My high school had one dual ISDN link connecting about ~300 computers until my senior year...it would literally take 5-15 minutes to load mostly text web pages. The dumbasses in charge didn't get the message till I was almost out of school.
Shitty school internet is not a third world phenomenon at all.
On a 20.1"/1680x1050 monitor, I've found I have to increase the DPI/text size to avoid eye strain. Most of the people around me (with rather good eyesight, in their early 20s) cannot read the default 96dpi size at a reasonable distance from the monitor. I honestly don't understand the micro-widgets philosophy - it makes me cringe - even at 120dpi, there is way more than adequate real estate to get stuff done. When programming for hours it's especially important to have reduced eye strain.
To me, unless you're running on a 15" panel, there's no reason to stick with a classic 4px-wide border GUI. Even then, it hints at the need for a bigger monitor anyway.
Also, what's with the comments related to turning cleartype off? IMO text is a lot more legible and easy on the eyes with cleartype on.
Yeah, I've found that on older (P2 and below) machines, Windows 2000 actually runs a lot faster than XP. Something to do with SSE enhancements and the general background load of the OS, I presume. Win XP was incredibly slow on a P200, even in classic mode, while 2K was rather spiffy. On the other hand, a K6-2 machine that I upgraded from 98 to XP was faster in XP than 2K. So YMMV I guess.
I do agree that Ubbys/etc linuces tend to run faster than XP/Veesta. But at what cost? They're not running the millions of cryptographic/etc services in the background. There is a price to pay for that, especially in the corporate world.
I know I'm going to get flamed for this, but a bogged down Linux in my experience tends to consume more RAM, resources, and run slower than a comparably "bogged down" NT 5.1+ system.
Thing is, the vast majority of ~550W PSUs didn't provide the necessary amperage on the +12v rail for my needs. Sure, there are some shitty "700W" PSUs that don't either, but it's not a reason to write off a whole wattage range.
All I know is I have a micro ATX system with a modestly power consuming CPU (~75W). OK, so I have four sticks of RAM and two hard drives. Adding in an 8800GTS 320MB resulted in random freezing. The power supply was a pretty decently built 500W, but I had to buy a 700W to stop the crashing.
The 500W PSU didn't have nearly enough output capability on the 12v rail to power the video card, despite being rather beefily built.
My system is certainly not top-of-the line - it may be above average - but my experience proves that >500W PSUs are certainly not show-and-tell braggart items. I would never build a system based on SLI'd 8800 ultras and a quad core without a 1000W PSU.
I know that one of the main spreadsheet enhancements in '07 was the ability to have 1,048,576 rows instead of 65,536. It seems like somewhere in testing M$ used the old bounds, and forgot to check for the new ones. Or some functions are hard-coded to the old bounds instead of the new ones. Either way, sloppy and un-M$ office like (okay, maybe very M$).
I'm not sure if it's Vista, or just Firefox getting better after the 2.0.0.6 branch, but I've noticed GB-sized memory consumption/freezing a lot less on Vista than with previous usage on XP. I think the problem actually is being improved somewhat, regardless of what's really fixing it.
Regardless, I find the MozFoundation's attitude toward this evasive, given the magnitude of the problem and how long it has been affecting people's machines. I simply find it irresponsible to write unnecissarily resource-gobbling applications, period. Think how much extra power machines are pulling because of this.
Another reason is the paying of much grando money to get into college in the first place. Students are a lucrative income stream in the US; hence, it's better to lower the entry bar a little bit and then use the first year of school as the _real_ admission test.
Um, because you're on private property, and it's still their property until you leave private property. Also, advance agreement. Silly ideas, indeed. Why don't you walk into a mosque and proclaim Islam Satan? By your logic, it's exercising the same right.
So a lawless country ruled by gangs does not have monopolies/oligopolies? This points out how hilariously misguided all "government is what's needed to maintain monopolies lol!11!!" theories. Hell, that's not a free market theory at all.
Fucking ouch! That's all I have to say about that.
I have heard, however, that stimulating the prostate can greatly enhance the mood. And it can be stimulated from the outside, without any "deep" access needed as with the brain.
A friend of mine got pulled over with a warning for going 36 in a 35 zone. It all really depends on whether the cops are overwhelmed or are just looking for reasons to pull over someone to fulfill quotas.
