Here's also an interesting story where a guy pushed a dual CPU 440BX board to its maximum. It has 1.05GHz P3 processors and can even run stuff like Red Alert 3.
I sometimes wonder how old PC could you use if we made a lo-fi version of everything in current world. If we cut some corners, for example Facebook could be run in text mode with images viewed in some separate "SVGA viewer" program.:) MP3/video playback would be tough. Pentium II should be able to do anything. Of course today we have better minimal hardware like Atom/ARM available.
Here is actually an interesting review of one of the previous iPhone clones. The case pretty much looks like the real thing, the menus of the software kind of look like iPhone, but the software part is rather half-assed. Probably many of the simplest dumbphones have more functionality. Wacky stuff anyway.:)
Actually, I've been searching for some blog that explicitly goes through various Chinese counterfeits. If you know any, I'd be curious to read such...
It's not only about some specific effects but also about having a generally smooth and intuitive desktop experience. Plus it's nice to have the small flicker here and there eliminated which rids the traditional desktops.
I all the time hear these both theories, that it is or it is not good to keep the battery always plugged. Maybe the results even vary per device (and its charging patterns) and not only battery type?
Beyond Good and Evil also seems to be incompatible with 64-bit Windows 7. It installs some copy protection software, which then uninstalls itself immediately.
Hard disks can be connected to any PC, they're cheap, they're fast. The only problems I've ever had with USB disks is failure of the cheap-ass wall-warts they supply them with. Luckily all USB drives use either 5V/12V so it's easy to wire them up to a spare PC power supply. I have one under the desk and any USB disk which is switched on all day gets connected to that. The wall-wart goes in a drawer for emergencies.
Or, to make things even simpler, use laptop disks so you can pull the power through USB.
The Finnish ISP Saunalahti had a "Wippies" project where you would get a free router and some cloud storage. The catch was that you complied to run a public wifi along your private network from the box.
Smooth scrolling would be a feature I'd love to see in some terminal emulator. AFAIK no current software implements it. As you might know, some old hardware terminals had this feature where new lines would appear "smoothly", scanline-by-scanline on the screen. Maybe Compiz would also help here to make it slick.
You know, it would be cool if there simply was a dedicated YouTube player for desktop Linux too. There is one for iPad and my Android phone has one too. They know that Flash sucks in performance so they skip it completely. It works great.
I wonder how easy/hard would it be to figure out the Flash video streaming protocol and glue it in to some movie player? I already remember Totem and VLC implementing a YouTube player but I never have got them to work that well...
It's often caused by having a page in one tab doing something slow (loading from a slow server, lots of JS, something like that) and locking up all the other tabs because they aren't properly independent in Firefox.
By the way, is this true for Chrome, too? It's said to be parallel but by my experience (on a dual-core system) some other busy tab can quite efficiently jam the current one I'm browsing.
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No, I was thinking about everything from video playback to some nice games.
Here's also an interesting story where a guy pushed a dual CPU 440BX board to its maximum. It has 1.05GHz P3 processors and can even run stuff like Red Alert 3.
http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/31535-oldschool-gigabyte-board-still-kickin-6bxds.html
I sometimes wonder how old PC could you use if we made a lo-fi version of everything in current world. If we cut some corners, for example Facebook could be run in text mode with images viewed in some separate "SVGA viewer" program. :) MP3/video playback would be tough. Pentium II should be able to do anything. Of course today we have better minimal hardware like Atom/ARM available.
And yet some people's hobby are vintage cars too, even though you could get more MPG from newer stuff...
This scam appeared in Finland over a year ago. :) Metku.net even made a DIY version of it.
I don't know if YouTube is full of these, but here is a nice mobile gadget channel.
Here is actually an interesting review of one of the previous iPhone clones. The case pretty much looks like the real thing, the menus of the software kind of look like iPhone, but the software part is rather half-assed. Probably many of the simplest dumbphones have more functionality. Wacky stuff anyway. :)
Actually, I've been searching for some blog that explicitly goes through various Chinese counterfeits. If you know any, I'd be curious to read such...
Some brochure could read "Improve your business with the powerful Sun X-Class Flare(R) server systems..."
It does sound professional. :)
Exactly. And not to even mention the constantly changing APIs and desktop environments. Linux is like in some kind of eternal R&D phase...
It's not only about some specific effects but also about having a generally smooth and intuitive desktop experience. Plus it's nice to have the small flicker here and there eliminated which rids the traditional desktops.
+1
That's exactly how I read the title too.
Apologies accepted. We appreciate that you handled the situation properly.
I all the time hear these both theories, that it is or it is not good to keep the battery always plugged. Maybe the results even vary per device (and its charging patterns) and not only battery type?
Beyond Good and Evil also seems to be incompatible with 64-bit Windows 7. It installs some copy protection software, which then uninstalls itself immediately.
Or, to make things even simpler, use laptop disks so you can pull the power through USB.
The Finnish ISP Saunalahti had a "Wippies" project where you would get a free router and some cloud storage. The catch was that you complied to run a public wifi along your private network from the box.
Have people visited it?
And even though no one would clone your mac addresses, aren't you worried of someone eavesdropping your connection in general?
I remember someone saying in a recent Slashdot discussion that many Android apps are actually native code with only the event loop written in Java.
I think Minecraft is just a nice small freeware game along Soldat and others. Very good games, but nothing that revolutionary.
Smooth scrolling would be a feature I'd love to see in some terminal emulator. AFAIK no current software implements it. As you might know, some old hardware terminals had this feature where new lines would appear "smoothly", scanline-by-scanline on the screen. Maybe Compiz would also help here to make it slick.
You know, it would be cool if there simply was a dedicated YouTube player for desktop Linux too. There is one for iPad and my Android phone has one too. They know that Flash sucks in performance so they skip it completely. It works great.
I wonder how easy/hard would it be to figure out the Flash video streaming protocol and glue it in to some movie player? I already remember Totem and VLC implementing a YouTube player but I never have got them to work that well...
But cheese does prevent bone-mass loss. It's full of calcium.
The parent comment didn't deny that. It just said that French like to talk more about health properties of wine than, say, cheese.
By the way, is this true for Chrome, too? It's said to be parallel but by my experience (on a dual-core system) some other busy tab can quite efficiently jam the current one I'm browsing.
Please read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download.