That was kinda my point... I don't consider Pentium II to be older hardware unless you qualify it with "older than..." It's older like I'm older than my sister, it's older like my mother is older than me, but it's not older like Hugh Heffner is... (he's the oldest person that's still alive that I could think of without doing research, not that I know how old he is... he just looks old... but that's besides the point)
486 is pretty old, but it's still pretty darn useful, 386 is getting to the point of uselesness, but not quite there. I'd be interested in someone getting Linux to run on older hardware, which is what I thought this article would be talking about. But Pentiums? Pentium IIs? nah.
I've had Linux running rather well (with X, though not KDE or Gnome) on a 486, and had I had a 386 to try it out on I'd have done that too...
Pentium II is old hardware? I was expecting an article on how it'd run on a 286, Mac 512k, LISA, etc. Or at most a 386. Pentium II is a full two generations beyond the 386 which is the minimum Linux will run on out of the proverbial box (tarball?).
It'll run rather well on a 386, as long as all you want to do is use it as a local fileserver or router or something... I suppose if you got your hands on a hardware mpeg encoder/decoder you could use it as a DVR...
Perhaps what the article meant by "Linux" is Linux with X and a window manager? I mean, really, Pentium IIs can decode DVDs (as long as you're not doing anything else).
Of course I'm "still" using a 1.something GHz Athalon and it's way more than enough for me... Though it would be nice to have a faster processor, perhaps a duel core so that I could encode and decode video in real time at the same time... I probably still wouldn't do it but it'd be nice to have...
They still haven't hit the two that I get most of my stuff from (actually all of that's TV shows, so technically out of the MPAA's jurastiction, not that that's stopped them before...)
Personally I think that going after distribution sites is pretty futile, someone else will just pop up. They really just need to get the people who rip and encode everything... of course, someone else will still just pop up... I suppose the only way they're going to stop people from creating/distributing/downloading their property is to stop releasing it to the public... of course that kinda defeats the whole purpose of a movie...
Perhaps they should just make horrible movies that nobody wants to see... oh... wait, I think they've already implemented that plan, it seems to have backfired, no matter how bad the movies are people still go see them... even after jacking the price upto $10/ticket...
Now that I think of it, you're probably right. I think the main reason why there aren't many Christian terrorists is because they're in control of some of the most powerful countries in the world... if, say, India had somehow become a superpower instead of the US and were doing the same kind of imperialistic actions the US has been, then perhaps we'd see more Christian terrorists... That's assuming they wanted something out of our country enough to invade, not that I can imagine what they might find of interest around here... Corner stores?
On the whole, Christians don't threaten death to company executives or members of the press if they disagree with their opinions.
On the whole, Muslems don't either. It's that vocal (and active) few who give the rest of them a bad name. Are you telling me that there hasn't ever been Christian/Jewish/Hindi/etc. terrorists?
I will say that it seems that the Muslem terrorists tend to get more press and more emphasis on their religion than others do. But seeing as how I'm too lazy to actually research anything, nor will I accept that what the news media tells me is all that's going on, I won't say more.
No, I think that perhaps it was just a technology that Google hadn't yet developed and it was just easier this way. Analitics seems to focus on company websites, this will be specifically for blogs... Tracking commentors and such
Well, yes, I suppose you could write a program to except multiple inputs, but then that would kind of defeat the purpose. It'd brobably be better to write them to accept the inputs...
Hmm, can internet addicts take a 5-10 minute internet break? Actually, it seems to be exactly the opposite, not only is there no break, but many times the internet is either nonexistant or, at best, severely restricted...
Well I suppose it depends on what you mean by "noticably".
Would it look bigger or smaller? probably not.
It would also depend on in which direction you were trying to accellerate it... If you tried to accellerate it perpendicular to it's orbit I would think there'd be less effect than if you did it paralell (either increasing the speed or decreasing the speed).
Hey... if we decreased it's speed you think it might slow the earth down and give us a couple extra hours in the day? Yeah, probably not...
so, people have already told you about the airplanes. I see another problem: your 'MPS'. GPS requres a large network of satelites, you could get by with three satelites but that's still two more craft that they'd have to send over there...
I believe most of Norway is already IN the arctic... so the answer would probably be "walk".
Unless someone, somewhere misinterpereted something and meant antarctic... in which case we'd just have to get on a plane (perhaps there's no food, doesn't mean there's no jet fuel...)
I really don't get how people can mod the first post redundant... I guess it's the obvious sign that the/. modpoint method doesn't really work too well... (Hey, we all know the most efficient and logical government, while not the most fair, is tyrany... tyrranny... Ok... yeah, I can't spell, at least I know what redundant means...)
"Alright, I won't toss this chair at you, I was just faking you out. No, really, I don't throw chairs, it's just a roumor. You can come out from behind that wet bar, seriously, I'm not going to hurt you..." *crash* "Ha! Gotcha!"
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That was kinda my point... I don't consider Pentium II to be older hardware unless you qualify it with "older than..." It's older like I'm older than my sister, it's older like my mother is older than me, but it's not older like Hugh Heffner is... (he's the oldest person that's still alive that I could think of without doing research, not that I know how old he is... he just looks old... but that's besides the point)
486 is pretty old, but it's still pretty darn useful, 386 is getting to the point of uselesness, but not quite there. I'd be interested in someone getting Linux to run on older hardware, which is what I thought this article would be talking about. But Pentiums? Pentium IIs? nah.
