I used to have Windows 95 installed on a 266 Mhz 586 with 32 MB RAM. Do you honestly think I could run Windows XP SP2 on that? True I couldn't even run SUSE's installer, but Slackware could run just fine on 32 MB. Gaim, XMMS, xchat, and several xterms would run fine. No such luck with Windows.
Agreed, Opera should be compared to something like Firefox than IE.
In my experience on a 266 Mhz Slackware box, Opera has operated way faster than Firefox. And all the extensions (like session saver) I use on Firefox are built-in anyways. Unlike the Mozilla Firefox was forked from, it doesn't seem to bloat the software. I completely understand why Opera is becoming such a leader in mobile internet browsing.
I haven't yet tried Firefox 1.5, so I won't comment on it's speed, but it needs quite a boost to catch up to Opera. Speed isn't really noticible on faster computers (Firefox and Opera seem about the same on my 2.2 Ghz Windows box); you really notice it on older hardware.
Sorry that's not really on original topic, but is at least replying to the previous post.
So the first Star Wars came out known as "Star Wars". Then when "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi" came out, the first was renamed "Episode 4: A New Hope". Luckily Lucas had the foresight to number the three old episodes 4,5, and 6 so that when 1, 2, and 3 came out they wouldnt have to renumber the old ones *again*.
What happens if Lucas comes out with another prequel trilogy? Rename Episodes 1-6 to 4-9? Two words: mass confusion. For classical music lovers, think of Dvorak's Symphony numberings. I suppose Lucas would just come out with Special Editions for Episodes 1-3 and Extra Special Editions for Episodes 4-6. It's time Lucas moves on before he loses his audience.
Considering how much heat those Pentium 4s are generating now, I doubt Apple could manage to simply replace the Mini's innerds. Even if the board and controllers were updated, Apple will still have to deal with cooling issues, which might require fans and/or other cooling equipment to manage a Pentium 4.
I checked it out right when they started it, but I was disappointed because it didn't work with Google Suggest, ehich I use regularly. But looking yesterday, they seem to have extended support to Google Suggest. It doesn't display my modules, but it does provide a link in the upper right corner to visit my page.
Remember how AOL brought the internet to so many people by being an easy way into a new technology? I see the same thing happening here, once again with AOL. The joe average person isn't going to know the power of VoIP or know how to get it working and such, but a big name like AOL can get it to them much like it was with the internet not 10 years ago.
The interesting thing will be to see a new presence take over VoIP from AOL as similar to AOL's internet service has been declining over the last few years.
Very true. It wasn't the storage that made me switch, but those annoying ads. I almost love Gmail's small text ads compared to Yahoo's half page 640x480 ads. And GMail's Javascript is oh so nice..
It looks like they've improved on the solar tube design? http://www.solatubetexas.com/ It's not a new idea, but it's very cool. It's good to see that similar technologies might spread to non-residential/recreational uses.
If you're electronically inclined, I'm sure there's all sorts of cool projects you could do with them. Perhaps you could find some old TV boxes and turn them into little techno lights or something. Even if not, this might just be something else that a possible buyer might be interested in..
"A light-year -- the distance light travels in one year -- is a measure of time, too, so the galaxy is more modern than many, seen as it existed well after the bulk of galaxy formation had taken place throughout the cosmos."
That's dumbing down science. Just explain off spacetime by saying a lightyear is a measure of time. *watches the world slowly evolve into a slug*
I'm not sure I understand your theory about how proving P2P programs are easy to write will put and end to people trying to stop them. Case in point: murder. If you think about it, killing people doesn't take much effort at all, but people still try to stop it. (No, I'm not condoning murder; just making a point)
As a high schooler myself, the things I used on computers are probably a lot more recent than others'. When I was a really little kid, I remember my dad's Apple Plus. Sim City (the original) was fun although confusing for a 5 year old, but there was also the paper airplane game, the puzzle game, the lawnmower game..
Then came the big bad PowerPC Macintosh with COLOR (angels sing). Tetris, and al those awesome games. It wasn't until we got an IBM that I began to get interested in the actual workings of the computer. Maybe when I was 9, my dad tried to get me learning Dolphin Smalltalk. Partly because he himself didn't know it well himself and the fact that all I accomplished was a bunch of multicolored squares and triangles moving around the screen, that didn't work out too well.
Next was Java, which as you mentioned above, was pretty boggled down. No good. But I did manage to learn HTML and am currently working up my PHP knowledge. For little kids interested in learning basic programing/scripting, I would recommend HTML and/or PHP. No constant compiling and giving the opportunity to show how code can produce something quite different.
Also, the BASIC-like system of RPG Maker 2000 is simple to learn. The programming language of Game Maker is also easy to learn. Anyways, Ive said enough.
No matter if people use the various desktop services or not, there's always going to be attacks from viruses and related stuff.
I don't think people need to spread the virus scare any further than it is. What do you think virus senders want? Personal information, perhaps, but even more the attention. Why give it?
