I'm not entirely sure what you're getting at. I've read stories of people still needing to use it after a cold has cleared, but I've been able to avoid it. As directed, I use it for only three or four days during the peak of symptoms. But I take a weaker dose (3 sprays in one nostril instead of 2 or 3 in each) so that there's even less rebound after the half week course of treatment ends.
In fact, Desoxyn (methamphetamine hydrochloride tablets) is still legal in the USA. It's a prescription drug used to treat obesity and ADHD, in the same Schedule II as Ritalin (methylphenidate hydrochloride) and Adderall (mixed amphetamine salts).
After CMEA, I switched to oxymetazoline nasal spray, which works better than oral pseudoephedrine ever did. People say Afrin can be addictive, but I reduce risk of rebound congestion by using it in one nostril in the morning and the other at night.
Has anyone here ever actually tried to use a laptop on a bus?
I regularly do. The fact that my laptop's screen is only 10.1" makes it practical space-wise.
Oh, goody, I can carry around my files but not any of the expensive proprietary software installed on the work PC necessary to actually work on those files.
..And there isn't anything that fills those needs but runs a non-Windows OS?
You can take your chances with whatever Debian derivative is popular at any given time, but doing this with some recent Atom chipsets will result in a laptop that does not Just Work. You'll likely end up having to buy and connect an external mouse, keyboard, flash drive, and supported USB NIC through a hub so that you can download kernel sources, download patches, apply the patches, and recompile and install the kernel, just to get a machine's keyboard, trackpad, and Wi-Fi working. And even with all that, some hardware features still may not work.
That's still a 20 cent royalty payable to a pool including Sony and four other companies, plus the cost of the DP physical connector and the circuitry needed for the DP sink.
That's what I said. Let me rephrase: If performance of a particular application was acceptable on the "lame ass pipeline" of P4 NetBurst, it will also be acceptable on the "lame ass pipeline" of a similarly clocked Atom. Or is Atom noticeably even lamer than P4?
Besides, is there a viable alternative? Some free applications for Windows can be recompiled to run with Winelib on ARM. But is ARM noticeably better than Atom?
On the other hand, every ARM-based device I have (about 8 now) is a pleasure to use.
Say I have a few Windows applications that are free software, something like Modplug Tracker or FamiTracker. Has anyone had success at recompiling Windows applications with Winelib so that they'll run on ARM Linux boxes?
The NetBurst architecture in the P4 is legendary for it's terrible performance per clock.
Authors of applications intended for said architecture were probably aware of its terrible IPC. This means the applications will run fine on Atom, which has IPC that's similarly terrible but for a different reason.
What kind of moron would want to buy something that runs Windows
Somebody who wants an affordable[1] PC with a multi-window window manager[2] and no prompt to wipe the drive every time it is turned on,[3] possibly running the occasional Windows app,[4] in a shape or size that System76 does not offer.
[1] Not a Mac [2] Not a stock Android tablet [3] Not a Chromebook with Crouton [4] Not an ARM box, which can't run Wine
The GNU/Linux version is often more expensive, and I'm told this is for three reasons: lack of economies of scale, cost of handling returns from novices who end up buying the wrong thing, and the claim that the royalties paid by publishers of included trialware more than subsidize the royalty paid to Microsoft for Windows.
I wouldn't expect many of those "other apps" to run terribly well on a $100 x86 PC.
As I understand it, an Atom CPU roughly matches the performance of a Pentium 4 CPU clock for clock. This means an old application that runs well on a P4 will also run well on an Atom.
Wait, this one has a battery, but I'm not sure how much of a feature that is when you need an external monitor anyway.
That depends on whether there are enough plugs for the external monitor but not for the computer. This might happen, say, if you're using an existing TV as a monitor and can bum an HDMI cable off a game console or cable box but don't want to fool around with finding an outlet. Or it might happen if you're connecting to a projector but don't want to run a power cord that someone can trip over.
I guess it gets you through power hiccoughs?
