I didn't see anything about how many keys you can press at once?
It doesn't look like it's geared towards gamers, but as a person that plays fighting games on a keyboard I am always looking for something that has feedback, is solid, and lets me press at least 6 buttons at once without ghosting or blocking.
Right now I rely on a surprisingly capable logitech playstation 2 USB keyboard with a 6 button limit, but its keys are definately low quality, and a Razer Tarantula which allows 10 keys at once and has very little potential delay on the buttons, but its incredibly soft and spongy.
I've also tried a few of those so-called "gaming" keyboards from companies like Logitech. But they are complete trash. It amazes me when companies sell keyboards as "gaming" keyboards when you can't even play FPS games right on them because of blocking on the arrow keys and nearby buttons.
I'm hoping someone out there has tried this and knows how it reacts to numerous buttons at once.
icewm popped into my head when I was looking at this. And even moreso, JWM. The default theme for joe's window manager with Damn Small Linux looks a lot like the screenshots of EDE posted.
The other window manager with damn small linux is Fluxbox. And I have to say I love fluxbox and it runs really quick even on my older comps (Celeron 466, P3 450, P2 233, P 200). I'll have to try out EDE and see how it stacks up against whatever DSL chooses to use.
In windows you can press Alt+Spacebar then M. That would make it so you can move the window with the arrow keys.
But that's not really the point. This wasn't comparing Ubuntu to Windows this was taking an interesting look at the usability of Ubuntu. I don't see what Windows even has to do with it.
Not really. They've been designing OSes for less powerful computers for years but in years past they were only really intended for private parties or software assurance customers, not for the general public.
It's hard to make the average person understand just how fast this is
It's hard to make the average person understand that the CPU isn't the entire box under their desk. Don't even bother with trying to explain this. The average person doesn't want to know.
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Yeah, I am aware of what WinFLP is. I didn't say it was the same as XP home. What I said was they already maintain an OS specifically for running on less powerful computers, but in the past doing so only made sense as something for SA customers to use. Now, they are maintaining XP Home for less powerful computers for the general public to consume because the market has shifted.
And FLP is 64MB or higher, not 128MB or higher. 128 is recommended though. There is a specific version of XP called XP embedded and WinFLP is based on that. It is a very capable OS that will run many apps that full XP can run and doesn't suffer from the 3 program max that XP Starter Edition has.
They are keeping an OS alive because it runs on less powerful computers. Nothing new. They developed Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs to do the same thing. But, in the case of WinFLP, it was to ensure that people that buy Software Assurance on a computer can continue to pay for that assurance even after their hardware reaches "Legacy" standing.
They didn't release it to the public because it wasn't as effective as a full desktop version of Windows (although if you've used it you'll see it's more user friendly than Starter Edition) and because not enough people were buying new computers that couldn't run what they saw as the current OS.
Now with a shift towards lower powered ultra mobiles, people are buying computers that aren't really suited to run what they see as the current OS.
They are already maintaining a way to run a supported version of Windows on PCs going back to P233 with 64MB RAM because they saw a market driven reason for it. Extending the availability of XP Home just means they are recognizing a similar market in consumer space now.
ISPs in Utah already must filter content to prevent the transmission of material harmful to minors if the customer requests it. They limit this by saying they are successfully filtering the content if they use a generally accepted and commercially reasonable method of filtering.
But, I'm not sure if there is anything already on the books that says ISPs must actively prevent their customers from publishing prohibited communications. This is something that's part of this new bill that explicitly says the G-rated ISP would have to do this.
Prebinding isn't really similar to preload. Preload is actively trying to figure out what the user is going to access and loads it into RAM in advance. Prebinding links an executable to libraries. It only needs to be run when you install an application or when you update the libraries. And prebinding is deprecated now. It wasn't a big savings in performance and has been replaced, I believe, by a system cache of library symbols.
