The problem is that manufacturers won't unless the users demand it - do you follow? If most users stay away from Linux because they lose what they perceive to be a functional computer by losing access to their GUI, they're going to say how "windows never did that" or whatever. It is an unfair comparison, but the fact is this: The 'aboutfuckingtime' tag on this article is correct.
I didn't get any special courses or anything but I was the same way - worked through the 5th, 6th and 7th grade math books all in 5th grade. *shrug* I ended my senior year with over 360% in English and CWP, after deciding to not turn in final projects that were approx 30% of our grades to keep us "engaged" through the end of May/beginning of June.
Eh, Grades 1, 2, and 3 in 2 years? Amazing, you managed finger painting, 2+2 and learned to write your name in giant letters between two lines with a dotted one in the middle.:-)
(Don't mean to sound harsh but it just sounds so funny)
I've got 5 monitors attached to my workstation and 2 laptops. On those screens I also have several remote terminal sessions to my various virtual machines to handle my non-linux tasks. On top of that, I've got compiz/xgl with multiple workspaces that I keep e-mail on and flip to it when I see something run across groupwise notify.
I don't feel stress about e-mail. I'm excellent at multi-tasking and know how to prioritize various issues in my work. Any stress sounds like a personal problem.:)
Unfortunately, virtualization could probably help out here: I have a feeling a lot of the servers mentioned (although I admit I havent rtfa) have windows...Ive seen govt policies that say 1 app per windows server because they[widnows apps] "don't play nicely" together. Wasn't there an article recently on this, containerization or whatever they called it?
I'd just like to point out that I wasn't trying to 'debunk' the whole Windows thing - just saying, that its a measure of how you judge it. 5 9s for what is all I was saying. its just a marketing gimmick thought up by someone to sell their product.
5 9's isnt hard to do when enough replication/redundancy. I can assure you, their individual machines are rebooting frequently enough for security patches (lets hope so anyway).
Yeah...because where I'm from I constantly nurse our Linux servers. I mean, heck, I even decided to do a kernel update once and it actually made me reboot the machine. How dare it make me nurse it along like that!?!11! If only patches came out on the second Tuesday of every month for every server and workstation at the same time and have them auto apply and hope nothing breaks instead of nursing it along by pressing the 'accept' button.
(And now for the real story: We don't have a ton of Linux servers, but for the 5 we do... we turned them on, set them up, and they've run ever since...)
Its not that I mind comcast per se - its that its $100 a month (well, they 'bundle' it with 'extended cable' (2-99) TV, and if you don't get the TV bundle, its $60/mo for internet then $20 for basic cable + taxes and fees = $100 / month...funny how that works, huh?
All I really want is unfettered access to the internet: I don't need their damn services, homepage, email, videos, news feeds, virus scanners - just hook me straight to the internet...for like $10 a month at 10mbit down 1mbit up and ill be a pretty happy camper. Heck, for $10 a month Id take 1mbit down 256k up.
Until people realize that our definition of high speed is horrible - just because it works on broadband technology they get away with it? Please. what is it, 256k down is considered 'high speed' or something like that?
I have a hard time calling my 6mb down/640k up comcast high speed.
Okay - so I opened up about 50 youtube videos, browsed a few other websites that had flash, and I closed all but one tab (slashdot)
88mb used. Big whoop?
To the guy who "wants to use other applications"
Old computers aren't meant for using modern-day applications that aren't specifically designed for *gasp* old computers.. Go figure?
Lets say you're a game designer. Do you (A) Design a game that will run within 640kb of memory, or (B) Use a bit more memory to get more stuff into your game, speed up load time, etc? Obviously if your target market is the "general" computer users, you'd make a pretty general allocation of memory. If you're marketing towards power gamers, you wouldn't be afraid about higher system requirements, necessarily.
I laugh every time this comes up because it falls under the "duh" category.
What machine out there doesn't have at least 256mb of RAM that expects to run any sort of modern application and multitask? You're crazy if your expections are to be able to run premiere CS3, firefox, and windows vista on 256mb of RAM. crazy.
We've got 1400 laptop users: Its not the port replicators that go dead, its the laptop pins on the laptop itself that get worn out. (All HP laptops) - nx7010, nx9010, nx9500, nx6320s, and more. 100% of the time, its the dang laptop that wears itself off getting penetrated by the docking station.
Funny, I work for a school district and thats the exact train of thought that happened here: Us: "Wireless...not good...unreliable, slow, susceptible to interference..." Them: "We want wireless, byah!" (--- Sad attempt at typing the Howard Dean scream as reenacted by Dave Chapelle)
Don't forget that the purpose of having a federal government represented by congress has changed: The idea was to make laws to govern the land, for the benefit of all, while not imposing on the individual citizen's or states lives.
Now, that it has somehow morphed into being sent there to battle for funding for their state/district/pet project, rather than actually trying to pass laws.
