You are already looking at outliers, most people simply buy their computers rather than build them.
So in other words... your argument comes down to 'this article is crap because it isn't what most people would do' when what most people would do is simply buy a pre-made already set up pc?
Not to mention how many of those people who run windows actually use it more than just a web browser and email client? of typical end user needs what would not be filled by linux in your opinion? talking specific non-outlier packages that serve needs linux can't do.
But back on the subject of mouse and keyboard though, they are cheap as chips, and people can still use their tv as a display device if they wished.
But it's not the *exact* ratio that makes the Tab look like an iPad. It's the black bezel, rounded rectangle with a metallic border.
Now from an earlier post from you.
Nerds here like to pretend like Apple is claiming the rights to "rectangular tablet". They aren't.
So.. it should be protected because of the use of black/white/metal (probably the three most popular colours in electronics, btw) combined with *gasp* rounding the edges.... troll harder.
At least there are no software patents there. So free software and creative commons thrive without the impetus that is the idea of people owning applied math on a computational device.
I find the whole DLNA thing in general flaky, I have nfs shares that supply media to the various tvs in the house but a few devices (blu-ray players, xbox) that require use of DLNA simply refuse to work. They just don't find the media with no way to specify where it is. Not to mention if you employ any kind of subnetting it kills it also.
there's this thing.. called tcp window size, with more latency you can simply up the window size to a point where the latency doesn't limit speed, mtu while effecting things does not do so in the way you say.
But the continual acceleration that would be required would seriously eat into the delta-v of the ship, for it to function would require some form of constant twisting acceleration on the ship. Without acceleration you'll simply be moving with the ship in the same way it is spinning with everything else.
Without a constant acceleration in spinning, If there is no gravity I kind of fail to see how spinning relative to objects that have little to no effects on the ship would have any useful effect.
Think from the frame of reference of the ship, it is stationary and everything else is spinning around it (without effect on it)... how does that make artificial gravity?
or when running a simulation of the Universe, store all the properties of the Universe in the first few seconds after the big bang.
Something tells me you haven't thought this all the way through. To store _all_ the properties of the universe at a single point in time (yes I know things with time get very hairy and this itself is a simplification) _without_ abstraction you would need something more complex than the entirety of the universe, good luck with that.
I have only built two computers for myself so far, and the first (p4, 3.4GHz) did have Intel's stock cooling.
That would be the p4 prescott line... otherwise known as the hottest cpus intel have made so far. Google 'prescott heat issues' or the like and you will see what I mean.
Pentium 3 era and earlier, not a problem, core2duos onwards, not a problem. Your first system was just bad timing, lol.
Writing this on fedora 15 myself, have none of the things you listed.
Whats that? you used gnome which have been known for their 'lets remove every feature under the sun and turn it into an apple product' for years?
If you were using gnome the gnome 3 disaster was bound to happen, just because of the mentality of the developers. Don't hold it against them though they are just doing what they like. It is usually a good idea to use software whose developers have similar goals to you though, unless you have the power to maintain a fork which most don't.
I like kde (and it has none of the problems you mentioned), but really most power users should be at home with anything that allows them to sort through their windows and has a few widgets on the side for common things.
The dvd releases of your distro of choice usually comes with a bunch of window managers and all the software you're likely to need that you would usually acquire off the net too. So easiest option is to just do that.
It's an artifact of the fact that they operate on a higher layer of abstraction of the problem.
When working at larger scales with many more individual events (think biology as opposed to chemistry) going through and monitoring every single event occurring at the same level of detail as pure physics just can't be done.
So we abstract it away adding error to the results while still typically coming up with hypothesis that are right enough to be useful.
When mobile I do all of my stuff on a eeepc1000H (oldish netbook)
It's running fedora 15 using kde as the main window manager. (and had been for years before this even became an issue)
Typing speed after the first 2-3 minutes (getting used to size change) is identical.
with OSes that don't heave and crap out on one when all you want to do is email, web, write, photos and music.
I do a hell of a lot more than that on my netbook, Although I will say I wouldn't prefer it for heavy photo editing simply because you have so much more screen real estate on a 24 inch desktop. Also for extremely heavy cpu loads (things that would typically max a 16 core machine for a few minutes) I most definitely ssh into a remote machine for it. But a macbook air isn't going to be able to take that kind of load and not be overly pressured either.
Shuttleworth and McCann made UIs for computers that went from being in to obsolescent in two years.
They can do what they like, I'm still running the latest and still just getting work done, with a far more efficient interface than that of an ipad.
Netbooks? Somebody ought to inform Shuttleworth and McCann that Netbooks are dead as a concept, killed by Apple's iPad, which bring us to Tablets and Smartphones.
