1) Uninstall Norton, burn any install discs of it and maybe reinstall the OS to make sure there are no traces of it left. Seriously, Norton = bad performance. Use AVG 8.0 Free if you need a virus scanner.
2, 3 & 5) Works for me.
4) Don't use IE.
Moral of the story: Call Acer support, power management should be working, either they botched it up and installed faulty drivers or there's a hardware problem.
"I only hope that Sugar lives on. It really looks like a great entry level desktop for educational use."
Does it?
Kids in the third world may have less education, but they're not retarded. There's a difference between a nice, streamlined UI that doesn't get in your way with technicalities (Mac OSX comes to mind) and a dumbed-down "for Kids!" toy UI.
It claims to be a real (eg general purpose) "laptop", but Sugar is designed like a (badly coded) UI for an embedded device like the Amazon Kindle or the iPhone.
Heck, they probably would be better of if they adapted the mobile edition of OS X (the stuff that runs on the iPod Touch). Unfortunately Apple and Steve Jobs don't seem to have much interest in philantropic projects.
I don't understand it sometimes... companies like Samsung have incredible resources, and could easily start to build an iTunes software competitor, which also works with PlaysForSure, rather than relying on WMP. It's just symptomatic of a 'me-too' technology industry culture that attempts to eat like a cancer at the few innovators left.
The software competitor already exists: Yahoo Music Store. They sell subscription-based music, and Yahoo surely has the money and the engineers to seamlessly integrate an MP3 player.
I really don't get it why they don't form a joint venture with a company like Samsung. Yahoo+Samsung could really attack Apple's near-monoploy.
I seems there are at least 4 totally isolated dev teams at Motorola.
They have 1. Multiband Phones running Linux (A780, this one, etc) 2. UMTS phones running Symbian UIQ (A1000, E1000, etc) 3. Clamshell-Phones running Windows Mobile (MPx220...) 4. and finally the ultra slim phones running Motorola's own OS (RAZR V3...)
Wow. Compare this to Nokia, they have about 3 basic setups with 50 different designs.
GM foods (before the term had been invented) were crucial in the green revolution which brought an end to mass famine in most of the third world.
Except that the green revolution didn't use any GM crops. It did use cross-breeding, but not genetic modification.*
* I know cross-breeding does modify the genome of the plant, but the crucial difference here is that you can only mix similar plants; you can't mix in arbitrary bits and parts of completely different species.
People in third world countries don't starve because of a lack food on the market, they starve because they cannot afford the food. The US and the EU massively subsidize farming products to be able to sell them on the world market, yet people are starving at this very moment.
Wars, dramatic poverty, totalitarian governments etc cause famine.
GM crops won't solve any of those problems, so stop believing the propaganda of the pharma industry.
"I would like to point out that many CPU-hungry applications have not been optimized for AMD64 yet. In other words: such speedups can be expected in other areas."
well, maybe in some areas. Since this is a cipher, it obviously helps a lot when you can work on 64-Bit chunks of data instead of 32-Bit.
The same speedup can probably be seen with applications that use numbers larger than 32b (or 64b for floats), since the number of operations necessary will essentially halve.
But other than that, I don't see much room for huge speedups.
I didn't realize that the Smart wasn't on sale in the US until now.
Over here in Europe the smart has been around since 1998, with serious technical problems in the beginning, like the car flipping backwards on snowy mountain roads (no joke); and major design discussions just like on slashdot now.
Originally it was was a Joint Venture of Volkswagen and wristwatch-maker Swatch, but VW CEO Piech called it an elephant rollerskate and Daimler-Chrysler finally bought the whole thing.
After the first 6 months the advertising expense of DC per sold unit was almost on par with the selling price of the car.
Now smart is quite successful, even more with the roadster/coupe and the Mini-like Forfour.
I really wonder why people are so furious about paper trails.
Remember the ghastly voting issues in Florida 2000?
Well, they actually had paper trails, and it didn't change a thing. As it turned out, the courts ruled the recount illegal.
It seems that legal deficiencies of the US voting system are a much bigger problem than missing paper trails.
Don't forget that paper trails aren't immune to counterfeiting in any way. It's probably very easy to print a lot of paper trails with a standard PC and very little extra equipment.
It can't be that difficult built an electronic voting system, that is about as secure as the normal paper voting.
