For subset of users it is a useful or valuable quality.
btw,
Some people think that programmers should know at least 1 assembly language and the PPC is a good cpu to learn it.
we all did. His theory fits the observations and therefore it's right... for the moment. There is no use for a theory if it can't be tested. Anyone can think up some magic theory but if it can't be verified by direct or indirect observation it describes something that doesn't exist. Unless we find a new property of space-time, the theory is correct.
I predict the next step in software engineering for power hungry applications will be to move away from the OO model and instead design data processing components that execute in parallel. It would be something like a hybrid between VHDL and C++.
>AmigaOS is to Linux what Linux is to Windows. Remember how many Windows users out there think you're crazy for using Linux
Ah yes, the different levels of crazy. It's like a (multistage) waterfall:
Windows : zillions of users
|
V linux : thousends of users
|
V amiga : hundreds of users
|
V C64 : 100 users
|
V Apple II : 1 user
Now.. everybody thinks the AppleII user is crazy, right? It's him or the world that's crazy. That's the bottom of the waterfall, take a look at stage above the appleII user: the c64 users, a little less but still crazy. Guess who's at the top of the waterfall..
Doesn't matter. A good OS will run on low-end machines just as well but with the eye-candy stuff disabled. It's quite logical, an OS is an abstraction to the hardware layer and when the minimum requirements are relativly high, a lot of the benefits that comes with this abstraction are lost. MS doesn't seem to grasp basic logic. I am not anti-MS but this pushing of requirements is quite insane.
The amazing thing is, these are not far removed from quantum singularities. Apparently some kind of alien communication relay system was found that was actually harnessing the power of a type 4 quantum singularity. The power output is on the order of one year of our sun's power released every second! The relay is estimated at being around 10,000 years old. Truly fascinating
About these communication relays..
Have you heard of the rumors about the solar relay? It's apparently located in the same area of the type 4 relay and it uses way less energy than a type4 singularity. What is really puzzling is why there are two different relays located in the same area. One explaination is that the pair form a bridge between the relay systems of two different species. It could also be deployed to replace the type4 relay but isn't fully functional yet. It's just rumors but if it's true it explains black holes in a very different way. The energy required for the solar communication relay is captured by enclosing the star by some kind of dark field which produces the exact kind of effects we observed at black holes.
Oh, by the way, Windows XP runs just fine on a 1ghz CPU
i fucking hope so !! And it should run fine as well on 200MHz. 200 MHz is a lot of power for just shuffeling windows, scheduling tasks, managing memory and running an TCP/IP stack.
We might get some return to efficient coding being the norm, instead of writing systems anyhow and throwing more/faster hardware at it until it runs acceptably (Microsoft; its you I'm looking at!)
Microsoft's problem is memory usage, every unnecessary byte is processed at least once and is wasted cpu time. Ofcourse, reducing memory usage with huffman crunching won't make anything faster but the relation is clear: inefficient memory usage is a result of codebloat, non-streamlined datastructures, too many protocols/technologies and so on.
one definition of definition is a statement of the meaning of a word.
Unless you made a statement of your own personal understanding of the word irony, your understanding of the word irony is not the definition. So, use the standard definition or include your own definition, prefable at the top of your text.
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For subset of users it is a useful or valuable quality. btw, Some people think that programmers should know at least 1 assembly language and the PPC is a good cpu to learn it.
It's way more fun and easier to use the PPC instruction set than the x86's.
If Java had operator overloading then object wrappers would actualy be nice to use and not a PITA.
nice trick to get +1 insightful
slashdot needs smily icons :P
Why do they call it ovaltine? The can is round. The cup is round. Heck, even the dish is round, if you happen to use one.
we all did. His theory fits the observations and therefore it's right... for the moment. There is no use for a theory if it can't be tested. Anyone can think up some magic theory but if it can't be verified by direct or indirect observation it describes something that doesn't exist. Unless we find a new property of space-time, the theory is correct.
I predict the next step in software engineering for power hungry applications will be to move away from the OO model and instead design data processing components that execute in parallel. It would be something like a hybrid between VHDL and C++.
yes but how is the situation after a few years?
more importantly, use a split/natural keyboard, microsoft's is a good one.
>AmigaOS is to Linux what Linux is to Windows. Remember how many Windows users out there think you're crazy for using Linux
Ah yes, the different levels of crazy.
It's like a (multistage) waterfall:
Windows : zillions of users
|
V
linux : thousends of users
|
V
amiga : hundreds of users
|
V
C64 : 100 users
|
V
Apple II : 1 user
Now.. everybody thinks the AppleII user is crazy, right? It's him or the world that's crazy. That's the bottom of the waterfall, take a look at stage above the appleII user: the c64 users, a little less but still crazy. Guess who's at the top of the waterfall..
Might be the environment, do you smoke?
but now there are 7 of them so they can say in one room all day.
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I assume most slashdotter know how to keep thier systems clean. Can you get these instructions to the non-tech people?
Doesn't matter. A good OS will run on low-end machines just as well but with the eye-candy stuff disabled. It's quite logical, an OS is an abstraction to the hardware layer and when the minimum requirements are relativly high, a lot of the benefits that comes with this abstraction are lost. MS doesn't seem to grasp basic logic. I am not anti-MS but this pushing of requirements is quite insane.
i did not see any reports and therefore I appreciate this second announcement on /.
nice troll. FYI: star trek is not real, there is no fedaration. Go watch some DVDs.
About these communication relays..
Have you heard of the rumors about the solar relay? It's apparently located in the same area of the type 4 relay and it uses way less energy than a type4 singularity. What is really puzzling is why there are two different relays located in the same area. One explaination is that the pair form a bridge between the relay systems of two different species. It could also be deployed to replace the type4 relay but isn't fully functional yet. It's just rumors but if it's true it explains black holes in a very different way. The energy required for the solar communication relay is captured by enclosing the star by some kind of dark field which produces the exact kind of effects we observed at black holes.
it most certainly does not motivate to go outside. There's hardly onyone outside..
Viagra ranks way above the Segway.
i fucking hope so !! And it should run fine as well on 200MHz. 200 MHz is a lot of power for just shuffeling windows, scheduling tasks, managing memory and running an TCP/IP stack.
Microsoft's problem is memory usage, every unnecessary byte is processed at least once and is wasted cpu time. Ofcourse, reducing memory usage with huffman crunching won't make anything faster but the relation is clear: inefficient memory usage is a result of codebloat, non-streamlined datastructures, too many protocols/technologies and so on.
Unless you made a statement of your own personal understanding of the word irony, your understanding of the word irony is not the definition. So, use the standard definition or include your own definition, prefable at the top of your text.
a white dwarf according to this page