Skipping out on helpful applications isn't the way to avoid these things. Nothing can replace an increased safety from people
I'm probably at or slightly above the age this is referring to. I have almost constant computer access with a family desktop and a school laptop. My (high) school issues computers to all the students and I'm very concerned about how it is affecting people's grades. The right to have incredible information access is frequently abused, regardless of internet filters and the like.
I do not, however, feel that the blame rests with the computers. It is rather that the abuse of students may result in lower grades. As of right now, there is no current correlation at my school between grades and computers.
Unfortunately, it is pretty difficult to manage computer abuse. But don't blame to computers. It's like blaming cake for making people fat.
Am I the only one here who didn't like the old service? Any news is good news as far as I'm concerned. I always found the old Google Groups cramped, cluttered, and confusing. So if they clear it up while killing some things, all the better.
My Space is exactly like LiveJournal unless I'm mistaken. It actually used to be uJournal until that went under. Not to try to frighten you or anything, but I'd be cautious about it before you go trusting your life to their databases.
Maybe you haven't noticed, but there's hardly any barrier to starting a blog. Anyone can go to sites like LiveJournal and create as many blogs as they want.
I think the barrier that needs to be created isn't who can create blogs, but a barrier that sorts out different types of blogs. Separate the juvenile blogs, personal blogs, corporate blogs, insightful blogs, celebrity blogs, etc. My hope is that sometime in the near future, this will come to pass.
The time is overdue for more useful blog feature updates, not features such as cell phoneimage posting that only clutter up the organization.
Exactly, ugly. I don't see what people are so excited about, style-wise. It looks just like anything else on MSN. Who would want to conform to that even more? "Hey look, guys! I can make my blog look like MSN Dictionary!"
Personally, the image features I could go without. However, it does appeal to the same crowd as the new Microsoft service in addition to many existing users. This way it can offer an alternative to the monster companies.
The problem with LiveJournal is that it costs money to get all the features. The good point is that it made it's code open-source so other sites can use/alter it.
GreatestJournal is a great journal site that offers the same features of LiveJournal paid accounts for free. It also offers many more features, including those of the new Microsoft blogging service, such as posting cell phone images directly to your site.
Another great feature is how customizable it is. Granted, one doesn't have access to scripting or the database, but you do have a lot more control than sites such as Blogger or Xanga (*shiver*).
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So, how long before they come out with a DX1 style keyboard for toilets? http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/77ba/
I used to have Windows 95 installed on a 266 Mhz 586 with 32 MB RAM. Do you honestly think I could run Windows XP SP2 on that? True I couldn't even run SUSE's installer, but Slackware could run just fine on 32 MB. Gaim, XMMS, xchat, and several xterms would run fine. No such luck with Windows.
Last.fm? That site that groups Cream and Soft Cell together for crying out loud!
Agreed, Opera should be compared to something like Firefox than IE.
In my experience on a 266 Mhz Slackware box, Opera has operated way faster than Firefox. And all the extensions (like session saver) I use on Firefox are built-in anyways. Unlike the Mozilla Firefox was forked from, it doesn't seem to bloat the software. I completely understand why Opera is becoming such a leader in mobile internet browsing.
I haven't yet tried Firefox 1.5, so I won't comment on it's speed, but it needs quite a boost to catch up to Opera. Speed isn't really noticible on faster computers (Firefox and Opera seem about the same on my 2.2 Ghz Windows box); you really notice it on older hardware.
Sorry that's not really on original topic, but is at least replying to the previous post.
So the first Star Wars came out known as "Star Wars". Then when "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi" came out, the first was renamed "Episode 4: A New Hope". Luckily Lucas had the foresight to number the three old episodes 4,5, and 6 so that when 1, 2, and 3 came out they wouldnt have to renumber the old ones *again*.
What happens if Lucas comes out with another prequel trilogy? Rename Episodes 1-6 to 4-9? Two words: mass confusion. For classical music lovers, think of Dvorak's Symphony numberings. I suppose Lucas would just come out with Special Editions for Episodes 1-3 and Extra Special Editions for Episodes 4-6. It's time Lucas moves on before he loses his audience.
"Are even cheaper Mac Minis coming?"
Considering how much heat those Pentium 4s are generating now, I doubt Apple could manage to simply replace the Mini's innerds. Even if the board and controllers were updated, Apple will still have to deal with cooling issues, which might require fans and/or other cooling equipment to manage a Pentium 4.
I checked it out right when they started it, but I was disappointed because it didn't work with Google Suggest, ehich I use regularly. But looking yesterday, they seem to have extended support to Google Suggest. It doesn't display my modules, but it does provide a link in the upper right corner to visit my page.
Remember how AOL brought the internet to so many people by being an easy way into a new technology? I see the same thing happening here, once again with AOL. The joe average person isn't going to know the power of VoIP or know how to get it working and such, but a big name like AOL can get it to them much like it was with the internet not 10 years ago.
The interesting thing will be to see a new presence take over VoIP from AOL as similar to AOL's internet service has been declining over the last few years.
