Well, I think it's because Firefox keeps tabs around in memory after they've been closed in case you want to open them again. It also keeps back/forward history in memory so that you don't have to reload the page. Somehow though, I don't notice insane memory usage or slowness with Firefox and I use a pretty good number of extensions - currently, I've got 8 tabs and it's using about 160MB, or about 20MB per tab. That seems pretty low to me.
It's not well below the PS3 by any stretch of the imagination. Both contains GPUs based on the same generation of PC GPUs, and Cell hasn't really been exploited fully yet so that advantage has yet to be seen. I only own a Wii and I'm most likely considering getting a PS3 because of the Blu-Ray, but the 360 is much better than you give it credit for, except of course for the abysmal failure rate. And now you can get a 360 for the same price as a Wii, which is kind of ridiculous in my opinion.
I think he's making a pointed remark about how downloading/distributing ROMs is illegal, and you're supposed to rip them yourself if you want to play them in an emulator.
Whybzrisbetterthanx It used to by whybzrisbetterthanx.com, but I guess that domain expired. (I don't necessarily espouse the views of the site, I just find it funny).
All of the things you said about Git are no longer true, but they may have been several years ago. For example, I've been using Git on Windows for a year and have had absolutely no problems. No Cygwin either. And you ignore the fact that git automatically does git gc if your repo gets too large and that thanks to git gc, git repos are much smaller than any other DVCS and can sometimes be smaller than an SVN checkout, which only has the tip of the repository. And um, if you're going to be doing any command with the option --force, you better know what the fuck you're doing. I will agree that if you're coming from a CVS/SVN background, git's terminology can be a bit confusing at first, but it doesn't take long to get used to it.
I don't think the problem is that the screensaver had malware, but rather the.deb did. If you give root access to a.deb installer, it can do anything. People just expect to need to give root access when installing stuff, even if it's not necessary. But I might be wrong about this, and I'm not a "heavy duty programmer" either.
It's triple licensed under the MPL, GPL, and LGPL. I don't know which license it is that lets Postbox fork it without giving back their changes, but I'd guess that it's not the GPL. See http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/ for more info.
I used that for a while, but I got annoyed when I realized that they were essentially making a closed-source for-pay fork of Thunderbird. Thunderbird 3 has a lot of what I liked from Postbox (well, it should, considering they based it off of TB3) so I switched back as soon as they announced a price. They had been hinting at it for a while I guess, but I thought maybe they might reconsider, but the closed-source nature was the final straw. Grr licensing loopholes.
Actually, that doesn't mean that those cards support DX11. It's just that they support a feature of DX11, but not all features, which is what would be required to be a DX11 card. The Radeon HD 2000 series cards have the tesselation unit, sure, but they're DX10.0 cards, not even 10.1. I should know, I own one. Of course DX10.1 and DX11 share features, one is a subset of the other... usually, that's how APIs work.
Err, the 4870 is about 1.5-2x as powerful as a 3870, which I believe was available maybe a few months after Crysis came out, and is about as fast as the 2900XT which preceded it and the 8800GT/GTS which also came out around the same time frame. One of those cards would easily run Crysis at medium paired with an average CPU of the time. I have a 2900 Pro and an AMD 5000+ x2 which are a bit slower than what a "hardcore gamer" would buy, and I played the Crysis demo on medium without much difficulty. High/Very high ran but were kind of pushing it. A "gamer's" system would probably have had a Core 2 Duo and an 8800GTS or two at the time, which would definitely be able to run Crysis on high, especially with two cards. To be honest, Crysis was never much ahead of the hardware that came out around the same time the game came out, but most people don't upgrade their computers frequently enough and more and more don't have a reason to besides new games, so it seemed like Crysis was some insane game, when in reality a system built for $800-900 could play it without difficulty or slowdowns. It's just that no one's going to build a new system for one game that ended up being not that mind-blowing besides the graphics.
How well does it work? Does it take about as long to charge? I wanted to buy something like that from Gamestop but I was kind of wary of plugging in a third party power charger into my handheld.
The DSi uses a different power adapter. Presumably, that's because it takes a different amount of current in, but I've seen a USB power adapter at Gamestop that claims to be able to charge the DSLite and DSi. I haven't been able to find it online so I didn't buy it because I don't want to blow up my DSi, but I'm not sure whether they really changed the plug for safety reasons or just to make people buy new ones.
