My RAZR is from 2006, and it has GPS. As far as I know, it's one of the original models. Go into Settings -> Location and you'll see that you can turn GPS on and off.
In the bill remains the controversial provisions for three-strikes removal of internet access, though interestingly, nothing prohibiting users from moving to other ISPs.
Doesn't mean much when your choices are the local cable monopoly or the local telco monopoly. It just makes three strikes into six.
You've obviously never written any shaders before. Basically, they take a fixed set of inputs and output a fixed set of outputs, there are no system calls, no filesystem access, and no network access. The most malicious thing you could do would be to write an infinite loop in your shader, which wouldn't actually be infinite, because the video card will terminate that shader after not particularly long.
The actual gaping security hole here is that the plugin will thunk to DirectX, which means it's basically just ActiveX all over again.
The bank is also far more likely to go to bat for you over a fraudulent credit card charge than a fraudulent debit card transaction. The reason, of course, is that in the former case, its the bank's money on the line (until you pay them), but in the latter case, its your money on the line.
Are you sure? Last time I tried to pay my pack of gum and a soda with a 50 (lacking smaller bills) the clerk asked if there's a chance that I have a CC.
They don't like carrying large bills ($50 and up), and they also don't like making $48 in change. It's not unlikely that the register had under $100 in it at the time.
Very much so. On one hand, we have large (>10k people) north american companies where IE6 + IE7 is over 90% of the usage (both scary and sad). At the other end of the spectrum, we have Game! users, where Firefox is around 60%, IE6 is less than 5% and Chrome and Opera divvy up most of the rest.
OK. To recap, if you don't have more than 4GB of RAM, PAE is not going to give you more than 4GB of RAM.
I agree completely, but I never said anything about 4G of RAM, or any quantity of RAM at all for that matter, I was only talking about PAE.
My point was that even if you have a processor that supports PAE and even if your motherboard supports PAE, you can't use it unless you have more than 4GB of memory, and even then, if you don't have 4GB of RAM, PAE will not affect the problem that TFA is reporting on.
Not for addressing extra memory no, although these days you can use PAE to emulate NX.
As for TFA, it's downright silly and not even worth discussing. The author has obviously never heard of caching, or is willfully ignorant in the name of marketing. Someone should make a Windows version of this site.
Using more RAM doesn't use more energy. Either your RAM is powered on, or it's not.
So I have two SODIMMs in a laptop. When I unplug it from the power supply, I want it to free enough caches on the first SODIMM to move all my processes from the second RAM stick, and then switch off the second SODIMM.
And I want a pony.
Sadly, neither of these desires make any sense. The extra work your hard drive needs to do with half the RAM will vastly outstrip the tiny power savings you'll gain by using one less SODIMM.
From another vantage, your boss deducted 85% from your pay, and "not because he needed but because he could - he would not have hired you if he couldn't".
But I should be entitled to 100% of the profits the company makes, right? That's how it works in the real world. So if I only actually end up with a tiny fraction of a percent of the company's profits as pay, I should DRM the widgets I produce so that I can earn the full 100% of profits I deserve. Right?
The binary blob supports xrandr, but not xrandr 1.2. xrandr 1.2 adds a lot of nifty things like on the fly display rotation, but I can't say I've ever actually used any of them.
So, given that Microsoft gave the source code to the Chinese government, and that there are a lot of Chinese... perhaps Microsoft products are also subject to the "more eyes" rule....
Just saying....;-p
Yes, but thanks to proprietary software, none of those bugs will be fixed, only found and exploited.
It's also a pain to use. It BSODs on boot in KVM, you have to first boot it in another hypervisor, run mergeide, and then it'll run normally. Plus they expire every few months, so you get to do it all over again. Ultimately easier to just fly to bird to IE users.
...And does anyone ever get internet connections even -close- to the 54 MB/Sec of wireless G?
That's megabits, not megabytes. And no, you usually get perhaps half of the stated maximum speed with wireless, for wireless G that means ~25 Mbit/s, or ~3M/s, at best.