On the other hand, I don't really get why voting machines are so sought after in the first place. Here (in Austria) all vote counting is done by hand, in the local communities, with members of every party in the voting committee. You only need a few people for a single day, and counting is insanely fast. Since they start counting when the vote is still going', they have about 50% of the votes counted by the time the vote ends (usually 5 pm). At 5:10 pm, the first estimates are aired on TV, at 8:00 pm about 80-90% of the votes are counted and at 10 pm the Bundesministerium für Inneres announces the final results.
As an API/Library developer for my companies products, I've had to tell third parties I made a bad design decision (2) and you need to re-compile with the new library/API header. All of them appreciate and understand my mistake. Why can't Microsoft do this?
Microsoft Mail to 5,000,000 Developers: Umm, we fixed this bug in win32.dll, just check your code and recompile. Once the 1,000,000,000 Windows-Users have their windows Update fired up, you guys can distribute your patches!
yeah, sure, why can't they do that?
Seriously, this affects ALL kinds of widespread APIs, open or closed source. Once you have reached a critical mass of people using an API, you'll never ever get rid of it.
Hell, Unix is decades old and we still have creat() and umount().
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A couple of things:
1) Uninstall Norton, burn any install discs of it and maybe reinstall the OS to make sure there are no traces of it left. Seriously, Norton = bad performance. Use AVG 8.0 Free if you need a virus scanner.
2, 3 & 5) Works for me.
4) Don't use IE.
Moral of the story: Call Acer support, power management should be working, either they botched it up and installed faulty drivers or there's a hardware problem.
"I only hope that Sugar lives on. It really looks like a great entry level desktop for educational use."
Does it?
Kids in the third world may have less education, but they're not retarded. There's a difference between a nice, streamlined UI that doesn't get in your way with technicalities (Mac OSX comes to mind) and a dumbed-down "for Kids!" toy UI.
It claims to be a real (eg general purpose) "laptop", but Sugar is designed like a (badly coded) UI for an embedded device like the Amazon Kindle or the iPhone.
Heck, they probably would be better of if they adapted the mobile edition of OS X (the stuff that runs on the iPod Touch). Unfortunately Apple and Steve Jobs don't seem to have much interest in philantropic projects.
I don't understand it sometimes... companies like Samsung have incredible resources, and could easily start to build an iTunes software competitor, which also works with PlaysForSure, rather than relying on WMP. It's just symptomatic of a 'me-too' technology industry culture that attempts to eat like a cancer at the few innovators left.
The software competitor already exists: Yahoo Music Store. They sell subscription-based music, and Yahoo surely has the money and the engineers to seamlessly integrate an MP3 player.
I really don't get it why they don't form a joint venture with a company like Samsung. Yahoo+Samsung could really attack Apple's near-monoploy.
Wikipedia states that Bild has a circulation of about 3,650,000 vs ~3,200,000 of The Sun.
...for both CNN and slashdot. Seriously, Bild is the world's largest tabloid newspaper, and probably the worst of all of them.
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Making fuel out of organic waste is nothing really new or revolutionary. Using dead animals for this is not illegal at all.
Read more at http://www.bildblog.de/?p=791 (German)
Babelfish translation http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pa
Indeed, it does.
;-)
Right at the start on page 18:
Use 78-column lines.
Bet you didn't expect that
Or even easier to install: m0n0wall
I seems there are at least 4 totally isolated dev teams at Motorola.
They have
1. Multiband Phones running Linux (A780, this one, etc)
2. UMTS phones running Symbian UIQ (A1000, E1000, etc)
3. Clamshell-Phones running Windows Mobile (MPx220...)
4. and finally the ultra slim phones running Motorola's own OS (RAZR V3...)
Wow. Compare this to Nokia, they have about 3 basic setups with 50 different designs.
... Red Bull Flugtag, just without the flying.
GM foods (before the term had been invented) were crucial in the green revolution which brought an end to mass famine in most of the third world.
Except that the green revolution didn't use any GM crops. It did use cross-breeding, but not genetic modification.*
* I know cross-breeding does modify the genome of the plant, but the crucial difference here is that you can only mix similar plants; you can't mix in arbitrary bits and parts of completely different species.
5+ Insightful? What the heck?
GM crops won't help third world countries a bit.
