Also, people's brains are hardwired to process visual data rather than abstract data, so if this drag'n'drop language is so well designed it actually produces decent executables of acceptable sizes why not take advantage it?
FF4 with only two slashdot tabs open takes 290MB here + the plugin-container.exe wich is 190MB, been open for a couple of hours before that with a bunch of youtube videos playing.. I think that is pretty much a leak right there.
Heh, i just had an UNCONFIRMED kill of a spider before posting but on the mission to confirm, i found a smaller one and killed that... but the original one is somewhere still.
fucking bastards! is there a way to create reliable lures for spiders so you can kill a bunch quickly ?
Hold your horses people..doesn't the LHC kind of assume that we know how this works, and that it's safe to turn it to full power? Some people have claimed that the black hole that is created will NOT grow in size, because 'we understand this so shut up' , essentially. Does this discovery (or lack thereof) mean we have to reconsider the LHC?
You'd be surprised how many businesses that run very well on Access databases. Unless they need industry standard performance and reliability, I'd say they could find uses for the database. Let's say vacation and work schedules, inventory and useful stuff like that. If he keeps his backups, he will have no problems even if this Filemaker program corrupts the database. (I've almost never used a Mac, but I know Access well enough)
And yeah, an advice: keep a second backup off-site!
Linux is good only if your time is worthless. Sad but true. As a regular geek I like tweaking OS's but Linux takes the cake sometimes. I stay with Windows XP and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS!
Seems newer Linux kernels has dropped support for the SB600 south bridge (a very common ATI chip) as well. Therefore the newest versions of Slackware, CentOS, OpenSuse and Ubuntu does not recognize my hard disks. If nobody fixes that soon i am going to the store to buy Windows 7.
Yo i dont use that twitter shit but give me your username and I will get back to you. I have to find the disks and make images if they are even working anymore:)
It's not as simple as 'it's a company just like the company that produces your toilet paper' and you know it. If they even had a grain of decency they would be perfectly able to sound the alarm. The thing is that, the profits involved with being yes-men clearly outweighs the risks.
It's more like Ford threw in an 'Robbing The Bank' button that releases caltrops then gives you 10x horsepower, flame thrower and twin jet engines, as well as dispensing clean clothes with passports in them.
These kind of companies are well beyond mom and pop private enterprises, they are gambling institutions using countries, property and people as chips. They should have a social responsibility that reflects the position they are in.
I had a couple of RiscOS fanatics for friends (i was in the commodore camp), and afaik they had a 2MB ROM to boot from, which included memory protected processes ('modules') and a configurable desktop environment, a taskbar/taskmanager hybrid as well as an assembler/BASIC editor/assembler and some other tools.
Also grandparent must be trolling, since those OS'es was so incredibly small and uncomplicated that it should in fact be possible to write them with zero bugs whatsoever.
Either has built in wifi or you could connect an USB hub to the thing and hook up 3-4 lightweight devices like mouse, wifi and keyboard. If you get one of those roll-it-up rubber keyboards you could have a functional computer whenever you are near a HD monitor. (wich is how often ?)
Sometimes I wonder if these great minds that pops up from time to time (Newton, Copernicus, Einstein etc) are really one of us. It's funny how they appear, completely revolutionize a field or offer a world changing new perspective and then disappear, just to have us mere mortals work for years and decades to understand, confirm and accept it. Applause again for Einstein, you are a bit creepy to be completely honest.
Doesn't matter if it's MS or Canonical, some people just want their OS to work 100% out of the box and not wait for future updates to fix it. If XP came out at SP2 level it would be totally different. Nobody pays for Ubuntu but still people don't like to be crash test dummies. Now that the mainstream starts to use Linux like we all wanted, it's up to the various distros to make the transition smooth and not 10 more years of testing before its stable enough . (Like MS did, causing the general population to think that computers are broken by default)
I see your appreciation of UID 137 and raise you that I personally know the guy who has UID 42!
(btw people trade low UID's on Ebay, so don't always assume you know who's behind them.)
This is the exact reason I do not use online services that involves real money or that requires real ID (like Facebook). I know I am probably missing out on a lot of games and stuff but I don't care. All I have is an online banking thing for which you need a physical key generator even if you know all the rest of the personal ID. To this day I have never used real information for email signups and other accounts. I keep all my important data stored safely locally (as in NOT a cloud/online storage service) on DVDs and in some cases I burn double backups in case one fails. Hard disks that are thrown away are securely wiped, and then smashed in the ground 2-3 times for good measure. It's nice to know that in case I for some reason I don't have internet, I won't really be affected. All my games and data is present. Even if you steal my wallet or cellphone and find my old disks, you won't get very far !
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Never had facebook, never will.
Also, people's brains are hardwired to process visual data rather than abstract data, so if this drag'n'drop language is so well designed it actually produces decent executables of acceptable sizes why not take advantage it?
