2 GB for firefox, 5 GB for OpenOffice.org, 1/2 GB for X, 1/2 GB for desktop odds and ends, 1 GB for Evolution or Thunderbird, and 10 MB for old-style stuff running in the background
If you're using "top" to get those numbers, you've probablygot them wrong. They definitely look wrong.
I mean, WTF, once a month lows happen once a month!
Just in case you were serious: A "one month low" isn't a "once a month low". It is "the lowest it has been in the past month". That needn't happen once a month -- if the stock is rising it will happen rarely, if the stock is falling it will happen often.
I just can't help but wonder what their Linux driver support will be like.
Most of us don't need these cards. These are for hardcore gamers. As in shoot-em-ups that will only run on Windows, not real games like nethack. ATI won't be very concerned about the lost market.
Like how about you read the damn article? It specifically mentions eyesight and back. To which I might add RSI. And what fuckwit moderator modded you "interesting"?
Or is America still like in revolutionary days when few people knew how to read? Oh, I suppose you can read, only nothing longer than a slashdot summary.
India isn't China. Never attribute to malice what is explained by incompetence, especially in India. Some bungling bureaucrat had this bright idea, but the sites will be accessible again in a short while. It's happened before. (In fact, right now I can access them from my home account though not from my work account.)
For your information a state of civil war is raging for over 20-30 years in its punjab region,
For your information, no.
Punjab did have a violent separatist movement in the 1980s. That's history now. There's far more separatist violence in Corsica or the Basque country. Or Quebec.
Actually, many major cities in China have hybrid buses. They look like trams but run on wheels instead of tracks.
San Francisco has those too. And so does Marseille, if I remember right.
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I don't see your point. Some of us use python. It takes me a fraction the time to do something in python than to do it in any other language. I'm not interested in writing native C++ code because it's hypothetically faster (it's not faster if I count coding time). But I am interested in a good python-to-C++ translator. Why wouldn't any python user be?
I think you're not supposed to read it. You're only supposed to feed it to your C++ compiler. f2c produced unreadable output too, but nobody read the output; at one time it was the only free fortran option on linux.
Gender is a grammatical term. For instance in German there are 3 genders: masculine, feminine and neuter, but there are not three sexes.
In English there are four genders (the same three you specify, plus the "common gender"). But only two of those apply to individual humans. It's perfectly acceptable usage, according to my copy of the Shorter Oxford dictionary, though it says it is "now chiefly colloquial or euphemistic". It gives the example from Montagu: "Of the fair sex... my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance... of never being married to any one among them."
Yes, I was referring to the desktop use of sudo in MacOS X and Ubuntu, for example. The first user is by default a sudoer who's allowed to do everything, and I wonder how many users know about logs. Safer than logging in as root (a la Windows and Lindows^WLinspire), certainly. But is it safer than asking for the actual root password before performing administrative tasks?
I'm not an expert on any of this, but what I do know is that when you start using up a lot of memory Linux totally sucks. On a 256 MB RAM machine, with about twice that amount of swap, if I run over 50% memory usage the system becomes unusable for long periods of time. Even at much greater loads, FreeBSD just feels slightly sluggish at worst. This has been true for years. It was the main reason many people I know refused to use linux (they went for either commercial Unix or the BSDs). It's still true with 2.6.15 -- I'm experiencing it on my work machine as I type this.
The ONE property digital data has over analog, is that it _can_ be duplicated without loss.
And, relevantly, transmitted without loss. Whether on the airwaves or over your cable. I agree with the GP -- when it isn't overcompressed, and storage space isn't a constraint, digital is better.
A 8KHz PCM (no compression) stereo file will sound worse than a LP or a cassette, you can be sure of that.
An 8 KHz file is already, de facto, compressed. It throws away a huge chunk of human-audible spectrum.
Maybe CowboyNeal has been in the living in the basement for too long, but everybody else knows that saying "chink" is very offensive to Chinese, Japanese, and other Asian people.
I know it's an old phrase, but niggardly is a word that most people do not use anymore either because of the racist connotations.
Don't be ridiculous. A "chink" in English (including American) is a small crack or a weak spot. And a "niggard" is an English word meaning a miser. It dates back to Middle English, and before that to Scandinavian languages. Neither word has anything to do with racism.
It's not just dictatorial countries: the British have a draconian "Official Secrets Act" and recently used it to clamp down on a memo that purportedly said Bush wanted to bomb Al Jazeera's headquarters in Qatar (a US ally) thereby killing hundreds of journalists, and Blair talked him out of it. Initially nobody believed it (Bush can't be THAT dumb) but since the Brits have clamped down it must be true...
I beg of you, fellow Slashdotters (most of who must statistically have a cell phone), please explain to me how cell phones managed to penetrate so much of the market with policies like this?
Because it's America? In India (admittedly the cheapest in the world, as the article says) I average $8 a month for a prepaid phone. But even in the US, I used a prepaid phone and averaged $20 a month (I use the phone much more in India though).
In India, whether prepaid or postpaid,
Incoming calls and SMS are free (provided you're not roaming)
Outgoing local calls cost under 5 US cents a minute
Outgoing long-distance (domestic) calls cost perhaps 10 US cents a minute
Outgoing SMS costs perhaps 0.6 US cents a message
Any phone user calling a mobile phone in the same city pays local call rates, so people feel free to call me (unlike in Europe, where they charge exorbitantly for calling a mobile)
And prices are falling every few months.
