Windows 98, I've always felt, was a drastically underrated version of Windows. It was only a 200MB install, in comparison to the 500MB of Windows ME and gigabyte plus of Windows XP. And its workings, by comparison, were simple.
For example, Windows 98 had the option to completely turn off the usage of the swap file until memory is filled. Doing so made the entire system run from memory, vastly speeding up the system. As far as I know this is impossible in Windows XP. If you have an old system and toss a bunch of extra memory in it (pennies for older systems) you can make it run incredibly fast using Windows 98.
I have an older laptop that I recently "inherited" from a friend. It took about 5 minutes to boot up and 30 seconds to even open a folder. I wiped it, installed Windows 98, tweaked it a bit, and installed Firefox. It now runs beautifully, as fast as my main computer.
When I use Windows 98, it almost seems to me as if XP was designed to slow down your computer. Too bad most modern software no longer supports it.
According to the folks at Fark, who got to it before the slashdotting, it only had about 900 hits total. Come on, they crashed the server in NINE HUNDRED HITS?!
Gravity to be named the top scientific achievment of 2006. Expect the contest for 2007 to be between the invention of Algebra and the discovery of atoms.
Wrong. If I remember correctly, a few months ago they found a way they could verify it, and their result was something like 0.9c, + or - 0.2c. BTW, gravity does not only mean gravity waves. Gravity itself travels at a speed, not just gravity waves.
You're saying that preferences are all that matter. In which case, I prefer Gnome, and my opinion is that KDE completely blows and is one of the worst desktop environments ever created. Thus obviously any distro using KDE is doomed to failure!
The biggest limiting factor seemed to be that NASA didn't offer enough money to get any remotely reasonable solution to the problem. Fifty thousand dollars is chump change to the kind of money needed to develop any of this technology.
Your argument: If one enviro group is insane, they all are.
Therefore, obviously all Christians are racist terrorists, because the Ku Klux Klan were. Are you a Christian? You must be a terrorist. You hate America.
I ran a test last year doing simple arithmetic comparisons between Java and C++.
Java won.
The Just-In-Time Compiler makes Java incredibly fast. Java seems slow not because it is, but because a lot of Java programmers are just downright lazy and refuse to code efficiently.
WARNING! WARNING! Red alert in Tokyo-3! Angel detected, AT field pattern blue! All personell evacuate to the Geofront! All civilians, head to your designated shelters. This is only a drill.
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Alpha Centauri reference = complete win!
It even links to the same article...
The Simpsons. In a movie?
My eyes! The goggles do NOTHING!
10 dollars a pound to go into geosynchronous orbit instead of 10,000 dollars? That a simple enough explanation?
Windows 98, I've always felt, was a drastically underrated version of Windows. It was only a 200MB install, in comparison to the 500MB of Windows ME and gigabyte plus of Windows XP. And its workings, by comparison, were simple. For example, Windows 98 had the option to completely turn off the usage of the swap file until memory is filled. Doing so made the entire system run from memory, vastly speeding up the system. As far as I know this is impossible in Windows XP. If you have an old system and toss a bunch of extra memory in it (pennies for older systems) you can make it run incredibly fast using Windows 98. I have an older laptop that I recently "inherited" from a friend. It took about 5 minutes to boot up and 30 seconds to even open a folder. I wiped it, installed Windows 98, tweaked it a bit, and installed Firefox. It now runs beautifully, as fast as my main computer. When I use Windows 98, it almost seems to me as if XP was designed to slow down your computer. Too bad most modern software no longer supports it.
According to the folks at Fark, who got to it before the slashdotting, it only had about 900 hits total. Come on, they crashed the server in NINE HUNDRED HITS?!
/warps to his covert ops 15km behind geobeck
Bah, damn Tempests. /gets out his Ladar jammers.
I prefer the Armageddon battleship to the Apocalypse.
Nature will survive, but oceanfront property just might not.
Gravity to be named the top scientific achievment of 2006. Expect the contest for 2007 to be between the invention of Algebra and the discovery of atoms.
Add in international gross, and it breaks even. Add in DVD sales, and you make quite a bundle.
I vote that we send Joss Whedon to explore this "Buffy."
I cannot remember a single dupe that hasn't been posted by Zonk.
Read the post here. It (and a few responses to it) describe why this doesn't violate quantum theory.
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
They don't seem to have revealed the article either...
The day people will regret the Talkman existing is the day that someone takes it and attempt to translate anime with it.
Hell that might actually be pretty funny...
Wrong. If I remember correctly, a few months ago they found a way they could verify it, and their result was something like 0.9c, + or - 0.2c. BTW, gravity does not only mean gravity waves. Gravity itself travels at a speed, not just gravity waves.
You're saying that preferences are all that matter. In which case, I prefer Gnome, and my opinion is that KDE completely blows and is one of the worst desktop environments ever created. Thus obviously any distro using KDE is doomed to failure!
/Just being Devil's Advocate here.
The biggest limiting factor seemed to be that NASA didn't offer enough money to get any remotely reasonable solution to the problem. Fifty thousand dollars is chump change to the kind of money needed to develop any of this technology.
Your argument: If one enviro group is insane, they all are.
Therefore, obviously all Christians are racist terrorists, because the Ku Klux Klan were. Are you a Christian? You must be a terrorist. You hate America.
They beat Intel in heat output ;)
(Obviously not true anymore)
I ran a test last year doing simple arithmetic comparisons between Java and C++.
Java won. The Just-In-Time Compiler makes Java incredibly fast. Java seems slow not because it is, but because a lot of Java programmers are just downright lazy and refuse to code efficiently.
WARNING! WARNING! Red alert in Tokyo-3! Angel detected, AT field pattern blue! All personell evacuate to the Geofront! All civilians, head to your designated shelters. This is only a drill.
Just... why? This is like releasing a "Gamecube Micro" along with the Revolution. It just doesn't make sense.