So ipads can replace $200 or less laptops with a fully functional keyboard and complete software stack?
when you can type as fast on the ipad touch interface as you can on a physical keyboard call me
And no, I will not carry a usb keyboard around with an ipad in order to turn it into a fast, expensive but gimped laptop.
KDE ain't much better, open a file from the network and it will often try to copy it locally first before it can play. Very useful for large movie files I can tell you.
Let me guess, using smb? I've never encountered this, but that is because the programs can't tell the difference between local and network when you are using nfs like a sane person.
You can get on the sex offenders list for pissing on a tree... still think they should serve life for that?
Right because they'll never commit crime again, of course, thats the exact opposite of what every statistic on the planet shows, but hey, in your fantasy world maybe its true.
So.. you want a permanent punishment for anyone who does anything which could land them in jail... why not just kill them in that instance? The whole basis of the system is to attempt to get criminals to wish to never do such things again, what incentive do they have to do that if they are already being permanently punished regardless?
But you didn't, you made an ignorant and irrational statement that everything should be 'Ok' after its done which is just about as naive as it gets.
Permanently punishing people is cruel and unusual punishment. Should that 18 year old guy whose 17 year old girlfriends parents didn't like him shagging her have the rest of his life ruined from the resulting charges?
People need to be able to at least hold on to the idea they can have a normal life at some point, if you won't grant that, it would almost be more humane to kill them instead of permanent torture.
Likely that even though a valued resource can be acquired through illegal acts, it does not really speak anything of the resource, at all.
As a further analogy along those general lines, a robber could kill you in the street and take the cash in your wallet, is this a strike against allowing any hard currency in your opinion?
The fact is, without patents we would have far fewer inventions and technology would advance at a much slower pace.
If software patents were issued in the 70's, we would have practically none of the mainstream computer tech we have today. Every single piece would be too legally encumbered.
There are other incentives for inventing things like being the first to market etc.
And implementations of software are already protected under copyright anyway.
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You are already looking at outliers, most people simply buy their computers rather than build them.
So in other words... your argument comes down to 'this article is crap because it isn't what most people would do' when what most people would do is simply buy a pre-made already set up pc?
Not to mention how many of those people who run windows actually use it more than just a web browser and email client? of typical end user needs what would not be filled by linux in your opinion? talking specific non-outlier packages that serve needs linux can't do.
But back on the subject of mouse and keyboard though, they are cheap as chips, and people can still use their tv as a display device if they wished.
Doesn't that imply you had software for it? Software you might want to use on the new one? In which case going with linux was a bad move...
You are assuming the former computer was running windows, some people have been using linux exclusively for well over a decade.
But it's not the *exact* ratio that makes the Tab look like an iPad. It's the black bezel, rounded rectangle with a metallic border.
Now from an earlier post from you.
Nerds here like to pretend like Apple is claiming the rights to "rectangular tablet". They aren't.
So.. it should be protected because of the use of black/white/metal (probably the three most popular colours in electronics, btw) combined with *gasp* rounding the edges.... troll harder.
You misread what i'm saying, I have both nfs and dlna servers setup, nfs works a charm on all things that support it, dlna does not.
At least there are no software patents there. So free software and creative commons thrive without the impetus that is the idea of people owning applied math on a computational device.
I find the whole DLNA thing in general flaky, I have nfs shares that supply media to the various tvs in the house but a few devices (blu-ray players, xbox) that require use of DLNA simply refuse to work. They just don't find the media with no way to specify where it is. Not to mention if you employ any kind of subnetting it kills it also.
there's this thing.. called tcp window size, with more latency you can simply up the window size to a point where the latency doesn't limit speed, mtu while effecting things does not do so in the way you say.
But the continual acceleration that would be required would seriously eat into the delta-v of the ship, for it to function would require some form of constant twisting acceleration on the ship. Without acceleration you'll simply be moving with the ship in the same way it is spinning with everything else.
at 1920x1080 at 30fps? doubt it. Most voodoo 2 cards don't even have enough video memory for a display buffer that size.
Without a constant acceleration in spinning, If there is no gravity I kind of fail to see how spinning relative to objects that have little to no effects on the ship would have any useful effect.
Think from the frame of reference of the ship, it is stationary and everything else is spinning around it (without effect on it)... how does that make artificial gravity?
or when running a simulation of the Universe, store all the properties of the Universe in the first few seconds after the big bang.
Something tells me you haven't thought this all the way through. To store _all_ the properties of the universe at a single point in time (yes I know things with time get very hairy and this itself is a simplification) _without_ abstraction you would need something more complex than the entirety of the universe, good luck with that.
Or they have replicated each set of data at least 3 times. For redundancy purposes for when the inevitable high about of disks start failing.
(with that many disks, it would not surprise me to have a guy full time employed whose purpose is to simply replace dead hard drives)
I have only built two computers for myself so far, and the first (p4, 3.4GHz) did have Intel's stock cooling.
