Because the faster the machine the more efficiently it does the task, allowing you to do even more concurrently and do more things in the future?
What if the task isn't running the e-penis benchmark? Do these one size fits all benchmarks really tell you anything useful about real world performance?
Will a system with a higher score do every task faster than a system with a lower score? It's not that simple yet these benchmarks try to make it that simple.
Probably why there are so few opensource alternatives. Everybody smart enough to write them knows how flawed the idea is.
The GBA got 20 hours out of 2 AA's, I'll believe 10 hours for this system. It's got a lot better hardware than the GBA, but it's got several years of technology evolution to help reduce the power usage.
At the moment the gp2x eats batteries. Disposable AA's typically won't last an hour and in some cases the cheap disposables inculded in the box haven't been able to supply enough current to even boot the unit. Decent nimh recharagbles are a must, the higher capacity the better. 2600mAh batteries will get you about 4 to 6 hours. Apparently new firmware versions are going to improve this and get nearer to the claimed battery life.
Not this again. For a very long time opera has used a UA string that contains "Opera" somewhere in the string. For example when pretending to be msie it would use a UA string like this, Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; en) Opera 8.50 It is easy to detect Opera when pretending to be msie. Pretending to be msie used to be the default. Now the default is to be Opera which sends a UA string like this Opera/7.50 (Windows 98; U) [en] The fact they have changed the default will make no difference to the stats because reliable browser sniffers where not mistaking the previous default for msie.
It isn't going to make much difference. To start with you can continue to use text files for configuration in windows. Secondly the registry is pretty simple and so is the api to access it.
As long as you code was written reasonably well all the code that actually reads/writes settings should be modular and easy to replace.
Compared to porting other parts of the app to windows like the gui the time spend will be insignificant.
It makes little difference any way. Opera sends a user agent string like this when pretending to be Internet Explorer.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; de) Opera 8.00
I can see two possibilities. 1. Browser detection methods are rubbish, all you need to do is check for opera before ie. 2. The argument that opera fairs badly on usage figures because it pretends to be ie is rubbish.
I find it hard to believe the person at the isp does anything different when finding the user of a static ip compared to a dynamic ip. They would just enter the ip and time and get back the users details. Finding the user of an ip must happen often enough that they already have automated tools to do the job. Users causing trouble and needing to be identified isn't exactly a new or uncommon problem.
You only need to avoid putting weight on the inner white plastic part of the top. The alu extrusion that runs around the outside of the case will be able to support somthing without pressing on the drive.
You could stack a load of minis on top of each other by putting the first on the right way up then the next on on top upside down to avoid loading the white plastic.
So pretty much ruin it for most of the existing users in the hope windows users will switch?
What will happen is everyone would just ignore the crippled release and use the patched version with the check removed.
Anyway I find the whole widget war stupid. QT and GTK are now similar enough to each other and windows that it isn't an issue. Anyone that has used a program on windows is going to have no trouble using a kde version of the program or a GTK version.
It's not like programs on windows are that consistant either. Win Xp doesn't have problems and it has widgets that look different to previous versions of windows. Not only that but old programs may still use the old apperance widgets. You could have two programs running at the same time with a different appearance and users don't care. Then there are the windows programs that use completly odd skined interfaces or programs like office that use fancy menus or other custom widgets.
I guess one reason is to get one up on your competitor who only offers one database.
Also most users are just installing third party software and don't really know what they are doing. If they want to install a CMS and a forum and it's easier to do it with 2 databases they will want to use 2 databases.
Not for me it's not. Everything works up until "Now downloading and installing updates..." Then it just sits there and nothing happens. Anyway I can manually donwload and install it or am I stuck downloading the whole installer for the new version?
Decided you should be able to transfer music from your pc to minidisk at high speed. They didn't allow you to transfer music from the player to the pc despite the fact that they where capable and well used for recording from a mic.
The software also had what is proberly the most stupid DRM ever. It only allowed for 4 copies of a song but you could get another lot of 4 copies by reimporting the same file over and over again. The early versions of the software where also extreamly unstable and often refused to work at all. Also the software was a pretty bad design. A lot of people just didn't use it at all and continued to record their mp3s via analog at real time.