Very true. It wasn't the storage that made me switch, but those annoying ads. I almost love Gmail's small text ads compared to Yahoo's half page 640x480 ads. And GMail's Javascript is oh so nice..
compared to what? not running servers at all? certainly windows servers don't offer more security!
It looks like they've improved on the solar tube design?
http://www.solatubetexas.com/
It's not a new idea, but it's very cool. It's good to see that similar technologies might spread to non-residential/recreational uses.
If you're electronically inclined, I'm sure there's all sorts of cool projects you could do with them. Perhaps you could find some old TV boxes and turn them into little techno lights or something. Even if not, this might just be something else that a possible buyer might be interested in..
"A light-year -- the distance light travels in one year -- is a measure of time, too, so the galaxy is more modern than many, seen as it existed well after the bulk of galaxy formation had taken place throughout the cosmos." That's dumbing down science. Just explain off spacetime by saying a lightyear is a measure of time. *watches the world slowly evolve into a slug*
I'm not sure I understand your theory about how proving P2P programs are easy to write will put and end to people trying to stop them. Case in point: murder. If you think about it, killing people doesn't take much effort at all, but people still try to stop it. (No, I'm not condoning murder; just making a point)
As a high schooler myself, the things I used on computers are probably a lot more recent than others'. When I was a really little kid, I remember my dad's Apple Plus. Sim City (the original) was fun although confusing for a 5 year old, but there was also the paper airplane game, the puzzle game, the lawnmower game..
Then came the big bad PowerPC Macintosh with COLOR (angels sing). Tetris, and al those awesome games. It wasn't until we got an IBM that I began to get interested in the actual workings of the computer. Maybe when I was 9, my dad tried to get me learning Dolphin Smalltalk. Partly because he himself didn't know it well himself and the fact that all I accomplished was a bunch of multicolored squares and triangles moving around the screen, that didn't work out too well.
Next was Java, which as you mentioned above, was pretty boggled down. No good. But I did manage to learn HTML and am currently working up my PHP knowledge. For little kids interested in learning basic programing/scripting, I would recommend HTML and/or PHP. No constant compiling and giving the opportunity to show how code can produce something quite different.
Also, the BASIC-like system of RPG Maker 2000 is simple to learn. The programming language of Game Maker is also easy to learn. Anyways, Ive said enough.
I'll even go as far as to say 2008 and 2009 should be good technology years as well. And you heard that from me first.
*wink*
No matter if people use the various desktop services or not, there's always going to be attacks from viruses and related stuff. I don't think people need to spread the virus scare any further than it is. What do you think virus senders want? Personal information, perhaps, but even more the attention. Why give it? Skipping out on helpful applications isn't the way to avoid these things. Nothing can replace an increased safety from people
I'm probably at or slightly above the age this is referring to. I have almost constant computer access with a family desktop and a school laptop. My (high) school issues computers to all the students and I'm very concerned about how it is affecting people's grades. The right to have incredible information access is frequently abused, regardless of internet filters and the like. I do not, however, feel that the blame rests with the computers. It is rather that the abuse of students may result in lower grades. As of right now, there is no current correlation at my school between grades and computers. Unfortunately, it is pretty difficult to manage computer abuse. But don't blame to computers. It's like blaming cake for making people fat.
Am I the only one here who didn't like the old service? Any news is good news as far as I'm concerned. I always found the old Google Groups cramped, cluttered, and confusing. So if they clear it up while killing some things, all the better.
Sue the bastards.
My Space is exactly like LiveJournal unless I'm mistaken. It actually used to be uJournal until that went under. Not to try to frighten you or anything, but I'd be cautious about it before you go trusting your life to their databases.
Maybe you haven't noticed, but there's hardly any barrier to starting a blog. Anyone can go to sites like LiveJournal and create as many blogs as they want. I think the barrier that needs to be created isn't who can create blogs, but a barrier that sorts out different types of blogs. Separate the juvenile blogs, personal blogs, corporate blogs, insightful blogs, celebrity blogs, etc. My hope is that sometime in the near future, this will come to pass. The time is overdue for more useful blog feature updates, not features such as cell phoneimage posting that only clutter up the organization.
Exactly, ugly. I don't see what people are so excited about, style-wise. It looks just like anything else on MSN. Who would want to conform to that even more? "Hey look, guys! I can make my blog look like MSN Dictionary!"
Personally, the image features I could go without. However, it does appeal to the same crowd as the new Microsoft service in addition to many existing users. This way it can offer an alternative to the monster companies.
The problem with LiveJournal is that it costs money to get all the features. The good point is that it made it's code open-source so other sites can use/alter it.
GreatestJournal is a great journal site that offers the same features of LiveJournal paid accounts for free. It also offers many more features, including those of the new Microsoft blogging service, such as posting cell phone images directly to your site.
Another great feature is how customizable it is. Granted, one doesn't have access to scripting or the database, but you do have a lot more control than sites such as Blogger or Xanga (*shiver*).