Also, some years ago there was buzz in Slashdot about HTML5 video replacing Flash, but even today the HTML5 video players are complete garbage: they take monstrous amount of resources and the controls are glitchy.
I actually donated to Linux Mint about a month ago, and yet I've given up Linux (again) for Windows 7 (again) due to a lack of comparable software (no, 80% functionality isn't good enough compared to the 100% I get with Windows unfortunately). So I feel kinda stupid for donating and yet still abandoning the operating system. Then again, I do appreciate Linux on an intellectual level so hopefully it helps.
Maybe your donation will still help to get Mint a bit closer to that 100%.
I think the developers understand this. The craziest eye candy plugins are not usually enabled by default. What you are saying is, like, why use nice-looking clothes when basic utilitarian ones would perform the same task. And even if you had no special effects enabled, it's just nice to do compositing on the GPU.
Think a lot doesn't necessary mean think profound or even think sensible.:-p It's Friday and I've got nothing better to do. Damn, slashdot! I can't believe you gave my brain fart a +5 interesting. Does this mean I'm really good or really bad at trolling?
Points deserved. I have also sometimes thought about the origins of the company's name, thanks for bringing it into the discussion.
Actually, can someone make a educated guess about what's the lowest spec PC hardware that you could make run a fully functional, fully optimized Angry Birds run on? Is a Pentium 1 too poor?
I'm asking because I often see it claimed that PCs make great space heaters, but in my experience, this one plain doesn't. Under full load, it should draw quite a bit of power, but it outputs much, much less heat than lower-energy dedicated space heaters. I'm tempted to find my Kill-A-Watt and see what it says.
PC is an efficient heater, I think what you are experiencing is simply that a space heater takes about 10x of the power of a basic PC, thus producing that much more heat too.
You will have to start building your quad-GPU Folding@home rig, winter is coming...
Booze also comes with hangovers, which in my case these days significantly impede my ability to think, and it takes almost a week to fully return to normal. So, if you want to be a meganerd, alcohol is at least out of the window. Can't speak for the other stuff.
I/O bound servers, where a more powerful CPU would be mostly idle anyway.
Didn't we invent SSDs to fix that...?
Even if the system is not bottlenecked by a HDD, you wouldn't need much any CPU power if the server is doing a lot of plain I/O, which is just copying bits around.
Ah, love your delicate wording there. But anyway, it's funny how at the advent of the "post PC era" crap I actually moved from a laptop to a full desktop at home...
Imagine all the suckers who live in an alternate universe where they joke "imagine a bizarre messed up alternate reality where Duke Nukem Forever is released, Microsoft would actually sponsor a Linux event, and so on".
will be used for simulating the formation of stars, planets and galaxies
It was nice to hear about the beefy specs, but how about a bit more information about the piece above? What kind of simulation, what software applications and so on.
Windows 7 is the best desktop OS. Secure enough, runs fast, smooth, stable, and all software and hardware works. OSX is pretty good too, but you have to buy expensive hardware to get it, and the software selection (especially regarding games) is more limited.
Mmh. I agree, KDE is quite nice and customizable. XFCE is nice too, Unity is, etc. However the longstanding problem which seems not to go away, is the lack of general quality assurance. All of the DEs are full of little bugs here and there. Some button does nothing, some feature is not implemented, occasional crashes, settings that do not have an effect, little glitches, etc. Things like that. Maybe it requires a big company like Microsoft or Apple to get it right, but maybe also the OSS community could be arranged so that things like these could be improved. I think it's really important.
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Exactly. This sounds like horrible bloat. Browser interpreting Javascript, which in turn interprets SWF. Complete waste of resources.
One word: Flash video players. The only video players I know of that manage to max out a core on my core2duo for a 480x320 video.
Sounds like you're not using Windows. Unfortunately I believe it's the only platform on which Flash is properly hardware accelerated.
Also, some years ago there was buzz in Slashdot about HTML5 video replacing Flash, but even today the HTML5 video players are complete garbage: they take monstrous amount of resources and the controls are glitchy.
so 375 watts at 12 volts is the same as 375 watts at 120 volts?
Yes, unless you're talking 375 amps at 12 volts vs 375 amps at 120 volts (which is quite a lot)
I think it's better to say 31 amps at 12 volts and 3 amps at 120 volts, both totaling to 375 watts.