And most providers are private, and profitable (even though the government provider, BSNL, undercuts them and provides somewhat wider coverage in rural areas). So why can't mobile rates in the rest of the world be lower?
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Just in case you were serious: A "one month low" isn't a "once a month low". It is "the lowest it has been in the past month". That needn't happen once a month -- if the stock is rising it will happen rarely, if the stock is falling it will happen often.
Most of us don't need these cards. These are for hardcore gamers. As in shoot-em-ups that will only run on Windows, not real games like nethack. ATI won't be very concerned about the lost market.
It's not funny. Look how many potential Lenin-McCarthy songs we've lost because of that assassin chap, man.
Like how about you read the damn article? It specifically mentions eyesight and back. To which I might add RSI. And what fuckwit moderator modded you "interesting"?
Or is America still like in revolutionary days when few people knew how to read? Oh, I suppose you can read, only nothing longer than a slashdot summary.
Myspace isn't particularly popular in India, thankfully.
India isn't China. Never attribute to malice what is explained by incompetence, especially in India. Some bungling bureaucrat had this bright idea, but the sites will be accessible again in a short while. It's happened before. (In fact, right now I can access them from my home account though not from my work account.)
For your information, no.
Punjab did have a violent separatist movement in the 1980s. That's history now. There's far more separatist violence in Corsica or the Basque country. Or Quebec.
Only a cereal killer would do that.
San Francisco has those too. And so does Marseille, if I remember right.
I don't see your point. Some of us use python. It takes me a fraction the time to do something in python than to do it in any other language. I'm not interested in writing native C++ code because it's hypothetically faster (it's not faster if I count coding time). But I am interested in a good python-to-C++ translator. Why wouldn't any python user be?
I think you're not supposed to read it. You're only supposed to feed it to your C++ compiler. f2c produced unreadable output too, but nobody read the output; at one time it was the only free fortran option on linux.
In English there are four genders (the same three you specify, plus the "common gender"). But only two of those apply to individual humans. It's perfectly acceptable usage, according to my copy of the Shorter Oxford dictionary, though it says it is "now chiefly colloquial or euphemistic". It gives the example from Montagu: "Of the fair sex... my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance... of never being married to any one among them."
Yes, I was referring to the desktop use of sudo in MacOS X and Ubuntu, for example. The first user is by default a sudoer who's allowed to do everything, and I wonder how many users know about logs. Safer than logging in as root (a la Windows and Lindows^WLinspire), certainly. But is it safer than asking for the actual root password before performing administrative tasks?
Sudo gives you root privileges. And I'm not convinced that it leads to any greater security than plain old su.
I'm not an expert on any of this, but what I do know is that when you start using up a lot of memory Linux totally sucks. On a 256 MB RAM machine, with about twice that amount of swap, if I run over 50% memory usage the system becomes unusable for long periods of time. Even at much greater loads, FreeBSD just feels slightly sluggish at worst. This has been true for years. It was the main reason many people I know refused to use linux (they went for either commercial Unix or the BSDs). It's still true with 2.6.15 -- I'm experiencing it on my work machine as I type this.
And, relevantly, transmitted without loss. Whether on the airwaves or over your cable. I agree with the GP -- when it isn't overcompressed, and storage space isn't a constraint, digital is better.
A 8KHz PCM (no compression) stereo file will sound worse than a LP or a cassette, you can be sure of that.
An 8 KHz file is already, de facto, compressed. It throws away a huge chunk of human-audible spectrum.
You're welcome to make a release, but you can't call it Firefox. Firefox is a protected trademark, as is Mozilla.
Besides, that's not what the article said.
I know it's an old phrase, but niggardly is a word that most people do not use anymore either because of the racist connotations.
Don't be ridiculous. A "chink" in English (including American) is a small crack or a weak spot. And a "niggard" is an English word meaning a miser. It dates back to Middle English, and before that to Scandinavian languages. Neither word has anything to do with racism.
It's not just dictatorial countries: the British have a draconian "Official Secrets Act" and recently used it to clamp down on a memo that purportedly said Bush wanted to bomb Al Jazeera's headquarters in Qatar (a US ally) thereby killing hundreds of journalists, and Blair talked him out of it. Initially nobody believed it (Bush can't be THAT dumb) but since the Brits have clamped down it must be true...
It's usually called Kollywood (from Kodambakkam, an area of Madras/Chennai where most studios are located.)
"Monsoon Wedding" is hardly Bollywood...
The music industry and the film industry rarely have people crossing over.
In fact, most songs are dubbed. And nearly all actresses sound the same when singing, to this day, because nearly all are dubbed by Lata Mangeshkar.
I'm sure you (or your ad agency) can copywrite them.
Because it's America? In India (admittedly the cheapest in the world, as the article says) I average $8 a month for a prepaid phone. But even in the US, I used a prepaid phone and averaged $20 a month (I use the phone much more in India though).
In India, whether prepaid or postpaid,
- Incoming calls and SMS are free (provided you're not roaming)
- Outgoing local calls cost under 5 US cents a minute
- Outgoing long-distance (domestic) calls cost perhaps 10 US cents a minute
- Outgoing SMS costs perhaps 0.6 US cents a message
- Any phone user calling a mobile phone in the same city pays local call rates, so people feel free to call me (unlike in Europe, where they charge exorbitantly for calling a mobile)
- And prices are falling every few months.
And most providers are private, and profitable (even though the government provider, BSNL, undercuts them and provides somewhat wider coverage in rural areas). So why can't mobile rates in the rest of the world be lower?