It would have a lower resolution, worse picture quality, need lots of room (or the picture will be too small), not to mention that you'll have to switch the lights off.
I'm good at computers (used Linux for nearly a year WITHOUT any Windows installed, that's right, no double-boot or VMWare). After using Linux for a year or so, I've returned to Windows. The answer is compability. I take a CD, insert it and install the software. With Linux, every distro has its own package manager which is incompatible with others. Even distros that use the same package manager can be incompatible, like RPM Fedora/SuSE. However I have to admit that Linux is much more stable and customizable. And it's also cheaper.
A government that is opressive (but not too much) can actually be for the good. Take the 1917 Revolution - lots of illegal organisations existed, one of them got to power and the government sent millions of people to jail in the 1930s. A government should make sure no extremist, stupid or insane group gets to control the whole country/
I've seen a Genius mouse that flashes a LED and plays a tune when you get new mail. I also remember Force Feedback Logitech mice, some people said it was kind of cool to feel all the interface. My current A4Tech mouse uses TWO USB ports (one for the wireless transmitter, one for charging). I like to charge batteries for my Palm M105 in it, because the mouse generates quite a lot of heat. Great when there's +15C in the room.
I recharge my mouse's batteries every 2-3 days. It's an optical wireless A4Tech creation. It's also fun when this mouse generates HEAT while charging. I even think it's a feature, keeping you hand warm if central heating fails.
Dell pays a Microsoft Tax for every PC they sell, even on those that don't have Windows installed, this gives them a smaller price for each copy of Windows. It's called something like "per-machine-sold pricing".
Java will be needed for menus, titles, etc. - everything needed for watching movies. Microsoft may simply not ship this stuff, and rely on third-party offers (e.g. Windows XP/Media Player cannot play DVDs out-of-the box, but only after installing a third-party decoder).
If it is spyware, it's a useful one. Kinda like using a keylogger on your own machine to avoid losing that 10 Kb unsaved Word document. Search history is great - I can see what I was searching for a month ago and vaguely remember what I was doing that day, what I was thinking about etc.
Back in 1980s my dad was working as an engineer, and he did his job on a 386SX with Autocad installed. Well, one day he wrote some macro for Autocad in Lisp (something really simple and dumb) and then printed the sourcecode. He then hid the printout in his jeans pocket and the printed sourcecode was confiscated at the site exit. He also had LOTS of trouble afterwards. For what? Some simple 10-liner script printout.
It's obvious that 1 core processes zeros and ones, while in a two-core system one core processes zeros and the other works with ones. Using the probability theory you can prove that there are about equal quantities of both zeros and ones in any set of data, and because of that the cores are about equally loaded Now for the tricky part: in a three-core system core A works with zeros, core B works with ones and core C works with either zeros or ones. Obviously, this causes uncertainty and instability. (DISCLAIMER: I'm not being serious).
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> I don't want other people knowing that my most listened to album is Tom Dooley and Other Hits by The Kingston Trio.
Now every slashdotter knows. Congratulations!
Mod parent up Insightful.
Which if further, Leap Ahead or Leap Beyond?
I'm so confused!
It's saying that it has DVI. Or VGA. Or a backlight. Or (my favorite) a power cable.
It would have a lower resolution, worse picture quality, need lots of room (or the picture will be too small), not to mention that you'll have to switch the lights off.
I'm good at computers (used Linux for nearly a year WITHOUT any Windows installed, that's right, no double-boot or VMWare).
After using Linux for a year or so, I've returned to Windows.
The answer is compability. I take a CD, insert it and install the software. With Linux, every distro has its own package manager which is incompatible with others. Even distros that use the same package manager can be incompatible, like RPM Fedora/SuSE.
However I have to admit that Linux is much more stable and customizable. And it's also cheaper.
Hehehe...
Sorry I've used all my mod points today, otherwise I'd definetly mod this funny.
A government that is opressive (but not too much) can actually be for the good.
Take the 1917 Revolution - lots of illegal organisations existed, one of them got to power and the government sent millions of people to jail in the 1930s.
A government should make sure no extremist, stupid or insane group gets to control the whole country/
I've seen a Genius mouse that flashes a LED and plays a tune when you get new mail.
I also remember Force Feedback Logitech mice, some people said it was kind of cool to feel all the interface.
My current A4Tech mouse uses TWO USB ports (one for the wireless transmitter, one for charging). I like to charge batteries for my Palm M105 in it, because the mouse generates quite a lot of heat. Great when there's +15C in the room.
I recharge my mouse's batteries every 2-3 days.
It's an optical wireless A4Tech creation.
It's also fun when this mouse generates HEAT while charging. I even think it's a feature, keeping you hand warm if central heating fails.
We're in war with Oceania. We never were in war with Eurasia. ...wait 2 months...
We're in war with Eurasia. We never were in war with Oceania.
You forgot "Idiot outside".
Dell pays a Microsoft Tax for every PC they sell, even on those that don't have Windows installed, this gives them a smaller price for each copy of Windows. It's called something like "per-machine-sold pricing".
I thought it was MSN BC (MSN Broadcasting Corporation or simply MSN Bullshit Channel).
It's not Mozilla foundation, it's Mozilla Corporation.
Sounds evil to me.
Apple vs Mac vs *NIX/Linux
Sure, Apple hates Mac just like Microsoft would love to fucking kill MSN!
You are not the first - http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=171719 &cid=14299846
Java will be needed for menus, titles, etc. - everything needed for watching movies. Microsoft may simply not ship this stuff, and rely on third-party offers (e.g. Windows XP/Media Player cannot play DVDs out-of-the box, but only after installing a third-party decoder).
If it is spyware, it's a useful one. Kinda like using a keylogger on your own machine to avoid losing that 10 Kb unsaved Word document.
Search history is great - I can see what I was searching for a month ago and vaguely remember what I was doing that day, what I was thinking about etc.
20000000000000000000000 - Emacs answers the question of life, the Universe and everything: 42.
Two eyes, actually, as they come in pairs =)
Only on Slashdot a Fuck You post gets modded 5, Insightful.
Only if you put the stress incorrectly :-)
Back in 1980s my dad was working as an engineer, and he did his job on a 386SX with Autocad installed.
Well, one day he wrote some macro for Autocad in Lisp (something really simple and dumb) and then printed the sourcecode. He then hid the printout in his jeans pocket and the printed sourcecode was confiscated at the site exit. He also had LOTS of trouble afterwards. For what? Some simple 10-liner script printout.
It's obvious that 1 core processes zeros and ones, while in a two-core system one core processes zeros and the other works with ones.
Using the probability theory you can prove that there are about equal quantities of both zeros and ones in any set of data, and because of that the cores are about equally loaded
Now for the tricky part: in a three-core system core A works with zeros, core B works with ones and core C works with either zeros or ones. Obviously, this causes uncertainty and instability.
(DISCLAIMER: I'm not being serious).