Even if it is negligible, "going green" is the trendy thing to do nowadays, so as long as it seems like they're making an effort, that's far more important than if it actually helps.
Still, it's going to be a long time yet before IE6 *finally* dies
Far too long... We'll still be dealing with IE6 when IE7 is dead. (Look at the stats, IE8 is very quickly supplanting IE7, but IE6 is still only slowly dropping.)
OpenOffice (and likely StarOffice before it) has used XML files to store documents in from the beginning, which goes well back into the 90s. ODF was basically just a new, formalized, schema for OpenOffice, unlike MS Office which has done memory dumps as save files since the beginning of time (and largely still does, but with a few extra <s and >s thrown in for flavour.
Probably the only utility the record industry provides to artists is that of promotion. Yes, the Internet makes it very easy to distribute music for next to nothing, but how do you find people to distribute it to? Word of mouth only goes so far, and advertising is expensive.
No, let me repeat that, advertising is very expensive. Go look up the numbers on Google Adsense and you'll see it's not unreasonable for every visitor to cost you (on average) $1. Assuming 10% of those people actually buy something from you (which is a very high conversion rate, more realistic would be 1-5%), and you need to make $10 sales (on average) per person, just to cover your advertising costs!
But, back to the record industry. They have large coffers and deals with all the radio stations, so they can easily push out a $$$$ ad campaign and get airtime for songs they think they can make a return on. They probably don't make huge profits on most artists (indeed, they may even lose money), but in aggregate they still (obviously) turn a tidy profit.
I don't know about you, but I don't have 6 figures to lay down on advertising, so as an independent content producer (of which I am, see Game!), it puts you in a very awkward position. For musicians, you can sell your soul to the music industry and hope there's some profit left over for you in the end, or you can go it alone and probably reach only a tiny audience, but keep all of the (tiny) profit for yourself. Or, you can lay down for advertising and promotion, which is expensive (as discussed already) and may or may not pay itself back.
Don't get me wrong, obviously the record industry is only interested in turning a profit for itself (and will probably screw over most artists that sign with it in the process), but if the Internet had completely obsoleted the record industry, artists would have wised up by now and the record industry would actually be gone by now.
When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not
price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you
have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for
this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it
if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it
in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things.
Read: The drives feature a SATA 2 interface, which has a theoretical maximum of 3 Gigabits/s transfer rate, while in practice you'll get 1/4th of that if you're lucky.
I'm the complete opposite, I started writing in cursive before they even taught it. But then again, I'm incredibly lazy, and cursive is a thousand times less work than printing. Mind you, nowadays I can count the number of times I've put pen/pencil to paper in the last couple years on one hand.
Did you check if those search results actually have your pages in the results? I have one bot that really likes crawling Game!'s forums, and it always claims a referrer of Bing (and Live search before there was Bing) with a single word search term ("joined", "forum", "quest", etc). After finding that none of those searches would actually lead to me, I noticed that the IP ranges for this bot (65.55.107.0/24, 65.55.108.0/24, and 65.55.110.0/24) were almost the same as msnbot (65.55.208.0/24), in fact, many of the reverse DNS lookups for the former range gives msnbot. So, I'm fairly sure that this is just Microsoft trying to pretend they have way more users than they actually do. FWIW, I've seen about a dozen real users from Bing, and a couple hundred hits from the bot pretending to be a user.
It's hardly an issue with every wireless router. For example, the Tomato firmware is not vulnerable to this. Furthermore, most routers with DD-WRT are custom flashed, they don't come stock with it.
doing the math, that's 45.5 MB/s, pretty much the sustained data transfer rates of a SATA hard disk.
More like half the sustained speed. My several year old 320G SATA drives manage 55-60M/s sustained no problem, the newer ones are closer to 90-100M/s (and yes, that's plain old 7200 RPM drives, not the fancy Velociraptors or anything).
And despite the memes, it doesn't take nearly as long to compile everything on modern hardware as some would have you believe. A full rebuild of my system takes about 24 hours (AMD64 X2 4400+, 1002 packages installed), but I do that maybe once a year. It usually amounts to 10-20 minutes a day.
More importantly, that's 10-20 minutes (or 24 hours) of unattended installation -- only the computer is busy, not you.
FYI: document.write is the JavaScript equivalent of write(2). It is used liberally in modern web content; I doubt there are any popular contemporary pages that don't use it.
Aside from ads (where document.write() is relatively common), use of document.write is quite rare. The main reason is that document.write is largely useless after the page has loaded.
Perhaps you're thinking of elem.innerHTML? The use of which is extremely common.
People should reinstall their Windows from scratch at least once a year.
Good lord you Windows people love abuse. You reinstall every single year, and you find that acceptable? That's got to chew through at least a day or three every single time, especially since package managers don't exist on Windows.
In comparison, all of my Linux installs are the original ones, and they run like new (better actually, as they have much newer software now) after 3-5 years of 24/7 operation. In fact, it's not uncommon for them to run without a reboot for more than a year at a time.
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Nobody said that a ton of concrete produces a ton of CO2.
Even if it is negligible, "going green" is the trendy thing to do nowadays, so as long as it seems like they're making an effort, that's far more important than if it actually helps.
