Good point. I bet there's a lot of "synthetic" bloat in modern software. There would not be need for nearly as beefy hardware if things were done properly. And we would save lots of power.
I've been watching the Dillo project for a couple of years. By design a very smart and light browser, although the web is developing so fast that the guys are having hard time implementing some of the essentials...
2GHz should be the requirement for something like heavy mathematical computation, NOT web browsing.
That's true, I remember Windows 2000 working wonderfully on my system which had 128MB of memory. Great stability and speed, still the best Windows MS has made. Sure the later revisions have introduced some new features but the added bloat doesn't justify them by far! Frankly I think we could have made it to this day with Win2K (maybe with a new service pack every once and then) if people were not "brainwashed" to think it was just some old piece of crap.
Does there actually exist laptops with good screens? I thought pretty much all of them have the most basic TN panels there is. Crappy black level etc. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Honestly, I dislike corded mice because the cable is always a bit annoying.
I dunno. I think that many fans of wireless mice would do just fine with a corded one if they just took some time to set the cord run nicely. There's not that much improvement from a wireless one that would overcome all the problems it brings along. And if one wants to go even further, there's some environmental stress related to making the batteries.
Of course there is some situations where wireless makes sense, maybe some presentation space or sofa surfin'. xD
I'm glad that this issue came up! I like DS's simplicity (and the cool touch screen), it's like the DOS gaming era without power-sucking 3D cards, crashing Windows and other crap. Yet the problem has been exactly this: the games are mostly these Fisher-Price kids' games and the millionth remake of Mario... If the selection really expands, I'm certainly interested.
Vista RTM had some copy performance issues but SP1 fixed those, and during Win7 there was a significant focus on improving copy / move / delete performance.
It just beats me how it has been so hard for them to get something like that right. I'd thought it would be a piece of cake issue for MS to get top notch performance for something like copying files, one of the most simplest user operations.
A friend of mine once discovered that by starting The Incredible Machine (the "Rube Goldberg's machine" game) on halloween, a carved pumpkin would appear in your inventory. I first thought the guy was kidding me but there it was. Very cool. Today a quick googling tells that there's also some special item for Christmas and St. Patrick's Day.
I think using P2P in APT is an unnecessary gimmick. It adds too much overhead and complexity to the mere process of downloading a few packages. Plus the added concern of security. Normal Ubuntu mirrors work just fine. I don't think their bandwidth will really be exhausted any time soon.
Back in the 90s my friend's copy of Accolade's Winter Challenge showed interesting behaviour. In the skating event, when you were just about to complete the final lap, the left border of the rink started to "magnetically" pull the skater towards it. By rigorously skating in the opposing direction you were sometimes able to fight the this force and reach the goal.
The game was cracked so I wondered maybe it was some kind of anti-piracy prank. Or maybe the game files were just corrupted in some way.
The physics engine also allowed to drive very fast by doing some trick...can't remember anymore how this was triggered. Someone said that the speed variable would roll over (though one could think that would halt the car).
Yeah, a couple of years ago I was astonished to find that an Octane has actually a 747W power supply. It was introduced in the late 90s, when PC desktops had like 200W boxes.
Well, that's why they include a pen that can be used to poke the screen.
I personally have not found touchscreens that useful. I had a Fujitsu-Siemens subnotebook which had one, but after the initial coolness it's faster and more accurate to just use a normal mouse. For small PDA type gadgets touchscreen seems to be fine though.
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Maybe your seat height should just be a bit lower?
I've been also looking into ways to compute outside. What monitor do you have?
Good point. I bet there's a lot of "synthetic" bloat in modern software. There would not be need for nearly as beefy hardware if things were done properly. And we would save lots of power.
I've been watching the Dillo project for a couple of years. By design a very smart and light browser, although the web is developing so fast that the guys are having hard time implementing some of the essentials...
2GHz should be the requirement for something like heavy mathematical computation, NOT web browsing.
That's true, I remember Windows 2000 working wonderfully on my system which had 128MB of memory. Great stability and speed, still the best Windows MS has made. Sure the later revisions have introduced some new features but the added bloat doesn't justify them by far! Frankly I think we could have made it to this day with Win2K (maybe with a new service pack every once and then) if people were not "brainwashed" to think it was just some old piece of crap.
Does there actually exist laptops with good screens? I thought pretty much all of them have the most basic TN panels there is. Crappy black level etc. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I dunno. I think that many fans of wireless mice would do just fine with a corded one if they just took some time to set the cord run nicely. There's not that much improvement from a wireless one that would overcome all the problems it brings along. And if one wants to go even further, there's some environmental stress related to making the batteries.
Of course there is some situations where wireless makes sense, maybe some presentation space or sofa surfin'. xD
Press Shift, it's the run modifier... :)
Well, that sounds familiar, especially for the "short notes" part. :D I think that suspend (or hibernate) is a good middle ground here.
I'm glad that this issue came up! I like DS's simplicity (and the cool touch screen), it's like the DOS gaming era without power-sucking 3D cards, crashing Windows and other crap. Yet the problem has been exactly this: the games are mostly these Fisher-Price kids' games and the millionth remake of Mario... If the selection really expands, I'm certainly interested.
It just beats me how it has been so hard for them to get something like that right. I'd thought it would be a piece of cake issue for MS to get top notch performance for something like copying files, one of the most simplest user operations.
A friend of mine once discovered that by starting The Incredible Machine (the "Rube Goldberg's machine" game) on halloween, a carved pumpkin would appear in your inventory. I first thought the guy was kidding me but there it was. Very cool. Today a quick googling tells that there's also some special item for Christmas and St. Patrick's Day.
I think using P2P in APT is an unnecessary gimmick. It adds too much overhead and complexity to the mere process of downloading a few packages. Plus the added concern of security. Normal Ubuntu mirrors work just fine. I don't think their bandwidth will really be exhausted any time soon.
I use that every time to access Slashdot. :)
Back in the 90s my friend's copy of Accolade's Winter Challenge showed interesting behaviour. In the skating event, when you were just about to complete the final lap, the left border of the rink started to "magnetically" pull the skater towards it. By rigorously skating in the opposing direction you were sometimes able to fight the this force and reach the goal.
The game was cracked so I wondered maybe it was some kind of anti-piracy prank. Or maybe the game files were just corrupted in some way.
The physics engine also allowed to drive very fast by doing some trick...can't remember anymore how this was triggered. Someone said that the speed variable would roll over (though one could think that would halt the car).
I once got a spam which subject was simply "goddammit". Many times when I think about spam this classic pops in my head.
Yeah, a couple of years ago I was astonished to find that an Octane has actually a 747W power supply. It was introduced in the late 90s, when PC desktops had like 200W boxes.
That, and the fact that you get full brightness immediately after applying power.
Yeah, I did too. I thought it was talk about some legacy API which would allow 256-color apps still to work.
Is that you, Steve?
Well, that's why they include a pen that can be used to poke the screen.
I personally have not found touchscreens that useful. I had a Fujitsu-Siemens subnotebook which had one, but after the initial coolness it's faster and more accurate to just use a normal mouse. For small PDA type gadgets touchscreen seems to be fine though.
But are you sure that the Beethoven's 5th didn't rather dictate the density of the data than the disc diameter?
Gah. He's curious, not complaining.
Maybe the etching machine will be controlled by Linux.
Yeah, it's kind of strange. But maybe he was just trying out what the buying experience would be for a Joe user.