Having had a four-second power outage at home last night, I can attest to the convenience of always having a UPS with me. All the applications on my laptop stayed open, and two minutes later the Internet came back. But that's when I usually discover that the backup batteries in a lot of the clocks around the house have run out.
15" monitors went out with the '90s, man. [But] like many, I take public transportation, so bulky and heavy workstation type laptops are not particularly desirable.
Are you trying to imply that 15" is too big or too small? If too small, then how do you get work done on your bus/train ride to and from work? If you don't expect to actually pull out your laptop on the bus, you could just carry a 32 GB USB flash drive to and from work and use the computers you already have.
That's fine for people who use only applications that are Free and native. But others may need just that one application that's only available for Windows but runs correctly in Wine on an x86 PC, and ARM isn't for them.
ASCII is a subset of UTF-8, and UTF-8 is a serialization of Unicode. Therefore, Unicode can be serialized to an ASCII extension.
Or by "ASCII-extensions" did you specifically refer to 8-bit character encodings such as those set forth in ISO 8859 and subsequently extended by operating system publishers, such as Windows code page 1252?
Then a sane language would not allow strings in the source code to be presented to the user, as a string presented to a user might contain characters outside US-ASCII. I'm curious what sort of syntactic salt your preferred language has to force developers to use internationalization best practices.
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If I was trolling, I wasn't aware. Please help me learn to avoid it in the future. What about my comment appeared "deliberately offensive" to you?
Usually when I get a bad head cold, it's my ears that get plugged up to the point that I become almost deaf.
Are you sure it isn't just ear wax? Usually Debrox (carbamide peroxide ear drops) clears that up for me.
I'm not entirely sure what you're getting at. I've read stories of people still needing to use it after a cold has cleared, but I've been able to avoid it. As directed, I use it for only three or four days during the peak of symptoms. But I take a weaker dose (3 sprays in one nostril instead of 2 or 3 in each) so that there's even less rebound after the half week course of treatment ends.
In fact, Desoxyn (methamphetamine hydrochloride tablets) is still legal in the USA. It's a prescription drug used to treat obesity and ADHD, in the same Schedule II as Ritalin (methylphenidate hydrochloride) and Adderall (mixed amphetamine salts).
After CMEA, I switched to oxymetazoline nasal spray, which works better than oral pseudoephedrine ever did. People say Afrin can be addictive, but I reduce risk of rebound congestion by using it in one nostril in the morning and the other at night.
the ONLY publisher that doesn't really get streaming or online gaming in general is Nintendo
The article I linked also mentions Capcom, and another article mentions Activision Blizzard.
That depends in part on to what extent the publishers are willing to allow streaming of their copyrighted games.
Has anyone here ever actually tried to use a laptop on a bus?
I regularly do. The fact that my laptop's screen is only 10.1" makes it practical space-wise.
Oh, goody, I can carry around my files but not any of the expensive proprietary software installed on the work PC necessary to actually work on those files.
Then install "the expensive proprietary software" to the flash drive rather than to the computer. Or do not use proprietary software in the first place.
..And there isn't anything that fills those needs but runs a non-Windows OS?
You can take your chances with whatever Debian derivative is popular at any given time, but doing this with some recent Atom chipsets will result in a laptop that does not Just Work. You'll likely end up having to buy and connect an external mouse, keyboard, flash drive, and supported USB NIC through a hub so that you can download kernel sources, download patches, apply the patches, and recompile and install the kernel, just to get a machine's keyboard, trackpad, and Wi-Fi working. And even with all that, some hardware features still may not work.
Moron.
Please cool it with the personal attacks.
Or Displayport + VGA
That's still a 20 cent royalty payable to a pool including Sony and four other companies, plus the cost of the DP physical connector and the circuitry needed for the DP sink.
There is HDMI monitors without speakers.
Through what output do such monitors pass the received audio signal?
Are DVI and DisplayPort patented with royalties?
DisplayPort has a 1 USD royalty per 5 devices. My search couldn't pull up info one way or the other for DVI.
Atom, which has IPC that's similarly terrible
Atom also has a lame ass pipeline.