This is different from adhoc wifi connections. For example, with wifi device virtualization you can connect to say a secured wifi network with your laptop and then share it with other people who don't normally have access to it. Adhoc+bridged connections have existed and had GUIs even in Windows for ages.
Haha, I actually do have a DSi, although I do have access to DS Lites. But uh, there's always emulators for GBA and stuff. Once I get through Shadow Dragon I'll probably start playing some others though.
Wesnoth is really awesome. It's kind of weird though, every time I've started playing it I never actually get started with the campaign or anything beyond the first few missions, but I just love how well done it is. But recently I've started playing Fire Emblem on my DS and the similarities are really obvious. I think once I finish FE I'll start playing Wesnoth long-term. Before I used to be more of an RTS fan but over the past few years I've been playing a lot of DS turn based strategy games, and I think now I prefer them so Wesnoth will be great.
Well yeah, I agree on that point as well. In another post I mentioned that I always go over the 500 word limit. But I was just referring to it in shorthand since it *is* the biggest essay question they ask.
I agree, it seems that they really measure test taking ability rather than intelligence, and more specifically high school level test taking ability which is useless in college. But I guess it's some sort of differentiator, even if it's very flawed. If it didn't have to separate such a broad distribution of people, it might have been a better test.
Stanford asks a bunch of random little questions as well, but they also make you do the big essay. The little questions kind of annoyed me though, because a lot of them didn't really apply to me. Oh well, not like I wanted to go to Stanford anyway
Actually, that's an interesting point (re: changing the prompts). It would be interesting to have technical questions like would be asked in an interview for a job be a part of the applications process at a place like MIT.
The Creative Zii Egg might be what you want, but I'm not quite sure what it's supposed to be. It looks like an iPod touch and is supposed to have an innovative processor and stuff, although I think the hype about the processor is BS for the most part. It runs a Creative Plaszma OS and/or Android. But again, everything about it is really vacuous. I'd buy it to toy around with if I had any faith in Creative being able to actually do something with it, and if I had a significant amount of disposable income.
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Well, I think it's because Firefox keeps tabs around in memory after they've been closed in case you want to open them again. It also keeps back/forward history in memory so that you don't have to reload the page. Somehow though, I don't notice insane memory usage or slowness with Firefox and I use a pretty good number of extensions - currently, I've got 8 tabs and it's using about 160MB, or about 20MB per tab. That seems pretty low to me.
It's not well below the PS3 by any stretch of the imagination. Both contains GPUs based on the same generation of PC GPUs, and Cell hasn't really been exploited fully yet so that advantage has yet to be seen. I only own a Wii and I'm most likely considering getting a PS3 because of the Blu-Ray, but the 360 is much better than you give it credit for, except of course for the abysmal failure rate. And now you can get a 360 for the same price as a Wii, which is kind of ridiculous in my opinion.
Yeah, it's more interesting how he exploited caching to good effect with his algorithm. This is not something we hear about all that often.
Using the traditional buttons, I phone gaming to be an absolute pain in the past.
Is that your iPhone's typing correction kicking in there? :P.
I think he's making a pointed remark about how downloading/distributing ROMs is illegal, and you're supposed to rip them yourself if you want to play them in an emulator.
This. Org-mode is amazing. Watch the Google Tech Talk if you want to see it in action.
Whybzrisbetterthanx It used to by whybzrisbetterthanx.com, but I guess that domain expired. (I don't necessarily espouse the views of the site, I just find it funny).
All of the things you said about Git are no longer true, but they may have been several years ago. For example, I've been using Git on Windows for a year and have had absolutely no problems. No Cygwin either. And you ignore the fact that git automatically does git gc if your repo gets too large and that thanks to git gc, git repos are much smaller than any other DVCS and can sometimes be smaller than an SVN checkout, which only has the tip of the repository. And um, if you're going to be doing any command with the option --force, you better know what the fuck you're doing. I will agree that if you're coming from a CVS/SVN background, git's terminology can be a bit confusing at first, but it doesn't take long to get used to it.
I don't think the problem is that the screensaver had malware, but rather the .deb did. If you give root access to a .deb installer, it can do anything. People just expect to need to give root access when installing stuff, even if it's not necessary. But I might be wrong about this, and I'm not a "heavy duty programmer" either.
It's triple licensed under the MPL, GPL, and LGPL. I don't know which license it is that lets Postbox fork it without giving back their changes, but I'd guess that it's not the GPL. See http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/ for more info.
