Wealthy enough? I take it you don't live in the UK. Smartphones are ten a penny (the biggest phone company BT has started giving them away for £5 over their normal broadband subscription.
If there was an issue with class/wealth then it would be that the damn park is really expensive and that most of us are struggling to afford the diesel in our cars to get there, its £1.25 a litre (in Suffolk) - in other words approximately $19.50 for a little over two gallons). This may seem off topic but the bank holiday monday tommorrow will be one of their biggest times of the year and the roads will be packed.
With respect, the guy has no fucking house so he might as well have a smoke while he ponders where to shelter tonight. Don't get me wrong I appreciate your generosity but if you care that much about being altruistic then it wouldn't matter what the hell the recipient did with the money.
Actually, I used Power Basic fairly recently to measure transistor base current as part of a project. It worked nicely with the simple architecture of a 6502 microprocessor where really all you needed was to accept input via a serial port and sampling into a graph (don't ask - there are some really dated pieces of equipment in use in some establishments in the UK, especially where electronics are being taught - I've had instructors who thought Kirchoff's ideas were radical).
Mind you I had to wire the circuit and write 6502 microcode too.
I think you're missing the point of an ultra-portable subnotebook.
Perhaps he is but it would be cool to have your OS and all your work in a removeable drive that you can transfer between devices easily. Oh wait - you already can with USB disks and Damn Small Linux or FaunOS or whatever.
While I agree with the general point - I don't think you've used many USB TV tuners under Linux and also the article writer hasn't mentioned the nature of most Windows drivers either. They are enormously popular (in the UK at least) but many of the most popular (read cheap) tuners are a pain in the arse to get to run under Linux, locating firmware, decent TV software and so on.
I wouldn't say this is the fault of Linux in general, because many of these devices have terrible drivers - try getting some of the cheap ones to work with Windows Media Centre and you can't because they lack BDA drivers.
But the point remains - being able to use a device this small as a handy little TV is a popular application and for the non-technical user, if it doesn't work then right or wrong they will blame Linux.
When I asked at the Yodobashi Camera and Sofmap in Umeda, I was told that no stores in Japan are carrying the Linux version of any of the eeePCs.
If he can't get it with Linux pre-installed then short of importing from outside Japan how is he to get one with Linux without bu ying an XP one(I'm assuming a Japanese version has special keyboard layout and some kind of IME)?
I'm in the UK too and it seems much the same as Labour/Conservative back and forth for the last god knows how many years. I think it was Billy Connolly that said "the desire to be a politician should bar you for life from becoming one".
I don't know if that's true universally - if I look through my MP3 collection then you are quite right, mine are named conventionally giving band/album/title. A quick look in my pictures and videos and this is not the case, because the thumbnail is easier to locate than the filename. Now as this type of thing would predominantly be image based then this is no longer an effective heuristic.
The big thing here though is this "unzipping" thing I've seen quoted.
I'm interested if anyone knows about maritime riveting and can correct me because in aviation we not only use rivets of a standard design specification (predominantly) to reduce dissimilar metal corrosion but also they are riveted in set patterns that mean should one rivet fail then the resulting weakness and is to a greater degree minimised by the placement of other rivets. For example the most simple battle damage repair would be two sheets overlapping with a double row of staggered rivets at set distances (I forget the exact inches) - and that's a patch repair!
Unzipping, to me, implies that the metal was riveted in straight lines which would seem like an engineering faux pas of the highest order.
Oddly enouugh, Tesco (Walmarts competitor in the UK) are running an advertising campaign on TV just now where this is the exact premise. "Buy our budget mushrooms, they're ugly as sin but are cheap and going in a pie anyway". Novel approach.
If the same yes/no question pops up every 10 minutes, don't expect a different answer when it says "Do you want to install spyware, adware, a couple of trojans, and [whatever they actually wanted to install]?".
The reverse is also true and just as annoying - the user who contacts support every time there is a UAC pop-up.
It would be really interesting is if this threat snowballed into a migration to OSS from MSFT to pre-empt a perceived problem - you know, like the whole MSFT patent threat thing appears to have been intended to do to Linux adoption.
If I want a limited choice of goods I'll go to the local brick and mortar store. Amazon used to offer better than that.
Amazon has gone down the tubes but I would like to thank them for prompting me to go back into the bookstores. I had forgotten how much I liked checking out new titles recommended by a real person rather than an algorithm that has difficulty differentiating between my interests and gifts I purchased.
No matter how many times I see this it blows me away. This isn't an anti Microsoft bash - this is a serious efficiency issue - we have gone from a suggested 8Mb for WFWG 3.11 (1992/93 UK) to 2Gb in a generation. That's a massive jump considering that most users are still muddling about with a web browser and a word processor. I know that processor speeds etc have also increased exponentially but I can't help this nagging feeling that it's down to lazy coding.
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Wealthy enough? I take it you don't live in the UK. Smartphones are ten a penny (the biggest phone company BT has started giving them away for £5 over their normal broadband subscription.
