I would imagine that your $732/week, particularly after taxes, buys a lot less than the Indian fellow's $800/month.
Maybe, what's the cost of living like in India?
I looked up the cost of a new Honda Accord here and there, here it's about 18,225 USD*, which is about $20,000, there it's about 15,42,000 Rs, which apparently translates to $37,143.
I also looked at housing costs in Ottawa vs Goa. The average cost of a house in Ottawa is $219,713, while the average cost of a house in Goa appears to be around 55,000 pounds, which is around $113,853.
Finally, I looked at food costs. Various fine dining restaurants here would cost about $50 on average for two people, there it's about 1200 Rs, which is about $29.
Overall, it doesn't appear that $800 in India buys more than $2900 in Canada. If anything, it buys quite a bit less, even if that's 10x the minimum wage compared to only ~2.5x.
* honda.ca uses Flash, and nobody in their right mind would ever install Flash.
I am a developer in India. All my college buddies are too. Not one of us gets less than $800 per month. And that's the 'entry level' for our number of years(3) in the industry.
Really? Wow. As a co-op (that is, not yet graduated from University, but working full time for a block of 4 months in place of school, I do a year's worth before graduating) in Canada, I'm making $732... per week.
...but keep in mind that Vista has much more of a driver base than linux.
Wrong. Windows may have more driver *support* in some cases, but those drivers don't come packaged with Windows. Linux supports more hardware out of the box than any other OS.
Also, vista has GUIs of almost all windows versions (classic, standard, xp, and aero; not sure if this takes up any space, but it is possible)
And most Linux distros will package at least KDE and Gnome, along with Windowmaker, Enlightenment, Fluxbox, Blackbox, Xfce, IceWM, etc. Again, Windows takes more space to do less.
...but even if I were to have to do a completely random system wipe once a year (in addition to my four quarterly reformats each year) I would still be way, way ahead in productivity compared to running as admin.
It's simply not worth the hassle.
--Ryvar
Wow... you consider reformatting 4 times per year, on purpose, acceptable, yet attempting to run as non-admin in Windows is too much hassle? Now that's saying something. Just attempting to install Windows once and get it to a usable state would be enough to make me blow it away -- simply not worth the hassle.
(Why oh why didn't they provide a version with ~x86 appended to each line? I'm way too lazy to do it in vim.)
Because you don't have to add the ~x86, it's implicit (just like ~amd64 would be for amd64). Just copy and paste that file into package.keywords.
Alternatively, open that file and try this in vim:
I can only imagine how much hairier it'll become after they embed a copy of OpenOffice in it, which is certainly no slouch when it comes to hairy codebase.
Having said that, I still think this is great news for ODF.
Perhaps because Apache is hugely dominant (~70%) over IIS (~25%), yet IIS is still exploited far more? Apache vs IIS is the canonical example of the number of exploits being a function of more than just market share.
You're wrong when you say that DPI is ignored on computer screens. While it may not make a difference for images, you can specify a DPI to X, and it will use the information for scaling fonts properly, among other things.
Hey, I love the "9 coronas" and "foamy rants" swf as much as the next person. Unfortunately, too much flash is devoted to aweful ads or really aweful sites.
Assuming you're talking about the stats you can see in ifconfig, it rolls over around 4G now. At least I've never seen higher than about 4.2G, and I'm at
We have the 10 Mbit/1 Mbit package. We regularly see download speeds over a meg a second, and the cap is a soft cap, rarely enforced from what I understand.
Living in a house with myself and two other Computer Science majors, we don't have a landline phone or cable TV (or any TVs for that matter...), but we do have excellent cable Internet, the cable company didn't have any problems letting us have it either.
Perhaps I just keep hitting bad betas that are broken on Windows and Mac and Linux, but I've never been able to point GIMP at convert'ed xwd or print screen files (PNG) without extensions and have it just work. Unknown file type or signal 11 are the usual results. Renaming the files to include an extension allows the files to open, so I can only assume that something in the GIMP is relying on the file extension for opening the file or determining its file type.
Just copied a png file to foo (no extension), opened foo in GIMP and it recognized it as a png and loaded it correctly. Not sure what an xwd file is, otherwise I'd try that too.
The only major difference between a Pentium M and a Celeron M is that the Celeron M doesn't have the Speedstep Frequency Scaling.
Not to mention that the Pentium M is a fantastic processor that crushes the Pentium 4 at a fraction of the GHz, has more cache and uses less power. The Celeron M is a neutered Pentium 4, and the Pentium M is a much better processor than the Pentium 4. The Pentium M is pretty much Intel's only worthwhile processor.