Back when I used to use Macs fairly regularly (back around OS X's release) I remember a lot of applications that had an overall design that encouraged users to leave them running in the background. I'd close a word document's window but Word would stay running as just the menu bar which would switch back to the Finder as I clicked around, leaving Word loaded and waiting for another doc. I would find after using a computer for a few hours of work, I would be leaving a number of applications running in the background the whole time and since it was a higher spec model, it never had any problem with running out of memory. This obviously isn't like Preload or SuperFetch, but it seemed like a good design that encouraged a user behavior that made the system run faster, so long as you didn't start to run low on memory from all the apps running.
Relief from engagement? If they are new to the game, and they get any kills at all before dieing, there's probably a sense of accomplishment. If you kill at least a couple people for every time you die, it feels like you are kicking ass.
This goes for someone that knows the game pretty well too. Deaths are a gauge of success. The more you do before you die, the better you are doing and the happier you feel when you do eventually die. I favor CTF and VCTF in UT2K4 and if I get a couple caps without dieing, when I do finally die, I don't get angry, I'm happy to see how much ass I kicked before they were able to take me down.
I mean, as long as there aren't any more school shootings he can use to pump up his books and to send out tons of press releases and offers for paid appearances, he should be able to whip up an answer and send it over. But if a deranged youth kills someone, he might not making it. He's got to make a living after all. Profiteering ain't easy.
The Gates foundation provides funding so long as there is adequate proof of where the funding is going and so long as it aligns with the broad vision the Gates foundation has. It sounds like this guy has problems with some of the scientists receiving Gates funding and he has problems with the fact that the Gates foundation has its own internal, closed decision making process that is only accountable to itself. But, that's to be expected. The Gates foundation introduced a level of accountability not seen before on a large scale. They did for international philanthropy what organizations like Pew did for philanthropy within the US.
The Gates foundation had to fight to bring any real accountability into these fields. If the WHO feels threatened its probably because they were pushing funds into opportunistic pockets up until the Gates foundation forced real accountability to happen.
Given the state of affairs up until now, if the Gates foundation did just create their own WHO-like organization, there's a good chance more people would be helped per dollar invested than are being helped by the WHO now.
The gates foundation is far from perfect. But they are inevitably going to take heat from threatening the lifeblood of the people at all levels of international philanthropy that have been skimming off the top of a very broken system.
I don't see anything showing an actual statistical significance in this. Has anybody seen any other places with info that might show whether or not these numbers actually have meaning?
First off, if someone flames you for your post, that would just be idiotic. I take pot shots at Tuvix every chance I get. It's like a hobby and your response is an interesting one.
I agree Tuvix was an interesting premise, but for me the execution was just hilarious. The name, the look, the interactions with the rest of the crew, and the performance of Janeway at the end really made me chuckle. I just didn't think the episode was very well written or performed. The underlying message may have been interesting but I couldn't see past the show itself.
And it was always a shame to see a great opportunity like killing Riker to replace him with his double pass up because of the episodic nature of the show. I think that's why I took to B5 so fast. The acting, IMO, was heinous. But the 5 season storyline was just too big to turn away from.
In other FPS games (I haven't played this yet) I always try to be on blue because I honestly have an easier time spotting Red. I usually play UT2K4 and on the average server, red's just easier for me to shoot at.
At our current state, we are just encouraging interested developers to download, play with, and help improve the gOS. For our general audience, we encourage trying a gOS product that gOS has already been qualified on.
They just recently changed it (since it still said the OS was in alpha stage after Walmart sold out of them).
It's just that, hype. iPods are cool looking and people will put up with any issues with them to have one. And having Apple is just stylish these days. iTunes...I don't know how anyone can actually like it. It's a terrible piece of software. But that's neither here nor their.
Saying the Zune is all kinds of terrible because someone doesn't think the Zune is as good an mp3/video player as the iPod seems to ignore the fact that there are better MP3/Video players than the iPod. I'll take an iRiver Clyx over an ipod Nano any day. I got my first one for about $100 almost 2 years ago, it plays music and videos, has the best interface I've used yet, and you can easily create/load Flash 1.1 games for it. But, it's not hip and it hasn't been hyped. So iPod is better, lol.
I was about to say the internal doors are airlock doors too in case of a section decompressing. But then I realized...none of this exists and I am a gigantic nerd.
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I didn't see anything about how many keys you can press at once?