Anyway, upload bandwidth is a lot more sensitive to shaping/cutoff than download bandwidth. It'd be almost impossible for a normal user, even if he's downloading tons of ISOs from unsaturated high-bandwidth mirrors simultaneously, to be cut off. It's the upload that's cut off, for several reasons.
This is interesting. One one hand, allofmp3.com has no obligation to abide to US laws in Russia; that's the whole point of Russian sovereignty. On the other hand, they can't live under constant threat of being shut down. They know this, and have made offers. Personally, I think it is the RIAA, combined with the modestly hegemonic US government that is creating this fiasco. Allofmp3 knows that paying insufficient royalties is unsustainable and will eventually backfire - it pisses too many people off, regardless of legality in Russia. But what can they do when various agents in the US basically say "fuck you" to offer after offer instead of agreeing to negotiate and compromise? It just makes the US government look like gangsters aligned with a corporate strong-arm mafia.
In the end, this is only diluting the effectiveness of US copyright law abroad. You can't expect sovereign nations to agree with you on everything - and this is what certain people in the US power structure do not understand.
The dumbasses in power just don't realize that they're hurting themselves in the long run. Maybe that's what they deserve...
Yes, it's such a great share of intellectual stimulation these days. Maybe porn, not money, should become the new currency. Maybe they'll stop hopping from civil war to civil war and start hopping each other...or at least engage in a little self-lovin'.
I think that a brain with less clutter and baggage is one that can handle more things, and handle them efficiently and with less error.
There are some things that should be rotely memorized, mainly small pieces of information that need to be referred to quickly and often. But remembering a ton of small things can use up brain power that could be applied to better things.
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Not the ones making baseless accusations on slashdot. :P
There's a lot of _textual_ chaffe in journals and textbooks these days too, mind.
My high school had one dual ISDN link connecting about ~300 computers until my senior year...it would literally take 5-15 minutes to load mostly text web pages. The dumbasses in charge didn't get the message till I was almost out of school.
Shitty school internet is not a third world phenomenon at all.
On a 20.1"/1680x1050 monitor, I've found I have to increase the DPI/text size to avoid eye strain. Most of the people around me (with rather good eyesight, in their early 20s) cannot read the default 96dpi size at a reasonable distance from the monitor. I honestly don't understand the micro-widgets philosophy - it makes me cringe - even at 120dpi, there is way more than adequate real estate to get stuff done. When programming for hours it's especially important to have reduced eye strain.
To me, unless you're running on a 15" panel, there's no reason to stick with a classic 4px-wide border GUI. Even then, it hints at the need for a bigger monitor anyway.
Also, what's with the comments related to turning cleartype off? IMO text is a lot more legible and easy on the eyes with cleartype on.
Yeah, I've found that on older (P2 and below) machines, Windows 2000 actually runs a lot faster than XP. Something to do with SSE enhancements and the general background load of the OS, I presume. Win XP was incredibly slow on a P200, even in classic mode, while 2K was rather spiffy. On the other hand, a K6-2 machine that I upgraded from 98 to XP was faster in XP than 2K. So YMMV I guess.
I do agree that Ubbys/etc linuces tend to run faster than XP/Veesta. But at what cost? They're not running the millions of cryptographic/etc services in the background. There is a price to pay for that, especially in the corporate world.
I know I'm going to get flamed for this, but a bogged down Linux in my experience tends to consume more RAM, resources, and run slower than a comparably "bogged down" NT 5.1+ system.
Thing is, the vast majority of ~550W PSUs didn't provide the necessary amperage on the +12v rail for my needs. Sure, there are some shitty "700W" PSUs that don't either, but it's not a reason to write off a whole wattage range.
Except at least some of the fundamentalist Christians/Muslims know how to spell Muslim/Moslem right.
All I know is I have a micro ATX system with a modestly power consuming CPU (~75W). OK, so I have four sticks of RAM and two hard drives. Adding in an 8800GTS 320MB resulted in random freezing. The power supply was a pretty decently built 500W, but I had to buy a 700W to stop the crashing.
The 500W PSU didn't have nearly enough output capability on the 12v rail to power the video card, despite being rather beefily built.
My system is certainly not top-of-the line - it may be above average - but my experience proves that >500W PSUs are certainly not show-and-tell braggart items. I would never build a system based on SLI'd 8800 ultras and a quad core without a 1000W PSU.