That would be the p4 prescott line... otherwise known as the hottest cpus intel have made so far. Google 'prescott heat issues' or the like and you will see what I mean.
Pentium 3 era and earlier, not a problem, core2duos onwards, not a problem. Your first system was just bad timing, lol.
If it runs on real hardware it should run on your VM, if it doesn't the problem is with your VM, not fedora. simple
While fedora does tend to be bleeding edge, there is a fair bit of difference between that and _alpha_.
Very good for developer systems, been using it since before ubuntu even existed.
Writing this on fedora 15 myself, have none of the things you listed.
Whats that? you used gnome which have been known for their 'lets remove every feature under the sun and turn it into an apple product' for years?
If you were using gnome the gnome 3 disaster was bound to happen, just because of the mentality of the developers. Don't hold it against them though they are just doing what they like. It is usually a good idea to use software whose developers have similar goals to you though, unless you have the power to maintain a fork which most don't.
I like kde (and it has none of the problems you mentioned), but really most power users should be at home with anything that allows them to sort through their windows and has a few widgets on the side for common things.
The dvd releases of your distro of choice usually comes with a bunch of window managers and all the software you're likely to need that you would usually acquire off the net too. So easiest option is to just do that.
It's an artifact of the fact that they operate on a higher layer of abstraction of the problem.
When working at larger scales with many more individual events (think biology as opposed to chemistry) going through and monitoring every single event occurring at the same level of detail as pure physics just can't be done.
So we abstract it away adding error to the results while still typically coming up with hypothesis that are right enough to be useful.
When mobile I do all of my stuff on a eeepc1000H (oldish netbook)
It's running fedora 15 using kde as the main window manager. (and had been for years before this even became an issue)
Typing speed after the first 2-3 minutes (getting used to size change) is identical.
with OSes that don't heave and crap out on one when all you want to do is email, web, write, photos and music.
I do a hell of a lot more than that on my netbook, Although I will say I wouldn't prefer it for heavy photo editing simply because you have so much more screen real estate on a 24 inch desktop. Also for extremely heavy cpu loads (things that would typically max a 16 core machine for a few minutes) I most definitely ssh into a remote machine for it. But a macbook air isn't going to be able to take that kind of load and not be overly pressured either.
Shuttleworth and McCann made UIs for computers that went from being in to obsolescent in two years.
They can do what they like, I'm still running the latest and still just getting work done, with a far more efficient interface than that of an ipad.
So again why are netbooks 'dead'?
Netbooks? Somebody ought to inform Shuttleworth and McCann that Netbooks are dead as a concept, killed by Apple's iPad, which bring us to Tablets and Smartphones.
So ipads can replace $200 or less laptops with a fully functional keyboard and complete software stack?
when you can type as fast on the ipad touch interface as you can on a physical keyboard call me
And no, I will not carry a usb keyboard around with an ipad in order to turn it into a fast, expensive but gimped laptop.
KDE ain't much better, open a file from the network and it will often try to copy it locally first before it can play. Very useful for large movie files I can tell you.
Let me guess, using smb? I've never encountered this, but that is because the programs can't tell the difference between local and network when you are using nfs like a sane person.
oh yeah try installing anything on linux without Root access or changing anything.
so install it in your home directory? I fail to see how lack of system-wide installation stops you running programs from you home directory
I don't know if it's easy to set processor affinity in Linux,
the "taskset" command allows you to do it very easily.
You can get on the sex offenders list for pissing on a tree... still think they should serve life for that?
Right because they'll never commit crime again, of course, thats the exact opposite of what every statistic on the planet shows, but hey, in your fantasy world maybe its true.
So.. you want a permanent punishment for anyone who does anything which could land them in jail... why not just kill them in that instance? The whole basis of the system is to attempt to get criminals to wish to never do such things again, what incentive do they have to do that if they are already being permanently punished regardless?
But you didn't, you made an ignorant and irrational statement that everything should be 'Ok' after its done which is just about as naive as it gets.
Permanently punishing people is cruel and unusual punishment. Should that 18 year old guy whose 17 year old girlfriends parents didn't like him shagging her have the rest of his life ruined from the resulting charges?
People need to be able to at least hold on to the idea they can have a normal life at some point, if you won't grant that, it would almost be more humane to kill them instead of permanent torture.
Likely that even though a valued resource can be acquired through illegal acts, it does not really speak anything of the resource, at all.
As a further analogy along those general lines, a robber could kill you in the street and take the cash in your wallet, is this a strike against allowing any hard currency in your opinion?
The fact is, without patents we would have far fewer inventions and technology would advance at a much slower pace.
If software patents were issued in the 70's, we would have practically none of the mainstream computer tech we have today. Every single piece would be too legally encumbered.
There are other incentives for inventing things like being the first to market etc.
And implementations of software are already protected under copyright anyway.