I'd love to run Linux as a primary OS, but I've tried all kinds of distros, and there has not been a single desktop environment that felt robust and professional, where things were in places I'd expect and everything just worked without a lot of unnecessary fiddling and looking up of vague error messages.
What if I erected a sign with the text "Small Cock -->" next to you? You maybe wouldn't want me to have the sign there. At that point would it be OK to you if I just said "I ain't hosting the penis, I am just making pointers to it"?
No one will ever bother exploiting this. Neither will anyone bother to exploit the red button attack or inferring audio from video recording. It's just too tricky to get these working in practice. Even with the gyroscope you get a crummy 100Hz frequency cap with terrible amounts of factors decreasing sound capture quality.
Is that even enough for Windows 8.1? And I don't mean enough as in bare minimum to run the OS, I mean enough to actually run more than four applications and a browser with at least ten tabs opened.
My testing has shown that Windows 8.1 at bare minimum grabs about 600MB on startup (no services or other stuff disabled). So yeah, provided that you have some swap available (just in case), 2GB of RAM will allow you to do some browsing with a dozen of tabs open, and have a couple of other lightweight apps running at the same time.
With one thing you are spot on: C++ has a massive feature set. Even Bjarne says that he has trouble mastering the full feature set at any given moment.
But here's the catch: you're not supposed to know it all. C++ is like a large store where you go and "shop" just the features you need. You can keep it super simple and write C-style code and just use classes as the only C++ feature, if you want to.
Then again, modern C++ allows you to also write many things much more elegantly and safely than before.
Interestingly, Visual Studio got C99 library support last year. I'm mentioning this because the C support in VS has mostly been a desert scene with tumbleweeds passing by. I'm not sure how close VS is to full C99 support and what pieces are possibly missing. Does anyone know?
Is bloated and slow and is the main motivator for getting faster computers.
That is not true at all. MS Office is very lightweight software and works snappily even with old netbook hardware (Intel Atom N270). I am not exaggerating.
The real mystery is the spam combining various pseudo-random words, usually containing the word "BSD" in somewhere, and putting them into a link which points to goat.cx. The topic of the message is usually something like "m0d d03n". That one has been around for many years.
Been there, seen it. Also called the "downvote brigade". When someone posts something against the hive mind, that message gets voted down, but then also every other message by the poster in the thread is meticulously voted down to oblivion!
Also other kinds of malicious downvoting are quite common in Reddit.
Those things being said, I still do find the system of unlimited votes to often be quite fun.
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I'd love to run Linux as a primary OS, but I've tried all kinds of distros, and there has not been a single desktop environment that felt robust and professional, where things were in places I'd expect and everything just worked without a lot of unnecessary fiddling and looking up of vague error messages.
Same experience here.
If you are like most people nowadays and only need a web browser then Linux is probably sufficient as a desktop OS.
Windows is also sufficient for that...and it also does much, much more.
There's yar problem.
I can already see in my mind how that kind of development system would break after some development package gets upgraded:
In bubblegum-wrapper.py, line 1208:
deb-pkg: Invalid argument: --no-externals
When Windows programs use robust binary interfaces, Linux programs always use this kind of fragile backend scripts.
Here's another one by YLE from April discussing the same ideas.
What if I erected a sign with the text "Small Cock -->" next to you? You maybe wouldn't want me to have the sign there. At that point would it be OK to you if I just said "I ain't hosting the penis, I am just making pointers to it"?
AFAIK it's the only mobile OS doing so.
That seems to be true. Here's additional proof that Windows Phone and iOS do not currently support such feature.
It does not matter what they hope if they can't get the tricks to work.
No one will ever bother exploiting this. Neither will anyone bother to exploit the red button attack or inferring audio from video recording. It's just too tricky to get these working in practice. Even with the gyroscope you get a crummy 100Hz frequency cap with terrible amounts of factors decreasing sound capture quality.
"Simply".
Are you talking about used machines? Of course these HPs will be much cheaper too when bought second-hand.
All right, so basically we're hanging on what kind of C-like features a subset of C++ happens to provide.
Yeah, that's a good point.
Doom 3 was written like that.
Graphics drivers take a lot memory these days. Try replacing your normal GPU driver with basic one and you'll see. You can free a cool 100MB.
Recently they wanted to add a 2D graphics API to the language! Yeah, let's re-implement OpenGL ES. http://developers.slashdot.org...
Zee wot? Cairo is nothing like OpenGL ES.
Goodbye. Now I'm just gonna relax and listen the tits chirping.
At $199? I doubt it. You almost have to chuck a double amount of cash on the table.
Is that even enough for Windows 8.1? And I don't mean enough as in bare minimum to run the OS, I mean enough to actually run more than four applications and a browser with at least ten tabs opened.
My testing has shown that Windows 8.1 at bare minimum grabs about 600MB on startup (no services or other stuff disabled). So yeah, provided that you have some swap available (just in case), 2GB of RAM will allow you to do some browsing with a dozen of tabs open, and have a couple of other lightweight apps running at the same time.
With one thing you are spot on: C++ has a massive feature set. Even Bjarne says that he has trouble mastering the full feature set at any given moment.
But here's the catch: you're not supposed to know it all. C++ is like a large store where you go and "shop" just the features you need. You can keep it super simple and write C-style code and just use classes as the only C++ feature, if you want to.
Then again, modern C++ allows you to also write many things much more elegantly and safely than before.
Interestingly, Visual Studio got C99 library support last year. I'm mentioning this because the C support in VS has mostly been a desert scene with tumbleweeds passing by. I'm not sure how close VS is to full C99 support and what pieces are possibly missing. Does anyone know?
Is bloated and slow and is the main motivator for getting faster computers.
That is not true at all. MS Office is very lightweight software and works snappily even with old netbook hardware (Intel Atom N270). I am not exaggerating.
It is serious bug. It makes big amount of laptops overheat.
The real mystery is the spam combining various pseudo-random words, usually containing the word "BSD" in somewhere, and putting them into a link which points to goat.cx. The topic of the message is usually something like "m0d d03n". That one has been around for many years.
Hahaa. :D
Been there, seen it. Also called the "downvote brigade". When someone posts something against the hive mind, that message gets voted down, but then also every other message by the poster in the thread is meticulously voted down to oblivion!
Also other kinds of malicious downvoting are quite common in Reddit.
Those things being said, I still do find the system of unlimited votes to often be quite fun.
That's true.