I actually donated to Linux Mint about a month ago, and yet I've given up Linux (again) for Windows 7 (again) due to a lack of comparable software (no, 80% functionality isn't good enough compared to the 100% I get with Windows unfortunately). So I feel kinda stupid for donating and yet still abandoning the operating system. Then again, I do appreciate Linux on an intellectual level so hopefully it helps.
Maybe your donation will still help to get Mint a bit closer to that 100%.
MW3. My mind will always translates as Mech Warrior.
Same here!
Fujitsu still makes excellent laptops.
If you buy a Toshiba laptop in the same price range of an Apple one, I believe you are going to get an excellent product.
I think the developers understand this. The craziest eye candy plugins are not usually enabled by default. What you are saying is, like, why use nice-looking clothes when basic utilitarian ones would perform the same task. And even if you had no special effects enabled, it's just nice to do compositing on the GPU.
Think a lot doesn't necessary mean think profound or even think sensible. :-p It's Friday and I've got nothing better to do. Damn, slashdot! I can't believe you gave my brain fart a +5 interesting. Does this mean I'm really good or really bad at trolling?
Points deserved. I have also sometimes thought about the origins of the company's name, thanks for bringing it into the discussion.
Some users (especially shortcut-heavy users) just want to get the cursor out of the way and focus follows mouse effectively wrecks that.
You know, KDE allows you to turn it back off, too.
Cool story, bro.
By my experience, KDE4 is too heavy to be run on a netbook.
Actually, can someone make a educated guess about what's the lowest spec PC hardware that you could make run a fully functional, fully optimized Angry Birds run on? Is a Pentium 1 too poor?
I'm asking because I often see it claimed that PCs make great space heaters, but in my experience, this one plain doesn't. Under full load, it should draw quite a bit of power, but it outputs much, much less heat than lower-energy dedicated space heaters. I'm tempted to find my Kill-A-Watt and see what it says.
PC is an efficient heater, I think what you are experiencing is simply that a space heater takes about 10x of the power of a basic PC, thus producing that much more heat too.
You will have to start building your quad-GPU Folding@home rig, winter is coming...
Have you ever looked at your WindowsSxS folder. It's huge.
AFAIK there is stuff in WinSxS that are just links to other files. Therefore the net size might be much smaller than what Explorer shows.
Does coding while drunk result in good code?
Booze also comes with hangovers, which in my case these days significantly impede my ability to think, and it takes almost a week to fully return to normal. So, if you want to be a meganerd, alcohol is at least out of the window. Can't speak for the other stuff.
I/O bound servers, where a more powerful CPU would be mostly idle anyway.
Didn't we invent SSDs to fix that...?
Even if the system is not bottlenecked by a HDD, you wouldn't need much any CPU power if the server is doing a lot of plain I/O, which is just copying bits around.
Ah, love your delicate wording there. But anyway, it's funny how at the advent of the "post PC era" crap I actually moved from a laptop to a full desktop at home...
Imagine all the suckers who live in an alternate universe where they joke "imagine a bizarre messed up alternate reality where Duke Nukem Forever is released, Microsoft would actually sponsor a Linux event, and so on".
As you mention it, you can generally expect high-quality English from Finns. The accent is notoriously heavy, yet the grammar is great.
Thank you!
Mod parent up.
will be used for simulating the formation of stars, planets and galaxies
It was nice to hear about the beefy specs, but how about a bit more information about the piece above? What kind of simulation, what software applications and so on.
Windows 7 is the best desktop OS. Secure enough, runs fast, smooth, stable, and all software and hardware works. OSX is pretty good too, but you have to buy expensive hardware to get it, and the software selection (especially regarding games) is more limited.
Mmh. I agree, KDE is quite nice and customizable. XFCE is nice too, Unity is, etc. However the longstanding problem which seems not to go away, is the lack of general quality assurance. All of the DEs are full of little bugs here and there. Some button does nothing, some feature is not implemented, occasional crashes, settings that do not have an effect, little glitches, etc. Things like that. Maybe it requires a big company like Microsoft or Apple to get it right, but maybe also the OSS community could be arranged so that things like these could be improved. I think it's really important.