The situation on Linux is a bit different due to the aggressive caching in Linux and how it will try to use all the available RAM you have (unused RAM is wasted RAM, remember that). Also, viewing process statistics will generally show memory usage for programs by including memory used from shared libraries (which are only used once if you have them open in more than a single instance) and from cached files. And there's the fact that Linux makes better use of swap than Windows, so having full RAM all the time doesn't necessarily mean instant slowdown for everything due to paging in and out.
AMD and Intel both primarily manufacture chips that follow the same architecture (x86 for 32-bit and x86-64 for 64-bit). A switch to AMD wouldn't cause any headaches except in hardware design (e.g., Intel makes integrated graphics cards for laptops, but AMD doesn't, so for lower-end hardware like the Macbook, Intel is currently the better solution).
There's always webmaster@example.com, and abuse@theirisp.net. I still don't see why you should have to put your real life address and other information that is completely irrelevant to anyone outside the registrar.
I don't really think the Slashdot Zoo is a good example of a web of trust. I have plenty of people here who are both a "friend of friend" and a "foe of friend" at the same time. I believe the zoo is more so for keeping track of whose comments you like to read or respond to than who is most likely to make an accurate or well thought out comment. They can be the same of course, but not often.
And ever since that horrible re-"design" a few days ago (along with admin/moderator drama that always ensues from sites like Fark), a lot of Farkers (including many, many TFers) went to Digg for refuge. So, I'd have to say that Digg is the next Fark, but hopefully without the idiotic administration.
Slashdot's threading system screws up once you get past the fifth child (i.e., great great great grandchild), but it's still stored properly so that if you view a post, it will show you up to 6 levels of children before screwing up again. Now for as annoying as this is, it is still millions of times better than the lack of threading at Digg.
Some people above mentioned that you can use the Firehose to vote it down, but a lazier way is to do what voting down does in the first place: tag it with nix. nod is the tag for voting up by the way.
Well, there's this one theatre I went to recently that has a strict policy for R-rated films (they get their own hall, and you need both a stamp and your ticket to get in, and they check for ID), and even though there were probably at least 50 kids at the theatre, none of them were in the R-rated films. So, in order to enjoy your movie-going experience, it's best to enjoy crude humour (e.g., Aqua Teen Hunger Force), explosions, gratuitous violence, and sex. Or enjoy films that the kids wouldn't like anyhow.
Have you ever noticed all the odd "dust" artifacts that appear when you watch a movie at the theatres? Even digital film has this problem. Then there's the every 11 minutes queue-up-the-next-reel-dot which is pretty annoying. And there's those "anti-piracy" dots that are specific to the theatre you're at that appear pretty randomly throughout the film in the fucking middle of the screen.
Sound quality is still pretty damn good, but video quality could definitely improve. I believe it's an issue with the theatre rather than the recording of the movie (some movies have that usually digitally-added film grain for effect, but that's not what I'm talking about), but it's been an issue at every theatre I've gone to. It's even a problem with their first viewing of the film, so maybe it has something to do with their equipment.
Anyhow, quality going down. And it costs like $5 for popcorn made of maybe 5 cents worth of corn.
All that blockyness was smudged into an acceptable picture on your 32" Tube TV set. that nice crisp 720P display shows all the digital cable glory of blocks and artifacts. Maybe you never watch cartoons, but I can see the artifacts all the time on my 20-something inch standard-definition TV in my room over here. We have Dish Network, but I've seen worse (e.g., Comcast Digital Cable). I blame the fact that they're still using MPEG-2 video encoding; they could up the quality quite a bit and still save bandwidth if they were using MPEG-4 ASP or AVC, VC1, Theora (VP3), or VP7 to name a few modern video codecs.
It's like the people that claim that XM and Sirius sounds as good as a CD... These people must be blind as the sattelite radio people must be deaf. Maybe you haven't listened to XM or Sirius on a car stereo, but I don't notice any real differences in an environment like that, and I'm an audiophile even! Then again, I typically listen to Sirius 27 (heavy metal) and 23 (80's rock), and that sort of music typically compresses better than jazz or classical music (which I have stored only as FLAC in my collection). I don't know the exact specs, but what's played on satellite radio is much better fidelity than on typical radio (FM band), and is better quality than most crap you could get on popular P2P networks (which excludes IRC and BitTorrent where "high quality" MP3s and higher quality FLACs dominate). Besides, I like to use Sirius (along with sites like Last.fm) to find new music to buy on CD or via sites like Magnatune that sell FLACs.
