, also at donor. You'll say that he's brain dead already and agreed to organ transplants....however most people don't take face transplants into account when agreeing, and I imagine they would be somehow doscomfortable of the thought (even if it's not rationall). Not to mention what family will think - they might don't mind heart transplant, etc. but probably would like to see their parent/sister/brother/child with a face right to the end - that's what gives us an identity. Of course, technically they have nothing to say if person agreed to transplants...but in practise family opinion is deciding factor in many places.
Socket A lasted very long. I bought a mobo on it when the socket came out in 2000, MSI K7T Pro based on Via KT133. And it would be possible to use even Athlon XP 3200+...only problem: it would work at half the FSB, so half the speed. But it would work... "Unfortunatelly" 2 years later powersurge killed it, together with Duron 600, so as a replacement I ended with MSI K7T Turbo2. And this thing supports everything from Duron 600 to Athlon XP 2600+ (the one on 266 FSB). And of course latest Socket A mobos support everything from Duron 600 all the way up to 3200+ on 400 MHz FSB.
And BTW, Pentiums are much worse example than Socket A - 60/66 MHz models, later normal models and MMX models weren't exactly compatible...
Your last paragraph - exactly. And it was probably ECS...so buy better vendors next time. Out of their 735 was one good model/revision (ironically, the first one, barebones, with just the chipset), later models were flaky. However chipset is also important, there are things which even Asus, etc. won't ever do with a Via chipset...
Usually in such a setup I/O performance determines whether you can do anything at all with the system, especially PCI implementation. Practically the only ones workable with one PCI hungry capture/editing cards are Intel and SiS, I wouldn't be surprised if the case was the same with few "normal" capture cards.
Of course only if you'd want to do few things at one time.
Honestly...I don't see a reason, so not much of a difference if you'd have only one capture card.
SiS from the days of 735 had been extremelly good, the least troublesome on AMD platform, and on par with Intel in stability, etc. And it is the only one with solid PCI bandwith/implementation on that platform...
I wonder...what's your take on total ignore of Herschell Space Observatory, especially on Slashdot? (I've submitted few times more interesting stories than "we'll be late"...but...you know the rest)
Music industry doesn't want to "help people find new bands and new genres that they like". The want to impose limited number of "artists" and genres, that's all.
Links to more actuall pictures of the announcement (with high-res version - can you recognize used Desktop Enviroment?) and Webcast of the event: http://laptop.media.mit.edu/news.html
First of all, neither of us can prove this. Secondly...think. What's more probable. Building/using light aps for small memory footprint (who said they must use swap at all? They can limit how many apps can be opened...) or using memory hogs with amount of ram that's bigger than in most computers of developed world. Which of these will mean keeping the price at 100% easier?
My source is a friend close to Sony. He "lived" out of reporting for example such things...and had somehow privileged position among others.
The fact that you couldn't adress it could mean for example that it was in reality not even rarelly used, but never, due to firmare for example. Or perhaps it was automagically used as an extension to CDROM cache present from the start, I don't know/care (you have some means to check that?)
Anyway I never cared about this additional amount...
Nowehere they call it "RAM". And when you keep in mind that this Laptop will have flash based "hard disk" and be used for educational purposes running tweaked distro, and cost 100$ on top of that, do you really believe they're talking about RAM?
Perhaps more important is the "publicity" of tools/programs preferred by Red Hat in this project. We can assume that one of two GTK desktops will be used (I doubt GNOME, but XFCE...), the rest is basically guessing at this point.
But those will be one of the most widely used apps...not only on Linux. They will be one of the most widelly used overall.
Countries to which these laptops will go probably want control over their infrastructure, open source guarantees that. Besides, those laptops will have 128MB of RAM (and 1GB of nonvolatile storage), OS X is a bit too heavy...
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No, no, no, no, NO!
Ocean is salt water, while ice swimming in it is fresh water. If the latter melts, ocean _will_ rise.
In practice this would be negligible of course in comparison to the effects of melting Greenland and Antarctica caps, but it _will_ add to the effect a bit.
Not necessarily daft, it could be simply watching at both sides, also at donor. You'll say that he's brain dead already and agreed to organ transplants....however most people don't take face transplants into account when agreeing, and I imagine they would be somehow doscomfortable of the thought (even if it's not rationall).
