What a waste of fuel through the years. If normal size engines with decent fuel mileage were used, we'd have much bigger oil reserves today.
SUVs and trucks with such engines are not necessary to get to work or drive hundreds of miles on interstate or to drive to Walmart and get groceries. That's where I see them.
Abvoiusly both parties (AMD, intel) knew that 'bigger' lawsuit is coming, so they quickly settled for 1.25Bil. Many were surprised why AMD settled for such 'low' amount. After all settlements are done, intel will still have the market share... and much less cash.
'Influential' people (loud online and offline how Vista sucked) and enthusiasts (basically same as first group) were given discounted versions of Windows 7 (win 7 parties, pre-release discounts, school discounts, etc.)
And they all took the bait, told the world how Win 7 is great... and guess what? You can't buy discounted version, you have to shell out $120 for cheapest upgrade. The student version offer is about to end as well, and family upgrade option 3-for-150 has been discontinued.
Sadly, it works, now everybody wants or considers Windows 7.
PCI bus (133MB/s) is more limited than SATA (300- 600MB/s) which lies directly on southbridge controller. Even PCI express would have hard time beating on-board SATA controller
... and Windows is platform where most OSS/FS is actually being used.
GNOME is objectively in the eyes of users not as good as Windows. Windows has set bar very high (in a sense of difficulty to capture the market) where honestly any free low budget effort has no chance to fight.
As long as most of OSS stuff is available on Windows, people will keep taking best of both worlds, and there's no space for GNOME or KDE.
(For these quick on troll points, don't be troll if your opinion differs)
now trojans and spyware can scan outlook data for private information with ease... but yeah openness also means issues with format will be public and fixable.
That Dell PCs and laptops bought in last 3-4 yrs should run Windows 7 so well that people don't need upgraded hardware - all they do need is better support from Dell for the existing hardware.
From my personal experience, if you want to have efficiency:
1. You will need as much screen estate as possible. Coding against spec? Against existing code? Against requirements? Writing tests against code? In all these cases you would want to have at least 2 windows open in parallel Thus resolutions such as 1680x1050 or 1920x1080 are desirable. Don't go for 1280x800 unless portability is #1 goal.
2. Compiling... Compiling... Investing in faster CPU will pay off in both short and long term. You won't be able to change CPU - almost not feasible.
3. Hard drive Today's development requires a lot of tools open at same time, and often projects are huge with lots of small files. Therefore, I recommend going for 7200rpm drive which will help you feel like you are using desktop (speed-wise)
4. Other stuff Most laptops today come with lots of RAM, and decent graphics.
Giving this software free to pirates is almost a promotion of piracy - if you get same stuff when you pirate, then there is no downside to do it. ll Also, few pirates might feel bad about the fact that their copy is not 'genuine'. And some owners of valid copies might feel satisfied knowing that people who got free ride didn't get the whole package.
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Read the Holy Bible.
Much cheaper way to hide weight than liposuction/gastric bypass and available in Walmart..
I think you need to work 'little' more to understand why it is actually the other way around. And to get it why Java is more successful than C#.
What a waste of fuel through the years. If normal size engines with decent fuel mileage were used, we'd have much bigger oil reserves today. SUVs and trucks with such engines are not necessary to get to work or drive hundreds of miles on interstate or to drive to Walmart and get groceries. That's where I see them.
Abvoiusly both parties (AMD, intel) knew that 'bigger' lawsuit is coming, so they quickly settled for 1.25Bil. Many were surprised why AMD settled for such 'low' amount. After all settlements are done, intel will still have the market share... and much less cash.
With Windows 7 release.
'Influential' people (loud online and offline how Vista sucked) and enthusiasts (basically same as first group) were given discounted versions of Windows 7 (win 7 parties, pre-release discounts, school discounts, etc.)
And they all took the bait, told the world how Win 7 is great... and guess what? You can't buy discounted version, you have to shell out $120 for cheapest upgrade. The student version offer is about to end as well, and family upgrade option 3-for-150 has been discontinued.
Sadly, it works, now everybody wants or considers Windows 7.
PDF reader comes on default with (an)droid, and it is up to Adobe to come with Flash solution. After all, nobody can develop Flash VM but Adobe.
As for google maps, you really didn't elaborate what is the issue with them on android platform.
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PCI bus (133MB/s) is more limited than SATA (300- 600MB/s) which lies directly on southbridge controller. Even PCI express would have hard time beating on-board SATA controller
... and Windows is platform where most OSS/FS is actually being used.
GNOME is objectively in the eyes of users not as good as Windows. Windows has set bar very high (in a sense of difficulty to capture the market) where honestly any free low budget effort has no chance to fight.
As long as most of OSS stuff is available on Windows, people will keep taking best of both worlds, and there's no space for GNOME or KDE.
(For these quick on troll points, don't be troll if your opinion differs)
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Personally, I build my own and install vanilla Windows, but sh** has hit the fan long time ago.
This plus anti virus software resource hogs makes windows experience horrible on a brand new computer.
Not a single manufacturer offers option "windows and drivers only".
In other words, you need 4 core CPU and 2GB of RAM to open internet explorer.
now trojans and spyware can scan outlook data for private information with ease... but yeah openness also means issues with format will be public and fixable.
That Dell PCs and laptops bought in last 3-4 yrs should run Windows 7 so well that people don't need upgraded hardware - all they do need is better support from Dell for the existing hardware.
such a lame word.. what should they do to not be 'anti-competitive' ? deny customers? increase prices 100%? share profits with competitors?
is there a fix for popular '12345' Windows Live passwords ?
they were specially screwed with that one.
watch The Shawshank Redemption
From my personal experience, if you want to have efficiency:
1. You will need as much screen estate as possible. Coding against spec? Against existing code? Against requirements? Writing tests against code? In all these cases you would want to have at least 2 windows open in parallel
Thus resolutions such as 1680x1050 or 1920x1080 are desirable. Don't go for 1280x800 unless portability is #1 goal.
2. Compiling ... Compiling ...
Investing in faster CPU will pay off in both short and long term. You won't be able to change CPU - almost not feasible.
3. Hard drive
Today's development requires a lot of tools open at same time, and often projects are huge with lots of small files.
Therefore, I recommend going for 7200rpm drive which will help you feel like you are using desktop (speed-wise)
4. Other stuff
Most laptops today come with lots of RAM, and decent graphics.
run on iPhone?
Nope, it does not without unlocking the phone from Apple to you.
... and less than 450,000 people have it?
Giving this software free to pirates is almost a promotion of piracy - if you get same stuff when you pirate, then there is no downside to do it.
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Also, few pirates might feel bad about the fact that their copy is not 'genuine'. And some owners of valid copies might feel satisfied knowing that people who got free ride didn't get the whole package.
Shall we all go back to stone age? No piracy there.
Religion, dictators, kings, and rest have tried for centuries to limit freedom, and they all eventually failed. RIAA/MPAA should get the idea already.
a. you can't post
b. if you do manage to post, post goes to wrong topic!
USA can't afford space program anymore; but China and few others can. Welcome to 21st century, USA is not being number one in anything.