I used that for a while, but I got annoyed when I realized that they were essentially making a closed-source for-pay fork of Thunderbird. Thunderbird 3 has a lot of what I liked from Postbox (well, it should, considering they based it off of TB3) so I switched back as soon as they announced a price. They had been hinting at it for a while I guess, but I thought maybe they might reconsider, but the closed-source nature was the final straw. Grr licensing loopholes.
Actually, that doesn't mean that those cards support DX11. It's just that they support a feature of DX11, but not all features, which is what would be required to be a DX11 card. The Radeon HD 2000 series cards have the tesselation unit, sure, but they're DX10.0 cards, not even 10.1. I should know, I own one. Of course DX10.1 and DX11 share features, one is a subset of the other... usually, that's how APIs work.
Err, the 4870 is about 1.5-2x as powerful as a 3870, which I believe was available maybe a few months after Crysis came out, and is about as fast as the 2900XT which preceded it and the 8800GT/GTS which also came out around the same time frame. One of those cards would easily run Crysis at medium paired with an average CPU of the time. I have a 2900 Pro and an AMD 5000+ x2 which are a bit slower than what a "hardcore gamer" would buy, and I played the Crysis demo on medium without much difficulty. High/Very high ran but were kind of pushing it. A "gamer's" system would probably have had a Core 2 Duo and an 8800GTS or two at the time, which would definitely be able to run Crysis on high, especially with two cards. To be honest, Crysis was never much ahead of the hardware that came out around the same time the game came out, but most people don't upgrade their computers frequently enough and more and more don't have a reason to besides new games, so it seemed like Crysis was some insane game, when in reality a system built for $800-900 could play it without difficulty or slowdowns. It's just that no one's going to build a new system for one game that ended up being not that mind-blowing besides the graphics.
He's talking about keyboards, not headsets. Kind of different.
How well does it work? Does it take about as long to charge? I wanted to buy something like that from Gamestop but I was kind of wary of plugging in a third party power charger into my handheld.
The DSi uses a different power adapter. Presumably, that's because it takes a different amount of current in, but I've seen a USB power adapter at Gamestop that claims to be able to charge the DSLite and DSi. I haven't been able to find it online so I didn't buy it because I don't want to blow up my DSi, but I'm not sure whether they really changed the plug for safety reasons or just to make people buy new ones.
This is different from adhoc wifi connections. For example, with wifi device virtualization you can connect to say a secured wifi network with your laptop and then share it with other people who don't normally have access to it. Adhoc+bridged connections have existed and had GUIs even in Windows for ages.
Haha, I actually do have a DSi, although I do have access to DS Lites. But uh, there's always emulators for GBA and stuff. Once I get through Shadow Dragon I'll probably start playing some others though.
Wesnoth is really awesome. It's kind of weird though, every time I've started playing it I never actually get started with the campaign or anything beyond the first few missions, but I just love how well done it is. But recently I've started playing Fire Emblem on my DS and the similarities are really obvious. I think once I finish FE I'll start playing Wesnoth long-term. Before I used to be more of an RTS fan but over the past few years I've been playing a lot of DS turn based strategy games, and I think now I prefer them so Wesnoth will be great.
Err, isn't that how you normally do it? Eg. to link in the math lib you add -lm.
Well yeah, I agree on that point as well. In another post I mentioned that I always go over the 500 word limit. But I was just referring to it in shorthand since it *is* the biggest essay question they ask.
I agree, it seems that they really measure test taking ability rather than intelligence, and more specifically high school level test taking ability which is useless in college. But I guess it's some sort of differentiator, even if it's very flawed. If it didn't have to separate such a broad distribution of people, it might have been a better test.
Stanford asks a bunch of random little questions as well, but they also make you do the big essay. The little questions kind of annoyed me though, because a lot of them didn't really apply to me. Oh well, not like I wanted to go to Stanford anyway
Actually, that's an interesting point (re: changing the prompts). It would be interesting to have technical questions like would be asked in an interview for a job be a part of the applications process at a place like MIT.
The Creative Zii Egg might be what you want, but I'm not quite sure what it's supposed to be. It looks like an iPod touch and is supposed to have an innovative processor and stuff, although I think the hype about the processor is BS for the most part. It runs a Creative Plaszma OS and/or Android. But again, everything about it is really vacuous. I'd buy it to toy around with if I had any faith in Creative being able to actually do something with it, and if I had a significant amount of disposable income.