Also If you wanted to send music to the player via a pc in high quality it would encode the audio at a lower quality but record it to the disk as high quality wasting disk space. The software didn't actually bother to tell you about this.
The trouble is cd based players tend not to last long if they recive repeated shocks. The mechanics of the drive are vunerable to shock at all times even though they are only occasionally reading data from the disk. The solid state players are smaller and in my experiance generally last longer when subjected to repeated impacts.
Any software firewall where the rules can be modified by the user that you use for day to day stuff is allways going to be pretty useless once a bad program is on the machine and running. Especially as practically every body uses the admin account in windows. I have never tried it but I would guess all you have to do is wait until the computer has been idle for a while so there is high chance the user isn't there. Try to connect to a remote computer so the firewall dialog pops up. Find the dialog and click the agree button. Or perhaps stop the firewall program, modify it's config files and then restart it. Unless the user checks the firewall rules the would never notice.
They could be better but who would use them? Who is going to switch to the adim account just so they can give a program permission to access the network?
A laptop which is basically all the componants of a pc crammed together and encased in plastic is never going to be as quiet as a comparative desktop.
If you don't need a fast pc then get a fanless mini itx board http://www.mini-itx.com/, a flanless power supply, a quiet hard drive and put it all in a big airy case with a large low rpm fan and hide it all under the desk. Much quieter and cheaper than a laptop.
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Eee does support booting from cdrom and floppy disk plus many other USB drives. It also boots fine from the inbuilt sd card slot.
It's a consumer PC so obviously JTAG isn't the only way to fix a broken OS that won't boot.
Because the faster the machine the more efficiently it does the task, allowing you to do even more concurrently and do more things in the future?
What if the task isn't running the e-penis benchmark? Do these one size fits all benchmarks really tell you anything useful about real world performance?
Will a system with a higher score do every task faster than a system with a lower score? It's not that simple yet these benchmarks try to make it that simple.
Probably why there are so few opensource alternatives. Everybody smart enough to write them knows how flawed the idea is.
At the moment the gp2x eats batteries. Disposable AA's typically won't last an hour and in some cases the cheap disposables inculded in the box haven't been able to supply enough current to even boot the unit. Decent nimh recharagbles are a must, the higher capacity the better. 2600mAh batteries will get you about 4 to 6 hours. Apparently new firmware versions are going to improve this and get nearer to the claimed battery life.
Not this again.
For a very long time opera has used a UA string that contains "Opera" somewhere in the string. For example when pretending to be msie it would use a UA string like this,
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; en) Opera 8.50
It is easy to detect Opera when pretending to be msie. Pretending to be msie used to be the default. Now the default is to be Opera which sends a UA string like this
Opera/7.50 (Windows 98; U) [en]
The fact they have changed the default will make no difference to the stats because reliable browser sniffers where not mistaking the previous default for msie.
Opera already shows up in stats correctly unless the detection software is crap.
All of Operas user agent strings contain the word "opera".
For example when pretending to be ie the ua string is similar to this
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; en) opera 8.0
All you need to do to detect opera is look for "opera" in the ua string before you check for ie. Not exactly difficult.
It's easy to detect opera pretending to be ie. It sends a ua string like this.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; OS) Opera 7.0 [la]
Not exactly difficult to detect.
It isn't going to make much difference.
To start with you can continue to use text files for configuration in windows.
Secondly the registry is pretty simple and so is the api to access it.
As long as you code was written reasonably well all the code that actually reads/writes settings should be modular and easy to replace.
Compared to porting other parts of the app to windows like the gui the time spend will be insignificant.
They should show the postage cost next to the item price. Then you could just avoid looking at the items with high postage costs.
It makes little difference any way. Opera sends a user agent string like this when pretending to be Internet Explorer.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; de) Opera 8.00
I can see two possibilities.
1. Browser detection methods are rubbish, all you need to do is check for opera before ie.
2. The argument that opera fairs badly on usage figures because it pretends to be ie is rubbish.
Also there is the view rendered source firefox extension.
