I've noticed similar things with all menus in 3.1, which is strange. Like occasionally when I click on a live bookmark it opens the first item inside, or if I click on a menu it randomly hits the first item.
Source please? I can't find any benchmarks except this one crappy one with a few website page load tests, and it's a few seconds slower or equal on most sites, albeit the Atom is 800mhz and the Cortex is 600. http://www.pocketables.net/2008/10/mid-battle-aigo.html But Cortex A8 is supposed to scale up to 1ghz, so I think it could be very competitive. My impressions were based on videos of the Pandora device, which runs a (underclocked) Cortex A8 and seems to run Ubuntu fairly well, and I think the main problem with that is lack of RAM rather than processor speed. A 1ghz Cortex, which is probably what would be in a netbook style device, would be very close to Atom performance wise, and use 1/10th of the power, which is a huge benefit. I'm not sure if you've seen the videos of the ARM netbooks, but they are fanless and make ultraportables look fat.
Ah, right. I was not thinking. And screw Intel, ARM>Atom any day. Order of magnitude lower power consumption, similar performance (which goes to show partly how good ARM is and how bad Atom is), and can be completely fanless. I really hope ARM is successful against Intel on the netbook front, those are what netbooks should have been from the start.
Hmm, there must be a way to do it because U3 drives have two partitions, one of which shows up as a CD for some stupid reason. I guess it's probably to get around whatever Windows restriction only lets you see one partition.
Meh, until Windows comes with ext2 built in that's not going to help for removable devices. I guess you could always put a tiny FAT partition on your device for the ext2 driver, but that kind of defeats the purpose of avoiding FAT.
Hmmm, that preview lag is really annoying, especially because sometimes it just gets stuck. Yeah, webapps are kind of lame for anything that's not really basic.
Eh, running eclipse over ssh sounds like pain, but I was going to suggest ssh too. But I would probably suggest using vim or emacs instead of eclipse over ssh, because the bandwidth used from running eclipse might be horrid.
Yeah, just tried it on one of the campus servers. Took 5 minutes to start up, and another minute before the screen was actually painted. UI is unresponsive, menus wouldn't draw for another minute, and basically everything has about a 30 second delay. But it would probably work great over LAN.
Bleh, I saw that on the preview but I usually automatically hit submit as soon as it shows up and then went noooooo as the comment got submitted right when i noticed. But epic fail needs to die too, or at least overuse of it, because very few things are actually epic.
Yeah, I usually do that these days too, for everything except for my graphics card. It's actually surprising how many devices work out of the box with Vista, and almost everything else I can pull the driver off of Windows Update. But back then that was the only computer in the house and I wanted to play my games, so I had no choice but to try and mess with the drivers.
I think the best thing to do though is just to go with medium-high quality parts from reputable brands, and you don't have to worry about stability as much. I usually buy stuff that's just a little more expensive than the cheapest item on newegg, and it seems to serve me well. There isn't much reason to use SiS or VIA chipsets these days, which is bad in terms of competition but those are the facts. I remember ther was a time not too long ago when VIA boards were still competitive, but these days it seems like between Intel, nVidia, and AMD chipsets, you don't really need to look elsewhere.
Mmm, unfortunately, not quite. They are helping to make the new RadeonHD open source drivers, but they are also still putting out the closed source drivers, and I think the open source ones are probably not as feature-complete as the closed-source ones. But it's still a good initiative from them.
I think they're also working with Novell to make the RadeonHD drivers though, or something like that. They're still putting out the closed source drivers of course, but I think they're also helping with the open source ones.
My experience with S3 has been that their drivers absolutely suck, and while they might have some decent IGPs (not the one I had, certainly) it's probably better to get something with Intel, ATI, or nVidia integrated just so that the drivers aren't utter horseshit. I actually knew someone who worked at S3, and he got me a free graphics card which was somewhere between the Radeon 9600 and 9800 in terms of theoretical output, but it crashed so much that I went back to my lowly 9200, which was still an order of magnitude better than the S3 ProSavageDDR IGP that was originally on the machine.