I've had Linux running rather well (with X, though not KDE or Gnome) on a 486, and had I had a 386 to try it out on I'd have done that too...
Pentium II is old hardware? I was expecting an article on how it'd run on a 286, Mac 512k, LISA, etc. Or at most a 386. Pentium II is a full two generations beyond the 386 which is the minimum Linux will run on out of the proverbial box (tarball?).
It'll run rather well on a 386, as long as all you want to do is use it as a local fileserver or router or something... I suppose if you got your hands on a hardware mpeg encoder/decoder you could use it as a DVR...
Perhaps what the article meant by "Linux" is Linux with X and a window manager? I mean, really, Pentium IIs can decode DVDs (as long as you're not doing anything else).
Of course I'm "still" using a 1.something GHz Athalon and it's way more than enough for me... Though it would be nice to have a faster processor, perhaps a duel core so that I could encode and decode video in real time at the same time... I probably still wouldn't do it but it'd be nice to have...
I thought the pricipal was your pal...
They still haven't hit the two that I get most of my stuff from (actually all of that's TV shows, so technically out of the MPAA's jurastiction, not that that's stopped them before...)
Personally I think that going after distribution sites is pretty futile, someone else will just pop up. They really just need to get the people who rip and encode everything... of course, someone else will still just pop up... I suppose the only way they're going to stop people from creating/distributing/downloading their property is to stop releasing it to the public... of course that kinda defeats the whole purpose of a movie...
Perhaps they should just make horrible movies that nobody wants to see... oh... wait, I think they've already implemented that plan, it seems to have backfired, no matter how bad the movies are people still go see them... even after jacking the price upto $10/ticket...
Is there nothing we can do?!
Now that I think of it, you're probably right. I think the main reason why there aren't many Christian terrorists is because they're in control of some of the most powerful countries in the world... if, say, India had somehow become a superpower instead of the US and were doing the same kind of imperialistic actions the US has been, then perhaps we'd see more Christian terrorists... That's assuming they wanted something out of our country enough to invade, not that I can imagine what they might find of interest around here... Corner stores?
On the whole, Muslems don't either. It's that vocal (and active) few who give the rest of them a bad name. Are you telling me that there hasn't ever been Christian/Jewish/Hindi/etc. terrorists?
I will say that it seems that the Muslem terrorists tend to get more press and more emphasis on their religion than others do. But seeing as how I'm too lazy to actually research anything, nor will I accept that what the news media tells me is all that's going on, I won't say more.
No, I think that perhaps it was just a technology that Google hadn't yet developed and it was just easier this way. Analitics seems to focus on company websites, this will be specifically for blogs... Tracking commentors and such
Well, yes, I suppose you could write a program to except multiple inputs, but then that would kind of defeat the purpose. It'd brobably be better to write them to accept the inputs...
It only says you need it implanted to ENTER, but if you live in there you're fine...
Informative? it's not even very funny... informative?
Hmm, can internet addicts take a 5-10 minute internet break? Actually, it seems to be exactly the opposite, not only is there no break, but many times the internet is either nonexistant or, at best, severely restricted...
SQL isn't a programming language... it's a query language... a structured query language, if you will...
Well I suppose it depends on what you mean by "noticably".
Would it look bigger or smaller? probably not.
It would also depend on in which direction you were trying to accellerate it... If you tried to accellerate it perpendicular to it's orbit I would think there'd be less effect than if you did it paralell (either increasing the speed or decreasing the speed).
Hey... if we decreased it's speed you think it might slow the earth down and give us a couple extra hours in the day? Yeah, probably not...
It might if you focus them somehow...
so, people have already told you about the airplanes. I see another problem: your 'MPS'. GPS requres a large network of satelites, you could get by with three satelites but that's still two more craft that they'd have to send over there...
There's pressure controlls on those things? wow, I just thought they were temperature settings for the seat warmer...
Yes, well, I can see how that's a convincing argument as well...
Extremely insightful, as is the one below this one.
I believe most of Norway is already IN the arctic... so the answer would probably be "walk".
Unless someone, somewhere misinterpereted something and meant antarctic... in which case we'd just have to get on a plane (perhaps there's no food, doesn't mean there's no jet fuel...)
I really don't get how people can mod the first post redundant... I guess it's the obvious sign that the /. modpoint method doesn't really work too well... (Hey, we all know the most efficient and logical government, while not the most fair, is tyrany... tyrranny... Ok... yeah, I can't spell, at least I know what redundant means...)
So make one...
"Alright, I won't toss this chair at you, I was just faking you out. No, really, I don't throw chairs, it's just a roumor. You can come out from behind that wet bar, seriously, I'm not going to hurt you..." *crash* "Ha! Gotcha!"
If you mean that it's superior in every aspect but didn't get enough hype and eventually phased out? Then no, it got plenty of hype...
Right, but if everyone were bloggers than only the bloggers would be outlaws... er... important...
A stick, jammed into the controlls...
Or perhaps nothing, if you just let go of the controls most planes would just fly straight... unless there was any kind of cross wind...