Once again, I'd like to complain that some of my favourite cartoons (Futurama, Ed Edd 'n Eddy, any anime, Fairly Oddparents, Jimmy Neutron (which is 3d CGI anyhow which should compress better than cartoons), and many others; by the way, I'm 19) look like total ass when compressed digitally over these networks. I'd hate to see that stretched to fit a resolution like 1440x1080 (4:3 on 1080p), so I agree that this nasty compression is preventing many people from wanting to switch to HD.
CDs are still the only way to legally get most music DRM-free and high quality (at least lossless 16-bit 44.1 kHz audio). Sure, Magnatune exists, and I buy from them, but they're one in a million when it comes to online music stores where you get the choice of format, quality, and price.
Hey, I'm both intelligent and religious you insensitive clod!
But I agree; the level of anti-intellectualism in the US is astounding. To think that we're somehow a first-world country despite that is quite amazing in its own regard.
Y'know, when these developing countries catch up with the rest of the world, I'm pretty sure we will become the minority. If they start with a Linux distro like that, Linux gains an enormous userbase. Any operating system you put on these will become a major player if OLPC catches on.
Besides, they'd be more likely to develop software amongst themselves, so it doesn't matter if they're running what the Rest of the World® is. By the time they catch up to the developed world, I doubt Microsoft will have a monopoly anymore anyhow, so it would be extremely shortsighted to put Windows on these machines.
Well, considering that Windows CE can run on a low-spec smartphone (lower specs than the original OLPC design), I doubt they're trying to get CE to run on them due to the increased hardware requirements. It sounds like they're trying XP.
Windows doesn't use BIOS calls anymore (as far as I know), and the goal of the LinuxBIOS project is to replace the BIOS with a Linux-based solution that can work with all operating systems that don't make BIOS calls. If it doesn't already support Windows, I'd assume that it'd be trivial to make it do so.
Sorry to ruin the joke, but Google runs all their stuff on commodity hardware.
Besides, a server environment is pretty different than a desktop/workstation one. If you've heard of the Sun Niagara, for example, it works quite well in a server environment, but due to an almost complete absence of floating point processing (and its general power-consumption optimisations), it would be nearly useless as a workstation.
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HTML 1.0 was "whatever the web browser supports"; that is, there was no official standard for 1.0. I'd rather not repeat those days again...
The situation on Linux is a bit different due to the aggressive caching in Linux and how it will try to use all the available RAM you have (unused RAM is wasted RAM, remember that). Also, viewing process statistics will generally show memory usage for programs by including memory used from shared libraries (which are only used once if you have them open in more than a single instance) and from cached files. And there's the fact that Linux makes better use of swap than Windows, so having full RAM all the time doesn't necessarily mean instant slowdown for everything due to paging in and out.
Oh man, are you bashing PowerShell there? ;p
All Unixes come with vi... ;)
AMD and Intel both primarily manufacture chips that follow the same architecture (x86 for 32-bit and x86-64 for 64-bit). A switch to AMD wouldn't cause any headaches except in hardware design (e.g., Intel makes integrated graphics cards for laptops, but AMD doesn't, so for lower-end hardware like the Macbook, Intel is currently the better solution).
Yeah, it's too bad that the people who don't vote are the same people on MySpace...
There's always webmaster@example.com, and abuse@theirisp.net. I still don't see why you should have to put your real life address and other information that is completely irrelevant to anyone outside the registrar.
I don't really think the Slashdot Zoo is a good example of a web of trust. I have plenty of people here who are both a "friend of friend" and a "foe of friend" at the same time. I believe the zoo is more so for keeping track of whose comments you like to read or respond to than who is most likely to make an accurate or well thought out comment. They can be the same of course, but not often.
And ever since that horrible re-"design" a few days ago (along with admin/moderator drama that always ensues from sites like Fark), a lot of Farkers (including many, many TFers) went to Digg for refuge. So, I'd have to say that Digg is the next Fark, but hopefully without the idiotic administration.