Microsoft said in the update that the 8.7 percent of unit sales was still enough for the No. 2 position in the hard-drive based market. It's more than a safe bet that the hard-drive based iPods were No. 1 in that market segment, but I've put in a call to NPD to see if I can get the full rankings.
I'm not astroturfing, I'm just saying that they're actually doing reasonably well for a market saturated by iPods. Your link also proves that. The downside is that they seem to have killed off all the smaller players made by Creative and Sandisk et al, but my point was that the other guy (GGGP?) was right about the so-called failures of Microsoft (Vista, Zune, etc) still doing much better than many other companies.
Eh, support isn't really the same as not allowing it at all. But I do my best to avoid tech support for those reasons, and I guess technically even installing non-HP branded parts might make the techs not respond. Really, the best thing to do is build your own computer and if you run into trouble, post on forums, as they'll be a thousand times more helpful than standard tech support. That gets you the added benefit of being able to pick hardware that has good driver support under Linux, and better hardware in general.
That analogy falls flat because there are issues involved with supporting an older OS that don't exist so much with old cars. Older cars are not more likely to get broken into, whereas older versions of Windows are generally easier targets for malware writers. And it's not last year's version, it's more like the version from 8 years ago...
No, it's not. What are you smoking? That would be an appropriate analogy if HP was dictating that you had to use only Kingston branded RAM in their machines. Microsoft just isn't offering free support and OEM deals on their old product anymore.
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Ah right, GTS 250. But it uses the exact same G92b GPU as in the 9800GTX+.
They aren't the same card, but the 9800GT is only different from the 8800GT in adding triple SLI support. Some later 9800GTs are a die shrink but the original card was not. And I said GT250, not 260. The 250 is a rebranded 9800GTX+, although I thought it was a 9800GT. See http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/nvidia_geforce_250_rebranding_complete and http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=14656&page=2
It's sad that this is actually almost true... Geforce 8800GT->9800GT->GT2x0 (I think 250 or something) are all the same GPU...
Firebug has been known to cause memory leaks unfortunately, which is why i disable it when I'm not using it.
I've noticed similar things with all menus in 3.1, which is strange. Like occasionally when I click on a live bookmark it opens the first item inside, or if I click on a menu it randomly hits the first item.
Source please? I can't find any benchmarks except this one crappy one with a few website page load tests, and it's a few seconds slower or equal on most sites, albeit the Atom is 800mhz and the Cortex is 600. http://www.pocketables.net/2008/10/mid-battle-aigo.html But Cortex A8 is supposed to scale up to 1ghz, so I think it could be very competitive. My impressions were based on videos of the Pandora device, which runs a (underclocked) Cortex A8 and seems to run Ubuntu fairly well, and I think the main problem with that is lack of RAM rather than processor speed. A 1ghz Cortex, which is probably what would be in a netbook style device, would be very close to Atom performance wise, and use 1/10th of the power, which is a huge benefit. I'm not sure if you've seen the videos of the ARM netbooks, but they are fanless and make ultraportables look fat.
Ah, right. I was not thinking. And screw Intel, ARM>Atom any day. Order of magnitude lower power consumption, similar performance (which goes to show partly how good ARM is and how bad Atom is), and can be completely fanless. I really hope ARM is successful against Intel on the netbook front, those are what netbooks should have been from the start.
I would guess land costs and environmental regulation compliance are most likely. Land is probably a lot cheaper elsewhere.
Hmm, there must be a way to do it because U3 drives have two partitions, one of which shows up as a CD for some stupid reason. I guess it's probably to get around whatever Windows restriction only lets you see one partition.
Meh, until Windows comes with ext2 built in that's not going to help for removable devices. I guess you could always put a tiny FAT partition on your device for the ext2 driver, but that kind of defeats the purpose of avoiding FAT.
