When I try to phonetically render your handle, it comes out the same as "smaller". Is this an obfuscated attempt to describe certain elements of your anatomy?
And that's an idiotic statement based on the average amount of absolutely unallocated physical RAM on the average Linux system. Used cache space is free RAM for all it's worth - when a program tries to malloc() some RAM, it's the RAM used by cache that the Linux or *BSD kernel will hand to the process for it's use. Cache is too ephemeral to qualify as used RAM in the same sense.
not to mention that it lacks 30 and 48 bit color depth
And the ability to have color depths that exceed the capability of the human eye is to what benefit, again? The human eye can see around 10 million colors, whereas 24-bit color provides 16.7 million, although arguably those 16.7 million colors aren't all viewable, given the gamut limitations of display technology - even laser DLP has a smaller color gamut than the eye can see. Adding more bits per pixel does nothing to assist this, nor does it increase the range of colors displayable - it simply increases the number of colors within that range that can be expressed, and likely it's not possible for humans to notice the difference.
Windows 7 is not less bug-ridden, the only thing it scales is the number of CPU cycles it takes to do the same shit that XP did, the better security argument is dubious (XP is insecure because everyone runs as Administrator?), and while "new tech" is probably the only point I'll give you, most of this "new tech" doesn't do piss for the average user. DirectX 11, right, what does that do for the guy in the cubicle whose domain group policy locks the machine down to Word, PowerPoint, and Excel? Or for the user that only knows to use Word, PowerPoint, and Excel? Or what else, more RAM is available because finally people are using 64-bit OSes? Fuck, dude, even XP came in a x64 flavor, and all the extra RAM allows is for the developers to get lazier and write even more bloated code, and for end users to run even more crapware to bog their machines down with.
You totally misunderstood, he means Windows 2000 is lacking WPA. I can't say if that's the case or not, but next time, pay attention to every word being said, not just the select few that you want to misconstrue into whatever bogus argument you want to make.
Then just use the bloody built-in voice chat and stop being a 'tard, the point of Ventrilo is to augment games that *lack* the feature, and I highly doubt you're going to be hosting a voice chat while in game if the other people you're voice chatting with aren't playing in the exact same game/server as you.
You might be able to get away with XP x64 but you'll be playing hell in a handbasket if you want drivers for anything that doesn't come standard in every computer.
I've used Windows 2000. It just doesn't run on as new of hardware as XP will - most hardware after 2007 has trouble running Windows 2000 on bare metal, and virtualization is pointless if the host OS is still crap.
Modern, 2010 sold machines still have classic PCI slots. I have a 3Com 10-MBit Ethernet card with Ethernet (both RJ-11 and BNC connectors) and AUI. Since this card can be installed in a modern machine, even one currently sitting on store shelves, then drivers for it are important. It might be deployed in a PC-turned-router to connect legacy coaxial Ethernet devices to your corporate network. If you don't think a company would have such legacy equipment, think again - there's a bank in my area that still uses VAXen (with coax Ethernet) to handle some of their business.
My cable company provides all my local channels as Clear QAM, and has slowly been "throwing the switch" on analogue cable channels - but not in a bad way. First was the second PBS station - which went digital and has all four subchannels the OTA one has, but there's some nasty oddities. A "basic extended" plan (full analogue + clear QAM) includes an provider-operated sports channel and Travel Channel, which both have gone Clear QAM. Ironically, there is three digital "channel 0"s, one of which being said sports channel, there's a number of Clear QAM channels mirroring some "basic limited" (local stations + public access + TBS, BET, and WGN) with numbers like 107.23243 or 108.2580. A few of these are scrambled. One of these is a video stream that the provider's digital sets will play when you browse video on demand "channels" - it's a quarter-size image that plays while you navigate the menu. How my regular TV receives this is beyond me.
Nice for Comcast, sucks for the common people trying not to waste their hard-earned money. Unless you're really rural, "the common people" can get off-air digital TV for free. Cable TV is a luxury, not a necessity. (And don't tell me it is good for emergency broadcasts; that purpose is much better served by radio.)