If there was an issue with class/wealth then it would be that the damn park is really expensive and that most of us are struggling to afford the diesel in our cars to get there, its £1.25 a litre (in Suffolk) - in other words approximately $19.50 for a little over two gallons). This may seem off topic but the bank holiday monday tommorrow will be one of their biggest times of the year and the roads will be packed.
I assume this is your program here. Did you know that Stumbleupon thinks it's porn?
Hmm, writing novels eh? How many laptops have you got because I happen to have a thousand monkeys and a lot of time.
With respect, the guy has no fucking house so he might as well have a smoke while he ponders where to shelter tonight. Don't get me wrong I appreciate your generosity but if you care that much about being altruistic then it wouldn't matter what the hell the recipient did with the money.
I rather like this one that I saw at the weekend. Sounds like an unpleasant way to go.
Bloody vocabulary terrorists.
Actually, I used Power Basic fairly recently to measure transistor base current as part of a project. It worked nicely with the simple architecture of a 6502 microprocessor where really all you needed was to accept input via a serial port and sampling into a graph (don't ask - there are some really dated pieces of equipment in use in some establishments in the UK, especially where electronics are being taught - I've had instructors who thought Kirchoff's ideas were radical).
Mind you I had to wire the circuit and write 6502 microcode too.
Anyway, damn kids - get off my lawn.
Are you saying Microsoft's patents are 80% shit?
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Done to death? Done to death? This is Slashdot! Christ some of the jokes around here are older than some of the posters.
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No you're quite right, it could mean all those people who are immortal - you know vampires and shit.
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Perhaps he is but it would be cool to have your OS and all your work in a removeable drive that you can transfer between devices easily. Oh wait - you already can with USB disks and Damn Small Linux or FaunOS or whatever.
While I agree with the general point - I don't think you've used many USB TV tuners under Linux and also the article writer hasn't mentioned the nature of most Windows drivers either. They are enormously popular (in the UK at least) but many of the most popular (read cheap) tuners are a pain in the arse to get to run under Linux, locating firmware, decent TV software and so on.
I wouldn't say this is the fault of Linux in general, because many of these devices have terrible drivers - try getting some of the cheap ones to work with Windows Media Centre and you can't because they lack BDA drivers.
But the point remains - being able to use a device this small as a handy little TV is a popular application and for the non-technical user, if it doesn't work then right or wrong they will blame Linux.
I think the GP explained the point:
If he can't get it with Linux pre-installed then short of importing from outside Japan how is he to get one with Linux without bu ying an XP one(I'm assuming a Japanese version has special keyboard layout and some kind of IME)?
I'm in the UK too and it seems much the same as Labour/Conservative back and forth for the last god knows how many years. I think it was Billy Connolly that said "the desire to be a politician should bar you for life from becoming one".
I don't know if that's true universally - if I look through my MP3 collection then you are quite right, mine are named conventionally giving band/album/title. A quick look in my pictures and videos and this is not the case, because the thumbnail is easier to locate than the filename. Now as this type of thing would predominantly be image based then this is no longer an effective heuristic.
I'd love to know why you posted anonymously, you'd need to be my era or earlier as they call it ER now.
The big thing here though is this "unzipping" thing I've seen quoted.
I'm interested if anyone knows about maritime riveting and can correct me because in aviation we not only use rivets of a standard design specification (predominantly) to reduce dissimilar metal corrosion but also they are riveted in set patterns that mean should one rivet fail then the resulting weakness and is to a greater degree minimised by the placement of other rivets. For example the most simple battle damage repair would be two sheets overlapping with a double row of staggered rivets at set distances (I forget the exact inches) - and that's a patch repair!
Unzipping, to me, implies that the metal was riveted in straight lines which would seem like an engineering faux pas of the highest order.
Oddly enouugh, Tesco (Walmarts competitor in the UK) are running an advertising campaign on TV just now where this is the exact premise. "Buy our budget mushrooms, they're ugly as sin but are cheap and going in a pie anyway". Novel approach.
The reverse is also true and just as annoying - the user who contacts support every time there is a UAC pop-up.
It would be really interesting is if this threat snowballed into a migration to OSS from MSFT to pre-empt a perceived problem - you know, like the whole MSFT patent threat thing appears to have been intended to do to Linux adoption.
I beg to differ.
I fear you may have proven the case against software patents there yourself.
No.
Amazon has gone down the tubes but I would like to thank them for prompting me to go back into the bookstores. I had forgotten how much I liked checking out new titles recommended by a real person rather than an algorithm that has difficulty differentiating between my interests and gifts I purchased.
No matter how many times I see this it blows me away. This isn't an anti Microsoft bash - this is a serious efficiency issue - we have gone from a suggested 8Mb for WFWG 3.11 (1992/93 UK) to 2Gb in a generation. That's a massive jump considering that most users are still muddling about with a web browser and a word processor. I know that processor speeds etc have also increased exponentially but I can't help this nagging feeling that it's down to lazy coding.