That's what I said. Let me rephrase: If performance of a particular application was acceptable on the "lame ass pipeline" of P4 NetBurst, it will also be acceptable on the "lame ass pipeline" of a similarly clocked Atom. Or is Atom noticeably even lamer than P4?
Besides, is there a viable alternative? Some free applications for Windows can be recompiled to run with Winelib on ARM. But is ARM noticeably better than Atom?
On the other hand, every ARM-based device I have (about 8 now) is a pleasure to use.
Say I have a few Windows applications that are free software, something like Modplug Tracker or FamiTracker. Has anyone had success at recompiling Windows applications with Winelib so that they'll run on ARM Linux boxes?
The NetBurst architecture in the P4 is legendary for it's terrible performance per clock.
Authors of applications intended for said architecture were probably aware of its terrible IPC. This means the applications will run fine on Atom, which has IPC that's similarly terrible but for a different reason.
Cite in court the fines that Sony has asked for non-commercial copyright infringement.
Is Sony BMG Music Entertainment et al. v. Tenenbaum close enough?
What kind of moron would want to buy something that runs Windows
Somebody who wants an affordable[1] PC with a multi-window window manager[2] and no prompt to wipe the drive every time it is turned on,[3] possibly running the occasional Windows app,[4] in a shape or size that System76 does not offer.
[1] Not a Mac
[2] Not a stock Android tablet
[3] Not a Chromebook with Crouton
[4] Not an ARM box, which can't run Wine
The GNU/Linux version is often more expensive, and I'm told this is for three reasons: lack of economies of scale, cost of handling returns from novices who end up buying the wrong thing, and the claim that the royalties paid by publishers of included trialware more than subsidize the royalty paid to Microsoft for Windows.
I wouldn't expect many of those "other apps" to run terribly well on a $100 x86 PC.
As I understand it, an Atom CPU roughly matches the performance of a Pentium 4 CPU clock for clock. This means an old application that runs well on a P4 will also run well on an Atom.
I can think of a few cost reasons to make VGA-only monitors:
Wait, this one has a battery, but I'm not sure how much of a feature that is when you need an external monitor anyway.
That depends on whether there are enough plugs for the external monitor but not for the computer. This might happen, say, if you're using an existing TV as a monitor and can bum an HDMI cable off a game console or cable box but don't want to fool around with finding an outlet. Or it might happen if you're connecting to a projector but don't want to run a power cord that someone can trip over.
I guess it gets you through power hiccoughs?
Having had a four-second power outage at home last night, I can attest to the convenience of always having a UPS with me. All the applications on my laptop stayed open, and two minutes later the Internet came back. But that's when I usually discover that the backup batteries in a lot of the clocks around the house have run out.
the midrange iPad has better specs than this thing and a better operating system.
Until you need to use that one app that isn't ported to iPad, possibly because Apple won't let its developer distribute such a port through the App Store.
15" monitors went out with the '90s, man. [But] like many, I take public transportation, so bulky and heavy workstation type laptops are not particularly desirable.
Are you trying to imply that 15" is too big or too small? If too small, then how do you get work done on your bus/train ride to and from work? If you don't expect to actually pull out your laptop on the bus, you could just carry a 32 GB USB flash drive to and from work and use the computers you already have.
If you want to run Linux, buy something ARM-based
That's fine for people who use only applications that are Free and native. But others may need just that one application that's only available for Windows but runs correctly in Wine on an x86 PC, and ARM isn't for them.
There are quite descent boards
But do they run Descent?
ASCII is a subset of UTF-8, and UTF-8 is a serialization of Unicode. Therefore, Unicode can be serialized to an ASCII extension.
Or by "ASCII-extensions" did you specifically refer to 8-bit character encodings such as those set forth in ISO 8859 and subsequently extended by operating system publishers, such as Windows code page 1252?
Then a sane language would not allow strings in the source code to be presented to the user, as a string presented to a user might contain characters outside US-ASCII. I'm curious what sort of syntactic salt your preferred language has to force developers to use internationalization best practices.