Also, I don't know this for sure, but I'm guessing 200 years ago they didn't write 1,000 page bills. Who the hell can read through 10,000 pages a week to search for this crap?
The constitution is brief: As all "laws of the land" should be.
Description - Law - Consequences of not obeying. Period. Try reading through some of this crap:
Try searching for some of those dependencies for what is amended in that "law" - its worse than trying to install a Linux program that has 1,000 deps that you don't have.
Clearly, many other games, such as Final Fantasy III (VI) win over Ocarina. What other game had such an epic tale to tell, with twists, turns, and delights around every corner? Don't get me wrong. Ocarina was a good game, and quite enjoyable, but the gameplay hadn't changed - and still hasn't to this day. While Ocarina brought about the "Z target" and 3d realm, it was by no means revolutionary. That being said, who can resist Edgar's charming lines, Celes' striking beauty, Gau's innocence, or the wonderful musical score?
Ocarina didn't help define games: It changed them. They began focusing on "graphical styles" and environmental textures rather than developing characters and a story. Rather than having good dungeon design, it was what looked aesthetically pleasing. No, I contend the "best" is a myriad of others. I'll name at least two which are clearly superior in every way to Ocarina:
I have it running on my SLES10 file server. I serve all media out to my Wii through opera using WiiCR. Great little utility. On a P4 2.6ghz w/ 1 gig of RAM it takes about 30 seconds of lead time to transcode a video into a FLV. Its not realtime, but, close enough. Also with the HQ resolution transcoding, there is nearly no noticeable loss of quality on my SD tv. (Use the wiipaper theme for a default 480 video, otherwise you may have to use the zoom feature)
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The problem is that manufacturers won't unless the users demand it - do you follow? If most users stay away from Linux because they lose what they perceive to be a functional computer by losing access to their GUI, they're going to say how "windows never did that" or whatever. It is an unfair comparison, but the fact is this: The 'aboutfuckingtime' tag on this article is correct.
Ha. Sorry to hear about your situation but it is a bit funny.
It seemed fitting.
So easy, even a caveman could do it!
I didn't get any special courses or anything but I was the same way - worked through the 5th, 6th and 7th grade math books all in 5th grade. *shrug* I ended my senior year with over 360% in English and CWP, after deciding to not turn in final projects that were approx 30% of our grades to keep us "engaged" through the end of May/beginning of June.
Eh, Grades 1, 2, and 3 in 2 years? Amazing, you managed finger painting, 2+2 and learned to write your name in giant letters between two lines with a dotted one in the middle. :-)
(Don't mean to sound harsh but it just sounds so funny)
Get Netflix anyway - they'll send you HBO shows on DVD :p
We just finished Deadwood Season 3
hang on a second - civilian nuclear reactor R&D, you write a report, and it gets classified? Now for the question: What the heck was it about?
I've got 5 monitors attached to my workstation and 2 laptops. On those screens I also have several remote terminal sessions to my various virtual machines to handle my non-linux tasks. On top of that, I've got compiz/xgl with multiple workspaces that I keep e-mail on and flip to it when I see something run across groupwise notify.
:)
I don't feel stress about e-mail. I'm excellent at multi-tasking and know how to prioritize various issues in my work. Any stress sounds like a personal problem.
Uh? #2...? Pretty sure thats been the proper screw size for a long long time.
Unfortunately, virtualization could probably help out here: I have a feeling a lot of the servers mentioned (although I admit I havent rtfa) have windows...Ive seen govt policies that say 1 app per windows server because they[widnows apps] "don't play nicely" together. Wasn't there an article recently on this, containerization or whatever they called it?
I'd just like to point out that I wasn't trying to 'debunk' the whole Windows thing - just saying, that its a measure of how you judge it. 5 9s for what is all I was saying. its just a marketing gimmick thought up by someone to sell their product.
5 9's isnt hard to do when enough replication/redundancy. I can assure you, their individual machines are rebooting frequently enough for security patches (lets hope so anyway).
Yeah...because where I'm from I constantly nurse our Linux servers. I mean, heck, I even decided to do a kernel update once and it actually made me reboot the machine. How dare it make me nurse it along like that!?!11! If only patches came out on the second Tuesday of every month for every server and workstation at the same time and have them auto apply and hope nothing breaks instead of nursing it along by pressing the 'accept' button.
(And now for the real story: We don't have a ton of Linux servers, but for the 5 we do... we turned them on, set them up, and they've run ever since...)
Its not that I mind comcast per se - its that its $100 a month (well, they 'bundle' it with 'extended cable' (2-99) TV, and if you don't get the TV bundle, its $60/mo for internet then $20 for basic cable + taxes and fees = $100 / month...funny how that works, huh?