And for safari you can turn on the debug menu and use the DOM viewer to do the same thing.
I find it hard to believe the person at the isp does anything different when finding the user of a static ip compared to a dynamic ip. They would just enter the ip and time and get back the users details.
Finding the user of an ip must happen often enough that they already have automated tools to do the job.
Users causing trouble and needing to be identified isn't exactly a new or uncommon problem.
You only need to avoid putting weight on the inner white plastic part of the top. The alu extrusion that runs around the outside of the case will be able to support somthing without pressing on the drive.
You could stack a load of minis on top of each other by putting the first on the right way up then the next on on top upside down to avoid loading the white plastic.
They did. It used different disks and din't do well.
http://www.minidisc.org/md_data_table.html
The rockbox people are now working on firmware for the iriver H series. It looks like it's still quite a way off.I nfo
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/Iriver
If the system is taking a long time to do the work required to print a form how is wireless going to help?
and the truck driver has no right for a break...
What do you propose the driver does? Go drive around the block for 10 min until they are ready to load?
So pretty much ruin it for most of the existing users in the hope windows users will switch?
What will happen is everyone would just ignore the crippled release and use the patched version with the check removed.
Anyway I find the whole widget war stupid. QT and GTK are now similar enough to each other and windows that it isn't an issue. Anyone that has used a program on windows is going to have no trouble using a kde version of the program or a GTK version.
It's not like programs on windows are that consistant either. Win Xp doesn't have problems and it has widgets that look different to previous versions of windows. Not only that but old programs may still use the old apperance widgets. You could have two programs running at the same time with a different appearance and users don't care.
Then there are the windows programs that use completly odd skined interfaces or programs like office that use fancy menus or other custom widgets.
I guess one reason is to get one up on your competitor who only offers one database.
Also most users are just installing third party software and don't really know what they are doing. If they want to install a CMS and a forum and it's easier to do it with 2 databases they will want to use 2 databases.
Not for me it's not. Everything works up until "Now downloading and installing updates..."
Then it just sits there and nothing happens.
Anyway I can manually donwload and install it or am I stuck downloading the whole installer for the new version?
Decided you should be able to transfer music from your pc to minidisk at high speed. They didn't allow you to transfer music from the player to the pc despite the fact that they where capable and well used for recording from a mic.
The software also had what is proberly the most stupid DRM ever. It only allowed for 4 copies of a song but you could get another lot of 4 copies by reimporting the same file over and over again.
The early versions of the software where also extreamly unstable and often refused to work at all. Also the software was a pretty bad design.
A lot of people just didn't use it at all and continued to record their mp3s via analog at real time.
Also If you wanted to send music to the player via a pc in high quality it would encode the audio at a lower quality but record it to the disk as high quality wasting disk space. The software didn't actually bother to tell you about this.
The trouble is cd based players tend not to last long if they recive repeated shocks. The mechanics of the drive are vunerable to shock at all times even though they are only occasionally reading data from the disk.
The solid state players are smaller and in my experiance generally last longer when subjected to repeated impacts.
Any software firewall where the rules can be modified by the user that you use for day to day stuff is allways going to be pretty useless once a bad program is on the machine and running.
Especially as practically every body uses the admin account in windows.
I have never tried it but I would guess all you have to do is wait until the computer has been idle for a while so there is high chance the user isn't there. Try to connect to a remote computer so the firewall dialog pops up. Find the dialog and click the agree button.
Or perhaps stop the firewall program, modify it's config files and then restart it.
Unless the user checks the firewall rules the would never notice.
They could be better but who would use them? Who is going to switch to the adim account just so they can give a program permission to access the network?
A laptop which is basically all the componants of a pc crammed together and encased in plastic is never going to be as quiet as a comparative desktop.
If you don't need a fast pc then get a fanless mini itx board http://www.mini-itx.com/, a flanless power supply, a quiet hard drive and put it all in a big airy case with a large low rpm fan and hide it all under the desk. Much quieter and cheaper than a laptop.