It doesn't look like it's geared towards gamers, but as a person that plays fighting games on a keyboard I am always looking for something that has feedback, is solid, and lets me press at least 6 buttons at once without ghosting or blocking.
Right now I rely on a surprisingly capable logitech playstation 2 USB keyboard with a 6 button limit, but its keys are definately low quality, and a Razer Tarantula which allows 10 keys at once and has very little potential delay on the buttons, but its incredibly soft and spongy.
I've also tried a few of those so-called "gaming" keyboards from companies like Logitech. But they are complete trash. It amazes me when companies sell keyboards as "gaming" keyboards when you can't even play FPS games right on them because of blocking on the arrow keys and nearby buttons.
I'm hoping someone out there has tried this and knows how it reacts to numerous buttons at once.
Monoppix perhaps?
I haven't tried it yet but the description sounds about right.
icewm popped into my head when I was looking at this. And even moreso, JWM. The default theme for joe's window manager with Damn Small Linux looks a lot like the screenshots of EDE posted.
The other window manager with damn small linux is Fluxbox. And I have to say I love fluxbox and it runs really quick even on my older comps (Celeron 466, P3 450, P2 233, P 200). I'll have to try out EDE and see how it stacks up against whatever DSL chooses to use.
Wait, wait...are you selling Penis Mightiers?
In windows you can press Alt+Spacebar then M. That would make it so you can move the window with the arrow keys.
But that's not really the point. This wasn't comparing Ubuntu to Windows this was taking an interesting look at the usability of Ubuntu. I don't see what Windows even has to do with it.
No, it's what Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs is supposed to be for.
Not really. They've been designing OSes for less powerful computers for years but in years past they were only really intended for private parties or software assurance customers, not for the general public.
I know a little German o.O
Yeah, I am aware of what WinFLP is. I didn't say it was the same as XP home. What I said was they already maintain an OS specifically for running on less powerful computers, but in the past doing so only made sense as something for SA customers to use. Now, they are maintaining XP Home for less powerful computers for the general public to consume because the market has shifted.
And FLP is 64MB or higher, not 128MB or higher. 128 is recommended though. There is a specific version of XP called XP embedded and WinFLP is based on that. It is a very capable OS that will run many apps that full XP can run and doesn't suffer from the 3 program max that XP Starter Edition has.
They are keeping an OS alive because it runs on less powerful computers. Nothing new. They developed Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs to do the same thing. But, in the case of WinFLP, it was to ensure that people that buy Software Assurance on a computer can continue to pay for that assurance even after their hardware reaches "Legacy" standing.
They didn't release it to the public because it wasn't as effective as a full desktop version of Windows (although if you've used it you'll see it's more user friendly than Starter Edition) and because not enough people were buying new computers that couldn't run what they saw as the current OS.
Now with a shift towards lower powered ultra mobiles, people are buying computers that aren't really suited to run what they see as the current OS.
They are already maintaining a way to run a supported version of Windows on PCs going back to P233 with 64MB RAM because they saw a market driven reason for it. Extending the availability of XP Home just means they are recognizing a similar market in consumer space now.
ISPs in Utah already must filter content to prevent the transmission of material harmful to minors if the customer requests it. They limit this by saying they are successfully filtering the content if they use a generally accepted and commercially reasonable method of filtering.
But, I'm not sure if there is anything already on the books that says ISPs must actively prevent their customers from publishing prohibited communications. This is something that's part of this new bill that explicitly says the G-rated ISP would have to do this.
Prebinding isn't really similar to preload. Preload is actively trying to figure out what the user is going to access and loads it into RAM in advance. Prebinding links an executable to libraries. It only needs to be run when you install an application or when you update the libraries. And prebinding is deprecated now. It wasn't a big savings in performance and has been replaced, I believe, by a system cache of library symbols.
Back when I used to use Macs fairly regularly (back around OS X's release) I remember a lot of applications that had an overall design that encouraged users to leave them running in the background. I'd close a word document's window but Word would stay running as just the menu bar which would switch back to the Finder as I clicked around, leaving Word loaded and waiting for another doc. I would find after using a computer for a few hours of work, I would be leaving a number of applications running in the background the whole time and since it was a higher spec model, it never had any problem with running out of memory. This obviously isn't like Preload or SuperFetch, but it seemed like a good design that encouraged a user behavior that made the system run faster, so long as you didn't start to run low on memory from all the apps running.