Cable TV is a necessity! When mine when out for four hours, several dead bodies showed up in my neighborhood!
Have you considered that they are not "scrambling" the digital signal, but rather compressing it to save bandwidth, and that the TV's QAM receiver is incapable of uncompressing it?
P.S. Have you tried reading a book instead? Supernatural and CSI are not necessities of life.
Have you ever considered that frugality is bollocks and is for the destitute, hippies, and lower-class American conservatives? That's the kind of crap you see in "capitalistic" societies where the rich and wealthy teach frugality to the lower classes, in a damn good attempt at freeing up more luxuries and things for their exclusive, upper-class use.
Except all the stuff that Skype has released, the libs and APIs, all work through the proprietary client. Using them to make an open-source client only provides a false sense of freedom.
Google Code Hosting does the same things as SourceForge.net, just without all the excess crap. I have a project on there, PsyMP3, that I wrote in FreeBASIC, a modern, GPL'd BASIC dialect. If you want, give me a hand. I don't obfuscate my email on Slashdot, so you can drop me a line there.
The actual J2ME client software running on the handset is not Opera the web browser because it is not actually a web browser (instead, it is more like a display renderer for a web browser running on a remote server), nor does it contain Presto (which is instead ran on a remote server.)
They already did port it and it's not so great.
See http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/mobile/platforms/ at the bottom. Builds of Firefox Mobile exist for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, and are only intended as developer "emulators", even though they're essentially true ports.
Even if you did implement an actual, bona fide web browser in Java 2 Micro Edition, whatever you end up with would neither be Firefox nor would it live up to the Firefox name.
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When I try to phonetically render your handle, it comes out the same as "smaller". Is this an obfuscated attempt to describe certain elements of your anatomy?
And that's an idiotic statement based on the average amount of absolutely unallocated physical RAM on the average Linux system. Used cache space is free RAM for all it's worth - when a program tries to malloc() some RAM, it's the RAM used by cache that the Linux or *BSD kernel will hand to the process for it's use. Cache is too ephemeral to qualify as used RAM in the same sense.
not to mention that it lacks 30 and 48 bit color depth
And the ability to have color depths that exceed the capability of the human eye is to what benefit, again? The human eye can see around 10 million colors, whereas 24-bit color provides 16.7 million, although arguably those 16.7 million colors aren't all viewable, given the gamut limitations of display technology - even laser DLP has a smaller color gamut than the eye can see. Adding more bits per pixel does nothing to assist this, nor does it increase the range of colors displayable - it simply increases the number of colors within that range that can be expressed, and likely it's not possible for humans to notice the difference.
Windows 7 is not less bug-ridden, the only thing it scales is the number of CPU cycles it takes to do the same shit that XP did, the better security argument is dubious (XP is insecure because everyone runs as Administrator?), and while "new tech" is probably the only point I'll give you, most of this "new tech" doesn't do piss for the average user. DirectX 11, right, what does that do for the guy in the cubicle whose domain group policy locks the machine down to Word, PowerPoint, and Excel? Or for the user that only knows to use Word, PowerPoint, and Excel? Or what else, more RAM is available because finally people are using 64-bit OSes? Fuck, dude, even XP came in a x64 flavor, and all the extra RAM allows is for the developers to get lazier and write even more bloated code, and for end users to run even more crapware to bog their machines down with.
You totally misunderstood, he means Windows 2000 is lacking WPA. I can't say if that's the case or not, but next time, pay attention to every word being said, not just the select few that you want to misconstrue into whatever bogus argument you want to make.
Then just use the bloody built-in voice chat and stop being a 'tard, the point of Ventrilo is to augment games that *lack* the feature, and I highly doubt you're going to be hosting a voice chat while in game if the other people you're voice chatting with aren't playing in the exact same game/server as you.
You might be able to get away with XP x64 but you'll be playing hell in a handbasket if you want drivers for anything that doesn't come standard in every computer.