Far too long... We'll still be dealing with IE6 when IE7 is dead. (Look at the stats, IE8 is very quickly supplanting IE7, but IE6 is still only slowly dropping.)
OpenOffice (and likely StarOffice before it) has used XML files to store documents in from the beginning, which goes well back into the 90s. ODF was basically just a new, formalized, schema for OpenOffice, unlike MS Office which has done memory dumps as save files since the beginning of time (and largely still does, but with a few extra <s and >s thrown in for flavour.
Yes, if you're not logged in.
It's been in Gentoo's Portage since earlier today.
what IS a good kde distro? they don't seem to exist (aside from maybe fedora)
Gentoo.
That's a filthy lie and you know it.
Probably the only utility the record industry provides to artists is that of promotion. Yes, the Internet makes it very easy to distribute music for next to nothing, but how do you find people to distribute it to? Word of mouth only goes so far, and advertising is expensive.
No, let me repeat that, advertising is very expensive. Go look up the numbers on Google Adsense and you'll see it's not unreasonable for every visitor to cost you (on average) $1. Assuming 10% of those people actually buy something from you (which is a very high conversion rate, more realistic would be 1-5%), and you need to make $10 sales (on average) per person, just to cover your advertising costs!
But, back to the record industry. They have large coffers and deals with all the radio stations, so they can easily push out a $$$$ ad campaign and get airtime for songs they think they can make a return on. They probably don't make huge profits on most artists (indeed, they may even lose money), but in aggregate they still (obviously) turn a tidy profit.
I don't know about you, but I don't have 6 figures to lay down on advertising, so as an independent content producer (of which I am, see Game!), it puts you in a very awkward position. For musicians, you can sell your soul to the music industry and hope there's some profit left over for you in the end, or you can go it alone and probably reach only a tiny audience, but keep all of the (tiny) profit for yourself. Or, you can lay down for advertising and promotion, which is expensive (as discussed already) and may or may not pay itself back.
Don't get me wrong, obviously the record industry is only interested in turning a profit for itself (and will probably screw over most artists that sign with it in the process), but if the Internet had completely obsoleted the record industry, artists would have wised up by now and the record industry would actually be gone by now.
No.
Yes.
Indeed, see the actual license (GPLv2):
When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things.
You only need one CA to read past the null.
The program usually exits when you call exit(), so no, you don't need the break statement.
Read: The drives feature a SATA 2 interface, which has a theoretical maximum of 3 Gigabits/s transfer rate, while in practice you'll get 1/4th of that if you're lucky.
I'm the complete opposite, I started writing in cursive before they even taught it. But then again, I'm incredibly lazy, and cursive is a thousand times less work than printing. Mind you, nowadays I can count the number of times I've put pen/pencil to paper in the last couple years on one hand.
Did you check if those search results actually have your pages in the results? I have one bot that really likes crawling Game!'s forums, and it always claims a referrer of Bing (and Live search before there was Bing) with a single word search term ("joined", "forum", "quest", etc). After finding that none of those searches would actually lead to me, I noticed that the IP ranges for this bot (65.55.107.0/24, 65.55.108.0/24, and 65.55.110.0/24) were almost the same as msnbot (65.55.208.0/24), in fact, many of the reverse DNS lookups for the former range gives msnbot. So, I'm fairly sure that this is just Microsoft trying to pretend they have way more users than they actually do. FWIW, I've seen about a dozen real users from Bing, and a couple hundred hits from the bot pretending to be a user.
Then why do entire lines of CPUs have the same TDP? For example, the Core 2 Duo is 65W across the board from 1.8 GHz to 3 GHz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_2_microprocessors
It's hardly an issue with every wireless router. For example, the Tomato firmware is not vulnerable to this. Furthermore, most routers with DD-WRT are custom flashed, they don't come stock with it.
The testing revealed that the optimal workload was reached at a CPU utilization of around 50 to 60 percent with peak power at about 300W per server.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to start with a CPU that runs 50%~60% slower and uses 50%~60% less electricity?
Yes, except it doesn't work that way. A CPU running at 1 GHz might use 10-20% less power than the same CPU running at 2 GHz.
More like half the sustained speed. My several year old 320G SATA drives manage 55-60M/s sustained no problem, the newer ones are closer to 90-100M/s (and yes, that's plain old 7200 RPM drives, not the fancy Velociraptors or anything).
More importantly, that's 10-20 minutes (or 24 hours) of unattended installation -- only the computer is busy, not you.
Aside from ads (where document.write() is relatively common), use of document.write is quite rare. The main reason is that document.write is largely useless after the page has loaded.
Perhaps you're thinking of elem.innerHTML? The use of which is extremely common.
Good lord you Windows people love abuse. You reinstall every single year, and you find that acceptable? That's got to chew through at least a day or three every single time, especially since package managers don't exist on Windows.
In comparison, all of my Linux installs are the original ones, and they run like new (better actually, as they have much newer software now) after 3-5 years of 24/7 operation. In fact, it's not uncommon for them to run without a reboot for more than a year at a time.
There's no such thing as 32-bit colour. What's commonly referred to as 32-bit colour is 24-bit colour with 8 bits of alpha channel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_depth#32-bit_color
What is this, 1995? Who still runs in 16-bit colour?