Relief from engagement? If they are new to the game, and they get any kills at all before dieing, there's probably a sense of accomplishment. If you kill at least a couple people for every time you die, it feels like you are kicking ass.
This goes for someone that knows the game pretty well too. Deaths are a gauge of success. The more you do before you die, the better you are doing and the happier you feel when you do eventually die. I favor CTF and VCTF in UT2K4 and if I get a couple caps without dieing, when I do finally die, I don't get angry, I'm happy to see how much ass I kicked before they were able to take me down.
I mean, as long as there aren't any more school shootings he can use to pump up his books and to send out tons of press releases and offers for paid appearances, he should be able to whip up an answer and send it over. But if a deranged youth kills someone, he might not making it. He's got to make a living after all. Profiteering ain't easy.
The Gates foundation provides funding so long as there is adequate proof of where the funding is going and so long as it aligns with the broad vision the Gates foundation has. It sounds like this guy has problems with some of the scientists receiving Gates funding and he has problems with the fact that the Gates foundation has its own internal, closed decision making process that is only accountable to itself. But, that's to be expected. The Gates foundation introduced a level of accountability not seen before on a large scale. They did for international philanthropy what organizations like Pew did for philanthropy within the US.
The Gates foundation had to fight to bring any real accountability into these fields. If the WHO feels threatened its probably because they were pushing funds into opportunistic pockets up until the Gates foundation forced real accountability to happen.
Given the state of affairs up until now, if the Gates foundation did just create their own WHO-like organization, there's a good chance more people would be helped per dollar invested than are being helped by the WHO now.
The gates foundation is far from perfect. But they are inevitably going to take heat from threatening the lifeblood of the people at all levels of international philanthropy that have been skimming off the top of a very broken system.
I don't see anything showing an actual statistical significance in this. Has anybody seen any other places with info that might show whether or not these numbers actually have meaning?
The robot's full name is REEM-A-HUMAN.
Maybe someone created this hoax hoping a /. link to the school's website would take it down :-D
First off, if someone flames you for your post, that would just be idiotic. I take pot shots at Tuvix every chance I get. It's like a hobby and your response is an interesting one.
I agree Tuvix was an interesting premise, but for me the execution was just hilarious. The name, the look, the interactions with the rest of the crew, and the performance of Janeway at the end really made me chuckle. I just didn't think the episode was very well written or performed. The underlying message may have been interesting but I couldn't see past the show itself.
And it was always a shame to see a great opportunity like killing Riker to replace him with his double pass up because of the episodic nature of the show. I think that's why I took to B5 so fast. The acting, IMO, was heinous. But the 5 season storyline was just too big to turn away from.
Voyager. I'm not sure how but I'm sure it's Voyager's fault the site is closing down.
Some CBS exec happened to catch a re-run of the Voyager episode with Tuvix and said "That's it. Kill the site."
In other FPS games (I haven't played this yet) I always try to be on blue because I honestly have an easier time spotting Red. I usually play UT2K4 and on the average server, red's just easier for me to shoot at.
They just recently changed it (since it still said the OS was in alpha stage after Walmart sold out of them).
It's just that, hype. iPods are cool looking and people will put up with any issues with them to have one. And having Apple is just stylish these days. iTunes...I don't know how anyone can actually like it. It's a terrible piece of software. But that's neither here nor their.
Saying the Zune is all kinds of terrible because someone doesn't think the Zune is as good an mp3/video player as the iPod seems to ignore the fact that there are better MP3/Video players than the iPod. I'll take an iRiver Clyx over an ipod Nano any day. I got my first one for about $100 almost 2 years ago, it plays music and videos, has the best interface I've used yet, and you can easily create/load Flash 1.1 games for it. But, it's not hip and it hasn't been hyped. So iPod is better, lol.
I was about to say the internal doors are airlock doors too in case of a section decompressing. But then I realized...none of this exists and I am a gigantic nerd.