Don't feel bad, the poor chap has never experienced the clarity of UNIX. He doesn't understand the critical importance of case-sensitivity.
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I've used Windows 2000. It just doesn't run on as new of hardware as XP will - most hardware after 2007 has trouble running Windows 2000 on bare metal, and virtualization is pointless if the host OS is still crap.
Windows XP is still the best version of Windows to date.
Except that the GPL is a copyright license, not a patent license, and still applies.
Modern, 2010 sold machines still have classic PCI slots. I have a 3Com 10-MBit Ethernet card with Ethernet (both RJ-11 and BNC connectors) and AUI. Since this card can be installed in a modern machine, even one currently sitting on store shelves, then drivers for it are important. It might be deployed in a PC-turned-router to connect legacy coaxial Ethernet devices to your corporate network. If you don't think a company would have such legacy equipment, think again - there's a bank in my area that still uses VAXen (with coax Ethernet) to handle some of their business.
It should be noted that XP SP2 x64 has support until whenever XP SP3 x86 runs out. There is no XP SP3 x64
Except nobody owns standard definition televisions no more. With the rate of American consumerism, 120% of all SDTVs have been replaced!
seriously...
My cable company provides all my local channels as Clear QAM, and has slowly been "throwing the switch" on analogue cable channels - but not in a bad way. First was the second PBS station - which went digital and has all four subchannels the OTA one has, but there's some nasty oddities. A "basic extended" plan (full analogue + clear QAM) includes an provider-operated sports channel and Travel Channel, which both have gone Clear QAM. Ironically, there is three digital "channel 0"s, one of which being said sports channel, there's a number of Clear QAM channels mirroring some "basic limited" (local stations + public access + TBS, BET, and WGN) with numbers like 107.23243 or 108.2580. A few of these are scrambled. One of these is a video stream that the provider's digital sets will play when you browse video on demand "channels" - it's a quarter-size image that plays while you navigate the menu. How my regular TV receives this is beyond me.
Nice for Comcast, sucks for the common people trying not to waste their hard-earned money. Unless you're really rural, "the common people" can get off-air digital TV for free. Cable TV is a luxury, not a necessity. (And don't tell me it is good for emergency broadcasts; that purpose is much better served by radio.)
Cable TV is a necessity! When mine when out for four hours, several dead bodies showed up in my neighborhood!
Have you considered that they are not "scrambling" the digital signal, but rather compressing it to save bandwidth, and that the TV's QAM receiver is incapable of uncompressing it?
P.S. Have you tried reading a book instead? Supernatural and CSI are not necessities of life.
Have you ever considered that frugality is bollocks and is for the destitute, hippies, and lower-class American conservatives? That's the kind of crap you see in "capitalistic" societies where the rich and wealthy teach frugality to the lower classes, in a damn good attempt at freeing up more luxuries and things for their exclusive, upper-class use.
They're candidates for the US senate, from Nevada. Whoever gets elected does their senate work in Washington, DC.
Except all the stuff that Skype has released, the libs and APIs, all work through the proprietary client. Using them to make an open-source client only provides a false sense of freedom.
Google Code Hosting does the same things as SourceForge.net, just without all the excess crap. I have a project on there, PsyMP3, that I wrote in FreeBASIC, a modern, GPL'd BASIC dialect. If you want, give me a hand. I don't obfuscate my email on Slashdot, so you can drop me a line there.
The actual J2ME client software running on the handset is not Opera the web browser because it is not actually a web browser (instead, it is more like a display renderer for a web browser running on a remote server), nor does it contain Presto (which is instead ran on a remote server.)
Keep in mind that Opera Mini and BitStream BOLT aren't bona fide web browsers.
They already did port it and it's not so great. See http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/mobile/platforms/ at the bottom. Builds of Firefox Mobile exist for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, and are only intended as developer "emulators", even though they're essentially true ports.
Even if you did implement an actual, bona fide web browser in Java 2 Micro Edition, whatever you end up with would neither be Firefox nor would it live up to the Firefox name.