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My RAZR is from 2006, and it has GPS. As far as I know, it's one of the original models. Go into Settings -> Location and you'll see that you can turn GPS on and off.
Doesn't mean much when your choices are the local cable monopoly or the local telco monopoly. It just makes three strikes into six.
Phones with GPS are by no means a new phenomenon at all. Even the RAZR has GPS, and it's rapidly approaching 6 years old now.
Your complain is like signing up to a dating site and then complaining how the girls won't leave you alone.
More like the bots won't leave him alone, and he can't find any real live women.
Would you like to guess the color of my red car?
Is it... iced... tea?
You've obviously never written any shaders before. Basically, they take a fixed set of inputs and output a fixed set of outputs, there are no system calls, no filesystem access, and no network access. The most malicious thing you could do would be to write an infinite loop in your shader, which wouldn't actually be infinite, because the video card will terminate that shader after not particularly long.
The actual gaping security hole here is that the plugin will thunk to DirectX, which means it's basically just ActiveX all over again.
The bank is also far more likely to go to bat for you over a fraudulent credit card charge than a fraudulent debit card transaction. The reason, of course, is that in the former case, its the bank's money on the line (until you pay them), but in the latter case, its your money on the line.
Are you sure? Last time I tried to pay my pack of gum and a soda with a 50 (lacking smaller bills) the clerk asked if there's a chance that I have a CC.
They don't like carrying large bills ($50 and up), and they also don't like making $48 in change. It's not unlikely that the register had under $100 in it at the time.
Don't forget the stick that's stronger than the sword!
Very much so. On one hand, we have large (>10k people) north american companies where IE6 + IE7 is over 90% of the usage (both scary and sad). At the other end of the spectrum, we have Game! users, where Firefox is around 60%, IE6 is less than 5% and Chrome and Opera divvy up most of the rest.
I agree completely, but I never said anything about 4G of RAM, or any quantity of RAM at all for that matter, I was only talking about PAE.
Not for addressing extra memory no, although these days you can use PAE to emulate NX.
As for TFA, it's downright silly and not even worth discussing. The author has obviously never heard of caching, or is willfully ignorant in the name of marketing. Someone should make a Windows version of this site.
No, PAE.
All of them since the late 90s?
Using more RAM doesn't use more energy. Either your RAM is powered on, or it's not.
So I have two SODIMMs in a laptop. When I unplug it from the power supply, I want it to free enough caches on the first SODIMM to move all my processes from the second RAM stick, and then switch off the second SODIMM.
And I want a pony.
Sadly, neither of these desires make any sense. The extra work your hard drive needs to do with half the RAM will vastly outstrip the tiny power savings you'll gain by using one less SODIMM.
But I should be entitled to 100% of the profits the company makes, right? That's how it works in the real world. So if I only actually end up with a tiny fraction of a percent of the company's profits as pay, I should DRM the widgets I produce so that I can earn the full 100% of profits I deserve. Right?
The binary blob supports xrandr, but not xrandr 1.2. xrandr 1.2 adds a lot of nifty things like on the fly display rotation, but I can't say I've ever actually used any of them.
Would you prefer 0 fps?
So, given that Microsoft gave the source code to the Chinese government, and that there are a lot of Chinese... perhaps Microsoft products are also subject to the "more eyes" rule....
Just saying.... ;-p
Yes, but thanks to proprietary software, none of those bugs will be fixed, only found and exploited.
I'm hoping the wheel of computing will do away with shortscreen monitors sooner rather than later and we can go back to using real monitors...
As well as the honest politicians and the easter bunny?
It's also a pain to use. It BSODs on boot in KVM, you have to first boot it in another hypervisor, run mergeide, and then it'll run normally. Plus they expire every few months, so you get to do it all over again. Ultimately easier to just fly to bird to IE users.
Konqueror?
They most certainly are. Try it in any modern car.
I'm not interested in downgrading to wireless n. I'm quite happy with gigabit ethernet with which I actually get the full gigabit of wire speed.
That's megabits, not megabytes. And no, you usually get perhaps half of the stated maximum speed with wireless, for wireless G that means ~25 Mbit/s, or ~3M/s, at best.