FF4 with only two slashdot tabs open takes 290MB here + the plugin-container.exe wich is 190MB, been open for a couple of hours before that with a bunch of youtube videos playing.. I think that is pretty much a leak right there.
Heh, i just had an UNCONFIRMED kill of a spider before posting but on the mission to confirm, i found a smaller one and killed that... but the original one is somewhere still. fucking bastards! is there a way to create reliable lures for spiders so you can kill a bunch quickly ?
This is intelligent design in effect!
Hopefully in orbit.
Hold your horses people..doesn't the LHC kind of assume that we know how this works, and that it's safe to turn it to full power? Some people have claimed that the black hole that is created will NOT grow in size, because 'we understand this so shut up' , essentially. Does this discovery (or lack thereof) mean we have to reconsider the LHC?
You'd be surprised how many businesses that run very well on Access databases. Unless they need industry standard performance and reliability, I'd say they could find uses for the database. Let's say vacation and work schedules, inventory and useful stuff like that. If he keeps his backups, he will have no problems even if this Filemaker program corrupts the database. (I've almost never used a Mac, but I know Access well enough) And yeah, an advice: keep a second backup off-site!
ITT: Linux hardliners coming clean about how awful Linux is. /ducks
Linux is good only if your time is worthless. Sad but true. As a regular geek I like tweaking OS's but Linux takes the cake sometimes. I stay with Windows XP and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS! Seems newer Linux kernels has dropped support for the SB600 south bridge (a very common ATI chip) as well. Therefore the newest versions of Slackware, CentOS, OpenSuse and Ubuntu does not recognize my hard disks. If nobody fixes that soon i am going to the store to buy Windows 7.
Yo i dont use that twitter shit but give me your username and I will get back to you. I have to find the disks and make images if they are even working anymore :)
It's not as simple as 'it's a company just like the company that produces your toilet paper' and you know it. If they even had a grain of decency they would be perfectly able to sound the alarm. The thing is that, the profits involved with being yes-men clearly outweighs the risks. It's more like Ford threw in an 'Robbing The Bank' button that releases caltrops then gives you 10x horsepower, flame thrower and twin jet engines, as well as dispensing clean clothes with passports in them. These kind of companies are well beyond mom and pop private enterprises, they are gambling institutions using countries, property and people as chips. They should have a social responsibility that reflects the position they are in.
I wonder if my original two-set OS2-Warp disks will still work in some VM?
Isn't this why there is a 'F11' button to go full screen ? I always stay in full screen unless i need something from the GUI.
I had a couple of RiscOS fanatics for friends (i was in the commodore camp), and afaik they had a 2MB ROM to boot from, which included memory protected processes ('modules') and a configurable desktop environment, a taskbar/taskmanager hybrid as well as an assembler/BASIC editor/assembler and some other tools. Also grandparent must be trolling, since those OS'es was so incredibly small and uncomplicated that it should in fact be possible to write them with zero bugs whatsoever.
Yes, and he said
shut..
down...
EVERYTHING
I had to read the headline 3 times to make sure I was reading it right and then thought the same as you. This is just funny.
Either has built in wifi or you could connect an USB hub to the thing and hook up 3-4 lightweight devices like mouse, wifi and keyboard. If you get one of those roll-it-up rubber keyboards you could have a functional computer whenever you are near a HD monitor. (wich is how often ?)
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Sometimes I wonder if these great minds that pops up from time to time (Newton, Copernicus, Einstein etc) are really one of us. It's funny how they appear, completely revolutionize a field or offer a world changing new perspective and then disappear, just to have us mere mortals work for years and decades to understand, confirm and accept it. Applause again for Einstein, you are a bit creepy to be completely honest.
/me grabs popcorn
Doesn't matter if it's MS or Canonical, some people just want their OS to work 100% out of the box and not wait for future updates to fix it. If XP came out at SP2 level it would be totally different. Nobody pays for Ubuntu but still people don't like to be crash test dummies. Now that the mainstream starts to use Linux like we all wanted, it's up to the various distros to make the transition smooth and not 10 more years of testing before its stable enough . (Like MS did, causing the general population to think that computers are broken by default)
The password is hunter2.
I see your appreciation of UID 137 and raise you that I personally know the guy who has UID 42! (btw people trade low UID's on Ebay, so don't always assume you know who's behind them.)
This is the exact reason I do not use online services that involves real money or that requires real ID (like Facebook). I know I am probably missing out on a lot of games and stuff but I don't care. All I have is an online banking thing for which you need a physical key generator even if you know all the rest of the personal ID. To this day I have never used real information for email signups and other accounts. I keep all my important data stored safely locally (as in NOT a cloud/online storage service) on DVDs and in some cases I burn double backups in case one fails. Hard disks that are thrown away are securely wiped, and then smashed in the ground 2-3 times for good measure. It's nice to know that in case I for some reason I don't have internet, I won't really be affected. All my games and data is present. Even if you steal my wallet or cellphone and find my old disks, you won't get very far !