Key words: profit based systems _plus_ competitive markets. The way things are going right now, it's a cartel-and-lobby clusterfuck.
I know that one of the main spreadsheet enhancements in '07 was the ability to have 1,048,576 rows instead of 65,536. It seems like somewhere in testing M$ used the old bounds, and forgot to check for the new ones. Or some functions are hard-coded to the old bounds instead of the new ones. Either way, sloppy and un-M$ office like (okay, maybe very M$).
I'm not sure if it's Vista, or just Firefox getting better after the 2.0.0.6 branch, but I've noticed GB-sized memory consumption/freezing a lot less on Vista than with previous usage on XP. I think the problem actually is being improved somewhat, regardless of what's really fixing it.
Regardless, I find the MozFoundation's attitude toward this evasive, given the magnitude of the problem and how long it has been affecting people's machines. I simply find it irresponsible to write unnecissarily resource-gobbling applications, period. Think how much extra power machines are pulling because of this.
So if a single person can boss people around because he has a nuke strapped to him, he constitutes a government?
Another reason is the paying of much grando money to get into college in the first place. Students are a lucrative income stream in the US; hence, it's better to lower the entry bar a little bit and then use the first year of school as the _real_ admission test.
Um, because you're on private property, and it's still their property until you leave private property. Also, advance agreement. Silly ideas, indeed. Why don't you walk into a mosque and proclaim Islam Satan? By your logic, it's exercising the same right.
So a lawless country ruled by gangs does not have monopolies/oligopolies? This points out how hilariously misguided all "government is what's needed to maintain monopolies lol!11!!" theories. Hell, that's not a free market theory at all.
Fucking ouch! That's all I have to say about that.
I have heard, however, that stimulating the prostate can greatly enhance the mood. And it can be stimulated from the outside, without any "deep" access needed as with the brain.
Bravo. Mod parent up.
I wonder how many here are actually familar with vista's revamped architecture? No, no "defectivebydesign" Stallmanganda BS, real stuff.
Except that when you're in a store, you're on private property. They can search the bag on the way out as much as they want.
If they randomly came up to you and demanded to search your bag on the street outside, now that would be different.
"The issue here BRAIN power. Go watch 'Space Cowboys', that is showing the our thought process that the young do not understand the basics."
The young lack an ability to understand mangled English?
A friend of mine got pulled over with a warning for going 36 in a 35 zone. It all really depends on whether the cops are overwhelmed or are just looking for reasons to pull over someone to fulfill quotas.
Anyway, upload bandwidth is a lot more sensitive to shaping/cutoff than download bandwidth. It'd be almost impossible for a normal user, even if he's downloading tons of ISOs from unsaturated high-bandwidth mirrors simultaneously, to be cut off. It's the upload that's cut off, for several reasons.
This is interesting. One one hand, allofmp3.com has no obligation to abide to US laws in Russia; that's the whole point of Russian sovereignty. On the other hand, they can't live under constant threat of being shut down. They know this, and have made offers. Personally, I think it is the RIAA, combined with the modestly hegemonic US government that is creating this fiasco. Allofmp3 knows that paying insufficient royalties is unsustainable and will eventually backfire - it pisses too many people off, regardless of legality in Russia. But what can they do when various agents in the US basically say "fuck you" to offer after offer instead of agreeing to negotiate and compromise? It just makes the US government look like gangsters aligned with a corporate strong-arm mafia.
In the end, this is only diluting the effectiveness of US copyright law abroad. You can't expect sovereign nations to agree with you on everything - and this is what certain people in the US power structure do not understand.
The dumbasses in power just don't realize that they're hurting themselves in the long run. Maybe that's what they deserve...
Yes, it's such a great share of intellectual stimulation these days. Maybe porn, not money, should become the new currency. Maybe they'll stop hopping from civil war to civil war and start hopping each other...or at least engage in a little self-lovin'.
I think that a brain with less clutter and baggage is one that can handle more things, and handle them efficiently and with less error.
There are some things that should be rotely memorized, mainly small pieces of information that need to be referred to quickly and often. But remembering a ton of small things can use up brain power that could be applied to better things.
Actually, Windows Movie Maker is one of the better MS products out there. And quite a few people use it.
Yeah, right now I'm in a "fuck people who have no sense of humor" mood. You various posters can interpret that as you wish.