Hmmm, that preview lag is really annoying, especially because sometimes it just gets stuck. Yeah, webapps are kind of lame for anything that's not really basic.
Eh, running eclipse over ssh sounds like pain, but I was going to suggest ssh too. But I would probably suggest using vim or emacs instead of eclipse over ssh, because the bandwidth used from running eclipse might be horrid.
Yeah, just tried it on one of the campus servers. Took 5 minutes to start up, and another minute before the screen was actually painted. UI is unresponsive, menus wouldn't draw for another minute, and basically everything has about a 30 second delay. But it would probably work great over LAN.
Bleh, I saw that on the preview but I usually automatically hit submit as soon as it shows up and then went noooooo as the comment got submitted right when i noticed. But epic fail needs to die too, or at least overuse of it, because very few things are actually epic.
The point is that making it not designed for end user removal is stupid, as is using the world fai; in grammatically incorrect ways.
I'm just going off of this: http://kotaku.com/5026559/xbox-division-finally-reports-profitable-year
Yeah, I usually do that these days too, for everything except for my graphics card. It's actually surprising how many devices work out of the box with Vista, and almost everything else I can pull the driver off of Windows Update. But back then that was the only computer in the house and I wanted to play my games, so I had no choice but to try and mess with the drivers.
I think the best thing to do though is just to go with medium-high quality parts from reputable brands, and you don't have to worry about stability as much. I usually buy stuff that's just a little more expensive than the cheapest item on newegg, and it seems to serve me well. There isn't much reason to use SiS or VIA chipsets these days, which is bad in terms of competition but those are the facts. I remember ther was a time not too long ago when VIA boards were still competitive, but these days it seems like between Intel, nVidia, and AMD chipsets, you don't really need to look elsewhere.
Mmm, unfortunately, not quite. They are helping to make the new RadeonHD open source drivers, but they are also still putting out the closed source drivers, and I think the open source ones are probably not as feature-complete as the closed-source ones. But it's still a good initiative from them.
I think they're also working with Novell to make the RadeonHD drivers though, or something like that. They're still putting out the closed source drivers of course, but I think they're also helping with the open source ones.
My experience with S3 has been that their drivers absolutely suck, and while they might have some decent IGPs (not the one I had, certainly) it's probably better to get something with Intel, ATI, or nVidia integrated just so that the drivers aren't utter horseshit. I actually knew someone who worked at S3, and he got me a free graphics card which was somewhere between the Radeon 9600 and 9800 in terms of theoretical output, but it crashed so much that I went back to my lowly 9200, which was still an order of magnitude better than the S3 ProSavageDDR IGP that was originally on the machine.
I'm not astroturfing, I'm just saying that they're actually doing reasonably well for a market saturated by iPods. Your link also proves that. The downside is that they seem to have killed off all the smaller players made by Creative and Sandisk et al, but my point was that the other guy (GGGP?) was right about the so-called failures of Microsoft (Vista, Zune, etc) still doing much better than many other companies.
Eh, support isn't really the same as not allowing it at all. But I do my best to avoid tech support for those reasons, and I guess technically even installing non-HP branded parts might make the techs not respond. Really, the best thing to do is build your own computer and if you run into trouble, post on forums, as they'll be a thousand times more helpful than standard tech support. That gets you the added benefit of being able to pick hardware that has good driver support under Linux, and better hardware in general.
I'm just making an analogy, because you're bashing him based on your interpretation of what he said, which is sort of what the Mac ads do.
Well, if you're going to be that literal, then yes, because most companies fall flat on their faces before they can become profitable.
That analogy falls flat because there are issues involved with supporting an older OS that don't exist so much with old cars. Older cars are not more likely to get broken into, whereas older versions of Windows are generally easier targets for malware writers. And it's not last year's version, it's more like the version from 8 years ago...
No, it's not. What are you smoking? That would be an appropriate analogy if HP was dictating that you had to use only Kingston branded RAM in their machines. Microsoft just isn't offering free support and OEM deals on their old product anymore.