Slashdot's threading system screws up once you get past the fifth child (i.e., great great great grandchild), but it's still stored properly so that if you view a post, it will show you up to 6 levels of children before screwing up again. Now for as annoying as this is, it is still millions of times better than the lack of threading at Digg.
Some people above mentioned that you can use the Firehose to vote it down, but a lazier way is to do what voting down does in the first place: tag it with nix. nod is the tag for voting up by the way.
Well, there's this one theatre I went to recently that has a strict policy for R-rated films (they get their own hall, and you need both a stamp and your ticket to get in, and they check for ID), and even though there were probably at least 50 kids at the theatre, none of them were in the R-rated films. So, in order to enjoy your movie-going experience, it's best to enjoy crude humour (e.g., Aqua Teen Hunger Force), explosions, gratuitous violence, and sex. Or enjoy films that the kids wouldn't like anyhow.
Have you ever noticed all the odd "dust" artifacts that appear when you watch a movie at the theatres? Even digital film has this problem. Then there's the every 11 minutes queue-up-the-next-reel-dot which is pretty annoying. And there's those "anti-piracy" dots that are specific to the theatre you're at that appear pretty randomly throughout the film in the fucking middle of the screen.
Sound quality is still pretty damn good, but video quality could definitely improve. I believe it's an issue with the theatre rather than the recording of the movie (some movies have that usually digitally-added film grain for effect, but that's not what I'm talking about), but it's been an issue at every theatre I've gone to. It's even a problem with their first viewing of the film, so maybe it has something to do with their equipment.
Anyhow, quality going down. And it costs like $5 for popcorn made of maybe 5 cents worth of corn.
Once again, I'd like to complain that some of my favourite cartoons (Futurama, Ed Edd 'n Eddy, any anime, Fairly Oddparents, Jimmy Neutron (which is 3d CGI anyhow which should compress better than cartoons), and many others; by the way, I'm 19) look like total ass when compressed digitally over these networks. I'd hate to see that stretched to fit a resolution like 1440x1080 (4:3 on 1080p), so I agree that this nasty compression is preventing many people from wanting to switch to HD.
Never long enough if you're using unsafe functions like strcpy! ;)
Buffer overflow!
Maybe we'll be able to move our brains into a machine like that and live our lives there?
;)
Oh yeah, I can imagine this; although, the inspiration for said imagination is from plenty of SF books.
CDs are still the only way to legally get most music DRM-free and high quality (at least lossless 16-bit 44.1 kHz audio). Sure, Magnatune exists, and I buy from them, but they're one in a million when it comes to online music stores where you get the choice of format, quality, and price.
Hey, I'm both intelligent and religious you insensitive clod!
But I agree; the level of anti-intellectualism in the US is astounding. To think that we're somehow a first-world country despite that is quite amazing in its own regard.
I believe MSNBC is a cable-only sort of network; they don't use public airwaves to broadcast.
Y'know, when these developing countries catch up with the rest of the world, I'm pretty sure we will become the minority. If they start with a Linux distro like that, Linux gains an enormous userbase. Any operating system you put on these will become a major player if OLPC catches on.
Besides, they'd be more likely to develop software amongst themselves, so it doesn't matter if they're running what the Rest of the World® is. By the time they catch up to the developed world, I doubt Microsoft will have a monopoly anymore anyhow, so it would be extremely shortsighted to put Windows on these machines.
Well, considering that Windows CE can run on a low-spec smartphone (lower specs than the original OLPC design), I doubt they're trying to get CE to run on them due to the increased hardware requirements. It sounds like they're trying XP.
Windows doesn't use BIOS calls anymore (as far as I know), and the goal of the LinuxBIOS project is to replace the BIOS with a Linux-based solution that can work with all operating systems that don't make BIOS calls. If it doesn't already support Windows, I'd assume that it'd be trivial to make it do so.
Sorry to ruin the joke, but Google runs all their stuff on commodity hardware.
Besides, a server environment is pretty different than a desktop/workstation one. If you've heard of the Sun Niagara, for example, it works quite well in a server environment, but due to an almost complete absence of floating point processing (and its general power-consumption optimisations), it would be nearly useless as a workstation.
Word 6.0 is like so 6 versions ago! Only old Korean people use Word 6.0.
And I'm totally putting it into every /etc/motd I have access to. ;)