Windows 2000 installs without issues on a P133 and a 2Gb hard drive as long as you have 256Mb of ram. In fact, RAM is probably the most limiting factor, I've run W2k on 128Mb of RAM but it's a hellish pain and getting rid of every single service you don't actively need is highly required or you'll drop to swap every time you open anything above Notepad and your computer will grind to a halt.
You could probably manage to run it on 64Mb, but the OS itself would be partially loaded in the swap, and that wouldn't be good at all.
In a word, you probably couldn't run W2k on that gateway, but it would be because of the lack of RAM, not because of the CPU (granted though, even if you managed to find 128Mb of EDO and stick it in, the computer would still be dog slow)
Audio is for media, but video is for Aero, that thing (and the various shinies embedded in Vista) seem to heavily toll the user's computer to the point that it needs accelerated graphics to actually run well.
To customize your MySpace profile at all, you need to basically type up a full stylesheet to ovverride the existing one.
That would be easy, however as Mike Davidson discovered and showed us CSS hacking a MySpace page together is much much harder than just overriding the default styles.
Oh yeah I had things like that, little metal cars which changed color when I dropped them in hot water, can I get that on my mac? My friends will be sooo amazed when i'll drop my brand new macbook a tub full of hot water and they see it change color.
So while I understand your point, it has nothing to do with "non-gamers" it simply has to do with an entirely different demographic of gamers who you don't understand, and who the gaming industry as a whole has not understood for a number of years.
Uhm I obviously meant "non-gamer" as a shortcut for "not a member of the demographic groups that are traditionally seen playing video games", not as a shorcut for "populations who never play".
The GP never said anything about monetary cost, his "free" was "free as in freedom", not "free as in free beer".
While you do have the right to be pro-capitalism and free trade, you're not supposed to be that stupid.
If you want to compare something in a few decades compare how the internet in the US before mafia takeover worked compares to the new socialist broadband of Europe.
Are you aware that the state of broadband in Europe is already noticeably better than the state of broadband in the US?
Oh yeah, because Iraq was clearly hostile to the USA, I mean it's well known that they had WMDs (except not), were dangerous extremists (except not) and hosted heaps of terrorists (except not).
Because Blu-Ray will go the way Betamax went and you'll end up with a useless Blu-Ray player that you'll have to replace every 6 months cause it'll be as reliable as the PS2's DVD player?
(and 25GB per layer? Who cares when the access times and transfer speed don't even reach DVD's. )
Thanks for explaining this. I never understood why in my country I had to pay both my ISP and the national P&T company for my internet access. (The P&T company charging *more* than my ISP).
That's only one of the reasons though, the other one being that national P&Ts are, as every monopolistic entities, frigging greedy bastards.
About ISDN, that's another issue, ISDN lines can be assimilated to specialized lines, they're supposed to be extremely reliable and (at least in france) have quite high standards in uptime and noise levels (when my parents got an ISDN line because they couldn't get ADSL yet, FT had to fully redo something like 4km of phone lines because they couldn't meet their standards otherwise. And FT paid for it of course). This is one of the reasons why, while ISDN is dog slow compared to ADSL (in raw transfert rates), it has an extremely low (and constant) latency.
There's that, but there is also a whole new segment of usually non-gamers buying DS Lites to play the non-gamers games (such as Brain Age, Nintendogs or Animal Crossing). This is supported by the fact that, on the opening of the stores for the launch of the DS Lite (on launch day and all) you could find women and elders heavily represented, while these launch-day queues are usually filled only with "young" (15-30) men.
I haven't seen numbers, but I've seen some pictures when the DS:L launched and quite a lot of reports on that.
Are you that ignorant? "Internet For All" is just code-name for another tax Europeans will have to pay for yet another substandard service provided by the government.
That, or govt-subsidized laying of the pipes and then unrestricted access to these pipes to competitive private entities for a fee.
That's what happened in france where the govt-sponsored historical operator was required by law to let competitors access the consumers directly (partial & full deblocking)... (and france is not known for it's "free market will sort itself" view of economy)
But TFA didn't say that they were going to require FREE broadband access;
GP's point was about the Net Neutrality thing issue, not about the cost of broadband.