The problem is that Composite doesn't interact well with things that don't use the 2D pipeline, such as OpenGL and XVideo stuff; by default you can't even enable Composite unless you disable GLX, IIRC. Even if you do use a compositing manager which renders the display using GL, you have a problem when an application creates its own, completely-separate GL context for its own graphics. You have the same problem when something uses XVideo. The difficulty is that these things bypass the 2D pipeline and therefore can't be "intercepted" and redirected to offscreen buffers by Composite.
Not entirely true. With the radeon drivers (and a Radeon card...), you can enable GLX with Composite and EXA no problem, I just did that. 3D acceleration and Composite aren't mutually exclusive, but they do cause interesting things. If I run glxgears with Composite enabled for example, glxgears won't be composited, and the GL area will be rendered on top of other things. Video playing isn't quite as problematic, it can't be composited either, but it doesn't have the rendering on top issue for me, so essentially it just pretends Composite isn't there. I can't test on an NVidia card at the moment, but I do know that GLX with Composite isn't the default there (but can be enabled), as it was not stable with the 7xxx drivers at least, however, the 8xxx drivers are supposed to have greatly improved Composite stability.
With regards to solving these issues, it should be interesting to see what's done.
If you're talking about 3D acceleration (through OpenGL), the NVidia drivers for Linux are just as fast as the Windows drivers, if not faster. XGL is about rendering a 2D desktop using OpenGL (and thusly, taking advantage of the graphics card moreso to speed up rendering and get nifty effects), which Windows doesn't do. XGL really has nothing to do with games, and Linux isn't "now matching" Windows in any respect, it's pulling further ahead of it.
<puk> _Marcus_: wonder if you had a look what Wine does with the WMF exploit
<_Marcus_> puk: not yet. i can try with the heise testpage
<puk> nah, don't worry
<puk> just wondered if we are missing a very "important" compatibility feature with Win;)
<_Marcus_> hmm, i wonder what wmfs are... just some other word for enhanced metafiles?
<puk>.wmf
<puk> probably the old windows metafiles?
<puk> not yet enhanced?
<_Marcus_> yeah
<_Marcus_> but in general
<_Marcus_> we handle META_ESCAPE with SETABORTPROC
I would interpret that as Wine not being vulnerable to this, but I haven't tested it myself.
one of them is CD Burning (which by the way requires root privs on UNIX too)
Wrong. It requires write permissions to a CD burner drive, or a set[ug]id cdrecord to a user or group with write permissions to a CD burner drive. Neither of these require or imply root privileges.
I have a Radeon 7500 Mobility for which there is no proprietary driver. I've been using the open source driver for it for several years, works perfectly.
Oddly enough, I just got mod points about an hour ago after at least a month or two drought. I figured it's because I stopped meta-moderating around the same time, but hey, who knows.
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I couldn't care less about iPods, beer or facebook, and I'm a University student. I therefore dub this survey bunk.
Thankfully, Microsoft isn't talking daily with *my* computer. See my sig.
The font choice everywhere is miserably horrible, any designer who specifies a specific font should be shot repeatedly. The fonts are also too small.
In Konqueror, on every fresh page load, the sidebar elements are all stuck at the top of the screen until I resize the browser window.
Otherwise, I don't mind it.
Maybe, what's the cost of living like in India?
I looked up the cost of a new Honda Accord here and there, here it's about 18,225 USD*, which is about $20,000, there it's about 15,42,000 Rs, which apparently translates to $37,143.
I also looked at housing costs in Ottawa vs Goa. The average cost of a house in Ottawa is $219,713, while the average cost of a house in Goa appears to be around 55,000 pounds, which is around $113,853.
Finally, I looked at food costs. Various fine dining restaurants here would cost about $50 on average for two people, there it's about 1200 Rs, which is about $29.
Overall, it doesn't appear that $800 in India buys more than $2900 in Canada. If anything, it buys quite a bit less, even if that's 10x the minimum wage compared to only ~2.5x.
* honda.ca uses Flash, and nobody in their right mind would ever install Flash.
Really? Wow. As a co-op (that is, not yet graduated from University, but working full time for a block of 4 months in place of school, I do a year's worth before graduating) in Canada, I'm making $732... per week.
Wrong. Windows may have more driver *support* in some cases, but those drivers don't come packaged with Windows. Linux supports more hardware out of the box than any other OS.