Not to mention what family will think - they might don't mind heart transplant, etc. but probably would like to see their parent/sister/brother/child with a face right to the end - that's what gives us an identity. Of course, technically they have nothing to say if person agreed to transplants...but in practise family opinion is deciding factor in many places.
Socket A lasted very long. I bought a mobo on it when the socket came out in 2000, MSI K7T Pro based on Via KT133. And it would be possible to use even Athlon XP 3200+...only problem: it would work at half the FSB, so half the speed. But it would work...
"Unfortunatelly" 2 years later powersurge killed it, together with Duron 600, so as a replacement I ended with MSI K7T Turbo2. And this thing supports everything from Duron 600 to Athlon XP 2600+ (the one on 266 FSB). And of course latest Socket A mobos support everything from Duron 600 all the way up to 3200+ on 400 MHz FSB.
And BTW, Pentiums are much worse example than Socket A - 60/66 MHz models, later normal models and MMX models weren't exactly compatible...
In Europe it has at least (depending on the country) half of Firefox usage, which itself is at about 15%
I prefer separate night lamp. And one that isn't directed into my eyes.
Also, I can't wait the times when completelly passive e-paper based displays will start to be used in laptops.
Your last paragraph - exactly.
And it was probably ECS...so buy better vendors next time. Out of their 735 was one good model/revision (ironically, the first one, barebones, with just the chipset), later models were flaky.
However chipset is also important, there are things which even Asus, etc. won't ever do with a Via chipset...
Usually in such a setup I/O performance determines whether you can do anything at all with the system, especially PCI implementation. Practically the only ones workable with one PCI hungry capture/editing cards are Intel and SiS, I wouldn't be surprised if the case was the same with few "normal" capture cards.
Of course only if you'd want to do few things at one time.
Honestly...I don't see a reason, so not much of a difference if you'd have only one capture card.
SiS from the days of 735 had been extremelly good, the least troublesome on AMD platform, and on par with Intel in stability, etc. And it is the only one with solid PCI bandwith/implementation on that platform...
I wonder...what's your take on total ignore of Herschell Space Observatory, especially on Slashdot? (I've submitted few times more interesting stories than "we'll be late"...but...you know the rest)
Music industry doesn't want to "help people find new bands and new genres that they like". The want to impose limited number of "artists" and genres, that's all.
I've heard some talk about selling licenses for comerciall versions to Dell, etc.
Links to more actuall pictures of the announcement (with high-res version - can you recognize used Desktop Enviroment?) and Webcast of the event:
http://laptop.media.mit.edu/news.html
First of all, neither of us can prove this. Secondly...think. What's more probable. Building/using light aps for small memory footprint (who said they must use swap at all? They can limit how many apps can be opened...) or using memory hogs with amount of ram that's bigger than in most computers of developed world.
Which of these will mean keeping the price at 100% easier?
My source is a friend close to Sony. He "lived" out of reporting for example such things...and had somehow privileged position among others.
The fact that you couldn't adress it could mean for example that it was in reality not even rarelly used, but never, due to firmare for example. Or perhaps it was automagically used as an extension to CDROM cache present from the start, I don't know/care (you have some means to check that?)
Anyway I never cared about this additional amount...
Nowehere they call it "RAM". And when you keep in mind that this Laptop will have flash based "hard disk" and be used for educational purposes running tweaked distro, and cost 100$ on top of that, do you really believe they're talking about RAM?
Perhaps more important is the "publicity" of tools/programs preferred by Red Hat in this project. We can assume that one of two GTK desktops will be used (I doubt GNOME, but XFCE...), the rest is basically guessing at this point.
But those will be one of the most widely used apps...not only on Linux. They will be one of the most widelly used overall.
MIT laptops will have 128MB of RAM.
Countries to which these laptops will go probably want control over their infrastructure, open source guarantees that.
Besides, those laptops will have 128MB of RAM (and 1GB of nonvolatile storage), OS X is a bit too heavy...
Yes, but is the machine Dell?
If it is 1/3 the price of a computer (easily accomplished), than yes.
The Dell one could also be questionable - you have original disk that was thrown away, but do you have the license?
Corruption.
The decision makers too often aren't concerned about real financial benefits of others in long term (Linux isn't that usefull for populism)
Too bad that also prices of vehicles, especially the hybrid ones, are much, much higher (at least here, in PL)
But it's much more effective.
And large part of it indeed potentially doesn't burnfossil fuels (trams/light trains/trolleybuses)
Go ahead, you have to do this in EU curt :P