All I really want is unfettered access to the internet: I don't need their damn services, homepage, email, videos, news feeds, virus scanners - just hook me straight to the internet...for like $10 a month at 10mbit down 1mbit up and ill be a pretty happy camper. Heck, for $10 a month Id take 1mbit down 256k up.
Until people realize that our definition of high speed is horrible - just because it works on broadband technology they get away with it? Please. what is it, 256k down is considered 'high speed' or something like that?
I have a hard time calling my 6mb down/640k up comcast high speed.
Okay - so I opened up about 50 youtube videos, browsed a few other websites that had flash, and I closed all but one tab (slashdot)
88mb used. Big whoop?
To the guy who "wants to use other applications"
Old computers aren't meant for using modern-day applications that aren't specifically designed for *gasp* old computers.. Go figure?
Lets say you're a game designer. Do you (A) Design a game that will run within 640kb of memory, or (B) Use a bit more memory to get more stuff into your game, speed up load time, etc? Obviously if your target market is the "general" computer users, you'd make a pretty general allocation of memory. If you're marketing towards power gamers, you wouldn't be afraid about higher system requirements, necessarily.
I laugh every time this comes up because it falls under the "duh" category.
What machine out there doesn't have at least 256mb of RAM that expects to run any sort of modern application and multitask? You're crazy if your expections are to be able to run premiere CS3, firefox, and windows vista on 256mb of RAM. crazy.
Please actually test if you think firefox is some sort of "memory hog"
15 tabs (Slashdot RSS Feed) opened in iexplore.exe (7) 121,532k
15 tabs (Slashdot RSS feed) opened in firefox.exe (2.0.0.5) 113,700k
And this, of course, is also running gmail notifier, webdeveloper toolbar, noscript, and adblock(standard)
And by the way- whens the last time you opened 15 WINDOWS of IE6 on an old machine?
We've got 1400 laptop users: Its not the port replicators that go dead, its the laptop pins on the laptop itself that get worn out. (All HP laptops) - nx7010, nx9010, nx9500, nx6320s, and more. 100% of the time, its the dang laptop that wears itself off getting penetrated by the docking station.
Funny, I work for a school district and thats the exact train of thought that happened here: Us: "Wireless...not good...unreliable, slow, susceptible to interference..." Them: "We want wireless, byah!" (--- Sad attempt at typing the Howard Dean scream as reenacted by Dave Chapelle)
x86 servers are referred to in that manner. They differ from what is referred to as "big iron"...so...yea.
Don't forget that the purpose of having a federal government represented by congress has changed: The idea was to make laws to govern the land, for the benefit of all, while not imposing on the individual citizen's or states lives.
Now, that it has somehow morphed into being sent there to battle for funding for their state/district/pet project, rather than actually trying to pass laws.
Also, I don't know this for sure, but I'm guessing 200 years ago they didn't write 1,000 page bills. Who the hell can read through 10,000 pages a week to search for this crap?
The constitution is brief: As all "laws of the land" should be.
Description - Law - Consequences of not obeying. Period. Try reading through some of this crap:
Patriot Act
Try searching for some of those dependencies for what is amended in that "law" - its worse than trying to install a Linux program that has 1,000 deps that you don't have.
Except that other states have already rejected RealID. (50-y)-1 = x. Solve for x.
p liance
Did you read the summary? "part of a trend"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealID#State_non-com
Clearly, many other games, such as Final Fantasy III (VI) win over Ocarina. What other game had such an epic tale to tell, with twists, turns, and delights around every corner? Don't get me wrong. Ocarina was a good game, and quite enjoyable, but the gameplay hadn't changed - and still hasn't to this day. While Ocarina brought about the "Z target" and 3d realm, it was by no means revolutionary. That being said, who can resist Edgar's charming lines, Celes' striking beauty, Gau's innocence, or the wonderful musical score?
Ocarina didn't help define games: It changed them. They began focusing on "graphical styles" and environmental textures rather than developing characters and a story. Rather than having good dungeon design, it was what looked aesthetically pleasing. No, I contend the "best" is a myriad of others. I'll name at least two which are clearly superior in every way to Ocarina:
Secret of Mana
Final Fantasy III
Math?
100 kilobytes download = approx 768kbits/ps. fancy that, eh?
Funny how it works. 1.5 / 8 = 192kbyte/s max - assuming no latency or TCP issues. Woo.
you're getting what you paid for.
Look up "WiiCR" on sourceforge or at wiicr.org
I have it running on my SLES10 file server. I serve all media out to my Wii through opera using WiiCR. Great little utility.
On a P4 2.6ghz w/ 1 gig of RAM it takes about 30 seconds of lead time to transcode a video into a FLV. Its not realtime, but, close enough. Also with the HQ resolution transcoding, there is nearly no noticeable loss of quality on my SD tv. (Use the wiipaper theme for a default 480 video, otherwise you may have to use the zoom feature)