User interface responsiveness is a great thing to have. It's why I use Chrome as my primary web browser.
I hit the little chrome nougat icon and within tens of milliseconds, I have a browser up. Of course, I can't possibly measure that, to me it's instant, but benchmarks show that the average machine takes about 100-150ms to open the full Chrome window and it's already started drawing or retrieving data.
I recently installed ten Vostros for a local charitable organization, set them up with Vista Home Premium. There was no crapware, interestingly. Partitioned the drive into two chunks, installed Windows SteadyState and put the primary user directory on the unfrozen partition.
Didn't notice any problems. I think even the low end Vostros now come with 2GB of RAM.
So basically, you're going to create a convoluted system of ethics rules that would be self-regulated and self-imposed and with the only way to determine guilt being a judgment of motive?
Either everyone becomes guilty or no one becomes guilty and the system still ends up sucking.
The funds are being held in escrow because of the question of the legality of it, which means the telco gains something just by having a frivolous lawsuit and delaying them.
Can the city seek an injunction against the telco for this?
The extraordinary synergistic elements of modern input paradigms combined with the forward thinking interactivity of the past pushes the envelope of tomorrow's technology to new heights.
Then the city should ask that if they are required to be delayed, then the telco should as well so that they do not receive gain from what will likely end up being a frivolous, baseless lawsuit.
I am not a lawyer, but does such a mechanism exist in the legal system or would the city have to counter-sue?
And so next time when malware like that damn Antivirus 2009 trojan is installed, they'll be more likely to follow the instructions: "Your computer is infected, click here to scan your computer."
Ban political parties? That sounds awful like restricting freedom of speech and assembly.
Hold politicians responsible for overspending? We'd never have gotten out of... any war ever. We'd be too busy lynching our leaders.
Ban corporate entities? You mean persons? Because trust me, it isn't that this big booming "MICROSOFT" logo drops down into Capitol Hill and starts telling people what to do. It's a suave lobbyist who knows who to talk to and has garnered at least a smidgen of trust from people in the capitol. You could do it too, if you cared to take the time.
I do appreciate your straw man though! It was incredibly clever and original.
They can. They own the code on their website and they can do any damn thing they please, including disregard the GPL for their website. It doesn't apply to them.
As soon as someone else contributes though, it's a different matter. But right now, they own the code, they write the rules in entirety.
One think to consider for those retiring if you had put $10,000 dollars in the stock market when Bush was first elected you would still have a better rate of return then if you had gotten the rate of return social security will give.
Maybe the election coverage was more positive for Obama than McCain because McCain halfway through the campaign decided to take off the gloves and go so stinking filthy dirty with his ads and rallies that it turned off anyone watching and the journalists writing about it.
Maybe truly horrendous campaigning leads to negative press, whodathunk?
That's what he was asking for, anonymous coward. He wanted card-specific drivers to either be in the kernel, be modules, or have some sort of custom ABI/API if necessary.
But hey, you know what, assuming that he didn't want that is a lot easier for your argument, so I'll let you just do that.
Rather than accept that he wants hardware acceleration as part of the kernel, you take the greatest, most absurd leaps in your logic to imply that he's crazy, that he wants things that are impossible, and then you completely ignore what he says, replacing it with what you said to support your point.
He said he wanted a framebuffer with hardware acceleration, you said, "UNPOSSIBLE!"
Then he said you should write X to use that accelerated framebuffer, and you said, "BUT IT WON'T BE ACCELERATED!"
But the hardware on each end doesn't see bits and bytes, but packets that could, even if in practice they don't, vary in size.
The gigatransfers per second rating is like "packets per second," and you're right, as I posted in the thread up above without seeing your post, it's only one of the two numbers needed to make sense of the system. If the maximum bandwidth is XGB/s, and the maximum transfers is YGT/s, then X/Y is probably your maximum packet size in bytes, or the most efficient to transmit.
The point is that the interconnect between your chips/cards/interfaces is becoming very similar to the physical interconnect between your computers in a home network.
It'd be very interesting to build a system by which every hardware interface can be represented via an IPv6 address and communicated with accordingly. Why share your whole computer over the network when you can share a SATA drive, a graphics card or a USB thumb drive?
If it meant a faster, easier to use X Server that didn't hose my computer every time I switched graphics cards or even monitors, I'm all for it.
And I'd also be OK with Linux detecting when an application tries to make those calls to deprecated functions, and like Vista and XP does, ask me if I want to run them in compatibility mode.
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Burger King has no small. "Medium, Large, King" are their standard sizes.
Well, I suppose there's a kid size -somewhere-, but their adult combos don't have a small option.
I said you're a proponent, not that you're Twitter :)
User interface responsiveness is a great thing to have. It's why I use Chrome as my primary web browser.
I hit the little chrome nougat icon and within tens of milliseconds, I have a browser up. Of course, I can't possibly measure that, to me it's instant, but benchmarks show that the average machine takes about 100-150ms to open the full Chrome window and it's already started drawing or retrieving data.
