Well, I don't know whether Quake is that much of a benchmark. I can run Quake on my Nintendo DS through homebrew, and it was ported by one guy on his own, although I think he is a professional game developer for XBox 360, but I may be confusing him with someone else or may have misconstrued a forum post by him. Here's the site for anyone interested: http://quake.drunkencoders.com/
I agree completely, I think the future of e-books should be that they come along with the physical versions, and likewise for other media (music, movies should come with digital versions for PMPs). Format-shifting just makes sense, and physical and digital both have their advantages so it makes sense to combine them.
I think you're at least partly correct, but there are certain AMD processors which are as fast as an equivalently priced Intel, although I wouldn't put my money on any being faster. Also one thing you forget is that AMD motherboards tend to be cheaper, which knocks a bit off the overall price. Of course, I don't have any numbers to back myself up with so I might be completely wrong, but this was the situation a year ago when I built my desktop, although I will admit that I was going to buy AMD anyway and was just happy when I found that the motherboards were cheaper.
Except you're wrong - Vista was actually both a revamp of the kernel and core functionality and focus on eye candy. Between those two they kind of forgot about usability, which seems to be what Windows 7 is fixing. I don't have many problems with Vista itself, except for the clusterfuck that is the control panel and various settings applets. Network settings are needlessly complicated and it takes 4 clicks to get to connection settings that were available in 2 clicks in XP. Other than that, Vista is nicer than XP in my opinion.
I'm skeptical of your skepticalness, since in my experience Linux has issues with wifi drivers and ACPI, which are both fairly major issues for a laptop. On the other hand, Ubuntu is probably easier to install than Windows since you basically just choose the drive to install to and the partitioning scheme and it dumps everything onto the drive, but it's still easier to find drivers for Windows than Linux, even if that's the manufacturer's fault and not the open source community's.
I agree that Linux supports more devices, but I think the quality of that support isn't always great. The main problem is that the areas where Linux has most trouble are newer devices without much manufacturer support (either binary blob drivers or no driver support at all) such as graphics cards and wifi adapters. ndiswrapper works, but it's a pain. These areas are also what a consumer is more likely to notice first, which is a problem.
Really? I've got an HP tx2000z with 3GB RAM that has issues with the eye candy in KDE4.1. Might be the crappy integrated GPU, but then I doubt your thinkpad has a much better one. I'll blame the drivers I guess.
Well, from what I can tell you can install programs from sources other than Google's repositories, which I don't think you can do on a Tivo;). I don't understand what the point of a "jailbreak" is, or where the term came from really, unless it refers to running unsigned native code. I wasn't aware of the crypto-signing requirement, but I do know that in the Windows Mobile community a lot of people put hacked versions of the OS on their phones/PDAs, so I would guess something similar is possible with the G1.
I read your comment. Can I have my 30 seconds back please?
Summary of comment:
girlintraining: Generic rant about genericness of article
me: lol
On a more serious note, I hate it when they do that. Google is awesome with the things that they do but they can be so hopelessly vague. And while I like that Android/the G1 are more open than most cellphone platforms, it's really not much different from other smartphone platforms like Windows Mobile, with the exception that you can't run native programs on Android (yet). I'm not entirely sure whether their Dalvik VM is optimized enough for this to not matter, and I am most proficient in Java, but it would be nicer to have more options for development on Android.
Interesting, although their phones all suck. I suppose it would work if I got a smartphone from ebay or craigslist. To be honest I'm not paying my cellphone bill since it's a family plan so I really don't care too much. I think what I really want is the G1 on Verizon.
I just wanted to chip in with my 2c. Before Google, Yahoo was definitely the best search engine and free email provider. They still have a lot of cool things, like Yahoo games (good for playing bridge with friends). Also, Yahoo Pipes is amazing, and I wish I used it more.
... I'm far from someone who could confirm this as a bug. I was just trying to say that this isn't the same as having a system menu/field test thing on most phones where you have to go to the menu and press a strange set of keys to get in. This is always running and can do a lot more damage than the field test menu can.
Ah, cool thanks. My class account uses tcsh, but my named account uses csh which is really annoying. Thanks a lot for that, I only used update the first time to change my password so I never really checked it again. I just use emacs for cs61a stuff mostly.
I think the main problem is that they don't know it's doing that, so they might be making a snarky comment on slashdot telling some noob to type rm -rf / and then
I like your fiscal planning. I wish there was a decent prepaid carrier with good network. Verizon's "prepaid" essentially costs the same as their regular service and you don't even get minutes, just pay $1 every day you use it for in calling and I think more on top of that for calling other people. T-Mobile might be an option, I'd love to get a G1 but I'm not sure whether they let you get a prepaid account with that.
Nah, this was definitely a bug. A root terminal always capturing input? Definitely debugging code left behind. That would be so easy to exploit it's ridiculous.
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The xfire IM client does essentially that. It's older than Steam Community and it works with a ton of games.
Umm, it's not like they store that. Seriously, do you not use search engines at all or something?
Well, I don't know whether Quake is that much of a benchmark. I can run Quake on my Nintendo DS through homebrew, and it was ported by one guy on his own, although I think he is a professional game developer for XBox 360, but I may be confusing him with someone else or may have misconstrued a forum post by him. Here's the site for anyone interested: http://quake.drunkencoders.com/
It's possible that one of his sockpuppets got mod points and modded you troll, because I don't see any trolling in your post.