I don't see how the EU's system is going to avoid that very same problem.
States subsidies the pipes, then forbits anyone to hog them for himself. In france, it was done via deblocking for example, the historical operator (France Telecom) who owned all the pipes was forced by law to let concurrents access these pipes directly up to the very consumer's house (that's total deblocking, partial deblocking means that the alernative operators get direct access to the DSLAMs and the local loop is still the historical operator's turf).
Granted the price of broadband may stay high, but if what happened in france is any indication it won't.
A friend used it once because he was generating Fractals in python and Psycho significantly sped up his script (77% gain with his first algorithm [run time dropped from 197s to 46.52s], 98% with his second algorithm [runtime dropped from 154s to 13.4s])
The problem is, people are now saying that they can write efficient code in python just because it magically translates to C++
No they aren't, if only because ShedSkin doesn't handle modules yet and Python without modules is not really useful.
and because this translator is faster than other python compilers.
Last time I checked, it was the only Python compiler... (CPython is an interpreter, PyPy is also an interpreter, I'm pretty sure Vyper was also an interpreter [written in O'Caml before it got trashed though], JPython and IronPython can hardly be called compilers)
Not necessarily, some things (such as reusing a name to bind widly different objects) is frowned upon and bad style anyway (since it makes the code much less readable and maintainable)
The compiler is still in a very early phase of it's development
That's pretty much what he's doing, ShedSkin is a Python to C++ compiler, then you need to compile the C++ code ShedSkin yields to machine code, you can do that with gcc.
The goal (for the author) at the moment is to get a fairly complete Python to C++ compiler (ShedSkin is already very good if you're mostly doing simple operations such as crunching numbers, but if your program is really complex or uses libraries then you're out of luck)
it will be intriguing to see how they handle things like pointers and structs that are not in python.
Why would one ever need to do that? The goal is not to write C++ in Python, it's to compile Python to machine code via an intermediate Python -> C++ compilation.
Which is why asking for the disproval of the existence of god is a logical fallacy and a reversal of the burden of the proof.
People who believe in god should prove god's existence first, then it's possible to scientifically discuss of their arguments and of god's existence. God's existence doesn't have to be disproven because it hasn't been proven in the first place.
I think your're pretty confused, this isn't about evolution vs creationism, this isn't even about the origin of life (Abiogenesis), this is cosmology and about the origin of the universe itself.
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Windows 2000 installs without issues on a P133 and a 2Gb hard drive as long as you have 256Mb of ram. In fact, RAM is probably the most limiting factor, I've run W2k on 128Mb of RAM but it's a hellish pain and getting rid of every single service you don't actively need is highly required or you'll drop to swap every time you open anything above Notepad and your computer will grind to a halt.
You could probably manage to run it on 64Mb, but the OS itself would be partially loaded in the swap, and that wouldn't be good at all.
In a word, you probably couldn't run W2k on that gateway, but it would be because of the lack of RAM, not because of the CPU (granted though, even if you managed to find 128Mb of EDO and stick it in, the computer would still be dog slow)
Especially since i haven't seen it written anywhere that Office 2007 would be restricted to Vista.
Audio is for media, but video is for Aero, that thing (and the various shinies embedded in Vista) seem to heavily toll the user's computer to the point that it needs accelerated graphics to actually run well.
That would be easy, however as Mike Davidson discovered and showed us CSS hacking a MySpace page together is much much harder than just overriding the default styles.
Oh yeah I had things like that, little metal cars which changed color when I dropped them in hot water, can I get that on my mac? My friends will be sooo amazed when i'll drop my brand new macbook a tub full of hot water and they see it change color.
Uhm I obviously meant "non-gamer" as a shortcut for "not a member of the demographic groups that are traditionally seen playing video games", not as a shorcut for "populations who never play".
Uh, the goal is that everyone has the ability to get broadband (is within broadband covered area), not that everyone gets broadband for free.
The GP never said anything about monetary cost, his "free" was "free as in freedom", not "free as in free beer".
While you do have the right to be pro-capitalism and free trade, you're not supposed to be that stupid.