You're a dyed in the wool cynic of Microsoft and proponent of OSS and that's what makes me love reading your posts.
But I have to beg to differ, jcr.
I recently installed ten Vostros for a local charitable organization, set them up with Vista Home Premium. There was no crapware, interestingly. Partitioned the drive into two chunks, installed Windows SteadyState and put the primary user directory on the unfrozen partition.
Didn't notice any problems. I think even the low end Vostros now come with 2GB of RAM.
(I'm almost done compiling Linux 0.02, by the way.)
I wrote a regex parser for a turing machine implemented in Conway's Game of Life.
Sorry.
Did you get that from the tips that pop up every game when you first install StarCraft?
Can you throw a little House into that? Like, say autoimmune a few times, maybe "at least it isn't lupus" or something? Amyloidosis?
Parse it ((Open Source) Software), in this case "Open Source" is an adjective describing a type of software.
So basically, you're going to create a convoluted system of ethics rules that would be self-regulated and self-imposed and with the only way to determine guilt being a judgment of motive?
Either everyone becomes guilty or no one becomes guilty and the system still ends up sucking.
I see, but what about individuals in the corporation?
No matter what you do, there will be loopholes.
The funds are being held in escrow because of the question of the legality of it, which means the telco gains something just by having a frivolous lawsuit and delaying them.
Can the city seek an injunction against the telco for this?
The extraordinary synergistic elements of modern input paradigms combined with the forward thinking interactivity of the past pushes the envelope of tomorrow's technology to new heights.
Then the city should ask that if they are required to be delayed, then the telco should as well so that they do not receive gain from what will likely end up being a frivolous, baseless lawsuit.
I am not a lawyer, but does such a mechanism exist in the legal system or would the city have to counter-sue?
And so next time when malware like that damn Antivirus 2009 trojan is installed, they'll be more likely to follow the instructions: "Your computer is infected, click here to scan your computer."
Ban political parties? That sounds awful like restricting freedom of speech and assembly.
Hold politicians responsible for overspending? We'd never have gotten out of... any war ever. We'd be too busy lynching our leaders.
Ban corporate entities? You mean persons? Because trust me, it isn't that this big booming "MICROSOFT" logo drops down into Capitol Hill and starts telling people what to do. It's a suave lobbyist who knows who to talk to and has garnered at least a smidgen of trust from people in the capitol. You could do it too, if you cared to take the time.
I do appreciate your straw man though! It was incredibly clever and original.
They can. They own the code on their website and they can do any damn thing they please, including disregard the GPL for their website. It doesn't apply to them.
As soon as someone else contributes though, it's a different matter. But right now, they own the code, they write the rules in entirety.
That's not the point, he said that:
Which is not true.
Maybe the election coverage was more positive for Obama than McCain because McCain halfway through the campaign decided to take off the gloves and go so stinking filthy dirty with his ads and rallies that it turned off anyone watching and the journalists writing about it.
Maybe truly horrendous campaigning leads to negative press, whodathunk?
In 2000 the DJIA was at 11,000. So, you picked good stocks (good for you,) but the average investor lost wealth since 2000.
That's what he was asking for, anonymous coward. He wanted card-specific drivers to either be in the kernel, be modules, or have some sort of custom ABI/API if necessary.
But hey, you know what, assuming that he didn't want that is a lot easier for your argument, so I'll let you just do that.
One word, strawman.
Rather than accept that he wants hardware acceleration as part of the kernel, you take the greatest, most absurd leaps in your logic to imply that he's crazy, that he wants things that are impossible, and then you completely ignore what he says, replacing it with what you said to support your point.
He said he wanted a framebuffer with hardware acceleration, you said, "UNPOSSIBLE!"
Then he said you should write X to use that accelerated framebuffer, and you said, "BUT IT WON'T BE ACCELERATED!"
But the hardware on each end doesn't see bits and bytes, but packets that could, even if in practice they don't, vary in size.
The gigatransfers per second rating is like "packets per second," and you're right, as I posted in the thread up above without seeing your post, it's only one of the two numbers needed to make sense of the system. If the maximum bandwidth is XGB/s, and the maximum transfers is YGT/s, then X/Y is probably your maximum packet size in bytes, or the most efficient to transmit.
The point is that the interconnect between your chips/cards/interfaces is becoming very similar to the physical interconnect between your computers in a home network.
It'd be very interesting to build a system by which every hardware interface can be represented via an IPv6 address and communicated with accordingly. Why share your whole computer over the network when you can share a SATA drive, a graphics card or a USB thumb drive?
That's what the future is, in my humble opinion.
If it meant a faster, easier to use X Server that didn't hose my computer every time I switched graphics cards or even monitors, I'm all for it.
And I'd also be OK with Linux detecting when an application tries to make those calls to deprecated functions, and like Vista and XP does, ask me if I want to run them in compatibility mode.