And most Linux distros will package at least KDE and Gnome, along with Windowmaker, Enlightenment, Fluxbox, Blackbox, Xfce, IceWM, etc. Again, Windows takes more space to do less.
Wow... you consider reformatting 4 times per year, on purpose, acceptable, yet attempting to run as non-admin in Windows is too much hassle? Now that's saying something. Just attempting to install Windows once and get it to a usable state would be enough to make me blow it away -- simply not worth the hassle.
Because you don't have to add the ~x86, it's implicit (just like ~amd64 would be for amd64). Just copy and paste that file into package.keywords. Alternatively, open that file and try this in vim:
, where ^[ is, of course, the Esc key.Having said that, I still think this is great news for ODF.
Perhaps because Apache is hugely dominant (~70%) over IIS (~25%), yet IIS is still exploited far more? Apache vs IIS is the canonical example of the number of exploits being a function of more than just market share.
You're wrong when you say that DPI is ignored on computer screens. While it may not make a difference for images, you can specify a DPI to X, and it will use the information for scaling fonts properly, among other things.
Surely you mean awful, not "aweful", right?
http://www.cogeco.ca/en/high-speed-internet-_o.htm l
We have the 10 Mbit/1 Mbit package. We regularly see download speeds over a meg a second, and the cap is a soft cap, rarely enforced from what I understand.
Living in a house with myself and two other Computer Science majors, we don't have a landline phone or cable TV (or any TVs for that matter...), but we do have excellent cable Internet, the cable company didn't have any problems letting us have it either.
Just copied a png file to foo (no extension), opened foo in GIMP and it recognized it as a png and loaded it correctly. Not sure what an xwd file is, otherwise I'd try that too.
Konqueror 3.5 passes the Acid2 test.
Not to mention that the Pentium M is a fantastic processor that crushes the Pentium 4 at a fraction of the GHz, has more cache and uses less power. The Celeron M is a neutered Pentium 4, and the Pentium M is a much better processor than the Pentium 4. The Pentium M is pretty much Intel's only worthwhile processor.
Not entirely true. With the radeon drivers (and a Radeon card...), you can enable GLX with Composite and EXA no problem, I just did that. 3D acceleration and Composite aren't mutually exclusive, but they do cause interesting things. If I run glxgears with Composite enabled for example, glxgears won't be composited, and the GL area will be rendered on top of other things. Video playing isn't quite as problematic, it can't be composited either, but it doesn't have the rendering on top issue for me, so essentially it just pretends Composite isn't there. I can't test on an NVidia card at the moment, but I do know that GLX with Composite isn't the default there (but can be enabled), as it was not stable with the 7xxx drivers at least, however, the 8xxx drivers are supposed to have greatly improved Composite stability.
With regards to solving these issues, it should be interesting to see what's done.
If you're talking about 3D acceleration (through OpenGL), the NVidia drivers for Linux are just as fast as the Windows drivers, if not faster. XGL is about rendering a 2D desktop using OpenGL (and thusly, taking advantage of the graphics card moreso to speed up rendering and get nifty effects), which Windows doesn't do. XGL really has nothing to do with games, and Linux isn't "now matching" Windows in any respect, it's pulling further ahead of it.
<puk> _Marcus_: wonder if you had a look what Wine does with the WMF exploit ;) ... just some other word for enhanced metafiles? .wmf
<_Marcus_> puk: not yet. i can try with the heise testpage
<puk> nah, don't worry
<puk> just wondered if we are missing a very "important" compatibility feature with Win
<_Marcus_> hmm, i wonder what wmfs are
<puk>
<puk> probably the old windows metafiles?
<puk> not yet enhanced?
<_Marcus_> yeah
<_Marcus_> but in general
<_Marcus_> we handle META_ESCAPE with SETABORTPROC
I would interpret that as Wine not being vulnerable to this, but I haven't tested it myself.
Wrong. It requires write permissions to a CD burner drive, or a set[ug]id cdrecord to a user or group with write permissions to a CD burner drive. Neither of these require or imply root privileges.
I have a Radeon 7500 Mobility for which there is no proprietary driver. I've been using the open source driver for it for several years, works perfectly.
Ok, you can use Windows, but you (and Sims 2) can't use any of the Windows API, if we're not to use Wine.
Oddly enough, I just got mod points about an hour ago after at least a month or two drought. I figured it's because I stopped meta-moderating around the same time, but hey, who knows.