People in third world countries don't starve because of a lack food on the market, they starve because they cannot afford the food. The US and the EU massively subsidize farming products to be able to sell them on the world market, yet people are starving at this very moment.
Wars, dramatic poverty, totalitarian governments etc cause famine.
GM crops won't solve any of those problems, so stop believing the propaganda of the pharma industry.
I guess one reason could be that "real software people" write crappy software too.
Especially when you need highly specialised software (ie medical) you encounter absolutly unusable software by professional developers all the time.
I don't really disagree with your argument though; those competent software developers are just hard to find sometimes.
speed record of 101 gigabytes per second.
Wait, isn't this supposed to be a nerdy tech magazine?
I mean, I except this kind of Bit/Byte confusion on CNN, but on slashdot...
No, it wasn't.
It started at 1.1$ in 2002, then dropped to a low of 0.85$
So it's now at its all-time high.
"I would like to point out that many CPU-hungry applications have not been optimized for AMD64 yet. In other words: such speedups can be expected in other areas."
well, maybe in some areas.
Since this is a cipher, it obviously helps a lot when you can work on 64-Bit chunks of data instead of 32-Bit.
The same speedup can probably be seen with applications that use numbers larger than 32b (or 64b for floats), since the number of operations necessary will essentially halve.
But other than that, I don't see much room for huge speedups.
It lands on the butter side, since it has only one side.
I didn't realize that the Smart wasn't on sale in the US until now.
Over here in Europe the smart has been around since 1998, with serious technical problems in the beginning, like the car flipping backwards on snowy mountain roads (no joke); and major design discussions just like on slashdot now.
Originally it was was a Joint Venture of Volkswagen and wristwatch-maker Swatch, but VW CEO Piech called it an elephant rollerskate and Daimler-Chrysler finally bought the whole thing.
After the first 6 months the advertising expense of DC per sold unit was almost on par with the selling price of the car.
Now smart is quite successful, even more with the roadster/coupe and the Mini-like Forfour.
What's new about this stuff?
I've seen "passive" houses being built for years (in Europe).
Maybe 6 years ago this would have been kind of innovative. But in the year 2004? C'mon!
And it does look a little wordy & inefficient for doing the "stuff we do at the moment".
It's based on XML. Wordiness and Inefficiency come as standard features.
I really wonder why people are so furious about paper trails.
Remember the ghastly voting issues in Florida 2000?
Well, they actually had paper trails, and it didn't change a thing. As it turned out, the courts ruled the recount illegal.
It seems that legal deficiencies of the US voting system are a much bigger problem than missing paper trails.
Don't forget that paper trails aren't immune to counterfeiting in any way. It's probably very easy to print a lot of paper trails with a standard PC and very little extra equipment.
It can't be that difficult built an electronic voting system, that is about as secure as the normal paper voting.
On the other hand, I don't really get why voting machines are so sought after in the first place. Here (in Austria) all vote counting is done by hand, in the local communities, with members of every party in the voting committee.
You only need a few people for a single day, and counting is insanely fast.
Since they start counting when the vote is still going', they have about 50% of the votes counted by the time the vote ends (usually 5 pm). At 5:10 pm, the first estimates are aired on TV, at 8:00 pm about 80-90% of the votes are counted and at 10 pm the Bundesministerium für Inneres announces the final results.
IBM launched the T221 over a year ago.
This baby is has "only" 22.2 inch, but a stunning resolution of 3840x2400 pixels (yes, that's 9.2 Megapixels)
The Nvidia Quadro Cards that support that kind of ultra-high resolution have been out for quite a while too.
So nothing new here, just shiny design.
As an API/Library developer for my companies products, I've had to tell third parties I made a bad design decision (2) and you need to re-compile with the new library/API header. All of them appreciate and understand my mistake. Why can't Microsoft do this?
Microsoft Mail to 5,000,000 Developers: Umm, we fixed this bug in win32.dll, just check your code and recompile. Once the 1,000,000,000 Windows-Users have their windows Update fired up, you guys can distribute your patches!
yeah, sure, why can't they do that?
Seriously, this affects ALL kinds of widespread APIs, open or closed source. Once you have reached a critical mass of people using an API, you'll never ever get rid of it.
Hell, Unix is decades old and we still have creat() and umount().
There's barely a mention of Photoshop either. The article is about the cameras.