Are you aware that the state of broadband in Europe is already noticeably better than the state of broadband in the US?
Oh yeah, because Iraq was clearly hostile to the USA, I mean it's well known that they had WMDs (except not), were dangerous extremists (except not) and hosted heaps of terrorists (except not).
Well, Fox News for the win I guess.
Because Blu-Ray will go the way Betamax went and you'll end up with a useless Blu-Ray player that you'll have to replace every 6 months cause it'll be as reliable as the PS2's DVD player?
(and 25GB per layer? Who cares when the access times and transfer speed don't even reach DVD's. )
That's only one of the reasons though, the other one being that national P&Ts are, as every monopolistic entities, frigging greedy bastards.
About ISDN, that's another issue, ISDN lines can be assimilated to specialized lines, they're supposed to be extremely reliable and (at least in france) have quite high standards in uptime and noise levels (when my parents got an ISDN line because they couldn't get ADSL yet, FT had to fully redo something like 4km of phone lines because they couldn't meet their standards otherwise. And FT paid for it of course). This is one of the reasons why, while ISDN is dog slow compared to ADSL (in raw transfert rates), it has an extremely low (and constant) latency.
There's that, but there is also a whole new segment of usually non-gamers buying DS Lites to play the non-gamers games (such as Brain Age, Nintendogs or Animal Crossing). This is supported by the fact that, on the opening of the stores for the launch of the DS Lite (on launch day and all) you could find women and elders heavily represented, while these launch-day queues are usually filled only with "young" (15-30) men.
I haven't seen numbers, but I've seen some pictures when the DS:L launched and quite a lot of reports on that.
Using the PSP as a mirror for Ridge Racer?
That, or govt-subsidized laying of the pipes and then unrestricted access to these pipes to competitive private entities for a fee.
That's what happened in france where the govt-sponsored historical operator was required by law to let competitors access the consumers directly (partial & full deblocking)... (and france is not known for it's "free market will sort itself" view of economy)
GP's point was about the Net Neutrality thing issue, not about the cost of broadband.
States subsidies the pipes, then forbits anyone to hog them for himself. In france, it was done via deblocking for example, the historical operator (France Telecom) who owned all the pipes was forced by law to let concurrents access these pipes directly up to the very consumer's house (that's total deblocking, partial deblocking means that the alernative operators get direct access to the DSLAMs and the local loop is still the historical operator's turf).
Granted the price of broadband may stay high, but if what happened in france is any indication it won't.
They're still not compilers. And CPython + Psyco is not a compiler either.
A friend used it once because he was generating Fractals in python and Psycho significantly sped up his script (77% gain with his first algorithm [run time dropped from 197s to 46.52s], 98% with his second algorithm [runtime dropped from 154s to 13.4s])
No they aren't, if only because ShedSkin doesn't handle modules yet and Python without modules is not really useful.
Last time I checked, it was the only Python compiler... (CPython is an interpreter, PyPy is also an interpreter, I'm pretty sure Vyper was also an interpreter [written in O'Caml before it got trashed though], JPython and IronPython can hardly be called compilers)
That's pretty much what he's doing, ShedSkin is a Python to C++ compiler, then you need to compile the C++ code ShedSkin yields to machine code, you can do that with gcc.
The goal (for the author) at the moment is to get a fairly complete Python to C++ compiler (ShedSkin is already very good if you're mostly doing simple operations such as crunching numbers, but if your program is really complex or uses libraries then you're out of luck)
Why would one ever need to do that? The goal is not to write C++ in Python, it's to compile Python to machine code via an intermediate Python -> C++ compilation.
Which is why asking for the disproval of the existence of god is a logical fallacy and a reversal of the burden of the proof.
People who believe in god should prove god's existence first, then it's possible to scientifically discuss of their arguments and of god's existence. God's existence doesn't have to be disproven because it hasn't been proven in the first place.
Wrong, Europe will have both Polar White and black DS Lites at launch (note: USA only have Polar White at the moment)
I think your're pretty confused, this isn't about evolution vs creationism, this isn't even about the origin of life (Abiogenesis), this is cosmology and about the origin of the universe itself.
That's where Google Magic comes into play (just use the Google Cached pages).