I agree completely, I think the future of e-books should be that they come along with the physical versions, and likewise for other media (music, movies should come with digital versions for PMPs). Format-shifting just makes sense, and physical and digital both have their advantages so it makes sense to combine them.
Different time and circumstances though. The PC market is vastly different now than it was then.
I think you're at least partly correct, but there are certain AMD processors which are as fast as an equivalently priced Intel, although I wouldn't put my money on any being faster. Also one thing you forget is that AMD motherboards tend to be cheaper, which knocks a bit off the overall price. Of course, I don't have any numbers to back myself up with so I might be completely wrong, but this was the situation a year ago when I built my desktop, although I will admit that I was going to buy AMD anyway and was just happy when I found that the motherboards were cheaper.
Well, an end user isn't likely to ever install an OS themselves, so that's kind of a moot point. But I agree with most of your post.
Are you mentally impaired, blind, or can't be bothered to click links? In any case, here's the link to the actual article, even though you don't deserve it. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2302495,00.asp
Except you're wrong - Vista was actually both a revamp of the kernel and core functionality and focus on eye candy. Between those two they kind of forgot about usability, which seems to be what Windows 7 is fixing. I don't have many problems with Vista itself, except for the clusterfuck that is the control panel and various settings applets. Network settings are needlessly complicated and it takes 4 clicks to get to connection settings that were available in 2 clicks in XP. Other than that, Vista is nicer than XP in my opinion.
I'm skeptical of your skepticalness, since in my experience Linux has issues with wifi drivers and ACPI, which are both fairly major issues for a laptop. On the other hand, Ubuntu is probably easier to install than Windows since you basically just choose the drive to install to and the partitioning scheme and it dumps everything onto the drive, but it's still easier to find drivers for Windows than Linux, even if that's the manufacturer's fault and not the open source community's.
I agree that Linux supports more devices, but I think the quality of that support isn't always great. The main problem is that the areas where Linux has most trouble are newer devices without much manufacturer support (either binary blob drivers or no driver support at all) such as graphics cards and wifi adapters. ndiswrapper works, but it's a pain. These areas are also what a consumer is more likely to notice first, which is a problem.
Really? I've got an HP tx2000z with 3GB RAM that has issues with the eye candy in KDE4.1. Might be the crappy integrated GPU, but then I doubt your thinkpad has a much better one. I'll blame the drivers I guess.
Ah, don't have Hilfinger unfortunately, and I'm taking CS61C next semester. Does it have something to do with aliases?
Well, from what I can tell you can install programs from sources other than Google's repositories, which I don't think you can do on a Tivo ;). I don't understand what the point of a "jailbreak" is, or where the term came from really, unless it refers to running unsigned native code. I wasn't aware of the crypto-signing requirement, but I do know that in the Windows Mobile community a lot of people put hacked versions of the OS on their phones/PDAs, so I would guess something similar is possible with the G1.
I read your comment. Can I have my 30 seconds back please?
Summary of comment:
girlintraining: Generic rant about genericness of article
me: lol
On a more serious note, I hate it when they do that. Google is awesome with the things that they do but they can be so hopelessly vague. And while I like that Android/the G1 are more open than most cellphone platforms, it's really not much different from other smartphone platforms like Windows Mobile, with the exception that you can't run native programs on Android (yet). I'm not entirely sure whether their Dalvik VM is optimized enough for this to not matter, and I am most proficient in Java, but it would be nicer to have more options for development on Android.
Oh, someone else who goes to Berkeley showed me how to do it, I don't think students get root access lol.
Interesting, although their phones all suck. I suppose it would work if I got a smartphone from ebay or craigslist. To be honest I'm not paying my cellphone bill since it's a family plan so I really don't care too much. I think what I really want is the G1 on Verizon.
I just wanted to chip in with my 2c. Before Google, Yahoo was definitely the best search engine and free email provider. They still have a lot of cool things, like Yahoo games (good for playing bridge with friends). Also, Yahoo Pipes is amazing, and I wish I used it more.
... I'm far from someone who could confirm this as a bug. I was just trying to say that this isn't the same as having a system menu/field test thing on most phones where you have to go to the menu and press a strange set of keys to get in. This is always running and can do a lot more damage than the field test menu can.
Ah, cool thanks. My class account uses tcsh, but my named account uses csh which is really annoying. Thanks a lot for that, I only used update the first time to change my password so I never really checked it again. I just use emacs for cs61a stuff mostly.
It's still not that likely to happen accidentally, but it's a huge gaping security hole. This kind of thing should really be tested more.
I think the main problem is that they don't know it's doing that, so they might be making a snarky comment on slashdot telling some noob to type rm -rf / and then
I like your fiscal planning. I wish there was a decent prepaid carrier with good network. Verizon's "prepaid" essentially costs the same as their regular service and you don't even get minutes, just pay $1 every day you use it for in calling and I think more on top of that for calling other people. T-Mobile might be an option, I'd love to get a G1 but I'm not sure whether they let you get a prepaid account with that.
Nah, this was definitely a bug. A root terminal always capturing input? Definitely debugging code left behind. That would be so easy to exploit it's ridiculous.